http://www.cs.brown.edu/fun/bawp
These pages have the rather dubious aim of recreating the experience
of live poetry readings, by downloading recordings. It's not hard to live
up to the claim of 'best quality' when you have no competition. Should another
come online this might very well be redubbed 'worst'.
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http://www-lego.mit.edu/~lego/
Grown up, hi-tech grappling with perfectly formed pre-school plastic
bricks. Check some examples and then commence your own construction. Way
cool! I don't think so.
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http://www.thepoint.net/~usul/text/tacky.html
An on-going competition that, as yet, does not really do justice to
the umpteen examples of gloriously crass commercialism and fake, nasty,
plastic re-enactments of the recent past that exist in the mythic theme
park that is Americana today (see the 60 foot statue of Mr Jolly Green Giant).
You can do better than this.
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http://www.dailywav.com/
Sometimes you come across an online nugget and provided you're audio-plugged,
this site's a treasure trove. Every weekday, a new .wav file is supplied
free for your listening/downloading pleasure.î You can post requests,
too at weekends. At 30K a hit, you don't have long to wait to sample such
as Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future, little piggy Babe, the late
great Bogart, Jessica Rabbit, Peter Gabriel, or Groucho Marx in Duck Soup,
declaiming I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head
with it!î
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http://www.netproductions.com/balcony/
Once you're seated upstairs in the balcony of this poky little cinema,
select a film and start to download it in Quicktime VR. It's quicker than
saving an actual film clip and doesn't really take long, so when it's ready
to play, drag and drop the image over the cinema screen. It's not like visiting
the local Odeon but a good little gimmick for showcasing 'real' image VR.
The page also has a link so you can download the player if you haven't already
got it and a link to a company called Axis Images who, one presumes, are
the people who stitch all the photographs together. Pass the popcorn.
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http://asylum.cid.com/
An unusually old-school page that, oh say 12 months ago, would have
been considered the pinnacle of what was possible on the Web. Having been
around since May 94 it's good to see that some of The Asylum's original
and inspired ideas have endured...like The Revolving Door (add a URL, delete
a URL for an everchanging hotlist). Inmates continue to assemble as a community
around its hair-brained schemes, posting jokes, 'funnies', pictures and
lunatic opinions. This is one of those places that will send you spinning
off somewhere equally silly and it's ether for those with a lot of patience
or those with disturbed minds.
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http://www.clubguide.com/
Proving that every night is clubland night, the Soumian Multimedia Club
Guide offers a list of hot London nightspots with a breakdown on where to
go and where to be seen. Pulsating speakers and photographs of inebriates,
capture the essence of the club scene and there are some sweaty movie clips
to download. It suggests using a movie viewer called Sparkle but this is
notoriously difficult to get hold of and isn't really neccessary - just
get yourself a copy of ActiveX. The site is currently hosting a multimedia
exhibition. Entitled Streets Ahead, but with no digital imagery yet available
this is at present more of a cul-de-sac.
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http://imusic.com/Paperdoll/
Betty is the digital equivalent of a cut-and-paste paper doll. Dress
her up or dress her down but, er, her wardrobe leaves a little to be desired.
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http://www.rru.com/netads/games/tccc/
Don't spoil it by actually going to look at this page. It is only an
ad for a sick American boardgame with details on how to order it. The aim
of the game is for players to cross off registered roadkill whenever they're
on the highway taking a trip. Totally pointless if you're on the motorway
outside Birmingham but something to make you laugh nevertheless.
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http://www.resort.com/~banshee/Misc/8ball/index.html
The American Bob cult continues... This works on the 'magic eight-ball'
principle of consulting a fake oracle (ie a machine) in order to discover
your destiny. Ask Bob a 'yes' or 'no' question for example am I going to
lose my job? When Bob tells you the answer, use it as an excuse to go for
a drink to, in this particular example, drown your sorrows. That Bob he's
got a vicious streak. Can't be true, can it?
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http://www.zeta.org.au/~ash/mullet/mullet.htm
Following a seminal Beastie Boys article that appeared in their magazine
Grand Royal, the Mullet, a term coined to describe a crap, short at the
sides, long at the back haircut, has been on everybody's lips (hence Michael
Bolton: the man, the music, the magic...the mullet). The date 14 February
has been declared International Mullet Day by those offended by this hideous
half-crop fashion offensive. If you're the type of person that hasn't grown
out of saying 'Kevin Keegan' every time you see a bubble perm, then you'll
love this. Keep your eyes peeled, kids Ü mullet ahoy!
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http://www.pythonline.com
Take a tour around the Python site, escorted by the plumptious Daphne,
your all-nude tour operator. It's a rather spiffing site with a healthy
sprinkling of surreal humour and Internet piss-taking. Join the Spam Club
and impress the girls or download Abuse, the most un-user friendly software
on the Internet. You can chat with like-minded Pythonies in the Chit Chat
section and enjoy spoof chat sessions where Princess Di makes an unexpected
entrance into the Chat room, closely followed by 21 Sun reporters. Each
Python member also has a specific section where they get to be bitchy about
the other members. Of course there's more than a fair share of Python merchandising
for the real fanatics.
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http://www.madmind.com
Yet another online soap - but with a difference. This one claims to
be 'a psychological thriller that plumbs the mysterious depths of the consciousness'.
Cripes! When you enter the site you're invited to assume the character of
Madeleine, a young woman whose scientist father has been murdered. Although
the site claims to be an episodic series, it's more of a cross between a
TV series and a role playing game. One word of warning, you need to have
both Shockwave and Netscape Navigator 2.0 to join in the fun.
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http://www.sf-fantasy.com
Hologram Tales claims to be the poorest paid science fiction magazine
in the world. Its easy to see why no one wants to put any money in, the
site looks awful. Too much text, and appalling navigation are just some
of its problems. What's lacking in looks is made up somewhat with its content.
This is one SF place on the Internet which covers more than just the X-files
and Star Trek (see To Boldly Go). Ultimately though it will be visited by
people who want to see how not to put a Web site together.
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http://www2.best.com/~drice/goo/
A cross between a freak show exhibit and some odd performance art, goo
is one of those indefinable messy sites full of undecipherable poems, meaningless
pictures, singalong sound files and obsene ansaphone messages. Quite how
the mind that created this site works is beyond all comprehension, but one
of the joys of the World Wide Web is rummaging around in other people's
closets and opening up trap doors. More interesting than the sticky patch
on your bedroom carpet.
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http://www.gamblersbook.com
Take off to the world of the casino and all those ropey old women who
travel to Las Vegas every year to blow their (very large) personal allowances.
The Gambler's Book Club has been open for 32 years and now it's on the Web
and offers, not only books, but games, software and videos. Hoorah! It can
only be a matter of time before it helps you win the National Lottery!
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http://found.cs.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/rsw/labcam1
Another one of the many cameras on the Internet, this one's included
because it gives you robot control over magnification, colour, image enhancement
and brightness and you can point at the photo to direct the zoom. As with
all these cameras, the technology is impressive, but there's nothing worth
looking at when you get there. NO LONGER AVAILABLE
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http://www.mca.com/index.html
If your main interest lies in your TV or HiFi system then a: You should
get out a bit, and b: Take a stroll along the Cyberwalk. Here movie buffs
can plan their future video watching with a listing from the personalised
movie database, or watch an exclusive films preview in the VIP room. Music
fans are also catered for, the site allows you to sample music from a number
of record labels such as Geffen. MCA and Radioactive. There's also the Universal
Channel which features production notes and episode guides on TV series
such as Dream On. Finally, if that not enough for you multimedia manias,
there's a tour of Universal Studios in Hollywood, the one with the Back
to the Future ride. With a mountain load of material, lots of graphics,
and high production values this sight should keep your attention for more
than a few hours.
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http://www.cybersonik.com
A comprehensive gig and club listings guide for punters and promoters
alike, but onlt for those who know their hard house from the acid house,
their garage from their grunge. Replete with eye-grabbing graphics, many
aspects of the site such as the clubwear and records shopping guide are
still under construction but promise great things when the site is complete
and potential sponsorship deals finalised. Most innovative of all, however,
is a cybersniffer search engine to pinpoint your fave DJ or music type across
the country's venues. For the dedicated clubber an essential guide, for
the casual observer a site as exclusive and cliquey as the capital's clubbing
clientele.
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http://www.clubmode.com
Club Mode is an online soap which follows in the footsteps of The Spot
and The Squat, but claims to be interactive allowing you to chat away with
the regulars at the club. Yippee! Very American though and so some of the
humour is lost on us Brits. Personally I'd rather go down to the Queen Vic
and have a chat in fluent gruff with Phil and Grant.
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http://www.carrottop.com/
The clues are all there Ü a shameless plug for Carrot Top on the
Cartoon Network and a show that looks a bit like Timmy Mallet's seminal
Saturday morning programme The Wide Awake Club called A.m. Mayhem! This
guy's a personality, perhaps a comedian and he has ginger hair! In fact,
his spirally red mop top hair is his gimmick. It makes him look like a mad
Mick Hucknall and pretty goofy at the same time. He eats Tang and Pop Tarts
for breakfast and his Dad is a retired NASA scientist. This is his world,
a rather barmy mix of music, film, food reviews and absurdly funny jokes.
Join his carrotopia and become a carrothead.
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http://www.echonyc.com/~spingo/Mr.BA/
Quite the most pointless and ridiculous way to pass the time between
lunch and going home. Ask Mr Bad Advice to help out with your hygeine problems,
tardy slacker boyfriend, argumentative big mouth boss or perennial lack
of money (Uh! I spent itƒ) but don't expect him to give offer the tiniest
whiff of a solution. Q: My apartment is a mess Ü what shall I do about
it? A: Have you thought about moving? The kind of moronic, crass garbage
the Internet does best.
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http://www.morestuff.com/
Starting from the principle that one only needs two tools in life: WD40
to make things go and duct tape to make them stopî, this superb site
is split up into two sections - WD40 and duct tape! It's really worth heading
there yourself, to check out how well this works. One trip to see some of
the smartest links on the Web, and you can bet your life you'll be hooked.
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http://www.cris.com/~markr/roommate.shtml
Quite possibly the best way to annoy your roommate would be to keep
reloading this page until you have accessed all 500 ways to annoy your roommate
and them to read them aloud as you go through them one by one.
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http://www.yeeeoww.com
Crap Web puns and top 'toon spoofs litter the leary lampooning pages
of Yeeeoww!!!. Home to infamous Yahoo take-off, Yecch!!!, and smartarse
digital doctor, Senor CPU, who slags off your Windows worries, laughs at
Power Losers and generally ignores any computer problems that you care to
submit. New thing Ü why not stagger through Yeeeoww's messy 3D office
space? If your idea of fun is making jokes about the tortoise-like properties
of Java then Yeeeoww!!! has laughs aplenty. Yawn!
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http://www.unn.ac.uk/~dex7/101.htm
Nicked by light entertainment producers from Big Brotherish nightmare
1984, Room 101 is no longer a form of Orwellian state torture but a TV hell
for celebrity personal pet hates! In slacker student fashion, David Shields
has bequeathed a place on the Net for consigning unwanted objects and dislikes
to. Internet's suggestion Ü the lovable Nick Hancock, rogueish presenter
of They Think It's All Over and, you betcha, Room 101 (tee-hee!).
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http://www.ducksbreath.com/
Smartarse answers from a nellie know-all in a white coat, Dr Science
supplies comedy explanations to some of life's little mysteries. Is there
life after death? Why do we have gums? Dr Science is actually the star of
a daily syndicated radio show and these pages are an attempt to promote
his personality on the Internet. As well as reading past questions, you
can submit your own and his accumulated wisdom can also be delivered via
a mailing list. The accompanying merchandise suggests that Dr Science is
less an industry, more a money-grabbing buffoon. Is that unfair?
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http://www.pixi.com/~owens/bored.html
Stare at the back of someone's head until they turn round, watch TV,
repeat everything said in an Italian accent, get yourself as nauseated as
possible and burn things with a magnifying glass. 101 stupifying things
to do and, if all else fails visit this page.
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http://www.londonmall.co.uk/comedy/
Two-page document for tourists detailing the line-up of laugh-a-minute
comics treading the boards nightly at the Comedy Store, a venue famous for
side-splitting mayhem in London's glittering West End. A map, directions
and the number of the credit card hotline but, unsurprisingly, no prices.
Although you're guaranteed a good night out with the likes of Sean Meo,
Jim Sweeney, Lee Hurst and Alistair McGowan etc, it's a bit of a tourist
clichÚ to go, get drunk and heckle. Any Americans in tonight?
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http://www.cheme.cornell.edu:80/~slevine/
Based on the principal of 'two men enter, one man leaves', Grudge Match
sets celebrities up against each other and then punters mail their opinion
poll-like results. Past contenders have included Forrest Gump v Rainman,
Death Star v Enterprise, Terminator v Predator and Flipper v Jaws (Flipper
won!).
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http://www.new3.com/riddle/
This is a tough, brainteasy riddle that changes each day. The riddles
are often irritable little puzzles or quasi-questions demanding a school-type
encyclopoedic knowledge. Prizes are on offer and as correct entries come
in they are counted and posted on the page. This way you know how hard it
is but not the correct answer, for that you have to check the next day.
Thing is, there's this extraordinarily annoying person called MaryGail Mefford
of Huntsville, Alabama and she keeps getting it right. So please, sort her
out and submit your own answers (correct of course) and spoil MaryGail's
day!
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http://www.gigaplex.com/wow/homepage.htm
Long-time lifestyle and leisure favourite for those in the Internet
know! The Gigaplex has gradually turned itself into a dedicated pleasure
palace. Aside from the celebfest of features in the Filmplex, the TVplex
and even the Musicplex, golf, yoga, food, love, sex, puzzles and travel
have all been added to the multi-media-mad experience. Ever heard of too
much of a good thing?
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http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~omri/humor-sites.html
Can't say it sounds like a whole lotta laughs compiling a list like
this, but somebody went and did it. Presumably your friends would need a
sense of humour if you spent your spare time doing this, or maybe you didn't
start out with any friends in the first place.
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http://www.xe.com/htbin/nph-abuse
You eat stuff you find in the catbox, you butt-sniffing, lapping, squid-corrupting,
discognizan of an obese marathon runner. Just one example of the kind of
verbal sado-masochism this site generates.
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http://www.pigweb.com
Fact: the word pig is always funny Ü until you examine this site,
that is. An all too familiar mix of jokes, news, cartoons and art which
may appeal to some but would, in this instance, be better off turned into
bacon. Oink, oink!
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http://www.ts.umu.se/~spaceman/camera.html
Net nosey parkers now have a whole page of NetCam links so they can
peek and pry at what's going on all over the world. Find out what Matthew
gets up to in his front room in Sydney, Australia, or check out the babes
on the beach in Santa Monica, USA. It's not that interesting.
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http://www-csag.cs.uiuc.edu/individual/pakin/complaint
A highly entertaining half-hour may be spent feeding the names of your
worst enemies into Scott's little site. State name, sex and how many paragraphs
you want and a nasty little letter is drafted explaining why this person
pisses you off. The machine makes it up but, spookily, it sometimes rings
true!
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http://www.math.unh.edu/~black/cgi-bin/ouija.cgi
Play it with friends or on your own for some randomly ridiculous occult
antics.
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http://www.redstar.com/~chris/snort.html
So cute you have to find out for yourself!
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http://www.flavour.co.uk/flavour/wildfruit
As a celebration of the most successful gay one-nighter on the South
Coast, Wild Fruit has put up a load of party-type information to coincide
with its third birthday. There's information on forthcoming events, Wild
Fruit club nights across the UK and a report from the Alternative Miss Brighton.
Bright and breezy, sassy and sleazy!
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http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Visualization/contrib/cs418-sp94/cs418.html
The clever computer science students at Cornell University have put
up some of their spring semester MPEG projects, created using an IBM Data
Explorer. All quite jolly but unfortunately there are some pretty big files
which take a helluva time to download.
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http://www.mindspring.com/~labrams/a2stuff.htm
Starting from the principle that one only needs two tools in life: WD40
to make things go and duct tape to make them stopî, this superb site
is split up into two sections - WD40 and duct tape! It's really worth heading
there yourself, to check out how well this works. One trip to see some of
the smartest links on the Web, and you can bet your life you'll be hooked.
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http://www.beholder.co.uk
Cartoons on the Web are often a waste of time. You spend thirty seconds
waiting for a strip to download and three seconds to read it and laugh.
Beholder Graphics have created a cartoon fairytale based on the interactive
principle of clicking on characters to find out their thoughts. This is
probably a bit slow for the Pepsi generation, as working out the plot takes
a bit of patience, but if you want to know what happens to The Concuspidor
and Phlegm the Pelican, look no further.
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http://www.dnai.com/~sharrow/parody.html
There's already a collection of real adverts to look at here, but these
marketing mischief-makers are looking for anyone with a scanner, a sense
of humour and a spiteful dislike of an ad. In the wake of all the Absolut
spoofs, they're looking for lots more.
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http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/
If you're the kind of person who buys a paper for the cartoon on the
back page and spends the whole morning saying to your mates, with a silly
grin, 'here, read this' and chuckling to yourself, then, yippee, this site
is for you. A whole page of silly strips including Peanuts, Robotman, The
Born Loser and Committed. Saves you getting the scissors and out and leaving
an annoying hole in the newspaper.
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http://www.eclipse.co.uk/cgi-bin/getvid
Okay, you're stuck in your room, glued to the screen, shoulders aching
a bit and that funny twitching thing happening to your eyes. Don't take
a screen break, type in the above URL. Camera connected to the Internet
alert...Rougement Gardens, Exeter, Devon. Ahhhhh, peace. Gets a bit busier
around lunch.
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http://www.wavelinx.com/internuts/
A humorous and entertaining on-going saga of serial fiction, Monday
through to Friday...featuring the Email evangelists and Madonna's baby's
father Ü from a bunch of cyber-savvy college students.
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http://silver.ucs.indiana.edu/~bquick/drgames.html
No explanation needed really...take your pick of game, say for examples
sake Beverly Hills 90210 or maybe Ren And Stimpy. Then use it as an excuse
to get completely off your face.
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~vonb/iz/izzard.html
OK, so Vic and Bob are the new Morecambe and Wise, Lee Evans is Norman
Wisdom...Eddie Izzard isn't the new anyone at all. He's just plain funny,
kind of surreal and also Britain's best loved transvestite.This touchingly
sweet tribute to all things Eddie (life stuff, links to 'tv' sites and reviews
of his straight roles) is a wonderful example of the kind of adoration he
inspires. Sort of groovy in an Eddie Izzard kind of a way.
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http://www.best.com/~dglazer/murder/
Fabulous Fresno Freaks Festival, 1975: piece together the clues from
eyewitness accounts, newspaper cuttings and forgotten forensic evidence.
Who killed Emily C Play?
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http://www.thespot.com/
Jeff, Cassie, Tara, Lon, Michelle and Spotnik the dog share this big
beach house in Malibu. Every day a couple of 'em log on and let us know
what's been going on in their lives. It's like Models Inc meets MTV's The
Real World, Melrose Place meets The Living Soap. Pages packed with gloss
and glamour to the max but no, it's not real. To be continued...
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http://dave.mis.semi.harris.com/home.html
Another in the long line of machine-type things connected to the Internet.
Let's all page Dave.
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http://iu.net/tshaw/trs/HiddenMickey.html
Hidden Mickeys started out as inside jokes by the Walt Disney people
who design the Disney attractions, the Imagineers. The round head-two ears
silhouette image of Mickey is concealed in the design of Disney attractions
and it's up to you to seek them out. That is, unless you have this list.
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http://www.crc.ricoh.com/~marcush/lightbulb/random.cgi
Yes, there's one every 10 seconds.
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http://www.gigaplex.com/wow/books/bob/index.htm
Pages devoted entirely to blokes called Bob. It's a kind of a celebration
of the ultimate ordinary guy Ü all American Bobs, Bobs in advertising,
The Quotable Bob, No Bob, Kentucky... Whatever happened to good old fashioned
Robert?
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http://www.netgen.com/~mkgray/autopilot.html
Shagged out from all that surfing? Developing signs of RSI? Autopilot
tells your browser to reload a new specially selected random home page every
12 seconds, allowing you to sit back and watch the Web go by. Uh-oh, you
may have the wrong browser as it uses the new client pull feature of Netscape
1.1.
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http://www.demon.co.uk/blueplanet
Put your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care. Blue
Planet's stormin' selection of stuff from the UK's music and clubscene is
well up to scratch and worth a look if you're into going out. Club listings
are from up and down the country and range from handbag to hardcore. The
latest tunes and dancefloor favourites are reviewed, alongside charts from
the likes of Terry Farley and the Chemical Brothers. A good time was had
by all.
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http://www.clubnet.co.uk
Brewery promo and pub club territory plus Ceasar The Geezer's vitriolic
home page.
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http://krusty.eecs.umich.edu/people/nielsen/penn-n-teller.html
While, regrettably, the Penn and Teller input here is fairly minimal,
it has enough links to other magic and entertainment sites, including other
Penn and Teller exhibits, to make it worth the visit. Although, you can't
email the duo directly, it does offer a forwarding service.
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http://inls.ucsd.edu/y/OhBoy/randomjump1.html
Go blindly where ye have not been before.
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http://www.inforamp.net:80/cc/
Setting up an online casino in the Bahamas, where punters can gamble
real money, may appear to be a potential goldmine project, but what happens
when your customers live where gambling's illegal, where will the trade
take place? This gambling den has no membership or dress regulations, and
they'll even sponsor your Internet access if you promise them enough business.
Even if it doesn't get off the ground, it will affect the future of international
online trade.
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http://www.eskimo.com/~irving/web-voyeur/
Spend a night peeping through the Net's many cameras, then go to bed
safe in the knowledge that you've sat with pioneers at the very cutting
edge of technology. Now, tick that off the list and get on with your life.
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http://www.ucalgary.ca
Student's home pages don't come much more dedicated than this Chinese
visual smorgasbord from the University of Calgary.
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http://www.cs.uit.no/~paalde/Revenge/index.html
There'll be no more Mr Nice Guy once you've paid a visit to this armoury
of extreme nastiness. Much of it is compiled from the archives of the Usenet
group alt.revenge, the definitive meeting place for suburban terrorists.
There are some vicious programs to foul hard drives and annoy your sysop,
things to do before you quit your job, school pranks and oodles of treacherous
anecdotes about getting even. John Steed would never stoop this low.
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http://www.paddynet.ie/
This Dublin-based online service is a combined effort of over 25 international
Web weavers. It's being sponsored by the black brew to provide a place for
Irish creatives to air their works. In line with Guinness' general marketing
plan, expect obtusity and sparkle at every turn.
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http://www.ora.com:8080/cgi-bin/ora/arnie
Each time you reload you are greeted with a fresh Arnie-ism and a chance
to submit your own.
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http://www.metawire.com/stars/
Free forecasts for each star sign are posted here daily, but to get
personal and yearly charts you'll need to send money.
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http://www.dircon.co.uk/networks/stars.html
Look here for weekly updated astrological predictions, astrology FAQs
and links to other soothsayers. There's still no forecast for the thirteenth
sign.
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http://ftp.std.com/homepages/stevec/index1.html
This set of very original and often funny gags contains more sophisticated
irony than most sites of this genre.
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http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~werdna/fun.html
This is a clever interactive one-at-a-time purveyor of quotes from such
sources as Dan Quayle, Dr Who, Webster's, Zippy and your mum.
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http://www.rl.af.mil:8001/Odds-n-Ends/sbcam/rlsbcam.html
Try your luck throwing virtual snowballs at Rome Laboratory's engineers.
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http://www.umd.umich.edu/~nhughes/htmldocs/pracjokes.html
This collection of larks and laughs at others' expense has been compiled
from the Usenet archives of alt.shenanigans
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http://postcards.www.media.mit.edu/Postcards/
This is a novel way to send a groovy e-postcard. Instead of mailing
the actual postcard the server emails a Pin number which is then used to
collect the card from the site's pick-up window.
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http://ttsw.com/MainQuiltingPage.html
Want to make your own quilt? This site should answer all your questions
and point you to designs and fabric sources.
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http://infopages.com/card/
Compete for the tackiest virtual Valentine or greeting card, with this
ingenious step-by-step online art studio.
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http://turnpike.net/mirsky/Worst.html
If your page turned up here, you think you'd have to be doing something
very wrong. Well not necessarily. While some of Mirsky's choices are genuine
shockers, others are actually quite entertaining in their ineptitude. Not
knowing until you get there makes it something of a lucky dip. In fact,
it's worth a spot in your bookmarks.
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http://sp1.berkeley.edu/findthespam.html
There are many sad people who find the tinned, spiced, reconstituted
pig offcuts known as Spam an endless vehicle for ridicule and amusement.
If you are one of them, this page is for you. You can even add your own
spammatical witticism to its bulletin board.
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http://fishwrap.mit.edu/News/AskJoe/AskJoe.html
You can ask Joe anything, and ,if he feels like it, this MIT chemistry
student will answer. You can read past questions and answers in the archives
to make your own judgment on his competence.
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http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/ticket_office.html
Here's a refreshing alternative to the usual hot site theme park, presented
by the US Library of Congress. You can jump aboard a virtual bus to tour
exhibits of the Vatican, Soviet archives, European exploration of the Americas,
Dead Sea Scrolls, Museum of Paleontology and the city of Spalato. After
all that, you're dropped off at the Expo Restaurant to sample its daily
masterpieces of French cuisine.
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http://cathouse.org:8000/BritishComedy/
You can find links here to a multitude of, mostly British, comedy archives
and sites around the Web, featuring acts such as the Goons, Alan Partridge,
Absolutely Fabulous, Bottom, Blackadder, Carry On films, Douglas Adams and
Ben Elton. This site is also home to the Britcomedy Digest, an e-zine devoted
to past and present British humour.
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http://www.easynet.co.uk/pages/cafe/cafe.htm
This is the home page of the UK's first CybercafÚ, featuring
loads of links to fun spots such as art galleries, astrological forecasts,
cool sites, museums, film databases, music pages, UK guides, a virtual nightclub,
sports pages, campaigns and even a dating agency. This ultra-hip cafÚ
located in the heart of London's West End, is an ideal place to connect
directly to the Internet at 64k, without the costly overhead. If you can't
make it down to Cyberia in person, look in the guide to cybercafÚs
around the world. Maybe there's one opening near you soon.
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http://www.misty.com/laughweb
Humour of all sorts, even quips about Intel's Pentium mishap.
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http://www.connect.org.uk/lottery/
Everything you need to know about the UK lottery Ü statistics,
winning numbers, draw details, numerical analysis and instructions. Everything,
that is, except the only thing that matters.
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http://utis179.cs.utwente.nl:8001/say
Enter your profanity, hit return and wait for the response to be automatically
launched by your sound player for the mirth all within earshot. Try spelling
words phonetically for greater success.
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http://www.lysator.liu.se/mit-guide/mit-guide.html
Thanks to the great minds at MIT, an indispensible illustrated lock-picking
guide for potential felons. They laughed when I told them I was learning
to burgle, but when they came home...
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http://www.links.net
Almost every link from this popular and well-maintained site is worth
a look. There's a focus on the clandestine, the visual and the bizarre.
There are simple instructions on how to publish your own page and even advice
on how to hack HTML. If you're looking for the most twisted sites on the
Web, Justin's choice of The Weird, The Wild and The Wonderful is a fine
place to dive in.
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http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/~ta/creative.html
This is a major source of information about pop culture, with extensive
sections on music and television. The Complete TV Guide includes the 'Ultimate
TV List' which contains more than 135 links to information about 35 television
series. The best coverage is, unsurprisingly, devoted to Star Trek, with
The Simpsons and Married With Children following close behind. The lists
include newsgroups, mailing lists and Web pages. The 'Ultimate Band List'
offers more than 752 links to information about 177 bands. There's also
what's claimed to be the Internet's 'hottest music links'. Try them and
see if you agree.
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http://www.cityscape.co.uk/cyber-town/index.html
This home page to fun and interesting sites on the Net points you to
places that are exotic, like the Gates of Darkness, or educational, like
the Louvre. It's a useful place to learn more about the Internet and a good
page for recreational use.
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http://cybersight.com/
A great arty home page with a friendly groovy feel. There are links
to favoured and unfavoured sites, chat forums, games, trivia, as well as
all sorts of opinion polls.
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