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NICKELODEON ONLINE Brimming with kid-centric news, forums, podcasts, and more.
Info and Reference
About.com
www.about.com
Thirty-four million monthly visitors head
to About.com for guidance on subjects
from careers to child-raising to technol-
ogy.—JLD
How Stuff Works
www.howstuffworks.com
Find out how everything really works
when experts share their knowledge on
any and all subjects.—CI
Internet Archive
www.archive.org
The archive and its celebrated WayBack
Machine are, at this very moment, duti-
fully cataloging the Internet.—KM
The Library of Congress
www.loc.gov
Home to numerous reference materials,
digitized collections, films—everything
ever published in the country.—LR
Merriam-Webster Online
www.m-w.com
Besides the regular old dictionary features,
learn your mother tongue with fun stuff
like the Word of the Day and crossword
puzzles.—KM
Nolo
www.nolo.com
Get legal documents, advice, and informa-
tion for your business or family from this
excellent online law resource center for
non-lawyers.—KM
Snopes
www.snopes.com
An extensive index of urban legends, com-
mon fallacies, old wives’ tales, strange
news stories, rumors, trashy gossip, and
more.—CI
The Straight Dope
www.straightdope.com
Tackling the burning questions of the day
(“Who invented the smiley face?”) with a
delicious combination of sarcasm and pro-
fanity.—CI
Urban Dictionary
www.urbandictionary.com
This user-generated online slang diction-
ary doesn’t just teach us creative new ways
to swear; it can actually expand our com-
mon vernacular.—VBJ
Wikipedia
www.wikipedia.org
Love it or hate it, you can’t ignore the
poster child for the wisdom of crowds,
now featuring 8 million articles written in
253 languages.—BH
Lifestyle
Beliefnet
www.beliefnet.com
This Web community covers all faiths:
Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam,
even Scientology and China’s Falun Gong.
(Sorry, Jedis. Try StarWars.com.)—EG
Boing Boing
www.boingboing.net
Among the top blogs on the Web, and
certainly among the most eccentric, the
resulting conglomerate is truly “A Direc-
tory of Wonderful Things.”—KM
Epicurious
www.epicurious.com
The online home of Gourmet and Bon
Appetit, Epicurious has the swank recipes
you’d expect to fi nd here.—CI
Food Network
www.foodnetwork.com
As if you can’t get enough Rachael Ray,
get more—along with tons of extra reci-
pes, entertaining tips, and 10-minute meal
suggestions.—CI
Nickelodeon Online
www.nick.com
The site captures the essence and draw
that is Nickelodeon—it will suck your kids
in for hours.—CI
Money
Bloomberg.com
The go-to financial news service for the
guys who manage your stock portfolio, and
also for the Wall Street bigwigs who man-
age theirs.—KM
Top 100 Classic Sites
You’ll see a lot of familiar URLs on this list, and we hope there are also quite a few that
you haven’t heard of before.  ese sites are best-of-breed in their respective categories.