The Good:

• The Weather Channel This site, besides being very informative, holds a lot of entertainment value. It is the comprehensive weather site-- allowing you to search for local forecasts, travel conditions around the country, as well as airline flight information. It also enables you to create your own weather home page, whereby you can design The Weather Channel page to "best suit your weather information needs." Cool.
• National Geographic This is an extensive piece of work. It has a lot of information to look at (you could spend days here), but is organized very well. The Table of Contents is actually the most useful page on this site, so it is too bad that the "Contents" link is not more apparent on the front page.
• Flyers Shrine Okay, this guy is a FAN. This site has everything you ever wanted to know about the Philadelphia Flyers: gossip, statistics, scores, links to other NHL sites, etc., etc. I like the way the links are in a frame off to the side-- allowing the user to go directly to what he or she wants. Plain and simple-- I like it.
• Comedy Central The Comedy Central site takes some time to download (just a few minutes, really), but it is well worth the wait. Watching too much television is probably one of my worst vices, so what could be better for short attention spans than a web site devoted to my favorite TV channel. The site is updated regularly to highlight different shows and appeals to TV junkies (bright colors, games, etc.).
• University of Maryland This is one of the best college web sites I have ever seen. I think the "admission ticket" is a clever idea. The whole page is aesthetically pleasing and well thought out. Again, an instance where plain and simple works well.

The Bad and the Ugly:

• Rollingstone Magazine I am not just not impressed with what Rolling Stone has done here. They have taken a great magazine and turned it into a lousy, uninteresting web site. Maybe they just do not want you to cancel your subscription....
• Snapple I like this site's bright colors, but the overall theme is "annoying." The way the links change as you move the mouse over them is clever, but the morphing Snapple bottle just gives me a headache. It is just a drink, after all.
• Netscape Yuck. Netscape may be a wonderful thing, but the site gets a very low grade in my book. There is just way, way too much stuff going on here. The overlapping frames and advertisements are far from ingenious, rather, they are just plain annoying. Certainly, a case of too much talent spoiling the end product. Those who do, overdo.
• Delaware Tourism This same "interactive" map is used on the University of Delaware's web site as well as the tourism section of the state government site. "Interactive" is a bit of an exaggeration-- mainly you click on the name of a town and you get a listing of other web sites, some of which are not particularly big tourist spots (Skyline Middle School, for instance). There is no major "tourism" theme going here for this supposed "tourism map"-- apparently, if it is in Delaware, it can go on the map! Granted, the last time this page was updated was 1995. I am from Delaware, and I think it is a pretty cool place, but even I will admit that our little state is probably not a first choice as far as tourist destinations go. I do not suppose this map helps much.
• USA Today Designed to read like a newspaper (I think), but not particularly enjoyable to navigate through. I once heard someone describe USA Today (the newspaper) as "news McNuggets."