Seattle Stories: seattlestories.net - A group of Web developers run this site that holds stories about Seattle: their stories, your stories, and just darn good writing.

Musee Marmottan Monet: www.marmottan.com - This Paris museum houses the world’s largest collection of Monet’s works.

The Watergate Tapes: www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/watergate.html - Listen to the actual tapes, or read transcripts of the recorded conversations of President Richard Nixon and his top advisors.

That Flight Will Arrive…: www.flightarrivals.com - Check the arrival time of any commercial flight in the US or Canada.

American Socrates: www.rustin.org - Before Martin Luther King there was Bayard Rustin, the openly gay organizer of the 1963 March on Washington and the man who taught nonviolence to Dr. King. This is a work in progress for PBS.

Why Do They Disappear?: creo.amnh.org - The Committee on Recently Extinct Organisms tries to understand the reasons for species’ extinctions.

Look or Buy Usefull Things: www.themut.com - Need a four-way rubberband? An aluminum agenda? Perhaps an all-directional shower head? You’ll find these and more at the Museum of Useful Things.

Searching for Perfection: www.nypl.org/utopia - The roots of Utopian thinking are shown in this site, co-developed by the New York Public Library and France’s Bibliothèque Nationale.

East of the Web: www.short-stories.co.uk - Excellent short stories that are free to read: on screen, printed out, or downloaded to your Palm.

Follow the Bouncing…ummm: www.pong-story.com - The history of Pong, the first video game.

Lego Star Wars: www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~mbsf - The story of Star Wars in Lego bricks, created over 155 weeks beginning in 1992.

Top 50 Science Sites: www.popsci.com/features/bow00 - The 50 best science sites on the Web as chosen by the editors of Popular Science.

Wielding the Red Pen: www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/censored - An online exhibition about challenges to free speech and the freedom of information, from the university founded by Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia.

Tour a Refugee Camp: www.refugeecamp.org - From Doctors Without Borders, a look at what it’s really like in refugee camps.

Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies: www.little-lit.com - Little Lit teams innovative cartoonists and children’s book artists to present the magic of fairy tales through the form of comics.

Dead Man Walking: www.prejean.org - The personal Web site of Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.

Life: Best Magazine Photos: www.lifemag.com/Life/eisies/eisies2000/contents.html - From the magazine famous for its photography (did they really take 50,000 shots for each one published?) come the best magazine photos of the year.

Visible Earth: visibleearth.nasa.gov - A searchable directory of images, visualizations, and animations of the earth. Hundreds of high-resolution photos taken from orbiting satellites.

Government’s Greatest Hits: www.brook.edu/GS/CPS/50ge/50GE_hp.htm - Next time you wonder what your tax money goes for, take a look at Government’s 50 Greatest Endeavors, as selected by the Brookings Institution.

Physics Today: www.physicstoday.org - Home page of Physics Today Online, the publication of the American Institute of Physics.

The Real Thirteen Days: www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/ - The real story of the Cuban Missile Crisis, based on documents from the National Security Agency. Includes an analysis of why the current movie is so wrongheaded about the lessons to be learned from the crisis.

California History Timeline: www.californiahistory.net - Scroll the timeline of California history and click on the images to read about particular events or eras.

Local People Make Good: www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/oxfordshire/visit/pastintro.html - A county newspaper decided to make a list of local people "who made a difference." This being Oxfordshire, England, the list includes people like Winston Churchill, Agatha Christie, Samuel Johnson, and Richard I.

Tom Anderson spends entirely too much time surfing the Web and has only this column to show for it. Send him your suggestions for Web sites to visit.