A few episodes ago, The Bat Segundo Show talked with Scott Smith briefly about using the internet for research.  Sycamore Review talked about a similiar subject with Denise Duhamel in issue 18.2.  I know that as a writer, I'm supposed to love the printed page and all the time-consuming tromping to and from the library's stacks, but I don't.  I've resorted to Wikipedia for general info on many a late night writing. 

Which is why the proliferation of (mostly? kind of? partially?) accurate online encyclopedias makes me so happy.  My new favorite? Encyclopedia Mythica.  It's not very well organized, and (at least thus far) seems kinda thin in places, but I'm a big fan of their bestiary as well as the fact that they hae a section on Basque mythology.