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http://www.computerfinearts.com/

This website is a collection of works by artists specializing in web-delivered concept art. It's weird, some doesn't make sense, and (needless to say) it's not tied to any core content! Just for fun, and to stretch the imagination.

Take a look at "Tribe/Revelation 2.0" from the third column, which creates visual art by stripping the text out of CNN web pages...or "Lia/10" in the second column, which produces an entrancing black and white streaming image that interacts with your mouse placement. Most require the Flash plug-in. There is no indication anywhere on the site as to who maintains it...

Project Interactive

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/

A project of the Shodor Educational Foundation, this site is fun! It's full of interactive games aimed at middle school math students, and cross-referenced to four common middle school texts as well as the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards. There are complete lesson plans which go beyond the scope of the games.

Project Gutenberg

http://www.promo.net/pg/

This one's also just for fun. Project Gutenberg has been around since 1971, a time when its first document, the Declaration of Independence, took up a massive amount of computer storage space! PG reproduces, free of charge, entire books and other writings on-line. Of course, they can't post copyrighted works, hence most were published before 1923. They're delivered in "plain vanilla ASCII" - ordinary text files without formatting or illustration - which means that an entire book is actually a very small file by today's standards. (As an example, Richard Dana's Two Years Before the Mast is 916 k.) Read on-line, or print out for late night reading!

Science Education Zone

http://tlc.ousd.k12.ca.us/~acody/

Hey, there's even lesson plans here! How about that! This site is the product of California middle school science teacher Anthony Cody. Besides the plans, there's a humorous dictionary, a tale of woe surrounding the purchase of a new car, and links for everything from "urban education" to web page design. This site is not only a good resource, it's a good example of what a teacher website can do to support classroom practice and teacher connection.

EyeWitness to History

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/

This is a really nice history website. The focus is on the words of those who witnessed events unfolding - they even have audio recordings of 20th Century event witnesses in Real format. The site is browseable and searchable, and there is an "Events of this month" section. The site also includes historical photographs. Produced by commercial educational publishers Ibis Communications, with support from banner ads. [editor's note: link updated 7/6/04]