pHlow.misc: Other Cool Places To Visit

Below are some various sites which are hard to categorize, but which are nice to link to. As a rule they have little to no nutritional value, and you should probably avoid operating heavy machinery for 6 hours after linking to them.

Everybody's seen WIRED, the slickee magazine about life in these technoculture times. The paper version has one of the highest signal to noise ratios of any periodical, and HotWired is much the same. HotWired has all kinds of ideas, features and links, and it's a pleasure to the eye and the mind. You'll also find links there to webmonkey (great HTML tips) and the betalounge (wicked streaming realaudio DJ sets).

Nirvanet is deep, frame intensive, graphically complex, well designed, and worth the visit. A cornucopia of cyber ideas.

Favela is an amazingly challenging, intriguing and beautiful collection of art, ideas, and controversy. Honestly one of the most interesting and engaging sites I have ever visited. Visual, textual, musical art and ideas. A Favela!!!!

Word is another superbly produced Web site / e-zine. It's graphically rich, but not modem numbingly so. It's got Real audio. It's got tons of cool features and articles, and loads of great art and photography. You gotta try it, at least once.

Ooze is hilarious. The humour is a cross between Letterman's best, Beavis and Butthead, and junior high antics, but the overall hit ratio is pretty high. You can also download full versions in Adobe Acrobat format. Check it out.

For a slightly more more political and intelligentia slant on life in Cyberia, try FEED. FEED is kind of a threaded interactive 90's version of the New Yorker, with articles (called Objects in FEEDspeak) on politics, culture, popstuff and technology. Thoughprovoking, if somewhat stuffy at times.

A lot of stuff sucks. SUCK doesn't. It's a daily blast of in your face reporting of all things bogus and lame on the WWW. Try SUCK today.

I can't quite tell if Hyperfuzzy is a commercial or artistic site, but the graphics are great, it's visually and intellectually engaging, and you wander around for hours. Try it.

Mkzdk is visually stunning. Sit back and mutate.

FIVA Online is a virtual art festival on line. This is a stunning site, with loads of quicktime animation, interactive paintings, still graphics and much much more. Save this site for when you have an hour or two to explore it.

Crisp bills itself as "a global gathering of under 30 art and action". I'm 33 and I like it. Growing, but lot's of good features with a decidedly urban, young left feel. Well designed, too.

An excerpt from the CybOrganic Manifesto: The Greek word techne means "art, skill, craft", yet everywhere in our world, in our ordinary understanding, technology has come to mean the tools themselves, rather than the craftsman; the machine, and perhaps the artistry of those who made it, but not the artistry of those who use it. We have, then, an impoverished understanding: art without artists, skill with out people, craft without craftsmen. Cyborganic opposes this sterile vision with the radical idea that technology is about people.

If you ever find that reality may be just a bit too much to handle, please visit the Surrealism Server. This is a great site, with links and resources on Surrealist imagery, music, and even a surrealist insult server. Make sure you check out the Graphical Cadaverating Interface.

If this head looks strangely familiar to you, you may have been abducted at least once during your life. Visit the SchwaCorporation, for a strange hypertext rave to find out more.

Oneday is a vast and sprawling collection of artistic links. You'll find visuals, poetry, music, info on cyberculture, all presented in a visually pleasing, don't know what it is until you click the link style. Try it, you could easily spend a few hours here.

6168 is sparsely, yet elegantly designed, and has some great thought provoking content. Interactively explore the human condition.

If you enjoyed the sequences on vintage Letterman where Dave dropped stuff off high buildings, you'll enjoy the DropSquad from Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute, where you can view stills and movies of fruit, hamburgers, typewriters and all sorts of gruesome stuff being dropped down a tall stairwell. See what I learned at college, daddy?

The Wacky WWW Adventure is on on-line interactive finish the story adventure. This thing is growing quickly, so you best get creative, link in and add your own story to the pot. Some other great story-telling and online hyper-literature include:

The Book Of Endings is kind of like the Wacky WWW Adventure, except you don't get to contribute (this helps to keep the story elements of a higher quality).
NWHQ wonderfully integrates graphics and text to craft stories.
MYTHOPOEIA, the making of myths, bills itself as an interactive art book. Lush photos, multi-threaded tales, and the ability to respond and contribute make this one worthwhile.
WAXWeb grew out of David Blair's film "Wax, Or The Discovery Of Television Among The Bees" and can best be described as an interactive film. You can experience this amazing site in 3D if you are VRML capable.

Learn about the deeper meaning of life through symbology in Ebon Fisher's Bionic Codes project.

You are in the Blue dot, evolving converging growing changing slipping sliding dripping interacting jamming experiencing rocking feeling seething wandering ingesting snoozing enjoying hunting vibrating gathering absorbing rotating. peace. Make sure you check out the Postage Stamp Collection (First Edition) and the Netscape Effects (Hit Me)

Buzznet is a simply stunningly designed piece of netzine that reads like a real mag. It's incredibly hip, with features on underground comics, music, action sports and lots of other cool and bizarre things. It's a joy to the eyes too, make sure you check out the graphic version.

I drink a lot of Joe, so I can relate to the adventures of Too Much Coffee Man, Shannon Wheeler's animated cafeine fueled superhero. Here's the official Adhesive Comics TMCM page.

Adaweb continues to evolve and expand. From dadaist text openers to digital art to digital representations of analog art, this site is an eye and mind-opener. Bookmark and visit often.

JODI is surreal, self replicating HTML stream of consciousness coleslaw. This is what MTV will look like in 20 years.
	If you can't pick up FLUX TV, check 'em out on line. Technocybervidedophreakinkulture.

The Kooks Museum is an expansive collection of ideas loosely categorized as "Ideas from the fringe of human thinking." You'll find solutions to the world problems, monuments of questionable scholarship and many other bizarre concepts.

Forget Crimewatch, check out the ongoing investigation at the Law Enforcement Division Evidence File. Gruesome photos, evidence, and lots of other bizarre and scary info.

Check out Suns'n'Roses: The Web of Time for an intersting mix of Visions in Astronomy, Cyberspace, and Metaphysics. Images of the Universe; mathematical and computational models; speculations on the nature of reality; quotations from the literature. WARNINGS: Reality under construction; just a little heavier on graphics than on the mind. Beautiful graphics, interesting ideas.

Get Slack!! Dobbs

Quit your job! Act like and idiot and they'll treat you like an equal. Check out the rantings of the Church of the Subgenius if you dare. You'll learn about slack, the great conspiracy, and the stark fist of denial. Be warned, this site is not for the queasy and could change your life. Here's another Subgenius site with lots of links. You will begin to see "Bob" everywhere and notice pipes that you never were tuned into before.

Random movement and chaos theory fascinate me. Learn all about how these phenomenon are being used for scientific, philosophical and artistic purposes at the Chaos Network Online. Loads of great graphics, very informative, and tons of fractal links.

Learn how to take a more positive slant on how everything's related and not random at The Celestine Prophecy homepage.

Cthugha has been aptly described as an "oscilloscope on acid". This neat program allows a multimedia equipped IBM machine to display beautiful graphics which have been choreographed with an audio CD in you CDROM player. Check it out!

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