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Diversions

Automotives

The Penguin Plymouth - from MoPar to Art Car - and back again

Found: car with a really big trunk

Dirty Car Art - creative grit

Classic Cars - detail shots at Flikr

The Old Car Manual Project

Adventure Around The Bend - vintage US road maps

GPS Drawing - Auto Mobile Art

CarTalk - may they never re-tire

Drive-In Theaters - wide screen wonders

Gasoline Signs - fill up on the classics

Grins

Barnacle Press - vintage cartoons

Basic Instructions - follow faithfully

Brite Idea - and no plastic bits to step on.

Censored Cartoons - edits and cuts to the classics

The Comics Curmudgeon

Lulu Eightball - archives

Mutts - Earl, Mooch, and pals

NobodyHere - pick a page...

Partially Clips - wholly humorous

The Perry Bible Fellowship - cartoons with a cheerful... bite

Pythononline - say no more!

Science Made Stupid - Tom Weller's classic

SheepFilms - animations, drawings, photographs

Spamusement - cartoons inspired by spam subject lines

Speedbump - great cartoons!

Reading Room

Duplex Planet - elderly interviews

Folktexts - folklore and mythology

Futility Closet - curious little tidbits

Ingenious - tales of science and culture, rightfully entiwined

I Used To Believe - remember when...

Lileks - home of the Institute of Official Cheer and so much more

Odd Books - "A safe house for literary misfits"

Retrofuture - look back at the future

Romenesko's Obscure Store and Reading Room - Odd news, fresh daily

The Straight Dope - "fighting ignorance since 1973"

Tales of Future Past - looking back at looking forward

WebExhibits - museum quality reads

Science Fare

Bizarre Stuff You Can Make in Your Kitchen - kids, try this at home

Connect with James Burke - explore technology's family tree

Dreamstar - dragon and dinosaur sculptures and art by John Fischner

Electric Museum - exhibits, articles and images

The Engines of Our Ingenuity - culture & creativity

Fun Science Gallery - experiments and articles for the amateur scientist

Improbable Research - home of the Ig Noble Awards

NASA Image Exchange - NASA imagery, video and audio material

New Scientist: Last Word - Q & A on everyday scientific phenomena

Science News Magazine - weekly updates in all fields of science

Space Flight Tracking - project the path of a spacecraf

Trilobites - the ancient arthropods

Trilobite Cookies - paleoconfectionary

Photo Stops

Cut and Paste - a history of photomontage

DesignBoom - industrial design

Faces In Places

Lost Films - left in antique cameras

Lost Labor - vintage labor photography

Miracle Mountain Images - by Timothy Bullard

PhotoTag - traveling cameras

PhotoTree - dedicated to 19th Century Photography

The Pinhole Resource - gallery, specialized products and info

Put the Sky in your Room! - save on picture frames

Scott Haefner - kite aerial photography

Square America - snapshot scrutiny

Their Circular Life - one trip around the sun

Tim Flach Photography - beautiful bestiary

Time Tales - found photos

Architectural Anomalies

Abandoned Places - nobody's home

Dark Passages - flashlight archaeology

Deliberately Concealed - garments found hidden in buildings

Great Buildings - images, drawings, info, downloadable 3d models

Implosion World - boom

Modern Ruins - photgraphic essays

Modern Ruins - wild, abandoned, lovely

Not Fooling Anybody - dubious building conversions

ReaderSheds - garden greats

Sears Modern Homes - floorplans from 1908-1940

SkyScrapers - worldwide building database

Loose Links

The Last Organic Outpost - "grow what you eat & eat what you grow!"

Get Stevia for your sweet tooth

turn off your television

Excercises in Style - graphic variations

Musipedia - can name that tune

MNMA - Music Notation Modernization Association

Pictures of Music - graphical scores

The Light Console - light shows of the 1930s

A softer world - weekly photo strip