Fun Stuff

Humour

  • The Museum of Bad Art
  • The (Un)Official Guide to Surviving PMS

    WWW Humour:

  • Cool Hostnames
  • EFF's Smiley Dictionary
  • Wall O' Shame
  • Yecch!!!
  • Yahoo - Easter Eggs

    Monty Python:

  • Monty Python from Yahoo
  • Monty Python Skits
  • PythOnline
  • The R.M.P.S.S.

    Comics:

  • The Comic Strip (Dilbert, etc.)
  • Tank Girl

    • Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA)

    Main SCA Site Middle Kingdom Kingdom of Ealdormere (Ontario) Barony of Skræling Althing (Eastern Ontario) Canton of Caldrithig (Ottawa) Academia Xiphias (fencing household)

  • The Dictionary of SCA Slang

    Fencing:

  • Don Danulf's Academy of Defence (lots of on-line refs!)
  • Primary Sources from the Carolingian fencing page
  • Recommended Reading from the Historical Armed Combat Ass'n
  • Elizabethan Fencing
  • Scottie Armory

    Libraries and Resources:

  • Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
  • EuroDocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents
  • NetSERF
  • ORB (Online Ref. Book for Medieval Studies), and the ORB Library
  • Ravensgard Medieval References

    Costuming / Garb:

  • History of Costume by Braun & Schneider (1861-1880)
  • Milieux Costume Site
  • Ravensgard Costuming & Textiles
  • Rialto Clothing Archives
  • The Costume Page

    Heraldry:

  • An Index to the Given Names in the 1292 Census of Paris
  • Rules For Submissions (names & arms)
  • Heraldic Glossary
  • Heraldic Primer

    Celtic Music:

  • Ceolas celtic music archive
  • The Bodhran Page
  • Bodhrans... The World Of Bodhrans

    • Philosophy

  • Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
  • The Philosophers' Web Magazine
  • The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • The Skeptic's Dictionary & Guide

  • The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook

    • Astronomy + Space

  • NASA
  • STSCI (home of the Hubble Space Telescope)
  • Yahoo - Astronomy
  • What's UP This Month?
  • Royal Astronomical Society of Canada,
    and the Ottawa branch
  • The Crab Nebula M1 (some images)
  • 51 Pegasus (extrasolar planet)
  • The Nine Planets

    • Other Science

  • American Institute of Physics
  • Center for Innovative Computer Applications - Projects
  • Mathematical Visualization
  • Scientific American
  • Science Now

    • Languages, Linguistics, ...

  • Ethnologue - Languages of the World
  • The Human-Languages Page
  • Echo - Eurodictautom (dictionary)

    English

  • Anhaga's Old English Page
  • Ren Faire: Language - Vocabulary

    French

  • Chantez-vous frangais ?
  • Oxford Book of French Verse
  • The Charrette Project

    Celtic (Gaelic, Welsh, etc.)

  • Gaelic Languages Info
  • Manx Gaelic
  • A Welsh Course
  • Gaelic from Sunsite
  • Kervarker (Breton language)

    • Food / Drinks

  • EpiCurious: food, drink, cooking...
  • Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream
  • Coffee from Yahoo
  • A malt whisky tour

    Wine:

  • LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario), and Vintages
  • Wine from Yahoo
  • Wine Spectator Magazine
  • Berry Bros & Rudd Wine Merchants
  • Wines on the Internet
  • Grapevine
  • World Wine Web
  • Home page du Club Oenologie
  • Gestion de la cave à vins
  • WineBase for Windows
  • WineTech - cellar managing software, and WinePrice
  • VirtualVin Wine and Food Shop

    • Gardening, Botany

  • GardenWeb
  • GardenNet
  • Horticulture / Gardening Web Sites
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Master Gardener Information (searchable database)
  • World Weeds Database (Oxford)
  • Royal BC Museum (research and collections)
  • The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • WSSA - Weed Science Society of America

    Catalogues:

  • Johnny's Selected Seeds
  • Richters Herbs

    • Miscellany

  • A Word A Day
  • FineArt Forum (art-related web resources)
  • Klingon Language Institute
  • MapQuest - on-line maps, travel directions (N. Am.)
  • Ping Datascape
  • Toastmasters International

    Internet Cards / Birthdays:

  • 123Greetings
  • Byte-size Greetings
  • World Birthday Web

    • Personality Types & Tests

  • Cumulative Data for Jungian personality test
  • Profiles of the 16 Psychological Types
  • Archives of alt.psychology.personality
  • The Personality Project
  • VALS Questionnaire
  • Intellectual Assessment
  • Kent's List of IQ Tests
  • Feriens' List of Tests (nerd, purity...)
  • American MENSA, and a sample test
  • Test Your I.Q.

    • Fashion, etc.

  • CNN - Style News
  • Fashion-Line
  • Fashion Net
  • Firstview Fashion E-Zine
  • Lumiere E-Zine
  • Made In Italy Home Page
  • The Paris Pages