Carfree.com: dedicated to the proposition that urban life is not only possible but also better if transport is organized so that private automobiles are not used on the city's streets
Carolyn McDade, a composer about whom my mother produced a video
Carter Center: former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's organization for advancing peace and health worldwide
Catalog Choice: a free service that lets you communicate your mail preferences to companies. Reduce the amount of unsolicited mail in your mailbox and go paperless.
Charity Navigator: America's premier independent charity evaluator, works to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace by evaluating the financial health of America's largest charities
Cluetrain.com: tries to give companies clues, and contains a bit of baloney and a bit of insight
Cosmetics Database: cosmetics safety database from Environmental Working Group
DjVu Zone, which has information about DjVu, an interesting image compression design for documents
DoubleClick ad opt-out page, where you can disable DoubleClick's advertising-based tracking of the sites you visit. You must do this once for each browser and computer.
DSL Reports: reports on quality of service, etc. for DSL providers
eHow: Step-by-step instructions on how to do just about anything, and buy the stuff you need to do it.
Emergency Preparedness
Ready.gov: a US government site with information on emergency preparedness
Really Ready: a project of the Federation of American Scientists...devoted to providing comprehensive and correct emergency preparedness information for families, businesses, and individuals with disabilities
Engrish: the humorous English mistakes that appear in Japanese advertising and product design
Evite.com, which helps you coordinate parties and other events by sending electronic invitations, tracking who will and will not attend, helping you purchase gifts, etc.
GDACS: The Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System provides near real-time alerts about natural disasters around the world and tools to facilitate response coordination, including media monitoring, map catalogues and Virtual On-Site Operations Coordination Centre.
Getconnected: comparison shopping for broadband, wireless voice and data, local and long distance telephone, and cable and satellite television
Hunger Site: donate food to fight starvation just by clicking a link (paid for by sponsorships)
I-Neighbors: Your Neighborhood's Home on the Internet
Idealist.org, a project of Action Without Borders that helps one find information on volunteer opportunities and non-profit and community organizations world-wide
Museum of Reconstructions: uses computer modeling technology to develop accurate and complete reconstructions of buildings, artworks, artifacts, and sites
National Novel Writing Month: a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.