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PC World's 25 Worst Web Sites
Cilibrin writes "PC World has posted a story on the 25 dumbest dot-coms and silliest sites. Among those to make the list are the pet-related Neuticles — a site for testicular implants for pets — and every child's favorite, Rabies for Kids." From the article: "As venture capitalists scramble to throw money at anything labeled Ajax or Web 2.0, and Web publishing becomes so simple that anyone with a working mouse hand can put up a site, we offer our list of the 25 worst Web sites of all time. Many of our bottom 25 date from the dot-com boom, when no bad idea went unfunded. Some sites were outright scams — at least two of our featured Net entrepreneurs spent some time in the pokey. Others are just examples of bad design, or sites that got a little too careless with users' information, or tried to demand far too much personal data for too little benefit. And to prove we're not afraid to pick on somebody much bigger than us, our pick for the worst Web site may be the hottest cyberspot on the planet right now. "
Should've taken all 25 spots.
I'm glad it made number one. I work in a computer lab as a student at a university, and Myspace is responsible for more browser hangs than everything else combined. That site is a festering cyst on the asshole of the internet.
"23. InmatesForYou.com
This site helps you find that special someone, even if you have to wait 13 years for her parole to come up."
I tried clicking on the link but it says "Service Unavailable."
I hope this wasn't slashdotted.
This list is completely wrong, Hamster Dance is the de facto standard of excellence in web design. Ive modeled almost all of my geocities sites after it, and nowadays I try to implement its design features the my personal, and friends, myspace pages.
No. They're worse. It's a list of the 25 worst, not the 25 best.
This must be a list of the 25 worst websites that don't list themselves.
Nope. They aren't a joke.
I've seen them. On cars that is.
Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?
I love Neuticles. I think they are one of the best products on the market for dogs. I can picture this endorsement:
Customer: After I had my first dog, Scamp, snipped, he just didn't lick himself with the same enthusiasm. When we were going to get our second dog, Arny, snipped we heard about neuticles. After they removed his manhood, we had the install a big ole pair of neuticles. He was unsure of himself for a few days. He sniffed at them tentatively, gave them a lick and he was hooked. I decided to get a pair for Scamp installed. And boy was he happy. Now, both dogs lick themselves with the same enthusiasm as if they had real balls.
Arny & Scamp: (in unison) Woof! Woof!
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
I was afraid I would see my site up there. :-) Good thing no one visits it.
They TOTALLY left out Association of International Glaucoma Societies!
Maybe it's because they cleaned up their act. They no longer play the Glaucoma Hymn upon visit - you have to click on something now. They've still got the frames, the horrendous color scheme, and the bobbing heads, which I suppose represent people with Glaucoma.
Glaucoma, Glaucoma, Glaucoma
Constricting vision slowly
Halted by progress of science
Vision of a world united
Beyond all science knowing...
I got my Linux laptop at System76.
Well, I am going to have to agree that the site in question should be on the top 10, considering that they claim on their hideous-looking site that they are both elite and elitists. Apparently, the elite are color-blind.
-Kinsey
dude, you look like a simpsons character!
Hey, there is only one Return and it's not of the King, it's of the Jedi.
can be seen on a 4th season episode of "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!" You can hear and see the inventor sum up his invention in his own words, accompanied by Penn's chiding commentary. If it's not enough for you to just *read* about artificial pet testicles, and you're more the type who wants to *see* them, then feel free to get ahold of the episode. It's episode 406 from season 4, entitled "Pet Love". You can probably get it right now using your favorite p2p program.
:) Although it would be pretty awesome to make some kind of "not only the president, I'm also a client remark" and whip out a second "supplemental" pair as proof positive of my commitment to the product.
And no, I am not Penn Gillette, nor do I have some kind of vested interest in selling you a pair of fake doggie balls.
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
...wow. I can't believe I clicked on that. I'm going to have nightmares for months...
Myspace: where blink tags go to die
Myspace: It's like being trapped in geocities, during 1996.
Anyone else?
henry -- the human evolution news relay
I don't have a Windows box within reach right now... can anyone tell if that (hosanna1.com) renders into anything remotely legible in IE? In FF it looks like a Jackson Pollack painting...
I now have to go to goatse to get that melange of hideous images out of my mind. As far as I can tell, hosanna1.com is a site for born again afghan dogs.
This one's not as painful on the eyes but if it's real, it's probably even worse:
http://www.superdesignstudio.com/
A typical /. effect for a front page story is 80,000, so I don't think a link in the comments would get 500,000. It looks like they set their counter to start as 500,000 and have had 692 visitors since then.
So I click "Worst Site #1" link directly.
And what opens? PC World. With a bunch of floating flash ads over the article. No wonder.
Cut the Slashdotting in three...two...one...
Actually, Slashdotting that GeoCities user's pages might be a public service. Her web pages definitely made the Baby Jesus cry.
No, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page you will see they have a picture of a dog with the words "great site award".
this proves without any doubt that it is actually a top quality web site.