| Portals to the World This Library of Congress site provides one-stop shopping for your international information needs. Curious about Croatia? Portals to the World links to everything from embassies to travel tips. Want some background on world events? The site offers directories for Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as other countries in the news today. There's even a handy listing of Spanish-language sites about the United States. The world is literally at your fingertips. |
| Orisinal This collection of cute games will make minutes melt into hours as you try and conquer these seemingly simple diversions. No complicated rules and strategies, just use your mouse and keyboard and some deft hand-eye coordination. Try your hand at holding the rope against a powerful rhino, saving cute little chicks falling from the sky, or nabbing flies while jumping in a pond of lilypads. The highlight for us was trying to break 500 in the supremely addictive snowbowling. With two dozen well-designed games of this ilk, you'll be wasting time in no time flat. |
| The New York Times at 150 In honor of her 150th, the Gray Lady is throwing a birthday bash on the Web. The New York Times has invited illustrious writers and journalists to toast her good health in this special retrospective. In The First Issue: Imagining How a Paper Was Born, Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Michael Chabon gets into the character of a quintessential New York hero, Henry Jarvis Raymond, the paper's founder. Al Hirshfeld's caricatures capture more than six decades of entertainment icons frozen into moments of eternal exuberance. From the sublime to the ridiculous (errata through the ages), there's a smorgasbord of goodies here, whatever your taste. (Free registration required.) |
| The Who's the Boss? Resource Has the sitcom formula ever spawned a more high-concept hit than Who's the Boss? Single man with spunky daughter becomes housekeeper for a wealthy woman and her sassy son. Throw in an oversexed grandma, a hefty dash of role reversals, and cue the overbearing laugh track. Relive the glory of this late '80s TV hit with standard fan site details like episode guides, pictures, and news articles. What separates this site from the pack is some slightly disturbing fan fiction, a Sims-inspired diagram of the Bower household, and the lyrics to the unfortunately memorable theme song. For the love of Tony Danza! |
| Mountain Voices Poverty is a sad fact of life in many developing nations, but Mountain Voices hopes to help change that. The site puts the names, faces, and stories to the people who live in highland regions around the world. It details the social, political, and economic climates in nations like Nepal and Peru, and offers transcripts showing average citizens battling their everyday constraints. From 17-year-old farmers in Lesotho to 38-year-old housewives in Ethiopia, you'll glimpse the struggles and hopes of people who are not much different than your next-door neighbors. |
| Pearls Forget what you've heard about pearls starting as a grain of sand in an oyster -- this site delivers the real dirt on pearls. It's more likely that a stray food particle will cause a mollusk to create those lustrous gems. People can artificially start this process in mollusks, which is how cultured pearls are created. While many societies from ancient times to the modern day have adored pearls, some prefer the mollusk shell's mother of pearl. No matter what your preference, this pearl of a site will shed new light on these glossy jewels. |
| Led Pants Led Pants is an illustrator whose work inhabits a world of comic book art, cartooning, computer-game animation, and print design. We particularly enjoyed Led's Brief History of Time -- from a past littered with dinosaurs in blue top hats and yellow ties, to a robo boy future arrayed with wrenches and networked to the gills. Customers for his whimsical creations include everyone from Microsoft to Weekly Reader, Amazon.com to Disney. Which do you prefer: old Led, rude Led, true Led, or undead led. |
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