Ishouldbeworking.com www.ishouldbeworking.com Where slackerdom is celebrated as an art form. Sure, there are the usual mind-numbing games and unproductive links. (If the boss walks in while you're cruising the International Society of Hot Sauce Aficionados' site, just hit the Panic Button and your screen will jump to a bogus encyclopedia.) Check the boards for valuable work-avoidance tips. One layabout's advice? The "bad-back ploy." Hey, it netted him a cushy new desk chair and an excuse for frequent "stretching" breaks. Now he's got more time for dreaming up ways to torture the boss, another topic popular with these poor slobs.
Urban75 www.urban75.com Whom do you want to belt today? Bill Gates? George W. Bush?Barney the dinosaur? Go ahead, click Punch on this U.K. site's home page, then get ready to roll up your cybersleeves and step outside. Alright, maybe smacking famous folks silly isn't your cup of tea. How about warping 'em? (Who says Al Gore is wooden?) If your face of choice isn't available for electronic-ahem-manipulation, the nice chaps at Urban75 let you nominate new ones.
Gallery of Regrettable Food
www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html If Father really knew best in the 1950s, he would've spit out half of what was served to him for dinner. One look at the vintage cookbooks on this site is enough to set contemporary stomachs a-churning. Feast your eyes-and eyes alone-on titles like Gel-Cookery (As Seen on TV!) and You're Really Cooking When You're Cooking with Seven-Up, which include such recipes as 7Up glazed ham. All we can say: Give thanks to the culinary gods that meaty Jell-O has gone the way of poodle skirts.
www.mtn.org/quack Okay, so the electric belt some guy invented a hundred years ago did not exactly provide relief for anybody's liver disorder. Heck, we bet it didn't even deliver the promised "soothing electric current." Snake oil and quackery get undressed at this online museum, revealing inventions like the Battle Creek Vibratory Chair (to stimulate the intestines). But if you want to see the weight-reduction eyeglasses, you'll have to visit the real museum in Minnesota.
Find A Grave
www.findagrave.com Did you know that the Native American princess Pocahontas is buried in an English churchyard? Or that Delta bluesman Robert Johnson has two graves, since no one is quite sure where he was buried after being poisoned by a jealous husband? These are just some of the many revelations at this site, which shovels the dirt on the final resting places of the rich, the famous and the barely notable.
WebcamSearch.com www.webcamsearch.com If you haven't yet discovered the stultifying, er ... voyeuristic, thrill of watching a Swedish family remove food from its fridge, then click here immediately. This Webcam portal's got something for Peeping Toms of every stripe. Okay, so that New Zealand suspension bridge bungee cam didn't offer much action. But the wildlife was plentiful at the Africam watering hole, with all those mud-wallowing elephants. We're actually grateful that things were quiet at the Dentcam, live from a New York City dental office.