Nigel Allen's Neat Stuff Page!

You can send mail to ndallen@interlog.com

I usually wear glasses.

Last revised July 22, 2007.

This page is really an annotated hotlist of recommended sites and information that I have compiled.

Useful forms and files to get yourself or your organization listed in various directories

• Questionnaire for Encyclopedia of Associations for national associations, foundations, charities ad other non-profit groups in the United States.
• Questionnaire for Regional, State and Local Organizations directory for U.S. non-profit groups operating on a scale smaller than nation-wide.
• Questionnaire for Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory.
• Questionnaire for Telecommunications Directory, a directory of telecommunications systems and services published by Thomson Gale, formerly the Gale Group.
• Questionnaire for International Organizations directory for national associations of Canada and other countries other than the United States, and for trans-national associations.
• List of directories that Canadian non-profit associations can be listed in.

Telecommunications industry information sources

Neat stuff about telecommunications can be found on Nigel Allen's Telecommunications Page.

• Canadian University Press
• Associated Collegiate Press, an association of U.S. student newspapers and journalism instructors.

Movies

• Universal Studios
• Walt Disney Studios
• National Film Board of Canada

Places to Surf

• University of Toronto, with links to departmental WWW servers at the university.
• Dun & Bradstreet, the credit reporting agency for businesses - order a credit report on a U.S. or Canadian business or list your company with Dun & Bradstreet. Canadian companies can visit Dun & Bradstreet Canada instead.
• Citizens for Safe Cycling, Ottawa. Four wheels bad, two wheels good
• Canadian Association of Journalists, a national non-profit advocacy and professional development organization serving Canadian journalists from all media, including print, radio and television.
• American Numismatic Association, for collectors of coins and other forms of money
• Cyberspace World Railroad transit and rail information
• Newslink, pointers to online newspapers.
• Canada Post Corporation
• Look up a Canadian postal code, courtesy of Westminster
• Canada Post's own postal code lookup
• Lymphovenous and Lymphedema Canada web site.
• U.S. Postal Service
• Look up U.S. zip codes online
• Canadian National Railways
• GO Transit
• Albania: country code 355
• Babylon.com's English-Albanian online glossaries. Also worth visiting: Babylon.com
• Gifted Youngsters Show Keen Instinct for Needs, Innovative Math Curriculum Approach Suggests: summary of 1993 talk by my father, Dr. Harold Don Allen
• AboutUs, a wiki which collects information about other web sites.
• McGill Biology Student Union.
• The Internet Nonprofit Center, Putnam Barber's non-profit page.
• National Capital FreeNet, Ottawa. Lots of pages for Ottawa-area community groups. Telnet to National Capital FreeNet
• Request free catalogues in a variety of subject categories. This is a U.S. site. Some of these merchants may not want to send a catalogue to anyone with an address outside the U.S. On the other hand, some merchants may actively solicit export orders.

Rather odd WWW sites that may be of some interest

• Doonesbury Electronic Town Hall, from the creator of the brilliant comic strip
• Smurfs

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