List Of Helpful Sites

Here are some of the sites that I use to help me while working at ChaCha. I hope it helps you! If you have any, please post 'em and I'll list it here!

http://www.whitepages.com/ - Provides a simple, fast and reliable way to find personal and business contact information online.
http://www.yellowpages.com/ - Offer searchable directory listings for a particular item, business, event, location or service, etc.
http://www.weather.com/ - Provide weather data, such as current conditions, five day forecasts, severe weather alerts and maps.
http://maps.google.com/maps - Find businesses, addresses and places of interest.
http://www.thejokeyard.com/ - Lots of fun humor, including clean jokes, rude jokes, dirty jokes and sick twisted filthy jokes.
http://www.pipl.com/ - Search for people on the web.
http://www.gasbuddy.com/ - Offers an online method for website visitors to post and view recent retail gasoline prices.
http://www.freetranslation.com/ - Free translation service to get a basic understanding of other languages.
http://www.mapquest.com/ - Offers mapping applications that help people find places and get there.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/index - Information on sports.
http://finance.yahoo.com/ - Free stock quotes, up to date news, portfolio management resources, international market data, etc.
http://quote.com/ - provides streaming quotes, charts, news and data, including stocks, etc.
http://music.yahoo.com/lyrics - Find lyrics for songs.
http://www.nndb.com/ - Online database of biographical details of over 33,000 people of note
http://inogolo.com/ - Provides english pronunciation of the names of people, places, and miscellaneous stuff.
http://www.aneki.com/ - Rankings, Records, Countries of the World
http://www.urban75.org/useless/bored.html - Things to do when you're bored.
http://www.locatetv.com/ - Find TV shows available where you live in the world, be they on broadcast TV, online or on recorded media.
http://www.brail.org/transit/nyc.html - Navigate the subways of New York City.
http://www.dumblaws.com/ - Bringing you the largest collection of stupid laws available anywhere.
http://www.worldometers.info/ - World statistics

Here is some of my list.

This site is really good to get other sites off of. Especially if you are a new guide.
http://www.allmyfaves.com/

Sites for those Will so and so marry me!
Magic 8 Ball
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ssanty/cgi-bin/eightball.cgi

Crystal Ball
http://decidefor.us/

Some Dictionaries
Webster's
http://www.merriam-webster.com/

French Dictionary
http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/dictionary/lookuphelp.html

Dream Moods Dictionary
http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/

English-To
http://stars21.com/translator/english_to_farsi.html

How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Here are just a few of my fact sites.
http://www.angelfire.com/magic/lotr_lover_11/amazingfacts.html
http://www.mentalfloss.com/amazingfactgenerator/?p=245
http://geography.about.com/library/faq/blqzdiameter.htm
http://www.nicefacts.com/
http://www.poolfiltersfundamentals.com/poolfill.htm
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0923089.html

US State Abbreviations and State Capitals
http://www.acronymfinder.com/stateabbreviations.asp

State Information
http://www.50states.com/maine.htm

INTERSTATES EXITS AND INFORMATION
http://www.allstays.com/Special/interstate-exits.htm

Traffic Reports, etc.
http://www.traffic.com/

Pay Phone Directory
http://www.payphone-directory.org/

World Weather
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=1103
http://www.worldweather.org/130/m130.htm

Subway or Bus Directions
http://hopstop.com/

Gas prices around the world
http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/

I have more and will put some more in later. This should get everyone started.

www.edmunds.com For car info, mpg, estimated value.
http://sports.yahoo.com Automatically updates scores of games in progress. I just leave that window open.


That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I don't have a written list besides the ones from another board. I just know the site when I get the question.