Misc Entertainment

Webby Awards - presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the annual Webby and People's Choice awards are billed as the preeminent honors for Web sites.
Internet Ray Tracing Competition - an open competition for still images and rendered animations based on announced topics.
New Voices, New Visions - An art contest. OBJECTIVE: to support creative people using computers. for original works. DEADLINE: June 28, 1996. (end:6/29/96)
American Computer Science League (ACSL) - organizes monthly computer programming contests and computer science contests for junior and senior high schools world-wide.
British Informatics Olympiad - computing competition for schools.
Calgary Region Schools' Computer Programming Competition - students from grades 5-12 make original programs in Alberta Logo, Basic, C, and other higher level languages; held yearly in May.
Computer Currents Contests - ongoing contests for software and hardware.
File - electronic language international festival. In S�o Paulo, Brazil. August 8th to September 1st, 2000.
Internet Ray Tracing Competition - an open competition for still images and rendered animations based on announced topics.
ITAC Systems, Inc. - win a laptop computer.
New Voices, New Visions - An art contest. OBJECTIVE: to support creative people using computers. for original works. DEADLINE: June 28, 1996. (end:6/29/96)
Programmer Of The Month (POTM) Contest - a contest for programmers that presents a new challenge every 3 or 4 months.
Programming Contest Problems Archive - comprehensive collection of programming contest problems.
SoftBear Shareware E-mail give away Contest - Enter to win free shareware for Microsoft Windows in the monthly contest. Enter the Snail Mail contest to win a free Teddy Bear!
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest@
ThinkQuest Internet Contest (2)
Ticket Dog's Banner Contest
Volcanic Island Productions - monthly logo animation contest.
Webby Awards - presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the annual Webby and People's Choice awards are billed as the preeminent honors for Web sites.
Write the Fastest Life Game - programming contest to write the fastest version of Conway's Game of Life on the Mac. Prizes for the best 68k and PowerPC entries.

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GIVEAWAYS

$100,000 Give-A-Way from KIDdirect - Register to win $100,000 from the manufacturer of Barbie, Playskool and Toy Story electronic toys!
$500,000 WWW Survey Sweepstakes - designed to capture demographic and statistical information that will be utilized in the marketing of the Internet.
Access Market Square Contest - offers monthly contests from merchants using this presence provider.
Bailey & Associates $100 Sweepstakes - drop by for a chance to win $100 in merchandise.
Big Shot - win Sony computing products.
Boston Slicker Contest - win a personal cassette / CD music carrying system.
Casa Fiesta Giveaway
Christian Giveaway Contest - offering a free book every week from top Christian authors.
Compact Disc Giveaway
Cred-it Clean - contest entry to win money...all you have to do is rate our site. Come have some fun!
Cyberprizes.com - monthly draws and sweepstakes directory.
Freebie Friends Big Giveaway - win free exoctic plant seeds, software, t-shirts, U.S. Savings bonds, jewelry, and more.
FreeComics - monthly contest site giving away comic books to lucky winners.
Great Internet Give Away - giving away cash, cars, electronics, and more.
Hidden Treasure Sweepstakes
iWon - daily, monthly, and annual cash prize giveaways. Collect entries by clicking on links.
Jackpot.com - offering a million dollar sweepstakes every month.
Jewelry Contest
Lunch4Free - features monthly draws for varying prizes. Register your email address to enter.
McDonald's Monopoly@
Monster Millions - offering daily and monthly drawings for big money.
Mountain Of Gear Giveaway - win over $1,500 in backpacking gear. Sponsored by Mountain Hideout and Explore.
Mountain Zone Contest
My Bug - win a personalized 1998 VW Beetle from Excite.
NeedToWin.com - directory of contests, sweepstakes, prizes, and other free stuff.
NetStakes - Innovative sweepstakes services for web sites, advertising agencies and product companies. We offer no barrier to entry Internet-based sweepstakes which build targeted traffic.
PC World Online Registration - win different prizes.
Pepsistuff.com - accumulate, keep track of, and redeem your points online for the Pepsistuff and Dewstuff promotions. Ends 12/31/2000.

Playle's Sweepstakes Weekly - has a weekly newsletter of current sweepstakes.
Prize Guys - sign-up for any product you want to win.
prizeheadquarters.com - register to win $10,000 and a monthly draw for $500.
Prizes Domain
Publishers Clearing House (PCH) - magazine subscriptions and contests including a $10 million dollar giveaway and monthly Internet giveaways.
Rad Board Corporation - 3-D, multi-planed scooter. Sign the guest book to win a free scooter.
Roadkills-R-Us Name Must Die Contest & Giveaway - Toys-R-Us has threatened to sue Roadkills-R-Us unless we change the name. Suggest names, send us cartoons, write letters, win prizes!
Russets, The - explore the world of Ralph Russet and win authentic Columbia TriStar Television memoribilia or a really big Sony Max TV Home Theater System!
SoftBear Shareware Snail Mail Contest - mail in your entry to win a free teddy bear!
Sudafed Promotions - register for the sweepstakes for a chance to win prizes.
Superprize International - free t-shirts in exchange for a link from your homepage.
Sweepsclub - offers online sweepstakes and instant win games.
Sweepstastic - delivers sweepstakes information to your email box.
TreeLoot - search for $1000, $250, $100, or $20 on the money tree.
United States Purchasing Exchange Sweepstakes
Victorian Reflections Amethyst Ring
Where the heck is it? - guess the locations of eight New York City sights. Winners receive prizes.
Win 10 Million Dollars! - Campus Subscriptions, Inc., a Publishers Clearing House Company, wants to make you the first multi-millionaire on campus! We"re giving away $10,000,000.00 to one lucky person, and it could be you!
Win a Family Vacation
Win a Free Exotic Vacation - enter to win a free Hawaiian vacation for two and possible find the love of your life.
Win a Free T-Shirt from USM - Win a free t-shirt from the University of Southern Maine by answering a simple trivia question found within our WWW pages! Monthly drawing.
Win a Free Web Page - Enter our competition and win a web page professionally designed, and hosted for 6 months free!. No catches or gimmicks.
Win a Maine Antique Digest Mug
WinItHere.com - offers sweepstakes and trivia contests.
Winning Ways - online sweepstakes and contests, plus a monthly newsletter delivered via e-mail.
WinTheElection.com - only cash prize game based on the 2000 U.S. elections.
Usenet - alt.consumers.sweepstakes

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MAGIC

All Magic Guide - directory of magic, magicians, and illusion, with calendars, events, and links galore.
Conjuring Cabaret, The - offers tips, explains a variety of beginning and advanced magic tricks, and supplies links.
Cool Magic Trick - online magic updated monthly.
Hocus Pocus Palace - site contains two self-playing magic tricks, where the computer is the magician, and you are the audience.
Illusionist's Page - shows some card tricks and a few other secrets.
Magic Channel
Magic Ian's Corner - online meeting place for magicians. Offers reviews, routines, forums, and a password protected "magicians only" area.
Magic Pages - links, commentary, and general stuff concerning magic. Includes a listing of certain books on magic.
Magic Zone, The - includes tricks, interactive magic, and tips for beginners.
Magic's Illusionz Revealed - contains explanations of tricks and magical illusions.
Magic-Interactive - with games, tricks, history, and more.
Magician's Corner - includes advice for beginners, performing for children, coin and card tricks, and the history of mystery.
MagicLand - resources for magicians, beginning to professional, plus free magic tricks.
magictheater.com
Trendy Magic - participate in magic online and learn about other magicians.
True Magic - covering card magic, closeup magic, magic links, games and tricks, and sites covering Houdini and David Copperfield.
Ultimate Magic - directory that includes calendar of events, featured dealers and magicians, chat, associations, and more.
Web Directory: MagicFinder - collection of links to magic on the web.
White Rabbit: The Linking Page - database of magic.
Yellow Hammer Theatre Company - all-female group using magic to create universally accessible street entertainment.

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ON LINE PSYCHOLOGY EXPERIMENTS

Absolute Pitch Investigation - by a graduate student in music education at McGill University.
Affective and Academic Results of Computer Programming Experience
BiWays - bisexual psychiatric survey.
Clinical Judgement Study - data collection site.
Daily and Seasonal Variations in Eating Patterns - the purpose of this study is to discover if time of day and season of the year affect binge eating.
Dating Survey - participate in the first study of internet singles. What do you prefer in a partner?
ERIC/AE Test Locator - Resources for locating psychological and educational tests.
Extramarital Affairs - explore a study of extramarital affairs. There is a questionnaire available for anyone who is or has been involved in an extramarital affair.
Faceprints - experiment concerned with determining the physical features that contribute to Facial Beauty.
Facial Characteristics - estimate age, height, and weight from facial photographs.
Irrational Food Beliefs Survey - these beliefs may often undermine weight control success.
Milgram Obedience Study (2)
Person Perception Experiment (2)
Psych Questionnaire on Death/Dying
PsychExperiments: Psychology Experiments on the Internet - consists of a set of interactive experiments, a cumulative data archive, download utilities, and support materials for cognitive and social psychology students and researchers.
Rate Facial Beauty
Romantic Relationship Study - a quick (under 20 question) survey that will help us understand how people behave in romantic relationships. Come on by and help out a struggling graduate student complete his research.
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Survey of Reactions to Suicide
Test Your Memory - memory experiment for written or spoken words.
Web Directory: Psychology Experiments on the Net
Web Experimental Psychology Lab - in English and German.
Zimbardo Prison Experiment (2)

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TRIVIA

Useless Information
AbsoluteTrivia.com - searchable index of trivia tidbits, quotations, tests, and useless facts.
FunTrivia.com - trivia portal featuring an archive, games, quizzes, and community.
UselessKnowledge.com - trivia, quotes, quizzes, and imponderables.
Big Waste of Space, The - mixed-media slacker trivia and miscellany including bloopers, soundclips, Jurassic flubs, and weird, exuberant factoids and freebies.
Deb and Jen's Land O' Useless Facts - did you know that carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike? Learn a new useless fact every day.
AbsoluteTrivia.com - searchable index of trivia tidbits, quotations, tests, and useless facts.
Big Waste of Space, The - mixed-media slacker trivia and miscellany including bloopers, soundclips, Jurassic flubs, and weird, exuberant factoids and freebies.
FunTrivia.com - trivia portal featuring an archive, games, quizzes, and community.
History House - bizarre anecdotes, fun books, useful resources. A new book and story every week.
Imponderables - website of David Feldman, the author of Imponderables books and the co-creator of the board game Malarky.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows - use of the word flan to describe a type of dessert derives from metallurgical flan, which is a metal disc.
My Almanac - from animals to entertainment.
Strange But True - lots of useless, strange, but true facts.
Swishweb.com - offers facts about a variety of topics, quotations, and a trivia quiz.
Trivia Guy - interactive multiple choice fun in many categories.
Trivia Net - test your knowledge of useless facts from a variety of subjects.
Trivia Planet - for kids and teenagers offering activities, amazing facts, quizzes, magic tricks, brainteasers, study guides, jokes, trivia, and more.
Triviastic - home of some of the most unbelievable, interesting, and obscure trivia facts.
Useless Facts - hundreds of brain numbing facts.
Useless Information
UselessKnowledge.com - trivia, quotes, quizzes, and imponderables.
What's In A Name? Trivia - The page celebrates the real names of famous people.
Usenet - rec.games.trivia

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WEBISODES

Itsyourmovie.com - episodic online movies with audience votes deciding the outcome.
Nick Click, Private...Eye
60 Days to Launch - episodic documentary following a San Francisco Bay Area Internet startup in the final days before the company's web portal goes live.
Company Therapist, The - Depression, schizophrenia, addiction, undiagnosable illness. Sound like your day? No? Welcome to a typical day in the life of Dr. Charles Balis.
Strange Case of the Lost Elvis Diaries, The - a comic tale of blue suede and bullets, greed and grease.
Homicide: Second Shift - online companion to the TV series. Chronicles the investigations of the night shift.
Couch, The - online drama featuring eight dynamic, soul-searching, fast-living characters in group therapy with serious New York attitudes.
Squat, The - satire of The Spot. Five hicks livin' in a trailer with a horse.
101 Hollywood Blvd - Making movies and making love in Hollywood.
12 - a modern myth about two illegitimate children of Zeus who find new identities among colorful characters in LA against a backdrop of natural disasters.
60 Days to Launch - episodic documentary following a San Francisco Bay Area Internet startup in the final days before the company's web portal goes live.
About Schuyler Falls - heartbreaking passion, brutal murder, set in upstate NY.
Affairs of the Net - an internet love story. Follow the romance of Richard and Elizabeth as they use the internet to close the distance between them.
After The Bug - chronicles life in the San Francisco Bay Area as we enter the "Big Zero-Zero"-- the much anticipated and feared "Year 2000," a.k.a. Y2K.
As the Web Turns - online soap opera.
Backstreet Project, The - ongoing episodic comic book adventure where the members of the group become superheroes.
Black City - darkest place on the web, noir-ish, interactive web drama featuring powerful women, beautiful men, sex, greed, lust, betrayal, magical visions, mambo music and real audio.
Chilly Beach - grab your hockey stick, don your touque, and get ready for adventures in Canada's premiere resort community. Fully animated RealFlash web series.
Company Therapist, The - Depression, schizophrenia, addiction, undiagnosable illness. Sound like your day? No? Welcome to a typical day in the life of Dr. Charles Balis.
Couch, The - online drama featuring eight dynamic, soul-searching, fast-living characters in group therapy with serious New York attitudes.
Covington Bay
Crescendo Cove
CyberSoaps - the internet's own soap box opera! Episodes posted each week day.
Daemonsong
Darktoons - Daijin - set in the late 21st century. Genetic modification and bionics are commonplace, civil unrest is rampant, someone has to keep the peace.
Delores Chronicles - join Delores Q. Witch and companions for a journey through the Land of OZ, Victorian England, the high seas, Egypt and beyond!
Dreadnot - created with the sole purpose of messing with your mind.
Friends and Foes - a web drama about college students who scheme and scam to succeed.
Gathered, The - erotic, horrific episodic detailing an epic battle between the damned, the doomed, and the dead.
Gay Daze - offers the story of Greg, Drew, Mike, Eric, Fran, and Steve.

Giant Steps - sci-fi/comedy serial. an apocalyptic RealAudio-based narrative.
Giant Steps blackout
Gimmesoap.com - catch up on the daily antics of this London based soap. If you don't want to miss an episode, have it emailed to you.
Gossamer Falls - follow the intriguing lives of the Hollingsworth family.
Gotham Girls - featuring a hip, new Batgirl doing battle with the enemies of Gotham City.
Homicide: Second Shift - online companion to the TV series. Chronicles the investigations of the night shift.
Itsyourmovie.com - episodic online movies with audience votes deciding the outcome.
Jamie's Way - Internet drama for teens filmed digitally and shown in RealVideo. With bloopers, backstage and more.
KAPOW - a semiweekly detective serial. Follow PI Mace Broade on the web and in live site-specific performances. KAPOW leaps off the page...and onto the street.
Kwoon - the adventures of five kung fu students in Northern California.
L.A. On Tap - A six pack of young film makers in and out of movies and love.
Letters From ABroad
Liberty Creek - victorian refinement in the old west.
Loser Living Upstairs, The
Max Ed - Follow Max (30ish, single, employed-but-drifting) as he tries to find career, life, and love.
Meanwhile... - the schizoid web opera.
MedievalChick.com - episodic story that chronicles our future through archeological excavations. Weekly updates to the site provide new clues to the mystery. Or do they?
Memoirs Of Paulina Periscopa - excerpts from fictitious kiss and tell memoir of Hollywood sex kitten from the 1940's to present day.
Nick Click, Private...Eye
Old Men's War - serial thriller based on fact, involving Wall Street, the C.I.A, Yakuza gangsters and others in murderous mayhem.
RealityRun.com - one man hides in a metropolis. It's up to viewers to try and track him down. Follow his movements and solve the mystery.
Revelations - in a town built on deceit, everyone has their dark secrets. The problem is when all their secrets become revelations.
Rhino Beach
Romance Towers - the most common patrons of this hotel are love, lust, betrayal and deceit.
Sam the Dog - animated series that offers a satiric look at the world.
Scrolling Mystery Theater - detective fiction and thrillers.
Serenity
sherCOM Webtertainment - Irelands Internet drama channel featuring a 37 episode apartment block based soap and new Dublin based crime serial.
Southerners
Spike Webb, Net Detective - animated pulp comic with new episodes every week.
Stainboy - Tim Burton's animated Shockwave serial.
Stoney Grove - follow the stories of love, mystery and restoration set in the house and gardens of a historic estate in England.
Strange Case of the Lost Elvis Diaries, The - a comic tale of blue suede and bullets, greed and grease.
Super Thin - presents various shows, movies, and music series.
Take 5 - fictional account of five students at Pacific Junior High in Seattle, told through stories and journal entries.
UKsoap.com - UK-based interactive soap opera.
University Center - following the real life story of a number of William & Mary students.
Urban Chillers - shows short urban myth horror movies and welcomes contributions from filmmakers.
Venew: Byte Sized Theatre - presents short drama and performance works from all over Australia, with new works every Thursday.
Victoria's Legacy - a contemporary websoap set in Victoria, British Columbia.
WhirlGirl - twenty-first century twenty-something who fights for freedom against a tyrannical mediatech empire with new episodes weekly.

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