Monday, April 17, 2000

USACentric
Just when you thought that Roadside Attractions was the best you could do -- along comes USACentric, where they'll lead you t locations to travel within the USA that are an utter waste of time. See now, this is what I need to do with my life. Get paid to see weird things.

Monday, April 17, 2000

Ad*Access
And just in case you haven't had your daily fill of advertising weirdness, come on over to Ad*Access, where there is a literal online museum of advertising through the ages. Learn about face creams of the Orient, brand new space-age kitchens, and cars that practically drive themselves! Ah, for fifties optimism.

Monday, April 17, 2000

Roadside Attractions
This little list has a LOT of links to those bizarre roadside attractions that NEED to be in every guidebook, but AREN'T. (Such as here in San Diego county, we happen to have the world's largest lemon in the appropriately named Lemon Grove, but do you think they play that up? Of course not.) I -love- this stuff. I want to travel the country and find it and take many pictures, but alas, nobody actually wants to -pay- for this kind of kitsch. I mean, *I* would, but I'm kind of weird.

Monday, April 17, 2000

The Pendleton Cowgirl Company
Just when you thought the girl empowerment thing could go no further -- in comes the cowgirl company to give you yet more role models in your rugged ambitions. From this site, you can learn all about the old west's cowgirls on the rodeo circuit, and send postcards of their images to all your net friends, who will wonder what the hell is wrong with you these days. Honestly, this is a pretty neat resource on women in the old west, and it's just kind of fun.

Monday, April 17, 2000

The Silents Majority
Subtitled: A journal of silent film. Mrrowr. Pictures and articles -- it's just too cool.

Monday, April 17, 2000

C.Y.B.O.R.G.
Just in case you were one of the unlucky few who missed this -- find out what your name means as an A. C. R. O. N. Y. M. For example: B.E.T.H.: Biomechanical Electronic Troubleshooting Humanoid In other words, I'm a half-man, half-machine that has to plug into the wall occasionally (kind of like Borg, but my geek is showing there), who will fix all your problems and still look like Aunt Sally! :) Go play.

Monday, April 17, 2000

Forgotten New York
For anyone in NYC or going to NYC in the near future -- or anyone who just has a fetish for bizarre functional art -- this is a pretty nifty site. There are stories and artworks and pictures of signs....what more could you want? Go see.

Monday, April 17, 2000

Blacks vs. DiMera Checkers
This is almost worse than Elvis. (see below). I'm fully aware that being a passive fan of Days of Our Lives qualifies me for instant geek status, but I won't wear the pocket protector willingly. That said, this is pretty neat. Checkers between Dr. Marlena Evans (you) and Lexxie Carver (the computer). When kinged, you become John Black and, predictably, Carver becomes Stefano DiMera. Some people have way too much time on their hands.

Monday, April 17, 2000

Elvis Lives
Someone told me once that there are two kinds of people in this world: Beatles people and Elvis people. I'm one of the Beatles folks, actually -- though I have my days where my love of strangeness just knocks me right over onto the Elvis side of things. For those days, there is this site. Everything you ever wanted to know about The King, but were afraid to ask. Now I just need one of those velvet paintings....

Saturday, April 15, 2000

DeepLeap
This little web doohickey appears to be pretty nifty. Of course, they don't quite have it for netscape yet due to some certificate thing or something, but they're getting that fixed as we speak, supposedly. What this does is keeps track of where you go on the web -- what you look at, what you do, that kind of thing -- and then it gives you access to it when you want it. It's like having a little personal assistant always yapping at your heels to do things for you.

Hey, all it needs to do is learn the key phrases, "Hey! That's a great idea! You're a genius!" and "Yes, of course, sir/ma'am, you are the best [whatever you are] ever!", and it could be everyone's favorite computerized sycophant.

*ahem*

Friday, April 14, 2000

Catholic E-Cards
Once you change your message to JesusSpeak (below), send it with a Catholic e-card from this site. Choose from things like the bleeding heart, varied medieval Madonnas, and saints galore.

This -so- fulfills my need for kitsch.

Friday, April 14, 2000

BIZZARE STUFF you can make in your kitchen
You simply have to love any site that allows you to make goop in your kitchen. (One hint, none of it's food. It's like green slime and fake blood and stuff....) The design's kinda cool, too.

Friday, April 14, 2000

The Official Iron Chef Resource Page!
Oh. My. God. I love IRON CHEF. Lovelovelove. My favorite chef is probably the French one, but I like the Japanese upstart from the new ones, too. This is like WWF with bell peppers. :) Try the drinking game.

"Fukui-san!"

"Yes, Ota....?"

Woohoo!

Friday, April 14, 2000

Ask Jesus!
Enter your own URL, and get your page back in JesusSpeak! Thou art thine own worst harlot.

*ahem*

Thursday, April 13, 2000

The Gallery of Regrettable Food
To put it mildly, this is like a diet for the eyes. There are advertisements, pictures, and cookbooks from the '20s with things in them that no sane person should have to look upon. Best of all, it's hilarious.

Thursday, April 13, 2000

Penny Dreadful Art
Most of us aren't old enough to remember the penny dreadfuls -- bad pulp novels that were serialized. Like Days of Our Lives before they had TVs.

Anyway, this is a collection of some of the cover art, displayed for all to see, and archived for posterity. Wonder if they have the official Days of Our Lives Museum online yet, too...

Thursday, April 13, 2000

Tacky Christmas Light Displays
I know, I know. Christmas is over until October or so. But it lives on through the year with this collection of totally bizarre and slightly white trash displays that people actually paid the electric bill on.

Methinks some of these folks need a hobby.

Thursday, April 13, 2000

Sushi Fortune Telling
As if we needed an oracle dredged from the deep and dragged raw to the table, it's the SUSHI ORACLE. Select five kinds of raw fish entrees and see what that says about you.

Incidentally, I'll visit the site, but you won't catch me eating it. I generally prefer food that doesn't come with a risk of salmonella.

Thursday, April 13, 2000

Artpostcards.com
All right -- so this may not be exactly ready for public consumption yet -- I still -had- to start putting some links up here.

This site is pretty incredible. It's like some of the other virtual postcard sites in nature, but the pictures...oy! They use artists' work as the "front", and you can select from about a zillion different styles/countries/keywords. It's like Blue Mountain -- with class.

Wednesday, April 12, 2000

Aren't weblogs grand?

Of course, everyone has one now, so I guess it's not so special anymore. At any rate, I've come across some interesting places in my travels that I thought I'd share.

Special thanks to louise for the idea, even though she doesn't know about it yet.