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These are things I saw while surfing, and they were so—well, bizarre—that I wanted to share them with others.

NOTE: I do not link to sites that contain vile sexual content or gross profanity. These are not all Christian sites, however, and I have no way of governing what they link to, or what they have posted since the last I checked them. So follow these links with the utmost caution. My linking them here does not indicate approval of all that you may find there.

0100101110101101.ORG: A seriously weird site. No, really: this one is mind-blowingly weird.
Assassinations Foretold in Moby Dick!: Here's a site that underscores just how wacko cabalistic numerology is, whether applied to Scripture or Moby Dick. Brendan McKay made this site in order to prove that the "hidden messages" supposedly encoded in Scripture (see The Bible Code, by Michael Drosnin) are by no means remarkable. People looking for specific messages, given a sufficient base of text, can easily find anything. But now watch: someone will conclude that the "The Moby Dick Code" has deep prophetic and spiritual significance. After all, Melville was a devout, evangelical Christian!
BarneyFife.com: Not merely a paean to the TV series, but a complete set of adult Sunday-school lessons based on the adventures of Barney and Opie. We want it made perfectly clear that we do not recommend trivializing Sunday School this way. But we include this link as a tragic (but nonetheless humorous) example of how far some people go to avoid the Word of God—even in Sunday School.
Bird Manna: Here's a disturbing peek into the mind of "a young man who believes he is in contact with space aliens, that he was abducted and taken to another planet for therapy, that the aliens are God's emissaries, and that God has charged him with telling the world." Apparently something went terribly wrong with the extraterrestrial "therapy."
Churches Ad Hoc: Herman Krieger's hilarious and often poignant photo essay on churches in America. Priceless.
The Darwin Awards: Celebrating Darwin's theory of natural selection by honoring people who have improved the human gene pool by removing themselves from it. Caution: You'll find some virulent anti-Christian material at some of the links listed here.
The Death Clock: Calculate how much time you have left.
The Door: "The world's pretty much only religious satire magazine." Christian (?) satire. This magazine is sometimes funny, occasionally insightful, usually irreverent, and too often flat-out blasphemous. But it's like a grisly automobile accident you just can't turn away from.
Find a Grave: A directory to the graves of famous dead people. Why would anyone think this useful? The author of this site collects dirt from the graves of the rich and famous dead. But let's not start a new fad for this sort of "collectible," OK? If everyone did it, these dead celebs would soon be unearthed.
Iconbusters: Virulently anti-Romanist Flash movies and other materials. The style has too much of the flavor of Jack Chick about it for my tastes, but every now and then it manages to be genuinely funny or make a valid point. Papists (and evangelicals who plead for harmony with Rome) won't see the humor in it, however. Sorry.
The Illustrated Guide To Breaking Your Computer: An extremely informative how-to guide.
New Age Wackos: A merciless taunt aimed at New-Age tomfoolery.
Rapture Letters: This fellow promises to spam your friends and relatives with an explanatory letter after the rapture occurs. Just give him their e-mail addresses for his mailing list. He doesn't say how he will trigger the mass e-mail, since he presumably doesn't plan to be here after the rapture occurs. But he is accepting donations for the "ministry" if you are looking for someone to give money to.
The Useless Pages: If weirdness were silver, this would be the Comstock Lode.