CATCHING THE LIGHT: ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY

The photos are spectacular. You can either just enjoy photos of beautiful scenes of space, sun, moon and stars, or you can get great detail about the cameras, settings and processing techniques used. You can delve much deeper into the site by reading carefully and get even more detail. The Stories, Observations and Humor will entertain everyone; the 'What's New' section helps guide frequent visitors to the latest postings. http://www.astropix.com/INDEX.HTM

CHAMBERS' BOOK OF DAYS

The famous tome, which was published in 1869, is a "Miscellany of Popular Antiquities" that provides endless hours of interesting entertainment. This ingenious website has taken the rare book, scanned its pages and converted them into easily searchable text, making this otherwise esoteric book available at the click of a mouse. The Book of Days, which is organized along the days of the calendar, is filled with fascinating facts, anecdotes, curiosities, biographies, and "Oddities of Human Life and Character". You can look up your birthday and see what was happening on that day a very long time ago. Most of it is interesting but not the things we’ve learned as history. http://www.thebookofdays.com/index.html

INTERNET SHORTHAND

If you've always wondered what all those groups of initials mean that show up in your e-mail mean, check out this site. You can be a real geek if you memorize and use them! (It would take me so long to do that, I’d be too old to lift my hands to the keyboard@) There’s also a short list of emoticons that might be of interest to you. You’ll be more with it and impress your grandkids no end if you use a few of these!

BEST.MAGIC.TRICK.EVER!

I don't know who this guy is, or what kind of alien power he uses, but it’s fascinating. http://media.putfile.com/mindfreak-throughtheglass0-6500/480