What's wrong with these websites?

What, if anything, is wrong, disreputable, strange, irrelevant, untrustworthy, or funny about these websites?  What information could be useful for you?  What do you think is the purpose of each website?

1.    http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~doswell/Conference_papers/SELS96/WoO.html CASE ANALYSIS OF A HISTORIC KILLER TORNADO EVENT IN KANSAS ON 10 JUNE 1938

2.    http://www.improb.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html Feline Reactions to Bearded Men

3.    http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html Google Technology

4.    http://147.129.226.1/library/research/AIDSFACTS.htmThe True but Little Known Facts about Women and AIDS

5.    http://www.keypad.org/bunnies/ Bunny Survival Test

6.    http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ Save the Pacific Tree Octopus

7.    http://www.theonion.com/ The Onion:  America’s Finest News Source

8.    http://bigredhair.com/boilerplate/intro.html Boilerplate:  History of a Victorian Era Robot

9.    http://www.dhmo.org/ Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division – Dihydrogen Monoxide Info 

Read “Evaluation Criteria from ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, or, Why It’s a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources’” at http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html.  This page has a checklist that you can use to judge websites.   You can use the checklist or create your own to evaluate the websites listed above and any other websites you visit.

For more information about evaluating websites, read:

http://exworthy.tripod.com/teachreswebeval.htm
http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html
http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm
http://www.fno.org/jun97/eval.html#back
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/pdf/evalhigh.pdf
http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/ref/research/webcrit.html

The next time you conduct research, try searching on http://www.ipl.org/.  You won’t get as many results as using Google or Yahoo!, but the results you do get will be reputable.