| memepool rage against the turing machine |
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| Sunday Feb 12, 2006 | A clickable map of goods manufactured by slaves in the 21st century.
to Politics by mpc |
| Tuesday Jan 7, 2003 | Scrapple, the canonical Pennsylvanian food. Ignore the pg-13 recipes, and go for the real scary ones. Or better yet, just sing along to The Scrapple Song! to Food by mpc |
| Wednesday Dec 18, 2002 | Cute kittens you WILL like, spineless pandas, The Cheese Family, The Jello-Junky Vibrating fuzz dog, The Beer Fairy. San-X is a visit to Japanese cuteness' odd bizarre (please pet the innocent tissue?), manufactured, heart of darkness.
to Commerce by mpc |
| Wednesday Jun 20, 2001 | It's a damn shame Common Dreams doesn't have a static link to Russell Mokhiber's daily grilling of White House Press Officer, (And David Cross lookalike) Ari Fleischer. So I'll just have to stick to this link for now and subtly hint to them that they should have a static link with daily updates. At least today's a fun one... to Politics by mpc |
| Saturday Jun 16, 2001 | Cos, God knows, an anime studio would Never, Rip-off anyone else's work...
to Movies by mpc |
| Wednesday May 23, 2001 | Remember the Contract With America?, ever wonder how it did? to Politics by mpc |
| Tuesday May 15, 2001 | Drive from the 'Burgh to Monroeville these days, and you'll see the for lease building formerly called The Westinghouse Science & Technology Center. Founded by one of the most prolific engineers & entrepeneurs of the 19th century, Westinghouse built everything known to man at some time or another, sponsored the best known science prize for high-school students (Since taken over by Intel). However, in 1998, Westinghouse was destroyed, leaving a nuclear fuel company with the name, and a collection of spinoffs all around Pennsylvania. There is no authoritative study of why the company died yet; although as more technical companies try to become media conglomerates, it helps to consider the company which absorbed Westinghouse's Stock Symbol...
CBS
to Commerce by mpc |
| I feel it's a public service to encourage sites which discourage slashdot. to Web by mpc |
| Wednesday Mar 7, 2001 | Yes, an analysis of Survivor, by the guy who brought you The Prisoner Experiment.
to Television by mpc |
| Thursday Dec 21, 2000 | So, NewsMax, a rather right-wing source news source posts an article about Freedom House's latest Freedom index. What's fascinating is that when you compare it to the original releases, it's apparent that they replaced the word "Democracy" with Republicanism. I've heard of newspeak before, but this is just doofy. to Politics by mpc |
| Monday Dec 11, 2000 | On December 2nd, 1999 Bill Gates was assassinated in MacArthur Park; since tht time, Citizens For Truth has waged a lonely battle to determine the truth behind the act. They have recently agreed to be featured in the new documentary about the assassination MacArthur Park to Politics by mpc |
| So, a revolution overthrows the current regime and is replaced by a military
dictator who brutally enforces a misguided economic regime, promoting suffering and
eliminating human rights until he gets kicked out by the will of the people. Communist
Russia? Nope, Laissez-Faire Chile. to History by mpc |
| Monday Dec 4, 2000 | There's something intriguingly retrotechnological about listening to Sullivan's ethereal The Lost Chord as recorded ona wax cylinder in 1888, as recorded by NPS in MP3 format in the late 1990's.
to Music by mpc |
| Saturday Dec 2, 2000 | For those times you confuse your Hayeks, here's a handy guide. to Humor by mpc |
| Thursday Nov 23, 2000 | Many moons ago, anime fans went completely bonkers about whether a particular series should begin with "ah" or "oh"; if only these lists of 89 and 95 things had been around to remind people to, in Shatner's words Get a life! to Media by mpc |
| Saturday Nov 11, 2000 | As the name implies, The Minibosses like video games. Enough to perform three-piece band versions of 8-bit NES songs - like Castlevania. to Games by mpc |
| Thursday Nov 9, 2000 | The author of Perl In Latin manages to restrain himself for a full sentence before adding that he has a 'plausible rationale' for this ars inana. to Computing by mpc |
| Friday Oct 13, 2000 | Okay, Bucky Fuller isn't related to St. Athanasius The Fuller, didn't invent Fuller's Earth, and was born after the mechanical revolution in medieval fulleries, and he wasn't a Fuller Brush Man. Have we covered everything yet?
to Commentary by mpc |
| Wednesday Oct 4, 2000 | So it appears that out of traditional and traditional/punk Irish bands composed entirely of native Germans, Fiddler's Green and The Black Velvet Band are the most interesting... Now if only I could figure out how to order CD's in German. to Music by mpc |
| Thursday Sep 28, 2000 | Movie Critic and all around nasty guy Joe Queenan has engaged in a couple of experiments on the web, with varying results. At some point, he decided to apologize. To everybody, apparently. to Humor by mpc |
| Sunday Sep 17, 2000 | I like environmentally friendly power, like nuclear energy to Science by mpc |
| Thursday Aug 31, 2000 | Take ESR's Ethics From A Barrel Of A Gun, then read what he was really thinking. to Humor by mpc |
| Friday Aug 25, 2000 | It's not the woefully generic content of this Mr. T. Versus Everything page that disturbs me, it's more that she went out and found them. Then again, given that this site is the apotheosis of T-ness, I guess a little obsession is understandable. to Web by mpc |
| Monday Aug 21, 2000 | Stratfor; this a manly news service. to Reference by mpc |
| Tuesday Aug 15, 2000 | Poster Nation uses posters as modern-era handbills. Their current design, for Billionaires For Bush (Or Gore), is particularly disturbing. to Politics by mpc |
| Thursday Jul 20, 2000 | For those who're fiddling with cryptographic protocols, BAN & GNY Logic are some useful tools. to Computing by mpc |
| Thursday Jun 29, 2000 | SenZar. SenZar, The Game. SenZar, The Authors. SenZar, The Review. SenZar, The Poetry. SenZar, The MSTing. to Games by mpc |
| Wednesday Jun 28, 2000 | RSA In Javascript. Wow.
to Computing by mpc |
| Tuesday Jun 6, 2000 | Another wrinkle in the grand MP3 Debate; the Coalition For The Future Of Music is mostly a manifesto at this point, but hey, it's an attempt to move away from the currently equally ugly choices. to Music by mpc |
| Tuesday May 30, 2000 | I know if I were to ever write a typing tutor I wouldn't have based it on a dementedly morbid anime series involving enough sadism to adolescents to make Orson Scott Card pause for thought to Media by mpc |
| Monday May 29, 2000 | The atemporal nature of the web means that we are left with little festering slices of history and well-intentioned revisions, Ghost Sites is a museum of these dead (or dying) pages.
to Web by mpc |
| Thursday May 25, 2000 | GreyDay is a protest against rampant copyright infringement on the web. On October 1st, web pages go grey in support. This reminds me of an Anti-piracy protest held in Hong Kong last year. to Politics by mpc |
| Tuesday May 16, 2000 | Silly me! Of course The Taleban has a website. to Religion by mpc |
| Monday May 15, 2000 | Fielding Travel has an extensive guide of lethal places to visit, whether because of religious fanatics, the collapse of central government or heavily-armed psychotics. They've also got a stomach-churning disease guide, helpful info on bribing officials, and a guide which tells you what to do if you're kidnapped
to Travel by mpc |
| Buzkashi is like polo, only you use a DEAD CALF for a ball.
to Sports by mpc |
| Thursday May 4, 2000 | So the Great Music Flamewar seems to involve a system giving artists minimal recompense for their work and a system giving artists no recompense for their work. The Street Performer Protocol proposes an escrow-like system for producing intellectual property; it reminds me of cosource's escrow-based development model. to Music by mpc |
| Saturday Apr 29, 2000 | Living in the Burgh, I've taken a shine to David Bliwas' photos of various area landmarks. to Art by mpc |
| Wednesday Apr 26, 2000 | If there's one thing that warms my blackened, putrid heart, it's informed bashing of California and all it stands for. to Culture by mpc |
| Sunday Apr 23, 2000 | Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, Wall Street Economist Ed Yardeni, and WWF Wrestler Perry Saturn all want to be film critics? to Movies by mpc |
| From the 1932 until the end of WWII, The Japanese ran Manchuria as a puppet state known as Manchukuo; under the figurehead reign of Pu Yi, Manchukuo had most of the trappings of a real state, including a postal system, currency, and railway system to History by mpc |
| Wednesday Apr 19, 2000 | Okay, a blue haired digital newscaster who sounds like an updated Speak And Spell. But the tests are amusing.
to Web by mpc |
| Monday Apr 17, 2000 | (bababadalgha raghtakami minarronnkonn bronntonnerr onntuonnthu nntrovarrhou nawnskawntoohooho ordenen thurnuk!): MP3's Of Finnegan's Wake By Some Japanese Guy Who Does His Own Drum Accompaniment.
Loudly.
to Literature by mpc |
| Saturday Apr 15, 2000 | Since the rollover, netslaves has changed from a sporadically-updated site about dot-economy horror stories to an angry view-from-the-trenches view of the high-tech sector. to Web by mpc |
| Friday Apr 14, 2000 | Here's some experiences from an American marrying in Japan, and some informal surveys he did on the topic. to Culture by mpc |
| Saturday Apr 8, 2000 | John Cletheroe offers a sizable guide for British traveling in the United States or Canada. Looking at your own country through another's eyes is always an interesting experience, especially given Vocabulary Issues. Still, I'm somewhat confused by the fascination with Taco Bell.
to Travel by mpc |
| Tuesday Apr 4, 2000 | And to round out this evening's symposium, here's a very nice page devoted to that Eliot of Emmenthal, the Milton of Mozzarella, Cheddar's own Chaucer: James McIntyre, author of the immortal Ode On The Mammoth Cheese! to Literature by mpc |
| One of the unintentionally funniest poets in American history, a favorite of Mark Twain, was Julia A. Moore (1847-1920), "The Sweet Singer Of Michigan" (self-described, I believe). She wrote on many varied topics, mostly involving death: by plagues, disasters, usually involving adorable children with odd names, and with circumstances as unusual aschoking on a piece of beef. Of course, in this era somebody would provide a web based archive of her work.
to Literature by mpc |
| Anytime I'm feeling depressed and lonely, I just read some bad gothic poetry and that CHEERS ME RIGHT UP. to Literature by mpc |
| Friday Mar 31, 2000 | Vide: Hic papyrus bona luda habet. (And if I'm really lucky, I got the Latin right). to Games by mpc |
| Monday Mar 27, 2000 | The Crypt Newsletter is focused on computer security, usually from a very cynical perspective. In particular, they've concocted the Joseph K. Guide, the Devil's Dictionary of IT. to Computing by mpc |
| I'm not really a coffee drinker, but I found this coffee 101 kinda neat. to Food by mpc |
| Wednesday Mar 22, 2000 | Feel like you're not chewing up enough RAM yet? The Moaning Goat Meter will get rid of that unused memory for you, while monitoring your processes in gloriously tacky fashion. to Computing by mpc |
| Tuesday Mar 21, 2000 | I find twinkies.com disturbing, I find Twinkie The Kid disturbing, I find psychic snack cakes mind-rippingly disturbing, and I find Twinkie The Kid endorsing the torture of his spongy brethren in the revised site positively Kafkaesque.
to Food by mpc |
| Thursday Mar 2, 2000 | Some people bash Bob Jones University for being a bastion of secularism. to Religion by mpc |
| Tuesday Feb 29, 2000 | A collection of websites for journalists, this may contain links to every data source I will ever need. to Reference by mpc |
| Monday Feb 28, 2000 | The acronymer generates a disturbingly realistic name for any random acronym you care to throw in. Helps to explain what PCMCIA really means.
to Humor by mpc |
| Saturday Feb 26, 2000 | A nice scholarly resource on the Bible's creation and history, the Reading The Old Testament site is a
huge repository of text analyses, and pretty pictures.
to Religion by mpc |
| Friday Feb 25, 2000 | The Golden Raspberry Foundation has produced a film poll I can finally feel for.
to Movies by mpc |
| Thursday Feb 24, 2000 | After wading through the noxious arcana of the windows registry,
regedit.com is a godsend.
to Computing by mpc |
| Monday Feb 21, 2000 | My life has been leading up to the moment when I can buy Inca Kola
over the web. I'm sure
this guy agrees.
to Food by mpc |
| If you're interested in other indigenous American languages, the Society For The Study Of The Indigenous Languages Of The Americas is the place to go,
especially given their list of learning aids, and links to other useful language sites.
to Linguistics by mpc |
| In the early nineteenth century, Sequoyah created a syllabary for
Tsalagi (Cherokee). It's even available as a downloadable font. to Linguistics by mpc |
| A fundamental piece of Irish literature, the Táin Bó Cualgne (Cattle Raid Of Cooley),
available in both saxon and gaelige. Along with a handy pronunciation guide for those who find Irish orthography to be less than intuitively obvious. to Literature by mpc |
| There's a lot of Venture Capital information on the web, including
basic presentations, and "Hey, we're not that evil"
articles. I was not, however, expecting VC comic strips to Finance by mpc |
| Wednesday Feb 16, 2000 | I should have known he'd have a website, I just didn't think it would be so eye-bleedingly awful.
to Web by mpc |
| Friday Feb 11, 2000 | One of those useful things: IANA keeps track of the various top-level Country Codes. to Web by mpc |
| Monday Feb 7, 2000 | Forget that weenie teenage angst poetry, if you want death poetry, nobody beats The Japanese to Literature by mpc |
| I'm not sure if these y2k survivalist cartoons are humor compliant. to Comics by mpc |
| Saturday Feb 5, 2000 | Shawn is an ambassador from God to earth, which explains his unique use of hyphens and colons, and his many political interests. to Wackos by mpc |
| Skeletons In The Closet keeps the dirt on all of our presidential candidates. Viva el muckraker! to Politics by mpc |
| Wednesday Jan 26, 2000 | Everybody knows Marlowe's Elizabethan Pick-Up Line, A Passionate Shepherd To His Love And Raleigh's acerbic The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd. What's not as well known is that John Donne also wrote a reply, about another masculine pasttime.
to Literature by mpc |
| Sunday Jan 23, 2000 | Jerry Lawler's homepage is like a lot of other self-made pages on the web, with shots of his artwork, a page for his son, and a collection of pictures of him covered in blood from his 20+ years of professional wrestling. to Web by mpc |
| Friday Jan 21, 2000 | Yes, that is Nixon, the original's apparently at The Nixon Library. You think that's scary? You should read the essay I found the picture in. to Art by mpc |
| Some people love their guillotines a little too much. to Sex by mpc |
| Warhol thought it would be fifteen minutes, but no, it's one web site.
to Web by mpc |
| Ah, alt.non.sequitur, home of the vaunted holy text, Liber Nonsequitoria. Let us read now, brothers, chapter 18, Verse 4:
The host of the LORD shall descend in formations forty-two thousand
feet by forty-two thousand feet. I should know, for Arephwael, the Angel of
Pointless Measuring did tell me. |
| Tuesday Jan 18, 2000 | Somebody's been putting some very...interesting sites up near the top of the World Charts Federation's top 100 websites. Apart from the freaky right-wing low-verification news sites like World Net Daily, there's Bob Enyart's, ShadowGov site, where you get to play Fantasy Judge, and his associated sites KGOV and Theology Online . If it wasn't for his rewrite of the Constitution or odd political theories, I might be able to laugh him off as another wacko. This one however, already has a talk show and is trying to get broader reception. to Wackos by mpc |
| Tuesday Jan 11, 2000 | As the web dot-commodes itself into a mindless array of asinine shopping tools, I'm tempted to give up on technology
and become a hobo. And then I'm reminded that the power
of the web is to bring small communities together, give 'em a voice.
Then paradoxically intrigued and satisfied, I return to my complacent ground state until the apocalypse. to Culture by mpc |
| Friday Dec 17, 1999 | After I've built the bombs and exterminated 99% of humanity, I plan (unlike these weirdos) to rebuild civilization around the
two greatest movies of all time. Zardoz, the only
movie to ever feature Sean Connery in a bright orange diaper
and feature Giant Floating Stone Heads dispensing birth control advice. Zardoz, alone, is prince of movies, and in my
new Utopia, the huddled masses will look up from their mud-and-wattle huts to see the giant
floating stone heads flying across the sky chanting THE GUN IS GOOD, THE PENIS IS EVIL, WEATHER IN THE LOW
70'S, CONTINUING UNTIL SUNDAY. Hail Zardoz! Prince Of Movies.
And of course, to keep the masses from revolting, I will base my elite squadron of cyborg death commandos on
the designs pioneered in Infra-Man,
where blond Chinese queens from under the earth beat up on science police in tinfoil suits. Truly, it will be a glorious future!
to Movies by mpc |
| Fluble, a comic strip explaining precisely why the Amish are evil. to Comics by mpc |
| yet another internet 'zine, but the
movie reviews amuse me. to Web by mpc |
| Space science is one of the biggest casulaties of the collapse of the Soviet Union, in particular,
the Buran, the Soviet
space shuttle, never got past the testing stage. The page, incidentally, is from
Encyclopedia Astronautica, a fairly beefy collection of links on space travel in general. Check out the seriously huge
list of cancelled spaceflights in particular. to Science by mpc |
| Thursday Dec 16, 1999 | You can make all sorts of tasty things out of pigs,
but the tastiest is definitely prosciutto, and the
best prosciutto is prosciutto di parma. After you've found some,
here are some recipes. to Food by mpc |
| Tuesday Nov 30, 1999 | Antoher legacy of my misspent youth: Tradewars is still alive and kicking. There are certain
pleasures in still being able to play the game on-line. to Computing by mpc |
| In my BBS'ing youth, I was involved in a collection of room-based BBS's using Citadel. The software still exists in various incarnations, quite a few BBSes do, as well. to Computing by mpc |
| It's the cutest Sith Lord you ever did see, it's Darth Pikachu, pikapi!
to Humor by mpc |
| Thursday Nov 18, 1999 | Uncle Al defies description. Although he does understand the secrets of Pastrami to Commentary by mpc |
| Tuesday Nov 9, 1999 | Not one of the sexier operating systems out there, but still perversely fun, VMS has an active hobbyist community. to Computing by mpc |
| Oh Fortuna, Velunt Luna, Statu va-ri-a-bi-lis!. to Music by mpc |
| Friday Nov 5, 1999 | It's a shame that the Internet can support half a kajillion libertarians, but only one page critiquing them. to Politics by mpc |
| Monday Oct 25, 1999 | This guy takes photographs with the most amazing colors. to Art by mpc |
| Sunday Oct 24, 1999 | Two authors who don't get read enough today, the eminently quotable G.K. Chesterton, and Hilaire Belloc, the only man to every write a drinking song about the Pelagian Heresy to Literature by mpc |
| Friday Oct 22, 1999 | Pyradyne has got to be a joke, the owner has to be kidding us. Nobody can wear this hat and be taken seriously.
to Wackos by mpc |
| This is it kids, one stop shopping for all your weird people needs, find out about Forbidden Archaeology, crop circle research, wacky crystals, and every other weirdness the human mind can conceive of, just go to The Leading Edge International Research Group. Accept no substitutes. to Wackos by mpc |
| Wednesday Oct 20, 1999 | It was only a matter of time before someone put a dictionary out for Esperanto's earliest competitor, Volapuk. to Linguistics by mpc |
| Tuesday Oct 19, 1999 | Some of us own Amigas, so we know who Eric Schwartz is outside of his Comic Strip (some of us know that he obssesses about Amigas in his strip). Now you can
see everything he's done, including his animations and other artwork,
especially his Amiga
Propaganda and Linux swipes.
to Web by mpc |
| Sunday Oct 17, 1999 | WHY ARE THERE 379 LINKS IN THE ANIMATED DANCING PAGES WEBRING? WHY GOD? WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO OFFEND YOU?
to Web by mpc |
| Friday Oct 15, 1999 | For those of you curious about Blackouts, this is your site! to Science by mpc |
| While there are certain theologically-based movie sites which are easily mocked. The Movie Parables Site is actually an interesting Christian-oriented review site, which considers the balance between visuals, art and morality. Plus, he loved The Matrix, so he can't be all bad. to Movies by mpc |
| Bloom argues that Canons give us common touchstones by which to define ourselves - we are creatures of the Bible and Shakespeare, Pascal and Descartes. Or, if you're about my age Marvel Comics Fruit Pie Ads.
to Food by mpc |
| Old Man Murray is the definitive site for bitter, drunken, foul and tasteless video game reviews, not to mention occasional sophomoric attempts at journalism. It is also possibly the only site that ever thought using the flaming head of Martin Van Buren would be a useful alert system. This meme finds it strangely appealing.
to Games by mpc |
| Is This Sexy? Your Guide To DTV Erotica follows the proud
tradition of Oh The Humanity in providing guides to movies that nobody else would think about. In this case, the overwrought, overacted, underplotted, Shannon-starring genre of the 'erotic' thriller. to Movies by mpc |
| Thursday Oct 7, 1999 | Read Sir Charles Grandiose's Advice, and
then find out how he got to be that way.
to Web by mpc |
| Toulmin Patterns are a technique used to model the flow of an argument through a formalized graph. An interesting
tool, especially if you don't like Sylvester Stallone to Philosophy by mpc |
| Wednesday Oct 6, 1999 | This clock keeps the time until everybody dies. to Warfare by mpc |
| Tuesday Oct 5, 1999 | Remember friend, that thou art mortal, and the Death Clock will remind thou of just how mortal that is. to Web by mpc |
| Tuesday Sep 28, 1999 | Aerogel
is a very fine glassine substance used
to make detectors for
particle physicsexperiments.
Apart from their funky
physical properties, alternative
uses, they just
just
looks
cool.
Unfortunately, while manufacturers
exist, they're still a bit pricey.
to Science by mpc |
| The Summa
Theologica is St. Thomas Aquinas' primary work,
the center of Catholic theology, and one of the
most important books in the history of Western
Civilization. This web-based version seems
to be complete, with questions ranging from
does God exist?
To do angels eat?
To certain
Viagra-oriented questions.
to Religion by mpc |
| Wednesday Sep 22, 1999 | We've mentioned odd
film reviewers in the past, here's
one who rewrites
the scripts to get his point across.
to Movies by mpc |
| Thursday Sep 16, 1999 | Looking for something like Las Vegas,
but worried it's too classy?
Try Branson Missouri,
the graveyard of lost 'stars'
to Culture by mpc |
| Wednesday Sep 8, 1999 | Back in the halcyon days of the early 90's,
Robert McElwaine
was THE net.crazy. Every UN-altered REPRODUCTION of his IMPORTANT Information
is here. to Wackos by mpc |
| Thursday Aug 26, 1999 | The ICR has a Graduate School?. to Religion by mpc |
| Wednesday Aug 25, 1999 | QuackWatch is a compendium
of medical quackery and bogus therapy. It's a great
resource on various forms of frauds. to Health by mpc |
| Thursday Aug 19, 1999 | Since we're not radioactive dust, here's some
information on Cassini,
and here's some people who spent an awful
lot of time
worrying about it. These people
were worried too, but they're weird to Science by mpc |
| Tuesday Aug 17, 1999 | Jack Chick translates and localizes his tracks,
with some odd results. His most famous
tract, This Was Your Life
has a couple of iconic scenes, the introductory rich guy
shot, lightbulb God, and the
examination of conscience scene.
Chick apparently subcontracts out the localization jobs,
leading to cosmic perspective and
frightening 70's fashion in the
Chinese Version. Apparently, the quality of the
subcontracts vary, since the Farsi
version of the Rich Guy just has a big beard drawn on him.
to Religion by mpc |
| Friday Aug 13, 1999 | Apart from being an enjoyable first-person shooter
Bungie's Marathon
can be considered an epistolary novel with copious
bloodshed. Read it here. to Art by mpc |
| Tuesday Aug 10, 1999 | Just when you think computer technology is doing us no good
whatsoever, you discover that you can
buy Tupperware
over the web. I love this country. to Commerce by mpc |
| Thursday Jul 29, 1999 | I remember being about nine, and rushing home to hear the
thrilling strains of...We're off
to outer space!
to Television by mpc |
| Thursday Jul 22, 1999 | BNL is a bit
irate
about speculation that the RHIC
could blow up the planet largely because the multi-GeV
energies used by a collider are considerably less powerful than
gnats
coughing. Still, if you're worried, you might
want to check out the RHIC
design manual
to find out what's going on. If it doesn't make
sense,
this
might help.
to Science by mpc |
| Geek media occasionally suffers from
delusions of artistic greatness,
this essay makes a good argument that before you
can have William Shakespeare in your medium, you need
Tom Clancy.
to Art by mpc |
| Tekumel is an intricate fantasy background
created by college professor and
possible deve M.A.R. Barker. Barker's gone
somewhat over the top with his background, developing
languages,
histories,
theologies and stories for a world that's a NC-17
combination of Mesoamerican, Indian and Arabic culture.
In addition to the sites
containing Barker's original material, there's a
truly stunning website
devoted to the world. to Games by mpc |
| I've often been morbidly fascinated by Iron Lungs,
now I've found a
museum about them! to Science by mpc |
| Wednesday Jul 21, 1999 | Listen carefully, kids. The Year 2000
National Education Taskforce believes
Y2K will be really, really bad. So they advocate
that you
buy gold coins. Interestingly enough,
Y2KNet is owned by
Swiss America, which sells gold coins, and
has been endorsed
by Pat Boone, Bo Gritz, and other luminaries. If you think
that Swiss America is a tad right-wing, you'd be
correct. The owner runs another site True Wealth,
which explains Biblically
sound economics, that inflation is the price of
disobedience of God's law, and how we should use
livestock to back up electronic currency. Perhaps it's time
to consider the
dogcow-backed dollar? to Wackos by mpc |
| Those of us who favor civilized
scripting languages tend to blanch at perl, we
write
essays,
create
alternatives, and start
advocacy organizations. The perl people,
just start a site
counting the number of times somebody says "perl rules".
This is somehow symbolic.
to Computing by mpc |
|
Yes, Minister introduced the iconic
long-winded civil servant,
Sir Humphrey Appleby. What's interesting is that,
in addition to the standard
fannish tributes,
and
quote file cameos, Humphrey shows up as a rhetorical device
in
parliamentary speeches, and
political tracts. to Television by mpc |
| Saturday Jul 17, 1999 | There tend huge gulfs between the the academic and
neopagan interpretations of the witch hunts.
This
site, run by an academic neopagan, gives a good
overview of the historical data, and the
changes in thought that led to revised academic
opinions, as well as
theories about why people want to believe otherwise.
to Religion by mpc |
| Wednesday Jul 14, 1999 | Someday, if I hold a contest for the strangest FAQ
on the Web,
The Weregerbil FAQ will be the first entry. to Web by mpc |
| Saturday Jul 10, 1999 | As the age of
Wired
mercifully
draws to a close. It may be time to consider
the virtues of the antithetical perspective.
Enlightened
Luddism, the works of Neil Postman,
Ubiquitous Computing, and the possibly
heretical thesis that
technology
isn't a panacea. to Computing by mpc |
| Friday Jul 9, 1999 | Sic Et Non -
Internationl Concerned
Family & Friends Of Mumia Abu-Jamal,
Justice For Police Officer Daniel Faulkner.
to Politics by mpc |
| I didn't think that butling was that high-demand
a field, but
International
Butlers Guild disagrees. As does the
International
Butler Academy. to Commerce by mpc |
| Thursday Jul 8, 1999 | Great Galaxies! Behold! KIRBY!. Thrill to
disturbingly overwrought analyses.
MARVEL at cosmic
domestic stories! SEE football of the future!
SMILE at drawings for his granddaughter's 7th grade report!
to Comics by mpc |
| Wednesday Jul 7, 1999 | As long as I'm ranting about disturbing faces,
I might as well add the
Evil Queen Of Plastic Surgery. Jo(y)celyn(e) Wildenstein,
Wildenstein. There's almost nothing on her on the
web (surprising), but here's a slight
description. to Wackos by mpc |
| My Simon is an
online department store which. Not interesting
in itself, but its
mascot may be the most frightening creature I have ever
seen. Especially in its plethora
of
frightening
outfits.
to Commerce by mpc |
| Tuesday Jul 6, 1999 | American Fundamentalist Christian culture tends
to exhibit a quaint parallelism of the profane
culture surrounding it, ranging
from Ska Bands,
Action-Adventure Shows.
While sanctification
isn't new, do we really need a holy page counter?
to Religion by mpc |
| Tuesday Jun 15, 1999 | Everything you ever wanted to know about
Cossacks. Well, it's everything I wanted to know.
to Culture by mpc |
| Friday Jun 4, 1999 | Continuing a nascent antique games theme for today,
check out Xyzzy News,
the newsletter for interactive fiction gamers. to Games by mpc |
| Thursday Jun 3, 1999 | The other web comic featuring
a Japanese Beetle to Comics by mpc |
| Wednesday Jun 2, 1999 | For some reasons, friend Nutkin is unpopular on the web.
Dozens of sites feature an obvious terror
of the little furballs. Some of which involve
exotic torture
devices,
bad poetry,
calls to arms,
and weird theories
about squirrel's extraterrestrial origins. Like everything else silly in
the world, there is a
webring.
to Web by mpc |
| Tuesday Jun 1, 1999 | Body piercing? Faugh! Only
Stelarc
would swallow
a remote-controlled sculpture or
electrocute himself over the internet for art!
to Art by mpc |
| Tired of traditional computing architectures?
Befunge
discards the crypto-fascist linear program counter
in favor of a multi-dimensional program counter that
can iterate over a variety of surfaces. While
in CS theory this is about as useful as square wheels,
it's great for making fellow coder's heads go blooey.
to Computing by mpc |
| ZOPE is an open-source
context management system which looks like it might
have some wide-ranging potential. It's somewhat
similar to Frontier,
but more hackable.
to Computing by mpc |
| Monday May 24, 1999 | I can understand ET Gods, but why ET Corn Gods?
to Art by mpc |
| The Childcare Action Project Analysis Reports
are a collection of Christian movie reviews of current cinema, kind of . Apart from the queer compartmentalism that
normally dominates 'Christian' pop culture, the CAP reports are distinguished by
a well-meaning, if weird
Analysis Methodology,
which among other things, explains how The Basketball
Diaries will turn your children into homicidal zombies.
to Movies by mpc |
| Friday May 21, 1999 | The Boolean Spaces Property Machine. It may be art, it may be math, it may be an obscure torture device. to Computing by mpc |
| Sunday May 9, 1999 | The Dragon's Lair Project, for both of you
who wondered what ever happened to Thayer's
Quest.
to Games by mpc |
| Saturday May 1, 1999 | More than anything else, the web has proven that there is a fan for
any damn thing.
to Culture by mpc |
| Thursday Apr 29, 1999 | Forget Tamagotchi, breed Biomorphs to Science by mpc |
| Monday Apr 5, 1999 | The problem with predicting
Apocalypse is that you always look really stupid
if you're wrong. to Wackos by mpc |
| Saturday Apr 3, 1999 | You can't build the possibly "ILLEGAL" or
"DANGEROUS" equipment at
Information Unlimited without first
visiting American Science
And Surplus' definitive directory of surplus...thingies.
to Gadgets by mpc |
| Thursday Apr 1, 1999 | A large collection of
Apocrypha, Pseudigrapha And Apocalypses,
providing that all-prevailing sense of despair
that made the Manicheans such a happy, perky
bunch of people.
to Religion by mpc |
| Is Furby Prostitution
legal in Nevada? to Sex by mpc |
| Sunday Mar 28, 1999 | One of the odder role-playing games in existence,
DragonRaid bills itself as a witnessing tool to help kids learn about Christ through
scripture memorization and massive railroading. Ironically, the game
was forced out of existence by Christian protesters years ago. It's now enjoying
a renaissance on the web. to Games by mpc |
| Partake of the wisdom of T to Humor by mpc |
| Saturday Mar 27, 1999 | Learn Cyrillic
the fast and bitter way. to Linguistics by mpc |
| Thursday Mar 25, 1999 | Hello, World,
have a cold one.
to Computing by mpc |
| Sunday Mar 21, 1999 | For an organization which holds all the secrets of
creation, the Unarius
Academy Of Science sure looks like a laundromat
that's fallen on hard times. to Wackos by mpc |
| Saturday Mar 20, 1999 | Summum might be a religion,
might be a philosophy, or might
just have trouble getting a date on Saturday
Night.
to Wackos by mpc |
| Slug Pornography T-Shirts, I
know this is what I've been looking for all my life.
to Fashion by mpc |
| S.U.P.E.R.B.A.D., no I don't understand it either. to Web by mpc |
| Thursday Mar 18, 1999 | Nagoya Broadcast Network provides one of the
largest online museums of
Ukiyo-E, Japanese wood block prints. The
Horror Series by Yoshitoshi is especially
interesting, especially when you consider that
NBN's homepage
has a bunch of dancing
Bombermen
to Art by mpc |
| Wednesday Mar 17, 1999 | The CIA Kids
Page introduces the youth of America to
espionage and counterterrorism in a freakishly
low-impact fashion. The site does have a
link to the excellent resource
CIA World Factbook, but the highlight
of any visit are the
cute doggies, who can sniff out plastic explosives
and dismember foreign dignitaries. Other government agencies,
including the
FBI,
are building equally strange kids pages. Regrettably,
the NSA's page
doesn't have a children's section. It probably
would have cost more than the $4.37 they apparently
alloted for web design.
to Reference by mpc |
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