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Magical Blend Magazine
Innovations in Thought, Lifestyle and Creativity
http://www.magicalblend.com/
Crystals, rainbows, pyramids and pagans, Magical Blend whips up a colourful
and thoughtful recipe for all of today's counter-culture participants
to savour. With 20 years experience, the tribe at MB has harvested the
realms of consciousness enough to know all the cool ways of looking at
the world. Ignore the media's new age bashing, this is fun and insightful.
Shockwave I Ching, dozens of articles, celebrity interviews and in-depth
discussions with philosophers and artists surely make this web site a
powerful blend.
Sample: "We endorse no one pathway to spiritual growth but attempt to
explore many alternative possibilities to help transform the planet."
Verdict: The right ingredients. - SS
NetWorth: ****
Exposure - The magazine of Future Developments
http://www.exposure.axs.com.au/
Site was down :-(
Verdict: - SS
Net Worth:
FringeWare Inc
http://www.fringeware.com/
This guerilla media collective from Texas has the unenviable mission of
promoting culture, art and artists shunned my mass media. It's a 'mouse
that roared' scenario here, though, since the talent, the attitude and
the work is certainly potent enough to batter a few psychic barricades
down. By combining angst-ridden artists and over-qualified techno heads,
Fringware might just have the firepower to make it in the mainstream.
The Web is a global niche supermarket. The sheer volume of FW's output
guarantees them a certain success rate with audiences. Check it out fringe-dwellers,
something here will resonate, you know, like you're favourite Seinfeld
episode.
Sample: "..as such, we are regarded as one of the most innovative, most
litigious, and most heavily-armed among private media collectives, per
capita."
Verdict: The coffee shop poets have landed. - SS
NetWorth: ****
Patycop
http://www.patycop.com/
A dark and brooding MIDI file plays as Patycop lays before you the questions
everyone is asking these days. Did Ancient Egyptians fly helicopters?
Did the bible predict the existence of aliens? What are the signs our
time is near? With the astounding facts uncovered here, your poor unsaved
brain will be twisting and turning with confusion until you will have
no option but to get down on your knees and pray to the Almighty Christian
God for salvation. Click on the salvation link, and a Sister Sledge MIDI
file will have you a-clappin' and a-singin' and calling out HALLELULJAH!
Praise Jesus, you are saved!
Sample: When the only way to avoid hell is to become a Christian, why
not make a decision to become one today?
Verdict: Your one-stop salvation shop. Open 24/7 - SS
NetWorth: **
Fortean Times Online
http://www.forteantimes.com/
Charles Fort in the early 1900's began to investigate the nature of things
and how science and religion attempt to explain the inexplicable. He formulated
views of a more organic universe, ever changing and ever mystifying. His
views inspire this magazine, which devotes itself to exploring weirdness
and strangeness on this crazy little planet - with a good dose of humour
thrown in. It might shatter the status quo, but things could be learnt
in the process. What things? Strange things. Four legged Chickens. Y2K
giggles, Noah's Ark, competitions, reviews and late-breaking news.
Sample: There is, after all, some similarity between the getting of a
joke and the getting of enlightenment."
Verdict: A light-hearted look at the bizarre. - SS
NetWorth: ***
Discover FATE
http://www.fatemag.com/
Fate magazine preceded the entire weirdness movement by a couple of decades.
50 years on, and no obelisk is left unturned as they investigate anything
remotely outside "normal". Over time, they have developed the widest possible
view on things, not limiting themselves to UFO's and psychic phenomena,
but covering such topics as Aboriginal Dreamtime, Creative Visualisation,
synchronicity, psychic pets and aura photography. The on line version
is really a teaser for subscription, so if you want 12 ways to talk to
the dead, perhaps you could order the August 1998 back issue!
Sample: Position Vacant - Associate Editor (previous one abducted by alien
perhaps?) - "The successful applicant will have an interest in strange
phenomena, lifestyles, and pop culture, tempered with a healthy skepticism."
Verdict: I think we should all apply for the job! - SS
NetWorth: ***
Lobster: Journal of parapolitics, intelligence and State Research
http://www.knowledge.co.uk/lobster/
Each issue of this little publication takes 6 months to cook. This allows
for far more detailed investigation into the stories, unlike some of the
other sites featured here, which rely on hearsay, readers' accounts and
sheer sensationalism to get the issue to print. The subject matter is
much more focussed here, concentrating on the British government for the
most part. Military operations, MI5, trade unions, Falklands conspiracies,
terrorism, arms dealings, links to superpowers etc. The journalistic and
scholarly approach to decidedly biased reporting makes for a good read,
and you may well leave with a far more sceptical view of politics than
you already had. Only a few articles to read here. All the other material
is in point form to get you to order. I'd say the 9 pound subscription
looks well worth it. Until the author gets bumped off, that is.
Sample: "JFK, DEA, Oliver North, SAS, Combat 18, MI5, CIA, DoD, conspiracies,
British nuke deployments." But wait! there's more!
Verdict: The Internet's answer to "Spycatcher". - SS
NetWorth: ****
Psychedelic Tabby Cabal
http://www.paranoia.com/~fraterk/
Unfortunately, due to a government conspiracy to control the Internet,
the entire Paranoia domain is off line.
Sample: "When they took the fourth amendment, I was quiet because I didn't
deal drugs. When they took the sixth amendment, I was quiet because I
was innocent. When they took the second amendment, I was quiet because
I didn't own a gun. Now they've taken the first amendment, and I can say
nothing about it."
Verdict: Who is responsible for this? Huh? - SS
NetWorth: :-P~
You are now Sutured to the Blather.Network
http://www.blather.net/
Dave Walsh is a contributor to many an alternative journal. It stands
to reason that he would put together his own little e-zine to promote
and expand on his published musings, as well as give voice to the odd
article the editors rejected. With Irish wit and verve, "daev" as he likes
to be known tackles any subject that washes up at his doorstep. UFO's,
NASA, pyramids, questions without answers, his style injects these tired
old topics with a freshness that may see them lasting until the truth
is finally revealed.
Sample: "Accept nothing. . . until at least you have yourself questioned
it"
Verdict: And question it he does, to be sure! - SS
NetWorth: ****
Conspire.com
http://www.conspire.com/
Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen, authors of "The 70 greatest conspiracies
of all time" bring a marriage of profundity and humour to the web with
a collection of rants and raves, excerpts from the book, and an ever growing
library of new investigations into evil schemes. They tackle the biggies.
Lady Di, JFK, Bill Clinton's "Killing Spree". These theories climb right
to the top of the "tall tale" charts. You'll be half in stitches laughing
at the possibilities, and half in mortal fear wondering if even a shred
of this is true. Therein lies the appeal of conspiracy theories - the
remote chance that one day a theory will be proven is an irresistible
concept.
Sample: Not long after the slaughter in Jonestown, whispers began--strange
hints of human experiments in mind control, even genocide, and the lurking
presence of the CIA. Verdict: Laugh yourself awake each and every night.
- SS
NetWorth: *****
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http://www.disinfo.com/
While the TV news dedicates itself to bringing you whatever stories they
happen to have shocking footage for, and the newspapers get ever more
influenced by advertisers and vested interests, the Web remains uncontrolled.
Here is the portal through which to discover what is really happening
out there. Bees are going blind from UV radiation, millions of kids are
sniffing glue - all the real news that doesn't make the news makes it
here. There is a war going on for your brain, and so far the mass media
is way ahead. This is the battle cry - ammunition loaded - of the global
collective that "rulez" the net.
Sample: While you're watching sitcoms, greedy bastards are busy destroying
the planet for a profit.
Verdict: An absolute must-see. Whether you like it or not. - SS
NetWorth: *****
UFO Mind : Mothership
http://www.ufomind.com/
With a fascination as much for human nature as for the countless (as yet)
unprovedn theories about aliens and military involvement, this site serves
as a launch pad to thousands of related information sites out there. Webmaster
Glenn Campbell (not the Rhinestone Cowboy, surely!) and a small crew sell
books to fund the huge task of maintaining such a large and popular site,
beamed out from a small yellow caravan in the desert. No doubt they will
be easy to spot from the sky.
Sample: That's why we call our site "UFOmind" - It is the central nervous
system of the UFO community.
Verdict: If you are bent on UFO's and stuff, you just hit the motherlode!.
- SS
NetWorth: ****
SCHWA
http://www.schwa.com/main.asp
uh.......
Sample:
Verdict: - SS
NetWorth: ****
Sources
http://www.dso.com/cgi-bin/webc/home.html
This hard-hitting news site dishes out all the dirt on all the pre-millennium
madness that seems to be controlling a lot of global activity. Terrorism,
trafficking, spies, agents, drugs, China, Iraq, US foreign policy. We
are all hurtling into the abyss. At least if you subscribe to this particular
eJournal, you will know your exact hurtling velocity. It can't hurt to
stay properly informed. Then again, perhaps it's time to unplug the modem
and hire a Hollywood movie on video, huh, cabbage for brains? Why worry,
you're insurance is paid up.
Sample: ..hard-hitting electronic publications that deliver reports on
cutting-edge worldwide intelligence.
Verdict: Feeling a little paranoid? Good. - SS
NetWorth: ****
The Morteaurn Times
http://www.manowar.demon.co.uk/morteaurn/index.htm
Last updated 1997... uh ferget it!
Sample:
Verdict: - SS
NetWorth ****
¤ c i r c l e m a k e r s ¤
http://www.head-space.org/circlemakers/
At last, a DIY site to get you actively participating at the "cutting
edge" of weirdness. The great crop circle deception (if you believe it)
of trampling crops into artistic and perplexing patterns can be yours
to unleash upon your local produce-grower. The controversy that the crop
circles created, certainly places them right up there with the best art.
Blue Poles? - ferget it, we'll trample grass with a rusty old rake! Great
design here. Follow the "home" link as well to more coolness.
Sample: Nothing is what it seems to be - or rather, beyond a few shared
basics, everything can be seen as something else.
Verdict: The biggest prank in history... maybe. - SS
NetWorth: ****
The Worldwide Institute for the Preservation of Everything
http://www.dungeon.com/~weaver/
Everything is devolving, decaying and generally falling to bits, and it
has to stop! Before we can preserve everything, we must find out exactly
how much there is to preserve. Participate in the great Millennium Stocktake,
followed by the global polymer coating, the protective satellite force-field,
and the all important end to moral decay. I think I just lost a few brain
cells just clicking through the site!
Sample: Simply fill in the form below, or e-mail the Secretary and details
for ordering will be automatically dispatched to the waste paper bin.
Verdict: This site just failed to preserve my sanity. - SS
NetWorth: **
GLOBAL WEBTRANCE
http://www.webtrance.co.za/
Someone's been taking mind-altering substances. With strong images and
strange words, a world of Internet-focussed global transformation is enacted.
Electronic graffiti, transistorised tenets from the ex-land of Apartheid
show us an alternative reality upon which we may just be able to base
our fragile existences.
Sample: Quantum Physicists dream in fractals. They seek the grid that
powers the inner universe. But it's already in our heads...
Verdict: Oh yeah! Now excuse me, I have to go and pay my electricity bill.
- SS
NetWorth: *****
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