Guides & Searching	Infoseek , my default search site. DejaNews . The news group search engine Also, there's ... Yahoo, Lycos, HotBot,
News	BBC news The New York Times CNN   If I can't see what I want from the BBC Ananova.  The cyber newsreader.  ENN.  The Environmental News Network. c|net    For computer industry news.
Directories	Four 11 Directory of people & companies (411 is the number for directory enquiries in the US).  The Directory covers a few things.  The "Prefix Location Directory" is useful.  Time - here are the current times around the world  Currency Exchange Rates covers the major currencies  It seems that the CIA have a word or two for every country on the planet!
Maps and Guides	The USGS mapping service TopoZone - maps from the USGS Zip2 Yellow Pages MapOnUs MapQuest MapBlast Earthquake Hazard Maps (by USGS geophysicist John Boatwright)  Geo Data maps from the "BADGER" project. (as far as I know, the name's a coincidence!) Earth edition of the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Publishing	Object Magazine Macmillan Computer Publishing
Entertainment	The San Francisco Symphony Atom Films - Films on the Internet.
Travel	Preview Travel.   A San Francisco based travel agent. travelscape.com   A discount travel agent. Trip.com
My Admin stuff	Hooked (who have changed their name to WeNet)  CitiBank.  My US Bank.  National Westminster.  My bank in the UK.
Interesting	New Scientist  This is the web branch of the UK magazine. Working for Change   Part of Working Assets. 3D Tracking of all the satelites in orbit around earth  Have a look - it's really amazing. Live photographs from Africa.  Here, you can watch a waterhole from home.   ... a project to use spare computer cycles to find intelegent life - out there! Aaron Van de Kerckhove  sculpture art-furniture Matrix spoof. Bandwidth Meter. Astronomy - Picture of the day.
Shopping	Priceline.com let you set a price for something, then they try to get it at that price!  For books, try Amazon.com, Borders, Barnes & Noble or Blackwells (in the UK).  To check the prices of any computer related product, try PriceWatch.  If you're looking for PC motherboards, chips, heat sinks or cases try SDS Mark II.  For other computer stuff, NECX can be good.
Support	ASUS makes the motherboards we use.  Diamond MultiMedia make the SCSI card used in our home PCs.
Comics	Dilbert.  Doonesbury.
Software Tools	VNC is a CORBA based remote display system.