One of the best places to check for silly sites lately is Mark Evanier's blog. Every week or so he runs a game he calls "There's No Such Website!", giving readers five choices of sites on which to click (using TinyURL so you can't guess the origin by running your cursor over the link) and inviting them to guess which of the five isn't real. I usually get 'em on the second or so try, but I think last week it took me all five to find the fake one. It's a clever and fun little exercise! And it also causes me to shake my head at some of the real ones. Hope I don't spoil Mark's game too much today by pointing y'all to one of those "oh my goodness it actually exists?" places, Afterlife Telegrams. "For a donation of $5.00 per word (5 word minimum), we can have telegrams delivered to people who have passed away. This is done with the help of terminally ill volunteers who memorize the telegrams before passing away, and then deliver the telegrams after they have passed away... Since we can not guarantee delivery nor prove that a message has been delivered successfully, our customers do not pay for 'deliveries'. They pay for 'delivery attempts'." Cartoonist and webmaster Paul Kinsella also runs an Online Cemetery, which actually seems like a nice idea considering the number of people who want to do (and have done) tribute pages to departed loved ones.
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