Jim's Links to Fun Sites

These are sites I've had a good time browsing. I hope you do too.

1. Post Secret - personal postcards from the edge
2. Web cams all over the place
       and ones in San Francisco  
       and Africa
3. Pencil Carvings - very complex forms from such a simple start. Masterful.
4. Odd Food Books from the 50's - I wish I'd thought of this
5. Bad Designs
6. Folding Paper Toys - plans!  You need to click around a bit to get it.
7. KWMap - a graphical way to find related keywords
8. Optical Illusions on the web
9. Unworkable Machines
10. Urban Exploration - the inside of cities
11. Flong - offers interesting examples in visualization (ex, popular numbers)
12. Harmless Pranks - also check out his "how much is inside" - excellent
13. Randi debunking faikers
14. Make magazine - you should go to their show
15. Help the search for extraterrestrial life
16. How will the next Bay Area earthquake affect your house?
17. Robot Wars in SF every year
18. Know where to look for satellites in the night sky
19. Web restaurant guide, add your own reviews or see my restaurant guide

These are meant to be funny, see if you agree.

1. The Nigerian Scam - give it back to them!
2. The Silicon Valley Bermuda Triangle
3. The Condiment Museum
4. Peeps - the research (They appear to be down! Shoot!)
5. Furby Dissection Information

Fun things to play with

1. Police Sketch Artist - try to make your own face
2. Graphical Balls - they mesmerized me
3. Find your own political compass
4. Mr. Picasso Head - make your own modern art (search the site for "schrempp")
5. 20 Questions - the computer is amazing
6. Vector Park, a time waster; click on the left most one
7. Incredible java graphics fun
8. Soda straw drawings
9. Fireworks all the time, from Nancy B again.

And there are these shockers

1. Home made cruise missile
2. Dot Coms becoming Dot Nots
3. Lookup payphone phone numbers
4. Web Sites that Suck - he probably thinks mine sucks too
5. Enter the world of the lounge lizard
6. The Wizard of Oz vs Pink Floyd
7. Hate your modem?

Alternative Press Sites of Interest

1. Atomic Bear Press. Cousin Brian's place.
2. The Homeless Channel. A well written story.
3. BikiniKat. I met Flower at APE. She was fun to chat with. There is a lot of potential in her ideas.
4. Jamaica D. Echoes in the Ashes is a dark goth book. I bought an early issue at APE 2004. This year she's added to the story. Still daaaark.
5. Some folks don't have a web site yet. I'm waiting for them: Steven Soria; Leslie Bloomfield and Adele Dresner-Moss; Apathy Strikes.

Cool Multimedia Shows

1. Most recent Photobucket posts
2. Most recent LiveJournal pics
3. Web Collage gives you a constantly changing set of images from the web (may not be safe for work and youngsters - this can be *anything*)
4. Animusic - computer animated musical instruments
5. Can a Whale Explode?
6. AdCritic lets you see the latest new funny TV ads
7. Found Footage is stuff they found in the trash bin

Music Sites with some interest

1. Launchcast is a great place to listen over the internet
2. MyRadio plays music via WMA
3. Audible offers online audio programs
4. Spinner lets you kind of choose your own music
5. Songza - listen to any song
6. An Ontology of Electronic Music, with samples!

Just Interesting

1. 6 Degrees Testing
2. Long Live Estonia!
3. SplitRock Lighthouse from Jim E

Building Community With the Internet

1. Bookcrossing - leave a book somewhere and see who picks it up.
2. Sorry Everybody - a phenomenal spontaneous gathering
3.  

Blogs - Blogs can be dull (like mine) or interesting, like these

1. JYTimes - Jane K. Yoo
2. Palm Springs - Paul Williamson
3. Spleenville - Just full of bile
4. 742 Evergreen - A young family. Lots of photos.

Sites that have linked into my Site (thanks, but no commercial use please!)

1. Home Cooking recipes
2. S.V. Bermuda Triangle
3. The Brain - thanks for the link, but your brain is out of whack
4. An anti-UHaul site
5. Schrempp.us  (OK, it's my brother's web site)
6. Donne in Cucina
7. A photo credit in an article about SOFIA
8. NZ camper vans - ??

Travel Sites that link to my site

1. Dmoz Travel
2. Google Travel Peru
3. Google Travel Cambodia

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