essential news & info links

 

 

Ask Experts Anything
www.abuzz.com
Here is your resident expert. Type in a question and the site will automatically fire off an e-mail to volunteer experts requesting their input. You'll get an alert as soon as someone replies. Questions can range from simple queries to stumpers. The service is free.

Access a Free Library
bartleby.com
Check this site for quality readin. Everything from novels by Agatha Christie and Virginia Woolf to poetry by Robert Frost is available for free.

Track Down the News
daypop.com
Can't recall important parts of a recent news story. Let Daypop, a current events search engine that covers 7,000 new sites and weblogs, find the story for you. If you want to see what the Web's buzzing about today, go to the Top 40 page and check out the most popular links in the blogging community.

Translate most anything
world.altavista.com
AltaVista's Tranlate with Babel Fish is so powerful it'll convert text in Chinese, japanese and Korean as well as other languages into English quickly. You can use it to translate entire sites.

Get a New Passport
firstgov.com
It is a cinch to get passport applications, birth and marriage certificates, change of address forms and online tax payment info easily.

Learn to Do Anything
soyouwanna.com
Learn to cure a hangover or a hangnail, mix a martini or hold a seance. The site also offers more practical advice and tips.

Look Up Your Ancestors
rootsweb.com
Just type in a name and surname at Rootsweb to get back detailed ino about your ancestry and family history. This is an excellent starting place for research.