Some of the lesser known cool sites on the net that you might not find just surfing around. Some of the oldest and still coolest sites on the net. Comics, tech, and just plain weird, you'll love it.

http://www.worth1000.com/
Worth 1000 is a site that specializes in graphics design. They have daily contests where people submit images photoshopped images.
Check out some of the awesome galleries.

http://www.elfwood.com/elfwood.pike
Amature and professional galleries of artwork. All free to view and enjoy. Some truly great work here buried in the not so great.


http://www.hell.com/index.html
Hell.com has been around for a long time. The index page changes from time to time but never leads anywhere. Check out the description from wikipedia and the subdomain bat.hell.com.
http://bat.hell.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell.com


http://www.thinkgeek.com/index.shtml
Awesome geek toys and the only commercial site listed on this page. Lot's of cool stuff here.


http://www.damninteresting.com/
Some damn interesting articles. New stories and articles are posted occasionally. All stories are true and strange. Think Ripley's for the web.

http://www.pgdp.net/c/
Distributed Proof Readers, the content creation arm of Project Gutenberg. Teams of volunteers spend their time looking at scans of public domain books and correcting errors in the text. You can see what's comming up or volunteer your time to proof read a page or two.

http://www.well.com/  
The Well is one of, if not the oldest online community on the internent. Formed in 1985 it has a wealth of knowledge and interesting discussions.

http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/   
This is for all of you younglings that never got the chance to use a BBS(Bulletin Board Systems) or learn the joys of the classic text games like legend of the red dragon. Working online BBS systems where you can download files, play games, or just chat. Many of these are accessible via telnet so you won't have to break out that old 2400 baud modem.

http://focusfusion.org/log/index.php 
This site is the major communication channel for a group of scientists that are attempting to create an alternative form of fusion using boron and hydrogen
instead of the classic D-T fusion being pursued by most nuclear scientists. This is a legitimate approach that has been researched and published in
scientific journals, it may bypass ITER and give us fusion power in the next decade.


http://www.boingboing.net/ 
Boing boing is a little better known than most of the other sites on this list. It specializes in weird stories.

http://www.weird-websites.com/WeirdWebsites.htm 
A site that specializes in listing weird web sites.

http://www.cultdeadcow.com/ 
Cult of the dead cow is the longest running netzine/electronic magazine in the world. It started out as a hacker/anarchist netzine and morphed over
time into other areas.


http://www.sluggy.com/ 
Awesome online only comic. Full archive of comic strip from inception to present day. Daily strips for several years. Take a peek but check out the first few weeks first. You will soon learn why bun-bun is awesome.