Wow Wow: Sites Unseen - The Internet Review Book

Be amused; be very amused. It begins with eHusbands.com and it just gets better and better. Conceived and designed by Miles Murray Sorrell, or FUEL design, Wow Wow leads you willy-nilly on a tour of the Web's weirdest and wackiest, with some of our favourite cultural commentators reacting to, participating in or passing acerbic comment on each.Let's start, as one should whenever possible, with Stephen Bayley on Internet millionairedom: "The thing about the Web is, the medium is the medium. It can't do art. The question remains: how do you get eyeballs if you cannot get art? If you worry about this sort of thing, you'll never get rich." You may take it that laid-back Californian Alex bores him silly. FUEL has not only experimented with content but also with layout; you never know exactly where the next bit of text carries on from the last, which may annoy. But a little annoyance is small price to pay for enormous amusement. Where else would you get a journalist who writes for the Guardian picking a fight in a chat room, or the editor of Sky magazine contemplating taking a serial killer as a flatmate? --Liz Bailey Read More