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| Friday Feb 27, 2004 | This site about presidents is perhaps not as complete as some, but it has an interesting a well documented accounting of which presidents were distant cousins. to History by keith |
| Friday May 9, 2003 | Regular memepool readers may have in the past already seen Objective Ministries. But I'll bet you haven't seen their new 4 Kidz section or its store, which features, among other things, thongs. Also, their new youth rock ministry Zounds is almost as rocking as the Zounds Abstinance Boxer Shorts that they sell. Oh, and when their creationists aren't busy mischaracterizing the second law of thermodynamics or the aquatic ape theory they're advancing the field of science by finding dinosaurs and inventing the field of Baraminology.
to Religion by keith |
| Saturday Nov 3, 2001 | Jim Hightower delivers solid, no nonsense progressive politics in the form of a two minute radio spot every weekday.
to Politics by keith |
| Monday Oct 1, 2001 | Kevin Smith wrote a comic for the New York Times' Style Section about how he met his wife. It is very much in the style you would expect from him, and it, umm, includes new fall fashion. to Comics by keith |
| Friday Aug 17, 2001 | I recently discovered a new toy, the Orgasmatron. It is not quite what it sounds like, but it is very pleasureable. Trust me. (North American readers might want to order it here instead). to Toys by keith |
| Friday Feb 23, 2001 | In this modern heyday of internet self publishing one should not overlook the valiant efforts, no matter how futile, of those who want to write children's books for the web, such as whowever is behind Thinky Mars Probe. Come. Join Thinky as he looks for mister snake, rides a camel, gazes on The Temple of Kukulcan, or hangs out with the little egrets.
to Literature by keith |
| Friday Feb 9, 2001 | If you like thinking that breast implants are sexy, you probably shouldn't go look at Silicone Holocaust. It is not for the squeamish. to Health by keith |
| Thursday Nov 16, 2000 | Ummmm, Hats of Meat? to Fashion by keith |
| Thursday Oct 26, 2000 | Disturbing Auctions features miscellaneous weird and/or disturbing items which have been listed on on-line auction sites.
to Web by keith |
| Fans of funny web comics should read my favorite sexual, anime-influenced web comic, The Thin H-Line. Well, unless they think that things like suicide, necrophilia, masturbation, tentacle monster rape, or incest are just plain wrong. to Comics by keith |
| Tuesday Oct 24, 2000 | While you're at Comic Book Resources, reading Zot! Online, remember to stop on in and check out the round-up of Oddball Comics. Today's features the origin of the word "foo". Some of my favorites include Baseball Comics, Uncle Milty, Woody Woodpecker in Chevrolet Wonderland, Space Western Comics, and Crest Cavity Fighting Team Activity Book. to Comics by keith |
| Wednesday Sep 27, 2000 | By simply trying the most obvious URL, I stumbled across an impressively complete non-commercial guide to cheese. It has a database of 652 cheeses including Jusstoleipa, Buffalo, and Stinking Bishop. You can also view cheese by country, texture, or what animal the milk comes from. They also have cheese recipes and, surprisingly, cheese news. to Food by keith |
| Tuesday Sep 12, 2000 | Oh my god! He is so hot! Do you think he likes me? I just don't know! I mean, I don't, like, want him to know I like him unless he likes me too! All I really know about him is his email address! What can I do? Never fear, young lady, eCrush will save you! We're just what you're looking for. Soon you too may be able to count yourself among our giggly middle-school girl success stories. to Web by keith |
| Wednesday Sep 6, 2000 | Rhymes With Orange is a cute little off-beat comic which is actually carried in my local paper. to Comics by keith |
| I recently found out that there is a Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health.
to Culture by keith |
| Friday Sep 1, 2000 | The FBI's Freedom of Information Act Reading Room is pretty interesting. You can read their files on famous personages such as John Lennon, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, The Duke, Old Blue Eyes, Pablo Picasso, and
W.E.B.DuBois. Their Unusual Phenomena section includes files on such things as cattle mutilation and the incident at Roswell. to Conspiracy by keith |
| Wednesday Aug 30, 2000 | Var'aq is the programming language of the future. By which I mean that it's a Klingon programming language. to Computing by keith |
| Monday Aug 14, 2000 | Be the first one on your block to Discover Hip Hop. to Humor by keith |
| Friday Aug 4, 2000 | From the person who brought you TimeCube comes
AboveGod, which is basically more of the same. It's still all about the time cube and the evils of one day. He has added racism and anti-semitism to the mix for the first time, though. to Wackos by keith |
| Tuesday Jul 25, 2000 | Well, sure, we all thought that we knew. I mean, it was obvious, right. We just had to let it go. But we were wrong. The Amiga isn't dead. Now, instead, of just being a piece of hardware, it is a virtual machine. There's even a Linux SDK you can buy. They are hoping to become the way to write truly portable useful applications for the future. to Computing by keith |
| Monday Jul 10, 2000 | On my vacation, I visited The Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center. It was neat to see all the different sea turtles and to hear of their successes. to Science by keith |
| Thursday Jun 22, 2000 | It hasn't been updated any time recently, but the existing adventures of everyone's favorite inept compulsive suicide attempter, Suicide Boy, are enjoyable. to Comics by keith |
| So, maybe you've heard of Veggie Tales, the adorable, computer rendered, Christian vegetables. And maybe you've even seen some of the videos. But have you played the shockwave games? I'll bet that you haven't helped super-hero cucumber Larry-Boy complete his mission, or helped Josh and his Israelite vegetable army overcome the slushee throwing guardians of Jericho, or played their frighteningly cute tetris knock-off. to Religion by keith |
| Thursday Jun 15, 2000 | I find myself lacking the words to describe Storme Ireland. The best I can do is "gender-bending con man supermodel wannabe".
to Wackos by keith |
| Tuesday May 9, 2000 | There are a fair number of advice sites on the web, but Ms. Loquita's Advice Column on Love is not quite the normal. Perhaps what stands out is the way she talks mostly about her own life. Or maybe it's Miss Trixie, an alternate personality of hers. Unfortunately, there hasn't been a new column in five years or so. to Web by keith |
| Thursday May 4, 2000 | Perhaps you don't hate squirrels, but instead just want them to stop eating all the food in your bird feeder. You might then, want to look at the squirrel-shocking solar powered bird feeder. They even have a film of it in action. Be forewarned, though, it isn't inexpensive. to Toys by keith |
| Wednesday May 3, 2000 | Note to self: remember to add SinFest to daily list of on-line comics to be read. It's sort of vaguely like God, the Devil, and Bob except it's funny. to Comics by keith |
| Tuesday May 2, 2000 | If you think you're good at puzzles, perhaps you should try your hand at solving the famous unsolved cryptograph first published in May, 1940. The author is Mr. W. B. Tyler, who may or may not be Edgar Allen Poe. to Games by keith |
| Sunday Apr 30, 2000 | I'm was unsurprised to run across a Molecule of the Month page (and I enjoyed finding the page of molecules with silly or unusual names). But I was a little surprised to learn that there are a total of five Molecule
of
the
Month pages.
to Science by keith |
| HyperHistory Online is an interesting way to look at an overview of history. It may lack a little bit of depth in quite a number of places, but it's got quite a lot of breadth. to History by keith |
| Friday Apr 28, 2000 | Miss Abigail has an interesting idea. Answering questions by pulling selections from books of advice, some dating back to the 1820's. She tackles everything from body odor to sex to eating chicken. to Web by keith |
| Thursday Apr 27, 2000 | So, someone asked me recently what you call a group of ravens. So, I went looking. I found an answer at About.com, which is that they are called an unkindness, a constable, or a conspiracy. But then someone else asked me what one calls a group of rabbits. So, I found some other resources, like a much more general list amongst the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center FAQ, an educational quiz about animal group names (they also have one for baby animal names), and
a less than serious list.
to Reference by keith |
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Planetarium is a free web story and puzzle. I like it. to Games by keith |
| Monday Mar 20, 2000 | Save the Amish. to Religion by keith |
| Friday Mar 17, 2000 | Defenestrate may not have the polished look of The Onion and is definitely more Canadian, but I like it. I enjoyed especially the article about the problems caused by Canda's currency having a negative value. to Humor by keith |
| I was at the Hi Mom Film Festival in Chapel Hill and I saw this excellent short film with has unusually good fight scenes, probably because it was produced and directed by a professional stunt man. Also, it has pizza, which may or may not relate to the director's former stint as Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. So, if you have the bandwidth, go watch Better Never Than Late. Oh, and ShortBuzz probably has other good independent shorts too, but I haven't gotten the chance to look through them yet. to Movies by keith |
| Thursday Mar 16, 2000 | You know that this web thing is really catching on when even the Hare Krishnas use it. to Religion by keith |
| When Ayn Rand asked who John Galt was, she probably meant it rhetorically and didn't mean this guy. And she certainly didn't mean this guy. to Philosophy by keith |
| Wednesday Mar 8, 2000 | Some people think that audio theatre died when radio stations switched almost entirely to music and talk radio. However, I am here to tell you that it yet lives. LodesTone Media has a hundred or so recent audio theatre works. I love the Firesign Theatre stuff, myself, but there is a multitude of more serious works as well.
to Media by keith |
| Tuesday Mar 7, 2000 | Michael Moore got Alan Keyes to join his moshpit. He even crowd surfed. to Politics by keith |
| The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive is a pretty astonishing repository of information. They have biographies of hundreds of mathematicians and an index of famous curves (the mathematical kind). Read all about Einstein or the circle. to History by keith |
| Friday Mar 3, 2000 | Read about one man's process of making his car electric.
to Gadgets by keith |
| Okay, lets face it, we all know that AOL sucks, but few of us really know in what manner or how hard. I especially liked reading the AOL vulgarity guidelines and readng about past security problems.
to Internet by keith |
| Wednesday Mar 1, 2000 | One of the most common arguments against environmental protection is that the associated costs will be prohibitive. Well, the Green Scissors Campaign has published a list of 77 environmentally harmful government subsidies, the cutting of which would save the US government $50 billion.
to Politics by keith |
| Tuesday Feb 29, 2000 | Elements of Phyle is a handy guide to proper grammar, spelling, and style for writing X-Files fan fiction. to Literature by keith |
| Celebrate leap day by reading about the
longest sanctioned basketball game ever which took place on leap day, 1964. to Sports by keith |
| Wednesday Feb 16, 2000 | Bill Clinton may like porn, but, despite what it looked like he didn't say so during an on-line chat at CNN. to Politics by keith |
| Tuesday Feb 15, 2000 | Now, some of you may have heard the recent news article (not urban legend) about a man who got an unlicensed doctor to cut his leg off to satisfy his amputation fetish. Now, we all know that fetishes can be outright wacky and drive people to do really weird things, but, you may wonder, why would a doctor, even an unlicensed one, agree to participate? Well, the LA Weekly has an article all about the bizarre and astounding life and practice of Dr. John Ronald Brown, which is appropriately entitled "Why Did He Cut Off That Man's Leg?" It's not recommended for the squeamish (although there are, fortunately, no pictures of that or any of his past surgeries). to Wackos by keith |
| Tuesday Jan 25, 2000 |
The Pigs of Wrath is part Grapes of Wrath, part
Three Little Pigs, and part Animal Farm.
to Literature by keith |
| Friday Jan 14, 2000 | Looking to vacation in a town with a long name? Try llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Britain. Their web site at http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk/ also has the longest hostname I've ever seen. Oh, and they tell roughly how it got its name at the bottom of their history page. to Travel by keith |
| Thursday Jan 6, 2000 | When I want to find out how employable or dateable I am, I turn to Vivarin. I find it a little surprising that neither insomnia nor anxiety get you bonus points on either test. Before you go take 200mg of the uncut stuff to improve your work or love life, though, check out your options. to Drugs by keith |
| I love spicing up the comments in my programs with some good quotations. to Literature by keith |
| Saturday Dec 25, 1999 | I was going to recommend Pharoahe Monch, Mos Def, and maybe some other artists to the more hip-hop inclined amongst us, but it's easier to just recommend Rawkus Records who are responsible for bringing us them and haven't yet put out a bad album that I've heard of. to Music by keith |
| Thursday Dec 23, 1999 | But who would believe that you've really been talking to your Aunt Suzy from beyond the grave? The After-Death Communication Project would, of course. Oh, and if you're not communicating with your deceased loved ones and would like to be, they include instructions about how to do it. to Wackos by keith |
| Normal thesuari are fine most of the time. But when you're looking for a dozen synonyms for pimp sometimes you need to break out The Crude Thesaurus. to Linguistics by keith |
| Wednesday Dec 22, 1999 | For a while, I only owned stocks, but I'm now considering diversifying by getting some
pillories too. to Law by keith |
| Tuesday Dec 21, 1999 | Enough with the interesting stuff. Sociology has too long over looked mundane behavior. to Science by keith |
| Sunday Dec 19, 1999 | If you're the sort of person who has benefitted from
the "For Dummies" books and you like toast, you may find
A Moron's
Guide To Toast useful. to Humor by keith |
| Friday Dec 17, 1999 | Not able to find a gift for that certain hard-to-shop-for someone? Well, give the gift of livestock. No, seriously. I'm not kidding here. The livestock you give through The Heifer Project doesn't go to that person, it goes to families in third world countries where it can really change their lives by giving them a source of food and income. I'm giving my grandmother a llama this year. to Commerce by keith |
| Thursday Dec 16, 1999 | Hot hardcore gummy bear action! to Humor by keith |
| Tuesday Dec 14, 1999 | The good people at the Fuck Everything 'zine don't seem to like anything. But at least they're entertaining. to Commentary by keith |
| Monday Dec 13, 1999 | The Bride Of Frank. It's a movie. And, uh, um, well, it's kind of horror-ish and low budget and strange and, uh, just read this if you want info as I'm not really sure how to describe it. to Movies by keith |
| Has our government gone too far? Judge for yourself once you read the details of The Standoff at The North Pole Compound. to Humor by keith |
| Geocities and other similar sites forbid you from using the accounts they give you for storage purposes. Freedrive encourages it. to Web by keith |
| Sunday Dec 12, 1999 | When you just want to get medieval on that ass, sometimes
nothing is better than swords.
to Warfare by keith |
| Saturday Dec 11, 1999 | Wait, you want news, analysis, and opinion, but you want it at more than a fourth grade level? How odd. Try The Economist. to Media by keith |
| Friday Dec 10, 1999 | It's the season for giving and many of us will give not just to friends and family, but to charity. So give generously, but also, give intelligently. to Finance by keith |
| You can keep up to date on current volcanic activity and read about volcano adventures but you can no longer Ask A Volcanologist at Volcano World. to Science by keith |
| Thirft store shopping may be hazardous to your health. Seriously. The Consumer Product Safety Commission contains other useful information for consumers, too. to Commerce by keith |
| What to play your records without having to drag a needle across them and slowly wear them down? Well, it ain't cheap, but ELP offers an audiophile's wet dream, a laser record player. When I say "ain't cheap," what I mean is that the base model costs $13,500. But for that price, you get to listen to completely virgin vinyl forever. Mmmm. to Gadgets by keith |
| Monday Dec 6, 1999 | Okay, let's say that you want to donate on-line to Toys For Tots but, for some wacky reason, you don't want to support toy retailers who use guerilla legal tactics. Well, you can do it through Totally Fun Toys and still not have to pay shipping or tax. Plus they'll donate $150 worth of toys for every $1000 that people buy. Also, you could just donate money to them on-line and even earn frequent flier miles in the process. to Commerce by keith |
| Thursday Dec 2, 1999 | If you've been wondering just what the critical technique of deconstruction is from a practical standpoint How To Deconstruct Almost Anything will be of great help. to Commentary by keith |
| Tuesday Nov 30, 1999 | Is your ordinary Super Mario Brothers NES cartridge ROM image boring you? Well, try it in our new variety pack of Mario Hacks. to Games by keith |
| It was the architectural embodiment of our hopes and dreams for a space-age future. It was bold, striking, and optimistic. It was also really silly looking. It was Googie Architecture. to Art by keith |
| Friday Nov 26, 1999 | It's likely that quantum computing will, in the future, be a reality.However, making algorithms for
them is not going to be trivial as they don't function at all like our traditional digital computers.
To facilitate this, Open Qubit wants to emulate them.
The emulator won't run at nearly the speed of a real quantum computer, but it should at least be
helpful for developing algorithms before we finish developing the computers. to Computing by keith |
| Tuesday Nov 23, 1999 | As best as I can tell, BlueNudes aims to be both erotic and artistic. I think it succeeds on both counts, but I can't guarantee objectivity concerning anything which involves naked women. to Sex by keith |
| Fortunately, although some of the dogs are nude or scantily-clad, Playdog is not erotic in nature. to Pets by keith |
| For simple, common-sense investing advice, no one is better than The Motley Fool, founded on the idea that it's better to get your financial advice from people who aren't looking to get some of your money. Especially helpful is their 13 Steps to Investing Foolishly. to Finance by keith |
| Monday Nov 22, 1999 | I'll bet you didn't even know that there was a
patron saint of computers and computer users. to Religion by keith |
| When they talk about a family feud, it's not a game show. However, things have cooled off some between the Hatfields and
the McCoys. The upcoming reunion includes a Hatfields vs. McCoys Softball game and other feud-related entertainment. To quote the McCoys' web site, "The 'L'il Feuder' Village will be a special area for kids that will feature events and games." to Culture by keith |
| Wednesday Nov 17, 1999 | Have you had e-nough of e-everything? Well, check out Persistence Software's Society For The Preservation Of The Other 25 Letters Of The Alphabet. The scariest example is definitely eemail.
to Internet by keith |
| Tuesday Nov 16, 1999 | Temple Ov Thee Lemur
bring you such delightful things as MicroSith and
Penultima 8 and a Half. to Humor by keith |
| Monday Nov 15, 1999 | If you happen to be one of those freaks who actually believes that D&D is not a game of evil, designed to lure kids to Satan, Role-Playing Defense may be of some use to you in providing counter-point to the righteous Crusaders who seek to defeat you and save their children from your dark lord. to Games by keith |
| Okay, so it's not an urban legend per se, since it's just a warning about a virus, but you would be well to check to see if it's a hoax before you send it to your entire family tree. to Internet by keith |
| Thursday Nov 11, 1999 | The main lessons that I take from License Plates of the World are that compared to most of the world our license plates in the US are both pretty and interesting and that some people have too much time on their hands. Really though, I suppose that I already knew the second. to Culture by keith |
| Happy Veteran's Day. to Culture by keith |
| Wednesday Nov 10, 1999 | Need a lobotomy? to Science by keith |
| Tuesday Nov 9, 1999 | Some of That's Offensive's Showcase of Tastelessness and Vulgarity is offensive, tasteless, and/or vulgar. Most of it is just odd. to Web by keith |
| Forget about Hollywood's version of wars. The Armed Forces Retirement Home has the people who actually lived it. They're now posting profiles of their residents every two weeks. to Warfare by keith |
| David Bassett's Photo Gallery reminds me that despite all the crap that humans may do to it, we still live in a phenomenally beautiful world.
to Art by keith |
| Monday Nov 8, 1999 | I went to Ad*Access because I thought a large, searchable archive of American advertising from between 1911 and 1955 would be interesting. However, what the provider of that link failed to do was link to the larger insitution of which this is a part, Duke University's Scriptorium which contains all manner of other interesting cultural and historical documents, including
an archive of scanned Egyptian papyrus, the dairy of George Percival Scriven who was an American Army signal officer stationed in the Phillipines from 1899 to 1901, and the life story of Elizabeth Johnson Harris, a black woman born in 1867.
to Culture by keith |
| Buy meat on-line. Don't worry, they freeze it before shipping. to Food by keith |
| Friday Nov 5, 1999 | In a world filled with sitcoms whose plot every week could be described by "something happens and then zany hilarity ensues," there is a tendency to try and break the "sitcom" mold completely like
Ally McBeal or SportsNight, but there is one show which shows that strong character driven comedy can still thrive in a situation comedy framework.
That show would be Cosby. It features Bill Cosby as a retired baggage handler. The cast includes one of my very favorite actors, Doug E. Doug, plus
Phylicia Rashad, Madeline Kahn, and T'Keyah Crystal Keymah. It even has my favorite comedic actor Wallace Shawn in a recurring minor role.
to Television by keith |
| Thursday Nov 4, 1999 | 104 Things To Do With A Banana needs no further introduction, except to note that it has only to do with recipes and not whatever other stuff you might be thinking of. to Food by keith |
| Following in the footsteps of Jewish rappers such as the Beastie Boys and Third Bass is
MC Paul Barman. Check the mp3 single, Joy Of Your World. Also, there's an article in Mired. to Music by keith |
| Saturday Oct 30, 1999 | James Bond may only be a few decades old, but spying
goes back centuries. Take for instance, the information
found at the site devoted to
Spy Letters Of The American Revolution. to Culture by keith |
| Thursday Oct 28, 1999 | Some people think Martians are little green men, but some people think that they are something even more sinister. to Conspiracy by keith |
| I was a little skeptical about a list of
The 100 Greatest Comic Books of 20th Century (a work in progress),
but the author thereof has good, well reasoned explanations of each selection. And although most of the comic books are chosen more for significance than raw quality, he includes Watchmen, Maus,
Cerebus, and Sandman, so I can't complain too much.
to Comics by keith |
| Wednesday Oct 27, 1999 | If you really want to recycle paper, as
Beakman and Jax suggest, you're going to run into the problem that your paper, which starts out grey, gets even darker if you try to recycle it again, and then darker still. That's why, in the real world, there is deinking. However, that requires certain enzymes and cannot be done at home in your kitchen, but rather in large
industrial plants. to Science by keith |
| Tuesday Oct 26, 1999 | Live in your own grounded and refitted
airplane.
This guy
is preparing his now. to Gadgets by keith |
| Monday Oct 25, 1999 | You think your favorite on-line comic has an archive?
Doonesbury has an
on-line archive which goes back to October 26, 1970. It's a great way to learn the past three decades of American political and social history. to Comics by keith |
| Thursday Oct 21, 1999 | When it comes to news about Bat Boy, Bigfoot, and Elvis, there's no finer source of news than
The Weekly World News Internet Edition.
Now with
gratuitous free email. to Media by keith |
| Wednesday Oct 20, 1999 | Hitler, Stalin, and Senator Joseph McCarthy were all opponents of Esperanto. This alone does not however explain why Esperanto is the language of freedom. Well,
SAT, whose page the previous link is, shouldn't actually be taken too seriously. They're a break-off faction of esperantists whose founder saw the abolition of national language as a neccessary step in the triumph of global socialism. For more about the history of Esperanto and world politics, read this. And to learn about how communist China has used Esperanto to its advantage, read this. to Linguistics by keith |
| Incubus is a low-budget horror film from the sixities which features William Shatner and is in Esperanto, with English subtitles. It's also the entirety of the Esperanto film library. to Movies by keith |
| There are network protocols which are less completely documented and have more exceptions than Esperanto. Here is the complete grammar to which there are no exceptions whatsoever. Show me one natural language which can do that. to Linguistics by keith |
| Tuesday Oct 19, 1999 | The Gallery of Misused Quotation Marks chronicles the daily abuse of that particular punctuation mark.
to Humor by keith |
| Friday Oct 15, 1999 |
Yahoo clubs
has a catagory for
parody religions.
I especially like
The Chicken Hunters' Order, for those who fear and loathe chickens,
and
The Church of Beavis Christ, whose name speaks for itself. to Religion by keith |
| If
Heliogabolus
only whetted your appetite for insane Roman emperors with terms of power less than that of US presidents, then you may also want to go see the twentieth anniversary rerelease of the movie
Caligula. However, don't take your kids. Even their promotional web site describes it as including "shockingly realistic dramatizations of the sexual orgies and wanton cruelty in the courts of emperors Tiberius and Caligula." Twenty years ago it was very controversial. These days I'm expecting a more ho-hum response. to Movies by keith |
| Thursday Oct 14, 1999 |
Frankentoons: Humor mets
civil disobedience or unfunny parodies expressly designed to irritate the syndicates and play into their creator's messiah complex? You decide. to Comics by keith |
| Tuesday Oct 12, 1999 | When I rule the internet people will not be allowed to make websites which have Galleries of Goatees. to Fashion by keith |
| Pirates were big believers in democracy and equality. If you don't believe me, go check out National Geographic's web piece about The Pirates of the Whydah. It's chock full of real historical information about pirates and the lives they led. Also see the official Whydah website for even more information about the onlt documented pirate shipwreck to be yet discovered. to Culture by keith |
| Some people view the collapse of the Soviet Union as a fundamental shift in the balance of power in global politics and the ultimate failure of totalitarian communism. Others view it as
one gigantic
fire sale. to Commerce by keith |
| Thursday Oct 7, 1999 | I know what you think. Well, you're wrong.
The
drive-in movie theater is not dead.
There may even be one
near you. to Movies by keith |
| Wednesday Oct 6, 1999 | Go read
Neil Gaiman's
24-hour comic book,
Being An Account Of The Life And Death Of Emperor
Heliogabolus. to Literature by keith |
|
Man On the Moon is a movie about
the life of the bizarre and astonishing
Andy Kaufman. Jim Carrey stars.
The word on the street is that he's really put a lot into getting into character and does a surprisingly good Andy Kaufman. to Movies by keith |
| Tuesday Oct 5, 1999 | I have to wonder if Toyota's
"Is this Toyota?"
advertising campaign will lead to other interogative
ad campaigns like "Where's Audi?" and "What's the frequency, Kia?"
to Transportation by keith |
| Saturday Oct 2, 1999 | Man + Beer = More Man. So says
Have-a-brew.com.
They have a searchable multitude of beer links. to Beer by keith |
| Friday Oct 1, 1999 | Are you scared? Would you like to be?
Well then, go to the spooooooky
Hauntedhouse.com and
search for a haunted house in your area. to Reference by keith |
| I love
Wonder Woman. You can
watch her every morning at 9am on
the Sci-Fi channel. Darn this day job. to Television by keith |
| Thursday Sep 30, 1999 | There appear to be some women in the world who think
that
Men Suck, and they've made a web page about it.
Oh, and yes, that is me on their
letters from losers page. I guess I suck. to Commentary by keith |
| The new syndicated show, Battle Dome, answers
the question of what you would get if you cross American Gladiators with professional wrestling. to Television by keith |
| Monday Sep 27, 1999 |
View ads to feed the hungry. Just push the button.
Seriously. It's legit. In total we're talking about hundreds of
thousands of pounds of food going to the people who need it most
by way of the
United Nations World Food Programme. to Web by keith |
| Friday Sep 24, 1999 |
Pink Swastika explains how homosexuals were
largely responsible for Nazism.
The Annotated Pink Swastika is a good guide
to all the errors, mistakes, and lies therein. to Wackos by keith |
| Thursday Sep 23, 1999 | www.1159.com
is a site which takes on the tough questions about
the last minute before the year 2000. Questions
like "Where are you going to be partying?"
and "Can we sell you some crap with
our logo on it for the
occassion?" to Web by keith |
| Tuesday Sep 21, 1999 | He
once made 5,221 consecutive freethrows, and now
he wants to help you shoot freethrows too. to Sports by keith |
| I'm sure that there are a few people out there who
think that the last thing that the world needs is
another witty, irreverant advice columnist, but
despite these people, I dig
The Advice
Goddess. to Commentary by keith |
| Monday Sep 20, 1999 | Travlang
provides us with
free translating dictionaries for sixteen languages.
Esperanto
is included; Klingon is not. to Linguistics by keith |
| Wednesday Sep 15, 1999 |
The National Center for Vehicle Emissions Control and Safety
at Colorado State University
repairs the emissions of selected cars as part of its
research project. They have stories of fixing the
emissions of various vehicles
here. Well, I think it's interesting reading, anyway. to Art by keith |
| CourtTV
has this terrific show called
Snap Judgement which is kind of a
Talk Soup for
law and trials. It's grossly opiniated and hilarious.
It's on every weekday at 7:30pm, and also at 11:30pm, 2:30am,
and 4am most weekdays. to Television by keith |
| Tuesday Sep 14, 1999 | Ever curious what sort of amusing crap some
people auction off at
eBay? Well then,
eDay is made for you. It spotlights a different
stupid, bizarre, and/or amusing item being auctioned each day.
to Web by keith |
| Monday Sep 13, 1999 | I think that Freeride is terrific. They give me points which I can spend for gift certificates that I can use at places like CDnow, Toys R Us, and The Olive Garden. I can get the points by doing things like clicking banner ads, sending them UPCs, and using their credit card. to Commerce by keith |
| Sunday Sep 12, 1999 | If you've ever wondered about the origin of the word "Masochism", this web page is all about it. The short version is that it's named after Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, the author of Venus in Furs, which I highly recommend, and of which the full text can be found here. to Literature by keith |
| Friday Sep 10, 1999 | It's good to know that in this modern topsy-turvy e-commerce world, The Three Stooges aren't getting left behind. to Commerce by keith |
| I have to admit that Eleanor's Czech Kitchen has recipes which, although not low fat, certainly sound good and appear to be authenticly Czech. What I am trying to figure out, however, is the accompanying drawings, such as, for instance, what a drawing of a heavy-set woman jumping rope has to do with roasted pork, dumpling, and cabbage. to Food by keith |
| Thursday Sep 9, 1999 | Velvet: The Unusual Superheroine isn't about mindless sex and senseless violence; it's about comprehensive writing. You can tell because it says so right there on the web page. Still, I do have to wonder how the author can "portray Velvet in a very respectable manner" in such a skimpy costume. to Comics by keith |
| Transmetropolitan is, in my ever-so-humble opinion, hands down the best comic book still being published regularly. I would urge everyone to go buy it, even if you don't usually read comic books. Also, its writer, Warren Ellis has his own web site, which is pretty mod. to Comics by keith |
| Wednesday Sep 8, 1999 | I think that
The Nice Guy Webzine is a good idea, and I do
like
the Nice Guy Quiz. But I do wish they'd actually update it some time. to Web by keith |
| If you want or need old school Borland compilers, such as
Turbo Pascal v1.0 or Turbo C v1.0, go check out
The Borland Community Museum. (You'll probably want to click the "Anonymous" button at the login
prompt). They also have some information about
Borland history, and
they're working on adding a Hall of Fame. to Computing by keith |
| Thursday Sep 2, 1999 | My prediction for a future urban fashion trend is
Negro League baseball gear. Availible at
All American Negro League Baseball Apparel
or Blue Marlin.
And even if it never catches on, they're still pretty darn cool. Oh, and if anyone doesn't know what the Negro Leagues were,
here's the yahoo category of sites about them. to Fashion by keith |
| You can listen to complete albums on-line for free at
broadcast.com's CD Jukebox.
Personally, I'm most fond of
Digital Underground's latest, Who Got the Gravy, but that may just be me. to Music by keith |
| Sunday Aug 29, 1999 | I suppose that it could just be me, but somehow I'm not convinced that
The Merriam-Webster and Garfield Dictionary is really such a good idea. to Books by keith |
| Let's say you want to make a purchase at CDnow, but you don't have one of those ten dollar coupons which are frequently available. What do you do? You go to
Find It NOW! and simply choose from their list of coupons for CDnow and other web retailers. to Commerce by keith |
| Saturday Aug 28, 1999 | You may be wondering just what PETRONAS, the corporation owned by the Malaysian government which is in charge of all the country's oil and gas resources, is doing with all those resources. The very aware amongst you probably know that they're building the world's largest office building, but I'll bet that even you don't know that they're going to
broadcast its opening live on the web. More scary than that is that the reason I know this is because they've bought banner ads to promote this event. to Web by keith |
| Wednesday Aug 25, 1999 | Don't have a science museum nearby?
Relax, you can always just use
The Cyberspace Museum of Natural History and
Exploration Technology. It is probably not as good for school field trips, but otherwise nifty. to Science by keith |
| Sometimes the normal web greeting card places
just don't have the message with quite the
kick you're looking for. to Web by keith |
| Monday Aug 23, 1999 | Are you tired of your advice columnists not being busty enough? Well then, go
Ask Kathi. If you need advice about love, sex, or breasts, and you're not satisfied unless it comes from someone with huge hooters, she's the one for you. She also has
Cheesecake Gallery if you'd rather just gawk. to Sex by keith |
| We have a wackos catagory with no mention of
Archimedes Plutonium?
This man is the undisputed master in the field of scientific sounding babble. His
Fusion Electricity Barrier Law and
Plutonium Atom Totality Theory are masterpieces.
My personal favorite, though, is
his two "proofs" of the Goldbach Conjecture which consist of putting ".0" after all the intergers, redefining what "prime" means, and then a bunch of meaningless hand waving.
to Wackos by keith |
| Sunday Aug 22, 1999 | Revolutionary socialist rap may not be everyone's cup of tea, but if you think you could dig it, check out CDnow's
interview with
The Coup. to Music by keith |
| Some people think that there's too much sex in the media. I think there's not nearly enough. I mean, how many articles about sex are actually in your daily newspaper? That's why I read
The Associate Breast. Thank you,
Danni Ashe! to Sex by keith |
| Tuesday Aug 17, 1999 | Need good reviews of bad movies? Well, go
Stomp Tokyo. to Movies by keith |
| Monday Aug 9, 1999 | Just because you're blind, that doesn't mean that you can't be
A Movie Critic. to Movies by keith |
| Oh, and for those of you who do like
Liberty Meadows,
you should probably check out
The Liberty Meadows Comic Book.
And if you just like drooling over
Brandy,
you should probably go read
Cavewoman SPX '98,
which is also by Frank Cho and has a main character who resembles
Brandy except that she wears a leopard print bikini and kills dinosaurs. to Comics by keith |
| Wednesday Jun 23, 1999 | As much as I like Bill Nye, the Science Guy,
his web site,
although it does have some interesting stuff,
could really use some revision. to Television by keith |
| Sunday Jun 20, 1999 | If you're like me, you're wondering, "With
all this wonderful zing that the web had, why is
it that it doesn't seem to have provided me with a
way to get cyber-mooned from exotic and
beautiful locales?" Well, fortunately
for us, it has. May I present
Tour de Butt? It's a globe-trotting,
pants-dropping extravaganza. to Humor by keith |
| Thay make what would best be described as B-minus
movies. They're responsible for
Tromeo and Juliet,
Surf Nazis Must Die,
and
The Toxic Avenger.
They are Troma.
to Movies by keith |
| Thursday Jun 17, 1999 | I don't know what to say about
The Surrealist Compliment Generator, which
isn't already said in its name.
to Humor by keith |
| Ever wondered what would happen if
Jake "The Snake" Roberts fought Cobra Commander?
Or if
Janet Reno fought Wendigo?
Perhaps you've pondered
Natalie Portman fighting the portly Natalie of Facts of Life.
Well,
The Celebrity Superfight Main-Event merrily explores
those ferocious battles and many others. to Humor by keith |
| Tuesday Jun 15, 1999 | Firesign Theatre
was the premier album comedy troupe of the 1970's.
In 1998 they realeased a new album,
Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death, which
takes place at RadioNow on the eve of the dawn of
the new millenium. If you've already heard the
album, you'll still appreciate
The RadioNow Website. to Humor by keith |
| Monday Jun 14, 1999 | I like big red buttons which do nothing.
This one, for instance.
Or this one.
Or this one,
this one,
this one,
or this one.
Yeah, Internet: wave of the future. Whatever. to Humor by keith |
| It all started when
Mr. T Ate My Balls.
But now, it's gone a little too far. If you go to
Yahoo and
search for "Ate My Balls"
you find 18 category matches. And on their main
Ate My Balls category page,
there are literally hundreds of sites, from
Seven of Nine Ate My Balls
to Hello Kitty Ate My Balls.
You can also stop by The Institute for Testicular Consumption or
make your own Ate My Balls page.
to Humor by keith |
| The new Public Enemy
album, There's a Poison Going On
is out. Buy the
CD
or mp3
version. Oh, and while you're there, be sure and get
your own Public Enemy e-mail address.
to Music by keith |
| Saturday Jun 12, 1999 | Okay, I'll admit it. I don't really know what
funkymonkey
is, aside from a neat animation. Apparently,
it's both a way of life and a magazine.
Oh, and it's by
these people,
but that doesn't help me figure things out.
to Web by keith |
| There's nothing groovier on TV than
TV Land's
Super Retrovision Saturdaze!
Where else can you find cartoon shows starring
The Jackson Five,
The Harlem Globetrotters,
or The Brady Kids?
Also, if you dig that sort of thing, you can
learn about even more bizzare cartoons at
Clutch Cargo's Cartoon-A-Rama, Junior. to Television by keith |
| Friday Jun 11, 1999 | When I'm insufficiently confused about scientific
topics, I Ask Dr. Science.
He knows more than you do. to Humor by keith |
| The Copyright Website
is a great place for learning the basics of copyright law
and finding information about who's sued who for
copyright infringement and why. to Law by keith |
| Thursday Jun 10, 1999 | Voice Chasers
is the place to find out who's responsible for
those voices. No, not the ones in your head,
the voices of puppets, cartoon characters, and
so forth. to Media by keith |
| Does the web have room for the order and
understanding of
Mr. Belvedere?
What about the zany gender-bending madness of
Bosom Buddies?
And how about the, uh, umm, F-Troopiness of
F-Troop?
Of course!
Sitcoms Online
shows you where to find all that and much more. to Television by keith |
| Wednesday Jun 9, 1999 | Almost no one uses finger any more, but if you need
to, you can
do it via the web,
which can actually be quite helpful if you're
using a library computer or in another situation
where you have no finger client. to Internet by keith |
| Does the idea of being rewarded for playing
on-line java games sound too good to be true?
Well, that's the way
PrizePoint
works. Don't expect to make your living at it
or anything, though. to Games by keith |
| The Odyssey Channel
has a cure for your
bad case of puppet withdrawal. Every weekday
they show Fraggle Rock,
The Muppet Show,
and ALF. to Television by keith |
| Tuesday Jun 8, 1999 | AMC, a cable channel
which specializes in classic movies, is showing a
series of movies called "American Pop", or "AmPop"
for short. These movies are definitely fun bits of Americana, but
not so terribly classic. Past selections have included
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
and Hercules Vs. the Hydra.
They also have the most fun promotional website
I've ever been to. to Television by keith |
| Many of us in the field of Computer Science have
wondered why it is that there are so few female
computer scientists. Well,
here
is a very insightful paper on that topic. It
was written in 1991 by
Ellen Spertus, now an assistant professor
of Computer Science at Mills College,
but little enough has changed in the eight years since, that it is
still very topical. She has also provided us with an
excellent page of links on that same topic
and another page about women and minorities in science and engineering.
to Commentary by keith |
| David McGuire writes a comic strip for the University of Houston's
Daily Cougar called
Citrusville, which I find amusing. He also has some other
comics and art on his site, which he calls
"The Monkey House"
for reasons which are never made clear.
to Comics by keith |
| Monday Jun 7, 1999 | Need a little help finishing
Zork I?
Or perhaps you could use some strategy hints for
Pole Position?
Or maybe you're looking for a little help getting up to speed with
SimCity 3000?
If so, GameFAQs has got you covered.
Whether the game is for the N64
or the C64,
if someone's written a FAQ, walkthrough, or strategy guide, you can find it there.
to Games by keith |
| Sunday Jun 6, 1999 | If you're tired of having to wait until Sunday for
color comic strips, you'll enjoy
Ctoons which
provides daily color versions of a number of syndicated
cartoons. You can even set up
your own little daily
page of color cartoons.
to Comics by keith |
| I'll admit that I don't quite understand the purpose of having
an 18-page photo gallery of Spam Fighters.
I am, however, glad, after looking at the gallery, that unlike certain fictional
crime fighters, these people do not run around in spandex.
to Internet by keith |
| Scott McCloud is the writer of such comic books as
Zot and The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln.
He now has a web site.
In his book Understanding Comics, he introduced to us the example of the story of Carl.
Now you can see the story of Carl told in
two panels,
fifty-two panels, or
any
number
in
between.
Also, fans of chess will probably dig
My Obsession With Chess
And rabid Sandman groupies won't want to miss the panel of
Choose Your Own Carl
written by Neil Gaiman.
to Comics by keith |
| Are you a hacker? See what ReDragonand Robert Bickford have to say on the subject. Or just take
The Hacker Test or The Clueless Hacker Test. to Culture by keith |
| You've seen Faces of Death, but now gaze
in horror at Smiley Faces of Death.
Well, to be honest, the scary part is that some people apparently had nothing better to do
than make that page. to Humor by keith |
| Saturday Jun 5, 1999 | Prefer your visual humor free of meat? Check out the
Vegetarian Cartoons page.
Be sure to check out the huge listing of vegetarian cartoon characters too.
Well, okay, so it's really just
Shaggy,
Lisa Simpson,
and Count Duckula.
to Comics by keith |
| Do you ever sit around trying to figure out what the heck
those rappers are talking about? If so, you're probably just
way too Caucasian for your own good. However,
The Totally Unofficial Rap Dictionary
will probably still aid you in your quest by supplying the definitions of various
words and phrases used in rap lyrics.
to Reference by keith |
| The extent to which Rob Brezsny's immensely quirky Real Astrology
is, well, real astrology is probably somewhat debatable. But that
it is fun, amusing, and a decent thing to read if you're just looking
for some general inspiration holds true whether or not you harbor
any beliefs about planets and constellations manipulating your life.
to Culture by keith |
| Friday Jun 4, 1999 | Long before Mattel
had a web site or made
Barbie software, they made a console gaming system called
the Intellivision. Many thought that the Intellivision had
perished in the great video game crash of '83.
But the Intellivision
lives on through the magic of emulation. They recently
unveiled their newest plans to capture a young audience.
That's right:
Intellitubbies! to Games by keith |
| Thursday Jun 3, 1999 | Call me excessively retro, if you will, but when I pop
a newly acquired Quad tape into my car's player, I'm in pure
Heaven. If you're joining me on
cloud nine, and you want to stay in tune with the now, be sure to check out
the 8-track of the moment. to Music by keith |
| Want to Make Money Fast? Here's a complete guide on how
NOT to do it. That's right, it's the
MMF Hall of Humiliation, which
details internet chain letters and other scams and why they
are illegal, nonfunctional, or both. to Internet by keith |
| Along with the other fine syndicated comics at UExpress
there's this strange yet appealing
comic about a boy and his stuffed tiger.
Each strip is being rerun 11 years after it was originally published.
I like this one especially. to Comics by keith |
| Aagh! Boff! Crunch! What could be better than
an A-to-Z of comic book sound effects?
to Comics by keith |
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