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Piano Graphique - The interactive Wave site lets users finger their own keyboard to play sophisticated music with orchestral effects or rap scratching. Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts - At Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, scholars and the public can view the saints, fabulous animals and themes of civilization depicted in these glorious works. No Rules Street Photography - Forget the rules, all who enter here. Non-photography, says Nitsa, is about energy without concern for excellence, about making pictures free of filters, lenses and f-stop calculations. SHORT
TAKES: Etiquette Hell - Rude behavior is a competitive playing field these days, and top players are honored at Etiquette Hell. Needlepoint Museum - A homespun version of string theory -- that needlepoint is an astonishing thing -- is proven at The Needlepoint Museum. <><><><><><><><> Museum of Talking Boards - The Museum of Talking Boards traces the history of the Ouija board from 1890 to 1950. Sail Away - When the Volvo Ocean Race, which started in England in September 2001, ends in Germany in June 2002, teams will have covered 32,700 nautical miles, circumnavigating the globe and racing through four oceans. Hubble: A View to the Edge of Space - Visitors can see what the astronomers see in space, peer inside life at Mission Control, view stunning color photos, see how NASA's image processors transform raw data to create the images. Cooking: Italian Style - Recipes from Almond Cake to Zucchini Loaf are organized by cookbook and ingredient. The food section leaps way beyond pasta to include spices, honey, even truffles. If Walls Could Talk - One house, five families, 200 years of history are detailed at The Smithsonian's Within These Walls, telling in words, photos and music the story of a Massachusetts house through the families who called it home. The Spam Letters - For passive-aggressive behavior with a twist, visit The Spam Letters, where no letter is left unanswered. New Web Pick - Experience the web's most avante garde design work by skipping conventional portals heavy on commercial web sites and going directly to New Web Pick. Historic Hotels Of America - Reserve your place in history with a trip to Historic Hotels of America. SHORT
TAKES: FOUND Magazine - Pity the poor lost-and-found item that never gets retrieved: photos, notes, ticket stubs, empty wallets - they all find a home at FOUND Magazine. Amusing Dogs - Dateline Kennel is a collection of cute and comic photos of man's best friend from the 50's and 60's. <><><><><><><><> Bad Movie Portal - Bad Movies.org was designed by a former Marine tough guy with an obsession for the bizarre, obscene, scary and laughable - movies you wouldn't watch unless your life depended on it. Slang, Jargon and Dialects - Self-expression goes academic at Slang, Jargon and Dialects, a scholarly site created to study how social change is reflected by new lexical items (words) found in the vast vocabulary that is American English. Higher Learning Portal - If someone you know is planning on going to an institution of higher learning in the US, Embark.com is the site for you. AndyCo - What started out as another design portfolio got a little out of hand, morphing into AndyCo, a company that's been around for more than 100 years (not really). Jeff Bridges: Artist - Minimalist design works for actor Jeff Bridges at his personal web site, where simple line drawings and scrawled handwritten notes serve for imagery and text, with little scribbled circles acting as navigation buttons. Encyclopedia of 'Toons - 'Toons are both the characters and the stories, and here visitors will also find the real live people and companies - from Marvel to Disney - who make the 'toons. Art History Timeline - At the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History, more than 20,000 years of art marches on, from prehistoric times to the present. Food Reference - Only a real food nut would know a 4-letter word for a large, sweet, juicy hybrid of tangerine and grapefruit -the answer to 5 Across in the Culinary Crossword Puzzle. SHORT
TAKES: Stars on TV - Stars on TV makes it easy to find your fave actor, actress, director or genre with TV listings for over 4,100 stars and hundreds of directors each month. Buy the Expos - Your dreams of owning a major league ball club could come true at Buy the Expos, where The New Expos Ownership Group is trying to keep the beleaguered Montreal club alive past the 2002 season. <><><><><><><><> You're the General - The Web is different than TV - and PBS gets it, especially at American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant, an online partner to its film biography of the Civil War general and controversial president. Save Net Radio - Web radioheads unite at Save Internet Radio, the online call to protest Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel. Movie Extra Confessions - That random college guy who walked past Alyssa Milano in an episode of TV's "Charmed" may not be a big-time celebrity, but he does have the goods. Teach With Movies - Find films by cultural heritage, minimum age, title, character development or keyword search, then access learning guides that describe the film's benefits. The Chronicles of George - The help-desk operator from hell is featured here by a co-worker who, while working side-by-side with the hapless George, was so appalled by the mangled help-desk tickets George wrote that he used them to create a web site. Egg: The Art Show - Sponsored in part by PBS, this site is the online sidekick to the television program, complete with streaming video and audio clips and interviews of artists featured on the TV show. Closer to the Truth - Closer to Truth brings together leading scientists, scholars and artists to debate consciousness and other fundamental issues of our time. Trash 4 Sale - A bizarre and sometime highly entertaining auction. SHORT
TAKES: Lost in Translation - Visitors will have a blast experimenting with the unperfected Systran translation software. Pets Welcome Here - The site lists thousands of hotels, motels, beaches, campgrounds, and ski resorts that accommodate our furry friends. <><><><><><><><> Extraterrestrial Real Estate - If you're thinking about retiring but can't afford to stake your claim in some beautiful, exotic locale, you may want to consider an exciting alternative…The Moon. The Symphony: An Interactive Guide - This is a great site for anyone who loves classical music but often feels lost when it comes to understanding the nature, form and history of the symphonies they listen to. Talk Surgery - A great site to visit for anyone who is considering undergoing plastic surgery. There are 'personal stories' from people who have had a variety of different procedures, technical information on many types of surgery. Useless Knowledge - 'If it isn't here, it isn't trivia' is the slogan of UselessKnowledge.com, a website that prides itself as the definitive source of trivia and useless information on the Web. Scribbling Women - The nineteenth century revealed a literary movement among female authors in America. We can now experience dramatizations of these inspired works through national radio broadcasts. Hotel Rate Search Engine - Take a machete to the dense growth of hotel travel sites at Travelaxe, a free hotel search engine that compares prices posted on other travel sites, side-by-side. Atomic Time Utility (free) - (ACS) utility will automatically check users' PC time settings with the greatest accuracy available today. Old Time Radio - Where 21st century families can listen to those old radio programs via their computers. SHORT
TAKES: Logical Fallacies - Where you can analyze precisely why the other guy's argument just doesn't add up. The World's Ugliest Buildings - With a name like the Millennium Dome and a $1.25 billion price tag, it would be hard not to hate London's entry in The World's Ugliest Buildings. <><><><><><><><> Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World - At Seeing, Hearing and Smelling the World, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute explains how we do it. Airline Meals - Travelers who are chow-hounds might want to book an inter-Malaysian flight from Kota Kinabalu to Kuala Lumpur, devoted to photos of in-flight airline meals. Your Childhood is Here - Nostalgia becomes humor at Yesterdayland.com, and anyone born in the last seventy years will get a kick out of the content on this website. Useless Information - Fascinating bits of obscurity at Useless Information, "stuff you never needed to know but your life would be incomplete without.". Doctor Who - After 39 years on earth - well, in England anyway -- perhaps it's time you discovered Dr. Who, a cult-popular BBC series that simply won't go away and, in fact, gets more popular with time. Philosophy in Cyberspace - Five sections categorize the site into branches of philosophy, text sources like books and journals, organizations, forums and miscellaneous links. Pinhole Spy Cameras - Wannabe spooks can join up at Pinhole Spy Camera, where the effects are high-end but the equipment is very low-tech. Web Sites for Dummies - Jessett.com has created a step by step guide that is a model of the common sense design, clean graphics and intuitive navigability it preaches. SHORT
TAKES: Antique Illness - Hypochondriacs who have run through 20th century aches and pains can dabble in the ailments of the 1800s at Interactive Antique Illness. Lightning Stalker - David O. Stillings, the Lightning Stalker, tells his in photographs of lightening storms he has shot over the last 20 years as he searches for the ultimate storm. <><><><><><><><> Wrecked Exotics - The folks at Wrecked Exotics may have uncovered the great equalizer: the fender bender. The E-Zine for Oppressed Sysadmins - Dedicated to computer professionals, the site plays it straight with articles on the coming clone wars, commentary on whether Linux will be "the bridge that unites us," and lots of discussions about certification. Codes and Ciphers - Bletchley Park, the base of operations for the Allied code breaking, was recently restored and transformed into a museum. CDC Travelers' Health - Avoid bringing home an unwanted memento from your summer travels by paying a visit to Travelers' Health. American Mile Markers - Fascinating bits of obscurity at Useless Information, "stuff you never needed to know but your life would be incomplete without.". PDN Photo Annual 2002 - The 2002 PDN Photography Annual celebrates the best of them, capturing all the horror, joy, pain and beauty caught the moment it was expressed. Food Worker Rants - Read how they can avenge themselves against diners who are rude, fail to control bratty kids and obnoxious boyfriends, or who don't tip enough. Projections: A Futurist at the Movies - A professional futurist sits behind the popcorn bag to rate films on futurism, entertainment and the plausibility of their visions of tomorrowland. SHORT
TAKES: Foam PC - NeuHausPlatz Computer Systems offers the first case-less PC whose parts are held together by great globs of polyurethane foam. Guide to Star Wars Costuming - Even a Star Wars hater - surely there must be a few - has to be amazed at the extraordinarily elaborate costuming to be seen at The Padawan's Guide to Episode II Costuming. <><><><><><><><> Smithsonian Jazz - Live It, Love It, Learn It is the riff at Smithsonian Jazz, committed to preserving and perpetuating jazz as an American national treasure. The Combovers Experience - Five photo galleries show off men's compulsion to force the few survivors of male pattern baldness to lie down in directions they do not wish to go. Punch Out - Mohamed Al Fayed, owner of Harrods, came to American attention when his son Dodi died with Princess Diana in a 1997 car crash, but the British public knows him as Chairman Mo. Misheard Lyrics and Song Parodies - Amiright.com makes fun of garbled lyrics, as well as silly band names and songs just begging to be parodied. With more than 1500 misheard lyrics and over 100 parodies. Book Crossing - If you've enjoyed a good read lately and want to share it, first register it at Book Crossing, which promotes a kind of captive breeding and release program for books. The Living Internet - Newbies to the Internet and old hands who think they know the neighborhood will both learn more about the massive village that is the WWW at The Living Internet. Comics on the Web - From Alley Oop to the Wizard of Id, offbeat strips like Reality Check and comic heroines like Agnes, Comics.com is the place to curl up and read the funny papers. Sound Portraits - The online home of the remarkable program heard on National Public Radio. SHORT
TAKES: The World of Mayonnaise - 40 different brands of mayonnaise are reviewed, mayo recipes are traded and a gallery of mayo art is on display. Broke Scholar - Get a really good summer job really fast to earn the $40,000 you need for your first year of college, or -- just for back-up -- visit BrokeScholar. <><><><><><><><> A Game of Words and Whimsy - Anagrams and brain teasers at Says You!, the online version of the game of wit from WGBH public radio and NPR. Pet Obsessed - Your pet's image is digitally combined with a Rembrandt, van Gogh or da Vinci to create a print or canvas suitable for framing and hanging next to the litter box. Museum of Hoaxes - The flimflam man may be as old as civilization, and at the Museum of Hoaxes our capacity for being seduced by a good sting is recorded as far back as 756 AD. The Shadow Knows - One of the oldest old-time radio sites at the ripe age of five years, Shadow Radio offers "Today's Drama," regularly updated, downloadable from 14.4 to 28.8 modems as originally broadcast. Bound for Glory: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie - Created by the Museum of Musical Instruments, the site is the first virtual documentary exhibition devoted to Woody Guthrie. Super Seventies - If you missed the 70s the first time around, the Super Seventies RockSite brings back the Me Decade, aged like a mighty fine wine. String Theory - The basics of theoretical physics (there's a contradiction in terms) are explained at Basics, bosons and fermions mix it up at Experiment and gravitational collapse is explored at Black Holes. Ugly Footballers - While the World Cup 2002 has your attention, take Ugly Footballers.com for a trip into the less attractive elements of the sport. SHORT
TAKES: Art Crime - At Art Crime: A Journal of Modern Iconoclasm, crime-artists projectile vomit, urinate and heave eggs on and at works of art in acts of vandalism or self-expression, depending on your viewpoint. The Lenny Bruce FBI File - Much of it Bruce's own complaints about a conspiracy against him and the memos the FBI traded in response. <><><><><><><><> Preserving Endangered Cocktails - If Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails (LUPEC) catches on, women will get some guts, stop ordering Chardonnay and convert to real cocktails like a Gin Fizz or a Singapore Sling. Reef Expedition - Tour the Atlantic Ocean's largest coral reef without muddying up your boots at the World Wildlife Fund's Expeditions in Conservation: The Mesoamerican Reef. When Stars Did The Commercials - See Clark Kent and Perry White emoting over Sugar Smacks and the Three Stooges nyuk-nyuking over Simonize car polish. Watergate Anniversary - One of the most loathsome and intriguing periods in American history, the events that seem like ancient history to high school kids today had profound consequences, explored in detail at Watergate.Info. Playing with Fire - Where creative souls prove that holding up a lighter at a Paul McCartney concert or using it to light candles, fireplaces or smokes is just so pedestrian. Occultopedia - An A to Z encyclopedia of the meaning and current knowledge of the practices of the occult sciences. Apple Online Museum - Satisfy your nostalgia for that old Apple IIGS you bought for something like $12,000 in the 1980s at The Apple Museum. Entering the Twilight Zone - A comprehensive guide to all 156 Zone episodes. SHORT
TAKES: Goth Bowling - Anti-cheerleaders take a long trip down the gutter to rate the best of the worst, some two dozen alleys across four states, on their most deliciously sinister qualities. Osbournes Fun - An animated site where you can send Ozzie, Sharon, their quirky offspring and even quirkier pets wandering through the house <><><><><><><><> Infrared Zoo - From Caltech and NASA, the site teaches kids and adults about infrared light, the heat radiated by all living creatures. Wrestling Museum - Ms. Moolah reigned for 30 years as women's professional wrestling champ, and she and other heroes and villains, midgets and managers of professional wrestling are featured performers in this tour. Fantastic Art Prints - The Art of Jeffrey K. Bedrick, exhibiting the artist's take on mythical romanticism, a style that grew from the Northern California Visionaries school, whose work focused on spiritual and utopian visions. Public Lettering - A Walk in Central London and shun the legendary palaces and veering taxi cabs to note the sans serif typeface on Parson's Library or the failure of shadow and scale in the interior lettering of the British Museum. Iron Outlaw - At Ned Kelly: Australian Iron Outlaw, the history and legend of a man many countrymen consider a national hero are explored in depth.
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