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NYTC Unregistered User (10/5/00 10:16 pm) Reply	The Net as a Flea Market of Ideas June 29, 2000 BROWSER A Bit of This and That: The Net as a Flea Market of Ideas CARFREE.COM: www.carfree.com/ A site dedicated to the proposition of car-free cities. CORN CAM: www.iowafarmer.com/corncam/corn.html/ If you film it, they will come: watch corn grow. EMPIRE STATE BUILDING LIGHTING SCHEDULE: www.esbnyc.com/html/facts.html/ What the colors signify at the world's most famous skyscraper. FARMERS' MARKETS: www.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets/map.htm/ Find farmers' markets nationwide. JUST WINDMILLS: www.geocities.com/Yosemit...dmill.htm/ A tribute to windmills. NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH RESTAURANT INSPECTION INFORMATION: www.nyclink.org/html/doh/...ndex.html/ Would you like vermin with that? Results of New York restaurant inspections. SUBWAY NAVIGATOR: www.subwaynavigator.com/b...s/english/ Descriptions and maps for any journey along the subway systems of more than 60 cities. YUMMIE: yummie.s-one.net.sg/Links.htm/ A guide to the best places to eat in Singapore, and recipes. 25 MOST INTERESTING WEBCAMS: www.earthcam.com/top25/ Links to many Web cams, including the Kremlin, NASA, and the White Mana Diner in Jersey City. Reference and Tools 555-1212.COM: www.555-1212.com/ Area codes. ANAGRAM FUN: www.anagramfun.com/ "Personal Web site" becomes "we bar politeness." BEAUCOUP: www.beaucoup.com/1refeng.html/ Links to more than 2,000 online reference sites. THE BELLS APPLET: www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/kvdo...ells.html/ Do your own change ringing, traditional English church bell patterns. BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY: www.s9.com/biography/search.html/ More than 28,000 notable people. THE DIALECTIZER: www.rinkworks.com/dialect/ Translations into redneck, pig latin and hacker. HOME PRICE CHECK: fool.homepricecheck.com/top.html/ Find out what your neighbors' houses cost. INTERNET WEATHER SOURCE: weather.noaa.gov/weather/...KBID.html/ Real-time weather data. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ONLINE CATALOG: catalog.loc.gov/ Search the country's library. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: www.nypl.org/catalogs/catalogs.html/ Search library catalogs and, with a library card number, free databases as well. OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK STATE COMPTROLLER: www.osc.state.ny.us/ouf/ Find out if New York state owes you money. OFFICIAL UNITED STATES TIME: www.time.gov/ Choose a state from an online map, then synchronize your watch. THE THOUGHT FOR TODAY QUOTATION ARCHIVE: webpages.ainet.com/gosner...tionsarch/ Wit and brevity (except in the American Presidents section). THE UNIVERSAL CURRENCY CONVERTER: www.xe.net/ucc/ Conversions for dozens of world currencies. YIDDISH IN AMERICA: www.koshernosh.com/in-ameri.htm/ Yiddish words, not just for the nebbish. Sports BALLPARKS: www.ballparks.com/baseball/index.htm/ Facts and seating charts for every major league baseball park. 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MEDIA CENTRE: media.macm.qc.ca/homea.htm/ Art sites from the Mus�e d'art Contemporain de Montr�al. MUSEUM OF AMERICAN POETICS: www.poetspath.com/ Contemporary poetry: virtual exhibits and videos. NEW MUSIC BAZAAR: kalvos.org/ Resource for fans of very contemporary classical music. NEW YORK AREA IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC AND DANCE: www.inx.net/~mardidom/rcnycal.htm/ Celtic news and events from the New York area. OPEN STUDIO: artcontext.org/draw/ An interactive blackboard lets visitors collaborate on drawings. RADIOSPY: www.radiospy.com/ A commercial site featuring music news, reviews and dozens of radio links. THE REMIDI PROJECT: www.theremediproject.com/ Cutting-edge graphic designers experiment with the Web for exhibitions of non-commercial projects. REPRESENTATIVE POETRY ONLINE: www.library.utoronto.ca/u...hors.html/ Poetry database. SHAKESPEARE MAGNET POETRY: www.shakespeare.com/Poetry/ieindex.html/ The online version of the fridge magnet game of rearranging Shakespeare's words. 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