An industrious clock... This clock looks busy, so busy it makes you feel tired just watching it! In fact it makes you feel exhausted looking at it. But it's worth seeing nevertheless.

Dante Worlds

Dante's world: everything you might possibly want to know about the three realms of the afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) presented in Dante's Divine Comedy. Excellent Multimedia.

Photoshop Contest

Great range of photoshop tutorials ranging from use of shadows to make an object look more 3D to texturing and from layer blending to use of brushes. More or less everything seems to be covered from one angle or another.

Rense

A fascinating look at the size of earth in comparison to the other bodies in the solar system. The gas giants truly dwarf the earth, and they in turn are dwarfed by the sun. And it seems that even our star is small in the grand scheme of things.

Zone Zero

Fascinating website in which a family photograph themselves every year on the 17^th of June, thus freezing time's arrow for that moment. The photos are like a virtual time machine, showing how the family has evolved over the years.

Bath and Body Recipes

Bath and body recipes. Why let the big corporations be the only ones to mix up soaps and bath products? Time to jump in and get a piece of the fun.

Fresh Logic

How about an atlas so that you can find your way about? Used to be atlases were big heavy unwieldy books. Not so anymore. Now they are dynamic websites, ideal for plotting your next trip from a little cafe somewhere.

Eco Friend

Eco Friend contains a variety of excellent articles about ecological development and environmentally friendly projects, such as green energy and hybrid cars.

Bath Sheba Sculpture

What could be better than sculptures of M.C. Escher style objects. The site has mobius strip like metal work and a broad range of other science and mathematical sculptures.

The Oil Drum

Since we all depend so heavily on oil for fuel (regardless of whether or not we actually drive) we would do well to pay attention to when specialists believe oil production will peak. Most estimates fall between now and 2011.

It's a Wonderful Internet

Interesting little flash based distraction.

Audacity

Home of the free and open source audio recorder and mixer Audacity. It is one of the best pieces of software out there, and not only does the job but goes above and beyond. Word on the street is it's better than many commercial sound manipulation programs.

Ted

Tons of talks from the greatest minds in the world. From fractals in African villages to the biased coverage in North American news networks, TED talks offers something for everyone no matter what their interest. It brings us information on topics as diverse as; science, technology, inspiration, future, design, and creativity.

Art of Travel

See the world on $25 a day or less (or so it says) if gives online information and tips about how to see more of the world on a tight budget. It was written by an independent traveler who has visited around thirty five countries in his time. Not bad going.

Travelling Cheap

While on the subject of travel here is a blog guide to traveling cheap. Seems it's all the rage these days!

Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci

Perhaps the greatest genius of the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci had a talent for designing. His sketches of everything from helicopters to the human anatomy are inspiring to look at. Perhaps da Vinci's greatest invention is the one that most people are unaware of; he invented modern architectural drawing without which, none of our modern technology would be possible.

Build Your Own Star

Build your own star. A fascinating little diversion in which you get to play about with the constants that make up the star such as mass and the amount of metal, then discover what happens to the star as its life proceeds.

Livemocha

Learn a language. Live Mocha introduces the concept of social learning, and makes learning languages a similar experience to socializing on my space, where you can complete the excercises and help each other online.

Bibliomania

Free fiction available to read for free from the bibliomania website, mainly the classics such as Alice's Adventure in Wonderland, Black Beauty, Gulliver's Travels, Huckleberry Finn, etc.

Guitar Lesson World

Ever wanted to take up guitar lessons but never had enough money to take on the expense of a music instructor. Well now's your chance to teach yourself with these awesome guitar lessons online for free.

Phong

We're not done with the photoshop tutorials yet. Photoshop is an immense piece of software and whole books are dedicated to it, it's only natural that there are a lot of good photoshop tutorials out there on the Internet. This is one of them.

Free CSS Templates

If you're a web designer or at all interested in designing web pages then these CSS templates will come in exceptionally useful. One can never have enough templates to hand.

Digital Photography Tutorials

A digital photography tutorial, this covers everything from understanding digital camera sensors through to understanding depth of field. It moves though a variety of topics including cameras, imaging, tips and techniques, color management and a variety of tips.

Iraq War Coalition Fatalities

A map of Iraq merged with data on casualties which are then displayed on the map as red circles as time progresses, giving a very clear visual image of the violence that has been occurring in Iraq since 2003.

Perpetual Futility

Fascinating look at perpetual motion machines through the ages and their (crazy?) creators. Includes a lot of history and detail regarding why each one fails to work. Excellent website.

Southeast Asia Photography

Beautiful Southeast Asia photography from Scott Stulberg. Set to music, it is a truly stunning collection well worth watching!

GuerrillaMail

Sick of spam? Guerrilla Mail gives you a disposable temporary email address that expires after 15 minutes allowing you long enough to sign up for a website, and get in to see the content you want but without the problems of spam (since that email address expires). Inspired.

Dont Click It

Tired of clicking? Be a guinea pig for the center for interactive research, and try out their unique interface that remarkably doesn't include much clicking. Let's see how long you can refrain from clicking...

Cut Out and Keep

Cut Out and Keep is a step by step craft community with over 2000 craft ideas across various categories such as accessories, arts and crafts, bath and beauty, food and drink, homeware, jewelry, techniques, toys and wearables.

Write in My Journal

'Write in my journal' is a fascinating blog written by people the blog owner bumps into. They write a blog entry in his book, which he later posts on the blog. Wonderful stuff.

Let's face it: every person who uses the Internet uses it for a variety of different reasons, from listening to music to playing games to shopping for that perfect gift. The Internet has changed the way that the world communicates.

There are as many different ways to discover new websites and information, as there are clever webmasters and corporations wanting to make retrieving these resources that you want to locate. This article makes it possible to bookmark one resource that directly links to ten other useful websites without adding to the clutter that happens after bookmarking single websites that you like.

1. Google Tools

   The amazing talent that Google Corporation has employed continues to rollout more user friendly applications to make exploring the Internet easier, faster and safer than ever before. Here visitors will find an array of free applications from personal finance tools to web search and everything in-between.

2. Yahoo! Babel Fish

   Don't be lost in translation ever again, because with Yahoo! Babel Fish users can translate words, phrases or complete paragraphs up to 150 words at a time from one language to another language quite easily. Just a few of the languages that Yahoo! Babel Fish is able to translate to and from are: English, Dutch, Russian, Chinese, Spanish and more.

3. Indy Mogul Blog

   This is a fantastic blog to visit if you are an inspiring filmmaker or a seasoned filmmaker that is looking to save some money on producing some cool special effects to your next movie. What makes this such an unique website is that the producers spin a wheel to determine the budget that can be used to produce special effects that visitors suggest, and then after the special effect has been produce it is posted on the site with step-by-step instruction via video.

4. Radio Locator

   So, you enjoy listening or discovering new music from artists around the world, but demand more choices to select from, then look no further. Radio-locater search engine serves up 2,500 audio-streaming Internet radio stations around the world and more than 10,000 radio related web pages where new music is bursting from its seams.

5. What's On When

   For the world traveler this is a comprehensive travel website for locating important information about the places that you are to visiting. Retrieve schedules to events and tours available in the cities or countries that you are traveling to or thumb through travel guides to learn valuable details of the places that you will be visiting. So be prepared before you arrive at your favorite destinations and have more fun.

6. Instructables

   Are you bored? Don't be when you visit Instructables, because at this site there are plenty of cool projects that you can learn how to do yourself or entertain your children. Users submit there favorite pet projects along with instructions how-to recreate the projects yourself. Truly, you could spend days on this site and not scrape the tip of the iceberg of what this website has to offer to you.

7. SeatGuru

   This is the perfect website for travelers who are planning to fly anytime soon. Visitors can obtain detailed seating information regarding the next airplane that they will be boarding and valuable travel tips to make your next trip or vacation less hassle-free or compare prices of airfare, hotels or vacation flights before you pay one red cent.

8. Bubbl.us

   Bubbl.us is a unique website that offers a free web application that you brainstorm online and create colorful mind maps outlining your brainstorming sessions. This could be an excellent tool for budding inventors, filmmakers or artists looking for new ways to collaborate with other talent people on the Internet, so to bring out the genius of an idea. Just be careful whom you share your ideas with and be sure to apply for a copyright, trademark or patent before showing your idea(s) in public.

9. Digg

   One of the biggest and most active Internet resources online, Digg offers visitors and members an excellent way to discover more of the web through user generated content submissions. Do you want to know what the hottest news stories or greatest websites that is that are creating a buzz on the Internet, then Digg is a must visit type of web destination.
   

10. Triond

    Triond is an online publisher that operates several different websites that are stocked with entertaining, interesting, useful and helpful articles, videos, and photos that are published by some of the most talented writers, photographers and artists on the web. If you want to learn more about the web or the world, then checkout this site for sure.