Useful Books/Stuff/Web Sites

911/terrorism

• The Complete 9/11 Timeline, Part 1
• Why America Slept: the Failure to Prevent 9/11 by Gerald L Posner

automobiles/cars/vehicles/transportation

• Autoweb.com
• CarsDirect.com
• LeaseGuide.com

banking/money

• Bankrate.com - Comprehensive. Objective. Free.
• LeaseGuide.com

bargains/discounts/shopping

• Dealnews.com
• Deal of the Day
• Fatwallet.com
• Tech Bargains
• Price Grabber
• My Simon

• Selling Pet Supplies Online... a stupid idea?
• The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life by Richard Florida
• The Good, the Bad, and Your Business: Choosing Right When Ethical Dilemmas Pull You Apart by Jeffrey Seglin & Norman Augustine
• The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton
• From Kitchen to Market: Selling Your Gourmet Food specialty

• Games Kids Play - rules for playground games
• Make Ice Cream - links to ice cream makers, history, recipes, and video demonstrations

• Class-Action America - including product recalls
• Toy Recall Database
• Class-Actions Online
• National Consumer Law Center
• American Bar Association
• Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse - shareholder class-action suits

• Kitchen-Table Computers: Resources and Information for Ordinary People Who want to Build their Own PC's
• antivirus software (free)
• recycling your computer
• What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else
• How to Help Someone Use a Computer - a short set of practical guidelines on helping people use computers without oppressing them by Phil Agre
• The Secret Guide to Computersthe ONE BOOK every novice and beginning computer user should own!
• Web Pages That Suck
• Usable Web - 1261 links about web usability
• Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software (hackers/GNU/Linus/Open Source)
• Computer Recycling Center
• hoaxes/scams/spam/viruses/worms
• more hoaxes/scams/spam/viruses/worms
• Urban Legends Reference Pages (hoaxes, scams, etc)
• SpywareInfo - protect your privacy on the Internet
• wireless security
• Creative Commons - Create. License. Share. (Copyright information)
• Godaddy Domain Name Registration Service
• Selfpromotion.com - search engine page submission service (free & paid versions)
• search term frequency finder
• Topica.com - free mailing list service (paid version also available)
• Good Experience - information about user interfaces and what works
• Link Popularity - tells how popular a page is on the web
• Linkback service
• credit card processing service
• CERN Document Conversion Service
• Online viewer for PostScript, PDF and Word - document conversion service
• email newsletter design
• Photo Scanning - Introduction
• Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002
• Move2MAC kit - Windows to Mac/PC to Macintosh/hardware-software
• Unix/Linux/Lindows
• Moore's Law - Gordon Moore's original paper
• As We May Think by Vannevar Bush

• Consumer Product Safety Commission
• Consumer Reports
• Fair Trade Products

corporate information

• FuckedCompany.com
• InternalMemos.com

• Duke University Medical Center - Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

• United States Census Bureau FactFinder

• Reconcilable Difference: Seven Essential Tips to Remaining Together From a Top Matrimonial Lawyer by Robert Stephan Cohen & Elina Furman
• The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony by Pamela Paul

• Upromise
• How to Go to College Almost for Free: The Secrets of Winning Scholarship Money by Benjamin R Kaplan
• Campus Consultants Inc
• College Savings Plans Network

• Exploration Products
• Safety Central
• Emergency Preparedness Center
• Equipped to Survive
• Earthquake Store

• Astrofit: The Age-Reversal Program Used by Astronauts--Now Adapted for Everyone by William Evans, Gerald Couzens, John Glenn, Timothy Jeffs

• The Vegetable Gardener's Bible: Discover Ed's High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions by Edward C Smith

• financial/mortgage/investment calculators
• Take on the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You to Know by Arthur Levitt
• The Math Behind Wall Street: How the Market Works and How to Make It Work for You by Nicholas Teebagy & Amir Aczel
• The Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market by Leon Levy
• Mortgage Refinancing Calculator
• Mortgage Qualification Calculator
• consumer debt resources
• debt consolidation resources
• Credit Card Nation: The Consequences of America's Addition to Credit by Robert D Manning
• Center for the New American Dream - Sustainable Lifestyle Resources

• Fair Trade Chocolate
• Fair Trade Coffee
• From Kitchen to Market: Selling Your Gourmet Food specialty

• United States House of Representatives
• United States Senate
• Government Accountability Project
• Project On Government Oversight

health care/medical/drugs/pharmacies

• National Council on Aging drug prescription savings & information resources
• Cochrane Collaboration - health care information (see their best toothbrush study)
• The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin by Ellen Ruppel Shell
• Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
• Informed Consent: The Consumer's Guide to the Risks and Benefits of Volunteering for Clinical Trials by Ken Getz & Deborah Borfitz
• Alliance for Human Research Protection
• Responsible Research: A Systems Approach to Protecting Research Participants
• Clinical Trials: Linking patients to medical research
• America's Top Doctors: The Nation's Leading Medical Specialists
• Headache Help: A Complete Guide to Understanding Headaches and the Medicines that Relieve Them by Lawrence Robbins & Susan Lang
• The Pill Book: Illustrated Guide to the Most-Prescribed Drugs in the United States by Harold Silverman
• The Complete Cancer Survival Guide: Everything You Must Know and Where to go For State-Of-The-Art Treatment of the 25 Most Common Forms of Cancer by Peter Teeley & Philip Bashe
• Don't Die of Embarrassment: Life After Colostomy
• Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain by Pete Egoscue and Roger Gittines
• Take This Book to the Hospital With You: A Consumer Guide to Surviving Your Hospital Stay
• Heal Your Hips: How to Prevent Hip Surgery--And What to Do If You Need It by Robert Klapper & Lynda Huey
• Maggie's Back Book: Healing the Hurt in Your Lower Back by Maggie Lettvin & Ruth McCambridge (with the Art Deadlines List publisher as one of several co-authors!)
• Drugstore.com
• CVS.com
• Walgreen.com

• History of Shit: A historically and culturally revealing--and entertaining--discourse on human excrement and its impact on society by Dominique Laporte
• Dust: A History of the Small and the Invisible

• The Home Ranger!: Helps You Figure It Out! - Information that will help you diagnose and solve problems around your house, condominium or apartment

• Rolling Back the 20th Century
• Mongo: Adventures in Trash (garbage, refuse) by Ted Botha
• Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think by George Lakoff
• Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind by George Lakoff
• The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade by Joseph E Stiglitz
• Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problem Big andE Small. Daredevil Ideas from the anti Dilberts. by Barry Nalebuff & Ian Ayres
• Adams's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form--From head to toe, a journalist records the history of the human body. Michael Sims
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G Malkiel
• A Short History of Nearly Everything: A Guided Tour of the Sciences/Physical World by Bill Bryson
• Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser
• BOYD: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram
• Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History by James A Morone
• Perfect Planet, Clever Species: How Unique Are We by William C Burger
• Cafe Scientifique - an informal discussion forum giving like-minded people the opportunity to gather in bars and cafes all over the world to discuss the great topics in science
• Futures Contracts - for EVERYTHING! (bet on anything/everything)
• propaganda
• The End of Insurance
• How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Thomas Gilovich
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
• Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures by Chris McManus
• Jhai Foundation - bring a bicycle-pedal-powered Internet system to remot Laotiona villages
• Paving Wall Street: Experimental Economics and the Quest for the Perfect Market by Ross M Miller
• Freedom To Tinker... is your freedom to understand, discuss, repair, and modify the technological devices you own.
• Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture by William Leach
• Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things by John C Ryan, Alan Thein Durning, Don Baker
• Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science--From the Babylonians to the Maya
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
• The Long Now Foundation
• International Society for the New Institutional Economics
• Networking on the Network: A Guide to Professional Skills for PhD Students by Phil Agre
• The Deviant's Advantage: How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets by Ryan Mathews & Watts Wacker
• Strange Matters: Undiscoverd Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time by Tom Siegfried
• Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What's Really Safe and What's Really Dangerous in the World Around You by David Ropeik & George Gray
• All Species Foundation
• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
• The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World by Ken Alder
• Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution by Howard Rheingold
• Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
• Interesting Files

• Currency of the Heart: A Year of Investing, Death, Work, and Coins by Donald R Nichols
• Confessions of a Street Addict by James J Cramer
• MyStockOptions.com
• OneShare.com - Buy One Share of a Stock

• History of Shit: A historically and culturally revealing -- and entertaining--discourse on human excrement and its impact on society by Dominique Laporte
• Dust: A History of the Small and the Invisible

• ClearPlay
• MovieShield
• TVGuardian

• Moving Advocate Team
• Your Rights & Responsibilities When You Move
• Resource Center for Relocation: Stop Bad Movers Now!
• The Rip Off Report
• United States Postal Service Movers Guide
• American Moving and Storage Association
• Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• FMCSA Safety and Fitness Electronic Records System
• Better Business Bureau

• Dogs Behaving Badley: An A-To-Z Guide to Understanding & Curing Behavioral Problems in Dogs by Nicholas Dodman

• How to Overthrow the Government by Arianna Huffington
• Congress

• Root8cyclone uprightvacuumcleaner

• 1st Books Library

recycling

• Computer Recycling Center

• FAQ Alert
• Refdesk: reference, facts, news, free, family...
• Wayback Machine - a web archive
• Deja Vu - the web as we remember it
• New York Public Library
• Los Angeles Public Library
• Cleveland Public Library live reference service
• 24/7 Reference
• New Jersey Library Network round-the-clock reference service
• Encyclopedia.com
• Dictionary.com
• Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
• Thesaurus.com
• English language sites
• Free Translation from English to...
• Babelfish - language translation
• Biography.com
• Bartleby.com
• CIA World Factbook - geography, people, government and economy of every country in the world
• Census Bureau American FactFinder
• DailyAlmanacs.com
• The Straight Dope
• Sex Dictionary/Theasaurus

• Couples Company
• Singles Cafe
• Couples Place
• My Dating Reality
• Profile Doctor
• Internet Dating Stories
• Conversely...
• Great Boyfriends
• Nerve.com
• Salon.com

• The Great 401(k) Hoax: Why Your Family's Financial Security is at Risk and What You Can Do About It by William Wolman & Anne Colamosca
• Social Security

• The Physics of Baseball
• The Physics of Golf (and how to improve your game)
• The Physics of Skiing

• The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook

• Growing Up Absurd
• How Rude!: The Teenagers' Guide to Good Manners, Proper Behavior, and Not Grossing People Out

• National "DO NOT CALL" Registry
• State Do Not Call Lists
• Massachusetts DO NOT CALL list or 866-231-2255
• telephone resources
• Telemarketing Rules Comment Form
• JUNK BUSTERS - but the junk messages (SPAM, telemarketing calls, web ads, etc) out of your life
• You don't have to unplug the phone. Sick of telemarketers? Take these steps to make them stop calling.
• TeleZapper - disconnects telemarketers
• Call-Me-Not
• Tri-VOX Call Screener

• Shitting Pretty: How to Stay Clean and Healthy While Traveling by Dr Jane Wilson-Howarth
• Unclaimed Baggage Center
• American Society of Travel Agents
• National Tour Association
• United States Tour Operators Association
• International Railway Traveler's Society

• 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web
• Web Design Tips + Web Usability & Accessibility
• Web Pages That Suck
• Usable Web - 1261 links about web usability
• Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity by Jacob Nielson
• Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug & Roger Black
• PAID: the economics of content

• The Art of Napping at Work: The No-Cost, Natural Way to Increase Productivity and Satisfaction by William & Camille Anthony
• The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era by Jeremy Rifkin
• The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure by Juliet Schor

useless & amusing stuff

• Forever A Kid
• Exploding Dog
• OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD
• Darwin Awards - gene pool exiters
• The Number of the Beast
• Rock Paper Scissors Society
• Newspaper Party Hats
• Sexual Positions Free - Learn Some New Sexual Positions
• Handspinning Dog Hair
• Drinknation.com - Urinal Test

The information on this page was compiled, edited, and verified by Richard Gardner, editor & publisher of the Art Deadlines List.