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Inspiration and Other Online Reading

General

The Internet Public
Library

The IPL is at the University of Michigan School of Information. 

The Online Books Page

A very large number of books online, at UPenn.

The Onion

Some good comedy.

Faithfulness

Bible Study Tools
at Crosswalk.com

View and search in many different translations of the Bible.

Online Parallel Bible and Scripture Lookup
at BibleShark.com

A simple and straightforward Bible tool. See the Concordance for word searches.

Resource Pages for Biblical Studies

Many very interesting links here.

The Qumran Library

The Dead Sea Scrolls, published in readable form.

Joshua Corps

A web site devoted to the work of Jesus Christ.

Miscellaneous

Anti-Imperialism in the United States

A site featuring interesting literature by Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and others.

The Science Hobbyist
Home Page
A site describing interesting and unusual projects and how to build them.
Elena from Kiev

Web site of Elena from Kiev
Elena is a woman who has explored and taken many photographs of Chernobyl, as well as other areas in the former U.S.S.R.  On her web site is a large number of excellent photographs with discussion.  The lower link will probably cease to function in the near future.
Little Cars A web site about new developments in street-legal small vehicles within the U.S.A.

Investment and Business-related

Quotes and Misc Information Online

CBS MarketWatch

Yahoo! Finance

Excite Money & Investing

QuoteCom

EDGAR Exhaustive Company Search

Financial News

The Motley Fool

Silicon Investor

NewsPage

Online Society

There are several systems in the world now which do "instant messaging", live conversation with other people using text messages, and transmission of files and sometimes live voice interaction. There is the AOL Instant Messenger, the Yahoo! Messenger, another from Microsoft, the very first called ICQ, and others. There is software out there which will let you use several of these systems simultaneously; Trillian is probably the best.

Yahoo Groups

A very large email list service system, run by Yahoo. Email lists are groups of people who email each other en masse, and thereby carry on extended conversations on every topic under the sun.

Microsoft NetMeeting

Live typed chat, voice, interactive drawing, and program sharing, across the Net.