GOOD ALL PURPOSE SITES
http://www.about.com/ 750 expert guides present trusted websites and solutions in the form of over two million hand-crafted, original articles, recipes, product reviews, videos, tutorials and more.
http://www.refdesk.com/ Reference, facts, News - free family friendly websites
http://scribd.com Scribd is a social publishing site, where tens of millions of people share original writings and documents. (Neil)
GAMES & FUN
http://arcade.about.com/ A nice collection of games from about.com
www.armorgames.com Play games online. Varied selection for all tastes.
http://www.kindgames.com/ Free Online Games, a collection of beautiful java games: mahjong, shihensho, sokoban, same, five in row, yatc, memory puzzle, slider puzzle.
www.websudoku.com Get your Sudoku "fix" here. Multiple levels of play. (Micky)
http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/halloweenontheweb/Halloween_Web_Tips_Recipes_Costume_Ideas_and_Resources.htm Collection of Halloween sites
Pams fun sites:
http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/ Create crossword puzzles, word searches, mazes, etc.
http://www.puzzlechoice.com/pc/Sudoku_Puzzlex.html Lots of Sudoku Puzzles
http://www.thekidzpage.com/ free printable & online kids games, activities, puzzles, clip art, colouring pages and online coloring
http://printables.familyeducation.com/
SEARCHING
http://www.wolframalpha.com/ Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine
http://bing Microsoft's new search engine
ENTERTAINMENT
http://videoeta.com/ Best source of DVD release dates
http://imdb.com The Internet Movie Database
http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/ Reviews of your favorite TV Shows, television reviews and recaps of popular TV shows, TV series, and reality TV shows. View recaps, read TV show reviews, and view listings of TV ...
www.hulu.com Watch videos or full-length movies online.
www.astro.com Click under Free Horoscopes. Put in your birthdate, time, city and have your own astrological forecast. Very reliable information too! (Fonda Lorenz)
SHOPPING
www.salescircular.com Search local sales circulars from one web site compare prices and features for your local sales and free Products. (Micky & Sandee)
www.dealcatcher.com Three web sites to help you get a better deal. (Micky)
www.keycode.com Web sites to find coupons or discount codes. (Micky)
http://woot.com online store and community that focuses on selling cool stuff cheap. They sell one item per day until it is sold out or until 11:59pm central time when it is replaced.
http://www.dodtracker.com/ Other sites like Woot can be found here. Real time tracking of every deal-of-the-day on the web.
USEFUL
http://www.howstuffworks.com/ learn how everything works
www.archive.org The Internet Archive: a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts including video, audio and "The Wayback Machine".
www.wunderground.com Put in any city, zp code in world and see what the weather is like! Also......Have the MOST WONDEROUS pictures in their Main Gallery, or Approvers Choice. When you get to the weather site, just click on the picture on the left hand side and then look at the top titles to go to Main Gallery or Approver's Choice. You can right click on any picture and make it your desktop picture for your computer! Great way to see the world from your chair! I change the desktop often, as you will too! (Fonda Lorenz)
http://www.consumersearch.com/ ConsumerSearch.com reviews hundreds of product reviews, analyzes them, distills the information shoppers need and recommends which products are the best.
http://www.beliefnet.com/ Inspiration, spirituality and faith
http://www.crimereports.com/ get neighborhood crime reports
http://factcheck.org/ We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics.
My favorite free site is www.sparkpeople.com. It was founded by a man who sold his computer company for millions and used $5million to start this site to help people with diet or health. I joined for diet info and my friend joined for health/heart. SparkPeople is proud to have been named "Best Health Website" in 2006, 2007, and 2008 by Business Week. (Ellen Seaman)
KEEEPING CURRENT
http://popurls.com/ popurls is the dashboard for the latest web-buzz, a single page that encapsulates up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the internet. is the dashboard for the latest web-buzz, a single page that encapsulates up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the internet.urls is the dashboard for the latest web-buzz, a single page that encapsulates up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the internet.
http://www.allmyfaves.com/ All My Faves - gives an interesting look at a list of some of the best and most popular
http://wesmirch.com/ The juiciest celebrity news from all around the web on a single page.
http://tweetmeme.com/ TweetMeme finds the hottest stories from twitter for you to retweet
http://techmeme.com/ The web's technology news site of record, Techmeme spotlights the hottest tech stories from all around the web on a single page.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/ Stumbleupon is the collective recommendations of thousands of hours of searching by web users who share your interests.
http://delicious.com social bookmarking
http://digg.com/ Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, ... (Neil)
http://morewebsites4us.pbworks.com/