IF Colin Powell starts throwing books around in his new job as secretary of state, it is not necessarily because of looming chemical weapons threats or infighting with the secretary of defense. At a recent gathering of State Department employees, General Powell said that he 'lives on the Internet' and cited Refdesk.com, a database of information resources, as his favorite Web site. As a result of using Refdesk, General Powell said, he has tossed out all of his encyclopedias and dictionaries. Refdesk (www.refdesk.com), which has more than 20,000 links to dictionaries, newspapers, government sites and many other sources arranged on about 500 Web pages, was created in 1995 by Bob Drudge, who is a former social worker and a child of a librarian and says he learned the Dewey Decimal System before he learned how to walk. Drudge, 58, is also the father of Matt Drudge, creator of The Drudge Report Web site (www.drudgereport.com). Refdesk is a meticulous compendium of factual information, and The Drudge Report bases many of its stories on rumor and hearsay. That oddity is not lost on Mr.

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'Only on the Internet could a father and son, independent of each other, capture the attention of a worldwide audience with their home pages,' the elder Mr. 'We both produce Web pages, but they're so totally different and unrelated to each other, and yet they are related, because we're related.' Drudge said that to preserve their relationship, he and his son, who lives in Miami, decided long ago not to discuss their Web sites with each other.

'We're just focusing on what we do,' he said, 'not on what other people think or say about either of us.' ' Although Refdesk contains a link to The Drudge Report, Mr. Drudge admitted to being a bit curious as to why for a long time his son did not include a link to Refdesk on his site. 'He said he had no use for Refdesk,' Mr.

'He hasn't got time to check things out. He's got to hop, hop, hop and move the story.' ' The Drudge Report now contains a link to the reference site. The link issue aside, there has been no father-son rivalry, Mr. California Driver History Report Abbreviations Of States. Drudge said, mainly because they have such different work styles. 'Matt's mind goes a thousand beats a second and then the next second there's something else,' Mr. 'I'm more linear.

When I'm pursuing something I really want to get to the bottom of it and get all facets of it. Depeche Mode Tour Of The Universe Live In Barcelona Cd Download here. Matt has moved on while I'm still on the first sentence.' Drudge started Refdesk out of a desire to organize the Internet. 'It was a matter of discovering my own scheme of things and then indexing it,' he said. He built Refdesk himself and maintains it daily. It took him about five months to learn HTML programming and to design a template with the various indexes and categories for organizing the links.