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| Monday Mar 26, 2012 | "What is the fourth dimension? Most people assume it is an inaccessible parallel universe that is impossible to completely understand, much like North Korea. This app lets you see it for yourself with only a minimal amount of headaches and nausea."
to Art by joshua |
| Tuesday Dec 2, 2003 | CalorieLab is a search engine for the calorie content of various foods.
to Food by joshua |
| Monday Oct 6, 2003 | Batten down the hatches and swab your poop-deck: Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates lets you play many massively multiplayer puzzles and role-play a pirate at the same time.
to Games by joshua |
| Sunday Sep 21, 2003 | Watch Atomic Age Dog's
Cows Are Evil and never
quite the same about that cool, refreshing glass of milk again.
to Art by joshua |
| Friday Aug 29, 2003 | Kinchan and Katori Shingo's
Zen Nihon Kasou Taisho is an amazing talent show and the source of many amusing videos (including "Matrix Pong" and "Magic Shadow").
to Television by joshua |
| Thursday Aug 14, 2003 | The Speech Accent Archive has 264 speech samples of accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph.
to Linguistics by joshua |
| Thursday Jul 24, 2003 | Stoke your gaming nostalgia with 8-bit videogame fonts.
to Typography by joshua |
| Saturday Jun 7, 2003 | Manhole covers may not be exciting but they are
often artistic both artistic inspiration and sometimes, art themselves.
See covers from Manhattan, the
United States,
Russia,
Hungary,
London,
Norway,
Japan, and
France.
to Art by joshua |
| Saturday May 31, 2003 | Arthur Ganson makes fascinatingly
delicate and elegant mechanical sculptures and machines.
Some will take thousands of years to complete their tasks and some are astoundingly ephemeral.
You can see his work at the MIT Museum and see his creations in action.
to Art by joshua |
| Saturday May 17, 2003 | While the Open Source daily software update site
Freshmeat attracts the mechanical sarcasm of
RottenFlesh,
it takes a human touch to parody the Mac OS-oriented VersionTracker: over at PerversionTracker only the worst software is reviewed. (And for more interesting fare, the review archives at What Do I Know are excellent.)
to Computers by joshua |
| Tuesday Apr 1, 2003 | Sure, your diet is tough, but at least it's more palatable
than Weight Watchers
circa 1974.
to Food by joshua |
| Sunday Mar 23, 2003 | Whether you actually understood
A New Kind Of Science
or were just pretending,
Tim Tyler's
interated algorithmic systems including
cellular automata,
artificial life,
and evolved creatures
provide fascinating applet-based simulations.
to Science by joshua |
| Friday Mar 21, 2003 |
Manhattan Timeformations: Mapping Manhattan's skyscraper districts
through time.
to Flash by joshua |
| Thursday Dec 26, 2002 | Hugh MacLeod draws cartoons drawn on the back of business cards.
"With life in New York being what it is, with each person being hit
with a million strange, random moments a day, there's a lot to be said
for being able to fit your entire studio inside your coat pocket."
to Art by joshua |
| Wednesday Nov 27, 2002 | What is the
meaning of the
mysterious
giant letters on the sides of mountains
and hills?
to Art by joshua |
| Tuesday Nov 26, 2002 | Show Me Your Wound is a
twisted little commmunity dedicated to sharing and discussing
stories and images of
scrapes,
cuts,
burns
and
worse.
to Art by joshua |
| Monday Nov 25, 2002 | Guilloche patterns are the intricate sinusoidal forms created by a Rose Machine and are found in ornamental metal such as watches and are frequently used as anti-counterfeiting security devices in money and other financial paperwork .
to Art by joshua |
| Friday Nov 15, 2002 | Those having trouble keeping track may wish to consult
A Photographic History of Michael Jackson's Face.
to Music by joshua |
| Tuesday Nov 12, 2002 | Although
"lorem ipsum" is the typesetting industry's standard dummy text, other typolalia such as
etaoin shrdlu (i
the two leftmost rows
on a Linotype typsetting machine's
keyboard) and pangrams show up now and again, as well.
to Literature by joshua |
| Thursday Oct 31, 2002 | Steve Quayle is convinced that the gentle giants of our childhood myths
are a conspiracy and instead are something far more sinister.
to Wackos by joshua |
| Monday Oct 28, 2002 | Scientists are pretty sure men cannot
actually lactate, but that doesn't stop some
from trying.
to Art by joshua |
| Tuesday Oct 22, 2002 | Recapture that oppressive bureaucracy chic with the ElectriClerk, a nightmarish combination of a classic Macintosh, an Underwood Typewriter, and a fresnel lens.
to Computers by joshua |
| Friday Oct 11, 2002 | Despite being quintessentially useless, home robots such as the Evolution
ER1, the Probotics
Cye, and Sony's
Aibo are beginning to gain popularity,
and the next iteration of personal robots such as the vacuuming
Roomba and the
Solar Mower may actually prove to be useful.
As robots coopt humanity's upright
mode of transportation they may even become downright ubiquitous.
Consider, however, the increasingly creepy implications of current robotics research - from the emotional
Kismet, to the humanoid
Asimo, robots are becoming both
visually accute and dextrous,
capable of recharging themselves,
feeding themselves as well as
hunting and devouring prey, and finally
reproducing themselves.
Indeed, with
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles rapidly becoming
Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles and
beyond, there may be
no place for humans at all in the
impending robotic holocaust.
to Robotics by joshua |
| Wednesday Oct 9, 2002 | "Driven by a dream I had at the age of twenty-three during my junior year at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, I began to draw pigs with wings. I drew pigs with wings over and over until, during my senior year, I realized it might be possible to actually create a real winged pig by employing tattoos."
to Art by joshua |
| Wednesday Oct 2, 2002 | Typophile's Smaller Picture is an attempt to collectively design a typeface.
to Art by joshua |
| Thursday Sep 12, 2002 | Tensegrity structures, typified by Kenneth Snelson's
Needle Tower,
are structures whose elements rely on tension and compression without torque. Typically,
this means that the rigid elements do not touch each other.
You can construct a small tensegrity sphere out of soda straws and rubber bands, or a large one with quite a bit of patience as well.
to Mathematics by joshua |
| Friday Sep 6, 2002 | 2300 years after Euclid penned Elements, a thorough treatise on geometry, Oliver Byrne published his version, in which the striking use of color creates beautiful visual explanations of Euclid's work. A more modern advance represents each proof through the use of interactive java.
to Mathematics by joshua |
| Wednesday Sep 4, 2002 | Plucky American upstart NucOS
aims to dethrone entrenched British stalwart HarrixOS using the secret weapon of code!
to Computing by joshua |
| Friday Aug 30, 2002 | Clifford Pickover,
staff researcher at
IBM, fractal connoisseur,
and author of dozens of
popular science books
examining the future of thought has published
a new series of science
fiction novels
that explore the boundaries of reality.
to Books by joshua |
| Wednesday Aug 21, 2002 | Help Sammy Sperm reach Planet Prostate.
to Flash by joshua |
| Monday Aug 19, 2002 | If you're in New York, drop your chalk, get a camera and cabfare, and start running.
to Internet by joshua |
| Thursday Aug 15, 2002 | Apocalyptic predictions are frequently made but soon forgotten after they fail to come true.
to Wackos by joshua |
| Friday Aug 9, 2002 | Overweening computer advocacy meets an amazing incapacity for humor in the remarkably unfunny #!/usr/bin/perl, the sitcom.
to Wackos by joshua |
| Wednesday Aug 7, 2002 | Don't forward
that incredibly important email without doing a little
fact checking first.
to Overpropagation by joshua |
| Tuesday Jul 30, 2002 | Epicurean time travelers should beware ancient times because apparently Ho-hos and Deviled Eggs were only recently invented.
to Food by joshua |
| Monday Jul 29, 2002 | Sure, you could use silly chalk signals to find a wireless network but it'd be much cooler to use them to
evade mind control hot spots,
locate an acceptable pub,
avoid informants,
solicit a prostitiute, or even
buy some chalk.
to Overpropagation by joshua |
| Wednesday Jul 17, 2002 | Coagula is an image synthesizer -- create and manipulate images and then turn them into sound by the inverse of the spectrogram function.
to Music by joshua |
| Friday Jul 12, 2002 | On November 16, 1974, a self-decoding message was sent
from Arecibo Observatory towards the M13 globular cluster. On August 21, 2001, their response arrived. to Art by joshua |
| Thursday Jul 11, 2002 | Bizarre mistranslation or just remarkably Dada? Strangely compelling, either way.
to Comics by joshua |
| Monday Jul 1, 2002 | Neither Linux on
a wristwatch
nor a wristwatch camera have quite the panache of the Seiko TV Watch ( circa 1982.)
to Television by joshua |
| Tuesday Jun 11, 2002 | You're not really in the Midwest until you're greeted by one of those huge beings: a Muffler Man.
to Travel by joshua |
| Wednesday Jun 5, 2002 | Real-life Miltons of the world have expressed such demand for red Swingline staplers that a
second-hand market in painted units boomed on eBay
until
Swingline introduced their own.
to Art by joshua |
| Wednesday May 29, 2002 | Trade your massively multiplayer sublimation of the sexual urge for massively multiplayer overt sexuality.
to Sex by joshua |
| Wednesday May 22, 2002 | No program conveys more geek cred than the screen saver.
to Art by joshua |
| Wednesday May 8, 2002 | In at least
one universe parallel to ours,
the future of online social interaction is not IRC and
AIM but instead
Virtual Reality Nightclubs.
And afterwards you can take your virtual vixen back to your virtual
hotel room, but pray that she's not
a furni whore.
to Net by joshua |
| Wednesday Apr 17, 2002 | A Segway is not nearly as awe-inspiring as Spring Walker, as scarily unstable as Swing Bike, as buoyant as a WaterCycle or as terrifying as any of hundreds of other unusual and bizarre human-powered vehicles.
to Transportation by joshua |
| Monday Apr 8, 2002 | That car commercial had really catchy music! I wonder who recorded it.
to Music by joshua |
| Friday Apr 5, 2002 | The Museum of Online Museums is an intriguing collection of ... intriguing collections.
to Art by joshua |
| Chisenbop is a method of doing basic arithmetic using your fingers.
to Mathematics by joshua |
| Thursday Mar 7, 2002 | Cover up the blinkenlights on your modem... and your CRT, too.
to Computers by joshua |
| Thursday Dec 20, 2001 | Does caffeine cause obsessive-compulsiveness?
to Coffee by joshua |
| Monday Dec 17, 2001 | Prosopagnosia is the medical term for "face blindness" -- a condition which causes an inability to recognize others by their faces. Sufferers can still see faces but don't have any special facility for identification, nor can they remember faces. Some are born with it, some discover it in themselves, and some develop it.
to Science by joshua |
| Wednesday Dec 5, 2001 | The future potential of
Dean Kamen's
Segway
is frequently compared to
Preston Tucker's
Torpedo.
However, perhaps a more apt comparison is to
Clive Sinclair's
C5...
or Buckminster Fuller's
Dymaxion Car...
or Paul Moller's Skycar...
or Wendell Moore's
Rocket Belt...
or Glen Curtiss's
Autoplane...
or Waldo Waterman's
Arrowbile...
or Robert Fulton's
Airphibian...
or Moulton Taylor's
Aerocar...
to Transportation by joshua |
| Monday Nov 26, 2001 | OneAcross is a computational crossword puzzle solver based upon Proverb, The Probabilistic Cruciverbalist. So armed, go forth and tackle the New York Times Crossword Puzzle.
to Linguistics by joshua |
| Monday Nov 12, 2001 | Not content with just music, pirates move on to swapping album cover art.
to Music by joshua |
| Thursday Nov 8, 2001 | You can take the yinzer out of Pittsburgh, but you can't take the Pittsburgh out of yinz.
to Linguistics by joshua |
| Perseus is a vast digital library
containing thousands of ancient texts, both translated and in the original tongue.
to Reference by joshua |
| Tuesday Nov 6, 2001 | My favorite condiment is definitely
ketchup.
Or maybe mayonnaise.
Oh, they're all good.
to Food by joshua |
| Wednesday Oct 24, 2001 | Sweetcode reports innovative free software and intriguing new ideas instead of the same old crap reimplemented for the latest platform.
to Computers by joshua |
| Monday Oct 1, 2001 | Comic Book Guy
also has a video game rental store.
.
to Culture by joshua |
| Wednesday Sep 26, 2001 | Both the Lexical Freenet and WordNet allow you to dynamically explore the relationships and pathways between words. to Linguistics by joshua |
| Every hobby has its dark side. to Art by joshua |
| DeskSwap is a screensaver that swaps images of the user's desktop with others, exchanging candid glimpses of familiar-looking but ultimately unfamiliar workspaces. to Computing by joshua |
| Tuesday Sep 25, 2001 | Find out everything about your prescriptions with RXlist, a comprehensive pharmaceutical encyclopedia.
to Health by joshua |
| Sunday Sep 16, 2001 | Real Time Battle and Robot Battle are just two of many games in which the object is not to do battle with the competition directly but instead write little programs that fight each other on a virtual battlefield.
Core Wars, one of the oldest of these games, has spawned an entire subgenre in which fighters are evolved
genetically instead of being written by hand -- programs writing programs for fighting programs inside programs.
to Computing by joshua |
| Thursday Sep 6, 2001 | Not sure what ingredients can be substituted for others? Consult The Food Thesaurus.
to Food by joshua |
| Monday Aug 6, 2001 | While the Internet Movie Database is a great
reference, the plot summaries leave a bit to be desired. Sometimes I'm
just too busy
to sit through some movie and
discover
the inane ending
and exactly what happens so I can
spoil the movie for all my friends
or nitpick endlessly.
to Art by joshua |
| Friday Jul 27, 2001 | Marvel at Xiao Xiao's latest episode of stick figure death combat - and this time, you've got the gun.
to Flash by joshua |
| Thursday Jul 26, 2001 | Amongst the sundials at Sundial Park in Genk an intriguing digital sundial stands. The Digital Sundial has no moving parts or electronics, but still displays the time in clear arabic numerals.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Wednesday Jul 18, 2001 | Perhaps Jarrod lost all that weight when Subway ditched the classic cut.
to Food by joshua |
| Monday Jul 16, 2001 | You Damn Kid painfully examines all those childhood memories you were hoping to forget.
to Comics by joshua |
| Monday Jul 9, 2001 | Lonely people make web pages about their cats. Lonely, freaky people make web pages about their sex toys.
to Sex by joshua |
| Wednesday Jun 27, 2001 | Some have turned childhood cartoons, such as
The Transformers, into an all-consuming
obsession.
And some go far, far beyond.
to Transportation by joshua |
| Wednesday Jun 20, 2001 | Warning: Failure to turn off your webcam before having sex may inadvertently catapult you into the seedy world of amateur pornography.
to Sex by joshua |
| Thursday Jun 7, 2001 | Super Mario Bros Snazzy Jazz remix (by the Arabian Rap Sensations.)
to Flash by joshua |
| Sunday Jun 3, 2001 | Most people watch television for the shows. I watch television for the advertising.
Unlike the grueling half-hour shows, a good ad can tell a story in as little as thirty seconds.
Modern ads,
80's ads,
70's ads
saturday morning cereal commercials from the '60s and '70s,
soundtracks,
political ads,
Superbowl ads,
jingles,
soft drink,
British ads,
French ads,
foreign ads,
American actors in Japanese ads,
public service ads,
the best ads ever,
even that stupid Taco Bell chihuahua, I love them all!
to Media by joshua |
| The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form, including an archive of the entire Web, Usenet, 2000 Presidential Election, and historical Arpanet documentation. One of the more fun collections is the movie archive which contains hundreds of movies from 1903 to the late 1970s which focus mainly on everyday life, culture, industry, and institutions in North America in the 20th century.
to Media by joshua |
| Thursday May 31, 2001 | The World Puzzle Federation
is hosting the 10th World Puzzle
Championship
in Brno.
There's going to be a qualifying
test
used to select members of the US and Canadian teams.
One of the previous Dutch team members has a page
with lots of puzzles of the sort seen on the test.
to Games by joshua |
| Wednesday May 30, 2001 | While we haven't yet achieved
nanotechnology, several groups are building coin-sized autonomous walking and wheeled robots.
to Robotics by joshua |
| Monday May 21, 2001 | Vector Park offers a dream to explore and a game in which balance is key.
to Flash by joshua |
| Tuesday May 8, 2001 | Those who seek to keep their heads in the clouds would do well to remember
that which goes up must come down.
to Wackos by joshua |
| Sunday May 6, 2001 | Stanford's Matchbook PC created the competition for tiniest webserver, and the matchhead-sized iPic may have won for a time, but Jim Rees' Webcard is a webserver running entirely on a smartcard.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Wednesday May 2, 2001 | Dizzy City has 3D panoramic images for every intersection in Manhattan.
to Travel by joshua |
| Monday Apr 30, 2001 | Inhabit the virtual five-star Habbo Hotel, where your avatar can dance or drink the night away in one of the many virtual clubs or or bars.
to Shockwave by joshua |
| Monday Apr 23, 2001 | Through hard work and dedication, the employees of the
Miami Valley Rail Authority
hope to run the best darn public transport system in the continental United States.
to Transportation by joshua |
| Wednesday Apr 18, 2001 | Xiao Xiao brings
Stick Figure Death Theater to the next level.
(Mirrors:
1
2
3)
to Flash by joshua |
| Tuesday Apr 17, 2001 | Daughter of a brilliant, peace-loving scientist, Chi Chian braves giant insects, worm trains, and the Patahn Pahr to save Manhattan of the 31st century.
to Flash by joshua |
| Monday Mar 26, 2001 | Frequently mistaken for an urban legend, the dreaded Brazilian candiru fish is known to parasitize humans by lodging themselves in the urethra.
to Zoology by joshua |
| Afraid to eat beef but hate tofu?
Enjoy some human meat product!
to Food by joshua |
| Thursday Mar 22, 2001 | If you can't dance like Paul, then perhaps you can learn.
to Style by joshua |
| Wednesday Mar 21, 2001 | As a child, not only did I use matches to start fires, but I also made them into
match rockets.
Sadly, all the wooden matches perished in the unfortunate "flaming toilet" incident, or I would have made wooden match rockets.
to Toys by joshua |
| Tuesday Mar 20, 2001 | I can't tell if i'd like a
360 degree,
decimal,
nonal,
or metric watch.
But I sure wouldn't mind a 28 hour day
to Reference by joshua |
| Thursday Mar 15, 2001 | Please check the FAQ before having sex with a
sow,
boar,
goose,
hawk,
miniature stallion, or a
dolphin.
to Sex by joshua |
| Playing "Charades" online using a chatroom and a shared whiteboard can be horribly addictive, even if it requires Shockwave and maybe some sort of drawing tablet.
to Games by joshua |
| Sunday Mar 11, 2001 | Transformed from a mere repository of dreadful poetry, Bad Haiku has become a slowly boiling combination of part flamewar, part poop humor, and (almost) all in traditional haiku form.
to Poetry by joshua |
| Corporate marketing sees highly viral ideas and tries to invent a few of their own, while some folks would like to protect them from being hijacked.
to Memetics by joshua |
| Thursday Mar 8, 2001 | The Payphone Project is attempting to index and photograph
pay telephones throughout the United States.
to Communication by joshua |
| Earthquake as artist: a sand-tracing pendulum captures the recent quake in Seattle.
to Art by joshua |
| Tuesday Mar 6, 2001 | If you go to jail and haven't studied the Prisoners Dictionary, the other inmates will
make fun of you for learning your lingo from Oz.
to Reference by joshua |
| Sunday Mar 4, 2001 | When I am King is a reproduction
of strange ancient hieroglyphics in which a king wakes up from a dream
which will change his life forever, if only he can find it in the waking world.
to Comics by joshua |
| Monday Feb 26, 2001 | Convert your archaic record player into a video display system with Vinyl Video.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Managers: If your spiffy new mission statement didn't energize morale, perhaps a corporate anthem will.
to Business by joshua |
| Sunday Feb 25, 2001 | IBM's half-keyboard prototype is now
available for the Palm and as a patch for Linux.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Thursday Feb 15, 2001 | ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US: The Rock Video (Shockwave required.)
to Culture by joshua |
| Wednesday Feb 14, 2001 | Express your Valentine's desire in eight letters on a Candy Heart or
borrow someone else's.
to Art by joshua |
| Jordan Ritter, author of the
Napster backend, explains why Gnutella doesn't scale.
to Internet by joshua |
| Tuesday Feb 6, 2001 | While many artificial visual languages are of only limited use, several real-world languages have become profoundly useful. SignWriting is an iconic printed language designed to represent signed languages, while Dance Writing allows the transcription of choreography. Blissymbolics, originally designed for "international communication" has found a niche with autistic children.
to Linguistics by joshua |
| Mark Tilden builds tiny robots which follow the BEAM philosophy - Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, and Mechanics.
Despite being built with scavanged parts and run by only a few transistors and a solar cell, the robots
engage in sometimes startlingly insect-like behavior.
The BEAM philosophy has inspired many hobbyists to create their own mechanical progeny and assemble-it-yourself kits.
to Robotics by joshua |
| Monday Feb 5, 2001 | I used to think the Internet was populated by the intellectual elite of the world. I was wrong. to Culture by joshua |
| Thursday Jan 25, 2001 | Even if your scooter isn't rechargable, you can still get around town in extreme style.
to Transportation by joshua |
| Monday Jan 22, 2001 | Dotcommunists, having purchased all the
obvious gadgets, are now acquiring GPS units
despite not needing to find the
coordinates of their desk more than once
or twice a month. Take that GPS unit outside
and try to find some
geocaches or
perhaps score some photographs of an integer lattitude/longitude intersection.
Geeks of the world, stand up -
you have nothing to lose but your flab.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Thursday Jan 4, 2001 | Dr. Math answers any math question, from Elementary School
to College level, with cogent and concise explanations.
to Mathematics by joshua |
| Wednesday Dec 27, 2000 | It is difficult to place recent shooting sprees in their proper context without an objective ranking scale such as the Scoring System for Psycho Killer Shooting Sprees.
to News by joshua |
| Monday Dec 4, 2000 | Some guy hates mayonnaise so much that he started the
"Worldwide I Hate Mayonnaise Club." Some
other guy hates it so much that he decided to sue the first guy for rights to the domain name.
to Food by joshua |
| Tuesday Nov 28, 2000 | Elout de Kok's Java-based interactive art will keep you fascinated for hours. My favorites are Louise, Bezup and ZabZero.
to Art by joshua |
| Monday Nov 27, 2000 | A sonogram is an image created from a sound. Peter Meijer's JavOICe is a Java applet that does the opposite. to Linguistics by joshua |
| Monday Nov 20, 2000 | Chopping Block: because serial killers are people too. to Comics by joshua |
| Wednesday Nov 15, 2000 | FindSame is a search engine that searches by content instead of keywords. Enter a URL or upload a document and FindSame returns a list of Web pages that contain any fragment of that document longer than about one line of text. This is remarkably handy for finding plagarized content. to Web by joshua |
| Monday Nov 13, 2000 | Thanks to everyone that took part in the first Memepool contest. Our winners included pictures of
a homeless guy,
a palm pilot,
a palm,
an eight bit video game,
an lsd trip,
quake,
dinner,
more dinner,
a bird,
the bird,
a tattoo,
way too much free time,
modern sculpture,
old rhetoric,
knuckles,
chests,
and let's not forget
breasts,
breasts,
breasts,
breasts, and
breasts.
to Memepool-Contest by joshua |
| Sunday Nov 12, 2000 | We're giving away twenty Memepool teeshirts to the most creative and interesting pictures to appear on Am I Hot or Not? featuring the word "memepool". Entries must be posted by Nov. 12 and will be judged on Nov. 13. Send a note to contest@memepool.com after you've embarassed yourself publically. And remember -- if you can't be creative or interesting, you can be cute and naked.
to Memepool-Contest by joshua |
| Thursday Nov 9, 2000 | She's an ex-porn star. He's a robot. They're dating. to Comics by joshua |
| Wednesday Nov 8, 2000 | Karl Sims' groundbreaking 1994 Evolving Virtual Creatures featured a fascinating movie of the behavior of evolved artificial creatures in simulated physical environments - and took unbelievable amounts of computational power to create.
Modern day systems such as Framsticks and Ventrella's
Gene Pool and Darwin allow you to evolve your own artificial creatures on your desktop computer. to Art by joshua |
| Thursday Nov 2, 2000 | If women's sneakers make you feel all funny inside but you aren't exactly sure what to do with them, be sure to consult the Keds Masturbation Manual. to Sex by joshua |
| Monday Oct 30, 2000 | If you live in NYC and are interested in meeting some of the Memepool crowd,
we will be gathering for dinner on Tuesday, October 31st at Menchanko-Tei Restaurant 131 E 45th St (between 3rd and Lexington) at 8pm.
Please drop a note to dinner-nyc@memepool.com if you will be coming.
Bonus points for wearing a promo t-shirt from a bankrupted dot-com!
to Memepool-News by joshua |
| Tuesday Oct 24, 2000 | Rabid Macintosh fans, unable to to wait for Apple to release their next design innovation, have begun to design their own next generation of curvy and translucent computers. Of course, pornographers and professional industrial designers are equally unable to resist the temptation of form over function, or at least rehashing an old product with a new plastic shell. to Computing by joshua |
| Sunday Oct 22, 2000 | Proponents of life extension suggest reduced-calorie diets as a means of extending life.
Noone has taken this as dangerously far as the Breatharians.
Breatharians, such as Jasmuheen, believe they can survive almost entirely on "liquid light."
However, even the most practiced Breatharians, such as Wiley Brooks, occasionally sneak into a 7-11 for a chicken pot-pie and a slurpee.
to Wackos by joshua |
| Custom Toilet Paper finds a new use as dotcom stock options. to Commerce by joshua |
| Friday Oct 13, 2000 | What do you get if you mix American Pie and the Phantom Menace? American Jedi. to Movies by joshua |
| Wednesday Sep 27, 2000 | Watch "Spin," a one-hour documentary by Brian Springer, which details the events of the 1992 election through the satellite backhauls (unpackaged and uncensored news feeds which viewers do not see in the final edition.) to Media by joshua |
| Friday Sep 22, 2000 | The Brazilian electronic music group Golden Shower's recent video, Video Computer System (mirrored here and here) will remind you of all the great games for the Atari 2600 VCS.
to Music by joshua |
| One of the universal laws of the internet is that it is rarely possible to make a parody of a funny site that is as funny as the site itself. to Web by joshua |
| Sorry for the downtime; we had a systems failure (a power supply died.) to Memepool-News by joshua |
| Wednesday Sep 6, 2000 | The Institute for Applied Autonomy's GraffitiWriter is a tele-operated field programable robot which employs a custom built array of spray cans to write linear text messages on the ground at a rate of 15 kilometers per hour.
to Robotics by joshua at Ars Electronica |
| Golan Levin, from the MIT Media Lab's Aesthetics and Computational Group recently demonstrated his
Audio-Visual Environment Suite (AVES) is a set of five interactive systems which allow people to create and perform abstract animation and sound in real time.
Golan's home page also contains java versions of many of his previous pieces, including Meshy, Stripe, and Blebs.
to Art by joshua at Ars Electronica |
| Sunday Sep 3, 2000 | Monotonik is an online mp3 network label that distributes mostly electronica for free. While many of the artists, including Lackluster (with deFocus) and Dharma+Dice (with Moving Shadow Records) got their start in the MOD and demo scene, they now distribute their music in mp3 format.
to Music by joshua at Ars Electronica |
| Tissue Culture & Art is a research and development project into the use of tissue technologies as a medium for artistic expression. The project is currently creating semi-living "Worry Dolls", named after the Worry Dolls of Guatemala.
to Art by joshua at Ars Electronica |
| Sperm Race gives Ars Electronica visitors and presenters the opportunity to submit semen and have the quality of their sperm tested against the other entrants.
to Sex by joshua at Ars Electronica |
| Saturday Sep 2, 2000 | Icon Town is a village of pixels in which each
resident resides in their own 32x32 icon.
to Art by joshua at Ars Electronica |
| Years before Maxis made the Sims, Activision pioneered the simulated human market with Little Computer People. to Games by joshua |
| Memepool will be covering Ars Electronica Festival 2000: Next Sex from September 2nd through September 8th as part of the Electrolobby. If you're in the neighborhood (Linz, Austria) be sure to check it out.
to Memepool-News by joshua at Ars Electronica |
| Wednesday Aug 16, 2000 | Mac On Linux allows a PowerPC Linux box to boot a copy of MacOS in a unix process. to Computing by joshua |
| Xlibris, a Random House subsidiary,
does on-demand vanity book publishing.
to Books by joshua |
| Linux weenies keep yapping on and on about running Linux on the mainframe, but it's a much cooler hack to run a mainframe under Linux. to Computing by joshua |
| Tuesday Aug 15, 2000 | Why bother trying to run Linux on your
PalmPilot
or
iPaq when you can get
something designed specifically to run Linux, such as the the monochrome
Agenda
or the color
Yopy.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Thursday Jul 27, 2000 | Memepool t-shirts are now available in both black and grey, and in a variety of sizes. to Memepool-News by joshua |
| Thursday Jul 20, 2000 | It is frequently difficult to find highly caffeinated beverages, such as Bawls Guarana or Bong Water, in bulk. Happily, companies such as Beverages Direct and Pop Soda will let me order some online. to Food by joshua |
| Monday Jun 26, 2000 | The fine folks over at PunkAssGear have begun selling Memepool teeshirts. Now all we need is a few cute models... Send us pictures of yourself wearing the memepool shirt (or otherwise embossed with the memepool logo) for our gallery.
to Memepool-News by joshua |
| Tuesday Jun 20, 2000 | Æon Flux, originally a segment of MTV's creative animation shorts show Liquid Television is now being rebroadcast online, so don't miss the eponymous dominatrix, spy, and foot fetish model's adventures. Be sure to check out the episode guide and FAQ and other resources beforehand.
to Comics by joshua |
| Tom Grant and Andrew Amirault believe that the evidence of Kurt Cobain's death suggests murder.
Some people find their argument persuasive.
to Conspiracy by joshua |
| Wednesday Jun 14, 2000 | While the slashdot crowd orders Bulk M&M's and
Bulk Legos, I will be ordering
Bulk Ammo so I can defend my territory. to Commerce by joshua |
| Saturday Jun 10, 2000 | Jeskola's Buzz is a novel realtime music synthesizer that allows for the easy creation of new sound generation and filtration plugins. Not only does it sound great, but there are many free synthesis modules available. BuzzTrack, a news site covers the day-to-day development of Buzz. to Music by joshua |
| Wednesday May 31, 2000 | Panoramic photography used to be dominated by custom cameras such as the Horizont, Widelux, or Noblex. These days, a growing number of enthusiasts show us how to create panoramic pictures both traditionally as well as with a to Photography by joshua |
| Tuesday May 23, 2000 | The Hiller Flying Platform, built in 1955, consists of a really big ducted fan mounted underneath a little tiny cage. to Transportation by joshua |
| "The Metamath Proof Explorer has 60 MBytes of interconnected web pages containing over 3000 completely worked out proofs in logic and set theory." Then again, how often does one need the axiom of choice?
to Science by joshua |
| Most, but not all, digital cameras contain a filter internally that prevents near-infrared light from striking the CCD element. For those that do not, with the aid of an infrared filter, you can capture some eerie pictures. For a more in-depth look at the technology behind infrared photography with both digital and chemical cameras, there are numerous resources. Infrared photography is only one kind of photography involving spectral selection; another kind is ultraviolet photography, which lets you see the world from butterfly's eyes.
to Photography by joshua |
| Friday May 19, 2000 | Tired of wearing silly glasses to get a headachy 3-D effect? Don't worry, Deep Video Imaging layers a number of LCD displays to provide depth of field. They aren't cheap ($10,000 or so) but they'll be available soon.
to Computing by joshua |
| Thursday May 18, 2000 | Nye Thermodynamics is the result of Mark Nye's need to build bigger, faster gas turbines and turbine jet-propelled vehicles. to Transportation by joshua |
| Monday May 15, 2000 | The weekly comic strip The Parking Lot is Full is as funny as it is psychotic. to Comics by joshua |
| Lab Safety sells everything a careful mad scientist needs, including Hazardous Material suits and scary Biohazard signs. to Science by joshua |
| The Vectrex gaming system, sold between 1982 and 1984, was one of the only vector-based home-game systems ever released. However, the platform is not completely dead. Download an emulator and some ROM images or perhaps some new games and relive the 80's.
to Games by joshua |
| Sunday May 14, 2000 | The minds at Planet Terror make their entry into the animated fanfic arena with a Matrix/South Park crossover. to Movies by joshua |
| Wednesday May 3, 2000 | Scientists calculate that over 83% of the internet is currently being used to transmit Wassup commercials; before contributing, you had better read some guidelines. to Culture by joshua |
| Monday May 1, 2000 | Unlike the low-capacity portable mp3 player, a number of companies are shipping home-based systems suitable for inclusion in a hi-fi stereo, such as Turtle Beach's Audiotron, the Kerbango, Lansonic's Digital Audio Server, and AudioRamp's iRad. to Music by joshua |
| Wednesday Apr 26, 2000 | Since 1996, Derek's been putting every last one of his Wal-Mart receipts on the web. The best part are the visitor comments on each receipt. to Wackos by joshua |
| The Flying Circus is an excellent compendium on Genetic Algorithms, including tutorials, demos for various platforms, and movies. to Computing by joshua |
| Scott Snibe has produced several interesting art pieces involving computer algorithms such as Voronoi Diagrams. Two of his earlier works, Gravilux and Motion Sketch are reproduced as java applets and are quite amusing to play with. to Art by joshua |
| Tuesday Apr 25, 2000 | Reporters throughout Texas have difficulty sleeping at night in mortal fear that this man will hack their story. to Media by joshua |
| Tuesday Apr 4, 2000 | IDcide tells you when you may have entered a "cookie tracking network" by alerting you when you are recieving cookies from the site you are currently not visiting. (Unfortunately, it only works for Internet Explorer under Windows.) to Computing by joshua |
| Most web ad-busting rely on a proxy between your browser and the world, but it is also possible to filter out those annoying banner ads with a neat hack. to Computing by joshua |
| Absinthe, that old contraband, favored by the likes of Ernest Hemmingway and Aleister Crowley and containing the neurotoxin thujone, is once again becoming popular with increasing legalization, and now has a number of excellent resources available regarding its history, rituals and paraphernalia,and procurement.
to Drugs by joshua |
| Slow Wave is a collective dream diary authored by different people from around the world, and drawn as a comic strip. to Comics by joshua |
| Thursday Mar 30, 2000 | "Much like the reading of tea leaves, Fecal Fortune Telling studies the size, arrangement, colour and interaction of bowel movements in the toilet bowl to predict the secrets of the future and give guidence to major life decisions." to Religion by joshua |
| Saturday Mar 11, 2000 | The Shower Project documents a man's quest to photograph him showering with 100 different women. to Sex by joshua |
| Friday Mar 10, 2000 | Lambert Bies shares everything you could possibly have wanted to know about parallel and serial interfacing. to Computing by joshua |
| Latrinalia: The Study of Restroom Graffitis a clearinghouse for bathroom-stall wit.
to Culture by joshua |
| Thursday Mar 9, 2000 | Erik's Chopstick Gallery is simultaneously a fine example of both the chopstick as art form and the obsessive-compulsive collector as web designer. to Art by joshua |
| This creepy painting, recently sold on Ebay, complete with with "proof" of "ghosts" taken by "motion triggered cameras," is sure to be debunked on alt.folklore.urban for the next decade. (Does Ebay have category for supernatural items and phenomena?)
to Art by joshua |
| Some people think graffiti is a crime, but to others it is clearly art. to Art by joshua |
| Monday Feb 28, 2000 | Liebography, the "Drunken Cliff's Notes of History" is a show that slanders famous people and pass the savings on to you. If you're lucky enough to live in NYC or San Francisco, tune in to their disturbing cable access television shows, and if not, several shows are downloadable in RealMedia format. to Media by joshua |
| Sunday Feb 13, 2000 | Ruby is a new scripting language that attempts to be as powerful as Perl but without any O'Reilly books written about it. to Computing by joshua |
| After spending hours trying to buy The Sims pretty furniture
for their virtual houses, buy some real furniture for your own from Design Within Reach. to Fashion by joshua |
| Wednesday Feb 9, 2000 | Instead of carrying a digital camera AND a Visor, a digital camera springboard would be more efficient. For those that still have an older Palm, Kodak has a solution, as well. to Gadgets by joshua |
| Tuesday Jan 25, 2000 | Forgotten NY features forgotten, overlooked and ancient sights of New York City, including photo documentation and trivia. to Travel by joshua |
| Friday Jan 21, 2000 | Snow Crystals covers the history of snowflakes, explains how to make designer snowflakes and provides an in-depth discussion of snowflake physics. to Science by joshua |
| Tuesday Jan 18, 2000 | Ray's List of Weird and Disgusting Foods is an in-depth dissertation of practically everything you're afraid to eat. to Food by joshua |
| Saturday Jan 1, 2000 | A tear in the space-time continuum has allowed us to connect to websites in the distant future. We took some screenshots from
January 1, 3900,
sometime in 20100,
January 1, 192000,
January 1, 192000,
another from January 1, 192000, and
January 1, 202000.
to Web by joshua |
| Sunday Dec 12, 1999 | Memepool's DNS service died on Thursday, December 9th. As new DNS records propagate out from the Network Solutions, the site should become available again. We apologize both for the lack of availability and the lack of articles, as our contributors have not been able to get to the site either. Please alert your friends that we are once again alive. Thanks! to Memepool-News by joshua |
| Thursday Oct 21, 1999 | Why learn an artificial language when you can build your own? You'll need a lot of time, and a little help from the
Language Construction Kit.
to Linguistics by joshua |
| Film Critic is sometimes brutal, usually honest, happily terse and without distraction - and frequently the first to publish movie reviews (frequently before general public release.) to Movies by joshua |
| Ad Critic is less critic and more downloadable advertisement warehouse for those who find advertising more than just an annoyance on TV. to Television by joshua |
| Wednesday Oct 20, 1999 | The Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library is a search engine for academic papers in Computer Science topics that lets you search by journal, title, abstract, author and institution. to Computing by joshua |
| Symbolics, now defunct, used to make computers than ran LISP in hardware. Like the Smalltalk environments at PARC, it was an environment that would affect the design and use of everything onward. Several virtual museums document their history. to Computing by joshua |
| The TRGPro is a modified PalmIIIx with added enhancements: WAV-capable audio and a CompactFlash slot that is compatible with inexpensive flashRAM, modems and other devices. to Gadgets by joshua |
| Thursday Oct 7, 1999 | The daily online `zine GettingIt is News of the Weird meets kinky sex with
celebrity interviews and columnists Robert Anton Wilson, Lydia Lunch and
Andrei Codrescu.
to Web by joshua |
| Monday Oct 4, 1999 | Memepool is thinking about adding reviews of movies, books and music to our regularly scheduled programming. If you have any opinions, for or against, please let us know. Update: It looks like about five-to-one against reviews. If you have any other ideas, let us know.
to Memepool-News by joshua |
| Saturday Oct 2, 1999 | The Dynamical & Evolutionary Machine Organization group at Brandeis University evolved a to Computing by joshua |
| Monday Sep 20, 1999 | Jesux (pronounced Hay-sooks) is a new Linux distribution for Christian hackers, schools, families, and churches. There is already a core distribution being prepared, based on RedHat's distribution. Jesux will be distributed under the Christian Software Public License which is aparently much like the BSD licence. to Computing by joshua |
| Wednesday Sep 15, 1999 | One man is winning the crusade against dirty car windshields. to Wackos by joshua |
| Diarrhea World is dedicated to the love and celebration of diarrhea through rhyme. "Our goal is to remove the shame and stigma of diarrhea forever." to Health by joshua |
| Thursday Sep 9, 1999 | Alice is tool designed to make it easy for novices to develop interesting 3D environments and to explore the new medium of interactive 3D graphics. to Computing by joshua |
| Lies, damn lies, and Web-based Statistical Calcultors. to Reference by joshua |
| Carol Gerten's Virtual Art Museum contains scans of a stunning amount of artwork from a huge number of artists. to Art by joshua |
| Patrick Bridges maintains a comprehensive list of Current Operating Systems Projects and OS-related research. to Computing by joshua |
| Thursday Aug 12, 1999 | Iridium, the satellite phone system, backed by Motorola, tanks. My guess? Microsoft gets to buy a global satellite communication system for a song.
to Commentary by joshua |
| Friday Jul 30, 1999 | "Hi, my name is Steve, and I'm addicted to heroin." ... "Hi, my name is Bob, and I'm addicted to hamsters." ... "Hi, my name is Ed, and I'm addicted to lip balm."
to Drugs by joshua |
| Monday Jun 28, 1999 | The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is a yearly whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels. "It was a dark and stormy night..."
to Literature by joshua |
| Upstage your Möbius-owning neigbors with a zero-volume single-surface glass Klein bottle. to Art by joshua |
| Monday Jun 21, 1999 | CipherClerk is a java applet that implements a collection of historic "paper and pencil" cryptosystems. In addition, explanations of various systems, up to and including WWII codes, are covered and explained. to Computing by joshua |
| The Simpsons Archive is the Internet's clearinghouse of Simpsons guides, news and information, voluntarily maintained by members of alt.tv.simpsons.
to Television by joshua |
| Wednesday Jun 16, 1999 | Reconfigurable Computing (computers based entirely on programmable logic) has gotten some buzz recently as the amount of vaporware increases. However, Bournemouth University's Dynamically Reconfigurable Hardware Library points out Stanford's Adaptive Computing, Berkeley's BRASS, and MIT's RAW are providing a rigourous analysis of the challenges involved.
to Computing by joshua |
| Saturday May 29, 1999 | The Register has excellent early-breaking technology news with wry commentary - their slogan is "Biting the hand that feeds IT." to Computing by joshua |
| Tuesday May 18, 1999 | Synthmuseum contains photos and histories of hundreds of vintage electronic musical instruments. to Music by joshua |
| Not only does the Keirsey Temperament Sorter have those stilted multiple-choice personality tests, but explanations and dating advice as well. It's horoscopes for people that believe in science!
to Culture by joshua |
| Vintage Synth Explorer is an ever-growing archive of images, sound bytes, and documentation for over 200 popular retro-vintage synthesizers. Everybody needs a 303! to Music by joshua |
| BodyTek sells fake dismembered body parts and special effects contact lenses that are used in many sci-fi movies and television shows. to Fashion by joshua |
| Monday May 17, 1999 | Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon is out. Go read it.
to Books by joshua |
| Thursday May 13, 1999 | The Atari Historical Society displays much of the late Atari Corporation's products, from their earliest coin-op games to their last-gasp console system, the Jaguar.
The Atari Time Machine shows off the history of the corporation itself and the motivation behind many of the product decisions. to Computing by joshua |
| Robots Wanted presents archives of historical robots of the 70's and 80's. Other sites document individual robots such as the Heathkit Hero series. to Robotics by joshua |
| The Flux Research Group has a number of interesting operating system projects, including the high-security kernel Fluke, the distributed system toolkit Khazana, and the highly modular OSKit - build an operating system out of parts!
to Computing by joshua |
| Saturday May 8, 1999 | Patrick Farley shows off his powerful storytelling and artistic talent in Electric Sheep. to Comics by joshua |
| Apron Strings Online teaches women how to use skirts as tools of domination. Aparently, this involves making men dress up as women along with a lot of transvestite porn fiction.
to Sex by joshua |
| Adam Testad reveals all about The Conspiracy, an anti-Communist,
anti-Islam, anti-anti-Semitite war waged with shampoo, dental
anesthetics, depleted uranium, polio, EMF, flouride and MSG. Forget the
Seven Seals - watch for the 250 Signs of the End of Time! to Wackos by joshua |
| Thursday May 6, 1999 | Members of the so-called 'Trenchcoat Mafia' were seen ingesting DHMO before the Littleton massacre. to Drugs by joshua |
| Tuesday Apr 27, 1999 | Apple won't have a lock on colorful, translucent computer cases for long. (Available in Lime, Strawberry, Grape, Orange, and "Blackish Green.")
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Thursday Apr 15, 1999 | Pad++ demonstrates a new idea in user interface design: the Zoomable User Interface (also known as multiscale interfaces.) to Computing by joshua |
| Squeak is an open, highly-portable Smalltalk-80 implementation whose virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk. It is essentially in the public domain, runs bit-identical on a huge number of platforms, and includes the authentic Smalltalk user interface. to Computing by joshua |
| Monday Apr 12, 1999 | Unlike most constructed languages,
Elephant's Memory is a pictorial language - symbols directly represent concepts.
to Linguistics by joshua |
| Tuesday Mar 30, 1999 | Read an excerpt from Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson's new book. His in-depth commentary on the operating system wars presents an new point of view, as well. to Books by joshua |
| Friday Mar 26, 1999 | Leisure Town is a source of concentrated disaffected bitterness. to Comics by joshua |
| Thursday Mar 25, 1999 | The Federation of International Robot-Soccer Association inspires robotic competition worldwide. to Robotics by joshua |
| The Searchable Online Archive of Recipes contains nearly 50,000 recipies of all kinds. My Cookbook offers a more personalized but also less diverse collection. The Vegan Resource Group, Veggies Unite!, and Vegitarian Pages collectively offer thousands of vegitarian recipies and resources. to Food by joshua |
| Tuesday Mar 23, 1999 | Bleem lets you play Sony Playstation games on a pentium-class machine, whereas Connectix's Virtual Game Station requires a G3 Macintosh. to Games by joshua |
| Tuesday Mar 16, 1999 | The
Slink-e is
a serial-port controller for S-link, Control-A, Control-S, and infrared equipment. It comes with CDJ which lets you interface your Sony 200-disc CD player with the CDDB. to Music by joshua |
| Tuesday Mar 9, 1999 | An Atlas of Cyberspaces,
showcasing research and commercial products for
visualization of network topology, information space, and own surfing behavior. While much
of the more interesting software is academic in nature, many of the commercial packages
are downloadable for at least a trial basis.
to Computing by joshua |
| Thursday Mar 4, 1999 | Pork is more than just the other white meat.
to Food by joshua |
| Friday Feb 26, 1999 | Everyone needs a guided missile. Who needs an armory when you have an online auction house?
to Warfare by joshua |
| Monday Feb 22, 1999 | Wotsit's Format contains file format
information on hundreds of different file types. to Computing by joshua |
| Friday Feb 5, 1999 | The Institute of Official Cheer is devoted to examples of pop culture from the 30s to
the 70s, examples that went oddly, and endearingly, awry. Don't forget to study the relationship between loose underwear and celery in
the illustrations of Art Frahm.
to Culture by joshua |
| Saturday Jan 30, 1999 | The eBay Underground FAQ illustrates the tricks and techniques for "survival in the auction jungle." to Economics by joshua |
| Go to The PDF Zone, the clearinghouse for everything related to Adobe's Portable Document Format. to Computing by joshua |
| PRCS is a revision control system with many improvments over CVS to Computing by joshua |
| Thursday Jan 28, 1999 | Study the
Comic Book Periodic Table, which lists every comic book that involves any element. And don't forget about the History of Chemistry in Comics. You will be tested later.
to Comics by joshua |
| Thursday Jan 21, 1999 | The search engine is now available for testing. Please notify joshua@memepool.com in the case of any problems. to Memepool-News by joshua |
| Friday Jan 15, 1999 | "Wo0f, wo0f!" barked the robotic dog/monkey as it
scampered about, anxiously awaiting the new
robotic dog/monkey architechture.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Saturday Jan 9, 1999 | History of Computing Information has more about ENIAC than the average high school history textbook has about anything, and is maintained by Mike Muuss, the inventor of ping.to Computing by joshua |
| Tuesday Jan 5, 1999 | Use your two-thousand dollar G3 Macintosh to emulate a one-hundred dollar Playstation.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Wednesday Dec 23, 1998 | The Geometry Junkyard is a titanic
list of references and links to discrete and computational geometry. to Science by joshua |
| Saturday Dec 19, 1998 | For those that have read Infinite Jest but were confused, there is help. For those that did not read Infinite Jest, there is also help.
to Books by joshua |
| Far more than you ever wanted to know about PostScript. to Computing by joshua |
| Tuesday Dec 8, 1998 | "The honor of being listed as 'Cool Robot Of The Week' is bestowed upon those robotics-related web sites which portray highly innovative solutions to robotics problems, describe
unique approaches to implementing robotics system, or present exciting interfaces for the dissemination of robotics-related information or promoting robotics technology." to Robotics by joshua |
| Doxygen is a documentation system for C and C++. It can generate an on-line class browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual (in LaTeX) from a set of documented source files. to Computing by joshua |
| Articles archived by date are now available.
to Memepool-News by joshua |
| Friday Dec 4, 1998 | The dpiX Gradient 500 is a 19" greyscale display
that runs at a resolution of 2,048 x 2,560 pixels. to Gadgets by joshua |
| Wednesday Dec 2, 1998 | 3com skips the Palm IV through Palm VI and goes straight to the wireless Palm VII
and shows that they don't understand math any better than Sun Microsystems and Microsoft.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Saturday Nov 28, 1998 | Bash.org hacked? Looks surprisingly similar to Kornshell.com...
to Computing by joshua |
| Sunday Nov 22, 1998 | Sony unveils a "Memory Stick"
standard in the US, along with a the SMAP - Single Media Active Platform, a tablet for viewing content from the Memory Stick
such as books and pictures, as well as providing internet access.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Thursday Nov 19, 1998 | Refurbished Phillips' Scuba Head Mounted Displays are available for $99. to Gadgets by joshua |
| Swatch releases a fundamentally retarded time standard (and accompanying overly-plastic watches) called
Internet Time which is like normal time
except there are only a thousand of the probably-trademarked "Swatch Beats" in a day,
there are no more time zones, and it's backed by MIT goon
Nicholas Negroponte. to Gadgets by joshua |
| The RIM Inter@ctive Pager 950 is an lightweight (4 ounces without battery)
two-way pager that runs on the BellSouth Wireless Network. to Gadgets by joshua |
| The 9 ounce, $129.95 JVC HC-E100 PocketMail
device includes 128k and a acoustic modem, and can dial up to the toll-free but $10/mo PocketMail service.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Sunday Nov 8, 1998 | David Foster Wallace blames Terminator 2 for inaugurating a new genre of big-budget film: Special Effects Porn. to Movies by joshua |
| Sunday Oct 25, 1998 | ht://dig is a
GPL'd website indexer and search engine designed
for a small domain or intranet. to Computing by joshua |
| Friday Oct 23, 1998 | The sci.electronics.repair FAQ contains instructions on
how to fix small household appliances, audio equipment, compact disk players, microwave ovens,
computer monitors, switching power supplies, televisions, VCR's, strobe lights, lawn mowers,
photocopiers, shrimp gumbo, broiled shrimp, jumbo shrimp,
stuffed shrimp, and popcorn shrimp.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| The Interface Hall of Shame is an
irreverent collection of examples of common human/interface design mistakes.
to Computing by joshua |
| Monday Oct 19, 1998 | The Motorola Smart Pager 1300
may be the first fruit of the acquisition of Starfish,
maker of the software behind the Franklin Rex.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Thursday Oct 8, 1998 | Have you ever wanted to Fed-Ex someone an aggressive bird-eating eleven-inch tarantula? All you need is a credit card.
to Science by joshua |
| Wednesday Oct 7, 1998 | Infect your friends. to Computing by joshua |
| Tuesday Oct 6, 1998 | Test your phone line for 56kbaud compatibility.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Thursday Oct 1, 1998 | Aparently, the only difference between the Entrega
USB Hubs for the PC and for the Macintosh is that they are
color-scheme compliant. to Gadgets by joshua |
| The Wacom PL-300 pressure-sensitive
LCD tablet eliminates mouse and monitor at the same time. Photoshop will never be the same. to Gadgets by joshua |
| Friday Sep 25, 1998 | The Iomega USB Zip Drive looks like a neat little toy. But what's the deal with the transparent plastic fetish? to Gadgets by joshua |
| Wednesday Sep 23, 1998 | The Vomitorium is definitely not for the faint of heart. to Food by joshua |
| Decimate fallacious arguments with Steven's Guide to Logical Fallacies.
to Reference by joshua |
| The new $20 dollar bill comes out
tomorrow. In January 1999, the first of the new
50 States Commemorative Quarters will be issued, featuring different obverse images for each
state, starting with Delaware. And in
2000, the Susan B. Anthony Dollar will be replaced with the golden
Sacajawea Dollar. to Finance by joshua |
| Tuesday Sep 22, 1998 | The child of the cool but enormous Nextel cellphone/walkie-talkies,
the Motorola iDEN is the size of a
StarTAC, has a speakerphone, and
uses a proprietary digital network which provides regular phone service, paging, and group and private call.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Ever wanted to make everything sound like it's been through a cellphone?
A free implementation of the GSM 6.10 lossy speech compression
also lists a huge number of audio compression and generation resources.
to Computing by joshua |
| Everything about William S. Burroughs including
the full text of The Naked Lunch
is available, but be careful - language is a virus from outer space.
to Memetics by joshua |
| At approximately two cubic inches and one ounce apiece,
The Ants
are a community of microbots that both push the limits of
of microbotics and engage in
social behavior. to Robotics by joshua |
| A haiku is a a Japanese poem containing three lines of five, seven, and five
syllables, containing a cutting, or pause, word, as well as spam,
olestra, or Spice Girls imagery.
to Art by joshua |
| Saturday Sep 19, 1998 | "we began pulling dishes out of the semi viscous soup that had all but filled the
sink to the rim. one by one the sink reluctantly released its prizes." to Humor by joshua |
| Friday Sep 18, 1998 | "Hapax legomenon" is Greek for "something
said only once." Analyzing single occurences of a lexmeme in language will facilitate automating bilingual
presentation of language, discriminating the authorship of anonymous texts,
and the origins of language. to Linguistics by joshua |
| Thursday Sep 17, 1998 | ZetaTalk contains everything a young clone should know about all the various alien races, as told by the alien emissary, "Nancy." And so hyperlinked it would make Ted Nelson proud. Or dizzy. to Wackos by joshua |
| Show off a Cecil Adams-like knowlege of the origins of practically everything after memorizing Charles Panati's book Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things. to Books by joshua |
| The International Lyrics Server isn't the most
complete, but where else are you going to find the words to that song stuck in
your head at three A.M. in the morning?
to Music by joshua |
| Tuesday Sep 15, 1998 | Alex Chiu's Eternal Life device is "the most important invention in human history." And it's yours for a low low price of $16.50!
to Wackos by joshua |
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