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- 1881 Cyclopedia
- The Household Cyclopedia
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A Complete And Practical Library - A Day in the Life
- The concept is simple. Each day, one new photo will be posted on the site. A photographer is assigned to shoot one photo a day for seven days. The photo can be of anything the photographer wants. The only guideline is that the photo that's posted has to have been taken within the past 24 hours. After the week is up a new photographer in a new location will contribute a week's worth of photos and so on. Our archive section will contain every photo posted on this site.
- Absolute Write Water Cooler
- Message board for all kinds of writers
- Accents
- English as spoken in accents from 296 different countries.
- Animated Math
- Animated Sand Painting
- AnyBirthday.com
- Find someone's birthday with just their name
- Apollo Archive
- The Project Apollo Archive serves as an online reference source and repository of digital images pertaining to the historic manned lunar landing program.
- Arts Journal
- ASL University
- Feel free to use this site and learn from the various lessons and resources. There is no need to register or pay unless you want documentation to fulfill high school, college, or continuing education course requirements.
- Animated sign language words
- Barcode Yourself
- Bathtime in clerkenwell
- This animation is based on Stephen Coates composition under the same
title.
This film is about The Great Revolution of the British Cuckoos, who bravely took over London, forcing all the people to move inside the cuckoo clocks.
(By way of Rocketboom.com) - Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Photonegatives Collection
- Best of Hubble
- BHAG
- (BEE.hag) acronym. An ambitious or difficult plan or goal.
"... a bold mission, or what I like to call a BHAG — a big, hairy, audacious goal — like our national goal in the '60s to go to the moon by the end of the decade." - Blinking 3-D
- Blog Directory
- "What are blogs?
blogs are web logs that are updated regularly, usually on a daily basis. They contain information related to a specific topic. In some cases blogs are used as daily diaries about people's personal lives, political views, or even as social commentaries. The truth of the matter is that blogs can be shaped into whatever the author wants them to be.
Blogarama is the best free directory of web logs (blogs) and journal sites. With the explosive increase of blogs and Blog related sites, the blogsphere needs a single coherent voice, a place where people can go to navigate this everchanging, evergrowing garden of information. You take the time and care to maintain your Blog, now you can help people find it. - Blue Ball Machine
- Also see You're the Man Now Dog.com
- BzzzPeek
- What do animals, and insects sound like in various countries? A Bee.
- Cartoons
- Newspaper cartoons from around the world.
- Charities
- Washington state Secretary of State, FTC
- Church Sign Generator
- Make your very own church sign. Just enter some text and click the
'Go' button.
Tombstone Generator, Image Generators - Clocks
- Timeline
- Collection of interesting sites
- Compendium of Lost Words
- The Compendium lists over 400 of the rarest modern English words - in fact, ones that have been entirely absent from the Internet, including all online dictionaries, until now. In theory, the Compendium will be the only web page on which each of these words occurs in its proper English context.
- Computer generated scientific papers
- SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research
papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written
context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our aim here is
to maximize amusement, rather than coherence.
One useful purpose for such a program is to auto-generate submissions to "fake" conferences; that is, conferences with no quality standards, which exist only to make money. - Computer Stupidities
- Cool Tools
- Cost of Living Calculator
- American Institute for Economic Research
- Counting Sheep
- Deb's Funny Pictures
- Digital Morphology
- The Digital Morphology library is a dynamic archive of information on digital morphology and high-resolution X-ray computed tomography of biological specimens. Browse through the site and see spectacular imagery and animations and details on the morphology of many representatives of the Earth's biota.
- Discipline Help
- School and home
- Drawing Hand
- E-Prime
- English without the verb "to be"
- Earthquakes
- Worldwide Earthquake Activity in the Last Seven Days
- Easter Eggs
- Egg Heaven 2000
- Escape Artist
- How to live and/or work overseas
- English as a Second Language
- Activities for ESL Students
- ESL Learning for Traveling Students
- Guide to Becoming an ESL Teacher
- Purdue Online Writing Lab - ESL Teacher Resources
- Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
(Thanks to Jeremy at Educator Labs)
Excel Bumper Stickers- Excel Pictures
- Evolution of the Latin Alphabet
- Other Alphabets
- Flying Pig.com
- Animated models for you to make.
A unique range of animated models for you to cut out and make. From Skiing Sheep to Ruminating Cows and of course the Flying Pig; all the models come complete with clear, fully illustrated instructions, just cut out and glue together! - Free Art Fonts
- Freedom of Information Act
- Golf
- and other games
- Google Labs
- Hamburger recipes
- Harper's Index
- Harper's magazine
- Harry Shearer
- Le Show
- Hollywood Star
- Hostels
- Choose from 5512 hostels & 2115 activities in 149 countries around the world!
- How Much is Inside?
- "We carefully re-filled the ketchup bottle with our FREE ketchup!
Woo Hoo! At last this whole website thing was starting to pay off! I'm never paying for mustard, relish, soy or el scorcho sauce again!
The bottle was refilled to the top using exactly 50 packets of ketchup! That means that each packet holds 8 grams of ketchup, or about a quarter-ounce, and has a value of about 2.5 cents US!" - How to
- 15,000 entries. The primary goal of eHow.com is to provide complete guides to consumers so they can get things done. Its format is consistent throughout every "eHow": it provides a short one-sentence overview; succinct, easy to follow step-by-step instructions.
- How to Clean Anything
- How to do stuff
- Remedies and prescriptions for staying on top of the world.
- How to Mend it
- Use how to mend it .com to find out how to mend
vacuum cleaners and mobile phones, cars and DVD players, computers and
tumble dryers, televisions and motorbikes, CD players and washing
machines.
When we say "find out how to mend just about anything" - Human Nature Review
- Use the drop down box in the upper right corner
A significant source of analysis and commentary for readers at leading universities and research institutes in over one hundred and sixty countries
- Inappropriate uses for power tools
- InternetFrog
- Download speed and more information
- Illusions
- Lightness Perception and Lightness Illusions
- James Randi Educational Foundation
- An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural
- Jean Shepard
- Great radio storyteller
Old Time Radio
- Language Map
- The MLA Language Map is intended for use by students, teachers, and anyone interested in learning about the linguistic and cultural composition of the United States. The MLA Language Map uses data from the 2000 United States census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and three groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States. The census data are based on responses to the question, "Does this person speak a language other than English at home?" The Language Map illustrates the concentration of language speakers in zip codes and counties. The Data Center provides actual numbers and percentages of speakers and includes census data about seven additional groups of languages less commonly spoken in the United States.
- LeetSpeak — 133t5p33k
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A parent's primer to computer slang
- Let them sing it for you
- You enter the lyrics, it will be sung for you.
- LetterJames
- Spray paint graffiti, e-cards, etc
- Magazine Cover
- Mandala
- Mars
- MarsQuestonline.org
Mars Rover JPL
NASA - Math Games
- Microsoft Usability Lab
- Enroll via our on-line form to be eligible to participate in usability research sessions, site visits, focus groups and product evaluations.
- Mind Bluff
- See Create a Phantom Limb
- Metaphorical.net
- Movie Poster Maker
- Mr. Magazine
- Samir Husni, aka "Mr. Magazine™", is Hederman Lecturer and Professor of Journalism at the University of Mississippi where he heads the magazine service journalism program.
- MultiMedia Files
- Old commercials and training tapes. April Winchell (ventriloquist Paul Winchell's estranged daughter)
- Museum of Hoaxes
- Obscure Patents
- Odd Knowledge Base articles
- Here's a collection of computer humor directly from Microsoft. Well, ONE of them is a parody. The links were accumulated from colleagues, Usenet and web searches, but mostly from "googlewhacking" the Knowledge Base.
- Odd Stuff
- Office Playground
- Old Fashioned Clip Art
- Old Radio recordings
- Old Splash Screens
- Splash screens are those fleeting images displayed for a couple of seconds when the program is launching. Big and small, simple and sophisticated, cute and annoying, you can find a selection of them/
- Old time radio shows
- "We offer hundreds of vintage radio shows for you to listen to online in mp3 format, all for free. Before the days of video games, shopping malls, MTV, and the Internet, families used to sit in their living room each night to listen to radio shows such as Abbott and Costello, Superman, Groucho Marx, The Avenger, Gunsmoke, Sherlock Homes, and many others. When TV become popular in the 1950's, most of these shows went off the air, but they now live on at websites such as this one and on weekly nostalgia radio broadcasts worldwide."
- Open Secrets
- Who has given what money to which candidate?
- Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena
- Optical Illusions II
- Origami
- Panoramas
- Featured Weekly Full Screen QTVR Travel the world by 360 degree
interactive virtual reality panoramic images.
Here are others of Mars, Seattle, Hawaii, Grand Canyon, Maui Banyan tree and San Francisco - Panormas, World Wide
- PhoneSpell
- What does your phone number spell?
- PhysLink
- PixelMaker
- See Klock
- Possum Living
- How to live well without a job
and with (almost) no money - Powers Phillips P.C.
- Powers Phillips, P.C., is a small law firm located in downtown Denver,
Colorado within convenient walking distance of over fifty bars and a
couple of doughnut shops. Powers Phillips also maintains a small satellite
office-in-exile on the cow-covered hillsides near Carbondale, Colorado,
where it puts out to pasture some of its aging attorneys.
The firm is composed of lawyers from the two major strains of the legal profession, those who litigate and those who wouldn't be caught dead in a courtroom.
- QTVR
- A collection of the best high-quality fullscreen QuickTime VR panoramas on the Internet
- Quatloos
- Quatloos.com is a public educational website covering a wide variety of financial scams and frauds, including wacky “prime bank” frauds, exotic foreign currency scams, offshore investment frauds, tax scams, “Pure Trust” structures and more.
- Regional Accents
- Harvard dialect survey
- Retro Encabulator
- Retrospectiv
- Photo collection
- Satellite Images
- Satellite Tracking
- Quickly and easily keep track of your favorite orbiting objects. J-Track lets you choose from a fairly large list of satellites.
- Sidewalk Chalk Drawings
- Sign Language
- Skyscrapers
- Smiles from WOPR
- Solar Views
- Also, from Elizabeth Bailey: GlassCrafter.com
- Sounds
- Space Imaging
- Sparklines
- Sparklines or Wordgraphs Edward Tufte
- Stock Photos
- Browse through the categories of our huge gallery containing over
50.000 quality stock photos by more than 2.500 users! Need a wallpaper for
your desktop? Need a pic for your commercial website design? Looking for
inspiration? Have a look around.
SXC is a friendly community of photography addicts who generously offer their works to the public free of charge.
- Table of Condiments
- That Periodically Go Bad
- Ten Rules of Performance, The
- Rules of programming, business, and living in general. Rule #1: Don’t assume you know anything.
- Ten Technical Communication Myths
- Tube Animals
- Tuva Videos
- Typo Generator
- typoGenerator is a random generator for 'typoPosters'. a typoPoster is a poster, created from images and letters/text that doesn´t have any sense, just to look good
- Universe
- Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All travel in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.
- Urban Dictionary
- Urban Dictionary is a slang dictionary with your definitions.
- Useless Information
- Word Oddities
and Trivia
World License Plates - WorldoMeters
- Worldwide statistics constantly updated
- Writers Almanac
- The Writer's Almanac®, a daily program of poetry and history hosted by Garrison Keillor, can be heard each day on public radio stations throughout the country. Each day's program is about five minutes long—check your local radio listings for the station and time in your area. Sign up to receive The Writer's Almanac via email every morning.
- Writer's Resources
- Zip Code Demonstrator
- Type in a zip code one number at a time to see how zip codes are distributed in the US
- Zoom Quilt
Last edited
26 February, 2014
Links verified 18 July, 2004