The second rendition of Star Office, the free Office Suite from Sun Microsystems is available for downloading. Join the approximately 2,650,687 users who have decided to opt-out of Microsoft Office.

LegalEngine is a legal metasearch page and a good place to start your legal research online.

Need to find out something about European Governments? Listed here are the main governmental sites for each country, which usually include the sites for the Head of State, the Government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and sometimes a portal site for the national civil service. 

The Japanese Ant Color Image Database has proved to be so unexpectedly popular (more than 250,000 hits last year) that it's been translated into English and published on the Web. Click an ant.
 
 
 

Free email Providers Guide: Find the half dozen or so free email sites (out of the 1250 listed here), that are just right for you; includes free ISP's, fax, long-distance calls, voicemail and online storage.

Want a look at the financial statements of the nine U. S. Superior Court Justices?

Font Xplorer lets you view all the fonts on your system at one time. And it's free.

Adherents.com got Religion...and "references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc." Praise the Lord.

The Indiana University School of Medicine, Terre Haute Center for Medical Education's Biochemistry Page presents a comprehensive site for Medical Biochemistry Students, among others. Take a look at their award winning Vitamins Page.

DART: Columbia River Data Access in Real Time: A facinating look at up-to-date river conditions at sites from all over the Columbia River basin; from fish passage to hydro-electric production statistics.
 
 

Imagine Technology News unadulterated by news of mergers and acquisitions or IPO announcements. Then look at The Bubble Chamber for technology reporting that is focused on the ideas instead of the dollars, eg., "The Entropy Engine: technology that converts any available heat into power."

Recently, a new set of icebergs broke off the Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica. No need to exercise the imagination, the pictures are on the Iceberg Page.

Mundi Design Studios has created an interactive and fascinating introduction to the art of graphic design covering such concepts as color theory, composition & layout, perspective and typography. An extraordinary example of "Flash" technology (graphics and animation) used to inform and educate. Begin by holding your cursor over the number 1.

BritannicaSchool.com from the encyclopedia people is going to launch on September 18, 2000. Enough of the site is up to create realistic expectations in the Ivory Tower and beyond. !Pricing structures! have not been included, but if you pre-register you'll get a notification when the site launches and a free one-month trial subscription. Britannica.com, one of the best sites on the web, is still free.

4Kamakana: A couple of years ago the Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover Studio CD-ROM was a popular stocking stuffer and all the rage in beauty parlors. Now you can have the "thousands of looks" for free at the online clone, MakeoverStudio.com.

"Shameless promotion of insect appreciation." You'd expect that from the Insects.org domain, but what you might not expect is extraordinary graphics and exemplary design. Watch your step around here and give 'em two antennae up!

Who was Ayn Rand? When the Age of Aquarius bumped head-on into her Objectivist Philosophy the collision created the "Opulent Eighties." The vibrations linger and the faithful still ask, "Who is John Galt?"

The X86 Still: Serious hardware geeks distill pure alcohol to mix with their Mountain Dew using a working motherboard, cpu and fan. Potent, in a bug-sized sip.

Why crackers crack: "this paper explores the motivation and psychology of the black-hat community, in their very own words. Part I starts with the compromise of a Solaris 2.6 system. Part II provides information rarely published, a record of conversations and actions which took place over a fourteen-day period following the compromise of a honeypot system. Learn how and why black-hats attack systems."

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