My Second Favorite Thing in the Universe

Wanderlust

James Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses And the moral of this story is, never piss off Mark Twain. Possibly the best essay on writing ever penned.
Freud's The Uncanny One of the few things I agree with Freud on is this amazing essay deconstructing what people find scary or not and why. If you write horror you have to read this.
The Spicy Green Iguana By far the best, most complete market list on the web.
The 55 Fiction Contest Great practice for writing: make a story that's only 55 words long. Now sell it.
Quotes from the Clarion Writer's Workshop
The Random Logline Generator Very silly instant story ideas.
Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories Cool beans! Eighty-year-old writing advice!
A Guide to Classical Mystery and Detection Taking you through the history and evolution of the mystery genre, one author at a time.
Mary Sue: An Explanation Why do they call it a Mary Sue?

Stefan's Florilegium Archive Everything you ever wanted to know about daily life in the Middle Ages.
The One-Handed Card Shuffle
Learning the Tarot
The Guild of Bulters Because hey, how often do you get to ask butlers what they do?
The Food Timeline
The Old Timer Page Details of how people used to dig wells and weave cloth.
The Kings and Queens of England For us American savages.
The Presidents of the United States For us poorly educated American savages.
Twin Bereavement What happens when you lose your other half?
FBI New Agent Training Information
T.E. Lawrence Studies
A Report on Mesopotamia by T.E. Lawrence
The Original Valkyries
AAR's Historical Cheat Sheets Essays on Victorian mourning practices, the place of servants in Britian, lots of goodies.
The Crime Library Kitty Genovese, Jack the Ripper, anything you want to know is here.
Popular Baby Names The US Census of baby names for the past century. Great for those of us who can never think of first names.
Surnames by Nationality For us stupid gits who can't think of LAST names, especially for foreign cultures.
Firefly Pidgin Chinese
Learn Gaelic
Sky Diving FAQ
The McDonalds Coffee Case Not at all what the news made it out to be.
Military fanfic questions
Maritime history
TIME Magazine's expose of Scientology And follow the links back to Operation Clambake for more.

Could Success Kill Your Webcomic? A rant on web comics trying to break even.
Diesel Sweeties A rebuttle to Scott Kurtz's article.
Narbonic More on the hidden side of webcomics.
The Scott/Tycho Flamewar
Flamewar Addendum

How to Draw Manga Fabulous tutorial!
Day Dreamer The website of the person who made the above tutorial.
Typoasis More fonts than you can shake a stick at.
International Fabric Collection Great for wrapping around Photoshop objects.
Jason Chan's Artwork
The Brother Makes Bad Candy
Polykarbon
Artchive
Index: Science Fiction Artists on the Web
Apsylus Pamela Ramali's art.
Holygarden More gorgeous art.
The Art Corner An interesting site specializing in critiquing art.
The Makeshift Miracle A nice collection of art tutorials.
Gagne International Nicely weird art.
San Diego Zoo Panda Cam
Vera Brosgol's Archive
Dracinabox Goth fashion. Let's face it, goths make great drawing refs.
Lip Service More cool clothes.
Gallery Serpentine Yeah, more goth clothes.
Starkers Corsets and such.
Palestinian Dresses Traditional clothes.
Palestinian Embroidery 1 Great patterns and designs.
Palestinian Embroidery 2 More cool designs.

The Soul of the Mark III Beast A fabulous little story referred to in The Matrix
Michael Swanwick's Periodic Table of Science Fiction
The Eye of Argon Famous as the official worst story ever written.
Portrait of Dorian Gray
Project Gutenberg The biggest and best source of free literature on the internet.
Gaslight A collection of 19th century fiction.

The Hunger Site
TvShowsOnDvd.Com Fabulous site. If you want to make me very, very happy, go vote for She-Wolf of London and Invisible Man.
Wil Wheaton's Blog
The Gamespy Gourmet
The Story About the Baby Quite possibly the funniest and most accurate account of parenting that I've ever read.
Every Fanfic Ever Written!
The Hidden Humor of Iconographic Instructions
Easily Amused Random links.
Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
Which Mel Brooks Movie Are You?
Catholic Shoppers The horror... the horror...
Cassie's Poetry and Paintings Because more fictional characters should have their own websites.
The Man Who Melted Jack Dann One of my all-time favorite pages.
Demotivators You know those inspirational plaques in office buildings and gyms? These aren't them.
Lord of the Rings Trivia
Highlander Trivia
Snopes.com Urban Legends
Bad Popsicle The wierdest fansite I've ever seen. And that's saying something. This is for Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series.
The Postmodernism Generator For when you need to sound really good but say nothing.
Digital Blasphemy Real purty backgrounds
Time Magazine Interview: Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon A New Sith or Revenge of the Hope If you reinterpret the old trilogy in light of the new one, R2D2 is an agent provocateur...
The Luke Side of the Force The true goal in the Star Wars movies is to die in front of Luke. Really.
If I Ever Become an Evil Overlord
British Officer Evaluations Because no one can tear you a new one like the British.

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