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| Monday Jun 19, 2000 | The chain letter about finding used hypodermic needles in McDonald's molecule pools is not true, according to the Houston Chronicle and urbanlegends.com. There are no needles in pay phone coin return slots or gas pump handles either, so the best places to find them are still recycling centers and bodies of water. to Drugs by rogers |
| Saturday May 27, 2000 | There's absolutely no practical reason to learn this, but How to Write Telegrams Properly from 1928 remembers a time when every word in an electronic message cost money. "Two of the fundamental merits of the telegram are that it annihilates distance and commands immediate attention." So much for progress. to Media by rogers |
| Considering that most people never spend the daylight time we save each year, and the practice makes farmers unhappy, is it time to leave our clocks in peace? to Law by rogers |
| In 1998, Frugal Gourmet TV host Jeff Smith agreed to pay $4.75 million to seven men who accused him of molesting them as teens. His TV and book career disappeared overnight, but a few diehards are still angrily proclaiming his innocence, even though their scanned-in picture makes the cook look like Baelzebub in a buttondown.
to Food by rogers |
| Saturday May 13, 2000 | Since the 1980s, Amy Borkowsky has saved her mother's answering machine messages. She only presents three on her promotional site, but everyone can benefit from mom's helpful advice on condoms, fashion and bladder control. to Humor by rogers |
| Monday Mar 13, 2000 | A warning to all heart-attack sufferers -- don't trust the e-mail chain letter claiming you can survive by coughing until help arrives. to Health by rogers |
| Wednesday Mar 8, 2000 | Every Dharma & Greg episode ends with a screenful of odd personal commentary by series co-creator Chuck Lorre that looks like something from the label of Dr. Bronner's Pure-Castile Soap. Not content to reach an audience strictly through the pause button, Lorre has published these funny vanity cards. to Television by rogers |
| Thursday Feb 3, 2000 | Harness the power of mirrors for evil: Build a disgustoscope, the evil twin of the kaleidoscope, and turn the reflection of your hand into an "obscenely pulsing wrinkled flesh-ball" with "throbbing organic orifices." to Gadgets by rogers |
| Monday Jan 31, 2000 | If the Chicks Suck Guy can find a mate, surely there's hope for Brandon and Ric and perhaps even the Single Geek. to Sex by rogers |
| Thursday Jan 27, 2000 | Where no haiku poet has gone before: SciFaiku, a five-year-old literary movement that "packs all the human insight, technology, and vision of the future into a few poignant lines." to Literature by rogers |
| Saturday Jan 22, 2000 | Before the inevitable court injunction, try the 10-day-old My.MP3.com. The site plays CDs that you own in Real and MP3 format, even if you just bought the CD online. to Music by rogers |
| Friday Jan 21, 2000 | One of the highlights of the Microsoft Museum is the company timeline, which notes the "months of maniacal hours" spent working on 1981's MS-DOS without mentioning that Microsoft didn't create it. to Computing by rogers |
| With a prominent link on its home page, the University of New Hampshire is publicly denying its role in breeding beakless, featherless, feetless mutant chickens for Kentucky Fried Chicken. to Food by rogers |
| Monday Jan 17, 2000 | What USENET was like before trolls, spam, Kibo, Cattlovrr, Speedbump, net.kooks, CFVs, killfiles, binaries, Nosers and cascades: the USENET OldNews Archive, 1981-82. to Internet by rogers |
| Thursday Jan 13, 2000 | Pay attention, Buzz, Woody, Jesse and Bo-Peep! Before Andy grows up and abandons his toys, he's going to pose all of you flagrante delicto. to Sex by rogers |
Can you fool a spammer's robot into traveling an infinite loop through thousands of fake Web pages collecting phony e-mail addresses? Erik Schorr's Blackflag does. The script could make the world safe again for the mailto: url.
to Internet by rogers |
| The brother of Scott Amedure, the gay man killed after revealing a same-sex crush on the Jenny Jones Show, has created an online memorial honoring America's first TV talk show martyr. to Television by rogers |
| Tuesday Jan 11, 2000 | The Jockey Club has published 52,233 recently released names that can be used for thoroughbreds because their previous owners have gone to that glue factory in the sky. A moment of silence, please, for Back Door Bobby, Sexy Sister, Love From Above, Man O'Pleasure and Daddy's Candy Cane. to Sports by rogers |
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