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.

	www.brainbashers.com/daylight Explore how much day light your location gets.
	www.cheese-burger Everything you ever wanted to know about cheeseburgers.
	www.coolest-gadgets.com News on the latest gadgets.
	www.chess.com Everything you need to learn and play chess.
	www.random.org Everything you ever wanted to know about random things.
	www.purposegames.com Test your general knowledge.
	www.wordsmith.org Online anagram generator.
	www.drawingsofleonardo.org Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci.
	www.lab.andre-michelle.com Fun, interactive musical synthesiser.
	facts.randomhistory.com Fun facts and interesting things for the curious mind.
	www.neave.com/fractal Zoom in on a fractal image.
	www.mowcop.com Photos of Mow Cop Castle, a castle on my doorstep.
	www.brainbashers.com/worldclock The human population and other statistics in real time.
	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.
	www.oldcomputers.net An historical view of old computers and how they shaped the world.
	www.tenthdimension.com Can you imagine the tenth dimension? See if this video helps.
	www.elfyourself.com Turn yourself and your friends into elves and dance the night away!
	primes.utm.edu Lots of information about prime numbers, their history and their uses.
	www.dozenalsociety.org.uk Why use base 10, when base 12 is much more fun.
	www.shaheeilyas.com Flags of the world as piecharts.
	www.sensibleunits.com Convert boring units to real objects as you type!
	www.passwordchart.com Cracking little site to help you to create passwords.
	www.readymech.com Snazzy little characters to cut out and make.
	www.worldmapper.org The world as you have never seen it before.
	krysstal.com The history and geography of inventions from all ages and all locations.
	www.mos.org Spectacular microscope images.
	www.papertoys.com Lots of paper folding activities, from cars to buses to trees to boxes.
	www.obsoleteskills.com An interesting list of skills that are now obsolete.
	www.betterexplained.com How to get a sense of scale.
	www.northpole.com Visit Santa at the North Pole.
	www.freerice.com Word quiz. For each word you get right, they donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.
	www.mapofstrange.com Lots of strange things around the world that can be found using Google Maps.
	www.fallingsand.com Play with sand, very relaxing.
	www.euratlas.com View world maps over the last 2,000 years.
	www.glassgiant.com Upload a photograph and have it converted to ASCII art.
	drawapig.desktopcreatures.com Draw a pig in this unique personality test.
	www.fieggen.com 31 ways to tie your shoe laces.
	www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com World War One in colour. Photographs nearly 100 years old.
	www.mrob.com Every interesting number you can think of, from the very small to the fantastically large.
	www.stripegenerator.com You want stripes? Snazzy stripe generator for your website or blog.
	www.straightdope.com Online version of the popular question and answer column in The Chicago Reader. Lots of interesting answers to interesting questions.
	www.youtube.com Where TV meets its end? Look at everyone's video clips or upload your own for the world to see.
	www.faceresearch.org Everything you ever wanted to know about faces. With interactive demos.
	www.symmetrymagazine.org Understand key ideas from the world of physics in 60 seconds.
	www.pocketmod.com Pocketmod: the free disposable personal organiser. Select the pages, print it, fold it, use it!
	www.imdb.com The Internet movie database. Everything you ever wanted to know about any movie.
	www.stumbleupon.com Channel surf the Internet and discover websites that match your interests.
	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.
	www.ssiworld.com Videos of industrial strength shredders, shredding some very large objects.
	www.hyperhistory.com A project to represent 3,000 years of world history using an interactive combination of lifelines, timelines, and maps.
	www.neave.com Flash version of Google Earth.
	volcano.und.nodak.edu Excellent website all about volcanoes.
	snowflakes.lookandfeel.com Make your very own snowflake.
	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.
	www.petoftheday.com Pet Of The Day
	coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu See various animals in infrared and see the heat they give off.
	pubs.acs.org/cen Have you ever wondered what's really in lipstick, cement, toothpaste or chocolate?
	www.babynamewizard.com The NameVoyager is an interactive display of baby name choices over the last hundred years.
	www.pandora.com Pandora is a music discovery service designed to help you find and enjoy music that you'll love.
	www.pentrix.com Videos of amazing pen twiddling tricks.
	wfhummel.cnchost.com What is money? An everyday guide to money and its origins.
	www.opentopia.com World sunlight map.
	www.tour-eiffel.fr The official site for the Eiffel Tower, France
	www.animatedatlas.com An animated geographic history of the United States, from the beginning of the nation through to the fifty states.
	earth.google.com Google Earth uses satellite imagery to create a remarkable product that will amaze you.
	www.dpchallenge.com Amazing, award winning photography.
	www.learnmorsecode.com Learn Morse code in one minute!
	www.zoomquilt.org Zoom through an amazing piece of art.
	www.bbc.co.uk BBC IQ test - answer 70 questions on logic, observation, reasoning picture puzzles and visual memory.
	www.origami.com Practise your paper folding skills to make such things as elephants and boats.
	www.alcatrazhistory.com Explore Alcatraz and learn more about the famed prison island.
	www.fun-with-words.com Have fun with words, including anagrams, palindromes, tongue twisters, pangrams, malapropisms and much more.
	www.iloveegg.com The bizarre egg song!
	www.castlexplorer.co.uk Explore the castles of Britain.
	www.subservientchicken.com Your very own personal chicken. Tell it what you'd like it do to.
	www.gapingmaws.com Photos of voracious animals growling, yawning, or otherwise showing you their teeth.
	www.snopes.com Urban legends explained and unravelled.
	www.bedtime-story.com An illustrated online copy of Alice In Wonderland.
	www.brainbashers.com Unusual, rhythmical, silhouetted, foot tapping visual bonanza. Warning: 2.6 MB file.
	www.skyscraperpage.com World's tallest 10 skyscrapers, all drawn to scale.
	artpad.art.com Express yourself with the Art Pad, where you can create art as unique as you are.
	www.sodaplay.com A simulator that allows you to construct robots and other mechanical creations and watch them walk, move, or fly.
	www.poetryconnection.net Poem of the day.
	www.becominghuman.org Journey through the story of human evolution.
	www.angadi.org Comic strip collection, including Dilbert, Peanuts and Garfield. Updated daily.
	www.kellys.com Shadows to make on the wall with your hands.
	tolweb.org View the tree of life, and see how animals and plants are grouped.
	maps.google.com US maps and satellite images from Google.
	www.egyptarchive.co.uk The Egypt archive.
	www.badgerbadgerbadger.com Wonderful singing, dancing badgers.
	www.starchamber.com Write your name in Elvish.
	www.channel4.com 100 worst pop records of all time.
	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.
	www.zefrank.com Make your own kaleidoscope.
	www.hubblesite.org Views of space from the Hubble telescope.
	www.physics.org Explore the physics of everything around you.
	www.historyplace.com Speech of the week - a new speech from history every week.
	svt.se/hogafflahage Curiously entertaining singing horses!
	www.particleadventure.org What is everything made of? An interesting tale of electrons, protons, quarks and other strange entities?
	www.microprizes.com A clever ASCII text editor.
	www.kokogiak.com/megapenny The MegaPenny Project, do you think you can count one billion pennies?
	www.math.com A maze generator where you can watch the computer at work.
	www.funnyjunk.com How to fold a shirt professionally!
	antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov NASA's picture of The day
	www.humanclock.com The time as shown by photos of real people.

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