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The Art Renewal Center Considering how long art has been dying of the excrescences produced by the likes of Christo, Jackson Pollock and Picasso, it's about time for the brilliance of Gerome, Leighton, Bouguereau and a forgotten host of others to come back to light and revive it. I, personally, can do without being told that art is a bottle of urine with an image of Christ in it, or miles of cloth obscuring the awesome beauty of nature.

earthlights - a gorgeous, impossible photo of the entire earth at night sprinkled with millions of lights. Well, it isn't night everywhere at once, now is it? Art from NASA.

fonts & graphics

Scriptorium Fonts and Art. Fantastic site. Hundreds of wonderful, original shareware fonts.

The Fontgarden Lots of fonts for download and hugely funny quotations to set them off.

Xero Graphics & Web Design Freeware filters for Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop.

The Panama - Pacific Exposition of 1915 in San Francisco in 3-D photos taken from the original stereographs. If you don't know what a stereograph is, here's your chance to find out. From the Exploratorium. Instructions on how to make 3-D glasses in case you've misplaced yours.

Black Mask Free books, no longer protected by copyright, to download. Tons of them. A book lover's wildest dream provided you don't insist on the latest thing hot off the presses. No Harry Potter.

Perseus For the erudite, the over-educated and anyone who loves delving in the literature of the past. If you've been wondering where you could read Xenophon in the original Greek, here's the place to do it.

Project Gutenberg The largest online source of free books. Dedicated to digitally copying every book ever written before they're done. Seems like it anyway. And you can help if you want to. Information on becoming a Gutenberg volunteer on the site.

Flying Dog Press - Suzanne Clothier

Okay, so I lied. There's a dog up there and here's the best source of information on dog training and behavior on the web. If you have a dog, you can't miss Suzanne's article "He Just Wants to Say, Hi!", to learn why your dog may not appreciate someone letting their pooch get in his face and why he's not the one who needs a talking to.

The Nincompoop Prize This is too good. I was wandering around the enormous Art Renewal site and fell over this article. It's happening man, to quote almost anyone who ever picked up a guitar in the '60s. People are starting to notice and
comment on the fact that the emperor is walking around buck naked.

Truthfully, now, which do you like better...this?

Pablo Picasso

Nude in an armchair

No, you can't see a bigger one, it's ugly

and I'm not giving it any more play.

Someone else plays jazz piano?

Chopin on the Web You love Chopin?

You want midis? You can still get classical midis and the sound on these is absolutely incredible. The midi was made for the piano. Go grab a few and see if it ain't so.

The Minus Y2K Bug You're not going to believe it but it all happened before in ancient Egypt. This is hysterical. You lived through it, now go find out how Moses, the favorite of PharaohSoft's CEO and secret hacker, really freed the Hebrew slaves.