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The Obscure Store and Reading Room: Offbeat stories gleaned from news Web sites and links galore. Updated daily by Jim Romenesko of the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press. Click here to read a Salon.com column about this site. The Smoking Gun: Exclusive documents -- "cool, confidential, quirky" -- from government and law enforcement sources via FOI and court files. "Guaranteed authentic." Hilarious. Archived. dummy.down - Reading Between the Lies: Tongue-in-cheek articles celebrating the absurdities in world events and how they're reported. A home for cynics. Godling's Glossary: A cynic's dictionary by Dave Krieger, based on Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary and L.A. Rollins' Lucifer's Lexicon. Suck: The classic Web site. Brain candy Kissthisguy.com - The Archive of Misheard Lyrics: Personal stories -- some of them hilarious -- about misunderstanding song lyrics. You can submit your own stories, as well. The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter: It's a constantly updating warehouse and archive of cool links to Web sites. Some of the sites are brand-spanking new, some are off-the-wall, some can save you money or time and some are just funny. I subscribe to these guys' weekly e-mail newsletter because they're great. The Unofficial Smiley Dictionary: Sunglasses on head B:-) Crybaby :'-( Yawnfest |-O and many -- probably too many -- more. From EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet. Celebrity Hangman: Beware: If you're offended at seeing an animated celebrity swing from the gallows, better skip this one. Good for a smile. New celebrities added occasionally. From hotpopcorn.com. What Does Your Phone Number Spell?: Online calculator. Type in a number and it "spells" words according the a telephone keypad. Mine looked like a DOS code. It also translates letters to phone numbers. Cheech Wizard's Cauldron: This Cajun guy has a fun and eclectic personal Web site. Family recipes, cool links and much more. Odds On Sporting Events: Get the Vegas line on upcoming sporting events. Brain broccoli BRETTnews: You may know Brett Leveridge from his spots on National Public Radio. He's an Oklahoma-born wordsmith who transplanted himself to the Big Apple and found himself a nice little writing career. He's beyond fabulous. His first book, Men My Mother Dated (and Other Mostly True Tales) will be published in spring 2000. There are excerpts on the site. He's witty and insightful; just this side of brilliant. Streambox: Absolutely gobs of all kinds of things to listen to and/or watch on streaming media. From the usual live radio broadcasts to unusual canned stuff, like kooks claiming to be John Wayne's lovechild or cooking videos or press conferences of the high and mighty. It's all free and updated regularly. IQ Test: Quick fun. Riddle du Jour: Sometimes easy, sometimes not. Today's answer is posted tomorrow. Winning entrants eligible to win a T-shirt or something. Urban Legends: This is the archive of the newsgroup alt.folklore.urban. If you haven't been there, do so now. It's a moral imperative. UL is vast like the Library of Congress and searchable. Brain Candy: Riddles, jokes, insults, poetry, lyrics, quotes. Brain Teasers!: Quick fun. useless-facts.com: Updated daily and archived. Has some lists, including unusual acronyms and presidential useless facts. For instance, Andrew Jackson's parrot had to be removed from his funeral service because of its cursing. Educational! Osprey Cam99: Web cam pointed at an osprey's nest. Good view. The camera is off until nesting season in spring 2000. If you like Web cams, go to this Yahooligans! Web-cam links page. It links to animal cams, city cams and more. A little gossip Fametracker: This joint is a hoot. If you like your celebrity gossip and blind items served up steaming hot with heapin' helpings of wit, then don't be late for a meal at Fametracker, which bills itself as "the Farmer's Almanac of Celebrity Worth." Utterly silly This to That: Need to glue a glass thingie to a ceramic thingie? Go here to see what kind of glue you need in darned near any eventuality. Maybe not utterly silly, but certainly designed for one of the narrowest demographics I can fathom. Stupid.com: Very stupid merchandise, games, jokes and more -- like stupid pasta. For sale are disgusting things, such as the $3.99 scorpion candy "InsectNside," which is a hunk of candy that looks like a bar of glycerin soap with a real scorpion inside. There's the reproduction electric chair that goes for $1,095. And my personal favorite, "Titanic-Bot," a toy ocean liner that transforms into a robot ($7.99). Wait, I just found "Choka Ca Ca" candy that comes in its own diaper ($4.99 -- in pink, blue or yellow packaging). There are lots of photos of all this stuff. But the ad copy is the real draw for me.
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