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Adult The Adult category lists adult-oriented web sites. Included here are primarily sites with explicit sexual content. Please refer to the Adult Guidelines for more specific information.
This area can only be found if you search for an "adult" term. Please look through the categories to find where your site would best be placed. The editors reserve the right not to list your site, and to delete it after its addition. Multiple submissions, especially to inappropriate categories, will not be tolerated.
(less...) The ODP Arts category contains English language sites about art, or "the use of skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with
others." This includes the "liberal arts," concerned with skill of expression in language, speech, and reasoning, and the "fine arts," concerned with affecting aesthetics directly, and especially affecting the sense of beauty. (Quotes and paraphrases from Britannica.com) Art is an abstract and subjective quality: It can be studied, but can not be objectively measured, counted, weighed, or absolutely compared; it can only appeal to the viewers or audience's personal senses.
(less...) The Business component of the Open Directory generally lists and categorizes English-language sites that cover: Business as an activity: Sites covering industrial and commercial activities
involving the exchange of commodities, services, or financial resources. Sites offering supporting services, information and resources to business and business people, such as trade associations, educational institutions and training programs, business and economic news, events, etc. Business as an entity: Official web sites for and about corporations and commercial enterprises (including subsidiaries) that manufacture, distribute, market and sell goods and services to other businesses (B2B) and/or consumers (B2C). Note: If the purpose of the site is to serve as a Shopping destination for consumers (or consumers and businesses), the site should be listed in the Shopping branch. Sites that exist solely to provide information about a company and its goods and services. Note: a company's brand name sites that focus on providing information to consumers are listed under Home: Consumer Information. See the Consumer Information FAQ for more information. Sites that focus on the theoretical, practical or operational aspects of a business enterprise: accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, etc. Sites generally not listed in the Business category: Online shopping: Sites that exist primarily to sell goods and services directly to the consumer should be listed in the Shopping category. See the Shopping category description for more detail. Commercial sites (particularly "dot.coms") whose main purpose is to provide information and resources to the consumer, as an end-user of the product or services (e.g. Google, ConsumerSearch.com, XML.com, MP3.com, etc.) Sites that focus on providing information to consumers are listed under Home: Consumer Information. See the Consumer Information FAQ for more information. Local businesses: Sites for inherently local businesses -- such as types of business that are commonly found in most localities and serve primarily the people and businesses in that area -- are in most cases listed exclusively in Regional categories.
(less...) A computer is an electronic device that accepts and processes information mathematically or logically according to programmed instructions. The results of this processing is displayed visually,
printed on paper, played audibly, kept in electronic form for transfer to other computers, or used to control some other device or process. Modern computers have become a universal tool, used in most occupations. The Internet itself, including the ODP, this Internet directory, is written on computers, stored on computers, presented by computers, and usually viewed on computers. By that standard every ODP listed site could be listed under this category. But instead, this category contains listings of sites primarily about the use of Computers other than for a purpose fitting one of the other Open Directory top level categories. Sites about artistic use of computers belong in Arts, about scientific use of computers in Science, etc. The ODP Computers category contains sites that are about: computers in themselves in general, such as Computer History or Ethics or Computer Science/; specific individual parts and areas of all or most computers, such as Hardware or Software, not primarily used for or by a single ODP top level category field; the use of computers for purposes spanning multiple ODP top level category fields, such as Graphics, when the graphics could be scientific or artistic or business oriented, or for databases or the Internet in general, which store or carry all sorts of information, for whatever purpose; fields that are only conceptually possible through the use of computer concepts, such as Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Life. It is important not to confuse the topic with the tool or medium. Sites devoted to a subject that happens to use computers as tools or a medium should still be listed under the subject. For example, sites devoted to music, even in electronic formats, have a home in Arts/Music/. However, the tools and formats for audio reproduction may also be used for speeches or lectures that are not Arts related, so sites devoted to these generic computer audio tools, data formats, theories, and algorithms that may be used for several purposes should be listed in the appropriate Computers subcategory.
(less...) Games encompasses all English language web sites about games. The Open Directory Project defines a game as any activity that is meant to entertain the participants and that is governed by a specific
set of rules. Games are also usually competitive, typically involving players competing either against each other, against one or more simulated players, or against tasks set by the rules of the game. There are usually ways to win and lose a game spelled out in the rules. Games covers sites about nearly any sort of game, including Computer and Video Games, Board Games, Roleplaying Games, and Gambling Games, and most other activities that are commonly referred to as games. Sites about sports, recreational activities, or sites whose primary purpose is to sell items have categories specifically for their type of content. Sports are usually more physical activities, and generally involve some form of physical exertion. Included there are sports that may be recreational rather than competitive activities for most people, such as bicycling. Recreation is for hobbies, activities, and pastimes that are meant to give enjoyment during a participant's leisure time. These activities are generally not competitive and usually don't have a way to absolutely win or lose. They are not typically governed by a specific set of rules. Shopping contains sites of which the primary focus is to allow the consumer to select and obtain goods and services over the web. Shopping: Toys and Games: Games is specifically for sites selling games.
(less...) As defined by The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: 4th edition 1. The overall condition of an organism at a given time. 2. Soundness, especially of body or mind; freedom from
disease or abnormality. This section focuses on topics related to human or animal health, and medicine. Environmental health topics may be found at Science/Environment/Environmental_Health . Other related categories include: Business/Healthcare Shopping/Health and Society/Issues/Health
(less...) Welcome to the Home categories of the Open Directory Project. If you are interested in home improvement, redecorating, remodelling or do it yourself home repair, tax preparation, consumer
information, gardening, apartment living, family and parenting sites, recipes or fun places for kids, the Home category has the sites for you.
(less...) Kids and Teens is an Internet directory created especially for children and teenagers. It includes both sites designed specifically for children and/or teens as well as sites designed for general
audiences. It does not include sites that are designed primarily to sell merchandise, sites that use profanity or obscenity, or sites that contain sexually explicit content.
(less...) News sites provide material informing, explaining, or commenting on the events and issues of the day. In addition, web sites with information 'about' news and about news reporting are within the scope
of the category and its subcategories. This might include essays on current events or sites describing news sources in detail. The Open Directory Project's news section includes a wide variety of news links. The Top: News section is a cross section of some of those links.
(less...) The Recreation category covers English language sites about hobbies, activities, and pastimes that are meant to give enjoyment during a participant's leisure time. The purpose of the category is to
provide resources and information on a multitude of recreational activities. These resources should be of far-reaching or worldwide interest and not mainly of interest to a specific regional area.
(less...) Reference is a category for sites devoted to the study of and access to information itself - teaching it (Education), using it (Knowledge Management), storing it (Libraries, Museums) - or sites
containing information on topics varied and comprehensive enough that they could not be classified under the other top level Open Directory categories (Dictionaries, Directories, Encyclopedias).
(less...) The Regional category contains English language sites about geographical regions of the world. See the Regional Guidelines for detailed editor notes
on how to organize a particular Regional category.
(less...) Broadly defined to include physical sciences, life sciences, social sciences, earth sciences, mathematics, engineering, and technology. The alphabetical index helps to find a particular Science topic,
especially if common name differs from one used by scientists. Sites about alternative / non-mainstream Science concepts are listed in Science/Anomalies_and_Alternative_Science.
(less...) Shopping/ contains sites of which the primary focus is to allow the consumer to select and obtain goods and services over the Web. Common examples include:
Integrated online shopping-cart systems that allow the user to order directly over the Web Online shopping-cart systems that allow the user to generate an order form to be sent to the merchant via fax or mail Simple directories of products and prices that the user can order via mail or phone. For more information about the Shopping category please see the Shopping FAQ .
(less...) Open Directory's Society section covers the areas of human interaction and people's thoughts, speculations, and aspirations about the world they live in. This category covers topics directly about
people, such as People, Ethnicity, Genealogy, and Disabled. And it covers experiences inherent to being human, in Sexuality, Death, Transgendered, Subcultures, Lifestyle Choices, and Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual. Society covers people's relationships with each other in topics such as Relationships, Activism, Advice, Crime, Support Groups, Work, Military, Politics, Issues, Law, Government, and Organizations. It covers people's perceptions and understandings of the universe they live in, in Philosophy, Paranormal, Urban Legends, and Religion and Spirituality. And it covers people's relationship to time, in topics such as History, Future, and Holidays. Several other major Open Directory sections have categories related to Society. For example, categories about people who are important to society principally because of their contributions to science, the arts, sports, or local areas are located in Science, Arts, Sports, and Regional, respectively. Subjects related to the family are in Home/Family. The relationship between science and society is covered in Science/Science_in_Society. The Arts and Humanities, which are an important expression of society, have their own categories. News about society is in News. Many socially relevant reference materials about society can be found in Reference, such as Reference/Museums/Cultural, Reference/Archives, and Reference/Education.
(less...) Sports can be generally defined as competitive events involving physical exertion. Included here are sports that may be recreational rather than competitive activities for most people, such as
bicycling. If you don't find what you're looking for here, check the related categories Games (for competitive but non-physical activities, like chess) or Recreation: Outdoors (for outdoor physical activities that aren't normally competitive, such as hiking).
(less...) This category contains the non-English language versions of the Open Directory Project. Both the category headers and site descriptions should be written in the language of the sites they link to. A
more detailed description can be found at dmoz.org/world.html, or in the unofficial FAQ. For information about encodings/charsets used: please see the "terms" file in http://dmoz.org/rdf/. Sample addition to descriptions of languages: Language Language name in English - ISO 639: 2-letter code; NISO Z39.53: 3-letter code Resources: Linguistics' category about the language - Other: Ethnologue lookup e.g. Countries [TLD]: Countries where the language is spoken [TLD country codes which can often be matched with the language] Open Directory About the directory in this language - Entry pages to dmoz.org/World/.. sections
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