Time and weather

• U.S. Naval Observatory Master Clock
  fast text-only display
• Greenwich Observatory's Time pages
• NIST time (text) ~ NIST Internet Time Service
• time.gov: current EST and EDT
• Local time around the world
• Time and Date.com: convert time around the world
• ISO 8601 date/time standard  ~ Jukka Korpela's summary with links ~ Markus Kuhn's summary ~ John Stockton's summary with many links
• Weather Underground: any forecast by city ~ U of M Weather via telnet
• Weather Channel weather
• Global Warming FAQ from NOAA

Real-world news

• Arts and Letters Daily.com
• Atlantic Monthly
• CNN
• Daily Telegraph electronic edition
• Drudge Report 2001-11-01
• The Economist (U.K.)
• The Guardian (U.K.)
• HomeTown Free-Press (U.S. only?) ~
• MSNBC
• New York Times (requires registration)
• PointCast Inc. (free personalized news from Reuters)
• Time magazine
• Toronto Globe and Mail ~ and news summary
• Wall Street Journal
• Washington Post
• WRAL-TV5 international news via continuous feeds from Reuters and AP
• Electronic Newsstand: selections from some mags
• Global news and weather links
• Google News
• FAST News Search
• Online newspapers around the world (country-by country list); and similar sites at Editor and Publisher Interactive ~

Generalia

• My virtual reference desk
• Funk & Wagnalls Multimedia Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• 1911 Britannica
• Encarta search (abridged edition)
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 1901 ed.
• Ask the Experts (on a wide range of topics)
• NEW: AskMe.com (PCMag editor's choice Apr 2000)
• NEW: Abuzz (PCMag: "close second to Askme.com")
• The Ability Utility (learn to do lots of things)
• Urban legends archive 97/02/24
• NEW: Urban Legends Reference Pages at Snopes.com
• Hoax-Slayer
• NEW: World Wide Festival and Holiday Pages
• NEW: How Stuff Works
• sci.electronics.repair Repair FAQ

Usenet FAQs

• Usenet FAQs (all ftp) from: rtfm and mirrors: uunet ~ GWU 96/07/10 ~ AOL's rtfm mirror (ftp)
• www.faqs.org ~ and a mirror
• How to start a new Usenet group
• List of USENET FAQs at OSU (badly out of date) 96/09/28
• FAQs in Belgium
• Usenet Info Center
• NEW: alt.suicide.holiday FAQs
• NEW: List of mailing lists and newsgroups