Jeffrey B. Dalin, DDS
I have spent the last few years trying to enlighten the dental world about the virtues of the Internet. My goal for this monthly column has been to convince everyone to get online. Once online, I hoped that you would enjoy your visits to the World Wide Web and perhaps would then find uses for it in your day-to-day dental practices. I have given you many pages of Web sites to visit. I hope that you have visited and bookmarked many of these sites and are becoming avid users of what is available out there in cyberspace.
The Internet is not just a useful place to gather information and purchase products. It can be one crazy and fun place to hang out! Let's take a walk on the wild side this month. Below you will find some fun and irreverent sites to visit. Some of these can even be of some use to you.
Here are some truly useful sites that are still a little fun
Refdesk: www.refdesk.com
How Stuff Works: www.howstuffworks.com
Conversions: www.graniterock.com/calcconv.htm#length
Make Stuff: www.makestuff.com
Learn 2: www.learn2.com
Ehow: www.ehow.com
Tricks and Trinkets: www. tricksandtrinkets.com
Cool Sites: //home.mira.net/~lions/secret.htm
Fun Stuff
Bored.com: www.bored.com
Warning...this site can take up a lot of your free time
Acronym Finder: www.acronymfinder.com
Wacky Uses: www.wackyuses.com
I Should Be Working: www.ishouldbeworking.com
Absolute Trivia: www.absolutetrivia.com
Ad Critic: www.adcritic.com
Slanguage: www.slanguage.com
Phone Spell: www.phonespell.org
Answering Machine: www.answeringmachine.co.uk/answer/home.htm
Word Play: www.wolinskyweb.com/word.htm
Puzzlemaker: www.puzzlemaker.com
Amused.com: www.amused.com
Weird Sites: www.now2000.com/weird/index.shtml
And lastly, some Internet game sites:
Pogo: www.pogo.com
Freearcade: www.freearcade. com
Flipside: www.flipside.com
Uproar: www.uproar.com
Game Show Network: www. spe.sony.com/gsn
Who Wants To Be Millionaire: //abc.go.com/ primetime/millionaire/mill_home.html
Now you know...not only can the Internet be useful and informative, it can be a lot of fun as well.
Jeffrey B. Dalin, DDS, FACD, FAGD, practices general dentistry in St. Louis. He also is the editor of St. Louis Dentistry Magazine and spokesperson and critical-issue-response-team chairperson for the Greater St. Louis Dental Society. His address on the Internet is www.dfdasmiles.com. Contact him by e-mail at [email protected], by phone at (314) 567-5612, or fax at (314) 567-9047.
