The Long Now Foundation

The Long Now Foundation is a foundation dedicated to long term thinking. They want people to think about things not only in their lifetimes, but thousands of years from now. They have a variety of interesting projects including a project to catalog all of the world's languages, a long term betting pool, and a massive project to build a clock that will run constantly for ten thousand years. They've got some cool stuff, and I think you should check it out.

Martin Bower's Model World

Each of us has a gift, something that makes us special, something that we do really well. For me it's writing blog posts about other people's websites that I found while randomly hopping about the internet while I ought to have been doing more productive things. For Martin Bower it is making models. Martin Bower is a skilled model maker who has produced models for movies, TV shows, books, and other forms of media. He has worked on Space 1999, Dr Who, Flash Gordon, and was the Supervising Modelmaker for the movie Alien. Martin Bower's Model World is Martin's official site, and you can find some great pictures of his models there. My favorite is the model of the Martian Tripod he designed for an aborted photo-novel of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds. Check it out.