A labor of love, or something, this page guides the user through an imaginary town built out of Legos. The site includes descriptions and pictures of the town's various government resources, restaurants and sites. Users can also read the town's online newspaper
A team of Dutch computer scientists armed with a 72 server cluster has created a program that can play a perfect game of awari. If you'd like to lose a game: have at it. (The applet there can be adjusted to allow the user some chance of winning.)
Evolutionary biologists contend that members of overly affluent societies are quickly eating themselves into new forms -- much larger ones that can only hinder and shorten both health and life spans.
Looking for a diversion from work you need to do on your computer? This rabbit will entertain you and make you chuckle...just make sure he gives the cursor back!
Webcollage provides the fun of websurfing while cutting down on such features as practicality and predictability. This page presents users with a collage made up of randomly selected images from various webpages. By clicking on the image, the user is then taken to the page from which it came. Serendipity at its best.
Based on recent Dutch studies of chimpanzee DNA, some in the scientific community now believe that our primate ancestors may have fought and ultimately overcome the virus that causes AIDS.
KartOO's flash-based metasearch interface returns results in an interesting, if not entirely intuitive, map-like format that allows users to add and subtract related search terms. A non-flash version is available for users who either don't have Flash or would like to explore KartOO's search string manipulation without participating in an experiment in information architecture.
In its latest census, Australia has discovered that the force really is everywhere, with more than 70,000 Australians identifying themselves as followers of Master Yoda's omnipotent faith.
Given the shift of agencies like the FBI from investigating crime to preventing crime, is this really a surprise? Police in Delaware are now maintaining a database of future criminals, i.e. people who haven't committed a crime but who they suspect are likely to do so.
This Web site provides six video clips in which internationally-recognized artist Takahiko Iimura exercises Japanese vowels sounds a-i-u-e-o' (and n-sound). Check out how his facial expression changes as he articulates the sounds.
