The Investing Online Resource Center offers information for people interested in doing online investments. It has a section for those just getting started and a section for those already using the Internet to invest. To top it all off, they have a simulation of what it is like to invest online as well as simulations that explain margin accounts and warn of pump-and-dump investment schemes.
YES, Inc. is a site that offers a playlist for over 2300 radio stations across the country. Browse for your station of choice by city and you will find all of the songs they have played in the last 24 hours listed by exact time they were broadcast.
Nooked RSS Directory is a directory of corporate RSS feeds. Feeds can be browsed by category or searched by keyword.
Via beSpacific.
VideoDetective is a site that offers movie trailers online through streaming media. You can search their archive by title, actor or keyword. You can also browse current releases in theaters, current DVD/video releases or a calendar of future DVD/video releases. Right now they are featuring trailers for the Academy Award nominees.
Chowhound is a website where you can find information on all of the restaurants in your area that are hidden gems, plus it has reviews of more flashy restaurants that are honest and not full of hype. Enter the site and then you can click to find your region and read the messages about your area. You can also offer your own perspectives on restaurants.
Word IQ is a site that offers tools to help users find definitions and information on words. It also has an encyclopedia, and ways to search the Web and articles. Very slick.
The New York Times Movie Reviews offers 10,000 NYT movie reviews online. You can browse by title, year, genre, critic, or country of origin. Or you can choose to do a specific search by title, people or keyword.
Via Kegliography.
Mystery Writers of America have announced the Nominees for the 2005 Edgar Awards. The categories are varied, but the nominees for Best Novel are:
By a Spider’s Thread by Laura Lippman
California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker
Evan’s Gate by Rhys Bowen
Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Remembering Sarah by Chris Mooney
NOVA | Saving the National Treasures was the most recent episode. It looked at the incredible efforts of the team that helped to preserve the original Declaration of Independnce, Constitution and Bill of Rights by designing and building new enclosures for them. Completely riveting and fascinating. The website offers informational and interactive sections, showing the conservation, damage already done, and the incredible cases that were built.
fac.etio.us goes hand-in-hand with spid.ero.us. It offers a quick way to find del.icio.us bookmarks that are of interest to you. You can limit it by tag, creator, site, feed, or date. Very slick and very useful if you want to see the latest on a specific subject.
