Acronyms
http://curia.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym
Before you follow IBM, TNT, and HMV in initialising your company's name, make sure it doesn't stand for something blue by searching through these 12,000 acronyms.
alt.culture
A witty, digital A-Z of Nineties pop culture. Coupland meets Encyclopaedia Britannica. Fun to browse.
Alternative Dictionary
http://www.notam.uio.no/~hcholm/atlang/
Insult your foreign pals in their mother tongue.
AT&T's 1-800
Information
Find those elusive 1-800 numbers and cut your phone bill. That is, if your online charges don't contra the savings.
Britannica Online
It might make sense to reference the massive Encyclopaedia Britannica online rather than pay for the whole bulky series. Especially when it goes our of date so quickly. You can try this impressive service free for seven days - after that you or your organisation will have to fork out.
Computing
Dictionary
In theory, this concise glossary should help clarify many obscure computing terms and acronyms. However, these brief explanation may still leave you in doubt.
Globalink
Translate documents, including Web pages, between English and French, Spanish or German, in seconds. Run it back and forth a few times and you'll end up with something that wouldn't look out of place on a kitsch Japanese t-shirt.
Human Languages
http://www.willameete.edu/~tjones/Language-Page.html
An astoundingly rich digest of links to linguistic resources such as dictionaries, thesauruses, poetry, publications and more, in just any language you can name, including Australian Aboriginal dialects, Esperanto, Hebrew, Manx Gaelic, Welch, and Vietnamese.
Jeffrey's
Japanese/English Dictionary Gateway
http://www.wg.omron.co.jp/cgi-bin/j-e
Translate English to Japanese and vice versa. You can view the output in plain English or in Japanese characters either as images or via the Japanese character enhanced version of Netscape. It takes a while to get started, but there's plenty of help along the way.
NetGlos
http://wwli.com/translation/netglos/netglos.html
Multilingual, if fairly superficial, glossary of Internet terms.
Roget's
Thesaurus
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html
The bible of big words finds life anew in hypertext.
School Sucks
College plagiarist's paradise.
Sceptics
Dictionary
http://wheel.ucdavis.edu/~btcarrol/skeptic/dictcont.html
You'll be able to blow holes through loads of popularly accepted superstitions and pseudo-sciences armed with this concise, practical, dinner party deflator. Yes, it's really here.
Websters
http://civil.colorado.edu/htbin/dictionary
Enter your mystery word and its definition will be promptly returned. It doesn't help out much with spelling errors and omits the crowd-pleasers you use when your computer crashes.
