The series of Earth’s Children novels by Jean Marie Auel (that’s pronounced jeen marie owl, not zhon marie awl, as many of us think).
Glory, glory to Old Georgia!
Biographies of every mathematician who ever lived—some famous, some obscure, some you’ve never heard of, and some that I swear they made up. (There are obviously going to be lots of scientists in here too, like Darwin, for some reason, Heisenberg, Einstein, etc.) From the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
My favorite Simpsons website. It has boucoup pictures, AIM icons, episode summaries, and quotes, quotes, quotes!
The “official” baseball history site. You ask, What kind of website would claim it is the official history site of all baseball? This one. If you can think of it, it has it.
The federal government has a new website, www.ready.gov. The thing is that the pictures from the site are so ambiguous, they could mean anything! These interpretations of the pictures are hilarious. This can also be found at about 200 other sites, like this one, which has many more, contributed by a lot of people.
The best science-fiction and fantasy novels, short fiction, TV and movies, and more from 1951 to 2004.
Awards from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America from 1965 to 2004.
I found this link in some random person’s Facebook profile. It is hilarious. It basically has pictures of all kinds of things from Asia, mainly Japan, that have funny misuses of the English language.
Hili was a postdoc in our lab, but recently she had to take another job, in an Israeli hospital, I think. She and her husband Itamar had their first child last October, Ayelet. Apparently that is a Hebrew name. That child is so cute. You cannot help but smile at nealy every picture of her.
This is a very entertaining and random website, veeerrrrry conducive to serious time-wasting. Run by Jennifer Bishop, I think its one original common theme is kind of conservative politics, but that is honestly a small part of it. The hundreds of links are all entertaining and are the main source of its prodigious time-wasting capabilities.
This is one of my very favorite things on TV, so you’d think I would make a point to watch it more often. They are almost as funny on the internet as on TV.
Oh, yeah. These go back to 1993. Every single one of them.
I put this link here because it is the best audio editor I’ve found. I wanted to cut off the ends of some songs and fade them out so they would fit on an 80-minute CD, and none of the popular free software I had did it, especially that worthless piece of trash MusicMatch Jukebox. (“Free” should not mean “worthless,” guys. But at least it does volume-leveling...FIVE times, and that’s it.) Anyway, Audacity does not burn CD’s, but it can modify sound files in every way you’d want: fade in and out, combine tracks, change tempo without changing pitch, increase volume, and lots of other things I think I’d never need. It can apply those effects to any part(s) of the file, too! (You just have to click-and-drag to select the desired part of the song, which was less intuitive for me than it should have been...)
These are beautiful pictures of Durham Township, Pennsylvania, near the Delaware River, taken by one person. There are hundreds of pictures, and almost all of them are just gorgeous.
Go, you Huskies!
If not the greatest, if not the most important, then easily the most magical moment in the history of American professional sports. It is the bonus video down on the right. (I'd put a link directly to the video, but that doesn’t work.) I could watch this every day for the rest of my life and not get tired of it. In fact I’m coming pretty close to doing that... If you want to hear an actually good, exciting, memorable call of the home run, instead of that boring, droning hack, Vin Scully, then click here and find Jack Buck's call of it on the right side.
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This is where I got about half of my political and religious quotes from. They have over 1,600 of them and you can even sign up for a 3-quotes-of-the-day email list.
Oh, God, I’m such a nerd...
Yes, this is exactly what you think: A computer database that does the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon in about two seconds for any actor who’s been in a movie. (You can also scroll down and do the game for any two actors!) Also check out the Oracle of Baseball. Brought to you by the University of Virginia Computer Science Department.
Dr. Kaku is my idol. I want to be like him when I grow up (which I guess would give me about 10 years…). He has written several great books about physics for the layman, he has his own radio show, he teaches physics, of course, and this website is pretty nifty, too. Especially read the first article on his articles page, “The physics of advanced civilizations”, about the successive levels of technological advancement civilizations can achieve.
Some guy’s completely unofficial SNL site, it is extraordinarily well done, with current cast member biographies, list of cast members in each season, list of Weekend Update anchors and their years, a few Weekend Update transcripts, list of all the hosts, and more.
They’re funny. I promise you, it’s worthwhile.
Ha!
A chapter from Mark Twain’s 1880 book A Tramp Abroad, this is an absolutely hilarious account of his misadventures with the German language and all the idiotic, confusing problems with it.
Oh, god, the horror.
In the middle of this page is a video of the 1993 All-Star Game at-bat with John Kruk facing Randy Johnson. Those of you who know why I put this here should have already clicked on the link; those who don’t know absolutely have to. (It doesn’t work right now, but I’m leaving it up here in case it does in the future.)
This is a complete list of all the properties and possible values for those properties in cascading style sheets. This is very helpful! There are lots of properties I didn’t know about, some of which are useful!
Ha! I can’t believe this! You have to click on this! This is great! In a very bad way.
A very famous, clever 1845 satirical piece ridiculing protectionism. Very short and worth the read.
This guy stands outside of concert venues before concerts of current pop and rock artists and shouts into a megaphone that everyone there has bad taste in music and they need to help themselves and get rid of this problem, etc. Classic.
An amazing song, with flash video, created out of Windows-event sounds. From eBaum’s world.
A very precise and exhaustive list of references made to all things Star Trek by movies, TV shows, and songs. See especially the separate pages of references in Futurama, Simpsons, and South Park episodes. It’s fascinating. There are many I never knew about.
Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly
So, Back to the Future is my favorite movie, and I bet very few people know that Eric Stoltz was originally cast as Marty, and many scenes were shot with him in them. Zemeckis decided that he was being too dramatic and serious and that the character needed a little bit of light-heartedness and comicality to him, so they fired him and hired Michael J. Fox, and the universe has been better off ever since. Stoltz is a great actor whom I like, but let’s face it: my life, many other people’s lives, and the world as a whole would be disastrously worse if not for Michael J. Fox in those three movies. But it’s interesting to peruse these screen shots of Eric Stoltz portraying Marty McFly, and smile inwardly at how the universe really does right itself sometimes for the benefit of all posterity.
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