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Site Seeing
By JULES ALLEN Feel free to browse A fool and his moneyI'm shocked! I thought at least one of the companies I've worked for would appear on this list of really dumb ideas. Another surprise is stupidity wasn't invented with Internet-based business models. Apparently we were doing really dopey things before massages and pool tables became an employee right. That said, the highlight of wanton greed has to be numbers five and six on the first page of this list. There are 10 pages in all and quite a few howlers on each page. SledgehammerI was prepared to yawn when taking a look at this meta search engine, but it's quite good. A meta search is the industry's term for searching more than one source at a time. It's great for you, especially if it's free. Oddly, this site requires you to register, but, hey, that's why you have access to free e-mail services such as Yahoo and Hotmail. Normally you'll find me using Google, but I've been using this for those rare moments when Google doesn't deliver the goods. And yes, that's ".info" on the end of the address, not ".anythingelse." That's all, folksAs time ticks, thoughts of youthful invincibility give way to those of mortality. Kids of the '60s grew up with the thought that being wiped off the face of the Earth by a nuclear war was a distinct possibility. Personally, those thoughts gave way to selfish adult concerns of paying the rent, putting food on the table and filling my house with more stuff than I'd actually use. Now that the world has totally lost its mind, fewer people are talking about nukes these days, but I'm one of them. Putting the beautiful Flash production aside, this site has a strong antiwar message that's at least worth a viewing. Pen and pleasureCartoons have universal appeal, no question. Kids love them for being something other than real life, and adults love them because they keep kids quiet. No, that's not it. It's because we, too, love an escape from reality. The New Yorker has probably contributed more to the art of high-brow cartooning than any other source. And now you can search for all manner of scribblings such as the oh-so-famous "On the Internet nobody knows you're a dog" cartoon. Of course, there's a commercial tie-in in the shape of framed prints, T-shirts and other paraphernalia. Eye candy from yesteryearwww.travelbrochuregraphics.com My eyes! My eyes! All right, that's a bit exaggerated, but the background on this site does absolutely nothing for readability. Blue type over a red stripe background makes the most hardened typographer weep for mercy. But soldier through, dear reader, as the scans of advertising from the 1920s and '30s is where the action's at. The airlines section is my absolute favorite and includes gems such as Pan Am. It's classy eye candy from a different era.
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