Web Surfers, Beware; Your Lifetime Is Running Out
NEW YORK — Want to make the most of your life? Consult a Web site to find out just how much time you have.
If you enter your birth date and gender at www.deathclock.com, you will get your projected date of death. If you were born, say, on March 16, 1969, and male, you will die on Dec. 26, 2042, based on average life span. That’s less than 1.4 billion seconds away.
The Death Clock bills itself as “the Internet’s friendly reminder that life is slipping away.â€
It is one of the seven worst Web sites identified in the latest issue of P.O.V. magazine, which hits newsstands today. The magazine describes the sites as “so achingly baa-aad that they are actually good.â€
The Death Clock does not consider family history, smoking habits or other factors that actuaries take into account. Some combinations offer this: “I am sorry, but your time has expired! Have a nice day.â€
P.O.V., a monthly targeting young male professionals, also picked 100 good sites. No. 1 is www.broadcast.com, which offers Web simulcasts of radio and TV stations from around the country.
Top (or bottom) on the magazine’s “Unmagnificent Seven†is a site that provides the address of a prisoner for $4.95. Another bad Web site, www.hamsterdance.com, features animated rodents doing “the hamster dance.â€
Need more? P.O.V. suggests www.worstoftheweb.com, which reviews bad sites each day.
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