What could be cooler than having dolls for the kids to play with? Why, having cute little Osama bin Laden dolls of course! Each doll is packed with a semi-automatic rifle, and a grenade. It’s real and it’s happy tasteless capitalism in action folks. Go stare at The ‘Dirty Terrorist’ Dolls.
You can’t keep a good conspiracy down. For anyone who’s naive enough to think that the official 9/11 story is true – I recommend you take a long considered read of the of the events during The World Trade Center Demolition and the so-called War on Terrorism.
Staying with the story, take a look at the transcript of a presentation given by author Thierry Meyssan – and decide for yourself. who really was behind the September 11th attacks. Then, even though it’s probably appeared here before, do yourself a favour and, based on the official photographs at the Pentagon – see if you can Hunt the Boeing.
Just to show that there’s hope for all the geeks out there, trapped in a country where ignorance, cancer and beer are considered to be national virtues – take a look at what the richest man in the world looked like, some eighteen years back: Bill Gates Photo Museum.
Cheerfully obscene language alert for this next site. (Good, that ought to get the hit rates up.) Created, from the looks of it, by some happy-but-evil person in an advertising agency, it’s a cartoon strip with an awful lot of foul language and a rather different take on office politics. Tread cautiously towards Advertising Safety Guides
You’ve seen those car-dummies designed to give the impression of a passenger in your car – for alleged increased security. Well, how about one step further, and get yourself what seems to be an on-duty police officer to stash in your garden or on your roof (assuming you have a roof with space to spare) Get Homeland Security.
Time to get serious. As you may know, pet owners are a weird breed unto themselves. Consider the case of a woman called Miriam, who likes rabbits, to the point of owning 25 of them. Not content with making a page about her rabbits, she went one step further – and made 25 different web pages – one for each rabbit. (And people still wonder why there’s terrorism in the world?) Avoid the rabbit droppings en route to My Bunnies.
If you thought Thabo Mbeki had a problem with coherent speech, then browse the following site dedicated to the seemingly deranged sayings of a certain current US President – who makes Ronald Reagan look like Einstein. Run to Dubya Speaks!
In South Africa, the citizens seem to think that littering and urinating equals public art (gee, otherwise why else would they do it, huh?). Elsewhere however, public comment takes many different forms. For instance – take a look at an amazing collection of stencil graffiti, photographed in a variety of countries at The Stencil Archive.
Art rears its ugly head. For those of you lucky folks who recall that artists Van Gogh and Gaugin were friends (or at least for those readers who remember Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn in the film version of ‘Lust For Life’) here’s a slightly bandwidth heavy, but very interesting site, detailing their relationship with letters and drawings.
You’ve seen that ‘investigative journalist’ on local TV: now demoted, thankfully, to eking out a living selling a variety of US junk products. Well, how many of these ‘special-offer new-products’ are really and truly useless, is unknown – but take a look at a list made by a very cool US TV station, of similar ‘probably crap’ products, and read their reviews. The list has everything from ‘smokeless ashtrays’ to ‘Scratch Be Gone’. Go to Does It Work?
Time for some geek porn. (No, don’t worry, I wouldn’t actually share my personal fetish-pages with gentle readers) I’m talking about computers that, compared to the specs available today, barely qualify as being computers. Geeks clean your glasses, in readiness for the nostalgia at Old Computers!
All things going well, game reviewing will be starting up real soon on these pages which means you can have a regular info-source on the latest games. That aside, what happens when you combine the ultimate real-time simulation game The Sims with the ultimate Reality-TV show? Correct. You get The Sims Survivor! Take a browse and watch the bizarre shenanigans (before copyright lawyers find the site) as concepts and cultures collide at Sim-Survivor!
Until the next time, if pet owners and Isobel Jones don’t get me.
Ian Fraser is a playwright, author, comedian, conspiracy nut, old-time radio collector and self-confessed data-junkie. Winner of numerous Vita and Amstel Awards, he’s been an Internet addict and games-fanatic since around 1995, when the Internet began to make much more sense than theatre.