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Links Page
Here is a list of web sites that I've found interesting, entertaining, or otherwise useful. Select one of the categories on the right. These links are here mainly for my own benefit but you might find them useful. Links open in a new window.
All sites listed here are external internet sites. craigporter.com is not responsible for the content of these sites. Please let me know of any broken links.
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Science
Cosmology
Computer
Scams & Critical Thinking
Outdoors
Cycling
Humour
Reference
Media
Photography
Miscellaneous
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Humour Links
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The Ignoble Prizes
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A different kind of Nobel Prize. Celebrating the unusual and honouring the imaginative, the Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded each year since 1991 by the scientific community to reward research that could not, or should not, be reproduced.
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The Best Web Page in the Universe
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In the author's words: "This page is about me and why everything I like is great. If you disagree with anything you find on this page, you are wrong." If you're easily offended look elsewhere.
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Temple ov thee Lemur
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The exploits of a bunch of geeks from Southampton with a a slightly warped sense of humour and a bit too much time on their hands.
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Mind Guard
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The software that protects your mind by actively jamming and/or scrambling psychotronic mind-control signals and removing harmful engrammic pollutants from your brain. A humourous slap in the face for proponents of pseudo-science.
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Zapato Productions Intradimensional
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Your Source For Conspiracies and Other Diversions. Offering a wide selection of amazing discoveries, important theories, life-enriching tools, and other more frivolous diversions. Serving the paranoid since 1997.
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Great Inventions
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The Official Site for the World's Largest Retailer of Revolutionary Products. Check out such great items as the Magic Wand Home Tattoo Removal System and the Econo Home Defribillator.
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Moon Certificate
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Buy your very own 100 acres of real estate on The Moon. The only moon land sales site authorised by the Martian Council of Kings apparently. If you do purchase any of this "land", then I have some snake oil you may also be interested in...
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Quatloos!
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Quatloos! is a public educational website exposing a wide variety of financial scams. As well as poking fun at scams and their perpetrators, Quatloos! works to raise public awareness about the scams.
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The Stella Awards
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Inspired by Stella Liebeck who, in 1992 spilled a cup of McDonald's coffee onto her lap, burning herself, subsequently sued and was awarded $2.9 million. This site is dedicated to outrageous, ridiculous, and bogus lawsuits.
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The Doomsday Guide
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An online resource guide devoted to the end of the world as we know it, the threat of aliens and UFOs, and unexplained mysteries.
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Procrastination Central
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This site seeks to create and share new knowledge regarding procrastination. You can also measure your level of procrastination and your attention levels.
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The Daily Mash
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The Daily Mash is a satirical website covering the worlds of politics, media, culture and sport with spoof news stories, commentary and opinion (i.e. it's all made-up and not intended - in any way whatsoever - to be taken as factual).
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Landover Baptist
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The home of a fictional Baptist church based in the town of Freehold, Iowa. The web site and its associated landoverbaptist.net forum are a parody of fundamentalist Christianity and the Religious Right.
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Oddly Enough
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Strange-but-true stories from around the world, courtesy of Reuters.
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The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
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The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the deity of a parody religion called The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and its system of beliefs, "Pastafarianism". The religion was founded in 2005 to protest the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to require the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution.
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