PC World's 25 Worst Web Sites 272
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. "
Myspace... (Score:5, Funny)
YES! (Score:5, Funny)
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http://code.google.com/p/moshi/ [google.com]
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Also, the way they want it to look is often terrible - most of the MySpace sites are either completely unreadable because of some background the site owner has decided to apply, or just plain annoying because they've decided that absolutely everyone must hear their favorite piece of music so they push it upon you as soon as you open the page.
From what I can see, the one good thing MySpace has done is group a large amount of crap in one place so it's easier to avoid.
(And I'm not even going to get started on the number of MySpace people who have taken to whoring my bandwidth by linking full size 6MP photos off my web server as their background images without permission).
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I clicked on #1 and I got to a generic pcworld.com site asking me to enter my personal info. I agreed with the choice.
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Should've taken all 25 spots.
Someone is mad they can't get anyone to add them as a friend...
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As an independent musician who has a CD out, MySpace has given me an excellent means of promotion and finding new listeners. I've also been able to find other musicians to form bands with using MySpace. I wouldn't have a bass player right now if it weren't for MySpace. It was simply a matter of heading over to google and typing "inurl:myspace.com (my city name) bass" (since MySpace lacks a useful search feature, heh) and I fou
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Worst? (Score:2)
I hope they were a joke.
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I've seen them. On cars that is.
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I've never seen a pair on a car but I think I've seen at least 10 trucks/SUVs with them. Blech!
Re: Bumper Bawls (Score:2)
I've not seen them very often, mind you, but every couple months or so I see another one (or pair, as it were).
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rj
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Absolutely. A parking lot is private property, and the rights of the property owner trump any 1st, 2nd, or 4th amendment rights you have. That's why you can be fired for wearing an "offensive" T-shirt to work, you can be fired for carrying a self-defense tool at work, and your employer can have your desk/locker/you searched
"Bumper Balls" (Score:2)
See: http://www.bullsballs.com/suv/accessories.html [bullsballs.com]
The full list (Score:5, Informative)
24. IKissYou.org
23. InmatesForYou.com
22. Digital entertainment network (den.com)
21. Golden Palace Casino
20. Hotmail.com
19. WebVan
18. Beenz.com and Flooz.com (tie)
17. Boo.com
16. Microsoft Windows Update
15. Neuticles.com
14. BidForSurgery.com
13. Whitehouse.com
12. The Dancing Baby
11. Rabies for Kids
10. MyLackey.com.
9. HamsterDance.com
8. BonziBuddy
7. Pets.com
6. Pixelon.com
5. AllAdvantage
4. CD Universe
3. Cartoonnetwok.com
2. CyberRebate
1. MySpace.com
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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...
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Thanks, now I have to go to goatse (Score:4, Funny)
If only this were rare (Score:2)
It's pretty hard to disagree with you. And as a guy who has built a lot of dog-related web content for and about dog breeders, I can tell you that the design sensibilities that result in outbreaks like this is more of an epidemic than a fluke.
That being said, I have to wonder: why, when, and how did you find that spectacular web site? Yes, I'm looking for SEO tips.
Wrong, great site award (Score:3, Funny)
this proves without any doubt that it is actually a top quality web site.
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Oh my $DEITY, my eyes are *bleeding* (Score:3, Insightful)
Surely someone has made that site as bad as possible as a joke to show their friends. No one could be that truly awful and still claim to have "the most beautiful pages on the www".
Check out the "Why we suggest you use IE" page: http://www.hosanna1.com/AAAWWW/why/index.html [hosanna1.com]
Tell me that's not a joke. It's just impossible to take seriously. The inaccuracies sprinkled with a hint of misunderstood technical info is just impossible to believe!
TCA and BBQ bugs (Score:2)
~...but on the list of websites for which this entity is culpable, there is one that is a little different, one that sticks out - sticks out its toungue for tasty BBQ bugs, in fact:
[trumpet fanfare]
The Toad Club of America!!!!
From: [hosanna1.com]
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What's wrong with rabies site? (Score:3, Insightful)
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I think the (legitimate) gripe about this particular site [cdc.gov] was the garrish design. The whole thing is very, very 1990s-college-freshman in the way it looks.
Those are pretty bad... (Score:2)
On the other hand, there are lots of cool sites. www.stickdeath.com used to be cool, until they started using annoying pop ups (yay for blockers) and what not. Funny site though. There are tons of others... so, my suggestion, when you come to talk some trash about how bad those sites are and add your list, throw out a site you think is cool as well.
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Re: There are worse out there... (Score:2)
Worst website according to Digg... (Score:5, Interesting)
http://www.kwota.net/cdc/default.htm [kwota.net]
A quote: "I feel like I lost a part of my web design soul just by viewing this site."
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Kee-reist, that site literally makes my eyes hurt like they're trying to retreat into my skull. I am not kidding. I can still feel it.
Re:Worst website according to Digg... (Score:4, Funny)
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Best part (Score:5, Funny)
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Awful: check! (Score:2)
I mean, hade you read some of the stuff?
Some choice nuggets:
"i have written, consulted and co-written many various and numerous plugins for MSPAINT, including the "ALIASER" (a de-anti-aliaser), the innovative and hi-tech "Tree Fattener v2.0", and the "Lens Flare Drop Shadower" (if you've ever seen a lens flare with a drop shadow, and
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http://www.superdesignstudio.com/ [superdesignstudio.com]
It's a spoof (Score:2)
My vote is that the site is a spoof.
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Anyone consider this may be a hoax/practical joke?
Amusing, either way.
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[note: most of this was in all caps - the lameness filter at
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I think I only used the blink tag once, to fake up a C: prompt with a flashing cursor for some help pages.
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neat trick.
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Actually, Slashdotting that GeoCities user's pages might be a public service. Her web pages definitely made the Baby Jesus cry.
Not enough silly (Score:2)
Though looking at their list, it appears they really weren't interested in silly anyway; sites that were intentionally silly number only 5 (by my count), the bulk qualifying as dumb (which I read as unintentional silliness or lack of quality):
Dumb
23. InmatesForYou.com
22. Digital entertainment network (den.com)
21. Golden Palace Casino
20. Hotmail.com
19. WebVan
18. Beenz.com and Flooz.com (tie)
17. Boo.com
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23. InmatesForYou.com (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Glass houses... (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't know what their minimum requirement is, but I don't like to maximize my browser window, so I can see what's going on in the background. I have a large screen though, so most sites will fit in a window that's roughly 1024 across...not this site though!
And who doesn't love an article that's broken down into at least 5 separate pages? I know there's nothing I love more than clicking and waiting 5 times, just to read a single article.
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Agreed. I clicked on the #1 site link only to find pcworld blocking it with their own 'subscribe now' pop-up. Now that's crappy web design and no one at pcworld has any right to attack others until they clean up their own act.
Elitism Foiled. (Score:3, Interesting)
The best part is PCWorld's site sucks.
Yes, and that goes a long way to foil the author's baseless elitism. A recurrent theme of the article is snobbery. MySpace looks bad because people are stupid and evil is their central message:
What a load of crap (Score:3, Funny)
Golden Palace is nuts. (Score:2)
Clearly something wrong... (Score:2)
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Russell's Paradox strikes again! (Score:4, Funny)
Not that bad... (Score:2, Interesting)
Discerning Dogs Can't Tell (Score:5, Funny)
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!
I'm sorry but... (Score:2)
It looks like a 15-year-old girl designed that site. Poor Canada. :-(
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Replace "Poor Canada. :-(" with:
"Designed in the USA by Hippies. ~_~"
Windows Update? (Score:5, Insightful)
This sounds more like a lame attempt to bash "Micro$oft" yet again.
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Microsoft is notorious for their misuse of space, and Windows Update is no exception. Their primary idiocy is non-resizable dialogs, but I digress.
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Windows update is okay. THE REST OF MICROSOFT.COM IS UTTER CRAP.
A COMPLETELY random collection of pages, added with no particular scheme in-mind. It's extremely difficult for both their own search engine, and Google, to handle. And to make things WORSE, they go out of their way to REMOVE links to useful pages frequently, and eventually remove the pages themselves.
I've made it a point to burn EVERYTHING to CD, that I've downloaded from Microsoft. Next syste
zombo (Score:2)
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What do you mean? Don't you know you can do anything you like at zombocom?
A funny take on Neuticles (Score:2, Funny)
And no, I am not Penn Gillette, nor
Truth in Domain Names Act? (Score:5, Interesting)
What? Truth in Domain Names Act? So if I create a site about rocket launchers and register it to fuzzybunnies.com I can go to jail? Can fuzzybunnies be a porn site?
Borat is really real!! (Score:2)
This definitely is Borat [wikipedia.org]!
On a side note, the "inmates for you" site seems to have been slashdotted already..
cartoonnetwok.com (Score:2)
Sigh (Score:5, Interesting)
The ease with which anyone of any age can create a page, upload photos, share deeply personal details of their lives, and make new "friends" quickly turned MySpace into a one-stop shopping mall for online predators.
I lost interest in the article right about here. thinkofthechildren, etc.
(Come to think of it, aren't shopping malls one-stop shopping malls for "predators"? Oh, teh irony!)
MySpace slogans? (Score:3, Funny)
Myspace: It's like being trapped in geocities, during 1996.
Anyone else?
Kim Jong Il's myspace (Score:2)
also known as the DPRK website [korea-dpr.com]. You have to see it to believe it
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This baby is particularly outstanding. It froze and crashed my Firefox, running on 1GB of RAM and a 2GHz processor. How do you get a website to do that?!! And how did you find this beauty? I'm impressed.
I knew it (Score:4, Funny)
And what opens? PC World. With a bunch of floating flash ads over the article. No wonder.
Not a reasonable bunch (Score:2)
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Scratch that mofo off the list, PCTurd. I'm off to order a bathrobe.
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An intact dog is also required for breeding.
Riiiiiight, but, uh... You do realize that the testicles (I mean the OEM stuff, not Neuticles) pe
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Ok... maybe it's just me... but using OEM to refer to a broken dog (obviously, it hasn't been "fixed")... has to be one of the best things I've seen for the past month...
Nephilium
If anyone ever saluted a third lieutenant, the light must have been bad. -- Johnnie Rico in Starship Troopers
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Riiiiiight, but, uh... You do realize that the testicles (I mean the OEM stuff, not Neuticles) perform certain biological functions that I'm guessing Neuticles can't perform. And if they can, wow, those are some impressive fake balls. But if they could (which they can't), what's the point of going through all this in the first place?
I bet he does. I bet he also knows that a dog having only one OEM testicle isn't that uncommon, and would also disqualify from breeding. So if you have this great dog that w
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Hate to have to tell you this but Neuticles aint going to help with this. Unless you can get them with some sort of embedded pump.
Hmm, now there's a patentable idea - time to experiment with a Super Soaker, a milking machine and several large male dogs. Wish me luck...
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Neuticles. They're the Dog's Bollocks!
Re:Badger Badger / All Your Base (Score:4, Interesting)
I agree. I think Hamsterdance, badger, all your base, etc. Are all a matter of "How funny did you find it?". They obviously weren't meant to be seriously attracting someone to use the site with some kind of purpose. I think the entire list should be redone minus joke (or "one hit wonder") web sites.
I think a list of "worst web sites" should be done using only serious material. If you had a "dumbest quote" contest, you wouldn't include intentional jokes.
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Another one I came across recently had been saved as html from ms word and had file:// links all though it.
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Reason: The Websense category "Tasteless" is filtered.
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Theoretically you can code a full feature site via text editor.