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How do to stuff

eHow.com is a search engine designed to find instructions how to do things.  The site is intended to be the world's largest how-to book where you can find help and leave your own guides to help others.  You can also subscribe to the site to receive the daily how-to via your e-mail.

Looking for that special recipe?

FoodieView is the recipe search engine with over 250,000 recipies to search through.  You can search by recipe name, ingredients, chef, dishes cuisine, and more.  If you find a good recipe, just add it to your recipe box for later.  FoodieView is more than recipies, it also includes cookbook reviews, restaurant information and links to other cooking resources.

Important 800 numbers

Hard to Find 800 Numbers provides a list of important 800 numbers to banks, internet companies and all sorts of organizations that can make it difficult to find their phone number - even if you scour their website.  Numbers are listed according to organization alphabetically and often more than one number is listed.  And if you know of a number that's not listed, there is a link to add it.

University of Wisconsin Digital Library

The Digitial Library of the University of Wisconsin offers a tremendous amount of digital resources in a wide variety of subjects from Wisconsin to East Asia, from English to Biology.  Resources include audio and visual materials on subjects on interest chosen by experts in their fields.

U.S. Government Phone Numbers

The Blue Pages is your guide to government phone numbers from the local to the federal level.  You can search by location, by agency, or by keyword.  There are also quicklinks to various government agencies if you have a particular question you need answered and a virtual help desk that will answer any e-mail within 72 hours.

Cheap PDA - A different organizational tool

PocketMod is a personal assistant for those who are looking for something cheap - as in free.   It includes all of the basic functions of a  PDA  [Palm, etc.] such as calendar, addresses, notes but they are printed out on a piece of paper easily folded into your pocket.  You can even customize your PocketMod easily to fit your needs.  Don't feel like carrying an expensive electronic device around?  Try this instead.

What lies on the other side of the globe?

This is an interesting application using Google Maps.  Many of us were told when we were young that if we dug a whole through the Earth, we would end up in China.  "If I dig a very deep hole, where do I stop?" lets us know for sure.  The application shows one of the many possibilities for research and presentation available in Google Maps.

World Phone Books

Need to find a phone number in another country?  Try World Directories.  You can find links to Internet phone directories from countries like Argentina, China and even the United States!  Since these are links to National directories, the pages may, obviously, ask for information in that country's native language.

How to make stuff

Instructables is a website where ordinary people like you and me post instructions for making or doing all sorts of things such as a marshmallow gun, a bed from iron, or counting in binary.  If you are a particularly creative person yourself, you can post your own guides for others.  This site definitely shows the creativity of the human species - I'll leave it to you to decide if that is a good thing.

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Search open journals on the Internet

DOAJ - the Directory of Open Access Journals offers the opportunity to search over 1800 scientific and scholarly journals on a wide variety of topics and over four hundred of those journals can be searched at the article level.  Journals can be browed by title or by subject area.