ABA TechShow2002
60 Sites in 60 Minutes

Presented by:
Jeffrey M. Flax - jeff@jflax.com
Mark Tamminga - tammingm@gowlings.com
David P. Vandagriff - dvandagriff@corda.com


This popular ABA TechShow presentation offers a brief survey of the breadth of web offerings: the weird, the wacky, the odd, even the occasionally useful. The sites below are intended as a sampling -- some for entertainment, some to demonstrate particular technical approaches -- and do not, of course, represent the views of the American Bar Association or its Law Practice Management Section.

The Museum of Sixty Sites page (of past ABA Techshows) will be listed in the near future at: www.jflax.com

Now Then: 60 Sites in 60 Minutes:

  1. Accurint Investigative Database

  2. AdAware

  3. Aliens Abductions

  4. Aliens on Earth page - resources for those who are stranded here

  5. allmylifeforsale

  6. The Annals of Improbable Research - Home of the Ig Nobel Prizes

  7. Any Birthday

  8. The Anti-chain Letter Web Site

  9. The Apostrophe Protection Society

  10. Asia Goods Site

  11. Assisted care for those who will never understand computers

  12. The Australian Innovation Patent - The wheel? Forget about it, it's already patented

  13. AutoDave! The automated Dave Barry column generator

  14. Awful stuff for auction

  15. Be Your Own Lawyer in a Few Short Hours - VideoTape

  16. Becky's Gone Bananas - THE place for banana label aficionados

  17. Bryan Cave eCave

  18. Bureau of Missing Socks

  19. Buy My In-laws or Sell Yours

  20. CaseShare Systems

  21. Center for Internet Security

  22. Central Intelligence Agency for Kids

  23. Cheese Racing - processed cheese slices still in plastic tossed on a barbecue

  24. ChillingEffects.org

  25. Complete Case- Full uncontested divorce on the web. 249 bucks a crack (plus court costs). So far only California, Florida, New York and Washington with Texas and other states coming soon

  26. Condolences online

  27. Contact Your Senator

  28. Corda - Superior Graphics and Analysis

  29. The Cosmic Internet Academy - An Australian woman named Jasmuheen lives on light, without nourishment from food - a viable plan to eliminate world hunger

  30. Create paper cd covers (response to paper airplanes)

  31. Crime Scene Assistance to Yoknapatawpha County Police Department

  32. Destroying Angel - The world's greatest intellectual property license

  33. Digital Angel - Keeping track of Grandpa and little Janie

  34. DocuPro - Online preparation of legal documents

  35. Dying to Save Taxes: Evidence from Estate Tax Returns on the Death Elasticity - Sheds light on whether the timing of death is responsive to its tax consequences

  36. Electronic Frontier Foundation - Censorship

  37. Federal Judicial Center - Effective Use of Courtroom Technology: A Judge’s Guide to Pretrial and Trial

  38. Find the open stall in the dorm

  39. FirstGov - Your First Click to the US Government

  40. Freeadvice.com - general articles on large number of topics. Read the article to understand your problem better. Revenue comes from forms (available as a link from most articles and lawyer links

  41. Funeral Net - includes obituaries search

  42. Get an environmental assessment of your neighbourhood

  43. Ghost Sites - Sites That Have Disappeared from the Web

  44. The GhostWatcher - A woman named June wants to keep track of the ghosts in her house

  45. Gibson Research Center - by Steve Gibson

  46. GPS drawing - Have a GPS? A graphic sensibility? Lots of free time? Draw something!

  47. Google Groups - A proposal for something called the World Wide Web

  48. Google Groups - The First Spam

  49. Google Groups - 20 Years of UseNet Archives

  50. Guide to Wacky Cases

  51. Hats of Meat

  52. Her Book

  53. How-to guide to creating weblogs, new phenomenon worth exploring Google images

  54. How to Raise the Dead Web Page

  55. Human cloning satire site

  56. IBM Glass Site - The musical works of Philip Glass

  57. Idiotic Insights

  58. I'm Right, You're Wrong - imright.com

  59. The Incredible World of Naval Fluff

  60. The Invisible Web Revealed

  61. Internet Head Storage Facility

  62. JD Jungle - Website for law students. Lays it on a bit thick. Plays into the clichés

  63. Kenny Rogers everywhere

  64. Laugh Lab - An experiment to find the world's funniest joke

  65. Legal Zoom - Cyber-Divorce

  66. Linkdup - Bleeding-edge web design and animation

  67. The List of Banished Words

  68. Los Angles County Coroner's On-line Gift Shop

  69. MarketPosition- Everything you wanted to know about improving your web site's placement on major search engines

  70. MarketPosition Link Popularity Index - How many web sites link to yours?

  71. McPhee - The place to shop for someone who has everything

  72. McWhortle Enterprises, Inc. - Investment scam warning from the FTC

  73. Michael J. Colitz, Patent Attorney - a patent for a device that any mother will understand

  74. Michigan Cyber Court - This one's for real. Starting in October 02 state sanctioned litigation over the web for commercial disputes over $25,000. Very aggressive experiment

  75. Mind Reading Markup Language

  76. NASA airbrushes and erases UFO's from satellite pictures

  77. National Cancer Institute - 50 years of cancer data

  78. New York Times Navigator - The home page used by the newsroom of the New York Times

  79. Old maps correlated with GIS data

  80. Old Orson Welles radio plays

  81. Online jigsaw puzzles

  82. Overture - Drive more traffic to your Web site

  83. Paper Plane.org - Just what the name suggests

  84. PawSense - Catproof your computer

  85. Pay for your college education by agreeing to give them a fixed percentage of your future income

  86. PoliticalGraveyard.com

  87. Potato Cannons

  88. Powers Phillips, P.C. - B-F-H

  89. The Privacy Foundation

  90. Privacy Journal

  91. PrivacyRights.org

  92. Project Gutenberg - working to render into ASCII all books in the public domain. Books are about 200-500k uncompressed

  93. Report's Committee - Tapping Officials' Secrets

  94. Roots - So you don’t think Canadians are cool, eh?

  95. Rules Central - all the rules for all the games

  96. Savings and Clone - update from last year. They actually cloned a cat

  97. Should I Stalk William Shatner Test

  98. 1600 free classic e-books on the Web

  99. Squirrel fishing

  100. The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Guide for the New Millennium

  101. Stick Figure Warnings

  102. STOP Alien Abductions

  103. Stopyourdivorce.com - Now you can stop your divorce or lover's rejection, even when the situation seems hopeless

  104. Strawberry Blow Torch Pop Tarts

  105. Teen Poetry Corner - the clearinghouse for totally awesome and heartfelt verse, a stone-cold explosion of pubescent literary adventure

  106. 10K4awife.com - This guy is looking for a good woman and will pay

  107. TiddlyWinks.org

  108. Timeless Mail - Show your freinds, family and loved ones you care by leaving each of them an e-mail to be delivered after you pass on

  109. Toaster.org - The online home of The Toaster Museum Foundation

  110. Track any flight in America while it's in the air

  111. Ugly Couch Contest

  112. Understanding Privacy

  113. Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments - The latest from The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

  114. Urban Legends Reference Pages

  115. VirtualStapler.com: Revolutionary Online Stapler Simulation

  116. The visible Barbie project - amazing still shots, turns out she's empty

  117. The visible human project - amazing videos

  118. Ways to survive terminal situations

  119. Weather forecast for your immediate neighbourhood - personalized and free

  120. Web Archive - Internet Way Back Machine (10 billion web pages archived forever)

  121. wemadeoutinatreeandthisoldguysatandwatchedus.com - One of the great URL's of all time

  122. Web Economy B.S. Generator

  123. What to do about hangovers

  124. Winners of the "I Look Like My Dog" Contest

  125. World wide loyalty points currency exchange

  126. World News Forecast - The news before it happens

  127. WhosAliveAndWhosDead.com

  128. Write Your Representative

  129. The Yahoo Buzz Index - Who's Hot and Who's Not

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