Friday, March 7, 2008

Websites for Fun & Trivials

The 10 Best Websites (quoted by News Weekly)
http://www.lemonade.com/
http://www.asksunday.com/
http://www.wink.com/
http://www.techpresident.com/
http://www.goodreads.com/
http://www.menupages.com/
http://www.dontforgetyourtoothbrush.com/
http://www.volunteermatch.com/
http://www.fatsecret.com/
http://www.indeed.com/

Top websites for bloggers
http://www.lazysusan.biz/
http://www.juliustruffles.com/
http://www.perfectfrosting.multiply.com/
http://www.cocoabutterscotch.wordpress.com/

Top websites for quirky finds
http://www.ratfanclub.org/
http://www.oldsuperstitions.com/
http://www.bizarrenews.com/
http://www.iusedtobelieve.com/
http://www.engrish.com/
http://www.postsecret.com/
http://www.freebooks.net/
http://www.musicovery.com/
http://www.bored.com/
http://www.beinggirl.com.sg/main/home.php
http://www.youtube.com/user/paulpottstv?ob=1




Fun Sites
Here is a collection of useful, useless, fun, terrible, eclectic, bizarre and downright fun websites. Please feel free to let me know of any websites you think should appear on this list.
Note: All of these fun sites are external links.
http://www.papertoys.com/

Lots of paper folding activities, from cars to buses to trees to boxes.

http://www.obsoleteskills.com/

An interesting list of skills that are now obsolete.

http://www.betterexplained.com/

How to get a sense of scale.

http://www.elfyourself.com/

Turn yourself into an elf!

http://www.northpole.com/

Visit Santa at the North Pole.

www.freerice.comWord quiz.

For each word you get right, they donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.

http://www.mapofstrange.com/

Lots of strange things around the world that can be found using Google Maps.

http://www.fallingsand.com/

Play with sand, very relaxing.

http://www.euratlas.com/

View world maps over the last 2,000 years.

http://www.glassgiant.com/

Upload a photograph and have it converted to ASCII art.

drawapig.desktopcreatures.com

Draw a pig in this unique personality test.

http://www.fieggen.com/

31 ways to tie your shoe laces.

http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/

World War One in colour. Photographs nearly 100 years old.

http://www.mrob.com/

Every interesting number you can think of, from the very small to the fantastically large.

http://www.stripegenerator.com/

You want stripes? Snazzy stripe generator for your website or blog.

http://www.straightdope.com/

Online version of the popular question and answer column in The Chicago Reader. Lots of interesting answers to interesting questions.

http://www.youtube.com/

Where TV meets its end? Look at everyone's video clips or upload your own for the world to see.

http://www.faceresearch.orge/

verything you ever wanted to know about faces. With interactive demos.

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/

Understand key ideas from the world of physics in 60 seconds.

http://www.pocketmod.com/

Pocketmod: the free disposable personal organiser. Select the pages, print it, fold it, use it!

http://www.imdb.com/

The Internet movie database. Everything you ever wanted to know about any movie.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

Channel surf the Internet and discover websites that match your interests.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

How stuff works! From eBay to quantum mechanics.

worldatlas.com

World atlas with flags, facts and figures.

flashface.ctapt.de

Create your own identikit face with this great site.

turbulence.org

Interesting visual version of chess.

http://www.ssiworld.com/

Videos of industrial strength shredders, shredding some very large objects.

http://www.hyperhistory.com/

A project to represent 3,000 years of world history using an interactive combination of lifelines, timelines, and maps.

http://www.neave.com/

Flash version of Google Earth.

http://www.volcano.und.nodak.edu/

Excellent website all about volcanoes.

http://www.snowflakes.lookandfeel.com/

Make your very own snowflake.

http://www.panoramas.dk/

Fantastic 360 degree photographic panoramas.

www.zefrank.com/scribbler

Draw a picture and then watch the computer create a sketch from it.

http://www.petoftheday.com/

Pet Of The Day

http://www.coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/

See various animals in infrared and see the heat they give off.

www.pubs.acs.org/cen

Have you ever wondered what's really in lipstick, cement, toothpaste or chocolate?

http://www.babynamewizard.com/

The NameVoyager is an interactive display of baby name choices over the last hundred years.

http://www.pandora.com/

Pandora is a music discovery service designed to help you find and enjoy music that you'll love.

http://www.pentrix.com/

Videos of amazing pen twiddling tricks.

http://www.wfhummel.cnchost.com/

What is money? An everyday guide to money and its origins.

http://www.opentopia.com/

World sunlight map.

http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/

The official site for the Eiffel Tower, France

http://www.animatedatlas.com/

An animated geographic history of the United States, from the beginning of the nation through to the fifty states.

http://www.earth.google.com/

Google Earth uses satellite imagery to create a remarkable product that will amaze you.

http://www.dpchallenge.com/

Amazing, award winning photography.

http://www.learnmorsecode.com/

Learn Morse code in one minute!

http://www.zoomquilt.org/

Zoom through an amazing piece of art.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

BBC's IQ test - answer 70 questions on logic, observation, reasoning picture puzzles and visual memory.

http://www.origami.com/

Practise your paper folding skills to make such things as elephants and boats.

http://www.alcatrazhistory.com/

Explore Alcatraz and learn more about the famed prison island.

http://www.fun-with-words.com/

Have fun with words, including anagrams, palindromes, tongue twisters, pangrams, malapropisms and much more.

http://www.iloveegg.com/

The bizarre egg song!

http://www.subservientchicken.com/

Your very own personal chicken. Tell it what you'd like it do to.

http://www.castlexplorer.co.uk/

Explore the castles of Britain.

http://www.gapingmaws.com/

Photos of voracious animals growling, yawning, or otherwise showing you their teeth.

http://www.snopes.com/

Urban legends explained and unravelled.

http://www.bedtime-story.com/

An illustrated online copy of Alice In Wonderland.

http://www.brainbashers.com/

Unusual, rhythmical, silhouetted, foot tapping visual bonanza.Warning: 2.6 MB file.

http://www.skyscraperpage.com/

World's tallest 10 skyscrapers, all drawn to scale.

http://www.artpad.art.com/

Express yourself with the Art Pad, where you can create art as unique as you are.

http://www.sodaplay.com/

A simulator that allows you to construct robots and other mechanical creations and watch them walk, move, or fly.

http://www.becominghuman.org/

Journey through the story of human evolution.

http://www.poetryconnection.net/

Poem of the day.

http://www.kellys.com/

Shadows to make on the wall with your hands.

http://www.angadi.org/

Comic strip collection, including Dilbert, Peanuts and Garfield. Updated daily.

http://www.tolweb.org/

View the tree of life, and see how animals and plants are grouped.

http://www.maps.google.com/

US maps and satellite images from Google.

http://www.egyptarchive.co.uk/

The Egypt archive.

http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/

Wonderful singing, dancing badgers.

http://www.channel4.com/

100 worst pop records of all time.

http://www.starchamber.com/

Write your name in Elvish.

http://www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/

Take a journey from the outskirts of the universe, in through a leaf, down into the very heart of an atom.

http://www.zefrank.com/

Make your own kaleidoscope.

http://www.hubblesite.org/

Views of space from the Hubble telescope.

http://www.physics.org/

Explore the physics of everything around you.

http://www.historyplace.com/
Speech of the week - a new speech from history every week.

www.svt.se/hogafflahage

Curiously entertaining singing horses!

http://www.particleadventure.org/

What is everything made of? An interesting tale of electrons, protons, quarks and other strange entities?

http://www.microprizes.com/

A clever ASCII text editor.

www.kokogiak.com/megapenny

The MegaPenny Project, do you think you can count one billion pennies?

http://www.math.com/

A maze generator where you can watch the computer at work.

http://www.funnyjunk.com/

How to fold a shirt professionally!

http://www.antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/

NASA's picture of The day

http://www.humanclock.com/

The time as shown by photos of real people.

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