http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Vishniac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designated_survivor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedlec_ossuary

http://wheelof.com/whitney/index.php?var=v14 The Whitney music box, a hypnotic flash program. Be sure to see the other music boxes linked on the left.
http://www.openttd.org/en/ Open source implementation of the Traffic Tycoon game. It requires the original game in order to play although they are writing replacement code so everyone can use it.

http://www.zefrank.com/sandwich/ The story of the mission to make an earth sandwich, which is to get two pieces of bread down on the earth on two exactly opposite sides of the planet.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1543658-1,00.html A letter from a Marine in Iraq.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yISqCAnROh8 Video of racing hard drive platters.
http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Pop-Art/9959 Photoshop tips for making a picture resemble the work of Roy Lichtenstein.
http://media-convert.com/convert/index.php This website offers to convert many different file types into other file types for you.

http://www.tipthepizzaguy.com/stories/ Stories from former pizza boys.

http://www.gameshot.org/?id=263 A fun flash game.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-408848/The-man-gets-paid-watch-paint-dry.html A story about the man whose job is to watch paint dry.

http://haha.nu/creative/how-to-make-roses-from-maple-leaves/ How to make roses out of maple leaves.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6749858206573219789# A funny tire commercial.

http://wavelit.com/?ch=Wildlife&sh=africam Wildlife in Africa.

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/08/product_music_m.html Music sponsored by companies to advertise their products.

http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/curecancer.html Oxford's distributed computing program to find molecules suitable for curing cancer. They also have a site on their page which lets you draw up a molecule, then they will test to see if it may be a possible cure.
http://macenstein.com/default/archives/category/mac-chick-of-the-month/ The Mac Chick of the Month.