Ron Harper (head of National Pig Carvers Association) has created a web site devoted to the lost art of pig decoy carving. Fine web-based entertainment!
B. Clifford Shockey (a.k.a. Sir Ciaran MacDarragh) has created a web site which truly must be experienced. Really. This is one of the best hyper-documents I have ever seen.
Step back into the fourteenth century and into the dreams of young Alix, a monk trying to survive the madness of everyday life.
This site contains a few moderately large images which are well worth the wait.
"Welcome to Kingswood Kranium, your one-stop Web site for the strange, the unbelievable, the blatantly untrue. Though many visitors may be unfamiliar with the specific workings of the human brain, rest assured that only the pretense of any actual knowledge is required here. The fact that you have reached this site (a complex process involving letters and punctuation, we're told) is evidence that you're probably too smart to be here in the first place. But enough about you..."
"...an experiment in provocation, mordant deconstructionism, and buzz-saw journalism. Cathode-addled netsurfers flock to shallow waters - Suck is the dirty syringe, hidden in the sand. You wanted feedback? Cover your ears and watch your back ... it wants you too."
*This site is usually irreverent and occasionally profane. You have been warned.*
"For the first time ever, the Great Mysto will open the vaults of magic and reveal some of his favorite time-honored secrets."
This site features information about a number of popular parlor and stage tricks.
Yes, Archie is online! For those unfortunate souls unfamiliar with the, err, "normal" Archie McPhee product line, it consists of things that would be difficult or impossible to find elsewhere. You know: voodoo dolls, rubber chickens, spud guns and high-quality eyeballs.
Wonderful stuff all about your favorite brine shrimp. Even poetry:
Dessicated, in a packet;
These ain't monkeys: what a racket!
Add some water, watch them hatch;
Disposable life, but there's one catch:
They don't appear as illustrated;
Monkeys and shrimp are not related.
- hyperguy
Godiva Chocolatier and Chocolatier Magazine, two of the most noted authorities on the sumptuous subject of chocolate, continue to satisfy your cravings for knowledge, fun and self-indulgence. Bake up batches and batches of decadent recipes from Godiva and Chocolatier. Devour sprinklings of trivia and tips, and heaps of facts and folklore, all about chocolate. Feed us your thoughts about what tempts you. And of course, indulge your desires with chocolate treats.
Cool presentation, Cool attitude. For Example:
"Kids these days...look at what they call food and imagine what it does to their soft little brains. 6500 kilowatts of high fructose non-toxins, mainlined every morning before school - face it, America's First Graders are on drugs. No wonder they're daydreaming one minute and spastic freaks the next: the side effects of the most important meal of the day are a textbook methamphetamine high..."
The Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce and the Wichita/Sedwick County Partnership for Growth have teamed up to bring you this beautiful web site extoling the virtues and history of Whichita. You can get a fishing report or look for a job - it's all here in this electronic introduction to the "Peerless Princess of the Plains."
Entertaining and educational tidbits about man's constant companion: the cockroach. Dr. Betty (the Bug Lady) Faber introduces viewers to the fascinating world of insects in a non-threatening manner. This site includes audio, video, and an opportunity to "ask Betty" stuff about cockroaches.
Flap your wings! Fly! Be Free!
Nathan Chronister has produced a site covering the joys of those amazing machines that fly by flapping their wings. Pictures, technical information, and even MPEG video.
Keith Ohlfs has created a site which includes some useful and scary things like a program that generates beveled and shadowed buttons for use in your own web pages. This site gets a fair amount of traffic and is running on a relatively slow machine, so expect delays.
This nicely illustrated site features things like "The Daily Noise," "Penny's Skulls of Fate," and the "Excuse Generator."
The same high-quality content you'd expect from the Utne Reader presented as a real web-based publication.
Site design and implementation by Lon Koenig
©1997