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| Tuesday Oct 10, 2006 | Democrats looking to align their politics with their investment dollars can not only vote Blue, they can now invest Blue with the first 'no Republicans' socially-responsible mutual fund, named appropriately The Blue Fund. to Finance by pjammer |
| Thursday Oct 5, 2006 | With the rising price of gasoline, road-trips can be expensive without carpools. Ridester offers matchmaking services for drivers and those willing to pay for gas between major cities. to Web by pjammer |
| Tuesday Aug 29, 2006 | With two films about turn-of-the-century stage magicians released in the space of as many months (The Illusionist and The Prestige) tickets to magic shows are enjoying a resurgence in popularity. Cheap slackers too lazy to go find our own show (or those of you who can't get an invitation to The Magic Castle), rejoice! Thanks to YouTube, you can enjoy some jaw-dropping illusions from the comfort of your own home with Paper Butterfly, Burger Thief or watch Penn & Teller expose a classic illusion on national television. to Art by pjammer |
| Wednesday May 24, 2006 | Surviving the gauntlet of MCATs and medical school applications does little to prepare you for the daunting task of choosing your M.D. specialty. Undecided students can now refer to this handy guide to determine which medical profession best fits their personality. to Humor by pjammer |
| Sunday May 7, 2006 | Admit it, like most movie/game/music geeks, even your favorite game, DVD or CD was likely gathering dust a few weeks after you bought them. Sure, you could sell them for less than half what you paid ... but now you can now trade them for fresh content with other movie/game/music fans using LendMonkey, at a dollar a pop. to Commerce by pjammer |
| Thursday Jan 5, 2006 | The popularity of 50 Cent has given rise to spin-offs that range from Jewish Hip-Hop to 80s Pop mixups. to Music by pjammer |
| Monday Oct 3, 2005 | The Passion: Reloaded. "Jesus Christ!" "Exactly." Not to be confused with Kill Christ. to Religion by pjammer |
| Wednesday Aug 31, 2005 | Amid one of the worst natural disasters in recent memory, an ex-Green Beret is blogging live updates from a fortified position in the DirectNIC data center. to News by pjammer |
| Monday Jun 6, 2005 | Interpretive Arson presents Dance Dance Immolation ... an adaptation of Dance Dance Revolution, but with fire! When you do well, the computer shoots big propane blasts up into the air ... when you do
poorly, it shoots you in the face with flamethrowers. to Wackos by pjammer |
| Monday May 9, 2005 | Ihr Papieren, bitte! This Tuesday, the U.S. Senate will vote on the creation of Real ID (cleverly appended to a politically popular appropriations bill) that will effectively create a national ID card. Concerned? Get in touch with your senators and let them know what you think. to Politics by pjammer |
| Thursday Apr 28, 2005 | Bevan Barton's accomplishments and intention to ride 16,000 miles across the planet in a fundraising campaign against AIDS would be impressive at any age; all the more astonishing is the fact that he is still in high school and intends to begin his adventure at age 18. to Sports by pjammer |
| Thursday Mar 24, 2005 | Jim Meskimen, the voice of George Bush and John Kerry in the 'fowarded-by-everyone-and-their-mothers' flash movie This Land, has an extensive background in voiceovers, theater and film. His website, Applied Silliness features hysterical audio skits and weekly caption contest cartoon blog. to Humor by pjammer |
| Tuesday Mar 15, 2005 | Son of a steelworker and cleaning lady, Keith Ferrazzi was born into a blue-collar world of long hours and low wages. How he ended up being the youngest elected partner at Deloitte Consulting and personal friends with some of the most powerful business and political players in the nation was the subject of an Inc. Magazine article, The 10 Secrets of a Master Networker. To most people, "networking" is a dirty word - summoning images of grubby 'here's-my-card' hustlers who can't remember your name, or recently-downsized professionals desperately pinging friends for job leads. By way of contrast, Ferrazzi's new book Never Eat Alone shares the principles behind building powerful personal and professional relationships; Ferrazzi's blog provides book excerpts and weekly networking tips. to Books by pjammer |
| Thursday Mar 3, 2005 | I'm a robot, programmed not to know ... that I'm a robot but some bonehead emailed me the computer code that makes up my soul ... now I'm running around trying to forget what I know. - Pete Miser to Music by pjammer |
| Wednesday Jan 5, 2005 | "... over the years I started noticing a really strange trend. Many of the photos follow the same form: a picture of a person in the foreground, and on the background, a GIANT HEAD. Now, that's a clever picture once or twice, but it was happening so often that it really caught my attention. Was it always the same photographer? No, it turns out, it's not. So my best guess at this point is that one of the photo editors just has a GIANT HEAD fetish of some kind." to Humor by pjammer |
| Monday Dec 6, 2004 | American voters dissapointed by the election results of 2004 won't need to wait until 2008 to make their voices heard; while you can only cast your ballot blue every four years, you can vote with your wallet and Buy Blue every day. to Politics by pjammer |
| Wednesday Nov 24, 2004 | The commercial and critical success of BMW Films spawned a raft of imitation projects from their competitors, most notable of which is Mercedes-Benz who hired Michael Mann and Benicio Del Toro to film a 'trailer' for the nonexistent film 'Lucky Star' (for inexplicable reasons, the movie files and web presence of Lucky Star have been removed since early 2003, but copies can still be found via google) Encouraged by the enthusiastic response and buzz from the online community, Mercedes continued to bankroll indie-film projects and recently released the haunting and whimsical short film The Porter, starring British actor Max Beesley and Hungarian beauty Anna Maria Cseh. to Movies by pjammer |
| Monday Aug 2, 2004 | Jewish Hip-Hop was just the beginning ... rapper Raj offers music from da Pakistani 'hood as The Punjabi Rapper. to Music by pjammer |
| Sunday Jul 11, 2004 | Ever Wonder what would happen if the two American Presidential candidates duel it out singing to the tune of Woody Guthrie's classic 'This Land' (*.ram file) in a Flash movie? Neither did I. to Flash by pjammer |
| Friday Jun 11, 2004 | Automotive journalist Robert Farago combines the wry insouciance of P.J. O'Rourke and irreverent humor of Hunter S. Thomson. Farago's website, The Truth About Cars offers whimsical cultural commentary in its lively reviews of new cars.
to Reference by pjammer |
| Sunday May 30, 2004 | Those wary of the nearly-three hour runtime of Troy can still enjoy a recap of its highlights: Troy in 15 Minutes.
to Movies by pjammer |
| Saturday Feb 21, 2004 | Though not acknowledged in polite company, it's an open secret that a significant fraction of internet traffic is devoted to the search and downloading of smut. While Google is still the search engine of choice for conventional queries, the limitations of their Image Search function leaves a vacuum that Xahara hopes to fill with their dedicated spidering of adult-image galleries. to Internet by pjammer |
| Thursday Feb 12, 2004 | Unlike the overwrought Spielberg/Kubrik robot-themed opus, indie filmmaker Greg Pak's delightfully clever Robot Stories weaves sentimentality without shmaltz, offering compelling drama of birth, love, loss and death through four vignettes. to Movies by pjammer |
| Saturday Aug 16, 2003 | Jewish Hip Hop artist 50 Shekel may not have the audience of 50 Cent but ... wait. JEWISH HIP-HOP!? to Music by pjammer |
| Saturday May 17, 2003 | One of the most fascinating and unique pieces of horticultural and printing history are framed seed packets, which were printed nearly a century ago by manual-labor-intensive 1910-era methods that would boggle the imagination of those of us familiar with the modern-day 4-color printing process.
to Art by pjammer |
| Saturday Aug 31, 2002 | Care to buy your own piece of the most bribe-friendly state governor in the Union? Whether you're interested in stopping pesky HMO-reform consumer advocates or big raises at government-enforced monopolies, no bill is considered "too liberal" or "too conservative" for winning bidders. Step right up to eGray and bid on your favorite piece of legislation today! to Humor by pjammer |
| Thursday Aug 29, 2002 | In a transparent attempt to ape the success of its teutonic competitor and their wildly popular BMW Films, Mercedes-Benz hired Michael Mann (director of Heat) to direct the charismatic Benicio Del Toro as the luckiest man alive in Lucky Star. Lucky Star is presented as a movie trailer (though there is no actual movie to speak of) and was first shown in theaters in London along with conventional trailers.
to Movies by pjammer |
| Monday Dec 10, 2001 | Robert Greene (author of
The 48 Laws of Power) chronicles the exploits of great seducers as case studies to illustrate timeless principles of human psychology in The
Art of Seduction. A skeptical female reporter from Nerve.com contacted Greene in a telephone interview to grill him on his approach - and, much to her surprise,
admitted that "Greene charmed my socks off, got me to completely reconsider his approach and advised me regarding flirtation strategies
for a party I was a ttending that night (which worked)."
In addition to a
seductive official website,
Art of Seduction has inspired a online discussion
forum/community on practical applications of seduction principles.
to Books by pjammer |
| Friday Nov 9, 2001 | While the phenomenon (and danger) of Global Warming is generally accepted by the scientific community, there is fierce debate on expensive tactics to dampen its impact. The Ultimax Group proposes the radical and tantalizing idea of employing 390,000 square kilometers of space mirrors, placed in non-Keplerian orbits around
the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point, to intercept enough (~0.25%) sunlight to offset global warming and concomitant rapid climate change.
to Science by pjammer |
| Sunday Oct 28, 2001 | In addition to its diameter, many firearm calibers bear suffix names, which typically describe the cartridge's history or original manufacturer. Common examples include the 9mm Parabellum, the .40 S&W (Smith & Wesson), or the .357 SIG (Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft).
The .577 Tyrannosaur, on the other hand, was named for its insanely high muzzle energy, which tips the scales at 13,700 joules (by way of comparison, the standard high-powered military/sniper .308 rifle cartridge delivers approximately 4,000 joules). While most of us may never experience the shoulder-jarring impact of shooting a gun designed to stop a charging rhino, we can all still snicker at four hapless guys trying their hand at firing a .577 Tyrannosaur-chambered Hannibal hunting rifle.
to Warfare by pjammer |
| Saturday Oct 13, 2001 | "Thunder ... thunder ... thunder THUNDERCATS, HO!!!!!" Those of us who grew up in the 80's will remember that refrain from an after-school animated series starring anthropomorphic cats in a never-ending battle against the evil forces of Mumm-ra. Like anything that appeals to larval geeks, the show has spawned a number of high-quality fansites. There's even a Thundercats: The Movie prank, complete with a teaser poster, a phony press release, a fake interview and a fictional article about Thundercats' ahem "original NC-17 content" involving the lovely Cheetara. But nostalgia is nothing compared to the side-splitting experience of hearing the familiar voices of Lion-O, Snarf and Panthro curse like sailors in the Thundercats outtakes archive. to Television by pjammer |
| Friday Sep 21, 2001 | The history and structure of the Chinese and Japanese languages offer a sharp contrast to the Indo-European languages of most of Europe and the Americas, although they can leave some students quite bitter.
to Linguistics by pjammer |
| Monday Aug 27, 2001 | CyberSEALs, an online community of U.S. Navy SEAL veterans, offers handy tips on How to spot a Navy SEAL faker and dedicates countless man-hours to maintain an updated Wall of Shame (which lists names, contact information and claims of exposed SEAL poseurs). Indeed, CyberSEALs is so serious about hunting down phony SEALs they maintain a 24-hour online response form so you can check up on that stranger or job applicant who brags about being a "former U.S. Navy SEAL," but blows off questions when pressed about details on his military career because they're classified "in the interest of national security." to Warfare by pjammer |
| Monday Aug 13, 2001 | Shockanime's amazing six-minute production Genryu's Blade, pays tribute to some classic science fiction/anime influences, including The Matrix and Voltron. to Flash by pjammer |
| Monday Apr 30, 2001 | Those of us in the shooting community are often aghast at the misuse and grossly inaccurate portrayal of guns in films. At the top of the cringe-list is the popular sideways-held 'gangsta-style' pistol stance.
Birdman Weapon Systems ("Unfriendly Products for an Unfriendly World") is first to capitalize on this trend - and offer gangsta-wannabes with their very own side-mounted Glock-ready HoMeBoY NyTe-SyTeS. And when doing drive-bys on the fools who diss you and your krew are just not enough, you can take they punk asses out wit tha BMG Nuke 50 MicroNuclear Round. Get yours today!
to Warfare by pjammer |
| Tuesday Apr 24, 2001 | Christian Lesbians. It's not a contradiction. Neither are you. to Sex by pjammer |
| Thursday Apr 5, 2001 | When five Asian-American college students with too much time on their hands feel the need to satirize irrationally popular boy-bands, the results can be surprisingly hilarious. Ladies and gentlemen, please give it up for the smoove sounds of ... N'Chink! to Music by pjammer |
| Wednesday Mar 28, 2001 | As a pet owner, you know how much joy and pleasure can be found in the company of animals. Perhaps your empathy for animal life runs deep enough for you to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. Good for you! So why are you still buying conventional pet food? Sure, many people dismiss the idea of dogs and cats adopting a vegetarian diet as "unnatural." But consider: is it any more "natural" for dogs and cats to eat the ground-up remains of factory-farmed meat deemed "unfit for human consumption," like dying, diseased or downed cattle? Perhaps you might consider healthier, cruelty-free alternatives. Take a look beyond commercial supermarkets and you will discover an entire industry catering to the meatless diets of both dogs and cats.
Unfortunately, most of the web resources used by Veterinarians are fee-based (like VIN), precluding links to articles in the formal literature that outline the impact of imposing a vegetarian diet on carnivorous and omnivorous animals. Cat owners take note: one responsible vegetarian organization has an article urging those thinking about a vegetarian diet for their cat to reconsider.
to Pets by pjammer |
| Friday Feb 16, 2001 | Gorgeous, sex-crazed she-demons are after me! Is this a big problem or a adolescent fantasy? Apparently, it's both.
to Wackos by pjammer |
| Wednesday Jan 17, 2001 | Admit it, geek. You can recite the following opening credit voice-over by heart: "The year is 1987, and NASA launches the last of America's deep space probes. In a freak mishap Ranger 3 and its pilot, Captain William 'Buck' Rogers are blown out of their trajectory into an orbit which freezes his life support systems and returns Buck Rogers to Earth ... five hundred years later "
First released in 1979, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century's two-year run enjoyed syndicated play throughout the early/mid-eighties and introduced a generation of teenagers to memorable characters like Twiki and Dr. Theopolis, all the while keeping horomone-crazed adolecent boys glued to their television sets in hopes of catching an extended scene featuring the luscious Col. Wilma Deering (played by actress Erin Gray).
to Television by pjammer |
| Tuesday Dec 5, 2000 | Sumo wrestlers +
Sailor Moon = something
freakishly awful. to Wackos by pjammer |
| Friday Nov 24, 2000 | Married Match, a dating service for married people. As if unmarried people need even more competition.
to Sex by pjammer |
| Sunday Nov 19, 2000 | There's no need to hire expensive geophysicists or New-Agey dowsers when THE LORD tells you where to find profitable oil wells! You heathens would never dream of replacing your petroleum engineers with bible scholars, but that's why you don't work at Ness Energy - founded to "distribute God's SUPERNATURAL WEALTH to God's end-time ministries." Strangely, God's supernatural wealth has not translated into supernatural returns for Ness's shareholders - but we here at memepool are pretty sure it's just God's way of testing the faith of the flock. to Wackos by pjammer |
| Wednesday Nov 15, 2000 | Children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of your womb is a reward! Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of your youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. to Wackos by pjammer |
| Monday Nov 13, 2000 | Taking a cue from those intuitive, well-designed Palm Beach ballots, Amazon devised a totally new way for you to find and discover anything you want to buy online. to Politics by pjammer |
| Saturday Nov 4, 2000 | Think you or your girlfriend is a hottie? Post your portrait on Am I Hot or Not and subject yourself to the cruel mocking abuse of anonymous Internet users. (Tip to get higher ratings: Whiteness, youth, jiggle-factor and suggestive poses/pseudo-nakkidness are key. Like you porn-surfing memepoolistas don't know that already.) to Internet by pjammer |
| Friday Oct 27, 2000 | You're 30,000 feet above sea level in the cabin of Flight 2039 somewhere over the Australian outback. The plane is empty and what you know about piloting a 400-ton commercial airplane can fill a thimble. There's four hours of fuel in the tanks and you are dictating your life story to the aircraft's black box: the only thing that will survive the inevitable crash. You are the last member of the Creedish Suicide cult and protagonist in Chuck Palahniuk's novel Survivor. I know this because Tyler knows this. Packed with the savage apocalyptic intensity of Fight Club, Survivor begins at Chapter 47 and marches relentlessly on a countdown toward zero, telling the tale of a suicide cult's sole survivor, his rise toward fame and free-fall decent to destruction. Stop whatever you're doing and buy/borrow/steal a copy. Now. to Books by pjammer |
| Thursday Oct 26, 2000 | Every time I've voted my conscience, I end up regretting it. So this year, I'm going to give my Presidential vote to the candidate with the hottest daughters. to Politics by pjammer |
| SoulBath: the banner ad is the enemy.
to Art by pjammer |
| Tuesday Oct 24, 2000 | Do you waste countless hours at work surfing bandwidth-wasting crap? Don't let your extracurricular computer use cost you a job - Don's Boss Page offers web-cruising slackers useful downloadables like the one-click panic button as well as helpful tips on how to efficiently waste company resources. to Humor by pjammer |
| Saturday Oct 21, 2000 | When the most well-known single rich guys are girlfriend-beating psychos, twice-divorced overweight actors or pathetic self-absorbed hacks, only the most motivated gold-diggers still want to marry a millionaire. Since we now know that money's not everything and technology geeks will rule the future, Who Wants to Marry a SysAdmin? to Wackos by pjammer |
| Sunday Oct 15, 2000 | Most of us have have friends who resemble their pets, but probably not as much as these people.
to Pets by pjammer |
| Monday Oct 9, 2000 | With a forged resume and a modicum of bluffing skills, it's not difficult for an enterprising blowhard to fast-talk one's way into technical jobs he's unqualified for. Nontechnical manager dilemma: how do you efficiently cull competent employees from an applicant pool populated by both genuine gearheads and tech-poseurs? Enter BrainBench, an online technical aplitude testing service. Send applicants to the site and measure how much they really know about ASP, Oracle 8i or Javascript and you'll have a better sense of their skillset before their first day of work.
to Commerce by pjammer |
| Sunday Oct 1, 2000 | Hate annoying banner ads from evil, privacy-violating online advertisers?
AdSubtract
offers us the means to screen banner ads, cookies and other cache-clogging commercial products. to Internet by pjammer |
| Friday Sep 1, 2000 | Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) the international agricultural-products giant, is probably best known to most people by its "Supermarket to the World" ads. More than a multibillion-dollar food producer, ADM was ringleader in a 1995 worldwide price-rigging scheme that resulted in over $70 million of fines. While corporate skullduggery is depressingly common, ADM's case was unusual: a senior ADM executive VP agreed to become a undercover witness, and recorded boardroom deals for the FBI for almost a year before the firm was charged.
The Informant, a facinating chronicle of corporate greed and James-Bond antics of ADM's wire-wearing VP, reads more like a high-wire, double-dealing, dirty-tricks spy story than the nonfiction account it is.
to Books by pjammer |
| Sunday Aug 6, 2000 | So. Not interested in paying to watch a wife-beating football pro lie his ass off online? Keep your credit card in your pocket and ask OJ to f*ck off.
to Humor by pjammer |
| Wednesday Jul 26, 2000 | So. Interested in paying $7.95 to a wife-beating football pro lie his ass off online? Get your credit card out and Ask OJ. (Hurry, prices go up to $9.95 on July 27th) to Wackos by pjammer |
| Sunday Jul 23, 2000 | Pray to Jesus, make a wish. to Religion by pjammer |
| What is the best way to increase traffic to your site? Search engine placements? Blase. Spam? Sure, if you want to be ping-flooded by angry users. Banner ads? Too expensive. Infect yourself with athlete's foot and chronicle your day-to-day activities online? Of course! to Wackos by pjammer |
| Saturday Jul 22, 2000 | Smokedot.org: News for Stoners. Stuff that ... uhh ... whatever. to Drugs by pjammer |
| Thursday Jul 20, 2000 | Society for Future Husbands of Britney Spears: as ambitious and pathetic as it sounds.
to Sex by pjammer |
| Sunday Jul 16, 2000 | The Kama Sutra of Pooh. There goes another sweet childhood memory corrupted by perverts on the Internet. to Sex by pjammer |
| Monday Jun 26, 2000 | What seperates the merely competent from the genius? Malcolm Gladwell's long but fascinating essay profiling world-class performers at the top of their games sheds some light on how the Wayne Gretzkys, Yo-Yo Mas and Tony Gwynns of the world become what they are.
to Commentary by pjammer |
| Friday Jun 23, 2000 | Do you write erotica? Be sure to avoid the lame cliches of alt.sex.stories when writing your masterpiece. to Humor by pjammer |
| Wednesday Jun 21, 2000 | When your dog goes bodyboarding, be sure to dress him in a K-9 Topcoat. to Pets by pjammer |
| Wednesday Jun 14, 2000 | My name is Brad. Please buy my wisdom teeth. to Wackos by pjammer |
| Tuesday Jun 13, 2000 | If you've been online long enough to remember the phrase "September Stupidity," it's likely you've been forwarded the Darwin Awards story of the speed-crazed man who strapped a JATO rocket to his car and met his untimely demise after underestimating the boost and smashing into the face of a canyon. Fact or urban legend? Alas, it's just a yarn - the history of the Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner-inspired meme is chronicled online. to Memetics by pjammer |
| Friday Jun 9, 2000 | Those of us who grew up in the 80s can't help but notice the visual similarity between upcoming movie Titan A.E. and the laserdisk game Space Ace. It's not your imagination - the prolific Don Bluth was the chief artist of Space Ace as well as director/animator of Titan A.E. Well-respected in animation circles, Bluth holds production credits on dozens of high-powered animation projects including An American Tale and Land Before Time. to Movies by pjammer |
| Monday May 29, 2000 | The rudest search engine online is appropriately named SearchBastard. to Internet by pjammer |
| Sunday May 28, 2000 | prawnography.net gives nautical perverts their daily fix of hot, hardcore/amateur images of your favorite marine life doing the wild thing. There's even Gay Prawn for marine fetishers who swing the other way. to Humor by pjammer |
| Saturday May 20, 2000 | When geeks finally log off for some R&R in real life, the game of choice is Chess. But why bother with a boring conventional game when you can tweak the board and play an eccentric variation of the classic?The Chess Variants Page offers a links/rules to known Chess permutations, including The 3-D Chess game from Star Trek, Cooley's Hexaganol Chess and the 104-square Omega Chess. Take THAT, Deep Blue! to Games by pjammer |
| Want a intricate, AD&D-inspired web game to occupy your time between the hours between coffee breaks at work? ArchMage is a turn-based interactive simulation casting players as reincarnated magic-users turned loose on the planet of Terra. With one of the most complex rules book in existence, it's already attracted thousands of hardcore RPG geeks from around the world. to Games by pjammer |
| Tuesday May 9, 2000 | Nobody here at memepool is surprised that the gold-digging opportunists rejected by girlfriend-beating "millionaire" Rick Rockwell don't have the good sense to go the hell away. So Who Wants to Marry the Millionaire Ladies? Hi, I'm a shameless hussy and "alumni" of Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire trolling for a suger daddy. Call me if you're rich, baby. Please, dear God, do not let them breed. to Sex by pjammer |
| Sunday May 7, 2000 | When your belief system compels you to contradict dozens of established scientific facts, there are naturally plenty of things that will annoy you. Things Creationists Hate is a whimsical collection of biological and geological realities that fly in the face of those who insist the earth is 6000 years old. to Memetics by pjammer |
| Tuesday May 2, 2000 | Today's online time-waster comes from the good folks at PimpWar. New to the world of wide-brimmed hats, gold chains and fur-lined lowriders? The Pimp's Bible tells you everything a neophyte pimp needs to know about manage his hoes, trading crack, ordering hits on rival pimps and forming alliances with other online playaz. to Games by pjammer |
| If the V-Chip were applied to the Bible, would Fundementalist Christians be so enthusiastic about supporting it? to Religion by pjammer |
| Thursday Apr 27, 2000 | Readers who loved Ender's Shadow will be happy to know Orson Scott Card won't make readers wait another decade for more stories from Battle School alumni. Shadow of the Hegemon is scheduled to be released in January 2001 - and, like its predecesor, its first five chapters can be read online. In related news, Jake (Anakin Skywalker) Lloyd has agreed to sign on to a movie adaptation of Ender's Game once the script is greenlighted by a studio. to Books by pjammer |
| Saturday Apr 15, 2000 | While some blame the dramatic decline in life expectancy of Russian citizens on vodka or deep-seated structural problems in modern Russian society, I place the blame squarely on the shoulder of the horrible-looking Palms' Potted Meat. to Food by pjammer |
| Thursday Apr 13, 2000 | Although the exhortations of wacky bible-belt institutions impede intelligent discussion on the topic, interracial dating is an unresolved and emotionally charged issue worth thinking about. Why, for instance, are Asian men and Black women so unhappy with interracial relationships? One of the most thoughtful essays on this powderkeg is Steve Sailer's feature column in National Review entitled Is Love Colorblind? to Commentary by pjammer |
| Friday Apr 7, 2000 | You're a single, dot-com gazillionaire, trying to spend all your inflated stock options before they crash back to earth. Sure you can hire some modestly attractive escort to get your rocks off. But why do that when, a few dollars more, you can get yourself an Educated Escort, who provides entertaining pillow talk after the deed? to Sex by pjammer |
| Wednesday Jan 5, 2000 | Maxim Magazine, a men's-interest monthly filled with some of the sharpest, most irreverant writing I've seen, also has an equally well-designed webzine edition for cheap bastards who won't subscribe to the print version. Favorite pieces of online advice include How do I get the girl I want to drop the limp-dicked bastard she's with in favor of me? and How do I talk two girls into a threesome before I die? to Media by pjammer |
| Friday Dec 31, 1999 | While many of us consider author Po Bronson to be the sexiest writer alive, apparently there are plenty of malcontents who disagree. to Books by pjammer |
| Like many adults who once dismissed graphic novels as glorified comic books, I was drawn back into the medium through Alan Moore's grim and brilliant Watchmen. Memepool readers who liked Watchmen as much as I did should definitely check out Ralf Hildebrandt's
Annotated Watchmen for a detailed panel-by-panel analysis of plot, cultural references and symbolism within the story. to Comics by pjammer |
| Tuesday Dec 28, 1999 | In the continuing effort to inspire confidence in its products, Microsoft proudly announces upcoming IT Professional Titles to be released in the year 1900. [ Ed. note: The site has been repaired. Happily, we got a screenshot.]
to Humor by pjammer |
| Sunday Dec 26, 1999 | Some people just get annoyed by factual/consistency errors in movies. Others build websites that mock them. to Movies by pjammer |
| Thursday Dec 16, 1999 | Hot hardcore furniture action! to Sex by pjammer |
| Wednesday Dec 8, 1999 | Kyle Baker, one of the most brilliant
comic-book authors/writers alive, may be best known for
Why I Hate Saturn, a
graphic novel laced with some of the most a savagely funny writing in print -
Why do vegetarians spend so much time trying to make vegetables taste like meat? Do
monks buy a lot of inflatable sex dolls?
to Comics by pjammer |
| Friday Dec 3, 1999 | Heads up, geek - the PalmPilot/CellPhone unit has arrived. Read all about it
here.
Yes, I'd like overnight shipping ... $799? Ok, this will be on MasterCard ... to Gadgets by pjammer |
| Never forget a birthday/anniversary or oversleep for a early-morning flight ever again -
iPing's free MrWakeup
/Ms. Reminder service
will call you with a recorded wakeup/reminder call at home or to your cell/pager/office
number) so forgetful goofuses who can't afford personal assistants can better manage our frenzied
schedules without forgetting the important people in our lives. to Internet by pjammer |
| Monday Nov 29, 1999 | Java-powered encrypted webmail? Check. Voice-command-operated email? Check. Personal 800-number voicemail/fax/webmail account? Check. But absent a cool domain, who gives a rip about stupid features like encryption of fax capacities? From now on, my memepool posse can reach me at pjammer@nigga-please.com, thanks to the good folks from Datapimp. to Internet by pjammer |
| Tuesday Nov 23, 1999 | Have a troubled credit history, maybe even a civil judgement or bankruptcy? Sure, you'd love to get a fresh start on life, but going to jail for forging a new identity isn't that appealing. How about stepping into the shoes of the terminally ill after they expire? to Reference by pjammer |
| Monday Nov 22, 1999 | Those of us who use Lexis/Nexis (the world's most comprehensive indexed collection of major global newspapers, academic/law journals, and other such) know how hideously expensive digital archives of copyrighted material can be. Search engine Northern Light not only provides access (for a small fee) to articles in pay-subscription periodicals related to your search query, it also organizes hits by topic-driven folders. to Internet by pjammer |
| Thursday Nov 18, 1999 | Dan Lietha's comics tells us that evolution is a trojan meme from the evil Secular Media designed to corrupt good Christian children and that the Bible is only thing that stands between kids and school violence. to Memetics by pjammer |
| Tuesday Nov 16, 1999 | As a nearly-100% ENTP (Extroverted iNntuitive Thinking Perceiving, according to the Keirsey Temperment Sorter), I find most of the descriptions of ENTPs to be unnervingly accurate. But do you want to find out how different personality types react to pressure? The Personality Type Under Stress site offers surprisingly good insight on how your you, your coworker or life partner deals with conflict.
to Reference by pjammer |
| Thursday Nov 11, 1999 | Command mobile battle suits from the anime classic Gundam into battle with the Gundam/Starcraft Total Conversion. to Games by pjammer |
| The most influential (and imitated) cornerstone of fantasy fiction, Tolkien's epic Lord of the Rings, is coming to theaters! Shot entirely on location in New Zealand, the filmmakers will produce Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King simultaneously, as though they were all one continuous motion picture production.
to Movies by pjammer |
| Tuesday Nov 9, 1999 | Be an alpha male - or just date like one.Don Steele, author of How to Date Young Women (for Men over 35) offers Machiavellian, politically-incorrect advice for aspiring lotharios of all stripes.
to Sex by pjammer |
| Sunday Nov 7, 1999 | One of the unintended (and most destructive) consequences of politicians' "get tough on crime" posturing are what is known as Mandatory Minimums. Convicted of rape? 7 years, with time off for good behavior. Caught with five marijuana plants? 10 years, no parole. Sound fair? Families Against Mandatory Minimums is a national organization working to repeal state/federal mandatory sentencing laws that remove judicial discretion. to Law by pjammer |
| Friday Nov 5, 1999 | The theme of nearly everyone's prom who graduated from high school in mid 80s to early 90s was Alphaville's "Forever Young." Unfairly dismissed as a "one-hit wonder" band, Alphaville is still alive and kicking with new material as well as remixes of old favorites like Big in Japan. to Music by pjammer |
| Tuesday Nov 2, 1999 | Don't let those pesky skeptics with their fancy-pants science books and empirical facts upset your faith - Christian Answers offers scientific-sounding justifications for creationism and other areas where the bible contradicts science. to Memetics by pjammer |
| Friday Oct 29, 1999 | Is it just me, or are some of the Goth
Babe of the Week not really a 'babes' no matter how generously you define that term?
to Wackos by pjammer |
|
The Talented Mr. Ripley is one of the most disturbing yet mesmerizing books I've read. Starring a
brilliant sociopath as its protagonist, the story rides the edge of macabre as only a well-told story through the eyes of a
human predator can. Apparently, Miramax/Paramount Pictures has been busy shooting the movie version to be released this winter - but fans of psychological thrillers should
still read the book before you go to the theater. to Books by pjammer |
| Tuesday Oct 26, 1999 | So your atavistic desire to procreate with beautiful women was thwarted by constant rejection? Take heart! You can still bid for their eggs at Ron's Angels. Then again, if you have 50 grand to burn (the opening bid to make babies with Model 99) and still can't land a date - perhaps you shouldn't be in the gene pool after all. to Sex by pjammer |
| Monday Oct 25, 1999 | Michael Lewis, who may be best known for injecting the phrase Big Swinging Dick into the lexicon of business journalism through Liar's Poker (a sardonic report on the rise and fall of Salomon Brothers), has a new book out. The New New Thing is a biographical account of uber-geek Jim Clark and his rocky quest in building SGI, Netscape and Healtheon en route to being the biggest swinging dick in Silicon Valley. to Books by pjammer |
| Saturday Oct 23, 1999 | So. Which
disease of consciousness do you suffer from? to Health by pjammer |
| Does God lie?
Syndicate 23
certainly thinks so. to Religion by pjammer |
| Friday Oct 22, 1999 | During test detonations of atomic bombs during WWII, scientists encountered the electronics-destroying effects of EMPs (Electro Magnetic Pulse). Soon, it was discovered that EMPs can be generated without nuclear weapons. Everything you memepool-reading terrorists ever wanted to know about flux-compression generators and E-bombs can be found here. to Warfare by pjammer |
| Thursday Oct 21, 1999 | The inevitable evolution of online auctions has arrived. eWanted, a "reverse-auction" site, pits sellers against each other to unload the overpriced crap they bought on eBay. to Commerce by pjammer |
| Wednesday Oct 20, 1999 | APBnews: News for cops. Stuff that matters. to Reference by pjammer |
| Ever heard the expression Jesus Christ on a Pogo stick? Ever wonder what that would actually look like? Now you know. to Religion by pjammer |
| Monday Oct 18, 1999 | Ever wonder how long you'll live? If you're the quiet, boring type, you might just live to 100.
On the other hand, if you're like any of us here at memepool, you should be dead already. Want
to find out when you'll croak? Satisfy your morbid curiosity and take the Death
Test. Bonus for sick bastards: If you know something about the unhealthy habits of rich relatives, it's also useful for
calculating the timetables of inheritence windfalls. to Reference by pjammer |
| Can childbirth be pleasureable? Somebody seems to think so. to Sex by pjammer |
| Never got into breakdancing when it was all the rage in the 80's? Fear not - you can still be a retro king and learn the moves online. to Culture by pjammer |
| Friday Oct 15, 1999 | If you're like me (and God help you if you are) losing valuable electronics is a exasperatingly regular event when you're on the road. ReturnMe is the savior of forgetful klutzes - offering stickers with unique ID numbers with the ReturnMe.com url and instructions on how to return your valuables. Your PDA/laptop/cell phone is delivered via FedEx day after it's found, and ReturnMe even offers to broker lost-and-found reward payments to the helpful Samaritians who pick up after you. to Commerce by pjammer |
| Thursday Oct 14, 1999 | PJ O'Rourke, former left-wing peacenix and pot-smoking hippie is now one of the most savagely hilarious libertarian/conservative satirist alive. His best works include the Liberty Manifesto and sardonic primer on US government Parliment of Whores.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - PJ to Politics by pjammer |
| Monday Oct 11, 1999 | According to UN estimates, the human population will reach six billion on October 12, 1999. The World Population Clock counts down (or up, as it were) to six billion. Hardcore eco-activists are using 10-12-99 as a mediagenic opportunity to voice their concerns - but not everyone believes that six billion humans is bad news. Population researcher Frank Furedi's informative essay Six Billion People? Three Cheers offers an optimistic alternative to the grim Malthusian perspective we hear so much about.
to Science by pjammer |
| Friday Oct 8, 1999 | Famous people get arrested too. Find your favorite celebrity criminal at Mugshots. Does Bill Gates too a little too happy in this supposed arrest photo in this 1977 or is it just me? to Internet by pjammer |
| We are always waiting the big event that will change our lives forever -- not to make our lives a paradise, but to give us direction, to find out what our mission is, what is worth struggling for. We are a nation in search of a frontier, and without one, we are overwhelmed by anxiety. - loaded 5x. to Art by pjammer |
| Want to dress just like your favorite TV characters? Have bedroom furniture matching the decor of your favorite show? I don't know what's creepier - obsessive fans who live and breathe syrupy television shows or the cynically enterprising companies who target them. to Television by pjammer |
| Thursday Oct 7, 1999 | eHow: the one-stop FAQs of life. Learn how to find love and romance online and
back out of a date if you didn't like her picture
(you heartless bastard!) and other useful tips. to Reference by pjammer |
| Done correctly, Psychological Operations (or "PSYOPS")
disables your opponent's motivation to fight and resolves military conflicts with minimum bloodshed. One of the most
amusing pieces of PSYOPS during the Gulf War were the subversive messages printed on the back of phony
Iraqi currency.
to Warfare by pjammer |
| Tuesday Oct 5, 1999 | Today's winner in the "scary fanatical devotion to has-been pop-icon" goes to the gentleman in Virgina: We cannot erase Vanilla Ice from our culture, just as we cannot erase forgotten events from our history. Enter this, the largest collection of Vanilla Ice links on the Internet. Vanilla Ice will never die. I won't let him. He lives in me, and I live for him. to Wackos by pjammer |
| Do you know precocious, mathematically-gifted teenagers bored out of their skulls slogging through high school calculus? Point them to Math Camp, an intense and stimulating summer program targeted at bright 13-to-18 year olds. Think you were pretty smart in high school, hotshot? Check out the qualifying quiz that 13-year-olds are passing to get admitted. to Education by pjammer |
| The discipline of Competitive Intelligence, once shrouded with a disreputable patina (on account of incorrect public perception of comp intel as "industrial espionage") is gaining acceptance in corporate America as a legitimate function of strategic planning. To catalyze the acceptance of comp intel in mainstream business, The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals offers FAQs (which explains the rudiments of comp intel to novices) as well as in-depth seminars for business veterans. to Commerce by pjammer |
| The Society of Robotic Combat, like Robotwars, fulfills the childhood dreams of anime-watching geeks of building your own fighting robots for gladitorial combat. to Robotics by pjammer |
| Monday Oct 4, 1999 | As many of you know, search engine Google! ranks its search hits by the number of outside links to the subject of the search query - sidestepping the efforts of self-promoting meta-tag-abusing spamdexers. But what does Google consider to be more evil than Satan himself? to Humor by pjammer |
| Saturday Oct 2, 1999 | New taste-test surveys reveal that five out of six squirrels prefer Budweiser. Brought to you by the wacky hosts of Wierd Pictures Archive.
to Humor by pjammer |
| In the neverending quest of web nerds working to hijack $10,000 servers and transform them into emulators of $5 games, some are more successful than others. The author behind the Java port of Nintendo's classic 1982 LCD handheld Donkey Kong offers one of the most impressive efforts I've seen. to Games by pjammer |
| Friday Oct 1, 1999 | So did the dwarf-tossing scene in UPN's hideous new show
Shasta McNasty give you ideas on how to occupy
your idle hours? There's a jolly dwarf out there who
is happy to let you throw him around in exchange for money. Somebody shoot me.
to Wackos by pjammer |
| Wednesday Sep 29, 1999 | Ever ran across a picture that made you wince? Wonder why they posted it to their
home page? Wonder if they regret it? They will now. to Web by pjammer |
| Tuesday Sep 28, 1999 | Business News Flash:
Microsoft agrees to acquire
Stanford University for
five billion dollars. to Humor by pjammer |
| Doll Soup,
an amusing soap opera starring a trio of Barbie-type dolls, chronicles the oft-cruel
world of beautiful unemployed actresses. In the attempt to further blur the line between reality
and make-believe, the host of Doll Soup allows fans to send email to the plastic actresses
through links on their
biography pages. to Art by pjammer |
| Monday Sep 27, 1999 | A curious hybrid of Hassidic and Christian culture aptly named Jews
for Jesus promotes the acceptance of the Torah, Talmud and New Testament as
divinely inspired texts. Having trouble discussing your new faith with Orthodox friends and
horrified Jewish family? Jews for Jesus also offers
countermemes to defend your
Christian beliefs. to Religion by pjammer |
| With the retirement of comic giants like Bill Watterson, Burke Breathed and Gary Larson,
the only mainstream-distribution comic strip of consistent brilliance is Bill Amend's delightfully wry
Foxtrot. to Comics by pjammer |
| Friday Sep 24, 1999 | God is the provider of all good things to His followers: salvation for the lost, comfort for the sorrowful, healing
for the wounded . . . and
gold tooth fillings for Christians with
bad oral hygiene. to Religion by pjammer |
| Thursday Sep 23, 1999 | Are you a passive-aggressive type with a lot to get off your chest? Need to rip on a troublesome
acquaintance before it physically chokes you up? Let The Insulter
help. to Humor by pjammer |
| Some dentists suggest that daily tongue cleaning can help prevent gum disease, tooth decay and
reduce bad breath by sweeping away bacteria colonies that live in your mouth. While most of us
would consider a $2 toothbrush to be an adequate tool for this task, an ad for the
electric vibrating tongue cleaner confirmed my suspicion that there's no limit to the kinds of needless electronic
gew-gaws rich people will buy. to Gadgets by pjammer |
| Tuesday Sep 21, 1999 | As many of you know, the U.S. Navy SEALs is one of the most
selective and respected military units in the world. Every aspiring SEAL must survive the grueling
BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolitions/SEALs)
training program,
(infamous for weeding out world-class triatheletes/bodybuilders) before becoming a
probationary member and being allowed to attend additional training. Interested in signing on, you
maniac? Apply here. to Warfare by pjammer |
| Reading the alt.locksmithing FAQ
won't make you a master burglar any more than watching
The Godfather will make you a mafia don (protests of well-intentioned parent groups and CDA
advocates notwithstanding) - but it can make law-abiding citizens more aware of
our more obvious security vulnerabilities.
to Reference by pjammer |
| Monday Sep 20, 1999 | One of the most unusual and delightfully entertaining theater/skit troupes is staffed
entirely by an all-deaf crew. What Deafywood's
shorts lack in conventional "dialogue" they make up for with original and
wickedly sardonic material
- especially the side-splitting "John Leno"
spoof.
to Humor by pjammer |
| Saturday Sep 18, 1999 | Unlike the politically-correct, antigun Anti-Defamation League, Jews for the Perservation of Firearms Ownership believes that the best defense against genocide and anti-Semitism is an armed and informed citizenry. Questions about politics, ammo selection or Hassidic law on self defense? JPFO also features a column that lets readers Ask the Rabbi. to Politics by pjammer |
| Everything you ever wanted to know about the impact of digital cash on the shady world of money-laundering. to Law by pjammer |
| One of the most bizzare rituals of American television is an annual rite where young
unmarried women parade their bodies in front of national television to be rated by a panel
of middle-aged men in exchange for cash and prizes. While
Miss America makes a perfuntory nod toward "scholarship," its insistence that contestants be undivorced and pregnancy-free
betray its patriarchial roots: the archaic fantasy of attractive virgin women presenting
themselves for the viewing pleasure the community's alpha males. to Television by pjammer |
| Friday Sep 17, 1999 | The world's smallest nuclear-capable country, indeed the smallest country of any kind, the
Fascist Democratic Dictatorship of Djelibeybi
has long been recognised by all sane people as planet Earth's last, best hope against international Communism. to Humor by pjammer |
| Thursday Sep 16, 1999 | In the insane world where venture-cash-rich internet firms are
knocking over each other to give away free stuff in order to build market share, the only competitive
advantage a startup has is its ability to give away the house faster than its rivals.
uReach.com could very well be the winner of this bizzare
race, offering webmail, a personal 800-number voicemail box and inbound fax capacities for anyone
who logs in. Since its ability to financially sustain itself on pure advertising revenue is laughable,
I suspect they're trolling to get acquired.
to Internet by pjammer |
| Monday Sep 13, 1999 | The secret to a happy life is the capacity to laugh at yourself. But smarter people
know that an even better life is reserved for those who heap mocking scorn on others. to Humor by pjammer |
| Thursday Sep 9, 1999 | Warning: The Surgeon General has determined that associating with Bill Clinton can be hazardous to your health. to Conspiracy by pjammer |
| Wednesday Sep 8, 1999 | Somewhere at the intersection between Shockwave-saavy users (blessed with plenty of spare time) and Bill-Gates-hating computer users (unafraid of publicly broadcasting their homicidal fantasies) lives the producer of K.I.M.: the Director's Cut. to Humor by pjammer |
| Thanks to recent articles about options-laden single men in high technology, opportunistic women have decended on Silicon Valley in hopes of riding the information-economy-fueled gravy train. Moment of truth, geek: flattering as it may be to get pinged by women who ignored you in high school, you know that a tech-groupie is not what you ultimately need. What you need is a NerdSlut. to Sex by pjammer |
| Monday Sep 6, 1999 | As many of you know, U.S. citizens do not vote directly in national elections - rather, we deliver our opinions through a labrynthine system known as Electoral Colleges. While the relative merits of Electoral Colleges have been the source of fierce academic debates, serious quantitative rigor remains alien to those schooled in Political Science. Consequently, most essays on the topic are eloquently-crafted polemics built upon poorly-constructed models riddled with questionable assumptions. In this arena, Will Hively's Math Against Tyranny stands alone as a lively, interesting and quantitatively sound defense of Republic democracy.
to Politics by pjammer |
| Friday Sep 3, 1999 | Are you a sexual being? No, I am a Republican.
to Humor by pjammer |
| Wednesday Sep 1, 1999 | Has the recent
security hack of Microsoft's Hotmail made you paranoid
of your at-work online job-hunting? Sure, HushMail offers
web-based email with java-powered public-key encryption - but both sending
and receiver must use HushMail accounts for it to work. Thanks to ZipLip, you ungrateful, company-resource-abusing
turncoats can keep your primary webmail provider while exchanging encrypted messages with your favorite headhunters.
to Computing by pjammer |
| Tuesday Aug 31, 1999 | Everything you've always suspected about those pancake-loving, HIV-spreading, aliens is confirmed at The Official V2 Website.
Remember kids: smart Earthlings say NO to deceptive alien entities!
to Wackos by pjammer |
| FakeCounter works just like "real" page counters. With every visit to your page it will display a new number, except that this number has no connection whatsoever to the amount of visitors. to Internet by pjammer |
| The long-anticipated "parallel" novel to Orson Scott Card's seminal Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow is out - unlike the other overpromoted sci-fi yawner this summer, the story more than lives up to its hype.
Go get your copy.. Now. to Books by pjammer |
| Saturday Aug 28, 1999 | Ok geek, thanks to the helpful links from memepool, your Metaverse avatar is ready and you're busy building your bandwidth-hogging 3DAnarchy home. But how's your sword-fighting skills, Deliverator? "Kendo," as Snow Crash readers and 15th-century samurai know, is an attempt to take a disorganized, violent, brutal conflict and turn it into a cute game. Two choices: play with bokkens (wooden swords) at a "kendo" school, or study the original Nipponese art, sparring/training with steel blades, at a Shinkendo dojo. Guess what I've been studying for the past three years.
to Warfare by pjammer |
| Friday Aug 27, 1999 | The paramilitary Amish Resistance Website.
Well, that pretty much fufills my weekly dose of irony. to Wackos by pjammer |
| A personal construct from AvatarMe is only the first step in aping your
favorite Snow Crash
Hiro. An interactive, bandwidth-hogging processor-time-abusing Metaverse home (a la Ng) will be
sine qua non for true bitheads. Start building yours today with tools from 3D Anarchy
to Computing by pjammer |
| Standard marathons are for wussies. Real athletes only compete in
ultramarathons.
to Sports by pjammer |
| Wednesday Aug 25, 1999 | Looking for a job? Two choices: think like an applicant and deal with the gimps from Personnel, or think like a manager and nail the job you want. One of the best online advisors to guide you to the latter is veteran Silicon Valley headhunter Nick Corcodilos, who has (surprise surprise) a website. Ask the Headhunter about unconventional (but dead-on right) tactics of doing the job to get the job, and you will never answer another inane question about "where do you see yourself in 5 years" again. to Reference by pjammer |
| You may think that Bringdown, one of the bitterst (and funny) online 'zines on the planet, is run by a group of really hip, black-clad, dye-haired trendoids sipping organic cappuccino in some swanky South of Market loft. You'd be wrong.
to Commentary by pjammer |
| Hey, can I borrow $5 for lunch? Sure, let me beam five bucks over to your PalmPilot. Presenting PayPal: digitally-signed electronic micropayments through your PDA. Get yours today! to Commerce by pjammer |
| Monday Aug 23, 1999 | Jesus Christ: carpenter, teacher, fisherman, healer, savior . . . webmaster? to Religion by pjammer |
| Readers of Neal Stephenson's fantabulous Snow Crash excited about the prospect of interacting with the Internet through a digital construct/avatar won't need to wait for technology to catch up with their nerdish fantasies. While it may take some time before you can wield it like Hiro/Y.T., your personal avatar (the graphical/visual component) is available today, thanks to 3D-capture photobooths from the good folks at AvatarMe.
to Computing by pjammer |
| Saturday Aug 21, 1999 | You know, when I see a URL like smgfan.com
, I'm thinking about fans of submachine guns. But the folks at smgfan.com have a completely
different idea, and their links to
hard-to-find movie-capture photos are nonetheless appreciated. to Sex by pjammer |
| The Atari 2600 is one of the simplest video game systems ever invented, yet it is one of the most complicated for which to program. Masochist programmers interested in writing tight code to fit in the 4K of address space and smart code to squeeze as much as possible out of the primitive TIA chip should go to Nick Bensema's Atari 2600 Programming Page. to Games by pjammer |
| Friday Aug 20, 1999 | For some people, stealing girlfriends is probably an ego-booster or a way to be cruel, hurtful, and selfish. These are unhealthy motives. The only reason you should steal girlfriends is because it's hilarious. to Sex by pjammer |
| Thursday Aug 19, 1999 | Often described as "cats trapped in dogs' bodies" the Basenji, originally bred as an African hunting dog, is unlike any other canine companion in the world. Their most prominent quirks are their curious inability to bark (basenjis have an unnervingly human yodel/laugh) and an playful, mischievous intelligence.
to Pets by pjammer |
| Wouldn't it be great if Instant Messenger/ICQ could carry voice messages? Firetalk promises multiuser voice-support with just a 28.8 modem. Question: Subversive, anti-telcom-giant revolutionaries or doomed money-hemmoraging Internet latecomers destined for a fire-sale acquisition by Microsoft? Operators are standing by ... to Internet by pjammer |
| Wednesday Aug 18, 1999 | Memepool readers who are viewing us through a browser at the State Prison library - take heart! You can still purge your damning criminal record and find a good job after your release if you click on EraseYourConviction.com. to Law by pjammer |
| As any student of anthropology knows, adolescence (the extended period of time between puberty and professional employment/marriage), is a peculiar by-product of modern Western culture. But plagued as we may be with the idiosyncratic problems associated with hosting a population of horomone-crazed jobless youths untethered by the civilizing institution of marriage, I remain skeptical of the campaign (driven, no doubt, by the powerful meme-machine of Judeo-Christian sexual repression) to dissuade young people from doing the obvious.
to Memetics by pjammer |
| Like Riotgrrl on crack (in a good way), Smile and Act Nice features brutally frank and hysterical commentaries targeted to the online woman, as well as the funniest sex column name I've ever seen: Ho in the Know. to Commentary by pjammer |
| Tuesday Aug 17, 1999 | God does not change, as our Christer friends constantly remind us - and if that's true, modern-day believers should practice the God-sanctioned institution of polygamy. Patriarchal Christianity - genuine movement or slick scheme to sucker meme-vulnerable women into your personal harem? You tell me. to Religion by pjammer |
| Every industry has its own jargon, that special lexicon designed to separate the insiders from the poseur. This is especially true of the tech industry, where everyone is scrambling to look like an insider, even if they heard about it only a month ago. Annoying, hipper-than-thou terms are sprouting faster than overpriced IPOs of shitty money-vomiting e-prefixed companies and spreading faster than the Melissa virus. A rogue's gallery of the etymological trainwreck can be found here.
to Linguistics by pjammer |
| Monday Aug 16, 1999 | Tattoos? Pah. Body piercings & branding? Ho-hum. The truly avant-garde know to be on the cutting edge, you have to do exactly that - with your penis. Penile subincision, originally an Australian Aboriginal practice, splits Mr. Happy down along the urethra - theoretically exposing the previously-closed nerve-dense urinary tract tissue to enhanced sexual pleasure. Right. Ok, I'll add Australia to the list of countries I'm glad I wasn't born in.
to Sex by pjammer |
| Sunday Aug 15, 1999 | As if you RTS geeks don't waste enough time playing Starcraft
on Battle.net, along comes a guy who dedicated
six months of his life to bring you the user-built, jaw-dropping
Antioch Chronicles expansion.
Damn - and I just used up all my sick days to finish "Brood Wars."
to Games by pjammer |
| Friday Aug 13, 1999 | Sure, everyone abuses their workplace internet connection for personal use. However, everybody is not equally pathetic. Memepool Quiz: Who is the biggest loser?
[A] The individual who plays Battleship with an former coworker over email
[B] The individual's current coworker, who took digital-camera spy photos of his Battleship layout and secretly built a dedicated Battleship Cheat Page to mock him behind his back
[C] The shamelessly self-referring narccissist who submits the site to a shitty, low-traffic weblog as part of his grueling race to eclipse its most prolific contributor before the end of the millenium
First respondent to send the correct answer to comments@memepool.com will receive a free memepool T-shirt.
to Games by pjammer |
| Wednesday Aug 11, 1999 | Thanks to IPOme.com, the once-dicy act of 'selling out' will soon be as easy as filling out an SEC S-1 form. Just don't ask any of us here at memepool about "exit stratagies" should shares of You, Inc. trade below the offering price and the open market ends up proving what your longsuffering employer suspected all along. to Finance by pjammer |
| Unless you just happened to be in the right place in Europe this morning, the only way to catch the last eclipse of this millenium was to log in to the website of local science museums for the live webcast. The world's coolest science museum also offered an all-night "eclipse party" where this memepool contributor witnessed totality alongside a thousand cheering science geeks. to Science by pjammer |
| Tuesday Aug 10, 1999 | In spite of overwhelming evidence against the possibility of a functional perpetual-motion machine, human history is nonetheless filled with determined wackos in grim pursuit of the ultimate thermodynamic free lunch. to Science by pjammer |
| Monday Aug 9, 1999 | For memepool-reading perverts (but I repeat myself) who drooled over Brandy/Cavewoman, you should probably go check out Danger Girl, which, while not by penned by Frank Cho, nonetheless stars improbably-proportioned female leads who resemble Brandy/Cavewoman - except that they wear skintight jumpsuits/bikinis and kill international terrorists.
to Comics by pjammer |
| Saturday Aug 7, 1999 | The newly-minted Liberty Meadows is a delightful comic starring a neurotically insecure protagonist and his persistently bungled attempts to connect with an out-of-his-league attractive female love interest - along with an eccentric cast of deranged talking animals.
And if you've ever wondered, as I did, how comic book artists get their ideas, Frank Cho offers his disquieting confession here.
to Comics by pjammer |
| Friday Aug 6, 1999 | NetLingo is an online reference containing emerging new vocabulary and annoyingly e-prefixed verbs for the self-consciously hip, technology dilettantes
interested in eliminating the most obvious signs of noveux-tech poseurdom. to Linguistics by pjammer |
| Thursday Aug 5, 1999 | Go speed racer, go speed racer, go speed racer go! to Television by pjammer |
| Tuesday Aug 3, 1999 | Even though we should know better, the term "web servers" conjurs up images room-sized cooling towers or wide desktop workstations. But how small a functional server can you build with non-military budget and ordinary hardware tools? This small. to Computing by pjammer |
| Sadly, most deliberate acts of memetic engineering spawn destructive ideas motivated by greed, hatred or fanaticism. That may be why it's such a delight to discover the benevolent infovirus from the host of generosity.org.
to Memetics by pjammer |
| If I could be a super-hero from any era, I'd be: A Special Collector's Edition Zinc-Inlaid Embossed Cover Age Hero, since I'm a greed head without one iota of integrity. to Comics by pjammer |
| Monday Aug 2, 1999 | When wholesome teenage crooners and gloomy Goth-idols collide, the results are never pretty. Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present: Marylin Hanson. to Humor by pjammer |
| If wealth is really catnip to marriage-minded women, $100 million should be more enough to find a perfect playmate - unless your name is Allan Block.
The sexual situation of New York relations between men and women is a small percentage of the men, get a disproportionate percentage of the physical action. Ten percent of the men or less do 60 percent of the screwing. I hate those guys!
to Commentary by pjammer |
| After learning escort etiquette from Mark Perkel's online guide you called up a agency, paid for "full female companionship" and done the deed. Congratulations! But how does she stack up against her competitors? In the hush-hush, wink-wink world of pseudoprostitution, it's difficult to get consumers to talk about what they pay for - unless you host a forum for anonymous commentary like Heaven or Hell, the consumer reports of "escort" services.
to Sex by pjammer |
| Thursday Jul 29, 1999 | Riotgrrl is a nervy, bitchy, totally hilarious webzine filled with estrogen-pumped rants about sex with nerds, infidelity, and the hunky Po Bronson as well as a speculative round table on celebrity sexual orientation.
to Commentary by pjammer |
| Wednesday Jul 28, 1999 | When multiple passengers share a ride, the first to call "shotgun" wins the coveted front seat. Are there bizzare and complicated subrules and exceptions to the "shotgun rule?" Gee, is the Pope Catholic?
to Humor by pjammer |
| Looking for a collection of kickass computer-drawn images to use as wallpapers and general entertainment? Digitalblasphemy offers some jaw-dropping examples of Myst-reminiscient still shots and stunning animations. to Art by pjammer |
| Tuesday Jul 27, 1999 | There are a lot of things they don't teach you in school, and one of them is how to use an escort service. Learn the code-words that "escort services"-nee-brothels use in the name of skirting prostitution laws (if a service announces their escorts provide "full female companionship" you can expect exactly that) and other escort etiquette at Mark Perkel's Guide to Using Escort Services. to Sex by pjammer |
| Thursday Jul 22, 1999 | Those of us who remember how quickly tasteless Challenger jokes made the rounds after the Space Shuttle blew up in 1986 won't be surprised to find the JFK Jr. crash humor site. Warning: The content is, predictably, quite offensive. Politically correct and hypersensetive weenies who are easily offended, (like those who didn't like the AsianJokes submission) should definitely stay away. to Humor by pjammer |
| Tuesday Jul 20, 1999 | Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life, the games we play in business and politics, in the bedroom and on the battlefield - games with winners and losers, a beginning and an end. Infinite games are more mysterious - and ultimately more rewarding. Anyone who enjoyed the metaphysical/philosophical musings of Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash should definitely check out James Carse's Finite and Infinite Games - one of the most thoughful and original books on understanding the strange theater we call life. to Books by pjammer |
| Has the recently-released Back Orifice 2000 made your IT department paranoid of your connection to the Internet? Perhaps the paranoia is justified - conventional firewalls (designed to keep hostile commands out) are unable to stop Trojan Horse attacks, which works by instructing trusted terminals to secretly send compromising information to the cracker outside. Zonelabs has recently designed a "reverse firewall" Zone Alarm that scours outbound packets for signature Trojan emissions.
to Computing by pjammer |
| Saturday Jul 17, 1999 | Those of us who grew up in the 80's may remember a delightfully eccentric TV sitcom that pitted three high school "best buds" from Santo Domingo High School against the forces of Principal Ms. Musso, dim giant Larry Kubiac and Lemmer. Like anything that appeals to larval geeks, Parker Lewis Can't Lose spawned a number of fansites, including an episode-by-episode review/character analysis from one of geocities' moreobsessive fans. to Television by pjammer |
| Friday Jul 16, 1999 | If you really enjoy cooking, check out digitalchef, the Amazon of cooking supplies where you can find offbeat-but-tasty potables like the Pineapple-Chili BBQ Sauce.
to Food by pjammer |
| Monday Jul 12, 1999 | Are you under the impression that Oswald didn't kill Kennedy? That the Media is a lapdog of corporate interests? That the CIA operates without presidential authority? If so, you will find everything you need to justify your paranoid suspicions at the Real History Archives. to Conspiracy by pjammer |
| Thursday Jul 8, 1999 | Are you dreaming of moving to Silicon Valley and becoming the next Internet
gazillionaire? Conventional journalism will never reveal the devilish maze of nondisclosure/gag orders,
noncompete covenants and venture capital double-crosses that every entrepreneur must confront on
the road to seemingly overnight IPO riches. That's why it's gratifying to see Bronson's
candid commentary
on the fictions Silicon Valley invent for itself and the dirty laundry that it successfully buries. to Commentary by pjammer |
| Monday Jul 5, 1999 | In the continuing quest of high-tech firms to raid the options-laden pockets of overpaid
nerds, PocketMail is the latest entry in the cool-but
-inessential status-gadgets category. Offering
the email queueing features of a PalmPilot and the 800-number email
dialup capacity of MyTalk, it is practically begging to be
acquired by 3Com or
Microsoft. Get yours today! to Gadgets by pjammer |
| For many with an IQ in excess of 105, high school was a four-year ritual of inane lectures,
pointless relationships and bewildering rituals (spirit rally, anyone?). The
Guide to High School Hate
is a hysterical account of the excesses of those hallowed years, told through the sardonic
eye of a grizzled survivor. to Humor by pjammer |
| I'm sure we're all tired of those gag-inducing motivational posters and enjoy the
spoof sites that mock them. But the best kind of humor
is still the unintentional.
Hang this poster at work and see how long it takes for your boss and HR goons to have a
nervous chat with about your mental stability.
to Humor by pjammer |
| Sunday Jul 4, 1999 | Can a man run around the world? Robert Garside is already halfway there -
having started his 30+ mile per day adventure in December 7, 1996. Read about his exploits and biography at
The Running Man.
to Wackos by pjammer |
| Friday Jul 2, 1999 | Sure, much of the Internet is clogged with worthless, bandwidth-wasting crap. That's why it's refreshing to see sites like ArfDigita, an online matchmaking service that connects interested pet owners with friendly pound animals who would otherwise face a more grisly fate. to Pets by pjammer |
| What happens when a group of nubile 16-year old high school girls hire an attractive male stripper for an unsupervised party? Complete and utter chaos, that's what. Read the racy, 12-page police report and conflicting testimonies of estrogen-crazed girls at Please Don't Lick the Stripper, brought to you by the good folks at The Smoking Gun. to Sex by pjammer |
| Thursday Jul 1, 1999 | Find out what different religious groups believe about
Heaven and Hell, Morality and other topics
at Religious Tolerance, one of the most thoughtful and well-organized
reference pages of religion online. Do check out the Christian Urban
Legends while you're there, and read about some of the strange memes that persist in the minds of too-credulous Christians.
to Religion by pjammer |
| Wednesday Jun 30, 1999 | Surely one of the most subversive media pranksters alive, Joey Skaggs
has recorded a
30-year career of pissing into the memepool of mainstream journalism - fooling reporters from
CNN, Entertainment Tonight, and other major media houses with his phony "news" story releases. Skaggs' best
work include the infamous Kea So Joo prank,
where Skaggs wrote to dog shelters around the U.S. pretending to be a Korean meat buyer
interested in buying unwanted dogs for food and the Celebrity Sperm Bank Auction. to Media by pjammer |
| Monday Jun 28, 1999 | I thought I had a high "sick-and-twisted" threshold, but
this story gave me the
heebie-jeebies: Man impregnates wife with the intention of killing the infant to punish her
for not cutting short a vacation a few years before their marriage and consummating the
murderous deed on Father's Day. Is there anyone in memepool's
Wackos section more sick and insane?
to Wackos by pjammer |
| Sunday Jun 27, 1999 | Total Obscurity, a page you can only find
by accident, is a humor site peppered with sardonic and eccentric observations/rants
designed to entertain the deranged.
"I fixed some angel hair pasta tonight, which probably means that somewhere in
Heaven there's a bald angel screaming for vengeance."
to Humor by pjammer |
| Saturday Jun 26, 1999 | While most of us hate spammers and their inane promises of instant riches ("$50,000"
and "90 days" are 'instant-kill' subject-line keywords for my inbox), few are determined
enough to extract some cheap laughs at the expense of MLM spammers, and fewer
still have the spare time to chronicle their
lighthearted battle with a hapless MLM millionaire-to-be hopeful.
to Humor by pjammer |
| Friday Jun 25, 1999 | Po Bronson's Silicon Valley nonfiction
The Nudist on the Late Shift is out. Unlike most high tech writers who focus on
the movers and shakers, Bronson introduces us to a
cast of vivid unknowns seeking fame and fortune in the last arena of high-octane
capitalism. Riddles of Superachieverland,
an online excerpt from the book, offers a concentrated dose of Bronson's style and anthropological perspective.
to Books by pjammer |
| Monday Jun 21, 1999 | Boss won't let you install Doom/Quake/Half-life at work? Fight back by logging on to Frag Island,
the world's first web-based Java-powered first-person-shooter game. to Games by pjammer |
| While not as useful to my plans for world domination as I had hoped, Documentation
and Diagrams of the Atomic Bomb is a well-witten, all-text, ASCII-illustrated history/
construction overview of nuclear weapons. to Science by pjammer |
| Friday Jun 18, 1999 | As many of you know, webzine Salon.com is
offering a 2.5 million share IPO to raise some desperately needed cash. What's
unusual is that they are offering the deal not through conventional IPO shops like
First Boston or Goldman Sachs
but the newly-formed boutique W.R. Hambrecht & Co
and employing Hambrecht's unconventional IPO pricing mechanism called a
Dutch Auction. Although the Dutch Auction is hailed as an equalizing process that allows
non-institutional investors to acquire shares at the offering prices, detractors suggest that
allowing the hoi polloi to bid away the typical first-day runup of hot IPOs will
kill significant demand from the speculators and momentum traders that flock to money-losing Internet
IPOs in the first place.
to Finance by pjammer |
| Thursday Jun 17, 1999 | Aspiring stand-up comics know that nothing throws off a comedian's self-confidence
and stage presence like a heckler.
The Stand Up Comedian's Responses to the Heckler is a handy archive of
snaps, retorts, and viciously cutting phrases. to Reference by pjammer |
| Wednesday Jun 16, 1999 | Every heterosexual man alive has suffered, at least once, the gut-turning experience of
falling in love with a female acquaintance, only to have his heartfelt confession rebuffed
by the six most horrible words in the English language: "I just want to be friends."
Joe Loong's Foolproof Guide to
Making Any Woman Your Platonic Friend is, at turns, a hilarious and heart breaking
account of the unintented (good God, I hope unintended) grief that the women
in our lives visit upon us in the name of love, friendship, and other bullshit.
to Culture by pjammer |
| Sure, everyone seems to be offering free, web-based email these days, from
rap groups to
search engines. But how many of them allow
you to check your email without even using a computer? MyTalk does, with an 800-number, voice-mail style
login that allows you to check your mail even when you are away from a computer.
But then again, how many memepool readers are ever away from a computer
enough to care?
to Internet by pjammer |
| Monday Jun 14, 1999 | Web designers often lay out a page with dummy content, show it to the client for style approval, and then input in the client's material. The dummy content, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diem nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut lacreet dolore magna aliguam erat volutpat,"
(a meaningless string of Latin gibberish), has been the standard text in printing and publishing circles for decades. What's hysterical is the number of designers who forget to replace their dummy titles with the client's title before delivering the site. An AltaVista search for "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" serves up over four thousand hits of high-end web pages cursed with residual dummy titles. to Web by pjammer |
| Mark you calenders: This Sunday (June 20th),
Pirates of Silicon Valley will air on your local Turner
station. Starring
Anthony "Wierd Science" Michael Hall as Bill Gates and
Noah "E.R." Wyle as Steve Jobs, it should be interesting to see what
segments of the Microsoft
vs. Apple saga TV executives will edit out.
to Television by pjammer |
| Sunday Jun 13, 1999 | In the battle for the highly contested Giant Fighting Robot consumer
dollar, FASA rules as the
Microsoft of 'Mech sims. In a very un-Microsofty move,
Mechwarrior 3 is out, ahead of projected release schedule! Featuring
fully destructable terrain and a fully functional salvage system, Mech3 should appeal to both
hard-core Mechwarrior universe purists and novices alike. to Games by pjammer |
| Saturday Jun 12, 1999 | Humor in the News is a weekly dose of recent
AP-wire news stories attached to smartass, hilarious quotes. Yes, I miss the heyday of
Saturday Night Live, too. to Humor by pjammer |
| Although not as regularly posted with fresh material like
Suck.com, Lies.com offers the same link-laden,
bitingly clever commentaries. Favorites include rants on
ISPs,
the '96 election, and Bill Clinton. to Commentary by pjammer |
| Friday Jun 11, 1999 | The Cynic's Sanctuary offers
resources for the crumudgeon in all of us - brought to you Rick Bayan, author of
the unsung but hilarious
Cynic's Dictionary.
to Culture by pjammer |
| Like its ripoff/inspiration Slashdot,
Mr. Hat's Hell Hole offers a weblog-format
series of "news" stories and silly polls, focused on events and stories related to
the TV show and upcoming movie South Park.
to Humor by pjammer |
| Wow, I had no idea Bally Total Fitness can
be run so poorly and remain in
business for so long.
to Commerce by pjammer |
| Thursday Jun 10, 1999 | How does one discover and act on an inner sense of right and wrong which speaks up
against existing cultural values of conformity? By building a website for disgruntled
customers of Starbucks, that's how.
Jeremy Dorosin's one-man battle against the coffee juggernaut is chronicled at
Starbucked. to Coffee by pjammer |
| Wednesday Jun 9, 1999 | Having been stung by quick-acting anti-Bush forces who registered the
gwbush.com domain (and filled with embarassing
facts and links), Presidential hopeful
George W. Bush is taking no chances.
According to numerous accounts, the Bush exploratory committee snapped up over
100 domain names sporting Mr. Bush's moniker, the most amusing of which has to be
georgebushsux.com. to Internet by pjammer |
| Tuesday Jun 8, 1999 | Fake shrunken heads
and other bizzare stuff you
can make in your kitchen. Spend a few hours learning a few fun tricks
before the next visit to your siblings' children, and you'll be the coolest aunt/uncle in the
world.
to Reference by pjammer |
| Monday Jun 7, 1999 | New cruel sport: letting your friends smoke pot, then seating them in front of your
computer and have them watch stoned.com.
Whoa, duuuuude...
to Drugs by pjammer |
| Saturday Jun 5, 1999 | Painfully shy and antisocial dweebs who have embarassingly high scores on
standard purity tests should take the
Virgin's Purity Test, where having crushes on members of the opposite sex earns
you points toward impurity. If you score over 80 here, there really isn't much
hope for you.
to Humor by pjammer |
| Friday Jun 4, 1999 | In the "publish anything about a celebrity" tradition pioneered by political rumormonger
Matt Drudge,
Luke Ford offers unsubstantiated lurid stories and news items of employees in
the porn industry. to Rumor by pjammer |
| Wednesday Jun 2, 1999 | Tired of pompous self-help books from self-proclaimed gurus parroting the same platitudes? Self-Helpless : The Greatest Self-Help Books You'll Never Read skewers the entire genre of the self-help industry in just 160 pages. And if you got a chuckle out of just the title, do check out the authors' website for uproariously funny samples from the book.
to Books by pjammer |
| Tuesday Jun 1, 1999 | The sine qua non of internet-savvy food-lovers and amateur chefs,
Epicurious Food offers resources for
consumers and creators of gourmet food: from regularly-updated
ripeness reports on
seasonal vegetables to
food-preparation tips from famous chefs around the world. to Food by pjammer |
| Monday May 31, 1999 | Four words: The Anarchist's
Cookbook Online Be sure to read it from an untraceable browser! to Reference by pjammer |
| Sports-crazed men (and the patient women who love them), who nonetheless feel the atavistic need the procreate, can now time their nookie sessions to the handy Sporting Event Conception Blocker to ensure that the arrival of your little own quarterback won't interrupt your favorite major sports events. Not tonight, dear - the Stanley Cup is in nine months, remember? to Sex by pjammer |
| Friday May 28, 1999 | Click anywhere on the globe displayed at www.url.com
and be instantly connected to the local
online news sources for the country you selected.
to Reference by pjammer |
| Thursday May 27, 1999 | The McKinsey Quarterly is the online
business publication of international management consulting firm
McKinsey & Co. While lacking the in-your-face punch of
Upside or Red Herring, their
e-commerce section offers some
articles well worth reading. to Reference by pjammer |
| Kroll Information Services, the travel advisory
division of Kroll Associates offers paranoid business
travelers with everything they need - from
daily intelligence briefings and country-specific
risk reports, to airport and airline watch
review of travel risks. On second thought, perhaps you should rethink that overseas post your
company offered you in downtown Columbia. to Travel by pjammer |
| Tuesday May 25, 1999 | When I seize control and institute my own dystopian
society bent to the matrix of my idiosyncratic
neurosis,
listening to
Van Halen will be mandatory for all citizens.
In the interim time, those who seek to curry favor
with your future overlord should check out the
Van Halen FAQs, and read all the text that
was flashing on the screen during their
"Right Now" video. to Music by pjammer |
| The
Palm VII is out. Be the first on your block
to blow $599 on an
internet-enabled organizer. to Gadgets by pjammer |
| Saturday May 22, 1999 | While Active Matrix's Hideaway claims to be
a "white hat" hacker's resource page, dedicated to ethical hacking, the instructions
on a variety of color box-building techniques
suggest otherwise. to Computing by pjammer |
| Tuesday May 18, 1999 | Are you convinced that the news you watch is scripted, corporate PR spin?
Covert Action Quarterly magazine
shares your view. Staffed by
former spooks and military analysts, CAQ offers an interesting perspective on the
Kosovo crisis and other U.S. military operations. to Conspiracy by pjammer |
| Your paranoid communications college professor, who was always ranting about how the
world's publishing media is owned by a small cabal of multinational concerns, was
absolutely right. to Conspiracy by pjammer |
| You've seen Kevin Rubio's hilarious "Cops"-inspired Star
Wars spoof Troops. Then you spent the
better part of a workday playing Kristen Brennan's
Star Bears. Now that you're
fired for surfing Star Wars-related links and have plenty of time on your hands, you may as
well go to the memepool.com of Star Wars short-film
spoofs, located at the Mos Eisley
Multiplex.
to Humor by pjammer |
| Saturday May 15, 1999 | To those of you who are (or know somebody who is)
expecting a child - PLEASE check out the
Circumcision Information
and Resource Page - especially the cringe-inducing
"What Happens During a Circumsicion" info page.
Millions of infant boys born in the U.S. are still
needlessly subjected to the horrors of an archaic
Jewish tradition - make sure the little ones you
know aren't one of them! And yes, I do thank the
Good Lord every night that I was born overseas. to Health by pjammer |
| One of the most influential meme-machines in the
modern Christian memepool is the
crypto-scientific organization
Creation Research Institute - which spends a
great deal of time trying to convince the scientific
community that the earth is really only 6500 years old.
For those interested in a more thoughtful analysis
of some of the existing problems with the
conventional Darwinian model, point your browser
to Darwin's
Mistake.
to Science by pjammer |
| Friday May 14, 1999 | Going to Boston MA any time in the near future? Be sure to check out the
wicked good guide of
regional Bostonian lexicon.
to Linguistics by pjammer |
| What memepool is to bizzare, nerd-related
websites,
Fonts n Things is to the world of fonts.
to Linguistics by pjammer |
| Monday May 10, 1999 | Although the author's graphic interpretation of Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of the Unknown Kadath uses a stylized stick-figure to represent Randolph Carter, the effect, combined with the noirishly beautiful artwork, carries the story remarkably well. to Comics by pjammer |
| Are you a fan of bad science fiction, cheesy alien flicks? For B-film news you can use actually use, go to B Monster, the authoritative guide to cult cinema. to Movies by pjammer |
| Friday May 7, 1999 | Vault Reports, a provider of company "insider reports" for job seekers in high-profile professions like investment banking, consulting and corporate law, now offers an anonymous online forum for employees and hopeful applicants. Find out what people are saying about the now publicly-traded Goldman Sachs, and watch snobby lawyers debate endlessly about which is the "best" law firm in New York City. Mostly associates from the Salomon side left, I think because a lot of people were drawn initially by the Salomon Brothers', Neanderthal-like atmosphere. - Salomon Smith Barney insider to Rumor by pjammer |
| Wednesday May 5, 1999 | Not since the release of Starcraft has a real-time strategy game generated as much anticipation as Homeworld. Featuring a detail-rich three-dimensional realtime space combat engine, Homeworld's pre-release beta site offers some jaw-dropping screenshots of actual gameplay. to Games by pjammer |
| Overcome with guilt thinking about the marijuana you smoked during gym in 10th grade? Turn yourself in electronically with the Citizen's Self-Arrest Form. Repeat after me: I am under arrest. I have a right to remain silent. Anything I say can and will be used against me in a court of law. I have the right to talk to a lawyer and have him/her present with me while I question myself. If I cannot afford to hire a lawyer, one will be appointed to represent me, if I wish one, before I question myself. If I decide to make a statement, I may stop at any time.
to Wackos by pjammer |
| Readers who loved Ender's Game will be happy to know that Orson Scott Card has been busy: Current projects includes completing a screenplay(!) for the movie version of Ender's Game, as well as a "parallel" novel told through the eyes of Bean entitled "Ender's Shadow," whose first chapter you can read online at the Official Orson Scott Card Website. to Books by pjammer |
| Monday May 3, 1999 | The AD&D Book Of Sex is exactly what it sounds like - complete with hilarious spells like Change Sexual Preference, Bigby's Bitch-Slap, Prismatic Dildo, and my favorite: Power Word: Castrate. All I can say is: where are my old character sheets and 20-sided dice!?
to Sex by pjammer |
| Sunday May 2, 1999 | Find out what insanely optimistic prices domain-name speculators expect to fetch for surrendering their addresses through eBay. A million bucks for www.elocker.com may be a bit steep, but I'd cough up $1.25 to have my private email address @SpankNasty.com. to Internet by pjammer |
| Race Traitor believes that society's problems can be solved only when they "abolish the white race." Well, good luck.
to Wackos by pjammer |
| Thursday Apr 29, 1999 | Script-o-Rama could very well be the most comprehensive index to online movie scripts (which are usually typed out word-for-word from stop-and-play VCR recordings by wacko fans). to Movies by pjammer |
| Those of us who fell in love Disney's tale of a cub who would be king can now find Quicktime clips of their favorite moments from movie at the Lion King Quicktime Movie Archive.
to Movies by pjammer |
| Sunday Apr 25, 1999 | The Hedonistic Imperative is a wildly optimistic organization convinced that humanity is on the cusp of a revolution of consciousness. For within a few generations, celestial chemistry of a loveliness that transcends any fantasised Christian afterlife will become the genetically-coded basis of our existence. Me, I won't believe it until I am on my private island with my Jeri Ryan simulacrum and her clone triplet sisters.
to Science by pjammer |
| Saturday Apr 24, 1999 | The name is Bond. James Bond. to Movies by pjammer |
| Friday Apr 23, 1999 | Do you have friends who desperately wants to get into law school? Before your friends start taking LSAT prep courses, encourage them to read the savagely hilarious rant of a disgruntled UCLA law student. to Law by pjammer |
| Tom Tomorrow (the pen name for Dan Perkins), is the author of the hilarious left-wing comic This Modern World. While you're there, ask yourself: How many angry letters from pissed-off Catholics do you think he got for his piece on Mother Theresa?
to Comics by pjammer |
| A subversive website you definitely do not want to surf to from a workplace computer, Disgruntled: The Darker Side of the World is an angry webzine written by, and for, those of us who shake our ass for The Man.
to Humor by pjammer |
| Thursday Apr 22, 1999 | Breaking ranks from most investment banks (which are famous for their stodgy conservatism) First Union launched one of the most offbeat promotional television campaign this season. Beautifully produced and visually striking, the grim, Blade-Runner-esque 30-second spots can now be found in First Union's video archive. to Television by pjammer |
| Wednesday Apr 21, 1999 | Sure to give your fundamentalist friends major cat-fits, Psycho Dave's favorite hobby is Recreational Christianity, described as indulging in activities, literature, and media of a given sect of Christianity for the sole purpose of having fun at its expense.
to Religion by pjammer |
| Like its ripoff/inspiration The Onion, The Fig Blabber! offers deranged "news" stories, but targets its spoofs to the slam-worthy clowns in Hollywood.
to Humor by pjammer |
| Tuesday Apr 20, 1999 | Okay, you've read that Cryptonomicon essay about Linux. Then you read his 1996 Wired article about transoceanic cables and the geeks that lay them. Rah rah. Now you may as well spend another half hour reading Nicholas D. Arnett's Counter Rant - which feature the kick-ass quote (in reference to chaos theory): Actually, the luck was that Digital Research Inc. declined to sign IBM's non-disclosure agreement, which was the flap of a butterfly wing in Monterey that made it rain money in Redmond. to Commentary by pjammer |
| More comprehensive than Nyarl may hope, World of Coasters offers a large guide to roller coasters in North/Central America, Europe, and Asia. to Reference by pjammer |
| Monday Apr 19, 1999 | S.M.U.R.F.= Socialist Men Under a Red Father. Don't take my word for it. to Wackos by pjammer |
| Sunday Apr 18, 1999 | The sudden scream of battle brings your party to a halt....
....will your stalwart band choose to [F]ight or [R]un? Those of us who grew up on IBM ATs or clunky pre-Mac Apples in the 80's may remember that line from a delightful computer role-playing game sent six characters from the Adventurer's Guild into the dangerous city of Skara Brae. Like anything that appeals to larval, pupal and post-chrysalic geeks, the game has spawned a webring worth of fansites, including an dungeon level-by-level review/guide at The COMPLETE Bard's Tale Home Page. to Games by pjammer |
| Friday Apr 16, 1999 | ifthen, a modernized fairy tale in which the heartaches and nightmares are retained and the wonderment and joy are left out.
to Comics by pjammer |
| Thursday Apr 15, 1999 | Those of us who have already grown up but still watch anime in our 20's may remember a delightful Blade-Runner-esque dystopian science-fiction movie that sent a cyborg woman into a superbly animated ultraviolent world. Like anything that appeals to pupal geeks, Ghost in the Shell has spawned a shitload of fansites, including a weapon-by-weapon review/analysis at Weapons of Ghost in the Shell. to Movies by pjammer |
| Friday Apr 9, 1999 | Sony-TV, the seventh and newest television network, throws its hat in the ring with seven nights of prime-time programming this fall. With bound-for-success shows bearing such titles like L.A. Dentists, Dukes of Hazzard 2000, and The World's Most Dangerous Repos, it's sure to beat the pants off its weaker rivals.
to Television by pjammer |
| Those of us who grew up in the 80's may remember a delightful weekly action TV show that sent three employees from Santini Air into cheesily predictable air-to-air combat against the forces of international terrorism in a souped-up black helicoptor named Airwolf. Like anything that appeals to larval geeks, the show has spawned a series of fansites, including an episode-by-episode review/character analysis at airwolf.org.
to Television by pjammer |
| Sunday Apr 4, 1999 | Like its ripoff/inspiration The Onion
The Mushroom offers deranged "news"
stories, but targets its spoof stories to things in the video gaming industry.
to Humor by pjammer |
| Though Mickey would have us believe otherwise, accidents do occur
at the happiest place on earth.
Funny thing about them is that, most of the time, these accidents have nothing to do with Disney or park safety, and everything to do with the
unbelievable stupidity of the guests.
to Humor by pjammer |
| Sunday Mar 28, 1999 | The Lucidity Institute is an organization interested in helping people achieve lucid dreaming, including online resources for improving dream recall, and using your sleep time to turn over problems your conscious mind cannot solve. to Reference by pjammer |
| Saturday Mar 27, 1999 | Those of us who grew up in the 80's may remember a delightful Saturday-morning animated series that sent six teenagers from our world into the Dungeons & Dragons universe. Like anything that appeals to larval geeks, the show has spawned a series of fansites, including an episode-by-episode review/character analysis at Tiamat's Cavern.
to Television by pjammer |
| Sunday Mar 14, 1999 | Amateur crackers and other high-tech sociopaths need resources too. Lord Somer provides a collection of wordlists, password crackers, tone generators, and other crypto-illegal material. For entertainment purposes only, of course. to Reference by pjammer |
| Wednesday Mar 10, 1999 | My favorite children's story: The Little Bunny That The Other Little Bunnies Respected and Feared. So what kind of gangster are you? to Humor by pjammer |
| Tuesday Mar 9, 1999 | Po
Bronson is author of the grim and blisteringly hilarious Wall Street
satire Bombardiers, as well a Silicon Valley novel
whimsically titled The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest. Between
novels, he writes side-splitting commentaries on finance, technology, and
the best online essay on
the dynamics of the venture capital industry.
to Books by pjammer |
| Monday Mar 8, 1999 | Do you have friends or family members who have recently been approached by somebody from Amway? Before they become meme-spouting drones trying to sign you up to buy overpriced soap, have them check out Amway: The Untold Story, particularly the eerie comparison between Amway and destructive cults.
to Memetics by pjammer |
| Another contributor to the continuing Christians-vs-Infidels debate, Atheists for Jesus is exactly what it sounds like. Me, I'm waiting for the "Jews for Nazism" website discussion group. to Religion by pjammer |
| Sunday Mar 7, 1999 | Whether your enemies come after you with tire irons, medium-caliber handguns, or assault rifles loaded with armor-piercing slugs, O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt Armoring offers six customized levels of security tailored to your budget/threat level. For the really paranoid, you can buy a bolt-on retrofit kit to help yourHummer survive an anti-tank mine.
to Warfare by pjammer |
| Ok, I know it's supposed to promote an upcoming movie, but what the hell is the Matrix? to Movies by pjammer |
| Friday Mar 5, 1999 | Instead of simply searching for keywords (which makes a search engine vulnerable to "spamdexing" by self-promoting websites who litter their site with hit-generating keywords, Google!, ranks sites based on the number of times other sites refer to it. Result: dramatic improvement in signal to noise ratio.
to Web by pjammer |
| Softbank, the Japanese holding company and owner of Yahoo! and Ziff-Davis, pulls wool over the eyes of the investment community through some shady financial transactions.
to Finance by pjammer |
| 14 ways to risk your life to make a living, all on The World's Most Dangerous Jobs. Why yes, I'd love to parachute in the face of a raging forest fire to dig firewalls for the breathtaking salary of nine bucks per hour. to Reference by pjammer |
| Wednesday Mar 3, 1999 | Adbusters, an anti consumer-culture media group, is the author of the hilarious Joe Chemo ads. While you're there, be sure to let Prozac wash your blues away.
to Media by pjammer |
| Monday Mar 1, 1999 | Can't find the Erotica, Internal Organs or Firearms you need on Ebay? Check out what their competitors has to offer.
to Humor by pjammer |
| Steven Sailer, one of the best online essayists on society, race, and public policy, offers a lighthearted analysis of children's television programming.
to Commentary by pjammer |
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