Buy yourself a spread on the moon. MoonEstates.com

i haven't checked this out fully yet, but it appears to be a Neopet type site, maybe a little spiffier, there is a download involved and it mentioned something about 3d rendered environments...Nt-man, ya may wanna pass this on to the sis, looks like her kinda place. That reminds me, I need to feed my Neopet, who, as I write this, is probably scraping the bottom of a dumpster in Neopet world for food or lighting a fire in a trash can to keep warm, assuming he's not too ignorant to light a fire, seeing as he'd been deprived of books, as well as most of the other basic necessities of Neo-life, for ages...think I'll swing by there later and chuck him an omelette or something.... Furcadia - Let your imagination soar!

Fling that cow! Fling the cow

Pretty Strange Patents -- A Tribute to Strange, Wacky and Unusual Patents From Around the World

So you wanna know how to: Write a business plan? Mix a martini? Cure a hangover or convert to Buddhism? This is the place. SoYouWanna.com home

Barry's World is an online gaming site with a nice design that has a definite "first person shooter" bent...I'll have to keep this place in mind when I get around to reinstalling Voyager: Elite Force, or finally get around to getting Castle Wolfenstein. BarrysWorld - the Power behind Online Gaming

Mind-blowing 3-d design gallery at Rhinoceros's (A 3 dimensional modeling program) website. Rhinoceros Gallery

Okay, this is nice, a search engine for sound effects, you can even specify the format, filesize, etc. Yeah! FindSounds.com - Search the Web for Sounds

Anyone who ever read comic books in the seventies will remember those goofy Hostess Snack Cake ads featuring superheroes like Spidey and The Hulk...well, now you can view 'em all (Though I'm not sure why), thanks to seanbaby.com Seanbaby.com - The Hostess Page

memepool offers up all the freaky, offbeat links you can stand and then some. memepool.com

All hail the mighty William Shatner, geek hero extraordinairre. You MUST BOW BEFORE HIM. (Personal note: I'm a Ben Folds fan and if anyone reading this is into Ben Folds Five and hadn't heard of the interim album he did entitled "Fear of Pop", go immediately to your Morpheus, Limewire, whatever it is you prefer and download the song by the same name, Shatner does a hilarious spoken-word voiceover on this song and incidentally, Ben himself was seen in one of Shatner's Priceline.com commercials, playing the moraccas, I think it was. William Shatner's Official Website

Here's a link to Lifesavers's Candystand site, since I just don't feel that I've posted enough shockwave games on here...yeah, that's it. Candystand.com Home

Cinematic goofs and gaffes at Movie Mistakes, apparently, enterprising folks with too much time on their hands have already found 50 mistakes in the Harry Potter movie. movie-mistakes.com - welcome!

This one's for you, Jordan...from Uselessknowledge.com:

Well, we can't be 100 per cent sure that some angry baker in medieval Europe didn't toss a pie at a customer and get a laugh first. But there is a written record of a Canadian coming up with the gag we're familiar with today.

Although Canadian Mack Sennett was one of several silent movie directors who popularized the pie in the face, the honor of invention goes to fellow countryman Thomas (Doc) Kelley, who had a popular travelling medicine show in the late 19th century.

The story goes that Kelley was in Newfoundland in 1889 when he saw a hotel stable boy being chased by an irate cook holding a piece of pie. Although the pie hit the boy's shirt and made a few onlookers laugh, Kelley gave the incident more thought. He concluded that a pie in the face would be even funnier.

As he said to a companion, "How about a whole pie, big and juicy, deliberately and carefully pushed smack into his face? How long do you think these folks would laugh then?"

Judging by the number of times the gag is still used, Kelley's invention was no pie in the sky idea.

Is the old pie in the face gag, seen in so many silent movies, a Canadian invention?

It has been a long time since I'd been to the "Bert is Evil" site, which has since become even more famous due to it's Taliban propoganda connection. Looks like it's a lot spiffier nowadays, with a flash intro and everything, plus lots of other stuff besides the Bert oriented stories. www.fractalcow.com

Wacky B obsessively picks apart details of stuff like yahoo messenger. Everything you wanted to know about Yahoo! messenger, plus a lot of arcane details you probably could live without, but may find yourself poring over as I did, nonetheless, such as the infamous "ghost smiley" of which I'd never heard, which, although included in some earlier builds of messenger, had no command line and hence, just sat there in the smiley folder doing nothing for god knows what reason, only to be reincarnated as the somewhat mysterious "jack-o-lantern" (most people I know online had never seen it and they're pretty diehard messenger users) Wacky B - Messenger - Yahoo Messenger version 5 - Testing 123 - Yahoo's Ghost

A very good site for those who like true crime stories...also features streaming police scanners from major cities like LA and NY APBnews.com: Crime, Justice, Safety

Warezlist.com. WarezList.com

You never can tell when you're going to need a bit of weird clipart, if that day comes, you'll be glad for this. weird clipart graphics and bizarre creepy pictures

Losers.org is a site that simply makes fun of people's websites, for various reasons, be it that they're a freak, a wannabe rocker, a nerd or maybe their page is just a poorly designed piece of crap...I may wind up on there one day and then I suppose I won't think it's so funny, until then though, hahaha. LOSERS dot ORG

Dave Archambault produces insanely detailed black and white portraits using a ball point pen as his media of choice...speaking as someone who has drawn with a ball point, it's extremely frustrating and the ink usually globs on the paper and so I'm very, very impressed. Kudos Dave. Pen and Ink Art of Dave Archambault

Oh yeah...I almost forgot, happy new year. :)

I'm stashing this site back in case someone else asks me "Who the hell is Jimmy Olsen?" (No, I had nothing to do with this site, if I had, I would have included some stuff about the really classic issues of Olsen, done by Marvel Comics Pioneer and my personal comics hero, Jack Kirby) JIMMY OLSEN'S MIND-MANGLERS!

I don't recall ever posting this to the blog, Slipups.com. Slipups.com - The Slip-Up Archive: Movie and TV Bloopers and Mistakes and More

A nice little article about Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of television. Now this is a guy who got royally screwed by big business. An amazing story though, Farnsworth actually came up with the idea for it at the astonishingly young age of fourteen, although he wasn't able to build it until the age of twenty-one. TIME 100: Scientists & Thinkers - Philo Farnsworth

Here's a couple neato Yahoo Messenger tricks I found tonight....for one, if you type (~~) in the message window, you'll get a little pumpkin with glowing eyes, a smiley that yahoo doesn't show on their list of smileys...also, the guy at this url has a plugin for Winamp (The Best Thing EVER for listening to mp3s) which will change your online status message to reflect the song and artist you're listening to. :) larkington

If you're just really bored and you're out of things to do, you can always poke around here to find easter eggs for your software...like these neat little eggs for Macromedia Flash Eeggs.com - Computers : Applications : Flash (Macromedia)

TechTV is doing a show on the old Mattel Intellivision Console...I can still remember playing this in the local K-mart and ooh-ing and ahhh-ing over the "awesome graphics". My how time flies. TechTV | History and Tech Behind the Mattel Intellivision

Well, The Smoking Gun released it's document of the year awards today, I think my favorite one is still J-Lo's list of insanely overdone diva demands asked of the places she performs at:

Before filming a cameo in a music video benefiting victims of the September 11 attacks and the African AIDS epidemic, Jennifer Lopez had a 2-page list of backstage necessities that included: white couches, white drapes, white tables, French aromatherapy candles, beans, rice, chicken, Cuban food, yellow roses with red trim, white lilies, white roses, VCR, CD player, watermelon, apple pie a la mode, chocolate chip cookies, and music from 43 different acts. Seems reasonable, no?
The Smoking Gun: Document Of The Year Awards

A Mirimax site devoted to The Beatles' movie "Hard Day's Night". Some good pics of the boys and a few never-before seen items. A HARD DAY'S NIGHT - © Miramax Film Corp.

A couple's baby Jesus is stolen and ransomed, more Christmas grinchery. Herald-Tribune Newscoast Main Stories

Burglarized before AND after Christmas...that's gotta suck. The Seattle Times: Local News: Grinch of a holiday: Family robbed twice

13th Street is a site with a horror bent...some really twisted shockwave games here among other things. 13thStreet.com -- Games

I'm not sure exactly what this is, whether it's a game or just an interesting little artwork, but it's really sharp. www.vectorpark.com

Zanpo, a stylish, ambitious "community based" online...something. Cool. .

A shockwave 3d game. Kalisto Entertainment : Walkiries Plug In

A freaky, spooky site with really pretty graphics. My Pet Skeleton

Wow...this is really nice, I'm shocked. Something really different, looks-wise. These guys kick ass. Ego Media

The author's of "Flash 5! Creative Web Animation" put together this informative and really hard-core site with killer flash animations as well as tutorials and other odds and ends. Crazy Raven Productions

small blue printer : design your own house plan

Strange flash art animations. flying puppet menu

A really nice flash cartoon series, Ninjai: The Little Ninja. Cool :) Ninjai: The Little Ninja

Still another nice design site, Dennis Interactive.

Another really nice design site. Super tight. innerblitz

Interactive brain teasers done in flash. t a l l h a t - puzzles

Record karaoke songs in your browser, send to friends, lose friends, most likely. Neat idea though. kar ui

A Hot or Not-type site for creators of animations, games, etc. Entertainmail

Guiness Book of World Record's site...I have have posted this before but oh well. Guinness World Records

This is a neat little twist on chat...too bad there were no chatters online when i looked at it and the streaming audio was hard for me to appreciate with my slow connection, still, it's pretty cool, something different. Think chat rave. CHATMASTER 3000

A ridiculously well done design site Meat and Potatoes, Inc.

Lenny Kravitz has a nice site. This is stylin'. Macromedia - Showcase : Site of the day archive

Quantum computing hits its prime

All about Internet 2 Internet2: Internet2 Website

iday: Internet Timeline

Phish has a really nice website. the official phish.com

Real Pool..this isn't nearly as cool as my Virtual Pool 3, but if you don't have a Virtual Pool 3 I guess it'd be pretty darn cool. Shockwave.com - Real Pool (3D)

Can't believe I've never blogged this one, but here goes, Gagpipe, satire headlines from around the globe. Gagpipe BETA: Headline satire from around the world.

Speaking of the Webby Awards, here's another free blog site, one of the nominees, Live Journal, looks cool, if I didn't have enough on my hands just trying to keep this one updated I'd give it a try, I may anyways. Live Journal

The 2001 Webby Awards have been announced, due to an apparent oversight, I didn't win one, go figure... The Webby Awards: 2001 Nominees

No good deed goes unpunished. Romenesko's Obscure Store and Reading Room

The definitive "Happy Drinking Bird" page. Steve's Happy Drinking Bird Reference Facility

Kurt Grigg, a DHTML pusher...some cool little scripts. Kurt's Free Original DHTML - JavaScript

Bunker Guy retreats from his hideout when the need for beer overtakes his dread of holiday commercialism. Man Exits Bunker When Beer Thirst Overtakes Xmas Dread

I imagine this was a lot funnier pre-Sept.11th, but it's still kind of a kick. NUKE the HAMPTONS

Here's a nice little coloring book site for the kiddies (or bored adults) ColoringSite.com - Online Coloring Books

Weird and unusual trivia tidbits, along the lines of "a hummingbird weighs less than a dime." Strange But True! #1 for strange facts

Speaking of chicken, which seems to be my obsession this Christmas morning, although it's really more out of sheer boredom and a search for "fried chicken" than any insane fondness for foul...here's an internet hoax I must admit that I was out of the loop on. KFC no longer uses real birds, but genetically engineered "organisms" to produce it's tasty chicken. KFC - Kentucky Fried Chicken Hoax

Okay...that Kremlin Fried Chicken was a joke, but this is nearly as bizarre...KFC Indonesia's site. KFC INDONESIA

Kremlin Fried Chicken Kremlin Fried Chicken

Well...you can always depend on the Japanese online newspaper, the Mainichi, for bizarre tidbits...a professor at the Takushoku University apparently stabbed a student with a samurai sword during a drunken get together in his office. Mainichi Interactive - Top News

Alberta's eclectic station, CKUA...a nod to my "sole reader" lol. Untitled Document

Wow...a real-life Scrooge: LONDON (Reuters) - A British man is heading underground behind blast proof doors and 10-foot-thick concrete in a bid to escape the stresses of a family Christmas.

Man Hires Bunker to Escape Christmas

Some really groovy holiday themed fonts and dingbats Christmas Fonts  & Dingbats (TTF - Windows ONLY)

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

Some interesting quotes from one of our brainier forefathers Benjamin Franklin

Well...here's a few reasons for us yanks to feel good about ourselves..."52 Things They Do Better In America" from the U.K.'s Guardian Unlimited Guardian Unlimited | Columnists | John Sutherland: America and its advantages

Possibly the coolest t-shirt I've ever seen, I must have this... errorwear: embrace your computer problems

Santa Claus caps a woman in Sao Paulo, wounding her. Santa Pulls Gun From Belt, Shoots Woman

Terraserver...view aerial satellite photos of your neighborhood :) TerraServer Homepage

I love the name of this site...lotta good links here too, from the looks of it. Bored.com

Truth or Fiction...your email reality check. TruthOrFiction.com

Crime Scene is a site where surfers are asked to put in their two-cent's worth regarding ongoing cases, in other words, it appears to be just the thing for you armchair Columbos out there Crime Scene Evidence File

Stuart Adamson, 43, of the band Big Country, was found dead in Hawaii Sunday...that sucks. Former Big Country Frontman Dies at 43

My friend Chris gave me the ultimate Christmas gift....a Jim Morrison action figure. Now, if I can just find a tiny little Jack Daniel's bottle to lay beside him on the stage it'll be totally authentic. I'm hoping there'll be another "curled up in the fetal position unconcious" edition I can get next year. Toy Fair 2001

Some hilarious shockwave cartoons written and directed by Steve Martin, my all-time comedy hero, Morto the Magician and Gwyneth and Steve (bottom left of the page) Morto the Magician - Detail

Cop leaves his loaded pistol on the toilet in an elementary school News - Montreal - canada.com network

Well, the emulator just crashed me all over the place...blah. Maybe if I could run it from native DOS things would work but for now I'm just going to go to bed.

So I'm at Arcade At Home's site tonight (The BEST emulator/rom site, for an retro-arcade fan like myself, certainly) and I come across this emulator, it only plays a handful of games - Donkey Kong, Galaxian, Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man and Frogger. HOWEVER...it does offer the added twist of actually beefing up the games it's emulating, graphically and sonically. A cool idea, I'm about to try it out, I'll report back later on whether it sucked or not. Arcade@Home(tm) - EmuDX Emulator

There were a couple funny articles linked on BoingBoing today, like this one about a store clerk who was fired because she refused to keep selling crack pipes. Clerk's refusal to sell 'love roses' gets her fired

World War III in Colour, yet another satire site with a decidedly "war on terrorism" bent. ĩ || W2IIIinC

From the time-killer dept. - 45, 80 and 120-piece puzzles made of modern and contemporary artistic masterpieces. Artonline

A scathing commentary on Utah's draconian liquor laws...lol.
Utah Liquor Laws

Some "What if's" regarding famous historical figures, again, more funny stuff from McSweeney's. McSweeney's Internet Tendency: History's Great Persons Reconsidered

A funny essay from McSweeney's Internet Tendency, I like this site a lot. McSweeney's Internet Tendency: It's Actually Not a Small World

An interesting and nicely done AI site, featuring Ramona, a talking, interactive avatar. KurzweilAI.net

Like it says....learn how stuff works. HowStuffWorks - Learn how Everything Works!

A singing dictionary....uh huh. Strangeness abounds on the web. Dictionaraoke

An online Rubik's Cube, from the official homepage. Rubik's Online - Online Cube

Hunter S. Thompson's essays for ESPN.com. That's right, I said ESPN.com. Go figure. ESPN.com - Page2 - Hunter S. Thompson Columnist Archive

A funny cartoon from a laid-off dot-com employee, Odd Todd Laid-Off: A No Nothing Production

A vast selection of links and reviews of graphic design-oriented websitesLinkdup