The Top 10 Weird Websites
One of the greatest things about the internet is that it has allowed people from all over the world to connext with others who share similar interests, and to share their hobbies and interests with millions of online strangers and virtual friends. And because webhosting is getting cheaper and even free, it is possible for anyone to express their creativity or build a virtual shrine to their interests online. Are you into collecting barbed wire or making huge balls of twine? There's a community for you.
This is my pick of the top weird websites devoted to offbeat subjects or which are simply unfathomable in their purpose or design.
If you have ever been to Vegas, you may have noticed that most of the casinos feature very ornate plush carpeting. I suppose that it is designed to convey a sense of opulence and make you dream that you may win enough to afford the same type of high thread-count carpeting in your nouveau riche mansion, as soon as you move out of the trailer park. Most of us, though never give this carpeting anything more than a passing glance as we stumble zombie-like towards the nearest slot machine. Not so the owner of dieiscast.com - which features over 9 galleries of images (and close up at that) of the different carpet patterns, all categorized and labeled with the name of the casino where these specimens can be found in the wild. What makes this website wonderfully weird is the smallest of niches that it fills. How many people in the world are really interested in the designs of carpets, and how many of those have a passion for carpets found in Las Vegas? At least one person, apparently. Mr webmaster of dieiscast.com, we salute you for daring to be different! |
jodi.org wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/ is a beatiful mess of pulsating weirdness: random colors, numbers, images and links that lead nowhere except to stranger still pages. Its fascinating and creepy at the same time. Then there are the weird messages and text fragments such as "BINHEX message.hqx" as well as random weird pictures. It must have taken days to design, and yet it serves no purpose except to mesmerize you with pointless falshing graphics and links that lead to ever more weird pages. It may be art, or some sort of strange internet maze, but if it is I have yet to find the center of this labyrinth. This website earns a top spot in the directory for its pointless yet interesting design. However, don't try the address - www.jodi.org (instead of wwwwwwwww.jodi.org) if you do it will cause a unlimited number of new windows to pop up and crash your browser. I did not like that at all. |
Weird Musical Compositions
Weird Music Sometimes what makes a website weird or unusual is not the design or layout, but its concept which goes against the internet grain; soundsoftheweak.com is one such website. As the site says: "Sounds of the Weak is a weekly sound and music recording project with little purpose other than to give you a reason to make recordings, to push and prod just a bit towards that end. New assignments are given weekly based on a topic drawn from the suggestion box." What's weird about that, you ask? Mainly the choice of composition topics. Users are encouraged to write songs about spreadsheets, anagrams, the sound of something flung into the air, or this infinite loop: "This is what a recording of a recording (of a recording of a recording) sounds like." I can hear some top 40 hits being made from these concepts! By the way, thanks to this site for teaching me a new word: Mondegreen, which is "the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase, typically a standardized phrase such as a line in a poem or a lyric in a song, due to near homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning." |
Belief Systems
 Here is a website called Jah Truth which bills itself as "the most ground-breaking and informative site on the Net" and promises to "covers everything, from proof of our TRUE and, until now, hidden identity (who and what we really are), to the complete explanation of why the world is in the incredible mess that it is currently in." On the same page, the webmaster announces that the site was last updated July 18, 2009. This begs the question, why would a site that contains all of the knowledge and secrests of the universe need to be updated in the first place? Of interest is the websites argument that the Union Jack (the British Flag) bers a relationship to the biblical Jacob (Union Jackob - get it?), which leads the webmaster down what I am sure is a very philologically sound analysis between the secret history of the Celts, Britons, and the ancient Israelites. At least this site seems pretty benign, though a bit offbeat. Then there are sites such as the infamous TimeCube.com which preaches the concept of Cube Truth. repent and follow the true cube path or be lumped in with the "Dumb, Educated Stupid and Evil" followers of the 12 hour or half-day clock. All this would be amusing but for this site's paranoid antisemitism. |
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