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¨™ark
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Net satire
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3wk
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Treats alternative rock as an art form. Good live streaming radio
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7deadlysims.com
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Ain't
It Cool News
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Great source of film industry insider news
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allexperts.com
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Amnesty
International Online
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One of the web's best sites. Challenges visitors to help the victims
of human rights abuse
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Art
and Culture
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artyastro.com
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Ask
Jeeves
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Handles natural, English-like queries best
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AtomFilms
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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
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B92
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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
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baddesigns.com
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Design critiques
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BBC
Online
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The most comprehensive online news source
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Brunching
Shuttlecocks
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Pop-cultural jests. Check out the ratings
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Centre
for the Easily Amused
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Crazy comedy links, games...
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chiatday
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Advertising Agency website. Well-designed
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ChickClick
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A site for girlz
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Classicgaming.com
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Nostalgia gaming site
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CNN/SI
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Best all-round sports site on the internet
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peets.com
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Coffee and tea
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Discovery
Channel Online
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The source for science
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Disgruntled Housewife
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Fem Gripes
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Doodie.com
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Gross, juvenile, and scatalogical
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Encyclopedia.com
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Freebie encyclopedia, nearly as comprehensive as Britannica's
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Epicurious Food
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Huge site from Conde Nast. Everything about food
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Epinions.com
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exp.com
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ExpertCentral.com
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Experts-Exchange.com
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Fametracker
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Celebrity gossip humor
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FAST
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Next-generation web search algorithms yield more precise results.
Not as many pages (90M) in their database yet, though.
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Film
Threat
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Required reading for the alternative film buff
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Freespeech
Internet TV
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Non-Network TV using RealMedia
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Geek
Culture
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A funny look at all things geeky
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Google
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Ranks hits based on popularity rather than advertising $$
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hightimes.com
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Swap marijuana for the vermouth, and you get the idea for this site. Not self-promotional
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Hollywood
Stock Exchange
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A game. Trade celebs like stocks
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Java
on the Brain
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Java tricks revealed for creating classic games
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Jodi.org
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Links to lots of eye-candy sites. Web design resource
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Keen.com
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Advice online
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Listen.com
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Time-saving download directory of MP3s with an excellent search engine
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Lonely
Planet Online
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Detailed info on all major travel destinations. Check out the Thorn Tree - a great bulletin board
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Mapquest
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Online highway and city maps, including directions on how to get where you want to go
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Martinis
Online
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Maybe not your cup of tea, but this is THE site for vermouth lovers
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Mental
Help Net
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Resources for mental health
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MP3.com
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The biggest source of indie label and garage bands, and increasing
numbers of mainstream artists and labels
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MSNBC
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Zip code-specific news, weather and sports, a worldwide network
of contributors, plus the newswires
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Nerve
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Literate smut
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ParkBench
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Theater on the net. Web video,streaming audio
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PBS
Online
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Science, history, politics and culture, minus pledge-week
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Psuedo.com
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Network of some of the best streaming media content on the web
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Refdesk.com
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16,000+ links, well organized.
Very helpful resource
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Remember
the ABA
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Nostalgia site: History of the American Basketball Assocation
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salon.com
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Stimulating articles on any and all topics
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SavvySearch
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Customizable metasearch engine
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Search
Engine Watch
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The best resource for learning what search engines are, how they work, and how to register properly
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Shockwave.com
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Games, 'toons, and...
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Silicon
Valley Toxics Coalition
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Exposes the dirty secrets of the high-tech industry, and its impact on the Third World
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Slashdot
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News for Nerds. Stuff that matters
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Sonicnet
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Cybercasts of music festivals
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Sportspages.com
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Links to hundreds of newspaper sports pages around the continent
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Stickdeath.com
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Animated shorts featuring stick figures wreaking havoc on each other
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The
Atlantic Monthly Online
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Arts, books and digital culture. Check out Post/Riposte, an egg-head bulletin board
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The
Avatar Teleport
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Portal to the net's finest virtual worlds
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The
CIA World Factbook 1998
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Facts and maps for every country in the world
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The
Internet Movie Database
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The answers to all the movie trivia questions, plus best and worst
film ratings
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The
Internet Public Library
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9,000+ complete texts, plus links
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The
Motley Fool
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Finacial advice
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The
Obscure Store and Reading Room
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Links to all the off-beat news of the day plus tech news and gossip
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The
Onion
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Journalistic Satire
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The
void Design Portfolio
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More flash eye-candy
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Timothy
McSweeney
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Shift Magazine's favorite humor website
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Trailervision
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Well-deserved takedown of HollowWood trailers
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Urban
Legends Reference Pages
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Separates the true from the untrue, explaining origins and history of these myths
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Volumeone
Design Portfolio
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Flash eye-candy, and more
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Wall
Street Sports
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Lets you trade atheletes like stocks
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Wired
News
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Not just the paper version online; explores how technology changes our lives
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