Reference Material

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

IRS

IRS downloadable forms.

California EDD

A page that contains off of the employer's needs for paperwork in the state of California.

OSHA

The United States Department of Labor's OSHA web site.

OSHA Hazard Information Bulletins

The United States Department of Labor's OSHA Hazard Information Bulletin web site.

SAFERSYS

An online inquiry to the motor vehicle records used by the Department of Transportation regarding Commercial Motor Vehicles.

Acronym Dictionary

Good for deciphering those phrases like UNESCO and SCUBA.

American Sign Language Basic Guide

Has pictures of the hand signs, and special sections with signs about particular thing, like kitchen objects.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

The classic work in a beautiful searchable on-line format at Columbia University.

Bible Search

Has many languages and many versions of the text.

CIA World Factbook

Great source of information about all the countries around the world. Really impressive.

Encyclopedia on the Internet

This isn't an encyclopedia in the normal sense, It's simply a bunch of links to things on the Internet, organized alphabetically. So no one is vouching for the information you'll find. But it might lead you somewhere interesting.

How Far Is It?

The name says it all. Plug in a couple of cities and find out how far apart they are.

Fed Ex

Federal Express.

Good Quotes by Famous People

A listing of familiar quotes and who they are attributed to.

Maps on the Internet

This is the Perry - Castaneda map collection at the University of Texas at Austin. A great map resource for worldwide maps.

Populations for Countries, from the United Nations

Has recent population numbers, along with trends, significant milestones and more.

Roget's Thesaurus at the National Institute of Health

The monster list of words with the same meaning. Not a pretty interface, but a lot of choices at your fingertips.

Switchboard Telephone Directory

This reference has over 90,000,000 telephone listings and is a good place to find the telephone number of folks on the web.

UPS

United Parcel Service.

USPS

The United States Post Office.

Web - CGI-BIN & Java Script Primer

This is a very good set of CGI-BIN & JavaScript articles to help you learn how to incorporate some interactive elements into the web pages.

William Shakespeare

The greatest words ever assembled can be searched for a phrase.

WordNet 1.5

A language-lover's tool for looking up synonyms, antonyms and more.