Information and Databases

• A database of Actual Small Countries, many of which are not even listed in the CIA World Factbook!
• The Better Business Bureau offers a searchable company database
• Canadian Patents at the Canadian Patent Office
• Etymology Dictionary Online
• Jam! Canadian TV Listings: Beats buying TV Guide every week.
• The CIA World Factbook
• Delphion (formerly The IBM Intellectual Property Network) is a searchable collection of US and European patents.
• FCC ID Search
• FindLaw
• Foreign Exchange Rates
• GlobalSpec searchable database of technical products
• Human Rights Reports by the United States Department of State
• Hurricane Crisis Imagery
• NationMaster is the place to find per-country statistics
• NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (under development)
• On This Day...
• OpenLibrary.org
• The Patent Database of the Canadian Patent Office
• Searchable patent databases courtesy of the WIPO
• Searchable US patent database courtesy of the USPTO and a service that converts patent images to PDF
• Don Markstein's Toonopedia is a repository of everything you need to know about cartoons
• United Nations Security Council Resolutions
• Wikipedia is a community-maintained multilingual encyclopedia
• WordNet is an online lexical reference system
• Yahoo! Finance is one of the few places where one can find historical data in Excel format