Stupid Web Tricks

So I looked over my links, taking out all the old stuff, keeping in the good stuff. So there. And now, I've revised even more. Here, we can categorize as thusly:

Keen stuff Good stuff.
Huh? Be afwaid. Be vewwy afwaid.
Games Stuff I play far too much.

Yes, as you can see, I can categorize just as well as those corporate admen running one of those Pandering-To-Generation-X websites. However, the difference between them and myself is about $1,000 a month.

Keen things

Tales Too Tepid To Tell Dept.
The Useless URLs

Might as well mention these first, since they were among the first pages I found on my first foray into the Web. I took one look at the truly useless things folks would put (this was right around the time Paul's Hot Tub gained notoriety) and ever since I've vowed to try and make something that would appear on 'em. Then I do, and when I do I'm off getting drunk in France and I don't notice it until ex post facto. Ain't that life?
Please note that the fact they gave Ye Stupide Homepage their "Useless Personal Homepage of the Year" award for 1995 has nothing to do with the fact that they're tops on my links page. They always were. No mutual ass-kissing here.

Hellbound to Hahvahd Dept.
The MIT IHTFP Hacks Gallery

Now that I think about it, this was a site I visited before I visited the Useless Pages. Probably had a link to them at one time or another. Since I'm maybe-kinda-sorta local to MIT, and have heard of their wacky exploits for ages (I personally witnessed the Turn-The-Building-Into-An-VU-Meter hack back in '93, though at the time I had no clue what was going on with the lights) I offer this unto you because it's just too keen for words.


You Can Be Andy Warhol, I'll Be Edie Sedgewick Dept.
The Dysfunctional Family Circus

This has got to be, hands-down, one of the funniest laugh-out-damn-loud sites I've visited in quite a while. The premise is simple: Take a Family Circus cartoon and add your own clever caption, twisting and distorting the images and the meaning into an entirely Ugly Area. View the results other folks have left! (Scene: Dolly is pointing to the cat asleep on Daddy's briefcase. Caption: "...and then I said to Billy, 'Do you really think I took my medication if I stapled Kittycat's head to Daddy's briefcase?'") Oh, and if you do decide to contribute your own, please please please please please please please keep the stupid incest jokes to a minimum. Just don't even go there.


How To Make 45 Old Ladies Curse Simultaneously Dept.
The Bingozone

I admit, I play this in my spare time. Not so much, though. It's free, and, well... CRIPES, IT'S FREE, OK? SHUT UP! I'M GOING TO FOXWOODS!


Blatant Blatant Blatant Self Promotion Dept.
My own page on Yahoo

Somehow I managed to get a category on Yahoo for MYSELF! I don't know how I got it. It's weird. And scary. But I don't mind! NO SIR!

I'm Not A Horny Bi Chick But I Play One On ISCA Dept.
The Iowa Student Computer Association BBS

If you must, go and check out the BBS where I at one time spent quite a few of my waking hours. It can be a pretty crappy place every now and then, but it's all-around good. I think. I used to date one of the sysops, but I was never privy to any of the sysop sekrits. Well, not MANY.


This Isn't Superstition, It's Pyromania Dept.
Egyptian Ratscrew

By golly, folks put the darndest things on the Web, and this is no exception--a page devoted entirely to that bastard son of War, Egyptian Ratscrew. This card game (much simpler than explained) is a dandy way to waste time -- during one production of Guys And Dolls with which I was involved, a backstage game started halfway through the first act, through mutating and changing (players leaving, losing their cards, or slapping in to begin in the middle) the game could have lasted far beyond the end of the show, but everybody had to stop and strike the set. Go fig.


Turn On The Magic Of Colored Light Dept.
The Asylum's Lite-Brite

This page, I guess, is dedicated to those folks like me who tore up the stoopid clown templates that came with our Lite-Brite sets and made our own silly designs (not to mention a few choice words we had just learned) along the way. Forms fun for everyone!


Live Fast. Play Hard. Die With Your Helmet On Dept.
The Lego homepage

Ut oh. Someone got in copyright troubles here. Bad Lego company. You get no biscuit. You take away our joy and our fun. And our happiness. LEGO IS GRINCH MAN. BAD LEGO.


Andy Always Dreamed of Wrestling Dept.
The Andy Kaufman Homepage

Even though Andy's probably dead and gone, there are still those who think he just faked his death for a laugh. Surprisingly enough, I wouldn't be surprised if he does come back as a surprise. However, I'm not gonna wait around for the Second Coming of Kaufman on pins and needles. In the meantime, you can read all sorts of nifty tidbits about Andy, his jokes, his bizarre stunts, his wrestling career, and, of course, Latka.


Running Faggot Dept.
Scottland

First off, don't get uppity with me over the Department title. If yer a Kids In The Hall fan, then you recognize the reference. If not, shut up anyway and visit Scott Thompson's web site, running on his own brother's computer, as it were. Scott, a damn funny person whose current steady job is a role on Larry Sanders Show, has his own virtual world, which is something I know we all would like to have, especially one with a Queen and Buddy Cole as Prime Minister.


In the Not Too Distant Future Dept.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 on the Sci-Fi Channel

Hooray! Cancelled by that rat bastard Comedy Central, MST3K has come back, blazing like a phoenix, on the Sci-Fi Channel, which greatly respects them and their work. Their Dominion web site is great, especially the "Caption This!" where you add your own MST3K captions to a real-time Sci-Fi Channel snapshot. Woo.


Clock, Check For Babes Dept.
TinyTIM

I remember a magical time in which I attended a TIM convention or get-together or whatever they call 'em, I inhaled an entire helium balloon and proceeded to demonstrate, a la Suzanne Somers, the ever-powerful Thighmaster. Aah, those were the days. Can't relive those, but one can always go back to the place that's inspired so much mayhem. TinyTIM. Live it. Or something.


Sesame Street Presents Happy And Sad Dept.
Shakespearean insults
Surrealist compliments

Yes, these remarks are witty, fashionable, and always in style, perfect for yourself or someone you love. Try one today!


Huh?

Aliens Built My Hotrod Dept.
The Kooks Museum

I've finally decided the Kooks Museum is far more disturbing than funny, but that's no fault of Donna Kossy's. Here you'll find the most paranoid, deluded, egomaniacal mind-warped individuals outside of the United States Congress (Ha! Ha! Political humor is FUNNY!) and, I don't mind telling you, it's a bit scary. While there is mention of Usenet's own "Joanny-Pony", Joan L. Brewer, I figured you might want to see her homepage before you view the others. This woman is in definite need of antidepressants, stat.


As Seen On alt.usenet.kooks Dept.
Matt Legare's Kook Of The Month page

Joan L. Brewer won once, Canter and Siegel helped start the movement, countless other only wish they could win: What is it? Why, Usenet's Kook Of The Month award, of course, voted by you, the viewers! Here's a history of the kookiest of all kooks, accompanied by the cluelessest of the clueless newbies, and the trollingest of the trolls. La la la, here we go.


Sam's Own Dead Guy Cam Dept.
The Wal-Mart Homepage

Is it mere coincidence that not a few weeks after Wal-Mart establishes its homepage on the Web, several nearby mom-and-pop webpages have had to go under? I don't think so, you don't think so, the American people don't think so, gargargargar(TM; Tjames Madison).


I Smell Class-Action Lawsuit Dept.
How To Ride Safely

Hi, boys and girls! I'm Larry Litigator and today we're going to learn about how big corporations like the Otis® Elevator corporation try to absolve themselves of liability in the case of accidents! How? Well, boys and girls, let's just say that after you've read how to ride Otis® Elevators safely, if you get in an accident in an Otis® elevator, it'll be your fault 'cause you should have known better! Isn't the Merkin Legal System FUN?


Like, Improve Your Mind, Or Something Dept.
Cindy Crawford Concentration

At first I thought this was a chance to help Cindy Crawford improve her own concentration, maybe help her forget that awful Charlie commercial, but as I realized it was designed to help me lose my own concentration, things got a bit ugly alla sudden. However, I was so assured to know that once I won, Cindy thought I was "so smart!"


Games Spatchie Likes

P-p-p-p-p-pow! Dept.
Maelstrom

Hi, I'm Spatch, and when I'm not crashing Macintoshes I'm busy playing Maelstrom, the hip update of Asteroids. It's like Asteroids, only cooler, and it's for Mac only. Well, with Linux ports as well, but can't play it on the PC. So, when I'm on a PC, I play...

Subspace

Subspace is like Asteroids as well, only it's multiplayer all across the Internet, and instead of blowing up rocks, you blow up people from all over. Well, maybe they have rocks in their heads or something, but it's them all the same instead of a bunch of rocks. It's addictive and it's really truly evil, and DAMN FUN. Oh boy.

The end.


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