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Your days are definitely numbered, Web site says

Associated Press

NEW YORK - Want to make the most of your life? Consult a Web site to find out just how much time you have.

If you enter your birth date and gender at www.deathclock.com, you will get your projected date of death. If you were born, say, on March 16, 1969, and male, you will die on Dec. 26, 2042, based on average lifespan. That's less than 1.4 billion seconds away.

The Death Clock bills itself as ''the Internet's friendly reminder that life is slipping away.''

It is one of the seven worst Web sites identified in the upcoming issue of P.O.V. magazine, which hits newsstands today. The magazine describes the sites as ''so achingly baa-aad that they are actually good.''

The Death Clock does not consider family history, smoking habits and other factors that actuaries take into account. Some combinations offer this: ''I am sorry, but your time has expired! Have a nice day.''

P.O.V., a monthly targeting young male professionals, also picked 100 good sites. No. 1 is www.broadcast.com, which offers Web simulcasts of radio and TV stations from around the country.

Top (or bottom) on the magazine's ''Unmagnificent Seven'' is a site that provides the address of a female prisoner for $4.95. Another Web site, www.hampsterdance.com, features animated rodents doing ''the hampster dance.''

America Online, the service used by 18 million subscribers, earned a mention for a home page, www.aol.com, that was deemed overly simple.

There's also a porn site that traps visitors and forces them to other porn sites if they try to leave.

Need more? P.O.V. suggests www.worstoftheweb.com, which reviews bad sites each day.