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Bypass Google - Reference tools you need, no search required
Bartleby - find fabulous quotes fast. Also contains poetry for easy reference.
Scholarpedia - articles written by experts and peer reviewed.
Citzendium - Still in beta, a wiki whose authors use their real names.
Wikiseek - a fast way to search Wikipedia.
Encyclopedia Brittanica - an oldie but still goodie. Authoritative texts you can rely on.
Fed Stats - full range of official statistical information produced by the Federal Government without having to know in advance which Federal agency produces which particular statistic.
Geo Hive - a statistic website filled mostly with population statistics of regions, countries, provinces and cities.
Book Rags - a compendium of literature summaries, ebooks, biographies, literary criticism, and essays, sourced from 20 education databases.
Math World - all things mathematics - billed as the web's most extensive math resource.
These should get you started on your journey to getting what you want fast, without wasting all your time in search mode. If you have other favorite resources, please share them with us in the comments section.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
