For every truly useful and informative web site, there must be an equally trivial and frivolous one. This is the yin and yang of the internet universe. But just because a web site is devoted to bubble wrap doesn’t mean it is any less important than a page dedicated to ending world hunger, does it? Well, alright, it probably does. But it is this heterogeneity that gives the internet a vitality and uniqueness that is unparalleled in any other media. This column is dedicated to these mindlessly fun, sometimes intriguing web sites.
This Week’s Theme - The Random Generation
The dissTron - http://www.disstron.com/
Includes such snappy comebacks as “My friend told me you do the chili dog with Phil Donahue!”
Jimmyco Random Fortune Cookie Generator - http://www.jimmyco.net/cookie.html
Includes such optimistic fortunes as “You will drown in a canal.”
The Death Clock - http://www.deathclock.com/
Just in case the dying-in-a-canal fortune wasn’t depressing enough, the Death Clock will pinpoint the exact date of that fatal occurrence (as a friendly reminder that time is running out).
The Louis Farrakhan African Name Generator - http://www.fadetoblack.com/namegenerator/?
I have thrown away the white man’s name of Christina Brzustoski and will be known from this day forth as Zuwadza!
The Surrealist Compliment Generator - http://www.madsci.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~lynn/jardin/SCG/
When you just can’t think of what to say to compliment your mate, you could always try one from this site, such as “You mutter such objects of equine delight, while in a basket of hounds and toes, that the mind's ability to sew together slices of mordant ivory becomes tamed with visions of Tamils in Constantinople.”
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