You do the weblog, part II

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Your turn again. If you aren't HTML proficient, just paste in the URL and we'll cut and paste it into our browsers. If you are HTML proficient, you might want to add a TARGET="_top" tag to your link so the new link will open outside of the frame here. If you don't know what I'm talking about, don't worry about it; just paste in the link.

So anyway, go ahead. Tell us about all the great sites you've found lately.

-- Anonymous, April 17, 2000

Answers

Okay, a few writing-related links, since it seems a lot of readers are also writers, or wish to be:

And even though it has nothing to do with writing, The Hunger Site does good stuff.

Joanne

Parietal Pericardium



-- Anonymous, April 17, 2000

I just came across this pro-anorexia page and found it deeply disturbing. I've never had an eating disorder so I don't claim to know what it must be like but... this page is just creepy.

Wasting Away on the Web

-- Anonymous, April 17, 2000


That's pretty bad, but this one is worse:

Empress Anorexia

... because she's a dancer and a model and therefore is more likely to be idealized by vulnerable girls. By the way, she started the Anorexic with Pride club on Yahoo, the illustration on which is enough to make me go scarf a few french fries.

Wait, this was supposed to be about sites that are enjoyable... uh... I really liked the Weird injuries thread on Hissyfit.

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-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000


The weird injuries thread is here:

http://www.hissyfit.com/forums/Forum13/HTML/000303.html

Sorry about the screwup above.

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-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000


Empress Anorexia's site was really disturbing, so on a happier note, try this one...

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/index.html

Fun site. Has alligator farms, giant balls of twine, muffler men and more, from all across the country. These were the kinds of trips we went on as kids. We were white trash, but we had fun! :)

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000



Here's a place where you can go vote on whether or not you want Dave Van to leave this forum forever.

Forum Poll

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000


If you enjoyed the sushi fortune-telling, why not take your addiction one step further with delightful sushi cursors and icons? Although personally, I'm a sucker for her Hello Kitty stuff... (thanks to the truly wonderful Pop Culture Junk Mail for that link)

And if work's getting you down, why not indulge in a little creative cursing? b

(fingers crossed all that html works)

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000


damn, that'll teach me to try to be a smart arse. What I meant was...

sushi icons and cursors: http://www.nephco.com/cursorsandicons/food.html#Sushi Pop Culture Junk Mail: http://www.planetmercury.net/weblog/ curse me!: http://www.tower.org/insult/insult.html

sorry everyone...

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000


Dave, I was gonna vote for you to stay, but then I saw that you're Canadian. Just kidding!

Hello Kitty's Tea Party. It's interactive. Hope my link works.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000


Two things -

That first eating disorder website was terrifying. This little gem from the guestbook - cotton wool soaked in orange juice really fills up the stomach!! is so sad. And I bet Kate Moss is thrilled her photo is all over the place, particularly as she's not actually got any eating disorders.

Dave Van - have you thought about starting your own forum? You seem feel a need to be really prominent in this one, so I was wondering whether maybe that would be easier for you and everyone else concerned. Trying to get people to vote to stop you from contributing here is a bit 'cry for help' in my opinion.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000



I have to say that I was a bit amused to find that only 11 people (myself included) have cared enough to cast a vote. Worth pondering, methinks.

Anyway, I should be doing my own weblog, but I'll get to it in a few minutes. In the meantime, go read some David Sedaris. Yeah, it's an old link that I swiped from Melty, but I don't give a care.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000


I voted too. I'm all for democracy.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

I voted, too. I voted for Dave to continue posting. There wasn't a write-in option, though, or I would have voted for Dave to continue posting, but cease and desist acting like an asshole.

He's going to take whatever the results are as a mandate of the people endorsing whatever he does, of course.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000


Well, I certainly don't want to struggle through my menstrual cycle without his advice ...

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Oddly fitting in with the comment directly above, there's this link:

Overheard.

If I'd overheard Jackie in person instead of on the forum, I might have sent that comment in...

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000



OK, this is an "on this day in history" link.

The San Francisco Earthquake

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000


Laura, my computer won't open that link for some reason, so I don't know if I've been complimented or insulted. But I'll presume it's complimented, because I'm an optimistic soul!

I've been reading some more eating disorder sites. There seems to be a strong trend of bad spelling and web design and eating disorder worship ... it's spooky. If I was Calista Flockheart and saw my picture all over the place as the Number 1 Eating Disorder Pin-up Girl I'd be a little worried. And I'd scarf down a pie.

Here's my contribution for the day ... I don't know how to do any fancy html stuff - http://rinkworks.com/dialect

I just emailed my mother and sister entirely in 'redneck'. Fantastic fun.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000


Anyone who travels on commercial aircraft (especially back in in coach class, aka "steerage") will appreciate this article in Salon about smelly travelers. Sorry, I'm an HTML ignoramus, so you'll have to cut-and-paste:

www.salon.com/travel/diary/hest/2000/04/18/smell/index.html

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

I haven't read all the jokes at the gizo archives but the ones I've read were... tasteless. But funny, mostly.

Some interesting articles:

Joanne (Parietal Pericardium)



-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

It's definitely a compliment, Jackie. It's a site with overheard snippets of conversation. If I'd overheard you say that, without knowing what you were talking about, I would have thought about it all day long.

Take a look at this: Parents' Comments on Baby Names. Keep in mind that these people are reproducing.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000


Jazzelle? Tiffin? Laura, you're right...the baby names link was freaky! Don't people realize they're saddling their kids with these names for life? I mean, hell, I'm all for creativity but this was ridiculous.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Laura, re: the baby names link -

Oh, my dear LORD.

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Oh, Lord! That baby name forum is the funniest thing I have seen on the web in ages. Ages.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Talking of weblogs, Squirrel Bait is Blogger's current blog of the week.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Oh, man, the baby names forum was hilarious. I must share that with Jeremy.

We should post a warning telling people not to visit the anorexia site during lunch. Ouch.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000


Laura we haven't done a stitch of work (pun intended ) around here since you sent the babynames forum! We're thinking of naming our next clinic budgie 'Tiffin'. ;-)

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

RE: The baby name link

I suppose I can feel better by knowing that I'm going to graduate school for psychology and one day I will be able to counsel all of those poor, oddly named children.

Or perhaps I should just cut to the chase and email those insane parents.

Either way, that site walked a very thin line between funny/ frightening. I hope some of those people weren't serious...Of course, I do know two children named Zylie (with a long i after the z) and Exton (prounounced EXTON, like Exxon with a T). I don't pretend to understand thier mother, either.

-erin

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000


slightly off-topic - my boyfriend jokes about our first child being called Quambatook - after a town in western Victoria, Australia. "Come to me, Quambatook". We got him seriously concerned once when my sister was in a ward at the maternity hospital and we got the girl in the next bed to pretend her child was named Quambatook or "Quamby" - he didn't know whether to laugh or sue her for name-larceny. I'm not game to post in the baby-names forum though - they might just do it. Scary.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

I'm thinking most of the people posting on there are teenagers. God, I hope so by the way they spell and type. That was one of my main obsessions in junior high, naming my children.

Never but never did I ever scribble the name "Daisy Glenn" in my math notebook!

(You should see my Social Work Research binder though. "Daniel, Joanna, and Daisy Genzoli" scribbled all over the whole thing. I guess some things never change.)

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000


Stepping off the path a little with the rest of you...

I got a letter from an admissions counselor somewhere in Virginia. The name of the signer? Liberty Bell. That's a bad enough name to have to go through life with in the first place. It's even worse when you've got to sign it to several thousand pieces of impersonal mail each year. Yikes.

Stepping back onto the path...

Another amusing site: The Darwin Awards, given to people who die as a result of their own stupidity. (I first discovered this through Salon, so I'm sure many of you have seen it.) I had to laugh reading much of this. There were moments, though, when I'd think, "God, this is true." And it got a little sobering. What a way to achieve immortality...

(flightless)

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000


Straight from the baby naming site:

A really great way of coming up with a unique name is by taking a tired name and adding a new first letter! So Caitlin could be Maitlin or Paitlin! Sarah, which is so overused, could be Rarah or Jarah!

So said 'Tindy' on the 20th of January last year. What a swell idea.

Much love,

Fackie.

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000


... I'll just email over and over again until the rest of the world is awake ...

I found a great site (actually, it's one of my company's TV channels' sites, so it wasn't too hard to find) and here is the link:

Flash Boyfriend.

Choose the 5th hot button down the sidebar (the guy's face), follow the instructions, and have an online relationship with a cartoon caracter. It's very cool.

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000


I got a kick out of this...

The Pitt Stop

It's Brad Pitt's diary! Hahahahaahaa...

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000


And once you're bored with ol' "Brad," you can marvel at the following, and then wonder what would happen if you put both of them on the same bed:

Vulvacious! The Penis Pillow

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000


Nannette, you know what frightens me about the Penis Pillow? That it's Scotch-guarded for "easy cleanup". Ew.

-- Anonymous, April 20, 2000

Does anyone else think The Pittstop sounds an awful lot like Stee?

-- Anonymous, April 20, 2000

Muffet, that's exactly what I was thinking!

-- Anonymous, April 20, 2000

Think your parents are weird? Check out my sister's friend's website. And to think this girl came out normal. And sane, let's not forget sane. I must say though, it must have made for some interesting Christmases!

-- Anonymous, April 20, 2000

Something offensive but cute for Easter: www.jesusdance.com

-- Anonymous, April 21, 2000

James, I found that site about a year ago. I showed it to my VERY straight-laced parents. Their reaction was horror, soon giving way for hysterical laughter. Great site to post!

-- Anonymous, April 21, 2000

Free online Tarot readings, with your choice of deck:

http://facade.com/attraction/t arot

(I can't believe I just posted that. I don't believe in any of that that occult shit, even if a Web page did just do an apparently perceptive reading for me. I mean, I'm a Scorpio. Scorpios aren't supposed to be that gullible.)

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2000


I don't even care that this thread is as old as the hills, because I've finally started my own journal!

Sorry, that was just shameless pimping.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000


Damn! It's at jackiec.diaryland.com, and I don't know why that link wouldn't work.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

That Brad Pitt diary site explains why Stee's updates have been sporadic this week.

On the subject of baby names, check out the Utah Baby Namer site:

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3450/

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000


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