November 2002
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BBC Islam Site
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Good primer on Islam and other
religions. Interesting if you want to find out more about Islam given
all the stuff going on in the world.
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Alternet |
Indy Journalism site. An alternative view of what you see in the news. |
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Steak and Cheese |
Lots of weird stuff to amuse yourself if you are bored.
Movies pages has
lots of fun stuff although some a little gross and X rated. |
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Bitter Lemons |
Website on Middle East conflict in Israel/Palestine. Interesting
articles. |
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Glitterati |
Erotic stories by women. Pretty cool. |
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Kazaa |
Great site for downloading MP3 files. Can find almost anything
including cracked DVDs as well. Great stuff. |
May 2002 Edition
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Pornalise
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This is kinda funny if you can
stand a bit of bad language. Don't worry, it's not a porn site so you
can check it out at work. What it does do however is convert your favourite
site into a porn site by substituting 'dirty' words for phrases on the
website. I killed myself laughing at what it did to my current
employer's website, Accenture.com (used to be Andersen Consulting), CNN.com
and my own site.
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Hummer
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This is the Hummer site. In
the words of the website, "It’s not a car. It’s not a truck. It’s
not another sport utility vehicle. It’s a HUMMER-a vehicle that defies
categorization. A vehicle not in a class, but a universe all its
own." Okay yeah...but the new smaller version of the
Hummer, the H2 is a pretty funky 4WD.
Check it out. Missile
launcher and machine guns not included.
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Camel Quotes
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Camel quotes is a woman judging site. You send in a photo of your
woman. They tell you how many camels, goats and chickens she might be
worth in the open market in certain middle eastern countries. 1 camel
= 10 goats = 100 chickens. Monkey spanks are awarded for nudity.
A totally sexist site but check it out out nonetheless.
Some of the contestants
are pretty fit and would probably be a little perturbed if they knew that
their ex-boyfriends has put their dodgy private photos on the net.
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The
Soviet National Anthem
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Well, this is probably a strange one but I've always been fond of the
sound of the old Soviet national anthem. Guess it comes from watching
the movie 'Hunt For Red October' too many times. Here it is if your want to
listen to it. The best one I've found is this with some Red
Army Singing Guys and Girls. Then there is this short instrumental
version.
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Spitters.com
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This site gives you stock options in exchange for your spit which it uses
to construct a DNA database.
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How
to dance properly
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This is some shots of different wacky dance moves. A bit of a
laugh and the resk of the http://zefrank.com/
site is worth exploring as well. Pretty kooky.
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Easter Saturday 14 April 2001 when I should have
been at the gym.
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US Secret Service
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Well, thought I might check this out after seeing the link from
CNN. These guys protect the US President as well as tracking down
counterfeiting and money laundering. Pretty crap site but interesting
to read the history of the USSS.
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Psycho Ex-Girlfriend
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Man, this is a really chilling site from anyone has broken up with a
girl and the feeling wasn't exactly mutual. The horror! The
horror! Basically, this site is a set of voicemail messages from,
Jill, the psycho ex-girlfriend in question. 'I'm done chasing you', she
says. Three minutes later she calls again. And again.
And again!!!!!!
It also has a test to find out whether your girlfriend is psycho or
not. I tried it, it works. You can also buy t-shirts. And the
message board seems to be full of the opinions of crazy pissed females.
Altogether a v.cool site!!!!
Remember, run, don't walk, from a psychotic woman.
Alternatively, back away slowly and try not to make eye contact.
Here is a sample.
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Things
My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About
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The clue is in the title. Mil Millington's massive list of contended
bones is heroically complete and, because he writes with such a deft touch,
it is also pretty funny. I like it. I hope he keeps adding to
it.
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Get Your Tongue
Out of My Mouth
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While we are on the subject of angry, twisted fems, this is an application
form to be Cheryl's ex-boyfriend. It includes questions about which
endearments and songs will ever be associated with hating the applicant. A
bit of fun on a boring afternoon when I can't be bothered leaving my cave (I
have showered and got dressed however!).
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Space Imaging
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Site that shows satellite
photos. Showed some good images of the US spy plane that was stuck in
China. You can also check out the Coliseum
in Rome
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Updated a while back
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Am I Going Down?
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This is a website that calculates the probability that the plane flight
you're planning will crash. You enter airline, destination and
anything else you know and it comes back with a probability.
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Am I Hot Or Not?
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You get to rate the physical attractiveness of people who have put their
photos up on this site from a scale of 1 (not) to 10 (hot). A bit sad in
many cases because you wonder how hurt the person might feel if they got a
really bad rating. That's the way the cookie crumbles however.
Maybe I should throw my own photo up there. Feel free to email me (simon_c_connell@yahoo.com)
with suggestions from this website.
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How Stuff Works
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Website that gives plain english answers to how things work from everyday
items like toasters to helicopters.
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Done when I first started this site.
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Pig Brother |
This site has pictures and
videos of pigs at play somewhere in the UK. You can also buy meat
and soon...web-cams of pigs. Have to say, I've always been fascinated
by pigs. Checking out the pigs was always on the top of my agenda
for visiting agricultural shows such as the Royal Melbourne Show
(guess where that is).
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The Onion |
A rather off wall site that
gives 'alternative' and somewhat fictional coverage of world events.
Of particular interest was it's coverage of the presidential recount
fiasco where it stated that the Clinton had declared himself president for
life, Gore had survived an assassination attempt, Bush had executed enough
Florida democrats to give the Bush the presidency and finally, Serbia had offered
to send in peace keeping troops so 'democracy could be allowed to run it's
course'.
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The Visible Hand |
My cousin's Jeremy's web-site
ranting about the state of New Zealand politics. God knows what he's
getting at but he's fairly passionate about it.
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CNN
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Nothing to get really excited
about but it's amazing to watch news as it happens - especially
when you're unemployed and got a bit of time on your hands. I found
out about the Paddington train disaster here while surfing the net one
morning. Each hour, they added more and more news. First a few
sentences, then a photo and a paragraph, then full articles and all sorts of
stuff. Same situation with the Kursk submarine sinking and Concorde
crash in Paris.
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Yahoo
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Best place to get free email, free file space and free websites.
Space for email is 6Mb which beats the hell out of Hotmail.
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Ancient Sites
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Interesting community realting to ancient civilisations. Haven't had
time to fully check it out yet but it looks interesting.
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Destination
South America |
The Ad says 'Join a cattle
drive taking 300 Herefords from an Argentine estancia to their summer
grazing on the shores of Lake Lolog.' Sounds great. Would love
to do it sometime. Basically a dreaming site for me.
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Ride
World Wide |
Another site specialising in
riding all over the world. Kyrgyzstan sounds good. Another
dreaming site.
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Deep Cold
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Website showing spacecraft
that never quite were in the great space race between the USA and the former
USSR. Very cool.
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