The Neat-O Links, July 2000 edition
Oh no - the Personal Ingenuity category is running dead even with the Collective Ingenuity category! Are people more clever on their own, or in groups? I continue to root for the individuals, but will be fair.


Personal Ingenuity

The Stinkymeat Project * Very detailed chronicle of a plate of various raw meats, secretly left in a neighbor's back yard.

Pointless Waste of Time * Talk about truth in advertising.

things I find on the ground * I only wish more people posted pages like this. I cannot say enough good things about it.

The Page of Bad Candy * This is actually two people, Mark and Ben, so I'm cheating a little by putting this under personal ingenuity. Together they seek out, sample, review and photograph some of the most hideous candy on the planet.

LILEKS (James) The Gallery of Regrettable Food * Takes a while to load, but where else are you going to find an image of Spry®? Also check out his Art Frahm picture essay.

Pie-Throwing Anarchist Noel Godin * The man who pied Bill Gates: one of the most fascinating people I have ever heard of. A true surrealist!

Find-A-Grave * I should put it under Reference, but it is a thing of beauty. Goes hand in hand with the Dead People Server.

Pee Wee Herman Worship Page * Beth Wapelhorst's exquisite shrine to one of the best TV shows ever. Bless her.

Bert is Evil! * Of all the pages I have ferreted out, this is the most popular.

Sea Monkey Worship Page * Includes two separate poetry pages, both for and against, in the spirit of objectiveness.

Museum of Jurassic Technology * If you can't make it to LA, and haven't read "Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder," check out their fine Web node.

The Bible in Pig Latin * An amazing scholarly achievement. As of 10/99 the individual books were being suppressed, but keep trying.

The Cult Of TINTIN * Includes links to suppressed Tintin drawings, portraying Tintin as a Eurocentric imperialist (who knew?)!

Roman Recipe Collection *Translated from MARCUS GAVIUS APICIUS: DE RE COQUINARIA; first into German, then into English. So, THIS was Italian cuisine before spaghetti: lots ot Caroenum (Boiled must). Mmm.

Flaming Pop-Tart Page * This is the text-only version. Use your imagination!

Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches * Or, try this one. It's Illustrated!

Mr. Potato Head * Sometimes called the Mr. Edible Starchy Tuber Head Page, for copyright reasons.

Living Island * Sid & Marty Krofft information hub. Includes their more obscure shows, like Lidville, about a boy trapped in a world of talking hats.

Uncle Aussie's Little Homepage on the Prairie * Found this with complete randomness. Check out the P.G. Wodehouse logic puzzle, or the Jesse Helms Mortality Tote Board.

Unofficial Subgenius Page * So they say.

Famous Pied Faces List * Includes mini-movies! If you think this guy has too much time on his hands, check out the next link.

The Pee Movie List * Just what it sounds like -- no, I don't approve of it, but it boggles the mind so much I had to include it.

* The graveyard of discontinued Disneyland attractions.

Collective Ingenuity

The People's Photos * Subtitled "An archive of pictures found on the street by me and you." A nice companion site to things I find on the ground.

Cruel Site of the Day * Rogers Cadenhead searches the Web so that you don't have to!

Portal of Evil * Lets everyone recommend unusual Web sites. Someone even recommended my Macaroni and Cheese box page, so you know they're good.

Memepool * Another group effort to let others know about important new Web sites.

bud.com * If it's on the Web, and it's neat and unusual, someone has submitted it to this site.

William McGonagall Appreciation Society * The worst poet in the history of the English Language, in all his glory.

WebFX Image Effects Generator * This will manipulate any image for you, why you can even make transparencies. Now nobody needs Photoshop!

The Annals of Improbable Research * Home of the annual Ig-Noble Prizes and other vital work.

Darwin Awards * The official Web site for folks who take themselves out of the gene pool, promoting Survival of the Fittest.

Celebrity Slugfest * The best use of Shockwave on the Net, now with Spice Girls by popular request!

SF Cacophony Society * The original and best.

The Church of the Subgenius * This is their official site. But you can never be too sure.

The Situationist Archives * Yes, you CAN read Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle online, in either French or English! Plus much more.

Voyager * Proving that socialist ideas and mass marketing do occasionally mix.

The Burning Man Archive * By now I've stopped attending, but it's probably still... interesting. Maybe. This site lets you live in the past.

Adbusters Culture Jamming with style! Also proud inventors of Buy Nothing Day.

Ian's Makeout Music * Only amusing if your name is Ian (and you are not a hipster with a goatee).

School House Rock * Enjoying a renaissance lately, so I almost didn't include it, but it is sure to be fashionably unfashionable again any minute now.

Vilnius In Your Pocket®: Lithuanian Cuisine * My former underling Katya is doing good works on the Eastern Front; here are some things to make and share. Or bury.

Chris Elliot "Get A Life" Page * With complete script archive! Does anyone care?

The Directorate of Time * Your tax dollars at work!

Mentos Art Gallery * The pictures change regularly, view them while you can. If you need Mentos background information, nothing beats the Mentos FAQ.

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