Google Google. The best search engine, and the default page in my browser (preferably Firefox).
R. Dawkins The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. Everyone's favorite atheist, Richard Dawkins, tries to save the world from entering a new dark age.
Darwin The Talk.Origins Archive. Information about Evolution. Nothing gets me more riled up than idiotic creationists. The Earth is billions of years old, your cousin is a chimp, get over it!
Randi! Amazing! The Amazing Randi! Magician and paranormal debunker. If you think you have supernatural powers, Randi will give you one million dollars. That is, if you can prove it. No collectors so far.
PBF The Perry Bible Fellowship.Very likely the funniest comic I have ever seen. Created by Nicholas Gurewitch. Note for you overly sensitive types, some are rated R.
Go NOW! The Straight Dope A question and answer column by Cecil Adams, the smartest man in the Universe who is always right! Cure your ignorance or make your friends look stupider than you.
The Mainichi News The Mainichi News English site. "Mainichi" means "daily". A newspaper in Japan. Check out the sensational Waiwai section for weird (tall?) tales of Japan translated from dodgy Japanese tabloids.
Slashdot Slashdot. A bulletin board with technology news and comments. Slashdot is so popular that most sites mentioned there become overloaded with hits (aka slash-dotted).
Boing Boing Boing Boing. "A Directory of Wonderful Things" Interesting links and items from around the Internet.
Digg Digg. New website by Kevin Rose of the old Tech TV (R.I.P.) with links ranked by users. The more "diggs" a link gets the more popular it is.
sci.lang.japan sci.lang.japan. Before the World Wide Web there was Usenet. It still exists, but most people now know of it as "Google Groups". Usenet is basically a huge global BBS. The only group I still read is sci.lang.japan where snarky folks will laugh at your Japanese tattoo.
The Onion The Onion. A satirical newspaper. Guaranteed to make you laugh out loud.
Cockeyed Cockeyed.com. Funny site featuring weird experiments, wacky pranks, wild pictures, and a wide variety of information.
Crazy Engrish Crazy English in Japan! Lots of hilarious photos of the nutty English you see all over the place in Japan. Very funny, trust me. I have a few pictures of crazy English I took myself in my Good Photos section.
Arnold sells out Japander. See some of the commercials Hollywood celebrities have made "secretly" in Japan. The ones by Governor Arnold are particularly funny.
IMDB The Internet Movie Database has tons of information about movies. Trivia, goofs, reviews, etc. Great for relieving that "where have I seen that guy before" feeling with minor actors.
Card Games Card Games Website. The best place to look online for rules to card games. Also has rules for commercial and invented games. For offline resources I recommend books by David Parlett.
Board Games Board Game Geek. A huge database of board game information with reviews, pictures, rules translations and more. Throw out your Monopoly set and try some of the games from Germany!
Rikai Rikai. A truly amazing site. Type in a Japanese web link, or plain text, then watch the reading and meaning of the Japanese appear as you move your pointer over words you don't know. Or try Jim Breen's dictionary. Also Pop Jisho and ALC's Eijiro are very good.
KGS Go Kiseido Go Server. You can play Go over the Internet with nicer people and a prettier board than Yahoo games. Lots of Go information and news here too. For more Go info try: Sensei's Library.
The Japan Times The Japan Times. An English newspaper in Japan. This is where I cry or cheer over the yen-dollar rate.
Kuro5hin Kuro5shin. Similar to Slashdot, but less techie.
Jim Woodring Jim Woodring. One of my favorite artists. Reading his comics is like having a waking dream that baffles and enlightens you at the same time.
R. Crumb R. Crumb. A great comic artist, just amazing. See the movie about him called Crumb, one of my favorites. HUP!
A-Type A-Type is the homepage of my Australian buddy Alex May. The man is an artistic, lingusitic, and musical master. Look upon his works ye mighty and despair.
Be here now! Weights Net. An excellent repository of weightlifting information.
Bob Got Slack?
Krusty Juggles Juggling Information Service. Juggling is fun, and not hard to learn. Plus, it is a great way to pick up girls. No, not really. Well, maybe if I could juggle 5 balls...
Hayao Miyazaki Hayao Miyazaki. The so-called Walt Disney of Japan. But I think he is better. His films are great for adults and children.
Boom! The Nuclear Weapon Archive. A database of all nuclear detonations since the first one and other information.
Moomin Moomintroll page. One of my favorite childhood books by Tove Janson. Not so popular in America, but in Japan they have cartoons, stuffed animals, and commercials! Is that a good thing?
I see you. Robert Anton Wilson Author of the infamous Illuminatus Trilogy.
Jordan Jordan Train Info. A Japanese site very useful for us who use the trains here in Japan.
Osaka Weather Yahoo Weather. My Osaka weather forecast.