Many in-house style guides are being created to include a glossary of spelling, punctuation, and capitalization of cyberspace words, phrases and acronyms, as well as how to cite online sources.

DID YOU KNOW that the word "earth" is generally lowercase. It's capitalized when used as the proper name of the planet, e.g., "The astronauts returned to Earth." - "The pattern applied to Mars, Jupiter, Earth, the sun and the moon." Lowercase when used in the following manners, "She is down to earth." - "He moved heaven and earth in his search." AP Stylebook

AMERICA'S LIBRARY   from the Library of Congress. Includes Amazing Americans, Jump Back in Time, Explore the States, Join America at Play, and See, Hear and Sing. Excellent reference site.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi

THE COOK'S THESAURUS
http://www.foodsubs.com

CORRESPONDENT.COM  For freelance journalists. A service of EPNworld, it's a network of top independent journalists. EPNworld connects members of correspondent.com to commissioning news editors globally.
http://www.correspondent.com/

DAILY GRAMMAR  Daily e-mail lessons from an experienced, effective English teacher.
http://www.dailygrammar.com

iFIGURE  Links to online calculators and worksheets. These are interactive, educational tools that provide information to help in planning, solving and making decisions for problems and tasks that come up daily, such as buying a home, checking on your health, investing money, figuring business profits, making statistical comparisons, or calculating pump pressure.
http://www.ifigure.com/

THE LINGUIST LIST: Eastern Michigan & Wayne State Universities  Homepages of conferences & institutes, Current conferences, Online conferences, Conference calls, Linguistic associations, Funding sources, Jobs, Linguistics programs, Personal pages, E-mail addresses, List of mailing lists, Lists archived and searchable on LINGUIST sites. Papers, Dissertation abstracts, Projects, Bibliographies, Topic-oriented sites, LINGUIST Topic pages, and Texts.
http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/

JEWISH CHILDREN'S LEARNING NETWORK
http://www.akhlah.com/

MUNISOURCE  Largest collection of municipal government related information on the WWW, with direct links to over 5,600 Official Municipal Sites in 45 countries, and the numbers grow daily!
http://www.munisource.org/

PROFESSOR CHARLES DARLING'S GRAMMAR SITE
http://webster.commnet.edu/hp/pages/darling/grammar/notorious.htm

QUIA  A collection of thousands of activities categorized into 40 subject areas, all created by teachers using Quia's tools and templates. Activities in 15 languages, from Spanish, French, and German to Chinese, Turkish, and Esperanto; math games in topics ranging from addition of one-digit numbers to algebra and trigonometry; science games covering biology, physics, chemistry, genetics, astronomy, medicine, and technology; activities for all age levels, from alphabet and counting games to university-level economics, history, and science; games and quizzes for studying vocabulary words from popular textbooks. Spanish covers 20 textbooks; French, 19; and German, 7.
http://www.quia.com/custom/8list.html

SALARY.COM   Wide range of information about salaries and benefits. Meet Salary Wizard, which lets people discover how their salaries match the averages in various areas of the U.S. Salary Advice helps people understand and negotiate in a wide range of employment-related areas. Well worth bookmarking.
http://www.salary.com/index.asp

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