| memepool rage against the turing machine |
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| Tuesday Apr 24, 2012 | Pinterest without
without the pictures, or with more snark.
to Internet by riotnrrd |
| Monday Apr 23, 2012 | Manly. Dimly lit. Unapologetic. Smells like hot meat. Steak House or Gay Bar?
to Society by riotnrrd |
| Friday Apr 20, 2012 | Software patents are generally believed to be
bad for innovation and the economy, but they also can be hilarious, especially if you look at the art. to Technology by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Apr 19, 2012 | Last week, the DeepSee Submersible spotted a very rare translucent octopus (the Vitrelladonella richardi) at the unusually shallow depth of 180m and took some stunning color photos and video.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Apr 18, 2012 | Gentlemint: a Pinterest for bros.
to Internet by riotnrrd |
| Friday Apr 13, 2012 | The internet loves dinosaurs, and loves historical clothing, so of course we have Dapper Dinosaurs. to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Apr 11, 2012 | During long flights, artist Nina Katchadourian goes to the lavatory and, using toilet paper and toilet seat covers, creates
self-portrait photos in the style of Flemish Renaissance paintings. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 28, 2012 | Conventional
wisdom is that, to run Linux, you need a 32 bit CPU, a
few megabytes of RAM, and a few gigs of disk space.
Dmitry Grinberg shows that it really requires
a
lot less than that.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Voronoi diagrams,
or sufaces if you're
in 3D,
are a way to
divide space based on a distribution of points. It's popular
in design, because it gives
nicely formed,
organic-looking
shapes. They're incredibly useful
for
all sorts of
geometric applications
And now you can
make bookshelves
out of them. to Mathematics by riotnrrd |
| Friday Sep 7, 2007 | Citizens, I present to you
Lee L. Mercer Jr., the next President of the United States! He has a compelling biography and shares your concerns about circumstances!
to Politics by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jul 27, 2007 | I never expected the
bleak existentialism
of early Peanuts to work well with the drunken, failed machismo of Charles Bukowski but, wow,
it does. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jul 17, 2007 | Unquestionably the best Victorian-themed
slap-fight flash game ever.
to Flash by riotnrrd |
| Friday May 11, 2007 | Dynamically added
pigeon fez!
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Monday Apr 2, 2007 | If rock, paper, scissors is losing its lustre, take it to the next level with rock, paper, scissors, gun, dynamite, nuke, lightning, devil, and so on and so on... to Games by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Nov 1, 2006 | If you're female and preparing for Halloween this year, remember the wide variety of
costumes available: there's
the sexy nurse,
the sexy stewardess,
the sexy pirate,
the sexy referee,
the sexy rollerskater,
the sexy plumber,
the sexy train conductor,
the sexy papergirl,
the sexy carpenter,
the sexy auto mechanic,
the sexy cable TV technician,
the sexy taxi driver,
the sexy explorer,
the sexy detective,
the sexy forensics examiner,
the sexy judge,
the sexy fast food worker,
the sexy Krispy Kreme employee,
the sexy Kinko's employee,
the sexy soldier,
the sexy cop,
the sexy Border Patrol agent,
the sexy Robin Hood,
the sexy persecuted witch,
the sexy
Chinese woman,
the sexy Japanese woman,
the sexy Spainard,
the
sexy
Native
American,
the sexy German,
the sexy mental patient,
the sexy teddy bear,
the sexy Snow White,
the sexy Minnie Mouse,
the sexy Care Bear,
the sexy Raggedy Ann,
and the sexy bee.
See? Lots of choices!
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Oct 11, 2006 | Slow-moving, can't-beleive-it's-still-being-publsihed
comic strip
Mary Worth still has its
fans,
some of whom are so dedicated (or
demented) that they
acted
out a month's worth of the strip from 1998 using camera angles
based on the actual drawings. to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Friday Sep 22, 2006 | John Hodgman,
humor writer,
Daily Show correspondant and embodiment of the Windows operating system,
invented and recited over guitar accompianment
700 hobo names.
For those of you not content to read (or listen) and giggle, portraits of these
hobos have also now been drawn
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Sep 5, 2006 | What's a two word synonym for boring and pretentious? Hipster erotica. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Aug 10, 2006 | If you want to have some fun exploring the
user-data released
by AOL over the weekend,
several people have already done the heavy lifting for you:
AOL Stalker,
Yogurt Rat
Don't Delete,
AOL Search Database,
AOL Search,
and
AOL Search Logs
all provide various search functions on this massive database.
For the casual snooper, AOL Search Logs'
random function
is a great way to waste hours and find out more about America's secret sexual
desires than you ever wanted.
to Security by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jun 8, 2006 | Doomed internet startup
Wiffiti
has decided that what physical locations such as coffeeshops are missing is
unmoderated comment spam.
Happily, we can sit back and watch this train wreck of a business plan
in action
LIVE on their web page.
to Business by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jun 7, 2006 | How can
this man fly like that without wings or a glider?
The short answer is
"the ground effect", but
the more you look into it, the
more complicated it gets. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jun 6, 2006 | A very odd (and underexplained)
three-dimensional summary of the plot
of Fight Club, using Lego. to Literature by riotnrrd |
| Human beings are
pretty much
just monkeys with
less hair,
so maybe
the ideal diet is
the obvious one.
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jun 5, 2006 | I finally understand how people develop odd fetishes like
giant women
crushing cars.
It's all the fault of
advertising.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday May 30, 2006 |
Matthew Wheeler found merely lighting
fires with lenses made of ice was too easy, so he
started
taking photos with them. to Photography by riotnrrd |
| Friday May 26, 2006 | If you lie and sell someone a broken laptop, make sure it's not still
full of
personal information and
foot-fetish porn. to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 25, 2006 | I'm sure everyone out there knows about
"Star Wars Episode 1.1:
The Phantom Edit":
a re-edit of George Lucas'
heartbreakily
crappy
1999 "Star Wars" trilogy prequel. This labor of love by an (at the time)
anoymous fan removes much of the hated Jar Jar, redubs the aliens
with better (and
less
racist) dialog and,
overall, did what Lucas' millions of dollars could not: make it watchable.
More importantly,
"The Phantom
Edit" was the first so-called fan edit
to make it beyond the tight knit circle of blackmarket dub vendors
at sci-fi conventions.
A more recent, and in hindsight inevitable, re-edit is
"Matrix Dezionized" which
combines the episodes 2 and 3 of the "Matrix" trilogy
in order to
eliminate some fan-hated scenes (most notably the post-apocalyptic
rave) including nearly every mention Zion, and some (but not nearly
enough) of the incoherent, three-bong-hit philosophy of the Warchoski
brothers.
Other, more obscure fanedits, such as
"Star Trek VII: Kirkless Generations",
"27 days later",
"Jailbird"
(an edit of "Con Air")
and, oddly enough,
"13 Going On 30: Extra Flirty"
follow the same pattern:
disliked scenes are removed, dialog is changed (where possible) and
action is tightened.
Perhaps the most obscure, and least watchable, is
"Hannibalized",
a amateur re-edit of Ridley Scott's slasher flick "Hannibal". Claiming
to have "more Hannibal and less Starling", this edit removed all the
scenes that made softened Hannibal Lecter's character, many of the
character building scenes involving Clarice Starling, and re-included
some of Scott's deleted scenes, such as the infamous
steering
wheel licking scene.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Recently, Japanese peripheral maker Keys
Factory ran an
internal staff contest
for non-destructive
DS case
mods. The
rather
uninspiring winner is now available for 980 yen, but
some of the
other entries are
much more
interesting
(if
not exactly
practical).
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 24, 2006 |
Like musicians playing
covers of their favorite songs,
visual artists love to offer their own interpretations of famous characters
from literature
and
cartoons.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday May 23, 2006 |
What do you do if you have a
fetish for
bizarrely elongated
tall girls,
who could
never exist, even with the help of
surgery?
Why,
you use Poser of course!
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Oddball Comics
gives you
detailed descriptions and analyses of
bad comics that
probably don't
deserve
such meticulous treatment. to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 18, 2006 | Jim Woodring
(whose work I am sure you've seen before) has
his own blog,
where he posts the hallucinatory artwork and elliptical
commentary he is so famous for.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 17, 2006 | Come to Egypt and enjoy the
worst theme park in the world. to Travel by riotnrrd |
| Friday May 12, 2006 | Augh! As if letting
John Ashcroft's eagle soar wasn't painful
enough, now terrifying conservative mummy Orrin Hatch is
getting musical, too.
to Music by riotnrrd |
|
Tourist phrasebooks, unless they are
truly incompetently written, should be terse and
useful above all else.
But then, how can you explain
phrases like these? to Humor by riotnrrd |
| In Soviet Russia, gadgets own you! to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Friday May 5, 2006 | Remember,
metal fans, that a month from tomorrow is the
National Day of Slayer.
Keep it holy! to Music by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Apr 30, 2006 | All hobbies and
professions
that are, essentially, cries for
attention have one thing in common:
self-congratulatory
awards.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Apr 12, 2006 | Stupid Comics
rounds up dozens of
badly written,
drawn and
conceived comics
from yesteryear. Even Superman
(that
notorious asshole) makes an
appearance.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Mar 27, 2006 | The MLA has created a nifty web app that
lets you view, by state, county or zip code,
what languages are spoken in the United States.
(Pathetically, you will be forced to use IE or Netscape.) to Cartography by riotnrrd |
| Monday Mar 13, 2006 | Since one good
origin
story deserves another,
here is a list of
the religious
affiliations of more than a hundred comic-book superheros.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| It suddenly all becomes clear.
Spam subject lines
are written by the same guy who translates
chinese
restaurant menus! to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Feb 28, 2006 | "A sublime showcase for the diversity and creativity of mankind."
Music?
Bah, too pedestrian. Visual art? Nothing
so obvious, my friend. No, it's
balloon hats of the world. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Feb 23, 2006 | I can't read Japanese, so I don't know why (and maybe I don't want to know),
but someone
has spent hours and hours posing and photographing
maid dolls
re-enacting illustrations from a Japanese army training manual.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| After lord knows how many trips to comic conventions,
Walt Parrish,
a.k.a. "The Cliff Guy", has amassed an amazing collection of
over 400 sketches of comic book characters
standing on cliffs. to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 6, 2006 |
If you're going to get your rocks off while
typing with one hand,
make sure
you're getting your money's worth.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Feb 2, 2006 | Things I've learned from reading this
amazing
forum thread about 'Things I've Learned from My Patients':
people are dumb, drunk people are dumber, and drunk dumb people injuring themselves is pretty funny.
to Health by riotnrrd |
| Weeks ago, Scott Adams
started a
search for a new artist for Mike Belkin's (who is quite possibly Scott Adams himself)
poorly-drawn syndicated strip
Unfit. The search is now over
and
all eighty entries are online.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jan 30, 2006 | In February 1995, artist and strange person
Myranda Didovic,
working in conjunction with nutritionists at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
took a crap
that measured 26 feet in length.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Jan 28, 2006 | Perhaps the coolest robotics hobbyist project I have ever seen:
remote controlled steam-powered robots!
to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 26, 2006 | Plan 59 presents a gallery of
terrifying spokeschildren and child mascots
from the '50s. Aieee!
to History by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jan 20, 2006 | Finally, the
complete
history of children blowing
meat whistles. to Food by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jan 17, 2006 | What's missing from this large (if odd) collection of
photographs of stuck cars?
Why,
scantily-clad girls, of course!
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Garfield
is more than just a
crass, commercial exercise in
comic-strip mediocrity.
When
appropriately randomized,
it is also filled with zen-like wisdom. to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jan 13, 2006 | Batgirl is
everywhere!
to Art by riotnrrd |
| It's
the best blonde joke ever,
brought to you by Web 2.0. to Web by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jan 11, 2006 | ShineSF,
a club in San Francisco, has a
photo booth that posts its pictures to
a flickr account.
Now, you can look at drunk strangers from the comfort of your
office. to Photography by riotnrrd |
| As much as I loathe the
over-use
of the
essentially meaningless
term "open-source",
respected
economist Preston McAfee
has created, and is giving away, a useful, intelligent (sorely much-needed)
open source economics textbook.
to Economics by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 14, 2005 | By now everyone has heard about all the
twists and turns of
Thomas Hawk's
horrible experience
with shady camera dealer PriceRite Photo.
Be warned, however, that PriceRite is
not alone
in its sleazy, scammy ways and sometimes
seeing is beleiving.
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| Monday Dec 12, 2005 | Pandas,
pandas,
pandas,
pandas! So
many pandas!
to Zoology by riotnrrd |
| Friday Dec 9, 2005 | Wayne Carlson, professor of design, art and more at OSU, has
put together an exhuastive (and exhuasting),
20-part critical history
of computer graphics, complete with images and movies of rare early works.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| If you have the tastes of
Ed Gein (or
Larry
Cottingham), but
the heart of
Skipper,
then
Margaux Lange has some jewelry that is
right up your
alley. to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| So, you wanna be
a rock star? Well, here are
some important poses
that you should master first. to Music by riotnrrd |
| Join
Arnold Schwartenegger in Rio
for Carnival
where he enjoys drinks, the lovely ladies, and the lovely ladies' asses.
to Politics by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Dec 6, 2005 |
Giving new meaning to the phrase a day late and a dollar short,
Donna Tocci, PR manager for Kryptonite locks, has started
a public-relations blog,
more than a year after
the humiliating
"bic pen" debacle of 2004 that cost the company an estimated $15 million.
to Internet by riotnrrd |
| Monday Dec 5, 2005 |
Patterns!
to Art by riotnrrd |
| It's Jerry Time
combines two of my favorite things: clever 2d animation and hilarious pathos.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
|
Some high-quality graphomania written
by another citzen plagued with mind-control (and hair-curling) beams,
time-traveling CIA operatives, and eerie similarities to a character in the Pokeman Forever movie to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Dec 3, 2005 | Magazine Publishers of America present
some clever (and not-so-clever)
magazine covers from the future. to Literature by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Dec 1, 2005 |
Someone in Japan loves to rock out, 80's style, and
has put together
a gallery of
electronic, hexagonal drums. to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| This page contains.. something about
Julie Andrews, her hidden first-born son, Hitler and.. I have no idea really.
If you can make sense of it, let me know. to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Wow,
Animal Crossing is much..
darker
than I remembered.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Nov 30, 2005 | Get lost (har har) in
mazes and labyrinths
and the algorithms
used to create and solve them. to Mathematics by riotnrrd |
| Children's drawings of
famous people from Calgary.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Nov 27, 2005 | Showing once again that everything that can be
sexed up,
will be, we present
the world chess beauty contest.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Friday Nov 25, 2005 | Sleepy after Thanksgiving dinner? Don't blame
the turkey. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Nov 24, 2005 | Deep frying your turkey
may sound tasty, but it's also a tasty recipe for
hot flaming death.
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Nov 15, 2005 | Learn more about everybody's favorite creepy vaudville genre:
the ventriloquism act. to History by riotnrrd |
| Monday Nov 14, 2005 | MIT researchers
are claiming that tin-foil helmets do not stop
government
mind control rays
(and may, in fact, make them more powerful!)
However,
the
opposition respectfully disagrees.
to Conspiracy by riotnrrd |
| Friday Nov 11, 2005 | Mmmm.. liquid
cereal. Now in a variety of disgusting colors and flavors!
to Beverages by riotnrrd |
| Enjoy the
First Annual
Myspace Bad Hair Awards, with bonus obscure superhero references!
to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| Friday Nov 4, 2005 |
Xbox 360? Bah. Your
flashy driving games
are no match for
old school slot cars
(with a little help from modern camera technology).
to Toys by riotnrrd |
| Looking like something out of a steampunk novel, the
Maunsell Army Sea
Forts were built to help protect the Thames from aircraft during WWII.
Only
two clusters of the
multi-building forts remain, so if you live in England you should
take
a boat tour of these
fascinating old ruins before they're gone forever.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Nov 2, 2005 |
Tolkien
was pretty clear
about the sex lives of elves, but that hasn't stopped the usual gang of perverts from
doing
the standard photoshop antics.
But who knows? Maybe there is more to
elf sex than he knew.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Oct 27, 2005 | A true jedi,
bust a move, must, hmm? to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Monday Oct 17, 2005 |
If
hacking
is just like painting, then
all you programmers
should be worried about your jobs.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Throw your camera in the air and take a picture
like you just don't care!
to Photography by riotnrrd |
|
Destroy.Hot.Action takes porn clips
and visually mangles and distorts them into something like abstract art.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Oct 15, 2005 | America's best known cartoon mascot was also once
suicidally
depressed.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| The University of Florida
Book of Insect Records
is full of
fun facts
about things that want to lay
eggs in your brain.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Sep 29, 2005 |
The objective of
Find the Brownie
is to find an obscure but important
government job held by someone whose only qualifications are
political
loyalty and personal connections. to Politics by riotnrrd |
| Scans of
every MAD magazine
cover, all for free. CHEAP!
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Once again, science has triumped and brought glory to man. Behold: the
french fry vending machine! to Food by riotnrrd |
| Monday Sep 26, 2005 | Roll and Roll Confidential's
"Hall of Douchebags"
is equal parts mocking and photographs of brick walls.
to Music by riotnrrd |
|
Totally killer hotties
from around the world.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Friday Sep 23, 2005 |
If your pockets are weighed down with
useless change,
do
something interesting
with all those coins.
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
|
Imagine:
your dog, cat, or other pet in full military regalia.
to Pets by riotnrrd |
|
Obsessed fans of late-night humor cornucopia MST3K have
collected
images
of the original posters of the
crappy movies Joel, Mike and the 'bots made fun of. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Sep 20, 2005 |
Hurricane Katrina? Yeah,
Japanese gangsters
caused that. to Wackos by riotnrrd |
|
50,000 speech
balloons placed on posters and ads and filled in by anonymous strangers.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Monday Aug 29, 2005 |
Doom
meets Duck Hunt. No word yet on if you can frag that
damned sniggering dog.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Aug 28, 2005 | Art
inspired by videogames or using
gaming technology
is all the rage these days, and
Richard Horsman
joins in with his translations of 2D sprites into 3D renders, with
stylish and sometimes
creepy results. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Like ice cream and minature pies, monkeys and the Simpsons
were meant for each other. So, naturally, somebody has made
a (non-exhaustive) list of the monkey mentions and sightings
in the series. (This is not to be confused with the
more general
simian
sightings, which include bigfoot and gorillas). to Television by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Aug 18, 2005 | Nothing puts the smell of romance into the air
like burning tires.
to Style by riotnrrd |
| Monday Aug 15, 2005 | It's not quite
webcams
in space, but Fourmilab
allows you to see
what Earth looks
like from the point of view of many different satellites. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Friday Aug 12, 2005 |
Two of nature's mightiest predators fight it out at:
Conan O'Brien vs. Bear! to Humor by riotnrrd |
| The latest fart in the howling fecal windstorm of the
blogosphere belongs to none other than
world-famous combover aficionado
Donald Trump. to Web by riotnrrd |
| The most exquistely pure expression of advertising ever invented by
man: Bumvertising.
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jul 27, 2005 | For busy parents who just don't have time to
shake their
own children to death,
there's
Robocoaster!
to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| Blacktown
is "the only black organization that exposes and opposes lesbian feminism [sic] witchcraft"
and is really upset about the decline of the afro.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jul 19, 2005 | What could be
the true reason for
NewsCorp's
purchase of MySpace? Perhaps you should ask Rupert Murdoch,
or
one
of
his
many
identical
twin
brothers.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jul 15, 2005 | The bloggorhea revolution is no longer just for
unlikable paranoid beardos
and snarky anonymous dickheads.
It's finally reached the people with good stories
to tell: waiters,
cooks,
and bouncers. to Web by riotnrrd |
| Despite
the claims of politicians
and the
assumptions of navel-gazing
"new games journalists",
games have a much broader demographic market than "kids" and "white men in their teens and 20s."
For example,
this guy's harcore gamer grandma.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jul 12, 2005 | With a DVD and a some
image stiching software, you can
create
panoramas of the backgrounds of your
favorite TV shows.
to Television by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jul 6, 2005 | Like a cuter, more bizarre version of Exploding Dog,
Huffing It Up brings cartoon joy to your
life every day.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Gigposters has
put together a staggering collection of nearly 45,000
concert posters, indexed by band
and designer,
for you to browse and discuss.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Boring postcards.. from Sweden! to Art by riotnrrd |
| Einstürzende Neueküchen,
the world's premier "virtual cookbook of recipes contributed by the worldwide society of
supporters and fans of
Einstürzende Neubauten." to Food by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jul 4, 2005 | Now that
toothing and
rainbow parties are dead,
it's time to find another teen sex (sub)urban legend scare.
Go go gadget
greenlighting!
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| In an ideal world, every
bizzaro niche sexual fetish
would have a polar opposite, an
anti-erotic krptonite to its priapic and inscrutable Superman.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| You got your salsa in my Street Fighter! You got your
Street Fighter in my salsa! to Games by riotnrrd |
| Hufu, the
vegetarian
human flesh alternative
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jun 27, 2005 | Jose and Tom are the
freegans of furniture, using
empty FedEx Boxes and FedEx packaging supplies
to create beds, chairs and
a complete computer desk set. to Style by riotnrrd |
| DIY R2-D2! to Toys by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jun 21, 2005 | If there are any 12-year-old girls reading memepool who still
love unicorns and faeries, do
not look at this
sculpture gallery
or your innocence will be forever shattered. to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Reality TV's finest moment occured in April on
"Showdog Moms and Dads"
when
Happy, the crotch-fixated dog,
attacked a stranger and was defended by his.. unusual owner.
"In my vagina two times he bite me.
but his teeths are very small and they don't damage very much. Just, they pinch!"
to Television by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jun 10, 2005 | What happens when you cross
drunk jenga with
Oolong the rabbit?
You get Stuff On My Cat. to Photography by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jun 9, 2005 | The MPAA would like you to be
outraged,
OUTRAGED
at pirated DVDs, but we just find them
amusing. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jun 2, 2005 | If you're not in L.A. to
catch the screening of
Steve Hall and Cathee Wilkins'
porno parodies
made with blow up dolls,
then you should at least check out
this upsetting collection of
stop motion animation films
made with the Japanese animator's own RealDolls. (Warning: irritating MIDI music) to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Stepping on the Koran: bad Walking on the Bible: inspirational! to Religion by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jun 1, 2005 | Whether or not the
Leroy Jenkins video is
staged or not,
its amusingly suicidal "hero" has gathered a circle of fans.
Beyond the usual
incomprehensible-to-outsiders forum thread
discussing the participants' own "Leroy Jenkins moments",
this fandom has led to the inevitable
badly made fansites,
flash soundboards,
game mods,
and, finally, a musical tribute.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Sleater-Kinney was inspired by this
New Yorker article
about Golden Gate Bridge suicides, so
they
wrote a song.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Friday May 27, 2005 | Two kittens enter. One kitten leaves. It's
Kitten War and may the cutest cat win! to Pets by riotnrrd |
| Celebrate the return of
the most popular TV show in BBC history by
rolling your
own Dr. Who theme song.
to Television by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 26, 2005 | Google Maps
allows you to tour the United States without ever going outside.
Along the way,
you might see some interesting or pretty things.
You might even
see some UFOs.
to Cartography by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 25, 2005 | Today's weather,
as reported by David Lynch. Seriously. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| The only things hurt in the making of
these car crash
videos are dummies and your insurance premium.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday May 24, 2005 | The
marriage of robotics and meat
continues with the
cybernetic parrot sausage.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Friday May 20, 2005 | Nippon Ham (sponsors of the
best-named sports franchise in the world)
provide diagrams and instructions for
vienna sausage sculpture. to Food by riotnrrd |
| Contagious Media is
getting all meta on your ass with
a competition to
create the most viral website, as measured by the number
of unique visitors from now until June 9th. to Web by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 18, 2005 | Like the Sgt. Pepper's artwork redone by someone with OCD and two grams of
meth in his bloodstream, Howard Hollis'
Picture of Everything
is a huge, annotated drawing of, well, everything.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| When you download porn movies, you're
stealing from fluffers. to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Friday May 13, 2005 | Impress the caffeine addicted lady (or dude) in your life
by
making your
own latte art.
to Coffee by riotnrrd |
|
Nothing says "I am the pimpiest" like
spinning blinged-out rims for
your teeth.
to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| Before you go on
that crime spree you've been dreaming of,
you'd better brush up on
how
to create fake fingerprints. to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Hundreds of bootlegged concert recordings are yours for the enjoying at
the Bootleg Browser to Music by riotnrrd |
| Friday Apr 22, 2005 | More space babes! This time, images taken from films of
women wearing
space suits. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Apr 21, 2005 |
If you're not sure of the difference between an upside down half caf caramel macchiato
and a breve caramel sauce ristretto, then you should take a look at
this brief guide to Starbucks drinks. to Coffee by riotnrrd |
| The perfect gift for your favorite Godfather fan:
the severed
horse head pillow. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Kyle Van Horn mailed a disposable camera across the country with
a request that the
postal service
workers take photos with it.
Apparantly, U.S. Postal Office employees have a much better sense of
humor than I would have expected. to Photography by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Apr 20, 2005 | Of all
the many promises
that the 21st century has failed to deliver on,
perhaps the most heartbreaking (yes, even more than
jet packs)
is the complete and utter lack of
space babes
(and no,
e'd out raver chicks
do not count).
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Showing us once again that there is nothing too obscure for
enshrinement on the web, Maudies
Domain is the German portal for all your Maude Flanders
trivia,
worship,
and
fanfic needs.
to Television by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Apr 13, 2005 | Typewriters
(and their keyboards) seem like such
a simple
and obvious invention. Yet how do you deal with a
non-alphabetic language?
You become
extremely
creative. to History by riotnrrd |
| Before
radar
was developed, people would detect distant planes with
what amounted to
huge steerable
ear trumpets. to Technology by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Apr 12, 2005 |
Check out the gams on that broad, daddy-o!
Vintage
Girl Wactchers takes you back in time to the 50's when
dames were dames and men were creepy
sexual predators. to History by riotnrrd |
| Do you beleive that
water talks
to you?
Or that
magic
stickers will protect you from cell phone radiation?
(It uses principles of modern physics!) Then
BioPro Technology is
just the company for you! to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 29, 2005 | Praise Jesus and lick
my boots, you filthy worm. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| In some kind of hellish synergy,
furries +
filk =
mind-numbing
horror.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| The Japanese
aren't
the only ones who produce
really awful english translations.
But they are
the best at it.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Mar 24, 2005 | Guns aren't just about killin'. They're also good for
getting
you wet, and
getting
you dry. to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Gila monster spit
cures diabetes.
Vampire bat spit
cures strokes.
Human spit, on
the other hand.. to Health by riotnrrd |
| Prevent dog overpopulation and fight canine genital mutilation
by putting a wrapper on that yapper.
to Pets by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 22, 2005 | Unrealised Moscow
documents a Moscow that was never built.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Turn your wok into a
2.4GHz parabolic dish WiFi repeater to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Friday Mar 11, 2005 | Reminiscient of Honda's
famous "Cog" commercial,
some people at Cambridge with a bit too much time on their hands have created
an
impressive Rube Goldberg contraption.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Despite a world filled with the religious strife and violence, there
is one thing that everyone can agree on.
Your heathen
gods are delicious. to Food by riotnrrd |
| Fez God presents
libelous recaptioning
of news photos.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Mar 10, 2005 | Holy jerkables, Leisuretown is back!
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 9, 2005 | Give your crummy little life a little class, with
a hand-made
wooden laptop case. to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| As with much on the internets,
these
photos of contortionists will either make you wince in
pain or turn you on.
to Photography by riotnrrd |
| Monday Mar 7, 2005 | If you really like playing laser tag, and are somewhat of an
electronics genius, you can do what Light Brain Productions
did and
design and build
your own.
The "MilesTag" system uses
custom digital signalling,
which allows up to 32 players on
seven different teams and supports a wide range of scalable, fully
configurable weapons, including sniper rifles, mines and "area-denial"
ordinance.
Source code,
parts supplier info,
and
schematics
are provided.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Mar 3, 2005 | One-upping George Carlin by an order of magnitude, the NFL will not
print any of these
1,121 dirty words
on your customized jersey.
They appear to have overlooked "bukkake" and "felcher," so act quickly!
to Sports by riotnrrd |
| Become as strong as a Marine!
Learn meat-cutting at home in your spare time!
Make money with hamsters!
to History by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 2, 2005 | English Cut is the web log
of a
Savile Row tailor.
Even if you can't afford a
bespoke suit, at
least you can now appreciate the work that goes into one.
to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| "Monkey Joe,
Squirrel
Girl's faithful sidekick, led a charge of squirrels onto Doctor
Doom's craft and the wee beasties chewed through the wiring and saved
the day."
What the hell?
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 28, 2005 | Whether you see it as a clever optical illusion, or just a way to freak out your
friends, you definately should make yourself a
paper dragon that watches
you as you move your head.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Baby, you sure do have
a sweet-looking..
knuckle?
to Photography by riotnrrd |
| Incoming file transfer!
SWEET JESUS
MY EYE!! to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Feb 27, 2005 | What product does the film "Pulp Fiction" bring to
mind? That's right:
third-party
Lego minifigs.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Query letters
are letters sent to agents or studios containing
brief
pitches for movie scripts. Ideally, they are short
and follow certain formal rules. In reality, however,
they are
hilarious.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| A whirlwind tour through the (highly condensed) works Western philosophy
is yours for the taking at
Squashed
Philosopohers.
to Philosophy by riotnrrd |
| Friday Feb 25, 2005 | Katamari
Damacy is a cute and addicting game from Japan (Playstation 2
only) that has become a sleeper hit here in the U.S..
Like combining sodium and water, mixing Japanese strangeness and gamers yeilds
an energized and
obsessed fanbase, who in turn create (or inspire)
hats,
hand puppets,
cellphone straps,
play-doh sculptures
paper cut-out models,
costumes,
a
sequel,
and
fanfic (of course).
My, Earth really is full of things. to Games by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 21, 2005 |
Best
knife block
ever.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Longmire reimagines some
romance novel
titles based on their cover art.
to Literature by riotnrrd |
| Blink-o-Rama: What everyone else
sees when you have your eyes closed.
to Photography by riotnrrd |
| And, lo, Jehovah did say from on High
"Damn! You got any fries
with that shake, baby?"
to Religion by riotnrrd |
| "Kami-robo
are robot fighters made from paper, measuring about 15 to 20
centimeters tall. They have joints at the shoulders, hips, elbows,
knees, wrists and ankles, which enable them to move freely and
smoothly." They are also
too
damn cool.
to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| Grafik Dynamo
takes images from Livejournal and
adds text and
speech balloons to create
a surreal ongoing narrative.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| M-city
konstruktor
allows you to place stencil-shaded tiles of buildings, people and
giant robots to create your own isometric cityscapes.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Feb 17, 2005 | Showing all the hip and "down with it" street attitude of a
1950's FBI agent, Microsoft explains
what's up with
the crazy kids these
days and their on-line lingo. to Technology by riotnrrd |
| What do you get when you cross the Dutch, earworms, cute animation and
fart humor?
I
have no idea.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Feb 16, 2005 | Words fail me:
"Daily Show
with Jon Stewart" slash fiction.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Feb 15, 2005 |
Superman may be a dick, but at least he wasn't as
psychotically bloodthirsty
as
Hong Kong
comic book heroes from the 60's.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| These instructions outline
the procedures of
packing a fresh brain for
shipment to the New York Brain Bank. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 14, 2005 | Valentine's Day is
saved.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Feb 10, 2005 | The
Baby
Name Wizard is a clever Java applet that lets you visualize
the popularity of baby names over the past century. to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Science can be
beautiful.
to Photography by riotnrrd |
| If you want to know exactly in what movies (and in what
manner) your favorite actresses have died (and whether
they were naked at the time),
the obsessive
and creepy Cinemorgue is just the site for you.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Feb 8, 2005 | Learn to speak English (or Japanese) like a character from
a bad
80's porno movie. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Feb 1, 2005 | Squint your afternoon away with the
world's smallest
game of Pac-Man. to Games by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 27, 2005 | Perhaps
the
most painful-to-watch video in the history of the world.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Johnny Carson may have been a great TV host, but he
was not without his
cringe-inducing
lapses of taste.
to Television by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jan 26, 2005 | Before the
Simpsons
were selling Butterfingers,
Matt Groening's
"Life in
Hell" characters were
selling
Macintoshes.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Everything I need to know,
I've
learned from Iron Maiden. to Music by riotnrrd |
| For cartoon rabbits considering suicide, there
are
many possibilities.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Part art car and part
dystopian mobile
panopticon, Harold Blank's
Camera Van is
covered with hundreds of cameras, some of which are still
working and can be used
to snap
candid photos.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jan 21, 2005 | Take a glimpse at the gene pool of house and hip-hop music,
with this collection of frequently
used samples from jazz, funk and disco songs.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| The iPod Shuffle is for suckers. But for those of you who
want to make your own flash-based MP3 player, make sure to
make
it minty!
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Once,
it was the most terrifying
encryption device in the world, now it's
just another PDF.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jan 7, 2005 | Everything
old is new again, with
Adventure
for Quake 3.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Pictures of
rockstars as kids
(in Portugese). to Music by riotnrrd |
| We
all know
that Han
shot first. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 6, 2005 | Follow along as Logan West crams an NES, SNES,
N64, and GameCube with GameBoy Player into one
big ugly wooden box. to Games by riotnrrd |
| God hates
rags! to Humor by riotnrrd |
| No long distance charges +
one Tommy Tutone
song =
a complete inventory of
everybody's
favorite phone number. to Music by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jan 5, 2005 |
Who said
money
and art can't co-exist?
to Art by riotnrrd |
| When memes collide, part 342:
Harry
meets badgers.
to Memetics by riotnrrd |
| If you take
the
Accomodator to the logical extreme, you
end up with
the
Humiliator. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Friday Dec 31, 2004 | While
flying cars will probably not appear on the
market any time soon, you can
instead slake your thirst for all things automotive with
this
fascinating collection of old car manuals.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| After drinking that egg nog I found in the dumpster,
I started to hallucinate that I could see the
skeletons
of cartoon characters.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Racerwrecks.com:
a useful compendium of hazard reports and saftey warnings, or just a ghoulish collection
of unintentionally hilarious accident stories?
to Health by riotnrrd |
| Using Poser to make your
renderotica is sooo 2002. All the
cool perverts are using
Akio
3.0 to create nude tableaus of crying, saucer-eyed schoolgirls.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Before you start sending money to the Russian mail-order bride
of your dreams, you'd better check the
Russian mail-order bride
blacklist.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 22, 2004 | The nostalgic complement to BevNet,
Hometownfavorites has assembled a list of
food products that
aren't made any more. to Food by riotnrrd |
|
The interesting, and completely obscure, history of
Mexican/Yugoslav
cross-cultural pollination. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| You should probably
look
closely at the credit card slip you're
signing. But, then again, why bother?
Nobody else
cares what name -- if any -- you sign. to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| The perfect gift for your sister's hyperactive child: a
100mW
laser that can
burn holes through
plastic cups. to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Many
odd things may deserve
to have their own museum, but
potted
meat product is probably not one of them. to Food by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Dec 21, 2004 | Dude,
don't bogart the art. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Perhaps the most misguided dating advice since Ann
Landers told Squeaky Fromme to find a man who
"knew what he wanted",
Don Diebel instructs men on how to meet the lovely ladies: first,
you will need a hand puppet. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| For that hard-to-shop-for pervert in your family (Uncle Jimmy, I'm looking
at you), why not buy them
paintings of
men and women having sex with
a variety of
animals, all done in traditional
Indian style?
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Monday Dec 20, 2004 |
Christmas in Tijuana
means more than just santa hats on the
donkey show girls, it also means..
MUSIC! to Music by riotnrrd |
| From 1963 until 1969, the Beatles recorded small Christmas records for
their fan club.
Sci-fi Hi-Fi has converted
them to MP3 for your much-delayed enjoyment. to Music by riotnrrd |
| The absurd Hummer H-2 + one Jeep convention + one small stump =
hilarity.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| If Cronenberg designed
sex toys.
(NSFW) to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 8, 2004 |
Roller disco is back, baby!
to Sports by riotnrrd |
| Earworms,
now in
thrilling, high-quality MIDI.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Friday Nov 26, 2004 | Remember, always pick
the
right tool for the right job. to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Construction,
surgery, and
space exploration: robots excel
at doing difficult or precise work in environments too dangerous or restrictive for humans.
Now, they have finally conquered
the bathroom.
to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| Zoom in and in and in (or out and out and out) on the trippy detail of the
collaborative artwork,
zoomquilt.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| The
AMC Gremlin,
Pacer
and
Eagle
will live forever in the
annals of crappy, ugly cardom,
and also in the heart of
Arcticboy,
who has assembled a large collection of
AMC memorablia,
including
toys,
sound clips,
and
screencaps
of AMC cars in TV shows and movies.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Nov 23, 2004 |
The world's best
flash-animated book
report on "How to Kill a Mockingbird".
Oddly, I didn't remember it containing quite as many pirates or things on fire. to Books by riotnrrd |
|
Disgust yourself regularly with
the Malady of the Month.
to Health by riotnrrd |
| Molatar, your run-of-the-mill
shape-changing dragon werewolf
fundamentalist Christian,
hates
role playing games,
vampires and
stinging insects.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Friday Nov 19, 2004 | "You are nothing without your robot car. NOTHING!"
So build your own replica
of KITT and rest assured that you
are somebody special.
to Television by riotnrrd |
| Number 436 in our continuing series of incomprehensible fetishes:
women kicking men in the crotch. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Repeat after me:
an airplane is not a lowrider.
to Flash by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Nov 18, 2004 | if I looking for frog. him name is hopkin green frog.
P.S. I'll find my frog.
to Memetics by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Nov 17, 2004 | Bring the robot holocaust one step closer by using a remote-controlled gun
to kill animals from the
saftey and comfort of your home computer. to Technology by riotnrrd |
| Giving
wings to pigs
with the miracle of biotechnology! to Science by riotnrrd |
| Fishighway, the Habitrail for fish. to Pets by riotnrrd |
| The Virgin Mary is showing up everywhere these days: on
steaks,
bread, and
a grilled
cheese sandwich
(also in an
Atkins-friendly
version, as well as
George
W. Bush and
Osama
bin Laden isotopes).
Maybe
this
kit has something to do with it.. to Religion by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Nov 16, 2004 | A French computer programmer has managed to create
the most irritating
CV ever.
to Flash by riotnrrd |
| Monday Nov 15, 2004 | Profanity Adventures:
A nostalgic look at what happens when you type swear words into old
text adventures.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Just beause your walkman is obsolete
doesn't mean
it's useless.
With a bit of work you can turn it into
a
race car. to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Only one man could possibly play George W. Bush in
"Dubya: The Movie". to Politics by riotnrrd |
| Friday Nov 12, 2004 | Instructions on how to build the
best paper
airplane in the world,
although you may want to try
some competitors to be certain.
to Toys by riotnrrd |
| A couple sets out to break every one of
America's
weird blue laws,
and
photograph the process to boot.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Monday Nov 8, 2004 | A baffling collection of
photos of things wrapped in brown
packing tape.
to Photography by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Nov 4, 2004 | Too late for Halloween, a pictorial guide to
tying a sumo diaper. to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| Japanese businessmen. They work hard and they
sleep
hard.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Nov 2, 2004 | Horrifying
and
bizarre
tableaus, presented by the
Minnesota
Association of Rogue Taxidermists.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Those europeans love their soccer AND their hot mansex, so why
not combine both with
the
Football Kama Sutra. to Sports by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Oct 13, 2004 | Barney is
West-side representin'! (WMV file) to Music by riotnrrd |
| "Leave it to Bush"
is a weird, weird little flash cartoon
that uses ferrets and the real voices of Gary Busey and George W. Bush
to make a point about campaign finance reform. Or anal sex. Or maybe both. to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Lonely and horny? Then take your penis over to Uncle Melon's guide on
"How to Bang
Just About Any Object In Your House" and go wild, sport. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Ján Podolský
has a pretty impressive collection of autographs including
musicians,
astronauts and
porn stars.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Oct 12, 2004 | More Transformer madness! This time,
PaperFormers
Universe provides you with
more
than fifty PDF versions of paper cutout models
of various Autobots and Decepticons.
Autobots, cut out! to Toys by riotnrrd |
|
Steve Erenberg has a very cool collection of
old radios, electronic and scientific equipment,
all of which is for sale! to Technology by riotnrrd |
|
Self-explanatory yet completely inexplicable: Japanese girls
bitchslapping each other.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Friday Oct 8, 2004 | If you watch only one first-person POV video of insane bikers racing through Manhattan
traffic this year, make it
this one.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Heavy metal bellydancers?
Yeah, you heard me.
Heavy metal belly dancers! to Music by riotnrrd |
| Jay J. Armes - international
double-amputee of mystery! to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Oct 7, 2004 | Carl Lewis may be able to run much, much, much faster than you but,
unlike him, you still have your
dignity (QuickTime).
to Music by riotnrrd |
| What could make meetings even less fun? How about making everyone sit way too
close together on
an infantalizing seven-seated tricycle?
I smell SYNERGY! to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| The
Unfortunate
Animal of the Month Club is just the thing
if you have a young neice or nephew that you want to
emotionally scar for life. to Toys by riotnrrd |
| Never have office supplies been so
deadly.
to Toys by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Oct 6, 2004 | Inevitable but also so very, very wrong,
Mozilla
Firefox themed
furry anime
girls.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Oct 5, 2004 | This is what human progress is all about:
controlling a cartoon boy writing
messages in the snow
with his own pee, that you can mail to your "friends." to Flash by riotnrrd |
| Masters of
Lebowski: one of those rare ideas that's still funny after the bong
hits have worn off the next morning.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Jet engine + man =
THE JET-MAN PROJECT. to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Sep 23, 2004 | CRAZIEST, by Liz Dubelman,
is a funny and haunting
story of games, life, god and the mythical
triple-triple.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| How
to Make a Violin, in just 45 pictures.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Willy Wonka meets Francis Ford Coppola in
Chocolypse Now.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Sep 22, 2004 |
"It's like the Simlarillion of the Transformers!" If
that sentence doesn't send you shreiking away from your
computer, then
"Transformers:
A History" is for you. to Toys by riotnrrd |
| If Optimus Prime had a baby with the
International
Harvester CXT 7300, it would look like these
heavily modified
Japanese trucks.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
|
Resistance is futile. You will be
pretty. Oh so pretty..
to Toys by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Sep 15, 2004 | Kazuo Yoshia has a a big collection of
little
whiskey bottles.
to Beverages by riotnrrd |
| Monday Aug 30, 2004 | Gord, the world's best/worst video game store owner, has
his own comic (kind of).
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| There is no such thing as
too much bacon, but maybe
air
fresheners and
votive
candles isn't the right place for it.
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Friday Aug 27, 2004 | Make your own 3D pictures,
just like
the pros. to Photography by riotnrrd |
| If you're thinking that your Vespa scooter isn't QUITE nerdy enough,
then someone in Japan has
a solution.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Aug 25, 2004 | A messageboard without a topic, shaped like a tree,
Ecotonoha
sounds straight out of 1999, but is oddly compelling. The
tree grows larger and greener with every message left,
and
the archives are available
as a screensaver.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Everybody
do the Lynndie! to Photography by riotnrrd |
| Friday Aug 20, 2004 | Finally, the useful reference we've all been watiting for:
"Twelve Ways
To Crush Your Own Testicles In Your Own Home".
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| A great resource of dubious legality,
Classic Movie Scripts houses
dozens of examples of just that, including
Citizen
Kane,
Dr.
Strangelove and many others.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| "The Quantum Sleeper Unit is a
high-level security system designed for maximum protection in various
hostile environments" and looks like it could double as a coffin in
case it doesn't work as advertised. to Security by riotnrrd |
| "Oh my dearest, pull out your mighty stallion and let my thighs and
linens receive your effusion!"
The Victorian Sex Cry generator
will satisfy your lust for purple synonyms for vaginas and penetration. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| The
Hall of
Technical Documentation Weirdness is
more like a a compliation of bad translations than
strange documentation, but still amusing.
Warning!
May pre house
the seamy size violation!
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Aug 18, 2004 | First electronics, then cars, and now
stunt-fucking: once
again, the Japanese are light-years ahead of America
in research and development.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Friday Aug 6, 2004 | Fuck
the vote! to Politics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Aug 5, 2004 | Make love, not
chess. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Transformers,
breakdancers
in disguise.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Eliza
plus a database of badly spelled cyber sex responses equals
hilarity. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Aug 4, 2004 | Lots of pictures and information (including spectrum sensitivity) of
old microphones that used to be used in broadcasting. to Technology by riotnrrd |
| Dance, Voldo, dance! to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Aug 1, 2004 | More bad comics based on computer games can be found within
Atari Age's archive of
Atari Force,
Swordquest, and Yar's Revenge comic books.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Jul 31, 2004 | Michael O'Brien has an
eclectic
collection of 50's and 60's movie posters
and weird old exploitation novel covers.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Doom: Great game,
horrible
comic book. to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jul 15, 2004 | Each of Jason Kronenwald's portraits are made entirely from
chewed bubblegum
on a plywood backing; no paint or dye is used.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Lists of things
that are the "new black" are the new black. to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jul 13, 2004 | If you think luggage searches, xray machines, and metal detectors
will prevent hijackers from getting weapons onto airplanes,
think again.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Transformer porn:
soiling your childhood, one memory at a time. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| The World's Largest Collection
of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things
Traveling Roadside Attraction and Museum is coming to a town near YOU.
to Society by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jul 9, 2004 | Spam will never end, because there are
1,300,925,111,156,286,160,896 ways
to spell Viagra.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
|
Howtoons
are one-page cartoons showing 5-to-15 year-old kids "How To" build things,
like
marshmallow guns,
and an
ice-skateboard.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Celebrate summer by making your own
whistle
from a
willow branch. to Music by riotnrrd |
|
Make your
own soda! And afterwards, you can wash your hands with
homemade bacon soap.
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jul 8, 2004 | Explore how the English language has changed by browsing this
unabridged
1913 Webster's dictionary. to Linguistics by riotnrrd |
| Things the web has taught me: how to avoid
death in a manure pit.
to Outdoors by riotnrrd |
| Travel to exotic and beautiful India and enjoy their
many
colorful trashcans. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Black people hate me, and
they hate
my glasses. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jul 6, 2004 | The
severed
heads and
pool
of synthetic genitals
makes me uncertain if
this photoblog
is from
a porn convention
or the home of a serial killer.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| "I collect
second-hand photographs
of women and dogs. That's right, both women and dogs together." to Photography by riotnrrd |
| It's rare that a flash game is both elegant, clever and has a
downright good musical score. The only
thing
circles
is missing is more.
to Flash by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jun 29, 2004 | My job sucks and
I work with fools.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| By now, GPS drawing
has become old hat,
so there is only one place left to take it:
the
third dimension.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Upload an image of some text to
What the Font?
and it will (try to) determine what font
it uses. Neato!
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jun 25, 2004 |
Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to document
graffitti of little octopuses
around New York City.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| "Rather than dedicate the
racoons' penis bones
to overpopulated humanity, we placed them by our pond, where visiting
raccoons would benefit from the resultant sexual potency and fertility
among their own species."
to Outdoors by riotnrrd |
|
John Byrne, legendary comics author and artist
is writing
a
fun, retro webtoon.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jun 24, 2004 | I'm not a dumpster-diving gutterpunk, I'm a
freegan, man!
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Worst
gameroom
ever.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jun 17, 2004 | After nearly six years, the Beastie Boys finally have a new album out.
But don't get too excited. Turns out, if you try to play it in
your Windows machine or Mac,
it
installs "copy protection" software without your permission, which
you may not even be able to uninstall.
People
aren't
very happy about this.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jun 7, 2004 | If you take a cool album, and find its best song, and then you listen
to just the coolest part of that song, it's possible that your ears might
explode from sheer sonic awesomeness. Are you prepared to
TAKE
THAT CHANCE?
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Dedicated fans of Lucas Arts' NES game
Manic Mansion have
re-made it
but what's
the
dirty secret behind this not-so-dirty
story game?
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jun 4, 2004 | A good idea with a brain-peelingly poor execution:
ASSASSIN'S NIGHT: A DEEPER DARKNESS takes
web comics to a newer,
stupider dimension with the addition of
roll-over animations,
repetitive metal guitar riffs,
and the
worst
animated blowjob I've ever seen.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| UFOs, crystal skulls, Roswell, the beginning of the Aquarian age, healing energy
and on and on and on for hundreds of
pages.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Next time you
build your own dollhouse,
make sure to leave room for
an arcade.
to Toys by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jun 3, 2004 |
Implosion World!, your one-stop-shop for building implosion pictures, information and videos.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
|
Enjoy the world's most popular form of short cinema with this archive of
dozens
of music videos from
famous directors
and film collectives.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Baka Jesus-san! It's
Christian anime!
(Now with 33% less tentacle rape).
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jun 1, 2004 | You may have defeated my Southern Hook Palm technique, but can you
defeat the
1000 Fighting Styles of
Rumsfeld?
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 20, 2004 | Fame (or at least Google's approximation of it) can come at
a price for bloggers:
chuckleheads who think your diary is
Maury
Povich's personal webpage or
the webpage of
a popular
TV show.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 19, 2004 | June the mannequin, hits the
road. to Humor by riotnrrd |
| If you like the aesthetic of
modernist architecture but don't have the
budget for a
custom-built home then perhaps
modernist prefab housing is
what you're looking for. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday May 18, 2004 |
If the summer heat is already getting you down,
revisit a winter childhood game and
make your own snowflake.
to Flash by riotnrrd |
| If you've gotta go (and you're near a computer), then
AddYourOwn restroom finder
is just what you need. to Cartography by riotnrrd |
|
If you don't want to spend a year and a half of your life building a replica of the
Ghostbusters' Proton Pack,
then you can
buy one that
someone else has already made (jumpsuit included).
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Monday May 17, 2004 | A Case of
Curioisities
shows off a fascinating collection of
vintage and
original
taxidermy
and other curiosities.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| This bizarre tube defines poor fidelity and does various horrible things, especially in
this circuit. to Music by riotnrrd |
| How many glasses
of beer are in a keg?
How many feet of noodles are in
a package of Ramen?
How many
CDs can you label with a
Sharpie?
Find out the answer to these and other questions of the ages at
How much Is Inside.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Japanese kids have
the cutest lunches EVER. to Food by riotnrrd |
| Friday May 14, 2004 |
GOD IS CONCERNED ABOUT OUR
APPAREL,
HAIR STYLES, ETC. to Wackos by riotnrrd |
|
Spend spring in Paris with these pretty
panoramic photos of Paris Metro
stations. to Photography by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 13, 2004 |
Case modders +
anime fans =
Anime maid-shaped
computer case
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Thrill your ears with the sounds of a
crazed Japanese beatbox/a cappella singer
covering some of pop music's greatest hits. to Music by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday May 11, 2004 | Beep boop, it's
music made on a Game Boy.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Sunday May 2, 2004 | 300 images from 1800
sites highlights the design of the
web's least noticed elements: icons. to Web by riotnrrd |
| The best things in life are
free (after rebate,
shipping not included).
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| Odd and oddly fascinating:
Banglapedia, the National
Encyclopedia of Bangladesh.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Fly the abandoned skies, with this
guide to abandoned
airports around the United States.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Good lord.
More than you
ever needed to know about Victorian fantastic literature.
to Books by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Apr 25, 2004 | Vote
Tolkien
nerd for Congress. to Politics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Apr 19, 2004 | Superman vs. Batman, Aliens vs. predator,
Stalin vs. Hitler? to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Apr 14, 2004 | "This year I decided to go the whole hog and make an
entire thoracic cavity cake." to Food by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Apr 10, 2004 | If you enjoyed the
Google Random Personal Picture Finder
but require more teen angst, then
spend endless hours reloading this
random selection of the
most recently posted images to
LiveJournal.
to Society by riotnrrd |
| Friday Apr 9, 2004 |
If you want to be the next
Kubrick
but have a limited budget, start by building a
$14 steadicam
(a $14
what?),
or maybe build one out of
Legos.
If you're even more ambitious, after understanding
how
dynamic balance
works, you can try to
design and build your
own unique take on this
useful device.
to Photography by riotnrrd |
| HousingPrototypes.org
is a large database of multi-family housing --
containing photos, floor plans and project descritpions -- that
is searchable by architect, building type, and location. to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Apr 6, 2004 | Sweet, sweet
design porn.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| "There is something going on here, Mr. Jones, and you don't know what
it is, do you?" Actually, I do, Bob. It's called licensing your music
to make a
vaguely pornographic
ad for Victoria's Secret.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Bored with your own commute? Then read the
bus blog,
documenting Kat Jungnickel's daily ride on
London's Route
73 Bus.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Just like with
the VCR,
the Japanese have taken
an American
invention
and
improved on
it it
(or at least made it
a
bit weirder).
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Friday Mar 26, 2004 | Buying a copy of
Action
Comics #1 (the first appearance of Superman)
will run you about
$75,000,
but you can
read it online for free.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Don't look too closely at that picture of a shiny teapot, or the
Reflectoporn may get you. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| First
the controversy
then the
inevitable t-shirt. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 23, 2004 |
The
labels on fruit crates
can be surprisingly
well
designed and even
pretty.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Mar 20, 2004 | Is Diet Coke merely America's favorite low-calorie soda, or is
it also
FIZZY, BLACK DEATH? to Beverages by riotnrrd |
| Friday Mar 12, 2004 | Shit, there's a lot of fucking swearing
in the Linux
kernel.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
|
The Two Towers in
just ten minutes.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| More worksafe porn can be found accidentally,
in videogames. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Mar 11, 2004 | I
wish I had a girlfriend. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Monday Mar 8, 2004 | Get a true feel for veterinary medicine with the
Bovine Rectal
Palpation Simulator.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Mar 7, 2004 | Oh my god, like the Mars
rovers
totally have their
own livejournals.
Current mood: interplanetary. to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 2, 2004 | William
Wegman meets Jack Chick. to Religion by riotnrrd |
| Perpetual motion
machines don't work, but that doesn't stop
lots of eccentric
inventors from trying.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Finally, porn that is safe for
work. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Feb 26, 2004 | If you consider yourself to be a budding
Svankmeyer
or Quay
brother
(or just
another goth
who needs some home decor), steer your
barouche
over to the
Victorian Taxidermy
Company Limited, and peruse their stuffed
and mounted wares.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Feb 24, 2004 | Sometimes you just know that a movie is going to suck. So why not write
a review about it before it's even released?
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| If you look hard enough, you can find
animals
all over the
London
Underground.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Friday Feb 20, 2004 | Learn the difference between
"Nu Style Gabber"
and "Hard Acid Techno"
with Ishkur's amusing and informative
guide to electronic
music.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| More collections! Presenting the wonderful world of
cereal boxes.
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Charlie Mingus was very impressed that he taught his
cat
how to use the toilet.
to Pets by riotnrrd |
| Is Achewood's
Todd T.
Squirrel the long lost brother of Stoopidpigeon's
Strappy the
squirrel?
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 16, 2004 | Jerk yourself silly.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Friday Feb 13, 2004 | Sid Vicious says:
check out this
huge
collection of punk rock and hardcore album covers,
or he'll kick you in the face.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Explore the genetic diversity and
interrelatedness of it
all
with the Tree Of Life's
phylogeny
tree.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Junglewalk has a huge
library of sounds, images and video of wild animals and insects from
around the world. to Outdoors by riotnrrd |
| A quarter of a mile beneath the streets of Detroit lies a secret city,
made entirely
of salt.
to Travel by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Feb 10, 2004 | Itchyrobot has accumulated a
collection of
"found typography":
interesting, handmade or unusual typographic examples found in
everyday life.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Found Magazine
collects found
photgraphs,
notes,
doodles and other discarded personal artifacts. to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Finally, an answer to that burning question of the ages: what were
the
odds against Hamlet
during
his sword fight
with Laertes (Act 5, Scene 2, Line 166). to Literature by riotnrrd |
| "My name is Rover, and I
am interested in meeting friends, activity partners, and humping bitches and legs.
Click here
to see my profile." to Pets by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 9, 2004 | "Those idiots! They got it all wrong!"
Whether you care about
guns,
physics,
or just
general fuckups,
there's a
movie nitpicking
site out there for you.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Throw me to the ground and
overpower me, maggot!
The Army
Combatives
Field Manual reads like a gay
Kama
Sutra, as written by R. Lee Ermey.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Do you want to read what
a bunch of
strangers thought about where
they went for vacation? Or maybe just show everyone what
states and countries
you've visited?
Then check out
World66, the open travel
guide. to Travel by riotnrrd |
| Friday Feb 6, 2004 | Is the moon actually a giant spaceship?
I do
beleive so! to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| How
do
really
fat people wipe themselves?
Why
do white people smell like spoiled milk?
Find out the answers to these, and many other, pressing and
insensitive questions at
the
Y? Forum.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| What is it about collections of labels? This time, it's
fruit crates.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Masks
are a common theme in erotica and
fetish-wear.
In addition to the obvious
gimp hoods,
and
bondage masks,
there are stranger possibilities, such as
gas masks
(build your own!)
and
doll
masks.
Related to this relatively vanilla fetish is a
stranger subculture of transvestites
which incorporates
creepy expressionless
latex masks
into their get-ups.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jan 28, 2004 | Orkut
is big news these days, just like
Friendster used to be.
But "social networks" are nothing new.
Indeed, French dove breeders created a decentralized
social network, complete with a
trust metric and
"refer a friend" features (and people who tried to game the system) back in
the
17th century.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jan 26, 2004 | Porno for pyros: the
virtual matchbox labels museum.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Snap into an Ostrim! It's America's #1
Sports Nutrition Meat Stick! to Food by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jan 21, 2004 | For gay and bisexual fans of "Space: 1999" (all two of you), there
is finally
a mailing list.
to Television by riotnrrd |
| Enjoy the
Law And Order coloring book,
but stay inside the lines
or you're
heading to the slammer, punk.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Car
for sale. May require some light interior cleaning.
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jan 19, 2004 | Have you ever wanted to live on a small farm?
Then how about a farm made entirely of miniature
animals?
Cows,
goats,
sheep
and
pigs:
small is not just for
ponies any more.
to Pets by riotnrrd |
| Melissa Edwards maps
Canada with
donuts,
meat,
and
menses. to Cartography by riotnrrd |
| There's only one thing sexier than wrestlin', and that's
computer-rendered Poser models of
nekkid women
wrestlin'! to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 15, 2004 | Dangerous health
epidemic, or
source of pride?
Being
fat is PHAT.
to Health by riotnrrd |
| Dikron - A paper
camera from late 70's Czechoslovakia that you can build youself.
to Photography by riotnrrd |
| Build your
own damn Segway. to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 31, 2003 | Kazu Kibuishi's
Copper
is a series of beautifully drawn, single page comics that
is
a bit like
a modern version of
Little Nemo
in Slumberland.
Also, check out his fourteen-part series,
Clive
and Cabbage.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| At Slow Wave,
Jesse Reklaw draws 4-panel comic strips retelling
other people's
dreams. to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Dec 30, 2003 | Hubba hubba! Check out these
adult movie
posters from the 60s and 70s. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Apparently,
the Google office in
Santa Monica has a problem with
Ben Affleck taking their
parking spaces. to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Friday Dec 19, 2003 | A duck, a rabbit and an angry puppet:
Cigarro & Cerveja! to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Graffiti
Archaeology is devoted to the documentation of graffiti-covered
walls as they change over time.
Use the
GrafAc Explorer,
to watch the graffiti ebb and flow in selected areas of San Francisco.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Dec 16, 2003 | The
Health Physics Instrumentation
Museum
houses a large collection of
posters,
medical instruments,
and
other artifacts
related to the scientific and commercial use of radioactivity.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| "Steve Currey of
Steve Currey's Expedition Company has
agreed to charter a Russian Nuclear Icebreaker from
Adventure Associates
and is standing by to take the first 100 people to sign up for
this historic voyage
to the Arctic, to determine once and for all whether
the hollow earth theory has any validity." to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Friday Dec 5, 2003 | Finally, a webpage
for men who enjoy being shaved and enjoy
watching other men being shaved.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| In mankind's quest to catalog and crossreference everything, it was
inevitable that someone would turn their gaze upon
Elvis' concert pantsuits. to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| Howdy, Pardner. If those long nights on the prairie are feeling kind
of lonesome, why not cuddle up with some
cowgirl pinups
from the 1930's through the 1960's? Giddyap! to Art by riotnrrd |
| Enjoy the
velvet pantsuits and the
computer programmer hair
on display in these
promo photos for Swedish and Finnish bands
from the 70's. to Photography by riotnrrd |
| Famously, James Bond loves a good martini.
But what are his
favorite drinks, statistically speaking? to Beverages by riotnrrd |
| "Everybody has a hobby. Mine is collecting
images of pantyhose
packages, as well as
pantyhose ads
from magazines and catalogs." to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Dec 4, 2003 | In 1994, the ocean liner S.S. American Star
(formerly the
Chandris America,
the U.S.S. West Point, and eventually the
S.S. Australis)
became
stranded on a
remote beach
on the west coast of
Fuerteventura,
off the coast of Spain. Almost ten years later, she's
still sitting there,
rusting away.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Please enjoy David Dahle's collection of more than
100 powerline insulators. to Reference by riotnrrd |
| "The lostlove project
aims to compile stories about lost love. Users enter stories which
are then linked by the lostlove engine to create a metanarrative of a
relationship." to Art by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 3, 2003 | If you thought it began and ended with
the cat's
cradle, you have
a lot to learn. to Games by riotnrrd |
| So, you want to be a male prostitute? Here's
how. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| A step-by-step explanation of
American autopsy procedures.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Japanese FAQ,
Japanese SAQ. to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Dec 2, 2003 | In a stunning display of wasteful computing, you can now play
Pac Man
and Space Invaders as Excel macros. to Games by riotnrrd |
| I love comic books, but
sometimes..
boy can they
suck. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Having difficulty understanding people in real life, without
emoticons to
help you? Perhaps you should read the
Nonverbal Dictionary
of Gestures, Signs and Body Language Cues before venturing again into
the big room.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Monday Dec 1, 2003 | How often does
Cathy
sweat?
Aaack!
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Marissa Marchant
has a pretty voice,
pedestrian lyrics,
and a
insanely inflated
sense of her music's worth.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| If you grew up without a crotchety grandfather filling your head
with nonsense,
American Folklore
can give you all the
tall tales and
ghost
stories you missed out on. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Todd MacFarlane may be elevating
action figures to
the realm of art,
but he's just one man, and he's got an
uphill battle ahead of him. to Toys by riotnrrd |
| Friday Nov 21, 2003 | Type in a simple message and
"Let Them Sing it For You"
will stitch together clips from popular songs and sing it back to you. to Music by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Nov 19, 2003 | A disturbing fascination with
duct tape.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| I email dead people! to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Monday Nov 10, 2003 | For all you role-playing gamers out there, the ultimate rule system
has finally been invented:
H*Y*B*R*I*D
("it's NOT an acronym; stars are
there just to make it look pretty"). HINT: For how to destroy a Death Star of & in Star Wars Universe, look @ rule # 116. HINT: For how to create a (US) President, look @ rule # 119. Warning (805k of HTML) to Games by riotnrrd |
| Biff! Socko!
Wank!
The
Unh! Project
collects and documents
guttural moans in comics.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Friday Nov 7, 2003 | Fake drugs are for losers, so check this
gigantic database
of descriptions and pictures of club pills before you
drop that Yinyang. to Drugs by riotnrrd |
| Some men like
a lot,
some men like
none at all. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| For only a few hundred dollars (and a few hundred hours), you
can become
the coolest person you
know.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| "In my attempt to realize 'death', I have decided to watch
the
dead body of a dog continuously at the coast."
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Nov 6, 2003 | Have we have gone too
"meta"?
Ponder this question while you view the
CG rendered webcams
of Pico Mirador. to Web by riotnrrd |
| Eric Fensler
has remixed and overdubbed old
G.I. Joe public service
announcements
to create some
strange and funny
short films.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Oct 30, 2003 | If you take
Peter Pan,
add a little
Lynda Carter
and a little bit of crazy, you end up with
Wonder Woman Vicki!
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| If you have no clue what
Lassie
is making such a fuss over, the
Bowlingual dog
translator can help!
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Get your cartoon on, old-style, with the
Bayeux tapestry
webtoon toolkit. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Oct 29, 2003 | If there's anything that little kids hate, it's doing something
fun and messy with knives.
So make sure to drain that last little drop of
pleasure out of your
over-protected child's Halloween
by giving the little scamp a clean, safe
polyurethane Funkin to carve.
No muss, no fuss, and no icky contact with the natural world!
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Midgets + KISS =
rock and roll!
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Friday Oct 3, 2003 | Swingin' 50's and 60's design style meets
web craziness
in the work of Japanese artist Kazumi Nonaka. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Get your freak on, young Jedi.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Online art gallery Decontrol
uses beautiful design and an intuitive navigational interface that
doesn't get in the way of the art.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| If the Weekly World News and
Answer Me!
got The Onion pregnant
in a coke-fueled gangbang, and then
sold their baby
to American ex-pats living in Russia, that child would grow
up to be eXile. to Humor by riotnrrd |
| If you love good graphic design and have the attention span of
a meth-crazed whippet, browse
through Quorporation's
collection of past projects at
Saturate.Nu. to Web by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Oct 1, 2003 | Simple yet weird:
harmonizing
singing horses. to Flash by riotnrrd |
| And another thing:
celebrities don't look like that
in real life, either.
to Photography by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Sep 30, 2003 | Maggot Art
is a fantastic new teaching tool for use in the elementary
school setting.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Japanese teenagers
are
dressing
up
as pre-pubescent,
Victorian sluts
on their way to a wake for fetish nurses.
What the fuck
is going on
over there?
to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| "The idea is simple: to collect photos of
people
posing dead
in various places from
around the world."
to Photography by riotnrrd |
| We present a novel, inexpensive, stereoscopic technique for
generating
3D displays from cellophane and a laptop computer screen.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Next time you ogle
a swimsuit
model
remember that
she doesn't
really look like that.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Monday Sep 29, 2003 | John Norman's
Gor novels
have titillated teenage boys for
decades. However, some people have taken his S&M-drenched
swords-and-sorcery fantasy
far too seriously,
and have modelled their
lives and
sex-lives
around it.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| You know that one Nintendo game,
the one so hard
that you could never get
past the second boss, let alone beat it? Even though you still
suck, you can at least find out what you missed at
Super NES endings.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Sep 17, 2003 | With Halloween only a month and a half away, now's the perfect
time to start work on your Ripley (of
ALIENS fame)
costume, complete with
home-made
M41-A pulse rifle
(or you could simply
buy one that
shoots paintballs).
And, if you have $1500 to spare, dress up a friend or loved one as
an
alien
for the complete experience. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Sep 16, 2003 | Smash the state, old school style, with this
collection
of historical anarchist texts.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Has the internet put the bad touch on some of your
fond childhood memories?
Come to
Broken Memories
where you can discuss (and
hunt down)
fanfic,
porn
movie adapations, and other soilings of
cherished TV shows, games, and movies.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Monday Sep 15, 2003 | Take a trip down a very nerdy memory lane by browsing through
this huge archive
of computer magazines from the 80's.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Friday Sep 12, 2003 | First Place for "Event most likely to give James Randi an aneurysm"
goes to the
Fellowship Baptist
Creation Science fair.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Sep 11, 2003 | Save yourself weeks of painful trial and error by using
Stair Dismount to
simulate how damaging it is to fall down the stairs.
to Toys by riotnrrd |
| Evidentally, somebody's parents didn't teach them to
play nice with
borrowed toys.
to News by riotnrrd |
| Don't
worry.
The University of Minnesota's collection of old
social hygiene
posters
will help you navigate life's
difficult
situations. to History by riotnrrd |
| Friday Aug 29, 2003 | As summer winds to a close, take a moment to reminisce and browse
through the online
watergun museum.
to Toys by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Aug 26, 2003 | Since the dawn of time, man has craved accurate mathematical modeling of
the dynamics of
zombie infection.
Finally, thanks to the magic of Java, you can now
simulate
zombies and panicking humans in the comfort of your own home.
to Toys by riotnrrd |
| For fans of the movie
The Ring
(or its Japanese predecessor
Ringu),
comes this little nugget of insanity: a
Flash montage of
Ringu fan art.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Friday Aug 22, 2003 | Waste some time with this cute
flash
adventure game written by the fun folks at
Lego.com.
to Flash by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Aug 21, 2003 | In retrospect, the combination of
reality TV
and porn was
inevitable.
to Television by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Aug 20, 2003 | Trong Lovdal has amassed an
impressive collection
of over 500
vintage Chinese posters.
Lucky for us, he's placed images of these beautiful
artworks on the web, and is even
selling a few of them.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| "I quit my full-time work to make it happen, spending my entire savings along the way. But building
a giant camera out of a delivery truck
has been my dream for the past six years." to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 14, 2003 | Writing a "normal" book is obviously difficult. But what if you took
pains to avoid a particular glyph or symbol?
Lipographic
writings , such as
La Disparation,
Gadsby,
and
A Void
satisfy this difficult authorial constraint, but can still
draw you in as works of art.
to Literature by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday May 13, 2003 | Pixel Creation
has a small but beautiful collection of
Chinese
advertising art from the 1920's and 1930's.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Monday Apr 21, 2003 | Just when you thought mankind could sink no lower,
Anne Frank
fanfic appears and soils us all.
to Books by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Apr 16, 2003 | If you don't have kids, but you're still fascinated by working
scale models of tanks,
you can always build
large scale models
of tanks and armor
such as this
1/3 scale model
of a German tank that shoots shotgun shells as well as 22-caliber
pistol rounds.
Or if you're not interested in being invited to meet the friendly
agents of the BATF, you could satisfy yourself by building
model tanks that shoot paintballs,
and then
fighting them
against one another.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Imagenetion has an enormous
collection of scanned pinups,
cheesecake art,
and fantasy art.
Including some
very, very
odd peices of
fan art.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Monday Apr 7, 2003 | In times of emergency do not panic, take
your neckwear
and look for a safe escape path. to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Apr 1, 2003 | Take a break from not laughing at the many unfunny April Fool's
Day "jokes" on the web, and check out the
100 greatest April
Fool's Day hoaxes of all time.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 26, 2003 | Only lamers still skateboard. All the cool kids are now into
wheelbarrows. to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Bzzzpeek
presents a collection of onomatopoeia from around the world,
using recordings of native speakers imitating the sounds of animals
and vehicles.
to Linguistics by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 25, 2003 | Soft
cell phone or robotic maxi-pad? to Technology by riotnrrd |
| Back after a year's absence,
TV Go Home returns to
its deeply bitter (and hilarious) spoofing of the BBC Radio Times
TV listings.
As with any satire worth its salt, TvGoHome is itself the subject of
mockery.
to Television by riotnrrd |
| Monday Mar 24, 2003 | Have some
patriotic ice cream
with your Freedom Fries and Victory Cabbage.
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Learn english the
flash animation way.
to Flash by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Mar 23, 2003 | Using a wide variety of news reports ,
Iraq Body Count
attempts to determine
how many Iraqi
civilians have died in the latest Gulf War.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Of the many
blogs about the war on Iraq,
none have sparked as much interest as
Dear Raed. But
is he for real? to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Mar 22, 2003 | Just because American comic books used to be saddled with the
puritanical
comics code,
didn't mean that artists couldn't put some pretty racy
fetish art on the covers.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| The State of Indiana's
Prevention
Rescource Center makes drugs appear much
prettier than they probably intended. to Drugs by riotnrrd |
| Friday Mar 21, 2003 | Can't tell your
charismata
from your
chaplets?
Then perhaps you should say a
rosary
and browse through the Catholic
Encyclopedia.
to Religion by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 18, 2003 | G.I. Joe! The greatest American..
nerd rap/cosplay trio? to Music by riotnrrd |
| Monday Mar 17, 2003 | Happy Tree Friends
takes your sweet childhood memories of fuzzy, friendly animals and
soils them horribly.
(mirror) to Flash by riotnrrd |
| Friday Mar 14, 2003 | Contemporary
movie posters can be
stylish,
beautiful,
or even
disturbing
but rarely are these mass-produced broadsheets considered works of art.
However, during the late 80's and early 90's, "movie distribution" in Ghana
meant "a truck with a VCR, a TV and a portable generator", and the
promotional posters these entrepreneurs used were
beautiful
hand-painted canvases.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| PDAs may be good for keeping appointments and
organizing your address book, but are they good for
making art?
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Mar 13, 2003 | The future ain't
what it used
to be.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 12, 2003 | Get off your hodad butt, put on your pendleton and
relive the heydey of
surfing movies
with this giant
collection of
surf movie posters.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Too much free time on your hands? Waste it all (and then some)
with the help of
OnlineComics.net,
a searchable directory of over 2000 online comic strips.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Mar 6, 2003 | When MAME meets mom, you get
vintage videogame cross-stiching.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Monday Mar 3, 2003 | Watch out!
Evil snake people
are everywhere:
comets,
rock formations,
terrorist attacks
and, of course,
Hans Blix.
Plus, bonus UFOs, chem trails, mind control, worldwide conspiracies,
King Kong getting a tan,
and evil Jesuits!
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Feb 19, 2003 | During his career as an artist,
Donald Evans
created hundreds of hand-painted
postage stamps
for imaginary countries.
The influence of his works can clearly been seen in
the painted and collage-work
envelopes
and stamps from
the
Griffin and Sabine books,
or the haunting surrealism of the
Codex Seraphinianus.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Friday Feb 14, 2003 | Although
bitterness about
Valentine's day has become as cliched as
celebrating it the
Hallmark way,
Blackheartsparty
strikes just the right mix of hate and humor.
Take the
personality tests,
read the reviews of restaurants to take people you only
want to fuck
and revel in their (and your own) misanthropy.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Feb 11, 2003 | Never before has
listening
to you neighbor playing Counterstrike been
funnier, or had a better beat.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| This Valentine's day, tell that special someone in your life that
you've got your eye
on them.. as well as your infrared cameras, wiretaps and
keystroke loggers.
to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 10, 2003 | As if in answer to our bad sci-fi
explosive
decompression prayers,
Dean Pentcheff brings us a video of what happens when a
crab
meets a 2700 p.s.i. gradient, more than a mile beneath the ocean. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Feb 6, 2003 |
"My name is the Natsuko Murakami! As for me there is from Japan. My
English still it is not complete and therefore I practiced and began
this webpage.
The Blogging is large!" to Humor by riotnrrd |
| While most people find the beginning of a (hypothetical) pregnancy
the most fun, there are those who find an
erotic
charge in the
very end of the
nine-month process.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jan 31, 2003 | Let's play the home version of
"Gulf War 2." to Flash by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 9, 2003 | The next time someone tells you to "Go to Hell," you can
consult the
Entrances to Hell
website and find the nearest door.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jan 8, 2003 | Yesterday,
Oolong
the famous
waffle-balancing rabbit,
died.
Rest in peace, my
pastry-laden
friend.
to Pets by riotnrrd |
| Getting off to
pictures of celebrities smoking
is soooo 2002. This year, the hipsters are all into looking at photos
of celebrities eating.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Dec 17, 2002 | If you want to encourage the budding engineer or architect in your
family, your choices aren't restricted to
Legos (or cheap
knockoffs).
Indeed, Architoys
contains an
amazing list
of architectural and building toys from the past 150 years.
to Toys by riotnrrd |
| If the holidays are
getting
you down and you need someone to hate, the
Buffalo Beast
is here to help, with their list of the
50
most loathsome people in the U.S. to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Monday Dec 16, 2002 | Yngwie Malmsteen:
guitarist, musical innovator and
obnoxious
airplane passenger.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Monday Dec 9, 2002 | No stranger to "weapons of
mass
destruction," the U.S. government
has put their archives of
historical
nuclear weapons tests on line (RealVideo format). to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Friday Nov 29, 2002 | On November 28,1966, author
Truman
Capote held his legendary "Black and White Ball," which
was to become known as perhaps the
best
party of the 20th century.
Costing over $16,000
(about $90,000 in
today's dollars), this party's guest list included
Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee,
William F. Buckley, Greta Garbo,
Frank Sinatra,
and Mia Farrow,
Sammy Davis Jr., Douglas Fairbank Jr., various
Rockefellers,
Vanderbilts, and Rothschilds. And, of course, Andy Warhol.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Nov 14, 2002 | Cockfighting: once the
sport of
kings, now the sport of the underworld.
Cockfighting (also known by the more snicker-inducing name "cocking")
is still popular
around the world,
but is illegal throughout the U.S. except in
New Mexico and
Louisiana.
Despite support from
celebrity
advocates,
it appears that cockfighting will never regain its status as a
legitimate sport.
However, that doesn't mean there aren't
farm websites,
web portals,
magazines,
online
art galleries,
photo albums,
forums,
and
stores
devoted to it.
to Sports by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Nov 13, 2002 | Enterprising (and sufficiently insane) tinkerers can do a
wide variety of dubious and
dangerous
things with the
microwave
oven sitting so innocently in their kitchen.
Besides
shooting it with
a gun,
or using it to
melt metals,
you can perform various
dangerous
experiments with superheated liquids, coils of wire, steel wool,
bars of soap
and flash bulbs.
You can also use a microwave to
create
ball lightning,
take it apart in order to build a
microwave
gun
or to build a device that
disables video
cameras.
Just make sure to wear your
Faraday cage underpants!
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Nov 12, 2002 | Tensegrity structures,
usually thought of as
toys
or
art objects,
may also be useful for
cheaply
constructing large enclosures.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Monday Nov 11, 2002 | Come to Pittsburgh and visit the
Robot Club and Grille, the
world's first
fighting robot
themed restaurant. (They also do
children's parties!)
to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| Friday Nov 1, 2002 | Step on the gas
and speed into a new micro-fetish:
pedal pumping, where
good old fashioned
foot fetishism
has a
head-on
collision
with the
sexualization of the automobile.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Oct 27, 2002 | Roadkill
is nature's bounty; you can eat it (either
out
or
in)
make art with it,
make a
festive
calendar about it,
or even use it to
teach kids about
nature.
to Outdoors by riotnrrd |
| Friday Oct 18, 2002 | Tove Jansson,
author of the popular
"moomintroll"
children's books, once
illustrated a
Swedish version of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit."
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Oct 16, 2002 | The proliferation of portable electronic devices has created a
new demand for
clothing
that can hold, or even
help connect, all this new gear.
But leave it to the Japanese to take this idea to
weird
extremes.
to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| Europe can teach us a
valuable lesson
about racism; namely, that we're not nearly
thorough
enough
to Politics by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Oct 15, 2002 | In the same
Borgesian
vein as
The Invisible Library, comes the
Rocklopedia
Fakebandica: a list of fake bands from movies and TV shows.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Oct 10, 2002 | "I hate sports, love strawberry sorbet, and own a pair of tight zebra-print
pants.
Does that make me gay?" to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Sep 25, 2002 | I like to make passes at girls
who wear glasses. to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| Although intended to help colleges and other organizations book acts
for
music
festivals, Clear Channel's
detailed
price list of musical and
spoken-word acts also lets you to do the cold, harsh math and find out exactly
how many
Carrot Tops it takes to make a
Mr. Show. to Music by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Sep 18, 2002 | The only thing cooler than
jet-packs
are
ray guns.
But instead of just dreaming about totin' a bad-ass laser pistol, why not
make
your own? If
lasers are too boring
for your jaded 21st century tastes, you could always take it to the next
level with
a rail
gun, which uses electromagnets to accelerate projectiles to
high speeds. The rail gun's easier-to-build cousin, the
coil gun, is another good
DIY alternative
for
mad
science-style mayhem.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Up from the depths / Thirty stories high /
Breathing
firewire /
His head in the sky! / Hubzilla! Hubzilla! Hubzilla!
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Sep 12, 2002 | Homophobes, racists, sexists, ableists, classists, ageists,
and gender oppressors.. watch out!
Jugglers Against Oppression
is here to save the day. to Society by riotnrrd |
| In order to protest, or at least question, America's
War On Terror,
some artistic folks have "updated" some
WWII propaganda
posters to express more
subversive
messages. to Politics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Sep 9, 2002 | Seventy-eight
full-color
reasons to be glad you're not in high-school any more.
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Sep 8, 2002 | In general, parenting humor is
painfully unfunny, but there are
exceptions.
to Parenting by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Sep 5, 2002 | A dog
may be man's best friend,
but a cat is the best friend of
SATAN. to Pets by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Aug 21, 2002 | While sites with
bizarrely restrictive linking policies
are amusing, I'm more intrigued by the
Magritte-like paradoxes of
websites that exist solely to state that the website doesn't
exist.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Friday Aug 9, 2002 | Joseph Stalin once said that
"quantity has a quality all its own."
Although he was probably talking about
infantry
divisions or
tractor quotas, it's
equally true of
pet ownership.
Witness the not-so-fine line between being a mere
"cat lover" and a
full-blown
crazy
cat lady. While a
cat lover
may own two or three pampered
felines, a true crazy cat lady owns dozens (or more) and doesn't let
concerns like her ability to
feed,
house,
or clean up after her "pets"
get in the way of her obsession.
Some of America's champion crazy cat ladies include:
Gloria
Davis from Sarasota, FL (100+ cats),
Elizabeth
Riddle from Richland, PA (100+ cats),
Beverly
Hardacre from Methuen, NH (more than 150 cats),
Bonnie
Kemppainen from Virginia, MN (155+ cats),
Marilyn Barletta of Petaluma, CA
(196 cats)
Debra Rexelle
from Modesto, CA (212 cats)
and, as the reigning Queen of Crazy Cat Ladies,
Hanne Kaea
from Omaha, NE with a whopping 270 feral cats living in her house.
to Pets by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jul 17, 2002 | Ali Davis, a member of of the improv musical comedy troupe
Baby Wants Candy,
was
recently featured
on This American Life, reading
excerpts from her hilarious
True
Porn Clerk Stories. Read her tales and be glad that your job doesn't
involve handling videotapes covered in lube. to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jul 2, 2002 | Over the past few weeks, lots of people
(enough for
search engines to notice)
have received
email
from
"Ryan and Jacob"
that begins:
"There is something extremely wrong with every single person in this
world. They seem to be part of a pointless
simulation"
After some Matrix-inspired
philosophical rambling,
the authors present a puzzle
to lead
dedicated searchers
to "their"
homepage
(and possibly a
second one)
which is owned by
Anthony Bourov (who works for
the Web hosting company called
addr.com).
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Jun 23, 2002 | Drawn in a graceful, illustrative style and filled with
wry social
commentary,
art and
literary theory, and
madcap
tomfoolery,
it's
Cat And Girl! to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Vincent Rubino
wants others to see him as a dainty little
faerie.
No, not
that kind. to Photography by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jun 21, 2002 | America's
little
whore meets
America's vandals.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Jun 15, 2002 | Beautiful art,
engaging stories and
heartfelt emotions. Sit down
and read
Small Stories right away.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Saturday May 25, 2002 | Maybe you've heard the
stories
of how some guy tied a bunch of balloons
to a lawnchair and went for
a joyride
at 16000'.
Well, the stories are true and, more to the point, the
insane euphoria of
DIY personal ballooning
is within your grasp!
All it takes is a bunch of
balloons,
some
helium
and a whole lot of nerve.
(BB-gun and styrofoam cooler of beer optional.)
to Sports by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 22, 2002 | If you've been jamming to Star Wars inspired songs like
MC Chris'
"Fett's
Vette"
and Supernova's
Chewbacca,
maybe you should consider buying that
special
guitar
and make your own.
Jam on, you
rockin'
Mandalorian!
to Music by riotnrrd |
| If you're a fan of
kawaii
Japanese
products,
then you need to see the
cutest laptop ever.
to Toys by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 2, 2002 | Archie McPhee
may have middle-brow hipster street-cred, but the One True
Source for all things
tacky
and
cheap
is the
Oriental Trading Company.
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Apr 27, 2002 | When Amazon.com started allowing users to review books, it opened
the door to a new type of performance art/humor/corporate
sabotage: fake reviews. Following the trail blazed with
The Story About Ping
and
numerous
Family Circus books,
the best practitioner of this new art form is probably
Henry Raddick, who has written hundreds of bizarre, subversive, and hilarious
book reviews.
Make sure, also, to check out his suggestions for
gifts for new in-laws
and the list of
bands whose keyboards players slept with his ex-girlfriend.
to Books by riotnrrd |
| Monday Apr 22, 2002 | Even for the
"neurologically typical"
meeting women can be difficult,
let alone
asking them out on a date.
Now imagine the difficulties if you're
autistic, to boot.
Fortunately, the fine people at
autistics.org
have put together a detailed,
step-by-step
guide to asking a woman out on a date. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Overflite
shows you how easy it is to make
candle-powered
plastic bag balloons,
and how easy it is for them to be
mistaken for
UFOs.
to Toys by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Apr 21, 2002 | Lung
guns,
head
splitters, and
pneumatic
cutters.
No, these aren't weapons in a new
Quake 3 mod,
they're the tools used to help put
meat on your table.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Apr 16, 2002 | I'm sure all of you have gaped in awe at the cracked genius of
Gene Ray's Time Cube
(and the
Joanie Loves
Chachi-like spin-off sites
abovegod and
thegreatestthinker).
Now,
witness
his historic
lecture and debate at MIT.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Mar 28, 2002 | State of Kentucky legislative bill
HR256:
Encourage the purchase of a
submarine
to patrol the waters of the Commonwealth and search and
destroy
all
casino
riverboats.
to Law by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 27, 2002 | Some people think music has gone
too commercial,
but maybe the real threat is
businesses
trying to become musical.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Mar 21, 2002 | "March
Madness" doesn't just refer to the excitement of the
NCAA playoffs, but also, evidently, to the
insane names
that some players have.
to Sports by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 20, 2002 | "Toynbee ideas in Kubrick's 2001 resurrect dead on planet jupiter"
If you've seen
this phrase
engraved into
the sidewalk
and been
confused,
you're
not
alone.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| If you're jonesing for some retro-arcade action, download
MAME,
the multi-arcade machine emulator,
and (since you
already own the real machines,
of course) download
some
ROMs and have fun!
But.. something's missing:
the right controllers.
So buy some, or
build your own.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Jandek,
an enigmatic, reclusive
"outsider"
musician,
has been described as "just like the Beatles... if you strip away melody,
catchy hooks, rhythm, and harmony,
vocal and instrumental ability,
and any trace of human feeling other than dull, lingering pain."
Clearly, opinion is divided on whether he's
a genius or just
a freak
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 12, 2002 | Indulge your inner gun-toting maniac safely and legally with some of
Backyard Artillery's
wonderful toy weapons: the
watch catapult,
the
rubber-band
six-shooters, or the living-room-clearing
144-shot rubber-band
machinegun!
to Toys by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 6, 2002 | Dino Kingdom
Nakasato
showcases dinosaur fossils from a small village in
southern Japan,
including
footprints
and the amazing
Mongolian
fighting dinosaurs!
to History by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 5, 2002 | In a 1631 edition of the
King James Bible,
in
Exodus 20:14, a very
small word was forgotten by the printers: "not". This omission
changed the 7th
commandment
to say "Thou shalt commit adultery" and caused
this version
to become known as
"The Wicked
Bible".
Church officials were not amused, and the printers were
fined 300 pounds (a year's wages
in those days).
Most of the copies were recalled immediately and as few as
ten
still exist.
to Religion by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Feb 19, 2002 | Margaret Sanger,
feminist
icon
and the founder of Planned Parenthood is usually accorded
unquestioned respect and praise.
However, she was also a crypto-racist supporter of
eugenics
who
championed sweeping sterilization laws.
Naturally, these views have been
downplayed by abortion supporters and
exaggerated by abortion
foes, but should be
kept in mind
before handing out
awards in her name.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Feb 13, 2002 | We are obsessed with the things that we cannot change:
the
weather,
history and, of course,
death.
So indulge your need to
quantify
the
unknowable and take
some
quizzes
to
calculate
your
life
expectancy.
Then, if you're feeling especially
morbid, plug your expected
death date into the
Life Clock
and watch your precious time on Earth tick, tick away.
to Health by riotnrrd |
| Sir John
A. Macdonald,
commonly known as
"Sir John
Eh?", was the
first prime
minister of Canada, and as "colorful" a
politician as you could wish on your worst enemy.
Drunken,
corrupt, and immensely popular,
he held office from 1865 to 1873 until his administration was
felled by
scandal.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 31, 2002 | Despite the best intentions (and
the laws) of
every state except
Nevada,
America will be betting an estimated
$1 billion
on the upcoming Superbowl, including bets on such oddities as
the
coin
toss,
the
TV ratings, and whether
Kurt Warner will throw more touchdown passes than Mario Lemieux
will score points in his NHL All Star Game.
to Sports by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Jan 26, 2002 | Are
you
(and your
kids)
patriotic
enough for
the Whitehouse?
to Politics by riotnrrd |
| Animation nerds
everywhere should bug their eyeballs out in surprise at Richard
Llewellyn's (no relation to
Lloyd)
immense chart of the
history
of animation.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 24, 2002 | Skirting the uncomfortable line between
fetishization
and
empowerment is
Criptease, an amateur porn site
dedicated to
men
and
women with disabilities.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| When is
milking
the
prostate
going to break through into the mainstream? You'd think that
positive
media
exposure
would have done it. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jan 16, 2002 | A full decade before Disney made Snow White,
Lotte Reininger
made the full-length animated film
The Adventures of Prince Achmed.
This movie wasn't
cel animated, but
rather done with
silhouette animation.
Similar to
Balinese shadow puppets,
silhouette animation was
most
popular in the early part of this century, but has sadly fallen out of
favor as cel (and computer) animation have become cheaper to produce.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Dec 8, 2001 | If
German lad
Kai gets 111,111,111 hits on his
"love page" (and
remains faithful during the interim), the
lovely Julia has agreed
to sleep with him. Help him, won't you?
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Nov 20, 2001 |
Is it possible that some of the "nuclear bomb plans"
found by reporters in
Afghanistan were, in fact, unwittingly taken from a
humorous article in
a 1979 issue of the
Journal of Irreproducable Results?
Like Osama bin Bert,
this illustrates the hazards of a search engine in the hands of someone
without a sense of humor.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Nov 1, 2001 |
Who says physicists don't have a
sense of humor?
(albeit an obscure one) In addition to the well-known
whimsical naming
of "quarks", physicsts seem to go out of their way to make
jokes in the titles of their papers. Late nights in the lab have
spanwed such smirking titles as
Raiders of the Lost AdS,
Brane New World (by Stephen Hawking, no less),
*-Wars Episode I: The Phantom
Anomaly,
*-Trek III: The Search for
Ramond-Ramond Couplings,
How Bob Laughlin Tamed
the Giant Graviton from Taub-NUT space,
Curvature Singularities:
The Good, the Bad and the Naked,
Don't Panic! Closed String
Tachyons in ALE Spacetimes
and
Invasion of the Giant
Gravitons from Anti-de Sitter Space.
The grandaddy of all this goofing around might be the 1931 "spoof paper"
(co-written by Nobel Prize winner Hans Bethe)
"Remarks
on the quantum theory of the absolute zero of temperature", which poked
fun at numerology and fellow physics giant
Arthur Eddington's
well-known
obsession with the number 137.
(I told you the humor was obscure).
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Oct 31, 2001 | Lena Sjööblom,
Playboy
Playmate from November 1972, has accidentally
become one of the
most
recognized faces in the field of computer imaging.
(Take that,
Danni
Ashe.)
Originally scanned over 25 years ago at the University of
Southern California for use in the testing and comparison of
different
compression algorithms, use of this picture
spread,
and it soon became a
standard
benchmark.
What does Lena herself think? She's
confused
but amused. What does
Playboy think? At first upset by the use of their copyrighted image, they
soon realized that it did no harm (and gained them lots of free
publicity). Not surprisingly, however, there has been
some controversy on
the politics of using porn images in a heavily male-dominated
field.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Oct 30, 2001 | Indulge your
Borgesian
tastes at the the
Invisible Library, a
catalog of books that only exist inside other books.
to Books by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Oct 3, 2001 | Of all my
childhood
memories, one of the most bitter and
disappointing was my experience with
Sea Monkeys.
Promised a
happy,
aquatic nuclear family, we were given instead a few stinking
brine shrimp.
Clearly, I was not the only one
scarred
by this
experience.
to Toys by riotnrrd |
| Anyone who's read
Usenet
has seen
"do my homework" requests
thinly disguised as questions. With the advent of the web, the
burden of this search for "knowledge" is shifting to the
web and, as always, there are people out there eager to
mislead
and
confuse
the lazy and
dishonest. to Education by riotnrrd |
| Monday Sep 24, 2001 | Crack wise,
Dave Eggers-style,
with the
Royal
Journal (home of the ape-tastic guide to monkey movies,
Monkeypeice
Theatre).
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Sep 12, 2001 | The newest album by the rap group
The Coup
has an.. unfortunately
timed
cover design
(album
review in Wired).
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Aug 28, 2001 | In 1978,
DC comics
cancelled 31 comic titles (while adding only 8
more). This dramatic reduction in the number (and page count) of
DC comics became known as the
"DC Implosion"
(in reference to DC's own
"DC Explosion" ad campaign of a few years earlier). Several of these
cancelled comics hadn't even been published yet, so to preserve their
copyright, DC put out a collection called the
Cancelled
Comic Cavalcade.
Thankfully, information, plot summaries and artwork from this
ultra-rare publication has been collected by
Mike Grabois.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Worship from afar,
cringe
from up close.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Aug 23, 2001 | For those of you
interested
in making your own
magnetic
ferrofluid
sculptures, order a
liter of the magic
goo from Carolina scientific supplies.
Or make your own
(certrifuge, toxic chemicals and mutagens are required).
For the more dedicated researchers, the original paper that this technique
is based on can be
ordered from the JCE.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Aug 21, 2001 |
One of the earliest video games,
Spacewar! was
written on a PDP-1 (with an oscillioscope display) at MIT, but went through
innumerable
versions
(including a gigantic
coin-op arcade machine).
If you don't have a PDP handy, you can
play the
original online (Java required).
to Games by riotnrrd |
|
By far, the most intriguing art piece at
SIGGRAPH this year
was
"Protrude, Flow"
by Japanese artists Sachiko Kodama and Minako Takeno. The installation
consisted of a shallow pool of a "magnetic fluid" (extremely fine iron
filings suspended in oil) that could be manipulated by computer-controlled
magnets into
beautiful and startling
shapes.
A upcoming installation,
"Pulsate"
uses
similar technology.
Make sure to watch the video
(large
or
small).
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Friday Aug 10, 2001 | Richard Burt, professor of
English, believes that
"porned up" versions of
Shakespeare
plays
provide insight into the American pop-cultural psyche.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Aug 1, 2001 | NASA and the
Mars Society
are investigating
what it would be like to
build and
maintain a base in the hostile Mars environment.
Insuring that you have heat and food are well and good, but what about
networking issues
on the red planet?
Thank god the
IETF is on
the job.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jul 31, 2001 | "Who is Rogue?
Rogue
is a 28 year old straight male from the Seattle
area who enjoys making and wearing
female
superheroine
costumes."
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jul 30, 2001 |
There's a line between being
a big fan of Disney, and
being
obsessed.
Stepping way over that line is
George Reiger, who has over
a thousand
Disney tattoos and
lives in a custom-built
"Disney house,"
filled with over 15,000 Disney toys and collectables.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Jul 29, 2001 | Star Wars toys
are
big business,
but they're also still
big fun,
as evidenced by the
enormous fan sites
erected to them.
Make sure to check out
the galleries of
concept art
and toys that
never made it
to market.
to Toys by riotnrrd |
|
Amateur rocketry: it's more
than just Estes models and
class-D engines.
The dedicated hobbyists at
aRocket have built a
test facility
and a powerful
liquid oxygen engine
all for about the cost of a used car. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Jul 28, 2001 | Selling your children into
slavery or pimping them on the street is,
like, sooooo 20th century. Instead,
modern parents
auction their child's
"naming rights" to the highest bidder.
to Parenting by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jul 25, 2001 | Have problems? Need advice?
Ask Gary Coleman. to Web by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jul 23, 2001 | Big boobs,
big legs,
big butt, big...
nose?
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jul 5, 2001 | If you're like me, there are some days you just can't get enough
tentacle porn.
So take a moment and let
Shokushu
teach you how to
create your
own.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Were you disappointed with the weak third movie in the ALIENS series?
Read
William Gibson's
original script for it, and imagine
what
could have been.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jun 21, 2001 | "Hello! My name is
Amy Ritchie
and I'm 14 years old and homeschooled. This page is all about my favorite
hobby, skinning and
taxidermy."
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jun 20, 2001 | Better in concept than execution,
this robotic DJ can play records
and do primitive
turntablist
scratching.
to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| Now you can re-examine the definitions of gender and power in society
in your own home with
Anthony Giddens
and
Michel
Foucault
action figures!
With kung-fu deconstructive grip!
to Philosophy by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jun 7, 2001 | Are
Animalgirls and
Robotgirls not quite unreal enough?
Then
try some
renderotica
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| People have been trying to
predict the stock market
for as long as the stock itself
has been
around.
As futile
as these attempts have been, people keep trying, most recently with
machine
learning or
function approximation
techniques.
Now, however, there is
a better way..
take lots and lots of
drugs.
to Finance by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 23, 2001 | In the grand tradition of
Cynthia Plaster
Caster,
now you can make a
plaster copy
of your own (or someone else's) penis.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Sunday May 6, 2001 | If you'e a big
pervert,
(or just
German),
you'll love Mr. Blowup, where
rubber
inflatable suits and masks
are
kings
of all they survey.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 3, 2001 | Who's your
Kermie,
baby?
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Dave Sim,
award-winning author and artist of the 300-issue series
Cerebus, has penned
another screed
against women, homosexuals, feminism, communism and masturbation.
Read the (copyright-free)
essay
at The Comics Journal,
and join in the
surprisingly
restrained discussion
on their message boards.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Apr 10, 2001 | Shooting potatoes out of
home-made guns
is
old hat.
So have you considered moving to the next level and
launching
anvils?
to Toys by riotnrrd |
| It didn't start or end with Serrano's
Piss
Christ.
No, indeed, urine has a
long and storied
history in 20th century art. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Good comics are hard to find.
Bad comics,
alas, are much easier to locate.
However, they're also much more fun to
ridicule.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 7, 2001 | Turning your Toyota MR2 into some
amateur science project
is nothing
compared to putting a Rolls Royce
gas
turbine engine into your
motorcycle.
0-200 mph in 15 seconds, baby!
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Feb 28, 2001 | Realdoll: your
plastic pal who's
fun to be with.
And
dress
up.
And photograph.
And make
elaborate
homepages for.
And don't forget
the webcam.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Friday Feb 9, 2001 | Women
can't complain about the so-called
digital divide
now that the
ovulation phone
is here!
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Feb 1, 2001 | It's a little known fact that the
golden-age actress
Hedy Lamarr
and avante-garde composer
George Antheil
invented
frequency-hopping
spread spectrum radio communications.
In that same vein, did you know that
Cindy Crawford briefly attended
Northwestern University
on a chemical engineering scholarship (before abandoning
that field for a
more lucrative one)?
Not to be left out,
Mayim
Bialik (Blossom, from the
eponymous
sitcom) is doing her PhD in
neuroscience at UCLA.
And finally (for now),
Danica McKellar, who
played Winnie (the narrator's girlfriend) on
"The Wonder Years" graduated summa cum laude from
UCLA with a degree in mathematics.
She's even been published (more than most undergrads can say); her
article appeared in Britain's
Journal of Physics A: Mathematics
and General in 1998.
Incidentally, this makes her one of the few people in the world with both
a finite
Bacon number (2, through
Wally Rose) and
a finite
Erdös number
(4 through Chayes, Roman Kotecky, and David Preiss,
or Chayes, Robin Pemantle, and Svante Janson).
She also offers an online
math advice
column!
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jan 22, 2001 | What happens when
well-meaning rebels
blow up a
large, metal battle station
in low orbit around a
habitable planet?
EWOK HOLOCAUST to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jan 16, 2001 | Marathons
are hard.
Ultramarathons
(races of 50 to
3100 miles)
are harder.
Running
a million miles
is.. insane.
to Sports by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 6, 2000 | Volunteering for
medical experiments
is an awful way to make money. Read all about it in
Guinea Pig Zero,
a jobzine for medical volunteers. to Health by riotnrrd |
| Baltimore alternative bookstore legend,
Atomic Books, is
going out of
business (and taking their
fun web-cam with them).
to Books by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Nov 28, 2000 | In the midst of America's
holiday consumer frenzy,
think for a moment of our soldiers serving overseas.
Adoptasoldier.org helps
people in
the States send holiday care-packages to soldiers stationed in
Kosovo,
Kuwait
and Saudi Arabia. So bake some
cookies and send them today.
(I'm sorry to get all serious on you; we now return to your regularly
scheduled
ass humor.)
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Nov 22, 2000 | Some
silly people thought
Cassini was too dangerous to launch
because of it's
plutonium
power source.
Others oppose the hydrogen-bomb-driven
Orion
spacecraft on
more sensible grounds.
Everyone, however can agree that we probably were wise not to build
the Pluto, a
fission-reactor-powered
cruise missile from the 50's.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| OPP:
Other People's Property.
PGP: Other people's
genitals.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Nov 21, 2000 | In a strange case of
technology copying
art,
Given Imaging is planning to sell
a
camera you can
swallow. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Monday Nov 20, 2000 | The same sophisticated country that brought us
cane
toads and
kangaroo scrotum
change purses
comes (ahem)
Puppetry of the Penis.
Watch as
Morley and Friend
bend and twist their penises
into sculptures and celebrity impressions.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Rent-A-Mark has an unusual
business plan: renting
trademarks. In this
intellectual-property-crazed age,
it sounds like it could be a
real money maker. Except who would want to pay for such
god-awful clip-art
eyesores? to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| Friday Nov 17, 2000 | When you look at
the sky at
night, thank your
lucky (ahem)
stars
that we live in a
relatively
dust-free part of
the galaxy. This
empty volume around
us, out to about 100
light-years in every direction, is
called
the Local Bubble.
Without this
Bubble, it would
be unlikely
that we could see as many stars as we can. This good fortune is
somewhat mitigated, however, by the fact that our sun is further
encased in a small dust cloud, called the
Local
Fluff.
Astronomers
can be so
cute!
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Friday Nov 10, 2000 | Bukkake? Yawn.
Extreme body
modifcation? Don't bore me.
Live video of a man being
stoned to death?
Such things do not bother me now that I've seen the true face of
horror:
photoshopping
cat photos
and staging
page after page
of
bizarre
party scenes with them.
Lovecraft had nothing on
this.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Oct 29, 2000 | Privacy International,
a
privacy
watchdog group based in London and Washington D.C., has just
announced a new set of
Big Brother Award
"winners."
Highlights include the
European Telecommunication Standards
Institute's
Lawful Interception Working Group, which is designing
standards for
eavesdropping
on
digital networks;
Adolf Ogi, the man
behind
Satos 3,
Switzerland's version of the notorious
Echelon system; and everyone's
open source darling:
Apache.
to Law by riotnrrd |
| Hotendotey --
kind of
like
"Red Meat" but
much
more
offensive.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Oct 18, 2000 | Anyone who's ever ridden a plane has had thoughts about
doin' the
nasty
up there in
the sky.
There's even a term for it:
The Mile High Club.
Well, thanks to the internet and
mankind's
relentless creativity, there's now
a service
that can help hook you up with a
private flight
(but, alas, not the
partner).
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| In the
appropriating/sampling
tradition of
Negativland
and
®TMark (distributors of the infamous
"Deconstructing Beck"), comes the
Evolution Control Committee,
and their hilarious
Dan Rather
CBS Evening News
cut-up
opus
"Rocked By Rape" (mp3).
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Friday Oct 13, 2000 | Who says
Latin
is a dead
language?
There's
software that lets you
work in Latin,
latin translations of
popular
books,
a
daily news
broadcast,
and even Latin versions of
Finnish tangos
and
Elvis songs
(all sung by the same wacky Finnish
professor).
to Linguistics by riotnrrd |
| Friday Sep 29, 2000 | Volcanos
can be
scary,
but
SUPER-volcanos
are
SUPER-scary.
Erupting with a force thousands of times greater than
an ordinary volcanic eruption, a supervolcano can cover an
entire continent hip-deep in ash.
Indeed, the
Toba supervolcano eruption (in modern Sumatra) 74,000
years ago
nearly drove mankind
to extinction, creating a genetic bottleneck
that is still evident in our mitochondrial DNA.
As a side note, one of the world's most regularly
active supervolcanos,
located in lovely
Yellowstone National Park, is
long overdue for an explosion. to Science by riotnrrd |
| "Animal Farm", written
by
George Orwell
in 1945, is widely considered one of the best political satires
of the 20th century. Did you know, however, that the
1955 animated film based on this book was
edited
(to remove the scene associated with
the line "No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The
creatures outside looked from
pig
to
man, and from man to pig, and from
pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.")
by the virulently anti-communist CIA?
Indeed, the CIA
owned the film rights to this novel,
bought from his widow for the
"price" of
meeting Clark Gable.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Sep 28, 2000 | You've all heard about such famous
"chatter
bots" as
Eliza and
Parry,
which can imitate human conversation (over a limited domain) fairly well.
However, another, less well-known, program called
Racter
once
wrote
(or at least
helped to write)
a whole book.
This collection of stories and poems, "The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed," was published
in 1984 under the amusing pen-name of
"Mark V. Cheney" (later changed to "Racter").
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Sep 12, 2000 |
The
Institute for Applied Autonomy,
winner of an
Award of Distinction
for Interactive Art at
Ars Electronica,
horrified
the Ars awards committee by openly addressing the
disturbing
politics in Austria and
transferring their $3500 award
to
Public Netbase,
an Austrian political resistance group, while simultaneously spray-painting
Netbase's URL on the stage on
live TV.
to Politics by riotnrrd at Ars Electronica |
| Friday Sep 1, 2000 | Jump onboard the
70's retro-train
with
KISS!
Hear the
music!
See the
costumes!
Read the
comic book!
(Printed with
Gene Simmons' own blood!)
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Aug 29, 2000 | From the
city
of
media whores
that made the low-speed chase of a
former football
player a
world-wide media
phenomonon
comes
LAPD radio
-- LAPD radio calls live on the web.
to Media by riotnrrd |
| Monday Aug 28, 2000 | Joe Wecker
has gone one step beyond a
t-shirt
and set the
now-illegal
DeCSS source code
to
music.
But, of course, it's still
not
protected speech.
to Law by riotnrrd |
| Friday Aug 25, 2000 | It may not have the ghetto charm of the
Hotel Cecil
or the
backstabbing
sex scandals of
JenniCam,
but
JailCam
provides just what it says: four live feeds from a
Phoenix, Arizona jail.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Aug 23, 2000 | Arr!
Avast maties!
Piracy on the
high seas is
alive and
well
in the 21st century.
To protect yourself (or at least your cargo) you can
track your ship
to make recovery more likely, or perhaps invest in a more
dramatic
response to an
attack.
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Aug 9, 2000 | John Conway's
Game of Life
is a simple and well known
cellular
automata
that can be used to generate some pretty
amazing
behavior, including a
Universal Turing machine.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Monday Aug 7, 2000 | Holographic
keychains,
holographic
clocks, and
imported holographic glass.
Yawn. Now,
holographic lollipops --
that's interesting.
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Aug 2, 2000 | The bacteria
Deinococcus
Radiodurans
lives happily in the cooling water of
nuclear reactors. Take that,
cockroaches. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jul 20, 2000 | This Monday, the New York
DeCSS trial started.
This
trial
is important because it's an early test of the
DMCA's scope and power.
to Law by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jul 14, 2000 | One of the most beautifully drawn animated movies in years,
The Thief And
The Cobbler, was a labor of love by
Who
Framed Roger Rabbit animator
Richard
Williams.
Way over schedule, the film was yanked away by Warner Brothers
(actually, by their
bond
company) and
butchered
to make it "more mainstream."
The worst offense -- worse than the cut footage or the utterly forgettable
songs -- is the jarring, painfully unfunny voiceover added to the
(silent) character of the thief by
aging ham,
Jonathan Winters.
There may be hope, though. Recently, Williams said that there are plans for a release of his original (albeit incomplete) version on DVD. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| In the Lovecraftian territory between
Survival Research Laboratories and the Sony
Aibo
lives
Spike the Robotic Dog.
to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Jul 2, 2000 | While we're on the subject of
oral
sex, there are
lots
of other
guides
and
FAQs
out there that should help you
perfect
your
technique.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| One of the best and strangest things about America is the
Museum of Jurrasic Technology in
Los Angeles. Part
museum of oddities
and part
situationist art peice,
it was written about in the book
"Mr. Wilson's
Cabinet of Wonder" by
Lawrence
Weschler. (Warning: the book contains spoilers about certain exhibits).
If you can read German, make sure to check out the website of the MoJT's sister
institution: the
Karl Ernst Osthaus Muesum.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jun 30, 2000 | If you're anything like me, you spent
your youth
stealing pills from
your aunt's medicine cabinet. If you're ever in that situation
again and you don't know what you just
grabbed a handful of,
consult this database of prescription drugs that are
searchable by imprint.
to Drugs by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jun 29, 2000 | There's more than just boring
Democrats and
Republicans
running for
President this year.
In fact there's over
20
candidates in the
national election.
to Politics by riotnrrd |
| The logical converse of "invisible insects" would, of course, be
bacteria
big enough to see with the naked eye.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jun 27, 2000 | The annual ACM
SIGGRAPH conference is taking
place next month in lovely
New Orleans. Graphics nerds
such as myself
should take a moment off from their preparations and enjoy some
SIGGRAPH humor.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jun 26, 2000 | Give in to your morbid impulses and read some
suicide
notes: the
poignant, the
adolescent
and even, apparently, that of the
creator
of the site.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Oh god,
the bugs!
The
bugs! They're crawling
under my skin!
The doctors say
they can't see
them, but
I KNOW THEY'RE
THERE!
to Health by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Jun 24, 2000 | Before the
first analog
recordings, music was stored in a
digital
format and played back by
steampunk robots.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Dr. Alexander
Abian, respected Professor of Mathematics and Usenet kook par
excellance,
died a year ago
today. We should mourn his passing by
BLOWING
UP THE MOON AND REBORBITING VENUS TO MAKE A BORN-AGAIN EARTH.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Jun 17, 2000 | If you have a
furby and you're
stupid, you can send it away to "camp" to
"socialize"
with other furbys.
to Toys by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jun 13, 2000 | While you're waiting for your
seti@home
client to find those damn
aliens already, you can pass the time by trying to decipher a
synthetic alien
message created by the good folks at the (somewhat optimistically
named)
Lunar Institute of
Technology.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jun 12, 2000 | Take part in new economy schadenfreude
at fuckedcompany.com.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jun 5, 2000 | In the vein of
"Wicked" -- a novel that cleverly recasts the Wicked Witch of the West as a
tragic political rebel --
and William Clifford's half-serious examination of the
droids-as-slaves
politics in "Star Wars", is
"The Last Bearer of the
Ring", a yet-to-be-translated Polish fantasy novel that retells
Tolkien's
"Lord of the Rings", showing us
that Sauron was just a misunderstood, progress-minded technocrat brought to
ruin by the decadent, elitist elves over a dispute about trade routes.
to Books by riotnrrd |
| Disneyworld isn't the
only place that otherwise staid women feel the
urge to flash the camera. Most famously, there's
Mardi Gras
in
New Orleans, but people also
felt compelled to let it all hang out at
Woodstock '99.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 3, 2000 | A long-time staple of
nuclear holocaust scenarios
and science fiction,
an
electromagnetic
pulse (EMP) is a powerful blast of
radio waves that can
cook
unsheilded electronics from
hundreds of miles away. Of course, anything this
potentially
destructive will be
heavily researched by the
military, but
adventerous tinkerers can
explore
the wonderful world of directed energy weapons at home, without the
need for a
multi-billion dollar budget.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Monday May 1, 2000 | Margaret
and
Walker
Keane's
"big eye"
paintings:
you've seen
them at
thrift stores
and
hanging in
trailer parks,
but I'll bet you didn't know
they're
collectable.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Early in the 19th century, a young
German man named
Kaspar Hauser was discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
Initally taken to prison, it was eventually discovered that,
for reasons unknown, he had been kept
in a dark dungeon since early childhood, and denied any senosry input or
human contact. Conspiracy theories
were as popular then as they are now,
and it was a belief of many that he was the
the lost son of the
Grand Duke of Baden,
hidden away by political rivals.
Passing from caretaker to caretaker, Kaspar eventually
learned to read and speak, and became a celebrity; famous not
only for his mysterious origin, but also for his
innocence and
"christ-like
compassion". At the age of 21, however, he was assissinated
and his true origins never discovered. His story lives on, though, in a recent
play
as well a
movie by Werner Herzog.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Friday Apr 28, 2000 | "Were there gay
vikings?" The web proves that for every question, there is
an expert.
to Education by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Apr 26, 2000 | Ordinary people
lose ordinary stuff.
Astronomers, however, sometimes
lose
whole moons.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| If you're going to be in Minneapolis any time soon, make sure to pick
up a free copy of the
Hugo Award nominated(!)
Minicon restuarant guide,
written by fan volunteers for a recent convention.
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Apr 5, 2000 | There's a
fine line
between being a
collector
and being
obsessive-compulsive.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Apr 2, 2000 | The
late, lamented
Might Magazine
was the brilliant and hilarous
brain child of three San
Franciscans, which published from 1993-1997 on a shoestring budget (they
started with $10,000 and two computers).
Old copies are just about impossible to find, but their most famous
issues were probably
Adam Rich's
celebrity death
hoax and the "sell out issue" which featured an
ad for the cover
and individually sponsored pages.
If you didn't see the magaine while it was alive (and with a
circulation of 30,000 not many did), you can still buy a
collection of essays
that ran within its pages and
the memoirs
of editor
David
Eggers (who later went on to found
Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern). to Media by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Mar 30, 2000 | Popularized by
Arthur C. Clarke
in his classic novel
"The Fountains of Paradise,"
a space elevator
(also known as a "beanstalk") is basically a
big
cable that stretches from the Earth's surface to
geosynchronous orbit.
Why the hell would you want to do this? Well, for one thing
it would make putting things in orbit extremely cheap.
Problems,
however, are legion. It's uncertain whether
any foreseeable
material is even
theoretically strong enough to support the weight of this enormous cable
(although
active materials and
buckytubes hold
promise).
Furthermore, the elevator would sweep
a path through near-Earth orbits,
further
crowding orbital space.
And what would happen if the cable broke, and thousands of miles of
ultrastrong cable
slammed into the
Earth at orbital velocities?
However, if we don't insist on our elevator reaching all the way from
the ground to orbit, it becomes
more realistic.
For example, an
orbital tether
could be used to bridge the gap between "high altitute" and "near space"
and provide not only a cheaper route to orbit, but also a
zero-gee tourist spot.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 29, 2000 | Nobody ever said sex-work was easy. But the kind people at
P.O.N.Y
are trying to make it healthier, while other
anonymous
advice-givers try to make it safer. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 28, 2000 | Every
S&M wannabe has a pair of
handcuffs, but only the most
dedicated freaks have
gigantic, online
collections.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Last week, Mathworks ran their third online
programming contest. These are unusual contests in that
they involve elements of open-source development, which in turn raises
interesting and
as-yet-unresolved questions
about how to run a competetition in the context of
a gift economy.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 14, 2000 | As if any further
evidence
was needed that the
U.S. Patent Office needs
a crunchy beating, someone has patented a
"device"
which is
completely physically impossible.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Revel in the
B1ff-inspired
surrealism of
Michael B. Farbish.
His long, rambling essays (they're too mild-mannered to be considered
true
rants) are made almost illegible
by the apparently stochastically-generated HTML of these pages.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| You think your job stinks? Well, at least you aren't a
taxi driver.
According to the
U.S. Department of
Health & Human Services, they have the highest
rate of on-the-job homicides
(twice the rate of the
second worst).
A lot more such morbid, quantatative data on how much
where you live and what you do sucks can be found at the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Friday Mar 10, 2000 | For all you metal fans out there, there's
Metal Sludge, a heavy metal
magazine with a sense of humor. Their sprawling website contains
interviews,
record reviews,
a concert calendar
and
pitiless mocking
of press packs.
Make sure, also, to check out
Donna's Domain:
a collection of gossip and
penis rankings
by world-class crew-slut Donna Anderson.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Contrary to the opinions of some
free-lance pharmaceutical researchers,
herbal preparations (either
taken before a test
or used to
adulturate your
sample)
won't
help you pass a
drug test.
Alas, the only things that
will help are
time and lots of
water.
to Drugs by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Mar 9, 2000 | The customer is always right? Ha. Sometimes the customers are
stupid,
gross
or
just plain crazy.
Read all about them at
customerssuck.com.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| In a puzzling match-up, Alsatian saurkraut manufacturer
Stoeffler is sponsoring Rémy
Brika, a French musician, on his quest to
cross the
Pacific Ocean on foot. (If you can't read french,
Babelfish
comes to the rescue.)
to Sports by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 7, 2000 | At first glance,
Tiger-Tiger
appears no different from any other
exotic tchochke store.
But, looking closer at the selection of
Buddhist ritual items,
we find prayer beads (malas) made from
human skulls, ceremonial trumpets (kangans) made of
human thigh bone
and
silver-plated human skulls.
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| Pittsburgh native son Grady Stiles II (aka
The
Lobster Boy), like many other members of his family, was born with
malformed
hands and legs and was raised as a
circus freak,
travelling around the United States in some of the
biggest carnivals from the '40s through the '80s.
He eventually married and and had four children, but when one of his daughters
tried to elope with a boyfriend of whom he did not approve, Grady shot the
man dead at point blank range. Amazingly, the courts did not jail him for
committing this murder, and for the rest of his life the Lobster Boy
abused and terrorized his family.
So chronic was his abuse that in 1992 his wife and one of the children
eventually hired a hitman who killed Grady as he sat in his trailer in
Gibsonton,
Florida.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 1, 2000 | Taito's
Stratovox
(1980)
was the first arcade game to use voice synthesis, although
Gorf,
which came out a year later, is often mistakenly named as the pioneer.
Also of note, the painfully difficult
Sinistar
(1983) was the first to use digitized speech samples.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Feb 27, 2000 | EarthStation1 is small "internet
media museum," i.e. a big collection of funny or
interesting mp3s and wav files, cross-indexed by subject.
to Internet by riotnrrd |
| Friday Feb 25, 2000 | Mike's Electric Stuff
contains pictures and descriptions of obsolete
electric
glassware,
high-voltage devices
and
random cool
electronics stuff.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 14, 2000 | Adobe's
Portable
Document Format
is nice, but who wants to pay
hundreds of
dollars to be able to write and manipulate PDF files?
Check out Planet PDF or the
PDF Zone, where
you can find advice, information and tools for working with PDF,
including a (mostly) free ANSI C library
of functions that allows you to read and write PDF files.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Sometimes, tin foil hats
aren't enough to protect you from the CIA
mind beams.
Sometimes you need
tin foil dress shirts.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| In honor of everyone's favorite
guilt-motivated
holiday, it's a collection of
unfortunate valentines.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Feb 9, 2000 | Gates of Heck publishes books and
sells art by mainstream/underground artists such as
Joe Coleman,
Dame Darcy
and Art Speigelman.
to Books by riotnrrd |
| Ron Jeremy: the man, the myth,
the resume.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 7, 2000 | Annie Sprinkle: former
porn
actress, sex-positive
feminist,
film and performance
artist,
lecturer
and nice
jewish girl.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| What do death row inmates in Texas
order for their
last meals?
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Feb 5, 2000 | Is your
horse or
pet dog
lame, feeling sick, or in pain? The
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
can
help. to Education by riotnrrd |
| While the Nazis were
unspeakably vile in so
many ways, they did have
good
graphic design.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Not all
sharks are
flesh-crazed
killers. Most, in fact, are harmless, like the enormous
whale shark
and the rare (and evidently tasty)
megamouth.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Feb 3, 2000 | Cleveland artist and syndicated cartoonist
Derf has his own website
now, containing
recent strips and an
archive of oldies,
including a comic biography of native son (and high-school acquaintance),
Jeffrey Dahmer.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| NoHand
has amputated his own fingers, hand, half of his foot (since lost entirely),
part of his genitals, and has "accidentally" lost his left leg below the
knee and his right above the knee.
Extreme, yes, but he's
not alone
in his
obsession
with amputation.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Feb 1, 2000 | It takes a rare and
intense strain of
nerdism to enter
programming contests.
However, the actual contests are a
diverse lot.
Some of the contests are
judged on
the basis of performance, others
on size
and still others on more
philosphical grounds.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| The lurid
Crime Magazine
contains news,
history,
cops and
blood.
to Media by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 27, 2000 | Nineteenth century artist
Louis Wain was his era's
Jim Davis: a relentless drawer and
painter of
cute cats.
But that was before his
schizophrenia
asserted itself and drove his cat-art in
bizarre and
horrifying directions.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jan 24, 2000 | Nolo is a sweet online law
library and
book store, including a nice set of
searchable FAQs.
A similar, lesser, site is the
'Lectric Law Library, which contains
an interesting analysis of the
infamous McDonald's coffee
case.
to Law by riotnrrd |
| Grafica Obscura is Paul Haeberli's
wonderful collection of graphics
notes,
code
and
fun projects. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Urban legends meets
corporate America
as Proctor and Gamble try desperately to debunk the
Satanic church myth.
to Religion by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jan 19, 2000 | Nanobes
are the smallest known living thing, measuring only 20 to 100 nanometers
in size. Discovered in 1996, nanobes are still largely a mystery.
Make sure to look at the
high-resolution
microscopy images at the
discovering lab's
website.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Built by the Carnegie Mellon
Robotics Institute,
the autonomous rover
Nomad
has begun searching for
meteorites
in ice fields around
Elephant Moraine, a remote location in Eastern
Antarctica. You can follow Nomad's
daily progress at
the RI's website. to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jan 18, 2000 | Atom Films showcases short animation
and film, including those by such greats as
Aardman
Animation and
Bill Plympton.
(Requires free
registration)
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| As if childbirth needed to become more
horrifying, there
now seem to be people who willingly
eat the
placenta afterwards. to Food by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 13, 2000 | During WWII, Japan had a
secret base
in Manchuria, housing the infamous
Unit 731,
where they conducted
biological weapons
research as well as hideous "medical" experiments on Chinese, Korean, and
Mongolian prisoners of war.
In 1987, T.F. Mous made a
grisly film about it, based on first-hand reports of the atrocities.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Like the
Thundercats
before them, out-takes
from the 1960's life-size puppet show
New Zoo Review
are now available online
(as both
real audio and
MPEG).
to Television by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Jan 9, 2000 | x10's advertising is apparently now targeting
pornographers and
stalkers. to Web by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jan 7, 2000 | Artists
Heidi Kumao and
Frank Gravey,
juggler
Michael Moschen and art critic Robert Atkins
are the four
Microsoft-sponsored Fellows in residence at Carnegie Mellon
University this year.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| If you're wondering what movie to rent tonight,
Losman's list of Disturbing and
Vile movies is a good (or bad) place to start, depending on how
strong your stomach is.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| For a quick dose of
angst and
bitter laughs,
check out Fried Society which, sadly,
is no longer being drawn. to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 6, 2000 | The Japanese surprise me yet again. Just when I think they can't possibly come up
with another
perversion, along
comes (ahem)
bukkake. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| As the world turns over and snoozes through the
dreaded y2k,
we should pause to reflect on how
another group
of people reacted to their own
flaccid
doomsday. to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jan 3, 2000 | Prepare yourself for
first contact
by reading the
Handbook of UFO Contact.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Extensive squinting at blurry images has revealed
howitzers and
Nazi regalia on Mars. to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Dec 4, 1999 | Openrecords.org provides us with the disturbing combination of
petty consumer complaints, searchable records of sexual offenders
and
gory photos
of executed criminals.
to Law by riotnrrd |
| Anyone who's been buzzed at 11pm on a Friday night knows about
Space Ghost: Coast to Coast,
a hilarious
cartoon
based on the idea
that dim-witted 60's ex-superhero
Space Ghost now
runs a late night talk show. Make sure to stay an extra half hour for
it's funnier spinoff
"Cartoon
Planet" featuring everyone's favorite man-child:
Brak.
to Television by riotnrrd |
| In an alternate reality, the U.S. was invaded by 400 ton
armored Soviet
hovercrafts, that can go 340 miles an hour, hold a crew of 400
and travel 3000 miles on a tank of gas. to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Monday Nov 15, 1999 | You thought the
Honda walking
robot was neat? How about a
bipedal
mechanism that walks without sensors, motors or
a computer? to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| Sci-fi publisher Baen
Books is now offering
web-based subscriptions
to new novels: you get a quarter of four different novels each month,
starting four months before their publication.
to Books by riotnrrd |
| Turn an image and some arbitrary text into a
stunning graphic
in HTML with
png2html.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Everybody knows that
secret cabals are
controlling our minds with microwave radiation and, furthermore,
that there's only one way to protect yourself:
tin-foil hats.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Nov 9, 1999 | Unisys has announced plans to
fine websites
$5000 if they use GIFs created with unlicensed software.
In response, Bay Area nerds have declared this Friday to be
burn all GIFs day.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Monday Nov 1, 1999 | Sometimes, it's embarassing to like
fine audio
equipment, since you get lumped in with idiots who think that
green pens
help the sound of CDs and
$80 hunks
of steel covered in of wood can improve "imaging."
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Oct 28, 1999 | Contrary to accusations, I do think
Sarah Dyer is a cartoonist.
In fact, I have every issue of
"Action Girl"
ever published, and am a big fan of
her writing
for
Space Ghost: Coast
to Coast to boot.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Oct 27, 1999 | Lesser known than
Clara
Bow - the "It girl" - is
Louise Brooks, another great
actress from the 20's and 30's. She epitomized the flapper, not
only in
appearance
but in her
defiant,
racy lifestyle as well.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Although several of my favorite cartoonists
(Dan
Clowes
and
Adrian Tomine
to name two)
have no web presence, others do.
Check out
Jim Woodring's website,
which just doesn't do justice to his
creepy dreamlike art, or
Evan Dorkin and
Sarah Dyer's
House of Fun.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Reduce,
reuse, and
recycle.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Oct 26, 1999 | typographic is an old
(in net years) and
beautifully
designed site devoted to the
history and
current practice of typography.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| My all-consuming toy fetish right now is
wind-up robots.
Especially
ones from Japan
from the 50s.
I have to settle for
reproductions,
however, since the originals can cost
thousands
of dollars.
to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Oct 25, 1999 | Team ABL, an Air Force,
Boeing, TRW, and Lockheed-Martin consortium, has completed ground testing
of a
multi-hundred
kilowatt laser system
intended to be mounted on a 747 for
theater missile
defense.
This big stuff is fine and dandy, but when do we get our personal
ray guns, dammit?
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Oct 23, 1999 | Next time you think, think Fertnel,
a leading producer of snaks™ and snak™ by-products. Check out their
high
tech snack™ technology and their
online zine for teens.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| If the
Sony Aibo's $2000
price tag is too steep,
you can always make your own robotic pet. Lego Mindstorms are, of course, an
option but for the more adventurous there is
Solarbotics, which
sells
kits and parts
for various simple but elegant robots.
Craig Maynard also sells kits
for his "Cybug" robots, including solar powered bugs that can stalk each
other and feed from a
cyborg sunflower
powerplant.
Make sure to check out Robohoo, a
good general source for robotics information, books and companies.
to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Oct 21, 1999 | As if further evidence was needed of the
fundamental silliness of governments, the
British Standards Organization
has created
an eight page specification of how to make tea
.
If you're really curious, you can
register for free and read the text online.
to Law by riotnrrd |
| The Mystic Aquarium
rescued, tagged and
released
some
pilot
whales into the wild and now you can
track them
on-line.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Oct 20, 1999 | The Hello World
Page, like the
I Can Eat Glass Project
and the
Ate My Balls webring,
shows that anything not worth doing will be done anyway, in lots and lots of
different ways.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Sumea is a native Java, fully 3D, polygon
engine that supports depth-of-field, particle systems, alpha blending and
texture mapping.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Oct 19, 1999 | UPC codes
are ubiquitous -- some would say
diabolically so -- so shouldn't you know how to
read them
yourself?
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| Learn how to swear in Finnish ("Suksi vittuun!") and just about any
other language at
Scritch's Multilingual
Swear List.
to Linguistics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Oct 18, 1999 | Jerk City reads like the bastard
child of an online comic and the ramblings of a febrile
four year old.
But this is not a bad thing. In fact, it's the
insanity
that makes it
so
damn
funny.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Ken Perlin, perhaps most
famous for his
noise and turbulence
functions (which won him an Oscar), has done tons of other fantastic work.
Make sure to check out his continuing
procedural
texturing work,
his Java fractal
planet and the
animated face,
also implemented in Java.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Oct 16, 1999 | Although long thought to be
nonexistant,
it now appears that there may indeed be a
tenth planet,
a vastly distant
brown
dwarf with three times the mass of Jupiter.
to Science by riotnrrd |
|
Rastafarians:
dope-smoking
hippies or
something else?
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Monday Oct 11, 1999 | October is
National Apple Jack Month and
contains
both
Sylvia
Plath Day and
National
Frappe Day.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Even if you don't live in
San Francisco
or
Los Angeles, you're
still not safe from earthquakes.
One of the
potentially
most deadly faultlines in the
U.S. -- the
New Madrid fault
-- runs right through the seismically unprepared midwest. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Friday Oct 8, 1999 | Over the past twenty years, artist Harold Cohen has been building a robotic
painter, driven by an expert system, that he calls
AARON.
A 1995
article by
Cohen discusses Aaron's implications for art and contains some
images of
its work.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Japan: land of
exotic food,
beautiful art,
and
filthy toilets. to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Oct 7, 1999 | Wolfgang Pauli
once said about another scientist's theory that
"it's not even wrong." This withering put-down has
been adopted by folks who oppose
pathological
science, also known as
pseudo-science
or
junk science.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Restrooms.org is a memepool for
the
toilet-obsessed.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Monday Oct 4, 1999 | The popular media often gets its science and astronomy
wrong.
Very,
very wrong.
Here to save the day from ignorance are Phil Platt's
Bad Astronomy
and Alistair Fraser's
Bad Science
websites.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| The prolific sci-fi and fantasy author
Jack Vance is re-publishing his
entire oeuvre in the sixty volume
Jack Vance Integral
Edition.
to Books by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Sep 30, 1999 | In November of 1988,
Robert
Morris released a
software
worm that brought almost 60,000 machines to a halt.
A
lot has been written about
this
event, but of special historical interest is the federal government's
General Accounting
Office report from 1989 -- their first internet publication!
to Internet by riotnrrd |
| "Next year is the
year 2000." Sez who?
The
Gregorian calendar isn't the only one out there, you know. In
addition to the well known and still used
Hewbrew and
Islamic
calendars, there are many others floating around,
ranging from
the ancient and very non-Western
Aztec and
Mayan
calendars, to the downright goofy
Tranquility calendar (with the year zero set to July 20, 1969) and
the Thelemic
calendar, based on Aleister Crowley's mystical hokum.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Sep 28, 1999 | If normal coffee just doesn't have
enough of the
good stuff,
maybe you should try
Shock brand hypercaffinated coffee,
with 200 mg of caffeine per serving.
to Coffee by riotnrrd |
| Gay? Looking for some
rough trade?
Wealthy (or desperate) enough to fly to
Germany
for it? Well, then let
Mike and Thorsten
give you the hardcore rodgering you crave.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Temple Grandin is perhaps the
world's foremost
designer
of cattle and hog
slaughter
houses. She's also autistic, and
has written
several books about it.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Friday Sep 24, 1999 | For people with fat wallets and demanding aesthetics,
Moth Audio makes some
gorgeous tube amps, and
the coolest
night light
I've ever seen.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Drew Barrymore wants to
remake the Jane Fonda classic
Barbarella
, but without the camp.
What?!? Barbarella without the
furry
cat-suits or the
Mathmos?
Sacrilege!
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Sep 22, 1999 | The Blair Witch Project, like other
successful
films, has produced a plethora of parodies: the
Blair
Family Circus Project, the
Bewitched Project,
the Blair
Warner Project, and the inevitable
Blair
Witch Ate My Balls page, to name a few.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Matinee Today is a
beautifully-designed shrine to
the art of
movie
magazines and
posters,
with an extensive tribute to movie siren
Rita
Hayworth. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Sep 21, 1999 | The
Japanese Engrish
page salutes the valiant and humorous attempts by Japanese companies to give
their products English names. to Linguistics by riotnrrd |
| Are you butch or femme?
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Sep 18, 1999 | Polish artist
Zbigniew Libera
has made some interesting art dealing with the Holocaust, using
Legos.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Interested in experimenting with
neural nets?
Then pick up a free copy of the
Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator, which has
an impressive
list of features, a nice GUI, and is availabile on
many platforms.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| The near future of rocket propulsion looks interesting.
Chemical rockets, of
course, will remain important for a while, but within a few dedacdes
we could have much more efficient
nuclear "teakettle" rockets
somewhat like the old
NERVA engines.
Ultimately, however, the future belongs to
fusion.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Friday Sep 17, 1999 | Another neato Ars Electronica exhibit was
"Hamster - symbiotic exchange of hoarded energy."
Robots, which steer themselves but have no motors, were driven by
hamsters running in on-board wheels, who had no conception of their "task."
The robot-hamster symbiote must travel between a
food station (for the hamsters) and a set of bright lights that recharges
the solar cells of the robots.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| On the border between pathetic fandom and strange humor lies the
Dune Guy Fanpage.
The humor (or is it satire?) comes from the author's apparant confusion of
Klye MacLachlan
and Matthew Perry.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Kevin Smith, writer and director of Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy,
has a
large web-site,
filled with great information about his past and
upcoming movies.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Sep 16, 1999 | One of the most popular exhibits at Ars Electronica was
"Bump" -- a pneumatically actuated wooden walkway that communicated
with a similar bridge set up in
Budapest.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| For a
class project on robotics, these Minnesota fifth graders made
deadly spiders,
death rays, and
roller coasters out of Legos.
The programs for
some projects have a certain Ballardian poetry:
"to crashcar: shine, crash, sound, end."
to Education by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Sep 15, 1999 | I spent the past two weeks at
Ars Electronica
in Linz, Austria. The loosely-adhered-to theme this year was "LifeScience"; basically an
excuse for artists to publically worry about
biotechnology
and to display
plasticized human bodies
in the
Brucknerhaus.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Ain't nothin' a smooth
pimp daddy needs more than
a
slick
computer.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Sep 14, 1999 | Free sci-fi short stories and novellas by a variety of authors can be found
at Infinity Plus, located in
the UK.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| What are those knuckle-heads at AOL up to now?
AOL Watch has the latest scoop
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Aug 19, 1999 | Antimatter
storage and
interstellar
spaceships?
This isn't science fiction, but rather NASA
funded studies of
advanced concepts
in aeronautics and space.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Intrigued by SIGGRAPH but don't want to spring $200 for a full set of
conference proceedings?
You're in luck: you can get most of
this year's
papers on-line for free.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Several famous science fiction authors maintain their own homepages
(which include free stories and essays):
Greg Egan,
Robert Sawyer, and
David Brin, to name a few.
to Literature by riotnrrd |
| Translucent, colored plastic has never been
sexier.
Or more
popular.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| This Saturday (August 21) at 23:49:57 UTC the 10 bit
GPS
week counter will
roll over.
The
effects
will be minimal as most GPS receivers were built with the rollover in
mind. However, I certainly won't be
flying
anywhere that night.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Everyone knows about
Project Gutenberg, but there are
several less-well-known
sites dedicated to distributing free text.
Berkeley's
Alex Catalogue
is a good place to start, as is
Bibliomania and, of course,
Carnegie Mellon's own
On-Line Books Page.
If you're feeling like sticking it to
The Man, then also check out
Banned
Books On-Line, also at CMU.
to Literature by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Aug 18, 1999 | Whitey
also likes rock 'n' roll!
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| It's well known that
many diseases
are related to
meat eating.
Ironically, it may be
the hormones released in fear
by the animals right before they're slaughtered that cause these problems.
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Aug 17, 1999 | Women are merely fleshy robots, that can be
programmed to do as we like.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| The
violet wand
is a tesla-coil-like electrical device. It was originally developed
for
medical use at the beginning
of the century but has found a new home with
modern perverts.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Carolina Biological Supply
satsifies all of your
preserved animal and
owl poo.
needs.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Monday Aug 16, 1999 | One of the more popular papers at
SIGGRAPH this year was about
Teddy,
a 3d modelling program that has an artist-friendly UI and nifty
non-photorealistic rendering.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Did you know that a jury can acquit someone if they
consider the law itself to be
unjust?
Learn the astonishing truth about your rights and powers as a juror at
the homepage of the
Fully Informed Jury
Association.
to Law by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Aug 5, 1999 | How Stuff Works tells
you exactly that, with helpful diagrams and clearly written explanations.
For you
Lynx freaks out there, they also
offer a
text-only version.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Opiate of the people, meet opiate of the people. In 1958,
the Pope named
St. Clare
of Assisi the patron saint of television. Test your St. Clare
knowledge with this
handy
quiz and remember: peeking at
the
answers is a venial sin.
to Television by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Aug 4, 1999 | At one mile long, 700 feet wide and 25 stories tall, the as-yet-unbuilt
Freedom Ship aims to be be a
libertarian tax-haven as well as the world's largest cruise ship.
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| What would it look like if you
fell into a
black hole?
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Do you need a new identity for a little while? Maybe forever?
Perhaps the threateningly primitive
Identitiswap Database
can help.
to Law by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jul 14, 1999 | For a few decades at the beinning of the century, Sears sold
mail-order
house kits.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| In 1901, Greek sponge-divers found an ancient shipwreck off the coast of
Antikythera which contained the remains of a
geared
mechanism over two thousand years old.
Archaeologists and scientists now believe it was a device for calculating
the motions of stars and planets: a primitive analog computer.
The
implications
for our understanding of ancient history are potentially enormous.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jul 12, 1999 | The text on
this site
is in Japanese but it says the same thing in any language: "I am a very,
very lonely man."
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Due to a dispute over
wheat quotas,
a farmer and his wife seceded from Australia and became the
Hutt River Province
Principality, which is ruled by the benign monarch
His Royal
Highness Prince Leonard. The
legality of this
seccession is, of course, contested.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Make your next vacation a celebration of
destruction and
radioactivity,
and let the
Bureau of Atomic Tourism
help.
to Travel by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Jul 11, 1999 | Was
the Irish Potato Famine merely made worse by British neglect,
or were they actively trying to
destroy Ireland?
to Politics by riotnrrd |
| The very rare book
Codex
Seraphinianus is a artwork of breathtaking creativity and beauty
masquerading as an Encylopedia of an alternate world.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| How old is the universe? What's the shape of space-time?
Ned Wright's
Cosmology Tutorial has the answers to the really
big questions.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jul 5, 1999 | From the Cure to Insomnia department comes the
International Journal of Grey
Literature, which is devoted to the study of text created by government
agencies.
to Literature by riotnrrd |
| When you die and are buried, at least have the courtesy to do it in a
an
environmentally sound
manner.
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jul 1, 1999 | Cakerecipe.com has (no surprise
here) a ton of recipes for cakes, ranging from the
common
to the
rightfully
obscure.
to Food by riotnrrd |
| "Achoo!" "Oh baby, you know how that
turns me on!" to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Monday May 31, 1999 | Some tips and tricks to help you
commit credit-card
fraud. to Economics by riotnrrd |
| Saturday May 29, 1999 | "Can you tell me something about
transformation?" almost defies description. It has something to do
with aliens, something to do with a
man with no nose
and something to do with
freakish
mockeries of the human form.
In a humorously self-referential move, this site also contains a
museum
of itself.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| The
Museum of Black
Superheros commemorates exactly what you'd expect, and
does it extremely well. Insightful criticism and
interesting
historical essays round out the site.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Friday May 28, 1999 | Crack-heads, losers and has-beens. They're all there at
Former Child-Star
Central.
to Television by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 27, 1999 | John Adams keeps a
list of all the beers he has drunk since 1988.
Alert me when we should start caring. to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| The
Aviation Saftey Network
contains everything a plane-crash obsessed ghoul could desire:
exhaustive crash
reports,
fatality and accident
statsitics,
and -- creepiest of all --
text transcripts and
.wav files from
voice-recording "black boxes."
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Monday May 17, 1999 | Three words: Charles Manson online.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Friday May 14, 1999 | Is Christianity about love and forgiveness? Of course it is! But it's also
about piracy, arrrrr! Listen to some
audio recordings
of a ventriloquism-based children's TV show from the 70's called
"Captain Hook and
his Christian Pirate Crew". Arr! Prepare to be boarded.. BY THE LORD.
to Television by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 13, 1999 | Have you seen strange moving lights in the night sky lately?
They're not UFOs, but rather so-called
Iridium
flares,
flashes of light reflected from the 60+
Iridium
satellites now in orbit around the Earth.
To find out exactly when these satellites (and many others) are
overhead, consult the
German Space Operations Center's
satellite finder to Science by riotnrrd |
| The Billboard Liberation
Front, defacing billboards since 1977. to Culture by riotnrrd |
| The Voynich manuscript
is a mysterious medeival text, written in an unknown script in an
undetermined language.
to Literature by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 12, 1999 | Ayse Goker has a very well organzied page of links of
AI resources on the
web, including companies, journals and free software. to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Chain mail:
not just for Conan any more. to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| Mmm..
pork and
vermouth. Two great tastes that go great together. to Food by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 6, 1999 |
The Eye of Argon is the best known, worst fantasy story ever written.
It contains such shimmering prose as "Gaping from its single obling socket was
a scintillating, many fauceted scarlet emerald."
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Microsoft's
MURL web-site
is a free archive of
academic CS
talks
given at Microsoft and several select universities.
Unfortunately (and predictably), these talks are recorded in a
proprietary format, viewable only under Windows.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday May 4, 1999 | Believed by millions of
Barbie-owning
girls and now confirmed by studies,
chubby girls don't get dates. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| In violation of lord-knows-how-many copyright laws, someone has
put a bunch of
Edward Gorey
illustrated books on their webpage. Enjoy them while they last.
to Books by riotnrrd |
|
Metalstorm, a radical new gun invented by a lone Australian tinkerer,
has no moving parts and can fire up to a million rounds a
second.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Friday Apr 30, 1999 | Tales from the
Wank Factory is a hilarious account of the author's two and a half
years working in the (ahem) trenches of the British smut industry.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Unclaimed baggage? Bah. How about
unclaimed
bodies? to Law by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Apr 27, 1999 | An
old essay
written by
Freeman
Dyson discusses what the fate of
the universe (and us) might be if it is open, rather than closed.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| From the "no surprise to anyone" department comes the
light sabre homepage
which includes obsessive speculation on the different
shapes,
colors and
fighting
strategies.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Apr 22, 1999 | According to this
article on Hotwired,
the current owner of the extremely valuable "sex.com" domain may have
stolen it from the rightful owner. More interestingly, the article
notes that sex.com grosses over $100 MILLION a year.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Modern art is
crap! to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Apr 20, 1999 | Good Vibrations would like
you to celebrate
National Masturbation Day by collecting pledges for
every minute you masturbate that day.
And now that
dildos
are
legal in Alabama again, everyone can lend a.. um.. hand.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Monday Apr 19, 1999 | A View From the Back of the
Envelope is devoted to the joys of approximation and educated guessing.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| The All-Music guide, a free online
version of their
popular reference book,
contains descriptions of thousands of performers, bands and
albums in addition to careful descriptions of different musical
genres
and how they
interrelate to Music by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Apr 18, 1999 | The famous powers of ten
illustrations move the viewer from the
edges of the universe
to the smallest known
particles in 42 power-of-ten steps.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| In the Czech town of Kutna Hora is the All Saints' Chapel, whose interior
is
decorated with
the bones of the 40,000 people who have been buried in its graveyard
since 1278.
Jan Svankmeyer did a
10 minute
film about it, so you know it has to be cool.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Apr 17, 1999 | Force Ten sells
equipment and
books
for "revenge, spying, police and miltary" uses.
If you're planning on doing any serious stalking, however, you'd better
get a night-vision scope, too.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Friday Apr 16, 1999 | The Watchman Fellowship maintains a large list of
cults and relgions,
which also acts as a good glossary of
religious terms.
to Religion by riotnrrd |
| Go to the Folk Art and Craft exchange
and buy the items you need to do that
voodoo that you do
so well.
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Apr 14, 1999 | Dave's Math Tables
contain tons of useful equations, proofs and identities. You can even
download the whole thing
as HTML or PDF files.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| The Cornell department of Science and Technology Studies is sponsoring
a conference on such
gripping issues as
"The Modern Woman and Her Sanitary napkin: The Social Construction of Women
Through Feminine Technologies" and
"Psychiatrist As Chemical
Engineer, Patient As Cyborg". I wanna be a
cyborg!
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Artists' Golf claims to be an
attempt to tries to "unite the seemingly disparate worlds of Art and Golf."
The site contains
reviews
of golf courses, side by side with bizarre "what if" speculations
on how different artists
might have played golf.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Apr 13, 1999 | Volrés and Pacers
and and Gremlins, oh my!
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| The virtual retinal
display uses low-powered lasers to paint images directly on your retina.
After some of the larger components are made smaller and cheaper, the
inventors plan to commercialize the
technology.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Friday Apr 9, 1999 | Hot Bristish babe Cleo
spent a year living with
prostitutes in
Bangkok, six years as a
drug-smuggling hippie in India,
and wrote books about both adventures.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Digital movie projectors are on their way. All that remains to be
determined is which technology will triumph: the
CRT-based ILA made
by JVC-Hughes, or Texas Instrument's
MEMS-based projector.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Apr 8, 1999 | Here's some filters for converting between
HTML and other text formats,
and for
undoing the
incompatibilties between Microsoft-produced-HTML and
the standard. to Web by riotnrrd |
| Fetish stores that cater to the weird are nothing new, but the Germans manage
to go one step further into the downright bizarre:
Gasmasks,
bodybags
and..
the schnüffelpenis?
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| At this very moment, I am scouring
the toy stores of the world for
this toy.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Monday Apr 5, 1999 | Jesse "The Governor" Ventura ran some
very funny ads
during his campaign for governor of Minnesota. After comparing his
spoof of the Shaft theme-song to the dry blather of his opponents,
it's no wonder he won.
to Politics by riotnrrd |
| Friday Apr 2, 1999 | The Center for Human
Simulation has created the
Visible Human
Database, a collection of high-resolution color scans of
slices of the human body. Make sure to see the incredible
animation!
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Intersense sells ultrasonic inertial
trackers
for head-mounted displays and
motion capture
that give much higher update rates than
conventional magnetic sensors (such as the well-known
Polhemus system).
to Wearables by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Apr 1, 1999 | Straight guys aren't the only ones with
clothing fetishes.
Gay men certainly have them, too.
Whichever gender you like to nail, now you can -- thanks to e-commerce -- buy
the gear to satisfy your
twisted,
perverted desires, without making embarassing eye-contact with another
human being.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Has Ben Affleck's transition from indie-film auetur
to Hollywood commodity changed him?
Naaaaah.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Carnegie Mellon University (sporadically) maintains an immensley useful
repository of
artificial intelligence software, documentation, programming languages,
mailing-list archives, and utilities.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 24, 1999 | For people who never got over their teddy bears, comes
Fur Nation.
It contains
summer convention
and (of course)
furry porn. to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Okay, the
school girls I can
definately understand, and maybe even the
tentacles.
But the Japanese lose me when it comes to the erotic potential of
woman
shrinking to tiny size.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| The
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
is (ahem) dead serious about its call for "phasing out the human race"
for the good of the Earth's ecology.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| 4.8 gigabytes of
images and movies of astronomical objects and spacecraft are
avialble at this French site.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 23, 1999 | Sick and tired of those floppy old genitals? Then why not
chop them off? Don't miss the cringe-inducing
image gallery. Ow.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Sandlot Science is a collection
of optical illusions, including
breathing squares
and
plans to build (apparently)
impossible objects. to Games by riotnrrd |
| Monday Mar 22, 1999 | Tomb "Bazooms" Raider creator Core Design is
considering legal action against web sites that display
nude
images of Lara Croft. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| What would happen if an asteroid
hit New York City?
For starters, Long Island would be blanketed in molten rock and superheated
steam, so maybe it's not all bad.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Atrocities of the
Christian Church really has nothing to do with Christianity, but is
instead a collection of pictures and descriptions of medeival torture
devices. Similarly,
Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs is less about the
martyrs than what the pagans did to them. to Religion by riotnrrd |
| Friday Mar 12, 1999 | The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center provides us with a new
and interesting
anatomic pathology case each month, complete with
photographs.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Police and crime news
from around the country, including a section on those darlings of
the media:
serial killers.
to Law by riotnrrd |
| Beautiful
Russian amputee ladies wish to meet you.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Mar 11, 1999 | The Dysfunctional Family Circus
can be funny some of the time. That is, if you like jokes about incest, drug abuse, and
bad art, made at the expense of Bil Keane.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| I like women who are fat and
hairy.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Bizarre (to say the least) fringe film-maker Joe Christ now publishes his
his newsletter on the web.
No mention is made, unfortunately, of the allegations that he
cut off his own
penis to make the film "Sex, Blood & Mutilation."
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 10, 1999 | Get wired.
Barbed wire, that is. While you're at it, make sure to prick yourself
at the barbed wire
museum.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Bondage for dummies,
including the ever-popular
Japanese
hog-tie.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 2, 1999 | Speech researchers at UPenn have compiled a
map of American dialects. This mapping is a part of the larger project
of constructing
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Fossils for sale, including
rare
invertebrates and some truly
bizarre trilobites. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Feb 27, 1999 | The Rotary Rocket Company's public
display of their newly completed prototype takes place on Monday at 4pm.
Flight tests supposedly start
this year. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Feb 24, 1999 | The last community of Shakers in the
world lives in New Gloucester, Maine. They beleive in
pacficism, communism and
chastity. No wonder there's only seven left.
to Religion by riotnrrd |
| A site that injects a little sanity into the
y2k bug debate.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Bizarre and tasteless stream-of-conciousness writings by someome named
Zamboni about
him, his mom, and
a goat named
Guido.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 22, 1999 | Get one of your own experiments
flown on the Space
Shuttle. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Fight like apes
and
screw like
bonobos! to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Second-hand stores are passe; the truly hip do their
thrift shopping by buying
unclaimed airline baggage. to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Feb 10, 1999 | And you thought you had some
bad dates. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Whoa, dude. I'm, like, soooo
baked.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Feb 9, 1999 | The most thorough and interesting
reference about the
elements that I've ever seen.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| A chicken inside
a duck inside a turkey -- now that's good eatin'!
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Bizarre Magazine is a raunchy
British magazine specializing in the strange and tasteless. to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 8, 1999 | Killing insects with
high powered lasers!
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| In the same spirit as
Beerframe (a.k.a Inconspicous Consumption), is
Contraption,
a webpage about nifty gadgets.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Feb 7, 1999 | Are you ready for biker trash? The
Hell's Angels have
their own homepage, as does the
New York chapter. Biker
Trash magazine selected the
Houston Hombres
as having the best motorcycle club webpage; probably because of the
naked pictures of their
girlfriends.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Just because G.I. Joe wants
some new outfits
doesn't mean he's
gay. to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 28, 1999 | Let the cloning
begin!
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Before robots take over the world, you'd better catch up on the
required reading.
to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| The Sparrow is a tiny little
electric car with with a 30-60 mile range and a
not-so-tiny pricetag.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jan 25, 1999 | When the Fox network just isn't enough, there's
PursuitWatch. Just 99 cents a year
will get you pager alerts every time a TV station broadcasts a
high-speed chase. Unfortunately, and predictably, it's available in Los
Angeles only.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| If you're attacking that heavily-armed nest of Cisco engineers, you'd
better know what the
best combat
shotgun for the job is.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| The story of "three very bored geeks, a leatherman, a bunch of disposable
plastic lighters, and a severe case of
pyromania."
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jan 18, 1999 | More information that you ever needed to know about
calendars.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jan 8, 1999 | You big sissy!
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Funny, bitter commentary
on T.V. shows.
to Television by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jan 6, 1999 | Making your heart explode
as
cheaply as possible. to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jan 5, 1999 | The Earth has had several near-collisions with
asteroids
and
comets.
And there's more to come, of course, so
keep watching the skies.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Jan 2, 1999 | The ACM has put a
few classic papers and speeches
on their web-site. Los Alamos has a
more complete archive,
of ACM papaers, which is
searchable as well.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Catch up on the latest gossip from
the porn industry.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jan 1, 1999 | The fat guy and
the other one.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 30, 1998 | In the grand tradition of
La Petomaine comes the talented Brit
Mr. Methane, the "world's only
performing flatulist." If you're lucky enough to be in the UK on the 31st,
make sure to watch Channel 4 at midnight, when he'll be farting the
coutdown to 1999. He'll then "perform" 'Auld Lang Syne'. What better way
to start the year?
(And, yes, his site has sound clips.) to Culture by riotnrrd |
| War! What
is it good for?
Hideous, disfiguring
wounds!
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Dec 20, 1998 | Launchspace Magazine
is a space industry trade magazine filled with excellent articles and
interesting technical data. Make sure to check out the forcast of
upcoming launches and
the article on
astronaut
fatalities. Of special interest is the evidence that five
Soviet cosmonauts died in orbit before Yuri Gargarin's successful flight
in 1961.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Can a Christian enjoy late 90's glam-rock? Evidentally not without
going to hell for it.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| 'Tis the season to be jolly, so take some time to find out the details of
how you'll die when we're attacked with
biological weapons.
And if you want to hasten this Apocalypse, you can always
make some yourself.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Dec 15, 1998 | Java seems to be interesting but useless; except for creating interesting
but useless things. Like the Java simulations of
N-body gravity and.. err..
more N-body gravity.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Whether you're new to the language or an expert looking for clever tweaks,
you should check out the C-Scene
Zine, a technical e-zine devoted to C and C++. to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 9, 1998 | If don't like the sight of blood, you probably don't want to see the
breast lift and augmentation
broadcast live on the web tonight at 7:30pm PST.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| You think you're a hot programmer, but has your code
ever
killed a man?
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Take a few minutes out of
your busy day and catch up on the classics, some popular sci-fi books,
bedtime stories and movies.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 2, 1998 | This list of
"bondage" stories isn't what you think. Similar to the
News of the Weird,
it's a collection of news stories culled from the wires at the
San Francisco Examiner that
are
strange
or
grimly
funny.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Slake your thirst for answers at TOOT; the
Tool Of Objective
Truth.
Use TOOT to take the measure of
human bravery,
the measure of
human intellect,
or just
the measurements of man.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Dec 1, 1998 | Who better to commemorate on a new stamp than
bad author and
proponent of aetheistic
selfishness Ayn
Rand?
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Nov 25, 1998 | Admit it, geek: you like math. So indulge yourself and bask in the reflected
light of infinity with information about
the largest
known primes. Afterwards, relax in the comfortable, climate-controlled
first
50,000,000 digits of pi.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Nov 24, 1998 | Thumb through the
Tacky Postcard Archive
and thrill to the sights of
advertising photography
from the 50's and ineptly colored holiday cards from
far off lands.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Relax from a hard day of web surfing with a hot cup of
Makaibari Estate
FTGFOP1S Second Flush Darjeeling or any one of the other seven hundred
types of tea sold by the Upton Tea
Importers.
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Monday Nov 23, 1998 | I'm having a bad day today, so I can understand why people would
want to
shoot appliances with
shotguns to relieve stress.
Kill your
television, indeed. to Games by riotnrrd |
| We all know that C is
just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar so it should be no
surprise that there's a long-standing
contest to see who can write the most
obscure or obfuscated C program
that actually does something useful.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute has built a
robot to look
for meteorites in Antartica. There's prerecorded and live video and
telemetry available, also.
to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Nov 22, 1998 | The Neck Brace Appreciation Klub
is a "small but growing" collection of twisted perverts who enjoy
"recreational" neck and body-bracing. It's reassuring that there's
at least one fetish out there that
Todd Friedman hasn't
exhaustively photographed.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| There's only one thing better than a good soccer game, and that's a good
soccer RIOT. Enjoy
video and pictures of
soccer hooligans from across Europe, doing what they do best: lighting
each other on fire and getting the crap beat out of them by the police.
to Sports by riotnrrd |
| Are you looking TOO good? Does your dazzling smile attract unwanted sexual
attention or -- worse -- make people think that you work in marketing?
Well, Dr. Bukk is here to save you. Select form a wonderful
selection of styles
of false teeth, all guaranteed to make you look like a
slack-jawed yokel.
to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Nov 19, 1998 | Boston baked beans? Bah. Circus Peanuts? Child's play.
You haven't seen truly horrible candy until you've visited
the
The Page of Bad Candy
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Sep 17, 1998 | This test
will challenge your knowledge of innocent childhood toys as well as hardcore
pornography!
to Humor by riotnrrd |
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