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Paper Veins Museum - Organized like a brick-and-mortar museum, Paper Veins holds a film room, a poetry room, four floors of exhibition space and, on the top floor, The Artists' Café where artists and their portfolios are profiled. The Kitchen Link - Users can browse 10,000 "hand-selected" recipes and links, find cookbooks, click through a huge list of hot topics like gingerbread-baking and candy-making or shop for everything from coupons to bake ware. BuzzWhack - Download a free copy of the Buzzword Compliant Dictionary, track the top ten buzzwords making the rounds, or sign up to get a buzzword e-mailed daily to your office cube so you can decipher those urgent interoffice memos. SHORT
TAKES: You've Got E-mail Everywhere - This cool tool gives you access to your e-mail from any account on any computer, worldwide, in 16 different languages, just by entering your e-mail address and password. Dancing Properly: Advanced Seminar - Take a look at one of the eight dance demos and the warning makes sense: just watching dances like "Stop it, Silly" or "Talk to the Hand" may cause severe laughter-induced injuries. <><><><><><><><> Pearl Portal - The human history of pearls is traced through 6,000-year-old archeological evidence, from Aphrodite's stunning pearl-studded pin circa 300 B.C., to Coco Chanel's pearl-sewn fashions of the 20th century. The Girl with (Artificial) Intelligence - Ramona may not be a girl you'd pour your heart out to over coffee, but she's smart, polite and well-read - for an avatar. Preserving Web Culture - With info on the Internet disappearing in a blink, the Internet Archive, a collaboration with the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian, was created to prevent "born-digital" materials from disappearing into the past. The Mistress Of Murder - Delicious Death: The Agatha Christie Works List, leaves no mystery about the books by the world's most popular writer of whodunits. Planet Feedback - Welcome to Planet Feedback, the site that orbits the universe of praise and gripes to help you say what you want and deliver it to the right person. White House Holidays - Whether it snows or not, it's a white Christmas at the home of the First Family, as President and Mrs. Bush invite visitors to an online view of festivities at Home for the Holidays, the theme for this year's White House holiday season. Collective Unconsciousness Project - Create a Dreamer Account and log your own dreams into the database, then trip from dream to dream linked by themes on an endless path that may end where it began. Body, Mind, Modem - A simple path to complex truths is the tempting offer at Body, Mind and Modem, where metaphysical pursuits are made accessible to the average spiritual traveler. SHORT
TAKES: Movie Ratings for Kids - Kids-In-Mind can give parents peace of mind, as viewers rate movies for sex, violence and profanity on a scale of 1 to 10, note questions kids might bring home to you after watching a movie, and summarize messages being conveyed. Radio Locator - This comprehensive radio station locator spans over 10,000 station homepages and 2,500 audio streams in the US and abroad. <><><><><><><><> Classical Composers - From Keiko Abe to Alexander Zemlinsky, GMN's Classical Composers gateway web site has got to be the most comprehensive listing imaginable for those seeking info about classical composers. Flash Thief - Flash Thief is a one-stop shop where users can learn, download and share ideas about web design. Experience Thailand - Experience Thailand is the official source for travel to this remarkable Southeast Asian country. Astounding Space Thrills - Robots, ray guns and little green men populate Astounding Space Thrills: The Daily Adventures, the web's most popular adventure comic strip. The Food Timeline - Created by librarians, the site is a serious effort to put fun into social studies and is cross-referenced against such heavyweight volumes as the Oxford Companion to Food and the Cambridge World History of Food. Turbulence - At Turbulence, up to 20 web art projects are commissioned and presented each year to support and expose these emerging artists. The Nobel: Visions of our Century - The website is nothing less than "a serious meditation on the meaning of the advancement of humanity in our time". Journey of Kijana - In March 2002, the crew of early 20s adventurers sets sail to snowboard on Himalayan peaks, paraglide from the mountains of Peru and scuba dive with sharks in the Galapagos on "a celebration of youth, discovery and the spirit within us all. SHORT
TAKES: Weird Road Signs - "It was the best of signs, it was the worst of signs" is the apt theme for this personal web site that collects and displays dozens of photos of odd, amusing and just bizarre road signs. Toaster Museum - The Toaster museum shows off 183 toasters in the collection, from a rare 1920s German 4-slice device to a beautiful red Dutch model called Molly. <><><><><><><><> Great Castles of Wales - Medieval history buffs especially will enjoy this trip to the Great Castles of Wales, a tribute to some of the world's purest examples of fortified medieval architecture, found in a country that counts more than 400 of them. Rust Boy - Rust Boy is not your average decaying kid, but an insect-like character created by Brian Taylor as the star of his digitally animated short film of the same name. Math You Can Use - The site walks visitors through common situations, from savings plans to cooking, to show how math can be helpful - even necessary - in daily life. Talking Boards - Celebrates the Ouija board, created from 1890 to 1950 by dozens of manufacturers with fanciful images of pyramids, swamis, black cats and witches, most of which were lost to the trashbins of suburbia. Game Scene - Take a break. Relax. Play a game at Game Scene, providing over 20 simple Flash games that require no experience but can become instantly addictive. Independent Films Portal - Site for independent filmmakers and viewers that makes you believe in the art of moviemaking again, whether you're behind the camera or in front of a screen. The IG Nobel Prize - Honoring goofballs whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced." The Igs are annual prizes that celebrate the unusual and honor the imaginative in categories that mirror the Nobel Prizes. But different. The Artchive - With several galleries, from images to theory and criticism, the site has some cool extras. At the Rembrandt One-Man Show, for example, use the Imagefinder to zoom in on exquisite detail. SHORT
TAKES: Scary Squirrels - Squirrel abduction stories abound and visitors vote on whether squirrels' origins are natural, supernatural or they just crawled up out of the ooze. Weather Calculator - Weather wonks will want to blow over to the Weather Calculator, which explains the National Weather Service's new method of calculating wind chill temperature, updating a 62-year-old standard. <><><><><><><><> Tastings - This online journal of the Beverage Tasting Institute is not about boozing it up, but about savoring the pleasure. Sun Salutation - Whether you are a high-powered exec trying to keep your heart beating and your pulse down, or a weekend athlete hoping to avoid injuries, Yoga Journal is the place to start. A Modern American Realist - Wittig is an unschooled artist who interprets in oil, acrylic, watercolor, ink and charcoal what his eye lands on in Chicago's dark alleys and sunlit patches of pines. The Birders Network - With high-quality original materials about wild birds, birding, bird watching and birders, the site offers sophisticated online field guides with text, photos, animated sonograms, interactive maps and photo indexes. Online Newsstand - Find any magazine, from hobbies to teens, and newspapers from around the world by searching categories based on interest area or country, and the site will link you to its web page. The Merchants of Cool - Exposes how marketers track the next big thing that will snare the teen dollar through interviews with teens, media executives and market researchers. Thinking in the Trenches - Technology, culture and the interactions between them, all delivered by a community of people who like to think. That's what Kuro5hin is about, with a tolerance for everything but garbage, mind noise and Microsoft "bug" stories. In Pursuit of Tea - An aid to US tea drinkers, who may find that cultivating their newly acquired taste is a bewildering ques. SHORT
TAKES: Blinkenlights - The Chaos Computer Club of Berlin celebrates its 20th anniversary by turning the front of a building into a giant computer-controlled light display at Blinkenlights. The Phobia List - Whatever your phobia is, you can find it here. <><><><><><><><> Breakthrough Books - The site covers broad territory, from aesthetics to neglected fiction, and here the focus is on books about the media recommended by five academic experts. Deja Sears - Thumb through the Fall 1971 Sears Catalog for evidence: Fortrel, Dacron, Orlon, Acrilan, Kodel and Celanese. Dox Thrash: African American Printmaker - Created in partnership with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the site reproduces many of the artist's 188 prints, with narratives that equal the art's awesome power. Post Office in Paradise - Talk about a specialty site: Post Office in Paradise is the apt name for this comprehensive site dedicated to mail and postage stamps of 19th century Hawaii, before the Aloha State became a territory of the US in 1900. Old Computers - The site traces personal computers from their introduction in 1973 with the Micral, the first microprocessor-based computer, to around 1994. Pictures of the Century - The past century of American history is presented at Picturing the Century: 100 Years of Photography from the National Archives. Karen's Power Tools - Karen Kenworthy, a writer for the now-defunct and much-mourned Windows Magazine and its online version winmag.com. Led Pants - At KidLed, young visitors can play games like Picnic Party, where kids find pairs among the bizarre, friendly animals, and science projects like Gizmo, teaching how a pulley works. SHORT
TAKES: Awesome Recipes - Chef Brian Johnson's "kitchen on the web" cooks up Awesome Chef Recipes - creative and gourmet-style, according to the chef. Calorie Calculator - Lets you pile the day's consumables into an easy-to-read chart and calculates the total calories, carbohydrates, fat, fiber, protein and sodium you've downed. <><><><><><><><> The Art of Violin - Visitors can learn about the violin in Anatomy of the Instrument, read biographies of modern violinists like Perlman, send questions to experts and, most satisfying, hear the unique sound and style of such artists as Jascha Heifetz, Isaac Stern and many others. The Webby Awards - Judges are a Who's Who of the creative media community: musician Beck, The Simpson's Matt Groening, Oracle's Larry Ellison, even Francis Ford Coppola. I Should Be Working - This goof-off site gives slackers plenty of ways to blow off the workday, including just the right 'tude about procrastinators, loafers, "long lunchers", and other web-addicted employees. Wallpaper Changer - Watching the wallpaper gains new meaning at Wallpaper Changer, a site full of free tools that lets Windows users manage their screen wallpaper as if it were a stock portfolio. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers - One of the largest (and most powerful) writers groups around, the SFWA awards the prestigious Nebula, whose past winners include such classics as Frank Herbert's Dune. Van Gogh & Gauguin - A rising and setting sun guides visitors through this lovely site detailing the mingled work and lives of impressionists Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, who shared a turbulent friendship and passion for painting. DVDs To Go - For $19.95/month, rent unlimited DVDs with no due dates, no late fees, no per-movie fees, and no driving --- the mailman delivers, at no shipping cost. Fake Bands - Bands like "Burned Beyond Recognition," the never-seen, classic bad-tempered rock band from an episode of the Fox sitcom Married with Children, and "Cyanide," the fake tribute band to Poison that appeared on The Simpsons, are included in an A to Z catalogue. SHORT
TAKES: Post-It Theater - At Post-It Theater, simple line drawings are animated on those ever-present little yellow squares, covering topics from sports to ghosts. Dictionary of British Slang - At the Dictionary of British Slang, the everyday speech of those nutty Brits is translated, alphabetized and defined with sample sentences, a search engine and a submission form so users can keep up with current lingo. <><><><><><><><> Global Volunteers - Hooks up do-gooders with human and economic development projects worldwide. Local communities ask for help, then Global Volunteers sends teams to live and work on projects that will have a long-term impact. The Food Museum - Visitors can search for foods by name, hemisphere or type, or visit the galleries to see exhibits of the world's foods. Mensa IQ & Intelligence - Visitors to the web site are linked to Mensa-related sites to take a variety of IQ and other intelligence tests, read Mensa jokes, play Mensa games, solve Mensa puzzles. Science Master - Space, Earth, Life, Physical and Technology each have their own pages of info, news, photos, products, services and links to excellent content from NASA, the EPA and leading universities. Motel Postcards - Time-travel to the 50s and 60s, when small motels along the highways were the oddball norm, through this collection of motel postcards from across the USA. Global Warming/Global Warning - Find out how computers, fish tanks, decorative lighting and other must-have energy suckers contribute to global warming at PBS' cautionary web site, What's Up With the Weather. Face Blindness - Those who are face-blind see just fine - it's not about vision - but their brains can't record and retrieve images of the human face because the brain center responsible for face recognition is out of whack. Forever the 80s - With games like "Save Ferris" (Bueller), sports recaps about athletes like Mary Lou Retton, a quiz to test if you're a child of the 80s (quick, who was Max Headroom?), news headlines and surveys galore, the site is instant nostalgia for a pre-cell phone, pre-MTV decade. SHORT
TAKES: Slow Wave - At illustrator Jesse Reklaw's online comic strip, Slow Wave, visitors submit their dreams to be transformed into panels of comedy, known here as a collective dream diary, with a new strip added weekly. When Pong Goes Bad - See what can happen when Pong players have a few too many sleepless nights wired on coffee, junk food and nonstop video gaming at When Pong Goes Bad. Adult language. <><><><><><><><> The On-Line Books Page - The Internet has a way of snatching and remaking tasks performed by other media like TV and CD players … now it's going after books. Lifeguarding - Created with the National Safety Council, the site uses dramatic simulations to test the user's ability to identify and respond to life-threatening scenarios in and out of water, from unconscious floating to spinal injuries. Art Nexus - For more than 25 years, ArtNexus magazine has been the source for serious collectors and dealers. Browse leading galleries from Buenos Aires to Dallas, Texas, purchase works directly from the collections, read interviews and reviews and access 15 years' of Art Nexus archival material. Hi, Monkey! - This personal web site has created a simple, charming icon for a sometimes scary world, a character who is warm, friendly and very into sugar, both edible and otherwise --- he held a contest to name a puppy and has a section devoted to good manners. Ode to a Turntable - Technics has created a memorial to the cherished deck as part of its 30th anniversary celebration. Head Trip - Get a head-start here with dynamic visuals and compelling human stories that even those with low wattage brain power can grasp. Internet Study Guide - With extensive study guides for literature, astronomy, philosophy, history - you name it - this is the site for students to bookmark for semester-long reference or that big exam. Vintage 78 - A self-described "hard-core 78 rpm fiend," Country Classic radio DJ Joe Bussard has spent a lifetime compiling a private archive of more than 25,000 obscure recordings from the golden age of old-time music. At Vintage 78, Joe shares it through custom-made tapes of his vintage 78 collection. SHORT
TAKES: C-Spam - All that unsolicited commercial junk that burdens your Inbox has been turned into an online art project dissecting the relationship between commerce and the Internet with a scrolling display of ludicrous spam mail, backed by your choice of classical music. AhaView 2.0 - Visitors can easily find icons, manually create their own from JPG or GIF image files or convert icons into standard images with free programs for the casual user, or pay-to-play upgraded versions for those who want more. <><><><><><><><> Nothing So Strange - As if it weren't already weird enough being Bill Gates, the world's most famous geek now faces a new documentary and web site, Nothing So Strange, about his assassination on December 2, 1999, and the subsequent government cover-up. Huh? Urban Delicious - Alex Pleasant, creator of Urban Delicious, is hard to describe: Think Mr. Rogers for the 21st century. A digital generation's Mr. Feel Good … about yourself. He writes poetry about specialness and messages to visitors like "When I grow up I hope to fall in love and maybe get a puppy." 2 Single People - Apparently, there are at least 10,000 single people signed up for 2 Single People, so the odds of meeting Mr. or Ms. Right by Valentine's Day are better than the name of the web site would suggest. Photography Ratings - From "Boots N Shoes" to "Jagged Leaves," PhotoSIG shows photos by people who like to take pictures, whether homebound snapshooters or working pro's. The twist: everyone gets to critique everyone's photos, just like a photography class. Flash Forward - The site highlights a 3-day conference, October 31-November 2 in Amsterdam, offering workshops and sessions held by the top educators, designers and programmers in the flash field. E-nature - Discover nature at home at E-nature, the National Wildlife Federation's full-service web site for nature lovers. Online Public Records - Whether you want to research death row records in California or art theft reports worldwide, your starting point is Search System, the largest collection of public record links on the Internet. Deep Fried, Live! - Like to play with your food? Deep Fried Live might be the perfect entrée - an animated cooking site hosted by an appetizer. SHORT
TAKES: Banished Words - Lake Superior State University has issued its annual list of useless, meaningless or over-used words and phrases. Submit your own choices for exile. I Know Where Bruce Lee Lives - No, I Know Where Bruce Lee Lives is not the web site of a stalker, but an interactive "Kung-fu remixer," where users tap a keyboard sporting 37 keys assigned to different kung-fu moves, record the loop and play it back. <><><><><><><><> Spitting Llamas - The llamas here are unapologetically opinionated mid-20s writers and designers who spit about world events, pop culture and each other, "cutting through the media hype, the smoke and mirrors and getting right to the point." Lying Eyes - Find out how deep the deceit is at Lying Eyes, a vast collection of optical and sensory illusions. With zillions of interactive demonstrations, scientific explanations, school projects, illusion artwork and interactive puzzles, visitors can spend hours playing and going "Whoa." Early Recorded Sounds - The low-tech history of early recorded sound is preserved on the high-tech medium of the Internet at Early Recorded Sounds, a voyage into the late 19th and early 20th century experiments that started it all. The Snowfort Zone - Created by a 22-year-old Canadian who got bored one night, the site grew from experiments he started as he stacked blocks of snow to make a fort. Giggle Poetry - Giggle Poetry, an online poetry site for kids, lets the small-fry express themselves on many levels. Both classics and original rhymes are offered, plus Poetry Fun where kids can try out tongue-twisters, answer riddle-rhymes or put on mini-performances of funny poems.
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