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The Weird, the Wild and the Wonderful on the WWW
The collection of sites that just don't seem to fit on my other pages.
TABLE O' CONTENTS:
1. Anarchy/Lawlessness/Prurience
2. Random Weirdness
3. Spirituality
4. Internet Culture
5. Culture At-Large
6. Science
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ANARCHY/LAWLESSNESS/PRURIENCE
* Remember those days downloading those anarchy files at 1200 baud
from your local pirate board? Well, if you don't, the Terrorists
Handbook has collected many of the old do-it-yourself home/school
anarchy/destruction instruction papers together for your personal
edification.
* Want to Fuck with McDonalds?
Want to Fuck with McDonalds? This text file, by Charlie X, from the
Phrack Magazine Archives offers well researched, well thought
out, and well documented tips and tricks for causing mayhem at
your local MickyD's fast food emporium. From interrupting trash
collection to hosting a senior citizen's day, Charlie X documents
means for wreaking havok. Some of them are funny as hell. Includes
three methods for finding out the computer dial-up number of a
McDonald's near you and what to do with it when you have it. I
can't say I approve of all the recommended methods, cuz some just
screw over the low-rung employees, but it makes you realize how
vulnerable this American institution actually is.
* Noting a lack of WWW pages dealing with drugs and drug issues, I
made a Drug Page
* A sordid tale of cocaine sherrifs, crooked judges, and your tax
dollars spent to hound and persecute semi-innocent civilians
awaits if you read the story of Eddie Hatcher Native American
Political Prisoner in North Carolina. Shit like this turns my
stomach, and makes me doubt this democracy.
* Logging in a telling 5000 requests a day the Pornography online
server may connect you will the bitmap of your dreams.
* The Yahoo list at Stanford has an Erotic Arts section
* Playboy Enterprises is online, but I have not been able to get
through to this server. More info when I can.
* Hakim Bey suspected to be Peter Lambourne Wilson of Semiotext
Books. Regardless, his iconoclastic work is a refreshing read for
many I have met. I let you know what I think when I get the chance
to read anything by him.
* The Tasteless Image of the Week is usually a winner, if you can
get through to it, and it is different than the one that was up
there for the last two weeks.
* Due to the recent ruling out of Tenessee setting the highest
common denominating standard for moral decency in cyberspace,
there is only a lot of legal info about pornography online to be
found at Daniel C. Robbins's Bondage, Domination, Submission,
Sadism, & Masochism page
RANDOM WEIRDNESS
* Only on the web: Vincent Voice Library, the largest academic voice
library in the nation, has samples online from its tapes. Listen
to George Washington Carver talk about peanuts, Anwar Sadat call
for peace, or Betty Ford talk about being married to an insecure
man.
* What someone called the second sign of the coming apocalypse:
order a PizzaHut pizza online. Only for denizens of the Santa
Cruz area during its beta test period, but look for it soon in a
market near you.
* You've heard of choose your own adventure, now with Drool you can
choose a dog's own adventure. Select a gender (male, female or
neuter),and breed from seven choices, and you are off to explore
the world of Boston and the environs of MIT.
* Proving that the Internet really has a place for everyone,
Vampyres Only has set up a site coordinating information about
these much maligned creatures of the night. If you aren't sure,
you can take a test online at their site to determine your
vampyreness.
* This is a cool one: now you can read the news-feeds for CNN
Headline News - the text of all the recent news - the stuff the
anchor reads (complete with weird-name-pronunciation guides!)
before they introduce the reporters. Sorry - Gopher only at this
point.
* The subject may be morbid, but the presentation is
straightforward: look for the recently dead on the Obituary Page
* At the Caption Competition you are asked to think of a caption for
a painting, or look at other people's suggestions. Some are even
funny!
* Bryan O'Sullivan, a student at Trinity College, Dublin, has set up
a Profanity and Insult Server. Reload indefinitly to get new ones,
or add your own!
* Victor Cate has published his page on how to legally avoid taxes -
basically Libertarians with boats transcending national
affiliation.
* The apex of Internet Barney hatred is to be found at the Jihad to
Destroy Barney server
* Mr. Deadpan himself is online, and he's random. Generate for
yourself a Steven Wright Fortune/Quote
SPIRITUALITY
* Get Thee to the Snake Oil
For a hip guide to Kooky Kontemporary Kristian Kulture, try a bit of
Snake Oil, keeping track of those pernicious modern offspring of
Christianity, Evangelists. Robert Tilton, one of them leeching
televangelist types said of them "They know not the depth of their
sacriledge" - so they must be doing something right. This page
takes a pointed, sardonic look at modern American evangelism,
without being irreligious. News and surveys of swindlers and
smooth talkers, with updates on their favourite characters make
for good reading. Includes pictures and profiles, first hand
accounts of healing attempts, a picture of Robert Tilton doing
drugs, even a quicktime movie of Tilton farting! This site wins
kudos for both fantastic original content, and timely, engaging
news and fact provision.
* Check out the Christian.Org home page for an alternative view of
Christianity
* For the real Christian beat, try the The Orthodox Christian Page
in Europe
* There is a list of Judaism and Jewish Resources. On it, you'll
find software and links to web, gopher, and ftp sites related to
Judaism and the state of Israel. It looks like this guy has really
done a first class job collecting related resources from across
the board.
* I put up an Astrology Home Page using hypertext to teach people
the basics of astrology
* For the latest in Occult and Mystical info online cruise by the
OMNet home page
* Ranjit's Interface to the OTIS Arcana Project (Tarot for the
unitiated)
* Get slack - at the Church of the Subgenius Online Pamphlet -
enlightened solipsism? You be the judge.
INTERNET CULTURE
* Directory of usenet faqs. A fantastically useful list of all the
Frequently Asked Questions from the usenet newsgroups of the
internet.
* WebWorld, the first virtual world you can move around in, build
in, and visually link to other parts of the World Wide Web.
* Inspired by Harper's Index, the Internet Index provides a telling,
insightful, and interesting array of net related statistics.
* It's not very cool, necessarily, but it is important nonetheless.
I have html-ed a first-hand account of an Internet User who had
some posts used against him to justify his being essentially
kidnapped and held against his will.
* To monitor the advent of commercialism (read: materialism, market
values, advertising - hate it) on the Net: A listing of commercial
sights on the web - sights - sigh.
* A lot of Internet culture is made up of the personalities
involved.
* Who's Who Online - who knows what that means - who knows who
decides
CULTURE AT-LARGE
* The File Room recording and reciting incidents of cultural
censorship
* For information on the idiot box online, look no further than the
Television Pointers page. Here is collected the latest links to
televsion related pages.
* The height of humour, the pinnacle of pith, the voice of vitrol,
the spectacular Simpsons are now online
* Music is always a large part of culture
* There is a cool multimedia exhibition on the Fall of Singapore -
when Japan invaded this British colony and beat the pants off the
British. Includes background historical information, as well as
funky recordings of radio broadcasts from the invasion period, and
black and white photographs of the events. Includes a photograph
entitled "Japanese Hell's Angels?"
* For those not yet weary of the cliched pop icons: The Beavis Web
Home Page which contains GIFs, sounds, and related links
* The Beer Home Page covering beer culture from the net.
* Enlightened Imperialism: The World Bank has its outpost on the web
* Various International Home Pages from the Home Page of Poland. If
you'd like, go ahead and download a big graphic that was taking up
too much loading time that reads TERAZ POLSKA.
* More than you ever wanted to know about the voyages of the
Enterprise is available on the Star Trek page
* My childhood Spidey-Friend! - The lyrics to the Spiderman cartoon
TV show are online!
* Some person has exerted themself to create the Weekend NPR's All
Things Considered Home Page.
SCIENCE
* Ribbit!
Sometimes you run across a site that you know foreshadows the future.
Such a site is the Frog Dissection Kit Info Page. In connection
with the Whole Frog Project, David Robertson has created a way for
persons with forms browsers to interactively pull apart a frog
online and look at it from all different angles. By adding or
dropping various organs with a clickable forms interface, you can
gaze at an image of a computer-rendered frog and its entire
internal structure. Then, when you have the gizzards you want to
see selected, you can rotate your perspective around the frog by
clicking on the imagemap.
What's remarkable about this is that it clearly foreshadows science
classes of the future. Without having to kill another hapless
frog, without having to smell fromeldahyde, you can peek under the
skin of a model of a living creature. Now there's something to be
said for the first hand experience of manipulating the organs of a
frog with your own fingers, but perhaps we can begin to use
technology to replace the thousands of specimens subjected to the
scalpels of students. Hopefully, the new computer creatures will
be at least as accessable as the Online Frog Dissection kit.
* Here' s link to the NSF Science and Technology Centers
* Your tax dollars at work: Army Research Laboratory Info Server
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OTHER HYPERTEXT PAGES WORTH CHECKING OUT:
* Announcing the amazing: Links to the Literary
* Oscillate your oculars over my Eye Candy page
* Featuring the fabulous listing of Music Resources on the Net
* Presenting a page of Perspectives with Personality
* I am proud to present my pondorous Politix Page
* Feeling those isolated terminal blues? Connect to a Community!
* Links to Lists and Lists of Links
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This page and all its contents Copyright 1994 Justin Hall. All rights
reserved. Contact me with any questions you might think of,
permissions you might want, or problems you may have.
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Yer Mama Net Productions / Justin Hall / <justin@hotwired.com>