Crotty Bares his Browser!
But, please, don't tell me mum...

by James M. Crotty

Time for a little show and tell. This month I reveal what sits on the Crotty browser. Minus porn sites, natch. Those are getting rather boring, anyway. And the amount of good free porn has become about as scarce as, well, good free sex.

And how much time can a guy spend looking at.... Well, a LOT of time. Not that this guy does. No, no. I'm busy reading Baudelaire who, when I think about it, is kind of pornographic.

But back to the picks. Any Cassandra who says the net is dead has been watching too much "Survivor." Crotty says: "The net lives!" On that big ole interactive thingamajig I can get the Times, the Beeb, the entire Encyclopedia Britannica for FREE, plus IGN's "Reader Babe of the Day." But I said I wouldn't talk about porn. So, again, NO PORN. Just forget that the only proven Internet revenue model is porn. Forget that most web innovations – streaming video, flash animation, speedy downloads, e-commerce – were pushed by pornsters. Forget all that.

The web has so much more to offer than pornography. And here are my precious few (porn-free) picks..

The Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool

America's soul is being eaten alive by celebrity worship. The Lee Atwater feeds off the obsession in a delightfully perverse way. Run by the brilliantly barbed twosome of Zachariah Love and his pal Grossman (just Grossman), the Atwater was born of a bet between these two friends on which celebrities would drop dead in a given year. Atwater was the sole name both partners had in common, so the late Republican attack dog (and creator of the infamous Willie Horton ads) had the twisted website named in his honor. Since then, the site has grown considerably, offering many ways to play, with varying durations, and sizeable cash prizes.

 

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