The Site to See If You Have a Humongously Short Attention Span

Alltop.com is a super-caffeinated webpage aggregator, for people who don't want to miss anything, ever, either in this hour of the day or the next hour. "All the topics, all the time." Its News page is serious, the top-five headlines of the moment from all the big and medium-sized players. There's also an Oddities page with Fark.com in the pole position, joined by 50 other sites (i.e., 250 headlines at your disposal at all times!). Weird Universe is not among them. News of the Weird is, except it's not my News of the Weird (the trademark for which I pay a coupla hundred bucks a year to register). It's this guy's, but there's not even an e-mail address for him, so I don't know who he is. My curmudgeonly self brings this to your attention as just another example of people doing things on the Internet . . just because they can. Who is the world, except possibly an Asperger's fringe group, would get any value at all from this page? Beware the aggregators, my friends; support your local editors and writers.

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Posted By: Chuck - Tue Jan 13, 2009
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What??? an IMPOSTER with the audacity to call his stupid site News of the Weird? Stealing from Chuck for his own sordid purposes? I'm outraged. I'm making it my mission to track him down and put an end to his miserable existance.

Posted by Skitt in SW USA on 01/13/09 at 04:28 PM

Well, that shouldn't be to hard a hunt, should it? Still, it lacks the grace and subtle wit of Chuck's summaries.

Make Mine Weird Universe!

Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 01/13/09 at 04:53 PM

In the end, there can be only one.

And that one is YOU Chuck. The Highlander of News of the Weird!

Posted by AGFH on 01/13/09 at 09:19 PM

I was gonna look at this but...I got bored waiting for the page to load.

Posted by Madd Maxx on 01/14/09 at 07:31 AM

it took you 7 mo. to do it? you owe chuck an apology for using his site name which carries his well established reputation with it. posting here occationally has given me a vague idea of how much work this is for those that do it full time. respect amoungst eachother in the buisness should be observed all the time.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 07/07/09 at 07:43 AM

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