FuckedCompany.com

In the anti-dotcom category, perennial fave blowthedotoutyourass.com has gone limp, but fuckedcompany.com continues unabated, documenting the dot-bloodbath in delicious, if unedited, detail. With names like shortcycles.com, homebytes.com, freeride.com, and zap.com, no wonder these sites tanked. By the way, Rx.com just folded, and former employees are dumping "secrets" onto the FC site, though tales of Viagra in the coffee urn, and Prozac in the drinking water may be coming from punk puds using anonymizer.com. For an apt coda to the whole dotbomb phenom go to – what else? – the Billboard Liberation Front.

Google.com

Everybody has their favorite search engine (Dogpile, SearchThingy, though few tout the uninspiring Excite!). Yahoo! once ruled the roost, before their barefoot, decision-by-consensus board of directors made some arrogant blunders, causing their market cap to plunge 92% from $110 billion in their Elvis Moment of January, 2000 to today's Gore Moment of $11 billion. Last year Yahoo! bought the Google search engine, though I still go to the source because it pulls up the most trafficked sites first (none of Yahoo's proprietary content), with no distracting auctions, Mother's Day schlock, and other consumer porn.

Personal websites

Though they are the latest evil marketing ploy to push major films and music, personal websites remain one of the best sources of non-corporate diversion on the net. Ukoad "I Kiss You" Mahir, the earnest, good-natured Turkish ambassador of good times is the most famous (with a whole web ring devoted to him, though his original site, which started the craze, is now at http://members.nbci.com/_XOOM/primall/mahir/index.html), with the better produced ZeFrank.com fast on his sandals. But to that list I must add Dean Miller, the Arkansas "hetero" cross-dresser – Dean's shots with "scantily clad waitresses" from Hooters are to die for.

And it gets even more special than beloved Dean. Why, there's a site run by a 47-year-old "Peter Pan". Oh, yes, lil' elves, and he is still looking for his Tinkerbell. Of course, if a Tampa-based puer isn't your idea of a fulfilling partner, you might be interested in feminist polygamy. In other words, a harem of women, gobs of kids, and one non-patriarchal pappy! If this rocks your cradle, then The Baby Factory is for you!

 

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