15 Awesome Websites to Bookmark
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Surfing the internet is an amazing experience. The endless websites are to a web surfer what a toy store is to a kid. Some sites stand out, not only for their professionalism and appearance but for the useful information they give. Others are just plain fun. Here are a few awesome sites I've run across through the years and visit often. I hope you will want to as well.
1) GasBuddy.com
With the unstable price of gas, it's always nice to know ahead of time where the best prices in your city are. GasBuddy keeps an active list of gas prices in every U.S. state and Canada. They offer historical price charts for your information as well as fuel saving tips.
2) Intellicast.com
Here's a great traffic site as well as a weather site. It offers up-to-date incident reports and road construction in your area. They have weather alerts and storm warnings. Intellicast.com also offers a trip planner to let you know about flights at your nearest airport.
http://www.intellicast.com/Travel/Driving/Traffic.aspx
3) Earthcam.com
The EarthCam Network offers live streaming cams of places like Boston, Niagra Falls, Miami and many places around the world. See things as they really are in live time. You can also watch a panda bear at the zoo. Great site to prowl around in.
4) Hodar.com
This website offers observatory weather, radar maps, investing news and history, city live cams and many other wonderful things. It is a professional site with information on terrorists threat levels, where earthquakes have occurred and more. A must visit.
5) USGS.gov
A government website that calls itself "your source for science you can use". And it is. Covering everything from geology to biology to geography, this site is interesting as well as informative.
6) Google Earth
At earth.google.com, you can fly anywhere on earth to view satellite imagery, maps and terrains. This well-known sight is one of the most awesome on the net.
7) NASA.gov
This NASA site offers images, videos and the science of space. It includes an interactive feature where you can be part of space exploration. Very user-friendly and informational.
8)Govdeals.com
GovDeals is the place where government agencies across America sell surplus and confiscated items on the internet. You can search for items near you by typing in your zip code. There really are some great deals to be had here from file cabinets to tractors to cars to jewelry. Check it out.
http://www.govdeals.com/eas/index.cfm
9) NationMaster.com
Nation Master is a huge central data source where you can graphically compare nations. Here you can generate maps, graphs and statistics with ease. It is a one-stop resource for statistics spanning a wide variety of subjects.
http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php
10) Newseum.org
The Newseum displays the front pages of major newspapers across the United States and across the globe. If you enjoy staying up on the news, this is the place to go. There are also trivia facts and fun and games.
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/default.asp
11) FARK.com
FARK is the destination for unusual news. It picks up stories of an unusual nature and reports it (with a bit of humorous commentary). Always good for a laugh or a grunt.
12) Playa Cofi Jukebox
Hundreds of songs celebrating our musical heritage. You can choose the genre your interested in from 1950 on. A great place to reminisce musically.
13) Optical Illusions
This website will wow you. They offer 83 optical illusions and visual phenomena. You don't have to be a scientist to enjoy this sight but it is a scientific site. Awesome stuff.
14)Oddcast
This is a fun site. You type in a phrase and the character will say it aloud with whatever accent you choose. I like swearing with a British accent.
http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal
15) OneMotion.com
Another fun place. You can play with a realistic looking spider, play the snake game or breakdance. The kids will love it too.
http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/
Bookmark your favorites and have fun.
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Some cool bookmarks... Like the oddcast.
Great One
Awesome list ,cant wait to check out a couple in particular, thankyou for sharing!
Great list of sites. Thank you for sharing.
really good information
Only great websites with high PR. Really nice hub.
Thanks for sharing
good hub, well done!
Really interesting sites. Thanks.
great hub!
Thank you all for the kind words. I really do visit all these sites from time to time and GasBuddy quite often these days.
thanks a lot for such good sites.
thanks a lot for such good sites.
Great list! And there are some which I have not heard of. Should have some fun going through the list. :)
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It's a site that plays 20 questions with you, only that it is a computer that is doing the guessing, and it learns from all the previous questions. Sometimes, the computer is so accurate that it's spooky. And, from the blog, it seems that there is going to be a new gameshow dedicated to it.
These sound amazing! I'll definitely have to check some of them out!
Some great links thanks and it is number one on the hot list woo hoo congratulations
Interesting choices. Thanks for sharing.
pretty cool site...I love sites that are useful and practical, which I can really use for every day stuff.
I can't believe my Hub is at 100. I'm very excited. Thank you all.
Thanks for sharing!
Interesting hub. Thank you
Great hub!!! I clicked on Govtdeals and could barely stop myself from searching and searching!!!! I need to bookmark your hub so I can search out all of them!!! Love when I learn about new resources....thanks for sharing all this great info!!! :-)
very informative....all these sites except nasa.gov is new to me
Congratulations on a hub with 100 rank! I'm starting through your list right now. That nationmaster site was a good turn-on for me since I travel a lot. It's always nice to see in advance how far your money will go in any given country. Thanks
news and weather siotes are inetresting and informative, nice work.
This is great stuff! Earthcam is one of my favorites!
very helpful hub. google earth is indeed very helpful.
amazing hub liked the camera site its cool!
Yes, Google Earth and Earth Cam are great. Thank you all for the support.
Thanks for the list, I personally prefer EarthCam most!
Great list, in realiity this can go on forever...Ever since I got stumble I've been coming across amazing sites every day.
some nice sites on your list can we have a few more non us sites for us colonials
Thank You. The Jukebox is just what I needed this afternoon.
What a great list. I'm bookmarking this page right now! Thanks!!!
I read this hub a few days ago, but was in a hurry and didn't have time to comment, so here I am now. lol Thumbs up! :)
This is really a great hub! Because of you I recently discovered the Google Earth and now the Google Maps website and I must say the "street view" is quite addictive! haha.I'm a long way from home and it's nice to see familiar places from home. :) Plus I told my mom I was stalking her and sent her a picture of her house. Talk about hilarious!
I'm also a fan of Hodar & NASA now. That kinda stuff is just interesting to me.
Oh look, I've written you a book down here. :) Thanks for sharing this hub.
Stephanie - I have done the same thing with Google Earth. Everyone gets a kick out of seeing where they live from that viewpoint. Thanks for stopping by.
Great hub
Pretty good hub. Very interesting . Thank you for the information . Take a look at the webpage www.spaceweather.com . Greetings from Hellas
great hub! Two thumbs up!
I think this is the best hub which I have read!!
Interesting but the sites you refer serve mainly the US citizens.
this is awsome.
OMG, this hubpages is a web surfers paradise.
Thank you all - I'll have to write a Hub with websites not so U.S. focused.
Wow, what an original and totally useful idea for a hub! GREAT info that I will save and explore. Thanks!!
Found this on SU. Great hub.
Hay great collection of sites there. I just checked out the earth cam and oddcast - They are both very good sites and im gonna go through your list to see the rest.
Thanks for the great share
I bookmarked this one...will use over and over. Thanks
Fun list - plus you can bookmark this hub and save 15 spaces on your (in my case already overused) bookmark list!
This is great, I always like to see different websites that stand out.
I must take a look at all these sites. Some of them sound really interesting
That's a great list. Thanks for sharing.
Great tips Suzie!
To Your Health, Wealth and Happiness!
Nice post
That's an awesome list! Thanks.. I could spend days browsing through these websites!Oddcast is particularly awesome!
There's another website that keeps me glued on
It's dedicated to the arts - cinema, musis, theater, photography and is an amazing hang out for culture freaks like me.
I highly recommend it.
good information
Thanks for the information. Lots of cool stuff to remember!
The NASA site is great, I love all that stuff.
Great websites!
Nice list! Thanks!
Intellicast is a great one. I bookmarked it and it has great radar images. Thanks!
Great Hub
excellent information. Thanks for sharing!
Excellent compilation!
Great list of sites. Thanks for the links!
~Jen
Great list, I love them all. Thanks for sharing! I never heard of govdeals.com...I'll have to check that out now.
Nice post. Thanx for your information
Thanks for the list! Some great sites listed here.
I loved this site and the links were very interesting!
mdawson17
Gasbuddy... really? What does it matter if you save $1-2 on a tank of gas. Why are people so worked up about this? Oh well. =)
great post I like bookmarking my fav websites
Lovely post here. it has enough for me to work around with. with great contents for my blog too. keep it up.
Really helpful information. Thanks alot.
Nice. I'll get to bookmarking right away!
nice websites!!
I knew about some of these but not all. Thanks for all the info.
Awesome..a good read for me.
Very cool. Thanks!!!
thanks ,These list are great webs.
see a link given belowhttp://hubpages.com/profile/payal76
Great links. I use the USGA website a lot for work and it is great.
You have done a remarkable work in putting this list together... great job!!!
Some great links. Thanks
Tim
Nice hub
Hey,
This is great help, especially since I just started here on hubpages.com and have 15 hubs. I am ALWAYS looking for other things to write about. Thanks for the advice!
As I like this hub I'm going to bookmark and join your hub :D
Great page :)
Great hub, informative, thanks
Great list. I love fark =)
You also can't go past digg, especially on a rainy day. =)
Great list, enjoy your writings! Blessings! :)
I knew- somehow this very timely must-know list will come out....ultra resourceful--suziecat7, what a great idea to hub......some of the websites in the list are must-haves and a few are important to people whose interests and way of life really dependent on them....
reminds me of books about 10 or 100 most important things to do, or place to go,...BEFORE YOU: expire, die, move, fall off the planet, travel,
I really enjoyed the web sites. Earthcam.com, NASA.gov are my favorites.
Thanks for sharing i like google earth that site is very cool. Thanks for the tips i'll be checking ou some of your listed websites Jason.
There is one more in the list
www.hubpages.com
Great list. Thanks for passing it on. Will make sure to check them out - especially fark!
Great list, enjoy your writings..... Keep the good work up....
Awesome list! It's always nice to learn of new, informative websites on a variety of topics.
Absolutely awesome hub!!! it is worth all 100 points :)
Great sites, I love Fark, they are very funny.
Thanks :)
Cheers :)
Very cool, I knew about a couple of these already but I will visit the ones I didn't know about for sure!
Very cool, I knew about a couple of these already but I will visit the ones I didn't know about for sure!
Great list, thank you for taking the time to post it.
really very amazing website, thanks and keep it up.
ethel smith says:
5 months ago
Shall bookmark your hub. There are lots I have not come across here that will stil be interesting to a Brit, namely me.