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Albinism in Popular Culture - Explains and explores the condition through art, literature, film, photography and fashion. Famous Film Locations - Tour thousands of real-life scenes and sites where famous films and celebrities, past and present, made celluloid history. Vagabonding - The vagabond is trekking the Annapurna circuit and feeling right at home in Orchha, India, a village amongst temples and palaces built in the early 1600's. SHORT
TAKES: Infrared Zoo - View animals via a thermal infrared camera to "see" what it means to be warm-or cold-blooded. Voice Chasers - A comprehensive database, the site gives an online voice to the talented and under-recognized voice-over industry. <><><><><><><><> In Search of the Giant Squid - An online exhibit that explores the mystery, beauty and complexity of one of the world's largest invertebrates. College Sports Television - Avid college sports fans now have a home at CSTV.com, the online field house of College Sports Television. Vintage Brochures - An online gallery of original, not-for-sale items in a personal collection. Money In Politics - With the 2004 elections looming, learn how to follow the money. The Museum of Hoaxes - The best, worst and often most deceptive hoaxes have a wide audience and a long life, and now they have a home at The Museum of Hoaxes. American Music Mavericks - Avant-garde musical innovators who shaped non-traditional American music are the inspiration for American Maverick, a 13-part radio and Internet series. Ghosts of Albion - A fully animated web cast of five episodesy. Photo Journalism - Jim Watson, a photojournalist in Iraq whose updates to American Photojournalist.com give visitors an inside look at working with a camera on the front lines. SHORT
TAKES: Centennial Bulb - Honoring Shelby Electric's handblown 4-watt bulb with a carbon filament that was installed as a nightlight over 100 years ago. Car Cam - Derek has taped a video camera to the top of a remote control car to capture and share such astonishing footage as the contraption chasing and filming poor Jack, around the kitchen. <><><><><><><><> Virtual 'Vertigo' - Widescreen Cinema's Vertigo is a tribute to the mystery and the master of Alfred Hitchcock film classic, "Vertigo." OMB Watch - OMB Watch tracks OMB activities, reports on and gets involved with the federal budget, regulations, non-profit policy and much more. Vintage Brochures - An online gallery of original, not-for-sale items in a personal collection. Bowling To Vegas - Put together bowling and a road trip, and you've got Derek, Matt, Mike and Todd's excellent adventure. Create-A-Band - Create your own band, give it a name, choose the members, make the music and get them jamming. Apollo Theater: Show Time! - "Where stars are born and legends are made". Tech Tales - They laugh, they cry, they save your butt - and they tell their tales at Tech Tales.com. Accidental Obituaries - CNN accidentally gave Internet viewers a peek at how the network would note the passing of Vice President Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan and other prominent figures. SHORT
TAKES: Teddy Bear Museum - See photos of famous bears and heritage bears or shop the bears for sale like, naturally, William Shakesbeare. Fox's Blondes - A handy way to tell if you're looking at the real E.D. Hill or another species of blonde also known to inhabit the Fox News Channel. <><><><><><><><> Hot Hand in Sports - Professor Reifman shares the knowledge of 15 years of "hot hand" research. Classical Music Archives - An index of 15,171 WMA and MP3 files from 798 main composers, from the 17th century forward. PC Magazine Top 100 Web Sites - Whether incredibly useful or incredibly silly, the sites named in PC Magazine's annual list of 100 Top Web Sites have a way of growing on you. Mesopotamian Monsters - Where visitors can meet the beings who mere mortals believed controlled their universe, from rivers and trees to bread and pottery. Alternative Journalism - AlterNet.org is a source for independent and alternative journalism. Global Fashion Magazine - One of the world's leading online fashion magazines for fashion, beauty, travel and lifestyle with a global perspective. The Museum of Unworkable Devices - Celebrates the fascinating devices created by obsessed inventors who refused to let go of what seemed like a good idea at the time. Documentography - A collective of documentary photographers who work on both personal and common projects that tackle social, political and cultural issues worldwide. SHORT
TAKES: Wi-Fi Networking - Fans of the revolutionary technology can hook up with other Wi-Fi groupies in their area. Search Engine Research - Claims to build the best searches by automatically crawling the Web in the background during your computer's spare clock cycles. <><><><><><><><> Last Words - Records the final utterances of the famous, infamous and fictional, whether epitaphs, wills or simple exit lines. Studs Terkel: Conversations with America - Shares the incredibly rich legacy of first-hand research by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Sixties City: British Nostalgia - With all the music, memories and magic of the Swingin' Sixties as experienced by the Brits. Toy Ads - Visitors re-visit the vintage toy ads that made them fog up the toy store window and harass poor mom and dad back in the days. World Press Review - Expand your world view by reading news, editorials and cartoons from Moscow's Izvestia, the Beijing Review, the Daily Nation of Nairobi, Die Zeit of Hamburg and more. Starships To Scale - Science fiction fans can see true scale images of their favorite sci-fi spacecraft. Time Lines: Things That Never Were - Peer into fictional history - a past that never existed - via timelines for imaginative media like "the quintessential series for pseudo-historical debate," Star Trek. Cyber-Museum of Scams and Frauds - An educational site covering financial flim-flam cheats of all kinds. SHORT
TAKES: Yogi Tea - Tips on how to detox, fast and get regular with organic teas to purify your body. Gallery of Regrettable Food - What were they thinking? How did they eat this bilge?. <><><><><><><><> Japanese Etiquette - Where social behavior in Japan is both explained and illustrated in short animated videos. OS Shootout: Macintosh vs. Windows - The site is not a Mac vs. PC competition, but an in-depth examination of user issues like networking, keyboard controls, voice feedback and voice recognition, and more. Cheese Racing - It's not complicated, just weird: Each player throws a slice of cheese onto the BBQ, and the player whose cheese slice fully inflates first wins. Let the Games Begin - Submit and comment on literally hundreds of daily submissions on topics from anime and Amiga to wireless networking and X-Box games. The Daily Show - Comedy Central brings web users The Daily Show with John Stewart, one of America's most amusing social commentators, who has worked TV's Daily Show anchor chair since January 1999. One Weird Lady - Emma is the subject of 'Weird Emma', an online cartoon that is as bizarre as it is hilarious. Great Castles of Wales - The site offers an alphabetical listing of 18 different castles, with histories of the most important castles and detailed floor plans, aerial views and photos of all. Postal Experiments - Experiments included mailing a wide range of items including currencies, sentimental items (a rose, a molar tooth), unwieldy items (skis, helium balloons), and pointless items. SHORT
TAKES: The Miniature Earth - Boil down the earth's entire population into a small group of 100 and world issues are brought into startling clarity. Worst Country Song Titles - Titles are listed, like "I Gave Her the Ring, and She Gave Me the Finger." <><><><><><><><> The Frank & Fritzy Show - Part "Seinfeld," and part "The Sopranos," the Frank & Fritzy Show is an authentic series of conversations captured from wiretaps recorded by the FBI between 1985 and 1986. Baseball Primer - Baseball fans will find everything they've ever dreamed of, including intelligent articles on the sport, extensive stats, predictions, scouting reports and so much more. Parking Lot Videos - Back in 1986, Jeff Krulik took a video camera to the parking lot of a Judas Priest concert. The resultant movie, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, became an instant cult classic. Ode to a Turntable - Technics has created a memorial to the cherished deck as part of its 30th anniversary celebration. Extraterrestrial Real Estate - Welcome to the Lunar Embassy, the first and only company in the world that is legally licensed to sell 'extraterrestrial real estate'. Poisonous Plants and Animals - Find useful info on a wide range of poisonous plants and animals, described and classified by habitat and biological origin. A Long Strange Trip - Where the patient insists to the shrink that he's not crazy as he slowly descends into madness via a fully animated recovered memory therapy session. GPS Treasure Hunt - For a hi-tech spin on the old-fashioned scavenger hunt, try an adventure game for GPS users at Geocashing.com. SHORT
TAKES: SortaGolf - Offers an alternative via seven simple rule amendments that any recreational duffer can follow to maintain competitive integrity and the essence of the game. Wild Parrots of San Francisco - Discovering The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill in 1990 so astonished the creator of this lovely site that a 9-year friendship and intensive study of the birds developed. <><><><><><><><> Flash Math Creativity - a gallery of beautiful, bizarre and brilliant experiments of Flash movies by designers and imaginative coders who "take little ideas and mess around with them." The Unicorn Tapestries - The Unicorn Tapestries, on view at metmuseum.org, have long been one of the most popular attractions at The Cloisters of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Celebrity Look Alikes - Go to A-list Look Alikes to rent a faux Bond - that's Bond, James Bond - or Odd Job, the acerbic hostess of TV's The Weakest Link. Other People's Stories - tell the tales you've overheard or misheard. Nothing is sacred, whether it's hearsay, gossip, myth or some boast you heard from a guy you knew in high school. Teen Lingo - Communications between grown-ups and their kids is tough enough without the vocab getting in the way, so head to Jonathan's Dictionary at Teen Lingo to get down with the kids. Organic Experience - Experiment with single-celled organism population simulations, plant a tree, build an amoeba or just make funky stuff happen. Sketchbook - A visit to Sketchbook, a series of drawings by Kevin Cornell, is like finding yourself inside the creative mind of a stranger who starts becoming familiar. Junk Media - Offers diverse and informed reviews and views on contemporary music, highlighting musicians overlooked by the mainstream music press. SHORT
TAKES: Sound Busy - Sounding busy when the boss strolls past your cubicle is the real challenge. Not any more. Beneath L.A. - You'll know the City of Angels much better after a visit to Beneath L.A., a collection of little known stories about Los Angeles, California. <><><><><><><><> Extreme Engineering - Where visitors take interactive tours of such design marvels as Tokyo's Sky City. Beetle Science - The Coleopterists Society, proclaim this the Age of Beetles, so get to know your neighbors at Beetle Science from Cornell University. AnimaLand - For answers to animal questions of all kinds, visit the ASPCA's Animaland.org, loaded with humane, useful and loving info about the world of animals. Tolkien Art Gallery - Displaying the work of nine artists whose 372 illustrations are all based on Tolkien's books, from The Hobbit to The Silmarillion. The Daily Show - Re-live Daily Show special reports, like the historic "Bush vs. Bush" in which the President questions the President. Amorphoscapes - Digital interactive paintings and drawings are on view at Amorphoscapes by Stanza. Dogs in Cars - Offers three galleries of patient pooches, captive and captivated in our cars. Obsessive Consumption - Design student Kate Bingaman decided to find out by obsessively recording her purchases at Obsessive Consumption. SHORT
TAKES: Phrenicea - A 21st-century prophecy predicting the outcome of the Internet and biotech revolutions. Whack a Mole - A new spin on the old whack-a-mole game takes a fast hand on the mouse to whack pop-up traitors. <><><><><><><><> Online Einstein Archive - A close look at the genius humanitarian's scientific and non-scientific manuscripts. Do History - Explore the process of piecing together the lives of ordinary people from the past via an experimental, interactive case study. Internet Library - A digital library of cultural artifacts of the digital age, with free access to researchers, historians, scholars and the public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Afghanistan Yesterday - Feeling an urgent need to preserve his vivid memories of Afghanistan as it used to be, Thewalt decided to share photos of the art collected in the Kabul Museum and other Afghanistan locations. Birds on Stamps - More than 21,300 stamps are listed with their face value and bird name in English and Latin, presented by country and listed chronologically by date of issue. Low-Down Photography - A photo gallery with a different way of looking at the world -- from the vantage point of a badger dog. The Life and Art of Andy Howell - With roots in skateboarding, surfing, punk and hip-hop, and formal training in visual communications, Howell shows that art imitates life and life has style. Calendar History - A fact-filled site tracing the super-human effort to organize the passage of time. SHORT
TAKES: The Pit Heads - See faces carved into the tiny seeds plucked from peaches, plums, apricots, olives, cherries and even the dogwood tree. My Cat Hates You - Got a cat with a visible grudge? Take its photo and send it in to join the tabby terror squad. <><><><><><><><> Theaters on Postcards - Featuring old and new postcards with views of theatres worldwide, from Algeria to Vietnam. Movies of the 1980s - A virtual encyclopedia of the decade's movies, with reviews by 80s movie fans and trivia, pictures, soundtracks and trailers of more than 400 movies. Science Hobbyist - An engineer/scientist at Seattle's University of Washington who has been a designer and software engineer, has a large and loopy web site for amateur science and science education. Act for Love - Find your cause and your next date at Act For Love, a cause-oriented personals web site that encourages visitors to take action while trying to get some. Foreigners' Guide to America - Italy gave us pasta, Mexico gave us the enchirito and American ingenuity has provided the world with Oreo Cookie cereal and pudding in a can.
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