ABC Tales
www.abctales.com
"The magazine and website for eager readers, aspiring writers and everyone with a story to tell."

Abe Books
www.abebooks.com
Compares two million titles from contributing booksellers.

Bookbrain
www.bookbrain.co.uk/
Searches other sites for the cheapest version of the book you want.

Bookbrowser
www.bookbrowser.com
A must for bibliophiles.

Dictionary.com
www.dictionary.com
Paradise for word-lovers.

Exquisite Corpse
www.corpse.org
"A journal of letters and life."

Nth positinn
www.nthposition.com
Politics, poetry and places.

ABYZ News Links
www.abyznewslinks.com/
Llinks to more than 18,200 newspapers and other news sources from around the world.

The American Partisan
www.americanpartisan.com/
"Hard-hitting commentary and informative news."

AlterNet.org
www.alternet.org/
"AlterNet.org is an online magazine and information resource" - it's excellent.

Alternative Insight
www.alternativeinsight.com/
Analysis of US domestic and foreign policy. Abrasively intelligent.

The Brains Trust
www.thebrainstrust.co.uk
Satire, but a better read than most papers...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
www.eff.org/
"Protecting rights and promoting freedom in the electronic frontier."

Freedom Forum
www.freedomforum.org/
"News about free press, free speech and free spirit" with good links section.

International Relations and Security Network
www.isn.ethz.ch/
Swiss-based organisation with international relations search engine.

Magportal
www.magportal.com/
Searchable full-text archive of articles from an eclectic range of magazines.

Media Link
www.medialin.com/
Free research and contacts for journalists.

Mind Pollen
www.mindpollen.com/
Alternative newswire.

The Obscure Store
www.obscurestore.com/
Weird and wonderful news site.

The Paperboy
www.thepaperboy.com.au/welcome.html
Online international newspaper and magazine directory.

US Institute of Peace Library
www.usip.org/library/topical.html
US Institute of Peace Library links to resources on the Geneva Convention, refugees, minorities, NATO, peacekeeping, terrorism/counter-terrorism, human rights etc.
www.usip.org/library/regions.html
Excellent links from the US Institute of Peace Library to sites on individual countries.

WarReports.com
www.WarReports.com/
Exhaustively thorough resource on armed conflicts edited by a war correspondent.

Get Ethical
www.getethical.com/
Buy ethical products, fund a micro-credit scheme for the homeless, contribute to NGOs, plus news on consumer boycotts and eco-tourism.

Heifer Project International
www.heifer.org/
You donate one animal to a family, they share its offspring with other families, and pretty soon the village has a herd.

Just Giving
www.justgiving.com
Secure online donations for very good causes.

Seeds of Peace
www.seedsofpeace.org
Seeds of Peace brings together Israeli and Palestinian children in the hope that they'll get past the hatred if they get to know one another.

Dmoz.org
www.dmoz.org/
Well edited, very classy site.

Euroseek
www.euroseek.com/
Multilingual search engine - choose your European/Eastern European language and search.

InvisibleWeb.com
www.invisibleweb.com
Excellent catalog of deep web resources.

LexiBot
www.lexibot.com
LexiBot examines your search, then selects the most relevant of 600 different invisible web resources and forwards your query to them and returns the information. The software costs US $90, but there is a 30-day free trial.

Nanospot
www.nanospot.org/
A search engine for nanotechnology on the web.

Profusion
www.profusion.com/
Profusion, an "invisible web" site, is well worth checking out -- it enables you to search through normally inaccessible documents.

Teldir.com
www.teldir.com/eng
The world's phone directories.

Vivisimo
http://vivisimo.com/
Vivismo is by far the most impressive search engine around -- it will save you hours.

Webferret
www.zdnet.com/ferret
Webferret is one of the better metasearch engines - it searches the search engines and often comes up trumps.

X Refer
http://www.xrefer.com/
'The web's reference engine' allows you to search a slew of reference works from the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang to the Oxford Paperback Encyclopaedia.

BoldOpinion.com
www.boldopinion.com
Digital soapbox/watercooler for people to mouth off on a pretty wide a range of issues...

Cities.com
www.cities.com
How to make the most of the cities covered, with articles and recommendations by locals.

Concierge
www.concierge.com
Tells you how to get from over 100 international airports to the nearest city.

The Rag
www.therag.com
"Essays about politics, cooking, nanotechnology, invertebrates (and other things without hair), Hinduism, and stuff like that"