Search Engine
Google - The best search engine around. You can search for web pages, images, pdf files, Word documents directly by using the advanced search page.

The news
The New York Times - Good quality free news.
Daily Yomiuri - News on Japan in English

Reference
RefDesk -Any reference source you might need is here.
University of Texas Maps - your source for great maps
CIA Country Studies - a great page to find info any country

Thought provoking analysis
Books and Culture - a top quality thinking magazine
New York Times Magazine - longer articles analyzing what is going on.
Sojourner's Magazine - A Christian perspective on Social Justice issues.
The Atlantic Monthly - Great magazize

Friend's Homepages
Deb and Jon VanDuinen's Homepage

International Development
CRWRC - the relief and development arm of our church denomination, the Christian Reflormed Church.
World Vision - an organization that has a respectable history of helping people
SmilingStickman - the site of Dwein and Trish, two CRWRC workers in Tanzania
The Corner House - a British NGO with some interesting briefings on development work

Simple Living and Counter Culture
Adbusters - great site and magazine about how to live in a Consumeristic world

Travel
Lonely Planet Online - The homepage of the world's leading guidebook producer.
Rough Guide - A credible alternative to the LP with a much more extensive Web offering
Internet Travel Guide for Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia - Exactly what it says

Religion
Christian Reformed Church - The church denomination we are members of.