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Television

www.adcritic.com Didn't catch that ad everyone's talking about? This ad archive shelters commercials that were pulled from the air, like the Republican National Committee's "RATS" ad. The political section houses nearly every national campaign ad, including Ralph Nader's Monster.com parody, and other third-party ads you probably missed. The site also hosts a Super Bowl section, Canadian ads, and plenty of Gap dancers.

www.abcnews.com The network has original, live-action news shows that appear at scheduled intervals each week--just like real TV! SamDonald son@abcnews.com is a thrice-weekly show (the site also has two daily live news shows) in which Donaldson chats with celebrities and gleefully says things like "sexy ass," then gloats over the Web's informality.

www.mightybigtv.com You can't watch TV on this site, but these ridiculously detailed, novella-length synopses of shows will help you catch up on that whole season of The West Wing you missed.

Museums

www.metmuseum.org A 1960s Campbell's Soup dress, a 1400s alabaster sculpture of a mourner, Cezanne's Still Life With Apples and a Pot of Primroses--exploring at New York's online Metropolitan Museum of Art is a dizzying adventure. You can browse through the museum's extensive permanent exhibits, plus sample special shows. Online now are selections from the "Painters in Paris 1895-1950" exhibit.

www.tnm.go.jp The Tokyo National Museum is worth a visit for its Japanese and Asian art. View items like the serene 17th-century screen- -Family Enjoying the Evening Cool--that shows a mother, father, and child resting by their home.

memory.loc.gov You can spend weeks with the pictures, songs, videos, and other items at the American Memory site of the Library of Congress. One photo shows a crowd lined up for hot dogs at Brooklyn's Ebbetts Field. There's also a series of recordings of American fiddle music and a 1903 Alphonse and Gaston film clip, to cite just a few of the site's offerings.

www.hermitagemuseum.org Russia's premier art collection is in St. Petersburg's Winter Palace, onetime home of Russian czars. Virtual tours show both the art and the gilded surroundings.

www.artchive.com An Internet-only "museum" that displays over 2,000 paintings by some 200 of history's greatest artists.

Movies

www.atomfilms.com At this short-film mecca, you can search through hundreds of independent shorts such as action-thrillers (like the Dutch film Darkling, about a little girl left home alone to face her fears) and projects by female auteurs (like Jen Arnold's Maid of Honor, about mullet hairdos). Also, find the most downloaded films of the day.

www.ifilm.com Offers hundreds of shorts in a variety of genres, plus entertainment news, reviews, gossip, and interviews. One of the shorts the site is famous for is the Star Wars spoof Jar Jar Binks: E! True Hollywood Story, chronicling the ups and downs, both private and public, of America's popular computer-generated creature.

www.undergroundfilm.com Though one of the slower-loading sites, it offers unproduced screenplays as well as shorts. They are worth reading if only for their often hilarious "pitches," such as this one for the screenplay Bloody Mary: "Pulp Fiction meets Goodfellas, meets Trainspotting, meets The Last Temptation of Christ."

www.bijoucafe.com In addition to homemade short films, the site also serves up some tasty side dishes such as an unaired pilot for the 1950s You Bet Your Life show with Groucho Marx or episodes from cult TV fave Secret Agent, starring Patrick McGoohan, who later starred in The Prisoner.

Music

www.napster.com The service may not be free anymore, but this site is still one of the best places to download music. The site plans to launch a fee-based monthly subscription service that will let fans legally download music by artists on the Bertelsmann record labels, home to stars like Whitney Houston and rockers Foo Fighters. The fee may discourage many Napster users, but sites like www.emusic.com--which runs a subscription service in affiliation with several smaller independent record labels--suggest the setup can work. Napster's deal with Bertelsmann resolves only one of the suits the upstart Web site faces. The courts still may ultimately unplug Napster, but the person- to-person music trading the site pioneered is here to stay.

www.gmn.com Based in London, the Global Music Network's site delivers concert performances from the world's top jazz and classical musicians. Webcast offerings include bebop jazz from New York's Village Vanguard and a Handel opera in Dresden, Germany. The site also offers free downloads of live performances of jazz and classical standards--check out the late Latin percussionist Tito Puente at New York's legendary Birdland nightclub.

www.launch.com Tired of waiting for MTV to end its latest Real World marathon? This site features more than 6,100 music videos, from recent hits like Madonna's "Music" to golden oldies from the 1980s like the rock band Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It." Also, music news coverage, CD giveaways, and a weekly contest, like the chance to win an autographed guitar from modern rock band the Deftones.

www.nj.com/springsteen New Jersey Online's tribute to native rocker Bruce Springsteen offers just about all any Boss fan could want. There's a radio broadcast ("All Bruce, all the time"), RealAudio interviews with Springsteen's band mates, and a forum where fans debate the controversy regarding "American Skin"--Springsteen's edgy tribute to Amadou Diallo, the West African immigrant New York city police officers shot to death last year.

www.sputnik7.com One of the coolest sites on the Web, Sputnik7 offers users MP3 downloads of hip music by groups including British drum 'n' bass crew Roni Size/Reprazent and a video by rockers Papa Roach. Also, music video channels, original short films, and full-length episodes of classic Japanese-animated cartoons.

Games

www.shockwave.com Known mostly for its animation software, Shockwave also posts a variety of great arcade, sports, and puzzle games on its Web site. Arcade classics Centipede and Joust will take you back to the days when you could never have too many quarters. The 3-D Real Pool game expertly re-creates the pool-hall experience, right down to the dimly lighted tables. But the big winner on this site is the Tank Wars game, which provides first-person urban warfare action that doesn't require a high-power 3-D graphics card or high-speed Internet access.

www.sarbakan.com/snooz Mr. Snoozleberg has a problem: He sleepwalks, causing him to miss his important appointments as a diplomat. In this puzzle-solving game that both kids and adults can enjoy, you have to stay one step ahead of Snoozleberg's midnight meanderings, keeping him out of the path of anything that might wake him up or hurt him. The well-animated game challenges players to use their minds--rather than their trigger fingers--to solve problems. Use the umbrella to help him glide off a perilous ledge, be sure to cover that manhole, and keep your eyes open!

www.pogo.com Who says you have to go to Vegas or Atlantic City to hit it big on the one-armed bandits? This site's Ali Baba Slots game offers jackpots up to $5,000, along with eight other casino games that pay cash prizes. You never lose money, because advertisers pay the jackpots.

www.ea.com With this site, Electronic Arts--producer of such hits as SimCity--brings its video game software expertise to the Web, to the delight of serious gamers. Climb on your motorcycle for Road Rash 2, a racing game where the best way to finish first is to clobber opponents with a chain or club. Chatitude gives new life to the idea of an Internet chat room, letting one person suit up as a stand-up comedian while the other players are hecklers.

Cartoons

www.nbc.com/tonightshow Click on "Virtual Jay" to watch five episodes of Leno trying to escape from your computer. You're asked to help by making on-screen selections, but the plot is predetermined and a setup for gags. Pulse 3-D animation technology adds to the fun.

www.icebox.com Animated sendups of Sylvester Stallone driving instead of riding in a limo and Bill Gates storing gold in his refrigerator, with other notables supposedly caught off guard by a "Hidden Celebrity Webcam." A 14-part "historical" series tracks a hard-drinking Abe Lincoln. Some of the crude humor at this site might be offensive.

theruthtruth.oxygen.com Follow a novice private eye as she investigates the sale of counterfeit handbags in Chinatown. This won the grand prize at this year's first World Internet Animation Competition.