3D Pavement drawings - You will not believe your eyes and there is even more here.

Urban Legends - The truth

Images over 24 hours - Fascinating

Babelfish Translator - Translate from English into German or French or even Spanish into Greek - it's all here. Warning - The translations are not necessarily grammatically correct!

Google Earth: - This is a fascinating tool - but you will need broadband to use it. Go to Google Earth to download the program. Install it on your computer and then type in your postcode. The world will spin round and home in on your address to show the cars in the street and the solar panels on the roofs.

NASA images - Beautiful images from 'out there'.

Jerome Murat - This mime artist will blow your mind. The natural successor to Marcel Marceau. You will need a 'fast-ish' broadband connection.

Drawing from the inside out - Watch the artist at work.

Abebooks - wonderful source of secondhand books

http://www.howstuffworks.com/ gives explanations on almost every subject under the sun from jet engines through retiring early to how lotteries work. A goldmine of information.