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by Mathew
Ingram
THE USELESS
Check out the Useless Pages... some in a good way, some in a bad way. Which are which? You decide. Uselessness is all in the eye of the beholder anyway. Includes the Useless Hall of Fame, featuring Kenny Z's CD list, the page that started it all.
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HILLBILLY HERCULES
This site has to be seen to be believed. Guerilla film-making at its best, with our hero rampaging through the streets of downtown Manhattan to save Athena (Goddess of Gymnastics), dodging cabs the whole way.
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JESUS PAGE
Yes, the Messiah has his own page. Check out his resume, which mostly covers his carpentry career. You can even be saved online (Warning: your blasphemy meter has to be set pretty high for this site).
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FLAMING TARTS
This is a classic of the genre. Strawberry Pop-Tart Blowtorches is a scientific demonstration of how pop-tarts left in the toaster too long spout 12 to 18 inch flames. I kid you not.
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WHALE CHUNKS
It's true. They blew up a whale. A dead whale washed up in Oregon, so some engineering geniuses decided to blow it up into a million pieces -- but they used too much dynamite.
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Using this handy all-in-one index of Weirdness/Coolness, you can check out all the bizarre sites I've surfed by. I'm not claiming that these sites are the newest or even the weirdest and/or coolest, just that I thought they were worth taking note of.
Weird One | Weird Too | Weird Three | Weird Four |
| Weird Feature | The Stupidfun Page |
RealAroma
-- A satire of RealAudio, featuring "streaming aroma" technology, the "Real Aroma Text Markup
Language" (or RATML) and so on. Inspired satire.
Timothy Leary's page
-- Is it deep, or is it stupid? You decide... Tim's ashes have been blasted off into space, but his
Web page lives on. You can even check out the recipe for this Leary biscuits he munched on (hash
was a key ingredient, not surprisingly.
Too Much Coffeeman
-- Every coffee drinker's favourite superhero. The guy with the irritated look and the coffee cup
on his head.
Jenny Holzer
-- Thought-provoking art, from the woman who became known for printing simple declarative phrases
in public spaces, including using those moving-light signs like they have in the subway. "Please
change beliefs" is the latest installment.
Bianca's Smut Shack
-- Very classy smut. And not all smut-related either, although try telling that to the suits at
Radio Shack, which sued to stop Bianca using the word "shack."
Penn and Teller's Page
-- Penn's the big fat one with the ponytail and the crush on Uma Thurman. Teller's the small one
who's always getting his hand cut off or his head impaled on something -- he never speaks. They're
both certifiable. Visit the Infested Web of Penn and Teller.
Rocky and Bullwinkle
-- Looking for a synopsis of all the episodes? Includes such classics as "Pottsylvania Creeper" and
"Wailing Whale," in which Rocky and Bullwinkle discover an undersea city called Submerbia and the
wailing whale, Maybe Dick.
Weird wire stories
-- From the San Francisco Examiner, real wire stories that the paper either couldn't find space to
print or didn't think anyone would believe, including one about Al Adamson, the B-movie director
(Satan's Sadists, Blood of Dracula's Castle), who was murdered and buried beneath his own house.
Entropic Fine Art -- Project Genisys
-- Impossible to describe. Is it some kind of sick joke, or does this person actually think they're
onto some transformative process, which through the use of art will produce some kind of epiphany
for the entire race? I give up.
The Gallery of Advertising Parody
-- Just what it says. Some inspired parodies, plus the history of sex in advertising, plus a link
to an Apple parodies page... and you can become a member of the Design Police while you're at it.
Top marks from Web Rats magazine.
The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project
-- I'm pretty sure this stands for "Tests With Inorganic Noxious Kakes In Extreme Situations",
including the Gravitational Response Test and the famous Turing test -- designed to see whether
Twinkies can simulate being human enough to fool an observer. I don't think they passed.
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