The Room With Only Windows

Weather Sources

• NOAA Home Page
• National Weather Service Home Page
• Heat Index & Wind Chill Charts
• Wisconsin Weather
• Janesville Current Conditions
• NWS Forecast for Janesville
• The Weather Channel
• Weather For You
• Weather Underground
• USWX

World, National & Local News

• World News Network
• Google News
• Associated Press
• Reuters
• ABC News
• CBS News
• National Public Radio
• MSNBC News
• CNN News
• Fox News
• Voice of America News
• Deutsche Welle (Germany)
• BBC (Great Britain)
• Radio Netherlands
• Washington Post
• Los Angeles Times
• Financial Times
• Chicago Tribune
• Madison.com — includes the Wisconsin State Journal
• The Janesville Gazette
• Beloit Daily News
• Green Bay Press-Gazette

Information & Reference

• The White House Website
• Department of Homeland Security
• Information Please — online reference including dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas and almanac
• Fact Monster — kids’ reference, games, quizzes and homework help (from Information Please)
• Refdesk — reference, facts, news, free and family friendly
• How Stuff Works
• OneLook® Dictionaries
• MSN Encarta: Online Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Atlas, and Homework
• Daylight-Saving Time: What’s the Point?
• WebExhibits — very interesting and highly informative
• MapQuest — get a map or driving directions for any U.S. or Canadian destination
• National Geographic
• Old Farmer’s Almanac — Weather, astronomy, cooking, gardening and more.

Online Translators

We do not own any of these sites, and neither we nor they can guarantee the quality of the translations.

• Reverso (Highly recommended; English, French, Spanish and German only)
• WorldLingo (Recommended; 13 languages)
• PROMT’s Online Translator (excellent)
• SYSTRAN — Information and Translation Technologies
• Yahoo! Babel Fish Translation Service — Probably the fastest responding translator available.
• Google Language Tools — includes an online translator.
• FreeTranslation.com

Miracle, the White Buffalo (1994–2004)

Spiritual views on these sites may be different from ours, but the sites are interesting.

• Official Site of Miracle, the White Buffalo
• White Buffalo Paintings
• Legend of the White Buffalo

Janesville, Wisconsin Websites

• City of Janesville Home Page
• Forward Janesville
• Janesville Convention and Visitors Bureau
• Rotary Botanical Gardens
• WCLO Radio
• Arrowhead Library System
• Janesville Mall
• Skelly’s Farm Market
• Meyer’s Farm Market

Internet History

• Hobbes’ Internet Timeline
• Internet Archive: Wayback Machine

Internet Security

• ZoneAlarm — the award-winning personal firewall.
• HouseCall — free online virus scan.
• The top 9 e-mail hoaxes — great article at MSN Money

Unsolicited Commercial Email (Spam)

SPAM is an excellent canned meat product from Hormel Foods, but its name has (unfortunately) come to be equated with junk email.

• Verizon Online — Information and Resources to Take Control of Spam
• Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE)
• Do-it-yourself: Stop junk mail, email and phone calls
• SpamCop — excellent online spam reporting service.
• Junkbusters
• Fight Spam on the Internet!
• Federal Trade Commission
• Better Business Bureau

Nutrition & Fitness

• Fast Food Facts — Calories, fat and other nutritional information.
• Food & Nutrition facts at the McDonald’s website
• Shape Up America!
• Top 10 Foods With Trans Fat (from WebMD)
• University of Maryland Medical Center: Health Calculators (new link added November 14, 2007)

Other Interesting Sites

Return to childhood with Kim & Jason,
a comic strip by Jason Kotecki.

• Mr. Mom’s Web Site (inspirational)
• Chuck Norris Official Website
• Downloads of all types for your PC.
• Webshots — The world’s largest photo sharing site.
• Bored.com — Fun stuff to do when you are bored
• A Superfluous Disclaimer
• Jabberwocky.com — Cool site! The name is based on the poem from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.