Posted on: Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Some whimsical Web sites worth revisiting in new year
By Jake Coyle
Associated Press
With 2006 a not-so-distant memory, it seemed a good time to compile some of the sites farther down on the ol' bookmark list. Here are a few loose ends and oddities left over from a year of clicking around on Al Gore's Internet.
Telemarketer Revenge (www.howtoprankatelemarketer.ytmnd.com): Comedian Tom Mabe has built a career on harassing the harassers — specifically, telemarketers. In this audio clip, recorded from the "Bob and Tom" radio show, Mabe convinces a telemarketer that, by calling his house, he's inadvertently become a witness in the recent murder of Mr. Tom Mabe.
The Movie Timeline: (www.themovietimeline.com): Ever get confused about the difference between real life and the movies? This site wonders what the history of the world would look like if it were told through the plots of films. A few of the movies that seem especially disruptive of the time continuum include "Alien vs. Predator," "Highlander" and "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure."
Bluff Your Ego (www.blufr.com): This Web site keeps score as you deem statement after statement either false ("No way!") or true ("Way!"). It may sound like a familiar trivia game, but it's sneakily smart. One of its top "bluffs," for example, is: "At San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, public fishing is illegal." You might think such irony would only be thought up if true — but then you'd have been bluffed.
