Poets and Writers Online is a tremendous resource with many resource links and opportunities for networking. Well worth a look.

Shakespeare on the internet. Need I say more?

Word A Day is a mailing list that emails out a vocabulary word a day with definition and sometimes commentary.

Learn about all of the nations of the world in the CIA's online World Factbook.

Writers Free Reference I don't know what the Himalayan Kittens are are about but this is a quick list of links to everything from mailing addresses for non-fee agents to lyrics of songs and much more. 

Visit the nations of Europe with Lonely Planet, an amazing travel resource. I am awful at geography this site helps me.

The University of Virginia Electronic Text Library is a good resource that provides texts of a variety of kind in English, German, French, Japanese and Latin. Yawn, you might need a coffee here.

 Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus is a visual experience of language of a kind unique and open to a host of serendipitous discoveries that cannot be charted easily. It's weird and I'm not sure what the point really is.

 The On-Line English Grammar is an interesting site to discover everything you ever wanted to know about the structure of the language we use as writers.


OneLook Dictionaries is a central site for exploring words in a variety of languages via an interface that links you with a variety of dictionaries throughout the internet.

In the category of reference homepages you can explore in the Marriam Webster Language Center that links to a variety of resources including the Webster Dictionary, the American English Dictionary and Roget's Thesaurus on line and a List of Dictionaries where you'll find German to English dictionaries and much more. You can download and view detailed maps from around the world thanks to the PCL Map Collection Also useful are the links of interest that can be found at the homepage for On-Line Literary Research Tools.


The Human-Languages Page catalogs the resources for linguistic study and learning on the web

Garbl's Writing Resources On-Line is a quite useful compendium of 'English language, grammar, style, writing, usage' and much more. Well worth a look. I think there is some valuable writing stuff here but so 'garbled' with political crap I felt stifled.

William Strunk's classic Elements of Style as well as John Bartlett's also classic Familiar Quotations are both available on the Web thanks to Columbia University's Project Bartleby . Great site - use it often.

Altavista's Babelfish site provides the opportunity to translate from one language to another. This is not perfect, but might give some beginning options. If nothing else it can be a hilarious exercise to translate from one language to another and back to the original again and see the results. Cool deal!

The FBI Freedom of Information Site is a wealth of information about criminals and more and links to other sites of diverse content. Whether you are interested in Al Capone or fingerprinting or what have you, this is one place to possibly look.

AllReaders.com is a web site that allows for look up of books and their authors by searching on plot lines and other elements. This might prove useful if you are seeking a particular author or book.

Britannica.com is the revamped online presence of Britannica Encyclopedia. Hands down this is far and away the best encyclopedia on the planet and their web site is a huge comprehensive center for research and exploration. From Arts to the World, the subject area are comprehensive, interesting and fun to explore. This is a must have site!

The Burry Man is a resource for writers that cover a diverse number of areas. Well worth a look.


The Classics Archive has an archive of hundreds of translated Classic texts including the Aenid, the Odyssey and others.

C/NET's Search.com is an impressive archive of search resources on the internet.

CybRpunk is a page devoted to the Cyperpunk genre.

Literary Kicks is self explanatory and also was a GNN Best of the Web nominee some years back. If you want to find out about Jack Kerovac, Allen Ginsberg and the whole beat phenomena, this is the place to go. Its worth going just for its own sake

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