Popular Entertainment Links
Ah, entertainment! The stuff free time is made for! The focus of
most weekends! A multi-billion dollar industry that spans the globe
and affects more people than the Holy Bible has (and that's a sad
commentary, isn't it?). Movies, music, books, games and more. If
it can be used as entertainment, diversion or distraction, this
is the place. And now, I'm finally giving popular entertainment
a link page of its own. What can I say? I enjoy the arts and always
have. Here are some links to interesting places on the web, but
this page still needs some developing .
Last updated 06/10/07
Newest items marked with a *
Movie Reviews and Commentary
Ain't It Cool News
American
Film Institute's Top Heroes and Villains
Awesome Movie Scripts
and Screenplays - This is a very simple site, with a bunch
of scripts to movies. That's all there is, but it delivers what
it promises. Blurred
Line Reviews Box
Office Mojo Brit
Movie
CHUD Coming Soon
The DVD
Dossier Film Brats
Film Note
Kung Fu Cinema List
of Films on Liberty and the State MI6
- home of James Bond The
Movie Box Movie
Mistakes Movie
Profiler
The Movie Spoiler
- As the name implies, you can find a complete explanation of
the entire plot (including the ending) of a great deal of movies.
Fun to see what you missed or to read up on a movie you don't
intend to watch. Or, if you are one of those people that likes
to know the endings before watching a movie.
Moving Image
Archive
The Nitpickers Site
Not Coming to a Theater Near
You NY
Times best 1000 Movies Plugged
In Rotten Tomatoes
Scriptorama
Self-Made Critic
The Spiritual
Cinema Circle Time's
100 All-Time Best Movies Yahoo
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Music A
Different Drum on My Space
All Music - I know, this
site has been there forever, but it is one of the first places
I will check when I want to look up music, so I figure it deserves
a link. Very complete site.
Baroque Music
Celestial Voices
Gracenote Ishkur's
Guide to Electronic Music
KCRW online music
Legal Sounds - Cheap
and legal way to buy mp3's without spending $.99 each song.
Russian site, in English also. The
Music Edge.com
Mutopia
Project Free sheet music
Rowynet Free Sheet Music -
Free classical sheet music in pdf format.
Sloth Radio
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Books and Authors
An
Index to Dr. Suess Characters
Isaac Asimov Home Page
- Asimov is one of the first Sci Fi authors to really capture
my attention and inspire me to want to be a writer. It was a
sad day when I heard he died. This site attempts to preserve
his legacy and keeps up with any news concerning his works and
such. Mugglenet
- Harry Potter Community
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Gaming, board and digital Boardgame
Geek Curmedgeon
Gamer Digipen
Student games Gamasutra
(game developers magazine) Gamer
Dad Gamegrene
Gamespotter Game
Tunnel Independent Games Liberated
Games
Linux Games
Moby Games - Most comprehensive
game databases on the web. Game documentation and reviews galore.
No downloads, as they prefer to focus on information. Discusses
games going back to 1979.
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Television
Channel Chooser
- This site allows you to actually watch a stream from various
actual TV channels. While there are not very many choices yet,
this site is growing their selection quickly. Uses Quicktime
and Windows Media, mostly. Jump
the Shark Mark's
Simpson Site Television
without Pity Teevee
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Popular Culture 80's
Music Lyrics - This site has lyrics, to be sure. But there
is also a music quiz, humor and original 80's arcade games you
can play in your browser. Defamer,
the L.A. Gossip Rag Pop
Cultures Pop Matters
Remember the Eighties
Hundred Greatest Moments
on the Web
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Humor
BB Spot
The Book of Ratings
Candyboots - This
site features Weight Watcher's recipe cards from 1974 and
other old, kitschy stuff.
Cate's Garage Sale Finds
- Cate loves to find old crap at garage sales and scan it
in, then make fun of it. Good stuff.
Cockeyed.com
Comedy
Central's Jokes.com
Conversational
Cheap Shots
The Darwin Awards
Despair.com
Fade to Black
Forwarded Funnies
Gettysburg
Address in Powerpoint
Glossy News
God Laughs
Grand-Pa's Jokes
Greatest webpage in
the world
Grumble Magazine
Home Star Runner
The Ig Noble
Home Page
Improbable.com
Improv Everywhere
- I love exploring this site. New York pranksters pull off
strange stunts, sometimes silly, sometimes esoteric, but always
funny, much to the bewilderment of those who happen to watch.
They include full stories, including pictures and video clips.
Well worth visiting.
Interestin
Jesus of the Week
Joke Index
Jumbo Joke
Lileks.com
The Onion
Patently Silly
Plausably Deniable
Rec.Humor.Funny
Ridiculopathy
Rinkworks
Satirewire
The Schmews
The Simpsons Archive
The Sneeze
The
Specious Report
The Spoof
Stick Figure Death Theater
Tech
Humor
Things My
Boyfriend Says - Real life quotes from a guy with a strange
sense of humor. Yes, they are posted by his girlfriend.
This is True
Timothy McSweeney's
Uncyclopedia
Useless Information
Very Funny Ads - Official
site of the TBS special on funny ads from around the world.
Great stuff.
We
Made Out in a Tree and this Old Guy Watched Us
Wrong Answers
Yahoo Directory
of Humor
Zug
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Online Literature/Reading
American Literature.com
- Doesn't appear to be updated any more (not since 2004), but
this site has the text to several pieces of American literature
that are now in open domain. There is some Poe, Baum and Twain,
among others. Arts
and Letters Daily Alex
Catalogue of Electronic Texts Axess
Magazine Baen
Free eBook Library Bartleby
Bibliomania
BitBooks Blackmask
Online
Black Table
Book Crossing
Books
for a Buck's Free Book Listing Books
in the Internet Public Library Books
Online Children's
Storybooks Online Digital
Fiction EBooks3
The eBook Directory
Eserver Accessible Writing
Fantafiction
Free Science.info - Download
free science books. Over 1000 listed. As they say on the site,
"science is for everyone."
Free Stories
Free Tech Books
- No catches or gimmicks. Real tech books for you to read, with
no costs involved. Computer science, artificial intelligence,
operating systems, programming and much, much more.
Great Books Collection
The HypterTexts
- Free, online poetry journal. Lots of reading material, here. Internet
Classics Archive John
Labovitz's E-Zine-List Literary
Critic The
Literature Network Literature.org
My Favorite E-zines
Old
and Dusty Books Open
Library.org O'Reilly
Open Books The
Other Pages Page
by Page Books U
of Penn Online Books Page The
Perseus Digital Library Philosophy
Electronic Texts Pirate
Books and Articles, online
Planet
Pdf Free Ebooks - Some of the very best old classics are
represented on this page. I'm sure they are offered to show
off the capabilities of the pdf format, but nonetheless, you
can download and read any of these at your leisure. Project
Gutenberg Public
Domain Electronic Books listing Read
Books Online - Another site that has full texts of out of
copyright texts. Includes poems, essays, novels and plays. It
also identifies Pulitzer prize and Nobel prize winners.
Rosetta Project
- Children's Books Rum
and Monkey
The Shakespeare Authorship
Studies Conference Stef's
Free Online Smalltalk Books Tech
Books for Free United
Heroes U
of Michigan's Digital Library University
of Virginia Ebook Library |
Fun and Games on the web 20
questions 59
Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena Akiyoshi's
illusion pages Albino
Black Sheep Am
I Pi? B3ta
Briangle Church
Sign Generator
Cool Optical
Illusions
Cool Quiz Cool
Tricks and Trinkets Del.icio.us
De.lirio.us DisX
(online game) Factum,
face the facts picture and info blog Gamemaker
Google Sightseeing
Gprime.net
The
Great Big List of Fanimutations It's
a Wonderful Internet Jib
Jab Just Curio.us (answering
questions of strangers) Krazy
Dad Little Fluffy
Industries
Meme pool
Mental Floss - Billed
as the place where knowledge junkies get their fix. Nation
States Never
Bored Again Post
Secret original Post
Secret Random
Access Memory rec.puzzles
Archive Rinkworks
What
will you look like? Worth
1000 Worst
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Critics
DVD in my Pants
- Actually, this site has much more than just movie reviews,
but that's what I like most about it. However, they talk about
popular culture, DVD releases and more. Fun place to spend
the afternoon.
Film Wurld
Hollywood Jesus
MetaCritic.com
Monsters and
Critics
Reel
Views
Screenit.com
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Philosophy in Popular Culture Matrix
Essays blog The
Matrix Movies explained The
Matrix Philosophy page
Philosophical Essays about
the Matrix Movies
Superman as
Christ-Figure: The American Pop Culture Movie Messiah -
Thorough essay on the first two Superman movies (with Christopher
Reeve) and how he is like the Messiah. Written before the recent
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Music Bands
Angels and Airwaves
- Official band of the former Blink 182 singer Tom DeLonge.
Great stuff. Multimedia heavy, with videos and more.
Angels and Airwaves
fanpage - Well done fan site with news and lots of information.
Cocteau Cafe - Website
devoted to the Cocteau Twins, a beautiful band. Sadly not together
any more, their music lives on. Ethereal is one of the best
words to describe them.
Shunt - Official Recoil Website.
Who is Recoil? Why, it is Alan Wilder, formerly of Depeche Mode.
Genius music, very dark.
They Might be Giants
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Film Music and Soundtracks Film
Tracks |
Food and Recipes Cooking
Light |
Movies I Just Love
Clue -
The Movie Guide
Laurel and Hardy
- OK, so these guys were in lots of movies, so I'm actually
referring to lots of their work, but I couldn't ignore the
comedic genius of these two clowns. This fansite has a lot
of great info.
Stark Raving
Sane: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Fanlisting
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Multimedia - Images, Photos, icons, etc.
Artchive - Extensive
collection of the world's great artwork. This guy put a lot
of work into this site.
Artsforge
Avatarity
Big Foto
Big Happy Fun House
- Vernacular photography blog. Not sure where he gets the photos,
but these are all old shots, various slices of life from the
past. Interesting the see.
Flickr Flickr
Girls Font
Shop Free Fonts Fotos
Encrontadas
Found Photos
Found Photo Blogspot
Freefoto.com
Free Images - 2500
stock photos for free.
Free Photos Bank
Gentium,
a Typeface for the Nations
Graphics.com Houseplant
Picture Studios Image
Shack picture hosting
Kittyville Found
Photos
Laughter
is the Spackle for the Soul
Liquid Sculpture
Look at Me
Open Clip Art Library
- art library that is meant to be accessible for everyone. Public
domain art only.
PBase Photo Hosting Photo
Station Pic Search
Putfile - Images and videos
hosted for free. Randimaginator
Riya facial recognition
Scrambled Tamago -
Artist blog
Scran Square
America Stock
Vault
The Synchronicity
of Indeterminancy
Target Mode
Tiny Pic
Yahoo
Directory of Found Photos Yotophoto
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Multimedia - Sound and Music
Amazon.com
Free Music Downloads - Have to be a member, but this is
a great, legal way to check out some good new and older tunes.
Audio Books for
Free - As the name says, this site has a bunch of free audio
books. They are all books in the public domain and the audio
is all for your listening pleasure.
Creative Commons -
Has pictures, sounds, text and video files, but I'm arbitrarily
placing this here. Not just a way to find free content, but
also a way of life (or at least a way to share your work with
others in a free way). You've heard of copyright. This is copyleft.
Epitonic - Indy music
for download. You can make some great discoveries here, for
free. Mp3 format, no restrictions. Has a free newsletter and
you can also create playlists and such. Pretty cool.
Find Sounds - Search
engine specializing in sound files. Fantastic and extensive.
Free Game Arts*
- This site "promotes the use and development of free and
'open source' game resources, including 3D models, sound effects,
textures, games and development tools." Nice resource for
game makers.
The Freesound Project
- From the site, "The
Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons
licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs."
Live Plasma - Interesting
way to explore music. Also has movies. Enter in a band, a movie
or director and let the map get built before your eyes. Then,
check out some of the related titles and artists.
Mutopia Project Free
sheet music - Like Project Gutenberg, but with free sheet
music, instead of texts. All of these are in the public domain. Netvue
- Picture search site with a useful interface; it will dispaly
10 results at a time and allow you to view them in full size.
Synth Site
- Purchase synthesizers, read about musicians who play them,
and more.
Synthzone - Great place
with great prices for buying synthesizers.
TV Tunes
- They say they are temporarily closed until things work out
for copyright issues. We shall see.
Yahoo Audio Search
- Plain and simple, Yahoo's solution for finding sounds.
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Multimedia - Video
Bolt.com - I'm putting this
under videos, but Bolt has pictures and music, too. Seems to
operate something like YouTube.
Free Movies -
Sounds too good to be true. Well, this site provides embedded
files but does not host the movies. Some of these are out of
copyright. Some of these are just posted on YouTube and other
movie sites and will probably disappear very soon. However,
watch them while you can.
Open Media Network
Our Media.org
Public Domain
Torrents
Stupid Videos
Truveo
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