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Net Gains (May 28, 97) |
Site of the week : Silly sites
Suggested login : Use a TCP for more silliness, but a shell account is OK
Claim to fame : Uselessness value
You'll never believe what all people put up on the Net. I found
this site called The Silly Zone (www.wam.umd.edu/~twoflowr/aisle3.htm)
The horrorscope page on this site had just one line predicting
my future : "You will die today". I made my will, leaving
all my money ( 8 rupees and 75 paise - all of it ) to my brother,
and my 14 silver fillings, 2 silver cappings, 1 false tooth and
one chipped tooth for a special lady.
But since my horoscope didn't come true - here am I, telling
you about the madness that awaits you at this site. The top of
their list has a link to a nude gallery. Allow me to save you
a lot of surfing time - what you'll see here are ten different
screens in succession that have warnings of nudity. After that,
you get to the meat - an image of a duck without feathers ! If
you're logged on, knowing the transfer speeds we normally get
here, you'd spend something like 5 minutes just to get a massive
dhoka at the end of it all !
The next interesting link from here is The Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything (RBBTDDA, for short) (www.wam.umd.edu/~twoflowr/button.htm). The page claims to be the Mystery Spot of the Internet, where thousands flock every day, pushing it, attempting to get it to do something; all in vain. Now this page has a 13Kb image of a button that has "Push" inscribed across it, and is clickable - but when you do click, nothing happens ! (There's a scientific reason behind it - it's linked back to the very page it's on !)
What follows, on the RBBTDDA page is 41 Kb of feedback from
people who've visited the page, and pushed the button :
- "It's a useless button. Why I just paid sixteen bucks in tickets and packet charges just to see it is beyond me. Can I get a refund?"
- "Finally, I've found one product that performs exactly as advertised."
- "Huh? A button that does nothing? Must be a new Microsoft product..."
- "How do you keep a net surfer busy for hours? (Click on Really Big Button)"
- "WOW!!!!! That was incredible! You should charge money for this site!! I got the biggest rush since I saw Free Willy 2!! Wow, how exciting!!"
- "I had come to the conclusion that the actual nature of the button was deterministic, and was an analytical function existing in a seven-dimensional phase space: RBB = f (r, E, w, t)"
If at the end of the 10 minutes it will take you to go through
all the responses on the page, if you still haven't had enough
of RBBTDDA, there's a link to the home page of a guy who got a
button like that in real life ! Sheesh ! What fun !
The last link I followed from The Silly Zone was Cyberstare
: The Virtual Reality Staring Contest. Your competitor in this
contest is a huge eyeball. When you do blink, and your conscience
doesn't allow you to discount it, there's a "I blinked"
link for you to click - that just tells you that you lost. I'd
recommend that you avoid trying to win this contest - staring
at a colour monitor with a huge eyeball is scary - I still get
nightmares about it !
If you're a foodie interested in Bug Blox, Banana Worm Bread,
Rootworm Beetle Dip, or Chocolate Chirpie Chip Cookies, Iowa
State University's Tasty Insect Recipes (www.ent.iastate.edu/misc/insectsasfood.html)
is the place for you to visit this week. Besides teaching you
how to make and devour these yummy bug concoctions, this page
also links you to the home page of Rainbow Mealworms, Inc.
(www.herp.com/rainbow/rainbow.html ) that sells insects
in bulk, specialising in Mealworm, and Crickets. At least you
won't have any trouble getting the ingredients.
All you readers with pet cats, read this carefully : Misha
The Wonder Cat (www.rainfrog.com/mishacat) is a homepage
dedicated to a cat named Misha. Now Misha's this cat that can
do stuff corresponding to commands like sit, stay, come here,
go up (onto furniture), get down, move (out of the way), jump,
scratch (on his post), and give the owner a kiss (which I can
do better !) What gets this cat his own home page is the fact
that he is toilet - trained ! Misha's mistress is benevolent enough
to also include a practical guide on toilet-training cats (www.rainfrog.com/mishacat/toilet.shtml),
and a FAQ on toilet training cats.
There - readers with spare time on their hands now have some
direction in life. The Net always has space for that next useless
home page …