Fun, Interesting, and Bizarre Links

Games and other fun things to play with:
- Colossal Cave Adventure Page - a very fun (if not frustrating at times) adventure game
- Flash Arcade - Games!
- The Interactive Fiction Archive
- Make-a-Flake - make your own virtual snowflake
- <no>circles</no> - your guess is as good as mine on this one
- Oldies Radio Game Room
- Penguin - use the mouse button to hit the penguin the farthest distance, just try it, it's addictive
- Puzzle Parlor - variety of puzzles to solve
- Spirograph - on-line spirograph, very cool!
- Swingers
- Who's Out There? A SETI Adventure - what if you were hired to lead a search for extraterrestrial intelligence? Explore what you need to know to design a SETI research project, then test your skills at searching for alien signals
- Yahoo Games - multi- and single- player games (need yahoo ID to play)
Comics:
- FoxTrot
  - FoxTrot.com
  - uComics
- Jenny Jetpack
- King Features Syndicate - comics, puzzles, games, ...
- The Phantom
- Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD)
  - The Latest Comic
- Prince Valiant (1-6 weeks old only)
- Sally Forth
- uComics - "the best comics site in the universe"
Fun things to read:
- Annals of Improbable Research
- Ask Dr. Science - amusing answers to unusual questions (to say the least)
- Astronomy students say the strangest things... and so do professionals - snippets from introductory astronomy classes at the University of Alabama
- Babel Fish - From AltaVista, translate any text or any web page into/from a number of languages
- Bad Astronomy - dedicated to debunking 'bad astronomy' spread by the media (TV, papers, movies, etc...)
- Bunny Survival Tests Home Page - don't ask
- The Bunnies Strike Back - part two of the "Bunny Survival Page"
- Conversation with Arnold about MOND
- Dave Barry - recent columns
- Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division
- The Geek Code - ummmm... has to be seen to be believed
- The Geek Test - how geeky are you?
- (Another) Geek Test - ("Quantity over Quality")
- The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy
- oUR sTRANGE wORLD - Strange, humorous, weird, absurd, odd, useless and sometimes just plain moronic items on the web
- The Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything - self explanatory
- Rejection of a Rejection Letter
- Sample Cover Letter for Journal Manuscript Resubmissions
- Urban Legends Reference Pages
  - Inboxer Rebellion
Random other things:
- Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.
  - Michigan Trails Girl Scout Council - serves Grand Rapids, MI and the surrounding areas
  - Hemlock Girl Scout Council - headquartered in Harrisburg, PA (also offices in State College and Montoursville, PA)
- Klein Bottles - you too can have your very own Klein Bottle!
- Lake Michigan Cam - Grand Haven, MI
- The Mad Scientist Network - find out all about science in an entertaining way
- Magical Trevor - everyone loves Magical Trevor!
- Mapquest - find out where in the world you are, and how to get where you are going

E-mail to stark @ astro.psu.edu