www.weddingguide.co.uk
All things matrimonial available at one of the bigger UK-based wedding ezines. With "Big Days" nowadays just a shade below some UN relief efforts' financial outlay and organisational planning, this site points you in the direction of much-needed essentials like luxury bodyshapers (bride) and hand-painted football cufflinks (groom). There's also a compatibility test which determines whether you should be there in the first place.
www.divorce-online.co. uk
If your in-marriage compatibility test (see right) finally comes up with a "no" after a couple of years, fear not. Mark Keenan's website is dedicated to providing cheap, efficient divorces online. As he says in his "Mission Statement", "We may find divorce an unpalatable subject, but it is there, it is expensive and it need not be that way." This site should be valued for its usefulness rather than its looks.
www.ibogaine.co.uk
The controversial drug, ibogaine, has been used to successfully treat and rehabilitate people with drug and alcohol addictions, but its use remains limited and restricted. Why? Because it has psychedelic properties, which seem to be an integral part of the drug's value in treating addicts, yet inevitably makes government agencies wary. You can find out more and make up your own mind at this site, which features useful scientific information, as well as personal testimonies from ibogaine users.
www.wrybread.com
On-line video and audio terrorism featuring general weirdness like the Crack Dance (webcam showing local crack-smokers congregating near a doorway, to the theme from The Dukes of Hazzard), unwitting telephone conferencing japery and some remarkable selections from the Apple Customer Support Helpline featuring people breaking down under the strain of working their i-Macs.
www.blacksuperhero. com
An interesting, important and well-crafted labour of love, this is an online gallery and critical history of black superheroes from early Marvel and DC comics. Featuring the little-known politically- incorrect creations, such as "Black Lightning", "Whitewash" and "Silhouette", the site features potted histories of the superheroes, lines on their cultural significance, and a large collection of illustrations. A fascinating slice of arcana.
www.superbad.com
You may not want piles of cascading graphics, unfathomable animations, incongruous text and images placed side-by-side with unlikely cultural influences, all woven into a mystifying, labyrinthine tapestry of hard- to-navigate strangeness, but then, who's asking you? Generation X-man, Douglas Coupland, calls this "the granddaddy of time-killing sites", and for those who still hope the internet is more than just a shop, this site will feed your faith.
www.braingames.net
Despite being just-up and still under construction, this site, which is for all you board game fans, is worth watching for the future. Taking advantage of the net's ease of play for checkerboard junkies, Braingames is to set up a global world championship, ranking every on-line player, no matter how modest their ability, to eventually come up with an opponent for world champion Gary Kasparov.
www.expandingrecords. com
An independent electronic music label site that shows how much the net has to offer for the aspiring artist. From the cultural desert that is deepest, darkest Ilford, from where the Expanding crew hail, anyone with webspace can co-exist with the world's mainstream. Check out this site for its innovative no-fi music from the label's oddball acts, Benge and Volume, plus way-out graphics and eye-catching art.
www.acidfonts.com
Whether you're designing your website, need something flashy for an office communique, or want that note for the milkman to stand out from the crowd, you'll need a wacky font to spruce up dull old Times New Roman or New Courier. There's plenty of textual deviancy to choose from in these free downloads, plus lots of Dingbats and warped cousins of fonts, to keep you free of symbol-samsara.
www.satanism101.com
In these times of ultra-liberalism, even congregations like Anton LaVey's Church of Satan are entitled to have their say. LaVey's church is linked on this site and explores the history of this much- maligned religion. As well as articles on Satanism, there is a message board and chat facility, plus details on how to go about joining your local grotto.
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