Best Websites - there are some great finds here. Thanks to everyone who shared. Hope you enjoy some new surfing sites!

From: J. Timothy Gotsick, JTGOTSI@westvaco.com
1. Yahoo - on all day, an info junkie's best friend
2. www.fastcompany.com - the best chronicle of the new economy and the philosophy of ethical success. the world's industry
4. Earthlink - my favorite ISP
5. abcnews.com - reasonably in-depth news & analysis

From: Mike ., gj1335@hotmail.com
www.yahoo.com Fast; convenient; up to the minute information
www.nando.net News & Observer Times: news always available
www.wsj.com Wall Street Jornal: Excellent news coverage
www.altavista.com Great searching; fast response
www.PunoftheDay.com Funny one-liners to start my day

From: pascale.a.bonzom@uk.pwcglobal.com
Lastminute.com: cheap flights and fun ideas
thestandard.com: ebiz news and weekly newsletter
timeout.com: insights on what's happening in all the major cities of the world
e-commercetimes.com: ebiz news
nua: ebiz news and surveys, weekly comprehensive newsletter

From: Layton Payne, LaytonP@Latitude.COM
I use Dogpile (http://www.dogpile.com) as my home. It's a terrific meta-search engine which searches most of the popular search engines all at once. Plus, you can customize it, too.

From: mrpizolato@papl.com
The Motley Fool: http://www.fool.com/
Education, amusement, and enrichment: based on what I learned there (no get-rich quick schemes, just how personal finance and investing really work), my net worth has more than quadrupled in less than two years.

From: Jane M. Lump, lumpjane@niia.net
WSJ.com--personalized business and market information, portfolio tracking tools, etc.
Storypeople.com--great stories and pictures that explain life
ivillage--writing center/assignments, bookclubs and on-line author events
amazon.com--most user-friendly, helpful and 'intuitive' of the e-commerce sites
cookinglight.com--great receipe search--you start from what ingredients you have on hand!

From: George Osner, gosner@ainet.com
Chowhound www.chowhound.com The ultimate site for folks who love to eat,sort of the net-heads Zagat. A real Net Community, mainly due to the efforts of the Alpha Hound, Jim Leff, & his merry band of co-conspirators.

NewsTracker Clipping Service http://nt.excite.com/ntd.dcg Got a very specific topic you want to keep track of in the news? (I do--hot air ballooning). Set up a search at NewsTracker and the site will find all the articles (at least in English) on your topic daily. The most comprehensive and reliable of such services that I have found.

The Thought for Today Quotation Archive webpages.ainet.com/gosner/quotationsarch OK--I cheated--this is one I webmaster. But for finding just the right quote or phrase for that memo, article, speech, presentation, toast, or whatever, it's a great resource, with over 250 topics collected.

Internet Movie DataBase http://us.imdb.com/ If you're a movie buff, this is the place. Wanta know all the films with Katherine Hepburn? Find something on kickboxing? A bio of your favorite star, or director, or...

Liberty Meadows http://www.creators.com/comics/compage/lib.asp
Sluggy Freelance http://www.sluggy.com/

....And what would life be without a little humor? Here's 2 of my favorite on-line comic strips, very different, yet each amusing: enjoy!

From: Grant Perkins, gperkins@newbridge.com
From a boringly practical point of view .........
Dogpile search engine www.dogpile.com
consistently grabs results from somewhere making a single search access more productive than multiple attempts on different engines

The Rapidly Changing Face of Computing www.compaq.com/rcfoc
excellent independent weekly journal by one of Compaq's senior engineers which spotlights new technologies and developments in the internet and e-commerce arenas and speculatively projects their impact on our futures.

From: GDSexton@aol.com
Here is a site I go to daily:
http://www.thehungersite.com

From: Brian F Patterson, icas@waverider.co.uk
www.thehungersite.com
I've set it as my home page. It's nice to feel I start each day making a contribution - however small - to relieving world hunger.

From: EdROCK@aol.com
www.theonion.com
Often-hilarious satire and social commentary in the form of a fake newspaper. Great place for a mental break.

From: Nicola, nicola@cloudshill.co.uk
http://www.prairieden.com
A brilliant writers' retreat on the web
http://www.amazon.com
The best book buying experience around
http://www.pa.press.net
All the news you need
http://www.avantgo.com
My favourite web pages in the perfect format for my favourite gadget - my PalmPilot
http://www.willa.com
My favourite daily dose of journal reading

From: "Nix, Rebecca L", rnix@kraft.com
Best Site: www.yahoo.com - everything you need to live an e-life! shopping, maps, yellow pages, stock quotes, etc.

From: "Coleman,Philip D", philip.coleman@dhs.state.tx.us
1. spinner.com
free, constant streaming of the music genre of my choice to my PC while I work
2. http://www.mapsonus.com/
good map/directions tool; handy to printout or send to others
3. I'm a trainer in government service. There's a lot of useful info on the web at local, state, and federal government sites. For example,
- Immigration & Naturalization Services (INS)
http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/
- USDA - Food Stamps
http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/
- Social Security Administration
http://www.ssa.gov/SSA_Home.html
(Even has a "fun" kids page & a "games" page! Hey.)

From: NAlston237@aol.com
http://www.positivepress.com/ The Positive Press: Good News Every Day Positive news.
http://www.tbwt.com/ Welcome to The Black World Today The black portal of information.
http://www.stopping.com/index.html Inside Track Seminars "Stopping" Homepage It reminds you to stop in order to keep moving forward.
http://www.mentoru.com/pro/home/default.asp MentorU.com Home Challenging learning.
http://www.motivationalmoments.com/ Home It's my site. I have to like it.

From: "Lisa Dominy (LEWISON)" ldominy@microsoft.com
Good search site and enters you in drawings for lotto, prizes, etc.
http://www.iwon.com/home_page/
Evaluation of Info Resources
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm
Technical Info
http://www.microsoft.com/CIO/Glossary.htm
http://strategy.gemconsult.com/resources/indextemplate.cfm?FiletoOpen=glossary/index.htm
Download Software Site
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10119.html?st.dl.fd..cat335
Great Search Engine
http://www.msn.com/
http://www.mamma.com/

From: celesta.busch@att.net
bluemountain.com - for great free greeting cards
readersdigest.com - for the same reasons the magazine is so great
My other three are local and personal - my local paper, my credit union site and Tupperware; but that's the beauty of access at my convenience.

From: William_Underwood@ahm.honda.com
1. ceoexpress.com - a streamlined, complete "kick-off" web link to many useful sites in the work environment, that saves time by being a shared book mark list for executives, which calls itself a "gateway" to the internet
2. howstuffworks.com - to start understanding the world around us
3. redherring.com - the business of technology with original, leading-edge analysis and commentary
4. cbsmarketwatch.com - financial news, market/company research, interday/technical charting - rated by Barron's as one of the top web sites for investors
5. amazon.com - book & idea shopping

From: Deleyne Wentz, DelWen@ngw.lib.usu.edu
http://www.bestbookbuys.com
Quickly compares the prices of a book at 28 bookstores so you can patronize the one with the lowest price.
http://www.onelook.com
Efficient access to over a million words in 598 dictionaries.
http://healthwatch.medscape.com
Convenient way to keep track of nutrition and exercise performance plus read the latest health news.
http://infoseek.go.com
There are bigger search engines but if you're hoping to find just what you're looking for on the first page of results, you owe it to yourself to read the help file and put this one in your arsenal.
http://www.northernlight.com
If you don't find what you're looking for using Infoseek (above), try this search engine which is very large and which puts your search results in folders.

From: goldbart@powerup.com.au
Sites I like are:The Hunger Site at <http://www.wfp.org/info/Intro/donors/hunger_index.htm>
Charity Frogs at <http://www.charityfrogs.org/>, by accessing each of these each day when I first connect with the Net, I am giving via the sponsors several cups of rice to the hungry and $US1 donation to the Red Cross Society.
The other site I like is the Real Age site at <http://www.realage.com/> because it gives me the tools to improve my health based on the very latest scientific research.

From: Sandra Boeschen, currie@cwia.com
Hamsterdance.com. Then, when I stop laughing, the New York Times site (you can sign up for e-mail new summaries for technology, etc.). Then Hamsterdance.com again.

From: Keith Carey, kcarey@charm.net
http://www.etoys.com Great toy site
http://www.amazon.com Thorough Bookstore
http://www.charm.net/~kcarey Sorry, have to put my own site :)
http://www.mdprosoccer.com/blast/blast.htm Professional Indoor Soccer Site
http://www.nissanpavillion.com/ Best music touring information for Washington / Baltimore area

From: Laura Hauser laurahauser@earthlink.net
www.sandlotscience.com
Stimulating, creative optical illusions--when my brain needs to think differently.
www.hooversonline.com
Business information--when I want to research a business/prospective client.
www.cityspin.com
Travel site--when I want to get away from it all
www.drweil.com
Health web--when I want to re-remember the principles of eating well for health and longevity.
www.bluemountan.com
Free, fun animated electronic greeting card site--when I want to send a personalized, often goofy, greeting card.

From: Marjorie Thomas, mthomas@ivanhoe.com
My favorite web site is our own: www.ivanhoe.com It provides the medical breakthroughs we are covering for our 250 tv stations each week plus daily medical updates.