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Are you looking for Information? -Use these sites.
Swedish / English Dictionary	The Swedish School Computer Network's translator.
Internet Movie DataBase	Everything you want to know about any movie.
IAfd	Internet Adult film database. Everything about the actors and their movies.
Adult Video News	AVN got information about About adult video films. (Don't click unless you are 18 years old).
Rättsnätet	Laws in Sweden, and in the European Union.
Svenska Akademiens ordbok	The Swedish Academy Wordbook.
Kungliga Biblioteket	The Royal Library in Sweden.
Nummerupplysningen	Find phone-numbers anywhere in the world!
Postnummer	All the Swedish Postnumbers (zip codes).
CIA factbook	Information about almost all countries in the world. Very good!
NT registry hack	Tips, Tricks, Registry hacks, and more for Windows NT 4.
DoItYourself	How to do things for your house, etc. All by your self!
Hometime	Lots of howto's for your home. With photo illustrations.
How Stuff Works	Explains how gadgets, nature, and your body works. Great!
Edison	Here you find answers to all those questions your kids asks you!
About.com	The best experts guides on the net! About everything!
About viruses	The Antivirus section at About.com.
Project Gutenberg	Classic books in digital form, for free!
Project Runeberg	Nordic literature in digital form, for free!
eBoken.nu	NEW BOOKS for free! Each book availible in four different file formats.
Press.nu	När sanningen ska fram - When the truth shall come out. They got links to where to find information about people. It's a good place to start, if you want to find an old friend, etc.
LKBP	Linux Knowledge Base Project. Here you can find info about how to solve problems with Linux.
Dictionary.com	Dictionary and Thesaurus and Translator!
APBnews	The source for news, information and data on crime, justice and saftey, in USA.
WeboPedia	A computer-words encyclopedia. Very good!
BabelFish	An exelent translator! English to french, german, italian, portuguise, and spanish. And reverse!
CD-Covers Central	This place got cover pictures for Music, PC-games and Playstation CD's.
APD	The Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology. Harcourt and Academic Press are proud to bring the largest scientific dictionary ever compiled in the English language to the Web. Search from over 130 000 terms defined in 130 fields of science.
What is	Explains computer related words.
FASS	A Database of all medicines sold in Sweden.
SeLinux	A swedish site that helps you with Linux.
Heralds	Yellow pages at Heralds. Maps and directions (USA). Good!
Symbols.com	The world's largest online encyclopedia of graphic symbols!
Cyndi's List	More than 70,450 Geneology (släktforskning) links world wide! 58 100 links, categorized & cross-referenced, in over 120 categories. Another 12 300+ uncategorized new links in the works.
MapBlast	Zoooom in your street on this world map!
Gävlekartan	A vector-map over Gävle county. Good!
eHow	Step-by-step instructions on how to do just about anything, and buy everything you'll need to do it. GREAT!
Everything²	Everything links to everything. And YOU can contribute to this awesome lexicon!
Virus Information	Computer Associates, Virus Information Center.
Cryptome.org	"The renegade library". Read about MI6, MI5, Echelon, Carnivore, CIA, FBI, and other "Big-brother" stuff.. Plus securety and technology!
HackerWhacker	See your computer the way hackers do. Helps you to guard your computer.
Överlevnad	Survival handbook (Överlevnadshandboken) on then net! How to survive in nature and in disasters.
Adherents	Adherents.com is a growing collection of over 50 000 adherent statistics and religious geography citations -- references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4 200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc. Adherents.com is an Internet initiative and is not affiliated with any religious, political, educational, or commercial organization.
Delphion	Intellectual Property Network, to search and research in patents.
Sverige i Filmerna	What are the actors trying to say in swedish, in all those non-swedish movies? And what have been said inside the movies about swedish stuff?
Juridiskt forum	The swedish laws, authoritys, news, and lawyers. They also got a forum, and free help!
Your Dictionary	Dictionarys in 240 languages! Fantastic!
Atlapedia	Atlapedia Online contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
Online Map Creation	Create your own map here! Output available as postscript and illustrator too.
Acronyms Info	Acronyms used on the internet. Things like ROTFL, IRL, RTFM. etc.

Internet related tools
Ripe	Who's the owner of an IP-number? Find out here!
FiFi Web Ping	For all you guys that can't use your own PING because firewall rules or other reasons. Here's Web Ping! (You use ping to see if a computer on the net is online.)
Traceroute	And here's a TRACEROUTE to run in your web browser. Just select the location closest to your own connection, and trace from there. (You use traceroute, or tracert as it is called in windows, to see wich way the network packets travel thru the net.)

Do you know about a real good site, who is not mentioned here?
Send me an e-mail at m.lindberg@home.se