David Bander’s Know-Your-Internet

Best news website: www.fark.com

The Indy Star can be a local bummer, and if you get to the Commons later than 7:45 a.m, the professors have taken all of the copies. You don’t need to know how Ben Davis High School is doing in their women’s soccer program, but knowing that WalMart has changed their motto is life changing. Chances are you go to WalMart one to fourteen times a week. How often do you go to Ben Davis’s women’s soccer games? Florida is a lot sillier than you have ever imagined in the eyes of this funny-but-serious-but-funny website. Check out the Photoshop contests, they’re great.



Best free e-mail: www.mailinator.com

If you want to try a trial offer site without giving your real e-mail address for fear of 3000 spams per day (most from department secretaries… sorry, I had to say it…) or are meeting singles behind your lover’s back and don’t want to be caught - get a temporary e-mail address. There are no passwords and you can randomly generate addresses every time you visit the site.



Best foreign language website: icelandic.hi.is

Are homework and classes not filling your time? Upset that the HSS department only offers Spanish, Japanese, and German? Tired of looking at the same old boring websites or feeling limited by your lack of other languages? Try learning Icelandic for free! The government in Iceland wants you to take advantage of this glorious opportunity so you can someday visit their odd country. Hint from lesson one: Halló! means Hello!.