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Margaret
Tripod is about to reveal our new company logo; take a moment to sharpen
your logo awareness skills by trying your hand at Prophet Communications'
Leggo My
Logo quiz...just how entrenched in Corporate Americana are you?
Emma
The Why Files,
funded by the National Science Foundation, dissects the news in the way
your grade school science teacher may have done. It explains why planes
crash, how cross-species transplants work and what the deal is with Mad
Cows (similar to NYT's Science Times). It's a little clean-cut (it is the
NSF, after all) but perfect if you're always falling behind on Jeopardy's
science category.
Christina
Barbarian's Online Tests Page
For a so-called "Barbarian," this page certainly caters to those who enjoy
pondering the psyche's inner workings or revelling in self-discovery...
there are a wide assortment of personality and intelligence tests availible
for fun or serious contemplation. I personally recommend the "Color
Personality Test" for a short, interesting foray into knowing yourself a
bit better... I'd say it's not easy being green, but that's not one of the
choices! :)
Ethan
Remember the kid in the back of the bus in elementary school who was cooler than you because he had fake rubber vomit, or candy shaped like bugs, or a rubber heart that squirted blood? Well, he was cooler than you 'cause he had the Archie McPhee catalog, the world's source for rubber body parts, gag gifts and strange edibles since 1986. (Okay, so the chronology doesn't work for most people. Sue me.) Archie McPhee's catalog is now online, and you too can buy the Tequila Sucker, complete with worm, a complete set of Torah Personality trading cards, a brain-shaped Jell-o mold, or the Fez and Pez assortment. Don't ask - see it
for yourself.
Matt
Maximum Fitness -- This is the first installment of a new health/fitness web-zine. Who knows where it will go, but it has some cool articles on orgasms (clitoral vs. vaginal), quitting smoking, and the truth about chocolate.
S.P.Q.R., or Senatus Populesque Romanus -- Cybersites puts out this intense web-based interactive role-playing mystery
game set in an incredibly lush virtual Ancient Rome. Become a Roman citizen.
And keep your eyes out for the CD-ROM version.
Dan
Fans of The Tick
will want to race over to the Blue Crusader's all-encompasing homage page
like they're being chased by one of the Breadmaster's croissants. With
TICKtalk, TICKnews, and even TICK-kus ("Remember it's five, seven, five"),
the Tick page is a one-stop center for all things Tick. There's even some
useful life philosophy. As the big guy himself once said, "Life is a big
wild crazy tossed salad, but you don't eat it, no sir! You live it! Isn't
it great?" It sure is, Tick. It sure is.
Jesse
When I was debating the move to Williamstown, a friend asked "but where
will you get jungle CDs up there?" Throb records was my New York neighborhood source for elusive import and domestic jungle, trip-hop, techno-whatever beats. Ultronic is their site. With RealAudio samples.
Also, www.skivermont.com has a map with links to major Vermont ski areas. Not the most elegant of sites,
but it has links to the snow reports some of us dream about.
Bob
To all those with a desire to warp plastic wasp-waisted dolls and a
perverse attraction to very yellow backgrounds, check out the Barbie-Bashing Virtual
Art Exhibit. Enough said.
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Randy
Talented Animals! Friendly Natives! Scary Thrills! Impossible Dreamers! Roadside America is an eye-popping smorgasbord of kitsch the authors have found coast-to-coast along the backroads and old highways of America. This is a hilarious throwback to the days before interstates robbed this country of much of its distinctive, er, culture. There are over 6000 bizarre oddities to check out, and more are being added each week. See "The Stuffed Head of Fire Horse Fred," "The Weeki Wachee City of Mermaids," or even "The Garden of Eden" (it's in Lucas, Kansas, of course). Use the electric map to chart a trip (complete with Quick Time movies of attractions), or let the "Travel Brain" do the driving. You can even join the "Smileage Club" and contribute your own favorites. Start planning your next vacation now!
Josh
In my spare time I publish a zine called Hermenaut, which uses far-out
philosophy to examine and criticize our daily lives and culture. One of our
finest columns is written by a mysterious figure named Slotcar Hatebath, whose unrelenting attack on the pieties of youth culture is simultaneously humorous and savage. Check it out.
Bo
Hotwired: It took me a year to like Nirvana, too.
DeWitt
CNET just debuted gamecenter.com, a fantastic resource for the computer gamer. Of course, as far as gaming is concerned, most people stop at The Happy Puppy Games Onramp and don't need to go any further.
Other top computer gaming sites include Gamesdomain, at their original
British location, and their U.S. mirror. Also, Gamespot provides reviews and strategy guides for hundreds of the newest computer games.
It's all more proof that the computer game industry that fueled the home PC
revolution of the '80s will continue to thrive in the era of the Internet
as multi-player online gaming explodes. In fact, online gaming could rival
real-time news media as the foremost application in the ever-expanding
networked computer market.
Kara
In my job, where it's relatively important to know if anyone out there's
writing about Tripod, I frequently use Search Central from i-World. A
great resource, it not only gives the option of searching their own i-World
site, but also offers an expanded media search, searching publications
ranging from Advertising Age to Fast Company. Pretty cool, if you're into
that sort of thing.
Mike
Geek Cereal is a site written by
seven infoserfs living in (where else?) San Francisco. Although I usually
hate these insider-ish personal diary sites, the whining factor is
relatively low at this one. Take a look for some perceptive comments about
"geeksploitation" and Web culture in general.
Janet
Part of playing musical offices at Tripod involves getting to know your new office mates and their musical tastes. Good thing for me I share space with the funk kings of Tripod, Nick and Jon. What's more, we all share a love for the band Chucklehead.
Check out the samples and learn why the floor shakes upstairs in the White House.
Tung
Pro... Eudora Pro. E-mail is my life and I live or die on Eudora Pro. I
answer so much e-mail every day that I start to experience withdrawal
symptoms if I'm not tapping away at a keyboard and hitting that send
button. I'm always looking for ways to make my e-mail a little easier to
deal with, which is why I was so happy to find Andrew Starr's Eudora
page. It's a great resource for all kinds of information on my favorite
e-mail program. If you use Eudora, definitely check out this page.
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