(or I wish I had thought of these first)
As I look at the list of sites I have put together for my visitors to explore, I am struck by the thought that someone may try to put together a personality profile on me based on my likes. I wonder what that person might come up with. Actually, I fear what that person might come up with.
The Looney Tunes Sound Source - Appropriately, at the top. The more I go out into the world, the more I realize that Warner Brothers' cinematic masterpieces are applicable to every life situation. Nothing wrong with holding on to the things that make you smile. Prepare to be amused and dazzled by this site.
Web Gallery of Art - A searchable gallery of most of the works of art you can find online. Many different ways to search. Just an incredible resource. (Look for Bronzini, Bosch and Durer.)
1 Pixel Per Meter - A geek's dream. Did I mention I'm a geek?
The Shadow Magazine - A library of the stories from the old Pulp, beginning at issue #1. Did you know that the Shadow is not really Lamont Cranston, but someone who wears his face as a disguise?
Origins of American Animation - Smithsonian animations online! Windsor McKay. Need I say more? Okay, animation from 1890s to 1920s.
Luminarium - Wow. What all Renaissance scholars in my age group aspire to. If you go here, you will spend hours. I cannot recommend the Edmund Spenser pages enough.
Internet Speculative Fiction Database - It is what it says it is: a treasure trove of fantasy and science fiction writers on a search engine.
Fantastic Fiction Database - Another solid database of "fantastic fiction" authors (Hemingway?!?). Still a good resource.
Traffic Waves: Physics for Bored Commuters - In 1990, I was taking a seminar at the Folger Shakespeare Library and commuting four hours on Monday mornings and Friday afternoons, and staying the weeks in the guest house. One weekend I read Glieck's Chaos and from then on, my commute was a study of the traffic patterns--chaos theory in practice. Now that I commute to work every weekday, I had even more time to think about it, and the suppositions I came up are verified by this site and its links. This is a fascinating site for the very real application of some very abstract science.