Ed's Note: This original script, like the shows, were pretty raw, and because the Internet always changes, some pages aren't accessible anymore, or have changed url's. For the sake of having an accurate record of the internet AND Cleveland's Alt. scene at this point in history, I'm not changing any of the script...er, ah, and I'm a little bz for all that work anyway. However I'll add new websites or any changes as you read along. "End-joy" :-)

WEBsite Format

Show for: 11/29

Bull/Surf Music
Turn off your Tv's, Turn on your Computers, and turn up your Radios! It's time for
WEBSITE, our weekly surf through the Internet checking out cool musical websites. Brought to you by Cybergate, Your faster and user-friendly connection to the Internet, call them at 247-7660.

Tonight's theme: Interactive Websites! We'll be chatting about some contests, games, and surveys that concern some of your favorite bands, like Primus, U2, Nine Inch Nails The Violent Femmes, and this band,
 

Thanks Bull, tonight's show is about interactivity. Green day's website is hooked up to a few polls and contests,  (They still are!) you can link to them through our end web playlist. Check out the X avenue poll, where you can vote for your favorite bands. this is a poll where you can see how the artist is doing and link to they're website. Alanis and Smashing Pumpkins were actually in the lead, but had no website listed, so I e-mailed them the address of Jay Onifer's Alanis site at Case, and the Smashing Pumpkins site from Miami of Ohio we have linked, and they put them up within a day so that worked well. X Avenue has a ton of  games generation x'ers will get a kick out of, so check them out and add them to your bookmarks. (This site is way gone)
 

The Violent Femmes Lyric mastery Game! 
LABITS - what does it mean?Clues, Levels, Sound bytes - Very cool 

-Guess the lyric of the week on the U2 page 
-Software used
 Give lyric to Audience - I have a heart, a heart that beats inside

email from U2 webmaster about why he does it; really likes sharing his passion for the music on a global scale. One of the things the World Wide Web can do is pull all sorts of people together from all over the globe.  Something he finds very cool.
 

Regarding this next band, we just hooked them up to our local band list, since this IS where they started from...The NIN page is great, regarding tonight's theme... NINquery -
favorite song -Something I Could never have
Video - Closer (Uncensored) we had at rascal house
Band member - yeah, who?
Remix of an original- Closer To God
Cover song / Queens get down Make love barely edges out Joy Divisions' Dead Souls Best artwork - Halo 8 The downward Spiral
The last person voting was in our coverage area, from ysu.edu. Youngstown state, way to go!!!!  at the end of the survey is a link to get the free software used to create the poll.
 

Check out this weeks Doonesbury strip...all about websites!

Hard Rock Zone Survey  another contest for cool stuff Bands In The Zone-besides Korn, Alice in Chains, CIV, Paw, Seaweed, Zombie (Unfortunately, this site has crumbled)

Our Hot Links now has Mr. Doom, from Erie PA,  you haven't lived until you've died in Doom!

Plus we have a great  Contest/Surveys link!!!!! 
-Make your own survey/ (There are a ton of places doing this now. This link is to Yahoo's branch about survey and polling software, much of it which is FREE!)
-Simpsons, Sound byte trivia quiz,  plus Simpsons Wads & files for dooms

City Net - 3 month ago had 650 cities & 250 countries linked, now they have 1150 cities and 575 other destinations... Dublin, Baggot Inn research

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Your Listening to WEBSITE, our weekly surf through the best musical websites on the
'net. Back with the Webmaster in a few minutes, but first...
 

It's even got one sound bite of Kay explaining the chorus for "Here and Now",  and if that song goes by too quick for you, of course, this website has the lyrics for that song, also a video clip of that song, a ton of pictures, you can join the mailing list, check out their tour information and see what kind of feedback they've gotten from this website. 

This website has a great survey. Now a lot of websites have survey's that have pre-programmed answers that you just click on. This website is Great, good, ok, etc.
(couldn't find this anymore...)

This programmer has pre-programmed some pretty funny answers to his questions...

When he asks what did you like least about this page, he's got a variety of honest potential responses, that pretty much describe all the characteristics of any website, but with real attitude.  "the pictures blow, the audio video is horrible, you could do without the articles, are you kidding, get rid of the tour dates, the discography is useless, my life would be complete if the lyrics weren't there, please get rid of the mailing list information, the Netscape enhancements ruin the entire page, everything sucks, and my favorite, something smells, it's..."and then you can add your own comments, or finally, "I wouldn't change a thing".

This survey is good for a laugh, and it's cool because this webmaster's looking for
feedback in a good non-IBM'sh way.

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Local Music: Devo!

This site should be out of northern Ohio, it's the home of DEVO, and it also achieved a top 5% of the web award, mostly due to it's innovative use of Edible Starchy Tubers. ( The site above is from Norway) 

New kind of Fiber optic cables? No...Potatoes! Spuds!

The Mr. Potato head game is hilarious. (This isn't the original, but still pretty fun) Of course, the person doing this is involved in genetics, Devolution, that type of thing. Here, you can customize a family of 5 different  Potato Heads,  with different eyes, ears, lips, noses, and then mate them and see how they'd morph into different types of heads. Do this all the while you're listening to DEvo, and see if you can ever think about pro-creation the same way again...

Next week, International websites, webs from all over the world, and music from the B-52's, Silverchair, Sonic Youth, the Bare Naked Ladies and of course, some local music as well! Good surfing, Aloha!

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