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| Friday Apr 6, 2012 | According to The Great War and Modern Memory, the following postcard was the first instantiation of the ubiquitous modern form. to History by fool |
| Friday Mar 16, 2012 | Touchy is a human camera, who is blinded constantly until someone's touch enables the opening of the automated shutters. to Art by fool |
| Monday Apr 21, 2008 | Time lapse video and article about a man stuck in an elevator for 41 hours. to Transportation by fool |
| Friday Apr 18, 2008 | An interview with the gentleman who created the largest time-waster of modern computing reveals his admiration of fake or not as well as this outdated website. to Games by fool |
| Thursday Aug 30, 2007 | Like literature by the volume? Read War and Peace and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and still find yourself wanting more? May I recommend the Harvard Classics (5 feet, 85 pounds) or the Penguin Classics (52 miles, 763 pounds). to Books by fool |
| Saturday Jul 21, 2007 | Thriller as performed by prisoners in the Philippines, Bollywood, and a wedding party. to Art by fool |
| Friday Nov 17, 2006 | I learned everything I know about disco dance and heavy metal from the Finns. to Culture by fool |
| Friday Nov 10, 2006 | At War with Baraka is an underground film which syncs Fricke's Baraka with the Flaming Lips' At War with the Mystics. to Art by fool |
| Monday Nov 6, 2006 | Gore + Chic = Très Chic? to Fashion by fool |
| Thursday Sep 28, 2006 | I want to build a robot that steals its own batteries. to Robotics by fool |
| Tuesday Aug 15, 2006 | The conventional story of the invention of calculus holds that Newton and Leibniz independently developed methods for integration and differentiation. Although this account is a matter of dispute, it is also probably wrong. The Yuktibhāsā provides a description of integration which predated both Newton's and Leibniz's work by approximately 130 years. to Mathematics by fool |
| Thursday Jun 8, 2006 | Certainly, the Beatles were influnced by Indian music in a positive way. But I wonder if the same could be said for the influnece of the Beatles on Indian music. to Music by fool |
| Sunday May 28, 2006 | What is greater than God? More evil than the devil.
The poor have it. The rich need it. And if you eat it, you will die. The answer: nothing. to Religion by fool |
| Tuesday Apr 25, 2006 | The Perry Bible Fellowship comics come in a variety of different styles. to Comics by fool |
| Sunday Mar 26, 2006 | Life in Japan is much more entertaining when you just make up what people are saying to you. to Linguistics by fool |
| Thursday Mar 9, 2006 | The Knockoff*Project catalogs album artwork with suspicious originality. to Music by fool |
| Sunday Feb 19, 2006 | Rejected Family Learning Channel Cartoon will make you feel as if you are easily amused or at least handle rejection well. to Movies by fool |
| Sunday Jan 22, 2006 | Thermite burning a hole in a car and other brilliant google videos. to Entertainment by fool |
| Friday Dec 9, 2005 | Henry 'Box' Brown's life story brings entire new meaning to the phrase living in a box. to History by fool |
| Wednesday Dec 7, 2005 | Two minutes and Twenty-Two Seconds into "Come on! Feel the Illinoise!" on Sufjen Stevens' Illinois, all of a sudden The Cure's Close to Me starts up. I guess, that's a bit like Jazz people quoting each other or Puffy using some pop hook. But why does it feel so wrong?
to Music by fool |
| Saturday Dec 3, 2005 | It seems there are groups for those very elaborate fantasies involving destruction of GAP and Urban Outfitters stores. to Fashion by fool |
| Tuesday Nov 29, 2005 | Io is a relatively new language on the dynamic programming block. It compares favorably with Python and Ruby in terms of performance. Io is also small and easily embeddable, as would be evidenced by the iol4 operating system. to Computing by fool |
| Sunday Oct 30, 2005 | Halloween is actually a ripped-off Celt holiday. to Humor by fool |
| Thursday Oct 20, 2005 | Gridgame is an aesthetically-pleasing variant of Conway's game of life. to Flash by fool |
| Tuesday Sep 13, 2005 | The debate continues: ethical or belligerent treatment of aliens? to Occult by fool |
| Sunday Aug 28, 2005 | Apparently dry spaghetti do not break in half. While that little bit of knowledge is certainly the basis of an excellent bet , it must take a ball or two make the same argument to the Physical Review Letters crowd. to Science by fool |
| Friday Jul 22, 2005 | If this is what sugarcrash is all about, I am quite reluctent to find out what snowcrash involves. to Games by fool |
| Thursday Jul 7, 2005 | Robots! Please deviate from the fighting, breakdancing, or fighting and breakdancing program. to Media by fool |
| Friday Jul 1, 2005 | I have a strange feeling that surrealists actually kind of like it when people rip them off or (perhaps) debase their films. to Art by fool |
| Thursday Jun 30, 2005 | If you are tired of being upstaged by fellows in their fancy Seersucker Suits, then might I suggest you get a Ghille Suit. to Fashion by fool |
| Thursday May 19, 2005 | Hapland and Haplan 2 will have you wasting minutes like lemmings off a cliff. to Flash by fool |
| Sunday May 8, 2005 | People in the salons of London and New York are abuzz with completely frivolous bullshit. to Humor by fool |
| Thursday May 5, 2005 | If flash puzzles aren't hardcore enough for you, perhaps you're ready for the python challenge. to Games by fool |
| Friday Apr 8, 2005 | Do not, under any circumstances, confuse Shakeskin.com and Beautifulagony.com. to Humor by fool |
| Friday Mar 18, 2005 | Play those funky breaks whiteboy.
to Art by fool |
| Friday Mar 11, 2005 | Stopped watching TV, but still crave profanity, violence, and nudity? Me too. to Humor by fool |
| Monday Feb 21, 2005 | Really, I think McDonald's is missing the chance at becoming real classy. to Humor by fool |
| Monday Jan 31, 2005 | With the proliferation of code-names for various products, perhaps a little care ought to be taken to make sure they've not been used. to Humor by fool |
| Thursday Jan 27, 2005 | On the off chance that you find yourself in fisticuffs with an extra implement I heartily recommend Self-defence with a Walking-stick. to Security by fool |
| Sunday Jan 23, 2005 | Hurka and other 80s TV commercials from Hungary.
to Television by fool |
| Friday Jan 21, 2005 | When pornstars attack or when spokemen attack? to Humor by fool |
| Monday Dec 13, 2004 | The perennial optimism of old computers as told through T-Shirts. to Computing by fool |
| Thursday Dec 9, 2004 | While you probably don't know if P = NP, you might be curious to see if β2P contains LOGSNP without memorizing the whole zoo. to Computing by fool |
| Friday Dec 3, 2004 | If you're fretting over holiday gifts, consider some of the more entertaining possibilities: cross stich, animal deterrents, television-blocking devices, parasite pals, games inolving electric shock, or what everyone really wants deep down: the opportunity to crush 2 to 3 different car formations. to Commerce by fool |
| Wednesday Nov 3, 2004 | Not satisfied with the results of the election? Perhaps you ought to try one of these alternative exit strategies. to Politics by fool |
| Saturday Oct 30, 2004 | Not to be confused with the Connection Machine from Thinking Machines, the Chess program Thinking Machine 4 visualizes search of the game tree. to Computing by fool |
| Wednesday Oct 20, 2004 | How would a robot act if it was self-interested? Give me a coin or two, and I'll tell you exactly how it would behave. to Art by fool |
| Friday Oct 1, 2004 | One manner of trying to assess the good or harm of political policy is to examine incidents that act as examples of actions that a policy advocates. Videos from military operations or tragedies provide evidece to spark discussion of such incidents. However, depending on one's intent, the collecting of such videos may itself be morally objectionable. Another important problem is that the veracity of these videos is also sometimes questionable. To conclude, it seems as if collecting and reporting of video by individuals in a political context is a new matter of ethical, sociological, and political interest.
to Media by fool |
| Saturday Sep 25, 2004 | As small bootable operating systems proliferate the communities using them are becoming increasing specialized. Take for instance the go boot cd or the goatse rescue floppy. to Computing by fool |
| Tuesday Sep 21, 2004 | In my day, we used to crack with plastic whistles from cereal boxes! You kids with your new-fangled searching and fishing, I tell you it takes the art out of cracking. to Computing by fool |
| Friday Sep 17, 2004 | A game where you have to breathe? That blows.
to Media by fool |
| Monday Aug 23, 2004 | Sometimes people are annoyingly distracted by their networked applications and unable to accomplish work. Making use of the new lockout program, you can firewall distraction. to Computing by fool |
| Wednesday Aug 18, 2004 | Accidie is the medieval European notion of "sinful lethargy." Amae is the japanese notion of "indulgent dependence." Such ideas make us wonder if culture can affect what is considered an emotional state. This in turn might argue for a genetic linkage to emotional state. But then, maybe that's not such a good idea.
to Society by fool |
| Friday Jul 30, 2004 | Writers can go to great lengths to express the emotion and context in which a letter was written. But sometimes diction and vividness are elusive luxuries that time doesn't allow. Especially when you're just trying to send a quick email. EmoteMail addresses this by putting your facial expressions in the margins and rendering your typing speed as background shading. If you have a webcam, it might be worth giving the OSX or Windows client a whirl.
to Communication by fool |
| Friday Jul 23, 2004 | Sidebartenders vary from the simple to the complex. to Internet by fool |
| Tuesday Jul 13, 2004 | The animals over at BuddyZoo let you compete for the title of the most popular instant messanger out in the college wild. But the social zoologists among us really want to sit back and calmly observe the animals through the bars. IMWatching does exactly that, only stopping short of letting you feed the critters peanuts. to Zoology by fool |
| Wednesday Jun 30, 2004 | Sometimes you might feel as if you've really dug yourself a hole. That's all well and good, but before you equip your hole with internet access and then put pictures on the web, be sure you've got enough bandwidth to handle it. Even then, sometimes demand exceeds expectations. For these cases there is bittorrent. to Internet by fool |
| Wednesday Jun 9, 2004 | Cover every roof on your block with sod, and other conceptualist pranks. to Art by fool |
| Tuesday May 4, 2004 | It's a good thing for Coco Chanel that cartographers can't copyright the Coco Channel. to Fashion by fool |
| Thursday Apr 22, 2004 | Subservient Chicken comes in many flavors. to Art by fool |
| Sunday Apr 18, 2004 | "One of those smart, happy girls who buys fancy bedsheets and always talks to you like she knows something you don't, and is just humoring you because she went to a better college. Oh yeah, you know the type I'm talking about. Your mom's going to love me, but you're going to panic the night before our engagement party, and have to run off to Mexico and ruin your good credit score." Supermodel Personals takes the genre to caustic heights. to Fashion by fool |
| Friday Mar 5, 2004 | So you want to be a hacker? As long as you have 10 years of spare time, some folks would be happy to teach you the core bits. to Computing by fool |
| Thursday Mar 4, 2004 | For the category of best use of the bizarre I'd like to nominate the drum machine and walkie talkie man.
to Flash by fool |
| Wednesday Feb 18, 2004 | "It was a great piece of meat", and other philosophical quotes.
to Philosophy by fool |
| Wednesday Feb 11, 2004 | I can't stop myself from wondering if David Hasselhoff's video is a bizarre flash movie (despite evidence to the contrary). to Art by fool |
| Friday Jan 9, 2004 | Limecat is not pleased, but is limecat photoshopped? to Pets by fool |
| Wednesday Dec 31, 2003 | It is interesting to compare art composed by those under the influence of LSD, and those experiencing psychosis. to Art by fool |
| Thursday Dec 18, 2003 | If just once, you'd really like to see someone beat that hypertalented tweaker at the chess club, then maybe you should propose a Chessboxing event. to Games by fool |
| Friday Dec 12, 2003 | Worse is Better or Worse is Worse? to Computing by fool |
| Friday Dec 5, 2003 | Matt Stuart's photography of London is a bit like Diane Arbus's snapshots of New York.
to Art by fool |
| Friday Nov 7, 2003 | Oh, she's just your average playboy centerfold.
to Art by fool |
| Thursday Sep 11, 2003 | Knowledge that 'pipe' is french slang for blowjob allows a much more entertaining interpration to Magritte's "ce n'est pas une pipe" caption. to Art by fool |
| A riddle: what do steamy windows, champagne, Picasso, and asphalt share in common? A hint: something like Hirschfield's Ninas. to Art by fool |
| Friday Aug 22, 2003 | Twexus generates imagery from a database of pictures using symmetry and pairing. to Art by fool |
| Wednesday Aug 13, 2003 | Members of the growing Friendster backlash have diverse interests including introversion, wry humor, graphic design, sexually transmitted diseases, and journalism. to Internet by fool |
| Friday Aug 1, 2003 | The Kafka-esque self-recursion of Copyshop executes a feat reminiscent of Michel Gondry's music videos. However, what makes the spectacle more inspiring is that it was accomplished by using a photocopier instead of computer graphics. to Movies by fool |
| Friday Jul 25, 2003 | The aesthetics of minimalism and constuctivism are being exploded into unusual geometries. to Art by fool |
| Sunday Jun 29, 2003 | When the Rube Goldberg Honda advert made the rounds, some folks noted it ripped-off The Way Things Go, but it's not the only rip-off floating around. to Art by fool |
| Friday Jun 13, 2003 | "What do you call the activity of driving around in circles in a car?" and other dialect surveys. to Society by fool |
| Wednesday May 21, 2003 | Hardy said "Mathematics ... is a young man's game." But it turns out when looking at the data on the issue, we find that older men and women play the game. Perhaps Hardy should have quipped "Mathematics is a game for those deep in their primes." to Mathematics by fool |
| Wednesday May 7, 2003 | Forced Exposure and Midheavean are two of the better mail-order record shops. Using them you can get introduced to acts that are harder to come by, even in an good record shop. to Music by fool |
| DENIM allows users to sketch automated interface prototypes without programming. to Computing by fool |
| Friday Apr 4, 2003 | Banzai is a (potentially offensive) gameshow which revolves around viewers making bets about unusual situations narrorated by a particularly thick-accented announcer. One of the more notable segments is "Lady One Question" in which viewers bet how long an interviewer can keep an interviewee talking after asking just one question and afterwards doing nothing. to Television by fool |
| Monday Mar 10, 2003 | Art Spiegelman (who is best known for MAUS) resigned from the New Yorker to protest "widespread conformism of the mass media." A new work of his, In the Shadow of No Towers, is being published in monthly installments. to Politics by fool |
| Saturday Mar 1, 2003 | Typically when someone is using a cellphone headset it's hard to tell whether they're clinically insane or just talking to their broker. However, using this fellow's unique handset approach you can muddy the water a bit by talking to your broker and appearing insane at the same time. to Gadgets by fool |
| Thursday Feb 27, 2003 | Pleix contains some extraordinarily interesting and somewhat disturbing video art. Highlights include a satirical video for Plaid's track "Itsu" and parody commercials of a beauty kit for little girls.
to Art by fool |
| Tuesday Feb 25, 2003 | Read my lips: crossing the line in the sand between easy listening duets and political satire will cause the mother of all laughing fits. to Humor by fool |
| Concerned about how much terror you should be panicking over? Make sure you're anxiety stricken by the most up-to-date terror alert software and hardware. to Entertainment by fool |
| Friday Feb 7, 2003 | One hand player, one stroke painting, the stroking edge ... Will the innuendo never stop? Have they no decency? to Conspiracy by fool |
| Wednesday Dec 11, 2002 | Afraid of going out on a limb and treading your own fashionista path? Take the easy way out with the time-tested hipster method of simply appropriating the style of a bygone era. to Fashion by fool |
| Sunday Dec 8, 2002 | Remix relays are albums in which each successive track is a remix of the previous. But what of the first track, of what is it a remix? Well in the case of Endlessnessism the first track was freshly minted. However in the case of Chinese Whispers the inital relayer was given mysterious DATs of samples composed anonymously by Stereolab. As an interesting twist, Stereolab also remixed the final leg of the race. to Music by fool |
| Monday Nov 18, 2002 | Belleville Rendez-vous fuses an interesting variety of styles, some bits of Tim Burton and some bits of Steamboat Willy.
to Movies by fool |
| Tuesday Nov 12, 2002 | With the aid of a little acid, British military exercises devolve into one man climbing a tree to feed the birds.
to Drugs by fool |
| Tuesday Oct 29, 2002 | Now that the Guinness Book of Records officially discourages gluttony and foolhardiness we will never know how many cigarettes Transylvanian Stefan Sigmond can smoke in four minutes while running a mile. to Wackos by fool |
| Thursday Oct 17, 2002 | Counterscript provides an interesting tool for dealing with those pesky telemarketers if more traditional methods fail. to Communication by fool |
| Friday Oct 11, 2002 | It's a fusebox that pushes things down staircases and removes stubborn stains and other surreal inventions of the Prior-Art-O-Matic. to Art by fool |
| Friday Oct 4, 2002 | What is it about toy dogs that evokes so much devotion and schadenfreude all at once? to Humor by fool |
| Thursday Oct 3, 2002 | "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" is a classic paper on the bizarre (some might say backward) cleaning ceremonies and other strange cultural habits encountered by an anthropologist.
to Culture by fool |
| Thursday Sep 26, 2002 | Whitney Houston vs. Kraftwerk and other fruits of plunderphonics and its diy twin uploadphonix.
to Music by fool |
| Now that you can meet someone special online, why not try breaking up online too? Just for good measure throw in some juicy details about their proclivities while you're at it. to Society by fool |
| Sunday Sep 22, 2002 | Banksy's stencil art has been causing panic on the streets of London, or at least wonder about who's behind the slippery samizdat. to Art by fool |
| Friday Sep 20, 2002 | Das Experiment seems a lot like the Stanford Prison Experiment, except in Germany and with techno. to Movies by fool |
| Wednesday Sep 18, 2002 | The Sport of Cup Stacking is like kung-fu without the violence or trick photography.
to Sports by fool |
| Saturday Sep 14, 2002 | Add equal parts YMCA, YATTA, and a dash of Masters of the Universe. Shake well, serve, and enjoy a Tribute to Ray Harryhausen. to Flash by fool |
| Tuesday Sep 10, 2002 | What do the worst phrasebook ever written, a search engine, and dadaist rantings all have in common? English as She is Spoke vs. Babelfish might be the best answer. to Humor by fool |
| Thursday Aug 29, 2002 | What happens when you fuse glitch and hiphop? Some would say Prefuse 73, but those who come from San Francisco would say Gold Chains mother$#@%er.
to Music by fool |
| In Ambrose Bierce's entry in the Devil's Dictionary for trial we find that: "In 1451 a suit was brought against the leeches infesting some ponds about Berne, and the Bishop of Lausanne, instructed by the faculty of Heidelberg University, directed that some of 'the aquatic worms' be brought before the local magistracy. This was done and the leeches, both present and absent, were ordered to leave the places that they had infested within three days on pain of incurring 'the malediction of God.'" to History by fool |
| Wednesday Aug 21, 2002 | In your time of grief, consider some of the more dignified ways to house the remains of your loved ones: shotgun shells and gems. to Humor by fool |
| Saturday Aug 17, 2002 | Itching to start a collection of favorite words like usufruct, salubriety, and diaphanous? Well, some folks already beat you to the juicy ones like
NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHSTROMONT. Espy their collection of
word oddities and trivia.
to Linguistics by fool |
| Wednesday Aug 14, 2002 | John Holmes, deceased
porn star icon and
MIT student.
to Sex by fool |
| Reminiscent of
"My Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable",
Seanbaby has a
collection appropriately entitled
"Kick to the
Groin" comics.
Juvenile humor is the bestest.
to Comics by fool |
| Sunday Aug 11, 2002 | Contrary to what you'd probably think, Hand on a Hard Body doesn't have anything to do with sexual hijinks. It chronicles one of many contests in which the last participant standing and touching a vehicle gets to take it home. Those eager to try their hand at standing for 81-some-odd-hours should beware the professional competition. to Movies by fool |
| Friday Aug 2, 2002 | Aspiring evil villain? Get all of your lair, henchperson, and doomsday device needs taken care of at VillainSupply.com. And don't forget to browse the personals at their partner site, fatalmatch.com, helping those interested in commited violently sexual relationships. Happy hunting.
to Humor by fool |
| Tuesday Jul 2, 2002 | It seems that being a mathematician is a dangerous enterprise at times; just ask Hypatia and Galois. And you thought they were all squares.
to Mathematics by fool |
| Friday Jun 28, 2002 | The secret lives of numbers: "an exhaustive empirical study to determine the relative popularity of every integer between zero and one million." to Art by fool |
| Tuesday Jun 25, 2002 | Sick of the high and mighty judgemental ways of the Bourne Again Shell community? It's time to switch to the p0rn again shell. Then you'll be an 31337 playa, or just crush alot.
to Computing by fool |
| Thursday Jun 20, 2002 | The gulf between good and bad uses of animated GIFs is ginormous.
to Comics by fool |
| Monday May 20, 2002 | Isn't it strange when antonyms are not just homonyms but more curiously the same word? You are enjoined to consider balmy (meaning both mild and crazy) and oversight (meaning both watchful and inadvertent omission) as examples. to Linguistics by fool |
| Wednesday Apr 24, 2002 | Richard D. James (a.k.a. afx, aphex, aphex twin) doesn't just make frenetic music and videos. He also sneaks images into the spectrograms of his tracks. If you're knowledgeable about fourier series transformations it's probably straightforward, though it certainly makes backmasking seem childish by comparison. Think it's a hoax? Download a spectrogram tool and take a look at the title track (#2) on Windowlicker.
to Music by fool |
| Tired of entering username=bull password=shit into sites that demand registration? Try the New York Times Random Login Generator instead. Loads of random-generation excitement to be had. to Internet by fool |
| Monday Apr 15, 2002 | Still searching for a name for your Math / Emo rock band? How about Probability of Two? to Music by fool |
| Thursday Mar 21, 2002 | Be you a dentist, trucker, or juggler, know that Jesus is "With you always". to Art by fool |
| Wednesday Mar 13, 2002 | The forward du jour has already given rise to mutations. If you've been wondering what the fuzzy mouthed bricks in the pictures are, the mutation's creator approves of this nice resource: the Domo-Kun page.
to Memetics by fool |
| Grown tired of overly elaborate versions of pong? Try Pong: The Text-Based Game for a dose of lo fi
gaming. to Games by fool |
| Tuesday Mar 12, 2002 | Pop art depictions of Abe Lincoln knocking some fool upside the head and Bea Arthur wrestling velocraptors need no introduction. to Art by fool |
| Tuesday Feb 26, 2002 | The grammarians among us may note that the apostrophe in Women's Studies is possessive. While this is grammatically correct, the egalitarians among us may wonder if it is ethical to imply possession of academic discourse through punctuation.
to Politics by fool |
| Wednesday Feb 20, 2002 | Y Tu Mama Tambien might just be the best title for a movie in recent memory. It looks like it's got some of the folks from Amores Perros to boot.
to Movies by fool |
| Saturday Feb 16, 2002 | Hailed as something we love to hate, the Am-I-X-Or-Not phenomenon seems to be running out of things to rate. Of course we're all curious if people think our raw sex, animals, and cars are hot. But if you really want to find if you're hot, why not whip out your PDA at the next party and programatically see if you're hot enough for some PDA. It will work wonders for your sex life.
to Culture by fool |
| Monday Feb 4, 2002 | The Student's t-Distribution was named such because the bloke who first published this statistical function was forced by Guinness Breweries (his employer) to use a pseudonym.
to Mathematics by fool |
| All these pictures of cute cats are making me hungry.
to Pets by fool |
| Tuesday Jan 29, 2002 | Move over pixelvision, we have incontestable proof that Legos are the emerging medium: enter The White Stripes' Fell in Love with A Girl. to Media by fool |
| Saturday Jan 26, 2002 | LEGODEATH: A Museum of Horrors? to Flash by fool |
| The video for Star Guitar is quite hypnotic. It was directed for the Chemical Brothers (the infamous purveyors of big beat), by Michel Gondry. But then Gondry has got quite a portfolio already.
to Music by fool |
| Wednesday Jan 23, 2002 | Using TelevisionArchive you can watch and discuss September 11th news clips from various stations around the world. to Media by fool |
| Friday Jan 18, 2002 | Life has taken you so far! Don't forget all the people who helped you get there: your old highschool classmates, your venerable college roommate, and the old cellmate. to Communication by fool |
| Friday Jan 11, 2002 | Industrious Clock erases and then one-ups the venerable old Dali Clock. to Art by fool |
| Sunday Dec 30, 2001 | What happens when you put star wars freaks and the Washington National Cathedral website together? Why, Darth Vader, of course.
to Humor by fool |
| Thursday Dec 27, 2001 | Leisuretown, has replenished their supply of concentrated disaffected bitterness. Now it's got enough panels to keep you from going crazy during your irksome work day. to Comics by fool |
| All kids of a certain age know and love the joy that is Mahnamahna of Muppets fame. But it seems that older kids knew and loved Mahnamahna as the soundtrack to a soft-core porn documentary.
to Culture by fool |
| Wednesday Dec 19, 2001 | Your speed-chess technique cannot compete with my kung-fu chess style. You go and remember the ass whooping a real-time take on turn-based full information game gave you.
to Games by fool |
| Tuesday Dec 18, 2001 | Downtrodden intellectual? Fight back by smartly providing etymologies of your tormentor's aspersions: a geek is a side-show attraction (typically without physical deformity) who performs grotesque spectacles like biting the head off of live chickens. The term nerd was evidently coined by Dr. Seuss in If I Ran the Zoo (1950). Lastly, a dork is apparently derived from the rhyming slang for male genitalia. However some have it that dork is actually the term for whale penis.
to Linguistics by fool |
| Wednesday Nov 28, 2001 | You're not crazy, the radio waves are being controlled by a computer. More specifically, Tempest for Eliza is a program that uses your monitor to send out AM band radio signals. You can tune your radio in and listen to the cichlisuite [pronounced: sickly sweet] IDM tones. to Computing by fool |
| Monday Nov 26, 2001 | We stand corrected: "mack" may derive from french slang where a pimp is known as a "mac" short for maquereau, or mackerel. In a strange coincidence, there is a performer by the name of Slim Mackerel. to Linguistics by fool |
| Who knew "mack" came from macaroni? I bet Iceberg Slim knew. He had an IQ of 162, pretty bright for a pimp. to Culture by fool |
| David Mamet reworks the dialogue between Hal and David Bowman from 2001.
to Humor by fool |
| Sunday Nov 25, 2001 | ¿Quien es mas macho: Microsoft Technical Support or the Psychic Friends Network? Neither apparently. to Computing by fool |
| Sunday Nov 18, 2001 | Pong . . . not just a game, but a drama of youthful-philosophizing. to Flash by fool |
| Wednesday Nov 14, 2001 | The Lair of the Marrow Monkey has particularly well designed flash fiction along with particularly pleasant sounds. to Literature by fool |
| Saturday Nov 10, 2001 | Amelie romantically accentuates the muted, sensual aesthetic in La Cite des Enfants Perdus (The City of Lost Children) and the gauche beauty of Delicatessen. The director of the three, Jeunet, has an eye for things which are unusual and unusually pretty. What is most enduring is that his work is surreally earnest.
to Movies by fool |
| Anemic is a cocktail conversation's worth of non-sequitur tableaux. to Flash by fool |
| Monday Nov 5, 2001 | Flight404 is a strange, hypnotic site about a fictional airline tragedy.
to Flash by fool |
| Way of the Stick is stick figure death theatre crossed with Karateka. to Flash by fool |
| Wednesday Oct 31, 2001 | El Espinazo del Diablo or the Devil's Backbone and Donnie Darko look like they will be among the season's better horror flicks.
to Movies by fool |
| Not to be left behind, Rev. Smith battles the rapier wit of Rick & Steve with The Brick Testament. to Religion by fool |
| Tuesday Oct 30, 2001 | Inspired by Lovecraft, it's the new cute Plush Cthulhu doll. And for older kids, there are Nyarlathotep bumperstickers for your ride. to Toys by fool |
| A Reference for the Rest of You Bastards. to Humor by fool |
| Monday Oct 29, 2001 | Deipnosophists Trace Country Music and other computer generated headlines. to Computing by fool |
| Before fall wanes, try your hand at the local Corn Maze. Fun for everyone.
to Games by fool |
| Sunday Oct 28, 2001 | Animated GIFs are usually just obnoxious, but who could of thought they could also be so bizzare. to Culture by fool |
| Wednesday Oct 24, 2001 | Workable and unworkable perpetual motion machines. to History by fool |
| Spider has good graphics, but Yard Invaders has better sound. to Flash by fool |
| Wait a minute, is that Madonna? to Music by fool |
| Sure, you can have my number, it's 212-479-7990.
to Culture by fool |
| Friday Oct 19, 2001 | (All of the statements about the enjoyability of Mezzo.com inside these parentheses are false)
to Philosophy by fool |
| Orisinal has a nice collection of engaging games. to Flash by fool |
| First green catsup and now pink margarine; as long as we're using freaky colors for food, I put in my vote for iridescent vodka.
to Food by fool |
| The palmpilot version of SFCave wasted endless hours; so consider yourself forewarned before playing the Java version. to Games by fool |
| Thursday Oct 18, 2001 | Leave it to Hollywood to take a phenomenal book about genius and mental illness and to turn it into something ill and disingunous. to Movies by fool |
| Monday Oct 15, 2001 | Systray.org allows you to post and discuss the little icons next to your Windows clock.
to Computing by fool |
| Chicken wings are not for flying. to Flash by fool |
| Saturday Oct 13, 2001 | GNN proudly presents Emergency Broadcast Network; makers of old skool gems like Get Up, Get Down and Rock This Base. to Movies by fool |
| I know where Bruce Lee lives.
to Flash by fool |
| Friday Oct 12, 2001 | You've read the book. You've seen the poem. Now read the dirt. to Poetry by fool |
| What do David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, Richard Powers, Errol Morris, Ornette Coleman, Max Roach, Harold Bloom, Susan Sontag, Richard Rorty, Stuart Kauffman, Tim Berners-Lee, John Holland, Karl Sims, Richard Stallman, Stephen Wolfram, Robert Axelrod, and Amos Tversky have in common? Why, the same organization that supports Harper's and NPR. to Society by fool |
| V.S. Naipaul just won the Nobel Prize in Literature. His book, A Bend in the River, is a pessimistically beautiful counterpoint to Things Fall Apart. to Books by fool |
| Apparently, drinking a lot of coffee not only prevents breast cancer in rats, but it can also make your breasts bigger. to Coffee by fool |
| Thursday Oct 11, 2001 | You don't care about whether they're X or Not; you really want to know How Good In Bed they are.
to Sex by fool |
| You wipe. American wins! to Commerce by fool |
| Fighting the war on terrorism, one flash movie at a time. to Flash by fool |
| Monday Oct 8, 2001 | The Avalanches' videos are crazy as a coconut.
to Music by fool |
| Sunday Oct 7, 2001 | Tired of getting busted in tasteless attire? What you need is a pimp hat. to Commerce by fool |
| Tuesday Oct 2, 2001 | You could gape in fear at one of the world's ugliest couches, or you could try to buy a contender.
to Fashion by fool |
| Monday Sep 17, 2001 | Just when you thought remote control devices couldn't get any creepier; enter the Robo-roach.
to Zoology by fool |
| Saturday Sep 8, 2001 | That's just not cricket!
to Games by fool |
| Friday Aug 31, 2001 | To hell with vitamins Fred; the real money is in cigarettes. Yabba dabba doo!
to Tobacco by fool |
| Screw Burningman and freakishly high ticket prices; I'm going to Chillinwoman. to Culture by fool |
| Tuesday Aug 21, 2001 | Statue Molesters: As if the pigeons weren't bad enough.
to Wackos by fool |
| Thursday Aug 16, 2001 | Waking Life, a movie from the people who did Slacker, looks very pretty. The last line in the trailer probably sums it up: wow.
to Movies by fool |
| "Insturments be political prisioners up inside computers." Or so says Saul Williams. to Music by fool |
| Monday Aug 13, 2001 | Kava Kava is a pepper-like plant which is traditionally made into tea for the relaxing effects. Although legal and reasonably safe, excessive use has been known to cause scaling and yellowing of the skin. to Drugs by fool |
| Sunday Aug 12, 2001 | Rumor has it that when Seymour Cray discovered Steve Jobs purchased a CRAY supercomputer to model a new design, Cray said "Funny, I am using an Apple to simulate the CRAY-3."
to Computing by fool |
| Saturday Aug 11, 2001 | Fittingly, Moloko was named for the milk-with-knives of Clockwork Orange.
What remains unanswered is whether the name came from Burgess' or
Kubrick's rendition of Alex and his droogs.
to Media by fool |
| Friday Aug 10, 2001 | Blogdex is the google of blogs,
allowing you to not just sift for early
stage memes, but also providing a rank for the late
stage variety. to Web by fool |
| Lacking a better term, Mulattos
have been plagued with a label derived from latin for mule. Well, we ain't having any more of slurs like "Moolie." Maybe metis should appropriate 'heterotic' and take pride in our nature.
to Culture by fool |
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