Pets                                                                                                           42
2000 Dog Names         (Worth it just for the cool doggie graphic) :)
Amazing Animal Facts
American Association of Equine Practitioners
American Humane Association
American Kennel Club
American Pet Association
American Veterinary Medical Association   
Animals: Exotic & Small
Arachnodata
ASPCA 
Avian Vet.com
British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA)
Bunny Behavior 
Canadian National Collection (CNC) of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes
Care for Pets (American Veterinary Medical Association)
HealthyPets (American Animal Hospital Association)
Cat Welfare Society (CWS)
Choosing the Perfect Dog
The Delta Society
Dog Breeds Encyclopaedia    (...And Bring Back KIBBLE!)
Dog Bite Prevention Brochure
Ducks Unlimited
DVM (The Newsmagazine for Veterinary Medicine)
FindFido
FINS          (The Fish Information Service)
Freshwater And Marine Aquarium
House Rabbit Society   
Humane Society of the United States
NetVet  
NOVA: Animal Hospital
Pedigree Select-A-Dog
Pet Behavior Clinic
PetFind USA
PetLife
Playdog  (It's a strange idea, but I like their pictures)
Save-A-Pet Online -- Index to Animal Rescue Shelters
Save-A-Pet Online - Index to Breed Rescue Organizations
SelectSmart.com Dog Breed Selector (Traits - preferences-based)
Sherlock Bones
Shorebird Migration Page  
Texas Veterinary Medical Association  (Large online database)

Pictures                                                                                                2
Animal Pictures Archive
3D Comic Collective

Playtime                                                                                    6
2:AM Games   (I may never sleep again... <sigh>)
Earth 2025    (GREAT online game)
NetHack    (A telnet game... works if you're running Linux or Win98)
Snowcraft     (Cute!)
Utopia   (Same site as Earth... different game -- medieval style)
Yahoo Games

POLITICS
Government & History links, Children’s, and Environmental causes can be found on Page 1.    
Law, Editorial columnists and news media organizations can be found on Page 2.  
Huge area, since *everyone* has a cause or an agenda.  Broken into the following sections for easier access.  
            Consumer Protection
            Death Penalty / Prison Industry
            Feminism
            Freedom of Speech
            Human Rights
            Organized Labor
            Political Groups 
            War and Peace Links 
            War on Drugs


Consumer Protection
ABC Credit Card Rates
About.com Consumer links
ACAP (air travel)
Adbusters
Center for the Study of Responsive Law
Clarkhoward.com (radio guy)
Consumer Action
Consumer AID Education Ctr (credit info)
Consumer Digest
Consumer Info Links
Consumer Info Links
Consumer Law Page
Consumer Reports
Consumer.net
Consumerama
Consumerworld.org
Enough
Essential.org (Nader)
Financial Calculators (all kinds)
Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (California)
Fraud Bureau
Getting Rid of Credit Card Debt
Greenlight (new car pricing)
Internet Scam Busters
Law.com
McSpotlight
National Association of Consumer Advocates
National Consumer Law Center
Natl. Coalition Against Insurance Fraud
Natl. Consumers League
Natl. Fraud Info Ctr.
Online News net links
PIRG.org (Nader)
Public Citizen (Nader)
The Conscious Consumer
Tom Vacar KTVU (San Fran.)
Yahoo! Consumer Web Ring

Death Penalty / Prison Industry
Amnesty International Against the Death Penalty (&links)
California's Expanding Prisons
Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Curb the Prison-Industrial Complex
Death Penalty Info Ctr
Death Penalty-California
Derechos-Human Rights (&links)
Human Rights & the Drug War
Lamp of Hope (by death row prisoners)
Mandatory Minimums
Nat'l Assn. of Defense Lawyers
Other Side of the Wall (links)
Prison Activist Resource Center
Prisoners of the War on Drugs
Repression, Inc.
The Celling of America
The Prison Industry

Feminism
Abortion Clinics OnLine (directory)
Abortion Rights Activist.
California Abortion & Reproductive Rights
Catholics for a Free Choice
Equal Rights Amendment
Feminist Heaven
Feminist Mom
Feminist.com
Friends Empowering
N.O.W.
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
Rural Womyn Zone
Solidarity
The Feminist Majority
The National Abortion Federation
Womens Net
Welfare Mom
Woman Leaders Online
Women's Environment & Development Organization

Free Speech & Privacy
Blue Ribbon Campaign on the Internet
Center for Democracy & Technology
Electronic Frontier Foundation
EPIC
First Amendment Handbook
Peacefire.org
The Freedom Forum
The Privacy Page

Human Rights
ACLU
Americans United for Affirmative action
Americans United for Separation of Church & State
Amnesty Internationa'l.
Anti-Racism.Net
Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights
Crosspoint
Declaration of Independence
Digital Freedom Net
Doctors Without Borders
Earth Rights International
Equal Rights Amendment
Free Lori Berenson
Human Rights Campaign
Human Rights Watch
Main Line News
NAACP
NAACP
People for the American Way
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
The Interfaith Alliance
Thomas Paine

Organized Labor
AFL-CIO
AFTRA
American Labor History
Association for Union Democracy
Campaign (sweatshops)
Child Labor links
Democracy in the Workplace
Executive Pay Watch
Great Speckled Bird
Hard Hat Magazine
IATSE
Industrial Relations & Trade Unions
Labor Beat
Labor Education Links
Labor Law links
Labor News & History
Labor Watch
Labor&Union News
Laborlink
LaborNet
Minimum Wage links 
National Labor Committee
Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union
Rank&File Voice
Screen Actors Guild
SWEAT Labor News
Teamster.net
 The Wakeup Call
Union Ring
Union Shop
Union Songs
UnionOnline.com
Uniontrades.com
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
Workers Democracy Network
Workers Rights links

Political Groups 
ACORN
Alliance for Democracy
Americans Against Political Corruption
Americans for Democratic Action
Books to Prisoners
Boycott Walmart
Brookings Campaign Finance Reform
California Peace&FreedomParty
Campaign Finance Info Center
Campaign Reform.org
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
Christian Coalition
Citizens Alliance
Citizens Research Foundation
Class Struggle Web Ring
Clean Money
Coin-Operated Congress
Common Cause--Know Your Congress Search Page
Consumer Distorts
Democratic Socialists USA
Direct Action Net
Essential Action
Granny D.
Green Money Online Guide
Humanist Party
Idealist (nonprofit links)
John Birch Society
Labor & School of the Americas
Lucianne Goldberg
Minnesota Military Tax Resistance Network
Nader for President
National Review Magazine
National Voting Rights Institute
Opensecrets.org
Peace Brigades International
Proactivist.com
Public Campaign
Public Citizen (Nader)
Rainbow Coalition
Republican National Committee
Rush Limbaugh
The Struggle
Town Hall
Trident Ploughshares
Turn Left.com
UNICEF Land Mine Awareness
United Methodist Church Social Policy
U.S. Pacifist Party
Vote Smart (find your elected representatives by ZIP  code)
We the People
Wise Use
World Trade Organization

War and Peace Links
Abolition 2000
American Friends Service Committee
Anti-Nuke links
Antiwar.com
Arms Conversion Project
Arms Sale Monitor
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Center for Defense Information
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
Doomsday Clock
Global Peace Walk
Hiroshima Peace Site
Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies
Interfaith Voices for Peace and Justice (links)
International Committee for the Peace (interfaith)
Kids -- Drawings for Peace
Lawyers for Social Responsibility
Nonproliferation news & links
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Nuclear Control Institute
Nukefix
PAIX 2000
Peace Action
Peace & Disarmament
Peace Brigades International
PeaceNet
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
The Hague Appeal for Peace
The Nonviolence Web
Trident Ploughshares
U.S. Pacifist Party
US Institute of Peace
War Resisters League
Women's International League for Peace&Freedom
World Peace Project for Children

War on Drugs
Cannabis Reform Coalition
Cannabis.com
Cato Institute Policy Analysis
Common Sense for Drug Policy
Cost of the Drug War
DRC Net.org
Drug Policy Foundation
Drug Sense
Drug War
Drug War 101
Drug War Clock
DrugPeace.org
Ending the Drug War is Popular
HEMP Net
Human Rights & the Drug War
Human Rights & the Drug War project
Marijuana News
Marijuana Policy Project
Media Awareness Project
Milton Friedman's remarks on the War on Drugs
National Drug Strategy Network
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
Policing for Profit
Prohibition -- the War on Drug Users
Schaffer Library of Drug Policy
Stop the Drug War Now
The Narconews Bulletin
The November Coalition
The War on Drugs
Think for Yourself
Voluntary Committee of Lawyers
Who's Who in the Drug War

Religion    (Research resources only.  I try not to include sites that preach!) 
Bible
Biblical Studies Resource Page 
Bible Gateway, Calvin College
Bible Search Facilities
Bible Browser
Noncanonical Homepage
The Gospel of Thomas Homepage
Dead Sea Scrolls - Today
Resource Page-Biblical Studies
Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit
Ecole Initiative
Guide to Early Church Documents


Christianity   (Mostly Catholic at the moment)
Benedictine Run Liturgy website
Douai-Rheims Bible Home Page
Guide to Catholic Sources 
Catholic Files 
CatholicMobile 
The Catholic Encyclopeadia 1907- 1913 
Catholic Resources on the Net 
Christus Rex 
Glen Gunhouse' Page
Guide to Liturgy Resources online.
Hours of the Virgin in Latin and English
The Monk Page
Online Calendar of Saints Days
The Complete List of Popes
Vatican Home Page 

Islam
Al Mashriq 
Greek and Roman Cities in Turkey
The ICB Islamic Audio Studio
Islamic History Sourcebook
Islam Homepage
Islam: Islamic Architecture in Isfahan
Islamic City 
Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Lecture: Exploring Ancient World Cultures: The Islamic World
Middle East Studies Association
Muslim Students Association, Caltech
Stories of the Sufis

Judaism
Ancient Near East: Ancient Shikhin and Sepphoris, Israel
Ancient Near East and Palestine
Ancient Synagogues in the Holy Land - What Synagogues?
The Digital Genizah
The Internet Jewish History Sourcebooks
Introduction To Judaism Home Page
Israel
Israel Museum Jerusalem
Jerusalem Mosaic
Jewish History Sourcebook
Jewish/Israel History - Link Launcher
Israel: Official and Government Sources]
Journal: Judaica: Jewish Studies
Medieval Judaism: Course Notes
Univ.Cal. at Davis: Judaism RST 23 homepage
The Wisdom of Maimonides

Research                                                                                                       131
Acronym and Abbreviation List
Acronym Finder
Airliners.net 
Allexperts.com
American Secular Holidays Calendar 
American Sign Language Dictionary 
Archive of Useless Facts and Trivia
Ariga     (Yiddish Dictionary) 
Ask An Expert 
Aquatic Ape Theory     (An interesting theory of Human origins)
The Aviation Zone
Babel Fish on the Web  (Translate web pages and documents easily for free!)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Alternate)
Behind The Name - (Bible Browser 
Big Dummy's Guide to Religion, Philosophy & Ethics
Biographical Dictionary
  (Searchable))
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress 
CARRIE: A Full Text Electronic LIbrary at U. Kansas
Chinese Language and Culture    (Awesome site for learning Chinese)
Chinese Language Information Page   (Learning Chinese?  Go here!)
CIA 2000 World Factbook 
New York Public Library Home Page
The Nobel Channel
Nom de Guerre     (Cute place... celebs real names)
NYNY
Odin's Castle of Dreams & Legends
3-D Starmaps
Tree Of Life Project
The Slot
SOAR: Searchable Online Archive of Recipes

Site-of-the-Moment                                                                                       2
Gembooks
iUniverse

Search Engines, Guides and Web Directories                                     51 
All in One Search Page
Alta Vista
Answers.com
Argus
Ask Jeeves    
Associations Directory
The Big Hub   ( Formerly Inktomi)
Debriefing Meta Search Engine
DejaNews   (Newsgroups)
DirectHit    (Sites are chosen by "popularity" -- yields interesting results)
Dogpile    (I have a soft spot for puppy-based software)
eHow    (How to do ANYTHING!  With step-by-step instructions)
Excite
EuroSeek
Fast Search
Four 11
Google    (Looks like it will eventually develop into an awesome site)
HotBot   
Information Please Home Page
InfoSeek Net Search
InfoSpace
Internet Communication
Internet Nonprofit Center
Internet Resources Meta-Index
The Internet Sleuth
Law schools and Legal Associations
Linux Guide    (If it has ANYTHING to do with Linux, it's here. Excellent resource)
WhoWhere?
World Wide Web FAQ
World-Wide Web Servers
Yahoo      (Massive...)
TELNET Services
The World Public Access UNIX
Webdeveloper
Webcrawler

Travel Websites                                                                                         13
America West
American
Amtrak
CheapTickets.com
Delta
Midwest Express
Northwest
Southwest
ParkMaps
Travelocity
TWA
United
US Airways

Skydiving                                                                                       1
Freefall

Word - Of - The - Day!                                                           5
Cool Jargon of the Day
A Word With You
Jesse's Word of the Day
Merriam-Webster
Travlang

Useful Stuff for Work and Business                                                       12
American Express: Small Business Support  (Free Advice)
Elite    (Check out "Timesolv" -- online client billing software -- a net alternative)
FormsPlanet   (Customize online forms for any task)
Freeworks 
Improve Now
MagicalDesk   
Palo Alto Software: Business Plans
PakAlert
Personable.com  (Use MS Office 2000 on the internet // $15 per/month) 
Score  (Service Corps of Retired Executives -- Workshops & Counseling)
U.S. Small Business Administration Resource Site
V-Jungle   (Access to e-mail, calendars, file sharing, etc.,across corporate firewalls)

Shopping                                                                                               36
A Bushel of Baskets   (Gift Baskets)
Absolutely Gifts
Accent on Baskets    (Gift Baskets)
Amazon (More than just books... they have pretty much everything)
AspenTradingPost  (Very cool Native American Sstuff as well as others)
Bloomingdales 
CDnow  (Music)
Cousins  (Lots of stuff here, but cool for the weapon replicas)
Discoveries Intl (Wide Variety)
EcoExpress     (My favorite place here -- ecologically friendly gifts)
eShopper (Decorative items for home)
E-Stamp
Giftpoint   (Gift certificates to stores and restaurants nationwide)
Godiva   
InterCenter Company
Macy's
Morninglory Online  (Music)
New England Antiques & Collectibles
911Gifts
Of-the-Month   (Stuff of the month clubs)
1-800-USA-4-FLOWERS
Pre-Order Store   (Order Music before it's released here)
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Service Merchandise
Sharper Image
Sherrie's Baby Keepsakes          (Personalized baby gifts)
Shop Til U Drop       (Among other things, site offers aromatherapy items )
site2shop
Spiegel
Stamps.com
Tapped Into Music  (Site is huge, but disorganized)
Tower Records  (Not as large as you'd expect)
Value America
Whatnots
World Internet Marketplace
Travelocity


Meta Shopping Search Engines                                                       5
These engines will allow you to narrow down gift ideas and comparison shop.  
Addall    (For books)
BottomDollar    (Will search auctions and e-commerce sites)
DealPilot    (The best of this list)
MySimon    (Frighteningly slow at the moment... but still worth it)
SearchPilot   (3000 stores)


Online Malls                                                                                        3
Catalog City
Catalog Site
SkyMall

Weather 
City.Net .
CNN - Weather Main Page 
Lonely Planet .
WeatherNet

Weddings
Weddinglinksgalore.com

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