Praise the Stored
And Pass the Erudition!
Another grey London day. In his second floor office, looking past the heavy burgundy drapes, I can see the ivy encroaching on the windowpanes. Control holds the reciever to his ear, listening carefully. After half a minute, no more, he frowns, sets the phone in its cradle, and looks at me across mahogany desktop. "Your mission, Jack, should you decide to accept it, and you'll pardon the messy syntax: What's needed is extrude, reviewed and accrued, dude!"
How could I refude, uh, refuse?
GREAT BOOKS INDEX http://books.mirror.org/gb.titles.html
'An Index to ONLINE Great Books in English Translation,' but it ain't necesarily so. Authors are listed here in order of their birthdates; most of them dead guys, from Homer to George Orwell.
Say you and the chorus are considering a revival of 'Antigone' by Sophocles. You can find it here, if you are intrepid enough to get through the many broken links.
Moliere, that French master of farce is listed. I became a fan after performing in one of his plays in experimental theatre way back when. There are a handful of his scripts including 'School for Wives' but sacré bleu, it's in French! I did take French One three times in high school, but I decided not to indulge myself at this time. So kind of hit or miss, and when you get there they might have the despised advertisments waiting for you. Still if you're looking for Melville's 'I and My Chimney,' you got it!
THE ONLINE BOOKS PAGE http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
Listing over 20,000 free books on the Web and updated yesterday, the Online Books page has many more titles listed than Great Books Index, but misses some of the more obscure titles by well-known authors. While you will find Melville's 'Moby Dick' here in two incarnations, 'I and My Chimney' didn't make the cut.
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ONLINE CATALOG http://catalog.loc.gov/
I get sweaty palms just thinking about it! Choose 'Basic Search' or 'Guided Search' or a handful of other catalogs!
LCSHDB http://fantasia.cs.msstate.edu/lcshdb/index.cgi
A Web Interface designed to help you access the Library of Congress Subject Headings DataBase developed by Mississippi State University. Often handy for day to day reference work, indespensible for catalogers. Get to know it...you WILL use it!
BLINX TV AND VIDEO SEARCH http://www.blinkx.tv/
A dozen, mostly recent video clips of my search "Mount St. Helen's." One was a paid subscription service, at least one needed you to tell them who you are and get a pass from Microsoft before viewing, but if you gotta see that C-SPAN clip on disaster preparedness, it's here. Broadband users only, please!
ALL SEARCH ENGINES http://allsearchengines.com/
"The net's top search engine index, a handy search engine directory." Choose major search engines or 'topic' search engines like adult search engines or education search engines. Click on reference search engines and get 15 destinations, some new to me! Looking for the latest? Try "Hog Search - NEW! Fun new search engine." The name says it all: allsearchengines.com.
MAJORGEEKS.COM http://majorgeeks.com
If you can deal with all the olive drab, there's a world of geek chic raht'cheer trooper! Want to know what the RSS fuss is all about? Use the Google search-majorgeeks.com window and get 81 hits. There were more than 250 geeks and geekwannabees in the forums when I dropped in this afternoon. I have found some amazing things all grouped together for my appreciation and understanding. Majorgeeks.com, it'll make your head spin, and it'll feel good, soldier!
WASHINGTON EMPLOYMENT SECURITY DEPARTMENT www.go2ui.com
Washington State's online "unemployment office" presented by the Employment Security Department's Unemployment Insurance Division. How did that get in here? Well, I can say with complete confidence, this can be a handy page!
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE www.irs.gov
Your tax dollars at work gathering your tax dollars. I think they are finally getting thier act together. It may not be any more pleasant, but it's lots easier to deal with the Department of the Treasury than it used to be.
COMPLETETAX www.completetax.com
If you don't have a lot of offshore holdings, you might qualify to do your entire return online for FREE! You won't even need a calculator. Take your W-2's and sit 'em by the keyboard, and strap in...it's going to be a bit bumpy, but worthwhile nonetheless. It works for me!
Do the Brits pay taxes?
Another grey London day. In his second floor office, looking past the heavy burgundy drapes, I can see the ivy encroaching on the windowpanes. Control holds the reciever to his ear, listening carefully. After half a minute, no more, he frowns, sets the phone in its cradle, and looks at me across mahogany desktop. "Your mission, Jack, should you decide to accept it, and you'll pardon the messy syntax: What's needed is extrude, reviewed and accrued, dude!"
How could I refude, uh, refuse?
GREAT BOOKS INDEX http://books.mirror.org/gb.titles.html
'An Index to ONLINE Great Books in English Translation,' but it ain't necesarily so. Authors are listed here in order of their birthdates; most of them dead guys, from Homer to George Orwell.
Say you and the chorus are considering a revival of 'Antigone' by Sophocles. You can find it here, if you are intrepid enough to get through the many broken links.
Moliere, that French master of farce is listed. I became a fan after performing in one of his plays in experimental theatre way back when. There are a handful of his scripts including 'School for Wives' but sacré bleu, it's in French! I did take French One three times in high school, but I decided not to indulge myself at this time. So kind of hit or miss, and when you get there they might have the despised advertisments waiting for you. Still if you're looking for Melville's 'I and My Chimney,' you got it!
THE ONLINE BOOKS PAGE http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
Listing over 20,000 free books on the Web and updated yesterday, the Online Books page has many more titles listed than Great Books Index, but misses some of the more obscure titles by well-known authors. While you will find Melville's 'Moby Dick' here in two incarnations, 'I and My Chimney' didn't make the cut.
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ONLINE CATALOG http://catalog.loc.gov/
I get sweaty palms just thinking about it! Choose 'Basic Search' or 'Guided Search' or a handful of other catalogs!
LCSHDB http://fantasia.cs.msstate.edu/lcshdb/index.cgi
A Web Interface designed to help you access the Library of Congress Subject Headings DataBase developed by Mississippi State University. Often handy for day to day reference work, indespensible for catalogers. Get to know it...you WILL use it!
BLINX TV AND VIDEO SEARCH http://www.blinkx.tv/
A dozen, mostly recent video clips of my search "Mount St. Helen's." One was a paid subscription service, at least one needed you to tell them who you are and get a pass from Microsoft before viewing, but if you gotta see that C-SPAN clip on disaster preparedness, it's here. Broadband users only, please!
ALL SEARCH ENGINES http://allsearchengines.com/
"The net's top search engine index, a handy search engine directory." Choose major search engines or 'topic' search engines like adult search engines or education search engines. Click on reference search engines and get 15 destinations, some new to me! Looking for the latest? Try "Hog Search - NEW! Fun new search engine." The name says it all: allsearchengines.com.
MAJORGEEKS.COM http://majorgeeks.com
If you can deal with all the olive drab, there's a world of geek chic raht'cheer trooper! Want to know what the RSS fuss is all about? Use the Google search-majorgeeks.com window and get 81 hits. There were more than 250 geeks and geekwannabees in the forums when I dropped in this afternoon. I have found some amazing things all grouped together for my appreciation and understanding. Majorgeeks.com, it'll make your head spin, and it'll feel good, soldier!
WASHINGTON EMPLOYMENT SECURITY DEPARTMENT www.go2ui.com
Washington State's online "unemployment office" presented by the Employment Security Department's Unemployment Insurance Division. How did that get in here? Well, I can say with complete confidence, this can be a handy page!
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE www.irs.gov
Your tax dollars at work gathering your tax dollars. I think they are finally getting thier act together. It may not be any more pleasant, but it's lots easier to deal with the Department of the Treasury than it used to be.
COMPLETETAX www.completetax.com
If you don't have a lot of offshore holdings, you might qualify to do your entire return online for FREE! You won't even need a calculator. Take your W-2's and sit 'em by the keyboard, and strap in...it's going to be a bit bumpy, but worthwhile nonetheless. It works for me!
Do the Brits pay taxes?
posted by Mr.Jack @ 1:15 AM
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