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If you’d like to delve into some American history this Independence Day the Nation Park Service might have the website you’re looking for. Pulling from their vast historical resources, this one website has a great collection of stories, timelines and biographies from the Revolutionary War. Of course they also offer information about visiting the various parks throughout the nation that have connections to the Revolution.
Whether you are doing serious research or just looking to understand the history of the United States of America, the National Park Service has a website for you to check out!
In a way, Google Books is the original idea that launched Google. According to Google’s own official history of the project, “In 1996, Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were graduate computer science students working on a research project . . . Their goal was to make digital libraries work, and their big idea was . . . a ‘web crawler’ to index the books’ content and analyze the connections between them”
By 2004 the technical challenges of scanning millions of books without damaging them had been overcome and Google entered into a formal agreement to scan the public domain content of Oxford University’s Bodleian library. Partnerships followed with Harvard, the University of Michigan, the New York Public Library, Oxford and Stanford. Today the list of worldwide Library Partners continues to grow.
Bored? Looking for something to do? How about taking some time to patrol the Texas border? The Texas Border Sherif’s Coalition would love to have your help as a “Virtual Texas Deputy”. Using a $2 million dollar grant from the Governor of Texas they contracted a private company called Blue Servo to create a website where ordinary people can log on and watch the border using strategically placed webcams. Once you set-up an account and log in you can choose the camera(s) you’d like to watch and begin your “patrol”. Each camera comes with instructions on what to look for and how to report anything suspicious annonymously. Here are some examples of what they’ve seen.
Give it a try! Live the dream of being a Virtual Texas Deputy: TexasBorderWatch.com
All these computers and all this connectivity… it’s just a matter of time before the ultimate online people search engine appears. Spokeo.com is yet another attempt at creating a searchable online database of people. Here are some others: Pipl, ZabaSearch, ZoomInfo, and many more.
According to their website: “Spokeo is a search engine specialized in organizing people-related information from phone books, social networks, marketing lists, business sites, and other public sources.” You can learn more here.
You should check out this website and type in the names of some people you know and maybe even yourself. It can be very enlightening to find out just how much information there is out there.
Do you love to drive? If you do then you know that it can get pretty expensive to drive everywhere. CostToDrive.com features a “galculator” which can give you a pretty good estimate of the cost to drive just about anywhere in North America. The website will also gives you a route map that includes gas stations along the way with their current fuel prices. And for more information about getting the most out of your car’s fuel efficiency check out fueleconomy.gov.
Try CostToDrive.com today to get “full visability inot the cost of car travel”
Would you like to play a piano, right now? Just go to the free online Virtual Piano and you can do just that. VirtualPiano.net was created by Crystal Magic Studio LTD in London, England. Even if you can’t play a note you can still enjoy trying. And if you can play, you might want to consider entering one of their competitions. Here’s a video of one of their past winners.
It started as a telephone hotline (1-800-CLEANUP) and today it’s a online database of over 100,000 recycling centers in the United States. Earth911.com is the one website that can help you recycle just about anything. Since 1991 this resource has helped people recycle everything from packing peanuts to whole computers.
They’re message is simple: REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE & REACT and it’s well worth it to check out their site this Earth Day! So checkout Earth911.com today. And the next time you have something to recycle don’t forget to go online and try out their service.
Maybe the ultimate Internet Moment would be to take some time to just surf the internet randomly. RandomWebsites.net can help you do just that.
From their website:
The Random Web Site Machine is very simple. It lets you surf the web, by sending you a completely random web site. Nearly every site is in our database. Over Four Million Sites. Just click the Random Web Site button below and start killing time… er… I mean start having fun!
Would you like to know how to make pizza dough? How about learning how to change the oil in a car or balance a checkbook? There is an amazing list of things you can learn online. eHow.com is a website that makes it easy to learn just about anything.
