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| Wednesday Sep 26, 2001 | "Cuchi-cuchi cu!" to Music by mrradon |
| Monday Jun 4, 2001 | Eewww! The only thing I didn’t see on this site was something about sexual arousal from the food that gets stuck in those sexy silver smiles. Oh baby, your plaque-coated brackets are turning me on!
to Sex by mrradon |
| Thursday Mar 29, 2001 | I didn't realize you could get a Ph.D. in parapsychology, but it's good that as part of the curriculum you will work on discovering "new vocational niches". You could always set up a website to sell equipment all paranormal researchers need, like EMF meters, and, ahem, batteries. Maybe you could hit up the ISPR for a job later on. Me, I'm picking up an EMF meter and heading out to some spooky places, despite my lack of official qualifications. Or maybe I'll just go to Australia and apply to be a contestant on Scream Test, because I'm too old to audition for MTV's Fear. Real ghostly encounters? Some of them seem suspiciously rigged, but the show is still a great way for some paranormal investigators to make money.
to Occult by mrradon |
| Monday Jan 29, 2001 | Counter to what Ken Burn's Jazz series would have the world believe, there is a wealth of great jazz music that doesn't fit into Winton Marsalis' stale, stodgy, music history revisionist world. Take, for instance, the history of jazz organ music, which is exhaustively detailed at the International Archives for the Jazz Organ. Or perhaps you'd like to know about the history of jazz after Charlie Parker and Louis Armstrong? Freejazz.org is full of running commentary and discussions about where jazz has been and where it’s going. Latin Jazz Network covers just about any questions about its nebulous history. And what exactly is Brasilian jazz? Swedish jazz has a long history too. Chicago station WNUR has a useful music map/flow chart on the evolution of jazz as well as a useful and simple list of jazz musicians, which includes most of the major players in current and modern jazz, a number of entries which have their own links to more in depth information. And many important artists have their own sites or comprehensive sites about them, including Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Pharoah Sanders, Anthony Braxton (and the Tri-Centric Foundation), John Zorn and his Tzadik label, Eric Dolphy, George Russell, and one of the better sites about Cecil Taylor is nothing more than a thesis on his music.
to Music by mrradon |
| Friday Dec 1, 2000 | I love to fly, but I realize people are deathly afraid of doing so. To feed into your fears, AirDisaster.com will give you all the fodder you need to keep you awake all night. If you're just morbid, you might want to listen to a selection of black box recordings, or look through a simple table listing of the worst air disasters in history. AirDisaster.com has more complicated listings of disasters cross-referenced by year, manufacturer, or airline. to Transportation by mrradon |
| Monday Sep 4, 2000 | At a point where avatars that look like taller Fisher-Price Little People meet in chat rooms is Mobiles Disco, where you talk, drink, dance, and just look plain cute while doing it. Be careful that you go in the right disco however, especially if you don't know Finnish. to Art by mrradon |
| Tuesday Jul 18, 2000 | Using his own source material and the material submitted by others, someone has compiled Ka-BOOM! A Dictionary of Comicbook Words on Historical Principles, i.e.: onomatopoeias with references. SCHLIKT, for example, is "the extruding sound of Wolverine's claws" (an easy one for X-Men fans). GAAAH however, is a "cry of pain" in Mantra, and a "cry of fear" in Archie. to Comics by mrradon |
| Thursday Jun 15, 2000 | "DAILY LESSON BY HIS DIVINE GRACE A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA" the front of the site screams, in Real Audio, at the Online Hare Krishna Temple, at Supersoul. Besides its great name, Supersoul also has a Krishnacore section (for you punk types looking to sell cookbooks and start a band) with a message I can't personally interpret. And what good is a religious site without an online store? Vedic Resource has art and music, Krishna Culture has sastra and seva, for all your sastra and seva needs. to Religion by mrradon |
| Tuesday May 30, 2000 | Erotic photography overrated you say? Fine. Perhaps you'd like some not real good gay erotic drawings instead. Of men with moustaches. Whatever it is that compels people to put their art online, like to sell it for instance, is not exactly the same urge as the people who put their art online just because they can. Not necessarily because they are good artists, but because they are sincere, right? Some gay erotic drawings aren't too bad, facial hair again being the theme, but then again this art at Mike's Bear Gallery is for sale. to Art by mrradon |
| Tuesday May 2, 2000 | IDM stands for Intelligent Dance Music, but what I find most ironic about the term, is that most of the music I've run across that is given this term, is hardly music you could dance to. Usually there are beats, but often they are a bit too disjointed for dancing. And, it's not all just Autechre and F.S.O.L. For example, Saundart Recordings releases some vinyl and CDRs that are given descriptions as strange as song titles and band names. If you find this intriguing, read through posts at the IDM Newsbase. Recent postings toss out such things as links to IDM labels and distributors, or the fascinating Richard D. James Lyrics Transcription Resource Project. And if this isn't enough, join the IDM list and you'll be on top of the opinions and suggestions of hundreds of fans. to Music by mrradon |
| Wednesday Apr 5, 2000 | If you have some social problems like I do, and enjoyed the exploits in 1997 of the two criminals otherwise referred to as the North Hollywood Bank Robbers, you might be interested in some action figures from 21st Century Toys. I'm specifically pointing out the two Kevlar-clad figures in the Villians series, though maybe I'm just imagining the striking similarities. And while I'm on the subject of deadly action figures, obsessive fans of 21st Century Toys figures are pretty big on building dioramas, in which their toys act out training routines, situations with deadly, bloody consequences, or experience time travel (?) Some fans even build website "shrines" to their favorite little soldier toys. to Warfare by mrradon |
| Wednesday Mar 15, 2000 | Death Row is considered "the leading reference guide on capital punishment for legal professionals, correctional facility personnel, law enforcement agencies, media researchers, special interest organizations and law school faculty and students." It's published yearly. Oh, and it's online too. Read such eye-openers as the History of Execution Methods, 100 Years of the Death Penalty or take the Serial Killer Profile Quiz and see if you have bigger problems than you thought. to Literature by mrradon |
| Tuesday Mar 14, 2000 | The Futurama Outlet is almost as much fun as any given episode of the show. Episode guide, icons, fonts, video clips, a "zodiac-u-rama", the fun is endless. And, to add to the Futurama thrills, several toy companies are in the process of making all the merchandise you'll ever need. My favorites at the moment (at least what I can see online) are the tin Futurama toys being made by Rocket USA. to Television by mrradon |
| Monday Feb 21, 2000 | The whole or splattered tomato icons, the "tomatometer", plus the media predictions and consensus make Rotten Tomatoes something of an indispensable site to any film fan. It's a hub for critics from all over to have witty buzzwords and full reviews posted, for both recent film and videos. There's entertainment news too, though for excessive thoroughness, trailer links, ratings updates, and "food news" Zentertainment is equally indispensable. to Movies by mrradon |
| Monday Jan 31, 2000 | Well, I think this takes care of all my Inuit music needs for the rest of my lifetime. to Music by mrradon |
| Friday Jan 28, 2000 | Hecatohedra anyone? Dehn invariants? Polygons as projections of polytopes, dear friend? The Geometry Junkyard can help you decipher the mysteries of polyhedra and polytopes. Maybe. to Reference by mrradon |
| Tuesday Jan 18, 2000 | I like the strange vision of the future that the pixel cartoons at Pixhell show, and I like to think of each pixel as representing an atom. You might want to get acquainted with the tiny cast first, so you can learn a bit about the sheep. to Art by mrradon |
| Wednesday Dec 29, 1999 | Currently at Blaxploitation.com you can hear the radio spot for Black Caesar. "Black Caesar, he carved out a name for himself, in the blood of his enemies. Hail Caesar!" This is the first of what they're promising will be the monthly Black Action Movie Radio Spot. to Culture by mrradon |
| Wednesday Dec 22, 1999 | Almost as enigmatic as Zeek Sheck's art and comics at Swezlex is her music, which tends to follow no linear patterns, save for some subject matter. There's even a video from Good Luck Suckers for "The Speech", which always makes me jump up and down in giddiness when I watch it. Maybe if I wasn't friends with all these people, I wouldn't be so giddy. Also enriching is Zeek's Make Your Own Ink Jet Finger instructional guide at Ausgang, which is a hub of animation and illustrated riches, though perhaps a bit more linear and shiny. "I Am Happy" is cute and disarming. Or "Joey Toad" dances for your pleasure -- and "pleasure" is used ironically here. There are fascinating travel journals too, with curious diagrams of situations. to Art by mrradon |
| "Worms destroy lethargic terror/I secrete nocturnal graves/My slave grovels gloomy requiem/Wolves conspire nocturnal decay." Of course this is just one stroke of morose lyrical confusion. Generate more at the Random Goth Lyric Generator. to Music by mrradon |
| Monday Dec 6, 1999 | Hb stands for Huggy Bear, Nn for Nichelle Nichols, Bj for Black Belt Jones, and 8t for 8-track, on L Silky's Periodic Table.
to Culture by mrradon |
| Monday Nov 29, 1999 | Curious to see what was online about early electronic music composer Ilhan Mimaroglu, I discovered the ever helpful Short History of Polyphonic Music in Turkey, and as well, the even more helpful and enlightening History of Electronic Music nestled smugly in the bosom of Dartmouth's Women on the Web-Electronmedia site. Not as much as I'd hoped for, and yet too much at the same time.
to Music by mrradon |
| Tuesday Nov 23, 1999 | For all your varied gift-giving needs involving dead creatures: were you looking for a giraffe skull, or pyritized ammonites (cephalopods from the Jurassic period), or was it an anoplophora zonatrix in a box? to Pets by mrradon |
| Thursday Nov 11, 1999 | Break it up and don't be a bunny. Here's the online Chinese angle on hardboiled slang. Click on this link, it's duck soup.
to Linguistics by mrradon |
| Tuesday Nov 2, 1999 | The most enthralling time-wasting Flash eye candy I've seen yet. Pick your season and year of preference. Autumn 99, has "Anthro (a) pology" which includes a child on a swingset and a floating chihuahua. Spring 99, has "Assembly Lines", which showcases animation with people movers! So much floating text, so little time. to Art by mrradon |
| Monday Oct 18, 1999 | I'm not opposed to babies; I just don't want to be around them. But I'm also not opposed to essentially cloning myself, or to happy couples be they whatever gender combination, having their own happy, giggling, DNA combination. GenoChoice will let you do it all online. Then, with weekly or so updates, watch as your baby grows inside a surrogate mother. In the meantime, examine the world of Lee Mingwei, the first human male pregnancy, made possible by GenoChoice. And PaperVeins. to Art by mrradon |
| Thursday Sep 23, 1999 | I love urban decay. Not the make-up, but entropy taking hold of the hard labors of mankind. A great city for this is Detroit, where the city streets are as wide as freeways, and only about 1,000 people still live there. Or something. The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit has fine photography of buildings on a slow ride into dust, and others caught in the act of imploding. to Art by mrradon |
| Monday Sep 20, 1999 | After you put the Piddler's toilet targets in the toilet, you can teach your children more advanced targeting techniques with these fine bathroom decorations. to Gadgets by mrradon |
| Thursday Sep 9, 1999 | Even if you're not gay, see if you have what it takes to join the team. Play Gay or Eurotrash? And if you think you're good at that, (which queer as I am I was terrible at) play Lesbian or German Lady, for an even more difficult challenge involving stereotypes and the fashionably challenged. This and other less-interactive fun from the folks at Blair. to Humor by mrradon |
| Wednesday Sep 8, 1999 | Ah, people movers. There are vertical traveling ones, horizontal traveling ones, the ones that move you inside airports, and the ones that move you to airports (or ski lodges, or just about anywhere else).
Take, for instance, the German Project Elan, a 1970s "dolls ride for free" system, one of many supported automated peoplemover technologies. If you like your transport systems on the ground, maybe you'll like the Monomobile, (just strap on your car!) one of many suspended urban transit technologies. There are so many transportation options in development, and that already exist, after some time at the Innovative Transportation Technologies site, you might never want to step foot in a car again.
to Transportation by mrradon |
| Wednesday Aug 25, 1999 | Unlike the Nike swoosh symbol, the Cathay Pacific Airlines symbol implies perhaps the motion of not running (in this case to the bathroom to vomit), but the motion of vomiting itself. Of course, if you're ever on Finnavaition, watch out for the queasy reindeer symbol which seems to imply the motion of reindeer vomiting sugar cubes. There's plenty more where this came from, including a loading speed similar to that of luggage conveyor belts, at the Air Sickness Bag Virtual Museum. Now if only I could find the Sea Sickness Bag Virtual Museum...
to Travel by mrradon |
| Tuesday Aug 10, 1999 | Because you know that a lemon-scented man dying on a cross is better to have in your bathroom than an actual, blood-and-pus-scented man dying on a cross.
to Religion by mrradon |
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