Reference Sites

• Metric Conversion Calculator Courtesy of Wilha Tools, this is a quick no-nonsense put-in-the-number see-the-result calculator.

• United States Patent Database Fast-search by company or patent number. GREAT help section for searchers.

• Online Encyclopedia at Bartleby.com contains a wonderful one-stop online reference encyclopedia, fully indexed and easily searchable.

• Digital Realtime Library A home page of sources.

• Digital Clock/Calendars More about time than you need to know.

• Society of Women Engineers SWE is a non-profit educational service.

Traveling?

• Weather.com Just fill in the city or ZIP code and you’ll get a recent weather update, radar map, and coming week’s weather.

• One-Stop Travel Center Here you can access all the most popular booking sites for travel.

Shopping Sources

• McMaster-Carr These people sell everything.

• Grainger.com This company sells almost everything.

• Harbor Freight This site offers a wide range of tools at great prices.

Industry News

•  Biotech News This site has a good wire feed.

•  Yahoo!'s Biotech Finance News Good collection of stories, updated hourly.