HOBBIES (A TO Z) More to come ... It is a little hard to list hobbies -- because almost any subject can be turned into a hobby by an enthusiast. If you think some of these are not hobbies - we will not argue.This section is under construction -- we have to work on dividing all of these entries in various categories. Send us suggestions on how we can inprove our presentation.Check out our list of hobbies from wikipedia.This is a work-in-progress. There is a lot of re-filing and organizing to do
- Action figures (ac)
- Adventure travel (ac)
- Aikido (wp)
- Air aces
- Aliens: UFOs / Aliens (ac)
- Astronomy (gtg)
- American Civil War
- Animals (ans)
- Animation (ac)
- Antique bottles
- Antique car repair
- Antiques (ac)
- Antiques (gtg)
- Antiques and collectibles (gtg)
- Antiques (nyt)
- Antiques
- Aquarium glossary
- Aquariums (nyt)
- Aquariums (salt water) (ac)
- Aquariums (fresh water) (ac
- The New Tank Guide / Keith gives you guidelines for setting up a freshwater aquarium. He includes a list, description and purpose of parts and equipment, and explains how to set up and cycle your new tank and then introduce new fish. (Found on http://www.ipl.org)
- Archaeology / Anthropology (nyt)
- Archaeology, European (bl)
- Arithmetic (wp)
- Armored Fighting Vehicles (wp)
- Aromatherapy (ans)
- Art and arts: Art Encyclopedia (ans)
- Art and arts: arts and crafts / links to various subjects (ipl)
- Art and arts: Fine Arts Dictionary: (ans)
- Art and arts: Visual Arts (17989) (gtg)
- Art and arts: Visual
arts and design (links to SuperCrawler)
- astrology
- atmospheric science (bl)
- Aviation and racing car memorabilia
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- Ballet (bl)
- Ballet: Royal Ballet (nyt)
- Ballet: San Francisco Ballet (nyt)
- Ballet: School of American Ballet (nyt)
- Balloons and balloon sculpting
- Basketry
- Beadwork (ac)
- Beauty Pageants (info to come)
- Beer
- Bees (nyt)
- Biblical studies (bl)
- Birds: Aviaries (wp)
- Birds and Birding (gtg)
- Birds (nyt)
- Birds (bl)
- Birds: hummingbirds
- Birds: the Audobon Society (nyt)
- Birding: Wild birds (ac)
- bodyart (gtg)
- bodybuilding (ac)
- Bookarts
- Book Binding and boxmaking
- Botany
- Botany: New York Botanical Garden (nyt)
- Boxmaking -- links to hundreds of pages of boxmaking information
- Breeding of animals (nyt)
- Butterflies (bl)
- Buttons (nyt)
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- Cake decorating (info to come)
- Calculators: Directory of online calculators, browsable by a hierarchical subject/function directory. "There are calculators for finance, business, and science. There are ones for cooking, hobbies, and health. Some solve problems, some satisfy curiosity, and some just for fun." (Found on http://www.ipl.org)
- Calorie counting (nyt)
- Camping (ac)
- Camps and Camping (nyt)
- Candle and soap making (ac)
- Card Games (1691) (gtg)
- Card Game Rules (ans)
- Cards and Card Games (nyt)
- Cards -- making greeting cards using various
techniques -- including rubber stamping
- cardstock and paper models Lots of links
- Cardstock, card and paper models http://bellsouthpwp.net/n/8/n8hfi/card-faq/ This is a masterful site by Steve Brown, an enthusiast. It has an enormous number of links to free models and all sorts of related information.
- Cardstock and paper models -- a good Yahoo email
group where you can find all sorts of information.
- Cardstock and Paper models -- " Welcome to a truly international group whose members share a passion for making (usually) recognizable things from card stock & paper. These things range from extremely simple models of cars and buses to highly elaborate representations of
aircraft and armored vehicles which challenge and often exceed anything found in the plastic model world."
- Card Tricks: Card Trick Central
- Cars: also see Antique car repair
- Cars: also see trucks
- Cars, antiques (links to come)
- Cars: Auto repair (ac)
- Cars, classic (ac)
- Cars from the 50s and 60s
- Cars: Mustang cars (ac)
- Cars: SUVs (ac)
- Cars: SUVs/4X4 (ac)
- Cars: Used Cars (ac)
- cartography (bl)
- Cartoons (ans)
- Cartoons and Cartoonists (nyt)
- Carving rubber stamps
- Ceramics and pottery (nyt)
- Chess (nyt)
- chess (bl)
- Chess (ac)
- Children's Books
- Cigars
- Cigars (nyt)
- Cigars (ac)
- Circuses (nyt)
- Civil war: united states civil war (bl)
- Classic Literature (ac)
- Classic Movies (ac)
- Classic Video Games (ac)
- Classical Literature Companion: (ans)
- Classics (sc)
- Clay for sculpting and modeling
- collectibles (ac)
- collecting coins (nyt) (also see numismatics)
- Collecting Games (52) (gtg)
- Collectors and Collections (nyt)
- Collectors -- Cashing In the Chips, Even When the Casino Is Long Gone By STEVE FRIESS / The annual Casino Chip and Gaming Tokens Collectors Club convention in Las Vegas draws those who think of themselvesas both collectors and guardians of the history of gambling.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/us/22chips.html?th&emc=th
- Collectors and collections: Collector Online's Club Directory /
"This directory lists over 500 clubs related to antiques and
collectibles" including a contact person, their address, and
telephone number information. The clubs are listed alphabetically,
with some of them linked to their home pages as well. The majority
of the content is not linked, but provide the most current,
up-to-date contact info for small organizations that may be
otherwise hard to find. (Found on http://www.ipl.org)
- Comedians, a list: -- (sc)
- Comedy (4) TED
- Comedy and Humor (nyt)
- Comets (bl)
- Comets (nyt)
- Comic Books (ac)
- Comic Books and Strips (nyt)
- Comics (6648) (gtg)
- Communication and language
- Computer info, software and related subjects
- Conferences and conventions
- Conservation of Resources (nyt)
- Conservation Websites / a good list of about 50 websites.
- Conservation Websites -- with links -- taken from the above website
- Cooking of all kinds. Includes Baking, Seasoning, Recipes, Tools,
Serving Techniques, Tips, Desserts, Soups, Ethnic dishes, etc.
(send us your recipes and suggestions for this section)
- Cosmetics and Toiletries (nyt)
- cosmology (bl)
- Costume Institute (nyt)
- Costumes (59) (gtg)
- Craftboard / All sorts of stuff on crafts
- Crafts (7716) (gtg)
- Crafts (ac)
- Crafts (bl)
- Crafts Business (ac)
- Crafts Fair Online -- "The Oldest And Largest Craft Directory On The Web."
- Cross-Stitch (ac)
- Crossword Puzzles (nyt)
- Cruises (nyt)
- Cruises (ac)
- cryptography (bl)
- Culinary Arts (ac)
- Curios
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- Dance (ac)
- Dance (4) TED
- Dance (sc)
- Dance (bl)
- Dance / American
- Dance arts (7040) (gtg)
- Dance; Dancing (nyt)
- Dance Dictionary (ans)
- Dance Festival (nyt)
- Dance Music / Electronica (ac)
- Dance: Pilobolus Dance Theater (nyt)
- Dance Theater of Harlem (nyt)
- Dance Theater Workshop (nyt)
- Decorating (ac)
- Do it Yourself around the home (wg)
- Do it yourself.com -- guides you through all sorts of projects
- Doll Collecting (ac)
- Dollhouses, miniature printables
- Dollhouses and dollhouse miniatures -- an enthusiast's site
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- Electronics (nyt)
- Electronics, Home Theater (ac)
- Embroidery (info to come)
- Embroidery, Machine -- patterns for sale
- Energy: renewable energy (bl)
- Energy Sustainability at home
.............. and in the garden (wg)
- Engineering, Technical and Scientific Products and Services (globalspec)
- Engines (nyt)
- English language -- lots of links
- English language / words
- Entertaining at home (wg)
- Entertainment and Amusements (nyt)
- Epoxy Putty / Models like clay, hardens to a rigid solid in one hour. A great hobby material for repair and construction of all materials.
- Equipment and tools -- Complete list of linked product categories and sub-categories can be found here
- esperanto (bl)
- Exercise (ac)
- Exercise (nyt)
- Exploration (5) TED
- Exploration and Explorers (nyt)
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- Facebook (nyt)
- Family Crafts (ac)
- Family Travel (ac)
- Family Vacations (ac)
- Fashion and Apparel (nyt)
- Fashion Encyclopedia: (ans)
- Fashion: Petite Fashion (ac)
- Festivals (nyt)
- Film -- also see Movies
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- Fitness (1101)
(gtg)
- Fitness; Aerobic exercise (wp)
- Fitness & Food (ans)
- Fitness: Bodybuilding (ac)
- Fitness: Running/Jogging (ac)
- Fitness: Walking (ac)
- Flea Market Online -- info to come
- Flight, airplane models -- Lots of links
to related sites by someone who knows the field.
- Flowers: see plants
- Foam cutters -- good for making models of all types
- folklore (bl)
- Folklore (ac)
- Folklore, English (ans)
Food -- also see Cooking
- Food, Chinese (ac)
- Food, chocolate (nyt)
- Food, cookie recipes
- Food, gourmet food (ac)
- Food, Italian (ac)
- Food, Japanese (ac)
- Food, Korean (ac)
- Food, Kosher (ac)
- Food, Kosher (nyt)
- Food, Spanish Food (ac)
- Food, Thai Food (ac)
- Food: Sugar (nyt)
- Food: Summer Fruits (nyt)
- Food lover's companion (ans)
- Freshwater Aquariums (ac)
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- Gambling (nyt)
- Gambling at casinos (ac)
- Games and Gaming -- A cornucopia of links
- Garden Annuals (ans)
- Gardeners, Dictionary for (ans)
- Gardening (ans)
- Gardening (sc)
- Gardening (ac)
- Gardening: trees (bl)
- Gardening: Trees and Shrubs (nyt)
- Gardens and Gardening (nyt)
- Gardens at home (wg)
- Gardening: Yard work (ac)
- Gemology & Lapidary Pages: /
"A comprehensive introduction to gemology and gemcutting."
(Found on http://www.ipl.org)
- gems (bl)
- Genealogy (ac)
- genealogy (bl)
- Genealogy (nyt)
- Geology (sc)
- Geology (ac)
- geology education (bl)
- geology research (bl)
- geology societies (bl)
- Glues and gluing -- useful for hobbyists
- Guitar (ac)
- Guitar (5) TED
- guitars (bl)
- Guitars (nyt)
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- Hallowen celebrating (nyt)
- Halo video game (nyt)
- Handicraft (links to SuperCrawler)
- heraldry (bl)
- Hiking (nyt)
- Hip-Hop & rap (ac)
- Hobbies (see our Focus page of hobbies)
- Hobbies: << http://www.allexperts.com/ >> Are
you stumped trying to find an answer about your favorite hobby? If so, then
this site is for you! Allexperts.com is the oldest & largest free Q&A
service on the Internet where you can ask the experts any question! This
section of their website is devoted to people with knowledge of a wide variety
of hobbies (arts, crafts, collecting, and other pastimes). Click on a subject
that interests you to find a listing of experts and the areas in which they
specialize. Each expert profile even has comments and a ratings history from
people who have already asked them questions. (Found on http://www.ipl.org)
- Hobbies (sc)
- Hobbies (ac)
- Hobbies
and Crafts -- Here
is a very good "enthusiast" site
that has over 200 links to legitimate
sites / sewing, knitting,
woodworking, photography, eclectic and miscellaneous
- Hobbies listed at WiseGeek
- Hobbyists Online / "A telephone surveyconducted in February-March 2007 (by Maggie Griffith & Susannah Fox) found that fully 83% of online Americans say they have used the internet to seek information about their hobbies and 29% do so on a typical day. Looking for information about hobbies is among the most popular online activities, on par with shopping, surfing the web for fun, and getting news."
- See below for all the "Home" entries -- they can be hobbies.
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- Home cooking (ac)
- Home Recording (ac)
- Home Renovations (ac)
- Home Repair (ac)
- Home Repair (wg)
- Home Theater (ac)
- Homebuilding: Fine Homebuilding
- Honey (nyt)
- Horses (nyt)
- Horses (ac)
- horses (bl)
- horticulture (bl)
- Humor (6) TED
- Humor (ac)
- Hunting and Trapping (nyt)
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- Ice Cream (nyt)
- Ideas: categories of ideas on "The Big Think"
- Ideas worth spreading from TED
- Information -- finding it on the web
- Ink, how-to make walnut ink
- Innovation (4) TED
- Insects (ac)
- insects (bl)
- Insects (nyt)
- Interior Decorating (ac)
- Interior Design (nyt)
- interior design (bl)
- Internet for Families (ac)
- Invention (24) TED
- inventions (bl)
- Inventions, significant, timeline of -- from
8th millenium B.C. to 2,000 (supercrawler)
- Inventions and Patents (nyt)
- Inventors (ac)
- Inventors -- List of inventors in the National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Investing for Beginners (ac)
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- Jewelry / Accessories (ac)
- Jewelry Making (ac)
- Jewelry tools
- Jewels and Jewelry (nyt)
- Jogging (ac)
- Jogging (nyt)
- Juggling
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- Knitted products, handmade
- Knitting -- a few links
- Knitting (ac)
- Knives (nyt)
- Knots: Roper's Knots Page / A huge site dedicated to the art of
knotting, consisting of detailed instruction pages, an alphabetical
index to locate and learn the many different types of knots, links
to other knotting sites, connection to a knotting newsgroup, and
a list of books on this subject.
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- Machines, Simple or Basic Machines -- in physics, a simple machine
is any device
that only requires the application of a single
force to work.
The traditional list of 6 simple or basic machines
is: inclined
plane / screw / wedge / lever / wheel / pulley. It can be reasonably
argued that the previous definition and list is not precise. (more to come on this subject)
- Machining and metals
- Magazines (nyt)
- Magazines and E-zines, art (407) (gtg)
- Magazines, Newspapers: Archived articles / We are building a
list of the
most popular U.S. magazines that have free archived articles
on their website.
Those
articles
are a good reliable source of information.
- Magic: Houdini Historical Center / Learn some lesser known facts about this famous magician and escape artist: his death, his hobbies, and his connections to other famous people. (Found on http://www.ipl.org)
- Magic (2) TED
- Magic: Online
guide for stage magic practitioners, both amateur
......... and professional. Searchable.
(Found on http://www.ipl.org)
- Magic & Illusion (ac)
- Magic and Magicians (nyt)
- masks (nyt)
- Microscopes (nyt)
- Microscopy
- Mime (nyt)
- Miniature printables -- for
....dollhouses. A number of links
- Miniatures, Games (1085) (gtg)
- Miniatures (ac)
- Model Railroading / Webville and Hypertext Railroad Company: "A site for the
archiving of historical and informational documents concerning Railroads, Railfanning and
Model Railroading;" technical, historical, rosters, and other information.
- Models: Cardstock and Paper model making (more info to come)
- Models: Cardstock and paper models -- a good email group
where you can find all sorts of information. (a yahoo group)
- Models : cardstock and paper models -- Lots of links
- Models: Cardstock and Paper models -- " Welcome to a truly
international group whose members share a passion for making
(usually) recognizable things from card stock &paper. These
things range from extremely simple models of cars and buses
to highly elaborate representations of aircraft and armored vehicles
which challenge and often exceed anything found in the plastic
model world." (a google group)
- Models: free cardstock models online
- Models: Free plans for cardstock model buses
- Models: more paper models online -- they are all free --
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over 75 small paper toys you can easily make.
- Models of all types
- Models, pulp casting
- Movie database -- mostly current movies
- Movies (76766) (gtg)
- Movies (ans)
- Movies (all movies.com) (ans)
- Movies: Classic (ac)
- Movies: Documentaries (ac)
- Movies: Hollywood (ac)
- Movies: Horror (ac)
- Movies: Scary Movies -- but OK for some
kids / “Cat People” (1942),
“I Walked With a Zombie”, “The
Body Snatcher”, “Hangover Square”,
“The Lodger” and “The
Undying Monster”. These are from a 10/26/07
article in the NY Times
/ Search the NY Times Article Archives for
"Joy Of Fright" to read the
article.
- Movies: World Film (ac)
- Music of all types: will include links to musical instruments,
composers, groups, artists, courses, and whatever else we think fits.
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Nostalgia --
(A) music and stuff from the fifties
(B) sixties
(C) the days of Black & White
(D) Do you remember these?
- Numismatics (nyt) (also see collecting coins)
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- Paints and Painting (nyt)
- Painting (ac)
- Painting (links to SuperCrawler)
- painting (bl)
- Paleontology (nyt)
- palaeontology (bl)
PAPER RELATED ...
- Paper and cardstock
- Paper
and cardstock, bibliography
- Paper and Pencil Games (42) (gtg)
- Paper and Pulp (nyt)
- Paper dolls -- This is a very small sampling of more than two million
links you will get if you Google "paper dolls" --(1) The adventures of
Dolly Dingle and other paper doll books by Dover Publications /
(2) Paper doll bulletin board / (3) Free paper dolls in 20 categories
including royalty and classic movie stars / (4) Free Contemporary
Movie Star paperdolls. Click here for more info on this site.
- Paper Mache: a number of formulas for this versatile and
cheap craft material
- Paper
models
- Paper
products / see "handmade products" on this list
- Paper
toys
- Paper Toys -- over 75 small paper toys you can easily make.
- Paper-arts
- Papercraft -- A 4-page PDF of General Instructions
- Papercraft -- Make a 16 page book out of one sheet of paper by folding, cutting and taping (a video)
- Papercraft -- making medallions
- Papermaking
- Paper-pulp
casting
- Parchment craft -- some good examples are shown
- paranormal (bl)
- Paranormal Phenomena (ac)
- Parapsychology Encyclopedia (ans)
- Party Games (191) (gtg)
- Performance (21) TED
- Performance art (2) TED
- Performing arts (38296) (gtg)
- Perfumes and Fragrances (nyt)
- petroleum engineering (bl)
- petrology (bl)
- photographs (bl)
- photography (bl)
- Photography (nyt)
- Photography (8) TED
- Photography (ac)
- Photography, arts (5510) (gtg)
- Photography Encyclopedia: (ans)
- Pilates (ac)
- plant and plants (bl)
- plant biology (bl)
- plant data (bl)
- plant distribution (bl)
- Plants: Flowers and Plants (nyt)
- Plants: flowering plants (bl)
- plant genetics (bl)
- plant images (bl)
- plant pathology (bl)
- Plastic-model
compounds and materials
- Play -- A Classroom of Monkey Bars and Slides / This is a wonderful article about the vaue of play -- particlarly the unstructured kind. / By JANE E. BRODY / NY Times (4-10-07)
- Play Groups, Games (74) (gtg)
- Play-By-Mail Games (86) (gtg)
- PlayReading Is lots of fun for groups. Here are sources for scripts <<http://www.simplyscripts.com/radio.html>>
& <<http://www.genericradio.com/library.php>>
- Plays / Drama (ac)
- Podcasting (ac)
- Poems and Poetry -- << http://www.bartleby.com/verse/ >>
Brooke, Rupert. / Burns, Robert. Poems and Songs. / Chapman, George.
The Odysseys
of
Homer,
vol. 1.
/ Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy. / Dickinson, Emily.
1924. Complete Poems. /
Eliot, T.S. 1917. Prufrock and Other Observations.
/ 1922. The Waste Land. Perhaps Eliot’s
most famous piece, / Frost,
Robert -- A Boy’s Will.
-- North
of Boston. -- Mountain Interval. --
Miscellaneous Poems. / Graves, Robert. Fairies
and Fusiliers. / Hardy, Thomas. Wessex
Poems & Other Verses.
/ Hopkins,
G.M. Poems. / Housman, A.E. A Shropshire Lad. /
Keats, John. Poetical Works.
/ Lawrence,
D.H. -- Amores. -- New Poems. / Masters,
Edgar Lee.Spoon River Anthology. / Millay,
Edna St. Vincent.Renascence and Other
Poems. / Milton, John. Complete Poems
Written in English. Paradise Lost and Regained /
Robinson, Edwin Arlington.Collected
Poems. / Sandburg, Carl -- Chicago Poems,
Cornhuskers.
Smoke and Steel / Sassoon, Siegfried -- The Old Huntsman and Other
Poems, Counter-Attack
and Other
Poems, Picture-Show / Shakespeare, William. 1914.
The Oxford Shakespeare. --The
37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous verse that
constitute the unrivaled
literary cornerstone of Western civilization. / Shelley, Percy Bysshe.
Complete
Poetical Works. / Stein, Gertrude. 1914. Tender Buttons. / Stevenson, Robert
Louis. 1913. A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods,
with Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
by Alexander Harvey. / Vergil. 1909–14. Æneid.
/ Whitman,
Walt. 1900. Leaves of Grass.
/
Wilde,
Oscar. 1881. Poems. / Wordsworth, William. 1888. Complete Poetical Works. /
Yeats,
William Butler -- The Wind Among the Reeds, Responsibilities and Other Poems,
The
Wild Swans at Coole.
- Poetry: Anthologies -- From Bartleby -- The Oxford Book of English Verse. /
The Oxford Book of English
Mystical Verse. / The Oxford Book of Ballads.
/ The Oxford Book of French Verse. /
The Oxford Book of Latin Verse. / The
Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. / An American Anthology. /
A Victorian
Anthology. / The Book of American Negro Poetry. / Yale Book of American Verse.
/
The New Poetry: / A Treasury of War Poetry. / Magazine Verse
for 1920. / Massachusetts Poets. /
The Little Book of Modern Verse. / The
Second Book of Modern Verse. / Modern American Poetry. /
Modern British Poetry.
/ Irish Verse. / Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C. / The Golden Treasury.
/
English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray. 1909–14. / English Poetry
II: From Collins to Fitzgerald. 1909–14. /
English Poetry III: From
Tennyson to Whitman. 1909–14. / Hymns of the Christian Church. 1909–14.
- Poetry (sc)
- Poetry
- Poetry (6) TED
- Poetry: (ans
- Poetry (ac)
- Poetry Glossary: (ans)
- poetry links (bl)
- Poetry, Notes on: (ans)
- Poetry -- The poems of Billy Collins: US Poet Laureate (2001-2003)
- Poetry and Poets (nyt)
- Poetry Society of America (nyt)
- Poets Laureate (nyt)
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- Polishing
and buffing
- Popes (nyt)
- Pop-ups
- Popular
children's
books,
879 of them
- pottery (bl) Pottery and ceramics / see "handmade
products" on this lis
- Pottery (ac)
- Puppetry Home Page: Covers
all aspects of puppetry, from creating puppets to performing with them, from
an international perspective. (Found on http://www.ipl.org)
- Puppets (nyt)
- Puzzles (nyt)
- Puzzles, Games (857) (gtg)
- Puzzles (ac)
- Quilting -- lots of links
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- Radio (nyt)
- Radio (ac)
- Radio (sc)
- Radio, arts (3057) (gtg)
- Radio
on
the
internet -- FREE -- Create
your own
playlist
by
picking
the
artist(s)
you like /
add new artists at any time
/ songs play in the background as
you do whatever on your computer.
I am listening to Bob
Wills And
The Texas Playboys as I am typing this.
- Radio: Pirate/Free (ac)
- rail travel (bl)
- Railroading / Webville and Hypertext
Railroad Company:
"A
site for the archiving of historical and informational documents
and binaries
concerning Railroads, Railfanning and Model
Railroading;" technical,
historical, rosters, and other information.
(Found on http://www.ipl.org)
- Railroads (nyt)
- Rap / Hip-Hop (ac)
- Rap Music (nyt)
- rare books (bl)
- Reading to children
- Recording Equipment (nyt)
- Recording: Home (ac)
- Recordings (Audio) (nyt) (not linked)?
- Recordings (Video) (nyt)
- Recreation (sc)
- Recreational Vehicles (nyt)
- renaissance music (bl)
- reptiles (bl)
- Research (nyt)
- research councils (bl)
- Research
Guides,
Bibliographies
and
Finding Aids /
From the Library
of
Congress / Find books
on lots
of subjects at
this
site. (loc)
- research libraries (bl)
- Research Libraries -- Browse
public, research,
or government libraries around
the world. Find your
public library
online, or look
for libraries that specialize
in specific subjects. (yahoo)
- research methods (bl)
- Restoration and Rehabilitation (nyt)
- robotics (bl)
- Robots (4) TED
- Robots (nyt)
- Rocks and Minerals: (ans)
- Roleplaying Games (4693) (gtg)
- Rules of card games (ans)
- Rubber
stamp carving
- Rubber Stamps
- Rubberstamping
- Rubberstamping is used to make greeting cards
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- Sailing (ac)
- Salad Dressings (nyt)
- Saltwater Aquariums (ac)
- Science (24) --- One of the 18 main categories at answers.com
- Science (49) TED
- Science and Technology: (ans)
- Science and Technology (nyt)
- Science Dictionary: (ans)
- science fiction (bl)
- Science Fiction (nyt)
- Science Glossary: (ans)
- Science -- Here is a good website with lots of science
- news and articles. Be sure to read the "about" page.
- Science, History of : Antiquity to 1700 / The Great Courses
- science links (bl)
- Science. Modern: (ans)
- science museums (bl)
- Science News Online / We've subscribed
to the hard
copy at home for over thirty years. It has all sorts of
reliable information on all aspects of science.
- Science of Everyday Things: (ans)
- Science search sites -- While you are there, scroll down for related information.
- Scientific American Magazine --
Most of the very worthwhile online articles from this fine magazine are free (excepting
the current issue of the magazine) / They make money online through the online ads. The free articles should increase
traffic and income. Everyone benefits by this business strategy.
- Scientific method (wp)
- Scientific method (sc)
- Sci-Fi / Fantasy (ac)
- Sci-Tech Dictionary: (ans)
- Sci-Tech Encyclopedia: (ans)
- Sci-Tech Essays: (ans)
- Scrapbooking (ac)
- Scrapbooks (nyt)
- Sculpture
- sculpture (bl)
- Sculpture (sc)
- Sculpture (nyt)
- Sculptures by Sherry Cucinatta made with GAPOXIO(tm) Epoxy / Ceramic Composite.
Search, searching, finding information, indexing and taxonomy
- Search Engines (ac)
- Search
Sites and Directories -- a
comprehensive list of
more than 70 places to find good information.
- Searching and finding articles and information on the web.
(1) American Society of Indexers / Frequently Asked Questions About
Indexing
(2) American Society of Indexers / Indexing Courses and Workshops. This site tells about indexing courses which evidently were originally
developed for book indexing. The same basic approach can probably be
used to index websites and the entire internet. The courses are for indexers
(people who do the indexing) -- but the information is valuable for people
who search the internet and thereby use the indexes generated by the
indexers.
(3) Mining The Deep Web / From The New York Times / (nyt)
(4) researchbuzz -- Tips, tricks, hints and such on expert searching << http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/admin/about >>
(5) Search Categories -- List of main categories at about.com -- Autos,
Business & Finance, Cities & Towns, Computing & Technology,
EducationElectronics & Gadgets, Entertainment, Food & Drink,
Health, Hobbies & Games, Home & Garden, Jobs & Careers,
News & Issues, Parenting & Family, People & Relationships,
Religion & Spirituality, Shopping, Sports & Recreation, Style,
Teens, Travel, Video Games. Each of these link to lots of subcategories
and finally various subjects within that gategory.
This might not be a bad place to start if you are trying to compile
a universal list of categories and subjects.
(6) Search Engine Watch -- It is all about search engines and how they work <<http://searchenginewatch.com/>>
(7) Search Engines are being tricked and their customers are being scammed / http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2167501
(8) Searching by
Categories -- Preliminary thoughts
on the subject -- not complete -- don't take it seriously at this
point.
(9) Searching the internet / www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html - UC
Berkeley
(10) Searching the internet / http://www.sou.edu/library/searchtools/ Southern
Oregon University
(11) Searching the internet / http://lone-eagles.com/search3.htm
(12)
Worthwhile tips by David Warlick
<< http://landmark-project.com >>
(13) Searching the Internet / http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml / University of South Carolina / bare bones 101: A basic tutorial on
searching the web
(14) Searching the
internet with Google -- A link to their "advanced searching" /
scroll down on the linked page
(15) Searching the internet with Google -- with help from Soople -- a site based in India. This site provides an easy-to-use interface that puts your search through Google.
(16) Searching the internet by using directories -- Directories
are generally human selected and alphabetical and
are an alternative to using "fill-in search windows"...
We think directories are more efficient and will ultimately become
recognized as the best way to find information on the web -- The
following is a list of directories from the UC Berkeley library
General: Discusses five sites in some detail (1) Librarians' Internet Index (2) Infomine (3) About.com (4) Google Directory and (5) Yahoo!
(16.2) Librarians'
Index: http://www.lii.org /
(16.3) Infomine: http://infomine.ucr.edu /
(16.4) Academic
Info: http://www.academicinfo.us/ /
(16.5) About.com: http://www.about.com /
(16.6) Google
Directory: http://directory.google.com /
(16.7) Yahoo!: http://dir.yahoo.com
(16.8) Publications on thesaurus construction and use :
including some references to facet analysis, taxonomies,
ontologies,
topic maps and related issues
(17) Software for building and editing thesauri
(18) Taxonomy, Classification and Metadata Resources
from
the Scottish electronic Staff Development Library
(19) Taxonomy Primer from the University of Texas
(20) Tutorial
on the Internet with regard
to Finding
Information / From UC Berkeley
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- Sewing (ac)
- Sewing (nyt)
- Shakespeare (ac)
- Shakespeare, William (nyt)
- Shakespeare, William / The Complete Works
of William Shakespeare
(The 1914 Oxford edition) / << http://www.bartleby.com/70/ >>
/ Edited
by W. J. Craig / The 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous verse
constitute the literary
cornerstone
of Western civilization.
- Shopping (14) --- One of the 18 main categories at answers.com
- Shopping (6) TED
- Shopping
at
Yahoo /
Tells
how
to
find
information
on
millions
of
specific products
- Shopping Centers (nyt)
- Shopping
Categories, a
Basic List
- Shopping For: (ans)
Cars: Porsche, BMW...
Clothing: Prada, DKNY, Tommy Hilfiger...
Computers and Software: Apple, ..........Adobe Photoshop, HP...
Electronics: Digital Cameras, Camcorders,
Gifts: Flowers, Chocolates, Wine...
Health and Beauty: Perfumes, Vitamin C, ............Norelco Shavers...
Home and Garden: Dishwashers, Desks, Blenders...
Jewelry and Watches: Necklace, Rings, Watches...
Kids and Family: Car Seats, Strollers, Lego...
Office: Copiers, Fax Machines, Pens...
Popular Products : 7960 ip-phone,..... canon powershot a95, x800 pro...
Sports and Outdoors: Cycling,.........
Personal Fitness, Golf...
Video Games: Xbox, PS2...
Catalogs: Alibris, Hammacher Schlemmer, ...........
L.L. Bean...
- Shopping for Games (995) (gtg)
- Shopping for Tools and equipment -- Complete list of linked product
categories and sub-categories can be found here
- Shopping, price comparison shopping
- Yahoo Shopping: Find
information
on
millions
of specific
products
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- Sign language (bl)
- Sign Languag
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