SURFING the same Net, day in and day out, one gets bored with the usual stuff. So the other day, I went online in search of stuff that was different. In fact it was way off track.
News of the Weird www.newsoftheweird.com truly provides news of the weird. It is truly the most widely-read bizarre, but-all-true news feature; a genuine gold standard of weird-news reporting. Business is apparently good for “pet psychics” and “communicators” who not only claim to understand animals’ emotions in human terms but work with a client base that has, and includes spiders, an iguana, snake, a skunk, hawks, camels and cockroaches. They can do most of their work remotely by having the pet stand close to the telephone (at about $25 for 15 minutes). hey, at least it makes headlines!
For food recipe buffs and if you are one of those people who love to try new recipes, then there is www.lavamind.com/food which has utterly outrageous recipes. This web site is billed as the gross but tasty food page. The link offers such delicious-sounding recipes as ‘Cheddar Coffee,’ ‘Mustard Crunchies,’ and ‘Sunflower Worcestershire Delight.’ Why not treat your friend or loved one to an exquisite seven-course holiday dinner featuring all the tasty treats found on this web site? They’ll remember you till eternity and you’ll get that inner glow that gives the satisfaction that you’ve helped expand their palette — and, chocolate-covered worms not withstanding, what better gift could you give than that?
But seriously, if you are looking for disgustingly delicious food, www.ent.iastate.edu has the recipes for you. Insect recipes, that is. Yes, food that has actually animals in it. How about a deep fried grasshopper? Will it be original recipe or extra crispy?
Most of us have ‘friends’ who are so annoying that you can’t help but think bad about them. And just in case if you haven’t come up with something bad to do to them, then there is always, www.justatip.com. There is a huge repertoire of tips on difficult situation to handle in daily life giving along with simple and effective solutions.
Another rather useless site is www.projectmastro.com. This site enables you to perform major self surgery! These people claim that ‘Project Gastro’ is a unique consortium of academics, clinicians, theorists, gastroenterologists, endocrinologists, self surgeons, computer programmers, virus developers, substance abusers, substance abuse advocates, body builders, steroid enthusiast, pot growers, kleptomaniacs, sufferers of irritable bowel disorder, sailors, drunken sailors, pharmacologists, primatologists, hallucinogen advocates, political commentators, and water fowl experts.
This remarkable group of highly skilled individuals works together, under the direction of the ‘Project Gastro Discretionary Oversight Committee’, to lead the world towards a more perfect tomorrow and to develop hardware and software applications for today’s hungry clinical marketplace.
Coming to a more homely issue, if you are that someone who wants a baby on discount rates, then www.discountbabies.com is the first, biggest and best person-to-person baby trading community. Discount babies is your place to find the baby you want. You can also sell the babies you have and to make a few enemies while you’re at it! There are atomic babies, smelly babies, sporty babies, generic babies, satanic babies and much more. This site is truly bizarre. But then, think of Discount Babies as a giant dirty ally with dozens of men in leather trench-coats selling babies, right at your fingertips. Whatever your need, odds are you’ll find it at Discount Babies: there are over 2,000 million zillion trillion categories and more than 2.5 gazillion-billion auctions a day.
With nearly 2000 puns www.bigpuns.com is the web site that of more than eighty categories, including animals, history, politics, religion and my favourite, food. And if you’re looking for puns, you have to radish the thought of a web site that caters to the truly weird among us who love puns. And, if you aren’t a fan of puns, I don’t carrot all. Leaf me alone, peas.
If you collect handcuffs (doesn’t everyone?) then you absolutely have to visit this site www.handcuffs.org. The site showcases handcuffs from all over the world, with an emphasis on vintage American handcuffs created from the time of the American Civil War through to the 1970’s. The site highlights the value of cuffs, stories on how they were used, a guide to the companies that make them, a bibliography of books about handcuffs and more. There’s even a section on that perennial favourite, thumb cuffs.
My favourite link is Escape Artists and Their Crafts, which explores the art of Houdini and others like him. If you’re ever caught in a pair of handcuffs and want to find out more about just what exactly is binding your wrists, this place is a sure fire escape from your manacled blues.
Of course there is always Joe and his www.yoioe.com is the site which boasts photos of every figure, every variation of every figure, and every single weapon that came with said figure.
You can view figures both in and out of the package and even peruse a gallery of bootlegs and prototypes. Go Joe!
Fro movie buffs there is www.moviemistakes.com. This site tells us of the mistakes that are ignored by the movie makers. For example in The Matrix, there’s a scene where Agent Smith is interrogating Neo. After Neo’s mouth is sealed shut, and he backs into the corner, you can clearly see a reflection in Agent Smith’s glasses where Neo is seen calmly sitting down in the chair. The Movie Mistakes website is filled with over 15,000 such mistakes in over 2,000 different films. Some of the mistakes are technical and some are continuity errors, such as the scene in the classic Wizard of Oz when, at the start of the movie, Dorothy walks along the pig pen fence and then falls in. When Bert Lahr picks her up, her dress is miraculously clean. With a multitude of reports on all sorts of different movies to choose from, this is a fun web site for movie aficionados and casual viewers alike. After perusing this site, you’ll never look at a movie the same way again.
And last, but not least, there is www.blank.com which is completely blank! Exactly the way my brain is right now after watching so many weird sites. The site is just a few in the vast virtual world of the cyber space. All one needs is a computer and a weird mind to see and get the weirdest information on the Net.
SURFING the same Net, day in and day out, one gets bored with the usual stuff. So the other day, I went online in search of stuff that was different. In fact it was way off track.
