General References

A Bookmark page by Andy of Konecny Consulting.

Dictionaries and such word stuff
The Free Dictionary Dictionary.com words at tip of tongue search
New words by creation year on-line translator including Latin Britishisms in English
American's guide to Brit speak American-British translations Lojban: international language
INGE Anagram Solver Inge's Anagram Generator Behind Names
Grandiloquent Dictionary Southern Word Acronyms
Word Count IM shorthand Klingonese
Etymological Dictionary MetaGlossary WordHippo
Translator to Chef/Jive/ValSpeak/Pig XKCD SimpleWriter word checker Up-Goer Five Text Editor
English, Traditional vs Simplified Tech Definitions Vocabulary test


Maps
Yahoo Maps & Driving Directions Map Quest Google Maps
Ontario Road status Highway cameras in/near Toronto Toronto on GoogleMaps
International Civic Arms/heraldry of villages, cities, states, etc Flags of the World locations of USA states, a test
QuakeBot twitter feed of mag 5+ CanadaQuakes feed
World EarthQuake map NA Tsunami Alerts USGSBigQuakes feed
Cdn Federal Publications. Maps&Books WorldMapper, different portions of the world Create your own custom map
recent disasters World Map Maploco 'places have visited maps' GMap Pedometer
varied uses of Google Maps Alt view of GoogleMaps Strange Maps
Atlas of Canada, NRC GeoNames geographical database Coast lines at increasing sea levels
Tunnel to OtherSide of Earth The Great British Venn Diagram Wind predictions map
Ancient Earth view Lost Rivers of Toronto NukeMap, blast ranges
Driving-radius map


Misc lookup
Wiki Encyclopedia List of Unusual Articles The Canadian Encyclopedia
iTools, Find-It! I Fix It - repair manuals wiki US Library of Congress
NewsPapers from around the world Internet FAQ Archives refdesk.com Virtual Facts on File
AcronymFinder CIA World FactBook Famous Quotes: Words4Ever
Ontario lottery numbers Sun Rise & Set times Baby Name Voyager
effective PDF search tool World Digital Library Library of Congress, American Memory
European Digital Library Skeptic's Annotated Bible TinEye reverse image search engine
World News options


Phone & Postal
Where is that Area Code from? Area-code listing reverse number lookups, US only
Canadian Whitepages and reverse lookup YellowPages.ca Canada 411
Phone#Spelling paper weight chart
Where is that Cdn Postal Code from? US Post ZIP code lookups
U.S. Postal service, stamps & zip codes Postal-ZIP Code boundary map


Converters
On-Line Conversion .com Convert Center Currency Converters
TimeZone Converter Delimited 2 Fixed AOL translator
Fuel converter Morse Code Translator TimeStamp formats convert
binary to ascii conversion Pandoc: a universal document converter


Time
Calendars (default to this year) Repeating Calendars Printable Calendars
current times around the world WorldTimeZones realtime Every TimeZone
Time and Date .com all about Calendars New Earth Time, 360
The Y10K problem Year 2038 problem Daylight Hours Explorer
custom calendar generator Calendrical Calculations, much recommended book ISO 8601 xkcd style
ISO8601 date standard ISO8601 date standard What Date for Easter?
Sun RiseSet Calculator Now! (times around world simplified) StopWatch & countdown
Anti-Clockwise Watches a 12 sided calendar
Calc value of your time Calendar Facts (xkcd style) Calendar Facts Explained
Time & Timezone challenges video Daylight Savings, Disaster explained Perpetual Calendar
Only Time Leap Day bugs Falsehoods programmers believe about time
Time-Nuts


Misc
All 'my' Faves .com 20 biggest online time wasters and managing them Steve's current 'Best Cameras'
Dress Tie knots, how to If pulled over by a cop... Document retention guidelines
Handbook: understanding breaking news Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs estate planning
account closing on death Crypto Currency explained Startup pitfalls to avoid
Personal productivity to fight depresion Tips for Presentation creation Guide to Increasing Your Focus
Intro to Intellectual Property (IP) Small Cdn Business Stats 2016 Basics about taxes for freelancing
Deep thoughts on Artificial Intelligence: Kissinger Plain Langauge for documentation Career stages: Doing vs glue
16 Management Rules That Make No Sense freelancer basics Growth strategies, Sustainable vs Blitzscaling
Hearing-Aid Batteries, issues writing group, benevolent Send a OneTimeSecret
WeTransfer BIG files Guerrilla Capitalism Tools to improve Democracy
Build your own Personal Brand Managing your problems Tenth Man - manditory devils advocate
Hard to Rig a US Election Why to blog Blog about what you Learned
Freedom 2 Read Strength of Silence
Economics: wealth vs illth Are we really Rich? what is wealth Political Incantations
improving working memory Emergency Plan Guide Officeless working vs true Remote workstyle
Clinton Research to build an innovation system Propaganda - understanding
Art&Science of causing changes in consciousness Managing ones Digital Life NFPA Codes and Standards


Fun with Science
the PeriodicTable as a wood Table interactive Periodic Table Origin of Elements
TED: Ideas worth spreading Institute for Accelerating Change SuperCooled water
Tesla Coils Periodic Table Videos Virtual Slide Rules
Tale about the Old SlipStick Battery formulation FAQ Why too much evidence can be a bad thing
Women of STEM channels making of the Atomic Bomb Creativity tips
Mathematics and Logic: a free course


Understanding Geeks & Hacker types
Hacker FAQ for non-techies Programmers are like Bees Manager FAQ for techies
The Mythical Man-Month Managing Humans (vs bits) care and feeding of software engineers
Sysadmin Skills-Path Programming sucks Why the future doesn't need us
Internet Trolls Explained Bad Ideas of the IT kind The Moral Economy of Tech
Hypnotic Power Words Origins of on-call work Paradox of Automation
Misconceptions of Names Elon's path to Artificial Intelligence Failure handling for improvement
How To Talk To A Programmer (And Get Results) best tech skills to look for value of email over chat
InfoSec Terms Habits of hackers & counters to 10 signs a person will suck at programming
run tech teams more like sports teams What is an OKR? Learning communities
workgroup Connections via Blogging How long that tech has been around Mentat to be a better thinker
desicion Frameworks for Life Org beyond staff as robots growning contacts by being a PacMan
Powers Of Ten Curse of Knowledge, all fields Of Liberty, with good quotes
GH Future possibilities pt1 GH Future possibilities pt2 Cat-GPT


Technical fun references
Jargon Scout: new and forming jargon The New Hacker's Dictionary analog computer: sliderule
Server Room Nightmares User Groups - guide thoughts


Tip Jar
Updates last posted 2025-01-30