A funny, odd, and frequently disturbing series of Japanese comic characters. More here.

European Art Brut

An interesting international argument over the International Space Station.
Science in space... Russian vodka... Mexican TRUCK nuclear weapon delivery systems... and a good time for all.

Asian Spider Wrestling

Who ever thought there were so many ways to bake a potato? www.bigspud.com has lots of Usenet threads on baking, boiling, roasting, microwaving, and pretty much anything else you can do to a potato. Oh, and then there are all of the potato types. Truely a great find.

Kung-fu action like you've never seen it before!
(Thanks to Joel for this one)

Have a happy Easter onion!

Interactive Fiction is alive and well. Read the FAQ, then look at how a game is made, in any of ten authoring systems.

Call of Chtulhu, will soon become a computer game, with a sanity system... As your character witnesses horror after horror, he slowly goes insane, in the true Lovecraftian tradition. "This can have subtle effects--perhaps you start hearing voices in your ears, perhaps every shadow looks like a horrific creature, or maybe you start hallucinating too."

"The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity" -- A.E.Newton

Check out the cool robots at Robomenu.
(Note: Click on "sorted by robot" or "sorted by builder" in the left frame.)

Ask questions of a real librarian in real-time here.

Although television violence has never been shown to cause hostile behavior, its sinister reputation lives on.

American society has created for itself a Mobius-like reality by privileging capital, or property rights, above all else

Tips for effective lucid dreaming (bottom of page), and a dream machine (top of page).

A nice collection of comparisons to fuel flamewars:

Linux vs FreeBSD vs NetBSD vs OpenBSD vs Hurd
Debian vs Slackware vs RedHat
Monolithic kernel vs microkernel
Microsoft Windows NT vs Unix
Java vs LISP vs Scheme vs C vs C++
Perl vs TCL vs Python vs AWK vs Ksh
Qt vs Gtk vs Tk vs Xt vs Xlib vs GNUstep
Apple II vs Atari 800 vs C=64 vs TRS-80
Atari ST vs Commodore Amiga vs Apple Macintosh
Motorola vs Intel
Unix vs VMS vs MVS
Microsoft Windows vs Macintosh
USR Pilot vs Apple Newton vs WinCE
RMS vs Bill Gates

From Christopher Browne's fascinating Internet Data Filtering Talk

Forget "When Worlds Collide" (do you even remember it?)... see what happens when galaxies collide.

Check out the vital stats and compare and contrast various IRC networks such as EFNet, DALNet, Undernet, etc...

An oldie but goodie: Recursive Make Considered Harmful
"Symptoms that the UNIX community have long accepted as a fact of life, but which need not be endured any longer..." "...recursive makes which take ``forever'' to work out that they need to do nothing, recursive makes which do too much, or too little, recursive makes which are overly sensitive"

One good thing about all the attention the demise of the Mir space sation is getting is that it gets people interested in science who otherwise would not have been interested in it at all. Another good thing is the popularization of cool satelite tracking Java applets like this one. Its particularly convenient because you can use it from within your browser. You can rotate the globe in 3D, zoom in and out, and track various sattelites, like Mir and the ISS.