| One of the hazards of surfing the Web as much as I do is the overwhelming log of sites stored in my "Favourites" list. I zoom along, getting lost in a field of links and bookmarking left and right. My partner practices this approach, too, using the excuse that he’s helping me out, although I still haven’t found reason to write about foot fetish sites or Dita Von Teese.
The result is a long list of sites that never seem to make it into my column for one reason or another (usually lack of relevance to my current rant). I delete them in a blaze of glory, passing the torch to you, dear reader.
· nuala.puma.com is the yoga wear company with supermodel Christy Turlington as president. Not only can she mock you with great bone structure, she is the woman who brought yoga to Vogue magazine. I delete her out of principle.
· smallsquare.co.uk features an online Flash-based juggling simulator. Entertaining until it threatened to turn off the Visual Help option. Deleted due to lack of hand-eye-keyboard co-ordination. Use only in extreme cases of avoiding real work.
· homestarrunner.com is a strange haven for an unclassifiable marshmallow-like cartoon character. He sounds dumber than Bullwinkle the Moose and has a girlfriend named Marzipan. He has a Japanese pop-style theme song and friends named Strong Bad and The Poopsmith. The Flash cartoons are actually fairly entertaining in a really senseless sort of way, and you can buy your very own Homestar Runner T-shirts or play inane word games. The Homestar Holiday cartoon section features a Homestarloween Party with Homestar Runner dressed up as Kurt Cobain and Strong Bad as Carmen Miranda.
Hmmm, maybe I won’t delete that one just yet.... |
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