SITESEEING: A Serendipitous Look at the Web
SERENDIPITY IS:"MAKING FORTUNATE DISCOVERIES BY ACCIDENT".
www.thefreedictionary.com/serendipitous
Here, we present an eclectic collection of
websites that our Reference staff have been
fortunate enough to fall upon:
THE BABY NAME WIZARD's NAMEVOYAGER http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager
Explore baby name trends of the last 125 years. It has
an interactive chart which provides a graphic
representation of these trends.
NATIONAL GRAPE REGISTRY
http://www.ngr.ucdavis.edu/
"The National Grape Registry (NGR) contains
information about varieties of wine, juice, and table
grapes, raisins, and grape rootstocks available in
the United States. Growers, nurseries, winemakers
and researchers can find background information
and source contacts for those grape varieties in
this single convenient location."
MUPPET WIKIhttp://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Muppet_Wiki
A collaborative website with everything you could
possibly need to know, on a recreational level,
about the Muppets. Try the "random page" function!
FISHBASE: "A GLOBAL INFORMATION SYSTEM ON FISHES"http://www.fishbase.org/home.htm
http://www.fishbase.org/search.php
FishBase on the web is an online database that contains
practically all fish species known to science. "30,600
Species, 266,300 Common names, 46,300 Pictures,
41,900 References, 1,570 Collaborators, 23 million
hits/month"
PERFUME INTELLIGENCEhttp://www.perfumeintelligence.co.uk/
A comprehensive encyclopedia of perfume "covering the
world of perfume, perfume bottles and perfume ephemera."
Click "enter the library" to conduct a search.