Useful and Interesting Links

General

www.1400ml.com
My site (Peter Rashkin) - Photoblog, articles, features. “A directionless zine with a wide variety of poignant essays.”

www.colapublib.org/libs/carson
Carson Regional Library - Website for this branch. Includes catalog.
www.wikipedia.org
Wikipdia - Free, user-developed online encyclopedia, with articles in many languages
www.pandora.com
Design your own radio station!
www.playingforchange.com
Playing for Change - Peace through Music.
www.imdb.com
The Internet Movie Database. Great source for movie info.
www.moviefone.com
Moviefone...Showtimes and theaters
apod.nasa.gov/apod
Astronomy Picture of the Day
www.freetranslation.com
Easily translate a word or phrase

Tools and Software for Your Computer

www.openoffice.org
Open Office: Free software to download and install on your computer. Does almost everything that Microsoft Office does. Open and modify Word docs and Excel spreadsheets, or create new docs that can be used in Microsoft Office.
www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download
Free anti-virus software.
www.getpaint.net
GIMP: A powerful free image manipulation program that does almost everything that Adobe Photoshop does.
www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus
Free desktop publishing software. Use instead of Quark or Adobe InDesign. Powerful, but hard to master.
www.000webhost.com
Create your own free website.
www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox
Firefox Web Browser. Like Internet Explorer, but better. Free.
www.calendarsthatwork.com
Free MS Word Calendars you can download and modify

Tutorial

Politics and World Affairs (Just a few examples of many)

doctorswithoutborders.org
Doctors Without Borders
www.amnestyusa.org
Amnesty International USA
www.truthdig.com
News and comment
Find your own! Google the name of a newspaper, other news source or interest group. If you find something interesting, mark it as a favorite (Internet Explorer) or bookmark it (Chrome, Firefox).