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April got you down? Chilly showers and lack of flowers driving you crazy? Let your monitor's rays warm you, for it is truly spring on the internet! It's radiating from the website for Surf Cafe, "the newest addition to Coney Island!"

There's no web surfing at the Surf Cafe, just old-fashioned beach surf to match the classic ice cream shop feel. But the shop's web design rocks its own kind of vintage (if you've clicked over you surely understand what I mean), and I can't get enough of it. Never before has a website visit made me more excited to patronize the IRL establishment . I feel destined for disappointment though - am I wrong to expect pink letters to follow me around the shop, all while I dodge wondrous, bouncing cotton-candy starbursts?

And then there's the music. Who needs muxtapes when there are auto-playing mp3s on each of the site's pages? They were clearly chosen carefully, some for more obvious reasons than others:

I'm serious about this, btw - I can't remember the last time the web's gotten me so excited to leave the house, all without fancy Flash or viral marketing. Of course, advertising things like "Spagetti IceCream" [sic] and World Famous Ices from "THE LEMON ICE KING OF CORONA" on the homepage doesn't hurt either (that pic on the right seems to showcase the spaghetti).

Unfortunately, the site's barely-legible hit counter (see below) is only registering about 280 views right now. What say we give them a bit of a bump, urlesqoids? It's the least we can do for this sweet source of web sunshine.



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