You find out a lot and can do some good at antislavery.org , the anti-slavery site. Not real reptiles, just robot 'snakes'. Nice Marx Brothers resource. Send a Marx Brothers postcard. Instructions for the zero-gravity toilet.
Pregnant cow carries endangered species.
The 6th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition. Lots of games to check out. The website contains plenty of information about interactive fiction, in case you don't know what it is. This won a competition to find the world's ugliest lamp in 1998. The Nose Pages.