| memepool on the internet, everyone can hear you scream |
|
| Friday Nov 21, 2003 | Can't wait it out 'til St Patrick's Day? Pass the time with "the most expedient route to some seriously green poop". to Health by akk |
| Thursday Jan 24, 2002 | It is all well and good to use AppleScript to automate a radio station or fight crime. However, the true test of a programming language is how close it gets you to Sinbad. to Computing by akk |
| Friday Feb 2, 2001 | Happy Groundhog Day. Did you catch the esteemed Punxsutawney Phil's prediction via streaming video? You didn't miss much. I still don't understand why the presence of shadows (and therefore sun) indicated six more weeks of seasonal affect disorder. to Culture by akk |
| Friday Jan 12, 2001 | God, the tension is everywhere. I haven't committed to a side,
but I have an inclination. I don't
have much time. Is this insanity?
Or does man's factionalism serve a higher purpose?
Nevermind. Definitely insanity. to Games by akk |
| Wednesday Dec 20, 2000 | blah blah tech stocks blah blah bubble burst blah blah. Whatever. This animated gif rocks. to Economics by akk |
| Friday Oct 27, 2000 | Are you a US voter who wants to vote for Ralph Nader, but are afraid you might indirectly support George W. Bush? Swap your vote for Gore in a swing state for a vote for Nader in a Gore dominated state.
to Politics by akk |
| Thursday Jun 22, 2000 | GreatBuildings.com is an online database of important architectural works. Great stuff in the modern section like the Tokyo International Forum. to Art by akk |
| What is it about people on the net who want to tell you about their self-designed furniture? Shelves and CD racks seem to be the most popular. If you're feeling lazy you can just buy something industrial-chic from Boltz.com. to Gadgets by akk |
| Friday Jun 2, 2000 | Tomorrow, June 3rd, is National Trails Day.
Find a registered NTD event near you or just find a nearby trail and go for a hike (make sure to bring good boots). If you choose to stay in your air conditioned yuppie-cage, at least check out this kick ass map of US National Trails. to Outdoors by akk |
| Thursday May 25, 2000 | Dave Winer is something of a character. He's
responsible for a few (sort of) interesting web sites
including EditThisPage.com, xmlrpc.com,
and his journal/weblog Scripting News. Something about his
writing style and sensibilities always weirded me out. Thanks to the multi-voiced nature
of the web (and Dave's own software!), I can read WinerLog in parallel,
keeping Dave's screwy egotism in check.
Since this past March, WinerLog has given
me the Dave-centered mockery and scorn I need to swallow the corresponding scripting news ramblings. Zooooooom!
to Culture by akk |
| Friday May 12, 2000 | The Greenmap System is an effort to promote awareness of environmental resources in urban communities with maps. You can use them to find organic produce in New York City, cherry blossoms in Kyoto, or nature reserves near Pittsburgh. Some of them are prettier than others, but I won't share my bias. Check the complete list of mapped areas.
to Art by akk |
| Friday Dec 17, 1999 | If you happen to be chained to a desktop machine, I strongly reccomend the IBM Trackpoint Keyboard
featuring their trademark red eraserhead pointing device. If you occaisionally photoshop, there is a ps/2 port on
the back for a real mouse. However you'll be surprised how infrequently you'll move your arms away from the keyboard
and how much more physically connected you feel to your machine. I encourage you to switch
mouse button functionality between right and left buttons for optimal right handed trackpointing though.
If you reject pointing devices all together, then you should definitely go with IBM's AT Buckling-Spring Keyboard.
101 keys (none of this windows crap) of loud blissful joy.
to Computing by akk |
| I've spent the last few months looking for the perfect laptop. This involves compulsively checking
with japanese importers (jpd and
dynamism) as well as reading trade rags and
poorly written magazines. While the SONY Vaio I mentioned earlier is an
absolute steal at $1400, I think the most perfect of the perfect laptops today has to be
the Fujitsu Biblo MF40X. Featuring an XGA 12.1" display, 3d accelerated graphics,
a 0.18 micron process Pentium III at 400mhz, and a modular bay that takes a DVD drive in a
svelte package that weighs between 3.7 and 4.5lbs. Unfortunately despite my letters, Fujitsu
only sells the SVGA version in the US, so you'll have to fork out $3800 to
jpd for the import.
to Computing by akk |
| "PCs are like telephones, which also used to be huge objects that all
looked the same. The reason why the profit margins on the PC are so small
for so many manufacturers is that they've all concentrated on the same
thing: the CPU, the hard disk. People won't spend so much money on that
anymore. People want to feel the value of having
well-designed products.
As long as manufacturers introduce wonderful quality, small size and great
benefits, customers will pay for that."
- Ken Omae, senior vice president of PC marketing, Sony Electronics
to Computing by akk |
| Thursday Nov 18, 1999 | Sometimes when I'm depressed, I casually watch metaspy to see what the unwashed masses are up to.
Some prophetic soul had searched for "Robotech".
At first click to The Robotech Page, I thought it was just another
weenie site filled with useless fan fiction and other such drivel, only dedicated
to the bastardized american animated series that I was most fond of in my youth.
Once
I clicked here, I knew divine intervention had brought me to this
page. All of the Robotech episodes, Macross, Southern Cross,
Next Generation, and even the strangley begotten Sentinels series are
available online in realvideo. Thanks be to Zor! to Media by akk |
| Tuesday Nov 16, 1999 | Doodie. Oh my. to Humor by akk |
| Wednesday Nov 3, 1999 | Need incentive to carpool? Look no further. to Culture by akk |
| Thursday Oct 21, 1999 | One of the uncontestable advantages of living in the U.S. is the vast amount of preserved
parkland. Sorting it out can be a little tricky though. Of course there is
the National Park Service, but often overlooked are the
lands controlled by the
Bureau of Land Management,
the Army Corps of Engineers,
and the Forestry Service. Fortunately the government created Recreation.Gov
a searchable database of recreation on federal lands. Once you know where you're going, you can
reserve yourself a campsite online with the National Recreation Reservation Service. to Travel by akk |
| Wednesday Oct 20, 1999 | If sorting through the opinions of the unwashed masses wasn't fun enough on
Consumer Review and Deja (the "News" is silent),
epinions hopes you'll enjoy wading through their information space. Oooh! A recommendation for Bose speakers!
They must be good!
to Web by akk |
| Back when I was a punk kid, I learned a lot of what I knew about telephony, UNIX, and social engineering from text files
distributed on online BBS's. Many of the classic files are available from the original sources
like Ripco and cDc.
Now I can finally get around to baking a Mauve box.
to Culture by akk |
| Like Frontier, Cold Fusion,
and the other cruftilicious web application servers (like the ultra expensive
Vignette StoryServer),
Zope is a web server, content management system, and
portal toolkit. It's free, built with Python and does the whole
open-source-save-the-whales-thang. Download it today and change the world. to Computing by akk |
| Wednesday Sep 29, 1999 | After reading Tom's Hardware Guide for a little while, I thought I was the shit. I felt confidant in overclocking celerons, video cards, and generally pushing my machine. Then I started reading Ars Technica. With articles like their SMP smackdown, What to do with iMacs, and Damage labs advice columns, I've brought my useless knowledge of the nearly obsolete to a truly "pimptastic" level. to Computing by akk |
| Meditheses is dedicated to the science of sticking things in uncomfortable places. Some of their pictures are freaky and some are cool. to Health by akk |
| Wednesday Sep 15, 1999 | Postapocalyptic Elvis inspired swordfest: now with award winning cinematography! to Movies by akk |
| Monday Sep 13, 1999 | Until a few months ago, I had lost all faith in television. But then the Food Network brought me hope and fulfillment. Billed as "Ultimate Fighting Champion meets Julia Child", Iron Chef is a dubbed & subtitled show from Japan where every week a challenger must compete in Kitchen Stadium against one of the Iron Chefs, a select group of expert chefs. With much drama and fanfare, the Iron Chef and challenger then have 1 hour to create gourmet dishes celebrarting a theme ingredient. The unofficial fan site at IronChef.com provides more info and episode summaries. In my opinion, this is by far the best show on television today. to Television by akk |
| Thursday Sep 9, 1999 | With Java, Sun finally brought 1960's programming language technology to the world. Someday
maybe Sun will take heed of
Request For Enhancement #4064105: Compile-time type safety with parameterized types
and bring us early 1990's technology.
Until then, we've got Generic Java, which adds polymorphic types to Java and still compiles into
standard Java bytecode. to Computing by akk |
| Wednesday Aug 18, 1999 | I'm not sure where I stand amongst the other 43,000 or so
SIGGRAPH '99 attendees, but I thought the Morphable Model for the Synthesis of 3D Faces paper was much cooler than Teddy. From a single image of a face, this system can make a fully animated 3d model that is frightenly realistic. to Computing by akk |
| Tuesday Jul 13, 1999 | You're smart and you want to know what's going on in PC hardware. C|Net's
computers.com doesn't cut it. You need
Tom's Hardware Guide. to Computing by akk |
| Monday Jul 12, 1999 | Anthony Gallo Acoustics makes round speakers
that sound good. Buy some today. to Gadgets by akk |
| Thursday Jun 17, 1999 | Dynamism and JPD
are importers of japanese ultralight and ultrathin notebooks before the come out in the states like the
latest Fujitsu Biblo. Yum. to Computing by akk |
| Tuesday Jun 15, 1999 | The Typing Injury FAQ features an interesting section on
alternative keyboards. Buy a chording keyboard
today and achieve true geekiness.
to Health by akk |
| Thursday Jun 10, 1999 | ThirdVoice is a browser plugin that talks to remote
servers to implement one of my favorite
features of NCSA Mosaic 1.2 (circa 1993): distributed annotations. Every time you look at a web page, the plugin asks a Third Voice server for comments
left by others and then displays them inline. The most amusing part is how
scared some webmasters are knowing they have no recourse other than propaganda. to Web by akk |
| Macross VF-X 2 due
out this september for the playstation in the US. Robotech and Macross fans rejoice! to Games by akk |
| Tuesday Jun 8, 1999 | This article nicely justifies the "wow, this interface sucks"
reaction I had when I first tried QuickTime 4.0. to Computing by akk |
| Thursday Jun 3, 1999 | www.phonespell.org, your ticket to getting (412) ENDOWED
from your local bell. to Web by akk |
| Monday May 17, 1999 | If you're not studly enough to develop PalmOS applications in forth,
you might want to look into Waba, a subset of
Java (the language, the bytecode,and the platform) designed to run on Palm OS and WinCE devices.
Unlike Sun's full JVM for the Palm OS, waba
has a small footprint, and provides native support for serial I/O and native databases. to Computing by akk |
| Friday May 14, 1999 | Who stoops to faux-ironic allegory comparing the Kosovo situation
with Star Wars hype? None other than suck.com, an esteemed
member of the ever inflating Lycos family. to Commentary by akk |
| Tuesday Apr 13, 1999 | Monsanto is a "life sciences" company that (among
other biologically questionable things)
genetically engineers seeds for farmers. They've been so inspired by Microsoft and the software industry's
growth that they're suing farmers engaged
in the use of harvested 2nd generation seeds for patent violation.
to Science by akk |
| Monday Mar 8, 1999 | Give your banal decor a taste of fine art flair with black and white prints from LensWork's Special Edition Print Collection.
Making real photographic prints from digital negatives scanned from the original artwork keeps
the amortized cost low, so they can sell prints for low prices ($39-$99).
They're so excited about how this might shake up the photo art world, they're using the blink tag. to Art by akk |
| Thursday Feb 25, 1999 | tip for the clueless:find your nearest symphony
orchestra and attend performances until your mind opens itself to greatness. most people
learn the value too late in life or not at all. to Music by akk |
| Catch up on Elliptic Curve research,
of growing importance to the future of cryptography and an all-around swell area of number theory.
to Science by akk |
| Although his work adorns fewer college dorm room walls than other surrealist painters,
Magritte was in my opinion, the best.
to Art by akk |
| Phil and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing is an online
book which'll teach you a lot about photography, Samoyed dogs, grad school induced bitterness,
Bill Gates's current value, and pollution. If you're careful, you might learn something about the web
too.
to Web by akk |
| Friday Jan 29, 1999 | "www.usableweb.com is an up-to-date list of
the best resources on web site usability." to Web by akk |
| Thursday Dec 3, 1998 | In a bout of internet exuberance, a variety of stock brokers realize that spelling counts. to Finance by akk |
| Wednesday Nov 4, 1998 | The election was boring for all but the new
governor of Minnesota. to Politics by akk |
| That halogen lamp you bought from IKEA is no longer cool, upgrade
to lighting that is ultra chic from from LumiSource. to Fashion by akk |
| Tuesday Oct 13, 1998 | AltaVista has unleashed the ultimate in Porn Searching Technology.
Well, ok, it has content filters blocking out the naughty from its search catalog of over 10 million images.
to Web by akk |
| Viagra wins Nobel Prize.
Please kill me. to Science by akk |
| Tuesday Oct 6, 1998 | The world is screwed up when Disney lobbies for Porn rights. to Media by akk |
| Friday Oct 2, 1998 | Just when you thought you were safe from former Amiga-weenies, meet REBOL,
a new "programming" language. to Computing by akk |
| Tuesday Sep 29, 1998 | Big Al lowers interest rates. to Finance by akk |
| Monday Sep 28, 1998 | The navigation architecture is clumsy, the selection is still limited, and
the quality is mediocre at best. These factors still aren't enough to prevent LiveConcerts
from being a neat way to kill bandwith. to Music by akk |
| Friday Sep 25, 1998 | 240 horsepower, RWD, 6 speed transmission, 2 seats, a ragtop, perfect 50/50 weight distribution, meeting Low Emissions Vehicle
standards, and it's about $10k cheaper than its less powerful competitors. The new S2000 roadster from Honda.
to Transportation by akk |
| Talk about progressive - after apologizing for the Inquisition and the Galileo incident,the current Pope is preparing to apologize for the Crusades. to Culture by akk |
| Thursday Sep 24, 1998 | information is power in the fight against selective enforccement of antiquated knee-jerk reaction
legislation! smash the state! or um, just avoid speedtraps.
to Transportation by akk |
| OneLook, the metacrawler of online dictionaries (358 at current count). to Reference by akk |
| VISA's ATM locator is somewhat
useful now, and will be remarkably useful when wireless pilot web browsing technology sucks much less. to Reference by akk |
| need to write a reccomendation letter?
let the web do the work. to Humor by akk |
| what happens if you're a hotshot hedge fund manager on wall street and you fuck up royally?
bitch and moan until someone gives you $3.5 billion, obviously. to Finance by akk |
| Wednesday Sep 23, 1998 | need a good stereo for under $2000 and want to get something better than the crap
being pawned off at your local appliance mart? try good sound for cheap.
no green makers for your cds - i promise.
to Gadgets by akk |
| and you thought you had it bad.
to Humor by akk |
| Tuesday Sep 22, 1998 | do you believe in magic?
neither do we. to Games by akk |
| a user interface nightmare? probably, but some technology is still sexy: pdQ to Gadgets by akk |
| Monday Sep 21, 1998 | What do you get when you combine a
Mazda RX-7, missile launchers, poor photography, and
too much free time?
to Wackos by akk |
| CardWeb's collection of credit card information
will make wallowing in debt all the more efficient.
to Finance by akk |
| PoopMoose - "It's a unique candy dispenser."
to Gadgets by akk |
| Sunday Sep 20, 1998 | The Australian defense forces are evaluating whether injections of caffeine,
ephedrine, and 'blood loading' might prove a shot in the arm for battlefield
soldiers. to Science by akk |
| Saturday Sep 19, 1998 | Who's dumping lead in your resevoirs? Why shouldn't you move to Woodford, IL?
How much toxic waste does Kodak produce in a year? These answers and more
from an environmental scorecard. to Memetics by akk |
| Confused as hell about digital cameras? You should be. At least someone is trying to sort it all out. to Gadgets by akk |
| WebTrips is a weird collection of shockwave flash
animated "events", games, and generally trippy stuff worth checking out. They're also more than willing to let you
know how to harness their creative potential for fun, web presence, and profit. to Humor by akk |
| Friday Sep 18, 1998 | DOE engineers propose a crazy plan to get you from san francisco to
tokyo in under 2 hrs.
to Science by akk |
| phone call in the middle of baywatch? just hit pause. to Gadgets by akk |
| objectivism "explained"
to Humor by akk |
| keep score on the battle against terrorism, power failures, and other mid-air mishaps
in real time.
to Media by akk |
| copyright © 1998 - 200666666 memepool.com - all rights reserved. for entertainment purposes only. all content is provided as is, with no warranty stated or implied regarding the quality or accuracy of any content on or off the memepool.com website. all trademarks, servicemarks, and copyrights are property of their respective owners. |
| To find out how to become a regular contributor, contact contrib@memepool.com To tell us about a link or two, contact link@memepool.com Questions and comments should go to comments@memepool.com Memepool is run by Joshua Schachter and Jeff Smith |
