Some things are better off at random: a slogan, proposal, corpspeak, buzzword bingo, anarchist receipe, postmodernism, Jedi-ism, guide entry, text, text block, lipsum text, blippity fling-flang, compliment, complaint, insult, insults, Shakespeare insult, evil plan, koan, Bonnerism, scripture, Talmud quote, tarot reading, runes, hexagram, confessions, excuse, comic, joke, bar joke, Xsport, crank, urban legend, superhero, planet, starlet, babe, porn star, sex cry, erotica, euphemism, wanks, challenge, story, plot, plot, movie plot, movie, cam, cam, search, page, page, URL, URL, blog, blog entry, LiveJournal, DeadJournal, cruel site, AlterVista, euh?, brunch, symbol, picture, photo, fotolog, postcard, creature, frog, animals, species, organism, bio, name, name, name, code name, place name, RennFaire name, fantasy name, fantasy title, evil name, operation name, news, knowledge, quote, query, fact, jargon, Engrish, medical term, foreign word, word, word, sentence, haiku, haiku, sonnet, sonnet, poem, poem, poem, poem, poem, poem, poem, verse, verse, poet, minuet, music, music, Pythagorean triplet, coin flip, math fact, maze, knot, kitty, kitten, and much more.

If the grotesquerie of the internet continually generating bad verse makes you hurl, write your own, here or there or elsewhere, in any form, with assistance. For help with vocabulary and rhymes, use the Webster's, Wordsmith, worthless, Dr Goodword's, OED, OneLook, Dictionary.com, my, Stedman's, Scrabble, Vocab Vitamin, Times, rhymed, yourDictionary, and TravLang words of the day, not to mention these weird, difficult, fun, obscure, rare, logoleptic, logorrheatic, lexpionaged, and grandiloquent words. For help with markets, Ralan's Webstravaganza, The Rumor Mill, and Spicy Green Iguana can all help. Don't forget to pay homage to Austen, Shakespeare, Carroll, McGonagall, and Bulwer-Lytton.

For offline reading, buy books from Amazon, ABE, or The Common Reader—after comparing prices at BookFinder, AddALL, and ISBN.nu. Which Book?, Literature Map, or the Rating Zone can make recommendations. Before you subscribe, sample The Onion online. For proper ambiance, buy accoutrements for the shelves and music from the Musical Heritage Society, CD Baby, or (if you must) CDNow; MusicPlasma or RIAA Radar can make recommendations.

Learn Latin: Latin Grammar by Allen & Greenough or Wheelock (with a study guide, tools, and other help); the Wikibooks course; a grammar or two or three or more; morphology, conjugation, case ending, and grammar aids; more tools; tutorial, drill, drill, drill, parsing, and other softwares; lists of online resources and materials; plus a dictionary or two or three, helpful phrases, and dirty words others may omit (but found, for example, in the Priapeia). Practice with weekly news, a magazine, or a couple easy readers, and then write some poetry. If it's a good day in Rome, you can visit a Mithraeum, play Roman board or ball games, play music, cook a Roman meal, write for Roman computers, or (given that it's dead) recreate Roman culture online. More is available from Diotima and Apollo Loxias (including an oracle). Don't forget texts from Perseus, IntraText, Bibliotheca Augustana, Forum Romanum, or Labyrinth!

Catch some sun; head south to Mawson, Casey, Macquarie, Davis, Scott, Mount Erebus, Dry Valley, Neumayer, O'Higgins (with penguins), and Amundsen-Scott stations (check the weather and local radio; or just voyeur with Outdoor Webcams or EarthCam. For static art (not in plain brown wrappers) stroll through the National Gallery, Tate, or other museums. While you watch, listen to music: streaming from KUAT-FM, SomaFM, Last.FM, Pandora, WarpRadio, Digitally Imported Radio, Radioio, Radio Paradise, Ríkisútvarpið, Live365, LaunchCast, Shoutcast, StreamAudio, or the portals of Radio-Locator, Public Radio Fan, and TvRadioWorld; otherwise from MP3.com, iRate Radio, Oddio Overplay, Bach works, Ars Subtilior, Wax cylinder recordings, or the Acoustic Cafe. Oh, and John Sankey, harpsichordist to the internet