• Astroempires: massively multiplayer games online. Astro Empires is a free real-time Space Strategy Game with with thousands of players where you can build bases, spaceships, research new technologies, form alliances, fight epic Battles, and more.
• Bored.com: Online games & other stuff to keep you entertained.
• Brain Boosters: brain bending puzzles.
• Bubblebox.com: online games.
• Christmas & Winter Events: Find Christmas tree and winter events near you! Cut your own tree and other fun winter activities such as sleigh rides, hayrides and wagon rides!
• *Fictional Countries in Pop Culture: Here's a nice little test of your pop culture knowledge: see if you can identify the book, TV show or movie that that the fictional countries described here came from.
• Free Clip Art: graphics, clip art, and animations free to use for your school projects.
• Food Time Line:
"Ever wonder what foods the Vikings ate when they set off to explore the new world? How Thomas Jefferson made his ice cream? What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip...and why?" (foodtimeline)
• *The Learn List: "a super simple resource that aims to gather the best tutorial and book links from all over the web" on the topics of Flash, Photoshop, PHP, CSS, XML, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Actionscript, and Fireworks. None of the links or books are annotated, so you'll just need to click and sample.
• Puzzlemaker: make your own crossword puzzles, word searches, and other puzzles.
• *Road Trip Travel Games 1: things to do on long road trips.
• *Road Trip Travel Games 2: things to do on long road trips.
• *Statetris: Test your geography skills and manual dexterity by playing Tetris with US states instead of blocks.
• *Visuwords online graphical dictionary This is fascinating, a kind of visual thesaurus. Type in a word and an animation displays a mouseover definition and a kind of neural network of associations and related concepts. "Book," for example, is part of a conceptual universe including account books and ledgers, notebooks, sketch books, coffee table books, paperbacks, holy books, etc.
• Pumpkin Patches & More Pumpkin Patches, Corn Mazes and More! Where you can find a pumpkin patch, corn maze, pumpkin festivals, hayrides and other Fall and Halloween fun near you!

*Websites compiled by Marylaine Block at Neat New Stuff.

Movie Reviews

• Internet Movie Database (IMDb) -- searchable database of over 6.3 million individual film/TV credits; great for answering such questions as, Where have we seen that actor before.
• Rotten Tomatoes -- read reviews of movies, past and present; find out where a new movie is playing in your area; purchase tickets online.
• Moviefone.com -- movie times and reviews, what's "coming soon," trailers and movie clips.

• Volunteer Match: matches you with local places where you can volunteer.