5/08/2006

A few good links

Currently on the Address Bar on my IE 6.0 at work for quick access:

Text: Blog
Title: Currently Engineering a Jailbreak
Description: My own blog, this one you´re reading right now.
URL:
http://freemanattheoffice.blogspot.com/

Text: Dic
Title: Dicionário
Description: The company´s own online multi-language dictionary, because my Spanish sucks.
URL:
[local intranet]

Text: Encarta
Title: Dictionary MSN - Encarta
Description: MSN´s Encarta English dictionary, best one there is!
URL:
http://encarta.msn.com/

Text: Factbook
Title: CIA – The World Factbook
Description: Tons of organized, indexed information about individual countries (very useful when some lazy manager comes up to you asking the area code for say, Bhuthan)
URL:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

Text: Metrics
Title: Online metric conversion calculator
Description: Multi-function conversion (weight, distance, temperature, etc)
URL:
http://www.metric-conversions.org/

Text: Wiki
Title: Wikipedia
Description: Online encyclopedia (heaven on Earth!!)
URL: http:
//www.wikipedia.org/

Text: NVOCCs
Title: NVOs listing
Description: List of FMC-registered Non Vessel Operating Common Carriers. It´s all a bit technical, you see…
URL:
http://www2.fmc.gov/oti/nvos_listing.asp

Text: Zip
Title: Zip Codes and Postal Codes of the world
Description: Links to the Post Offices of many nations, very useful for say, finding a ZIP Code in Bhutan or something.
URL:
http://www.embassyworld.com/data/Zip_Codes.html

Text: Phantom
Title: Seattle Post Intelligencer - The Phantom
Description: Lee Falk´s The Phantom´s daily newspaper strip, currently penciled by The Flash-alumnus Paul Ryan.
URL:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/phantom.asp

Text: Time
Title: The World Clock meeting planner
Description: Just so I don´t get late for conferences with a foreign branch or something…
URL:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html

Text: Science
Title: Ask a Scientist – Archive directory
Description: An assorted collection of simple and complex questions about science in general (allegedly) explained by professionals.
URL:
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/archive.htm