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[size 2][font "Arial Narrow"]American Masters[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Examine the lives and creative processes of our most outstanding cultural [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]artists at American Masters, the online site of the award-winning PBS [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]series from WNET New York. The series, called the best biographical series [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]ever to appear on American television, documents the role of the people and [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]movements that have helped form our cultural identity. [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]The series and the site explore the greatest visionaries of our times, with [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]an archive of more than 100 portraits of writers, musicians, composers, [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]theater and film greats, architects and other innovators who have left an [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]indelible mark on our cultural landscape, from Lucille Ball to John Cage, [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]Maurice Sendak to Truman Capote. Navigate by genre, check out the current [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]season, play the Six Degrees Game, or use the grade-level teacher guides [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]for lessons in creativity.[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"][url "http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/index.html"]http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/index.html[/url][/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]No, Never!); cartoons like Dilbert, Garfield and Kamagurka; weather, sports [/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]Sometimes you just want a good read to match your mood. Whichbook.net gives [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]readers an intuitive way to find books among the overwhelming choices [/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]reader, who builds the elements of that elusive good read you seek but [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]cannot always define.[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Using software from Applied Psychology Research, the site guides book [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]choices by starting with the reader and what he/she is looking for, with no [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]need to remember book titles or authors. The approach resembles a virtual [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]browse to see what tempts you, like type of main character or national [/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]island off British Columbia. It's owned by four young men of the Haida [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]First Nation who refer to themselves, in the tribal tradition, as bucks.[/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]the world at Pictures of Places, which delivers literally thousands of [/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]The directory links to web sites offering images of geographical locations [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]and landmarks throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Australia, even Oceania -- literally the world over, from beautiful Point [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Loma in San Diego to scenic Nines Creek, a short hike off the Alaska [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]highway. Just pick a place you'd like to see, click on a link and start [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]touring. The site is regularly updated with new sites and invites visitors' [/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]Visual Periodic Table[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Whether your favorite chemical element is an exotic like Palladium or a [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]basic Carbon, see its place in the periodic table of the elements at Visual [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Periodic Table, a visual arts and science collaboration from the Royal [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Society of Chemistry. Explore the startling diversity of material that [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]constitutes our world, through images of the elements and investigations of [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]how they affect our daily lives.[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Click on an element to see a visual representation, when it was discovered [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]and isolated, by whom, its origin and description. At Landscapes, see [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]computer-generated landscape views and models based on relationships within [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]the periodic table. Visit the bookstore or send an e-card of a [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]computer-generated model of ionization energies, atomic radii or atomic [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]mass. Shop for element products like wall charts, mouse pads and prints, or [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]download your favorite element as a stunning screensaver.[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/periodic_table.html[/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]Jamaican Riddim Directory[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Riddim is reggae for rhythm, or a rhythm pattern of bassline, drum and [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]maybe a short melody, known elsewhere as a groove. At the Jamaican Riddim [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Directory, get right down to the music with Disya Quickref Session by [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]clicking on the pop-up menu to choose a riddim that an applet loads and [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]plays. The number one riddim in the Jamaican Festival Song Competition of [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]1971 plays in the background.[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Most versioned riddims are more than 20 years old and originated at the [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]legendary Studio One in Kingston. Sampling classic riddims for inspiration [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]is one way that famously inventive Jamaican music pays respect to the [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]traditions while new riddims are built. A new version of Soundman, an MP3 [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]mixer now offline, will be released in Fall. Meanwhile, sample the riddims, [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]download the "wickidess reggae" screensaver, or play loops of riddims, [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]requiring the program Selecta and JAVA.[/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]Walking Across the US[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Andy, Erik and John are doing something stupid, walking from Chicago to San [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Francisco. As they stroll cross-country, many people say "You guys are [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]stupid!" giving the boys the perfect name for their web site, You Guys Are [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Stupid.com. The three are in their 20s, live in the Chicago area and [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]started their 2,000-mile, 3-month trip on June 1.[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Follow their route on maps, see the photos they take of people and stops [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]along the journey and read their daily journals, like Erik's entry on July [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]20, "Heat, it's what's for dinner." At the You Guys Are Stupid online [/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]For award-winning short animated films created for the web and for [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]television, visit the GrooveChamber. The site's "Rudolph Remixed," a [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Rudolph adventure to keep Christmas alive year-round, is a finalist in the [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi category at the World Internet Animation [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Competition in Hollywood.[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Requiring Flash 5 player-downloadable on the site - the animations include [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]award-winner "Made with Beats, Love and Caffeine," by Mixin' Maxin' and [/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]films and follow upcoming screenings, like the appearance of "Field Guide [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]to Snapping" at the Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Children, and other festivals throughout the US.[/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]Examine the lives and creative processes of our most outstanding cultural [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]artists at American Masters, the online site of the award-winning PBS [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]series from WNET New York. The series, called the best biographical series [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]ever to appear on American television, documents the role of the people and [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]movements that have helped form our cultural identity. [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]The series and the site explore the greatest visionaries of our times, with [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]an archive of more than 100 portraits of writers, musicians, composers, [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]theater and film greats, architects and other innovators who have left an [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]indelible mark on our cultural landscape, from Lucille Ball to John Cage, [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]Maurice Sendak to Truman Capote. Navigate by genre, check out the current [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]season, play the Six Degrees Game, or use the grade-level teacher guides [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]for lessons in creativity.[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"][url "http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/index.html"]http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/index.html[/url][/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]NewsHax[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Unbalanced. Unfair. They report. They decide. For satire news that bears [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]only a coincidental resemblance to reality, visit NewsHax, for all the [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]features of a standard newspaper or news web site, with a biting twist. The [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]serious and self-important news media is the straight man here.[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]The site has the conventions of a standard news site, like polls asking [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]visitors "Do you respond to online polls?" (52 percent of respondents say [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]No, Never!); cartoons like Dilbert, Garfield and Kamagurka; weather, sports [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]and politics, like the news that "Miss Cleo Resurfaces as CIA Iraqi [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Intelligence Source." Read headline stories, browse the archives, submit [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]your own satirical story or join a Forum.[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]http://www.newshax.com/modules/news/[/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]Whichbook.net[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Sometimes you just want a good read to match your mood. Whichbook.net gives [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]readers an intuitive way to find books among the overwhelming choices [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]available, starting not with a title, author or subject, but with the [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]reader, who builds the elements of that elusive good read you seek but [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]cannot always define.[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Using software from Applied Psychology Research, the site guides book [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]choices by starting with the reader and what he/she is looking for, with no [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]need to remember book titles or authors. The approach resembles a virtual [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]browse to see what tempts you, like type of main character or national [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]setting; or a story that is unpredictable and a little
, or a [/font][font "Arial Narrow"]challenging book that's funny with plenty of sex. Here, 20 million [/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]SHORT TAKES[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Hobbit Hole[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Build your own Hobbit hole with the help of 21st Century Hobbit Hole, which [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]explores bio-friendly ways to build a home like Frodo's, with photos, [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]prototypes, cross-sections and floor plans, including an Idea Gallery that [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]shows how to recreate a cozy berm home without having to travel to Middle [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Earth.[/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]Everything these days is new and improved, so The Most Neglected Site on [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]the Web is a place to find exactly what you expect every time -- with no [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]latest news, no updated databases, no real-time stock tickers, just neglect [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]on a profound scale and a promise never to purge outdated information or [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]correct broken links.[/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]HaidaBucks[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]HaidaBucks is the underdog in a legal fight with Starbucks, which is suing [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]for trademark infringement. At HaidaBucks Café, learn to tell the [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]difference: HaidaBucks is in a tiny village in Haida Gwaii territory on an [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]island off British Columbia. It's owned by four young men of the Haida [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]First Nation who refer to themselves, in the tribal tradition, as bucks.[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]http://www.haidabuckscafe.com/[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]<a href=" http://www.haidabuckscafe.com/ ">AOL click here</a>[/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]Pictures of Places[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Travelers, vacation planners and virtual sightseers can view pictures of [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]the world at Pictures of Places, which delivers literally thousands of [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]picture sites through its vast directory of pictures of pyramids, [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]mountains, islands, cities, towns, monuments and more.[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]The directory links to web sites offering images of geographical locations [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]and landmarks throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Australia, even Oceania -- literally the world over, from beautiful Point [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Loma in San Diego to scenic Nines Creek, a short hike off the Alaska [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]highway. Just pick a place you'd like to see, click on a link and start [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]touring. The site is regularly updated with new sites and invites visitors' [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]requests.[/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]Visual Periodic Table[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Whether your favorite chemical element is an exotic like Palladium or a [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]basic Carbon, see its place in the periodic table of the elements at Visual [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Periodic Table, a visual arts and science collaboration from the Royal [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Society of Chemistry. Explore the startling diversity of material that [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]constitutes our world, through images of the elements and investigations of [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]how they affect our daily lives.[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Click on an element to see a visual representation, when it was discovered [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]and isolated, by whom, its origin and description. At Landscapes, see [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]computer-generated landscape views and models based on relationships within [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]the periodic table. Visit the bookstore or send an e-card of a [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]computer-generated model of ionization energies, atomic radii or atomic [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]mass. Shop for element products like wall charts, mouse pads and prints, or [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]download your favorite element as a stunning screensaver.[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/periodic_table.html[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]<a href=" http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages...table.html [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]">AOL click here</a>[/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]Jamaican Riddim Directory[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Riddim is reggae for rhythm, or a rhythm pattern of bassline, drum and [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]maybe a short melody, known elsewhere as a groove. At the Jamaican Riddim [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Directory, get right down to the music with Disya Quickref Session by [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]clicking on the pop-up menu to choose a riddim that an applet loads and [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]plays. The number one riddim in the Jamaican Festival Song Competition of [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]1971 plays in the background.[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Most versioned riddims are more than 20 years old and originated at the [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]legendary Studio One in Kingston. Sampling classic riddims for inspiration [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]is one way that famously inventive Jamaican music pays respect to the [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]traditions while new riddims are built. A new version of Soundman, an MP3 [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]mixer now offline, will be released in Fall. Meanwhile, sample the riddims, [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]download the "wickidess reggae" screensaver, or play loops of riddims, [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]requiring the program Selecta and JAVA.[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]http://www.jamrid.com[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]<a href=" http://www.jamrid.com ">AOL click here</a>[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"][/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Walking Across the US[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Andy, Erik and John are doing something stupid, walking from Chicago to San [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Francisco. As they stroll cross-country, many people say "You guys are [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]stupid!" giving the boys the perfect name for their web site, You Guys Are [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Stupid.com. The three are in their 20s, live in the Chicago area and [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]started their 2,000-mile, 3-month trip on June 1.[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Follow their route on maps, see the photos they take of people and stops [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]along the journey and read their daily journals, like Erik's entry on July [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]20, "Heat, it's what's for dinner." At the You Guys Are Stupid online [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]store, make a donation or buy You Guys Are Stupid shirts, ball caps, mugs [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]and lunch boxes.[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]http://www.youguysarestupid.com/[/font]
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[font "Arial Narrow"]Groove Chamber[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]For award-winning short animated films created for the web and for [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]television, visit the GrooveChamber. The site's "Rudolph Remixed," a [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Rudolph adventure to keep Christmas alive year-round, is a finalist in the [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi category at the World Internet Animation [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Competition in Hollywood.[/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Requiring Flash 5 player-downloadable on the site - the animations include [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]award-winner "Made with Beats, Love and Caffeine," by Mixin' Maxin' and [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Itchin' Scratchin', and "Perky Turkey," a Thanksgiving day remix. See the [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]films and follow upcoming screenings, like the appearance of "Field Guide [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]to Snapping" at the Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for [/font]
[font "Arial Narrow"]Children, and other festivals throughout the US.[/font]
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