:)> Books, Art, Music - E-Zines, Fun/Fringe, Etc. <(:

@art
This virtual gallery is a University of Illinois - a sponsored forum for the presentation of art exhibits. You'll get some cutting-edge ideas about art, when you visit this web site.
City Lights Publishers and Booksellers
Browse the shelves of San Francisco's funkiest bookstore, the home of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Dr. Tom and many other infamous bay area personalities.
City.Net
These pages present guides to several major American cities. The information varies in quality and depth.
Games Domain
The Games Domain is a one-stop location for information about and links to computer games as GamesDomain well as on-line Internet role-playing games.
HotWired
Wired magazine's on-line equivalent is a great Web implementation that gives a taste of what to expect from on-line magazines in the future. Subscriptions are free, but you must sign up.
Hype ElectraZine
This is currently one of the coolest e-zines on-line, with some dazzling graphics, terrifically entertaining content, and links to the netherworld of the Web.
Internet Movie Database Browser
It's not as engaging as the Cinemania CD-ROM, but it's currently the best on-line database of films you can find on the Web.
Internet Underground Music Archive
This is where independent bands post songs, photos, and info. It is searchable in several categories.
Lego
Here's a good example of a home page that mixes marketing, fun, and fanaticism. It's all the latest Lego news that's fit to download.
Megadeth Arizona
This page is much more than a fan club for the heavy-metal band. It's a great-looking, colorful virtual town. Horoscopes are included.
Mercury Center Web
The Mercury News site is one of the first on-line versions of a newspaper and it's still the best. Expect to find lots of extra information that doesn't make it into the print version.
MIT Science Fiction Library
Science fiction fans will appreciate this searchable on-line card catalog. It's not pretty, but the information is good.
The Nine Planets
Visit here for a dazzling multimedia tour of our solar system, complete with lots of color photos. The whole thing is very impressive.
Time Magazine
Cool graphical menus take you through Time magazine on-line and to other Time Inc. publications.
Tower Records
This site simulates the electronic record catalogs you find in Tower stores, and you can order merchandise, too. Make sure to back up to: http://www.singnet.com.sg/~skyeo
for a real fantastic Home Page and link 'WORLD' tour!
Ultimate Band List
There's no better resource for quickly finding information about your favorite musicians than this A-to-Z listing.
Ultimate TV List
Turn off the TV, turn on the PC, and explore links to home pages for hundreds of TV showsÑboth current and classic.
Underground Net
It bills itself as "anarchy at its worst" If you're adventurous, you'll appreciate the bizarre, strange, and cool places this page takes you.
Warner Bros. Records
One of the best of many record-company home pages. There is no shortage of musical downloads available from your favorite recording stars.
Windham Hill Records
The Windham Hill site is as good-looking as the album covers. It includes a full catalog of available titles, and sound clips are yours for the downloading.
Crash Site
It appears to have something to do with the underground music, art, and politics scene, but it's a little difficult to be certain...
Palindromes!
A palindrome is a word or sentence that's the same backward and forward. This page has lots of them, plus you can contribute your own.
Project Galactic Guide
A not-entirely-serious compendium of knowledge, real and unreal, in the spirit of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Surrealist Compliment Generator
Looking for just the right sweet nothing to whisper in your lover's ear? This site can help.
Intrr Nrrrd
A Web-based electronic magazine with a punkish sensibility. Maybe you get it. Maybe you don't.
System Zero
From the home page: A gathering place for the collaborative exploration of creative experiment - especially those of exotic or controversial nature.
The Place
Another one of those artistic fringe sites.
Shakespearean Insult
Find out what the Immortal Bard really thinks of you.
Electric Postcard
Want to send someone a postcard over the Internet? Pick from dozens of attractive designs at this lovely site.
Usenet Oracle
If you haven't yet met the Usenet Oracle, you owe it to yourself to do so. He can answer all your questions.
Real Astrology
The positions of the stars and planets at your time of birth determine your personality and what kind of day you'll have. Seriously. No, really. I mean it.
Tarot Reading
This is even more reliable than astrology!
Mother Jones
A magazine of investigation and ideas for independent thinkers.
M.C. Escher
A Web page devoted to the eye-twisting art of M.C. Escher.
MIDI Home Page
For people who are connecting their synthesizers and computers with MIDI, the Musical Instrument Digital Interface.
Progressive Rock Home Page
ELP. Yes. And dozens of other lesser-known progressive rock artists.
RockWeb
What can I say. It's a Web site for Rock 'n' Roll.
Ultimate Band List
Operated by American Recordings, this site contains links to virtually every other music-related site on the Web.
NettWeb
The site for Canada's Nettwerk records, home of Sarah McLachlan and other artists.
Geffen/DGC Records
Geffen Records' Web site, with info on many of their bands.
Miramar
These are the people who produce those Mind's Eye computer graphics video's and more. Jan Hammer, Tangerine Dream, and Thomas Dolby have records out on Miramar.
Kaleidospace
Independent Internet artists.