IDTell
Sends your social security number and date of birth to Rutger Hauer every time you resize your browser window.
URLimit
Ignores all URLs longer than three letters.
KLEZMER_PRO
Places a bed of klezmer music underneath every web page you visit and adjusts the tempo according to the number of files on your desktop.
Uncle Desmond
Simulates Alzheimer's by opening arbitrary web pages, randomizing passwords and filling your bathtub with pillows.
BUREAUCRACY
Assigns each visited web page a sixteen-digit Webpage Identifier Code (WIC) and stores it in a brown envelope in the National Visited Webpage Archive in Washington, DC - where it is accessible only via the Freedom of Information Act.
DIVERSITY
Replaces all graphic images with a black woman, old white man and an Asian who might be gay.
PornSqueal
Text messages your wife's mobile phone when you visit an adult website.
INS Click
Arbitrarily denies a visa at one of eight U.S. ports of entry.
So_Rosie
Organizes bookmarks based on a complex mathematical calculation incorporating the GPS location of Rosie O'Donnell and the Nielsen ratings for That's So Raven.
WasItRaining?
Downloads historical weather statistics to your tool bar and displays what the temperature was twelve years ago.
LeifBay
Pressing the browser's "back" button automatically bids $8 for a Leif Garrett lunchbox.
What's-Wrong?
Launches a pop-up window every eight minutes that asks you if you're happy.
Purchase Quandary
Treats every pop-up advertisement as life-changing and asks you repeatedly to consider purchasing it by linking to your online banking account and proving it’s affordable.
Access Anywhere
Facilitates logging in to your online banking account via an open proxy server in Latvia.
MKE-Alert
Quits the browser when the temperature at the Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee hits 43 degrees Fahrenheit.
Balancer
Merges news feeds from Fox and CNN so that they're centrist.
FEDTEMPTR
Downloads child pornography to your documents folder and brazenly issues traceable death threats to four Senators.
BigNews
Sends everyone in your Outlook address book an epithet-laden missive announcing you've joined the National Association for the Advancement of Fat Acceptance.
Psycho Ex
Plays a voicemail of your ex-girlfriend saying "Everyone hates you and you're ugly and you're stupid" every time you click on a link.
MIGRAINER
Makes graphics slightly out of focus so that you get a headache.
GodLovesU
Obscures half of your browser with a quote from the Bible in 24pt Futura Extra Bold Condensed.
Form Helper
Automatically fills out name and address information in online forms, but assumes your name is Grenville Jones from Swastika, Kentucky.
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Comments
PornSqueal is an evil idea, and I'm going to blame you if it ever comes to fruition.
Also, I think a cousin of What's-Wrong has weaseled its way onto this machine...
lol. Some of these would make great pranks for friends. Does that make me a bad person for wishing this hell on some people?
Nice work. I really enjoy your stuff and this is one of the first websites I come to for comedy.
Posted by: MattE | December 22, 2005 8:21 PM