Shallow, yes. Trivial, yes. (Top Ten Websites)

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Product:	Top Ten Websites
Date:	02/08/03 (80 review reads)
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Advantages: Low prices, Often very useful trivia / news

Disadvantages: Would probably be better off financially if it weren't for the temptation!, Good info sites can be hard to find

Okay, possibly in a break with tradition my favourite websites are not ones filled with Flash animations of badly drawn people getting run over and shot, as I mainly use the internet to get information about things I want to buy, then find a cheap website with the things to buy which I then buy. Straightforward. In reverse order, and missing out all that http://www. stuff, here is my (interesting/deadly boring and unhealthily sci-fi controlled - delete as appropriate) life. The reverse order is a last-ditch attempt to create some tension to combat the inane but honest repetetiveness of some of this:

10. 80s nostalgia websites

Whenever I'm bored and on the internet, waiting for Kazaa to semi-legally download a Farscape episode, sites such as X-entertainment.com provide some laughs and some good old blast-from-the-past forgotten youth, such as the poor and badly-received Star Wars Droids cartoon, which I liked, and the acclaimed Thundercats, which I loved. Can't beat a bit of 80s nostalgia... exscept that you can, and that's why this isn't at number 1. Oh yeah.

9. Fan Fiction / Spoofs

"Of things I like" should be added. I enjoy chancing upon a homosexual or bad taste parody of Star Trek, or seeing someone's comic strip, but not as much as I like buying things.

8. Gateworld.net

An unofficial website dedicated to the world of sci-fi adventure series Stargate SG-1 and the Stargate "family", which currently consists of 1 film, a rubbish animated spin-off for kids and a spin-off that will probably be ace but hasn't come out yet. There are also links to other sci-fi series, and each episode has been individually rated. Best place for daily news on the show.

7. Diabloii.net

An unbelievably detailed and useful resource for the world of Blizzard's Diablo roleplaying, kill-em-up game, the humorous articles on things such as "top ten monsters" and &qu
ot;top ten times you can tell you've played Diablo II too much" provide an incentive for me to explore more of the game than I can usually be bothered to after so long. Flux, he's a funny guy.

6. Cow.co.uk

I don't buy as many CDs nowadays, but when I did this was a great place to shop. Simple and sans pictures or anything like that, it just has words, a huge selection of CDs and import singles are available, sometimes at low prices.

5. Reddwarf.co.uk

I love to keep up to date with news about my favourite programme, the sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf. The website has plenty of functions, including a bulletin board where the people know a scary amount about everything, but the news on DVDs, BBC schedules and production on the upcoming movie (film, sorry) are the reason I'm always checking back.

4. Dooyoo.co.uk

Wow, that's this place! A way to make money primarily for me, and also to find peoples' opinions on stuff I'd like to buy. Sound familiar?

3. Useful information on programmes I like

Gateworld and Reddwarf.co.uk fall into this category, but this is to cover those less spectacular websites that can prove useful on single occasions when I need to know what a guest actor in Stargate played in Deep Space Nine, or what half of the jokes in Family Guy (great show) are referencing. I salute you, often-useful and ever-present fan sites!

2. Play.com

Obviously only because my main purchases are DVDs and DVD sets, this is my favourite place to buy them new. Prices are low (shops are catching up now though, at last) and the website's very easy to navigate, and looks nice. They need to lower their DS9 boxset prices though!

1. eBay.co.uk

Good ol' reliable eBay, where would I be without it? probably richer due to less temptation, but I wouldn't have the constant joys of a yellow Jiffy bag coming to the door on the hand of a postman on
some Saturdays, bearing comedy names I make for kicks followed by my real address in thick black marker pen. The great thing about eBay is that as well as buying scrubby second hand stuff, you can sell your own, even scrubbier stuff too! Sometimes the stuff's new as well. Great site.

So there you have it, now you've exposed my shallow existence. The only consolation is that I wasn't sponsored to mention any of those websites, and my brother can get lost if he thinks I'll mention

WWW.GEOCITIES.COM/NICEANDRANDOM

Please don't go on it, it's rubbish.

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