The Red Brick Times

At last. A nut after our own hearts. The author of web site RatbagsDotCom takes the obsession with bentthink and documents it on sites by bentthinkers. A webomorphological pathology of why the 'net must be preserved as an entirely separate state of matter (or immatter).

There is The Milenium Project.
"We all know that 'millennium' comes from the Latin words 'mille' and 'annus' and means a thousand years. The word 'millenium' comes from the Latin words 'mille' and 'anus' and means something else. This web site is devoted to the millenium of sites which don't deserve a place on the Web. We are not putting them on a pedestal - we are offering them a stool."

Then there is The Green Light.
"This site was launched in January 2003 as a companion to The Millenium Project site. People kept asking me to give some pointers to sites which I could recommend as an antidote to the hate, the lies and the nonsense in the sites listed at The Millenium Project. The Green Light is a collection of sites which I believe give reliable information and which can be used as references or to find counter-arguments."

Sample The Quintessence of the Loon. Eponymous title. The previous posting's link backtracked to "Loon". Also see an essay on extremes and skepticism titled "The Danger of Knowing for Sure", some links called Full Canvas Jacket (noteworthy unhinged lunatic rants) , and finally "the rag-tag posse of snake-oil vigilantes" that details their mission - "To run the medical quacks and snake-oil salesmen out of town. (Lynching will be considered on a case-by-case basis.) " - their favorite animal (the giant intestinal fluke) and their Honor Board (places they have been thrown out of).

Drama! Pathos! Comedy! Tragedy! Tragi-comedy! Comi-tragedy! And your little dog too!
Posted 3:06 PM by Andy (1) comments

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Peter Bowditch is the author of RatbagsDotCom.

# posted by  Andy : May 22, 2006 4:17 PM
 
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