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| Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra | ||
| Shuffle Demons | ||
| Chester Smith Saxophone Quartet | ||
| The Front Lawn | ||
| They Might Be Giants | ||
| Ashland, Oregon | ||
| Sam & Max | ||
| Derek's Page | ||
| Don't Panic! | ||
| Red Dwarf | ||
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Web Reviews |
The following list is listed in order of my current fascination with the sights:
Calvin & Hobbes at Marijns
http://www.okidoki.nl/calvin_and_hobbes/
This is a beautiful site packed with information, pictures, poems, and comic strips. Very professionally done with everything divided into sections and decorated tastefully (intensively) with Bill Watterson Art. The Universal Press Syndicate is re-running the old strips on the web. This site links to that comic, but by going to The Official Calvin and Hobbes Site you can see all the strips published on the web thus far as well as a collection of strips about Calvin's Snow Art, character profiles, and more.
Northern California Lindy Society
http://ncls.com
The 90's swing movement is something that is right up my alley. This site is an excellent source for information on the entire movement, with photos, movies, sounds, and many many links organized beautifully. However, I can't bring up this site without pointing out the homepages of some of my favorite bands:
Back to the Future... the WebSite
http://www.bttf.com
A detailed look at one of the greatest movies of all time. Trekker's generally get a bad rap for being obsessively over productive on web sites and extremely nit-picking, but you should see Back to the Future fans. The scary thing is that the movie almost always wins when scanned for mistakes! The page has information on the Official Fan Club, hard to find merchandise, plot intricacies, great graphics, DeLoreans, and the campaign for a Back to the Future Part IV. The best page about a movie series.
Fibblesnork LEGO Guide
http://www.fibblesnork.com/lego/guide/
This site is a perfect example of how the internet provides the oportunity to provide an immense quantity of very interesting information that is totally useless. This guide to the world of lego has indices of virtually ever set created since 1978, with pictures, ratings, number of pieces, figures for every single one. They are cross referenced with time lines, information on LEGO auctions and other amazing Information. I managed to find out that my first lego set still intact is called the Cosmic Cruiser. This is very amazing. I'd like to work for the Fibblesnork people.
PythOnline!
http://www.pythonline.com/
Voted "Derek's Best Web-Find of 1996" by all facets of Derek's Personality, even the ones with some sense of taste and sophistication... well, we're sure they would have voted had they existed, but in the mean time my budget is going to take a hacking because of the Shopping section. Wholesome games like "Hang Knight" and "Catch the Cow" can be played right online, and the Spam Club is full of memberaship benifts.
Vogon Heavy Industries, Online Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
http://www.vogon.com/guide/
Definitely the most astounding thing of any kind ever. No, not the book by Douglas Adams, but the electronic-book featured in the books by Douglas Adams. This is the absolute best use of the World Wide Web and Javascript I've ever run across. Version 2.0 has sounds and all sorts of cool things. I did a lot of research involved in this project myself, and am currently working of Ver 3.0. The initial loading brings the question of Bandwidth to a whole new level, however, once you've started it's as quick as lightning. It's definately worth checking out if not bookmarking and putting down as your default home page!
Cartalk.com
http://cartalk.com/
NPR's infamous radio show brings Click and Clack to the web. I have no clue how they pay for this stuff. They have highlights of each week's show in RealAudio dating back to when they started the site in 1995. But after their biographies, things get quite unpredictable. They have letters people have written them, show transcripts, free-classifieds, actual car information, dating services, trivia contests, and god knows what else. You just start clicking and after awhile you find yourself thinking "what's this got to do with Car Talk?!?!"
The Big Steamy Thing
http://www.tmbg.com/
They Might Be Giants now have the coolest official band webpage on the net. They've got lyrics, album covers, articles, interviews, acronyms, and quicktime movies about brooms. If you're not necessarily interested in They Might Be Giants information, the neatest bits are found by clicking on the cow labelled "Quantity."
The Junior Ganymede Club Book
http://www.serv.net/~camel/wodehouse/
One of the greatest crafters of the English language, the world has known, P.G. Wodehouse wrote some of the most entertaining stories about some of the most entertaining characters ever concieved. He wrote over 90 books about the upperclass British twenties lifestyle, and his works are sometimes hard to keep track of. This site helps tremendously, as well as providing some information about contacting other Wodehouse aficionados on the web and in the world.
The Bonzo Dog Band
http://bridge.anglia.ac.uk/~systimk/music/bonzos/
One of the great English bands from the 60's, the Bonzo Dog Band brought the defuct Dada movement alive in their music, and a heck of a lot of humor as well. This is a very complete website with album covers, lyrics, explanations, post-Bonzo information, and a incredibly complete discography.
The Hat Sharpening Shop!!!
http://www.students.haverford.edu/dkeevil/
The #1 site of all time. Nothing too fancy, but some of the most unique resources on the web, including Hat Sharpening, Jeeves and Wooster, The Shuffle Demons, The Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra, The Chester Smith Saxophone Quartet, The Front Lawn, They Might Be Giants, Red Dwarf, Sam and Max, and more!
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