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There are tons of reference sites on the web that can help you land a job or write that poem, essay or story. Here is a list of the best 50 websites for writers.

Reference Websites

• Merriam-Webster Online - Merriam Webster is the perfect place to look up words and find information. The site offers a dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, podcasts, word games and a lot of other things that would be of interest to writers and word-lovers.
• Bartleby - This site is great if you need a quote or if you want free access to dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and other reference books.
• High Beam Encyclopedia - This online encyclopedia is a reliable tool that allows you to search for answers in published reference sources like Britannica, Oxford University Press and Columbia Encyclopedia. Other site features include access to a library of more than 60 million articles and an online dictionary.
• Google Books - This segment of Google is a handy place to find phrases, photos and book passages on nearly every topic imaginable.
• Wikipedia - Although Wikipedia isn’t the most accurate resource out there–anyone on the Internet can edit entries–it is a great starting point and a fine place to ferret out accurate reference materials.
• ChaCha - Have a question that you need answered now? This human powered search engine has 15,000 guides that help people nationwide.
• Library of Congress - This U.S. government site offers access to an online library of books, manuscripts, letters, photos and other printed materials.
• Project Gutenberg - This collaborative effort has produced a huge library of free books. There are currently more than 100,000 titles to choose from.
• The Internet Public Library - IPL is a university founded public library with online reference books, newspapers, magazines and periodicals. Resources are reliable and easy to find using IPL’s searchable database.
• Infoplease - This organization has been providing answers to questions since 1938. Their online presence is a great place to find encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases and other reference material

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The problem with most computers (unless you have a notebook computer with a wireless Internet connection) is that they are usually hooked up somewhere besides the bathroom. And even those that can be carried along to the room with the porcelain throne, they aren’t easy to handle once you are sitting on the toilet. So what is a computer addicted person supposed to do when they are surfing the web and the call of nature sounds? Lucky for all of us computer junkies, the designers at ThinkGeek.com have come up with a solution to this problem – the Internet Urinal!

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