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Backto 1997 EDUCATIONAL LINKS... by Nanis
http://www.cs.brown.edu/fun/bawp
These pages have the rather dubious aim of recreating theexperience of live poetry readings, by downloading recordings.It's not hard to live up to the claim of 'best quality' when youhave no competition. Should another come online this might verywell be redubbed 'worst'.
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http://www-lego.mit.edu/~lego/
Grown up, hi-tech grappling with perfectly formed pre-schoolplastic bricks. Check some examples and then commence your ownconstruction. 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 dojustice to the umpteen examples of gloriously crass commercialismand fake, nasty, plastic re-enactments of the recent past thatexist in the mythic theme park that is Americana today (see the60 foot statue of Mr Jolly Green Giant). You can do better thanthis.
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http://www.dailywav.com/
Sometimes you come across an online nugget and providedyou're audio-plugged, this site's a treasure trove. Everyweekday, a new .wav file is supplied free for yourlistening/downloading pleasure.î You can post requests, too atweekends. At 30K a hit, you don't have long to wait to samplesuch as Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future, little piggyBabe, the late great Bogart, Jessica Rabbit, Peter Gabriel, orGroucho Marx in Duck Soup, declaiming I've got a good mind tojoin 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 pokylittle cinema, select a film and start to download it inQuicktime VR. It's quicker than saving an actual film clip anddoesn't really take long, so when it's ready to play, drag anddrop the image over the cinema screen. It's not like visiting thelocal Odeon but a good little gimmick for showcasing 'real' imageVR. The page also has a link so you can download the player ifyou haven't already got it and a link to a company called AxisImages who, one presumes, are the people who stitch all thephotographs 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 onthe Web. Having been around since May 94 it's good to see thatsome of The Asylum's original and inspired ideas haveendured...like The Revolving Door (add a URL, delete a URL for aneverchanging hotlist). Inmates continue to assemble as acommunity around its hair-brained schemes, posting jokes,'funnies', pictures and lunatic opinions. This is one of thoseplaces that will send you spinning off somewhere equally sillyand it's ether for those with a lot of patience or those withdisturbed minds.
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http://www.clubguide.com/
Proving that every night is clubland night, the SoumianMultimedia Club Guide offers a list of hot London nightspots witha breakdown on where to go and where to be seen. Pulsatingspeakers and photographs of inebriates, capture the essence ofthe club scene and there are some sweaty movie clips to download.It suggests using a movie viewer called Sparkle but this isnotoriously difficult to get hold of and isn't really neccessary- just get yourself a copy of ActiveX. The site is currentlyhosting a multimedia exhibition. Entitled Streets Ahead, but withno digital imagery yet available this is at present more of acul-de-sac.
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http://imusic.com/Paperdoll/
Betty is the digital equivalent of a cut-and-paste paperdoll. Dress her up or dress her down but, er, her wardrobe leavesa 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 isonly an ad for a sick American boardgame with details on how toorder it. The aim of the game is for players to cross offregistered roadkill whenever they're on the highway taking atrip. Totally pointless if you're on the motorway outsideBirmingham 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 'magiceight-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 tellsyou the answer, use it as an excuse to go for a drink to, in thisparticular example, drown your sorrows. That Bob he's got avicious 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 intheir magazine Grand Royal, the Mullet, a term coined to describea crap, short at the sides, long at the back haircut, has been oneverybody's lips (hence Michael Bolton: the man, the music, themagic...the mullet). The date 14 February has been declaredInternational Mullet Day by those offended by this hideoushalf-crop fashion offensive. If you're the type of person thathasn't grown out of saying 'Kevin Keegan' every time you see abubble perm, then you'll love this. Keep your eyes peeled, kidsÜ mullet ahoy!
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http://www.pythonline.com
Take a tour around the Python site, escorted by theplumptious Daphne, your all-nude tour operator. It's a ratherspiffing site with a healthy sprinkling of surreal humour andInternet piss-taking. Join the Spam Club and impress the girls ordownload Abuse, the most un-user friendly software on theInternet. You can chat with like-minded Pythonies in the ChitChat section and enjoy spoof chat sessions where Princess Dimakes an unexpected entrance into the Chat room, closely followedby 21 Sun reporters. Each Python member also has a specificsection where they get to be bitchy about the other members. Ofcourse there's more than a fair share of Python merchandising forthe real fanatics.
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http://www.madmind.com
Yet another online soap - but with a difference. This oneclaims to be 'a psychological thriller that plumbs the mysteriousdepths of the consciousness'. Cripes! When you enter the siteyou're invited to assume the character of Madeleine, a youngwoman whose scientist father has been murdered. Although the siteclaims to be an episodic series, it's more of a cross between aTV series and a role playing game. One word of warning, you needto have both Shockwave and Netscape Navigator 2.0 to join in thefun.
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http://www.sf-fantasy.com
Hologram Tales claims to be the poorest paid science fictionmagazine in the world. Its easy to see why no one wants to putany money in, the site looks awful. Too much text, and appallingnavigation are just some of its problems. What's lacking in looksis made up somewhat with its content. This is one SF place on theInternet which covers more than just the X-files and Star Trek(see To Boldly Go). Ultimately though it will be visited bypeople 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 performanceart, goo is one of those indefinable messy sites full ofundecipherable poems, meaningless pictures, singalong sound filesand obsene ansaphone messages. Quite how the mind that createdthis site works is beyond all comprehension, but one of the joysof the World Wide Web is rummaging around in other people'sclosets and opening up trap doors. More interesting than thesticky 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 oldwomen who travel to Las Vegas every year to blow their (verylarge) personal allowances. The Gambler's Book Club has been openfor 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 matterof 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'sincluded because it gives you robot control over magnification,colour, image enhancement and brightness and you can point at thephoto to direct the zoom. As with all these cameras, thetechnology is impressive, but there's nothing worth looking atwhen 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 theCyberwalk. Here movie buffs can plan their future video watchingwith a listing from the personalised movie database, or watch anexclusive films preview in the VIP room. Music fans are alsocatered for, the site allows you to sample music from a number ofrecord labels such as Geffen. MCA and Radioactive. There's alsothe Universal Channel which features production notes and episodeguides on TV series such as Dream On. Finally, if that not enoughfor you multimedia manias, there's a tour of Universal Studios inHollywood, the one with the Back to the Future ride. With amountain load of material, lots of graphics, and high productionvalues this sight should keep your attention for more than a fewhours.
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http://www.cybersonik.com
A comprehensive gig and club listings guide for punters andpromoters alike, but onlt for those who know their hard housefrom the acid house, their garage from their grunge. Replete witheye-grabbing graphics, many aspects of the site such as theclubwear and records shopping guide are still under constructionbut promise great things when the site is complete and potentialsponsorship deals finalised. Most innovative of all, however, isa cybersniffer search engine to pinpoint your fave DJ or musictype across the country's venues. For the dedicated clubber anessential guide, for the casual observer a site as exclusive andcliquey 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 ofThe Spot and The Squat, but claims to be interactive allowing youto chat away with the regulars at the club. Yippee! Very Americanthough and so some of the humour is lost on us Brits. PersonallyI'd rather go down to the Queen Vic and have a chat in fluentgruff with Phil and Grant.
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http://www.carrottop.com/
The clues are all there Ü a shameless plug for Carrot Top onthe Cartoon Network and a show that looks a bit like TimmyMallet's seminal Saturday morning programme The Wide Awake Clubcalled A.m. Mayhem! This guy's a personality, perhaps a comedianand he has ginger hair! In fact, his spirally red mop top hair ishis gimmick. It makes him look like a mad Mick Hucknall andpretty goofy at the same time. He eats Tang and Pop Tarts forbreakfast and his Dad is a retired NASA scientist. This is hisworld, a rather barmy mix of music, film, food reviews andabsurdly funny jokes. Join his carrotopia and become acarrothead.
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http://www.echonyc.com/~spingo/Mr.BA/
Quite the most pointless and ridiculous way to pass the timebetween lunch and going home. Ask Mr Bad Advice to help out withyour hygeine problems, tardy slacker boyfriend, argumentative bigmouth boss or perennial lack of money (Uh! I spent itƒ) butdon'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: Haveyou thought about moving? The kind of moronic, crass garbage theInternet does best.
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http://www.morestuff.com/
Starting from the principle that one only needs two tools inlife: WD40 to make things go and duct tape to make them stopî,this superb site is split up into two sections - WD40 and ducttape! It's really worth heading there yourself, to check out howwell this works. One trip to see some of the smartest links onthe 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 beto keep reloading this page until you have accessed all 500 waysto annoy your roommate and them to read them aloud as you gothrough them one by one.
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http://www.yeeeoww.com
Crap Web puns and top 'toon spoofs litter the learylampooning pages of Yeeeoww!!!. Home to infamous Yahoo take-off,Yecch!!!, and smartarse digital doctor, Senor CPU, who slags offyour Windows worries, laughs at Power Losers and generallyignores any computer problems that you care to submit. New thingÜ why not stagger through Yeeeoww's messy 3D office space? Ifyour idea of fun is making jokes about the tortoise-likeproperties 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 Brotherishnightmare 1984, Room 101 is no longer a form of Orwellian statetorture but a TV hell for celebrity personal pet hates! Inslacker student fashion, David Shields has bequeathed a place onthe Net for consigning unwanted objects and dislikes to.Internet's suggestion Ü the lovable Nick Hancock, rogueishpresenter 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, DrScience supplies comedy explanations to some of life's littlemysteries. Is there life after death? Why do we have gums? DrScience is actually the star of a daily syndicated radio show andthese pages are an attempt to promote his personality on theInternet. As well as reading past questions, you can submit yourown and his accumulated wisdom can also be delivered via amailing list. The accompanying merchandise suggests that DrScience is less an industry, more a money-grabbing buffoon. Isthat 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, getyourself as nauseated as possible and burn things with amagnifying glass. 101 stupifying things to do and, if all elsefails visit this page.
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http://www.londonmall.co.uk/comedy/
Two-page document for tourists detailing the line-up oflaugh-a-minute comics treading the boards nightly at the ComedyStore, a venue famous for side-splitting mayhem in London'sglittering West End. A map, directions and the number of thecredit card hotline but, unsurprisingly, no prices. Althoughyou'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 atourist clichÚ to go, get drunk and heckle. Any Americans intonight?
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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 thenpunters mail their opinion poll-like results. Past contendershave 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. Theriddles are often irritable little puzzles or quasi-questionsdemanding a school-type encyclopoedic knowledge. Prizes are onoffer and as correct entries come in they are counted and postedon the page. This way you know how hard it is but not the correctanswer, for that you have to check the next day. Thing is,there's this extraordinarily annoying person called MaryGailMefford of Huntsville, Alabama and she keeps getting it right. Soplease, sort her out and submit your own answers (correct ofcourse) 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 theInternet know! The Gigaplex has gradually turned itself into adedicated pleasure palace. Aside from the celebfest of featuresin the Filmplex, the TVplex and even the Musicplex, golf, yoga,food, love, sex, puzzles and travel have all been added to themulti-media-mad experience. Ever heard of too much of a goodthing?
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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 alist like this, but somebody went and did it. Presumably yourfriends would need a sense of humour if you spent your spare timedoing this, or maybe you didn't start out with any friends in thefirst 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 marathonrunner. Just one example of the kind of verbal sado-masochismthis site generates.
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http://www.pigweb.com
Fact: the word pig is always funny Ü until you examine thissite, that is. An all too familiar mix of jokes, news, cartoonsand art which may appeal to some but would, in this instance, bebetter 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 sothey can peek and pry at what's going on all over the world. Findout 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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A highly entertaining half-hour may be spent feeding thenames of your worst enemies into Scott's little site. State name,sex and how many paragraphs you want and a nasty little letter isdrafted explaining why this person pisses you off. The machinemakes 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 randomlyridiculous 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 onthe South Coast, Wild Fruit has put up a load of party-typeinformation to coincide with its third birthday. There'sinformation on forthcoming events, Wild Fruit club nights acrossthe UK and a report from the Alternative Miss Brighton. Brightand breezy, sassy and sleazy!
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The clever computer science students at Cornell Universityhave put up some of their spring semester MPEG projects, createdusing an IBM Data Explorer. All quite jolly but unfortunatelythere are some pretty big files which take a helluva time todownload.
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http://www.mindspring.com/~labrams/a2stuff.htm
Starting from the principle that one only needs two tools inlife: WD40 to make things go and duct tape to make them stopî,this superb site is split up into two sections - WD40 and ducttape! It's really worth heading there yourself, to check out howwell this works. One trip to see some of the smartest links onthe 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 spendthirty seconds waiting for a strip to download and three secondsto read it and laugh. Beholder Graphics have created a cartoonfairytale based on the interactive principle of clicking oncharacters to find out their thoughts. This is probably a bitslow for the Pepsi generation, as working out the plot takes abit of patience, but if you want to know what happens to TheConcuspidor 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 ascanner, a sense of humour and a spiteful dislike of an ad. Inthe wake of all the Absolut spoofs, they're looking for lotsmore.
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http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/
If you're the kind of person who buys a paper for the cartoonon the back page and spends the whole morning saying to yourmates, with a silly grin, 'here, read this' and chuckling toyourself, then, yippee, this site is for you. A whole page ofsilly strips including Peanuts, Robotman, The Born Loser andCommitted. Saves you getting the scissors and out and leaving anannoying 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 happeningto 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 andMadonna's baby's father Ü from a bunch of cyber-savvy collegestudents.
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http://silver.ucs.indiana.edu/~bquick/drgames.html
No explanation needed really...take your pick of game, sayfor 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 Evansis Norman Wisdom...Eddie Izzard isn't the new anyone at all. He'sjust plain funny, kind of surreal and also Britain's best lovedtransvestite.This touchingly sweet tribute to all things Eddie(life stuff, links to 'tv' sites and reviews of his straightroles) is a wonderful example of the kind of adoration heinspires. 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 theclues from eyewitness accounts, newspaper cuttings and forgottenforensic evidence. Who killed Emily C Play?
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http://www.thespot.com/
Jeff, Cassie, Tara, Lon, Michelle and Spotnik the dog sharethis big beach house in Malibu. Every day a couple of 'em log onand let us know what's been going on in their lives. It's likeModels Inc meets MTV's The Real World, Melrose Place meets TheLiving Soap. Pages packed with gloss and glamour to the max butno, 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 tothe 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 Disneypeople who design the Disney attractions, the Imagineers. Theround head-two ears silhouette image of Mickey is concealed inthe design of Disney attractions and it's up to you to seek themout. That is, unless you have this list.
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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 acelebration 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 selectedrandom home page every 12 seconds, allowing you to sit back andwatch the Web go by. Uh-oh, you may have the wrong browser as ituses 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'tcare. Blue Planet's stormin' selection of stuff from the UK'smusic and clubscene is well up to scratch and worth a look ifyou're into going out. Club listings are from up and down thecountry and range from handbag to hardcore. The latest tunes anddancefloor favourites are reviewed, alongside charts from thelikes of Terry Farley and the Chemical Brothers. A good time washad by all.
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http://www.clubnet.co.uk
Brewery promo and pub club territory plus Ceasar The Geezer'svitriolic home page.
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While, regrettably, the Penn and Teller input here is fairlyminimal, it has enough links to other magic and entertainmentsites, including other Penn and Teller exhibits, to make it worththe visit. Although, you can't email the duo directly, it doesoffer 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 cangamble real money, may appear to be a potential goldmine project,but what happens when your customers live where gambling'sillegal, where will the trade take place? This gambling denhas no membership or dress regulations, and they'll even sponsoryour Internet access if you promise them enough business. Even ifit doesn't get off the ground, it will affect the future ofinternational online trade.
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http://www.eskimo.com/~irving/web-voyeur/
Spend a night peeping through the Net's many cameras, then goto bed safe in the knowledge that you've sat with pioneers at thevery cutting edge of technology. Now, tick that off the list andget on with your life.
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http://www.ucalgary.ca
Student's home pages don't come much more dedicated than thisChinese 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 tothis armoury of extreme nastiness. Much of it is compiled fromthe archives of the Usenet group alt.revenge, the definitivemeeting place for suburban terrorists. There are some viciousprograms to foul hard drives and annoy your sysop, things to dobefore you quit your job, school pranks and oodles of treacherousanecdotes about getting even. John Steed would never stoop thislow.
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http://www.paddynet.ie/
This Dublin-based online service is a combined effort of over25 international Web weavers. It's being sponsored by the blackbrew to provide a place for Irish creatives to air their works.In line with Guinness' general marketing plan, expect obtusityand 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-ismand 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, butto 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 noforecast 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 moresophisticated 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 quotesfrom such sources as Dan Quayle, Dr Who, Webster's, Zippy andyour mum.
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Try your luck throwing virtual snowballs at Rome Laboratory'sengineers.
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This collection of larks and laughs at others' expense hasbeen 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 ofmailing the actual postcard the server emails a Pin number whichis 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 yourquestions 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 doingsomething very wrong. Well not necessarily. While some ofMirsky's choices are genuine shockers, others are actually quiteentertaining in their ineptitude. Not knowing until you get theremakes it something of a lucky dip. In fact, it's worth a spot inyour 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 forridicule and amusement. If you are one of them, this page is foryou. You can even add your own spammatical witticism to itsbulletin 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 MITchemistry student will answer. You can read past questions andanswers in the archives to make your own judgment on hiscompetence.
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http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/ticket_office.html
Here's a refreshing alternative to the usual hot site themepark, presented by the US Library of Congress. You can jumpaboard a virtual bus to tour exhibits of the Vatican, Sovietarchives, 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 dailymasterpieces 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 asthe Goons, Alan Partridge, Absolutely Fabulous, Bottom,Blackadder, Carry On films, Douglas Adams and Ben Elton. Thissite is also home to the Britcomedy Digest, an e-zine devoted topast 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, featuringloads of links to fun spots such as art galleries, astrologicalforecasts, cool sites, museums, film databases, music pages, UKguides, a virtual nightclub, sports pages, campaigns and even adating agency. This ultra-hip cafÚ located in the heart ofLondon's West End, is an ideal place to connect directly to theInternet at 64k, without the costly overhead. If you can't makeit down to Cyberia in person, look in the guide to cybercafÚsaround 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 Üstatistics, winning numbers, draw details, numerical analysis andinstructions. Everything, that is, except the only thing thatmatters.
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http://utis179.cs.utwente.nl:8001/say
Enter your profanity, hit return and wait for the response tobe automatically launched by your sound player for the mirth allwithin earshot. Try spelling words phonetically for greatersuccess.
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http://www.lysator.liu.se/mit-guide/mit-guide.html
Thanks to the great minds at MIT, an indispensibleillustrated lock-picking guide for potential felons. They laughedwhen I told them I was learning to burgle, but when they camehome...
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http://www.links.net
Almost every link from this popular and well-maintained siteis worth a look. There's a focus on the clandestine, the visualand the bizarre. There are simple instructions on how to publishyour own page and even advice on how to hack HTML. If you'relooking for the most twisted sites on the Web, Justin's choice ofThe 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, withextensive sections on music and television. The Complete TV Guideincludes the 'Ultimate TV List' which contains more than 135links to information about 35 television series. The bestcoverage is, unsurprisingly, devoted to Star Trek, with TheSimpsons and Married With Children following close behind. Thelists include newsgroups, mailing lists and Web pages. The'Ultimate Band List' offers more than 752 links to informationabout 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 pointsyou to places that are exotic, like the Gates of Darkness, oreducational, like the Louvre. It's a useful place to learn moreabout 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 arelinks to favoured and unfavoured sites, chat forums, games,trivia, as well as all sorts of opinion polls.
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