So. Another random 23 links from the archive, please, Mr. Random Thrower Upper of Links...
(As usual, please remember not to bookmark this page in the hope that it will mutate into a useful resource. It won't.)
1 - DOSCHK HOME PAGE
We would be more impressed with this software site if there wasn't a Javascript error on it. We have no idea if the software is any good.
John Duncan's astonishing poetic essay on sex, crime, death, war, murder, spirituality and the Problem Of Absolutely Everything.
3 - Dream Jobs
Holy shit we haven't looked at this in a while. We feel queasy...
4 - Dave's Video Game Classics
... so much so that we need to run here immediately and download something else we haven't played since we were eleven. Someday we're going to write that piece about how amazing it is to be able to play the old eighties arcade games again...
We were a little worried when our famous 'random link thrower up' machine threw up this one, but then we went there, and have yet to finish laughing.
6 - Now
This 'random link thrower up' machine has had a good day. It's that man again! Still there.
Even more of mez, but I for one can't see too many websites by her. This one proves that yeah, there is really good shit in Geocities, and is also an essay without words on the subject of 'cluttering the web up randomly with weird interesting shit.'
Tom Griffin! Who are you? Where are you? Why did I bookmark this page? What does it all mean?
Whatever this used to be, which I really can't remember, it's now turned into 'Livelink Pinstripe' - the source for business information. 'Our database is refreshed in its entirety every 2 weeks.' Can't be very big, then, can it? And, hey... what's all this redirection shit? Why don't the fucking pages stay still? Ok, let's give it a go and see if it can find something. Nope. Broken images, broken HTML on the results page. Suggestion to search again 'in a few days.' Maybe RageBoy's consultancy shtick thing isn't nonsense after all. There really are a *lot* of complete morons out there.
Damn. Whatever this was, it looked great, but it isn't there any more. It's an, uh, unusually informative 404 not found page.
11 - White Cube ::: A Project Room for Contemporary Art
We were supposed to interview someone from here, once. We actually got as far as arranging the interview, but ended up not doing it, for some reason. Probably this was because we were too slack, but we like to think it was because we realised that doing the interview would only serve to perpetuate this rather unpleasant coterie of artists working mainly (not entirely) in the marketing and PR fields, most of whose work does not really speak to us and is not intended to. And we weren't really cut out for journalism, to be honest, anyway.
12 - 7-Eleven Home Page
Here is some work which speaks to us. We're not always sure what it's saying, but it speaks to us. Perhaps it will speak to you too.
Ah yes. The 'World's Largest Collection of Crappy Ad Banners'. I liked that, and was proud to have produced, with my various Swallow ads (which will never be seen on this site), some of the very crappiest ad banners of them all, with a click-thru ratio of something like 1 per 768 page views, which is slightly more than the figure it would be for accidental slips of the mouse, showing that people hated my banners so much that even the stupid ones were extra specially careful not to click on them. But now they've gone and swallowed the Micro$oft penny, may it choke them, and word is, the unsubscribe rate has shot through the roof. Both me and the other guy I know who was on it have now removed our banners, which is 100%, albeit off a sample of 2. All we want to do now is to remove our email addresses from their database, but that's a little more tricky...
14 - Add Me!
This page does not say 'Add Me'. This page says 'Fix Me'. (For more information, visit site with Netscape 3 on a Win95 PC, if you can bear the thought..)
15 - ActiveState Tool Corp. - Professional tools for Perl developers
We like these people. We couldn't do our job without them. It's like that warm fuzzy Sinclair feeling all over again, just like the old days. Only... nah. Nothing.
16 - Fierce Dot Com
Might look pretty, but it's also fiercely opposed to ALT tags for some reason. Fun browsing with images turned off. Full of pontificatory reviews of other sites, all assuming that everyone on the Web has just gone out and bought a big flash new computer...
17 - Welcome to Nedscape Nedcenter
Still funny, and much more peculiar than we remembered...
'Cellular Automata, of which Life is an example...' Pure joy.
19 - Yahoo! - PR Newswire
Another throwback from the days of pretending to be a journalist. This page still makes my eyes close of their own accord.
20 - space bar: porthole
Come and see if I'm online.
21 - Definitive Guide to UK BBS'
Shh. It's true. There is a net. Never mind the HTML. Look at the information.
22 - Programmer's Virtual Library
Bugger.
23 - GameSpot UK
We just had to unsubscribe from this lot too, partly because we got pissed off reading about games that won't run on our machine, but mainly because they took it into their heads to bombard us with six or seven requests to fill out their marketing questionnaire. Maybe they *wanted* us off the list. We don't know. We'll never know. We don't care much, either.
losing what plot?
The Internet Is A Lot Bigger Than It Looks
The Hexagon Series by James McCabe
The American Crappie Association
Speak In Fonts by Howard Covert