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fartparty.org

Not to be confused with the less funny and only slightly less drunk fratparty.org, this web comic is created by Brooklynite Julia Wertz. Her comic is centered around her life of waitressing, drawing comics, drinking, falling down while drinking and drinking while creating comics (which attributes to some of her strips being drawn rougher than others). Wertz’s art and drawings aren’t exactly breathtaking, but that’s not really the point of Fart Party. Fart Party is all about not taking anything to seriously except for swearing, drinking and the ability to make fun of yourself while drawing silly conclusions. To quote Wertz, her site is updated “roughly thrice a week” and I often myself checking back often to get my almost–every–other–day installment. Fart Party is full of charm, cutesy (but not annoying) observations, and is 100% less smelly than an actual fart party. Wertz has released a book of her comics which is avaliable to purchase from her site as well as on Amazon.com. www

youtube,cin
0rf.at
Have you ever mistyped a website’s URL and arrived somewhere else by mistake? Luckily for most of us, gogole.com was purchased by the good folks at Google and easily redirects us to everyone’s favourite homepage. A couple of days ago, I was coerced into typing youtube,cin into my browser window and feared some kind of weird or disturbing image. However, Youtube redirects the typo–ridden URL to their site and entertains users with “cin cin” a short, entertaining musical video that's received just over 40,000 hits. Which is surprisingly low, considering the video has been up since October 2006.
A number of websites actually rely on web users to misspell frequently accessed websites to gain an increasing amount of hits. While there’s no harm in having Google and Youtube actually bring users back their site, it can be potentially harmful and has been coined with the phrase “typosquatting.” Some of these sites quickly distribute spyware and other kinds of viruses onto to the unsuspecting users. Other sites use typosquatting to innondate users with political messages or simply share their art. That’s exactly what a group of European web–artists have done. They play off the Austrian news channel orf.at and replace the “o” with a zero. The site features a number of animations, videos, links to other artsy new media sites as well and undecipherable German–coded phrases. It’s possible to see an increase in the amount of sites that use typosquatting, especially with the internet becoming accessible practically everywhere and the keys on phones and other devices becoming smaller and closer to one another. www

zombo.com
I’m sorry, but the only words that can accurately describe zombo.com are the following: “This is zombo com.” I may have already said to much, as this is the kind of site that need not be explained. Be sure to turn your speakers up. www