NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Everyone knows about National Geographic, but this is a different feature. You can submit your own photographs, and they may be chosen to appear! (Hope you’ve been paying close attention in Harold Hunton’s SIGs!) Even if you don’t want to enter one of your own, check out the pictures others have sent. They can be on any subject, from anywhere. A nice feature to me is that there is a caption explaining when, where and why the photographer chose to shoot this scene. Then, you can do jigsaw puzzles made from your favorite in the list, and even download it as wallpaper. There’s even a digital photography blog. I barely scratched the surface, but it’s a most interesting site.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/your-shot/your-shot

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TELEVISION
The Encyclopedia of Television includes more than 1,000 original essays from more than 250 contributors and examines specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, major policy disputes and such topics as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal.

You can look up articles on almost any TV actor/personality you can think of. Do you remember Arthur Godfrey; George Burns; Jack Benny? Read brief bios on all of them, and histories of programs. You can even listen to old commercials, although the evening I was writing this, there was a problem with that site. It’s much more interesting than it seems at first glance. http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/index.html

GEOGRAPHY – FUN?
If you’re as confused about geography as I am, don’t let that be a turn-off to visiting this site. It’s a game that you can play by yourself or against others in any part of – or in all the world. The game asks for a city/country and you have to click on the proper area of the map. It was interesting to see how little I know about locations of cities and countries. It’s a fun game. www.geosense.net

EARTH IMAGE OF THE DAY
MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) is a key instrument aboard the Terra (EOS AM) and Aqua (EOS PM) satellites. Terra's orbit around the Earth is timed so that it passes from north to south across the equator in the morning, while Aqua passes south to north over the equator in the afternoon. Terra MODIS and Aqua MODIS are viewing the entire Earth's surface every 1 to 2 days. The MODIS Image of the Day section highlights a new MODIS image every day. After a week, Images of the Day become part of the Image Gallery, which is powered by NASA's Visible Earth image archive. The Image Gallery has over 4,500 archived MODIS images. http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/showall.php