Various Cool Links
Below are some links to a wide variety of unusual but interesting sites. I suspect there will be at least one or two sites on this list that might be worth a mouse click to you.
Cool Sites in No Particular Order |
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| Yahoo! | … | a great place to begin |
| … | perhaps the best search engine on the Web | |
| Metro | … | downloadable daily newspaper for the world's major cities |
| Flight Level 350 | … | cool aviation videos |
| Météo-Villes | … | detailed weather info for all of France (plus London) |
| Modest Needs | … | a charity that helps people who only need a little money |
| Gigapxl Project | … | the world's biggest, sharpest photographs—awesome! |
| Snopes.com | … | best source on the Internet for debunking urban legends |
| Damn Interesting | … | an eclectic and fascinating collection of interesting articles |
| Any Soldier | … | for sending gifts to U.S. soldiers overseas |
| Flame Warriors | … | an illustrated guide to online personality types |
| Omniglot | … | a fascinating guide to written forms of language |
| Homebrew CPU | … | a computer built completely from scratch |
| The Paris Pages | … | over 7000 pages dedicated entirely to Paris |
| LeapSecond.com | … | someone even more obsessed with time than I am! |
| Antimoon.com | … | a good site for English as a Second Language (ESL) |
| Consumer Dynamics | … | several very unique board games and intriguing toys |
| Engrish.com | … | examples of badly fractured English in world commerce |
| Danny Burk Photography | … | beautiful scenic photos |
| The American Widescreen Museum | … | cinema widescreen processes and color technologies | Airliners.net | … | fabulous photos of airplanes and aviation stuff |
| Photo Net | … | a vast storehouse of information on photography |
| The Smoking Gun | … | an archive of amazing documents from the public record |
| Yesterland | … | a great, unofficial guide to discontinued Disneyland attractions |
| Switchboard™ | … | a great way to find deadbeat ex-spouses |
| Find-A-Grave | … | a great way to find dead people |
| Silver Screen Siren Website | … | classic glamour photos from times past |
| National Security Agency | … | spooks on the web |
| Internet Chess Club | … | play chess online with other human beings |
| VATSIM | … | virtual flight simulation online for pilots and controllers |
| Second Life | … | a separate virtual universe in cyberspace |
| Great Circle Mapper | … | computes great circle distances |
| The British Monarchy | … | official web site of the royals |
| Titan II ICBM Web Page | … | extremely cool info on Titan missiles |
| Heavens Above | … | real-time charts of the stars in your sky |
| Amazon.Com Books | … | over 2.5 million books for sale online |
| The Internet Movie Database | … | ultimate online reference for movie fans |
| License Plates of the World | … | just what the name says—fascinating |
| Flags of the World | … | a treasure-trove of vexillological gold |
Note: These links point to sites outside my control. I cannot be responsible for the content of the sites to which the links lead, nor should the fact that I provide links here be construed as approval or endorsement of those sites. I try to keep all links up to date; please apprise me of any links that appear to be broken.
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Last modified on May 31, 2012
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