You can get free subscriptions to many business trade magazines through Tradepub.com, if you qualify. These are fascinating magazines like Microwave Journal and Pig International (really). If you're writing about anything to do with one of those subjects, reading these magazines can be a great window onto how those industries really operate. People talk differently when addressing their own kind as opposed to outsiders. The late Jessica Mitford, for example, relied heavily on funeral industry literature to write her muckraking masterpiece The American Way of Death.
A Detroit Free Press reporter says reporters "are in the dark ages when it comes to computer-assisted reporting" and offers suggestions on how to do it yourself.
Yahoo has a toolbar, just like Google's, and, just like Google's, it now blocks pop-up ads.
Brainboost is a search engine that tries to answer questions phrased in plain English.
The Northwest History Database offers more than 19,000 news articles on - you guessed it.
You can get regular updates on contracts over $5 million awarded to private vendors by the Department of Defense.
The Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research offers lots of information on demographic changes in the United States.
The Census of Marine Life wants to "assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life in the oceans- past, present, and future."
The 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' famous flight is Dec. 17 and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers is celebrating it online.
This British site is devoted to - ugh - media theory.
Who says soup shouldn't have its own Web site?
Every month you can get sky maps of the Southern and Northern hemispheres.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Environment Center is "the official source of space weather alerts, warnings and forecasts." Something to keep in mind for your next intergalactic journey.
All about plagiarism and how to avoid it, for students, but it could help you too.
Wired scholar is the "planning for college destination."
