Anybody got any good ones? Or am I the only person who seems to hunt them?

Rare reading of LIAGB by Jasper Ffudd:

I didn’t ask to be a cewebwity. I nevew wanted to appeaw on De Adwian Wush Show. And wet’s get one thing stwaight wight now – the wowwd wouwd have to be huwtwing towawds imminent destwuction befowe I’d agwee to anything as dopey as De Duwsday Next Wowkout Video. De pubwicity suwwounding the successfuw webookment of Jane Eywe was fun to begin wif but wapidwy gwew weawisome. I happiwy posed fow photocawws, agweed to newspapew intewviews, hesitantwy appeawed on Desewt Iswand Smewws and was thankfuwwy excused the embawwassment of Cewebwity Name Dat Fwuit! De pubwic, evew fascinated by cewebwity, had wanted to know evewything about me fowwowing my excuwsion within the pages of Jane Eywe, and since the Speciaw Opewations Netwowk have a PW wecowd on a paw wif that of Vwad the Impawew, the top bwass thought it wouwd be a good wheeze to use me to boost theiw fwagging popuwawity. I dutifuwwy touwed aww points of the gwobe doing signings, wibwawy openings, tawks and intewviews. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! De same qwestions, the same SpecOps-appwoved answews. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Supewmawket openings, witewawy dinnews, offews of book deaws. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! I even met the actwess Wowa Vavoom, who said that she wouwd simpwy adowe to pway me if thewe wewe a fiwm. It was tiwing, but mowe than that – it was duww. Fow the fiwst time in my caweew at the Witewawy Detectives I actuawwy missed authenticating Miwton, uh-hah-hah-hah. I’d taken a week’s weave as soon my touw ended so Wanden and I couwd devote some time to mawwied wife. I moved aww my stuff to his house, weawwanged his fuwnituwe, added my books to his and intwoduced my dodo, Pickwick, to his new home. Wanden and I cewemoniouswy pawtitioned the bedwoom cwoset space, decided to shawe the sock dwawew, then had an awgument ovew who was to sweep on the waww side of the bed. We had wong and wondewfuwwy pointwess convewsations about nothing in pawticuwaw, wawked Pickwick in the pawk, went out to dinnew, stayed in fow dinnew, stawed at each othew a wot and swept in wate evewy mowning. It was wondewfuw. On the fouwf day of my weave, just between wunch wif Wanden’s mum and Pickwick’s notabwe fiwst fight wif the neighbouw’s cat, I got a caww fwom Cowdewia Fwakk. She was the seniow SpecOps PW agent hewe in Swindon and she towd me that Adwian Wush wanted me on his show. I wasn’t mad keen on the idea – ow the show. But thewe was an upside. De Adwian Wush Show went out wive and Fwakk assuwed me that this wouwd be a ‘no howds bawwed’ intewview, something that hewd a gweat deaw of appeaw. Despite my many appeawances, the twue stowy about Jane Eywe was yet to be towd – and I had been wanting to dwop the Gowiaf Cowpowation in it fow qwite a whiwe. Fwakk’s assuwance that this wouwd finawwy be the end of the pwess junket cwinched my decision, uh-hah-hah-hah. Adwian Wush it wouwd be.



(c/o [rinkworks.com])



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

strange websites eh? Rob will probably testify to this being somewhat of a hobby of mine...


a discussion of the infamous "404: Page not found" error, and some classic examples
www.plinko.net/404/

this chap(pette) usually has some good ones, updated daily
www.gamegoof.com

mentioned this one before, it's the one about the baby...
[www.ironycentral.com]

bit of an odd one this, bloke sounds familiar:
[members.aol.com]

friend of a friend's site, collection of humorous stuff he's either found or been sent:
[www.skymind.com]

Weird and wonderful stuff you can do with Flash:
[www.nooflat.nu]

Bit out of date this one. Chap got told off for locking his bike to a fence in central london one day. So he set up a site to see what else he could lock to the fence, on the basis that they weren't bikes, so didn't count:
[www.whatshouldiputonthefence.com]

More funky programming stuff:
[www.wireframe.co.za]

Anagrams are Fun with a capital F
[www.wordsmith.org]

The Secret Diary of the Fellowship of the Ring ( in a bridget jones stylee)
[lauriekarin.virtualave.net]

you need sound for this one...
[ranafout.nerim.net]

lawks, there are zillions. I can do a Site of the Day/Month column for Whatever Next if you like....

Do you mind ... strange website indeed.

Like the idea of a site of the month col for WN, though .... all volunteers one pace forward - come back here, Mr. La-di-da Gunner Graham!



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Here's a fun one someone here in the States posts with updates on their redneck neighbor's antics (with photos):

[www.knology.net]



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I think we've got ourselves a regular column here chaps!

This one's out of date but it does tell you all about the millennium bug !

[www.thesitefights.com]

And a good George W. site

[www.drparsons.fsnet.co.uk]

Thought this one migt generate a bit of take up ;)



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OK, this is great - a collection of every loony website (excepting the illegal and/or offensive) all in one place; [www.ratbags.com]

These people can vote!



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

What do you do with a dead Saab??

[mbjork.home.cern.ch]


And of course the Secret Diaries from the LOTR, which everyone should read - these are Cassie Claires original ones - rather than the link posted by dave, which appears to be broken...

[home.nyu.edu]

or

[www.livejournal.com]

(top link is them in order, the bottom link has more updates, but you need to read from the bottom up)



I drink to drown my sorrows. Unfortunately they've learnt how to swim.

That is actually quite scary - especially seeing as they work at CERN, where the basic aim is to smash things together at very high speeds...

Those crazy physicists....



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Has anybody seent he google logo today - it's Einstein's b'day, apparently. Obviously this will make no sense in a day or two...



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Yep, I was up late last night, and noticed when it switched, actually. For some reason I was googling "Ben Tymens" at the time....



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--Ross Smith

Never a healthy thing to be doing...



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[www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk]

Check 'em out...



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Great headline form CNN - "Standoff continues with man on tractor"

[www.cnn.com] if you really have to know. Those crazy Yanks, eh?



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uh, coming from someone impacted by that crazy man on the tractor...it sucks!

Traffic is all backed up everywhere. Thankfully I don't have to drive in DC proper, but it's affecting traffic all over the area. My husband works just outside of SouthEast DC and he said it took him forever to get to work this morning.

By the way, the crazy guy claims to have an explosive device. The cops don't believe him but they can't take the chance just in case. Too many offices, etc, down there that could be damaged and people hurt. So they'll just wait him out. My local news is international news. What can I say!

Tractors hold up the centre of Evesham every day and nobody notices. It happens in the US and it's world news...



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heheeh, yeah, but you guys have sheep roadblocks too. We don't have that problem. And those sheep usually don't have explosives strapped to their backs either!

Al-Ovina - watch out for it. New Zealand will fry, I tell you...

Can I just say I'm going to try very hard not to mention the war. I'm against it, I'll continue to be against it, but I'm not going to risk falling out with people here over it. I hope the troops come back safely, is my only comment for the moment.



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I think you'll find that a very large portion of Americans are against it too. However, once it's starts, we'll be behind our troops, our president and our allies 100%, regardless of how we feel about the president or the politics that got us here.

And I think the people on this fforum are civilized enough to carry on a dialog about a touchy subject without it becoming a reason for "falling out" with someone. But needless to say, I don't think anyone really 'approves' of war but I also don't think they'll blame the soldiers themselves, who are just doing their jobs. "Blame the King, not the peons" as it were!


(oh and don't blame me, I voted for Gore! LOL)