Tuesday, October 23, 2001

Site seeing
Think the web can be fun and useful?
Follow one student’s journey through the virtual world.
Tour by Eric Elton

www.gorillaz.com
This Web site is home to the virtual band, the Gorillaz, and has a remarkable setup that optimizes anyone’s visit to the site. It is a digital world that complements the original design of the band produced in the “Clint Eastwood” music video by “Tank Girl” creator Jamie Hewlett. At the site, you can take a tour of the studio or the band members’ rooms. If that doesn’t spark your interest, you have the opportunity to play a mesmerizing simulation game that puts you in the driver’s seat of the famed “Gorilla Geep.” There are also the normal things one can expect to find at a band’s Web site including music videos, shopping for Gorillaz Gear or venturing into the equally aesthetic official fan-site. No matter where you go, the outstanding arrangement of this site will leave you speechless.

www.theonion.com
Tired of the seriousness of life? Then stroll on over to the world’s largest satirical provider, the Onion. Every Wednesday, the site produces a new layout encompassing the latest news of the week and butters it up with humor that anyone can appreciate. The Onion provides the most irreverent, humorous look at current events that you’ll find on the Internet. They have satire to match your every interest. They feature items like sports, music and health issues. The Onion provides the public with a brief escape from the uptight reality of life. They even have a portion of the site dedicated to humorous stories regarding the terrorist attacks. The site allows a keyword search of all previous released issues just in case you’re trying to find a bit of comedic relief concerning a specific public figure or issue. Be forewarned, however, that this site can be offensive at times.

www.guidelive.com
This Web site is a sister site of www.citysearch.com and is specifically centered on the Dallas-Fort Worth area. It is extremely easy to use and caters to the needs of long-time residents in the area as well as new residents. Whether you are planning a date or just a night with your friends, this site makes it incredibly painless to find an event that will meet everyone’s needs with its comprehensive list of restaurants and entertainment venues and its updated list of events that are happening in the area. The site will plan out an entire evening on the town that will make you look like a socialite extraordinaire, and it is a great way to impress out-of-town guests. With an array of topics spanning music to sports, it holds a cure for anyone’s boredom. Guidelive.com currently has a fall city guide that includes reviews of haunted houses in the area that will help ensure that your Halloween will be a ghoulish one.

www.impressingroom.com
If you’re in the mood to be judgmental and don’t want to take it out on your roommate, this is the place to go. The Web site offers a domain allowing anyone to post pictures, and then the public is given the responsibility to rate the pictures on a scale from one to 10. The name of the site holds its purpose of being impressing because individuals allow the public to scrutinize themselves or their belongings. With more than 11,000 different pictures in categories such as people, cars and art, this site is a great way to kill time when you are trying to avoid writing that term paper.