Serious Information sites

[DrLeftover]

There is a lot of frivolity on the web. As well as more than its fair share of nonsense and just plain, I'm sorry, Crap.



These sites are good for hard information and research and tend to not have BS on them, and they are FREE!



There are more... these are a start.



International Volcano Research Center.

http://www.intlvrc.org/



Internet Sacred Text Archive

http://www.sacred-texts.com/





The History Place

http://www.historyplace.com/index.html





How about some of yours?

 

[beowulf]

http://www.militaryphotos.net/



one of my faves for pics

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

There is a lot of frivolity on the web.

Like Off Topix.net

 

[DrLeftover]

If you insist.



How about where your local yokel TV talking head gets his weather forecasts?



Forecasts:

http://www.weather.gov/organization.php



National and local radar.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/radar_tab.php

Click Loop



USGS Earthquake tracking:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/



And something out of this world:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

 

[DrLeftover]

A non-commercial site or two about health topics...



The Mayo Clinic

http://www.mayoclinic.com/



The National Institutes of Health

http://www.nih.gov/



The Centers for Disease Control

http://www.cdc.gov/

 

[DrLeftover]

You asked for these.... well, somebody did.



Here they are.



Internet related information sites.



These two guys had more to do with making the Net what it is than AlGore ever dreamed of:

http://internettourbus.com/

click their names for their individual sites with tons more information.



Tom's sites are currently undergoing... something, but there is still a lot of good information there for using the Web as a business tool:

http://www.questy.net/index.htm





The history of the Net.

http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/



You will notice a lack of links to Wikipedia... I have reasons for that, and yes, I used to be a registered editor of the service. We'll go into that at another time.

 

[DrLeftover]

Other news sites:



The BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/



Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/



World News

http://wn.com/

 

[DrLeftover]

Yes I do my fair share of Hoax Busting.... My page is at the bottom, more on that later.



The famous Snopes... Yes, everybody uses it, there's a reason for that.

http://www.snopes.com/



A site dedicated to internet chain letters.

http://www.breakthechain.org/

It's safe to say they are all hoaxes.



Hoax Busters

http://www.hoaxbusters.org/



About.com's effort is worth mentioning...

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/internet/a/current_netlore.htm





And now....

TheMediaDesk.com's

URBAN LEGENDS, SCAMS, VIRUS HOAXES, AND OTHER NONSENSE page.

It's been on the web for a very long time (over ten years), covers everything, and is a very disorganized and convoluted mess that I am quite proud of.

http://www.themediadesk.com/files/urban.htm

 

[Medora]

How about some of yours?

A website that comes to mind is the one for the National Center For Science Education. The purpose of the NCSE website is to defend the teaching of evolution in public schools.



Regards,



Kevin