http://marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm
Newsmap is an amazing graphical representation of the constantly-changing headlines on Google News. By relying on something called a "treemap algorithm" to aggregate news, Newsmap uses space to translate the importance of a story; in other words, more popular and important stories appear larger, while less important ones appear smaller.
http://www.damninteresting.com/
If you ever find yourself sucked in by the occasional History Channel special, you'll quickly get lost in Damn Interesting, a blog that writes long-form historical summaries of just about anything that's, well... damn interesting.
http://www.5min.com/Try this: write directions for tying your shoes, or making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It's not as easy as it seems; some things are best demonstrated, not written.
The Wayback Machine. It's a timewarp to the day whn the web was cool.
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
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