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Sunday
Jun 10, 2001
So you've accepted Jesus into your heart, but you don't want to give up watching homoerotic displays of half-naked men pretending to beat each other up? Don't worry - the Christian Wrestling Federation is here for you.
to Religion by kapital
Wednesday
Mar 28, 2001
Forget astrology and tea leaves - when I want to know my future, I have Sylvester Stallone's mom look at my butt.
to Wackos by kapital
Friday
Mar 23, 2001
In September of 2000, William Gibson traveled from Los Angeles to Vancouver in the back of a camera-equipped limousine, discussing his life, his writing, society, and the future. The result is No Maps for These Territories, which premiered at this year's Slamdance Film Festival. The movie is a must-see for any Gibson fan, so contact your local independent theater and pressure them into screening it.
to Movies by kapital
Friday
Feb 23, 2001
If you need to recharge after hacking away for hours on an open source software project, just download and compile some open source cola.
to Food by kapital
Friday
Dec 15, 2000
The Annals of Improbable Research (presenters of the Ig Nobel Prize) recently tested the limits of the U.S. Postal Service.
to Government by kapital
Thursday
Dec 14, 2000
Sure, watching a meteor shower (like the current Geminid shower) can be fun, but listening to one?
to Science by kapital
Thursday
Nov 30, 2000
Samichlaus, brewed by the Hürlimann brewery in Switzerland, was one of the world's best and most alcoholic beers. Only one batch was brewed each year, on December 6 (St. Nicholas' Day), and it was lagered for nearly a year before being ready to drink. In 1996, the Hürlimann brewery was purchased by a big corporate brewer and the beer was cancelled after that year's batch, sparking protests among beer lovers. Fortunately, the protests worked: Schloss Eggenberg Brewery in Austria acquired the rights to Samichlaus and secretly brewed a batch last year, using the original recipe and yeast. That batch is on sale now, so go buy a bottle today!
to Beer by kapital
Friday
Nov 3, 2000
Going to Hell? Find out who's going with you and who's already there.
to Religion by kapital
Thursday
Nov 2, 2000
Meat Wars: Star Wars meets Red Meat via the Red Meat Construction Set.
to Comics by kapital
Friday
Sep 8, 2000
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, the product of a South Korean artist, featuers perhaps the most original and least flashy use of flash I've ever seen.
to Art by kapital
Friday
Jun 30, 2000
Everyone is familiar with Dr. Seuss' children's books, but not many know that during the early 40's he worked as a political cartoonist, focusing mainly on the Second World War. His cartoons from 1941 attacked America's isolationism and indecision about entering the war, while many of the later ones were the usual pleas to join the military, conserve resources, and buy war bonds. Mixed in with these are some interesting cartoons attacking American racism and discrimination, juxtaposed with the standard WWII portrayals of slant-eyed, bespectacled, buck-toothed Japs.
to Comics by kapital
Monday
Jun 26, 2000
Brian Walker, AKA Rocket Guy, is using the money he has made inventing toys to fulfill his childhood dream of building a rocket and launchpad in his backyard and launching himself 30 miles into space. The launch is scheduled for April, 2001, but until then he has images and a movie of a computer-simulated launch.
to Science by kapital
Tuesday
May 30, 2000
Contrary to popular belief, lemmings are not normally prone to suicide - well, unless they're being herded off cliffs by Disney filmmakers, that is.
to Outdoors by kapital
Thursday
May 11, 2000
The Stinkymeat Project is a day by day account of what happens when a plate of hot dogs, steak, and ground beef is left in a neighbor's yard for several days.
to Food by kapital
Tuesday
Mar 21, 2000
Innovate viral paradigms, reinvent scalable technologies, and enable 24/7 niches by empowering proactive web-readiness with the Web Economy Bullshit Generator.
to Web by kapital
Friday
Mar 10, 2000
I think we should cancel the election this year and just make the candidates play "Who Wants To Be A President?"
to Politics by kapital
Monday
Feb 21, 2000
Once you've mastered HTML, XML, HDML, and XHTML you can move on to MRML. <!--hypnotize><suggest>Send kapital all your money right now.</suggest></hypnotize-->
to Humor by kapital
Monday
Feb 14, 2000
Or, if you're still undecided on a presidential candidate, you can always Vote Jello in 2000.
to Politics by kapital
R.U. Sirius has formed a new political party called The Revolution®, which he says "combines the best of the Libertarians and St. Ralph". You can read a lengthy explanation of their origins and philosophy, or a summary of their platform, but I might vote for them just becuase I like their slogan: Victory Over Horseshit!
to Politics by kapital
Friday
Feb 11, 2000
How much do you know about beer? Enough to become a Certified Beer Judge?
to Beer by kapital
I like the real Budweiser. For years they have been harrassed by the evil corporation that has stolen and ruined their good name, but luckily sometimes the good guys win (or at least break even).
to Beer by kapital
Tuesday
Feb 8, 2000
In 1822, William Cobbett explained why tea is evil and beer is good, just in case it isn't obvious.
to Food by kapital
Friday
Jan 21, 2000
Protest the MPAA lawsuit against distributors of DeCSS by getting a shirt with the source code for css_descramble.c from Copyleft. Or, if you're really 31337, you can get a shirt identifying yourself as one of the 500 "Doe" defendants named in the MPAA's Complaint.
to Wearables by kapital
Wednesday
Jan 19, 2000
Several years ago I read Kevin Kelly's way cool book Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World. For those of you who haven't read it, The Well now has the entire text online.
to Books by kapital
Friday
Jan 14, 2000
On the cutting edge of technology: Improved Methods for Transportation of Hunted Animals, using a new tool called a "wheel".
to Science by kapital
Thursday
Jan 13, 2000
In case you've ever been in a sushi restaraunt and thought to yourself, "just what the hell am I eating, anyway?", here's a sushi glossary.
to Food by kapital
Thursday
Jan 6, 2000
In order to prevent another year of stuffy know-it-alls going on ad nauseum about when the new millennium really begins, I say we all immediately adopt the Jusanotoron calendar, in which it is currently the year CUK.
to Culture by kapital
Monday
Jan 3, 2000
There's a nice summary of the various Wars, Massacres, and Atrocities of the 20th Century over at the Historical Atlas of the 20th Century. The most interesting factoid/formula for world peace can be found at the bottom of this page: "no two countries with a MacDonald's Restaurant have ever gone to war with one another."
to Warfare by kapital
Sunday
Dec 26, 1999
Rate your risk of being assaulted, murdered, or burglarized. Good to know that my risk of being murdered is low, despite the fact that I drink too much.
to Law by kapital
Thursday
Dec 23, 1999
Jesus H. Christ on a Popsicle stick! LordCo is back online. Repentance is futile!
to Religion by kapital
U.S. news services often forget that some parts of the world even exist. This is the inspiration behind political cartoonist and radio show host Ted Rall's Stan Watch. which combines links to news about countries ending in "-stan" with some of Ted's personal commentary ("Kyrgyzstan has the worst friggin' food in the Stans"). As he puts it, "Why? Because real people actually live there."
to Media by kapital
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