News, Journals, Magazines / Notizie, Giornali, Riviste

English links:

• AFP. News agency Associated France-Presse in 7 languages.
• Al Jazeera news (in english).
• BBC news (British Broadcasting Corporation).
• CNN news.
• Discovery Channel news.
• Hurricanes and Tropical Storms data and watchers. Links page by Russ Rowlett.
• Reuters. One of the principal english-language news agencies.
• All Africa. An African news agency.
• IMDb, The Internet Movie Database.
• National Geographic, the magazine.
• NATO news (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation).
• New York Times, the newspaper.
• Planet Earth today. Fresh images from EUMETSAT satellites (Eur-Asia, Africa, part of Asia).
• Planet Earth today. Fresh images from the GEOS satellite (Americas, Africa)).
• Russia Today. English language Russian news (possibly a bit too much government-dependent)
• St.Petersburg Time is quite objective.
• Star SOL today. Real-time images of the Sun from the SOHO satellite.
• TechDirt. Technology oriented news with a knack for legal aspects and bullshit-blasting.
• The Register. A kind of huge, gossipy UK news service.
• US Weather at National Weather Service.
• US Weather at Wunderground.
• World Weather on the BBC.

Link italiani:

• ANSA. Principale agenzia delle notizie italiana.
• Reuters. Una delle più grandi agenzie di notizie al mondo.
• Centro Meteo Lombardo. Il tempo in Lombardia/Italia/Europa. Mappe satellitari.
• Il Portale degli Universitari.
• Il Sole 24 Ore in rete.
• Le Scienze (rivista).
• Magazine World. Abbonamenti a riviste straniere sul Internet. 38 categorie!
• Newton (rivista).
• PC World.Rivista dedicata a tutto quanto gira attorno ai computer.
• Portale aste per chi cerca occasioni migliori.
• Portale Italiano dove c'è di tutto di più.
• Previsioni del Tempo a Milano ed in Italia.
• Scienza Esperienza (rivista).
• TG della Rai in rete.

Travel / Viaggiare

English links:

• Air Berlin, a low-cost European airline.
• Calendar ... perpetual and international.
• CSA, the Czech Airlines. Solid, reasonably priced flights.
• Easy Jet. A really low-cost European airline.
• Exchange rates online calculator.
• Hostels in Europe. Reasonably-priced lodging, travel, ...
• Iberia, the Spanish Airlines. Solid, reasonably priced flights.
• JetPark. 24 hour parking at Malpensa. Quite satisfactory.
• KLM, Dutch Airlines, convenient for intercontinental flights.
• Last minute. Try this one first.
• Low cost Airlines in USA. Complete listing.
• Lufthansa Airlines, the European behemoth.
• Ryan Air. A really low-cost European airline.
• Smart Wings. A Czech low-cost airline (Praha, Amsterdam, Milano, Roma, ...).
• Swiss trains. This one is the best to find any Eurasian train connections.
• Vueling. Spanish low-cost airlines.

Link italiani:

• Easy Jet. Una linea Europea davvero low-cost.
• Last minute. Prova prima qui!
• Ryan Air. Una linea Europea davvero low-cost.
• Smart Wings. Una linea Ceca low-cost airline (Praha, Amsterdam, Milano, Roma, ...).
• Treni Italiani. Da usare solo in Italia!
• Treni svizzeri. Da usare per orari ovunque in Europa.

Foods and drinks / Cibi, bevande, ricette

English links:

• Fishwife Seafood Restaurant next to Asilomar conference grounds. A matter of survival.
• Stock Food. Large collection of images of culinary dishes.

Link italiani:

• Mediterraneo a Castano Primo. Pizzeria/Ristorante. Ottimo.
• Mister Carota. Collezione di ricette.
• Ricette a base di pesce riportate su un sito di "barcaioli".
• Stock Food. Una vasta collezione di immagini di pietanze culinarie.

Institutions / Istituzioni

English links:

• Portale della UE. The principle branching hub for various member States.
• Federal Statistics from over 100 US agencies.
• Governments on the WWW. Governmental institutions of the whole world.
• Governments on the WWW: European Union. Links to all important EU institutions.
• The Library of Congress (USA).
• Portals to the World of The Library of Congress.
• Smithsonian Institute. Museums + much more.
• Surgeon General (USA).
• The World Bank. Its topics section contains a treasure trove of data.
  See, for example, Science, Technology and Innovation, Environment and Energy.
• US Government's official Web portal.

Link italiani:

• AIE. Associazione Italiana Editori.
• ISTAT. Istituto Italiano di Statistica.
• Ministero dell'Istruzione. Pagine ufficiali.
• Portale della UE. Multi-lingue.
• SBN. Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale.

Dictionaries and Encyclopeadiae/ Dizionari ed Enciclopedie

English links:

• Art History Club. Carries also Science entries.
• Czech dictionary to/from english, french, german, italian, spanish and russian.
• Dictionarist, a multi-lingual on-line, talking dictionary.
• Dictionary.com, dictionaries, thesauruses, flashcards, interactive translators, ...
• Encyclopeadia Britannica. Most ex-Empire subjects consider this one the BEST :-)
• How stuff works. Technical introductions.
• HyperDictionary.
• Medline Plus. NIH medical encyclopedia.
• Merriam - Webster Online. One of the best english dictionaries.
• One Look, a very good search engine.
• The Free Dictionary. Dictionary and Thesaurus. Very good.
• Urban Dictionary ... essential to avoid blunders.
• Webopedia Computer encyclopedia.
• Wikipedia. Serious on-line encyclopedia.
• Word Reference. English, Italian, Franch, Spanish. Free.

Link italiani:

• Dizionario Italiano-Inglese.
• Dizionario Italiano-Romeno.
• Dizionario Italiano-Tedesco.
• Storia italiana ma non solo. Eccelente.
• Word Reference. Versione italiana. Gratuito.

Directories / Elenchi

English links:

• Dial Codes Plus. International and national dial prefixes. Very good.
• International Dial Codes. Dial-to and dial-from, worldwide.
• Quick Seek yellow pages (USA).

Link italiani:

• Info imprese. Cerca Ditte c/o Camera di Commercio.
• Mister imprese. Cerca Ditte in Italia Paese per Paese. Utilissimo.
• Pagine Bianche. Cerca Ditte e numeri di telefono.
• Pagine Gialle. Cerca Ditte e numeri di telefono.
• Poste Italiane, specie per chi vi ha e-mail/conto.

Laws and Norms / Leggi e Norme

English links:

• Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.

Link italiani:

• Codici online dello Studio Cataldi. Più molto altro.
• Igiene e sicurezza sul lavoro (sulla base della legge 626).
• Legge 626/94 - il testo (sicurezza sul lavoro).

Various / Varie

English links:

• The governments of some IDIOTIC COUNTRIES limit access to specific web sites.
  Kproxy may help to crack the fences.
• EU Custom codes and tarifs. A must for importing from / exporting to non-European Countries.
• Calendar ... perpetual and international.
• Chess fonts. All about chess. Free chess graphics, fonts, etc. Danish-English.
• Easy unit converter. Online converion for basic quantities. Very useful for everybody.
• Federal Statistics from over 100 US agencies.
• Info Please. A rich on-line Almanac.
• Kompass. Looking for a product? Find a distributor anywhere in the world!
• Milano, Italy. All there is to know.
• Skype. Phone anywhere in the world for free.It works !!!
• Puzzles collected by Calvin J.Hamilton.
• The Meter. Units of Measurement and much more.

Link italiani:

• Comune di Castano Primo.
• Comune di Milano.
• Milano. Tutto quello che c'è da sapere.
• The Meter. Unità di misura e molto altro.

Links for frequent personal chores

• Amazon associates. I like selling books and stuff.
• CELS di Castano Primo, the accountants :-(
• DOI registrations (mEDRA in Europe and Italy).
• eByte sitemap generator. PWD protected.
• Google webmasters page. They check for any malware on this site, etc...
• INPS. The National Retirement agency that keeps me lean and active.
• Linked In. NMR forums, APS forum, ...
• OEIS, the Online Ecyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
• PROLA, the APS online archive.
• Register, my IP provider.
• Poste Italiane.
• BdL