Amusing Places To Visit
Last Updated: April 20, 2002

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Silly site showing dancing cows and cow related stuff. Takes a couple minutes to load all the pictures.
http://www.cowdance.com

Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.
http://www.darwinawards.com/

List of all frisbee golf courses in the world
http://www.dgc-online.com/

One of the frisbee golf web sites
Frisbee Golf

Local Madison frisbee golf website
http://www.madcitydisc.org/

Official Olympic Site
Olympics

Views of the solar system
http://bang.lanl.gove/solarsys/eng/homepage.htm

List of all known planets with misc info
Extrasolar Planets Catalog

NASA's Mars missions
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov

NASA planet photographs
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov

European Space Agency site
http://sci.esa.int

International Space Station
http://station.nasa.gov/station

Highlights one star per week and gives a little blurb about it. Can go and look through the old list.
Star of the Week

Astronomy Magazine website
http://www.astronomy.com

European Southern Observatory site
http://www.eso.org

Florida Today space news
http://www.flatoday.com/space

Lists all plantariums around the country as well as Canada and Mexico.
http://www.ips-planetarium.org/ips-around-namerica.html

NASA's Deep space missions
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov

Japanese space program
http://www.nasda.go.jp

The Planetary Society is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that was formed to encourage the exploration of our solar system and the search for extraterrestrial life.
http://www.planetary.org

Discuss/gives update on the Pluto Mission
http://www.plutomission.com/

Search for Extra Terrestrial Life
http://www.seti-inst.edu

NASA's space shuttle site
http://www.shuttle.nasa.gov

Sky and Telescope magazine site
http://www.skypub.com

Hubble Space Telescope
http://www.stsci.edu

Contains list of bookstores for both new and used books. For the used section, go to: http://www.addall.com/Used
http://www.addall.com/

Local Madison bookstore
http://www.madisoncanterbury.com/

The Bureau of Land Management adopt a wild horse and/or burro program
http://www.wildhorseandburro.blm.gov

http://dietary-supplements.info.nih.gov/

Show the up to the minute guesstimate of the World population
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw

Show the up to the minute guesstimate of the US population
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/popclock

Library of Congress online catalog
http://catalog.loc.gov/

Find the definition of all sorts of various units of measure
Fundamental Physical Constants from NIST

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
http://www.aaos.org/

http://www.arthritis.org/answers/drugguide/default.asp

A personal site created to point of misconceptions in the media
http://www.badastronomy.com/

http://www.britannica.com/

http://www.consumerreports.org/

http://www.consumersunion.org/

Internet Movie Database site - good for looking up movie names as well as actors
http://www.imdb.com/

Get info on who owns any domain names
http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois

Look up telephone numbers
http://www.555-1212.com

Netizens Against Gratuitous Spamming - a website dedicated to fight spamming
http://www.nags.org/

Hotel site showing 3 different Niagra Falls webcams
http://www.fallsview.com/English/pages/fallscam.shtml

Has 10 webcams scattered around Montreal, both city and nature shots
http://www.montrealcam.com/en-sommaire.html

Has 2 webcams of Sydney, Australia that you can control for 2 minutes at a time.
http://www.viewsydney.com/index3.html