Thousands of years before Kokopelli's crew started rocking the magazine world, the Greeks and Romans used to worship a very different team of Muses. Three fine sites devoted to the classical Muses are

• the Circle of the Muses;
• the Greek Mythology Link;
• Musagora, run by the French ministry of education.

At www.urania.org (alias www.urania.co.uk) you can see a flattering stained-glass window of the Muse Urania and read a short entry about her from the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

The Ultimate Kokopelli Sighting Pictures of Kokopelli are all over the Web, but this 3D animated dancing Koko from England has got to be the king. WARNING: It takes a long time to load on a dialup Internet connection.

Muse on the Web

Muse now has its own Wikipedia entry, though it says Robert died in 1935. (Greatly exaggerated; that was a distant ancestor.) You can also find archived articles and columns at FindArticles.com and Zinkle.com.

In addition to the steadily growing mountain of Muse reviews on Amazon.com, our MMFP search engines have turned up raves about the magazine's old Web site and about the magazine itself in a radio script, as well as an archived thread at Unschooling.com (continued here). One reader's letter to Muse Mail wound up translated into Portuguese as a language exercise.

Slim pickings (but you can help change that).

Muse's editors, authors, and illustrators are better at grabbing the cyber-spotlight. We've tracked down links to cartoonists Larry Gonick, Paul Palnik, and Slug Signorino (also here); Math Page columnist Ivars Peterson; Alex ("the Great") Boese's brilliant Museum of Hoaxes site; and a lot of writers. Keep checking—more are turning up all the time.

Parallel-Universe Muses

The Muse we love isn't the only Muse out there. Though true believers will shun such false idols, it's only fair to note that Muse is also, among other things,

• the magazine of the Australian Museum in Sydney;
• the "Voice of Canada's Museum Community";
• a Web forum for "critical and poetical inquiry into controversial ideas in the post-modern physics of time travel and consciousness";
• a library catalog at McGill University in Montreal,Quebec;
• a French poetry resource site;
• a high-tech game-console company;
• a community arts guide and event calendar in central Minnesota;
• the online magazine of the Teatro delle Muse in Ancona, Italy;
• an online literary magazine run by high school students in Anne Arundel County, Maryland;
• a women's choir in Cincinnati, Ohio;
• a "digital arts and creative log";
• a "discussion and networking group for creatives";
• the Medical Users Software Exchange;
• Musicians United to Sustain the Environment;
• Musicians United for Superior Education;
• Museums Uniting with Schools in Education;
• Modeling for Understanding in Science Education;
• Minority Undergraduate Students of Excellence;
• Multi-User Simulated Environments;
• the MOOS Upper Water Column Science Experiment at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute;
• the 20,854th most frequently used word in the English language (between photocopy and patriarch)
• the 2,950th most popular surname in the United States;
• a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (population 1,250);
• a town in eastern Oklahoma (population 43,270);
• and a British heavy-metal rock band.

Other Muse-ish-sounding URLs are mostly a letdown and not worth a look. No links to these!

• www.kokopelli.com and .org — an online Native American tchotchke shop;
• www.mimi.com — a Silicon Valley technical writer named Mimi Wolf;
• www.pwt.com — Pacific Western Technologies, Ltd., "Innovative Solutions for a Changing World";
• www.pwt.org — an orienteering group called Park World Tour;
• www.feather.com — rambling reminiscences of a Linux nerd;
• www.aeiou.at — an Austrian "Kulturinformationssystem";
• www.aeiou.pt — a Portuguese news page;
• etc., etc., etc.

A couple of sites also mention a professional wrestler named Crraw, but the less said about him, the better.