Fun Stuff

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Fun Stuff

Behind the Name Find meanings of first names.

Puzzlemaker Make your own crosswords, word search, math, and other puzzles—for kids, teachers, anyone.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Images and information. Search by artist, title, subject, keyword.

National Gallery, London An enormous collection of European painting. Easy searching by name, title; images enlarge easily.

Create-A-Graph Fool around with bar, pie, area, line graphs. Jazz up research papers and reports.

Greek Gods Family Tree Help keep all the convoluted relationships straight.

National Image Library All government stuff is in the public domain—that means no copyright, so all these images of wildlife, plants, scenery may be used without needing permission.

Kids Click! An excellent selection of web sites for kids up and down the age range. An intriguing feature is an alternate listing (by click) of the same sites by Dewey numbers.

Bogus Web Sites Includes links to phony web sites (e.g. California Velcro Crop), spoofs, urban legends, etc.

Hoaxbusters Debunks hoaxes and chain letters, tells how to recognize hoaxes and what to do about them.

Political Satire and Parody Making fun of politics and politicians can lighten your day—possible only in a country with free speech and free press.

The Onion From its start as a college student rag to a national institution, The Onion leaves no target un-shot-at.

Astronomy Picture of the Day Great photos from NASA, archived and indexed. Lots of exciting visual stuff.

Hubble Site Hubble space telescope site with photo gallery, news, sci tech, discoveries, and fun & games.

Planiglobe—Create a Map A beta site for making maps. Worth fiddling with.

Wolf Song of Alaska Plenty of info about wolves, habitat, habits, ecological niche, importance, folklore, predator/prey relationships.

Jefferson Lab Games and puzzles all related to periodic table (Hangman, Bingo, etc.). Teacher resources, student zone.

PeriodicTable.com Includes Alexander Arrangement (3-D version), comical elements (anagrams, puzzles, cartoons), stuff for students, teachers, biologists, chemists.

Math Baseball Links to Math Racing and other games that are educationally legitimate so the filter lets them through.

Bad Science Despite the tiny type, this personal site does focus in on examples of bad science taught in schools. Many links to sites such as Bad Astronomy, etc. Always be skeptical!

Symbols A graphic symbols encyclopedia. Word or graphic search.

American Sign Language Browser A helpful dictionary.

Yuckiest Site on the Internet Gross and cool stuff your body does.

FreeFoto.com Very large collection of free photographs for private, non-commercial users.

Alaska Channel An intriguing newspaper-style site with some great photos, constantly changing, and newsy layout. Numerous links to other Alaska-related sites, some educational, some not.