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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.

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www.brainbashers.com/daylight
Explore how much day light your location gets.

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www.cheese-burger
Everything you ever wanted to know about cheeseburgers.

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www.coolest-gadgets.com
News on the latest gadgets.

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www.chess.com
Everything you need to learn and play chess.

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www.random.org
Everything you ever wanted to know about random things.

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www.purposegames.com
Test your general knowledge.

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www.wordsmith.org
Online anagram generator.

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www.drawingsofleonardo.org
Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci.

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www.lab.andre-michelle.com
Fun, interactive musical synthesiser.

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facts.randomhistory.com
Fun facts and interesting things for the curious mind.

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www.neave.com/fractal
Zoom in on a fractal image.

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www.mowcop.com
Photos of Mow Cop Castle, a castle on my doorstep.

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www.brainbashers.com/worldclock
The human population and other statistics in real time.

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www.wordle.net
Wordle is a toy for generating word clouds from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

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www.oldcomputers.net
An historical view of old computers and how they shaped the world.

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www.tenthdimension.com
Can you imagine the tenth dimension? See if this video helps.

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www.elfyourself.com
Turn yourself and your friends into elves and dance the night away!

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primes.utm.edu
Lots of information about prime numbers, their history and their uses.

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www.dozenalsociety.org.uk
Why use base 10, when base 12 is much more fun.

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www.shaheeilyas.com
Flags of the world as piecharts.

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www.sensibleunits.com
Convert boring units to real objects as you type!

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www.passwordchart.com
Cracking little site to help you to create passwords.

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www.readymech.com
Snazzy little characters to cut out and make.

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www.worldmapper.org
The world as you have never seen it before.

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krysstal.com
The history and geography of inventions from all ages and all locations.

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www.mos.org
Spectacular microscope images.

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

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www.obsoleteskills.com
An interesting list of skills that are now obsolete.

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www.betterexplained.com
How to get a sense of scale.

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www.northpole.com
Visit Santa at the North Pole.

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

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

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www.fallingsand.com
Play with sand, very relaxing.

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www.euratlas.com
View world maps over the last 2,000 years.

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www.glassgiant.com
Upload a photograph and have it converted to ASCII art.

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drawapig.desktopcreatures.com
Draw a pig in this unique personality test.

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www.fieggen.com
31 ways to tie your shoe laces.

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www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com
World War One in colour. Photographs nearly 100 years old.

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

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

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

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

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www.faceresearch.org
Everything you ever wanted to know about faces. With interactive demos.

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

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

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

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

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www.howstuffworks.com
How stuff works! From eBay to quantum mechanics.

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worldatlas.com
World atlas with flags, facts and figures.

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flashface.ctapt.de
Create your own identikit face with this great site.

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turbulence.org
Interesting visual version of chess.

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

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

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www.neave.com
Flash version of Google Earth.

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volcano.und.nodak.edu
Excellent website all about volcanoes.

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snowflakes.lookandfeel.com
Make your very own snowflake.

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www.panoramas.dk
Fantastic 360 degree photographic panoramas.

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www.zefrank.com/scribbler
Draw a picture and then watch the computer create a sketch from it.

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www.petoftheday.com
Pet Of The Day

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coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu
See various animals in infrared and see the heat they give off.

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pubs.acs.org/cen
Have you ever wondered what's really in lipstick, cement, toothpaste or chocolate?

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

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

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www.pentrix.com
Videos of amazing pen twiddling tricks.

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

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www.opentopia.com
World sunlight map.

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www.tour-eiffel.fr
The official site for the Eiffel Tower, France

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

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

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www.dpchallenge.com
Amazing, award winning photography.

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www.learnmorsecode.com
Learn Morse code in one minute!

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www.zoomquilt.org
Zoom through an amazing piece of art.

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www.bbc.co.uk
BBC IQ test - answer 70 questions on logic, observation, reasoning picture puzzles and visual memory.

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

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www.alcatrazhistory.com
Explore Alcatraz and learn more about the famed prison island.

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

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www.iloveegg.com
The bizarre egg song!

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www.castlexplorer.co.uk
Explore the castles of Britain.

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

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

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www.snopes.com
Urban legends explained and unravelled.

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www.bedtime-story.com
An illustrated online copy of Alice In Wonderland.

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

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

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

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

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www.poetryconnection.net
Poem of the day.

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www.becominghuman.org
Journey through the story of human evolution.

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

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www.kellys.com
Shadows to make on the wall with your hands.

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

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maps.google.com
US maps and satellite images from Google.

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www.egyptarchive.co.uk
The Egypt archive.

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www.badgerbadgerbadger.com
Wonderful singing, dancing badgers.

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www.starchamber.com
Write your name in Elvish.

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www.channel4.com
100 worst pop records of all time.

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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.

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www.zefrank.com
Make your own kaleidoscope.

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www.hubblesite.org
Views of space from the Hubble telescope.

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www.physics.org
Explore the physics of everything around you.

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

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svt.se/hogafflahage
Curiously entertaining singing horses!

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

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www.microprizes.com
A clever ASCII text editor.

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www.kokogiak.com/megapenny
The MegaPenny Project, do you think you can count one billion pennies?

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

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www.funnyjunk.com
How to fold a shirt professionally!

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antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov
NASA's picture of The day

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www.humanclock.com
The time as shown by photos of real people.

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