TED | Technology, Entertainment, Design is a good site to visit to watch and hear some great ideas for our future. The site hosts a number of videos of well known and respected speakers (experts in their fields), on a variety of topics: some serious, some fun, and all very awe inspiring.

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

http://www.1000beforeyoudie.com/ is a site that catalogs great places to visit. I think it is an excellent inspirational source of travel ideas.

some of the more popular places are listed here http://www.1000beforeyoudie.com/SearchMap.aspx

This page has a collection of links which lead you to cool sites on technology and humour. Excellent.