Alrighty then, I had better declare my non-allegiance to the web. If you know me, you know that I think that http is a substandard protocol, that html is insufficient and while the web provides for many useful "things", I don't like the platforms for most of the technologies on the web. Most are not secure, not robust, allow for insufficient blah, blah, blah. Technologies for the web suck, but the web itself does not.
Scott Isaacs (not MSN's Scott Isaacs, but Milwaukee's very own; President of Wisconsin INETA; owner of The Black Pearl) recently posted on a few utilities that he had written. These utilities are for the web, so while I saw the post, I ignored the content. So how, given my context from the above paragraph, could I complain about the web when he and so many others are writing utilities to improve it? Check these little gems. From an IE menu, you can execute a WHOIS, Wikipedia search, dictionary.com search, etc. ad nauseum.
To summarize, web technologies suck, but with Scott's stuff, they suck less.
His post. Get the code.