How Stuff Works is a really great site, and delivers exactly what its name implies, in terms the intelligent (or often not so intelligent) layperson can understand. From digital TV to tattoos to dieting to nicotine, and everything inbetween and in all directions along a multidimensional reality. Highly recommended.

A phenomenal number of resources for all aspects of website creation, maintainance, etc. can be found at
http://www.genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/resource_guide.html

HOTWIRED offers a huge amount of friendly advice on WebSite creation and maintainance, for anyone from novice to expert. Some of the major areas include

Webmonkey: in general, higher powered, more advanced topics here.

Webmonkey Guides

More oriented toward the beginning to intermediate user, from how to use a browser to the basics of HTML and JAVAScript. Good tutorials, a glossary of terms and lots of other useful stuff for budding webspinners.

 

Technical Stuff about Electrical and Computer Engineering

Soldering

Kester is one of the primary manufacturer's of solder and related products. They offer eutectic solder (63/37 alloy) in addition to the more common 60/40 alloy. Their site has information on the wide variety of fluxes available, special preformed solder, printed circuit fabrication products, etc.

Multicore is another. Their site offers similar information. Their unique trick is putting 5 resin cores inside their solder instead of just a simple tube with a single core (thus the name Multicore) as indicated by their logo.

 

Touted as the world's largest online encyclopedia of graphic symbols (over 2500), www.symbols.com is worth poking around in for a while. From symbols used in prehistoric times to hobo signs to scientific symbols, all sorts of fascinating information about the history of representing concepts concisely by using graphic symbols. I find the word index more interesting (this allows you to find a symbol for a specific concept), but there is also a search engine to find the meaning of a specific symbol if you know what it looks like. The symbol shown has been used by various cultures, among them, the Hopi used it to represent universal brotherhood.

The Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Day is a great way to increase your knowledge of the English language. As I write this, today's word is "paradise", first known usage c. 1100 AD. This stuff goes on for four full screens With my monitor, probably equivalent to about 3 typed pages. For more information on the Oxford English Dictionaries, both print and electronic, see the entry under "Dictionaries" in Wild Bill's Literature List (enter from my homepage).