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World Radio Network - WRN is a broadcast and transmission company meeting the broadcasting and telecommunications needs of a global society.

Pong Story - Here, read the story and see early games, like Noughts And Crosses, the oldest graphical computer game. Trace video game history in the US and in Europe, and see early ads, articles and schematics.

Graffiti Archaeology  - Graffiti-covered walls in San Francisco are preserved as they change over time via a time-lapse collage of photos of graffiti taken by different photographers from 1998 to the present.

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Snow Day - A gentle animated game in which you try to snag the falling snowflakes without getting hit by the falling boots.

Humphrey Bogart - Bogie fans get the latest news about Humphrey Bogart.

OldVersion.com - Supplies old versions of various programs, from utilities like Acrobat Reader to communications software like AOL Instant Messenger and multimedia like RealPlayer.

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Not Your Average CD Store - A boutique rather than a superstore, OEbase offers a streaming MP3 player and music featuring local artists and artists from small labels.

Journeys Through Vietnam - Online visitors explore a changing Vietnam and the diversity of its landscape, its people and its traditions.

Low Carb Parties - Eat, drink and entertain the low-carb way with help from Low Carb Parties, a one-stop low carbohydrate party source for whatever you need to throw a low carb party, should you wish to do so.

Current Values of Old Money - To find out how much a specific amount of money in a certain year would be worth now, visit How Much Is That Worth Today.

Rooms with a View - A gallery of original digital and fractal art and illustrated poetry, most of it by Terry Wright and best viewed with 800x600 screen resolution in a dark room.

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Your Amazing Brain - The Wellcome Trust, a UK biomedical charity that promotes research and education to improve human health, helped build this fully interactive site.

The Decline of Fashion Photography - A slide show of contemporary fashion photography, sterile and boring, contrasted with original and beautiful examples of the genre in the past.

The Lockergnome Effect  - Full-service tech portal offering nine newsletters and a host of other services, including e-books, an active community, a modeling site, a game escape and an exemplary RSS resource.

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End It All - A small freeware utility that makes closing all running applications quick and easy.

Whistling - The techniques, modes, tricks and secrets of whistling are explored so that whistling, like singing, might be appreciated on its own many merits.

Not Fooling Anybody - Dedicated to the documentation of design blights on our culture's landscape, NFA records painstaking efforts to renovate and disguise.

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Wacky World of Ze Frank - Toys, videos, stuff to watch and stuff to read, it's all wacky all the time in the wacky world of Ze Frank.com.

New Yorkish - A weblog of humor, news and other info from New York City, updated daily.

Where's Cherie? - Cherie, an adventurous young woman with an Amelia Earhart complex, is following "the sudden urge to get on an airplane and just disappear."

Intelligent Gaming Opinion - Updated daily with the latest gaming news, reviews, previews, interviews, comment, screenshots, videos and downloads.

Quirky Alone - Though you may not be romancing a single person, you are romancing the world. Celebrate your freedom on National Quirkyalone Day, February 14th, with help from Quirky Alone.

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The Shoe Project - Male or female fans of footwear, from ruby red slippers to goofy winter slippers, will find old friends or new crushes.

Paper Craft Yamahas - Create paper models of Yamaha's "big naked" XJR 1300, the low and long DSC11, or the sensational TMAX automatic sports model at Yamaha's Paper Craft site.

Dream Anatomy - A collection of astonishing anatomical representations from the collections of the National Library of Medicine, from 1500 to the present.

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Tech Support - Hundreds of independently reviewed and rated help sites, best free utility programs and freeware that works as well as expensive commercial programs.

Found Typography - From graffiti in San Francisco's Embarcadero to a Palo Alto No Parking sign, street typography found on sidewalks, billboards, telephone poles and advertising flyers.

Instant Bureaucracy - Offering a variety of forms to distribute to elevate everyday interactions: the Acquaintance Termination Form, Sexual Congress Request or Verbal Communication Request.

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Simone Zahradka Illustrations - Where the artist's illustrations pop off the page in a cacophony of pixel penguins and pretty pointed ponies who lead visitors to still more bold, unusual and inventive illustrations.

RouteWord - A word puzzle that combines elements of crossword puzzles and mazes to reveal the hidden word.

Epicurious Food Dictionary - A complete glossary by the Epicureans who for years have brought web users "the world's greatest recipe collection" and expert cooking and dining tips.

The Bloggies - Honor outstanding weblogs, those highly personal and highly idiosyncratic web pages with dated entries.

Marbles Reunited - A vigorous British-based campaign is underway to reunite sections of the Parthenon Sculptures housed in the British Museum known as the Elgin Marbles and restore them to their rightful place in Athens next to the Parthenon.

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Musicplasma - Users just enter their favorite music artist, and soon the name is surrounded by a screen of interlocking colored halos containing still more artists' names.

Tech Thuggery - Tech watchdogs bite back at Tech Thuggery, shining a light on anti-competitive practices in the tech industry.

Mutant Reviewers from Hell - A group of friends sitting around discussing the movies they're interested in using the language of real movie-goers, without the star ratings or the thumbs-up, thumbs-down cliches.

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Monobrows - View the Monobrow of the Week, the Monobrow in Cinema and play MonoMatch, a memory game in which players match the famous monobrows.

Toothpasteworld - A toothpaste fan site where dentist Dr. Val Kolpakov shows off his collection.

Street Stickers - Street Stickers, see a collection of more than 150 photos of the graphics, art and messages that occupy the city streets, roads, highways, lanes and avenues.

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Morphases - Offering online real-time software for face manipulation that lets the user modify and create human faces from several different elements.

JungleWalk - Students, teachers and nature lovers of all kinds will find a vast collection of audio, video and print material at this virtual animal encyclopaedia.

Cameron Davidson Photography - Davidson has published three books of his photography, including images from the Arlington National Cemetery compiled in A Moment of Silence, and his two aerial photography books will be published this year.

Makeup 411 - A source for reliable and quality beauty information, featuring beauty analyses of leading actresses in upcoming films, television shows and music videos directly from the make-up artists who actually created the looks.

The 2003 Words of the Year - Find the American Dialect Society's choices for the words that most colorfully and persistently tripped off our tongues and dominated the nation's conversations in 2003.

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Guru Net - Gives users access to more than 150 top encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference materials.

All But Forgotten Oldies - You may have forgotten some of the lyrics but you'll never forget the tune.

Sex and the City Scrapbook - If the recent departure of Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha felt like premature withdrawal, satisfy those "Sex and the City" cravings at HBO's Sex and The City Scrapbook.

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How to Deal with Women - It's Women 101 at John Ross University and class is now in session, dealing with what Ross refers to as "the default mode of American-born women".

TheyTookEverything.com - Suddenly singles can register for electronics, kitchen essentials, linens, all the stuff they really need now because the ex- got everything.

Comic Book Gorillarama - Visit Comic Book Gorillarama for comic books and other stuff of a decidedly simian nature.

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Victorian Robots - Read illustrated accounts of the world's first robot, the Steam Man created in 1865, Automatic Man built in the late 1880s as a carriage-puller, and Electric man built in 1885.

Once Upon a Dime - They created their own encyclopedia to answer frequently asked questions and to indoctrinate novice comic fans, filling it with drawings and essays and eventually duplicating copies.

Turtle TV - If ever you needed evidence that anyone can be a celebrity, consider the lowly turtle.

How To: By You - From how to build a campfire to how to make compost, visitors can join this sociological project about the study of knowledge in human society and how it differs and changes.

Primer on Ethics & Human Cloning - It's high time you seriously pondered the question of human cloning, since legislation is already being enacted and careful consideration of this deeply complex scientific and social issue.

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Metrosexual Tarot - Where a flip of the tarot card reveals your metrosexual present, future and fate in or out of the closet.

Confessions of a Car Salesman - Where visitors learn what goes on in the back rooms of car dealerships, the sales tricks used to increase profit, and how to avoid overpaying.

The Micropolitan Museum - To behold this artwork has required a microscope, until the Institute for the Promotion of the Less than One Millimeter's Micropolitan Museum, displaying the artistry of microorganisms.

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Rejection Collection - Share your rejection letter or experience, read and weep over others' rejection stories.

The NitPicker's Guide to Lord of the Rings - A lengthy list of deviations between the text of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and the translation of those texts to film by Peter Jackson.

Li'l G n'R - The World's First Guns N Roses Kids' Tribute Band.

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Biodiversity and Conservation - Exploring the fragile balance that sustains the amazing variety of habitats, people, plants, and animals on Earth.

Joseph Stashkevetch - Fish and flora, skies and fields, the body of the city and the human body are all subjects of moody drawings.

Mothers with Attitude - Not for those who think motherhood is a hallowed and sacred occupation, the site is aimed at those who know it is also messy, frustrating and bewildering hard work.

Celluloid Skyline - A multimedia exploration of the mythic city of "movie New York," and the real city of millions, with lessons about the design and use of cities.

Super Seventies - The site creators call the 70s "the overall finest decade for popular music in the past forty years" and offer as proof such features as the Classic 200, album reviews, top singles and music forums.

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Honky Tonks, Hymns & the Blues - The online partner to NPR's Morning Edition radio program that features interviews with performers Pam Tillis and Jean Shepard.

The Daily Gullet - Gluttons for cooking and dining news will find rich fare at the message boards and Q&A sessions of The Daily Gullet.

Bad Astronomy - As an astronomer, teacher, lecturer and all-science junkie, the creator of Bad Astronomy.com feels compelled to debunk the astronomy myths to which he is routinely exposed.

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iPod Anonymous - Time-passing utilities for people addicted to their iPods are at iPod Anonymous.

Bow Lingual - Your dog is talking to you, so listen up.

Miniature Kite Designs - Offers plans, mini kite kits, building tips, galleries, contests and more for small kites, tiny kites, mini kites, colorful kites, kites from Japan and China.

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Alchemy Art - The 20 galleries feature alchemical emblems from woodcuts, engravings and hand-colored manuscript drawings that show alchemical symbols for substances, processes and equipment.

The Proofreader's Hall of Shame - A light-hearted collection of noticeable and notable typographical errors and slip-ups in print, on the web, on signs, on TV, and, anywhere else they could be found.

Movie Critic Consensus - Compiles reviews from respected critics and publications for film, video/DVD, music, even games.

Historical Instrumentation Collection - From atomic movie posters to the shoe-fitting fluoroscope, the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Health Physics Historical Instrumentation Museum Collection chronicles the scientific and commercial history of radioactivity and radiation.

Firefighters' Real Stories - Posts great personal stories, photos of stations and their crews, with odds-and-ends like equipment inventories.

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Edge: The World Question Center - Created in 1988 to promote inquiry intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues.

FantasyInvestment.com - If you long to get your fingers wet in the stock market without getting burned, Fantasy Investment might be the place to start.

Abhijit's Planet - Dedicated to the fond memories of beloved GRANDPARENTS but focused on achieving harmony with the universal Cosmos.

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Match Heads - Inspired by a model of the Eiffel Tower, the creator of Match Heads has gone on to make dozens of carved and painted matchheads with intricate colorings, markings and structures.

Computer Gripes - Devoted to what stinks about computer products.

Truth in Advertising - Return to the age of innocence at Truth in Advertising for a gallery of cigarette ads from the 1940s and 50s depicting the beautiful people enjoying a relaxing smoke.

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Love In War: Dating For The Agitated - An online dating service for those in the military, helps soldiers find compatible companionship online just like the rest of us-but with a difference.

The Food Section - Publishes award-winning original food writing and photography and scours the web for links to culinary news and events, recipes, and gastronomical ephemera.

Draw Your Boss - Stick it to the man by showcasing pictures people draw of their bosses. Creative, non-threatening, personally-satisfying revenge can be sweet.

The New Zealand Edge: Heroes - New Zealanders are among the rarest group of people in the world, but historically, they've blown away the world with earth-shaking changing ideas and achievements in all disciplines.

Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails - (LUPEC) is dedicated to the Gin Fizz, the Widow's Kiss, and the Singapore Sling - the drinks our mothers and grandmothers drank.

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Winged Sandals - An animated version of the Homeric Hymn to Pythian Apollo, as Apollo transforms himself into a dolphin and founds the Oracle at Delphi.

Introduction to Identity Theft - A useful online-primer that's educational, easy to navigate and full of valuable tips.

Hacker Hall of Fame - A thorough review of this recent phenomena, the first wave likely arising in the1960s and composed of MIT geeks with an insatiable curiosity about how things worked.

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Late-Night Restaurants - A public directory of all-night restaurants and after-hour joints.

Penguin Ball - The simple game of simple rules is to knock the penguin from his perch and take a whack with yeti's bat.

Family Forest: Bush and Kerry - Bush and Kerry, find out who's related to whom.

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BBC World Service: Programmes Archive - Listen to radio broadcasts from the BBC World Service Programme Archives, from African performances, to American plays.

ROBOlympics - See the videos of the first Robot Olympics that overtook San Francisco in March with thousands of robots from around the planet.

A Site For Sore Eyes - Useful info includes a section on the anatomy of the eye and how it works; explanations of common vision problems from myopia to hyperopia; vision correction options.

Mac Folklore - Mac Heads will enjoy Mac Folk Lore, devoted to collective historical storytelling about the Mac, with sets of related stories describing events from multiple perspectives.

Women Who Rock - Welcome to the Club, the online version of the PBS documentary, puts the four women on center stage, along with their sometimes raunchy, always aggressive, vocal and personal styles.

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BBC: Languages - Learn from online courses, pick up holiday phrases in 34 languages, and find details about BBC programs and publications.

Image*After - Offers visitors the opportunity to download and use high resolution pictures for free.

What To Rent - The site deciphers a registered user's personality and establishes a relationship between that personality and the movies in its database.

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100 Most Often Mispronounced Words - Supplies a list of the most mangled words and phrases in the English language.

Grey Tuesday - At Grey Tuesday follow the protest held against the music industry in February 2004 and lend support to fellow music lovers across the globe.

A Network called 'Internet' - Learn about the origins of a system that today dominates so much of public communication, including an in-depth history.

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How To Memorise - Where the World Memory Champ offers 12 different ways to memorize information.

Jeff's Robots - A mix of boxed and unboxed items, used and new, plastic and metal, powered and unpowered, computerized and analog.

à la carte - Creator of the French cookery site A La Carte, Hertzmann has been obsessed with food as long as he can remember.

The Best Online Fiction of 2003 - Read the top ten stories of 2003, from "You Are a 14-Year-Old Arab Chick Who Just Moved to Texas," to "How To Catch a Good Girl."

Montreal's Metro - A modern rapid transit system known as swift, convenient, and inexpensive, one of the most architecturally distinctive subway systems in the world.