East Side Mall

Today's Warped site is one that caught my eye mostly for it's design, before I discovered the content. It looks like a visual or pictorial crossword puzzle. But once you get past the design, you see that the subject matter here compliments that design in several ways.

The site is called East Side Mall, and you can rest easy and put those credit cards away, it is not a shopping site. It is one that features humor, satire, culture subversion, and non-sense. You start exploring the site by simply clicking on a picture. That is linked to another web site that the picture is featured on.

For example, clicking on the sea shell leads to the web site for Shift Journal of Alternatives, an online magazine. Clicking on the Seal of the President of the United States takes you to a satirical site on the war on terrorism. Hit the alarm clock and you go to the joke of the hour site. Click on the word Satire and it takes you to a site called SatireWire. I love their slogan: "Because you and read, and we have a web site".

This is a pretty simple site, but there is enough variety here that will keep any visitor interested. Every picture tells a story, or at least has a message that is thought provoking. Warp-o-Meter rating: 8.0.

http://www.eastsidemall.com/