Favorite links

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news and information

Mercury Mail
(http://www.merc.com)
News and information is tailored to your interests and delivered directly to your computer, for FREE. Information is gathered from the same sources as other leading news organizations. Mercury's editors customize that information and send it to your e-mail box as often as you like.

Crayon
(http://www.crayon.net)
CRAYON stands for "Create Your Own Newspaper." Easily select the sources you want to access for world news, sports, comics, weather, and other daily newspaper-ish items. Then each day, you just open the file that CRAYON creates for you and, voila!, your own custom daily newspaper. You can even give the newspaper a name.

MojoWire
(http://www.motherjones.com)
Mother Jones' easy-to-navigate web site is a great addition to its monthly print magazine. You'll find chat, back issues, updates and investigative tools like a searchable database of congressional campaign contributions.

Town Hall
(http://www.townhall.com)
Conservative heaven. A highly accessible and active site for all things Right, including the Heritage Foundation, National Review, Americans for Tax Reform and a host of others. Listings, job opportunities, legislative and reference material. Updated daily.

Newspapers Online!
(http://www.newspapers.com)
Newspapers Online! is a free service for finding online newspapers all around the world. There are hundreds of links here to newspapers within the U.S., newspapers outside the U.S., trade journals, college and university papers, religious publications, etc. Graphics are kept to a minimum to save bandwidth and keep the site faster.

resources

About Work
(http://www.aboutwork.com)
We are what we do. Work is the lion's share of our lives. It pays the bills, makes us crazy with stress and--if we're lucky--giddy with satisfaction. About Work has discussion groups and chat areas, job-hunting information, resume help, interviews, career planning advice, tips and tools on working from home and starting your own business, etc.

Amazon
(http://www.amazon.com)
If it's in print, it's in stock. The world's largest selection of books, Amazon.com offers more than one million titles, more than five times as many titles as you'll find at even the largest Barnes & Noble, Borders, or other chain superstores. The good and the bad, the hard-to-find and the easy-to-find, all available for immediate delivery.

government

The White House
(http://www.whitehouse.gov)
Welcome to the White House was developed to improve the way the Federal government uses the Internet to communicate and interact with the American people. This site provides access to all the government information and services that are available on the Internet. Welcome to the White House helps promote interaction with citizens by offering government agencies a method to present their missions and programs.

National Archives and Records Administration
(http://www.nara.gov)
NARA is the government agency responsible for overseeing the management of the records of the federal government. NARA ensures, for the Citizen and the Public Servant, for the President and the Congress and the Courts, ready access to essential evidence that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of federal officials, and the national experience.

FBI
(http://www.fbi.gov)
The FBI's Office of Public and Congressional Affairs has assembled a broad selection of information regarding the Bureau's investigations, programs, law enforcement services, accomplishments, and history. Information is unclassified, and is provided for educational purposes. It covers the most commonly asked questions about the FBI, and then some.

science and nature

Discovery Channel
(http://www.discovery.com)
Piked as "Cool Site of the Year" by the folks who bestow the "Cool Site of the Day" award. Check out Discovery's five main subject areas: History, Technology, Nature, Exploration and Science. This site is chock full of useful information and a great site to look at; this one could become your favorite.

National Geographic
(http://www.nationalgeographic.com)
National Geographic presents features prepared exclusively for cyberspace. Chat with photographers, writers, and artists. Exchange ideas with the leading scientific minds of our time. Check out the cool travel area, then traverse the terrains of the latest in digital mapping from National Geographic's Cartographic Division.

An Appalachian Adventure
(http://www.nando.net/AT/ATmain.html)
An Appalachian Adventure is the chronicle of journalists from five newspapers who hiked the 2,158-mile Appalachian Trail from March - October, 1995. This project was sponsored by The News & Observer, the Hartford Courant, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Portland (Maine) Newspapers.

eat, drink, smoke

Epicurious Food
(http://www.epicurious.com/a_home/a00_home/home.html)
For people who eat. An indispensable online resource, whether it's a question of discovering what's really fresh at your local market, knowing where to invite clients for dinner, or step by step instructions on how to prepare a meal. You'll find recipes, databases full of information, dispatches from the field, tips on entertaining, and the combined gustatory wisdom of Bon AppŽtit and Gourmet magazines.

Captain Morgan Spiced Rum
(http://www.rum.com)
Ahoy, Mateys! Interactivity, humor, drink recipes and more. A very entertaining site. Aaaarrgh!

Cigar Aficionado
(http://www.cigaraficionado.com)
Log on and light up! This is the cigar lover's home on the World Wide Web, from the publishers of Cigar Aficionado magazine. Search an extensive cigar database, plan your cigar vacation and track cigars on Wall Street. You can interact with cigar makers, industry experts and other Cigar Aficionado readers.

entertainment/humor

NSITT
(http://www.magna.com.au/~nglobe/nsitt)
No Sh_ _ting in the Toilet: The travel guide for when you've really lost it. NSITT is a celebration of everything that is perverse about travel. It's about getting stranded and ripped off. It's about sitting in a tiny room counting cockroaches and feeling sorry for yourself. It's about everything going wrong...and loving every minute of it! And this is your guide to getting around it.

John Gotti Tribute Page
(http://www.gotti.com)
Click on this site or else! A woman who calls herself a "fan" has set up this site devoted to imprisoned Mafia godfather John Gotti. Called "a social club for the cyborgata," it features praise of what it calls Gotti's "great capacity for caring," and includes such esoterica as a recipe for Gotti's pasta fagiola soup and a picture of his lawyer, Bruce Cutler, in a bathing suit.

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