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Interesting Things 108 Names of Ganesha 99 Rooms fascinating and sometimes disturbing Flash art project Africam a standout live camera bank from several game preserves in Africa American Sign Museum the history of signs, with original photos The Annals of Improbable Research the Ig-Noble Prizes and more Arts for Transit the complete mosaics of the NYC subway system Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive from NASA At Work on a Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius a brilliant piece about books for writers by Dwight Garner, from the NYTimes (free registration required) The Balloon Hat Experience this is silly, sweet and very touching Based on the Book a compilation of selected books that have been made into movies Bathroom Diaries a sort of travel guide to free, usable bathrooms of the world Beautiful Subways from Around the World Brothers Brick everything Lego Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest the 2007 winners The Can a Collaborative Art Novel Chocolocate a search engine about chocolate — get it, it only searches for chocolate! The City Elizabeth Hickok's rendition of San Francisco ... in Jell-oฎ City of the Silent information about cemetery symbols, epitaphs, history, burials, tombstone rubbing, and other aspects of mortuary culture Classic Typewriter Page Cosmic Baseball Association it's an art project, it's a fantasy baseball league — underline fantasy. whatever it is, it's well written. check out the "Dharma Beats" team or the "Barnumtown Stormers" circus team Covers of the Rolling Stone you might not see your picture on the cover, but everyone else is here Crease Patterns this is to origami what sushi is to canned tuna Crossword Solver from AllWords.com Darwin Awards proving that some people really are too stupid...  The Degree Confluence Project "The goal of the project is to visit each latitude and longitude intersection in the world" Diaries of Samuel Pepys done as a daily blog, brilliant way of reinventing classic literature Dollar Bill Origami including videos of how to make them! DrawerGeeks an enormous themed collective of illustrators' work; you could spend days here Drum Patterns, The Infinite Work generate infinitely variable rhythm patterns with an easy to use interface  Dumb Laws every now and then somebody writes an article about outdated laws... now you can too! Earth as Art photos from Landsat-7 Eddy's Thimble SIB Pier this guy is amazing — ships built in small light bulbs, perfume bottles or very small laboratory flasks The Envelope Collective EPGuides more than 1800 television series episode guides with 500+ detailed lists of actors and plot summaries, including Canadian and UK shows Everyday Yoga get out of that chair and stretch, dammit! Everyrule.com "Every Rule in the Universe" games, sports, cards, rules for "riding shotgun" — if it has a rule it's here Firesign Theatre complete discography with MP3 samples Folkstreams a national preserve of documentary films about american roots cultures Found in Old Cameras film left in thrift-shop cameras, developed Found Magazine online version of the print mag, great "discovered" objects about human behavior Forgotten NY hidden remnants of a city long gone Free Public Domain Movies tv, cartoons, documentaries, music Gallery of Obscure Patents Garfield Minus Garfield very surrealistic Google Earth Places let other people find amazing places on GE so you don't have to: Virtual Globetrotting, Sightseeing with Google Satellite Maps and Google Earth Cool Places Historical Cats How to say "No" in 520 Languages this could be a language resource, and yet ... How to Speak Hip a Dell Close recording fro the 50s In Passing... overheard conversations, recorded in great detail, and very funny/weird/beautiful International Collection of Tongue Twisters twisters and shibboleths in 77 languages The Invisible Library a collection of books that only appear in other books; imaginary books, pseudobiblia, artifictions, fabled tomes, libris phantastica, and books unwritten, unread, unpublished, and unfound Jack Kerouac's Belief & Technique for Modern Prose Japanese Manhole Covers some of these are beautiful The Journal of Mundane Behavior read it for the unique concepts, read it for the sometimes brilliant and always poetic writing, but read it — highly recommended Joseph Wu's Origami Page why this obsession with origami? we don't know Juggling Information Service EVERYTHING you ever wanted to know about juggling, with videos Kiss This Guy the granddaddy of misunderstood rock lyrics The Lair of the Crab of Ineffable Wisdom funny Flash animation — with kittens! Lego just the best toys ever Lego Cinema this is so cool on so many levels Little People "little hand-painted people, left in London to fend for themselves" Live Music Archive enormous database of live concert recordings, all downloadable LoopLabs flash-driven music mixer, create your own dance trax Lost in Translation what happens when an English phrase is translated (by computer) back and forth between 5 different languages? Luciferous Logolepsy a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words Mr. Picassohead Modern Mechanix "yesterday's tomorrow, today" The Movie Clich้s List it's funny because it's true Museum of Hoaxes fake sites, sham announcements and phony news The Museum of Useful Things things like the history of the shopping cart, or wire coat hangers... we're not sure if any of it is for real, including the museum store Mysterious People firestarters, poltergeists, and J. Raoul Derosiers, the Man with X-Ray Vision MyToons.com "the world's greatest online animation community" NASA Solar System Simulator see any planet from any angle New York City Walk "I walked every street on the island of Manhattan. Every darn street." NPR's All Songs Considered if you've ever wonder what the heck that song was on NPR, now you can here the full version The Official Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide the "king of all pastimes" The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form Open Letters first-person writing in the form of personal correspondence — the site is no longer active, but archives are still up Origamic Architecture build your own pop-up-book stationary Paper Art imaginative uses of paper from Peter Callesen and Su Blackwell Paper CD Case print out and fold a custom paper cd case for your DIYs +paradise+ a "virtual city" that your writing can live in — a fascinating experiment in shared media Photomontage a digital artist who likes to play with technology and a Web page that likes to play with art Places of Peace & Power amazing photography of amazing places The POP-UP World of Ann Montanaro an online exhibit of pop-up books Postal Experiments a funny experiment in the boundaries of postal regulations from the Annals of Improbable Research RandomWebsite.com hit the button, see where you land Regret the Error the corrections column of the newspaper The Rough Guide to a Better World "the essential guide to how the world can be a better place for everyone" RuaVista visiting ordinary streets and paying attention to details — also check Street Sounds The Secret Garden marvel-ous xray photographs of flowers — breathtaking Sewers of the World photos of manhole covers from around the world, via Russia Sign Language Leno, eat your heart out Silophone play music and sound clips into a 200 metre long concrete grain silo in Montreal and hear the results online The Simpsons Archive clearinghouse of Simpsons guides, news and information SKB List o' Nifty Words The Slip-Up Archive bloopers from movies, tv and books Small Town Misfit police blotters from small-town papers Space Sounds the actual sounds the stars make Space Weather amazing photos of Northern Lights activity Star Wars Origami fold the force Stories of the Dreaming videos of stories from the cultures of Indigenous Australians, told in their own words Streetplay celebrating stickball, hopscotch, kites -- a time "when it was ok to go outside, hang out with friends and have a great time playing" Supercook recipe search engine that finds recipes using ingredients you have at home TED: Ideas Worth Spreading reintroducing intelligent ideas Tetsunori Kawana brilliant botanic artist The Tongue Twister Database she sells what, where? Utilikilts the aren't just for Scotsmen anymore Verbotomy create a word that matches the daily new definition Visible Body Websites As Graphs Weeping Willow an ongoing online serial that's sort of ... well, see for yourself Willard Wigan the world's smallest and most wondrous works of art     Robots! Clayton Bailey Gordon Bennett Nemo Gould Guy Robot another in the continuing series Al Honig Insect Lab Lawrence Northey LockWasher Design and more pics The Robot Constructor build a robot and make it move — it is alive!! Ann Smith   Silly Things AFDB dedicated to spreading the word about the Aluminum* Foil Deflector Beanie and how it can help the average human Amousfay Eftlay-Andershay a list of famous left-handed people in Pig Latin Bee Dogs dogs in bee costumes ... really Book-a-Minute in just one minute, you can read entire books Engrish.com actual signs and product labels from Japan Eugene Mirman yes, it's the song stylings of that crooning child, Eugene Mirman Face Your Pockets place the objects in your pocket on the scanner. place your face/part of it on the scanner as well. aaaaand scan it! Free Jigsaw Puzzles yes, puzzles on the web — great when you're not feeling well The Grocery List Collection one man's hobby The Hero Machine create your own comic book character Institute of Druidic Technology revealed — Druids invented the computer The Lord of the Peeps and one marshmallow will guide them The Mini-Mizer make a self-portrait in Lego Monty Python - Just the Words The Museum Of Bad Art dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms Netdisaster find a website you really hate? make dinosaurs walk all over it Origami Boulder Company "Performance Art option. Artist wad up artwork create custom for you, and throw directly into waste basket. You just paid for custom performance art!" The Original Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products "SOOOper genius" RPS-15 rock, paper, scissors in hyperspace So You've Decided to be Evil a guide towards leading a life filled with lust, greed, debauchery, the construction of enormous weather machines ... Sock it 2 Me! sock monkeys! strange sock monkeys! chef monkeys! doctor monkeys! funky monkeys! Spock monkeys! Soup in the Movies some people have way too much spare time... The 30-Second Bunnies Theatre Library animated versions of classic films, made with bunnies They Thought You'd Say This unlikely phrases from real phrasebooks Turtle TV "The Matrix", "Psycho" and more, recast with turtles Virtual Bubblewrap this is about as divertingly useless as it gets... The Virtual Stapler Websites for Cats give Mr. Kitty something to watch What's in the Trunk? this one is an absolute total time-waster ... we love it Who Would Buy That? ... some people will buy (or sell) anything zefrank an amassment of Java toys and odd animations — check out "How to dance"     Games A Break in the Road great audio-based game, collect sounds and make music Analogic several spiffy Flash games 20Q an almost psychic game of 20 questions... scary The Bar beautiful graphic game Bloxorz seriously groovy Death in Sakkara online history game from BBC Hapland 2 Hapland 3 for when you've finished 2 ... Inanimate Alice a text and sound-based game Line Rider funny game The Moonlit Road text and Flash game Orisinal Flash-based game site, something for everyone from kids to warped adults Shift absorbing Flash game Sodaplay you'll like this — you'll really really like this... plan on wasting the day Tramping an inventive online adventure game/ horror novel/ comic book Viridian Room several Japanese Flash video-games Wogger beautiful, funny game World Map think you know geography?

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