Visual playthings
Are you bored by dictionaries? Does it take too long to find the word that's just right in your thesaurus? Introducing the Visual Thesaurus, a groovy, cracking, swell, peachy, neat java applet. It shows the word of your choice surrounded by its synonyms, grouped by meaning. The dictionary definition of the word is also given. Then you can click on another word to get a whole new batch appearing. Good fun.
Not into words? Prefer music? Well, you're not left out. Check out Musicplasma, the "music visual search engine". It's by no means comprehensive, but it includes major artists, and shows artists creating similar music. It also shows album covers, just 'cos it can.