"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." - Jerome K. Jerome (Top Ten Websites)

Member Name: ILoveJackDaniels

Product:	Top Ten Websites
Date:	28/09/02 (809 review reads)
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Advantages: Hours of fun

Disadvantages: You'll never work again

I love the internet. I've been using it for donkey's years, and even create little bits of it for a living. Best of all though, because of my job, I can spend hours sitting around looking at anything and everything I want. So where do I spend my time? Read on...


10) Coming in at the bottom of the list is no bad thing, for there are literally thousands of sites I could have picked from (number 11 would have to be uselessknowledge.com, the source of all my Opinion titles). This site, though, is somewhere I pop every single day. It is a selection of my favourite comic strips! Now don't worry if you don't share my tastes - everyone can create and bookmark their own comics page, created from a selection of your favourites. My comics page includes Garfield, Spiderman, Dilbert, Phantom and Hagar the Horrible.

http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/comics/ archive/buildcp.hts?v=3.0&page=1 &quality=high&cpp=6&c=74&c=16&c=114&c=123&c=130


9) Rinkwords and b3ta.com are what I would consider to be very similar sites, so they can be equal 9th. They are both set up, not for money, but for the love of the internet. They both have a great selection of weird and wonderful things to amuse you, and you could waste months at either if you so wished. b3ta is host to the superb flash video showing just how twisted and sick someone can get once they have the idea in their head that Stephen Hawking and Davros would make a good couple. And Rinkworks has the excellent Movie-a-minute, a selection of extraordinarily short, but very funny, reviews of well known movies.

http://www.rinkworks.com/
http://www.b3ta.com/


8) I make no secret of the fact that my chosen career is a fragile one. Being self-employed is risky enough, but add to that the sheer volatility and uncertainty of the internet and no person in his right mind should do what I do. I love it though, and that's what keeps me going. It's important, thou
gh, that I keep my finger on the pulse, as it were. That I know what's going on around me, and that I hear quickly about new developments or problems - the things that affect me. The Register is a UK based news site for technical folk, and is a very regular port of call. It's an entertaining site, packed with humour and news, and very well written. A must-see for any technically minded folk.

http://www.theregister.co.uk


7) Computers are hideously overpriced. One look at Dell's range will show you just how bad things can get - ridiculously high prices for very mediocre products. Often, the cheapest way to get hold of a PC or to upgrade your own is to do it yourself. Parts can be expensive, though, which is why I always keep my eyes open for a deal. Scan are a UK company that have a very unique feature to their site, a daily-changing list of products on offer. And the offers are superb - rock bottom prices for some great computer parts. And if they don't have what you are looking for, wait a few days! It will show up eventually.

http://www.scan.co.uk/todayonly/


6) Miscellaneous Debris is an unusual name, I will grant you, but this primarily US forum has as part of its small membership some of the most intelligent and entertaining people I have met online. It is one of those forums that is almost the perfect size - just enough members that you get to know everyone, and so the forum doesn't stall, and just enough different topics to keep anyone and everyone amused.

http://www.geminione.com/forum/default.asp


5) QDB Quote Database is a collection of funny quotes taken from chat rooms on the IRC network, and with over 7000 quotes available, is one of many sites where you could literally just not notice time going by as you read through. Some quotes are quite sick, some just purely hysterical. Here's my favourite:

<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it
responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.

http://www.bash.org/


4) Gord is great. Gord is a King among mere men. Gord is a guy who runs a game store in Canada, and Acts of Gord is a huge collection of his stories. From tales of sheer stupidity to stories that will make you cringe, Acts of Gord is an amazing insight into just how moronic some people can be - and what should happen to them when they are.

http://www.actsofgord.com/


3) MyVoice is a UK site that pays you for your opinion. No, not reviews - but to fill out surveys. Since joining around a year ago, I've earned close to £25 by popping by on the odd occasion and joining surveys I am invited to - not bad going considering the time I've put in. On requesting payment, I found it arrived virtually instantly too, which is a great sign, especially given the time it takes some dotcoms to pay up! If you can spare the time, and want to make a tiny bit of extra cash, it's worth a look.

http://www.myvoice.co.uk/


2) Framley, a small village twinned with Beiden Schleissgarden, Germany, in September 1943, and home to the only cycle lane in the UK that is smaller than a cycle, has one thing that makes it stand out above all of the undeniably similar villages and towns in the UK. It has a paper, called the Framley Examiner. And that paper is online for all to see. It is an incredibly good read too, which is surprising for such a small town publication. The classifieds are great as well, with some superb deals to be had - well worth a look.

http://www.framleyexaminer.com/pages/frontpage .html


1) My favourite site of all time, and possible the most original thing I have seen in a very very long time, Filmwise's 'invisibles' are, too say the very least, an unusual feature of the web. They post eight photos per week on the site, each with all flesh removed using
Photoshop (a graphics program). The object is to identify the movies from what remains - and you can literally waste days here, trying to do just that. They provide answers as well, to all but the current week's invisibles, so if you get too frustrated by a movie you are sure you know, you can always take a peek to see what it is.

http://www.filmwise.com/invisibles/index.shtml

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