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| Thursday Oct 5, 2006 | With the rising price of gasoline, road-trips can be expensive without carpools. Ridester offers matchmaking services for drivers and those willing to pay for gas between major cities. to Web by pjammer |
| Sunday Feb 26, 2006 | Is it possible for a Web site to receive 1 billion page views without marketing of any kind? AJ bet a friend £1,000 that he could do it. Why not help him out, and keep him in fish and chips for a month? to Web by fatherdan |
| Monday Jan 23, 2006 | The Bloggies combine the puerile pomp of awards shows with the rabid self-importance of bloggers. And the winner is ... ? to Web by isosceles |
| Friday Jan 13, 2006 | It's
the best blonde joke ever,
brought to you by Web 2.0. to Web by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Aug 25, 2005 | While Googling 'White House Lies' I found cartoons, books and evidence of web-scrubbing, a term that seems to have been created directly in response to White House actions. to Web by nucleus |
| Friday Aug 12, 2005 | The latest fart in the howling fecal windstorm of the
blogosphere belongs to none other than
world-famous combover aficionado
Donald Trump. to Web by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jul 19, 2005 | What could be
the true reason for
NewsCorp's
purchase of MySpace? Perhaps you should ask Rupert Murdoch,
or
one
of
his
many
identical
twin
brothers.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jul 15, 2005 | The bloggorhea revolution is no longer just for
unlikable paranoid beardos
and snarky anonymous dickheads.
It's finally reached the people with good stories
to tell: waiters,
cooks,
and bouncers. to Web by riotnrrd |
| Friday May 20, 2005 | Contagious Media is
getting all meta on your ass with
a competition to
create the most viral website, as measured by the number
of unique visitors from now until June 9th. to Web by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jun 29, 2004 | Upload an image of some text to
What the Font?
and it will (try to) determine what font
it uses. Neato!
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 20, 2004 | Fame (or at least Google's approximation of it) can come at
a price for bloggers:
chuckleheads who think your diary is
Maury
Povich's personal webpage or
the webpage of
a popular
TV show.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 12, 2004 | Keep track of your favorite celebrities' plastic surgery induced metamorphosis at the Awful Plastic Surgery Page.
to Web by kade |
| Sunday May 2, 2004 | 300 images from 1800
sites highlights the design of the
web's least noticed elements: icons. to Web by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Jan 18, 2004 | The internet without goatse is like apple pie without the vanilla ice cream. to Web by kade |
| Thursday Nov 6, 2003 | Have we have gone too
"meta"?
Ponder this question while you view the
CG rendered webcams
of Pico Mirador. to Web by riotnrrd |
| Monday Nov 3, 2003 | Men, stand up and fight for your rights! to Web by kade |
| Saturday Oct 25, 2003 | loopemem elohssa tnereffid ,tihs emas to Web by wheezer |
| Friday Oct 3, 2003 | If you love good graphic design and have the attention span of
a meth-crazed whippet, browse
through Quorporation's
collection of past projects at
Saturate.Nu. to Web by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Aug 5, 2003 | Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives fiercely resists categorization: you could call it droll, goofy comminglings of oddly amusing text, still art and Flash. to Web by monde |
| Friday Jul 4, 2003 | Fireworks on your computer screen can be just as fun as the fireworks in the sky. to Web by kade |
| Saturday Mar 29, 2003 | Wow, the things we used to believe when we were kids.. to Web by kade |
| Thursday Jan 30, 2003 | Do you find that you are bored of the same old websites? Be bored no more! to Web by 7layerburrito |
| Wednesday Jan 15, 2003 | This Is The Age Of The Yoyology. /
That's Handy, Harry! Stick It In The Yoyology. /
Nothing Sucks Like A Yoyology. /
Create your own at the Sloganizer.
to Web by yoyology |
| Friday Dec 20, 2002 | Web personas range from one extreme to the other. to Web by nucleus |
| Thursday Sep 26, 2002 | Search with Porn! It's no Google but I'm not complaining. to Web by kade |
| Saturday Sep 21, 2002 | Livejournal Drama. Yes, it's as pathetic as it sounds. to Web by kade |
| Sunday Sep 15, 2002 | It looks like SuperGreg has a brother.
to Web by kade |
| Saturday Sep 7, 2002 | Ban the spam.
to Web by kade |
| Wednesday Aug 21, 2002 | While sites with
bizarrely restrictive linking policies
are amusing, I'm more intrigued by the
Magritte-like paradoxes of
websites that exist solely to state that the website doesn't
exist.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jun 17, 2002 | Moms have livejournals. Cats have livejournals. Now God has one, too.
to Web by caspian |
| Wednesday May 8, 2002 | Once, people rated who was hot or not. Now, you can rate what's better. to Web by tregoweth |
| Monday Mar 18, 2002 | My name is Becky. I got your name and e-mail address on irc. I just bought a webcam and I started doing shows on the internet. Please come to my site. It's totally free and you can see pictures of me and even videos. This e-mail is not spam.... to Web by kade |
| Monday Feb 25, 2002 | He's an all-American sweet-toothed filmmaker who hides his scarred face behind a mask. She's a transdimensional foul-mouthed advertising executive from a secret island of warrior women. They fight crime! to Web by kade |
| Monday Jan 28, 2002 | To find the elusive Two that lead to One, one must take up the time-devouring game or art or senseless habit (depending on your viewpoint) of Googlewhacking. to Web by monde |
| If you've ever experienced the horror of giving someone a monstrous URL like http://groups.google.com/groups?q=acquire+strategy+group:rec.
games.board+author:desjardins&hl=en&scoring=r&as_drrb=b&
as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1998&as_maxd=27&as_maxm=1&
as_maxy=2002&selm=voh4sjdlqcy.fsf%40yuban.berkeley.edu&
rnum=6, you'll appreciate the simplicity of shorter URLs that can be found at places like Make A Shorter Link, Shorter Link, and purl. to Web by onigame |
| Wednesday Dec 5, 2001 | Jerry Falwell. Pat Robertson. Usama bin Laden. Can you tell them apart?
to Web by kade |
| Wednesday Oct 17, 2001 | The web is more than an open library of chemical weapons formulas such as sarin and VX, it's also a source for spores suitable for building biological weapons.
to Web by nucleus |
| Monday Oct 15, 2001 | Daler och det hemliga vapnet makes more sense after you've read the lyrics. to Web by kade |
| Thursday Oct 11, 2001 | Hatten + Osama Bin Laden = Daler och det hemliga vapnet (mirror)
to Web by wheezer |
| President Bush has declared war on "terrorists and those who harbor them." The question is, then;
Am I Terrorist or Not? to Web by wheezer |
| Tuesday Sep 11, 2001 | If you're worried about the safety of your loved ones tonight, please visit the Safe Millennium database. to Web by kade |
| Friday Aug 24, 2001 | Opi8 is a really cool online magazine featuring columns such as Dial C for Chaos (the latest of which details the fall of "spy punk"), the wonderful goth comic strip Writhe and Shine, Jason Lex's Awful Science Fair (one of the best online comics out there), and a series of online comics by Andrew Dabb (who Warren Ellis calls one of his favorite young writers). to Web by klint |
| Monday Aug 20, 2001 | If you miss Third Voice,
or just want to add public annotations to Web pages
without using a plug-in, check out CritSuite
and start commenting about (and on)
your favorite Web sites.
to Web by tregoweth |
| Saturday Aug 18, 2001 | Ah, Mother England. Where one might repose with one's laptop on the Internet Park Bench to, perhaps, make a tariffless long-distance call or catch up on the delightful happenings of that most celebrated of legumes, Bertie the Beet.
to Web by saucy |
| Friday Aug 10, 2001 | Blogdex is the google of blogs,
allowing you to not just sift for early
stage memes, but also providing a rank for the late
stage variety. to Web by fool |
| Wednesday Jul 25, 2001 | Have problems? Need advice?
Ask Gary Coleman. to Web by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jul 20, 2001 | Attention wannabe hax0rs! Your universal chant is no longer "Free Mitnick". It's been changed to "Free Sklyarov".
to Web by kade |
| Thursday Jul 19, 2001 | I cannot take anymore of these self-absorbed harlot cam girls. You too? Daign is our savior. to Web by kade |
| Sunday Jul 15, 2001 | If you've ever been to greenwave radio or EarthDot then you've been fooled to use solar power! Those sites are powered by solarhost.com, a web hosting service running off the grid. to Web by skallas |
| Monday Jul 9, 2001 | When your daddy is famed investor Peter Lynch,
your wedding Web site
can have all kinds of obnoxious Flash animations! to Web by tregoweth |
| Sunday Jul 8, 2001 | Am I in Pi? See if your birthday (MMDDYY) appears anywhere in mathematical number Pi. Not geeky enough for you? Then try the Pi quiz. to Web by skallas |
| Friday Jul 6, 2001 | Naked News...Scripting News...Naked Scripting News! to Web by tregoweth |
| Monday Jul 2, 2001 | The smoothest operatin' 404 of all time.
to Web by fatherdan |
| Tuesday Jun 26, 2001 | The next best thing to exploring abandoned buildings is watching one being demolished. to Web by kade |
| In what will probably be a fuzzy logic nightmare, everyone's favorite search engine has introduced image searching.
to Web by skallas |
| Thursday Jun 21, 2001 | "Hello! My name is
Amy Ritchie
and I'm 14 years old and homeschooled. This page is all about my favorite
hobby, skinning and
taxidermy."
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jun 20, 2001 | Dear Internet, It has recently been brought to our attention that you are, or have been, in violation of the Net Authority Acceptable Internet Usage Guidelines. As a result, your personal information has been added to one or more Net Authority Internet offender databases. Your information will be stored in the databases until enough evidence has been gathered against you to warrant further actions. While the individual who reported your actions to us will remain anonymous, he or she wished to pass these words on to you: "Blasphemy. Cool." to Web by voidptr |
| Feed is an amazing Java applet that takes the graphics and text of websites and runs them through the grinder to produce some flashy abstract art. to Web by skallas |
| Sunday Jun 17, 2001 | Are online quizzes the next
Am I X or Not?
Everyone's taken the
purity test, but how many of you know your
favorite
20th-century pope?
to Web by voidptr |
| Thursday Jun 14, 2001 | Pixelzero: because recycled referers make for artsy voyeurism. to Web by wheezer |
| Sunday Jun 10, 2001 | Have you ever thought about how your webpage looks to people who are colorblind?
to Web by kade |
| Friday Jun 8, 2001 | Why does anyone use The Weather Channel's
weather.com?
It's annoying for the same reasons as
moviephone,
just not as bad.
Yahoo! has
a much more restrained and useful
weather service
(and better
movie times, too),
but the Weather Underground
is better still.
They seem to actually want to tell you about the
weather, not sell ad space.
They've even kept the old UMich
telnet service
running---no banner ads!
But what do you expect from people
who name themselves after a bunch of
wacko
Communists?
to Web by tjs |
| Sunday May 27, 2001 | The BBC has produced a free virtual theremin for PCs and Macs for their science playground page. After playing with it for a while, reading the short but sad history of its inventor and virtuosa, and the proper way to play it you might be interested in aquiring a real one. to Web by skallas |
| Football Kills -- another silly group created by soccer moms or clever parody of the modern gun control movement? to Web by kade |
| Wednesday May 23, 2001 | Danger Research, Inc. has one of the more amusing rotating Flash entry animations I've seen (keep clicking "Back" to go through the set). They're also developing some super-secret wireless communications technology. What is known is that one of their firmware people used to work at Be and is one of the main contributors to OpenBLT, a great research operating system. He seems to be somewhat tired of the glitz, though. to Web by dnm |
| Tuesday May 15, 2001 | I feel it's a public service to encourage sites which discourage slashdot. to Web by mpc |
| Friday Apr 27, 2001 | Running a domain ending with sucks seems to be the shiznat these days. Represented, amongst others, are all kinds of companies, usually popular ones
(for Wal-Mart, please use the Canadian site if applicable), various government institutions and of course a certain recently elected politician. While some are more metaphysical in nature, others are quite personal. Maybe sports are your bag? A lot of these sites might seem like a good idea (tm), but try to remember: What goes around, comes around. For every action, there is a equal and opposite reaction. to Web by wheezer |
| Sunday Apr 8, 2001 | Looks like the peer to peer revolution is internet-style business as usual now that Gnutella uber-client Bearshare 2.x now comes covertly bundled with known spyware plug-in OnFlow. Luckily Lavasoft's AdAware detects and removes this junk just like an antivirus program should. to Web by skallas |
| Monday Apr 2, 2001 | Although potentially not in service for very much longer due to layoffs, balthaser:Fx boasted an interesting online web content design studio powered by Shockwave and Flash.
to Web by dnm |
| Wednesday Feb 28, 2001 | Too many reams of paper and CDs lying around? Combine them for origami fun.
to Web by george |
| Friday Feb 23, 2001 | FuckedCompany + Am I HOT or NOT = dotDoomed. to Web by dennis |
| Friday Feb 9, 2001 | designtobedifferent is pretty, but does it have content? Well, you're supposed to have to dig for it. Speaking of pretty, Maron mentions John Maeda as an influence. to Web by djinn |
| Tuesday Jan 30, 2001 | Being an @Home user myself and sick of their poor service, I'll sign any petition that acts as a method to channel my rage instead of shooting up my local cable provider.
to Web by kade |
| Tuesday Jan 16, 2001 | Plastic is
FEED/Suck/alt.culture's
very own Slashdot.
Suckdot lives!
to Web by tregoweth |
| Wednesday Jan 10, 2001 | "As an Internet Psychologist, I can help you take
the next step in growing a successful Adult
Internet business." to Web by tregoweth |
| Sunday Dec 31, 2000 | Hey, ladies...be careful about pulling down your tops when there are cameras around, or you'll wind up someplace like this.
to Web by tregoweth |
| Friday Dec 15, 2000 | Not to be left out of the new economy, Santa
Claus is on-line. He has a
mission statement, and he even wants to sell you stuff.
to Web by birgitte |
| Thursday Dec 14, 2000 | YaBB (Yet Another Bulletin Board) is a bulletin board program that offers the same powerful features of UBB but its free. Isn't open source grand? to Web by kade |
| Monday Dec 11, 2000 | A New Mexico university professor has saved the front pages of several well-known websites from May 1996. They are:
AltaVista, Microsoft, Progressive Networks, Shareware.com, UPS, Xing and Yahoo. to Web by kade |
| Saturday Dec 9, 2000 | Web Graffiti sites in their various forms can be a fun way to waste time, or to anonymously get something off your head that's been driving you around the bend, or to just post lots and lots of strange and silly pictures, poems, or just about anything else that comes to mind...and then successive visitors to the site can do one of three things: leave it as it is, erase it completely and put their own somethings there, or alter it in some way all their own. Metababy has been around providing a venue for perpetually alterable content for a while but is currently undergoing some sort of restructuring and the proprietor is being Very Enigmatic about the reopening date. This is the perfect opportunity to take your rampant Instant Graffitification urges to The Vortex Asynchrone, or to Sketchzilla. to Web by monde |
| Monday Nov 27, 2000 | Browse Am I Hot or Not without the useless clutter. Results are sortable by amount of votes, date, sex and rating. to Web by kade |
| Sunday Nov 26, 2000 | drokk.com is a wonderful personal compendium of things found interesting, funny, odd, or otherwise noteworthy by it's editor, Helen Waters. Go for Trouser Press, stay for Iron Chef White Trash.
to Web by dnm |
| Thursday Nov 16, 2000 | Must we randomize everything? Sites, radio, music (win/mac/linux), poetry (prefer haiku or sonnets?), fables, plays, jokes, fonts, postcards, webcams, female celebrity pics, porn? Why god, why? to Web by wheezer |
| Wednesday Nov 15, 2000 | FindSame is a search engine that searches by content instead of keywords. Enter a URL or upload a document and FindSame returns a list of Web pages that contain any fragment of that document longer than about one line of text. This is remarkably handy for finding plagarized content. to Web by joshua |
| You go to a search engine.
You look for something, shall we say, unusual.
No one's the wiser, right?
Wrongo, referrer-log breath!
to Web by tregoweth |
| Friday Nov 10, 2000 | OK, so everyone's claiming to have been reading The Onion "since before everyone
else found out about it". But what about other vegetable-themed web humour sites? Like, say, The
Mushroom, The Kumara, The Zucchini (accessed 29 times
since 02 Nov at time of posting), The Carrot, The Kumquat...
In the less funny and/or clueful stakes, we've got The Turnip, The Potatoe (sic), or even just The Onions.
to Web by elder |
| Sunday Nov 5, 2000 | Returning to the "age of reproductive needlessness": what does it mean for androgyny now that his and hers are identical on the internet?
to Web by djinn |
| Friday Nov 3, 2000 | Remember those twisted Garbage Pail Kids cards from your childhood? Well, if you're feeling nostalgic for those mutilated tykes, some fan just archived the whole series on the web. to Web by kade |
| Thursday Nov 2, 2000 | Brutal News -- your source for up-to-the minute misery. to Web by kade |
| Sure, Distortions are
fun, but now even the most Photoshop-phobic websurfer can try it on these two famous guys. Need more people to Javawarp? Try the list at
Javawarp's homepage.
to Web by skallas |
| Monday Oct 30, 2000 | Why diaryland.com is mostly a complete failure. It's called the shift key and no, you're not the next e.e. cummings.
to Web by skallas |
| Sunday Oct 29, 2000 | The Dancing Jakob Nielsen. Get jiggy wit it. to Web by dnm |
| Thursday Oct 26, 2000 | Disturbing Auctions features miscellaneous weird and/or disturbing items which have been listed on on-line auction sites.
to Web by keith |
| Wednesday Oct 25, 2000 | You have to love on-line petitions, especially ones that call Al Gore a spoiler for Ralph Nader and demand he step down. Or on a more realistic note, Dreamcast players are trying to get Sega to make a port of early 80's arcade hit Dragon's Lair. to Web by skallas |
| Sunday Oct 22, 2000 | If you feel the urge to socialize online, about anything, the Stalking Post BBS is for you.
to Web by kade |
| Play Cupid over the internet with BlindDate. to Web by kade |
| Al Gore has a special message for web power-surfers! Read the first page of the www.algore2000.com HTML source for a commented out paragraph designed especially for you. Unfortunately, the secret message isn't what he really thinks of the environment. to Web by skallas |
| Friday Oct 20, 2000 | See how Scient screwed over Verde.com. to Web by kade |
| Friday Oct 6, 2000 | Chicago residents can access the police department's crime database just by typing in their address and viewing a neighborhood map outlining which crimes happened where. to Web by skallas |
| Test your friends' common sense with The Everloading Story (requires Flash).
to Web by kade |
| The Art of War, a classic book serves today as modern day advice for contemporary business professionals on leadership, strategy, organization, competition, and cooperation. Now, Web Developers have The Art of Web. to Web by kade |
| Tuesday Oct 3, 2000 | Angst ridden Mark Driver has cynical yet very perceptive views on roommates, proper diet, homosexuality, and of course government. to Web by skallas |
| Monday Sep 25, 2000 | Start faking email right now. Or you can get really technical and learn about remailers and SMTP. to Web by skallas |
| Friday Sep 22, 2000 | Okay so you've tried the great spamming personality test from thespark.com, but have you tested your spatial IQ test lately? Or perhaps what job would you have had in Medieval Times, because they're hiring. to Web by skallas |
| One of the universal laws of the internet is that it is rarely possible to make a parody of a funny site that is as funny as the site itself. to Web by joshua |
| Sunday Sep 17, 2000 | Why bother opting out of ad banner tracking when you can simply block most ads with one windows file? Or if you're especially computer savvy you can try Junkbuster, which will block both ads and cookies. Its amazing how much faster dial-up browsing is when you're not constantly downloading ads. to Web by skallas |
| Friday Sep 15, 2000 | Watch complete strangers sleep via Anacam or wait patiently for people to use the can. I think whichever one you pick tells a lot about you. to Web by skallas |
| Tuesday Sep 12, 2000 | Oh my god! He is so hot! Do you think he likes me? I just don't know! I mean, I don't, like, want him to know I like him unless he likes me too! All I really know about him is his email address! What can I do? Never fear, young lady, eCrush will save you! We're just what you're looking for. Soon you too may be able to count yourself among our giggly middle-school girl success stories. to Web by keith |
| Friday Aug 25, 2000 | It may not have the ghetto charm of the
Hotel Cecil
or the
backstabbing
sex scandals of
JenniCam,
but
JailCam
provides just what it says: four live feeds from a
Phoenix, Arizona jail.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| It's not the woefully generic content of this Mr. T. Versus Everything page that disturbs me, it's more that she went out and found them. Then again, given that this site is the apotheosis of T-ness, I guess a little obsession is understandable. to Web by mpc |
| For your daily dose of interactive eyecandy, I recommend the fine site Hel13, a Finnish webzine that aspires to "Rebuild the Soviet Union on the Internet". Read the interview with T-26 or send your friends stylish ecards. Don't miss their applet to rebuild the Soviet Union, where you can apparently win something right now as well. Perhaps you want some suitable music while browsing through Hel13? Click here. to Web by wheezer |
| Thursday Aug 24, 2000 | The Bird is a rather impressive and fun Shockwave app. You can also play for the other team.
These are based on a very unique animation (by some talented people) that unfortunately turns out to be a Compaq advert from the UK. to Web by fuzzeli |
| The Bla-Bla network helps its partners earn money by selling advertising for sites within the bla-bla network.
They even have a catch phrase to reflect their corporate culture - "we turn basement warriors into capitalist pigs". And indeed they have - Jay Stile, of Stileproject fame is demanding
a salary over $600,000 USD from Bla-Bla over his site's advertising revenue. When Bla-Bla refused, Stile went
public with the company's woes to various media sources. This is going to get ugly
to Web by kade |
| Wednesday Aug 16, 2000 | Camarades - Because we like to watch.
to Web by kade |
| Friday Aug 11, 2000 | Introducing the LIVE Hotel Cecil Webcam. The Hotel Cecil is located in a part of town you don't normally associate with Los Angeles. The 24/7 webcam brings you live video coverage of life on the streets of skid row as it unfolds.
to Web by kade |
| Monday Aug 7, 2000 | Bullseyeart has lots of astounding cartoons. Miss Muffy and the Muff Mob combines hiphop, gratuitous foul language and Strawberry Shortcake; Internet, the Animated Series is a baffling homage to Thunderbirds; and Porkchops should be only be taken with extreme caution. Then there's The Woodcutter. to Web by fuzzeli |
| Monday Jul 31, 2000 | jwz's old letter of resignation from Netscape/AOL and Mozilla bears some rereading, particularly now that Suck.com is
calling for the embalming
of Mozilla's undead corpse.
to Web by sburke |
| Wednesday Jun 28, 2000 | AskJeeves: Is Jeeves gay? to Web by loothi |
| Tuesday Jun 20, 2000 | Mono Crafts in Tokyo features the most humblingly slick Flash website I've ever seen. to Web by cricket |
| Monday Jun 12, 2000 | Take part in new economy schadenfreude
at fuckedcompany.com.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| From the masterminds at hi, Res! London comes clickhere, a exhibition of (anti)banner ads.
to Web by wheezer |
| Saturday Jun 10, 2000 | Ready to start blabbing to the world at large about your daily life? I am. And some enterprising nice folks have made it so easy. Check out LiveJournal, DiaryLand, and Blogger for your own outsourced mental notebook. to Web by dnm |
| Wednesday Jun 7, 2000 | The nicest interface of some time can be found at Zero-Xenon-26, but that's not all - contentwise the site offers free fonts and a most impressive "speaking machine" for polishing up your Japanese pronounciation with the help of a sampled baby. to Web by wheezer |
| Monday May 29, 2000 | The atemporal nature of the web means that we are left with little festering slices of history and well-intentioned revisions, Ghost Sites is a museum of these dead (or dying) pages.
to Web by mpc |
| Wednesday May 17, 2000 | Though the concept of having users creating their own content may seem like a good one, the result is somewhat difficult to navigate, if not chaotic. to Web by wheezer |
| Thursday May 11, 2000 | Who cares who won the 5k award? There are so many expertly crafted entries - let yourself be sucked in! to Web by wheezer |
| Tuesday May 9, 2000 | There are a fair number of advice sites on the web, but Ms. Loquita's Advice Column on Love is not quite the normal. Perhaps what stands out is the way she talks mostly about her own life. Or maybe it's Miss Trixie, an alternate personality of hers. Unfortunately, there hasn't been a new column in five years or so. to Web by keith |
| Saturday May 6, 2000 | I'm too cheap to buy real presents, but I'm never too cheap for these. They sell everything from clothing to pets. to Web by djinn |
| Thursday May 4, 2000 | The Hunger Site, the site that donates food to a starving person with each click-through, now has a sister site, The Rain Forest Site. Each click-through donates 19.2 square feet. Too bad you are limited to donating once a day.
to Web by reid |
| Wednesday May 3, 2000 | His and hers insta-apologies. Did these really need to be separated by gender? to Web by djinn |
| Sunday Apr 30, 2000 | The 404 Research Lab has a motto: "All errors...all the time." Here, you can see some of the more interesting 404 pages to grace the web. Plus: instructions that will help you to end 404 problems for visitors or at least create your own custom 404 for them to see when they try to hit a nonexistent page on your domain. 404 is your friend! to Web by monde |
| Friday Apr 28, 2000 | Miss Abigail has an interesting idea. Answering questions by pulling selections from books of advice, some dating back to the 1820's. She tackles everything from body odor to sex to eating chicken. to Web by keith |
| Wednesday Apr 19, 2000 | Okay, a blue haired digital newscaster who sounds like an updated Speak And Spell. But the tests are amusing.
to Web by mpc |
| Saturday Apr 15, 2000 | Since the rollover, netslaves has changed from a sporadically-updated site about dot-economy horror stories to an angry view-from-the-trenches view of the high-tech sector. to Web by mpc |
| Thursday Apr 13, 2000 | Kaliber 10000, the "designer's lunchbox", is just so well-done it scares me. This webzine created by two young Denmark artists and their many talented friends occupied my teensy attention span for longer than an hour...current content includes a huge archive of desktop screenshots, a Flashtoon called Cellular Automata Man and a sort of übermetaphorical subway station.
to Web by monde |
| Moreover is a meta-newsroom linking hundreds of newswires from around the world into an XML-based webfeed system which users can either read, or have shunted to their own sites for free. Configure your prefs to view your pick of hundreds of different categories (unlike most portals they thought well enough to include one called Offbeat.)
to Web by monde |
| Saturday Apr 8, 2000 | You can Mr. T'inate any URL you want, even www.memepool.com! Crazy Foo! to Web by stimpy |
| Tuesday Apr 4, 2000 | Some people lust after Gillian Anderson. Some people lust after cherry pie. And yes, there are some who lust after both. to Web by eclipse |
| Monday Mar 27, 2000 | I really like the historic collection of google's holiday logos.
to Web by djinn |
| Tuesday Mar 21, 2000 | Innovate viral paradigms, reinvent scalable technologies, and enable 24/7 niches by empowering proactive web-readiness with the Web Economy Bullshit Generator. to Web by kapital |
| Although I'm not sure why anyone would want to, you can now build your own cow online. to Web by birgitte |
| Thursday Mar 16, 2000 | HTML, HDML, WML, schmtML you say. I agree -- XML may be the keenest thing since sliced indices, but you need to get your info straight. xmlhack gives you the tasty useful bits every day in digestable forms, yet treats you like the schema building guru you are. to Web by dnm |
| Tuesday Mar 7, 2000 | Whoot ees theese? Classic FAQs. alt.understand.FAQs.not.complete.sentences.newsgroup.format? And what's the difference between a lemur and alt.cows.moo.moo.moo? to Web by djinn |
| Thursday Mar 2, 2000 | halfbakery: it's not just a good idea, it's also some bad ones. to Web by dnm |
| Tuesday Feb 29, 2000 | You step in the stream / But the water has moved on / This page is not here
to Web by monde |
| Thursday Feb 24, 2000 | Funky URL is a program to convert URLs into something really funky! It takes the hostname and converts it into a 32 bit integer, and the rest of the url into those funky hex thingies.
to Web by jack |
| Tuesday Feb 22, 2000 | For the last two years, whenever I had a burning question conceivably answerable via the Web, I turned it over to the ever-servile info-butler named Jeeves. Though friendly enough, he's nevertheless still artificial, and thus can't give your question the special touch of personal attention. But now there are sites where you can get your answers from real live people via email...delivered in a timely manner, free of charge. Try NoWonder for your tech support questions: queries are answered about hardware, software and all things connecting them. Abuzz will take your computer questions as well, but also aims to provide answers to questions dealing with a variety of topics related to working, playing and living, and the world in which we do these things. to Web by monde |
| Friday Feb 18, 2000 | Etxtreme serves up "your daily info breakfast" via an odd little email list. It's essentially a new form of data mining...a sort of big-picture analysis of huge sections of web-space. The output sample is somewhat perplexing upon first glance, but this press release should help to clarify things a bit. And once I saw the list of sources that Etxtreme sifts through, it seemed interesting enough that I signed up for the mailings.
to Web by monde |
| Wednesday Feb 16, 2000 | I should have known he'd have a website, I just didn't think it would be so eye-bleedingly awful.
to Web by mpc |
| Friday Feb 11, 2000 | The Web Bug FAQ provides answers to the uninitiated about internet privacy. to Web by birgitte |
| One of those useful things: IANA keeps track of the various top-level Country Codes. to Web by mpc |
| Thursday Feb 10, 2000 | For those that missed the
original eBay sale,
the seller has a page about all the
snow fallout. to Web by moose |
| Monday Feb 7, 2000 | Gosh knows I sure do enjoy the infection of the month. March is for microsporidia! to Web by reid |
| Friday Feb 4, 2000 | The Proxomitron is a nice little web proxy for Windows that allows you to sanitize your browsing experience in myriad ways. Kills banner ads, popups, animated gifs, etc via a nifty rules-based interface. Also allows manipulation of headers and cookies on the fly. Great stuff, but you'll wish you were colorblind when you see the garish UI. to Web by obvious |
| Sunday Jan 30, 2000 | Choose your own Old Testament adventure. to Web by reid |
| Friday Jan 28, 2000 | More pretty ways to waste time and lose yourself on the web. to Web by eclipse |
| Surely a site called horny will have predictably pornographic content...right? Wrong! It's actually a newsmagazine for German high school students. Naturally, running it through a Babelfish translator results in some likely unintended laughs. to Web by monde |
| Wednesday Jan 26, 2000 | HTML Goodies is exactly what you would think it would be: a good place for someone who isn't so, uh . . . experienced. Heh, good thing I don't need the help. . . oh wait, I do - no use trying to fool you.
to Web by birgitte |
| Sunday Jan 23, 2000 | Jerry Lawler's homepage is like a lot of other self-made pages on the web, with shots of his artwork, a page for his son, and a collection of pictures of him covered in blood from his 20+ years of professional wrestling. to Web by mpc |
| Friday Jan 21, 2000 | Warhol thought it would be fifteen minutes, but no, it's one web site.
to Web by mpc |
| Wednesday Jan 12, 2000 | EGADS!, you still need more room? You must be awful to live with. Here, try X:Drive, slacker. And think about investing in some e-wastebaskets. to Web by dnm |
| Monday Jan 10, 2000 | Do people think you're a loser who Spends Too Much Time Online? Do people tell you that you need to Get Out More? This guy is probably hearing a lot of that right now...and laughing all the way to the bank. (The virtual one, that is; he's not supposed to actually leave his house...not even for a minute.)
to Web by monde |
| Sunday Jan 9, 2000 | x10's advertising is apparently now targeting
pornographers and
stalkers. to Web by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jan 5, 2000 | Did you see The Miraculous Winking Jesus wink at you? Even if you didn't, the Best of Reflections can be enlightening in itself. to Web by eclipse |
| Saturday Jan 1, 2000 | A tear in the space-time continuum has allowed us to connect to websites in the distant future. We took some screenshots from
January 1, 3900,
sometime in 20100,
January 1, 192000,
January 1, 192000,
another from January 1, 192000, and
January 1, 202000.
to Web by joshua |
| Wednesday Dec 29, 1999 | So you've filled up your FreeDrive eh? Fear not, e-packrat, there's also i-drive. And they even have neato keen applets to let you schedule transfers and save whole web content to your slice of space. to Web by dnm |
| Wednesday Dec 22, 1999 | uTOK is a nifty little freebie (with no ads, yet) that works as a browser adjunct that allows people to hold discussions about websites and vote on them using little "post-it note" boxes. It's better than the similar program Thirdvoice in that it doesn't
mangle the looks of sites with little reference dots. It lets users form groups amongst themselves, or just scrawl their notes as free agents. to Web by monde |
| Friday Dec 17, 1999 | yet another internet 'zine, but the
movie reviews amuse me. to Web by mpc |
| Tuesday Dec 14, 1999 | Know someone with a bad website? Send them a fork-o-gram! to Web by enigma |
| Monday Dec 13, 1999 | Geocities and other similar sites forbid you from using the accounts they give you for storage purposes. Freedrive encourages it. to Web by keith |
| Wednesday Dec 8, 1999 | With San Francisco's confusing microclimates, it's nearly impossible to figure out the weather across town, let alone the next day. This page of Bay Area cams is even more reliable then sticking your head out the window. to Web by rsf |
| Thursday Nov 25, 1999 | Though they bat around the word "postmodern" far too much for my delicate sensibilities, fluxeuropa is a nifty "cultural webzine reviewing art, books, films, music, personae and miscellanea." I stumbled across them while looking for artwork by Tor Lundvall, who's collaborated with Tony Wakeford on several Sol Invictus album covers and the masterfully dark Autumn Calls. to Web by nyarl |
| Tuesday Nov 23, 1999 | More useless yet strangely pleasing JavaScript. Did the earth move for you too?
to Web by loothi |
| Sunday Nov 21, 1999 | Seems like everyone likes to experiment with Flash. Sortof like a bad drug. Mediaboy is just tripping through this stuff like there's no tomorrow (and for all we know, there isn't).
to Web by djinn |
| Thursday Nov 18, 1999 | ZSPC seems to be an Japanese resource
on web design and Sapporo
Crabs. Although it
seems like my browser can't
read most of the characters, the Super
Color Chart is
extremely helpful when it comes to HTML color codes.
to Web by earmouse |
| Friday Nov 12, 1999 | Are you an Ol' Dirty Bastard or a Ghostfacer Killer? Find out with the world's first Wu-Tang namelizer. to Web by eclipse |
| Tuesday Nov 9, 1999 | Would 100 monkeys in front of 100 typewriters for 100 years eventually type a Shakespearean sonnet? The Search for Intelligent Monkeys on the Internet hopes to find out. to Web by eclipse |
| Some of That's Offensive's Showcase of Tastelessness and Vulgarity is offensive, tasteless, and/or vulgar. Most of it is just odd. to Web by keith |
| Wednesday Nov 3, 1999 | Although it probably shouldn’t, mired.com makes me laugh. Lots of swearing, but from their obsession with all ads Macintosh to their t-shirts - RAP tougher than leather - it makes for amusing middle of the work day reading. to Web by birgitte |
| Tuesday Nov 2, 1999 | The SF Gate's Liveviews has some pretty neat live views of San Francisco taken from the Transamerica Building, the Embarcadero Skydeck, the Bay Bridge, and more. to Web by eclipse |
| Monday Nov 1, 1999 | Welcome to the world's most boring
web page. Now in Icelandic
and, of course, pig-latin. to Web by moose |
| Sunday Oct 24, 1999 | Support the C.A.O.F.! Even if it means your amazon.com stock will suffer... to Web by djinn |
| Wednesday Oct 20, 1999 | If sorting through the opinions of the unwashed masses wasn't fun enough on
Consumer Review and Deja (the "News" is silent),
epinions hopes you'll enjoy wading through their information space. Oooh! A recommendation for Bose speakers!
They must be good!
to Web by akk |
| Tuesday Oct 19, 1999 | Always hated how your bookmarks reside on one particular computer? Blink! is here to help. to Web by djinn |
| Some of us own Amigas, so we know who Eric Schwartz is outside of his Comic Strip (some of us know that he obssesses about Amigas in his strip). Now you can
see everything he's done, including his animations and other artwork,
especially his Amiga
Propaganda and Linux swipes.
to Web by mpc |
| Sunday Oct 17, 1999 | WHY ARE THERE 379 LINKS IN THE ANIMATED DANCING PAGES WEBRING? WHY GOD? WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO OFFEND YOU?
to Web by mpc |
| Friday Oct 15, 1999 | Ana Voog presents
sleepstation.com:
your portal for finding webcams aimed at sleeping people. to Web by tregoweth |
| Thursday Oct 7, 1999 | Read Sir Charles Grandiose's Advice, and
then find out how he got to be that way.
to Web by mpc |
| Restrooms.org is a memepool for
the
toilet-obsessed.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| The daily online `zine GettingIt is News of the Weird meets kinky sex with
celebrity interviews and columnists Robert Anton Wilson, Lydia Lunch and
Andrei Codrescu.
to Web by joshua |
| Tuesday Oct 5, 1999 | Remember friend, that thou art mortal, and the Death Clock will remind thou of just how mortal that is. to Web by mpc |
| Wednesday Sep 29, 1999 | Ever ran across a picture that made you wince? Wonder why they posted it to their
home page? Wonder if they regret it? They will now. to Web by pjammer |
| Tuesday Sep 28, 1999 | I think they're trying to sell email addresses, but I still don't understand the cow. to Web by magus |
| Monday Sep 27, 1999 |
View ads to feed the hungry. Just push the button.
Seriously. It's legit. In total we're talking about hundreds of
thousands of pounds of food going to the people who need it most
by way of the
United Nations World Food Programme. to Web by keith |
| Thursday Sep 23, 1999 | www.1159.com
is a site which takes on the tough questions about
the last minute before the year 2000. Questions
like "Where are you going to be partying?"
and "Can we sell you some crap with
our logo on it for the
occassion?" to Web by keith |
| Thursday Sep 16, 1999 | Does this mean there are actually smart people on the Internet? Daily dose of sarcasm! to Web by djinn |
| Tuesday Sep 14, 1999 | Ever curious what sort of amusing crap some
people auction off at
eBay? Well then,
eDay is made for you. It spotlights a different
stupid, bizarre, and/or amusing item being auctioned each day.
to Web by keith |
| Free sci-fi short stories and novellas by a variety of authors can be found
at Infinity Plus, located in
the UK.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Search engines can change your life, if you're willing to archive and index
it. So says Richard
Setzer, whose page I found purely
by accident. to Web by braino |
| Friday Sep 10, 1999 | Another browser to add to your collection:
WebTV Viewer,
a WebTV emulator for Macs 'n Windows. to Web by tregoweth |
| Thursday Sep 9, 1999 | The minions of Hell are surely taking over the net, and their latest weapon is FamilyPoint. Now all your relatives who you don't want to talk to can do more than just pester you with their AOL and WebTV accounts, but share a web-based fridge with you as well! Please kill me. to Web by nyarl |
| Wednesday Sep 8, 1999 | I think that
The Nice Guy Webzine is a good idea, and I do
like
the Nice Guy Quiz. But I do wish they'd actually update it some time. to Web by keith |
| Thursday Sep 2, 1999 | I don't know how Goto managed to beat out Hotbot or Google in this search engine survey. Nevertheless, you can still have fun moving Internet $$$ around by clicking on these sleazy Web Casino links (at $7.50 a click) or weight loss scams ($2.30 a click) using Goto's evil plan. to Web by rsf |
| Saturday Aug 28, 1999 | You may be wondering just what PETRONAS, the corporation owned by the Malaysian government which is in charge of all the country's oil and gas resources, is doing with all those resources. The very aware amongst you probably know that they're building the world's largest office building, but I'll bet that even you don't know that they're going to
broadcast its opening live on the web. More scary than that is that the reason I know this is because they've bought banner ads to promote this event. to Web by keith |
| Wednesday Aug 25, 1999 | Sometimes the normal web greeting card places
just don't have the message with quite the
kick you're looking for. to Web by keith |
| Tuesday Aug 17, 1999 | Microserf Love: End
that doomed romance or pop
The Question with a web card from the
Redmond Behemoth. Also available for the
ladies...Microsoft
Fabio! to Web by tregoweth |
| Monday Aug 16, 1999 | Just when you thought you knew everything about every proprietary web plug-in, along comes the WildTangent Web Driver. This thing allows you to serve up DirectX content over the web with surprising results. Get it. Then be amazed when you're playing Monster Truck Madness over the web. But it's Windows-only right now. Sorry, Vic-20 users. to Web by succa |
| Tuesday Aug 3, 1999 | Pitas.com allows you, the crusty web novice, to have your very own weblog, much like the one you're looking at right now. Featuring such fine examples as this one, and such inevitable examples as this one. to Web by succa |
| Sunday Aug 1, 1999 | Ed Wegman's personal home page contains some interesting things, like this Christmas story. to Web by peterb |
| Thursday Jul 29, 1999 | Enter your name and discover your Egyptian roots. to Web by eclipse |
| Monday Jul 26, 1999 | How do you glue glass to vinyl? What about paper to metal? This to That can help you find the right glues to bond things that don't take Rubber Cement. to Web by eclipse |
| Tuesday Jul 20, 1999 | The intricate and affluent productions of the world's very best professional web designers, showcased at digital thread, always impress me to no end. to Web by succa |
| Wednesday Jul 14, 1999 | Someday, if I hold a contest for the strangest FAQ
on the Web,
The Weregerbil FAQ will be the first entry. to Web by mpc |
| Finally, an internet-based Rube Goldberg-like "service" for people without alarm clocks. to Web by peterb |
| Saturday Jul 10, 1999 | Buttons, buttons, who's got the buttons? If you mean those 88x31
GIF rectangles pasted all over the web, then these folks have the
buttons: Buttons Now!,
Animated
Buttons Now!, The 88x31
Button Gallery, Bunches of
88x31 Buttons, Dr. Cheap's
Button Collection, and Michael's
Plug Page. Too bad hardly anyone preserves the links behind
them. Caution: A lot of these buttons are animated, and a lot of
them run at full speed.
to Web by braino |
| Monday Jun 14, 1999 | Web designers often lay out a page with dummy content, show it to the client for style approval, and then input in the client's material. The dummy content, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diem nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut lacreet dolore magna aliguam erat volutpat,"
(a meaningless string of Latin gibberish), has been the standard text in printing and publishing circles for decades. What's hysterical is the number of designers who forget to replace their dummy titles with the client's title before delivering the site. An AltaVista search for "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" serves up over four thousand hits of high-end web pages cursed with residual dummy titles. to Web by pjammer |
| Thanks to uSucK,
you can get a free domain that will redirect to the
page of your choice. Which you can use for your
own site, or commentary. to Web by tregoweth |
| Sunday Jun 13, 1999 | In case you don't agree with Douglas Adams and me that the world is essentially a random place, this roulette wheel will take you to a random website. Okay, so the world wide web and the *world* aren't the same thing... to Web by djinn |
| Whether or not you believe pigs fly, there's a place to report sightings. to Web by djinn |
| Saturday Jun 12, 1999 | Okay, I'll admit it. I don't really know what
funkymonkey
is, aside from a neat animation. Apparently,
it's both a way of life and a magazine.
Oh, and it's by
these people,
but that doesn't help me figure things out.
to Web by keith |
| Thursday Jun 10, 1999 | ThirdVoice is a browser plugin that talks to remote
servers to implement one of my favorite
features of NCSA Mosaic 1.2 (circa 1993): distributed annotations. Every time you look at a web page, the plugin asks a Third Voice server for comments
left by others and then displays them inline. The most amusing part is how
scared some webmasters are knowing they have no recourse other than propaganda. to Web by akk |
| Sunday Jun 6, 1999 | I didn't know that misspelling
www.altavista.com could get me to something else entirely. to Web by sck |
| Thursday Jun 3, 1999 | www.phonespell.org, your ticket to getting (412) ENDOWED
from your local bell. to Web by akk |
| Wednesday Jun 2, 1999 | For some reasons, friend Nutkin is unpopular on the web.
Dozens of sites feature an obvious terror
of the little furballs. Some of which involve
exotic torture
devices,
bad poetry,
calls to arms,
and weird theories
about squirrel's extraterrestrial origins. Like everything else silly in
the world, there is a
webring.
to Web by mpc |
| Friday May 21, 1999 | Somehow, I don't think the pocket calculator industry has anything to worry about. to Web by succa |
| Thursday May 20, 1999 | If you're looking to get serious about web design, you'd do well to spend an afternoon neck-deep in Dr. Ozone's personal website, my personal candidate for the best site on the internet.
to Web by succa |
| Monday May 17, 1999 | The web site of babelicious
Ellen Pronk, in her guise of Ellen, Architect of
Change is bit rough at the edges, but worth searching through for
some of the more
mindbending moments.
to Web by peterb |
| Saturday May 15, 1999 | Secure web-based email from HushMail uses 1024 bit encryption and requires a Java capable browser. See the tech description for the juicy details, and an invite to review their Java source. to Web by loothi |
| Thursday May 13, 1999 | Wow. This person's web design skills make me
very, very happy. Someone hire her. to Web by peterb |
| Thursday May 6, 1999 | Sick of how email gets your messages to their
desired recipients quickly and for free? Well,
UPS has a
solution
for your problems. Remember, it's more expensive
than email, so it must be better. to Web by magus |
| Look up the names of your next door neighbors. When you're done, check out their credit reports.
to Web by rsf |
| Wednesday Apr 28, 1999 | Ever wondered why there wasn't some sort of
real-life Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Well,
now there is.
Sure, it's probably a cheesy
marketing gimmick, but at least it's kinda cute.
And hey, you can learn all about valuable things like
moustaches
and bra burning. to Web by magus |
| Saturday Apr 24, 1999 | Deja News is testing
Deja Ratings,
which will apparently let you vote on everything.
"Let's see, that's
4.5 for Dell tech support,
3.8 for border collies, and
3.6 for Prozac."
to Web by tregoweth |
| Thursday Apr 22, 1999 | According to this
article on Hotwired,
the current owner of the extremely valuable "sex.com" domain may have
stolen it from the rightful owner. More interestingly, the article
notes that sex.com grosses over $100 MILLION a year.
to Web by riotnrrd |
|
Now that web sites of organizations that deal with the US Government must
comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, perhaps you should use
Bobby validation service to verify whether your web site is accessible to the visually or
aurally impaired. It looks like memepool is entitled to use the Bobby Approved icon.
to Web by peterb |
| Saturday Apr 17, 1999 | You can never have too many intelligent agents.
I've found that Amazon.com's recommendation service just isn't doing it for me, so now I am in search of something as good as the defunct Ringo project (which eventually became
firefly to recommend music to me. It looks like MovieCritic might
be one possible solution for cinema, though. to Web by peterb |
| Tuesday Apr 13, 1999 | The Internet Junkbuster Proxy is
yet another anonymizer -- and as a bonus, it can filter banner ads from the pages
you're viewing, as well. Be sure to browse junkbusters
web site for more information on ways to get rid of junk e-mail, telemarketing calls,
and other privacy-invading marketing techniques. to Web by peterb |
| Thursday Apr 8, 1999 | Here's some filters for converting between
HTML and other text formats,
and for
undoing the
incompatibilties between Microsoft-produced-HTML and
the standard. to Web by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 31, 1999 | WFMU's Crackpots and Visionaries trading cards "...pay tribute to a few of the iconoclastic, free-spirited, and
sometimes dangerous souls who have inspired us over the years. We chose from among geniuses and charlatans,
saints and homicidal maniacs, from the revered to the reprehensible." Collect 'em all! to Web by eclipse |
| Monday Mar 29, 1999 | This weekend, most people in the US will move their clocks ahead one hour for Daylight Savings Time.
Last weekend, most people in Australia moved their clocks back one hour for Daylight Savings Time. Confused?
www.timeanddate.com can help.
Keep track of current time in up to 16 cities (of your choosing) using the
Personalized World Clock. to Web by eclipse |
| Tuesday Mar 23, 1999 | Will a monkey armed with a typewriter ever type
out the entire works of Shakespeare? I dunno, but
this
site gives it a shot. to Web by crikey |
| Monday Mar 22, 1999 | Jorn Barger's Robot
Wisdom Weblog has fascinating news stories and
links galore, updated daily. to Web by tregoweth |
| Saturday Mar 20, 1999 | S.U.P.E.R.B.A.D., no I don't understand it either. to Web by mpc |
| Friday Mar 19, 1999 | Ever wonder what the average Internet user looks
like? Check out
Webdweller,
an attempt to derive the looks of the average
man, woman, and androgyne web surfer. to Web by crikey |
| Thursday Mar 18, 1999 | Good old Webcrawler. Searches performed on the site can be collated privately, as you may know; the better plan is to let someone else research the bizarre. to Web by ned |
| If you've ever felt like being an search engine
voyeur, then Metaspy
is for you. Check out what people are searching for with Metacrawler. Available in both filtered
and unfiltered flavors. to Web by crikey |
| Wednesday Mar 17, 1999 | For this weekend, Firenze, Italy is the capital of
the Internet. Requires the Shockwave plugin. to Web by peterb |
| Friday Mar 5, 1999 | Instead of simply searching for keywords (which makes a search engine vulnerable to "spamdexing" by self-promoting websites who litter their site with hit-generating keywords, Google!, ranks sites based on the number of times other sites refer to it. Result: dramatic improvement in signal to noise ratio.
to Web by pjammer |
| Thursday Feb 25, 1999 | Phil and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing is an online
book which'll teach you a lot about photography, Samoyed dogs, grad school induced bitterness,
Bill Gates's current value, and pollution. If you're careful, you might learn something about the web
too.
to Web by akk |
| Tuesday Feb 23, 1999 | The
Bandwidth Conservation Society has several tips
for the building of a better, faster web. to Web by goboro |
| Saturday Jan 30, 1999 | Bomis: like the
bastard child of Yahoo!
and WebRing. Kind of. to Web by tregoweth |
| Friday Jan 29, 1999 | For when you need a more alternative web directory,
conveniently organized like an existing one. to Web by peterb |
| "www.usableweb.com is an up-to-date list of
the best resources on web site usability." to Web by akk |
| Wednesday Jan 27, 1999 | Camworld disects Memepool in Anatomy of a WebLog. If you're wondering what, exactly, a "weblog" is, well, you're staring at one.
to Web by sip |
| Sunday Jan 17, 1999 | Bookmarklets
are handy little JavaScript things that you can keep in
your bookmarks and use while browsing. to Web by tregoweth |
| Wednesday Jan 6, 1999 | Fulfill
42% of your daily Deadly Sin
requirement!
to Web by tregoweth |
| Admit it, you secretly hate most of the web.
Well, so do these folks.
They're just more organized about it than you are. to Web by magus |
| Monday Jan 4, 1999 | Don't look now, but you're an active participant in the Hi-Tech Gift Economy.
to Web by sip |
| Tuesday Dec 22, 1998 | So you've spent all day optimizing icons, designing OCX objects, and painting backgrounds
for that new webpage of yours devoted to uberphat cookie recipies. However, you have no clue
if anyone on the planet can even read your page.
Bobby can tell you whether an URL is readable by any of a variety of browsers (of various
versions) including download time. to Web by urog |
| Wednesday Dec 9, 1998 | If don't like the sight of blood, you probably don't want to see the
breast lift and augmentation
broadcast live on the web tonight at 7:30pm PST.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 2, 1998 | Slake your thirst for answers at TOOT; the
Tool Of Objective
Truth.
Use TOOT to take the measure of
human bravery,
the measure of
human intellect,
or just
the measurements of man.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Nov 18, 1998 | Newhoo is the latest cool web project to get
assimilated into the corporate machine. to Web by raia |
| Tuesday Oct 13, 1998 | AltaVista has unleashed the ultimate in Porn Searching Technology.
Well, ok, it has content filters blocking out the naughty from its search catalog of over 10 million images.
to Web by akk |
| Tuesday Sep 29, 1998 | Spinnwebe
is a web server with unique content including
"It's a Dysfunctional Life", the Nipple Server,
the Mystic 9-Ball, and the ever popular
Dysfunctional Family Circus.
to Web by tjs |
| Thursday Sep 24, 1998 | Sure, you can hate the world if you want. Maybe
it's better to leave the hating to
professionals,
though.
to Web by magus |
| Newhoo.com is a Yahoo-esque web directory. The editors are supposedly much more responsive, giving users a better "vibe"; also note the absence of ads. to Web by raia |
| Friday Sep 18, 1998 | Know your cavity search procedures.
Remember, knowing is half the battle. Especially
when the battle's smuggling a few condoms full of
china white across the border. to Web by magus |
| One man's
beautiful visualization of math is
another man's drug-fueled dorm-room poster art.
to Web by magus |
| Pointers to all the, er,
copyright-impaired video and audio you might want on the net. Get it
before the recording industry squashes 'em
like a bug.
to Web by magus |
| Feeling tipsy? Check out the original Drunk Browsing Test from Mirsky
to Web by bah |
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