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Queendom queendom.com If you love taking those magazine quizzes that predict your career successes, analyze your chances of getting married or tell you what kind of person you are, then take heart—Queendom is a never ending source of soul searching, quizzes. They have everything from a romance personality test to a verbal IQ assessment included in their stock of over 180 different tests to choose from. You can also check out the “mental workout room" which is chock full of brainteasers and logic problems guaranteed to keep you thinking for hours. Content: B Usability: A Stickdeath stickdeath.com . Nothing appeals to our animal (male?) instincts more than blood curdling carnage. But gladiator ial confrontation leads to inevitable human casu alties, and nobody would show that on the Internet. Enter Stickdeath.com, a site aimed at our most repulsive craving for slaughter without leaving so much as a drop of blood behind. A hybrid of MTV’s “Celebrity Deathmatch,” “Mr. Bill," and “WWF Smackdown,” Stickdeath.com offers a library of animated shorts in which stick figures come to the most gruesome, untimely, and conscience-jarring ends imaginable. It’s remarkable that nobody was hurt in the making of these cartoons, with their imaginative plots and impressive graphics. Content: A- Usability: B wiwjh=» J San Francisco Museum of Modern Art sfmoma.org Some of the most innovative art work created these days can’t be seen in a museum, which is why San Francisco’s modern art museum created this site. Many artists are now using web design as their media and some of the best results are featured on this page. A lot of the artwork is extraordinary, combining visual images, audio, and texts. For a rainy day when you don’t feel like getting out of bed, take a trip to this virtual museum instead. Content: B+ Usability: B Editor’s pick Mountain Zone Mountainzone.com If you are a skier, biker, hiker, climber, adventurer, or just interested in any of these sports, you should bookmark mountainzone.com. It’s a cross between a e zine, a shopping mall, and a news site, with first person testimonial from hardcore adventure racers, excellent streaming video from Quokka.com, snow reports, com petition schedules, radio, photography galleries and more. And of course—there’s gear. Shop for everything from crampons to Leatherman tools, all at competitive prices. As their motto states: “Live vicariously through MountainZone.” Content: A Usability: A Arts and Letters Daily cybereditions.com/aldaily Arts and Letters Daily is one of the most intellec tually interesting sites on the Net. It works like the Drudge Report, but for culturally minded people—every day the editors link to the most interesting articles on the Net on topics such as book reviews, philosophy, art criticism, and cur rent affairs. Definitely one to bookmark. Content: A Usability: A Gssmm College Depot collegedepot.com Hate going to malls? Do you really prefer to barter? Collegedepot.com is your one-stop col lege shopping resource and cyberspace store. Order anything from dorm items—comforters and beanbags—to computer/academic software and birthday gifts. The site also sells discounted new and used textbooks, all delivered to your door. Classifieds ranging from ride sharing to fur niture swapping are also posted by and for col lege students. Content: B+ Usability: B Stacks and Stacks StacksandStacks.com If you are one of those people who doesn’t like to throw things away or if your roommate keeps bugging you to organize your stuff; StacksandStacks is the place to go. The site has hundreds of items to help you organize your things, from hanging shoe racks and laundry baskets to desk organizers and mail holders. StacksandStacks also has dozens of storage bins in all shapes and sizes for closet and under-bed storage. If you run out of room, they also offer bed raisers that bring your bed up by 5-12 inches so you can stuff more dirty clothes underneath. Content: B Usability: B Ski Central Skicentral.com Skicentral.com is a directory of more than 4,300 web sites, all, of course, related to skiing. From cross country to telemark, there’s a site out there for everyone, and you’ll find it here. The site has guides for regional backcountry trips, special sec tions for women, disabled skiers, extreme skiers, heliskiers and more. There’s also news, trip plan ners, events calendars, and advice sections. The best feature here is up to the minute snow reports for all your favorite mountains. Content: A- Usability: B Do you have a web site you just can't live without? Tell us about it in our first ever "Your Picks" web site review special. We’ll publish 12 student submitted reviews in the April 2 issue of Steamtunnels. Here are the rules: 1. Send your reviews to: editor@steamtunnels.net by Feb. 1,2001. 2. Reviews will be selected for publication by the Steamtunnels editorial staff. 3. Reviews must be less than 100 words in length, and should follow the format of previously published reviews. 4. All submissions must be accompanied by the author’s name, address, phone number and college or university. (Only name and university will be used for publication.) steamtunnels.net 11
