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>> last uploaded dec 28, 2005

new sites are at the bottom of each category. moockmarks are also as a single netscape bookmarks file. (note: right now i'm leaving in dead links for historical purposes. one day i might overhaul everything and add an option to not view dead links.)

- i just like these

* earth and moon viewer
extensive live images of the earth from outer space. views from above most large world cities, plus lots of other options.
* anime cafe home page
reviews, listings and explanations for japanese animated movies.
* the hampster dance
a certified waste of bandwidth
* icepick.com
a truly wired house...a guy hooked his fridge, doorbell, trashcan, toilet, and cat up to the net. get stats on and pics of the things he's wired.
* grid models
this guy maintains an info/fan page on GRiD Systems Corporation's products. GRiD patented and made the first laptop.
* a chronology of computer history
extensive year by year list of notable computer history events. pure and simple.
* compass camera
toronto traffic reports via live webcams
* spacejack.org
independent game developer/artist mike linkovich maintains his paintings, games, and online community at spacejack.org. try your oldskool skillz at spacejack for windows, an addictive 2d shooter with wicked soundtracks, online high scores, and demo recording features. also try scrap, a 3d helicopter game, or soulride, an amazing physics-based snowboarding game. mike's community boards let you discuss and review films, games, music, etc. if you're a developer, don't miss the game programming resources for java and c under "games>> resources".
* leisure town
an incredibly copious amount of r-rated bendy animal figure comic strips made with live models.
* starwars - ascii
truly, truly awesome. the first star wars movie converted to animated ascii art.
* conan the barbarian - soundtrack
the whole soundtrack of the barbarian and the destroyer. plus wavs and other sounds.
* fading ad campaign
frank jump's effort to photograph as many old ads painted on buildings as he can before they are torn down or covered over. thanks to judith zissman for this one.
* welcome to furniture porn!!
my hosting is not free...please click on my sponsor's banner so i don't have to start charging for my site!!!
* watching the namespace
steve champeon graphs the live disappearance of two and three letter domain names. (complete with source code).
* footbag worldwide information service
the official site for the sport also known as "hackey sack".
* calamondin
judith zissman finally has her own site of cultural, techno, arty observations & experiments, though i'm hoping she'll still send me neat things to explore.
* infiltration
info on urban exploration of restricted areas like tunnels, transit systems, tall buildings, abandoned sites, etc. recounts adventures with photos and explains how to go there.
* newgrounds
one man's personal voyage through irony and satire. damn this stuff is pretty funny. mostly full of animations that pick on annoying pop-culture phenomena. famous for the now-banned teletubby fun land, and the hampster dance assassination game. created by tom fulp
* underman's 2001: the hal transcripts
every word spoken by the hal 9000 computer in kubrick's 2001 (and 2010 if you care about that).
* blogger.com
you go to blogger, you provide a web page template, you create chronological entries whenever you want, and blogger posts them to your own site via ftp. damn.
* ascii.pike
convert an image on your site to magnificent colour ascii art.
* classic gaming vault
downloadable roms for all the old arcade and console games. use mame to play.
* southtothefuture.com
a web novelty store with a healthy dose of savvy.
* battlebots
real video of home made robots controlled by their creators in fight to the death cage matches.
* sissyfight
an elaborate multiplayer shockwave cartoon game with little girl kids who try to humiliate each other at school. funny shit...conceptualized by the staff of word.com.
* brix builder
a java-based lego building simulation app.
* btdoya
one man's expression of exasperation at the dot coms.
* plinko's 404 research lab
praise for the 404 page, plus info, jokes and a list of the best 404's around. if you don't know why i like this, try hitting a broken link on my site...
* nerve.com
well designed, hip ezine on sex and sexuality. distinctly 'net feel with modern writing, poetry, and photography.
* explodingdog comes to earth
the prolific sam brown offers up daily illustrations of his captioned stick men. some of these are really really funny? cool? philosophical? ? [thanks for pointing this one out judith]
* fuckedcompany.com
compete against other visitors to be the wisest prognosticator of web-corporation failure.
* eric harshbarger's lego pages
eric takes lego sculpting to an excessive level. puts my measly 23 models to shame...
* arcade@home
large collection of resources on mame and other console and arcade video game emulators. plenty of links to roms too. arcade@home is a front-end to mame (makes it nicer to load and play the games). don't miss: arcadeathome.efront.com/misc/Vcsclip.mov
* cafepress.com
send this site your illustrator, freehand, or other artwork and they'll put it on tshirts, mousepads, coffee cups, you name it. *then* they'll let you skin a store front so people can buy your shit. they take a cut, you make some cash, or maybe you just get your favourite design on a mug. pretty cool. (thanks to ben chun for this one :)
* trip.com flight tracker
give flight tracker the name of an airline and a flight number and it'll show you where the flight is right now on a graphical map. sweet. (thanks to jeremy clark for this one...)
* bilbana (racing cars)
build an electric car track then race cars around it. solid stuff. (shockwave 8 required)
* celebrity crank calls
crank calls with celebrity sound bytes. (Arnold Schwarzenegger). fucking funny...
* the internet archive
one effort to archive the web's content. browse snapshots of a huge number of websites back in time.
* web-based ascii font generator
create decorative ascii-art text in dozens of fonts. based on figlet (http://ianchai.50megs.com/figlet.html)
* video computer system (atari video)
a short film created entirely with atari sound samples and oldschool graphics. by the brazillian band "Golden Shower".
* threadless
submit your tshirt and poster designs here. best shirts are picked regularly. lots of good designers have stuff up. also has a discussion community and a pic post for avid tshirt wearers.
* trash80
this dude creates gameboy inspired techno. great stuff, and man is he hardcore!
* AtariAge
killer site with all the information you'd ever want to know about old skool ataris.
* gameskins.com
t-shirts for gamers. get the classic WASD config or Gauntlet's "food" icon on your shirt!
* the old computer dot com
old-school atari and intellivision tv commercials from the 80s. classic!
* me6.ca
funny videos of dudes putting themselves through outrageous pain
* qdb: top 50 quotes
holy shit if you've spent any time on irc at all you're gonna die reading these conversation snippets.
* audiopad
a tactile computer interface for generating electronic music. by james patten, mit.