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 (DIR) | Get your fortune from Maybell                                       |
 (TXT) | On this day in history...                                           |
 (DIR) | Weather forecast is cloudy with a chance of meatballs...            |
 (DIR) | Tickle your funny bone (random joke)                                |
 (DIR) | Word of the Day -from Wiktionary                                    |
 (DIR) | Trivia Challenge: Capitals of the World                             |
 (DIR) | World Time                                                          |
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                                        )))))
          Explore Gopherspace          ( > < )
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 (DIR) | Tilde Pink                                                          |
 (DIR) | The Gopher Lawn (sites by category)                                 |
 (DIR) | Floodgap Systems (sites by regions)                                 |
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 (DIR) | Veronica II Search Engine                                           |
 (DIR) | Quarry Search Engine                                                |
 (DIR) | Contrition Search Engine                                            |
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          Gopher talk                  ( o~o )
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 (DIR) | Bongusta - a very simple phlog aggregator                           |
 (DIR) | Bitreich News Aggregator                                            |
 (DIR) | Gopher Black Phlog Roll                                             |
 (DIR) | Super Dimension Fortress (SDF)                                      |
 (DIR) | MetaFilter Weblog                                                   |
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                                        @___,
          Peruse the news              ( . . )
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 (DIR) | Google News mirror                                                  |
 (DIR) | The Guardian mirror                                                 |
 (DIR) | BBC mirror                                                          |
 (DIR) | CNN mirror                                                          |
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                                     o'\,.=.,/`o
          At your leisure...           ( o O )
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 (DIR) | Catch up to some classics - read a book                             |
 (DIR) | Gopherpedia                                                         |
 (DIR) | The Funny Bone Sunday Funnies - mirror                              |
 (DIR) | Art Gallery                                                         |
 (TEL) | Watch Star Wars Episode IV                                          |
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          Game time!                   |[0 0]|
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 (DIR) | World of Solitaire - card games                                     |
 (DIR) | Gopher-powered Hangman                                              |
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 (TEL) | FICS - Play Chess online                                            |
 (TEL) | PandaNET - Play Go online                                           |
 (TEL) | FIBS - Multiplayer Backgammon                                       |
 (TEL) | Telehack - free minesweeper, pong, sudoku                           |
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 (TEL) | Multi-Trek - Star Trek MUD                                          |
 (TEL) | Aardwolf MUD                                                        |
 (TEL) | Icculus - Multiplayer Zork                                          |
 (TEL) | Infinite Cave Adventure                                             |
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