The Internet is full of amazing applications and goodies to help subvert the social order (which is why governments are wetting themselves and struggling to come up with repressive legislation to control it). But, for now, you can rest easy, because we have permanent 24-hour access to things like the Remote Control Ukulele Reggae Machine.
Something guaranteed to take the eyes out of children from half a block away is this next little gadget, which I really wish I’d had when growing up. Picture a heavy duty, high powered ‘spud gun’ – an air-rifle which shoots bits of potato. Go drool over The Mother of All Spud-Guns.
This next site’s appeared before in this column, but it’s too good to not repeat – besides it helps lower the profits of a number of fast food chains, so it has to be good. For exact copies of a wide range of fast food items – from Macdonald’s pseudo-food onwards – start your journey towards home cloning of tasty foods, at Top Secret Recipes. Then there’s the blatant theft of Macdonald’s Secret Recipes. Or, if you’re a Kentucky Fried Chicken fan, and don’t like the insane prices charged for pieces of a bird you can buy whole for a lot less, browse through KFC Recipes And pause by the delights of More KFC Copycat Recipes. Alternatively, for cool photo’s and recipes of what can best be described as food-porn, go drool over Yum Food!
A Christian tried recently to make the sad mistake of justifying their meat eating by quoting chapter and verse at me, and once I’d stopped laughing in sympathy at this weird delusion, I pointed them towards the extremely detailed injunctions in the Bible towards vegetarianism. Go take a good read of the following article – the section dealing with ‘no meat eating’ begins about 15 ‘page down’s’- at You Mean That’s In The Bible? And then for more fascinating cutting and pasting of texts for offline reading, dealing with this massively influential book, that only Christians seem to bother quoting, usually when justifying their unchristian actions – go grab the various texts available for free at Christianity and Bible Study Alternatively, for a site that’s bound to be a hit in the pews this Sunday, which sells sexy lingerie for believers. Go stare at Christian Panties!
Gear change. Regular readers will recall I covered the sign language chalked on walls by tramps to give other fellow traveller’s vital information, at Tramp Signs
Well, hardcore geeks will be aware of the spreading hacker hobby of hooking into unguarded wireless networks in cities, (which, by the way, is something you can do with a Pringles chip can, a laptop and a coat-hanger). Anyhow, the tramp-chalking meme has spread, and now the geeks are chalking info on walls, alerting fellow geeks as to what companies can be tapped into. Read the Wired article about Wireless Networking Wall Chalking. Then – to show the ‘chalking on walls’ meme has reached the groins of geeks, dip into the dubious pleasures of Whore Chalking!
I’ve had fun, in my disreputable past, getting insanely drunk with deaf and blind people, and recently have been staring in horror at local TV’s treatment of the deaf and blind as slow-thinking humans who need to be talked down to. So it’s rather nice to see this stupidity being corrected, via the ever-evolving local TV show called Deaf TV. Go browse through their website and say hi, at Deaf TV.
And talking about the disadvantaged, go read this rather frightening look at America now, which sounds suspiciously like South Africa as it was back in the days of Apartheid: Dangerously Stupid People – War on Terror Tips.
Weblogs (or ‘blogs’) continue to spread online, giving us all a glimpse into the lives of other people – sometimes interesting – often just arbitrary. Some members of Greenpeace started their own blogs, which made the official organisation nervous at first – but now the Greenpeace blogging is spreading. Go browse through the daily musings of members, at GreenPeace Blogs.
Ever had the fun, pain and anguish from living next to ide a neighbour who seems to have just learned to walk erect and while wondering about the secret of fire, moved in next door to you? Go checkout the misadventures of having a Redneck Neighbour!
And continuing in the ‘living dangerously’ vein – how about a site that details what to do in an emergency. Of course, it doesn’t cover ‘what to do when you have a mad president who seems to like the idea that one in five will be dead within 10 years or so’ – but hey – you can’t have everything. After all, where would you put it?. Find some handy hints that could save your life at Extreme Survival.
Finally, have you ever wanted to get naked with Beethoven? Or perhaps you’d prefer to play with Mr T, Dracula or even James Brown. Well, at last you can. Just when you thought things couldn’t get weirder, how about rubber ducks in shape of your favourite celebrity? Don’t drop the soap as you splash your way over to Rubber Duck Celebrities.
Until the next time, if KFC assassins don’t get me.
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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.