Fun and Leisure Page

• The Internet movies database contains all that you want to know about any flick or actor.
• In the Movie Cliches List, you will find a hilarious compilation of the most annoying and common logic flaws and stereotypes found in movies.
• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences publishes the official interactive guide to the Academy Awards®; a.k.a. the Oscars®.
• For the latest listings of what's playing on Broadway and off-Broadway, check the Playbill on-line in New York or the Talkin' Broadway pages.
• If you are in England, that's the London Theatre Guide Online that you need to plan your evening out in a theater.
• For more links about musicals, visit Jill Hobgood's Musical Sites List Theatricopia.

• The WWW TV Themes Home Page has sound bytes from almost every single US TV show aired since the fifties.
• The Movie Sounds Page has a similar collection, only that we are now talking about films.
• Sites with audio clips are listed here, most of them are in U-LAW format.
• Audio clips from the French TV program 'Les guignols de l'info' are another must (in French).

(Ne passons pas à côté des choses simples -- Herta)

• François Schmitz has a nonsensical page about nonsense. Does this makes sense?
• Mitch Lemus has written a lot of stories full of typical New Yorker Jewish humor, satire, or just plain silliness. For instance, he is the promoter of Netan-Yahoo, the Israeli search engine, and the lexicograph of cyberwordz.
• The Mind Reading Markup Language (MRML /mur'mul/) is a proprietary extension of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) written by Michael O'Neal-Petterson and Brandon J. Rickman. Their Guide to MRML gives you all the specifications of the tags to use for mind control technology.

• Want to know more about your personality? try the Keirsey Temperament Sorter by David Keirsey if your browser supports forms.
• For the best science satire around check out the Annals of Improbable Research successor to the Journal of Irreproducible Results.
• To dialog in natural language (English) with a computer about serious (AIDS, epilepsy,...), or not so serious :-) topics, telnet to CHAT (Conversational Hypertext Access Technology).

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