Illuminated Site of the Week

Every day we post new news to the Daily Illuminator. Usually this is SJ Games news, but occasionally we like to spotlight some of the more interesting, weird, or otherwise Illuminated sites elsewhere on the web. So we've started the Illuminated Site of the Week listing, to showcase those other sites. We even have a little logo for the winners, if they feel like adding it to their page.... but unlike other Cool-this or Top-that sites, we're stingy with our awards.... we don't give them out to every site under the sun, and if you steal the logo and you didn't properly win it, we'll send the men in black after you...

Suggesting a Site

Anything is fair game . . . if you know of a truly Illuminated site, use this form to tell us about it.

Illuminated SiteKeeper

Our current Illuminated SiteKeeper is Andy Vetromile (fnordy1@yahoo.com)

Recent Winners

October 18, 2008: Illuminated Site of the Week: Pole Positions

Nothing good explodes out from under the polar ice caps, and make no mistake, when the members of the International Polar Year program go in search of knowledge, it will explode. Have they never read Don A. Stuart or H.P. Lovecraft? Ignore these initials at your peril. We were particularly taken with the notion that they're going to delve for dirt on the buried Gamburtsev mountain range, also called the "ghost peaks." The BBC has the story.
-- Ben Edmans

September 27, 2008: Illuminated Site of the Week: That'll Come In Handy

When you're lost on some isolated country road, your biggest concern shouldn't be the embarrassment of asking for directions - it should be whether you'll run afoul of a cult looking for new members. To mount an effective resistance, bookmark Apologetics Index, your one-stop shop for fighting mind control. Since they'll probably take away your Internet access, you'll want to order a book or two. The cult won't be expecting you to go analog.

-- Andy

September 8, 2008: Illuminated Site of the Week: It's The Size Of The Fight In The Dog

Boston Dynamics would like you to know how far they've come with the BigDog. This quadraped robot traverses difficult terrain and makes a sound like a cross between a leaf blower and a cricket doing Tibetan chants. It won't be sneaking up on enemies any time soon, but it can carry packs uphill - and it keeps going even when some cruel scientist kicks it like it had rabies. Check out the video to see it walk through rocks, skid on ice, and dance.

-- Suggested by Freya

September 5, 2008: Illuminated Site of the Week: Actual Falsehoods

It's been observed that if you go to Wikipedia for your "facts," you're relying on the argumentative members of the general public to get things right. The beauty of The Arcana Wiki is that you're getting information about stuff that's already not real. The site is building up a storehouse of fantastic, unknown, or just plain entertaining information about people, places, and things. Some of these are imaginary, but there's real stuff, too - it just gets steeped in legend or boiled down to the most amusing bits. Use it for everything from writing fiction to developing your RPG campaign, and hey, you can even help write more of it. Just try to get your facts straight, okay? Otherwise people have to use Arcana's links back to Wikipedia and the irony might kill someone.
-- Jürgen Hubert

Illuminated Archives

While the Illuminated Site of the Week is archived with the Daily Illuminator archives, we also have an archive of ALL past winners.