Selena Sol's Fringe Culture Hotlist

Essential Media - A unique mail-order company, based in Venice, California, that offers a free guide and catalog to the best works of alternative culture.
Vivid
Hot and Cool pointers...pretty extensive and cool
EFF Net Culture Archive
Internet Wiretap's Fringe Gopher - conspiracies, the gross & disgusting, the paranormal, the Pharmacological Cornucopia, UFOs and more!
FringeWare WWW Server
Hyperreal, source of info on raves, ambient music, e-pubs, a "MASSIVE" music archive, shareware, net info, and the alt.drugs archives
The Web's Edge, "Underworld Industries' Cultural Playground"
Internet Town Hall/Internet Talk Radio Travelling Circus & Cyberstation
A-Albionic's New Paradigms Project Gopher Server
The Renaissance Faire WWW Archive - list of ren-fests, info on the re-enactment subculture, folksong sound files, SCA, etc.
Dan's World Skatepunk Corner
The Place [Note: works best for Mac users]
ChibaMOO: The Sprawl - a cyberpunkish WWW MOO experience!
Genuine gossip and firsthand accounts of daily life in ancient Egypt (in translation of course). Take a break from the tabloid mess of the 1990s!
ZNet - A community of people concerned about social change.

(and maybe a little pseudo-science for good measure)

David Chaum's DigiCash Digital Money System WWW Server
Memetics WWW Archive
EINet Galaxy Cryonics WWW Archive
EINet Galaxy Genetic Engineering WWW Archive
CWRU's NeuroGopher
Fractal Pictures & Animations WWW Server
Apple's Virtual Reality FTP Archive
International Tesla Society Gopher Archive
Info on New Internet Protocols (IPng, SIPP, TUBA, etc.)
Labyrinth and VRML, the new Virtual Reality Modeling Language - beyond the World Wide Web!
Info on the Knowledge Query & Manipulation Language (KQML) for software agent communications
Toby's for WWW exploration (requires Mac Photoshop 3.0; non-animated demo viewable with any GIF graphics viewer)
Pages on 3D modelling for WWW
U.S. Army page on Regenerative Liquid Propellant Guns, whatever those are.
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
Nomadic Research Labs - Behemoth/Winnebiko, the bicycle to end all bicyles (even has a satellite net.link!), the Sea Moss MicroShip, and more technomadness
More Technomads pages
Neural Networks in High Energy Physics at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
The Real Astrology Server
Search for Extra-Terrestria Intelligence (SETI) Institute WWW Server

Facade - an excellent site for Tarot Card readings and biorythms...
Survival Research Laboratories Gopher/FTP archive - pictures, schedules & info on the first robotic performance art troupe
Front 242 WWW Archive
Home pages of the band
Factsheet 5 - the world-wide index of zines, e-publications, and mail-art
CyberDen Alternative Music & Entertainment FTP Server
CyberDen BBS (telnet)
Internet Underground Music WWW Archive
Internet Underground Music Gopher Archive (maybe a separate project?)
Charnel Records WWW Page
Nettwerk Records WWW Page
Horror, Fantasy & the Grotesque in Art Archive
Baltimore's Atomic Books: "weirdest bookstore on the net"
WIRED Magazine WWW Server
WIRED Magazine Gopher Server
WIRED's HotWired WWW BBS
ArtAIDS Collaborative Online Art Gallery (may require NetScape or emacs)
The @art gallery
Artliason Virtual Gallery
OTIS Collaborative Art Project WWW Gallery
International Interactive Genetic Art WWW Gallery
Gallery of Putrid Afterthought and the Church of Cybernetic Rot
Dialect, "an artist's collective interested in how to use new electronic and communications technologies to reach new audiences."
Big Pile of Links to Virtual Art Galleries All Over the Net
New World Headquarters (NWHQ) hypermedia arts journal
Best-quality Audio Web Poems (BAWP)
William S. Burroughs Publications Gopher
Hunter S. Thompson Publications & Pictures Gopher
Mykel Board Unground Reviews and other stuff via gopher