Grab your water shoes and dive in! To save space
I will just say these are all great sites, the pick of the litter. Submit a site.
(Under Construction : Stay Tuned!)
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Games (online)
- Ghost - an online word game, bluff your way to force an opponent
to make a real word
- The Word Game
Place - play crambo, stinky pinky, or phrase
doggerel (all word games)
- What's in a Name?
- make as many words as possible out of a name in a timed period (competitive)
- Anagram Genius Server - pop in a name (full works best) and see what phrases
can be made out of it
- Fake Out! - choose a word and guess the definition (hard!)
- Boggle
- find words in a grid of random lettered blocks
- Mancala -
old African board game (played with nuts), strategic but not very hard
(quite fun!)
- Peg Game
- similar to the ones you might play waiting at a resteraunt, just square
- Connect-4
- play against an opponent over the net
- Logic Board at
Blueberry Hill - like mastermind
- Flipper at Blueberry
Hill - deceptively simple looking game, cover
the board in pink blocks, hard!
- WebTris at Blueberry
Hill - claims to be the original, not real time,
but still a good simulacrum
- Sol at Blueberry Hill - a type of strategic solitaire, a cross-shaped board
with one empty peg (I've played the physical board game, hard!)
- The Cube at Blueberry
Hill - Rubrik's cube, think the fastest time
for the real kind is like 30 seconds or something
- Berries - based on the "microscope" game from 7th Guest,
interesting strategic game, the closest thing I can describe it to is chinese
marbles
- Memory Mangler - memory with a snackfood theme (graphic intensive)
- Shape Shifter - one of those little move-the-piece-to-make-the-picture
puzzles
Cartoons
- Garfield!
- America's very own favorite fat cat. Test your cat IQ, play Lasagna in
Heaven games and more.
- The Dilbert Zone - the hilarious cartoon that pokes fun at the technological
world (for those who understand it)
- The Comic Strip - from Dilbert to Nancy to Robotman to Peanuts, all here
(official sites)
- Stu's Comic Strip Connection - 1,000's of links to every single cartoon imaginable
Humor
News
- AllPets.Com
- everything you ever wanted about all pets
- Net Pet
- lots of info on many types of pets, links etc
- Paw Prints - articles on pets, humans and animals and wildlife
- Pet Channel
- brings 25 magazines into one huge site...
- AutoWeek
- if you're into automobiles, try this site
- ZDNet - the
foremost computer magazine publisher, MacUser, Yahoo! Internet Life, etc
- Byte - the
online version of Byte Magazine
- Computer Life
- run by ZD, online version of the print mag
- CyberEdge Electric
- online version of the print magazine
- MacWorld
- online version of the magazine, forums, news etc
- US News
- news online
- Tribune Networks - the publishing company for the Daily Press, Chicago
Tribune, etc
- Washington Post
- great source for news
- Yahoo! Get Local
- find the Yahoo! near you for news, weather, business etc
Reference and Research
- Famer's Almanac
- this is the online version of that timeless classic publication, you
know they are right about weather 60% of the time?
- The
CIA World Factbook - get the facts from the people
who are paid to know! About everything
- Daily Miscellany
- important events, birthdays etc for the date
that's today, plus quotes and other stuff
- This Day In History - from the people who know, the History channel ... even
pictures, video and audio clips (also search for other happenings)
- Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary - ah, these days you don't even have to turn the page
of a book...
- Rhyming Dictionary
- now you don't even have to think your own rhymes,
what is the world coming to?
- Webster's
1913 Unabridged Dictionary - for those hard,
obsolete (old?) words you may need (confuse your friends!)
- French-English,
English-French Dictionary - parle vouz francais?
I sure don't! Did I even spell that right? Check it out :)
- English->German
Dictionary - remember, when it says "136.000"
that the period means a comma in US English
- German<->English
Dictionary - another German to English (and back
again ;) dictionary
- English - Spanish
Dictionary - not quite as good as the others,
not searchable (use the find command in your browser)
- Blender
Popspeak - don't ask me, I don't know. Looks
neat though (it's slang)
- Sillicon
Valley Slang - compuspeak, geekspeak, all the
same (highly paid computer prodigy speak!)
Useless (But Fun!)
