Check out BlogShares, a fantasy stock market for weblogs. The popularity of a weblog is valued by the other sites that link to it — logically, BlogShares values a weblog’s “stock” on its number of inbound links. Right now, Inter Alia is valued at a paltry $303.73…..::sigh::
Fun Stuff
The Madness is upon us…
For those of you who will be filling out NCAA hoops brackets over the next few days, Kevin points us to this page reviewing the bracket interfaces of various sports sites.
Fun with Nigerian scam artists
How many e-mails do you get from relatives of former officials of Nigeria trying to smuggle huge sums of money out of the country? Well, now you can reply. Just head over to this site, plug in the specifics, and a reply is generated. Just send it back to your new Nigerian friend and…
A 4th spoke in the Axis of Evil?
With its weapons report concluding that Iraq is not in compliance with its resolutions, the United Nations can finally turn to the real terror threat: it has ordered Willy Wonka to submit to chocolate factory inspections.
Yay!
Dave Barry has a blog! I wonder why more humorists don’t post online.
Give your imagination a workout
If you like to doodle (or if you just have some time to kill), head over to G.E.’s Imagination at Work. You can create a drawing, save it, and even e-mail it to your mother so she can put it up on the refrigerator.
Never miss another important date — EVER
Did you just miss your anniversary? Forget your mom’s birthday? Shame on you. Now Re-Date can help you remember the next big anniversary, right down to the second. Want to find out when you turn 300 in Venusian years? It’s right here.
Fun site of the day
inter-Face allows you to manipulate Dominique’s facial expressions — oddly addictive.
A warning worth reading
The Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch awards top prize in its “Wacky Warning Label Contest” to a robotic massage chair that warns “Do not use massage chair without clothing… and, Never force any body part into the backrest area while the rollers are moving.”.
Recommended reading by weblog
I know All-Consuming has been around awhile, but I just found out about it today. A very cool concept — the site combs weblogs and searches for Amazon.com links, and then posts them on an hourly basis. You can see, at any given moment, what webloggers are reading or recommending. I signed up, so now…
