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| Sunday Jan 16, 2005 | Today's disturbing discovery is that cyclopia is a real teratological condition. When present in severe forms, the prognosis is usually neonatal death. to Health by peterb |
| Wednesday Feb 20, 2002 | The US Geological Survey, for some reason, runs a fabulous bird identification center that is better than any other I've found on the net. Very useful for confirming that what you saw in your backyard really was a red-tailed hawk or a great blue heron. to Outdoors by peterb |
| Tuesday Feb 19, 2002 | For the TV addict in all of us, TV Episode Lists By Menu! Now I can prove that I didn't hallucinate Mel Brook's short-lived TV show When Things Were Rotten (unfortunately not available on DVD). On another note, I both love and hate the internet for taking over my mind with the theme song.
to Television by peterb |
| Saturday Feb 9, 2002 | I sit on the couch. I watch TV. But no matter what I do, I can't get Magical Sound Shower, one of the songs from a Sega arcade game OUT OF MY HEAD. You can listen to it at The Arcade Museum, if you dare. I tried to find some other videogame music to drive it out, and stumbled onto the "Party Remix" (what the fuck?) version of Saria's Song from the first N64 Zelda game, The Ocarina of Time, at vgmusic.com. If you can tolerate the cheesiness of MIDI, it's pretty neat. Excuse me, I have to go listen to the theme to Sonic the Hedgehog again and again and again and again... to Music by peterb |
| Friday Feb 23, 2001 | When I was a kid, my favorite thing in the world
(other than Bomb Pops from the Good Humor truck) was to go to Chinatown in Manhattan and see
the chicken that played tic-tac-toe. Yes.
Chicken. Tic-tac-toe. Really. I recently
heard that it was no longer there. It turns out
that the chicken was rescued by some do-gooder
that apparently doesn't realize how important it
is for the world to have a CHICKEN. THAT PLAYS TIC-TAC-TOE.
to Travel by peterb |
| Monday Feb 19, 2001 | While I am normally the first to look with a jaundiced eye
at animal rights activists,
I have to send a huge plusplus out to PETA for
their latest campaign to
encourage people to neuter their cats, which
has one of the best commercials I've seen recently. (Requires
RealPlayer).
Adopt
a cat for yourself while you're at it -- you know you want to.
to Health by peterb |
| Wednesday Feb 7, 2001 | Lamhfada is "an online magazine of myth and story." They take a rather shotgun approach to myth, excluding no cultures -- which is a good thing. My favorite current article is Questing for the Historical Arthur. to Culture by peterb |
| Wednesday Jan 31, 2001 | I've been getting a lot more attention from cute chicks ever since I learnd about the electron band structure in Germanium. to Science by peterb |
| Wednesday Jan 3, 2001 | Dear pathetic Macintosh fanatics: IT'S OVER. YOU LOST. GET OVER IT. to Computing by peterb |
| Monday Jan 1, 2001 | If I ever decide to water cool my PC, please kick my ass. to Computing by peterb |
| Wednesday Nov 29, 2000 | Shameful confession: I am addicted to reading other
people's journals. It helps satisfy my voyeuristic
tendencies. I think I was turned on to it by following
Kim Rollins' online diaries (as well as the subsequent
meltdown between her and Wil Shipley). It always fascinates me, too, to
see how quality of writing matters: some people can make what should be interesting seem
boring, and others can make the mundane seem vibrant.
While you can always cheap out and get a fix
of journaley goodness at Open Diary (contest: can you find mine?),
there is something special about stumbling upon a homepage with a journal
during an unrelated websearch. In that vein, I present
today's little diamond in the rough. And I didn't
even know Morrissey was still alive.
to Literature by peterb |
| Friday Nov 17, 2000 | What's going on is an
excellent guide to strange or just fun events happening
all over the world. to Culture by peterb |
| Thursday Nov 2, 2000 | There are alternative voting systems to the ones the US uses, and many of them are detailed in Donald Saari's book. It's a good introduction to why we often accept the lesser of two evils (and I'm not talking about Cthulhu, you weenies). And as long as I'm on the subject: why the fuck isn't election day a national holiday? Please don't forget to vote next Tuesday, whether you vote for Gore (and his daughters,) George W. Bush, or George W. Bush.
to Politics by peterb |
| Tuesday Sep 5, 2000 | At first glance, you might think the Formula One Cartoon Archive just doesn't seem funny because you don't know enough about Formula One racing. But the fact is that even if you do know a lot about it, the cartoons therein are still profoundly unfunny. The only thing that struck a note with me was the strangely surreal list of drivers. to Sports by peterb |
| Monday Sep 4, 2000 | Toby
Dammit
... to Art by peterb |
| Sunday Sep 3, 2000 | Nope, since my last article on the subject I still haven't found any soul-crushingly beautiful Indian women that want to date me, not even through the personals. Obviously, I need to encourage people to turn to online forums to work through their issues. And hey, don't worry about the kids: Interracial Voice is a resource for mixed-race folks. See? Really, it's OK. Call me.
to Culture by peterb |
| Friday Sep 1, 2000 | Porn pervades the internet like the persistent odor of urine on a busy city street. Pornografica deconstructs these images, and then reconstructs them into something rich and strange. to Sex by peterb |
| Thursday Aug 31, 2000 | The Peace Corps has been helping improve the lives
of third world citizens and young U.S. volunteers
for years, as well as being an effective propaganda
arm and "friendly" tool of U.S. foreign
policy, thus making the world safe for multinational finance capital. For those of you who feel that countries
like Ghana already
have enough food and water and electricity and
shelter and stuff, you can join the someone
wacky Geek Corps,
which wants to help local businesses build
up their internet infrastructure, thus bridging
the crucial Zaibatsu gap. to Politics by peterb |
|
As previously discussed here, my favorite anime work thus far
is Serial Experiments: Lain.
While reading an interview with the creators, I learned
that they viewed Lain as a form of cultural
warfare against the United States.
Shit. Now I have to cancel my order for the
lain lunch box, unless the guys at
thought experiments lain
can convince me otherwise. to Media by peterb |
| Thursday Aug 24, 2000 | God doesn't hate fags. God hates figs. (Personally, I really like fresh figs, and this is still barely the season for them. to Food by peterb |
| Saturday Aug 19, 2000 | My favorite Italian soap opera is currently un posto al sole, which can always be relied upon to provide my daily quota of backstabbing, incest, and sex. Much more interesting than the somewhat anemic un medico in famiglia. P.S.: Could one of memepool's Italian readers please ask Ilaria D'Amico from la giostra del gol if she will run away with me to some tropical island? to Television by peterb |
| Friday Jul 28, 2000 | The people who wrote "Sharezilla", a program to spam Gnutella, are obviously pure evil. to Internet by peterb |
| Tuesday Jul 4, 2000 | I love Formula 1 racing; this past weekend's race at Magny Cours, France, was great: David Coulthart shut down Michael Schumacher (shortly after giving him the finger when he failed to pass). Atlas F1 republishes the FIA's 66 answers to 66 questions that introduce you to the history and rules of the sport. In our crowd, we like to play Formula Dé to warm up for the race.
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| Friday Jun 30, 2000 | Unfortunately, the web sites of many motorcycle manufacturers
suck. But that's
OK, because bikepics.com
is here to rescue us! So all of you who lust after me and
want to do something nice for me, feel free to buy me
a Buell X1,
an Aprilia RS250, a
Ducati 916, or
a GSX1300r
to replace my aging BMW K75. to Toys by peterb |
| Tuesday Jun 27, 2000 | I'm sure everyone wants to know where I stand on
the BSD versus Linux argument. to Humor by peterb |
| Saturday Jun 24, 2000 | The Budget Traveller's Guide To Sleeping In Airports may be useful if you are on vacation, and very very cheap. to Travel by peterb |
| Wednesday Jun 21, 2000 | My favorite Italian newspaper makes it's full text
available on line, free.
to Media by peterb |
| Thursday Jun 15, 2000 | For the obsolete videogame fan, Phosphor
Dot Fossiles is an essential reference to Games by peterb |
| Monday Jun 5, 2000 | When drinking heavily, my favorite sport in the world
is Whirlyball. to Sports by peterb |
| Tuesday May 23, 2000 | For the sex pig in me, I find that "IGN For Men"
is an invaluable resource. Whoever picks their Classic Babe
of the Week has very similar taste to me,
from the divine Audrey
Hepburn to the delicious Pam Grier
(You remember Pam Grier, right?
Yes, I'm talking about that Pam Grier from
both Foxy Brown and Jackie Brown.
Mmmmmmmmmm, Pam Grier). I, uh, have to go now.
to Media by peterb |
| Sunday May 21, 2000 | The Georgia Tech International Student Handbook makes pretty fascinating reading. As an American, I was particularly intrigued by the section on aspects of American society that may be new to foreign students. to Culture by peterb |
| Monday May 15, 2000 | One of my favorite board games is The Settlers of Catan, a
simple yet engaging game.
You can play it online via a unix-based client called
Gnocatan, a
windows-based client called NetSet,
and there's also a fairly confusing solitaire/computer player
version for DOS.
to Games by peterb |
| Bag Lady Sue is
my favorite burlesque performer. She must be seen to
be believed. If you hire her, don't let your friends in on the
joke. to Sex by peterb |
| Friday May 12, 2000 | MIT is famous for its pranks and hacks. Its nice to see that the tradition goes on at Carnegie-Mellon, also.
to Culture by peterb |
| Wednesday May 10, 2000 | The best animé movie or series I've seen in about 3 years
has to be Serial Experiments: Lain. to Movies by peterb |
| When I need to know about a movie, the
IMDB is actually the
second place I look. First is the superb
Movie Review Query Engine.
With it, you can discover that nearly everyone in
the world except Roger Ebert
loved Gladiator. Personally, I
thought it was a pretty lousy movie. to Movies by peterb |
| Tuesday May 9, 2000 | I'm kind of wishing I hadn't read the article about
Mike the Headless Wonder Chicken quite so soon after
lunch. to Wackos by peterb |
| Saturday May 6, 2000 | While looking for an accappatoio online, I stumbled across Moda Online. Their intimate apparel section is excellent.
to Fashion by peterb |
| Friday May 5, 2000 | In the desert /
I saw a creature, naked, bestial, /
who, squatting upon the ground, /
Held his heart in his hands, /
And ate of it. /
I said, "Is it good, friend?" /
"It is bitter -- bitter," he answered; /
"But I like it /
Because it is bitter, /
And because it is my heart."
The poetry
of Stephen Crane.
to Literature by peterb |
| Thursday Apr 27, 2000 | My new favorite web comic is Catatonic Comix! Especially what I, inveterate 1970's comic book reader, think of as the Hostess Fruit Pies strip. to Comics by peterb |
| My favorite chocolate in the world is Callebaut bittersweet. You can get it in these stupidly large 5 kilogram "bars," although calling this thing a "bar" is like calling the Titanic a rowboat. The hypererotic Chocolate Reviews site reviews Callebaut and others. Now I have to try Valrhona Noir Amer. to Food by peterb |
| Friday Apr 21, 2000 | You've seen Deep Throat, now see Deep Throat: The ASCII art animation. to Sex by peterb |
| Wednesday Apr 19, 2000 | Dashiell Hammett
is for all intents and purposes the inventor
of the modern hard-boiled detective story. His
prose is sparse, hard, and perfectly terse. Although he was most
well known for The Maltese Falcon, he thought
his best novel was his study of the rough and tumble
world of Baltimore politics, The Glass Key. It
was an epiphany when I discovered that the best
gangster flick ever made, Miller's Crossing, is in
fact "unofficially" based on The Glass Key.
There was also a great 1942 movie version of The Glass Key,
starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. Note: Maltin
was wrong. Yojimbo was inspired by a different Hammett novel,
Red Harvest.
to Movies by peterb |
| Sunday Apr 16, 2000 | I recall many people, when I was a child, maligning and pillorying Vanessa Redgrave. Three are, however, other perspectives. The true story is a lot more interesting, and says a lot about how ignorant pigfuckers can effectively spread libel and distort the truth.
to Movies by peterb |
| Friday Apr 14, 2000 | As a follow up to the interracial dating article, the U.S. Navy commissioned a very informative study on Asians in America, trying to separate myth from reality. to Culture by peterb |
| Saturday Apr 1, 2000 | This guy has a real thing for Claussen pickles. to Food by peterb |
| Wednesday Mar 29, 2000 | Hint to would-be world travellers. While it's nice to watch movies that deal with your destination, don't you think its going overboard to spend your vacation following the movie's path? to Travel by peterb |
| Tuesday Mar 28, 2000 | Russ Meyer! That fucker! Here's a guy who had stupidly large-breasted beautiful women falling at his feet, begging him to put them in his lousy films. I am so insanely jealous. to Movies by peterb |
| Thursday Mar 23, 2000 | Hey, fuck Jean-Luc Godard, director of movies that are ponderous, pretentious, and (worst of all) French. Give me the collected works of nonexistent director Alan Smithee any day. to Movies by peterb |
| Sunday Mar 12, 2000 | When I was in Las Cruces, New Mexico, I was struck not only by the beauty of the Chihuahuan desert, but how different it was from my conception of the desert in general. DesertUSA has lots of interesting and informative information about the North American Deserts. to Science by peterb |
| Wednesday Feb 16, 2000 | I find The Flummery Digest much more interesting, entertaining, and just plain not-as-irritating as News of the Weird.
to Media by peterb |
| Tuesday Feb 15, 2000 | I love academic jargon. Here it is applied to the classic newspaper comic strip, Krazy Kat: "Krazy exposes the false consciousness of his companions through ignorance of their habits and conventions; his naive misrecognitions of their kynical misrecognitions deny their denial, pointing out the pretensions and misrecognitions necessary for the maintenance of everyday life." Whatever. to Comics by peterb |
| Someone please buy me a green laser pointer. to Gadgets by peterb |
| Sunday Feb 13, 2000 | A report from the influential Nürnberg Toy Fair at an excellent Austrian game site. to Games by peterb |
| Thursday Feb 3, 2000 | A German company, Cargolifter, AG is trying to revive the airship as a viable means of heavy transport. to Economics by peterb |
| Wednesday Jan 19, 2000 | Apparently some people still haven't learned
anything from the whole Jon-Benet Ramsey thing. to Wackos by peterb |
| At the end of this month this company
will be demonstrating a product that they claim
will enable individual
VTOL flight. Either this is a really great web hoax that
has the media fooled,
or we really are living in the future. to Gadgets by peterb |
| Tuesday Jan 18, 2000 | Stupid.com is your
web resource for such essentials of life as
stupid candy,
stupid toys,
and many other stupid gift
ideas. Its heartening to see an e-commerce giant
emerging in the oft-overlooked "useless crap" industry,
manuevering to undercut local "useless crap" stores
and drive them out of business. When's the
IPO? to Commerce by peterb |
| Monday Jan 17, 2000 | The revised Wargames handbook is interesting reading for both veteran wargamers and those just looking into them. to Games by peterb |
| Sunday Jan 16, 2000 | The classic Steve Jackson wargame Ogre is going to be rereleased this year. to Games by peterb |
| Tuesday Jan 11, 2000 | Great googeley moogeley, I need to play Space Channel 5 so
badly it hurts. to Games by peterb |
| Monday Jan 10, 2000 | Ave atque vale! I've got religion, and its that of the Universal Church of the Divine Julius. As in Caesar.
to Religion by peterb |
| Sid Sackson used to design games for Milton-Bradley and Parker brothers -- but you've probably never heard his name, because those companies don't give credit to game designers. Sackson was prolific, inventive, and developed addictive games that anyone could play but that had loads of depth. Try them yourself: you can find (MS-DOS) computer versions of Can't Stop, Choice, Acquire, and Monad. There's also a java version of Choice that is truly superb. to Games by peterb |
| Friday Jan 7, 2000 | Awwwwww yeah, its time for Girl Scout cookies again! to Food by peterb |
| There are very few things that I enjoy more than a great rant. to Commentary by peterb |
| Tuesday Jan 4, 2000 | This guide to italian grammar is superb, particularly the logically laid out and comprehensive guide to conjugating verbs. to Linguistics by peterb |
| Friday Dec 31, 1999 | "Power on, Internet fine, dogs healthy and beer still cold." Such is the best Australian Y2k update from J.R. Whipple's Zone 2000 report. to Conspiracy by peterb |
| Thursday Dec 30, 1999 | I like Java, because it is really easy to implement your own version of excellent old arcade games with it. to Games by peterb |
| Tuesday Dec 21, 1999 | I think many Indian women are totally cute, but
evidently I'm never
going to be able to date them.
At least, many of these
people seem to think I shouldn't.
to Culture by peterb |
| For each web site that uses anything more advanced than lynx-compatible HTML there is a subset of losers that miss the point completely and whine about it. To these people I wish to say: bite me. Cool things like The God and Devil Show keep proving to me that things like Shockwave and Flash are pretty darn nifty, after all.
to Humor by peterb |
| Tuesday Dec 14, 1999 | Don't Touch Me There. to Culture by peterb |
| Wednesday Dec 8, 1999 | You can never have too much sex with dwarves. to Sex by peterb |
| Friday Dec 3, 1999 | Edward Gorey meets the Far Side at
Daze of Our Lives.
to Comics by peterb |
| Thursday Dec 2, 1999 | I always suspected that Apple had
some deep, dark
secret to explain why they're not bankrupt yet. to Computing by peterb |
| Thursday Nov 18, 1999 | Mean people rule. to Sex by peterb |
| Need to hold on to that job in the upcoming high-tech bust cycle? Learn how to write unmaintainable code. Now you can code just like RMS! to Computing by peterb |
| Thursday Nov 11, 1999 | Oh. My. God. The geniuses at goats, one
of the web's best comic strips, have just unleashed
brains4zombies.com. And
just in time for Christmas, too! to Comics by peterb |
| Tuesday Nov 9, 1999 | Guys are weird. to Sex by peterb |
| Monday Nov 8, 1999 | Yeah, I'm probably going to die of
heart disease. to Art by peterb |
| Wednesday Nov 3, 1999 | Prisoners is a
web site claiming to represent the interests
of the incarcerated in Pennsylvania. My definite
favorite, though, are the gleeful writeups
of police
officers who have been arrested, frequently
for sex crimes. to Law by peterb |
| Tuesday Nov 2, 1999 | Ever play Nethack? It's
a text-based dungeon crawl game that, with its
brethren rogue, urogue, and
arogue, nearly made me fail out of CMU freshman
year. Well, its time for the 1999 Nethack Tournament! to Games by peterb |
| Monday Nov 1, 1999 | Also in the insanely stupid audiophile accessory
category are mpingo discs,
which are supposed to improve the harmonics in
your room. Whatever. I'm so glad we're using
endagered trees for such a stupid purpose. At least there
are some people willing to mock
the madness. to Gadgets by peterb |
| Meet cute chicks that are
in jail.
to Sex by peterb |
| Wednesday Oct 13, 1999 | A friend of mine is convinced that this school's logo means no thinking / no fucking. to Education by peterb |
| Tuesday Oct 12, 1999 | Lately I've been reading a lot of fiction about ancient Rome,
and enjoying it. The ne plus ultra
of historical fiction is Colleen McCullough's Masters
of Rome series, 5 books so far, spanning from Gaius
Marius to the
ascension of Julius Caesar. Other interesting reads include
the adventures of
Gordianus the Finder by Steven Saylor, and
Lindsay Davis' hard boiled (Roman) dick
Marcus Didius Falco.
Alert Memepoolistas recommended Margaret Yourcenar's
Memories of Hadrian
as another entry in the books-about-ancient-Rome category.
And, for completeness, I'll mention Robert Graves' fabulous
I, Claudius and
Allan Massie's not really very fabulous Augustus.
to Books by peterb |
| Saturday Oct 9, 1999 | If you're like me, you've got lots of gadgets lying around the house for which not only have you lost the documentation, but you don't even know who made it (like this remote I'm using with nothing on it except "FCC ID DKN AMTX"). Fortunately, the FCC ID Search Form will help you figure out who to turn to for information. to Gadgets by peterb |
| I drink tea. A lot of tea. My favorite source for tea is Upton Tea Imports, whose stunning variety of properly packaged, fresh tea opened up a new world for me. to Food by peterb |
| So, if it wasn't for the fact that it would probably end up beating up my cat, myrna, I would definitely want an only barely domesticated Bengal cat, a descendent of the Asian Leopard Cat.
to Pets by peterb |
| Everybody knows that he had a website. Everybody knows it was really lame. to Music by peterb |
| Friday Oct 8, 1999 | From now on, I only want to read email that deletes itself. to Internet by peterb |
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The most irritating sentence in the world to a good photographer is "Wow! Your camera sure takes good pictures." The Masters of Photography site shows why its the photographer -- like the disturbing and brilliant Diane Arbus -- and not the camera that matters. to Art by peterb |
| Linux, linux, linux. That's all I hear anymore. Hey, I like it too, but let a million flowers bloom. Fortunately, The Daemon News provides coverage for the Free, Net, and Open BSD communities. to Computing by peterb |
| "Behold! you are they who disputed about that of which you had knowledge; why then do you dispute about that of which you have no knowledge? And Allah knows while you do not know."
The Searchable Online Koran.
to Religion by peterb |
| Sunday Oct 3, 1999 | Next on my list of cookbooks I need is the hyperdecadent Eat Dangerously, a paean to enjoying luxurious food instead of stressing about it. They've put some of their fabulous but expensive recipes on the web. to Food by peterb |
| Its Sunday, and Sunday means football. Not American football, but Serie A soccer on RAI International! And everyone knows you can't be a real tifoso without your favorite team's official jersey. I'll take Inter-Milan, please. And as long as I'm asking for gifts, someone please get me a date with RAIsport's Ilaria D'Amico. to Sports by peterb |
| Friday Oct 1, 1999 | I don't know what is more nightmarish:
the misspellings
or the broken links. to Art by peterb |
| His baby done left him, he was thrown out into the street
without even his shoes, his own momma told him
he was a no-good dirty dog, but
at least he still has a web site. to Music by peterb |
| Tuesday Sep 14, 1999 | All over the network, hidden in strange places,
obsolete protocols are
still supporting obsolete content. to Computing by peterb |
| My latest boy toy is the brand-new Dreamcast
from Sega. Roughly
as powerful (in gaming terms) as a PC with the
latest 3d cards, it costs a mere $199. So far my favorite
games have to be the psychotically realistic
NFL 2k
and the perfect arcade conversion Soul Calibur. Lastly,
the unit comes with a built in 56k modem and a web browser
disk -- and yes, you can read memepool on it. to Gadgets by peterb |
| Thursday Sep 9, 1999 | My favorite band lately has been The Old 97's. Their most recent
album, Fight Songs, has been getting a bit of press due to its
barenakedladyesque production values, but I'm still
a sucker for the west-texas-meets-pop feel of
Too
Far To Care, and lead singer Rhett Miller's
songs about drinking and girls. to Music by peterb |
| Friday Aug 27, 1999 | When you just can't get enough of strident, freakish, poorly written books, obviously the only this to do is to make videogames out of them. to Games by peterb |
| Play Spot the Jew (requires Flash) on the website of Marc Alan Jacobs. to Religion by peterb |
| All you freaks who think that all events are secretly controlled and manipulated by the Jewish mafia? You're wrong! They're secretly controlled and manipulated by the lesbian mafia.
to Wackos by peterb |
| Wednesday Aug 25, 1999 | Everyone wants the ultimate 3d card. to Computing by peterb |
| Friday Aug 20, 1999 | I bet you didn't know the Internet had an end. to Internet by peterb |
| Thursday Aug 19, 1999 | Online complaining! About everything! Now these people are on my wavelength! to Culture by peterb |
| Wanna know why I'm so successful at the Hollywood Stock Exchange? It's because I religiously read the Upcoming Movies web site. to Movies by peterb |
| The line between brilliance and madness is sometimes as evident as an eight-lane superhighway. to Wackos by peterb |
| Who let this guy out of therapy to let him overanalyze classic films such as Vertigo and Fellini's 8 1/2? to Movies by peterb |
| Sunday Aug 1, 1999 | The archive of the infamous net.movies antireviews. Be sure to read the fabulous alternative plot for Return of the Jedi. to Movies by peterb |
| I wish I had the skills to build my own subwoofer. to Music by peterb |
| YES! Interplay is making a computer game version of the classic board game Star Fleet Battles!
to Games by peterb |
| The Public DNS service may be useful to you if you're looking for someone to host domain name service for you for free. to Internet by peterb |
| Ed Wegman's personal home page contains some interesting things, like this Christmas story. to Web by peterb |
| Sunday Jul 18, 1999 | Run, coward, run! I live. to Games by peterb |
| Saturday Jul 17, 1999 | You can never have too much obsessive Michael Moorcock worship on the web. At least, that's what the folks at multiverse.org think. to Books by peterb |
| Friday Jul 16, 1999 | Go see Phantom Pulp Menace Fiction, a part of the wonderfully juvenile material at The Food Court.
to Movies by peterb |
| Wednesday Jul 14, 1999 | If you like to party, and you like infectious pop dance music, you need to visit the Vengaboys web site. Requires shockwave for the full impact of Lion Kim, Roy Loverboy, D-Nice, and NRG Robin. Oh, also, stop surfing the web and get out somewhere and dance already! to Music by peterb |
| Finally, an internet-based Rube Goldberg-like "service" for people without alarm clocks. to Web by peterb |
| Thursday Jul 8, 1999 | Hypercool doesn't even begin to describe Matt Madden's comic-strip experiment Exercise in Style. I especially liked this one. to Comics by peterb |
| Friday Jul 2, 1999 | You definitely have to read the best review of South Park, the movie, thus far. to Movies by peterb |
| Tuesday Jun 29, 1999 | On my planet, all the Christians go to Landover Baptist Church, where they worry about kids masturbating with 7 foot tall Jar-Jar Binks dolls. to Religion by peterb |
| Sunday Jun 27, 1999 | Meditate on the epistemology of Sinistar. to Games by peterb |
| Look. You need to realize that freakish rabid Christians and freakish rabid Satanists or Antichristians are exactly the same thing. This guy doesn't. to Wackos by peterb |
| Saturday Jun 26, 1999 | Because inside every man is a little British pig squealing "Oink! Oink! Oink!" trying to get out. to Sex by peterb |
| Scott McCloud, creator of Zot! has a fabulous online comics page, including the add-a-panel adventures of Carl.
This is just incredible.
to Comics by peterb |
| Friday Jun 25, 1999 | How to talk to your kids about blowfish. to Humor by peterb |
| Thursday Jun 24, 1999 | When I can't remember the difference between Mnemnosyne and Mneme, I turn to the wonderful Encyclopedia Mythica. to Literature by peterb |
| Wednesday Jun 23, 1999 | Jack's Candy Shoppe has lots of porn for people who like watching other people have sex with dwarves. to Sex by peterb |
| Friday Jun 18, 1999 | The ever serious Leave Gary Coleman Alone! page.
to Television by peterb |
| Thursday Jun 17, 1999 | They seem to share my sense of the Wacko Esthetic
over at losers.org.
For instance, I don't think I have enough bad things to say about vaguely creepy Tolkien crunchy people who name their kid Faelan Aragorn and then send him out to lure others into their world of unending horror. to Wackos by peterb |
| Tuesday Jun 15, 1999 | I just can't express how grateful I am to
Disney for
deleting the hideous and evil-sounding love scene from Tron. to Sex by peterb |
| More reasons Italy is better than Great Britain:
Italy elects Cicciolina to their Parliament.
Britain elects Mrs. Widdecombe, the Virgin Troll to theirs.
to Politics by peterb |
| Friday Jun 11, 1999 | You know, if I didn't use ICQ, I would never find URL's like Ab's Beanie Baby Page. to Culture by peterb |
| Wednesday Jun 9, 1999 | Cat freaks everywhere rejoice at the super Feline Conservation Center website. to Pets by peterb |
| Because you never know when you'll need to know what month it is
in the fabulous world of Space: 1999! to Television by peterb |
| Thursday Jun 3, 1999 | An online help for parents looking for that distinctive
name that says "I'm a Utah Mormon!" to Wackos by peterb |
| Tuesday Jun 1, 1999 | Actually, I pretty much grew up watching all sorts of
racist cartoons. to Comics by peterb |
| I plan to invest my share of the croesian profits from the wildly anticipated Memepool IPO to
buy my dream home.
to Gadgets by peterb |
| Friday May 28, 1999 | My latest toy is an EarthMate
GPS Receiver, along with the hyper-spiffy
Street Atlas USA software from DeLorme.
After using it, I was intrigued by the idea of GPS, and found
an interesting tutorial (requires Shockwave). And so, having submitted an item
which mentions commercial products, heartily endorses a superb piece of
non-GPL software, and points to a web site which uses non-Lynx compatible
technology, I am going to go on my Memorial Day.
vacation and wait for the hate mail.
to Gadgets by peterb |
| Tuesday May 25, 1999 | I bet you didn't realize that crabs have a Bible. Well,
they do. to Religion by peterb |
| Friday May 21, 1999 | Got hype?
The humor potential of The Phantom Menace
begins to unfold. to Media by peterb |
| Thursday May 20, 1999 | The truly fantabulous Michael Moore, writer director of
Roger & Me, now has a
television show which is doing
some of the most hard hitting and
sometimes absurd
and informative TV possible. to Television by peterb |
| Monday May 17, 1999 | The web site of babelicious
Ellen Pronk, in her guise of Ellen, Architect of
Change is bit rough at the edges, but worth searching through for
some of the more
mindbending moments.
to Web by peterb |
| Saturday May 15, 1999 | I recently went to Disney's Treasure Island and was somewhat depressed to
discover how much fun it was. Thus, I was happy to find this superb (and
comprehensive)
literature review on academic criticisms of Disney theme parks by a professor of
cultural studies and sociology. Don't miss the bibliography. to Travel by peterb |
| I respect low tech solutions to high tech problems, like this emergency charger
for the Palm V. to Gadgets by peterb |
| I love my cat very much, so please don't think I'm coldhearted for passing on
this strange combination of pictures
of feline roadkill and poetry. Don't visit this site if you are squeamish. The author's
somewhat highfalutin'
explanation of his intention can be visited without trauma. to Art by peterb |
| Friday May 14, 1999 | A somewhat nifty web site for the aspiring Italian wannabe.
They've got a particularly nice list of videos. to Culture by peterb |
| I am neither a Microsoft basher or booster --
I've always felt that the question of what OS you run is much less interesting than
what you run on it -- but I did enjoy this site
which proves once again that whenever you're looking for someone to cross the
line between strongly-held beliefs and ludicrous over-the-top hyperbole,
the objectivists will always be there.
to Wackos by peterb |
| Thursday May 13, 1999 | Wow. This person's web design skills make me
very, very happy. Someone hire her. to Web by peterb |
| Tuesday May 11, 1999 | Now if only memepool followed the Style Guide for Authoring
Hypertext Content for Mobile Devices (or had an alternate page that did),
then the Avantgo Channel I created for
use on my Palm Pilot would be even more impossibly nifty.
to Computing by peterb |
| Now you can listen to some of the excellect rare on-air tracks
from KCRW's groundbreaking show Morning Becomes Eclectic. to Music by peterb |
| Saturday May 8, 1999 | A comprehensive list of mondegreens,
otherwise known as misheard lyrics. to Music by peterb |
| Chinese is hard. to Linguistics by peterb |
| The Power Puff Girls and
Shonen Knife.
Coincidence?
to Culture by peterb |
| An interesting history of videogames before Pong. to Games by peterb |
| Monday May 3, 1999 | Cosmic Encounter is a classic board
game from the mid-70s, and is still loads of fun to play. Amazingly, you can
now play Cosmic Encounter online. to Games by peterb |
| Thursday Apr 29, 1999 | We are living in a world gone mad. "I have no
place to live, but I have a web site."
to Culture by peterb |
| If you are easily nauseated or don't like gross pictures, please, for god's sake
do not, under any circumstances, visit this web site about fatalities on and around train tracks.
to Transportation by peterb |
| Sunday Apr 25, 1999 | Brian Johnson's superb Killer List
of Videogames will help you recapture the misspent hours of your youth. Why, it
even helped me identify the extremely obscure, nearly unplayable, and oh so fondly
remembered Starship I
(Atari, 1976).
Of course, once you know the name of a videogame you played when
you were 7 years old, it's easy
to find lots of cool images of it on the web. (Yes, I actually remember playing Atari's
Hercules pinball
game, 7 feet tall and with a cue ball as the pinball.
to Games by peterb |
| Saturday Apr 24, 1999 | For my next gift, Alert Memepool Readers should send me the Nikon
Coolpix 950 digital camera. Thanks in advance! to Gadgets by peterb |
| Thursday Apr 22, 1999 |
Now that web sites of organizations that deal with the US Government must
comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, perhaps you should use
Bobby validation service to verify whether your web site is accessible to the visually or
aurally impaired. It looks like memepool is entitled to use the Bobby Approved icon.
to Web by peterb |
| Sunday Apr 18, 1999 | Following up on my earlier item about anamorphic widescreen versus pan-and-scan,
here's an excellent
tutorial that uses Shockwave Flash to demonstrate the interaction between
a film's source media and your viewing device. to Movies by peterb |
| Saturday Apr 17, 1999 | You can never have too many intelligent agents.
I've found that Amazon.com's recommendation service just isn't doing it for me, so now I am in search of something as good as the defunct Ringo project (which eventually became
firefly to recommend music to me. It looks like MovieCritic might
be one possible solution for cinema, though. to Web by peterb |
| Friday Apr 16, 1999 | The Virtual Autopsy lets you
indulge your fantasies of being Quincy, forensic pathologist. You can also get a
detailed description of the
autopsy process for screenwriters. These and other fine links are available
from the freaks at autopsies.com
to Health by peterb |
| Like Mr. Cranky for television,
TV Go Home follows the
philosophy of "If you can't say something devastatingly cutting, don't say anything
at all." to Television by peterb |
| Thursday Apr 15, 1999 | Jeez, give slashdot a break, stop going to macsurfer, and give up on technology for a while.
Why not play the Art Game instead? to Art by peterb |
| Pocket Skeleton is the web site of
freelance illustrator Elise Soroka. Check out their gallery. My
favorite works of hers combine
a spare line, stylized design, and an emotional intensity nearly hidden by her disarming
use of color.
to Art by peterb |
| If you find yourself in a
deep karma canyon, why not visit Bob Mould's
web site, and find out what's going through the mind of the creative visionary
behind seminal wall-of-noise band
Hüsker Dü?
to Music by peterb |
| Wednesday Apr 14, 1999 | Fight the Man by violating the "strict press embargo" on the news of the
discovery of a triple planet
system orbiting Upsilon Andromedae.
to Science by peterb |
| Tuesday Apr 13, 1999 | The Internet Junkbuster Proxy is
yet another anonymizer -- and as a bonus, it can filter banner ads from the pages
you're viewing, as well. Be sure to browse junkbusters
web site for more information on ways to get rid of junk e-mail, telemarketing calls,
and other privacy-invading marketing techniques. to Web by peterb |
| Please make sure that all sexual activity you engage in or film conforms to this
classification scheme. Thank you. to Sex by peterb |
| Monday Apr 12, 1999 | I'm not usually impressed by extreme body modification, but I'll give serious points to the twins
who transplanted one twin's arm
onto the other's body. to Wackos by peterb |
| Thursday Apr 8, 1999 | Must... shop... more! to Commerce by peterb |
| In the "so strange I'm not sure how to categorize it" department, former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop now has a
health care network from someone you trust. to Health by peterb |
| Wednesday Apr 7, 1999 | Does this make you horny, baby? Grateful memepool readers
may feel free to purchase this Goldwing
alternative for me.
to Gadgets by peterb |
| Tuesday Apr 6, 1999 | You should buy one of the coolest
T-shirts ever.
to Commerce by peterb |
| Friday Apr 2, 1999 | Noam Chomsky's take on the current crisis in Kosovo. to Politics by peterb |
| Thursday Apr 1, 1999 | Are your powers of observation good enough to figure out how this
misspelling of "amazon.com" is profitable to the domain owners?
to Commerce by peterb |
| Wednesday Mar 31, 1999 |
Christianity is stupid.
Communism is good.
Give up. One of the most innovative bands (or, really, performance artists) of the 80s and 90s, Negativland will educate you on intellectual property issues, why U2 sucks, and give you access to Pastor Dick's jukebox. Makes extensive use of the newly-discovered primary color, squant. to Music by peterb |
| Tuesday Mar 30, 1999 | Some people take "Mad Max" way
too seriously. to Movies by peterb |
| Thursday Mar 25, 1999 | Anamorphic widescreen, letterbox, pan-and-scan, 1.66:1, 1.33:1 1.78:1. Confused? So was
I, until I read the article How Film is Transferred
To Video. A must for anyone considering a DVD player. Also, visit the
Letterbox and Widescreen Advocacy Page (which will soon be moving to
www.widescreen.org.
to Movies by peterb |
| Reject the jingoism of the US propaganda machine.
Find out what's really going on in Serbia from your friends at
the Voice of Russia. Requires RealAudio. to Politics by peterb |
| Wednesday Mar 17, 1999 | So I'm in a Lovecraftian mood. Be sure to check out
the reader's guide to the Cthulhu Mythos,
as well as the thoroughly evil Lovecraft Tarot.
to Literature by peterb |
| Iä! Iä! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young! to Wackos by peterb |
| For this weekend, Firenze, Italy is the capital of
the Internet. Requires the Shockwave plugin. to Web by peterb |
| Tuesday Mar 16, 1999 | More proof that if you are obsessive you can justify any damn fool theory. See,
James Cameron's Titanic was really an homage to Kubrick's The Shining. Also,
I am Marie of Roumania. to Movies by peterb |
| Monday Mar 15, 1999 | Ouch. The Anal Fissure Self-Help page. to Science by peterb |
| Sunday Mar 14, 1999 | A generic java framework for creating conquer the universe
games such as Masters
of Orion or Spaceward Ho!. to Games by peterb |
| Whether you want your soccer news in
English, Italian,
Spanish,
Portuguese,
Czech,
Swedish, or
Hungarian, you can get it from one place.
SoccerAge is a collaboration between
Rete! Srl and Sportsline
USA.
to Sports by peterb |
| Saturday Mar 13, 1999 |
Awwwww, won't you let it all hang out?
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin'
world go round. to Sex by peterb |
| For years, I've searched for ways to profit off of the death and misery of others.
Perhaps the viatical settlement is my big chance? to Economics by peterb |
|
Perhaps you've wondered what kind of person
creates online comic strips about computer geeks.
Now you can find out. Make sure you don't miss his
poetry, either. to Comics by peterb |
| Tuesday Mar 9, 1999 | Now, rather than wandering the web aimlessly until you luck out, you can find
out which operas are playing in Milan (or any other music event in any other city in the world) at a glance.
to Music by peterb |
| Saturday Mar 6, 1999 |
Find out just how pissed off Italians
are about Marine Captain Ashby being found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter. to Media by peterb |
| Monday Mar 1, 1999 | An interesting smorgasbord of very well processed nudes
intermixed with things like interesting and accurate articles
about layer 2 telco technologies such as DS1/T1 service.
to Culture by peterb |
| Really, more men should try to figure out what
the best position to have sex in is, given their needs. Ejaculation control? MIN please!
to Sex by peterb |
| Friday Feb 26, 1999 | Ever see the guy who walks back and forth downtown with a sandwich board
decrying the powers-that-be for stealing his soul?
Well, now he has
a web site.
to Politics by peterb |
| Tuesday Feb 9, 1999 | Foxy is as Foxy does. to Sex by peterb |
| Thursday Feb 4, 1999 | An excellent article on the
legality of creating and using emulators. to Computing by peterb |
| Monday Feb 1, 1999 | Hacking Barney.
to Robotics by peterb |
| Remember that guy in your class who took too much acid and was convinced
that "Sesame Street" was beamed directly from the Orbital Mind Control Lasers?
Well, now he works at Transparency..
Interesting essays on the psychology of TV, cinema, and other popular media.
to Culture by peterb |
| Friday Jan 29, 1999 | Artificial intelligence applied to solve your everday problems at
Forum 2000.
to Computing by peterb |
| For when you need a more alternative web directory,
conveniently organized like an existing one. to Web by peterb |
| Cows! With guns! COWS! WITH GUNS! to Politics by peterb |
| Thursday Jan 28, 1999 | Be sure to show this web page to your
girlfriend. to Sex by peterb |
|
Look, I know you think that you hate the TeleTubbies, but the fact is that if you
ever breed, your children are going to watch it, and before you know it, you're
going to like it. So you may as well try to
protect yourself before it is too late.
to Television by peterb |
| Wednesday Jan 27, 1999 | Don't sit around wondering what type of drugs to take when listening to Motorhead!
Ask Lemmy! to Music by peterb |
| On my planet, all the magazines are like
Chickenhead. to Humor by peterb |
| Monday Jan 25, 1999 | Data mining in action. Find out how much the world values you when you
construct your own
public opinion poll. to Memetics by peterb |
| The ever vigilant Cheese Reporter brings you up
to the minute news on events such as the
World Cheese Contest. to Food by peterb |
| Saturday Jan 23, 1999 | I was always dissapointed as a kid that my favorite Japanese movie monster
Gamera never fought Godzilla. But now, there's
strange fan fictionto
come to my rescue. Remember, "Godzilla vs. Gamera" is a trademark of Matt Lutes. I'm
sure neither Daiei Corp., Toho Corp., or Sony have a problem with that. to Movies by peterb |
| Wednesday Jan 20, 1999 | The article may be about
testicular cancer but the
photograph is begging for a better caption. to Sex by peterb |
| Tuesday Jan 19, 1999 | Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus
Latinus
alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes! to Linguistics by peterb |
| Monday Jan 18, 1999 |
You know, it's important to realize that folks with
embarrassing viral conditions need love too.
to Sex by peterb |
| There's no reason to be blue when you can be a part of Tonya's life. to Culture by peterb |
| Tuesday Jan 12, 1999 |
Stop wallowing in your own self-pity! Try
wallowing in someone else's for a while.
"Net Loss" is PigDog Journal's special report
on the breakup of "Net Celebrity" Kim Rollins and NeXT/MacOS X Server software company
OmniGroup founder Will Shipley. After going through
this sad vale of tears, you may feel the urge to bathe.
to Culture by peterb |
| Monday Jan 11, 1999 | For the hacker who has everything except the ability to take your laptop on a trip without 10
damn CD's from games that require them to start even though they installed 640 megabytes
on your hard drive, be sure to visit Fravia's Pages of Reverse
Engineering. Everything you need to start retroactively improving the software you've
paid for.
to Computing by peterb |
| Saturday Jan 9, 1999 | US Web founder steps
down because of his campaign to prove that many high tech advances,
such as semiconductors, came from aliens. to Wackos by peterb |
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