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Margaret
In preparation for my favorite holiday of the year, I recommend a trip to the Dark Side of the Web, where you can sample from a veritable witch's brew of haunted houses.
Emma
The fray is worth checking out just for its section names: criminal, hope, work and drugs. It's run by a sometimes-disgruntled Hotwired employee but it's not another Suck. In fact, one of the pieces in the work section is called Stoked: On his first day at Hotwired, the author tells his workmates -- Sucksters-to-be -- that he's "stoked" to be there and they laugh at him. He's no longer so stoked to be at Hotwired, but the fray is his outlet and he's pretty stoked about it. Every article includes feedback, so chat about the best coffee you ever had in "drugs," and tell the fray if you're stoked too, in "work." Maybe it's a little hokey, but there aren't too many places on the Web where it's cool to be into what you do (in and out of work). Cynicism's hip, but the fray won't make you feel guilty for having a good day.
Christina
The Downtown Mystic Page. Ah, memories. I spent a great deal of time growing up right here... every Sunday, my family would stop by our favorite main street restaurant after church for brunch. We still do, in fact, whenever we're all home. It wasn't the most happening place in the world, despite that it's sometimes referred to as the Soho of the Connecticut coast... but my church deacon's fish market is on this page, as are two stores I worked in when I was in high school and college. If you're in the area, check it out.
Tung
I was fortunate enough to attend the first game of the American League Championships Series between the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles so my pick is the official Yankees 'Web Center'. Considering that it was to be the second Major League Baseball game I have ever attended, I relished the opportunity to pay $16 for a hot dog, fries and soda. It turned out to be well worth the price of concessions, as the Yankees prevailed in the controversial first game.
Dan
New in town? Want to fit in? Be one of the cool kids? Yeah, me too. And I've found the Amazing Parker Quintuplets to be just the tool I need. Kate, Jane, Eve, Doris, and Juliet form kind of a 'hipness posse' that should help you make friends and spiff up your Ramen meals in one shot. As Doris says, "Ramen -- it's not just food, it's your empty wallet staring back at you, laughing."
Also, with the L.A. Lakers tipping off their seventh championship run this month, it's only fitting that I recommend their information-packed homepage. Shaq's getting all the press, but keep an eye on young Kobe. Kid's gonna be a star.
Janet
Want to stay in the Halloween mood? Check out my friend Andy Oakland's page on how to make the ultimate in gory buffet, The Meathead. Wonder why I couldn't make his party this year.
On Tripod, leap from your desktop and take a Literatour. It's one of my favorite ways to feign vacation.
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Bob
While most television shows are now beginning a new season, syndicated Babylon 5 is still playing catch-up. But don't let the silly decisions of a few Warner Brothers programming suits discourage you from checking out the last 5 episodes of the third season -- it's some of the best stuff B5 has ever done. And because the show has a continuing plot-line which manages to be less demanding than Twin Peaks and more coherent than The X-Files, you may wish to check out The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5, for an incredibly well-done introduction and encyclopedia of the show.
Randy
MojoWire is a Web site from the publishers of "Mother Jones" magazine, a staple of the leftie diet. The site features back issues, updates on old stories, chat, polls, and searchable databases which deliver a wealth of timely information. Whether you're keen on tracking down the biggest campaign contributors, following the dirty money in the "Newt-o-Rama" ethics expose, or discovering the depths of big tobacco's depravity, you'll find something hee to inform and outrage.
Josh
My beloved wife of one year sometimes complains that the stuff I prefer to listen to around the house "just isn't music." "What do you mean?" I always ask defensively, "It's people playing songs on musical instruments and singing, isn't it?" But of course what she means is that the awkward, embarrassing (some might even call it "bad") music that I listen to with so much appreciation shouldn't be compared with music by "good" musicians. Ha! Luckily for people like me there's an incredible website devoted to a specific genre of (let's not call it) "not-music." The American Song-Poem Music Archive documents the history and specifics of those "song-poems" which used to be churned out by studio bands in the '60s, based freely on those poems one was always being encouraged to send for "FREE EXAMINATION AND APPRAISAL" in the classified ad sections of pulp magazines. I've heard some of these, and let me tell you, they are truly amazing: Check it out.
Bo
Hot Spring Spas. I'm in the market.
Nate
What's in, what works, what matters, is selection, focus, feedback, interaction, unfocus, breaking down the language in a way that suggests you are grooving in an altogether different syntactical score.
Mark Amerika
Amerika Online
Feel that post-modernism has already had its heyday? Wondering what's next? If you are interested in the future of fiction, The Alt-X Publishing Network comes highly recommended.
Jesse
@tlas. A nifty Web site designed by Post Tool. Not for the bandwidth-impaired.
Mike
I'm one of those people that watches the Super Bowl for the ads. Imagine
how happy I was when I found Microscope, a weekly 'zine that
reviews the most compelling banner ads on the Internet. Bad puns, clever
animation, eye-popping graphics abound. Take a look now.
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