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Morphizm - The site's theme is "Don't fear change. Change fear," offering writers on global cultural life a stage where the scenery is anything from a baseball stadium to the killing fields. An American's Guide to Canada - At An American's Guide to Canada, an American emigrant shares her view of the country as an endearing, civilized and charming place. Laugh Lab - An online experiment is underway to discover what people think is funny. This month, it's a joke with the punch line, "OK, now what?". SHORT
TAKES: Choose Your Own Adventure - Even grown-ups need to escape into fantasy. America's Richest: The Forbes Fictional Fifteen - At Forbes.com's Fictional Fifteen, billionaire characters from Willie Wonka to Gordon Gekko are ranked. <><><><><><><><> Historic Asylums - Magnificent buildings of brick and stone in incredible detail … American castles? No, mental institutions of the 19th century. Small Ball - You -- coach, manager, and owner. At last. International Poetry - A worldwide forum of poetry news, reviews, essays, interviews and discussion. The Big Cartoon Database - Describes itself as the Internet's largest searchable database of cartoons, episode guides and crew lists, with cartoons from ten major studios, from Columbia to Warner. Viewing Japanese Prints - From samurai and courtesans to flappers in the Jazz Age, Japanese woodblock prints have captured Japanese cultural themes for centuries. Silent Movies - Check out the vamps, sheiks and rogues who enflamed grandma and grandpa at Silent Movies.com. Unusual Kentucky - My old Kentucky home isn't just green, green grass and a famous horse race. It's also a place of gargoyles, ghost bridges and abandoned buildings. Online Talkers - Radio talk jocks have an online home, the web site of Talkers magazine, serving the talk radio industry with news about top hosts, top developments, top issues and - of course - opinions. SHORT
TAKES: ARSEiam - For a devilishly clever graphic designer, ARSE is a very generous soul. He posts not just his work, but also the source code and explicit tutorials for manipulating and distorting Flash. How Gas Prices Work - Find out where your money goes, who controls the oil market, and what to do about it. <><><><><><><><> Top 100 Albums of the 1980s - Generously overlooks Kenny G. and Hall & Oates to uncover music that is at the root of today's hip-hop, alternative and indie rock. 2002 Best Inventions - No such thing as a new idea? In the past year, the mother of invention visited home, sports, medicine - every walk of life - to come up with the cool new stuff. New Rome - Nova Roma is a historical society, a pagan religious organization, a classical studies group and, say site creators, a sovereign nation. Roadside Memorials - While photographing homemade shrines, the artist left notes asking to know the story, and family members responded. Bad Astronomy - Devoted to debunking the myths and exploding the errors about astronomy and related topics that are spread by news, films, books and other media. Paper Veins Museum - Created in 1995 to showcase the interactive arts, the site features over 50 visual artists, filmmakers, writers and performers in a diverse collection of web projects. Quiet Times - This amazing site was designed by a San Francisco graphic designer/writer and employs a mixture of prose and visuals to convey a whim or a thought. Travel Your Dreams - If you've been aching to travel, and haven't the slightest idea where to start, Karen Brown's Guides are just the ticket. SHORT
TAKES: Harper's Index - Faithful readers of the incomparable index now can go online for their monthly fix of absurd stats. Phobias - Phobialist is a deviously entertaining website that focuses on the lighter side of these very serious problems, including Zemmiphobia, fear of the 'great mole rat'. <><><><><><><><> Practical Pet Care - An online resource for pet owners to learn about the proper care of their animals. The Kitchen Link - Called the Yahoo! of food sites, it's an enormous compendium of info about cooking, recipes, cookbooks and original content. Internet Archive Movie Collection - Where 956 "ephemeral" films made by trade groups, industry, schools and governments have been digitized for public viewing for the first time. Closer to the Truth - Closer to Truth brings together leading scientists, scholars and artists to debate consciousness and other fundamental issues of our time. Human Body Online - The site uses a 'dummy' to demonstrate the various aspects of the body, such as 'Organ', 'Skeletal', 'Muscles', 'Nervous System', and 'Circulation'. Alter Ego - Made way too many mistakes in life? Start over again at Alter Ego, the site that lets visitors begin from square one - at birth - and make different choices. Artist at Large - A monthly guide to worldwide exhibitions and festivals, inspired by the artist's sense of curiosity and a view of travel as a creative process. GangRule - Tony Soprano may entertain us, but he's no Vito Cascioferro. See the real deal at Gang Rule.com, a comprehensive database on the emergence of organized crime since 1890. SHORT
TAKES: BotSpot - Bots are the software tools that constantly mine the Internet for data. All the time. Everywhere. Spamming the Spammer - Bulk e-mail king Alan Ralsky, allegedly "the world's biggest sender of Internet spam," is getting spammed big time -- inundated with ads, catalogs and brochures after posts by spam haters led to a plot to turn the tables. <><><><><><><><> Record Check - With everyone savoring the slides and scratches of original turntable sound, Turntable Lab.com's online guide spotlighting favorite records, hidden gems, funky 45s and weird vinyls is a wonder. Seamless City - An ambitious project to create a continuous image of a 30-mile meandering walk through a cross-section of the diverse neighborhoods and environments of the City by the Bay. Cinemorgue - Actresses famous and obscure are covered on the site, searchable via an alphabetical index. The Sun King - The life, art, history, loves and fame of the Sun King are fully explored at Louis XIV, dedicated to the politics, castles, women, art, family, court, wars, even afterlife of the royal monarch. City Stories - Storytelling is part personal journal, part city guide and the city is the main character, all linked in a network of 25 or so city-story sites from Dublin to Portland, Miami to Rotterdam. Adventure TV - See the world by video-sampling natural adventures, like a mountain bike trip through India or a dive tour of the Great Barrier Reef. Not by Bread Alone - The good old USA has a culinary heritage too. Learn all about it at Not By Bread Alone from the rare manuscripts collection at Cornell University. Alchemy Art - Magical, mystical alchemy sought to turn lead into gold, cure disease and prolong life in its early years as a medieval chemical science and philosophy. SHORT
TAKES: Fast Food Fever - New dishes are cooked up by stuffing a handful of fries from one restaurant into a burrito from another and other taste-tested recipes. Free Fall - With tips on how to survive a fall and stories from other lucky - or unlucky - survivors. <><><><><><><><> Internet Journal: First Monday - an online peer-reviewed journal with such heady fare as an analysis of web accessibility in Ireland and post-human law in a "machinic world." Discovering Music with the BBC - If you don't really "get" jazz, world music or classical music, leave it to the British to explain what makes great music great by tuning in to BBC Radio's Discovering Music. Office Politics - Test your aim at Office Politics.com, where visitors play the game and try to unseat the current CEO using tactics from back-biting to kissing. Virtual Warfare - Command a Sherman tank in the last days of the Normandy Campaign at Armoured Warrior, a history lesson-adventure game from the Canadian War Museum based on the real experiences of Canadian tank crews. Churches of London - Some 50 historical places of worship are tucked into the City of London, converted into offices or fallen to ruins. World Stats - A ready source of world rankings in many categories: economic, social, technological, academic - where visitors learn the richest, cleanest, most polluted, even most wired countries. Ghost Town Gallery - Features the long-deserted former boomtowns of the California Gold Rush. Older Version - Those longing for the good old days of MSN Messenger 3.6 or Acrobat Reader 2 will find the classics at Old Version.com, where upgrading isn't always considered a blessing. SHORT
TAKES: The North Pole Times - When the kids get Santa withdrawal after December 25th, send them to the North Pole Times.com for the inside scoop on the merry old elf and his weight problem. Master Dream Kit - Build your own drum set at Pearl Drum.com's Master Dream Kit, where you choose the shell, components, bass drums, snare drums, toms, cymbals and every pretty piece of hardware. <><><><><><><><> Stars on TV - Track upcoming TV appearances of more than 4,100 stars via an index of actors, actresses and directors. When They Were Young - Childhood is as fleeting as it is lovely, so what luck to have it captured at When They Were Young, an exhibition of images from the collections of the Library of Congress. Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet - Experience the 1,400 year-old story of Mohammed, the Muslim prophet, at PBS' Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet, explaining the roots, rituals and rules of Islam. Non Photography - Where f-stops, apertures and composition are tossed out the window and point-and-shoot takes to the streets. Film Wise - Featuring "invisibles," familiar film screenshots with the players missing - their beautiful heads and gorgeous bodies absent from the scene - where you're challenged to name the film in the current Invisibles Quiz. Virtual Mars - Join the international crew aboard Mission Diomedes, an ultra-realistic simulation of a 2-year, 5-1/2 month mission. Found Stuff - Get a discarded glimpse into someone else's life from the doodles, telephone bills and old postcards others have unearthed. Comiclopedia - Get educated in "sequential art" at Lambiek.net, the online site of what is likely the oldest and most famous antiquarian comic shop in the world. SHORT
TAKES: Dead Politicians - Indexing more than 100,000 living and dead politicians, judges and diplomats, offices they have held or sought, political party and dates and locations of births and deaths. Cooking by Numbers - Phooey on "helpful" cooking sites that tell how to whip up a gourmet dinner with just a few hundred dollars worth of ingredients and a warehouse of specialty cookware. <><><><><><><><> Philip Glass Engine - Launch the applet, then click on various associations and impulses - joy, sorrow, intensity, density - to guide you through one of over 60 Glass works. Celebrity Pitches - All Western celebrities who make big bucks by doing Japanese commercials that they probably wouldn't be caught dead doing here at home. Gawker - Offering live reviews of city news like "urban dating rituals, no-ropes social climbing, Condé Nastiness and real estate porn," the site mostly links visitors to a mixed bag of NYC-related web pages. The Workhouse - Fewer than 100 years ago, a person who was poor, elderly, handicapped, unmarried and pregnant or otherwise destitute had nowhere to go but through the "Archway of Tears," as the entrance to one workhouse was known. 21st Century Art - Art:21 from PBS helps visitors make the transition from Degas and Picasso to the performances of Laurie Anderson and the multi-dimensional home visits of Pepón Osorio. Whale Song - Presents live broadcasts of humpback whale vocalizations via a listening system set up off the Hawaiian Islands. Human Anatomy Online - A straightforward explanation of what's connected to what inside your own bad self. This Is SportsCenter - Catch up with how much sports and the program have changed at the 25,000th show celebration at SportsCenter 25K, from ESPN.com. SHORT
TAKES: Fighting the Common Cold - You may not be able to beat the common cold, but you can sure put up a good fight. Web Wheels - They don't call them "vanity" plates for nothing. <><><><><><><><> New Wonders of the World - Just when you thought you had the old Seven Wonders of the World memorized, New 7 Wonders.com invites citizens of the world to elect a new bunch of wonders. A Walk Through Time - Read about the instruments and theories of timekeeping from the ancients to the NIST's most recent achievement - a primary cesium standard, capable of keeping time to 30 billionths of a second per year. Best Inventions for 2002 - It's the start of a new year, and Time.com looks back at the past year's contrivances and contraptions at 2002 Best Inventions. World City Photos - Rise above it all and view the world from on top at World City Photos.org, offering more than 7,500 aerial photos and skyline views, including 4,500 cities. Tiger Homes - A private real world and online sanctuary for the great and gorgeous felines of the wild. Ticket Stub Stories - Every ticket stub tells a story, evoking memories of a 1978 Queen concert or a 1988 trip to the World Trade Center Observation Deck. International Gallery of Children's Art - The art of youth and the youth of art is on display in personal portfolios, special exhibits and collections. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Fact Sheet - That tingling in your hand when you strike your keyboard may not be the sheer excitement of web surfing, especially if it ends in a sharp pain. SHORT
TAKES: Tech Comics - Nitrozac and Shaggy's Joy of Tech comic has got to be the only strip that can get a laugh about MacHeads preparing for a Christmas party with digital hub centerpieces and Cupertino snowglobes. Finding Digital Coupons - A database of those discount codes online stores always ask for at the checkout, leaving you wondering who the select customers are who got the codes honestly. <><><><><><><><> Plein Sud: The Southern Journey - Tag along with Madeleine, a globetrotting journalist, and Reginald, a 25 year old from Quebec, as they go on a 3-1/2 month discovery of "the true American identity" at Plein Sud. The Conners' Indie Shorts - Taste something a bit different at Filmwave.com, where brothers Joseph and Dylan Conner of Olympia, Washington, screen their own feature short films. Knowing Poe - Poe the Person offers a tour of his home at 203 N. Amity Street and an interactive mystery in which you figure out how he died. Prozac Spotlight - Calling its distribution "perhaps the deadliest marketing scandal of the 20th century," Prozac Spotlight.org is definitely not a fan site for fluoxetine. Best Photos of 2001 - With no fanfare, explanation, music, games, videos or online store, Best Photos of 2001 simply presents funny, sweet and bizarre photographs from unnamed sources. Adventures in Reflective Surfaces - A collection of photos of people taking photos of themselves in reflective surfaces. tokidoki - Sometimes, you just gotta have sushi. Satisfy the urge at Tokidoki by entering the Supaaaa Sushi Race, where you choose a driver, a sushi car, a cheap or expensive sushi restaurant. Top Ten Conspiracy Theories - Afghanistan and Enron. Merely a coincidence? Mohamed Atta's passport thrown from a cataclysmic fireball and later found in 1.6 million tons of debris. A miracle? SHORT
TAKES: Nametag Guy - Two years ago, Scott Ginsberg stuck on a "Hello, my name is…" name tag just to see what would happen. Would people say hello? Be more friendly? Clean Films - Clean Films.com is cleaning up the act for you, with "E-rated" DVDs of feature films from which all the sex, nudity, profanity and graphic violence have been edited. <><><><><><><><> PhotoForums - Simple, fun and powerful, that's the kind of site the creator of PhotoForums.com longed for after growing disenchanted with other online photo communities. Radio Adventures - Tune into such diverse print and audio fare as Comedy College, Sound Portraits, the BBC and the World Radio Network for radio documentaries, interviews, discussions and comedy. The Biography Project - From Oscar Zeta Acosta, the Chicano "gonzo" journalist, to Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, the lives of the artists and authors, scientists and film makers who have influenced pop culture are gathered. Classic Films - A collection of distinctive web pages devoted to classic Hollywood that is as classy and elegant as the films it celebrates. Modern Ruins - Photos of desolate bunkers, launch pads - even Coney Island - speak volumes about our illusion of permanence in contemporary society.
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