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Friday, January 8, 2010

Weird Wednesday - a random assortment of weird

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Everyone knows you can't swing a dead lolcat without finding weird stuff on the internet. Before the web, the internet was a haven for all sorts of crazy "underground" information that was difficult to get published and distributed.

Fast-forward to the present day and you can indulge your weirdness with the push of maybe 5 or 6 buttons, tops. You don't need a real name, address, phone number or functional frontal lobe -- you too can pollute the mindscape of hundreds with a janky little free site dedicated to whatever weird crap you're into.

But how to find the weird stuff? Digg, BoingBoing, Fark, and many, many sites are dedicated to culling the "best" of the oddball sites out there (although more often than not the sites themselves are merely bad, not "weird"). But what about those rarely-curated Frontpage-compliant hyper-niche zany sites out there?

There's no way for us to find them all (DARPA cancelled funding for that project long ago), but here's a sampling of what we could find in about 30 minutes of searching. Something you'll notice: most of these sites also fall under the "fugly" category. Most haven't been updated in years, either.

As always, leave your own in the comments. PG-13 please, we know there are plenty of adult and "other" sites that indulge strange stuff -- and there are plenty of sites covering those, so no need for us to do the same.

History of Public Toilets. Joe the Plumber would be proud. The content is actually fascinating, even if the presentation leaves something to be desired. But there's no good way to dress up poop, really.

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