September 2001 - chowhound.comLively
message boards take the "where should we eat tonight?" conversation
to a global level.
globexplorer.com
Type
in your address and you'll get a satellite photograph of where you
live. rottentomatoes.com
The
site's reviews page suggests what movie posters would look like if
their quotes weren't assembled by marketers.
metaspy.com
Oddly
transfixing, this site lets you watch what other people are
searching for online. Think: the Web as reality show.
olga.net
The
Online Guitar Archive tells guitarists how to play just about any
song you can name.
propertyroom.com
Hot
stuff confiscated from criminals and put up for auction by America's
police departments.
sportspages.com
Its daily Top 10 list features the best sports columns from
newspapers around the country. You'll always get the local
reporter's insights on the big news of the day.
wheresgeorge.com
That's
George, as in Washington. This site tracks one-dollar bills as they
change hands. Its success depends on bill owners entering serial
numbers online. Its top bill has had 11 owners of record and has
migrated all the way from Pittsburgh to Cleveland. (O.K., that's not
very far, but still ...)
halfbakery.com
A
clearinghouse for brilliant/idiotic ideas (e.g., grass shoes, so you
feel like you're walking barefoot across a lawn). Would have been a
fave of Seinfeld's Kramer.
tveyes.com
Enter
a keyword and get an e-mail when it appears in a TV transcript.
quickbrowse.com
This
simple but brilliant service takes several different websites — say,
NYTimes.com,
Washingtonpost.com
and CNN.com,
if you're a newshound — and combines them into one long page. Try it
— you'll never go back to slow browsing again.
images.google.com
For
those who just like to look at the pictures, you can now search for
images on our favorite search engine.
whatis.com
It
seems like each week brings a dozen new tech terms. This is the
place to find out what they mean.
script-o-rama.com
Read the scripts of hundreds of movies and TV shows. A great way
to kill an hour. Or 100 hours.
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