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| Saturday Dec 14, 2002 | It has been
thought
that the
oddly hypnotic
broadcasts that
show up now and again
on
shortwave radio
are
encrypted espionage traffic,
(although
some aren't buying it).
Despite
official denials:
sound
archives, a
book, and a
mailing list
are all available as windows into this
strange
static
world. to Communication by goboro |
| Sunday Oct 20, 2002 | Pragmatic good works that
help the world in
ways one might not expect. to Food by goboro |
| Thursday Oct 17, 2002 | Worried about the safety of your children?
Patented SafetyLockTM prevents unwanted removal: activate manually or remotely, citizen!
to Technology by goboro |
| In the deep of summer, 200
sign painters
invade
Mars, PA. to Art by goboro |
| Friday Aug 16, 2002 | Origami:
animal,
vegetable,
mineral. to Art by goboro |
| Friday Jun 21, 2002 | ¡Gooooooooool! to Sports by goboro |
| Sunday Jun 9, 2002 | The need
for
a
date
can be
universal. to Society by goboro |
| Tuesday Jun 4, 2002 | One makes
oatmeal with a
spurtle.
Just don't
stir it
widdershins. to Food by goboro |
| From the
rather
mundane to
verging on
art:
scientific
glass. to Art by goboro |
| Sunday May 12, 2002 | Love it or
hate it,
oatmeal remains
good for you, with an
interesting history. In order to properly
make oatmeal, one
apparently needs a
salt
cellar, or one won't deserve oatmeal. to Food by goboro |
| Friday May 3, 2002 |
We can do you
extreme
mountain biking on
two.
Or maybe with
one.
But probably not on three. to Transportation by goboro |
| Wednesday Mar 6, 2002 | Vaunted composer Philip Glass (be he
loved, loathed,
or both) now has a fairly cool interface to his work, making it all the easier to find that perfect music for life's little moments. to Music by goboro |
| Friday Feb 22, 2002 | Enter the beat loop and well worded world of
Joe Frank, courtesy of
KCRW (
RealPlayer
required). to Media by goboro |
| Tuesday Oct 31, 2000 | 'Tis time of year to again artfully
lop up a gourd: even with this late start,
one has all
sorts of
wonder
to aspire to. to Art by goboro |
| Saturday Oct 28, 2000 | Human Powered Hydrofoils can be sometimes
graceful, sometimes fast, and at others very unsettling. to Transportation by goboro |
| The USB ports on these newfangled legacy free computers these days make it easy to hook up all sorts of interesting I/O devices. You can even give your computer the finger (does anybody know of a USB-enabled GPS receiver?) to Gadgets by goboro |
| Monday Oct 23, 2000 | Internet Text,
somewhere between the
razor
and the
edge. to Literature by goboro |
| Sunday Sep 3, 2000 | Pueblo, dammit! to Reference by goboro |
| Saturday Sep 2, 2000 | "If Jamaica can have a
bobsled team,
Wisconsin can have a
Steel Drum Band!" Check out the
good work at
mp3.com (with perhaps special attention paid to the
polka). to Music by goboro |
| Friday Sep 1, 2000 | I may be
mad, but the Deck of the Emotions, I'm
afraid to say, makes me not
un
happy. to Games by goboro |
| Friday Aug 25, 2000 | The
world's biggest
harp. to Music by goboro |
| Juggling. The
history of juggling, the
physics of juggling, the
topology of juggling, the
dangers of juggling, and the
Jukebox of Juggling. It's fun to say Juggling! to Games by goboro |
| Tuesday Aug 1, 2000 | If you are a fan of the fountain pen,
you may be interested in Greg Clark's Ink Sampler,
which collects hand painted samples (both heavy and light) of
over 200
fountain pen inks, past and present, along with technical data
(pH, sun and water resistance) for each. to Books by goboro |
| Sunday Jul 2, 2000 | Fountain pens
are making something of a comeback; you can get
your fix at
any
number of
online
retailers, with an almost uncountable
variety to choose from. While many are in the game as collectors (no doubt in part spurred on by the goofy "collector's editions" that are being turned out by pen factories these days), just as many just want a better way to write (pictured is a Parker Centennial
Duofold). to Toys by goboro |
| Tuesday Jun 27, 2000 | LodesTone is your one-stop shop
for all things from the world of radio theater, including the likes of
The Firesign Theatre,
The Reduced Shakespeare Company,
the recent production of H.G. Wells'
Alien Voices,
and wonderfully, creepily goofy
ZBS adventure story,
The Fourth Tower of Inverness.
to Media by goboro |
| Douglas Hofstadter
has written all sorts of books
about all sorts of things. Turns out while he was writing them he was
composing as well.
to Music by goboro |
| Sunday Feb 20, 2000 | Sir, if the words you've read of late have all been fill'd with loath and spite, know ye that there be brighter fare: Laugh hard and look long into Light. to Literature by goboro |
| Like BookFinder (formerly mxbf) and Alibris before it, usedbooks.com is yet another way to find the used books one craves. Of particular note, however, is the excellent Illustrated Guide to Used Book Defects in addition to a very readable and complete guide to what they mean by Very Fine and such forth; there is also an
archly charming giftshop. to Books by goboro |
| Wednesday Feb 9, 2000 | Furious George and the Cross-Country Crime Spree:
Commit Atrocity. to Humor by goboro |
| What if I want to increase my website's visibility?
What if I want to do it at ninety miles
per hour? to Commerce by goboro |
| Does your favorite candy company
not sell your favorite candy bar
in your favorite country, but
instead in some other country?
Protest! to Food by goboro |
| Saturday Feb 5, 2000 | Thanks to the advent of the digital clock, fewer and fewer can use an analog timepiece to tell the time. We can only make it stranger (Flash Player required for the true scoop). to Wearables by goboro |
| Thursday Jan 20, 2000 | Cookware of
steel,
cookware of
aluminum,
bakeware of
Nerf. to Food by goboro |
| Monday Dec 13, 1999 | The
Annoying Music Show! is a wonderful little
radio program conceived and hosted by
Jim Nayder, and aims to offer only the worst
possible listening experience. For that
experience, check your local listings or
call 888.590.OUCH to order the compact disc. to Music by goboro |
| Creative Nonfiction may seem an odd genre at first blush, but this little corner of literature supports a Literary Journal, excellent MFA programs at The University of Pittsburgh and Goucher College, and a webring, for starters. to Literature by goboro |
| Saturday Dec 11, 1999 | Hosting a bash, but all you have on your tired walls is a bad print of The Scream and that same damn Escher?
Rent
some art (rent-to-own is an option)! to Art by goboro |
| Thursday Dec 2, 1999 | If you like movies on DVD, you owe it to yourself to check out The Criterion Collection. Royal treatment for great films, exquisite remastering, and usually with plenty of extras.
to Movies by goboro |
| If you're tall, you may want to celebrate the first dawn of the year 2000 by standing on Cadillac Mountain in Maine's Acadia National Park, because your head may then have the honor of being the first thing in the US to be hit by direct sunlight on that momentous morning. to Science by goboro |
| Ever wonder who's responsible for all of those three letter air port codes? to Transportation by goboro |
| Wednesday Dec 1, 1999 | The Media Studies Journal (published thrice yearly by The Freedom Forum) is a very free press minded forum for extended forays into examining the role of the underground press in the revolutions of 1989, the past and present state of reportage in China, and what the future may bring to the area of journalism. to Media by goboro |
| For centuries, the wine of choice for the royalty of Eastern Europe was Tokaji (pronounced toe-kai, or thereabouts), a rich and complex sweet white dessert wine produced in the Tokaj region of Hungary. With the fall of communism, it is once again (after a 40 year absence in the west)
available.
to Food by goboro |
| Rubik's cubes
made into art; art
made out of Rubik's cubes. to Art by goboro |
| Sunday Nov 28, 1999 | On the first day of the year 2000,
God will die. to Religion by goboro |
| There is good television, bad television, and a whole mess of middling television; see repesntative samples of each at the Museum of Television and Radio. Now on both coasts! to Television by goboro |
| Tuesday Nov 2, 1999 | The
Epistolary Novel is a told by letters; correspondence, telegrams,
etc. This venerated art form is still practiced
here
and there. to Books by goboro |
| Monday Nov 1, 1999 |
History of the
Potato. to Food by goboro |
| Sometimes intoxicating, sometimes a poor excuse for over-production and too much reverb,
the
traditional music of the Andean Indians remains quietly popular
throughout the world. Learn how to make a
flute that isn't, or get a
guitar that isn't,
or get yourself a set of
the Panpipes of Doom and play along! to Music by goboro |
| Monday Oct 25, 1999 | Gourd Music is an independant music label specializing in acoustic music. In addition to offering
select acoustic music from other labels, they offer
sound recordings of Shaker Music,
Americana,
Celtic Music, and even strains from Holiday Seasons Long Past. to Music by goboro |
| Edgar Meyer, oft lauded as the best bassist living (and equally at home in both classical and folk camps) has an extensive catalog of offerings. His latest effort (teaming up with
classical violinist
Joshua Bell and bluegrass virtuosos
Sam Bush and
Mike Marshall) combines classical and folk into a dizzying, wonderful
collusion that simply doesn't last long as it ought to. I cannot recommend it enough. to Music by goboro |
| John McPhee
has written books about enviornmentalists, oranges,
birch bark canoes, the Swiss Militia,
and he just won the Pulitzer
for his latest
( a table of contents, and a bit of Chapter One). to Books by goboro |
| Friday Oct 8, 1999 | Somewhere between the
banjo
and the
mandolin
lies the
Banjolin. to Music by goboro |
| Don't smoke
the
pants! to Wearables by goboro |
| If you're tired of all the commecial interruptions
on the radio at the office and you've already listened
to all of the CDs in your cube but yet yearn for
fat beats and fresh mix,
GrooveTech
offers live turntable work
14 hours a day, both
with and
without
a live video feed of the artists at work
(RealPlayer Required).
to Music by goboro |
| Saturday Aug 14, 1999 | Because they think that
Cliff's Notes are sometimes too
hard to understand (according
to the latest issue of Harper's, anyway)
the good folks at
Schoolbytes.com offer
plot summaries
that some might call easier to grasp, as well as
Term Papers
(such as
this), and
a quaint little section on
History (such as
that).
Personally, I'm moving my family to
Sweden.
to Education by goboro |
| Thursday Aug 12, 1999 | Way back in 1897, the 45th U.S. Congress and President Rutherford
Hayes established the United
States Geological Survey, principally to help the American
mineral industry. Over a century of diligence, however, has
yielded a mountain of data about the geological makeup of our
country, including mineral and water resources, arial
photography, and the most comprehensive set of Topo Maps of any
nation on the planet (searchable by
map,
name,
zip code,
or paw through the lists by state) at
four bucks a
pop.
to Cartography by goboro |
| Wednesday Aug 11, 1999 | The
Astronomical Society of the Pacific has standing
globes of
Earth's Oceans,
Venus,
Mars,
and the Moon,
for when more ordinary globes
simply won't do. to Cartography by goboro |
| Monday Aug 9, 1999 | It's rather suprising what one can make out of
old Volkswagens:
trikes and
boats,
for a start...
to Transportation by goboro |
| Be ye artist, engineer, or just the kind of person that likes to
fill up the basement with nonsense, the Small Parts
Catalog
is full of all sorts of things you never knew you didn't need.
to Gadgets by goboro |
| For every standard, there are
alternatives.
to Computing by goboro |
| Religious convictions regarding the relative merits of the things aside,
Trackpoints
aren't just for laptops anymore. You can now get 'em in pc keyboards
of both the
standard and
ergonomic variety.
to Computing by goboro |
| This guy is just a little biased.
to Computing by goboro |
| To save your back, you can spend a cool grand on a chair,
or drop fifty bucks on a ball.
to Health by goboro |
| Wednesday Jul 21, 1999 | Given the recent craze in soccer, it may be time
to take another look at
Foosball. Just don't feel the need to
rip your shirt off should you win. to Sports by goboro |
| Tuesday Jul 20, 1999 | Well, why not? Everybody needs a
cannon! to Warfare by goboro |
| Sh'rooms! to Food by goboro |
| Into busses? Check out Bus
World, for insightful coverage of the world of commercial
bussing.
If you'd rather fix up
your own bus, there's a magazine
for that, too.
to Transportation by goboro |
| If you like to read literature as opposed to fiction (or if you find
you
must, what with educational responsibilities) I heartily recommend
W. W. Norton's series of
Critical Editions, each complete with an (!)
authoritative version of the text, critical writings to further
your understanding, and enough background and supplementary
materials to make it all make sense in the first place. to Literature by goboro |
| Thursday Jun 3, 1999 | Meet the
guy responsible for all those little sticky bits of paper
that cover your monitor, and the storied history
of the company he worked for. to Gadgets by goboro |
| Hey, buddy; got something to
prove?
to Law by goboro |
| Overtone singing is the practice of aligning one's throat, larynx,
mouth, and tongue to sing polyphonically by using upper harmonics,
creating eerie, twisting descants of pure sound. It's an art
practiced
by folks who hail from a place
called Tuva, as well as New York's Harmonic Chior, as
led by David
Hykes.
Undertone singing
is the sister discipline of singing polyphonically using lower
harmoinics, as famously practiced by
The Gyuto Monks.
to Music by goboro |
| Those who are looking to enter the heady world of cat ownership have
a large
selection from which to puzzle out a choice. I can
personally recommend a couple of
these.
to Pets by goboro |
| If you're considering a dog as a pet
(with apologies for the noise) you may want help finding that
perfect breed.
There are also alternatives if
you fancy a more equal companion
(persuant to applicable
state law, of course). to Pets by goboro |
| Tuesday Jun 1, 1999 | Want to stay fit? How about
your dog? to Health by goboro |
| From all over the world, what we all used before GPS.
to Transportation by goboro |
| This part-time music
historian
has done quite a bit of research into this part-time historic
musician.
He also has a excellent radio
program, available weekly on a Public Radio
International station near you. to Music by goboro |
| Monday May 10, 1999 | Short on cash? Make some. to Art by goboro |
| Keep a finger on the pulse of the goofy consumerism
that pervades the upper echelons or our culture. Or the lower ones. to Commerce by goboro |
| Ambigrams are words like "pod" - constructions of
letters that make words with a symmetry (in the case of "pod", it reads the same when you turn
your monitor upside-down). There is an Automatic
Ambigram Generator, but to truly get a taste of the art that is possible with this hobby, check
out the work by Scott Kim or
John Langdon.
to Art by goboro |
| Information about US Minted Bullion,
Specifications
and Mint Marks
for US Coin, and those crazy new State Quarters
(you can Submit your own design
for future quarters) is available at the US Mint. to Finance by goboro |
| Wednesday Apr 7, 1999 | If you need a couplet done, may I suggest this rhyming dictionary.
There are also dictionaries more appropriate for the budding songwriter.
to Reference by goboro |
| Not withstanding those tumbles you took down the stairs
as a young pup, Phrenology
can help you determine what all those bumps on your head
mean. to Health by goboro |
| Okay, you've read that Cryptonomicon essay about Linux. Rah rah. Now read
Neal Stephenson's 1996 Wired article
"Mother
Earth Mother Board", about transoceanic cables and the geeks that lay
them. Long, detailed, fascinating, and you've almost certainly touched one
in the past 24 hours, so you might as well learn a bit about them.
to Science by goboro |
| Tuesday Mar 9, 1999 | If thinking ahead toward a long weekend of
dressing chickens in the barn is getting you down,
the wonders of modern technology can
ease your troubles. to Food by goboro |
| Tuesday Feb 23, 1999 | Ever wonder what the first half of a MAC address means?
Check the
Ethernet Codes Master Page. If you are on the
east coast, this
mirror may be geographically closer. to Reference by goboro |
| The
perfect gift for all of the daquiri-addicted
telemarketers in your life.
to Gadgets by goboro |
| The
Bandwidth Conservation Society has several tips
for the building of a better, faster web. to Web by goboro |
| When you tire of Art by intention, take a look at
The Gallery of Random Art. Vote for your favorites! to Art by goboro |
| If you don't like the standard M&M® colors, why not order some in the hue of
your own choosing? to Food by goboro |
| Tired of teddy bears, rainbows, or just plain blue
personal checks? Why not try something
less conventional. to Economics by goboro |
| Monday Feb 22, 1999 | If you're looking for an acoutic guitar and money
is of little concern, it's hard to go wrong with a
Martin.
to Music by goboro |
| If you find yourself often eating thinks like
Sushi,
you may want to invest in your own pair of
chopsticks.
to Food by goboro |
| Monday Jan 25, 1999 | Before you duck and cover, take a look at the
pretty pictures. to Warfare by goboro |
| Friday Jan 22, 1999 | The
Multimedia Medical Reference Library can help
when
something goes wrong with you. to Reference by goboro |
| Thursday Jan 21, 1999 | Bioluminescent toys.
As in, children's toys. As in, squirtguns that squirt
glow-in-the-dark fluid. Yes: gene-spliced microorganisms to entertain
you! to Games by goboro |
| Find the
nutritional content of
most anything. to Reference by goboro |
| Thursday Jan 14, 1999 | Yet another card game to end all card
games.
to Games by goboro |
| If you enjoyed Infocom games, be it known that
such stuff is not a dead art; a great deal of
Interactive
Fiction is freely available to all. If you
are in North America, you might try this local mirror. to Games by goboro |
| Monday Oct 26, 1998 | A compendium that proves another universal: it
doesn't matter what contry you're from if you
get
sick in an airplane. to Reference by goboro |
| Friday Oct 2, 1998 | One of the fathers
of Unix goes for a ride in a MiG-29.
to Computing by goboro |
| Thursday Oct 1, 1998 | All you could ever need to make it big in the club
scene: two
Technics SL-1200MK2 turn tables, some sampling
and looping gear, and a
whole mess of drum beats. to Music by goboro |
| Friday Sep 25, 1998 | Maple syrup, real maple syrup, mind, is the
perfect compliment to pancakes, waffles, ham, and
is also excellent straight. Why not
buy some? to Food by goboro |
| If you're having trouble with your teeth, perhaps you
might wish to
ask the dentist. to Reference by goboro |
| Wednesday Sep 23, 1998 | As a collection of links, this is a little out of
date, but you must give it points for
presentation.
to Wackos by goboro |
| Before America's nuclear missles could fly through
the air, they had to be dropped down a hole.
to Warfare by goboro |
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