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by Mathew
Ingram
GET SHOCKED
Macromedia's Shockwave was supposed to be for Web designers to add cool multimedia ads and whatnot to their pages, but it's mostly been used for goofy games -- many of which are collected at Shockrave.
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SHOTGUN WEDDING
This hilarious Shockwave game, in which you have to shoot the city feller with shotgun pellets in order to keep him from running out of the church, is just one of the fun ones at a Southern site called Y'all.
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MISSILE SILO TOUR
Take a tour of an Abandoned Missile Silo somewhere in the American Midwest. This can be dangerous, the authors say -- not to mention illegal. But taking the Web tour is perfectly safe.
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MR. EDIBLE TUBER
One of the original interactive fun pages on the Web, the inimitable Mr. Edible Starchy Tuber Head is still worth a look.
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GET ZIPPED
If you've ever seen Zippy the Pinhead underground comics, you'll know what it's like to add Zippy maxims (like Bo Derek ruined my life) to your surfing through the magic of a meta-HTML generator..
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FACIAL FUN
Combine the eyes of one movie star or celebrity with the head of another and the mouth of a third, and see what you get.
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Oh sure, you're busy. Isn't everybody? Still, you should take a break now and then and just goof off for awhile. It's good for you. And if the Web is good for anything, it's goofing off (provided you have all the proper plugins, of course). If it's Javascript stupidfun you're looking for, check out my Javascript Tricks page.
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Dangerous Antics
-- For those who like to push the outside of the envelope when it comes to the laws of
physics, this is the page for you. After suitable warnings about trying this stuff at home,
check out the movies of making dry ice bombs, huge slingshots and bungee cords, and what
happens when you microwave CDs. Also has links to pages like this one, devoted to lighting a barbecue using
liquid oxygen.
Visible Human
Project
-- Thanks to the U.S. National Institute of Health, you can have a look at a human being,
sliced up into tiny little slide-show size pieces (some convict volunteered for this
assigment). Hard on the bandwidth but worth it.
The Surrealist Compliment
Generator
-- This defies description. I'm pretty sure a CGI script merges phrases from several
languages and then translates them, to produce a suitably surrealistic compliment. Is it a
compliment or an insult? It's hard to tell sometimes.
The Postcard Server
-- Thanks to the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, you can send a
digital 'wish you were here' using Impressionist paintings, etc. The recipient gets an e-
mail and then goes to the Web page to pick it up.
Interactive Patient Home Page
-- At this sophisticated site set up by the Marshall University School of Medicine, you can
diagnose a virtual patient and then try to figure out what to prescribe. Luckily, if this
doesn't work you can try again (actually, come to think of it, real doctors do this too).
Deadpool
-- Guess which celebrity is going to die this year. Bob Hope? C'mon, that's too easy. Based
on the Clint Eastwood movie of the same name.
Internet Pizza Server
-- No, it's not real pizza. But it does come pretty fast, and you can get some really
interesting toppings (like say, nuts and bolts).
The Nerd Quiz
-- Are a real, honest-to-God nerd? Try it and see. Having a pocket protector barely
qualifies you to take the test. Know what EMACS stands for? Good start. P.S.: Bill Gates
blew the meter right off on this one.
Kabalarians
-- The Kabalarians are a quasi-religious order that believe in a kind of numerology, in
which your name determines your fate. They can analyze your name and tell you whether it's
good or bad, they say. Oh, yes... and the leader of their group in the U.S. has been
charged with taking advantage of several of his young female followers.
Dean Martin's Sunny Summertime
Horoscopes
-- The Deanster gives you some predictions, couched in the pickled phrasings of this
veteran Rat Pack member. Cool, man.
Elvis Sightings
-- This is another thing the Web is good for. Just use the online form to submit your
own Elvis sighting, or your own version of how he and his friends engineered the hoax
of his death. Then read the submissions of other surfers who are just as nuts as you.
FakeMail, pranks & gags
-- A nice try at providing a kind of institutionalized gag humour for the Net, including
something called FakeMail, which consists of gag e-mail messages you can send to friends,
such as a legal-looking statement about a pet-paternity lawsuit, and so on. Of course, it
costs you money, which is kind of a drag.
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