Discovering Arthur Conan Doyle is a site from Stanford that offers information on the 19th century, his life and works. Stanford is in the process of putting Sherlock Holmes stories online. You can read the already completed novels and look forward to more coming this year. The format is pdf, so make sure you have Adobe installed.
The Video Game Critic reviews console video games from the early days of the Atari 2600 and Colecovision to the latest consoles. Just select the console you are interested in and you will find links to specific games. It is just plain fun to read reviews of old console games and view screen shots. Enjoy!
Podbop is a site that podcasts bands coming to your town. You can subscribe to a feed for the podcast, or view the list by date and listen to individual bands.
ThinkFree Office Online is a site that lets you use an online application to access and edit Microsoft Office files like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. You can save the documents right on line or save them as PDFs.
VegSource is a recipe site for vegetarian and vegan recipes. You can subscribe to their newsletter or browse their large collection of recipes divided into categories.
Tech-Recipes.com offers tutorials to get the most out of your computer system. They cover Mac OS X, Solaris, Windows, programming, UNIX, Cisco, and MySQL. You can add your own recipes, join in the discussion on the forums, read the top recipes or the current hot recipes, or subscribe to their RSS feed.
Wikibooks, the open-content textbook site has a Cookbook section. Find recipes from general interest to ethnic cuisines to special dietary needs. You can also read about nutrition, learn about equipment, and find out about ingredients. Remember this is an open-source textbook, so you can edit it yourself and make additions. Also, take any information with a grain of salt.
KidsHealth is a site from the Nemours Foundation dedicated to health information for parents, kids and teens. Each group has its own separate area on the site. The parent section is filled with articles, questions and answers, parenting tips, first aid, safety, health information and news. The kids section is colorful and filled with movement. It has information on staying healthy, emotions, growing up, online games, and how your body works. The teen section has information on body, mind and sexual health, as well as nutrition, drugs and alcohol, and infections. This is a great comprehensive resource for all members of the family.
CommonSense Media offers reviews of movies, TV, games, music, websites, and books with an emphasis on what age child they are appropriate for. The reviews contain not only a recommended age and general review rating, but also give reasons for their age assessment. That way parents can decide what is appropriate for their own families.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service has national maps of warnings, forecasts, radar, rivers, air quality, and climate.
