David Magier's
MiscellaneousFUNBookmarks
1-20-08

comments to:
magier@columbia.edu

The Millennium Bug		End of the World		State of the Union		Click & Drag George
Read My Lips!		Search for WMDs		Dishonest Dubya		BushFlash
Osama Who??		Choose Your Bush		Florida Voting Machine		Diebold Variations
BushSpeak		Story of Stuff

• Hobbies
  • Genealogy
    • Genealogy Online
    • National Archives Genealogy Page
    • National Genealogical Society
    • Cyndi's List (genealogy link meta-site)
    • Genealogical links from Yahoo
    • JewishGen
    • ShetlLinks: Shtetl Finder from JewishGen
    • Jewish Genealogical Society of Bergen County

  • Stamp Collecting
    • PhilNet
    • Stamps of the Indian Princely States
    • Japanese Philately
    • Stamp Collecting FAQ
    • New Zealand Philatelic Homepage
    • Philatélie des îles Saint-Pierre et Miquelon
    • Global Stamps Depicting Musical Instruments
    • Philatelic History of Radiology
    • US Postal Service
    • The PTT and Philately Page

  • Matchcover Collecting
    • Rathkamp Matchcover Society
    • The Vault (Mike Prero)
    • The Matchbox Label Collector (Hans Everink - excellent reference source)
    • Hilik's Phillumeny Collection (great links and reference info)
    • British Matchbox Label & Booklet Society
    • Match Collector's World (Henry Blackman)
    • Sierra-Diablo Matchcover Club
    • Matchbook Musem (James Lileks)
    • The Story of Joe Ohio (James Lileks)
    • Fredrik Karlsson's Page of Match Labels and Matchboxes
    • Matchbox Collecting (Phillumeny) (Norway)
    • Matchcover Collecting (Neil Abbott)
    • HobbyMaster Matchcover Collecting
    • S.E. Munday's Matchbooks Page - The Cover
    • Tobacco & Salt Museum (Tokyo)
      (See their special exhibit on matchbox labels)
    • Sketches on Matches (Sazonov)

  • Food (that's a hobby too)

    • Vegetarian Recipes
    • Epicurious (e-journal)
    • Recipe Archive Index
    • Nancy's Kitchen

• The Ain't-It-The-Truth Department

  • The Onion
  • Important Instructions

• ETC

  • Strong Bad and Homestar ("scrrrolll the buttonnnnnes")
  • Who Let the Jews Out??
  • Danes
  • Cute Yiddish mp3s - free
  • Merrick Lex Berman (Diamond Bay)
  • Lileks.com (collecting, curious fun)
  • Transience (fun w/web animation)
  • Indra's Net
  • Random Shakespearean Curse Generator
  • The Automatic Complaint-Letter Generator (check it out!)
  • The Pig-Latinator
  • The Postmodernist Essay Generator (light reading)
  • The Flatterer
  • Misheard Lyrics
  • English Hotel Signs Around the World
  • Baen Free Library
  • Bonanza!
  • Collapse (addictive ShockWave game)
  • Gong (high quality online music-on-demand player: classical, Indian, Malaysian...)
  • Waters of Rome (definitely check this out)
  • Byzantium 1200 (check it out)
  • PlanetScapes: images & animations of the solar system
  • E-Zoo
  • Digital Interactive Rubik's Cube
  • Bulfinch's Mythology
  • Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the 1990s (Russell Mokhiber)
  • The Sloganator (Bush/Cheney 04)
  • Hi Hop Matzoh
  • The Bagel Dance
  • The [FAMOUS] Hamster Dance (See also here)
  • The Hamster Tours (hats off to Janice Greenberg)
  • FishyDance
  • Lama song (kids these days...)
  • Smart-Aleck signs and taglines
    (E.g. "If marriages were outlawed, only outlaws would have in-laws.")
  • Animation Express (from HotWired)
  • SALON E-zine
  • The Verbivore
  • Bowling and other Jave-based online games
  • MOTIF Backgamon (java-based, large applet)
  • EYE pages of Toronto
  • Honolulu Dinosaurs
  • Consult the I Ching on the Net!
  • 777-FILM
  • The Internet Movies Database
  • Entropy Gradient Reversals (Chris Locke, aka Rageboy)
    Weird but fun web-zine. ("All noise, all the time")
  • Wander Mongolia
  • LEGO Information
  • Silicon Graphics Serious Fun
  • Star Trek TNG
  • Stéreogrammes
  • The Electric Postcard
  • Yahoo E-greetings (free animated postcards)
  • UNESCO's Memory of the World E-Postcards Service
  • Virtual Shtetl
  • Win95/Mac Joke Page