Brother Richard's Favorite URLs:
Entertainment, Miscellaneous, Music, Travel and U.S.A.
a personal index and navigation guide

Contents:

* This page * Entertainment, Miscellaneous, Music and Travel
* This page * United States of America
Links checked: 12 Feb. 2008

Other Favorites

• Education and Enrollment Management
• HTML and JAVA
• International: News, Weather and other sources
• Libraries and books
• Minnesota
• Religion & Theology (Catholic)
• Tools for Searching
• Universities

Entertainment (see also Music)

• Blogcritics.org ("superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, technology, and politics.")
• ESPN Sports Zone
• Internet Movie Database
• London Theatre News
• Movie Review Query Engine
• National Public Radio (NPR)
• Private Eye (U.K. humour, fortnightly)
• The Simpsons' Archive (from alt.tv.simpsons)
• TV Guide Online
• Ultimate TV
• Urban Legends and Folklore

Miscellaneous

• Airships to Zeppelins
• Amazing Bargains (discounts and coupons)
• American Medical Association
• AT&T World Net Service

• Babelfish (best online translation service)
• Bartelby.com (Familiar Quotations and much more)
• Better Business Bureau (Scams revealed)

• ChangeDetection (monitor any webpage's changes)
• Common Dreams News Center (Breaking news and views for the progressive community)
• Consumer Reports

• Dial ABC (what does your phone number spell?)
• Dollar Times (useful online financial calculators)
• Drudge Report

• E-bay (Auctions A-Z)
• Elements of Style (William Strunk Jr.)
• Epinions (consumer product reviews)

• Federal Express -- Tracking Form
• Film Scouts
• Flowers Forums (welcome to the world of flowers)
• Fotosearch Stock Photography (royalty free and rights-managed)
• Free Canada Postal Code Lookup (Free postal code lookup with area code, province, latitude, longitude, elevation, dwelling, street name and time zone)

• Genealogy Internet Sites (Cindy's List, the best!)

• Heraldica, François Velde's excellent heraldry site
• Heraldry and Coats of Arms Webring
• How to Tie a Bow Tie
• Humanetrics (Jung Typology Test)

• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (rootsweb)
• Intelihealth

• MedlinePlus (study your symptoms)
• Medscape (from WebMD)
• MenWeb - Mens' Voices Magazine
• Mortgage Calculator & 100 Personal Financial Calculators
• My Simon (compare products)

• Nuntii latini (News in Latin)

• The Obituary Page
• Prof. James J. O'Donnell's Website. Pioneer cyber-educator; Provost of Georgetown, 2002-
• One Look Dictionaries

• Pay Pal (send cash or pay bills by e-mail)
• Post Cards (Saint John's Abbey)
• PriceGrabber (lowest priced products)

• Robot Wisdom Weblog
• Royal and noble genealogical data (Brian Tompsett, Hull, UK)
• Salary Survey (Dice.com)

• U.S. Naval Observatory. What time is it?
• U.S. Postal Service. ZipCode+4 Lookup
• US Time, The Official (Java; CT)
• Utne Lens

• Verbix (free on-line verb conjugator)
• Virtual Flowers
• Virtual Hospital (U Iowa)

• What is a Dollar Worth? (CPI since 1913 and more; Fed Bank Mpls)

Contents

Music

• All-Music Guide (Record reviews and references since 1995)
• Audio Galaxy (free music)
• Billboard Online (trade magazine)
• DisGraceland: a thousand points of Elvis
• Bowienet (The Online Music Pioneer!)
• Broadway Midi

• CD Now (buy CDs via Amazon)
• Christmas carols: Words
• Classical Music Archives ("largest classical music site on the web" Awesome!)
• Columbia Records
• CultureFinder
• The Cyber Hymnal (over 4,900 Christian hymns & Gospel songs from many denominations)
• Gregorian Chant (Peter Jeffrey)
• Gregorian Chant Bibliography and Websites (osb.org)
• Jazz Online (Streamworks Audio)

• KISS Online (comprehensive)
• Live365.com (Web Radio: 10,000 stations!)
• Lovely Music Ltd.
• MTV.com (best-written music news coverage)
• Music Boulevard
• Music WWW Resources (U Indiana)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers Online
• Rolling Stone (best performer database)

• Spin.com (informative and timely: "Music for Life")
• SonicNet (VH1; "Best overall music website," YIL)
• The Ultimate Band List (Every act under the sun!)
• Universal Music Group (Hub with links)
• Woodstock.com
• Yahoo! Music (well organized; directories)

Travel (see also International)

• Accommodation
• Discount Hotels Worldwide (UK)
• Hotel Ninja (hotels, B&Bs, alternative accommodations)
• Hotels Cheap! (clean and efficient website)
• Sleep in Italy (self-catered apartments and Bed & Breakfast)

• Air Travel
  • Air Ninja (Save money! Compare discount flights with budget airlines.)
  • Airliners.net (Biggest aviation interest site in the world! 370,000 photos!)
  • Airport Rental Cars (reserve rentals directly; compare for great rates)
  • Booking Buddy (find the best deal simply)
  • Farecast (fare predictions; buy or wait?)
  • Flight Arrivals (best arrival and departure info for US and Canada)
  • Hotwire
  (discounted unsold inventory)
  • Inside Trip (user ratings)
  • Kayak (find best prices easily)
  • Mobissimo (fun & fancy interface; fare aggregator)
  • North West Airlines (St. Cloud = STC; TwinCities = MSP)
  • Orbitz (cheap flights, hotels, vacations, rentals, cruises)
  • Priceline (bid on flights, hotels, vacations, rentals, cruises; Zagat world city guides)
  • Seat Guru (leg room, power outlets, no-recline)
  • SideStep (Kayak with travel guides, newsletters, toolbar)
  • Travelocity (comprehensive, classic)
  • Virgin Charter (online booking for deluxe travel)
  • World Travel Quotes (search and compare)
  • Yapta (Track prices. Price dropped on paid ticket? Get a voucher!)

• Babelfish (best online translation service)
• BBC Languages (reviews, vocabulary, phrases)
• Best Travel Guides, Discount Airfares, and useful Travel Sites
• Currency Converter (xe.net) * The Hamburger Standard (oanda.com)
• Expedia Classic!
• Free Canada Postal Code Lookup (Free postal code lookup with area code, province, latitude, longitude, elevation, dwelling, street name and time zone)
• Geography Information System (USGS)
• Language Learning Library Learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Russian & Portuguese
• London Theatre Guide Online

• Rail, Trains and Subways
  • Amtrak Reservations
  • Cyberspace World RailRoad
  • Germany Railway/Deutsche Bahn
  • Paris Metro RATP
  • RailTrack (UK times and connections)

• Road, Maps, Cars and Traffic
  • Map Quest (Plan your route)
  • MapPoint (MSN)
  • Maporama (Useful)
  • Priceline (Best car rental service)
  • SmarTraveler Information Services. Twin Cities Traffic
  • Twin Cities Metro Transit
  • USGS. Geography

• Rough Guides
• Sacred Destinations (explore the spiritual heritage of the world)
• Travel.com (one-stop site for travel)
• Travel Advisories, Documents, Passports and Visas
• Travel Yahoo (comprehensive online travel destination)
• Travelocity Trip planning
• TripAdvisor (Unbiased reviews of hotels, resorts and vacations)
• U.K. Travel
• U.S. State Department. Background Notes
  • U.S. State Department. Passport Services
  • U.S. State Department. Travel
  • U.S. State Department. Travel Warnings

Contents

United States

Executive: The White House
Judicial: Supreme Court US
Legislative: Representatives on the Web * Senators on the Web

• Human Rights Campaign
• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
• U.S. Census Bureau
• U.S. CIA. World Fact Book (annual; country profiles)
• U.S. Department of Commerce. Stat USA
• U.S. Department of Education
• U.S. Federal Agencies (Comprehensive)
• U.S. Library of Congress. Area Handbooks/Country Studies
• U.S. Marine Corps
• U.S. Postal Service. Postage Rate Calculator
• U.S. Postal Service. Zip Codes, other lookups, etc.
• U.S. State Department. Passport Services
• U.S. State Department. Travel Warnings
• Voice for Change (Legislative Action Center; Uniting our Voices!)
• Voice of America
• VoteNet (Internet solutions for public policy and politics)

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Brother Richard OSB

Richard Oliver, OSB MA
Abbey Web Office
Box 2015
Saint John's Abbey
Collegeville, MN 56321-2015
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