Site Seeing
By JULES ALLEN, Times Staff Writer
© St. Petersburg Times
published April 28, 2003
Feel free to browse
I'm really lost
www.LizardPoint.com/fun/geoquiz/
All this Coalition of the Willing stuff got me thinking about geography and how lousy I am at recognizing countries on a map. This site gave me a royal spanking when I took the geography quiz, as well as a reminder of how much I disliked my geography teacher. I warmed up with something easy like South America (24 out of 39 - so much for warming up), then clicked off to something interesting like Europe.
Story of spam
http://cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml
Are you getting spammed and constantly having to change your free e-mail address? Or perhaps you have your own domain name and can't figure out why some addresses attract a whopping amount of the junk e-mail. This study might help you change your online habits and cut down on unsolicited e-mail. Some of it is just common sense, while other findings were a surprise.
Fast-food fun
www.SnackSpot.org/
She Who Must Be Obeyed recently has been on a highly scientific quest to see how many cans of Pringles can be consumed in one day without causing a blinding headache and a desert-like dehydration from sodium overload. I'm fine with this experiment, as it leaves quite a few discarded cans, which make Wi-Fi wireless directional antennas. Whatever your taste in snack foods, this site seems to have a line on it.
Photo eye candy
www.DarkPassage.com/gate.htm
Distressed furniture either leaves you panting for more or gasping for air. If you don't care for crumbling buildings, this site isn't for you. But if this is your visual bag, you're in for a treat. The noir Hospital Hopscotch tour might be my favorite area. It's full of arty images of abandoned decay. The Parlor Games area might be good inspiration for the next Halloween, but avoid it if you are squeamish about such things.
Magic number
www.WhatIsMyIPAddress.com/
When you pick up the phone and dial a number, you have no idea what kind of complex system is at work behind the scenes. And the way your requests for information are shunted around on the public Internet are equally impressive. You type in www something or other and under normal circumstances you'll get your information back fairly fast. Web site names, as you might know, are tied to Internet protocol, or IP, addresses. For the Internet to function, you have to have one. But what's yours? If you've ever had somebody try to fix your computer from afar using remote control software, you'd need to know this address. Here's the site to tell you. Bookmark it. You never know when it might come in handy.
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