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Basement Reference Page

Phones/Addresses	Dictionary/Medline	Postal/Shipping
Weather	Travel/Geography	Money Matters
Science/Technology	TV & Movies

Phone #'s, Addresses

Physiology Phone Book

UW-Madison Campus Phone Book (searchable)

Yahoo People Search (very nice)

InfoSpace (very nice)

World Email Directory

EmailAddressSearch.com

Ameritech Yellow Pages

AT&T on-line directory

YellowPages.com

Nationwide Yellow Pages (very nice)

BigBook (very nice)

List of all Telephone Area Codes (North America)

Southern Wisconsin 3-digit phone prefixes

Country and City Codes (from AT&T)

Search for Companies by Name or Product (requires one-time registration)

Commercial Sites Index (Searchable index of all .COM sites)

WhoWhere (search by name)

Internet Address Finder (Internet E-mail Directory)

Four-11 Directory Services (Internet E-mail Directory)

Phone Directories for all Nations

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Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medline etc.

Medline and Current Contents (UW access only)

Full Text Medical Journals (UW access only)

Electronic Journals List (UW access)

Electronic Journals and Databases List (UW access)

Electronic Newspapers List (UW access)

UW Electronic Library (searchable)

Medical Dictionary

Medical Edge Dictionary

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Webster's Dictionary (from bennetyee.org)

Urban Dictionary

Swedish-English Dictionary

Translate any Web Page (from Systran)

Google Translate (Translate Anything)

Encarta Thesaurus

Acronym and Abbreviation Server

Familiar Quotations

LoQtus (by Jason Newquist)

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Postal/Shipping Info

US Postal Service (home page - track packages etc.)

ZIP Code Lookup (from the U.S. Postal Service)

U.S. Postal Rate Calculator (from the U.S. Postal Service)

UPS (track packages etc.)

FedEx (track packages etc.)

U.S. Postal Abbreviations

ISO Country Codes

List of all U.S. Zip Codes

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Weather

5-day weather forecast for Madison (from SSEC, UW-Madison)

Madison Channel 27 Super Doppler Radar

Midwest Radar Image (very nice)

Milwaukee Radar (weather underground)

USA National Radar Image (from Intellicast)

USA National Radar Image (from Weather Channel)

North America Infrared Satellite (from SSEC, UW)

USA Current Temperatures (from the Weather Channel)

USA Current Dewpoints (from Weather Underground)

USA Current Heat Index (from Weather Underground)

USA Current Heat Index (from usairnet.com)

USA Current Wind Speeds (from Weather Underground)

USA Current Wind Chill (from Weather Underground)

USA Current Visibility (from Weather Underground)

USA Current Jet Stream (from Weather Underground)

U.S.A Severe weather map (from the Weather Underground)

Current Storm Watches and Warnings for U.S.A (from the Weather Channel)

Latest Global Composite (from SSEC, UW)

USA Precipitation Summary (from Intellicast)

USA Tomorrow's High Temps (from the Weather Channel)

USA Tonight's Low Temps (from the Weather Channel)

USA Snow Forecast (from the Weather Channel)

USA Snow Cover map (from the Weather Channel)

USA Snow Cover map (from Weather Underground)

USA Snow Cover map (from Unisys)

Midwest Snow Cover Map (from UIUC)

Upper Midwest Snow Cover Map (from Weatherstreet)

10-day weather forecast for Madison (from Intellicast)

The Weather Underground (forecasts and conditions for any U.S. City)

The Weather Channel (forecasts and conditions for any U.S. City)

International Weather (from Intellicast)

More Weather Maps...

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Travel and Geography

The Current Most Absolutely Correct Time (from U.S.N.O.)

Local Times Around the World

World Time Zones (from U.S. Naval Observatory)

World Time Zones Map (CIA map, 570 kB jpg)

The CIA World Factbook

Bing Maps (maps and aerial photos - very nice)

Google Maps (maps of any location)

Nokia Maps (formerly map24.com)

Microsoft Terraserver (aerial photographs)

MapQuest (generate maps of any location)

USGS National Map

How far is it ? (find distance between any two places)

Flags of the World (USA mirror site)

World Video and Power Standards

Expedia (very nice)

Orbitz (very nice)

Travelocity (very nice)

Trip Advisor (visitor comemts and reviews)

All Hotels on the Web

Hotels by City.com

Dane County Airport Arrivals and Departures

Track any Flight (from FlyteComm)

USA Airport Delays (from Intellicast)

Airlines Telephone numbers

Wisconsin Road Conditions

Illinois Road Conditions

Directory of Worldwide Rail Sites

NetWorthy Travel Page

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Money Matters

CNN Market Reports

CBS MarketWatch

Current Interest Rates

Currency Exchange Rates

InsureMarket (Insurance quotes and tips)

Stock Market Reports (from Stockmaster)

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Science and Technology

ChipCenter (Electronics)

CNET Computers.com (buying advice, price comparisons, very nice)

FCC ID search (identify any product from it's FCC ID)

How Stuff Works (very nice)

IC Master (identify chips by part number)

Convert almost anything (onlineconversion.com)

PC Webopedia (computing terms)

Price Scan (compare prices from several vendors)

QuestLink (Electronics datasheets)

U.S. Energy Dept. Science and Technology Links

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TV Listings, Movies

TV Guide (very nice)

Movies currently playing in Madison (from Isthmus)

Ebert & Roeper (movie reviews)

film.com (movie reviews)

Rotten Tomatoes (movie reviews)

Internet Movie Database (very nice)

E! Online (celebrity news and gossip)

Entertainment Asylum (celebrity news and gossip)

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If you know of any useful links that should be included in this list please send them by e-mail to kochhar@physiology.wisc.edu
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This page last modified on : Dec. 3, 2012