Entertainment

• The Internet Movie Database, the source for everything you ever wanted to know about movies, TV shows, actors & actresses, etc.  Also, look for the Celebrity Lost and Found column every Wednesday.
• Complete database or Warner Brothers cartoons from the '30s to the '90s.
• The Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion, a guide to all those obscure references to pop culture in the 1930s-'50s that these brilliant cartoons were spoofing.

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• Bank Rate Monitor, all kinds of good stuff about banking, interest rates.

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• Mapquest, draws maps and gives pretty good driving directions.
• Expedia Travel agent
• Hotel discounts
• Track the status of a flight in progress at The Trip.
• Tired of sorting through all the different weekend travel bargain e-mails?  They're all summarized for you in the Dealwatch section of Web Flyer.

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• The Onion, a weekly satirical newspaper.
• The Dysfunctional Family Circus, take Bil Keane's classic cartoon and add your own captions!
• Harry Shearer: From The Edge of America has some great audio and video clips of screw-ups by major media types.

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• My Yahoo, a nice startup page for you to personalize.
• VoyCabulary transforms any webpage into links to Dictionary or Thesaurus lookups.  Check it out here, and know what the heck they're talking about!
• Don't know which search engine is best?  What's the best source for finding a telephone number?  Download the Webferret and the other ferrets, and they'll try them all for you!
• The AOL Instant Messenger lets you chat with your friends on AOL (and other non-AOL folk who've also downloaded this software.
• Tired of checking back on a page to see if anything has changed from week to week?  Register the page with Netmind and they'll send you an e-mail whenever the page changes.
• Amateur webmasters:  Sick of having to give a ridiculously long URL to folks to find your page?  Check out V3 Redirection Services, which can shorten the URL from something ridiculously long like /Hollywood/Set/1618/index.html to http://surf.to/tublin.

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• Social Security Death Index, may be useful for geneaologists out there.
• The Celebrity Death Pool...it's sick, but it sure is fun!
• Morbid Fact of the Day

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• Epicurious, consistently good recipes from Bon Appetit magazine.

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• What does your phone number spell?
• The Dialectizer, translates any webpage into any number of fun and politically incorrect dialects.
• Bell Labs Text-To-Speech Generator
• The Anagram Genius Server
• Send a fax for free, most anywhere in the U.S. or in certain countries, through The Phone Company. You can only fax text messages, and service is reported to be INCREDIBLY slow depending on the time and place you're sending to.
• Another free fax service--unlike the above site, this one will let you send to anywhere in the USA, it gets there lightning-quick, and it will let you send either text or an uploaded MS Word document. The only drawback is that each page of your message has a large advertising border to it. Check it out at Fax4Free
• Now that you've saved the cost of sending an outgoing fax, sign up with E-fax, get your own personal fax number. E-fax then forwards the fax to your e-mail address! Okay, the fax number could turn out to be anywhere in the U.S., but what the heck...it's on the caller's dime!
• Great directory of live cameras on the Internet

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• The Washington Post, not only my local favorite, but for my money the best damned newspaper in America.

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• The complete Merriam-Webster dictionary and thesaurus.
• Zip code lookup

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• What's that used car worth?  Kelly Blue Book or Edmunds.

• The Smoking Gun, all sorts of documents and other stuff obtained pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act.
• Easy-to-navigate listing of radio stations broadcasting on the Internet at Mike's Radio World.
• What's that used car worth?  Kelly Blue Book or Edmunds.
• Can't figure out the perfect present to give?  Try the Gift Finder.
• Wonder how much a house sold for?  Don't embarrass yourself by hinting around...just look it up!