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The best thing about the net is the community networking capabilities. If a site is good or interesting the number of visitors it can receive by word of mouth alone is astounding.
Bearing that in mind, I always find it important to share links with others.
Here are some of our favorites or ones we found somehow interesting, funny or unusual. You can also visit the web site we built about our Iceland Hiking excursion and Gundula’s CV page..
News
Humor
Darwin Awards
Useful/Informative
Willingen
News:
The Drudge Report This site is supposedly the one that broke the story about Monica Lewinsky and that infamous stained dress. If you want a site with links to a TON of sources this is the place.
The Ether Zone
Washington Post
The Times (UK)
The Mirror
Ananova- cyber animated newsperson- or you can just read the headlines here as well
New York Times
Lebanese News Hey! It’s always interesting to get a little perspective. It’s in English.
Wailing Wall (Klagemauer) live cam at the wailing wall. You never know- you might see some action...
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Humor
The Onion This site does hilarious spoof stories- Check it out
Email Bliss They’ve got jokes and pics of the day pretty funny
Slap Hillary this is a Flash site for those of you who might like to slap the former First Lady turned senator- slow to load but funny enough- requires flash plug in available here
The ultimate flame - do you get sick of arguing with idiots on internet discussion boards? Here is the ultimate comeback/putdown. I came across this one while surfing one day and it is amazing in its sheer volume.
Boneland.com This is another flash site and requires the plug in but it is definitely worth your time- funny animations
Why Bill Gates is Richer than you a humorous look at the richest man in the known universe.
Yogisms A list of quotes from one of America’s most beloved baseball legends, Yogi Bera. Example: “You mean now?” when he was asked the question “what
time is it?”. And you think George W Bush has a way with language?
Bushisms Look, I want to be clear that I like George W Bush. But I also have a sense of humor and this site has a collection of “Bushisms” that made me laugh. Perhaps you’ll like them as well. The site also looks suspiciously like ours somehow but only a little.
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Darwin Award Candidates
The Darwin Award refers to people who do stupid things that lead to the absence of their DNA in the gene pool. In other words: people who get killed doing dumb shit. To
win the award you have to -uh- expire. To be a candidate your behaviour must be likely to cause your expiration. I almost put these under ‘humor’ but this is all too real. Here are three sites that
just make you shake your head.
cutmyfeetoff.com This guy is planning on cutting his feet off online. You can watch the amputation for a small fee. This is serious folks.
www.trepan.com The english saying goes: “I need that like I need another hole in the head.” Well these guys take that saying to heart. They voluntarily drill holes in their own skulls to “release their creative potential”
www.trepanation.com Another hole in the head site. Makes you wonder.
www.vhemt.org Stands for: Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. The title pretty much sums up this site’s attitude toward all of us.
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Useful/Informative
How Stuff Works This is a great idea for a site. If you always wondered about how various things work- cell phones, Anti Locking Brakes, space elevators- this is the site to go to.
UK Lottery Results Have you won? You can always check your numbers here. You can also check your ticket for past drawings
California’s Energy Supply This site provides a graphic of the current energy demand in California.
Cocktail Mixer This site provides a searchable database of cocktail ingrediants
Your Dictionary.com English dictionary, you can look up definitions or download a little dictionary button for your browser- we’ve got one.
Dictionary.com Another great dicitonary site
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Willingen:
Willingen is Gundula’s hometown and she always thought about it as quaint and cozy, kind of slow, though.
It turns out that, actually, Willingen probably has more websites
per capita than any other town its size (5,000) in Germany. It’s definitely got the most pubs per capita at 1 for every 50 people. Here’s a few links with information over this ‘holiday paradise’.
Upland Schule This is where Gundula went to secondary school. It had about 250 pupils in 8 grades back then.
Mittelpunkt Schule Gundula’s primary school.
Willingen-Live Shows all the happenings in Willingen. An amazing amount of things going on there.
Upland-Online Gives a good overview over the region.
Willingen.com Similar to Willingen.de and Willingen live, different content and different pictuers, though.
Willingen.de
Weltcup Skispringen Willingen The latest on everything concerning the worldcup skijumping competition Willingen hosted and will continue to host so successfully.
Meine Stadt Willingen Information about and around Willingen.
Sauerland Information With photos of Sauerland, the greater region in which Willingen is located
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