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Art
Colorado Digitization Project - A LARGE collection of Historical Colorado photographs and items.
Photos by Martin - World Photo Collection
Terra Galleria - Another World Photo Gallery
Photo.net - The best site for photos
Fotosearch Stock Photos - A wide variety of photos, illustrations, clip art etc.
Medieval Woodcuts - They have a large variety of subjects
Aon Celtic Art - Celtic Clip-art, knotwork lessons, fonts etc.
FARP - Fantasy Art Resource Project (part of Elfwood) Loads of info here, and it keeps growing.
Furiae - Gothic style artwork by Linda Bergkvist ... absolutly amazing
Scancoo - It's in Chinese (I think), but well worth the confusion, there's also it's sister pages, Wallcoo and Tucoo.
Books
Project Gutenberg - A humongous collection of public domain text
SciFan - Science Fiction reviews
The Dewey Decimal Classification - Here it is! The first few layers of the DDC
Screenplays Online - Quite a few movie screenplays, if you ever feel like reading along...
The HTML Bible - All the major translations, and parallel Greek-English, Hebrew-English bibles.
Sacred Texts - The Sacred texts for most major religions. From Hinduism to Tolkienism
The Harry Potter Lexicon - It's like a Harry Potter encyclopedia!
The Canterbury Tales - In Middle-English? with a linked glossary
Crafts
Costumer's Manifesto - This site is so big and complete, I don't usually need to go anywhere else
Oriland! - Lots of Origami- (beware of funny English)
Games
1000 Blank White Cards - I haven't tried playing this yet, but it sounds like a blast
BrickQuest - Dungeon RPG. Played with Legos.
Nexus Atlas - Little RPG GIFs
History and Geography
Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon?, Viking, Norman and British Living History
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - So many different maps it makes my head spin
Music
Khoomei - How and why (and what!)
CoLD SToRAGE - Music by Tim Wright (I'll admit this isn't helpful... )
The Beginner's Guide to Modal Harmony - All about modes and such
The Gregorian Association - Interested in Gregorian Chanting?
The Mutopia Project - Gutenberg for sheet music!
Nectarine Radio - Demo Scene music, 24 hours a day, no ads ... what more can a fan ask for?
Other
BoingBoing - Weird News for the Nerd oriented crowd
CSS2 Property Index - Want the real deal? This is a great place to look up css properties
Food Down Under 20,000+ recipes, sortable, searchable and surprisingly good tasting
Tolkien
Tolkien Online- The One Ring - The best Tolkien mb around. TORN doesn't even compare!
Middle-earth Tours - Pictures of Middle-earth by area, character, artist...
Rolozo Tolkien - Some good, some bad, all of it Tolkien! (Very complete)
Ted Nasmith - I couldn't help it! My favorite Official Tolkien Illustrator
The Writing Systems of Aman - Tengwar and Sarati Links, fonts and info
Ardalambion - All the tongues of Arda. Lessons, dictionaries, essays ...
Elenilambion - Quenya refresher course
Annals of Arda - A Middle-earth encyclopedia
Tolkien Encyclopedia - Three guesses what this is
Tolkien Name Dictionary - All the names in Tolkien's ME works and their meanings
Emblems and Heraldry - More or less everything about Tolkien's Heraldic fancies
Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages - A collection of ME scientific essays
The Eldar Hair Color Genome - Or Hair Color Genetics for Tolkien’s Elves -- missing right now, hopefully it will come back soon
The Home of Fantasy - The 'Middle-earth songs' section is worth looking at
LotR synopsis - For those of you who don't wish to read all those pages... yet want to know enough so as not to seem stupid
The Flying Moose of Nargothrond - Tolkien Humor Page
The Lord of the Peeps - I'll just quote a review- "First I thought it was stupid. Then I knew it was stupid. But it still made me laugh."
Words and Language
Webster's 1913 Unabridged Dictionary - Large and free, useful for old out of date words
Wiktionary - A project to produce a free multilingual dictionary and thesaurus in every language.
Wikipedia - the same as the Wiktionary, but it's an encyclopedia
Google Labs - All the best new stuff from Google
Alan Cooper's Homonym list - For some reason this is one of the only homonym lists out there
Behind the Name - The etymology and History behind first names from around the world
Langenberg - A translator collection. There is a language guesser halfway down the page
Sur La Lune - Fairy Tales
DaFont - 5300ish free fonts for mac and pc
Omniglot - A guide to writing systems from all over the world (plus con langs and such)
Reverse Dictionary - Describe a word, and the dictionary tells you what it *really* means
Shakespearean Insults Generator - A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen as you are toss'd with