Dinosaur Disaster at The Week Behind

Netdisaster

Here's one you can use to taunt your friends who have websites. Type in the address of any website: any site you'd like to punish, or whose destruction would be fun. Then choose any one of thirty some catastrophes the target will suffer. The original webpages are only converted on the fly and on demand. The actual, original, non modified pages can be reached anytime by clicking the "original site" button. For webmasters, there's instructions how to prevent your site from being attacked; and alternatively, how to add a disaster or disaster selector to your site. Try the Demonstration Disaster of the Version française.

Netdisaster - Destroy the web!

Dinosaur Disaster at The Week Behind

(Recursive) Nuke Disaster at Catch of the Day

"Caroline of Assisi"

The Minor Candidate Report

After traveling to New Hampshire to follow candidates, journalism students from Vermont's Saint Michael's College created a website providing access to all 42 candidates for president (and vice president) in 2008. All the major and minor candidates are listed with their individual website address included as a live link. My favorite is perennial candidate Jack Shepard, a Minnesota fugitive living in Rome. All these minor candidates were willing to pay $1,000 to get on the New Hampshire ballot so the choices in your state may vary.

The Minor Candidate Report

A political comment on the left?

Linguisticuffs

An open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English. Eternal September was bad enough, but with the advent of user-driven web content, the creators of the StupidFilter Project were driven to action. The current plan is to release source code for incorporation into content management systems, blogs, wikis, etc. Firefox and Wordpress plugins are also planned. To avoid eliminating all human discourse, the StupidFilter will rank text in a manner similar to spam detection engines. Based on prose style alone, the StupidFilter will identify self-evident stupidity; comments with too much or too little capitalization, too many text-message abbreviations, excessive use of "LOL," exclamation points, and so on. The StupidFilter Project needs help compiling a weighted corpus of idiotic comments and you can apply to become a moderator. Not to worry, The StupidFilter Project assures all, it will "cheerfully approve an eloquent, properly-capitalized defense of mandatory, state-subsidized rocket-launcher ownership for all schoolchildren."

The StupidFilter Demo rated the paragraph above as "Text is not likely to be stupid." Go figure.

StupidFilter Project

Eternal September

Classic I'm With Stupid Tee

Catbook has a better logo

Are your pets using mice to find internet friends?

A Toronto family have created social networking tools for cats and dogs. Catbook and Dogbook are built on top of the Facebook platform, to use them, you (or your pets) must have a Facebook account. In the past six months a million dogs and a half million cats have created their own pages; where they can add friends, list their likes and dislikes, and even arrange meetings at local parks. Now your pet can have more friends online than you. The Internet has finally gone to the dogs.

Dogbook

Catbook

Facebook

Hello Kitty Armored Personnel Carrier

Hello Kitty Hell

The astomatous saccharine marketing icon turns 34 this year and creator Sanrio will be introducing a Hello Kitty for men product line. The US children's ambassador for UNICEF currently adorns over 22,000 products and accounts for a half billion dollars in creator Sanrio's annual revenue. Beyond the predictable are things like passenger jets, stratocaster guitars, adult underwear, and even vibrators. Hello Kitty Hell plumbs the depths of Hello Kitty devotion. Hello Kitty Hell won't tell you where to find the products and even has a special message to inquisitive "Hello Kitty whiners." You can try Hello Kitty World but it's in Italian, or the official Hello Kitty website, but that one made my teeth hurt. There's thousands of Hello Kitty videos on YouTube, but I couldn't find the one of Hello Kitty coughing up a hairball on Robot Chicken.

Hello Kitty Hell

Hello Kitty World

Official Hello Kitty Website