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| The Internet's Top Five | ||||||||
| Ah, the Internet, the adult playground of the information age.� Where else can one go to find anything one's heart desires?� Seriously folks, the Internet is the largest resource that has ever been available and continues to grow exponentially by the minute.� In this "dot-com" era with new websites and homepages springing up daily, it is amazing how some websites soar above and beyond the rest, and continue to entertain, educate, and titillate audiences.� As you may well know, I write this weekly article as a public service, and what better way to reward you, the reader, than with a little digital treat?� It is with this mindset that I present to you my top-five list of interesting, controversial, and downright absurd websites, all for your perusing pleasure. | ||||||||
| Number four on my list is a website that is dedicated to keeping a watchful eye on the master of "fictitiousness," Michael Moore.� This site, found at www.moorewatch.com, is a tool whose main purpose is to "debunk most of the nonsense Moore regularly puts forth as fact," and it does so extraordinarily well.� Updated daily, this site features hundreds of links to articles relating to the scum that is Michael Moore, as well as a message board where one can post one's own comments about Moore.� Any Michael Moore hater should bookmark this site right away. | ||||||||
| Coming in at number five on my list is a website known as www.illegal-art.org.� This unique website, which is dedicated to providing the viewer with "Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age," is where one can find random audio, video, and visual samples of certain risqu� (and sometimes banned) material.� The highlight of this website is a film entitled "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story," a not-so-politically-correct biography on the life and death of the same woman whose surname adorns our beloved Carpenter Center here at CSULB.� This film, which is acted entirely by Barbie dolls and features music of the Carpenters "used without permission," is a very disturbing portrayal of not only anorexia but also acceptance, and is a must-see, in my opinion.� Plus, as I said, it is acted entirely by Barbie dolls, so how can one go wrong? | ||||||||
| Clocking in at number three on the list is a website dedicated to one of the most versatile rappers/comics/geniuses that ever lived, Snoop Dogg.� This website, www.asksnoop.com, allows the user to type in the address of any website on the net, and through the magic of "Tha Shizzolator," it will translate all the text on the site of your choice to Snoop?s own hilarious lexicon.� Some favorite "shizzolated" sites of mine include www.cnn.com and www.whitehouse.gov. | ||||||||
| Missing first place by a narrow margin is www.hotornot.com, which allows viewers to see random pictures of girls or guys and rate them on a scale of one to ten, one being "NOT" and ten being "HOT." For the bitter among us (myself included) answer this question: what could be better than giving a hot girl or a hot guy a low score, as a sort of juvenile revenge for their never dating you in high school?� What better way to take out your frustration over the fickleness of the opposite sex?� Go ahead, my disciples, unleash your rage. | ||||||||
| Finally we come to the peak of our top-five list journey, the quintessential website that is, in my mind, number one.� This website I have mentioned before in previous articles, and I have had many a laugh while logged onto it.� It features more celebrity mug shots than you can shake a stick at, not to mention all the eyebrow-raising articles it features, as it "paves the paper trail."� Some of you probably already know what site this is, but for those whom do not, I present to you www.thesmokinggun.com, the number one website on my list.� Visit it, bookmark it, come back often for more, you will thank me later (by the way, I do accept checks and cash for this knowledge I have bestowed upon you). | ||||||||
| So there it is, my comprehensive (albeit sophomoric) list of websites that I love to visit.� Whether it is for a daily dose of absurdity, a laugh, or a gasp, I think you will agree that these websites are the cr�me-de-la-cr�me of the wackiness that is available only on the Internet.� Until next time, happy surfing! | ||||||||
| Copyright Gerry Wachovsky, 2003, and Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. | ||||||||
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