Thanks to the many readers who rallied to yesterday's call for good links,
I'm able to provide you with the following site-suggestions if you want
to marvel at the wonders of the World Wide Web:
Morgan and Banks
Now these guys really have a grip on this new technology -- or is this some
kind of intelligence test? Maybe they've just never heard of a redirect,
meta-refresh, or even good old hypertext linking.
Rating: Duh!
A Crazy Drunk Guy
What do you do when a drunk repeatedly annoys you by repeatedly calling you
on the phone? Well, you put up a web-page of course!
Rating: Wierd!
Wedding Cam
It seems as if voyeurism is one of the Web's biggest attractions -- and now
even the somewhat conservative Discovery Channel has gotten in on the act --
making it easy for people to join in the kind of festive celebrations that can
only be found in a Las Vegas quickie wedding.
Rating: Get A Life Of Your Own!
The Corporation
Do you ever wonder why those big corporate websites are so dull and boring?
Well here's an about-face -- a humour site built as a parody of those chilling
wads of corporate HTML.
Rating: A Good Chuckle If You're (Management) Board :-)
Nobody Killed The Kumara
Earlier in the week I pointed out that TheKumara.com was carrying a message
which suggested that it had been slapped with a court order preventing it from
publishing its usual menu of parody and satire.
Well it seems the whole thing was just a cheap publicity stunt -- a humorous
way of filling the space while the site's owner/operator took a break over
the holiday period.
So, the mystery is solved.
I wonder, however, if we'll see this little tactic used by other sites in
an attempt to get people talking and boost traffic levels? Of course I
couldn't possibly speculate... because of this court order you see ;-)
Spam News
Good news broke yesterday when it was announced that AOL would be suing the
pants of a porno spammer who sent junk email to its subscribers. Maybe if more
ISPs decide to get behind such actions the spammers will find their life a
little less comfortable and millions of kids around the world won't find their
mailboxes filled with solicitations to visit rather unsuitable websites.
And on the subject of spam -- I came across an interesting site the other
day called
SpamMotel.
It claims to allow you to track down who's been selling your email address
or breaching their own privacy code. It does this by issuing you with a
unique email address each time you use the service and allowing you to attach
notes to that address so that if spam is received, you can check which site
was involved.
It's a good idea -- but I suspect that only the most hardened anti-spammers
will bother.
Aardvark Weekly, Have You Got Yours?
Yes, it's still trickling out -- but the Aardvark Weekly subscription list
has grown enormously over the past two weeks which has required a bit of a
change to the back-end here so there's still going to be a few who haven't
received the latest edition. My apologies.
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