Sometimes you just need to explore a topic in intimate detail.

General interest sites are fun and all but from time to time you just want to read about ONE THING, about one person's committment to the bit.

Wikipedia is fun, of course, as is Wikipedia Roulette, which serves up random Wikipedia pages. But there's more!

• Lacing up your shoes
• The Chronicles of Amber
• Mechanical Watches
• The Dark Sky Project
• JellyNeo, a NeoPets Fansite
• Femur Design has a lot of information, much of it interactive, about music.
• "'Boktai' is a series of Action-RPGs for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance System, produced by Hideo Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear series, and written and directed by Ikuya Nakamura."
• Crotched Pokemon Figures for your perusal.
• Park(ing) Day is a concious-raising group public art experiment transforming public parking spots into public parks for brief moments of time.
• Dead Motels USA is "An archive of dead and dying hotels, motels and resorts in the United States through Google Street View." The creator also includes post cards and vintage photos and a little information - sometimes an entire essay - about the motels included.
• Omniglot, an online resource for writing sytems and languages, both real and constructed.
• Medievalists . net is a large resource by a bunch of professional medievalists about... well. Medieval stuff. Just experts being experts.