Internet Fun

Everything on TV may be in reruns but if that means you haven’t been bothering to stop by Television Without Pity, you’ve been missing out on recaps of “classic” episodes of many of their shows. And, in the case of Enterprise, this has included recaps of The Original Series and, just this week, of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

I always feel as if I am betraying my sensible feminist roots when I read wedding-related websites, but horror-stories (a la Etiquette Hell) and dress-sewing and centerpiece making plans both entertain me. My latest guilty pleasure is Going Bridal, a wedding journal complete with sewing project updates and a “Cavalcade of Bad Bridal Fashion” section. [via not martha]

More than just a flat collection of song lyrics, Jonathan Harel’s Lyrics site lists 1673 only lyrics indexed by all of the usual metrics but you can also click on (most) words in a given song’s lyrics and get a listing of all other lines containing that word. Think of the theme-linked mix-making fun potential. And, hey, he’s got the lyrics for six different Debbie Gibson and Tiffany songs, so your guilty-pleasure stuck-in-head songs just might be in there!

I had an electronic talking Battleship game when I was a kid that I loved, so I’m just tickled by this Flash Battleship. [via The BradLands]

For your Friday fun-time you must go watch Yes and No a flash movie showing correct and incorrect driving practices and their usual outcomes. Very funny! [via #!/usr/bin/girl]

Ryan and Jacob are fakes! I hadn’t noticed talk of the latest e-mail spam until a copy showed up in my box this morning, and I’ll admit that it was compelling enough I read it. If you haven’t received a copy, it starts: There is something extremely wrong with every single person in this world. They seem to be part of a pointless simulation. “The Matrix” has portrayed this idea somewhat, yet we watch it and go back to our daily lives. Yet in this very life, underneath the seeming diversity in people’s opinions, values, talents, and interests, there is … Continue reading Ryan and Jacob are Fakes!

Offering even more public domain content, Project Gutenberg (the online public domain book project) has created the Project Gutenberg Music Web Site as an archive for public domain chamber music scores. Knowing the quality of their book site, I can only assume this will be a fabulous resource for musical types.

Today I rediscovered Not My Desk, writings of a temp worker. Quite funny, the essays linked in the left tool bar are worth checking out. And, via the “Diversions” list I found the Castlemouse 2000 puzzle game and the amusing Etch A Sketch online simulator and the often cute Post-It Theater animations.