Online Texts (e-texts)

The MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies:  The Internet Classics Archive.

Project Gutenberg's E-text Listings  (perhaps the most extensive collection of e-texts).

Columbia University's Project Bartleby Archive.

On-line Collection of Aesop's Fables.

On-Line Collection of Children's Stories and Rhymes

Words
Random House maintains a site entitled The Maven's Word of the Day.

Words and Phrases
Evan Morris's syndicated column on word and phrase origins.

Critical Thinking
San Jose State University produces a tutorial on critical thinking and the use of deductive reasoning entitled Mission: Critical.