First, if you want to be able to look at the night sky without having to worry about clouds, or how cold it is... there's a site that downloads a virtual planetarium to your computer. It's one of the best things I've ever downloaded and was recommended by my astronomy professor originally. It gives you the names of stars, you can add constellation lines and names, and has constellations of other cultures, not just the standard ones that people in the Americas grow up knowing. It's at http://stellarium.org/ and it should have info on how much space and video memory that you need there.
If you haven't heard of it, tvtropes.org is a time-sucking wonder of nearly all media related information, and how they follow specific formats and guidelines. It has multiples of links in every article to related information and also has individual pages on popular and not so popular media, with links to the tropes that each portrays.
If you want to learn a language, there are word-a-day sites that I've found to be helpful (only four so far, but...). Chinese: http://www.learnchineseeveryday.com/ Japanese: http://www.japanesewordoftheday.com/ Spanish: http://spanish-word-a-day.com/ Russian: http://everydayrussian.org/ (but remember to click on the beginner Russian link if you don't know the Cyrillic alphabet)
Also, if you have a general idea of what you want to see or read about, Wikipedia and Google are good starting points since the first will provide sources (usually) and the second gives you many options, that will lead you to books to buy/rent/look up.
That's all I have right now, and I'll add links later if I can remember more. Also, if you're in the US (my memory is shoddy, but you might actually be in Canada, so ignore this if this is the case), NOAA has pretty accurate information on weather, both current and historic, but the historic bits take a bit of digging. The weather portion is at http://www.noaa.gov/wx.html akiarashi0822, who has forgotten her password, again, and usually lurks quietly and anonymously (partly due to said forgetfulness).
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Date: 2011-01-18 06:22 am (UTC)It's at http://stellarium.org/ and it should have info on how much space and video memory that you need there.
If you haven't heard of it, tvtropes.org is a time-sucking wonder of nearly all media related information, and how they follow specific formats and guidelines. It has multiples of links in every article to related information and also has individual pages on popular and not so popular media, with links to the tropes that each portrays.
If you want to learn a language, there are word-a-day sites that I've found to be helpful (only four so far, but...). Chinese: http://www.learnchineseeveryday.com/
Japanese: http://www.japanesewordoftheday.com/
Spanish: http://spanish-word-a-day.com/
Russian: http://everydayrussian.org/ (but remember to click on the beginner Russian link if you don't know the Cyrillic alphabet)
Also, if you have a general idea of what you want to see or read about, Wikipedia and Google are good starting points since the first will provide sources (usually) and the second gives you many options, that will lead you to books to buy/rent/look up.
That's all I have right now, and I'll add links later if I can remember more. Also, if you're in the US (my memory is shoddy, but you might actually be in Canada, so ignore this if this is the case), NOAA has pretty accurate information on weather, both current and historic, but the historic bits take a bit of digging. The weather portion is at http://www.noaa.gov/wx.html
akiarashi0822, who has forgotten her password, again, and usually lurks quietly and anonymously (partly due to said forgetfulness).