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February 27, 2002
Lets jump right in this week with
The Puzzle Factory (http://www.thepuzzlefactory.com)
for the game nut in the house. They offer memory games, word games, coloring
books, arcade games, something called sliders, and, of course, puzzles. I got
lost in some of these addictive buggers the other day.
GOT SELF ESTEEM? Good, then your ready for
http://www.insults.net/index.html.
Along with a categorized collection on non-positive putdowns, they also have
quotes, grave epitaphs, a kids section (like growing up with zits isn't enough),
and a large selection of Shakespearean affronts. There's bound to be an occasion
where this site would have come in handy (family or class reunions come to
mind).
On a similar note, how about, believe it or not, a site devoted to the insults
heaped by Dr Smith on Robot from the old TV series LOST IN SPACE. Nuf said,
check it out at
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/3332/smith.html.
One that always seems to catch my eye, and is possibly the original version of
this on the net, The Speedtrap Site (http://www.speedtrap.com)
containing a searchable database which includes Lexington, though it doesn't
begin to cover all the spots they often sit. Perhaps you might enlighten them.
You know, I was sitting in my easy chair just the other day thinking to myself,
"Self, I KNOW all the Stooges have died, but are there any Little Rascals still
hanging on?" If only I'd known then that there was actually someone in the world
with enough time to compile a list of dead people. Yep, believe it, check out
The Dead Persons Server (http://dpsinfo.com/index.html)
and go out into the world secure in the knowledge that Keith Richards is
actually alive and two Beatles are gone (only the good die young...?).
Then there's The Head
Shop (http://users.rcn.com/cocopug/html/intro.html)
I'm not certain what this site is about, one can only make one's own judgment.
First impression? This guy should get a dog. By the way, I came across an
interesting link, Bob's School of Paralegal Studies and Sheetmetal Repair,
however, unfortunately I assume, it was broken (didn't work). Guess you've got
to move fast in that business.
Another site for which description escapes me,
Absurd.org (http://www.absurd.org/a.html).
It does provide some neat eye candy, though this is not for the faint of heart.
No, not gross, it just runs a small program in the opening that appears to be
opening hundreds of popup windows, which for the average computer user is quite
scary. On mine they all went away after about 10 to 15 seconds. I confess, after
all that, I still didn't figure out what the authors purpose was, except,
perhaps, to live up to his name.
The Martha Stewart Parody Page
(http://members.tripod.com/~MrsMegaByte/)
is my favorite this week, and yours I'll bet because, after all, (all together
now) "It's a good thing" (always wondered what she was talking about...). Yes
folks, here Martha, aka Mrs Megabyte, gives plenty of tips on everything you can
imagine, including 'You might be a bad cook if... you know dinner is ready when
the smoke alarm goes off' and my current preferred tip, 'Leftover crumbs make a
great replacement for kitty litter.'
In light of the recent Enron scandal, maybe you'd like to see what contributions
were given by major industries to your politicians. Go to
http://www.opensecrets.org/index.asp. Very interesting reading. I found
another interesting site, though I confess I've lost it for the moment, which
gives all the contributions above, I believe, $250 to even your state politicos.
I am, as of this reading, trying to find that link again, and, hopefully, will
include it in some future article.
And on that note...
As it turns out, the Arthur Anderson partner was on his cell phone when he said,
"Ship the Enron documents to the feds," but his Secretary heard, "Rip the Enron
documents to shreds." It was all just a case of bad cellular.
I have managed to get a first draft of all these links, and those of the past
articles, on a clickable website located at
http://surf.to/nethotspots. It's not completed entirely, though I have been
working diligently to work out the bugs and the articles and links should work,
though feel free to let me know about any broken links. Also, by all means, let
me know of any neat sites you may have come across ([email protected])
and I'll try to include them in future articles.
Until next we meet, my thought for the day: "If I can be of any help,... then
you're in pretty bad shape," or, "He does the work of three men: Larry, Curly
and Moe."
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