Pandora
Quasi-random streaming music.

Engrish
Amusingly bad Japanese attempts at English.

MegaTokyo
A great manga-style American webcomic

XKCD
A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

ICanHasCheezburger
Cat photos with *hilarious* captions.

Half.com
New/used online book, movie, and music store.

Amazon.com
Excellent source of information and products.

Things about Books

• ISBN.nu
• Unicorn Bibliographies
• SciFan
• The SF Site
• The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Global Network of Dreams
• Pseudonames of Authors
• Radcliffe Top 100 Novels
• Library of Congress Catalog
• Internet Book List
• Library Thing
• Shelfari
• Some more book resources
• Swapping
  • Paperbackswap
  • Novelaction
  • Titletrader
  • Bookins
  • Bookmooch
  • Swaptree
  • Readingwave
  • Zunafish
  • Mybookexchange
  • Whatsonmybookshelf
  • Frugalreader
  • ReadersUnited
• NYT article: How to give books away
• Blog about selling books
• Scholastic Book Services

Things to Look at and Admire

• Brilliant cityscape Paintings (Kathleen Eaton)
• Awesome natural photography (Whit Bronaugh)
• Quent Cordair Fine Art (various artists)
• Math Metal Sculptures (Bathsheba Grossman)
• Klein Bottles (Cliff Stoll)
• The Art Renewal Center
• Melody Pena
  • Official Windstone Editions Web Site
  • Astral Castle (the best Windstone Editions merchant)
  • Encyclopedia of Windstone Editions (includes retired sculptures)
  • Gallery of Drawings
• Roger Dean
• Maxfield Parrish
  • Some Fairytale Illustrations
• M. C. Escher
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• Fractals
  • Fractalland

Things to Read

• 404 Error Poem
• How to shoot self in foot
• To Review or Not To Review
• Hilarious Amazon Reviews of A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates by Rand Corporation
• math jokes

Things to Play

• Search Engine Games
  • Googlefight (test pairs of words or phrases for relative Google hit frequency)
  • Googlewhack (try for word pairs scoring exactly one Google hit)
• Sudoku (downloadable trial)
• Alchemy
• Magic Vines
• TextTwist
• Pixie
• Fill It
• Mahjong 2 (GameHouse version)
• Pop N Drop
• Same Color
• Seven Seas

Things to Listen to

• Streaming Music
  • Pandora
  • Launchcast (customized internet radio by Yahoo)
• Online Music Stores
  • Musicmatch - you must use their jukebox to buy songs...
  • Walmart - WMA format only, 88 cents/song
  • Buy.com
  • MSN
  • More choices described on About.com

Other Entertaining Internet Jokes and Things

• Unbelievable optical illustion!
• Flying Spaghetti Monsterism
• Homynym Joke
• EuroEnglish!
• Parody Motivation Posters
• Jelks Cabaniss
  • Chinglish
  • Wife 1.0
  • The End of the Raven
  • God's Questionnaire
  • The Invisible Killer
  • Bill of No Rights

Random Things

• Make Your Own Envelopes
• Who's Alive and Who's Dead | Dead or Alive?
• Urban legends debunked
• Maps you can color
• Robert Pinsky's "Favorite Poem" Project
• Physics projects
• Clever Tabasco Sauce Ads
• Google Image Result for Minas Tirith
• Unbelievable Sidewalk Chalkings | Official Page
• English/Arabic Koran, $10
• Nostalgia
  • Remembering The Noozles (80's TV show)
  • My Little Pony Collector's Web Site
  • Mark Kistler's Imagination Station
    Mark Kistler aka Commander Mark ran a show on PBS called The Secret City (Axel F theme) where he taught kids to draw in 3D and made a crazy mural. I remember this from 4th grade.
  • http://fanart.lionking.org/
  • Sega Genesis, Nintendo, Nintendo Gameboy
• Personal Web Pages I Like (total strangers)
  • Dean Aaron Tersigni (The Almighty Guru)
  • Sean Michael Ragan (I am an angel chaser)
  • Turducken
  • Faerie Tales
• Personal Web Pages (well, blogs) of People I Know
  • CloakedWraith
  • Juniper949
  • Mark Kormes
• Regex Collectors
  (online regular expression search & replace)
• Organic HTML and explanation and more explanation
• I am Loved buttons from Helzberg Diamonds
• quotations
• Han shoots first! (Star Wars vs. Serenity)
• Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About
• http://www.basicinstructions.net/
• http://www.ebottles.com
• http://cfcl.com/vlb/Memes/Questionaires/
• http://wiggspolysutures.com/
• Cats
  • http://icanhascheezburger.com/
    • Hovercat is hovering
  • http://www.macrocats.com/
    • DIE
    • Killer robot cat comes fully assembled
  • http://www.lolcats.com/
• webcomics
  • http://www.xkcd.com/
  • Basic Instructions
  • Unshelved
• Paper, Scissors, Rock
• Scam the 419 scammers
• The Falkirk Wheel
  • http://www.197aerial.co.uk/falkirk_wheel.htm
  • http://www.dalefield.com/nzfmm/magazine/FalkirkW.html
• http://www.howstuffworks.com/
• http://bestuff.com/
• http://www.oddee.com/
• http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

Things About Language

• The Linguist List
• Omniglot (a very cool guide to written language)
• Explore English Words (site for native speakers of Korean, but readable in English, too)
• www.ilovelanguages.com
• Language Log
• Make anagrams:
  • Internet Anagram Server
  • Anagram Generator
• Pretend texts (dense and meaningless, yet somehow plausible!)
  • The Chomskybot (as in, Noam Chomsky, Linguist)
  • The Postmodern Generator ("communications from elsewhere")
• Chomsky Deconstructed (LONG essay)
• The End of Linguistics (essay by Mark Halpern)
• Etymology Links
• Word Origins
• http://www.wordsmith.org/
• Online Etymology Dictionary
• The Phrase Finder
  (origins and meanings of phrases)
• Name Etymology
  • Last Names
  • More Last Names
  • First Names
  • More First Names
• Names of days of the week (discussion thread)
• Graduate Study in Linguistics
  • Programs in Applied Linguistics
  • Programs in Linguistics
  • Graduate Degree Student Survey (all disciplines, not just Linguistics)

Things to Buy / Places to Shop

• Pegasus Publishing
• Artisan Crafts
• Prepac Quad Media Storage Shelf
• Staple-free Stapler
• Thinkgeek
  • Power Squid
  • Retro cell phone receiver
  • USB coffee warmer
• Medieval Weaponry, Clothing, etc.
• Skateboard Gear
• Crystal River Glass
• Glass Orchids
• www.reliks.com

Video Things

• Numa Numa Dance!
  • American Idol parody
• Video Game Pianist
• Synchronized Christmas Light Show
• All Your Base Are Belong To Us
• Japanese ("Matrix") Ping Pong
• Word Disassociation
• Flash Films by Bruno Bozzetto
• Juggling Finale
• Strange "hand" puppets (click GB for site in English)
• Mr. Nice
• Dancing Dog (music from Grease)
• Animusic Pipe Dream
• Nintendo Themes Acapella
• Tetris remix
• Devil wears nada
• Origami instructions
• Man needs help using this newfangled book technology