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| Sunday Apr 8, 2012 | freeindiegam.es is a new site by Terry Cavanagh (creator of VVVVVV and Don't Look Back), collecting a number of experimental freeware games, with commentary. to Games by crikey |
| Friday Mar 19, 2010 | What happened to memepool? to History by crikey |
| Friday Dec 31, 2004 | "Hallo!" "Salud!" to Music by crikey |
| Thursday Jan 30, 2003 | I'm reminded that the deadline for the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is slowly approaching. Last year's winning entry (by Rephah Berg) was rather verbose (and, IMHO, unfunny), leading me to wonder if Adam Cadre's not onto something better with his Little Lytton Contest. Poor Comrade Todd! to Linguistics by crikey |
| Monday Jan 27, 2003 | The 2003 State of the Union
Drinking Game looks to be a fairly brutal experience this year. I'm
assuming the mispronunciations of
"nukular"
alone (1 drink each) will probably knock me out before the first
half hour's over.
to Politics by crikey |
| Saturday Jan 25, 2003 | The Lord of the Rings... starring Humphrey Bogart as Frodo, Sydney Greenstreet as Gandalf, Marlene Dietrich as Galadriel, Orson Welles as Saruman, and Peter Lorre as Gollum? to Movies by crikey |
| Friday Jan 3, 2003 | "In the beginning, it all started out as an experiment. 'What would happen if I wore a nametag all the time?'" to Fashion by crikey |
| Wednesday Jan 1, 2003 | Why bother with sculpting bonsai trees when you can quickly do the same ("Zen - Without the wait!") with a potato?
They range from the sublime to the extravagant.
It's the taking the world by storm. to Art by crikey |
| Sunday Dec 22, 2002 | People sure do love their Nintendo games. Yet, the varied ways that they express it never cease to amaze me:
Softcore Zelda porn,
a project to transcribe the music from Metroid,
a tribute to the dog from Duck Hunt,
and
Mario Kart fanfic, to name but a few. to Games by crikey |
| Wednesday Dec 18, 2002 | It's been alleged that the U. S. military practiced germ warfare during the Korean War. The Brits' "anthrax island" is a testament to their own research into biologic weaponry. So, it's reassuring, then, to know that we both signed the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention in 1972, banning such research and putting it in our misguided past, right? Wrong -- the U. S. military is proposing the development of new biologic weaponry for use by Special Forces. Perhaps it's time to heed the call for weapons inspections of the United States. to Warfare by crikey |
| Monday Dec 2, 2002 | TransOrbital, Inc. recently became the first company to announce it was sending junk to the moon, presumably as a precursor to future corporate ventures. Though states are banned from laying claims on the moon, corporations are not. You might want to check out some unsullied images of the moon (provided by the Clementine satellite) before it's too late. Will anyone write poetry about the moon when it's covered with Taco Bell ads? to Transportation by crikey |
| Tuesday Nov 26, 2002 | Are you a big fan of Microsoft Office? Do you love Mac OS X? Why not combine these loves with ... a beauty pageant!? Vote for your favorite "Ms. M.o.X.i.e" in what appears to be an official (albeit strange) Microsoft competition. Hurry, voting ends Friday!
to Sex by crikey |
| Sunday Nov 24, 2002 | Prangstgrüp are a bunch of folks from Columbia University who go out in public and do funny things, like performing musical theater in the middle of a library. to Entertainment by crikey |
| Sunday Oct 20, 2002 | As someone who has switched from Wintel hell back to the Mac (how can one resist BSD with a sexy new-ish GUI?), I've become increasingly fascinated with the Apple switch ads. Though Ellen Feiss's 15 minutes of fame are over, you can still inspect the public lives of the other "switchers": Janie Porche has lots of interesting tidbits, including wanting to marry an electron; Aaron Adams wants us to know lots of things, including that we've all been too tough on the Dell guy; and if you like driving, Jentry Poss's trucking company seems to be hiring. to Computing by crikey |
| Thursday Oct 17, 2002 | Marc Weidenbaum wants you to read comics in public.
to Comics by crikey |
| Tuesday Sep 10, 2002 | "I hate Star Trek."
"Well, Star Wars sucks more."
"Yeah, right! Off the top of my head I know of 10 reasons why it's better."
"What?! No way, this fancy writer dude even said Star Trek was better."
"Ok, I was wrong: there are actually
ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN reasons why Star Wars is better!"
"Shut up, Star Trek's better."
"I bet the Death Star would kick the Enterprise's ass."
"Well, I know for a fact Mr. Spock could take Darth Vader."
"Come on, at the very least, a stormtrooper would annihilate a redshirt Ensign's ass."
"Well, okay. But, we both still agree that furries suck, right?"
"Yes. Especially if they're hobbits." to Movies by crikey |
| Saturday Aug 17, 2002 | Forget The Two Towers, what you really want is this ~4MB QuickTime movie about Bilbo Baggins, sung by a man who needs to eat more salsa. Or, if you'd prefer, just listen to a RealAudio version of it here. Or, hell, just go get drunk. to Music by crikey |
| Thursday Aug 15, 2002 | Finally, the Internet allows us to plunder yellow snow for its communicative possibilities. to Communication by crikey |
| It's clear that some people want Arnold Schwarzenegger to run for governor of California (an idea he's actually mulling). If he runs, perhaps then we'll finally get an explanation of a certain amazing Japanese advertisement he was in. to Commerce by crikey |
| "Hi, Billy Mays here!" to Business by crikey |
| Monday May 13, 2002 |
So, if the Spider-Man movie has you drooling like a fanboy about new film adaptations of your favorite Marvel superheroes, you should know that there may be a new big-budget Fantastic Four movie around the bend in the next few years. However, few realize that an older low-budget Fantastic Four movie was made about a decade ago by Roger Corman, but was shelved and still remains officially unreleased. Thankfully, this hidden masterpiece has at least one fan site, a number of reviews, as well as a few purchasable copies floating out there to keep its memory alive.
to Movies by crikey |
| Monday Apr 8, 2002 | Every year, the Seattle Mariners feature Major League Baseball's most entertaining
TV ads. This year's crop includes a grudge match with the 1906 Chicago Cubs, Ichiro being, well, pretty much a baseball god, Edgar Martinez's bizarre love for his bat, and Jamie Moyer very proud of the speed of his change-up (ooh-la-la). to Sports by crikey |
| Tuesday Mar 26, 2002 | "I'm a cop, you idiot!" - Detective John Kimble, Kindergarten Cop.
to Communication by crikey |
| Monday Jan 28, 2002 | "Hi, this site is
all about ninjas,
REAL NINJAS.
This site is awesome. My name is Robert and I can't stop thinking about ninjas. These guys are cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet."
to Warfare by crikey |
| Friday Jan 25, 2002 | Roger Ebert has had a fantastic idea: film buffs should record their own commentary tracks
for DVDs. He starts things off
by providing us an abbreviated commentary for
the Criterion Collection DVD of Hitchcock's Notorious. to Movies by crikey |
| Wednesday Jan 2, 2002 | Try not to lose stuff, as you never know where it might end up. P.S. Page me later. to Culture by crikey |
| Friday Dec 21, 2001 | Mark Anderson sure does read a lot of books. And, he'll generously lend you any of the books in his library (paying postage both ways!). to Books by crikey |
| Wednesday Dec 19, 2001 | Are you emo or not? Do you know how to be emo? Does your band's name follow the rules of emo? What is emo? Don't you just love Emo?
to Fashion by crikey |
| Wednesday Oct 24, 2001 | The legendary Kerpal and Abdar prank call lives on, through both cutely crude and somewhat more sophisticated Flash animations, a thrilling "dance remix," and hidden references buried in mailing list archives. to Humor by crikey |
| Please forgive the juvenility, but on an Internet that largely conducts itself using the English language, some find it quite humorous that so many online German companies and services have poorly-chosen names. to Internet by crikey |
| Monday Oct 22, 2001 | We Made Out in a Tree and This Old Guy Sat and Watched Us is a site "dedicated to odd quotes, strange statements, bad writing and other oddities of the English language." Including, thankfully, the origins of the amazing domain name. to Linguistics by crikey |
| Tuesday Sep 18, 2001 | The comics communities have responded in various ways to the September 11th attacks, with a variety of editorial cartoons, tributes to the dead, and frightening stories of near-misses. to Comics by crikey |
| Friday Sep 7, 2001 | tinywords.com is "fresh haiku, delivered daily," and that includes delivery to your phone. to Poetry by crikey |
| Once upon a time, cartoonist Ted Rall wrote a scathing attack on Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman. Enraged, cartoonist and illustrator Danny Hellman pulled a stupid email prank against the first cartoonist, leading Ted to instigate legal proceedings (costing both sides tens of thousands of dollars). The litigated-upon prankster has gathered public sympathy and published a benefit book to help defray his legal costs, while the pranked-upon litigator metamorphoses into more and more of a discussion board kook with every passing day. to Comics by crikey |
| More information than anyone ever needed about the USA's "first twins". to Politics by crikey |
| Wednesday May 23, 2001 | Raymond Queneau's "Exercises in Style" has had influence in other media, including the comic exercises of Matt Madden (and others including Dave Lasky), as well as in the medium of film by Evan Mather (you know, the farting Yoda guy?)
to Art by crikey |
| Thursday May 17, 2001 | USS Catastrophe sure is one plum dandy of a site. Run by cartoonists Ted May and Warren Craghead, it contains lots of stuff you just don't see anywhere else, including the branching jam Inkpile, reprints of John Porcellino's amazingly beautiful comics, and a great archive of comics, reviews of comics, and other stuff comic-ish. to Comics by crikey |
| Wednesday May 16, 2001 | Take a Journey. It's a Tribute to America! to Flash by crikey |
| Tuesday Apr 24, 2001 | Carnegie Mellon computer scientist Dave Touretzky has collected a rather impressive list of DeCSS materials, including a really fantastic gallery of DeCSS descramblers. This features the famous t-shirt, a DeCSS haiku, a dramatic reading of the DeCSS algorithm, and an implementation in a language for which no compiler currently exists. to Computing by crikey |
| Thursday Apr 19, 2001 | Purpx bhg jjj.ebg13.pbz sbe gur yngrfg va fvzcyr fhofgvghgvba pvcure abfgnytvn. Furrfu! to Computing by crikey |
| Thursday Apr 12, 2001 | I'm not sure if Luddite is a real company or just a joke, but you've got to question a website that sells wooden computers and also gives you a list of the founder's other failed wood-related businesses. to Computing by crikey |
| Thursday Nov 9, 2000 | Look, more funny Florida ballots! to Politics by crikey |
| Wednesday Sep 20, 2000 | Crazy Drunk Guy is, well, a crazy drunk guy who calls up people and hassles them at work. to Wackos by crikey |
| Thursday Jul 13, 2000 | So, most everyone was expecting the release of Scott Mccloud's new Reinventing Comics, the sort-of-sequel to his wildly cool Understanding Comics. But, who expected him to immediately dive back into the series that made him famous in the first place -- Zot! New online episodes continuing the Zot! saga are now
appearing weekly at www.comicbookresources.com. to Comics by crikey |
| Wednesday Jun 14, 2000 | If you claim to read comics and you don't already know who James Kochalka is, you've been living under a rock. But, hey, did you know that
you can download his tunes from MP3.com? to Comics by crikey |
| Monday Jun 12, 2000 | Angry Young Spaceman is a fun sci-fi novel about a guy who travels to the planet Octavia in order to
teach English ("spread the English virus"), pay off his student loans, and buy a jetpack. Author Jim Munroe (formerly editor of Adbusters) is doing some interesting things with the production and distribution of the novel: he's giving away the complete text as freeware, selling copies of it through kagi.com ($14US, $20CAN), and exhorting others to self-publish their own books. As of yesterday, Jim said that only a few copies had sold through kagi.com, through which he pockets about 70% of the cover price. So, if you want to encourage this kind of thing, please order it through kagi, and don't order from
Amazon (I won't even provide a link) -- where self-publishers like Jim end up with only about 30% of the cover price in their pockets. to Books by crikey |
| Sunday May 28, 2000 | The hot new computing trend of the new millennium will be to refurbish old Macintoshes using Mega Bloks. I suppose Legos would work, too. to Computing by crikey |
| Sunday May 14, 2000 | Feel like buying
conservative former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and his soon-to-be third wife Callista Bisek a wedding present? Now's your chance! to Politics by crikey |
| Saturday Apr 29, 2000 | Regardless of what you thought of last weekend's INS raid which took Elian Gonzalez back to his father, why not hoard some mementos of the event before it fades from collective memory? You could have a jar of air from Elian's neighborhood, Elian Gonzalez faberge eggs (with insightful religious commentary), and/or the raft used by Elian to get to the United States in the first place. to Politics by crikey |
| Thursday Feb 10, 2000 | "WAZZZZUUUUPPPPPP?" "Watchin' Superfriends, havin' a Bud."
to Television by crikey |
| Saturday Feb 5, 2000 | Depending on your point-of-view, Dogme95 is one of the most
exciting or most pretentious new movements in world cinema. Based on strict adherence to
a "Vow of Chastity" which limit story and technical aspects of the film,
the four Danes who founded
Dogme95 in 1995 wish to counter many modern tendencies in film. It's not yet been officially
recognized as a Dogme95 film, but Harmony Korine's Julien Donkey-Boy
is generally considered the first American foray into Dogme movies. (However, this won't be
the last, as a recent interview -- which was very possibly faked -- indicates that even
Steven Spielberg might make be making a Dogme95 movie sometime soon). to Movies by crikey |
| Wednesday Dec 29, 1999 | Ever since I got my DVD player a month ago, I can't resist checking both DVD price search and Incredible DVD on a daily basis. Both sites are bevies of coupons, special deals, and discounts for online stores which have DVDs for sale. Especially great is DVD Price Search's ability to find which online seller has the cheapest price for the DVD you're interested in,
though, frankly, I think Incredible DVD has a better
selection of coupons. to Movies by crikey |
| Friday Oct 29, 1999 | Regardless of its rampant UFOlogist paranoia, this webpage is useful in letting us know that one could
get
arrested and fined for contact with an extraterrestrial.
What does this mean for the SETI@Home
people? If that grand distributed computing effort actually decodes something, do we
all get arrested? The mind reels. to Law by crikey |
| As you might have heard, many baseball fans got upset this week at NBC Sports reporter Jim Gray for his combative interview of former Cincinatti Red, "All Century Team," and banned-from-the-Hall-of-Fame player
Pete Rose.
What seems to have been forgotten by most fans (and dismissed by Rose) is the enormous pile of evidence collected by Major League Baseball during the tenure of the late A. Bartlett Giamatti (much of it wonderfully documented here). These
include
betting slips and
a canceled check from Rose to his bookie, strongly suggesting that, yep, ol' Charlie Hustle bet on his own team's games while playing and managing. to Sports by crikey |
| Monday Oct 11, 1999 | The thing that makes me so mad about network television is that spineless programming weasels will ditch a wonderful and innovative show (that they commissioned) simply because there's a little violence and a gratuitous shot of dog feces. I'm talking about David Lynch's latest foray into television, Mulholland Drive, which seems to have been shot down by ABC before it could get off the ground. Read Lynch's grousing about this latest screwing-over by network television or, better yet, read the script for the pilot episode and dream about what might have been. to Television by crikey |
| Sunday Oct 3, 1999 | OH MY GOD LOOK OUT IT'S A DISASTER AAAA to Movies by crikey |
| Friday Oct 1, 1999 | Both Drummergirl and
Drumhers are useful
resource pages for XX-chromosoned percussionists. Practice, ladies, and someday
you might get as good as Janet. to Music by crikey |
| Wednesday Sep 29, 1999 | Now the rest of you can sample what us Ohioans have been enjoying for years: the
subtle pleasures of cow
tipping. to Pets by crikey |
| Tuesday Sep 28, 1999 | People the world over love their Trabants. Read about
its
history, hook
up with other Trabby
fanatics, or just gaze
at a vision of beauty. to Transportation by crikey |
| Sunday Sep 26, 1999 | Ever wonder what a vodka gimlet looks like up close? I mean, really up close? Enjoy the
photomicroscopy of cocktails. to Science by crikey |
| The coolest trend in comics these days appears to be "science comics,"
which either retell famous events from the history of science or teach
some science, like Jim Ottaviani's
Two-Fisted Science,
his Dignifying
Science, or Jay Hosler's Clan Apis, about the
life of a honey bee.
to Comics by crikey |
| Friday Sep 24, 1999 | allmixedup has
many, many fun classic games, such as
othello,
tic-tac-toe,
and my new favorite addiction,
clunk. to Games by crikey |
| Zinemart is
a great, centralized catalog of zines, comix, and
other alternative print media. to Media by crikey |
| First a sheep, now Jesus? to Religion by crikey |
| Many years before The Blair
Witch Project, I got scared of going into the woods
by the wonderfully moody and weird David Lynch
series Twin Peaks. Check out
The
Black Lodge to navigate through a webbed-up doppelganger of the Black Lodge.
Or, perhaps for a bit of real-world creepiness,
take a look at
this page,
this page,
this page,
or
this page, and ask
yourselves: "Am I missing something?" to Television by crikey |
| Sunday Sep 19, 1999 | Indy magazine only
publishes online these days, and doesn't update
as much as I'd want it to, but jeez, what fantastic
interviews and reviews! In particular, check out the recent
in-depth interview with Eightball's
Dan Clowes. to Comics by crikey |
| Zen
is an interesting little web game/procrastination
device. However, don't take the name too seriously
unless you believe achieving enlightenment should be a competitive
activity. to Games by crikey |
| Read about and contribute to the debate on the
most important issue of our day:
Which way should the toilet paper go? to Commentary by crikey |
| Thursday Sep 16, 1999 | My name is Mr. USA. to Wackos by crikey |
| Thursday Jul 29, 1999 | Allright, I admit it, I like watching The Furniture Guys (Joe and Ed) do their refinishing, reupholstering, and home repair stuff, all the while cracking jokes and making oblique movie references. But, did you know that Ed has his own webpage to rant about stuff, and Joe's got a gallery of his paintings up? Not surprisingly, these multi-talented gentlemen -- hey, they've even acted in a really bad movie together -- have inspired fan webpages (like this one) and verse (like this ode). to Television by crikey |
| Tuesday Jul 27, 1999 | GEMM lets you search many online sites at once for music (be it on CD, cassette, LP, regardless of if it's out-of-print, in print, used, or new). to Music by crikey |
| The late Bill Hicks was the funniest and most scathing anti-corporate comedian/critic of the last few decades. Check out some information about the man, his production company, or the foundation set up in his name. to Commentary by crikey |
| I love my drinkybird. to Pets by crikey |
| Tuesday Jul 20, 1999 | If you're interested in classic movie posters,
Matinee Today
has a nice selection of posters to peruse. to Art by crikey |
| Where's George? is a fun
little experiment in currency-tracking. Type in the serial number
from any US dollar bill and see where it's been! Of course, the
chances your dollar's already in the database is slim, but it's
still fun. to Economics by crikey |
| Wednesday May 26, 1999 | The "Lost and Found Sound" series is a weekly look back at the variety of recorded sound from the past century, courtesy of NPR's All Things Considered. Listen to archived installments of the series in RealAudio format.
to Media by crikey |
| Sunday May 23, 1999 | The
website for those of you who aren't like
this guy. to Movies by crikey |
| Wednesday May 5, 1999 | I find it charming that the Internet is occasionally used
to educate about antiquated technologies and art forms. In this case,
the daguerrotype.
Be sure to check out the daguerrotype
galleries for some pretty pictures.
to Art by crikey |
| Tuesday May 4, 1999 | Scientists of the world rejoice! For, though
kings, queens, presidents, and
potentates adorn the majority of the world's
currencies,
a
bunch of physicists pictures have also
made it onto bank notes. It says something about
the U. S. of A. that
the
only American so honored was barely a "physicist"
by any modern understanding of the term.
to Economics by crikey |
| Emulation.net
is your one-stop site for the finest in emulators
running within the
MacOS. Whether you'd like to relive all
the old Commodore
64 memories of your youth, play around with a
virtual VAX,
or just ape a
PalmPilot,
it's all here for the taking. to Computing by crikey |
| Monday May 3, 1999 | The many games and toys of Erno Rubik are alive and well.
Play the Rubik's cube online and thrill
to the exciting history of this magical
invention. to Games by crikey |
| Sunday May 2, 1999 | If you're looking to buy the child in your life a doll that has dreadlocks, pubic hair, and isn't anorexically thin, you might want to check out Feral Cheryl.
to Gadgets by crikey |
| For several years now, Mr. Chank Diesel has been the Internet's premier typographer, spinnin' out the keenest new fonts with alarming speed. The fonts he charges cash money for are clearly the nicest, but, really, his free fonts are nothing to sneeze at. Especially nifty is the rockstar font archive, featuring hand-drawn fonts by members of Man or Astroman?, Six Finger Satellite, Soul Coughing, The Flaming Lips, and many more.
to Computing by crikey |
| Keeping with our tradition of bizarre
squirrel-related sites, I give you the
squirrel
fishing page.
to Sports by crikey |
| Wednesday Apr 14, 1999 | Into obsolete videodisc technology? The RCA
Selectavision Videodisc player lives on at
www.cedmagic.com.
The CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc) was the
only stylus-based video tech and struggled to find
a market from 1981 to 1986, before being completely
given up for dead. The site features more technical
specs than you'd probably want to know, plus a nice
CED
title database, listing everything released in
the format. to Gadgets by crikey |
| Friday Apr 9, 1999 | Matt Feazell
is the undisputed king of the minicomic format, with
such fantastic titles as Cynicalman, The Death of
Antisocialman, Cute Girl, and Not Available Comics. Someday
all comics will be Not Available! to Comics by crikey |
| Wednesday Apr 7, 1999 | In pre-Giuliani days, Xander Mellish
used to write up the first page of her short stories
and plaster them on New York City telephone poles, in laundromats,
and wherever she felt like it. Now, however, she puts them on a
great website where you can read without having to go outside. to Literature by crikey |
| Tuesday Apr 6, 1999 | Strangely enough, two of the best Public
Radio International programs have "American" in their titles:
This American Life,
and American
Routes. Not so international, I suppose, but great listening nonetheless. to Media by crikey |
| Tuesday Mar 30, 1999 | Arrrrrr, mateys! Teach your parrots to sing these
sea
shanties. to Music by crikey |
| The National Gallery's
exhibition of the paintings of Mark
Rothko is truly awe-inspiring. to Art by crikey |
| Monday Mar 29, 1999 | The Simpsons is such a huge cultural phenomenon that
people out there feel the need to
catalog it all. From the
stellar acting career of
Troy McClure to a compendium of Canadian
references in the Simpsons
to a list of
Stanley
Kubrick references, it seems
that it's all being kept track of by someone.
Yes, dear reader, sleep easy with the knowledge that there's a
Simpsons list for everything,
purple
monkey dishwasher. to Television by crikey |
| Instead of spending that hard-earned cash,
make
pretty objects out of it. to Art by crikey |
| Soup is good food, yes, and
soup recipes
are good recipes. Features a soup
recipe du jour.
to Food by crikey |
| Sunday Mar 28, 1999 | Ladies and gentlemen, I give you
Driveways
of the Rich and Famous!
to Transportation by crikey |
| Okay, okay, we seem to be bombarded with books, documentaries and films
about World War II these days, but ignore all
that stuff and instead check out the superb
Normandy invasion
website that Encyclopedia
Brittanica put together. to Warfare by crikey |
| Friday Mar 26, 1999 | Imagine Radio
lets you set up your own RealAudio radio station
and listen to the stations of other users. Somewhat
limited musical selection so far, but it's got
enough to stay interesting.
to Music by crikey |
| Thursday Mar 25, 1999 | It's ironic that, while Roberto Begnini
has received nothing but acclaim for his
film
Life
is Beautiful,
Jerry
Lewis's
The
Day the Clown Cried has never been released
and is generally considered to be one of the nadirs
of American cinema. Filmed in
1972, and featuring an uncannily similar plotline
to Life is Beautiful
with lead actors that have uncannily similar
comedic
styles, one wonders how much longer
it'll be before the film's released and we get to
see if it's actually any good. to Movies by crikey |
| Who watches the watchers? You do! Listen to police scanners
in New York City, Los Angeles, and Dallas from the relative safety of your home or workplace. to Law by crikey |
| Wednesday Mar 24, 1999 | Sneaker Nation
is a celebration of all things sneaker. Includes
a bulletin board, profiles of "sneaker freaks,"
and a history of the best sneaker of all time. to Wearables by crikey |
| Tuesday Mar 23, 1999 | Will a monkey armed with a typewriter ever type
out the entire works of Shakespeare? I dunno, but
this
site gives it a shot. to Web by crikey |
| Monday Mar 22, 1999 | If you aren't sure what the controversy
surrounding
Elia
Kazan's honorary Oscar at
the 1999 Academy Awards ceremony was all about,
check out
this essay (written in 1980) on the topic
of Kazan, the House Unamerican Activities
Committee, and "naming names." to Commentary by crikey |
| Friday Mar 19, 1999 | Ever wonder what the average Internet user looks
like? Check out
Webdweller,
an attempt to derive the looks of the average
man, woman, and androgyne web surfer. to Web by crikey |
| A really pretty site describing the
Theban
Mapping Project. The site details
the discovery and mapping of tomb KV5
in Egypt's Valley of the Kings (only
discovered in 1995), which has been described
by some as one of the most important
archaeological discoveries of the century.
The QTVR
movies are a nice touch. to Science by crikey |
| Learn how to swear in many different languages!
The Maledicta
Links page is a useful index pointing to pages
which tell you how to say "you eat like a pig"
in 87 languages, to pages covering Australian
slang, and pages which teach curse words in
German, Filipino, Afrikaans, and other tongues. to Linguistics by crikey |
| If you're just interested in his music or
perhaps in different branches of Christianity,
you might want to check out
The
Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church. to Religion by crikey |
| Thursday Mar 18, 1999 | Send that special someone in your life an
electronic
greeting card written by Leonard Nimoy, TV's
Mr. Spock.
to Art by crikey |
| A pretty comprehensive site dedicated to Italian author Italo Calvino (1923-1985), author of If on a winter's night a traveler..., Invisible Cities, Cosmicomics, and others.
to Literature by crikey |
| The
light
on the net project lets you control a grid of
forty-nine lightbulbs on display at the hall of
the Gifu Softopia Center somewhere in Japan.
Express yourself and make pretty patterns. to Art by crikey |
| If you've ever felt like being an search engine
voyeur, then Metaspy
is for you. Check out what people are searching for with Metacrawler. Available in both filtered
and unfiltered flavors. to Web by crikey |
| Wednesday Mar 17, 1999 | For those interested in Michael Drosnin's
Bible Code,
in which he claims that secret messages are hidden
in the Bible (and actually predicted Yitzhak
Rabin's assassination). If you're a believer, you
owe it to yourself to take a gander at the
assassinations
foretold in Moby Dick for a different
interpretation of this "prophetic text."
to Conspiracy by crikey |
| It's been said that there are only three great
world cuisines: French, Chinese, and ...
Turkish.
If that last one surprises you, check out some of
these fantastic recipes. to Food by crikey |
| Everyone's favorite
Sanrio penguin, Badtz-Maru, is finally online.
Especially entertaining is the "page
only for messages from him that you will read." to Humor by crikey |
| For the finest in electronica, check out Amsterdam's
Staalplaat.
A great independent music label, a radio program,
shop, and distribution company for anyone
interested in ambient and avant-garde electronic
music. to Music by crikey |
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