Feeling bored?
I recommend the following sites: they are guaranteed to amuse you more
than a little or at the very least use up a few minutes that you could
otherwise be using to do work or be semi-productive in some fashion.
- Big Moves dance organization
- I'd love to tell you how
wonderful the dancers are --well, I can, as I know several of the folks--
but I've yet to see them dance. One of these days....
- Pamela Z.
- How to describe Pamela Z.'s music... avant-garde
is empty, and electronic is inadequedate. I know: Go to the site and
follow the links; they're small files. You won't regret it.
- Joe Decker's Rock Slide
Photography
- I'd plug this
site even if Joe wasn't a dear friend: his images are stunning and often
display the alienness one can find in Earth's own wilderness. Go buy his
pictures now before you can't afford it and all you're left with is that
Ansel Adams stuff.
- Weekly Movie and Family Video Reviews
- Brought
to you by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, these
mini-reviews are actually useful and amusing (check out their reviews of
Queen of the Damned and Resident Evil. Updated
weekly; read them on Fridays while you're waiting for your fish sticks
to finish cooking.
- Wil Wheaton Dot Net
- Read the on-going
travails of Wil Wheaton, actor, geek, and genuinely funny guy. Will he
get recurring work as an actor or is he doomed to spend all eternity
as Riker's fanfic bitch?
- Astronomy Picture
of the Day
- As the site itself declares, "Each day a different
image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with
a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer." Always good
for a SensaWunda fix.
- User Friendly
- Okay, so
I'm only maybe the 400
billionth person to recommend UF, but it is a very, very good comic
strip. Worth checking out.
- The
Halfbakery
- Ever wonder where
marketing types get stupid ideas? Well, it isn't here (I hope). Lots
of ideas that seem to make sense. My own contribution to this site can
be found here. I'll leave it to
the discerning reader to decide whether it makes sense or not.
- Aahz Maruch's old
home page
- Tired of blink-tagged web presences that try to suck
your brain out through your eyeballs in an effort to convince you how
cool the site owner is? Try Aahz's old home page for a bracing change
of pace.
- TV Tome's Buffy the Vampire Slayer info
- I didn't get
involved in Babylon 5, but the Scooby Gang of Sunnydale, California (town
motto: "The brightest little Hellmouth on Earth!") had been my
longest-running current television Must Watch. Yes, I admit it: I am a
fanboy who greatly admires (yeah, that's a good phrase) Alyson Hannigan's
performance as Willow. The stories don't suck, either.
- The Erotic Adventures of Buffy & Evil
Willow
- Speaking
of Willow Rosenberg, this net.comic site is devoted to everyone's
favorite librarian-gone-bad-&-vamy-in-another-dimension. The drawing
style is getting more polished every week, and the wallpaper is a hoot,
too. Addendum: After a long time of being down, the
purveyors of TEAoB&W say they are moving the site and will be up
"soon." I certainly hope so.
- "How'd That Happen?" by Dan Savage
- One
of my personal hot-buttons is people who say things like "But I couldn't
help myself!" or "I had to follow my heart!" or, well, "How'd that
happen?" as ways of excusing their own assinine behaviors. Grow up, get
a clue, and read this article for an amazingly funny take on it all.
True story bonus points: I couldn't find the this article until I used
"peanut butter pussy" in the The Stranger's search engine.
- Pandemonaeon
- An eclectic band
that features things I'm very fond of:
mid-east rhythms and drums, trance-dance sounds, and a babe-alicious lead
singer. They let you listen to their entire album on their website
before you buy it, too.
That's it for right now. More as I feel like tossing them up here.
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