Challenging and Useful Links
	The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/ The NYT is a great Newspaper. It is also a great website, offering free registration and access to a huge archive of information.
	Remarks on the Doomsday Argument http://www.anthropic-principle.com/preprints/inv/investigations.html This is old time web. If you know who Thomas Bayes was and have an analytical mind then take some time off and find out why we are doomed. (Probably).
	Earth Introduction http://www.solarviews.com/eng/earth.htm Pure Science, very well put together Gaia site.
	Volcano Facts http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vw_exchange.html Vulcanism is a hobby. This is a good portal if you are interested in things blowing up, naturally.
	Encyclopedia Mythica http://www.pantheon.org/ Another tin, but a very good and wonderful resource if mythology is your bag.
	The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/ Webstuff can be good stuff.
	Online Etymology Dictionary http://www.etymonline.com/ Does what is says on the tin.
	Yugop com http://yugop.com/ This guy is a long way ahead. A very nice place to spend time.
	Morph Yourself http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~morph/ If you have a digital photo of yourself this site can show you the ugly truth, or beautiful future, that life has in store for you.
	Exploratorium http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/sciencesites.html These are very good educational or scientific sites, not entirely US biased. Good for checking out for kids or just to spend some quality surf time yourself.
	Darwin Awards http://www.darwinawards.com/ Long time bestofweb site which is always worth some time. Humanity is generally improved by the removal of these genes from the collective pond !
	HubbleSite - Wallpaper http://hubblesite.org/gallery/wallpaper/  Great site if you want some deep space images as your desktop wallpaper
	Internet Tools - iTools http://www.itools.com/internet/?simple=1;narrow=1 Convenient collection of good internet tools for finding stuff.
	Welcome to About com http://about.com/ Massive resource run by humans, not spiders.
	Welcome to refdesk http://www.refdesk.com/welcome.html If you don't have refdesk in your portfolio of sources you are missing out badly. Old time web site, can't praise these folks enough.
	International Dialing Codes http://kropla.com/dialcode.htm#table Does what is says on the tin. Useful.