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| Friday May 21, 2004 | Creepy Clown is what you get when you give a bunch of render geeks a running joke or two. to Art by braino |
| Sunday Jan 4, 2004 | Space is cool again. You may want to build a scale model of your favorite spacecraft while you have the chance. to Science by braino |
| Monday Aug 5, 2002 | The Memory Hole digs up and holds out stuff that other people don't want you to see or would rather you quietly forgot. Like the patent that acknowledges how fluoride causes gum disease or a Senate report on gas price manipulation. to Society by braino |
| Saturday Nov 17, 2001 | Are you now, or have you ever been, a terrorist? Here's a flyer produced some time in the last decade by the Phoenix FBI. (front, and back) There is a brief history of this flyer, which was given to and rejected by Phoenix (Arizona, USA) police officers. to Society by braino |
| Sunday Oct 14, 2001 | The Security Research Center's security guide is a handy reference of basic privacy and espionage techniques. to Security by braino |
| The C Terrain is a beginners level programming tutorial: "You need to talk to Compiler in his terms. You need to learn the laguage he loves to use. Its the language very similar to English, and yet so powerfull that it can make your stupid mu-Pee fall in love with you. But its only when you agree to learn the language on which Mr. Compiler insists." to Computing by braino |
| Friday Oct 12, 2001 | An ABC of the CWS, published by the Chemical Warfare Service Newsletter in 1942. to Warfare by braino |
| Friday Sep 21, 2001 | The Library of Congress' Printed Ephemera Collection just goes to show you, there was rampant crap before e-mail and the world-wide web. to Communication by braino |
| Afraid to request information under the Freedom Of Information Act?
The National Security
Archive may have done
it for you. to Politics by braino |
| The Joy
of Cooking + The
Art of War =
TACTICS, TECHNIQUES, AND PROCEDURES FOR GARRISON FOOD PREPARATION AND
CLASS I OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT. The actual recipes are in a
different document, the 11MB (zipped) Armed
Forces Recipe Service. to Food by braino |
| Search the General Dennis J. Reimer Training and Doctrine
Digital Library or just browse the U.S. Army field
manuals. to Warfare by braino |
| The Electronic Frontier Foundation
has placed a draft of the Department of Justice's surveillance
and anti-terrorism bill (The Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001, or ATA)
online. Notice how the more catchy name doesn't mention
surveillance? to Politics by braino |
| Thursday Sep 20, 2001 | The
Institute for Propaganda Analysis would like you to think about what
people are feeding your brain. If text isn't your thing, their propaganda
gallery has some classic cold war videos. to Media by braino |
| An ex-PSYOP
member talks about his job.
to Warfare by braino |
| Monday Sep 17, 2001 | "Operation Noble Eagle?" Who
makes up these names?
to Warfare by braino |
| The U.S. Department of Energy is selling videos
of historical nuclear weapons test films. Each title includes a
summary and MPEG and Real video clips. to Warfare by braino |
| A Bush family chronology
from 1914 through 1994 is part of Far More Than You Ever Wanted To
Know About The Bush Family. It covers highlights of the family's
financial and political history from Nazi
Germany through Saudi
Arabia with stops at failed oil companies, bailed out banks, and
Central American countries along the way. to Politics by braino |
| Sunday Sep 16, 2001 | Impropaganda
Review explains and exposes public relations
front groups -- those official sounding organizations like
the "Pork Board" or the "National Apple Institute" that are really
funded by private industry. Their FAQ on
researching front groups links to online databases of PR firms,
research groups, and scientific funding.
to Media by braino |
| At about the same time Commander Randall G. Bowdish wrote Information-Age
Psychological Operations, members of the Fourth Psychological
Operations Group were working for
CNN and NPR. Bowdish writes: "The power of TV and radio to
influence behavior has not been lost on military PSYOP
personnel. During Operation Uphold Democracy, radio and TV programming
was used in a carefully crafted interagency campaign "to prepare
Haitians for democracy's restoration and the imminent arrival of US
forces." Although it would be imprudent to claim a causal link, the
mission was a resounding success-with PSYOP playing a major role."
to Warfare by braino |
| Friday Sep 14, 2001 | The Terrorism Research
Center, Inc. is a private terrorism analysis group. If you're
looking for information on prime World Trade Center attack
suspects, their online searchable log of
terrorism
related news stories goes back to 1999. Geeks may also
be interested in their
information
warfare portal (although this
looks prettier). to Society by braino |
| Netfree aims to bring
free
networking to a person near you. It's not entirely free,
but it's cheap enough that anyone with a soldering gun and
a few bucks should be set. Its current project is to refine the
designs for
an
inexpensive free-space optical transceiver. In other
words, 115kbps (and later 10mbps) over your average laser
pointer. to Internet by braino |
| Friday Sep 7, 2001 | laughlab is mining
the AmIHotOrNot phenomenon for the funniest jokes in the
world. Why? They plan to use these concentrated bullets of
pure humour in a neurological version of black
box. to Humor by braino |
| Sunday May 13, 2001 | The xylitol faq
in a nutshell: Xylitol, a sweetener primarily rendered from birch
pulp, is undigestible by most mouth bacteria. It has the same
sweetness per calorie as sucrose. It increases saliva pH above its
normal 7.0, precipitating the absorption of calcium by tooth enamel.
The World Health Organization and the US Food and Drug Administration
agree that it's a safe sweetener. It even can reduce your chance of
getting ear and throat infections. It has no icky aftertaste, and
it doesn't leave nasty residue in your brain. It's not even a sugar!
So why in the nine billion names of God can't you get xylitol gum in a
random U.S. grocery store? For crying out loud, people, even
Canadians have this stuff! to Health by braino |
| Dr. Jump is a physician and jump
rope expert. Oh, and he's also a bit of a philosopher. His
site has far more than
you ever wanted to know about jumping rope. As if that isn't
enough, the USA Jump Rope
Federation has far more than that. to Sports by braino |
| Sunday Apr 15, 2001 | Jesus died for your skins.
to Religion by braino |
| Friday Mar 16, 2001 | Didn't anyone tell them pedophilia doesn't mean feet? to Sex by braino |
| Friday Feb 9, 2001 | Why
is
this cow laughing? to Conspiracy by braino |
| Thursday Feb 8, 2001 | Someday it will be practical to record and
play back
brain functions. Second-hand perceptions, memories, and dreams
will will revolutionize education and
entertainment. Yes, porn too. Ironically,
alt.binaries.experiences.sex will never truly become popular-- only a
handful of hardcore fans will bother spending the bandwidth to
download yet another two-minute
masturbation memory. On the other hand, the RIAA will be more apoplectic than
ever. They will work even harder to quash unlicensed memories
of recorded works and legalize drugs that block consumers' ability
to remember
things for very long. "Free thinkers" will rebel, and the ensuing
battle will ravage legal and ethical systems around the world. The
fallout won't settle until long after someone develops a mass-produceable
memory protection technology, but by then the planet's complex
social ecology will have been irreparably damaged. The end.
to Science by braino |
| Wednesday Feb 7, 2001 | You are a target
and have
been since birth. In fact, as a child you were a
more valuable target than your parents. Children who manage to survive
being targets grow into pre-weakened adult targets. Of
course you can stop being
a target any time you want, right?
to Culture by braino |
| Monday Nov 6, 2000 | American politics. Yes, I know, I'm sorry, and I'll wait here.
Welcome back. Have some water. American politics is a prisoners' dilemma
with no favorable outcome. The Scorched Earth Party
understands this and has made efforts to simplify
the issues so
you can vote sensibly and
decisively. Tomorrow, when you're in that booth pulling your
lever, remember these wise words: Every lead pipe has two ends, and if
you vote for a lesser
party, you'll be on the
wrong one. to Politics by braino |
| Thursday Oct 26, 2000 | Your local forecast: Blazing
plasma fire is raining down upon you at over 620 kilometers per
second. Visit HAARP, the High
frequency Active Auroral Research Program, regularly if you're worried
that Earth's geomagnetic
field might not be able to ward off certain death. Have a nice
day!
to Science by braino |
| Shortwave radio rocks my little world, and the WWW Shortwave Listening
Guide tells me which parts of that world are rocking right now.
to Media by braino |
| It's possible to query image
databases by sketching
what you're looking for. Why hasn't query by image content gone
mainstream, then? Oh, right, it's by IBM.
to Photography by braino |
| Wednesday Oct 25, 2000 | Every year, good Catholic parents wake up extra early to hide colored
eggs about the yard so their good Catholic children can find them.
Godless heathen programmers have usurped this wonderful celebration of
the rebirth of Christ by hiding features in programs, audio CDs and
other things to surprise and terrorize unsuspecting users, listeners
and watchers. What's more, they mock the Easter ritual by calling
these things "Easter eggs". This disgusting, heretical practice must
be stopped!
to Reference by braino |
| I bet a lot of you didn't know that Atari, maker of
fine video games such as Pong and now a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Hasbro Interactive used to build pretty fine computers.
That would be a shame since Atari computers are a part of many "0ld
5k00l" geeks' history. Go educate yourself at The Digital Antic Project.
If you still don't get it, "Antic" was a magazine for Atari computer
users, and a big slice of personal computing history sits between its
pages. If your personal computing religion included the Commodore 64,
you'll probably want to visit The
Def Guide to Zzap!64 or, if you're just into cover art, there's
this archive of lovingly
scanned and cleaned up Zzap!64 covers. And while we're strolling
down 64K memory lane, everyone who's ever pirated a copy of a Beagle
Bros. program should visit The Beagle Bros. Online
Museum and feel very, very bad. You know who you are and why.
Now if only I could find archives of "80 Micro", "inCider", and
"Creative Computing".... to Computing by braino |
| Monday Oct 23, 2000 | George
Katz rocked my adolescent geeky world with his solid
state oscilloscope. LEDs weren't cheap and
plentiful back then, and I never managed to scrounge up enough to
build my own. But wait; there's more! If you're interested in
leeching a bit of bandwidth off your local university, his line-of-sight
serial transceiver might do the trick. Mind you, you'll need two
laser pointers to pull that one off, and, well, one of them will be
aimed at your dorm. Perhaps you could arm one of his research
robots to keep guard. I understand at least one of them can hold
its ground against a common housecat, so fending off campus
security should be a cinch. Hmm... test equipment, wireless
point-to-point communications, and robots. All you need is an angry flower, and the world's
practically subjugated. to Gadgets by braino |
| Thursday May 11, 2000 | Last Cereal is
a bleak cartoon strip by Andrea
B. Previtera. to Comics by braino |
| Sunday Dec 5, 1999 | I remember when the state of the art in computer game
soundtracks was an AM radio next to the box. Nowadays kick-ass game
tunes are a dime a baker's dozen, and The Best Game Music in
the World probably has a copy of your favorite ones.
to Music by braino |
| Friday Oct 29, 1999 | I have religiously grovelled the MOD newsgroups for years, and every
couple months a new cover of the song "Popcorn" arrives in my spool.
The last time this happened, I decided to make a web page with all the
different "Popcorn" songs I could find. While researching for the
project, I discovered that someone already has a site dedicated to
"Popcorn". As of this writing, there are 69 different versions
archived there.
to Music by braino |
| Sunday Oct 10, 1999 | Missing socks. Everyone has-- or, er, doesn't have-- one, but hardly
anyone does something about it. Until now. This has
been a public service announcement from Joel M. Reed and your friends
right here at Memepool. to Culture by braino |
| See sex sell. See sex sell
itself. Sell, sex, sell! to Sex by braino |
| Wednesday Sep 22, 1999 | And though you be done to death, what then? / If you battled the best
you could; / If you played your part in the world of men, / Why, the
Critic will call it good. / Death comes with a crawl, or comes with a
pounce, / And whether he's slow or spry, / It isn't the fact that
you're dead that counts, / But only, how did you
die? --From How Did You Die?
by Edmund Vance Cooke
to Health by braino |
| Finns say beer is good for you (as if they wouldn't), so shut up and drink. to Food by braino |
| Blue food is good for you, so shut up and eat. to Food by braino |
| The Advertising Council has
been producing high-quality
propaganda for half a
century. Today they have almost 40 active
campaigns designed to manipulate
America's conscience and increasing its social
awareness. The memetic onslaught has overflowed on-line with all
sorts of ad
banners and video
clips.
to Media by braino |
| Sunday Sep 19, 1999 | SpinnWebe, host to The Dysfunctional Family
Circus for nigh upon forever, has
been bitchslapped by Bil Keane's syndicate. The "cease and desist" must
be complied by today (20-Sep-1999), so check out this piece of 'web
history before it's gone.
to Comics by braino |
| Tuesday Sep 14, 1999 | Search engines can change your life, if you're willing to archive and index
it. So says Richard
Setzer, whose page I found purely
by accident. to Web by braino |
| Saturday Sep 11, 1999 | The Center for
Responsive Politics has set up Open
Secrets to show you the money. Lobbyist
money, Presidential election
contributions, and Congressional campaign
funding, that is.
to Politics by braino |
| Friday Sep 10, 1999 | A dictionary of
slang is a comprehensive lexicon of British slang, much of which
is not offensive. On the other hand, so to speak, there is Roger's
Profanisaurus, a list of mostly British slang consisting mostly of
words for naughty bits and things to do with them. This latter link
is not for the easily offended.
to Linguistics by braino |
| Friday Aug 13, 1999 | So you have more AOL CDs than you know what to do with, and you just
gotta get rid of
them somehow. Perhaps fashioning them into boomerangs
isn't such a good idea.
to Art by braino |
| Tuesday Aug 3, 1999 | It takes 23 seconds for blood to circulate through the human body.
Octets, the fundamental unit of networked information, contain 2^3
bits. The Cult Awareness Network (now owned by Scientology) has 23
chapters. The Mayan long count ends on December 23, 2012. Impropaganda's 23 Skidoo has an
ever-expanding list of other occurrences of this famous number.
to Conspiracy by braino |
| Saturday Jul 24, 1999 | Have you ever seen a U.F.O? Have you ever experienced missing time?
Have you had the suspicion of being abducted? Have you ever found a
metal implant in you're body? Have you checked everywhere? The Alien Abduction Survey
is a sort of purity test for folks who want to know if they've been
abducted. Only the first 25 questions count; the last three are just
an attempt at sneakily scamming your valuable demographic information.
to Wackos by braino |
| Friday Jul 23, 1999 | Many of you have seen the Hello Kitty
massager by now. Apparently Sanrio USA doesn't offer them, so
where can you get your aching hands on your own bundle of soothing
pink cuteness? A convenient North
American retailer is now filling this niche market. It is this
intrepid reporter's pleasure to present a link to these elusive key chains.
to Sex by braino |
| Make your own
mucus! This page adheres to the philosophy that you can never have
too much snot. You can also use it to make hairballs
without all that tedious licking and vomiting. You don't even need a
cat!
to Science by braino |
| Saturday Jul 10, 1999 | Buttons, buttons, who's got the buttons? If you mean those 88x31
GIF rectangles pasted all over the web, then these folks have the
buttons: Buttons Now!,
Animated
Buttons Now!, The 88x31
Button Gallery, Bunches of
88x31 Buttons, Dr. Cheap's
Button Collection, and Michael's
Plug Page. Too bad hardly anyone preserves the links behind
them. Caution: A lot of these buttons are animated, and a lot of
them run at full speed.
to Web by braino |
Scott Lincoln "Omar"
Davis has been gracious enough to transcribe John Baptist Porta's
Natural
Magick to the web. Omar's Dustfall
page is full of collected wisdom. I especially like his ripped
off copy of The Top 100
Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord list.
|
| The Incredible
Five-Cent Sugar Rocket is 35KB worth of serious model rocketry
instructions. These babies are supposed to reach 300 feet, and making
them requires a serious time and attention commitment. Don't
tell your parents where you found this, okay?
to Science by braino |
| Friday Jul 2, 1999 | Phallic
symbols. Lots of inline thumbnails of them. Little or no actual
nudity, so the Moral Majority
and your company's firewall admin shouldn't mind.
to Sex by braino |
| This
manifesto advocates the subjugation and breeding of a race of
worker midgets to generate electricity for humanity. Most of this
plan"s faults can be worked around by acquiring Canada to house them.
to Wackos by braino |
| Tuesday Jun 22, 1999 | Finder's keepers; loser's weepers, unless the finder is a member of
the National Association of
Unclaimed Property Administrators and the loser's smart enough to
ask
for it back. But it's not just for Americans: Unclaimed
Canadian bank balances are also on the web, as well as several
sites regarding Swiss
banks and Holocaust Assets.
to Reference by braino |
| The DoD is just cool. Where else can you buy an
800-pound still picture camera, a
pallet of Apple IIgs CPU's, COOLER,AIR,ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT or STUFF,OTHER,BUTTLOADS,HONKING,WHOLE?
to Commerce by braino |
| Do you want a few hundred or thousand acres of "basically
environmentally clean" property? Do you need a fiber optic network,
satellite uplink, wet lab, swimming pool or on-site daycare center?
Are high-security facilities a definite plus? Then the
U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Economic Adjustment would like
you to consider buying
a decommissioned military base.
to Economics by braino |
| The Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry is a fact-filled inforama
of fun!
Find out the maximum
USRDA for 280 toxic substances, then see which ones are in your
drinking water. If you just want to know the raw data, the ATSDR
has 'dat too!
to Health by braino |
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