Included here is a small list of some of my favorite sites on the 'net.

• Yahoo! News - Most Emailed Content: Between the most emailed and most viewed content on Yahoo! News' portal, it's easy to quickly stay on top of news that matters.

• The Wayback Machine: The Wayback Machine makes it possible to surf pages stored in the Internet Archive's web archive. Find old websites you may have written that are no longer online...find your old employer's website who went out of business years ago...the possibilities are endless! Hours of fun!

• The Chronicles of George: George is an inept help desk technician. The guy who wrote this site captured many of his help desk tickets (screen capture) and has archived them on this site. If you have ever worked in technical support before you will immediately recognize George as "that one guy" in your department whose continued employment was a mystery to everyone. Lots of fun!

• Odd Todd: Having been laid off twice myself recently, this site has helped me keep my sanity knowing I'm not the only one. Interesting factoids and other stuff about the importance of "Mon-Ay" and "Coff-Ay". I think the real Odd Todd actually worked for Macromedia like me at one time...

• National Geographic: I like to browse here for new wallpaper.

• How Stuff Works: Ever wondered how a compass works? No? How about a motherboard? Lots of great stuff on this site for the curious.

• The Onion: A parody media publication. The Onion is distributed in paper format in some cities and you can even buy a yearly subscription for $39. But what for? Their website is just as good. Completely hilarious!

• FreeTranslation.com: Free Translation from English to Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Norwegian.

• Tolkien Online: Simply the best Tolkien site I've found on the 'net. Incredible selection of top quality art work by John Howe including my favorite, Fingolfin's Challenge to Morgoth, which takes place in the Quenta Silmarillion -- the section of the Silmarillion that provides the history of the Elves. If you are a Tolkien fan and you haven't read the Silmarillion, I highly recommend you do. It's an incredible foundation for all things Middle Earth.

• Other Tolkien Sites: Chronology of the Silmarillion, The Encylopedia of Arda.

• Web Services Directories: I'm a programmer, so these links are here for me so I have a quick place to get to these directories. XMethods, RemoteMethods.

• All Music Guide. The ultimate music reference site for most genres.

• RefDesk.com.