On line Resources

Summary: ThisIsTheLife.com is a place for people who want to get the most out of life to share their greatest experiences. Post reviews, send photos or just browse!

Summary: Developing news on major international issues

Summary: This is an excellent site to find pages on a variety of subjects, which are full of information easy to understand. Most of them are science related; however among these pages you are guaranteed to have articles written by "outside experts, selected for their objectivity, stature in their fields and knowledge of the needs of teachers and students."

Summary: Great resources in here for the curious and knowledgeable alike.

Summary: Reference taken from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, this small leech like yellow fish was inserted into the ear and instantly you would be able to understand any language as it whispered the translation to you. Since we cannot all have little fish swimming around in our ear wax, here is the cyber version. This site will actually translate blocks of text for you from any language to almost any other language, and it does not have to be in the Latin based alphabet because Babel Fish will translate the letters for you as well.

Summary: You have to love a site that has a butler for a logo! Jeeves is easy to navigate and lots of fun to look through. The results vary from not so great to really excellent, but the resources are different from Google and Yahoo, and you are guaranteed to get a few extra interesting tidbits above and below your results.

Summary: How to recognize it, how to prevent it.

Summary: "The Tower of Babel addresses the urgent human need for a sense of global community, a community where the voices of the disenfranchised gain equal rights." I could not have said it better myself. This is an excellent site with a lot of good links and information.

Summary: No collection of information is complete without basic vocabulary and the definition thereof. This on line encyclopedia allows users to add definitions and new words, making it a communal and universal resource rather than just the standard kind, in which the word is looked up and the definition therein stands no matter how out-dated it might be. The best part is that it is international, and has sections in several different languages!

Summary: Although this is very extensive dictionary and thesaurus site, it is slightly confusing in its format for first time users. The good news is nothing will explode, the bad news is when looking up the definition of a word, and it might accidentally translate it into Chinese instead.

Summary: When we had to gather food and water from nature, the water bearers would gather around a watering hole and discuss life. This was the central place for local gossip, and one of the ways that the word traveled from one village to the next. Over the ages we lost that part of our social structure. However with the emergance of on-line networking it has come back, and now the watering hole has come full circle.

Summary: On-line resources for Chefs.

Summary: The Information Society