| INFORMATION & RESOURCES |
 Canada 411 - Canada's official White Pages, the online residential and business listings for all Canadian provinces and territories. Search by name, number or address.
 Google Maps - Provides directions, interactive maps, and satellite/aerial imagery. Search by keyword, business, landmark, geographical feature, etc.
 Wikipedia - The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. Over 7 million articles in over 200 languages, and still growing. Provides great information on the most recent, vague and technological topics as they develop. Even Britannica does not cover these!
 Internet Archive - Nonprofit organisation established to preserve Web sites by taking regular "snapshots". The Wayback Machine provides links to older versions of a webpage.
 Find Articles - Contains articles from the back issues of over 900 magazines, journals, trade publications and newspapers. Search the online article archive or browse by category list or publication name.
 This American Life - Presented by Chicago Public Radio, is an award-winning radio program as well as a television program on the Showtime network.
 Project Gutenberg - A database of free electronic books (ebooks).
 JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive - Scans of print journals, with 10 major math journals (requires subscription).
 YouTube - Broadcast Yourself - A popular free video sharing Web site which lets users upload, view, and share video clips
 NYPL Digital Gallery - NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 600,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. Also have a look at the NYPL Digital Collections page.
 Rotten Tomatoes - Movie Trailers, Movie Reviews and New Movie Previews from Rotten Tomatoes - The Ultimate Movie Reaction Site!
 LastFM - The Social Music Revolution - The world's largest social music platform. Show off your taste, see what your friends are listening to, hear new music, get personal radio, recommendations, and downloads, all for free.
 del.icio.us Social Bookmarking - A social bookmarks manager. Using bookmarklets, you can add bookmarks to your list and categorize them.
 GetHuman - Features customer service reviews, database of company phone numbers that reach human customer service reps, and a weblog.
 How Stuff Works - Learn how Everything Works!
HowStuffWorks explains hundreds of subjects, from car engines to lock-picking to ESP, using clear language and tons of illustrations.
 WikiTravel - Open source travel guide featuring up-to-date information on attractions, hotels, restaurants, travel tips and more. Free and reliable advice written by Wikitravellers from around the globe.
 HelpOnThe.Net: Tech Support Guy - Tech Support Guy offers free support to users of Windows Vista, XP, 98, and just about anything else!
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| FUN, GAMES & MUSIC |
 Exploratorium - A hands-on museum of science, art, and human perception in San Francisco. The site provides interactive online exhibits and exhibitions, activities, webcasts, and more.
 Being Jackson Pollock - Paint like Jackson Pollock, without the mess!
 Overheard in New York | The Voice of the City - A repository of random snippets of conversation overheard in New York City.
 Overheard in the Office | The Voice of the Cubicle - Fragments that tell a whole story, overheard in offices everywhere.
 The HYPE Machine - A MP3 blog aggregator with slick tools to listen and read about music. It gathers songs posted on MP3 blogs and presents them in an easy to consume manner. It lets you easily listen to the new music that has been posted today by a great variety of bloggers - discover and fall in love with something new!
 Pelit ARCADE - A foreign site dedicated to games, puzzles, physics modelling and other flash based entertainment. AccuRadio - the world's leading independent, multichannel Internet radio station,* featuring over 300 channels and subchannels of really cool music. Plus, you can customize each channel to your tastes. And, best of all, it's free!
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| ONLINE MERCHANTS & CLASSIFIEDS |
 eBay - Buy and sell electronics, cars, clothing, apparel, collectibles, sporting goods, digital cameras, and everything else on eBay, the world's online marketplace. Sign up and begin to buy and sell - auction or buy it now - almost anything on eBay.com.
 Craigslist - Provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community, and events.
 NCIX.com - Canada's premier online computer store. Great Technology, Selection and Service on over 100000 computer products, electronics and games.
 Shopbot.ca - Price Comparison Shopping - Reviews, advice and prices. Find the Lowest Prices. Includes product information, price comparisons and merchant reviews. Uncrate - A web magazine for guys who love stuff. The team finds the best gadgets, clothes, cars, DVDs and more. Purchasing capable.
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| NEWS & BLOGS |
 Cnet - Technology news, product reviews, downloads.
 Wired News - In-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, etc.
 Gizmodo: The Gadget Guide - An online review dedicated to gadgets, gizmos, and cutting-edge consumer electronics.
 Digg | All News, Videos, & Images - A place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web.
 Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters - Source for technology related news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues.
 MetaFilter | Community Weblog - A weblog that anyone can contribute a link or a comment to. A typical weblog is one person posting their thoughts on the unique things they find on the web. This website exists to break down the barriers between people, to extend a weblog beyond just one person, and to foster discussion among its members.
 MoCo Loco - Modern contemporary design & architecture - A blog featuring modern contemporary design news and views.
 Chocolate & Zucchini - A blog written by Clotilde Dusoulier, a 28-year-old Parisian woman who lives in Montmartre and shares her passion for all things food-related -- thoughts, recipes, musings, cookbook acquisitions, quirky products, nifty tools, restaurant experiences, ideas, and inspirations.
 LifeHacker, Tips and Downloads For Getting Things Done - Daily weblog on software and personal productivity recommends downloads, web sites and shortcuts that help you work smarter and save time. Basis for a book.
 Gridskipper, the Urban Travel Guide - The urban travel guide is a weblog about major cities around the world.
 FiftyCrows - Social Change Photography - FiftyCrows is a non-profit organization supported through grants, individual donations, and the sale of fine prints. FiftyCrows couples visual stories from world-class documentary photographers with action and media campaigns in order to affect change.
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| UTILITIES |
 Flickr - Photo Sharing - Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos to the world, securely and privately show photos to your friends and family, or blog the photos you take with a cameraphone.
 OpenOffice - A multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, free to download and use.
 WordPress › Blog Tool and Weblog Platform - A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
 Gimp - The GNU Image Manipulation Program, for X Windows systems. Comparable to Photoshop.
 Gallery | Your photos on your website - the open source web based photo album organizer. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you're running a small personal site or a large community site.
 Skype - make free calls over the internet to other people on Skype for as long as you like, to wherever you like. It is free to download.
 Speedtest - Test your Internet connection bandwidth with an interactive broadband speed test.
 Geni - Genealogy - Free Family Tree - Geni is the fast, free, fun way to create your family tree and stay in touch with your family network.
 The Freecycle Network - The Freecycle Network™ is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. Freecycle started in May 2003 to promote waste reduction in Tucson's downtown and help save desert landscape from being taken over by landfills. The Network provides individuals and non-profits an electronic forum to "recycle" unwanted items. One person's trash can truly be another's treasure!
 Meebo - The web messenger that lets you access IM from absolutely anywhere. Meebo supports msn, yahoo, aol/aim, google talk (gtalk), jabber and icq.
 Dropbox - Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy. - Dropbox was founded by Drew and Arash in 2007 and received seed funding from Y Combinator. Aston joined in December, bringing the number of scrappy MIT computer science alums on the team to a solid three. Together, they face the challenge of simplifying file backup, sync, and sharing for the world.
 Netvibes - Personal news aggregator with RSS and Atom support. Comes with a set of predefined news feeds.
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techTank | Recommended Links & Sites of Interest 