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"What does data look like?
This is the geometrization algorithm
applied to a binary computer file."
Click on music and numbers at Bewitched.com.
Computer Life: Real world tips on computer use.

The Mad Revisionist: "Dedicated to the manufacturing of truth through the discarding of evidence." These folks think that the Holocaust revisionists didn't go far enough.

A Journalist's Desktop: One page, a few hundred links that a journalist, or anybody else for that matter, may find useful.

"At Warrantynet you have the ability to register warranty information, view registered items, buy extended warranties via reverse auction, receive product and recall information, get theft protection, save on insurance and repairs, locate resellers and repair shops, and more."

Then when you need help reminding the corporation of their warranty policies, click up Squeaky Wheel or  eComplaints, where you fill out the complaint form and they do all the rest, from webpage creation to email notification of your target company. Could speed up receipt of that refund (see above) or help to adjust the attitude of the service writer at your car dealer.

If you're looking for a car and have been discouraged by the Hard Sell sites on the Web, try Edmunds. Less hype, no registration required and I especially like the Lemon Link (to carfax.com) that allows you to check out the history of a used car by entering its VIN.

I've been seeing a lot of these on the internet. I just wouldn't want to look at them too often because the first is:

Click for Honolulu, Hawaii Forecast...too darn cute... 

...and this one is just plain annoying.Click for Honolulu, Hawaii Forecast
How about another one, not like the other ones!
   Enter a City or US Zip:  
For local weather, think "Local": UH Department of Meteorology and NOAA Hawaii

TenLinks:  Encompassing all engineering disiplines, this Technical Directory lists only the "Top Ten" links in each category and each subcategory. Try CONSTRUCTION|PRODUCTS| and then pick one. Their collaboration with 
4specs.com is a model of working the web. These guys are GOOD!

Palimpsest: "A manuscript on which the original writing has been erased to make room for other writing". Short fiction. Hi-impact, really short fiction.

Constructor is a java animated drawing toy. Fun for the whole family, and probably responsible for more unproductive workplace timewasting  than any other page on the web today.

At notharvard.com they're using free education as a customer acquisition tool. Teach a man to fish and maybe he'll buy a hook...or a cookbook.

It's getting too easy to satisfy a morbid curiosity. From the Texas Department of Criminal Justice comes a page full of the Last Meal requests of 212 convicts, who may or may not have eaten them.
 


OK, that's plain bad taste...and this is just plain BadArt. "The work here must not simply be bad, but compellingly bad! It must reach out with crude style, failed technique or unintentional humoruous content, shake the viewer and say, "You cannot take your eyes off of me, drop your jaw and stare!" 

Physics 2000: U.Colorado@Boulder's Physics Department has put together an entertaining collection of Java applets that provide an interactive learning experience. Better than Saturday morning cartoons.

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NO CREDIT CHECKS

Pay Day Loans: The rich get rich and the poor get poorer.

Operational Significant Event Imagery: Archive of high-resolution, detailed 
imagery of significant environmental events. From space the tempest always appears to be in somebody else's teapot.

Track of the Forked Tongue: "Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties", Volume II (Treaties). Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904. The full text of 380 treaties concerning Native American Indian tribes, organized by year. 

Wednesday Night at the Drawing Club
 "Here is an intriguing look through the eyes of a group of artists who meet every Wednesday to hone their figure drawing skills. By collecting the work produced at each session and presenting it in individual windows, the artists let us compare the individual results obtained from a common subject model. The differences among the images might draw your interest, but what really catches the untrained eye are the similarities - the same jaw line, the sweep of hair - all drawn identically by different people." Click on "Slideshow."

Crank.net: Cranks, crackpots, kooks and loons on the net. You are not alone.

Overlawyered.com: Heard the one about the guy who launched a $2.2-million lawsuit against Starbucks Corp. after his penis was pinched in a toilet seat? Or the phone sex operator in Miami who won a workers' compensation settlement after claiming she was injured by regularly masturbating at work? Do you think we get the legal system we deserve, or deserve the legal system we got?

Findlaw's  WRIT offers opinions from courtroom to cafe and a less emotional, more objective view of individual cases popular in the public forum.

Here's a couple of links for folks who think they might like their soap opera delivered by the Internet. At Fuckertown there's a "world shaped by Hollywood and ravaged by Madison Avenue (in which) a young beauty queen with a dark secret confronts her demons when fate leaves her no other choice." E-Mail Shows will deliver an ongoing series. It's paperless pulp fiction!

"Simply put, since the 1940s, the Burnelli Aircraft company has been alleging that the US government and a cartel of aeronautics manufacturers and banks have ignored the safer, far better Burnelli fuselage design in order to further their financial interests." Whether you're a conspiracy nut or not, after visiting this website you'll remember it everytime you board an airplane.

'Course then you might not want to look at Crash Pages Crashdatabase: a database of more than 4,000 fatal commercial airline accidents since 1908. But you can.

Maneki Neko is Japanese Happy Cats. Join the club. Click on the cat.

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