My favourite websites

1. about the Web itself, definitions, resources
   
   

   WWW consortium: the people taking care of the Web

   http://w3.org/

   HTML validation

   http://validator.w3.org/

   CSS validation

   http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

   
   
2. general information and references
   
   

   Google: need I mention it? but you should get the Toolbar if you haven’t already

   http://toolbar.google.com/

   Wikipedia: towards a complete and accurate free content encyclopedia

   http://en.wikipedia.org/

   Global Gazetteer: directory of world cities

   http://www.fallingrain.com/world/

   Time and Date: all the conversions and calculations

   http://www.timeanddate.com/

   Whatis: specialised in IT references

   http://whatis.techtarget.com/

   
   
3. philosophy
   
   

   Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

   http://plato.stanford.edu/

   Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

   http://www.iep.utm.edu/

   Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind

   http://philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict/index.html

   Spinoza: use my own site as a starting point

   http://users.telenet.be/rwmeijer/spinoza/

   Ayn Rand: even if you don’t agree with her philosophy, you may enjoy her novels, as I do

   http://www.aynrand.org/

   
   
4. linguistics, natural languages
   
   

   I Love Languages, formerly The Human Languages Page

   http://www.ilovelanguages.com/

   SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics)

   http://www.sil.org/

   The Ethnologue database of languages, by SIL

   http://www.ethnologue.com/

   Lexicon of linguistics

   http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/

   Glossary of linguistic terms

   http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/

   
   
5. artificial languages
   
   

   Constructed languages: the most comprehensive overview, albeit no longer updated

   http://www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/conlang.html

   Ardalambion: all about Tolkien’s languages

   http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/

   Loglan: a language whose development I have been briefly associated with

   http://www.loglan.org/
   see also http://www.lojban.org/ for a variant

   
   
6. Hungarian language and culture
   
   

   Hungarian Online Resources

   http://hungaria.org/

   Hollosi Information eXchange: a real treasure trove

   http://www.hix.com/

   Hungarian Electronic Library

   http://mek.oszk.hu/

   The Hungarian Quarterly: Central Europe's best English-language journal

   http://www.net.hu/hungq/

   Debrecen Summer School

   http://www.nyariegyetem.hu/

   
   
7. science fiction
   
   

   SF Site

   http://sfsite.com/

   SF-Lovers Mailing Lists

   http://lists.sflovers.org

   Isaac Asimov: my first favourite

   http://www.asimovonline.com/

   Encyclopedia Galactica: among many sites of that name, this is the one that relates to Asimov’s works

   http://galactica.electricbiscuit.com/

   Julian May: definitely in the major league

   http://www.gspmbank.com/may/

   
   
8. miscellaneous
   
   

   A nostalgic site about the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires

   http://www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/

   The Red Book of the Peoples of the Rusian Empire

   http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/

   A very interesting personal site

   http://www.cedarseed.com/

   The KryssTal Web Site

   http://www.krysstal.com/