Awful Plastic Surgery

When we're not busy writing about politics or the world's woes, we're constantly looking for totally shallow, entertaining Web sites to lighten our day. Back in the days before reality television brought plastic surgery flickering to plasma TV screens, we had Awful Plastic Surgery.com  -- an online clearinghouse of botched celebrity face lifts, collagen catastrophes and sundry augmentations that somehow went awry. See Victoria Beckham's "big greasy lips ," or Donatella's "Lip Collagen Disaster ."

Auschwitz Memorials Online

With today's commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, people around the globe are taking time out to remember the many who died at in the Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. A number of excellent Web sites have been doing the same for years and provide exhaustively detailed background on this dark chapter. The Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., has put together a comprehensive Auschwitz Web site , with Soviet footage taken just after the camp's liberation, interviews with survivors, and information on the development of the camps themselves. PBS has an excellent site as well, a companion to their television series called Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State .