Fun Stuff

Zippy meets Meta-HTML The Zippy Filter! Ever wonder who coined the phrase "Am I having fun yet?" ? It was Bill Griffith, through the unpredictable mouth of his comic character Zippy the Pinhead!  If you're not having fun yet, go quickly to this site and enter a url for the most serious, text heavy site you can think of. News sites are good, I like using the Apple site, but basically the more serious, the better. This remarkable filter will give you the site through the truly bent vision of Griffith's Zippy! Go to the bathroom first so you don't wet your pants. The Galactic Geographic Karl Kofoed is a front-rank Science Fiction illustrator who has created a visually stunning and intellectually fascinating glimpse of other worlds in the form of the Galactic Geographic from the year 3097. The richness and detail of both the art and the concepts he has worked out for alien life are dazzling. Only a small portion of the project is on display here. If we're lucky, he'll put it out as a book soon. Excerpts will be printed in Heavy Metal magazing starting in March. Doc Ozone Brilliantly eccentric artist/designer with a frequently changing, always fascinating set of sites, personal and professional. His material ranges from clean sharp design work to bizzare eye candy. His set of "Hands-on tutorials" are great for anyone into web design and graphics. Doc is also a wonderfully off-kilter cartoonist. Speaking of off-kilter cartoonists, Doc also maintains pages devoted to Matt Howarth's wonderfully twisted Those Annoying Post Brothers. Not to be missed. The Enhanced for Netscape Hall of Shame From brilliant to bizzare to badnasty. Some of these are amazing. Argon gets a thumbs up as one of the "Best of the Web", but wait till you see some of the real Hall of Shame goodies! Hey! Don't play with those, they'll poke your eye out! Visit some of his related sites, including the Trans-national Church of Life on Mars. Spike Webb, Net Detective A wonderfully pulpy web-based, web-centric detective story. Told in browser-size chunks with snappy graphics, and sprinkled with links. It's not being updated at the moment, but there are several complete stories here. MetaCreations The folks who make Kai's Power Tools and KPT Bryce.I linked to this site in my crayon box, but it's so much fun I had to put it here too. check the galleries for Kai's Power Tools and KPT Bryce. Eye candy galore. If you're into Bryce, check out the The Terraformers' Guild.  (Here's my own KPT Bryce page.)   Reboot Before there was Toy Story, there was ReBoot! A wonderful fully computer-animated show, full of computer puns and references, dazzling design work, and good stories. They have fun doing their takes on anything from Mad Max to Raiders to It's a Wonderful Life. It used to be on ABC Saturday mornings, disappeared for awhile, and is now airing in syndication on Thursday mornings in 100+ cities. Check the listings. The above link is to an unofficial ReBoot page.  The Official ReBoot Page is a litle heavy on initial load time, but nice. Here's the MAinframe site: http://www.mainframe.ca/HOME/index.html The Firesign Theater The very first reference in ARGON ZARK! ("How can you be in 27,000 places...") is to The Firesign Theatre, a hilarious, bizzare, surreal, and wonderfully inventive comedy group that mixed 40's radio drama style with modern recording technology to produce something extraordinary. Their stuff is laced with referencs to everything from The I Ching to James Joyce to Cole Porter and The Beatles. They predicted a saxaphone-playing president back in 1967! Check out their CD's of "How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?" and "I think We're all Bozos on this Bus." This is a link to an unofficial site. The official Firesign Theatre WWW Home Page is a little less flashy, but to the point. Just send a photograph of yourself (or someone who looks just like you) to The Department of Redundancy Department and don't take off your shoes! Mystery Science Theater 3000 Speaking of "laced with references", take a ride in the Satellite of Love with Mystery Science Theatre 3000. If you ever sat around making fun of those wonderfully cheesy old 50's science fiction movies (and who hasn't?), this is the TV show for you.   Hey, Servo, Cybert wants to know where you get your gumballs. The Giantess Stephanie Evans beautiful collages of giantesses in various settings. She was there well before the Rolling Stones video and certain beer commercials made this kind of imagery more common. She still does it better.