From the Guess in Wonderland Web site

Using the Web as a soapbox, Guess pleads her case on a site called Guess in Wonderland. It's a confusing, cobbled-together thing and, as you might imagine, awfully one-sided. She adamantly maintains, point-blank, that "a juror fraternizing with an accused is not a crime unless they conspired to influence, bribe, threat or coerce the jury."

The site is arranged in sections, around Peter Gill's trial, Guess's thoughts on jury duty, a part called The Witch Hunt, and another called The Arrest. Each area is a hodgepodge of screeds and letters and testimonials set against a Pepto-Bismol background. There is too much writing on most pages and not enough clarity. In several sections, you'll even find glamour shots of Guess. If Guess hopes to improve her world standing, she needs to get organized.

Other Guess sites, which may explain the case a little better, have cropped up. A Woman on Trial, for instance, has a terse summary of the case and a few photos. Gillian Guess Guilty, on the other hand, has an agenda. A banner across the top of the home page counts down the days until Guess is sentenced. There is a contest to name the inevitable movie and a poll that asks whether Guess should serve time.

Occasionally there are stories in the Canadian newspapers, some of which are found at the Sun Newsstand.

Building sites around grisly crimes is a practice as old as the Web. The O.J. Simpson trial and the murder of JonBenet Ramsey produced a plethora of online spots, many of which still flourish.

But even among strange and inexplicable sites, Guess's stands out. She uses it to both defend, and sell, herself. Have there always been people like Guess, who says things such as, "I have been tried and convicted for my 'immoral' choice of lover, my short skirts and my outspokenness. These are the same reasons that I expect to be sentenced to serve time."? Or do such folks just spring full-blown from the Web? I suspect it's the former, but it's only a guess.

Linton Weeks can be reached at weeksl@washpost.com

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Pop-culture spelunkers, rejoice. Some guy named Derek is cheerfully keeping a running tally of all the useless gadgets and questionable marketing that will mark our era for posterity.

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Skin Story
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"Few believe me, many deny it exists, and no one knows how she got it," says the anonymous author of the "Sharon Stone's Scar" page. The alleged imperfection supposedly appears on the actress' neck and there are many pictures – none of the racy type usually associated with the star of "Basic Instinct" – prompting the author to wonder, not unreasonably, why Ms. Stone wears "so many necklaces, chocker [sic] collars and turtlenecks?"Coincidence? We think not. A "Theory Forum" is available for dedicated investigators to share information. – Dave Nuttycombe