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| Thursday May 31, 2001 | Did you really think that bad dirty poetry was a modern thing? (What about forgetting to use the "meta" tag?) Despite the American Constitution's First Amendment, certain other so-called "modern things" have banned the poetry they consider dirty. But wait -- dirty poetry's been around a long time. Its goddess, who goes by two names, was no stranger to Ancient Rome, particularly to Catullus, who had a verba cloaca (potty mouth). Among the more infamous bawdy Roman works are the Priapea, which is an 80-poem tribute to the phallic god Priapus, and Catullus's Mr. Penis epigrams. It should be noted that the Roman notion of sexuality focused not on the gender of the participants but on who took the active role and who the passive.
to Sex by djinn |
| Wednesday Mar 28, 2001 | Griots, like Papa Susso, whom I heard sing at an event for Eritrean poetry, are storyteller-historian-singers who play a harplike gourd instrument called a kora or cora. Should you want your own kora, you can make one, substituting a cake tin for the difficult-to-find really big gourd.
to Literature by djinn |
| Wednesday Feb 21, 2001 | The '70s had Hunt the Wumpus, the phrase fag hag, and Evel Knievel; the '80s had infomercials, Q*bert, music about masturbation, and cliques. And the '90s? The '90s had video game dialogue, some really bad movies, and, of course, the '80s.
to Culture by djinn |
| Monday Feb 19, 2001 | Where can you get wholesale prices on pepper spray, tasers, slingshots, and magnetic jewelry? Why, at familydefense.com. to Gadgets by djinn |
| Friday Feb 16, 2001 | I should combine the chocolate registry and the chocolate sex typing -- I'd make a fortune. After all, chocolate and sex are words that make us want to spend our money. The combinations are endless. to Sex by djinn |
| Friday Feb 9, 2001 | designtobedifferent is pretty, but does it have content? Well, you're supposed to have to dig for it. Speaking of pretty, Maron mentions John Maeda as an influence. to Web by djinn |
| Sunday Feb 4, 2001 | Why font smoothing? It slows things down and hurts my eyes, but some people actually like it. to Computing by djinn |
| Saturday Feb 3, 2001 | Hey baby, wanna shag? to Sex by djinn |
| Thursday Jan 25, 2001 | What is the third English word ending in -gry, anyway? I know what the answer is in Poland... to Linguistics by djinn |
| When did we become an offical "subculture"? We have a Pride Festival, a whole bunch of culture and news sites, a style all our own, outreach programs, our own written and spoken languages, and even our own Pantheon...
to Culture by djinn |
| QueerTheory.com is a well-presented collection of gay resources, including (links to) resources on gender, identity, linguistics, academia, and the human body -- even for a straight like me. Another great resource for gender studies, unsurprisingly, is google.com. to Culture by djinn |
| I want to marry a gay male poet. But not just any gay male poet; I want to marry Mark Doty or Regie Cabico. to Literature by djinn |
| The biannual People's Poetry Gathering will be held the weekend of March 30th-April 1st, 2000 in downtown Manhattan. And we have City Lore and Poets House to thank. to Literature by djinn |
| Saturday Jan 6, 2001 | "Mommy, it's not my fault. I got bad grades because I watch TV and I'm not Asian!"
to Education by djinn |
| Why is everyone so infatuated with "reality" TV? There are shows about dogs, marines, guns, hitchhikers, classified ads, really old people, novelists, and home decorating. There are at least six million fan sites, blogs, news sites, and application sites. What's next?
to Television by djinn |
| Friday Jan 5, 2001 | Can't choose between good and evil? Learn to do evil right at Evil Science University. No information yet on where to learn how to do good (not to be confused with doing well). to Education by djinn |
| Vigilante justice is, I think, a pretty common theme among the wackos of the world, but against oneself?
to Wackos by djinn |
| Sunday Dec 24, 2000 | Only NotMilk.com would misquote the same New York Times article that mentioned the site. to Wackos by djinn |
| Sunday Dec 3, 2000 | I can't believe I've never posted anything about Ensimismada, an original and experimental quartet of college students who happen to be wonderful songwriters and musicians... to Music by djinn |
| Saturday Dec 2, 2000 | Humperdinck or Humperdink? I can't find a definitive resource on the spelling of the character's name, but I did find the script... to Movies by djinn |
| Monday Nov 27, 2000 | Well, it appears that Crack.com (makers of the always trigger happy bloody fun) is selling their domain on ebay. It's a sad state of the web when crackwhore.com is a Quake III clan, crackdealer.com is free e-mail, and buycrack.com just links to buy.com. Where's my iCrack.com, in five flavorful colors? to Drugs by djinn |
| Monday Nov 13, 2000 | Ever wanted to know if you caught all the references in "We Didn't Start the Fire"? And who are all those people on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"? to Music by djinn |
| Saturday Nov 11, 2000 | One last veggie humor site. to Humor by djinn |
| Thursday Nov 9, 2000 | To what cyclic health phenomenon did google devote an entire category? Did you know: that tampons can cause nasty infections? that some cultures revere menstruation?
to Health by djinn |
| Sunday Nov 5, 2000 | It's refreshing to see people tackle some of the major questions about the meaning of gender. Gender has economic, social, and political impact. to Memetics by djinn |
| Returning to the "age of reproductive needlessness": what does it mean for androgyny now that his and hers are identical on the internet?
to Web by djinn |
| Diapers are just not erotic. to Sex by djinn |
| Wednesday Nov 1, 2000 | A man, a plan, a canal... to Linguistics by djinn |
| Poets House, a New York City-based organization with a unique mission plan and an amazing library collection, has collaborated with the New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library to create Poetry in the Branches, which they hope will eventually become a nationwide program. to Linguistics by djinn |
| Monday Oct 30, 2000 | You can too compare apples and oranges (pommes et oranges) and even onions. to Food by djinn |
| Thursday Oct 26, 2000 | It's only fitting that I show you to the text adventure with the best name ever. to Games by djinn |
| Wednesday Oct 25, 2000 | Be afraid. Be very very afraid. to Culture by djinn |
| Monday Oct 23, 2000 | Learn Cyberspeak! I guess I'm not fluent: I haven't seen at least three-quarters of these acronyms in any context. And who really memorizes emoticons? They're almost as well-codified as the older Language of the Flowers. to Linguistics by djinn |
| This straightforward if simplistic explanation of diglossia might just be a "gateway drug" into harder linguistics. Although you probably know more thank you think about linguistics... to Linguistics by djinn |
| Tuesday Oct 17, 2000 | What the hell is an interrobang?!
to Linguistics by djinn |
| Monday Oct 9, 2000 | Some of us read the controversial geekporn site for the articles. Really. (Then again, some of us prefer our almost-nude geeks at least semi-live.) to Sex by djinn |
| Sunday Oct 8, 2000 | Although I had a birthday just the other day, I am still a small child. Remember The Muppet Show? Admire Jim Henson's Featured Creature, including some of my all-time favorites: the Swedish Chef; Statler & Waldorf; and Beaker, the assistant to the wisest of the wise. to Toys by djinn |
| Sunday Sep 24, 2000 | He's suave, silly, sexy, and Swedish. He sings, he writes newspaper articles and memoirs, he cooks,...and he's even got his own FAQ
to Culture by djinn |
| Sunday Sep 3, 2000 | No matter what "they" may say, geeks are sexy (and so is gaming.) However, nerds are sexier than geeks. And yes, there are female geeks/nerds who like to date geek guys.
to Culture by djinn |
| In the age of reproductive needlessness, why have sex (or a significant other, for that matter) at all? To be one with nature? to Sex by djinn |
| Monday Aug 14, 2000 | If you're singlephobic, or afraid of being alone, and also scared of personal ads, there's a foolproof method of interpreting personal ads. to Sex by djinn |
| Wednesday Aug 9, 2000 | Ah, more archives of everyone's favorite song to analyze and parody. There's also a FAQ, for those new to one of the world's longest songs. to Music by djinn |
| Tuesday Aug 8, 2000 | Sadly, Nerve.com panned a passage from William Styron's Sophie's Choice, one of my favorite books both to read and to study. to Books by djinn |
| Sunday May 7, 2000 | Science isn't yummy. But phenylethylamine really does rule our lives. But chemical pleasures -- of the healthy and legal variety are for sale in various places -- there's even a nice, big, searchable index. And have I mentioned that you can eat it with anything? Strawberries, pretzels, even popcorn or chilis! to Food by djinn |
| Saturday May 6, 2000 | Will the correct plural of the word "mango" please stand up? "Mangos" or "mangoes"? Well, I doubt these people care. to Food by djinn |
| I'm too cheap to buy real presents, but I'm never too cheap for these. They sell everything from clothing to pets. to Web by djinn |
| Wednesday May 3, 2000 | His and hers insta-apologies. Did these really need to be separated by gender? to Web by djinn |
| Saturday Apr 22, 2000 | I still can't find much about the origin of the phrase different strokes for different folks (and I've been looking). What I have found, though, is the amazingly interesting alt.usage.english FAQ, the tangentially-related alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb FAQ, and logophilia.com, which is also a mirror for the ever-popular Jargon File.
to Linguistics by djinn |
| Sunday Apr 9, 2000 | I can't possibly be the only admirer of Jim Henson. Ahhh, muppets of all shapes, sizes, and colors. to Culture by djinn |
| Saturday Apr 8, 2000 | New York Times language guru William Safire recommended thisisnotthat.com in his On Language column in ... well, tomorrow's paper. Except there's a small typo in the column which might leave you high and dry, as it were. to Linguistics by djinn |
| Tuesday Apr 4, 2000 | It looks like we're all going to hell (in a handbasket) -- not only have they condemned peace signs and yin yangs, Pokemon, Christmas, and most good music, but even the relatively innocuous Backstreet Boys are a satanic influence these days. to Religion by djinn |
| Monday Mar 27, 2000 | I really like the historic collection of google's holiday logos.
to Web by djinn |
| Wednesday Mar 15, 2000 | I don't know how to make this one sound pleasant: the website says it's jewelry to adorn your "secret garden" and jewelry for the discriminating gentleman. What's wrong with the people who come up with these things? to Sex by djinn |
| Tuesday Mar 14, 2000 | Sissyfighters is the most amazing game every created, especially for those of us who always had the least self-esteem of anyone in the playground. to Games by djinn |
| Tuesday Mar 7, 2000 | Ahhh, the elusive alt.sex.wizards FAQ, which is technically the alt.magick.tantra FAQ. to Sex by djinn |
| Whoot ees theese? Classic FAQs. alt.understand.FAQs.not.complete.sentences.newsgroup.format? And what's the difference between a lemur and alt.cows.moo.moo.moo? to Web by djinn |
| Saturday Mar 4, 2000 | We've told you how to talk to your kids about blowfish. Now for you lemur fans... to Pets by djinn |
| Tuesday Feb 29, 2000 | One person gives us both a goth website prototype and a shiny happy people website prototype. to Culture by djinn |
| Monday Feb 28, 2000 | It's a bit late for me to post my memorial for the amazing writer Martin Kellman (and sending him mail isn't going to do much), who died this past September, but he deserves it. There isn't much about him on the web; I only found the article for The Motley Fool which got him a citation as an Economics Professor even though he taught English at Bloomfield College...at least the article is amusing.
to Books by djinn |
| Saturday Feb 12, 2000 | You know what? I'm ashamed to admit that I'm in the target group for this website. Please, o great dustbuster in the sky, tell me that people aren't actually this stupid... to Culture by djinn |
| This is actually a very old warning from the NIMH. Dairy farmers, click here. to Health by djinn |
| Friday Feb 11, 2000 | Is it a timeless question if nobody else has ever asked it? to Sex by djinn |
| Some of us have reasonable tasteful weddings. Some of us don't. to Fashion by djinn |
| Thursday Feb 3, 2000 | There is now a homepage for Martian bachelors. This is somehow related to Transactional Analysis, but I can't quite figure out how. to Sex by djinn |
| For the horoscope believer, swoon.com brings you Seduction by the Signs. For future reference, I supposedly like sincerity. Shows how much they know. to Sex by djinn |
| Wait! I forgot to mention the vast number of Llama Trekking Companies there are, in case you were planning a vacation. to Travel by djinn |
| My last llama- or yam-related link: Monty Python's Daily Llama. to Humor by djinn |
| I've got a new favorite deity: the Naked Dancing Llama.
to Religion by djinn |
| Do you know what the difference between a yam and a sweetpotato is? More importantly, why do so many different people care? (And who was crazy enough to sort recipes by the amount of sweet potato in them?) to Food by djinn |
| Tuesday Feb 1, 2000 | We can't all be special enough to pray to the mongoose. to Religion by djinn |
| Wednesday Jan 12, 2000 | When you were in math class, did you ever have trouble remembering all those digits in pi? Well, we've got some mnemonics(in multiple languages, at that). Or, for the truly sadistic, check out some rather constrained poetry. Hell, just check out AT&T's Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. And we wonder why some people hate math...
to Wackos by djinn |
| Saturday Jan 8, 2000 | I'm not the only one who thinks that all clowns are child molesters. Next stop, Santa Claus... to Culture by djinn |
| I'm not too big on the bible but I really like some parts of this bible site, specifically the little treatises on grammar and writing style, even if the 'musings' only serve to promote the company's own translation... to Literature by djinn |
| Has anyone else seen the Altoids ad posing as a porn site? to Culture by djinn |
| Friday Jan 7, 2000 | Sex and grammar. "...these are a few of my favorite things..."
to Linguistics by djinn |
| Sunday Jan 2, 2000 | Happy Anticlimax, memepoolians. to Culture by djinn |
| Thursday Dec 23, 1999 | Much as I loathe about.com, I've gotta say, the Bitter Chicks section makes it all worth it. After all, who could pass up links to sites like BitterSlut?
to Culture by djinn |
| Sunday Dec 5, 1999 | Why is it that one must know how to use the internet to look at NetLingo, which likes to think it's for beginners? to Internet by djinn |
| A good explanation of whyhypocritical and hypercritical AREN'T direct opposites. I love Word for the Wise to Linguistics by djinn |
| Saturday Dec 4, 1999 | Inflatable sheep! Who could ask for anything more? to Sex by djinn |
| So you've met someone on the web. Well, now there's a foolproof way to tell if you two are soulmates. to Internet by djinn |
| Tuesday Nov 30, 1999 | Thrive Online presents the kinkiness quotient. to Sex by djinn |
| Saturday Nov 27, 1999 | Some things never change. Seventeen magazine is STILL giving out bad advice. to Culture by djinn |
| Friday Nov 26, 1999 | Have you ever used the phrase "moral fiber"? to Politics by djinn |
| Tuesday Nov 23, 1999 | First they gave you ASCII Wars. Now, the geeks of the internet bring you Pointer Wars.
to Computing by djinn |
| Sunday Nov 21, 1999 | Seems like everyone likes to experiment with Flash. Sortof like a bad drug. Mediaboy is just tripping through this stuff like there's no tomorrow (and for all we know, there isn't).
to Web by djinn |
| Sunday Oct 31, 1999 | It's quick. It's simple. It's...goth. to Culture by djinn |
| Sunday Oct 24, 1999 | I'm embarrassed to admit that I found this site based on a reference from a friend, not from being bored and typing in random urls.
to Humor by djinn |
| Support the C.A.O.F.! Even if it means your amazon.com stock will suffer... to Web by djinn |
| Tuesday Oct 19, 1999 | Always hated how your bookmarks reside on one particular computer? Blink! is here to help. to Web by djinn |
| Saturday Oct 9, 1999 | Well, there's a lovely definition of my favorite mascot which also includes a sound file...another site which has some small relation to said mascot, and the history of the same, oh yeah, and a really bad poem. to Computing by djinn |
| Saturday Oct 2, 1999 | America's [least] favorite utensil. to Culture by djinn |
| Monday Sep 27, 1999 | Does anyone else find it odd that there are Braille resources in a medium that requires sight? to Linguistics by djinn |
| Friday Sep 24, 1999 | Black on White provides inspiration for writers, as well as nagging so much that you feel guilty about stopping. to Linguistics by djinn |
| Tuesday Sep 21, 1999 | A simple flowchart to help men get dressed. to Fashion by djinn |
| How many calories does sex use up, exactly? How does your favorite color affect your sex life? If you're female, what do you need to know about condoms More of the same appears on College Humor. to Humor by djinn |
| Sunday Sep 19, 1999 | Opera For Everyone, a series-in-progress of recordings of famous operas with a narrator explaining the context, is certainly a noble idea... to Music by djinn |
| Saturday Sep 18, 1999 | Well, with pages like XXX-rated Shed Talk, Absolut Humour is actually pretty funny stuff.
to Humor by djinn |
| Does anyone ever stop to think that sometimes consumerism can go too far? to Gadgets by djinn |
| I never learned the alphabet up to the letter S; I went to public school.
to Humor by djinn |
| I found the page of the Meme Factory, a software company, by not paying attention while trying to get to memepool.com. What I found there, though, was a very nice collection of memetics links. to Memetics by djinn |
| Friday Sep 17, 1999 | Independent Reader recommends fifty-five grandmas and a llama.
to Books by djinn |
| Thursday Sep 16, 1999 | Crappypoetry.com, need I say more? to Art by djinn |
| If you found that The Onion got worse and worse as more people started to like it, try Humor-Me. to Humor by djinn |
| Love-o-meter? Love Calculator? Okay, so "science" is stretching it some... to Science by djinn |
| Does this mean there are actually smart people on the Internet? Daily dose of sarcasm! to Web by djinn |
| Friday Aug 27, 1999 | Looks like those nannies killing children finally thought commercial and started their own clothing line. to Commentary by djinn |
| I'm as liberal as they come, and even I'm starting to think that public decency laws might not be so bad. There've been ads for this site all over my neighborhood. Maybe little children with pets will see it and think they can look... to Sex by djinn |
| Monday Aug 23, 1999 | Pick your poison. You can get the spin on fashion as well as the feministy stuff at gurl.com, or you can go for the slightly more hardcore at some of the links off of chickclick.
to Commentary by djinn |
| Monday Aug 16, 1999 | What do you prefer? Apples or apples?
to Food by djinn |
| Monday Jun 21, 1999 | While some people prefer simply having webcams for people to look in on their life, this guy not only has two, but he's given you, the lucky surfer, control over his lights, fans, and other nifty appliances...
to Internet by djinn |
| Sunday Jun 13, 1999 | Ugh. It's not enough that miningco.com had to change its name to the more boring (but more easily understood by all the idiots out there) about.com, but did they have to start offering tips like this?!?! to Memetics by djinn |
| In case you don't agree with Douglas Adams and me that the world is essentially a random place, this roulette wheel will take you to a random website. Okay, so the world wide web and the *world* aren't the same thing... to Web by djinn |
| Whether or not you believe pigs fly, there's a place to report sightings. to Web by djinn |
| Have you ever wondered exactly how the powers that be generate hands for duplicate bridge tournaments? Even if you haven't, you can play contract bridge online. to Games by djinn |
| Sunday Jun 6, 1999 | Its message is profound, but the presentation is sickening in that greeting-card, yellow-smiley-face, cherub-smiled babies kind of way. to Commentary by djinn |
| Saturday Jun 5, 1999 | Some people have big heads. Some people have more random heads. to Art by djinn |
| Ugh. I don't like cheese and crackers normally, but that's as bad as it gets. to Food by djinn |
| He wears...interesting...clothing, at least for something that claims to be male...and you wondered why some closed-minded people think he's gay. to Culture by djinn |
| Thursday May 27, 1999 | Curious about laws concerning censorship of public and private high school and college newspapers? The Student Press Law Center is a godsend...I *can* say "God," right? to Law by djinn |
| Monday May 17, 1999 | It's been around for 60-odd years (which would explain the rancidness) and its main ingredient may or may not be rubber. The people who eat this stuff really worry me. to Food by djinn |
| Sunday May 16, 1999 | It's really not a make-you-happy-pill. Really.
to Drugs by djinn |
| You can receive absolution either here or here, without ever having to leave your own home. Now who said sloth was a deadly sin? to Religion by djinn |
| Forget virtual cards. Now you can send virtual crack. to Drugs by djinn |
| Monday May 10, 1999 | To describe it in one word: versatile. It can be used as cozy housing, storage, a hat, and the subject of many Calvin and Hobbes cartoons. Still can't guess what it is? to Gadgets by djinn |
| Sunday May 9, 1999 | Aren't you just dying to find out the answers to such mystifying questions as "What do breasts do all day?" to Sex by djinn |
| What is the world (wide web) coming to? Now you can even get a sex change online. to Sex by djinn |
| Wednesday May 5, 1999 | Matchmaking has reached new depths of inanity: theSpark.com may be cute, but its features have tacky names like Pimpin' Cupid. to Culture by djinn |
| Variations on a theme: Girls? Ugh! and Boys are Icky. to Culture by djinn |
| Monday May 3, 1999 | Want to find out how NOT to teach your teenager about sex? I don't care if they say it's "by teens for teens" -- it's still idiotic.
to Sex by djinn |
| Friday Apr 23, 1999 | Take a look at memepool.com through the so-called goofy glasses of a disturbingly goofy website. The goofiest part of the whole site is its owner's love of the word "goofy."
to Humor by djinn |
| If you ever have an opportunity to get to the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, go during peak cherry-blossom season, that is, now.
to Travel by djinn |
| Monday Apr 19, 1999 | Explore Brian's brain. Despite the site's claims, I think Brian actually does exist. to Wackos by djinn |
| Are you a dull man?
to Culture by djinn |
| Sunday Apr 18, 1999 | Ever fancied yourself a porn star? Go beyond that trick with your middle name and the street you live on...try Porn-O-Matic, which is based on the same technology as Date-O-Matic. to Sex by djinn |
| Don't you want to hear what the perfect man has to say? He even has a twin brother. Furthermore, here's how to find out what a perfect man is, exactly. to Culture by djinn |
| Sunday Apr 11, 1999 | Some people can do practically anything with a piece of paper. Underground Origami Site will show you how to do rude things with paper without even writing on it.
to Art by djinn |
| Friday Apr 9, 1999 | Everyone wants to know if yawning is contagious, and it seems that there are quite a few theories. Of these theories, this one would have to be my favorite. to Science by djinn |
| For the times when you run out of inspiration, thekiss.com brings you both the dating tip o' the day and the kissing tip o' the day.
to Sex by djinn |
| A college student's view of alcoholism. to Drugs by djinn |
| Tuesday Apr 6, 1999 | Even if you're not the biggest fan of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, you can still appreciate his ideas of what would happen if certain celebrities mated.
to Humor by djinn |
| I can almost understand what inspired the creator of the world's best bubblewrap homepage, but I don't quite see the point of virtual bubblewrap...although I admit it's amusing to hear my computer making those popping noises.
to Wackos by djinn |
| Saturday Apr 3, 1999 | Need the right words to tell your significant other what you'd like to do tonight? Unsure if being called "bathycolpian" at work qualifies as sexual harrassment? Or are you just more comfortable with scientific terms for sexual acts than actual "dirty talk"? to Sex by djinn |
| Are the misanthropic bitch and the chicks suck guy the same person or not? Well, she's a lot more cynical... to Humor by djinn |
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