ou can find everything on the Web. And if the folks at the Encyclopedia of Life have their way, you'll be able to find every species on Earth on their amazing site. Fortunately, they haven't set their sights too high. Their goals are simply to create a "comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing and personalized" ... "ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world." They are doing with the help of scientists and, eventually, regular folks, hoping to "transform the science of biology and inspire a new generation of scientists" by "aggregating virtually all known data about every living species." Well, sign me up! And they really want you to. So far, nine major data partners have already helped created far more than 1 million species pages. With its photos and text in a clean and lightning-fast format, this is the sort of site we all are a part of.

ungry? Don't go to Recipezaar - it will only get worse! This delightful site is a bulging buffet of information about cooking, liberally spiced with the lively character of its creators. You can browse through more than 300,000 recipes in more than 450 categories by course, ingredients, cuisine, diet, occasion and preparation, check out the week's top 10 searches, get cooking tips, tell your own story, ask a burning recipe question, and, of course, you can contribute recipes, too. One really cool section helps you find all sorts of specialty cookbooks as well as recipes from them. The amazing cornocopia of information on this site is sliced and diced in a dizzying number of ways, yet its clean design makes it easy to find what you want, the way you want it, whether it's raw, boiled, baked, fried or vegan. Right now, though, I gotta go - I'm starved!

et out your virtual scalpel. That's all you'll need to get the most out of The Virtual Body, which opens up the human brain, skeleton, heart and digestive tract to Web surfers throughout the world. With Spanish and English versions, the site offers plenty of images and text to help you navigate through the human body. There's a narrated tour of the each part of the body, as well as an in-depth, illustrated tour of the brain from different views, a cool game that lets you build your own skeleton, an animated version of the human heart, and a build-a-digestive system puzzle. The whole body is brought to you by MEDtropolis, which offers health information to educate and entertain kids and adults. So dig in, to learn more about, well, yourself!

We finally know what came first! A visit to the site of The Ova Prima Foundation finally answers the age-old question of which came first, the chicken or the egg. Wonder no more! Here at this simple yet focused site you'll find the history of this organization's important research, harkening back to its founding in 1865, complete with footnotes. There's a section devoted to education, with teacher's workshops and lesson plans, information about ongoing research projects, publications and the foundation's own grant program. After reading through much of the site's fascinating text, you begin to realize that something smells, well, let's say sulfury (after all, we're talking eggs here, not fish). Indeed, despite its lofty tone, it soon becomes evident that the whole site is a half-boiled hoax, which confirms that what really comes first is a good sense of humor.