http://www.popjisyo.com/WebHint/AddHint....4%2f01.htm

Here's a story about a whale that got trapped in a bay. Local fishermen tried to help it but the whale had other ideas. I used the popjisyo.com furigana translator to figure out details a little better. Not perfect translations but fun. Scroll over the Japanese text to see the furigana of various kanji.

*That* is a blast! Thanks for the link!

Any specific advantage over rikaichan?

haven't tried rikaichan...is it rikaichan.com? I'd be interested if people would post more japanese links ...whatever you find interesting post a link so we can all enjoy through reading....a quick English summary might be great, too... well I don't have firefox... this website you can use from whatever computer you are on.....

It'll pay off to install firefox just to try rikaichan.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/

the only advantage I can think of is that it supports Spanish, Korean, and Chinese

can people please post some interesting news links here....weird but fun news, etc...in Japanese of course

Definate agreement with RoboTact of this one!! Rikaichan is ESSENTIAL for my daily use of the internet in conjunction with Japanese sites. I use it here I use it there, I use it everywhere. Also, Firefox itself, as a browser has lots of worthwhile functions and flexible numerous plugins you can install that are helpful to people like us... yeah.

Wow, it looks like Popjisyo will become my new favourite. Advantages over Rikai? Plenty: it gives not only kanji but also hiragana words and even Mandarin and Cantonese readings.

In fact, personally, I've stayed away from Rikaichan as it makes me lazy and I find myself not making an effort. I do occasionally use Rikai, though, but that's a more conscious process...

It's an advantage for all IE/opera/etc. users, such as me.

Posting links to interesting stuff is a nice idea too... there could be a "link repository" in the reading section where people could post links, classified by difficulty. That's just one idea among many though

Why would anyone use Internet Explorer anyways?

Haven't used Opera... perhaps it has it's advantages, I'm happy enough using Firefox though.