"BananaSlug was designed to promote serendipitous surfing: finding the unexpected in the 8,058,044,651 web pages indexed by Google. Directed Google searches return pages most relevant to your search term, based on the pages' popularity on the Web. You may never see some of the pages way down the list that are relevant or interesting, but off the beaten path."

http://www.bananaslug.com/

On-going diary of our web design work and "best practices."

http://www.quadrastreet.com/blogger.html

Great clips and stories from year's past... WWII, Vietnam, etc. I particularly enjoy the "On This Day" clips. I listened to a Churchill broadcast and watched Sammy Davis Jr. talk to draft dodgers.

http://archives.cbc.ca/

A private hosting service that we make available to select clients. An ideal hosting environment for a Quadra Street Designs CMS site.

http://www.cookiedog.com/

Over 7,000 free fonts.

http://www.dafont.com/

A great, quick on-line tool for creating favicons. Two warnings, though. First, if you put in their suggested <link> tag into a Xaraya site, make sure you explicitly close off the tag. Secondly, the favicon only works on the home page in the current version of IE -- not secondary pages.

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/

Best FTP progam I've found so far. Transfers multiple files at once, shows you transfer progress, able to handle huge numbers of files.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21558

Probably the best map tool out there: makes use of Google synonyms, includes satellite image option, ability to navigate by "dragging" the map.

http://maps.google.com/

Search the scanned text of zillions of books.

http://print.google.com/

As a public service, I'm including this link so that more people will be able to easily educate themselves about Green Zap and it's potential to rip you off to the tune of $100.

http://www.greenzapscam.com/

A fantastic source for free web graphics and tools... actually free! Hard to believe, I know :)

http://www.grsites.com/

http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/article.php/2167961

"Your Internet surfing safari may be smooth today, but perhaps you can't reach Yahoo or a few web sites in Europe. This web site will tell you if those regions of the Internet are currently slowed down. By checking the Internet Traffic Report, you can determine if your problems are global or local."

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/

A repository for all manner of javascript. Simple things like changing css on the fly, and more complicated menus, etc.

http://javascript.internet.com/

"This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations. This online version contains the unedited contents of the original encyclopedia. Since the original work was completed almost 100 years ago, it does not cover a significant portion of modern Jewish History (e.g., the creation of Israel, the Holocaust, etc.). However, it does contain an incredible amount of information that is remarkably relevant today."

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/

Real men... real pictures. I dread finding my own picture on this site some day!

http://www.ianhaig.net/men/

http://www.mosabuam.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&catid=&topic=9

A people/place/thing database similar to the IMDB -- "who's who" that allows you to research the connections between the who's who. What?

http://www.nndb.com/

"Simply put, it's Google for audio."

http://www.podscope.com/

A great selection of printable signs and cards. Quick and easy to use. Calendars, office signs, etc.

http://printfree.com/