World Wide Web Links Worth Visiting 

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The Long Now Foundation

A site dedicated to the construction of a 10,000 year clock and the long view that such an undertaking requires.

Fourmilab

An breathtakingly original site with a wide variety of interesting information.   Created and managed by John Walker, the founder of Autodesk.

The MMF Hall of Humiliation

Dedicated to putting an end to online scammers, or at least laughing at them mercilessly.

Matt Neumann's Home Page

A site devoted to original writings, rants and humor by a former Saturday Night Live and HBO writer.

Interactive Model Railroad

A curious German site at Ulm University devoted to interactive systems, which permits you to operate a virtual model train.

Church of the Subgenius

Brain toolkit and surreality reboot.  These kinds of sites make the internet what it is.

Spur of the Moment Elite Social Club

The SotMESC was founded in 1989 by a group of BBS and Internet hackers and phreakers out partying and having a good time. As the times changed though, so did the SotMESC. After several extreme changes in the electronic community, they formalized into a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting privacy, security and freedom on the networks for all.

Gray Areas on the Net Web Ring

Web rings are groups of people who join together in order to promote their web sites by trading links which other pages which share a common theme. There are thousands of such rings, uniting everything from cat owners to college alumni to fan pages for popular rock bands, TV shows and movies. In order to join this particular ring, your site must be gray. By this we mean it should address themes or subject matter which is illegal, immoral and/or controversial. Some examples are drugs, satanism, nudism, occult, hackers, AIDS, prisons, piracy, UFOS, privacy, body modification, and many aspects of sexuality.

The Grand Canyon Explorer

The complete guide to the best national park in the world, with a complete online libary of USGS Quadrangle Maps of the area.

The Lightning Field - [To read a review of The Lightning Field by a writer who visited it, click here.]

Isolated in and interacting with the high desert of southwestern New Mexico, the sculpture by Walter DeMaria consists of 400 stainless steel poles situated in a rectangular grid array one mile by one kilometer.

Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus

A computerized thesaurus done the way it ought to be.

Robot Wisdom Weblog

Jorn Barger's chain of consciousness web page.

Academy Awards

Tim Dirks' compete guide to the Academy Awards.

Presidents of the United States

Robert Summers' complete guide to the men who have been (and are) President of the United States of America.

The Visible Human

A real slice of life.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

As you would like it.

James Bond Centre

Douglas Ware's tribute to the best known secret agent in the world.

Great Buildings Online

A resource for great architecture.