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Google News www.news.google.com
   4,500 news sources updated continuously.

Mostly fun
Baby Name-O-Meter www.parenting.com/parenting/tools/babynamer
   What's hot, what's not: most popular names since 1880. 
Belief-O-Matic [www.beliefnet.com]
   Compare your beliefs to world religions: serious fun.
FlipFlopFlyin' [www.flipflopflyin.com]
   Pixels in action: funny, charming, observant.
NewZoid [www.newzoid.com] 
   World's only automatic generator of unreal news headlines.
   (submitted by danny@miltonglaser.com)
Ze's Page [www.zefrank.com]
  Humor, insight, visual delights, dancing lessons from a Flash wizard.

Watch, listen, explore
America's Tragedy as seen by the World [http://thankyou.familytravelforum.com]/
   Pictures say it all.
Book of TYPOBEAT [www.yugop.com]
   Reactive typographics, dancing letters: marvelous.
Cantor Families [www.cantorfamilies.com]
   Family and friends remember loved ones lost on Sept. 11.
Cartier [www.cartier.com] 
   Very elegant. I'd give up TV to watch this site. 
   (submitted by MaryAnn Aue)
Exhibit 13 www.exhibit13.com
   Spare, elegant, overwhelmingly human; from Blue Man Group.
Fray [www.fray.com] 
   Interactive storytelling: great reading, gorgeous site.
Internet Archive Wayback Machine [web.archive.org/collections/web.html]
  Favorite sites as they were: pick URL & year.
JournalE [www.journale.com]
  Digital photojournalism: the best of old + new media
Kaliber10000 [www.k10k.net/]
   World-beat web design: Quirky, impractical, imaginative, fresh.
Milton Glaser [www.miltonglaserposters.com]
   A visual and intellectual feast from a master of design.
   (submitted by danielyoung@rcn.com)
Saul Bass on the Web [www.saulbass.net]
   Online tribute to one of the world's greatest designers.
Swiss Poster Collection http://swissposters.library.cmu.edu/Swiss/
   
Influential designs from 1971 to present, organized and searchable.
This American Life [www.thislife.org]
   The lost art of storytelling, found.
   (submitted by Wally Rehm)
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries [http://www.yhchang.com]
   Flash-powered food for thought: minimalist monologues.
xBlog: The Visual Thinking Weblog [http://xplane.com/xblog/]
   Wide-ranging & useful links & comments.

Good to know
Ad Slogans Unlimited [www.adslogans.co.uk]
   Free advice about creating effective names and taglines
MySimon [www.mysimon.com]
   Comparison shop for nearly anything: fast, easy, comprehensive.
Pricegrabber [www.pricegrabber.com]
   The bottom line cost, including shipping, on tons of products.
The Hunger Site [www.thehungersite.com]
   Give food to a hungry world with a mouseclick.
Urban Legends Reference [www.snopes2.com/info/current.htm]
   Don't forward that scarey email until you check here.

Web design & construction
A List Apart: For people who make websites [www.alistapart.com]
   Discusses the Web, from the Big Picture to the nitty-gritty.
Atomz.com [www.atomz.com]
   A free search engine for your site - works great.
Boxes and Arrows [www.boxesandarrows.com/]
   Thoughtful discussion about bringing order to the digital landscape.
Cool Home Pages [www.coolhomepages.com]
   Lots of examples, divided by category.
Hotwired RGB Gallery [http://hotwired.lycos.com/rgb/gallery]
    Tasty multimedia samples: HTML, Java, DHTML, Flash; tutorials, too.
Jakob Nielsen's Use-It [www.useit.com]
   Designers take heed! Learn how people REALLY use the Web.
Web Design for Designers [www.wpdfd.com/index.htm]
   Good advice, tips, lots on design, a little technique.
Webmonkey for Kids 
[http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/kids/lessons/index.html]
   Grownups too! Learn about the Web & have fun.
Webpages That Suck [www.webpagesthatsuck.com]
   Learn from other peoples' mistakes (before you make them too!)
Zeldman's Daily Report [www.zeldman.com]
   
Web news, Web gossip, Astounding sites, free stuff - daily!

Typography
Emigre TypeTease [www.emigre.com/Typetease/] 
   Test-drive fonts from a leader in modern typography.
EyeWire Type Viewer [www.eyewire.com/type/viewer/] 
   Your words, their fonts: try before you buy.
Font Search Engine [ fontsearchengine.com ]
   Find what you want by name, style, foundry, designer, more.
MyFonts [www.myfonts.com]
   
Search, browse, try, buy: the ultimate type/font source.

Search engines with funny names
Ask Jeeves [www.askjeeves.com] 
   Ask him anything-some answers are better than your question!
Dogpile [www.dogpile.com] 
   Fetches answers from many sources; fast, friendly, obedient.
Google [www.google.com]
   Really simple, really fast, really useful search engine.

Software tutorials
Adobe [www.adobe.com]
   Great tips & techniques for using Photoshop & other software.
Director Online [www.director-online.com]
    
Director & Flash techniques, features, demos, worldwide job listings, too!
DirectorWeb [www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/director/]
   The Director Mothership: your questions answered, and more.
Making Your Movie www.apple.com/education/dv/tips/index.html
   Simple, painless — and very useful — guide to telling your story.

Sources
National Archives [www.archives.gov]
   Documents & images tell America's story, most copyright free.
Octavo: Digital Rare Books [www.octavo.com]
   Strange bedfellows: the oldest books via the newest technology.

Education & learning
AIGA Advance for Design [http://advance.aiga.org]
   Moving graphic design into the world of experience design.
KSUCDA Summer Workshops [http://dept.kent.edu/art/KSUCDA/]
   Topical, enjoyable, intense...one changed my life in 1994.
Sensebox [www.sensebox.com] 
   Links to design schools around the world.

Corporate
Amazon [www.amazon.com] 
   Books & more: e-commerce done the right way.
Apple Computer [www.apple.com] 
   Fast, good-looking, interesting: the site & the computers.

 
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