Cooking and Food
- Chefs Collaborative - “Partners in Local, Artisan, and Sustainable Cuisine.”
- Cook's Thesaurus - A “ cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools. Entries include pictures, descriptions, synonyms, pronunciations, and suggested substitutions.”
- Epicurious - Includes more than 6,500 recipes from Bon Appetit, Gourmet and other magazines.
- The Post Punk Kitchen
Disabilities
- ADA Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities (ADAAG).
- ADA Home Page, U.S. Dept. of Justice - - Information on many ADA-related topics, in many formats, including streaming video.
- Alliance for Technology Access
- Building the Legacy -- Information on the Individuals with Disabilites Education Act (IDEA) of 2004, from the U.S. Dept. of Education
- Disability and Business Technical Information Center (DBTAC) Northwest
- Disability.gov - Information on laws, jobs, bunsiness, housing, education, assistive technology, etc.
- Disability Law - From Cornell's Legal Information Institute
- Equal Access to Software and Information - Provider of Online Training on Accessible Information Technology for Persons with Disabilities
- Health & Disability Advocates - A "national organization, based in Chicago, Illinois, that uses multiple strategies to promote income security and improve healthcare access and services for children, people with disabilities and low-income, older adults."
- MAGpie - An authoring tool for making their materials accessible to persons with disabilities.
- Microsoft Accessibility Resource Centers
- NIMAS - "[G]uides the production and electronic distribution of digital versions of textbooks and other instructional materials so they can be more easily converted into accessible formats."
- Office of Disability Employment Policy - Part of the U.S. Dept. of Labor
- Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSER) - Part of U. S. Dept. of Education
- Paying for the Assistive Technology You Need: A Consumer Guide to Funding Sources in Washington State
- Read Please - Text-to-speech software.
- Washington Assistive Technology Act Program
- WebAnywhere - A web-based screen reader for the internet. "WebAnywhere will run on any machine, even heavily locked-down public terminals, regardless of what operating system it is running and regardless of what browsers are installed."
Health and Medicine
- BioMed Central - Links to hundreds of journals in biology, medicine, etc. Some full text, some abstracts.
- CAPHIS - Links to consumer and patient sites recommended by medical librarians.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- E-Mail Lists and Newsgroups - Nursing-related news.
- FreeMedicalJournals.com
- Health Data Tools and Statistics - From various “U.S. government agencies, public health organizations and health sciences libraries.”
- Health Topics - Information from the World Health Organization on various health and development topics.
- Home Care Association of Washington
- Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts, Audio and Multimedia.
- KidsHealth.org
- MDVU: Movement Disorder Virtual University.
- Medical Encyclopedia Index
- Medical Library Association “'Top Ten' Most Useful Websites.”
- MEDLINE plus - A service of the National Library of Medicine which provides information on health topics, drug information, a medical dictionary, current health news, and directories of doctors, dentists and hospitals.
- MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
- Merck Manuals
- National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region - Continuing education; directory of health sciences libraries.
- Net Wellness - Consumer health information -- including an encyclopedia, “Ask an Expert” and more -- from several universities.
- NIH News in Health - Practical, consumer-orientated information, based on federally sponsored research.
- NursingCenter
- Pan American Health Organization - Statistical reports, journal articles, and more on health in the Americas.
- SearchMedica.
- Transcultural and Multicultural Health Links - From the New Mexico State University Library.
- USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory - Detailed information on foods and nutrients; searchable database.
- UpToDate for Patients.
- We Move: Worldwide Education and Awareness for Movement Disorders.
- WebPath: The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education, by Edward Klatt.
Parenting
Puzzles
- Brain Food - Logic puzzles, word puzzles, and more.
- Internet Coach Puzzle Center - Make your own puzzles.
- Puzzle maker - Discovery Channel Schools web site for creating puzzles that can be printed out using your own word lists. Puzzle types include: "Word Search", "Criss -Cross", "Cryptograms", "Word Search with a Hidden Message", "Number Blocks", "Double Puzzle" and "Letter Tiles".
Transportation
Veterans
Weather
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