he quest of the Magellan's Log staff for culture, counterculture, and anticulture, takes it into some nooks and uncanny crannies of the Internet where few surfers tread (which may account for a certain tendency in this publication to mix metaphors shameslessly).

Here's our latest collection of sites, ranging from silly to serious, ugly to beautiful, helpful to completely useless.

Lego movies
Watch one of these and then force yourself to think about the painstaking frame-by-frame procedure involved. These humans.
http://brickfilms.topcities.com/

Books of Hours
Meanwhile, back in the Middle Ages...
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/rbx/hoursdb/search.htm

Communist art
The proletariat we shall always have with us, at least as long as this extraordinary site exists. Get your Mao posters here!
http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/

Skyscrapers
The best of the many high-rise sites. Now complete with 9-11 pictures.
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/

Dark- and Light-skin Bible Action Figures
Well. Um. Uh. The site's been around awhile, which can only mean people actually buy these things.
http://www.trainupachild.com/

The Lava Lamp
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
http://www.oozinggoo.com/lava.html

Sodaplay
Unique. How to describe it? Online, real-time cursor play. See, they have these animated line drawings that have little handles at various points and you click on a handle and then you can control the movement... It loses something in the telling, Just go try it.
http://sodaplay.com/index.htm

Voices of the Dead
The dead we shall also always have with us, at least Wilde, Chopin, and Gandhi, thanks to this site.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/deathnoe.html

Free Tarot Reading
http://www.facade.com/tarot/

Time Travel Research Center
http://www.time-travel.com/

First Church of Tiger Woods
Great premise, stunningly realized, and falling-out-of-your-ergonomic-chair funny.
http://www.tigerwoodsisgod.com/

Crayolas
Maybe nostalgia IS what it used to be.
http://www.crayola.com/

Dead People Server
Find not only the mode and date of demise of your favorite celeb but also the burial location.
http://dpsinfo.com/dps.html

Shoutcast
Best music broadcasts on the Internet. Nullsoft has come up with this broadcast mode that allows anybody to become a D.J. to the Internet. Lots of people do it, using all kinds of music. The sound is of surprisingly good quality.
http://www.shoutcast.com/

Honda Humanoid Robot
While the conservative religionists are getting all bent out of shape about cloning, the Honda engineers are quietly moving toward what will, among many other things, be the ultimate sex toy.
http://world.honda.com/robot/

Trainhopping
They used to be called hobos. We're a long, long way from hobos here.
http://catalog.com/hop/

Free Project Plans
http://www.uniqueprojects.com/index.stm

Random Webcams
http://www.camcentral.com/random.html

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