Dead People Server

As I was driving down the road the other day, I suddenly thought, �Is Katherine Hepburn dead?� Well, if I had been at home, I could have logged onto the Dead People Server, searched for Hepburn�s name and found that only Audrey Hepburn was dead. From this page you can find the obituaries and other information about celebrities who are really dead. You will also find notices of recently dead celebrities and a page devoted to quashing the rumors about not-yet-dead celebrities. You can also find links to death pools and use your research on the Dead People Server to help you pick the most likely to croak this year. Never wonder again about that �Hey Verne� Guy (Jim Varney � dead) or Luther Vandross (in a coma � not dead.)

Sweet Nostalgia

If you've ever wondered whatever happened to Boston Baked Beans, the Chunky candy bar, and Fizzies, this website could be the answer to every one of your sweet dreams. Sweet Nostalgia offers for sale tons of classic candy, including chocolate cigarettes, cherry mash candy bars, and Mallo Cups, all at reasonable prices. And, before you ask, this isn't candy from 1977 found in a warehouse somewhere - all of this junk food is still being produced today, just not necessarily in your market. So go buy a Zero bar - your sweet tooth will thank you!

AndeeOnline

If you're looking for a site with whimsical and cute figures and icons and have a little extra money to spend on t-shirts, mugs, and mousepads, then this may well be the site for you. AndeeOnline offers bright and funny characters on a huge variety of t-shirts, toddler shirts, and more. And, yes, this edition of Weird Websites is pure nepotism, since the images are all created by my artist wife and I designed the website. The art of self-promotion is alive and well here at Weird Websites!

Bad Cookie

If you've ever visited a Chinese restaurant, chances are you've had a fortune cookie. There's an even better chance that your fortune was something positive and uplifting. But life isn't always fair, and those fortunes rarely come true. If you want a fortune a little closer to the reality of life, try the Bad Cookie website. Just login, click on the giant fortune cookie, and get your fortune. Perhaps something like "You foolishly believe in the goodness of mankind" or "An evil letter or message is on its way to you." If you don't like the message, you're only a click away from getting a new one; by the same token, if you did get a particularly enjoyable fortune, you can click on another icon to send it to a friend. Best of all, there's no need to eat the cookie just to get your fortune.

The Random Anarchy Cookbook

This website generates a new anarchy cookbook each time you load it - you never know what you're going to get! When I visited the site, I got "The Happy Homemaker's Friend version 4.79," which taught me how to get revenge on a friend by trashing his bicycle and how to build a bomb with fertilizer, a newspaper, cotton, and a generous serving of good old human saliva. The second time I loaded the site, I got "The Barbarian's Fantasy Book version MCMLXVI," which informed me that mixing a mace substitute consisting of three parts potassium and two parts ether will, at best, cause cramps if inhaled by your foe. You won't be able to wreak much havoc with these particular anarchy cookbooks, but you might get your enemy to chuckle himself to death.

Soda Pop Stop

If you're a soda pop connoisseur, this is one site you just have to visit. The Soda Pop Stop, run out of Los Angeles, California, is an online store that offers just about every different brand of soda that you would ever want, and then some. The prices are reasonable and, yes, they ship. They even have one of my old favorites, Frosty Root Beer. Drink up!

Fan Fiction

Sometimes television shows go off the air. As sad as that makes some of us, we just have to accept it. Your favorite show is gone. You can either deal with, or, well, write fan fiction. "Fan Fiction" is fiction based on a television series, written by fans. Fanfic�by and large�is not scripts but prose. While some have chosen to write their fanfic in teleplay form, those are few and far between. Pieces range in length from vignettes (1000 words) to short stories to full blown novels (50,000+ words). And fanfiction.net is a collection of hundreds (thousands?) of just such stories. So if you're feeling sad about Buffy The Vampire Slayer going off the air, hurry on over to this website and join the plethora of folks who've written their own stories about everyone's favorite vampire slayer. Heck, without the television show, you have to have something to do, don't you?