Sites to see
February 6, 2002
There are millions of sites on the World Wide Web, but only a tiny fraction of them are worth reading. Here are a few sites worth clicking through:
This aptly-named Web site posts reviews of current films just like a thousand other pages, but with a twist; the ratings start at one bomb, and work their way up to a mushroom-cloud explosion.
That?s right: Mr. Cranky rates movies based on how intolerable they are. Chances are that no matter how much you liked a movie, Mr. Cranky hated it and no matter how much you disliked a movie, Mr. Cranky hated it even more.
An odd little site, The Brunching Shuttlecocks is full of reviews, articles and strange little Web toys.
Try the Self-Made Critic for movie reviews with a bizarre flavor, rated in fractions of Babylons.
For those who want statistics, the site rates everything from cartoon tie-in cereals and canadian snack foods to the torments of Dante?s Inferno and things from the dollar store.If none of that tickles your fancy, try the Geek Heirarchy chart, or the C.Y.B.O.R.G. name generator, or dozens of other bizarre entries.
This page allows readers to vote on whether a television show has reached its peak and started downhill, or “jumped the shark.”
Among the shows now on the air voted as having jumped: “Ally McBeal,” “Once and Again,” “Alias” and “The X-Files.”
Not all shows have jumped yet, though; the site still lists “The Simpsons” and “Law & Order,” among others, as strong series.