• Smart Glass Jewelry makes lovely pieces out of recycled glass.
  • Ecoist sells wonderfully cool products out of completely recycled materials. More recycled goodness is available from Eco Artware and Kirsten Muenster.
  • I love these purses (especially the red ones) made entirely out of seatbelts!
  • The photos at Trash the Dress are amazing beyond words. They make me want to run out and get married RIGHT! NOW! Other alternative wedding photography sites that rock my world are Underwater Brides, the European version of Trash the Dress, and this extraordinary wedding photographer.
  • Some Cards, Pickle Party, and Cerebral Itch offer brilliantly subversive and just plain funny (and oh-so-wrong) e-cards.
  • Internet Bumperstickers has such great offerings. To see some bumper stickers that really reflect my views, click here. Yes, many of them are negative. As one of them says, “I don’t do perky”and that pretty much sums up my life. Negativity and nihilism are the name of the game.
  • Letter Perspectives sells collages that spell out a meaningful word or name. The catch? Each letter is actually a photograph of a real-world object which looks like the letter (for example, a swan’s head and neck form an S, a row of three icicles dangling from a branch form an M, etc.)
  • Seeing these wildly unusual, intriguing scents makes me desperately wish I weren’t anosmic.
  • The end of a relationship can feel like death, so why not write an obituary for it?
  • Explore the wonderful world of altered book art.
  • See how one man turned books turned into different types of art.
  • These misleading shadows were, astoundingly, created out of household junk.
  • Feeling subversive? Feeling crafty? You’re in luck.

  • These heavy metal quilts make me wish I were a quilter.

  • Laura Splan and Kiersten Essenpreis both produce art that enthralls me.
  • Find out how music created from your brain waves can help you relax and reduce stress, anxiety, and depression.
  • Here is some very cool jewelry made out of steel and concrete.
  • Gorgeous, original, how-the-hell-did-she-do-that paper sculptures from artist Jen Stark and fabulously cool pencil sculptures from Jennifer Maestre (these two women make me so proud to be a Jennifer!)

  • Here are some mind-boggling sculptures made exclusively from nails and toothpicks.

  • PhotoBetty is a terrific resource and showcase for women photographers.
  • Forget about match.com; here are some classified ads specifically geared toward atheists and agnostics, environmentally-friendly folks, herbivores, people who only want platonic relationships, goths, and pet owners.

  • Get some nifty-beyond-words vintage reproduction and retro-themed textiles at Repro Depot or at Sin in Linen (which also sells amazing linens covered in skulls and knives).

  • Nicole Locher makes and sells fab t-shirts (which say things like “Sorry darling, good girls don’t swallow,” “I really need a fucking coffee,” and “Will fuck for shoes”).

  • Why should your pets miss out on the social networking craze? Facebook has applications called Catbook and Dogbook, and your pets can also hit Catster, Dogster, MyCatSpace, and MyDogSpace.

  • Take a voyeuristic peek at other folks’ home renovations...

  • or their refrigerators...

  • or their pockets and purses. (This one is run by my friend Danielle.)
  • Blackle is an energy-saving search engine (basically the power-saving version of Google). It saves some because the screen is predominantly black. It’s estimated that using Blackle could save 750 megawatt hours a year.
  • Design Sponge guides you to some of the best covet-worthy design deals and ideas on the Web.
  • TheThingsIWant.com allows you to create a nifty pan-internet wishlist.
  • The Nietzsche Family Circus is good for a laugh!
  • Turn your DNA into modern art with DNA Artistry or DNA11 (the latter also turns your fingerprints into art).
  • Who said the art of writing notes on fabulous stationery is dead?

  • etsy.com is like a giant, and very cool, mall where artists can sell their art and handicrafts. A DC-area version, Crafty Bastards, is available through the Washington City Paper.
  • Buy beautiful, eco-friendly products made out of chopsticks.
  • Are you a vegetarian with a jones for meat? Delicious fake meat is available at Vegecyber, Vegeusa, and Vegieworld. Or toss the fake meat aside and occupy yourself with vegetarian sex products or vegetarian vitamins.
  • Europe’s largest photographic center, located in Switzerland, looks awesome. Yet another reason for me to go back there someday!
  • Check out these excllent toys for your inner child.
  • I dig the retro-hip clothes here, but they’re waaaaay beyond my price range!
  • Awesome products abound at the Unemployed Philosophers Guild.
  • A few modern design decor links that I like, even though pretty much everything everything is wildly overpriced: Velocity, Purves and Purves, Moco Loco, Aktuella, MoMA Store, Dwell DesignSource, Modern Outdoor, Unison, Design-Space, skram furniture, Weego Home, 100 Percent Blast, Piccolini, Contemporary Cloth, Plushpod, Spectra Decor, 2 Modern, Unica Home, and LBC Lighting.
  • Soviet gear, anyone?
  • RogueFood.com is a lip-smacking foodie website owned and operated by my friend Debbie, who is my favorite foodie in the world.
  • PostSecret is a project wherein people send their secrets (artistically rendered on postcards) to a man in the DC metro area, who faithfully posts a handful of them online each week (with the secret-keepers’ permission).
  • If you’re snarky, a wee bit geeky, and you love TV, don’t just clap your hands...come to Television Without Pity, where all the cool kids hang.
  • If you live in the Washington, DC, area, this is a good source for tracking down cultural events being held at the various embassies.
  • More cultural events (primarily music) sponsored by the various embassies in DC.
  • Even more DC coolness! Catch a burlesque show at the Palace of Wonders or DC Cabaret, meet fascinating folks in the International Club of DC, dance the night away in your kilt at the Tartan Ball, or learn some sexy moves at Burlesque University.
  • Dooce is a superb blog. Her sharp writing, her astute observations, her glorious photographs...it’s all worth savoring.
  • I am addicted to snarking about bad baby names.
  • Here are some of the worst European interiors from my birth year (1974).
  • A compendium of long lists. (Yeah, it sounds pointless, but it’s actually quite interesting!)
  • If text messaging/IM abbreviations are a foreign language to you, this list will be helpful.
  • Think your Christmas was bad?
  • Where should you live?
  • I must have time-traveled back to 2000, because apparently I’m really 26 years old!
  • Do you want to tell other women why dating your ex would be the biggest mistake of their lives?
  • How much is your corpse worth? Mine will net a cool $6,025.
  • Irregular times is a great source of news that would otherwise be censored or ignored by the mainstream press.
  • Do you really need a website to tell you whether you’re gay or not??
  • Empty World is devoted to fiction and film depicting the end of the world, apocalypse, and nuclear war. This is totally my cup of tea.
  • Hate Valentine’s Day? Munch on some BitterSweets, send that special someone dead flowers, enjoy some anti-Valentine links, and then enjoy even more anti-Valentine links.
  • Here is a search engine that focuses exclusively on the sleazy side of the internet.
  • This is a website that speaks for Google, so if you plug in a few words, it will troll Google for random words/phrases and complete what it thinks that you're trying to say. Most of it is gibberish, but it can still be good fun.
  • Cute/silly cat links: Infinite Cat, What Jeff Killed, Cats That Look Like Hitler, Stuff On My Cat, Cat Drinking Songs, Cats in Sinks.
  • This dude has written some very dry, funny fake reviews on Amazon.com, which is pissing off Amazon considerably.
  • If you like urban decay/ruins, you’ll probably like this wonderful selection of Chernobyl and Pripyat links.
  • Boots n’ All is kind of like the independent traveler’s bible.
  • I’ve been reading about some intriguing art projects taking place around London: Art After Science, NODE London, Dorkfest, Greenwich Emotion Map (doubly cool because Greenwich is near where my dorm was located in London, and it’s an area I really love), Cyclone.soc, Thomson & Craighead, and igloo.org.uk. Meanwhile, some marvelous art photos from around London can be had here.
  • I suddenly have babies in my life (via family and friends), so I’ve been determined to track down the coolest/funkiest/most subversive/tolerance-inducing baby clothes and toys in existence. The best of the best (in my opinion) is BabyWit.com. Other really cool shops include: MindfulToys.com, MyPunkBaby.com, and SmallTerrors.com, BabyGags.com, WeeRock.com, MetalBabies.com, Baby-Tease.com, MamaTieDye.com, LittlePagans.com, PintSizePunks.com, CaliforniaBaby, HoagiesGifted.org, SmartToysAndBooks.net, Modern Seed, CityThreads, LilCudz.com, Trendy Tadpole, Oompa, and TheNaturalNewborn.com.
  • Everybody knows that glasses are sexy, right?
  • This is a great source for Finnish design goods.
  • In a somewhat similar vein, nice Scandinavian gifts can be found at Scandinavian Gifts, Scandia Imports, Ilmi Johanna, Ingebretsen’s, Gifts From Finland, Touch of Finland, The Wooden Spoon, Scan Select, Memories of Finland, and Finn Ware.
  • I don’t read romance novels (although I was hot for Jackie Collins and Danielle Steel back in the day), but I love that this site celebrates the glorious paradox of smart women who love trashy books, because I do sometimes swill from a goblet o’ trashy lit.
  • Turn words into visual poems.
  • A comprehensive list of phobias.
  • But remember that not all phobias are commonplace!
  • In Your Pocket is an informative and often funny guide to life and travel in Eastern Europe.
  • Meanwhile, the City Paper will fill you in on what’s going on in the Baltics.
  • All of your un-PC giftwrap needs can be met here.
  • It is so much fun to eavesdrop on New Yorkers and Londoners! Another variation on the Tube gossip site, but generally not as entertaining, is here.
  • Bust Magazine sells some hella-cool items in their shop.
  • This site has some fun items, including a wide range of CCCP-emblazoned gear.
  • Awesome liberal stuff!
  • Find out which level of Dante’s inferno you’ll eventually call home. My score on all the levels:

    Purgatory (Repenting Believers) -- Very Low
    Level 1: Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)     -- Low
    Level 2: Lustful     -- Moderate
    Level 3: Gluttonous     -- Very High
    Level 4: Prodigal and Avaricious     -- Low
    Level 5: Wrathful and Gloomy     -- Very High
    Level 6: The City of Dis (Heretics)     -- High
    Level 7: Violent     -- Very High
    Level 8: the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)     -- Very High
    Level 9: Cocytus (Treacherous)     -- High

  • Build your own Mr. Picasso Head.
  • There’s something so alluring about finding scraps of other people’s lives lying around.
  • An awesome and very funny look at bizarre records!
  • If you like Found Magazine, you might like this site as well, which catalogs found grocery lists.
  • What am I reading? What am I coveting?
  • The Onion remains one of the sharpest source of satire and humor on the planet.
  • More glorious satire can been found at the White House

  • Hate your neighbors? Hate your landlord? Fire away!

  • Cruise through funny, scathing, anonymous complaints about coworkers.
  • Created in the wake of the 7/7/05 bombings in London, I Am Fucking Terrified allows people share their fears of every stripe.
  • Worst music video ever? Quite possibly.
  • Check out some hella-cool jewelry here and here.
  • I am so in love with these movie posters.
  • Order some tacky-cute Union Jack items.
  • Are you an infidel who believes in free thought? If so, check out Banned Books, a freethought webring, Infidels.org, freethought.com, or Agnostic.org.
  • Explore the link between creativity and madness.
  • Wanna know how to say, “Oh my God! There’s an axe in my head!” in multiple languages?
  • Lots and lots of insults...
  • cruel.com highlights a funny/bizarre/interesting website each day.
  • x-entertainment offers some of the funniest pop culture observations on the web.

  • Although my heart remains devoted to Perez Hilton, this website runs a close second in terms of celebrity gossip doled out by a sassy gay guy.

  • Fark is a source for news and websites that are strange/funny/stupid/interesting. Check them out daily!
  • Are you likely to survive a nuclear blast?
  • Have an action figure made of yourself!
  • Interested in learning more about a specific crime?
  • Fun, silly things (like Jesus action figures) can be had at Archie McPhee.
  • This is a funny site which is at its best when it mocks recipes and fashions from the past.
  • Religious parody in top form!
  • For the foreign grocery needs in your life.
  • How about some hysterical Airtoons?
  • More British goods in America than you can shake a stick at: Shop England Online, British Goods , British Shopping , UK Goods, The British Pantry, British Delights, and The British Shoppe .
  • One can never have too many strange and unusual dictionaries.
  • RetroFuture is an interesting look at how people of the past thought people of the future (especially around the year 2000) would be living. They were so off-base in many cases, it is quite amusing.
  • McSweeneys provides wonderfully sardonic, random humor.
  • More wacky wit can be found at Brunching Shuttlecocks. Their toys and ratings are tops.
  • A very intensive site on depression.
  • Build your own conspiracy theory!
  • A great online radio station can be heard here.
  • Test your mental reflexes!
  • Need a rhyme, synonym, antonym, or definition? The Rhyme Zone proves a wealth of help.
  • We have all misunderstood lyrics at one point or another!
  • When did your favorite TV shows go downhill?
  • Translate your words into a variety of languages (sometimes the results are quite funny!)
  • Did you every want to swear in a foreign language?
  • Translate your words into several humorous dialects.
  • The sister company of eBay, half.com provides used music, books, and games at fantastic prices. No bidding involved!
  • A great media source.
  • Learn various (G-rated) phrases in dozens of foreign languages.
  • Find out what your cash is worth in other currencies.
  • Erotica for the discerning individual can be read at nerve.com and cleansheets.com.
  • Take dozens upon dozens of quizzes to learn a thing or two about yourself!
  • Find a wealth of journal articles and information on the National Library of Medicine’s database.
  • Find long lost treats from your hometown.
  • BooBerry is one of my all-time favorite cereals!
  • The Gallery of Misused Quotation Marks is great fun when you are easily annoyed by inappropriate quote marks, as I am.
  • For the complete pessimist in all of us.
  • Isn’t it ironic?
  • eBay’s evil, hilarious cousin! (Unfortunately, though, it rarely gets updated.)
  • How long until Dubya gets the hell out of office?
  • Word lovers will appreciate this site.
  • Find graves all over the world.
  • Kill off your least-favorite sitcom characters!
  • Find out the true story behind your name.
  • Fantastic articles on doubting religion.
  • Dark humor, dark quotes, etc.
  • Seek revenge and ye shall find.
  • What kind of print ads were circulating when you were born?
  • More vintage ads; these focus exclusively on computers.
  • Find out where all the speed traps are at in your neck of the woods.
  • A look at London life.
  • Anonymously notify folks that they have body odor.
  • Goodies from around the world, courtesy of novica.com, which exists in conjunction with National Geographic.
  • Dig death? Check out the only necromantic museum in the country.
  • Looking for sites that will help you dine vegetarian when you travel? Try Veg Dining.com and Vegetarian USA.com.
  • If you are seeking old classmates, try Classmates.com, Friends Reunited, Alumni.net, or School News.
  • And you think your life is miserable?
  • One can never have too much useless knowledge one’s life.
  • Name generators out the wazoo!
  • Bored? Check out bored.com to spice up your day.
  • This is a neat project being staged by AT&T. Type in any text and the computer will read the text back to you in the voice of your choice.
  • Would you like to see what the moon looked like on the night you were born?

  • Where in the world have you been? Here is where I have alighted so far.

  • Which states have you visited? These are the ones I’ve hit to date.