ESPNET SportsZone
The ESPNET SportsZone has very current sports information and up to date scores.

AT&T Bell Laboratories
The AT&T Bell Laboratories provides a sampling of the Bell Labs efforts.

Guide to the 1996 Olympic Games
It's not too early to find out about the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Check out the program as well as information on ordering tickets.

Dilbert Home Page
The Dilbert Home Page provides lots of Dilbert cartoons.

Smithsonian Institute Home Page
The Smithsonian Institute Home Page provides tours of the various Smithsonian museums and more.

Artice Circle
Arctice Circle has absolutely no hamburgers. Instead, this site features information on the ecology of the area, including the cultures of the people who inhabit the region at the top of the world.

Backwoods Home Magazine
Those of us looking for a more self-sufficient lifestyle may find help at Backwoods Home Magazine: "the articles in backwoods home aren't written by professional writers: they're written by the people who are out there doing it." Topictures include home-building, gardening, raising livestock, alternative energy, home schooling and more.

Fast Forward Software
Fast Forward Software are the folks behind such studies as "best cities for skin care" and "most romantic cities." They're also offering their Places, USA "find the best city for you" software for DOS for free, as well as some demographic data files.

Credit Management Information and Support
Credit Management Information and Support has basic files on bankruptcy, credit reports and other resources for those interested in business credit issues.

AutoRow
AutoRow caters to casual drivers and car fanatics alike with detailed information on over 25,000 dealers nationwide, over 50 manufacturers, contests, racing, shareware and more.

Emory University's School of Law
Emory University's School of Law is host to the Federal Court Finder: "linking to all known federal court sites on the internet, the finder presents the user with a graphical map that makes the courts just a click away."

Ross Perot's Independence Party
Get ready for another 3-legged, uh, 3-party race, folks, and visit this site on Ross Perot's emerging Independence Party. They have "the most beautiful bumperstickers you have ever seen." And that's a quote.

The Information Dirt Road
The Information Dirt Road is a delightful site put up by a 4-H group at UC Irvine, California, of all places: "there are sounds and picture of sheep, horses, pigs, goats, poultry. the information on raising goats is quite comprehensive."

Matrix Information and Directory Services
Matrix Information and Directory Services in Austin, Texas, has a gopherhole full of interesting "maps" of the world showing hosts on FidoNet, UUCP, BITNET and the Internet. Kinda cool as well as useful.

Project 2050
Project 2050 is an Internet attempt to create an environmentally sustainable world through global participation.

The International Commit of the Red Cross (ICRC)
The International Commit of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a good clearinghouse for international conventions and treaties: "the texts of the main treaties of international humanitarian law (the four geneva conventions and their additional protocols) are also on the site, together with information about this body of law and the issues around it." The ICRC's new site also contains information and position papers on everything from the Bosnian situation to the just-concluded Beijing Conference on Women.

The Write Place
The Write Place is a resource for all kinds of writing, from school work to journaling. You can also add to what's available on the page: "if you are a writer, an aspiring writer, or an unwilling writer, you'll find much of benefit here."

The Internet Travel Grid
The Internet Travel Grid contains links to "over 15,000 travel web sites including accommodations, local travel information, airlines, travel discount programs, cruiselines, skiing, golf, travel magazines, travel agents and tour operators, www travel directories, travel usenet groups, and more."

URL Minder
It's like having your own personal web robot--that's what the maintainers of URL Minder say. The service will keep track of your favorite sites, including databases, web sites, ftp sites and gopher sites, automagically. Whenever they change, URL Minder sends you email. Pretty cool, and potentially useful. (Courtesy Randal Schwartz of stonehenge.com.)

Mt Ruapehu
Mt Ruapehu is the largest mountain in the North Island of New Zealand; it's also currently erupting. A video camera is transmitting pictures over the net, updated every 2 minutes. Right now, not much is going on, and the picture's a bit vague, but you never know when you're going to hit the right 2 minutes. Plus it's just really neat to be "looking into the future"; because NZ is across the dateline, the pictures are a day ahead.

Ziff-Davis
Ziff-Davis Interactive's ZD Net Personal View "lets users receive personalized daily news that tracks the latest high-tech developments from leading news sources, based on the user's specific computing interests." You go through a registration procedure that allows you to hand-pick the kind of information you want to receive, and the website will gather it up from Newsbytes, Business Wire, PR Newswire, PC Week, MacWeek, Inter@ctive Week and more. And it's free, unless you count the extremely valuable demographic info you have to give ZDI to register.