Favourite Links
Miscellaneous
- http://www.lysator.liu.se/~drokk/BoD/ - The Egyptian Book of the Dead
- http://www.penguin.co.uk - Penguin Books
- http://www.xe.com/ucc/ - Currency conversions
- http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic - Oanda Currency Converter (with historical rates)
- http://www.onlineconversion.com - Online Unit Conversion
- http://www.timeanddate.com - Time and Date (world clock, weather, calendars with holidays etc.)
- http://www.worldtimezone.com - Current time around the world and standard time zones map of the world
- http://www.psychtests.com - Intelligence Tests
- http://www.reviewfinder.com - ReviewFinder
- http://www.zipfax.com - Free International Faxes (also some Indian cities)
- http://www.homeindia.com - Indian eMail to Post & Fax
- http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/ - The MIT Gallery of Hacks
- http://sodaplay.com - Soda Constructor (java applet for 2D spring models)
- http://www.wiesenthal.com - Simon Wiesenthal Center
- http://www.lawbuzz.com - Law Buzz (Movie Stories)
- telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl - Star Wars in ASCII
- http://www.florilegium.org - Stefan's Florilegium (interesting articles and FAQs mostly from the Society for Creative Anachronism)
- http://www.mercurytheatre.info - The Mercury Theatre on the Air (golden radio oldies in MP3 & RealAudio)
- http://around.com - James Gleick's home page (articles)
- http://ocw.mit.edu - MIT OpenCourseWare (lecture notes of M.I.T. courses)
- http://academicearth.org - Academic Earth (video lectures from the world's top scholars)
- http://cmu.edu/oli/ - Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University (online courses)
- http://www.academicinfo.net - AcademicInfo (online education resources)
- http://www.papertoys.com - Paper Toys (cutout paper models)
- http://www.paperplane.org - Paper airplanes you can fold
- http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/calendar/ - Calendar Converter (interconvert dates in a variety of calendars)
- http://www.earthcalendar.net - The Earth Calendar is a daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world
- http://www.crimelibrary.com - Crime Library (crime stories and reportage)
- http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/okbooks.html - Copyright Laws in various countries
- http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/holidays.html - Calendar Holiday files
- http://movielens.umn.edu - MovieLens (suggests movies based on your tastes using collaborative filtering)
- http://imdb.com - The Internet Movie Database
- http://www.opensubtitles.org - OpenSubtitles (database of movie subtitles)
- http://www.sub-search.com - Sub-Search (subtitles search engine)
- http://www.divxsubtitles.net - DivXSubtitles (movie subtitles)
- http://imsdb.com - The Internet Movie Script Database
- http://www.langorigami.com - Robert J. Lang's Origami page
- http://origami.kvi.nl - Origami Interest Group (diagrammed models and programs for Origami)
- http://www.usersmanualguide.com - UserManualGuide.com (manuals for electronic equipment)
- http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue - BBC Programme Catalogue (Details of BBC Radio & TV programmes, dating back 75 years)
- http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/ - Ardalambion (comprehensive site about Tolkien's invented languages)
- http://www.aibq.com - Comic Books Archive
- http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/ - Phone Scoop (mobile phone finder, reviews and comparisons)
- http://www.gsmarena.com - GSM Arena (mobile phone finder, reviews and comparisons)
- http://www.ted.com - TED (videos of talks on Technology, Entertainment, Design)
- http://easybartricks.com - EasyBarTricks (Bar and Magic Tricks on video)
- http://www.designmyroom.com - Design My Room (try out interior design online)
- http://www.taaz.com - Taaz (Virtual Makeovers, hairstyles etc.)
- http://www.encalc.com - Encalc (an online scientific calculator)
- http://www.rinkworks.com/namegen/ - Fantasy Name Generator (algorithmic name generation based on a template)
- http://www.nndb.com - NNDB (a database of noteworthy names with a visual graphing tool for exploring connections between people)