Ah, the World Wide Web. So much to see. So much to do. How is a poor computer user supposed to sort through it all?
Simple. Don't. Leave your meandering on the Web, the graphic part of the Internet, to chance. That's the idea behind URouLette (http://www.uroulette.com:8000/).The page features an image of a roulette wheel. Double click it with your mouse and you'll be whirled to some random spot in cyberspace.
There's no telling where you'll land, which is why page authors Matthew T. Abrams and Matthew J. Angell include a caveat: You may end up anywhere - including somewhere you might find offensive.
I gave the wheel a spin and landed on:
- Hugo Award Winners 1953-1995. A listing of science fiction writers to win the award over the past four decades.
- Parliament of Dreams. This turned out to be an unintelligible list of names and numbers. What did it mean? I didn't have a clue, so I moved on.
- A page set up by Jonathan Katz of UCLA, describing his efforts to set up a World Wide Web Campus Information Site. Boring. Tried again.
- Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists page. I found that "Utah Liberty" is on the list. Somewhat interesting but still no winner.
Apparently a lot of people are enchanted with the idea of letting fate decide the Web spots they'll visit on any given day - URouLette gets 3 million hits a month.