These pages are terribly outdated and many of the links defunct. I'm in the process of recreating them, but no ETA when ShepWeb will be reborn.

Fun

These sites are just plain fun. Probably shouldn't be accessed often during business hours...

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ShepWeb:

The Best Cool Top Hot Fame Page - Have I covered all the bases?

Food - Oooo. Yummy sites.

New & Old - What's new at some old and well-established sites.

WWW - Hodgepodge of site and on-line info

Interact with the Web

• Mercury Project: Robotic Tele-Excavation - Use a movable robotic arm and compressed air to uncover objects.
• Robotics and Automation Laboratory - Control an ASEA 6 axis industrial robot and try to pick up the objects on the table.
• Boston University's Interactive WWW games
• Zarf's List of Interactive Games on the Web
• Color your own picture at Carlos' Coloring Book Home
• Tic Tac Toe (You can actually beat the computer on this one)
• Hangman
• Stoli Cypher - Move the tile squares around
• Lite-Brite - Create your own pictures!
• Talk to my Cat - Unfortunately the cat doesn't talk back

Prognostication on the Web

• Find out your I-Ching reading.
• Perhaps you would be more interested in Tarot? (Three card reading)
• Or you could ask The Magic 8-Ball
• Real Astrology by Rob Brezsny

Internet Accessible Machines (IAMs)

• Man, I could really go for a coke! (Any available at CMU? More info here)
• More IAMs
• Yahoo: Computers: Internet: Interesting Devices Connected to the Net

Virtual Binoculars

• The Trojan Room Coffee Machine (Is any coffee left? And who cares anyway?)
• Peeping Tom Home Page - Internet camera sites the world over
• WorldCam Cam Corner
• The Amazing Fish Cam!
• RadioNet DJs in action
• Texas A&M Engineering Technology Department's WEBCAM
• I need to see Hayward.

net.humor

• Usenet rec.humor page
• werdna's Humor Archive
• Stein's joke page
• Lawyer Jokes A | B | C
• Light Bulb Joke List
• Random Light Bulb Joke - A new one every 10 seconds, actually
• Taglines Galore! 48K of one-liners (and growing!)
• Uncle Jimbo's Story Hour
• Wall o' Shame - Humerous anecdotes
• Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide
• This is True - A weekly distributed list of humerous (but true!) news anecdotes
• Top Ten by ISL (Information SuperLibrary Newsletter. Yes, top ten lists are a dime a dozen, but these come out once a month, the best of reader submissions, and are actually pretty good.

Reference

• Web to English Dictionary
• Geek: A Definition
• How To Tell If Your Head is About To Blow Up - From the WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, May 24, 1994 [I actually read this one live when it was first published /js]
• Gerbil Stuffing
• How to build an Atomic Bomb (now how did that get on the net?)

Opinion

Mirsky's Worst of the Web

Useless WWW Pages

The Enhanced for Nescape Hall of Shame

Why the Web sucks - Yes, Silverio is ranting, but he makes some good points on better HTML authoring

Severe Tire Damage - More on what's wrong with the web and how to fix it.

Complaint-Letter Generator

Games

• Lose yourself in the Games Domain.
• Fantasy Role-Playing Games
• Magic: The Gathering
• Current Magic Pricelist

Fascination with Fire

• Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches
• George Goble (GHG) [EXTENDED HOME PAGE] - How to light a charcoal grill in 3 seconds flat

Page Generators

• Company Profile Generator
• Recommendation Generator
• EVIL Little Brother Excuse Generator
• Excuse Generator
• The automatic complaint-letter generator
• The Cyrano Server - Love (or Dear John) Letter Generator
• Postmodernism Thesis Generator
• Tabloid O' The Day!
• Mark's Apology Note Generator

Miscellaneous

• Luke's *New* Hippy Dippy Nerd Page
• Say... What?
• Check out what happens when a comet goes head-to-head with Jupiter!
• The Walking Man Project
• Visit Callahan's Bar
• Gonzo Unicycle Madness! The Unicycling home page.
• Need a chuckle? Grab yer spurs 'n mosey to Condom Country! (The link is slow, though.)
• Introducing URouLette. A random URL generator.
• Memorable moments from Fawlty Towers
• Naughty rhymes: collected Limericks
• I'm not sure if this will help you increase your vocabulary, but at least you can learn a Cool Word each day.
• Here is also a Thought for the Day
• It's a byrd, it's a plain, it's SuperGuy!
• Vampyres Only
• RadioNet, Interactive Talk Radio.
• Comedy info from Le Club International
• World Birthday Web
• The 2(x)ist Underwear Catalog. Men: buy the briefs. Women: check out the Hunks.
• The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5
• Forgive me, Father... I visited the Confession Booth
• Sketches from Monty Python
• First All-Web Easter Egg Hunt: Results
• Christmas is coming! Want to visit Santa at the North Pole?
• Loose all your virtual money! Visit the Blackjack Server
• LEGO Information
• Need to expand your linguistic capabilities? Visit the Klingon Language Institute
• Rectal Foreign Bodies
• April Fools on the Net - April postings too many people believed
• Dogcow Lore ("Moof!")
• Here is a cool set of Sounds on the Web. (Lots!: Beavis-n-Butthead, Bill-n-Ted, Buck_Banzai, CaddyShack, Cartoons, Computer, Dinosaurs, DrWho, Ferris-Bueller, Misc, Monty_python, Music, Quotes, RHPS, RealGenius, Ren-n-Stimpy-snds, Roger_rabbit, Simpsons-snds, Sound_effects, Spaceballs, Star_trek, Star_wars, Themes, Wargames, Waynes-wrld, Woz, Xmas-snds)
• The Banana Slug Home Page
• Yahoo: Entertainment: Hard To Believe
• Yahoo: Entertainment: Useless Pages
• The Simpsons Archive (This has nothing to do w/ OJ)
• The Rumor Mill
• MurpleWeb: Weird Shit
• alt.tasteless page
• Ferret Central - and to give equal time to other rodents: The Gerbil Home Page
• Roadkill Quarterly - I wonder how long this link will stay up?
• The Keirsey Temperament Sorter (A Jungian Personality Test)
• Internet Anagram Server
• The Palindrome Page
• Top Ten ways to tell if you have a Sucky Home Page
• The Original MacQuarium - Andy Ihnatko's unique invention that transforms a classic Mac into a fishbowl.
• Bon Mots from the Supermodels - Is there really a brain behind that bod? Read these quotations and judge for yourself.
• Comedy Central Totally Free World Wide Web Site
• Trepane Yourself for Enlightenment - You need to read this like you need a hole in your head!
• The Capt. James T. Kirk Sing-a-long Page - Hear the Transformed Man sing "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and other greats!
• The Schoolhouse Rock Page
• SPAM Haiku Archive
• No Sh*tting in Toilet - Actual sign in China that inspired a travel website ("... a celebration of everything that is perverse about travel.")
• Cockroach World
• There are amazing ways to alter pictures, but it sure looks like this guy tied his schlong in a knot
• PhoNETic - Map your phone number to a word
• Yecch!!! - a Yahoo! parody with mostly irreverent (but quite interesting) links.
• Bastard Operator from Hell