The Good Sites

The four broad categories below cover the spectrum of how you spend your time and money. Care has been taken to select the most worthwhile sites in each category, and to include a broad spectrum of material. Many popular subjects already have a well-constructed "home page", which is linked here instead of duplicating their efforts.

Entertainment
Recreational reading, game and hobby sites
Information and Personal Improvement
Tutorials, documentation, educational stuff
Non-profit Groups
Charities and societies
Merchandise
Vendors of quality products

Entertainment

Site-of-the-Day/Week Sites
Geek Site of the Day
Cruel Site of the Day
Ridiculous and Sublime sites of the week
The 100 most-accessed sites of the week
Children's sites
Humor
More-or-less daily
The Top 5 List
Yeeeoww!!! Web site satire
Your Horoscope and stuff
Comics from the Houston Chronicle (now requires registration (free))
The Dilbert Zone
Doctor Fun
The Dysfunctional Family Circus
Weekly
News of the Weird Home Page and archives
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows strange but true
My Boss
Monthly
Annals of Improbable Research
Occasionally Updated
ZUG mischievous merriment
Scott Christensen writes essays from that delightful place at the edge of sanity
Cockroach facts and fun
Pretty Much Static
Prototypical idiot's homepage: don't let this happen to YOUR page
The Mentos FAQ
The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project: pseudoscience explores snack cake properties
Dihydrogen Monoxide: Friend or Foe?
The Bastard Operator From Hell story collection
Electronic Magazines & Columns
Seidman's Online Insider: a weekly summary of events in the Consumer Online Services Industry
The Lighthouse electronic Magazine: Contemporary Christian Music
Word: candy for the eyes and mind
Feed: traditional magazine content taking advantage of a new medium
Fork In The Head: dedicated to ridding the Web of crap
Suck: pithy website reviews
The Onion Satirical newspaper
Dave Barry
Computer Games
3D Gamers
Games Domain
Online Gaming Review
Interactive Fiction Page (like Infocom games)
Hobbies and Recreation
Cars
Fishing
Hummingbirds
Pets
Photography
Poultry
Travel resources
Horticulture and Gardening
Internet Directory for Botany, Subject Category List
The Ardent Gardener: gardening advice, reviews, commentary
The Garden Web tips, exchanges, suppliers
The Virtual Garden includes a searchable plant encyclopedia
Texas A&M Horticulture Page
Pete's Pond Page

Information and Personal Improvement

People and businesses
AnyWho: includes people and business by name, reverse phone lookup, toll-free numbers
InfoSpace: much like AnyWho
555-1212.com
Yahoo!: find email or phone number from person's name and location
GTE Superpages: business phone numbers and web sites
Road Map for any address in the US (street or domain name), or any city in the world
Web and Usenet Searchers and Reviews
Altavista Web/News Text Search
HotBot Web/News Text Search
Northern Lights web searcher clusters results by topic
The Usenet Information Center Launch Pad
Yahoo compendium of Web sites by category
McKinley Group's searchable site reviews and ratings. They rate too many sites too highly.
Point Communications Corp site reviews
The Internet Tourbus A guide to some of the best the Internet has to offer.
Free Hosting
Home Pages
Email Addresses
Internet Access
Internet Access (freenets)
Internet Access (freenets)
Software
Shareware Search Engine
ZDI Publications searchable software reviews
Spam (junk email>
Direct Marketing Association (junk mail and phone calls)
General Info (Searchable Databases)
Internet Domain Country Codes, also available as a Java applet
US Telephone Area Codes
Checkdomain: registration information for internet addresses (by name or number)
Internet Service Providers
ZIP codes
Bestselling Books
Movies
See also the Merchandise section
Email Hoaxes
Snopes collection of urban legends
Urban Legends the web site
Medical Info
Conversion
Languages
Currency
Everything else
Writing (in general, and for the Web in particular)
Strunk's Elements of Style
Writer's General Reference Shelf (if you want to look it up, it's here)
Copyright Myths and Facts
Spelling test
Typography
Choosing good material (see also Fork In The Head in the magazines section)
International and Special Characters in HTML
The WWW Help Page (includes the Barebones Guide to HTML)
HTML Validator Service: make sure your HTML is correct
Web Page Layout, as it should be (more or less)
Submit It!Publicize your page
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library
Project Vote Smart: learn about your candidates
Financial Services
Quicken financial news
Stocks and Mutual funds
Income Tax links
Bob's Weekly Market Comments (technical analysis)
Government Information
Library of Congress
Consumer Information Catalogs
Government Printing Office document search
Department of Justice
Census Bureau
United Nations
Computer Topics
The Perl Home Page or try the Perl Resources Page
Photoshop Tips
PGP and Cryptography
Data Compression

Non-profit Groups

National Charities Information Bureau
Environmental
The Nature Conservancy
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
EnviroLink Network links
Health
AIDS dot ORG
American Association of Blood Banks
American Cancer Society
American Heart Association
American Lung Association
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Humanitarian
Alternative Gifts International: gifts for the world
Habitat For Humanity
Institute for Global Communications: peace, equality, freedom, and stuff like that
Blood Donation Sites in the Houston Area
Special Pals A No-Kill Animal Shelter in the Houston area
Political
Amnesty International (and the USA chapter)
Citizens for an Alternative Tax System: Sales tax instead of income tax
The Libertarian Party
League for Programming Freedom
The Center for Democracy and Technology lobbies for civil liberties in new computer and communications technologies.
American Civil Liberties Union
Project Vote Smart provides information about candidates.

Merchandise

Comparison shopping for just about anything you can buy online
priceline.com: Airline tickets, hotel rooms, new cars, home financing where you name your price
PriceScan compare prices of online sellers
Lands' End clothing
Amazon Books huge searchable database of titles
CD Now music and magazines (searchable)
DVD SpotDVDs at a discount
Scavenger's Quest: stuff you can get for free
The Free Site: more free stuff