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SAMPLE SITE LINKS

¨™ark

Net satire

3wk

Treats alternative rock as an art form. Good live streaming radio

7deadlysims.com

 

Ain't It Cool News

Great source of film industry insider news

allexperts.com

 

Amnesty International Online

One of the web's best sites. Challenges visitors to help the victims of human rights abuse

Art and Culture

 

artyastro.com

 

Ask Jeeves

Handles natural, English-like queries best

AtomFilms

A great marriage of what the web is good for and something good for the rest of us: Reviving the short film genre. Four shorts premiere each week

B92

Belgrade's indie radio station. Shutdown during NATO bombing, but back in months, this site shows the power of the net to subvert topdown media

baddesigns.com

Design critiques

BBC Online

The most comprehensive online news source

Brunching Shuttlecocks

Pop-cultural jests. Check out the ratings

Centre for the Easily Amused

Crazy comedy links, games...

chiatday

Advertising Agency website. Well-designed

ChickClick

A site for girlz

Classicgaming.com

Nostalgia gaming site

CNN/SI

Best all-round sports site on the internet

peets.com

Coffee and tea

Discovery Channel Online

The source for science

Disgruntled Housewife

Fem Gripes

Doodie.com

Gross, juvenile, and scatalogical

Encyclopedia.com

Freebie encyclopedia, nearly as comprehensive as Britannica's

Epicurious Food

Huge site from Conde Nast. Everything about food

Epinions.com

 

exp.com

 

ExpertCentral.com

 

Experts-Exchange.com

 

Fametracker

Celebrity gossip humor

FAST

Next-generation web search algorithms yield more precise results. Not as many pages (90M) in their database yet, though.

Film Threat

Required reading for the alternative film buff

Freespeech Internet TV

Non-Network TV using RealMedia

Geek Culture

A funny look at all things geeky

Google

Ranks hits based on popularity rather than advertising $$

hightimes.com

Swap marijuana for the vermouth, and you get the idea for this site. Not self-promotional

Hollywood Stock Exchange

A game. Trade celebs like stocks

Java on the Brain

Java tricks revealed for creating classic games

Jodi.org

Links to lots of eye-candy sites. Web design resource

Keen.com

Advice online

Listen.com

Time-saving download directory of MP3s with an excellent search engine

Lonely Planet Online

Detailed info on all major travel destinations. Check out the Thorn Tree - a great bulletin board

Mapquest

Online highway and city maps, including directions on how to get where you want to go

Martinis Online

Maybe not your cup of tea, but this is THE site for vermouth lovers

Mental Help Net

Resources for mental health

MP3.com

The biggest source of indie label and garage bands, and increasing numbers of mainstream artists and labels

MSNBC

Zip code-specific news, weather and sports, a worldwide network of contributors, plus the newswires

Nerve

Literate smut

ParkBench

Theater on the net. Web video,streaming audio

PBS Online

Science, history, politics and culture, minus pledge-week

Psuedo.com

Network of some of the best streaming media content on the web

Refdesk.com

16,000+ links, well organized.
Very helpful resource

Remember the ABA

Nostalgia site: History of the American Basketball Assocation

salon.com

Stimulating articles on any and all topics

SavvySearch

Customizable metasearch engine

Search Engine Watch

The best resource for learning what search engines are, how they work, and how to register properly

Shockwave.com

Games, 'toons, and...

Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition

Exposes the dirty secrets of the high-tech industry, and its impact on the Third World

Slashdot

News for Nerds. Stuff that matters

Sonicnet

Cybercasts of music festivals

Sportspages.com

Links to hundreds of newspaper sports pages around the continent

Stickdeath.com

Animated shorts featuring stick figures wreaking havoc on each other

The Atlantic Monthly Online

Arts, books and digital culture. Check out Post/Riposte, an egg-head bulletin board

The Avatar Teleport

Portal to the net's finest virtual worlds

The CIA World Factbook 1998

Facts and maps for every country in the world

The Internet Movie Database

The answers to all the movie trivia questions, plus best and worst film ratings

The Internet Public Library

9,000+ complete texts, plus links

The Motley Fool

Finacial advice

The Obscure Store and Reading Room

Links to all the off-beat news of the day plus tech news and gossip

The Onion

Journalistic Satire

The void Design Portfolio

More flash eye-candy

Timothy McSweeney

Shift Magazine's favorite humor website

Trailervision

Well-deserved takedown of HollowWood trailers

Urban Legends Reference Pages

Separates the true from the untrue, explaining origins and history of these myths

Volumeone Design Portfolio

Flash eye-candy, and more

Wall Street Sports

Lets you trade atheletes like stocks

Wired News

Not just the paper version online; explores how technology changes our lives