Useful Websites

“The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.”  ~Rupert Murdoch

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Website: http://bigthink.com/

The thinking at BigThink is big indeed. This blog and video site covers, well, the world: arts, business, science, history and much more.

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Website: http://www.wordspy.com/

You heard someone in the lunch room say ‘murketing.’ Then, just a couple of hours later, someone explained how they’ve started ‘fampooling’. You need to know what these fresh entrants into the lexicon mean. Take a look at the word lover’s web site by Paul McFedries.

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Website: http://www.readprint.com/

 

Delve into the world of public-domain books with Read Print, an online directory that catalogs books that are freely available online. Some titles are classics whose copyrights have expired — Jane Austen’s Emma and Shakespeare’s Hamlet are two of the most popular on the site — but there are also works by budding authors hoping someone will give them a read. All told, there are some 3,500 authors cataloged, with a rich selection of books, poems, plays and short stories.

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Website: http://paper.li/

Paper.li is a content curation service. It enables people to publish newspapers based on topics they like and treat their readers to fresh news, daily. Create your newspaper today!

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Website: http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page

Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide. So far we have 16,861 destination guides and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe.

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Website: http://www.paperrater.com/

 

 

PaperRater.com is a free resource, developed and maintained by linguistics professionals and graduate students. PaperRater.com is used by schools and universities in over 46 countries to help students improve their writing.

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Website: http://www.epinions.com/

 

Epinions: Consumer Reviews by Regular People. This is the smartest and easiest way to do your shopping homework on your next digital camera, your next plasma TV, your next MP3 player, your next dog food purchase, your next car and your next washing machine investment.Real people making real comments on real purchases. This is a truly valuable resource for the smart consumer.

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Website: http://www.howstuffworks.com/

This web site is a tremendous source of learning. See how fire extinguishers and tasers work. Learn how a hurricane really forms. See how a Mazda rotary engine functions, and how bulletproof armor deflects bullets. I wish I had real-life teachers that were as clear, visual, and vivid as this website!

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Useful website: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/

 

RememberTheMilk reinvents the to-do list in a snazzy interface that lets you make lists in configurable categories, all laid out on the front page as tabs. Adding to-dos is easy, though adding deadlines, notes, and time estimates is unintuitive.

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Useful website: http://www.howcast.com/

 

 

Howcast is the best source for fun, free, and useful how-to videos and guides.

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Useful website: http://brainnoodle.com/

 

Brain Noodle is the Interesting Article Directory. Hundreds of articles on topics such as Health, Travel, Finance, Family and Pets, and much more.

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Website: http://visuwords.com/ 

 

An online graphical dictionary and thesaurus that displays related words to a given word in a bouncing, vibrating graphic

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Website: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/

AmericasLibrary.gov is a site fully devoted to presenting the history of America, its land, its cultural traditions and its most influential historical personalities in an attractive and multimedia format.

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Website: http://www.about.com/

About.com helps users find solutions to a wide range of daily needs – from parenting, health care and technology to cooking, travel and many others.

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Website: http://www.healyourlife.com/

 

HealYourLife.com is the fastest growing personal growth and self-help Web site. They invite you to stop by when you need to regroup, recharge, and reconnect with your own magnificence.

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Website: http://www.livemocha.com/

 

 

LiveMocha is a language learning website with an active community and extensive list of languages

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Website: http://www.instructables.com/

 

 

For do-it-yourself projects, this site offers step by step instructions for a tremendous variety of tasks.

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Website: Life magazine online

 

Life magazine online claims to have the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the Web at their website

http://www.life.com/

 

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Website: Whatiswrongwithme

Don’t you hate it when your friends are too afraid to tell you what they really think of you or what you just did? Perhaps a little anonymity might help? Whatiswrongwith.me is a website that allows you to create an anonymous feedback page where your friends can drop a message for you without having their identities revealed.

http://whatiswrongwith.me/

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Website: Spendbrite

To ensure that you will have savings at the end of the month, you need to control your spending. This can be helped by monitoring your savings targets and seeing how well you are doing. SpendBrite lets you do this in a very easy way.

www.spendbrite.com

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Website: Better at English 

Visit the website that provides a lot of video and audio resources for learning English!

http://www.betteratenglish.com/video-audio-english-learning-resources/

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Website: Online Thesaurus 

 

Use www.thesaurus.com to find synonyms and antonyms for each meaning of a word. The web site is very useful and also offers a number of additional free services!

http://thesaurus.com/

 

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Website: World View

Watch this YouTube Channel and listen to different leaders around the world discuss three important questions.

Examples: Melinda Gates, Prime Minister David Cameron, Prime Minister of Israel

 

http://www.youtube.com/worldview/?utm_source=GDN&utm_medium=oa&utm_campaign=oa  

 

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Website:  Video Jug

 

Want to know more ways to learn English and have fun at the same time? You can visit Video Jug and watch many videos at the web site!

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Website: www.esl-lab.com 

Thanks to Nguyen To Bao Khanh in COM1 for the recommendation, we’d like to suggest a valuable website for English learning. The site has many interesting and useful resources for you to use to learn English at home. Take a look at the site!

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Website: www.allmyapps.com 

 

Visit the website allmyapps.com to download for free different kinds of applications/software that are useful for your computer. Try it. It really is useful!

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Website: One in 8 Million

Visit the website that introduces different kinds of people who live in New York. You can listen to many voices telling you their lives in New York

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html#

 

 

Examples:

The Walker: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html#/maggie_nesciur

The Animal Rescuer: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html#/stefanie_rinza

The ex-Bank Robber: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html#/mark_mocha

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Website: Before I Die

Visit this interesting and creative work of art. The creator, Candy Chang, and her friends turned an abandoned house into a huge board for people to write their wish of what they truly want to do before they die.

http://candychang.com/before-i-die-in-nola/ 

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Website:   http://www.factmonster.com/

Visit the website that has millions of facts that might be interesting to you:

The origin of April Fool: http://www.factmonster.com/spot/aprilfools1.html

Biography of Animated Characters (ex: Batman, Sailor Moon, Superman, Spiderman, Snow White): http://www.factmonster.com/spot/cartoonbiographies.html

Most Popular Baby Names: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0855249.html

The World’s Tallest Buildings: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0001338.html

The Olympics: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0114094.html

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Website:   www.ted.com

TED.com makes the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free. Almost 900 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week. All of the talks are subtitled in English, and many are subtitled in various languages.

TED.com’s mission: Spreading ideas.

"We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we’re building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world’s most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other."

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eHow: www.ehow.com

This is a very useful website that shows you how to do many things. It includes more than 1 million how-to articles and 170,000 videos on many topics.

For example: The following link directs you to a video that gives instruction on how to relieve your lower back pain.

http://www.ehow.com/flash/player.swf
Exercises for Low Back Pain – powered by eHow.com

 

http://www.ehow.com/video_7548264_exercises-low-back-pain.html

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Website: www.loidich.com

Thanks to Phan Thai Minh from COM4 for suggesting this website, we’d like to recommend to you a great place to listen to your favorite songs and practice listening and pronunciation. Listen to the songs of your choosing and read the lyrics at the same time. Also, if you want to receive listening activities, there’s a membership fee. Not exactly sure how much, but Mr. Minh said that it should be cheap.

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The World’s 18 Strangest Gardens

http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/improvement/lawn-garden/worlds-18-strangest-gardens

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