FIERCE.COM, by Tor Hyams and David Scharff

Tor Hyams and David Scharff
Fierce.com
The Exclusive Book for Web Elitists

Equal parts Siskel & Ebert and Beavis & Butthead, Tor Hyams and David Scharff review 1001 sites on the World Wide Web. Known for their brutal honesty, their cutting opinions, and their feverish Loony Tune-style writing, Fierce.com is the most entertaining of online reference tools.

Fierce.com rates web sites as Fierce — the highest of honors; Unfierce — the farthest from Fierce; Not Quite — the site is close but … no cigar; Erotic — the sites on which you linger for more than an hour; Useful — the sites you would want someone else to know about; and Ridiculous — those sites that make you laugh.

Divided into seventeen chapters, Fierce.com has something for everyone, with reviews from all areas of the Web. From government agencies to health and beauty, television to music, erotica to religion, Fierce.com looks at the breadth of material available on the Web and rates it in a fashion that only Fierce.com could.

In the pets chapter, Fierce.com says Big Dave's Cow Page is Ridiculous. "It's time for everybody to secretly declare their true love for bovines by logging in directly to Big Dave's Cow Page, and its kid brother, Other Cow Pages! It's all you ever hoped or dreamed for, cow clip-art, cow poetry, cow songs, cow software, cowtoons, cow binaries, important dates in dairy history … NO I'm NOT kidding!"

Fierce.com gives the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue the triple crown: Ridiculous, Erotic, and Useful. "Even on the preview portion of the site there are plenty of interesting sights to see … there's the fetching photo of Letitia perusing the fertile plains of North Africa. I think she dropped her contact lens. Maybe she's looking for the rest of her bikini."

And about the Unfierce JCrew.com, Fierce declares, "You hear them coming from over the dune, knowing they are there before you see them the way you always do, your Aryan children and your narrow-hipped wife. On each a water-resistant polar fleece as another summer passes beneath the breakers here on the Cape. Clothing for the Master Race."

Tor Hyams is an award-winning songwriter and musician. Hyams is the author of How to Get Hit On and is a contributor, with David Scharff, to Webmaster's Mojo. Hyams lives in Los Angeles. He and Scharff are the coeditors of Fierce.com (http://www.fierce.com). David Scharff is also the owner of Open Mind Productions, a new media consulting company. He lives in New York City.

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