Critiquing all those nutty web sites.

• Position: Q&A - Writer Dan Crowley - Interview

Dan Crowley, 17, gets such a kick out of silliness on the Web that he wrote a book about it, 505 Unbelievably Stupid Web Pages. One site in his book discusses penguin conspiracies (thepenguinconspiracy.tk); another shows corn growing (iowafarmer.com/corncam/corn.html). UPFRONT recently spoke to Crowley

How did you find such a variety of silly Web pages?

Basically, the variation is just there on the Web ... You find a lot of interesting stuff out there.

For a site to be stupid, what were your criteria?

Just something that you wouldn't expect, something very bizarre. An example is the Leonard Nimoy Should Eat More Salsa Foundation (lnsemsf.com).

Sounds weird. What's that all about?

Well, you know Leonard Nimoy, right, the...