The Silent Way Directory: Search Engines, ISPs, News, Magazines, Reference, Bay Area Links
The Silent Way Directory
Web Surfing- Search Engines, ISPs, News, Magazines, Reference, Bay Area
The best sites have descriptions below the links, which open a new window.
Search Engines
- Ask Jeeves!
- Ask this search engine a question in plain english and it searches many other engines for the answer or website.
- Direct Hit
- Dogpile, the Friendly Multi-Engine Search Tool
- Excite
- FindSounds.com - Search the Web for Sounds
- Gnod - The global network of dreams
- Lycos
- Go.com
- The top search engine!! Very fast and very useful info. More relevant results than other engines, and it is customizable: Make sure to click on "preferences" on any page to make it even better!
- HotBot
- Internet Archive Wayback Machine
- Ixquick Metasearch
- My other search engine pick. Searches multiple search engines for fast and useful info. IXQuick gets great scores from the Search Engine Reviewers.
- Lycos
- MetaCrawler
- Northern Light Search
- Search Bastard
- SearchIQ- Search Engine Reviews, Rankings
- Cool- Which search engine returns the most relevant results? This site ranks them and covers specialty "Topic Guides"...
- SilentSearch.com - anonymous web search
- Starting Point
- Teoma - Search with Authority
- WebCrawler
- Whatsnew.com
- Yahoo!
Access Providers- ISPs, DSL, Cable Choices
- AT+T Internet
- Bandwidth Speed Test- dslreports.com - Speed test
- Bandwidth Meter - CNET.com
- CNET Web Services- ISPs, Hosting
- Comcast
- Concentric
- Covad
- DSL.com
- DSLreports.com- Provider Comparisons
- EarthLink
- Globix DSL Internet Access
- Internet Traffic Report
- ISPRank.com
- MSN: Microsoft
- Shields UP! Internet Connection Security test
- Tests to see how vulnerable you are to net-based intrusions (PC-centric).
- Speakeasy broadband and dial-up
- SpeedGuide.net
Bay Area Alt Culture
- Attaboy - Eye Candy
- Billboard Liberation Front
- Burning Man Project - Official Site
- craigslist: Bay Area online community
- Culture Jammers Headquarters-Adbusters
- Dark Room Theater
- Devillettes
- Laughing Squid
- Popular Noise Foundation
- POSTHOC: The Upfront Guide to San Francisco
- Rap Dictionary- Yay Area slang
- Salon.com | Recording Industry coverage
- SEEMEN- extreme technology
- SFgirl- Cultivating Community
- SRL - Survival Research Labs
- Supersnail: Portraits, Creatures, Parties
- The First Church of the Last Laugh - St. Stupid
- The Montage Art of Winston Smith
- Tides Theater
- Venue 9- FootLoose
- Webby Awards
- WELL
- Werepad Space
Bay Area Info, Outdoors and Travel
- 511.org
- BART - Bay Area Rapid Transit District
- Bay Area Ridge Trail
- Bay Area Transit Information
- SF Gate Bay Area Traveler: Maps
- SF Gate Bay Area Traveler: SF Neighborhoods
- bayarea.citysearch.com
- Brainstormer Pub Quiz - San Francisco Schedule
- California Highway Conditions
- California State Automobile Association (CSAA)
- California State Parks
- California: National Park Guide by State
- Chabot Space & Science Center
- CityPass: MUNI + 5 San Francisco Attractions for 50% off
- Etak Traffic San Francisco Welcome Page
- EveryBlock, A news feed for your neighborhood: Chicago, New York, San Francisco
- FAMSF: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
- Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinics
- KPIX - Bay Area Live Cameras
- KTVU/Fox 2 Bay Area traffic webcams
- Lonely Planet Online
- LookSmart San Francisco
- National Weather Service- San Francisco Bay Area
- Oakland Athletics
- Oakland Raiders
- ParkingQuest- San Francisco Parking Map
- Precita Eyes Mural Arts
- Real Cities: Bay Area
- Recent Earthquakes in California - Index Map
- Was that just a quake? The US Geological Survey has instant info on quakes.
- San Francisco 49ers
- San Francisco Bay Trail
- San Francisco Bicycle Coalition: Bike route map
- San Francisco Giants
- San Francisco Muni
- San Francisco Muni System Map
- San Jose Sharks
- SF BayInsider: San Francisco Bay Area
- SF Gate: Live Views: cameras with shots of SF
- SF Gate: Traffic: Live reports
- SF Weekly Happy Hour Guide
- SF Weekly Restaurant Menu Guide
- SFMISSION.com
- Sunnyside Neighborhood Association
- The Castro Theater - San Francisco's Historic Movie Palace
- Virtual Parks
- Yahoo- SF Bay Area Search Engine
- Yerba Buena Gardens, SF
- Zagat Survey
Funny, Weird, Dumb and Silly
- Archie McPhee Toys Online
- What, you don't have a rubber chicken? Hello?
- Car Talk Credits - More fake names
- Chickenhead - you're soaking in it now
- DialABC: Phone Mnemonics for the Web
- Dialectizer
- Disturbing Auctions
- Dream Interpretation - Ask the Dream Doctor
- Find A Grave
- Hard Drinkin' Lincoln- flash cartoon on Icebox.com
- Last Gasp
- Loch Ness Live-Cam
- Modern Humorist - MH Central
- Planet Scott
- Is your name Scott? Better check this out. The skewed thought processes of one Scott Bowers of San Francisco.
- Sodaplay Constructor
- the ONION
- Toon Tracker
General- Interesting Web sites
- * The Silent Way - Dogsledding Adventures
- If you came to silentway.com looking for the Nordic Wilderness Adventures company in Slussfors, Sweden, visit this link.
- * The Silent Way- Cuisenaire UK Language Learning Sales
- Regarding the Silent Way language teaching method, developed by Caleb Gattegno, using colored cards instead of repetition. Visitors to silentway.com seeking this can find it here.
- *Daniel Shanken
- inasilentway.com belongs to photographer Daniel Shanken. It is not associated with silentway.com.
- *silentway.co.uk
- If you came to silentway.com looking for the United Kingdom company "Silent Way Management Ltd," visit this link.
- cluetrain manifesto
- eFax.com
- Fish Link Central: Your Guide to Aquarium Resources
- Game Title Master Index of Cheats, Codes, Hints, and FAQs - Video Game Strategies
- Genealogy - Genealogy.com/Family Tree Maker Software
- Genealogy - Ancestry.com
- Genealogy- Family Tree Magazine
- Genealogy- Family Tree Searcher
- Google's Usenet Archive
- iPING- Mr. wakeup call
- jfax.com
- net stumbler dot com
- PrayerBands
- Recipes- All Recipes
- Recipes- Cooking.com
- Supernews (RemarQ) UseNet Gateway/Web interface
- The National Unclaimed Property Database
- Toiletology 101: A Free Course in Toilet Repairs
Government, Science, Educational
- CA Department of Motor Vehicles
- California Franchise Tax Board
- California Official Home Page
- Exploratorium- San Francisco, CA
- FirstGov.gov - Official search for .gov sites
- IRS - The Digital Daily: Income Tax Forms, Instructions, Publications, Regulations, and other stuff
- Lafayette College, Easton PA
- Library of Congress
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- MIT has made course materials from almost all undergraduate and graduate subjects available on the Web, free of charge. This monumental gift to the world is unprecedented.
- MoveOn.org
- National Institute of Health
- San Francisco City
- San Francisco Public Library
- Search Systems - Free Public Records
- SFViewer- City and County of San Francisco
- Get info on any SF street or address, cool satellite photos, street sweeping times for any block (don't get a ticket!) and property values.
- Smithsonian Institution
- St. Paul's School
- State of California
- THOMAS -- U.S. Congress on the Internet
- United States Geological Survey
- United States House of Representatives
- United States Postal Service - ZIP + 4 Lookup
- United States Senate
- University of California at Berkeley
- Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA)
- White House
Net Directories
- 555-1212.com
- BigBook
- BigYellow
- InfoSpace
- SMARTpages: The online directory of business listings
- SuperPages.com
- Switchboard
- The Web 100
Online Magazines: "Persisticals"
- CNET.com - Tech News
- c|net
- Microsoft Network- MSN
- nerve.com
- Salon Magazine
- the ONION
- This is at times the funniest thing I have ever read. "America's Finest News Source"? Yeah sure. Actually, satire at it's best.
- The Vid
- A bunch of stuff. Some funny, some useful, some neither. Archives of the early-90's zine The Vid.
Periodicals- Online Versions of Print Magazines and Newspapers
- Contra Costa Times
- Discover Magazine
- freebizmag.com
- Info World Free Subscription
- Information Week Online
- InfoWorld.com
- INTELLiCast Weather
- Macworld Online
- Monterey County Herald Home page
- mostNEWYORK | HOME
- Nando Times
- National Geographic
- News Directory- Online Magazines, Newspapers
- San Francisco Bay Guardian
- San Jose Mercury News Center/ Contra Costa Times
- SF Weekly- San Francisco's free weekly alternative paper
- Silent Way Directory: Music Magazines, Fan Sites, Reference
- The Gate (SF Chronicle + Examiner)
- The New York Times on the Web
- The Tribune - Newspaper of the Central CA Coast
- To-Do List: Keeping Track of our Common Compulsions
- USA Today
Privacy: Avoiding SPAM & Junk Mail, Protecting Your Identity Online and Off
Also see Silent Way's Guide to Protecting Your Privacy and Opting Out
- * Current Internet Hoaxes, Urban Legends
- Before forwarding a chain petition or virus warning email, GO HERE first to see if it's fake. It covers all the current Netlore: Internet Hoaxes, Email Rumors and Urban Legends. In my experience, 99.9% of them are bogus. Don't look stupid!
- * Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out
- The opt-out MOTHERLOAD... Here you can opt-out of advertising tracking for all of the 7 major online advertising companies: AdForce, Avenue A, DoubleClick, Engage, L90, MatchLogic, and 24/7 Media. (Set your browser to accept cookies from third-party sites temporarily.)
- 41pounds.org - service to stop junk mail
- Abuse.net
- ADVO: Opt-Out of Weekly ShopWise Junk Postal Mail Coupons
- This company sends a pound of useless coupons to every mailbox in America every week, supposedly excused by the tiny "Have You Seen Us?" postcard. And they sell their list to others. Opt-Out!
- Amazon.com: Privacy Policy & Options
- Anonymizer.com - Online Privacy Services, Free Anonymous Web Browsing
- AOL NetFind | E-mail Finder
- Atlas DMT: Advertising cookie opt-out
- bluestreak: opt-out of web ad cookies
- California Office of Privacy Protection- Dept of Consumer Affairs
- Catalog Choice - Eliminate unwanted catalogs
- ChoicePoint - identification and credential verification
- DatabaseAmerica- Suppress yourself by this list
- Direct Marketing Association - EMail SPAM Opt-Out
- Direct Marketing Association - Postal Junk Mail Opt-Out
- Direct Marketing Association - Telephone Marketing Calls Opt-Out
- DMA - Direct Marketing Association
- Do Not Call Registry- Federal Trade Commission
- Don't Spread that Hoax!
- DoubleClick Privacy + OPT-OUT
- DoubleClick creates a profile of the ads you've seen and clicked on, to target further ads at you. To disable their cookie, go to this page with EACH browser that you use. No personal info is gathered by this.
- EFF: Defining Digital Identity
- Experian Consumer Center
- Fight Spam on the Internet!
- Forged return address court case
- How To Block Ads & Web Bugs Without Extra Software
- InfoUSA.com Mailing List - Email, Phone
- Join the Fight Against Spam!
- Junkbusters
- MacInTouch Spam and Scam Resources
- MSN Privacy: Opt-out from marketing
- MSN.com/Infospace: Add/Update/Remove your email from the white pages
- Omniture : Privacy Policy
- Omniture Site Tracking Opt-Out
- Open Relay Database - ORDB.org
- Opt-Out to be Taken Off Pre-Approved Credit Lists
- OptOut -- Internet Spyware Detection and Removal
- PGP- Pretty Good Privacy Overview
- Prevent Spam - Obfuscate your email address from bots
- If you put your email address on your website, roving SPAM-harvesting bots will add it to junk lists. If you can't build a web form, use this to "hide" it as ASCII code. Also try splitting it into TWO links. (ie "me@" followed immediately by "mysite.com")
- Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
- Privacy Rights.org: Opt Out from Online Data Vendors and Information Brokers
- PrivacyChoices
- Silent Search - www.silentsearch.com - anonymous web search
- Silent Surf - www.silentsurf.com - anonymous web surfing
- Silent Way's Guide to Protecting Your Privacy and Opting Out
- Silent Way's Tips: Stop AOL Popup Ads And Web Banners
- Spam FAQ- Figuring out the site the Spam came from
- SpamCon Foundation
- SpamCop
- SpamNet: cloudmark
- Urban Legends Reference Pages
- Vmyths.com- Truth About Computer Virus Myths ...
- Learn about computer virus myths, hoaxes, urban legends and hysteria. You can also search a list of computer virus hoaxes from A to Z.
- Web Ad Blocking Under MacOS, Linux/Unix, BeOS
- Webtrends: Opting out of Tracking Cookies
- webwasher - web ad blocking
- WHOIS database- web domain registry search
- This can help detective work fighting anonymous SPAMmers.
- XNSORG
- A new identification verification standard is emerging to simplify contact management and protect your online identity. It's called XNS and it will be a while before it is adopted widely, but now is the time to grab your free unique ID.
- Yahoo! Privacy: Opt-Out of Web Beacons
- Yahoo! Privacy: Third-Party Ad Servers list
- Yahoo: Opt-Out of special offers & marketing communications
Reference Desk- Maps, Dictionaries, Info, etc
- American Family Immigration History Center
- Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
- Britannica.com
- CIA -- The World Factbook
- DICT Development Group
- Dictionary.com
- eHow.com- How things get done
- eNature.com - plant and animal field guides
- FAMSF: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
- FOLDOC - Computing Dictionary
- How Stuff Works
- Internet Public Library
- InterTran translations
- Language Translation- AltaVista Babelfish
- Language Translation- Microsoft / Lernout & Hauspie
- Language Translation- Systran
- LawCrawler - FindLaw
- LEXIS-NEXIS
- Library of Congress Historical Map Collections
- Mapblast! BlastOff
- MapQuest
- Merriam-Webster OnLine - Dictionary - Thesaurus
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- MIT has made course materials from almost all undergraduate and graduate subjects available on the Web, free of charge. This monumental gift to the world is unprecedented.
- netLibrary - eBooks
- Nolo Press- DIY Law resources
- Save a lawyer some busywork and do it yourself. Use the money saved to take a law student out for a beer. They deserve it.
- OneLook Dictionaries
- Oxford English Dictionary
- PCL Map Collection
- Real Cities
- RefDesk.com- My Virtual Reference Desk
- This site has it all! Every reference source you might need in one place.
- SFViewer- City and County of San Francisco
- Get info on any SF street or address, cool satellite photos, street sweeping times for any block (don't get a ticket!) and property values.
- Tellme.
- Call this 800# and use the voice-activated service to check traffic, get directions, movie listings, stock quotes, find restaurants etc.
- TerraServer
- Cool collection of very detailed satellite photos of city streets, etc. Requires the Clever Content Viewer plugin.
- The Straight Dope
- Here it is, the ultimate resource for those weird questions that you never thought could be answered. What IS Steve Miller's "pompatus of love"? What is deja vu?
- Thesaurus.com
- Time Zone Converter
- travlang's Translating Dictionaries
- Visual Thesaurus by Plumb Design
- Weather Channel
- WebMD - Health has a homepage
- WebMuseum: Bienvenue!
- World Time Zone Map
- WorldPages.com Toll Free Phone Number Search
- WWWebster Dictionary - Search screen
- Yahoo! Maps and Driving Directions
- Zip Code Lookup- USPS
Social Responsibility, Activism and Consumer Rights
- American Red Cross
- When disaster strikes, consult the Red Cross for info on donating blood and other releif aid. To give blood, call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE or contact your local hospital/health care system. To make a financial donation call 1-800-HELP-NOW or visit the site.
- causeaneffect.org
- Consumer Action - Marketplace education and advocacy
- Consumers' Checkbook
- EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Free Tibet Now! - Internet Campaign
- Noise Pollution Clearinghouse Home Page
- Opensecrets.org--Money in politics data
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company-Choose Your Own Natural Gas Supplier
- Popular Noise Foundation
- San Francisco Tenants Union - www.sftu.org
- Social Venture Network
- Sutro Tower Community Perspectives- The Tower MUST GO!
- Sutro Tower, a huge radio tower in SF, is ugly, technologically outdated, and now they've expanded it instead of putting the new digital TV antennae on San Bruno Mountain where there are no residents. This site has the real facts.
- They Rule
- Interactive flash app that visually shows who sits on the boards of the top American companies, and what companies share board members. Has pre-made maps showing the most interconnected industries, people and political donations.
- U.S. National Debt Clock
- WebActive
Space and Astronomy
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Celestis - Burials in Space
- Clementine Lunar Image Browser 1.5
- Digital Universe- simulator
- Earth and Sky Homepage
- Espenak's Eclipse Home Page
- Heavens-Above
- Enter a location and this site gives a map of your sky tonight, and today's stellar phenomena.
- Hubble - Washingtonpost.com
- IDA- Light Pollution Abatement
- LiveSky Home
- Lunar Embassy
- MoonEstates.com
- Mt. Tamalpais Astronomy Programs
- NASA Homepage
- NASA Human Spaceflight
- Planet Earth- Screensaver
- Cool realtime 3D spinning globe with cloud cover reports updated by the net throughout each day. Mac only.
- SETI@home: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- Help analyze the massive data collected scanning the skies for signs of Life. This screensaver analyzes data while your computer is inactive, and reports the findings to researchers.
- Sky and Telescope Magazine
- Sky Calendar- Abrams Planetarium
- Skywatcher's Diary- Abrams Planetarium
- Southern Stars Systems
- Space Adventures : Book a Trip
- Space Shuttle Launch Central
- Space Station - a rare inside view
- SPACE.com: space news, games, entertainment
- SPACENEWS on MSNBC.com
- STARcast: Specialized Weather for Astronomers
- Stargazer's Delight
- Starry Night - The Realistic Astronomy Software
- USNO Astronomical Applications Department
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