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MAGIC
Holy crap! How does this work?! It... it... it picks the card
you choose every time, and you don't have to listen to lame magician's
patter. Holy crap!
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SEARCH
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SEARCHREQUEST
It's idiotically obvious how it works if you only take the
time to look at it. Now, though, for something a smidge more
complex: how the heck do
search engines end up with these weird results?! Searchrequests
is a remarkable site devoted to the bizarre ways folks have had
traffic routed to their sites. (The oddest one for our site,
so far, 'Saskatchewan urine blender.')
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BUCKYBALLS
This site has a spectacular gallery of electron microscope
images of things such as DNA, dinosaur bones, computer chips,
Ocean Spray Cranberry Cocktail... My favourite section is the
page devoted to Buckyballs. Murk, of course, prefers the page
devoted to Beer.
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A Murk Pick
POKING AROUND
Buckyballs? Is that what they're calling butt beads now? Anyway...
speaking of looking at stuff you usually don't get a close look
at, here's my choice. Urbanadventure.org is a site celebrating
the hobby of poking around in places you clearly don't belong,
like tunnels and basements and drains and mines. Sure, it's illegal...
but just a little bit.
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A Wally Pick
STARWARS BLOOPERS
The Star Wars Bloopers Guide. For obsessive anal retentive
Star Wars fans. Hours and hours of fun, especially for those
of you out there who believe film continuity should be an OSCAR
category. Lucas and his crew made so many screw-ups in these
films it's amazing they managed to stick the camera on the tripod
right-side up.
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A Murk Pick
APPLIANCE SHOOTING
Yeah... great... if you're one of those people who doesn't
get that
IT'S ONLY A MOVIE for frig's sake. Okay. Here's my site.
It's "The Original World Famous Home Appliance Shooting
Page."
This guy shoots the crap out of things like computers and microwaves
and video tapes it for our benefit. He should get like at least
some kind of major grant for that.
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A Bonus Pick
BUZZWORDS
It's the buzzword generator - for folks who wish there were
more beauties like 'paradigm shift' to throw into their conversations.
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JUNK SCIENCE
An excellent site to visit if you're sick of reading media
reports of doom and gloom written by lazy, scientifically illiterate
reporters who failed grade nine biology. This is the place to
find the straight goods on whether that extra dollop of gravy
you enjoyed with your meal last week really will kill you in
six months.
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A Murk Pick
MY CAT HATES YOU
Geez. He's always whining about something, that guy. My pick
this week is
mycathatesyou.com. It's a gallery of more pissed-off looking
cats than you can shake a stick at. What the Internet is properly
meant to be used for, if you ask me.
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WIKIPEDIA
No, it's not a site about witches, it's a new fangled on-line
encyclopedia that's being written by its visitors. You can contribute
an essay on something you know a lot about - or something you
know squat about - and post it, no questions asked. Other visitors
can edit or amend your contribution any way they see fit. Yesterday
I took away someone's unnecessary comma. It was enormously satisfying.
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A Murk Pick
ALICE
BOT
I once knew a guy who had his colon removed. Now he poops
in a bag. Okay, my site is alicebot.org. A.L.I.C.E is a robot
you can have real-time chats with. For those of you out there
tired of real people. Just don't ask her to have sex with you,
she gets all kind of huffy about it.
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A Wally Pick
GHOST SITES
Ghostsites is a bizarre and compelling site devoted to screen
grabs of now dead web sites. It's like looking at pictures of
ourselves when we were younger, happier, and filled with hopeful
idealism. Ahhhh, sweet youth!
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A Murk Pick
VIRTUAL AUTOPSY
Sounds like Wally's been hittin' the sauce again. Okay, here's
my site. If
we're going demised, let's go REALLY demised. The Virtual Autopsy.
You get to examine expired folks and try to guess what killed
'em. (All right, so it's mostly just drawings and some pictures
of guts, but it's still learnicalogical. Next time the guy next
to you gobs some ecstasy and suddenly keels over dead, you'll
know exactly where to poke him.)
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A Wally Pick
SNOPES
This is an on-line encyclopedia examining urban legends, folk
lore, email
hoaxes and Sept 11 rumours. Meticulously researched, refreshingly
honest,and a rare Internet source of rational discourse. The
only thing missing isa section devoted to Murk.
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A Murk Pick
CHILLY BEACH
Hey, did you know the word 'gullible' isn't in the dictionary?
I love that one. Okay, my choice of the week is Chilly Beach.
To hell with those Telefilm knobs and their regional cultural
funding crap - these guys tell genuine Canadian stories!
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A Wally Pick
PAUL IS DEAD
The recent passing of George Harrison reminded me of the "Paul
Is Dead"
thing going around years ago. This site does a splendid job examining
the
so-called evidence. ...and let's not even get into the cosmic
unfairness
of Ringo and Yoko still being alive...
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MICHAEL JACKSON'S FACE
Since we're talking about music, here's a site that offers
a quick
retrospective of Michael Jackson's face. It's like watching one
of those
time-lapse movies of a rotting apple. Wayyy cool.
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A Murk Pick
MULLETS GALORE
They got albinos with mullets, midgets with mullets, dykes
with mullets...
I could spend hours at this site. I mean... MIDGETS with mullets!
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A Wally Pick
HEADLESSCHICKEN
Mike was a chicken who had his head lopped off and then survived,
apparently, for another 4 or 5 years. They say just enough of
his brain stem remained intact and that allowed him to be marginally
functional.
Kind of reminds me of Murk.
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A Murk Pick
ROCKBITCH
Check out Rockbitch a wild all-chick band. They crowd surf
buck naked and every show they throw a golden condom into the
crowd. Whoever catches it gets to boink the band. And you thought
Madonna was a slut.
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A Wally Pick
FAKE DETECTIVE
Click on ENTER then scroll down to
The Fake Detective.
Congratulations, another fine choice. I was getting tired
of my Charlotte
Church CDs. And now, Wally's choice of the week: It's The case
files of
the Fake Detective. They analyze and debunk most of the so-called
authentic celebrity nude photos on the web. A valuable public
service, indeed. And Murk... I hate to break your heart, but
that pic you downloaded of Hillary Clinton skinny-dipping...?
The one you use as your 'inspiration'? Sorry.
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A Wally Pick
WOMEN WITH BEARDS
A site devoted to the erotic allure of women with beards.
At least, I think we're supposed to find them erotic. I did.
Intensely. And now I'm deeply worried. Maybe it's just supposed
to challenge our aesthetic, jostle our expectations, and I completely
missed the point and jumped straight to the horny part. But,
good lord, a topless bearded woman suckling an infant - how could
you not---errr..., I'll stop right there.
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A Murk Pick
CAMELTOES
What a knob. Anyway, here's my pick. It's a site devoted to
the glory of the camel toe... which kinda went extinct there
for a while with all that baggy droopy gear babes were into.
But now tight is back, and Murk is all over that! ...and none
of the chicks has a beard, incidentally.
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HOOPEE.COM
Let's try a new web popularity contest by clicking
here and voting for the Internet Slutts web site.
Then have a look around Hoopee
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UNPLUGGEDTV
You Can Watch: The Leather Chef, Konspiracy Korner,
Rebecca, Nobby, and I Wanna Know
This Is Broadband Baby!
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JOHN GUNDY
Who is this John Gundy and why is his website so out
of date?
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