My pitas page

The Queen Amidala Web Page
Oddly, I'm not hugely a fan of hers or the outfits, but somehow the little paper-doll versions of her outfits at the bottom make them look so much better. Maybe it's without the distracting makeup? Anyway, also quotes, facts, and a comparison chart between mother and daughter.
Which reminds me: why is it that Amidala's the style maven while Leia goes around in plain white clothes? (Though the explanation for the odd makeup job at least makes it more understandable than just "We slathered a lot on her to hide Natalie's cheek moles so you won't immediately figure out the Padme thing") Says here Lucas was avoiding fashion entirely in the first three and felt like doing it this time, but he coulda had some more...continuity? less contrast? something?
And what's up with the elected queen crap? Who elects a 14-year-old as queen? Aren't there any adult females on the planet?
One final comparison:
"I was not elected to watch my people suffer and die while you discuss this invasion in a committee!" -Amidala
"There's no time to discuss this in committee!"
"I am NOT a committee!" -Han and Leia

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Abridged Script
"This one planet and how it trades with other planets is certainly an important enough topic to be the entire plot of a Star Wars film."
"Am I the only one disturbed by the fact that I'm gonna bone you in episode two?"
"No, I won't allow him to pod race. He'll get hurt. (pause) Ok, I will. Nevermind. Good luck."
"Speaking of stuff I'm just making up, how do you like the midichlorian bullshit I pulled out of my ass?"

Camping Tips from The Onion
If you are a sitcom character and your camping trip is going badly, do not say, "Look on the bright side: At least the weather's nice."
There's worse quotes, but I'm restraining myself.

Bust A Groove Music and Lyrics
I have very little experience with video games (my parents would never have approved of my taking away the TV set from Dad to play any). I usually suck at them, seeing as unlike my peers, I haven't had years of experience at making Mario run around or beating the crap out of another player, so everyone laughs at me.
But one weekend I was staying at the home of two video game addicts, who graciously let me use their TV all day. And I found Bust A Groove. As a dancing game, it's something I need practice on, but the rest of it pretty much amazed me. I liked the characters' personalities, and I LOVED most of their theme songs, some of which are goofy funny ("Natural Playboy" and "I Luv Hamburgers"), some of which are really pretty ("Sora Tu Ume Ato" and my favorite, "Bust A Groove"), and can really match well with the character personalities ("Shorty and the EZ Mouse"). I'd also recommend "Transform" and "I Know And I See All." (The rest are really harsh and hard on the ear, IMO.) If you're wondering what I'm talking about but don't feel like downloading the mp3's, just check here for the lyrics and scroll around. This site offers character bios (which are odd but interesting) and RealPlayer versions of the songs.

Alderaan Home Page
Take a wild guess what's on here.

Dave Barry's Unbearable Holiday Gift Guide
I usually think I'm susky at picking out gifts, but Dave's the king. Boy, is he the king. (Sort of scary that we both have links to the Bumper Dumper, or at least I was intending to put one up.) There used to be even better guides like this online, but the Herald took them down =(

daVinci PDA homepages
Seeing as I'm too broke to have a Palm PDA, I have a daVinci one. These are the best two pages I've found on the little boogers. The one above has the most links to working and non-working other pages, too. Capitalware has a huge amount of daVinci programs. IF you can get the page to work, and all the links to work, and if you can ever get the whole thing to load, because it's SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOW.

Make Your Own Sand Art Painting
This is one of the reasons why the Internet is so great. Such a cool site. If only I could save the picture I made...

Girl Wide Web
Categories are Girly, Sex, Shopping, Pop Culture, Personal and Miscellaneous.

Humorix
A parody of the famous Slashdot. Speaking as a member of one of these, this is a site to check for Linux geeks only. I, at least, found it hilarious.

The Strangest Parents in the World
You have to see the picture to believe it.

St. Dwynwen Page
Patron of lovers (especially ones in distress).

Dogma Movie Poster Prototypes
Excellent work on these. Great movie too.

Various Dancing Pages
This is the Annoying Dancing Things Pages section. If you do not like annoying dancing things, please look away now. Unless you're easily amused like me, of course ;)
* Cow Dance Quite bizarrely funny.
* Peep Dance Peeps are surprisingly well-shaped for dancing. Who knew?
(And if you are really into Peeps, you can go here or the weirdly perverted site with lots of odd pop-ups here. Enter that one at your own risk...)
* Dancing Beanie Babies I'm not a particular Beanie fan (overhyped, and I just don't find most of them that cute), but somehow this site makes them look cuter to me.
* Easter Dance Not particularly spectacular or funny, but I like it.
* Furby Dance Really weird to look at, but the swinging Furbies are cute.
* Cartman Dance Cartman as Elvis, Cartman as a bunny. Need I say more?
* Satanic Hamster Dance An example of being REALLY easily amused on my part...

Kinky cords
This page cracks me up, but sweet and innocent children should not check it, I suppose.

Sayings That Ought To Be On Buttons
I love collecting those buttons. They can be so goofy.

Writers Digest
And continuing on the theme of actual useful sites related to my college career, here come some writing spots:
* Reference "Best source for facts on the net."
* Mare's World creative writing bookmarks. This is why I don't have so many bookmarked myself, I can just check her page. Which is basically akin to this one anyway- I started the weblog because I keep finding too many bizarre sites and bookmarking them, thus having an infinite amount in three different bookmark files on three browsers. * Resources for readers and writers

The Costume Ring
Seeing as one of my majors is clothing design, I might as well put some of the clothing-related sites I've found up.
* Costume Image Database From Columbia College. * Jessamyn's Regency Costume Companion. This site is just gorgeous. Even though hearing the word "Regency" reminds me of really bad romance novels in which the heroine's barely 18 and poor and beautiful and she always marries somebody with a title. I somehow ended up reading one of these a long time ago, and every romantic moment seemed to start with one character or the other being dunked in a large body of water. (And boy, did that go off topic!)
* La Couturiere Parisienne
* The Costume Gallery
* The Costume Page Costuming resources online.
* The Costume Site For historical and sci-fi/fantasy costumes.
* Fashion in the Roaring 20's and Flappers and Fashion.
* A Tight History of the Corset Don't you love that title?
* The 1960s Ladies Site
* Angel of Fashion Resource site.
* Toreadors.com A Goth site, home of the alt.gothic.fashion FAQ, Gothic Martha Stewart, and the Greater Bay Area Costumer's Guild. Ah, yes, and I can't forget Six Feet Under: A D.I.Y. Guide to Gothic Fashion. Tons of good links at the end of that page.
* Prom-dresses.com. God, I miss having a reason to get really dressed up.