Thursday, May 04, 2006

New Links on our web for the week of May 4, 2006 Arts and Humanities The Best of the Humanities on the Web "The National Endowment for the Humanities and the MCI Foundation have created this website in order to bring together some of the best online humanities resources from the world’s great museums, libraries, and universities." (SR) Business Contrarian Investing Association generally focuses on turnaround situations and stocks currently out of favor. Colleges and Careers Graduate School Admission.com "your gateway to resources and information designed to help you prepare for today's competitive environment of graduate school admission." EDURegistry.org information on how to start a college search. Government, Elections, and Law Law Help.org "LawHelp helps low and moderate income people find free legal aid programs in their communities, and answers to questions about their legal rights." (LIB) Reference Desk Worldmapper: The World as You've Never Seen It Before "This site features cartograms, maps showing global regions "re-sized according to the subject of interest." Some of the many map subjects include births, total population, children, elderly, refugees, immigrants, tourism, transportation, and imports and exports. Maps are available in a printable poster format, and are accompanied by explanatory text and data files. A collaboration among the University of Sheffield (England), University of Michigan, and other groups. (LII) Musipedia "Inspired by, but not affiliated with Wikipedia, we are building a searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes." Lyrics A to Z Lyrics Universe Definition good for popular culture definitions 12:02:25 PM

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