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| Wednesday Jul 25, 2001 | Sex sure does sell, but can it sell the unsexiest thing of them all: an OS? Something tells me no. to Computing by skallas |
| Sunday Jul 22, 2001 | The Mythopoeia (encyclopedia for myths, clever eh?) is light on content but has some amazingly creepy photography. to Photography by skallas |
| Sunday Jul 15, 2001 | If you've ever been to greenwave radio or EarthDot then you've been fooled to use solar power! Those sites are powered by solarhost.com, a web hosting service running off the grid. to Web by skallas |
| Thursday Jul 12, 2001 | There's the periodic table and then there's the periodic table for men. to Humor by skallas |
| Monday Jul 9, 2001 | The LifeExtension Foundation has listed the top-ten life extension drugs, most of which are easily affordable. I was pretty surprised to find nootropics on this list as they're mostly used to increase brain performance. to Drugs by skallas |
| Sunday Jul 8, 2001 | Am I in Pi? See if your birthday (MMDDYY) appears anywhere in mathematical number Pi. Not geeky enough for you? Then try the Pi quiz. to Web by skallas |
| Saturday Jul 7, 2001 | Trading cards based on more or less regular people are finally here! Submit yourself today and start promoting the cards in your neighborhood. to Culture by skallas |
| Thursday Jul 5, 2001 | Looking for a decent UFO cult to join? Though most preach universal love and harmony through various techniques only the Raelian Movement is shaking things up with the promise of cloning a human in a year and building a 20 million dollar UFO embassy in the middle east. Let's not forget their auto racing team. Hey, they may be cultists but they like to have fun.
to Religion by skallas |
| Wednesday Jul 4, 2001 | The LAPD carries an extensive list of stolen art on their website. LA natives might want to keep an eye out for a Dali, a first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses, a Rembrandt, or a box of Tide with some doodles on it.
to Art by skallas |
| Tuesday Jul 3, 2001 | Giant sized "marital aids" are destroying Cambodia's culture, not to mention their women. to Sex by skallas |
| Sunday Jul 1, 2001 | NASA plans exploration of outer planets and moons with huge balloons. Jules Verne would be proud.
to Science by skallas |
| Thursday Jun 28, 2001 | Melt a penny using only the sun and a piece of plexiglass. The next logical step is getting all this free energy from space and transmitting it to earth without frying anyone in the way.
to Technology by skallas |
| Famous Scientologists perform the songs of L. Ron Hubbard. I'm not kidding, listen to John Travolta, Leif Garrett, and Frank Stallone belt out gospel like praises. You definatly need to be a very advanced thetan to appreciate this crap. to Wackos by skallas |
| Tuesday Jun 26, 2001 | Esperanto too tough to master? Why not try your hand at English Prime? E-prime removes the 'to be' verbs in order to make statements that reflect observations not assumptions.
to Linguistics by skallas |
| In what will probably be a fuzzy logic nightmare, everyone's favorite search engine has introduced image searching.
to Web by skallas |
| Sunday Jun 24, 2001 | Projectcensored.org links to last year's most censored news stories like the uber-scary privatization of the world's water supply. to Conspiracy by skallas |
| Wednesday Jun 20, 2001 | What dot com bust? Just ask for money and these morons will collectively hand over three grand. to Commerce by skallas |
| Feed is an amazing Java applet that takes the graphics and text of websites and runs them through the grinder to produce some flashy abstract art. to Web by skallas |
| Monday Jun 18, 2001 | Feral children are kids raised by animals who are later found and slowly introduced to society. Oh, they're real and documented, but the most feral of them all is made the subject of mockery on a regular basis. to Outdoors by skallas |
| Saturday Jun 16, 2001 | The bunnybass is a 20 lbs monster bass guitar that looks someone cut off Hello Kitty's head, glued two ears to it, and pierced the top of its head with a bass neck. Oddly enough, the best part of the site is a great photo collection of women musicians, most of whom wouldn't be caught dead with that behemoth bass. to Music by skallas |
| Kubrick toys have nothing to do with the late acclaimed director of the same name but are a magical little mix of lego toys and anime/movie characters. If only this three-inch Charlton Heston came equiped with some kind of automatic weapon. to Toys by skallas |
| Friday Jun 15, 2001 | Years after film critics and anime fans accused Disney of stealing the story from Kimba the White Lion, it looks like Disney has done it again with Atlantis. to Movies by skallas |
| Wednesday Jun 13, 2001 | Some odd things have been happening lately: bookies slash the odds of intelligent alien life existing, Seti@Home has covered a significant portion of the sky, and its CGIs have been down for a couple weeks. Are the rumors true, is SETI@Home currently in the "What do we tell the world" stage? Or more importantly, does the legacy of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds permanently answer that question?
to Conspiracy by skallas |
| I'm a sucker for a computer covered in colored plastic, but I'm an ever bigger fool for the completely transparent PC. You can tell your friends it's really an expensive and rare prototype.
to Computing by skallas |
| Right now over 600,000 computers are trying to find the cure for cancer with a distributed computing model. Yet a promising low-tech approach has been frozen since the U.S. government ceased medical research on THC after it began showing signs of shrinking tumors in mice. to Drugs by skallas |
| Sunday Jun 10, 2001 | Sure, everyone wants to swim with dolphins and thanks to the magic of Virtual Reality you virtually can. The Cyberfin was designed by theAquathought Foundation which studies human-dolphin interaction. to Technology by skallas |
| Saturday Jun 9, 2001 | I never understood how walking on the moon was a larger achievement than driving on the moon in Boeing's one horsepower eight mph Lunar Rover. Thanks to the internet you can watch astronauts drive recklessly in the Rover while listening to a lively banjo.
to Transportation by skallas |
| Friday Jun 8, 2001 | Consider Spillway a small wholesaler of the absurd. By far the best part of their site is the People's Photo Archives, a collection of found photographs, all of which contain a certain level of humor and eerieness. Sit back, pretend you're an anthropologist from the future and don't miss the hilarious commentary.
to Photography by skallas |
| Thursday Jun 7, 2001 | PBS's Frontline: Merchants of Cool investigation shows how corporations create and monopolize cultural trends. The teen interview section is very telling, they seem to know they're being manipulated but still go along for the ride. to Television by skallas |
| Tuesday Jun 5, 2001 | The alpha and omega of spyware detectors, Lavasoft's Ad Aware has just released the long awaited version 5. You're probably running one of the hundreds of spyware applications right now.
to Computing by skallas |
| Dennis Tito wasn't the first person to buy his way to an earth orbit. Dr. Timothy Leary and Gene Roddenberry beat Tito by 4 years and are still up there and won't be coming down till 2004. Thanks to Celestis Inc you too can have a voyage of a lifetime, even to the moon, but there's one catch: you have to be cremated first. to Transportation by skallas |
| Random House just released the top 100 books since 1900. Unfortunately the readers' poll is a casualty of a voting war between the Elron and Ayn Rand cults.
to Books by skallas |
| Sunday Jun 3, 2001 | According to virtualtourist, the seemingly largest dangers about traveling to Japan is the fugu fish when misprepared contains a poison that has no known antidote, and the Chikan, perverts who grope women on the train, whose crimes have become profitable for victims.
to Travel by skallas |
| Thursday May 31, 2001 | Batman 594 exposes the connection between Nancy Reagan and acclaimed comic book writer Alan Grant. to Conspiracy by skallas |
| Wednesday May 30, 2001 | The hairiest gay pride participant has been found and well documented. to Culture by skallas |
| Monday May 28, 2001 | Invisible Jim the action figure isn't just invisible: he doesn't even exist. This is either the world's worst x-mas present or the world's greatest absurdist gift.
to Toys by skallas |
| Sunday May 27, 2001 | The BBC has produced a free virtual theremin for PCs and Macs for their science playground page. After playing with it for a while, reading the short but sad history of its inventor and virtuosa, and the proper way to play it you might be interested in aquiring a real one. to Web by skallas |
| Friday May 25, 2001 | I'm trying to decide which asian mail order bride I really want -- the steel bending Jade, or the delicate Mikki.
to Humor by skallas |
| Wednesday May 23, 2001 | Think Robotgirls is bad? Try Animalgirls. to Commentary by skallas |
| Tuesday May 22, 2001 | The Dismemberment Plan, Spoozys, Aislers Set, and other indie acts never quite seem to make it to your town? Luckily for you, supersphere.com has archived a lot of indie performances in Realmedia. to Music by skallas |
| Melissa Falzone is the world's foremost Etch-A-Sketch artist. You can relive the crappy renditions you made as a youth with this on-line simulator. to Art by skallas |
| Friday May 18, 2001 | Recovering Atheists of the extreme scientific materialism bent may be interested in the simple philosophy of Agnosticism.
to Religion by skallas |
| Tuesday May 15, 2001 | I can't decide who coined the term "ass cape" first: a cheesy song or a homoerotic fan club that blurs the line between wrestling and boy bands.
to Humor by skallas |
| There no longer is a difference between hacking tools and anti-hacking tools. I'd be concerned if a sysadmin couldn't spoof her IP or launch a Smurf attack. to Computing by skallas |
| Sunday May 13, 2001 | Thirteen.org is hosting a great looking Buckminster Fuller site, but you'll have to go to the Fuller Institute to buy the toys like the Vector Flexor. to Television by skallas |
| Monday Apr 30, 2001 | In the late 1980's, Japanese inventor-visionary-genius Kenji Kawakami first formalized the study Chindogu, or "odd or distorted tools",
tools that
seem like they're going to make life a lot easier,
but don't.
to Gadgets by skallas |
| Thursday Apr 26, 2001 | Sony's VAIO line has sucessfully been the Macs of the PC world, especially with their LCD screen you can draw on. Think of it as the Koala Pad of the 21st century. to Gadgets by skallas |
| Expose an indie rock phenomenon to 10 and 11 year olds and the end result is hilarious. to Music by skallas |
| Sunday Apr 22, 2001 | Watch this great looking flash movie about the classic Transformers series. This is the first flash movie I've seen that even remotely enters the third dimension.
to Flash by skallas |
| Sunday Apr 8, 2001 | Looks like the peer to peer revolution is internet-style business as usual now that Gnutella uber-client Bearshare 2.x now comes covertly bundled with known spyware plug-in OnFlow. Luckily Lavasoft's AdAware detects and removes this junk just like an antivirus program should. to Web by skallas |
| Wednesday Apr 4, 2001 | The 21st century's first new batch of new footwear include skates disguised as sneakers, shoes that generate electricity, spring powered boots, and gas powered boots. to Fashion by skallas |
| Saturday Mar 24, 2001 | Sure, the military is perfecting the pain beam but who's working on a pleasure beam other than
sci-fi writers?
to Warfare by skallas |
| Tuesday Feb 27, 2001 | I'm not sure what I'm more impressed with in this
travelogue of visiting the Lick observatory in California: that it starts off calling the observatory a "big ass telescope" or that the observatory is actually called Lick.
to Travel by skallas |
| Wednesday Feb 21, 2001 | Learn about sonic booms from PBS and if you're still confused you can see one at NASA. Still confused? Read up on the Prandtl-Glauert Singularity or just put the cool pictures up as desktop wallpaper. to Science by skallas |
| While I'm always impressed by links about taser guns, I can't help wonder if the Stunbrella will be the future of self-defense. to Commentary by skallas |
| Sunday Feb 4, 2001 | Who cares about the Mars "face" anymore now that we've got heart shaped craters and smiley faced craters.
to Science by skallas |
| Monday Jan 29, 2001 | Why, everyone knows where Jesus was raised and buried: someplace in Japan. Personally, I'm partial to the sexually ambigious black Jesus. to Religion by skallas |
| The real problem with Seti@Home is the unimaginative names. Who would you rather see catch the next Wow! signal, a corporate ad like Sun Microsystems, a lame Monty Python reference, or The Great Culinary Search for Delicious Aliens. Of course a mention of Seti@Home wouldn't be complete without mentioning ways of hiding it from your boss. to Computing by skallas |
| Thursday Jan 25, 2001 | Ralph Nader's "Untold Story" is a factual and harsh indictment against the commercial media.
to Art by skallas |
| Sunday Jan 21, 2001 | It's the 1960's and shape memory plastics is all the rage. What does Mattel do? Make a very cool and fire-hazardous monster creation machine.
to Toys by skallas |
| Sunday Jan 14, 2001 | Take almost complete control over your windows PC with MS's most powerful tools: the popular regedit and the well-hidden and unsupported Tweak UI.
to Computing by skallas |
| Thursday Jan 11, 2001 | Let's be grateful that the Vacuum Tube Midget and Mr. Big Transistor Head didn't make the final cut of Tron and that the cut scenes from Dune can be found on the extended version.
to Movies by skallas |
| Monday Jan 8, 2001 | Witness the criminal thoughts and actions of a self-confessed Pot Brownie Dealer. On the other end of the scale we have 70 year old Brownie Mary who only sells to those who suffer. to Drugs by skallas |
| The feds are coming down hard on counterfeit money, even in the most unlikely of places. Think you're counterfeit savvy? Take the test. to Commerce by skallas |
| Wednesday Jan 3, 2001 | In a world full of penis-stealing witches and drunken astronauts, I like to wind down with Mavis Beacon's version of House of the Dead. to Games by skallas |
| Saturday Dec 16, 2000 | Finally you too can bang your own Sailor Scout with the help of to Sex by skallas |
| Meet "Vinnie the Tampon Case Distributor," a very sensitive feminist who puts a disturbing graphic of a bloodied man on his tampon cases. to Wackos by skallas |
| Saturday Nov 11, 2000 | One of Xerox PARC's visual perception scientists denounces the design of the infamous Florida ballots. to Politics by skallas |
| Friday Nov 10, 2000 | I wonder how many people can really ignore the well-funded anti-drug propaganda and focus on some facts for a change. to Drugs by skallas |
| Tuesday Nov 7, 2000 | Bill Gates calls himself very naive about his past beliefs on how computers could solve the world's problems. Another insider finally sobering up and realizing that futurism and technology are tools and not the basis of a retro-future utopia. to Computing by skallas |
| Michael Moore's public and vicious reply to Gore's begging for Green party votes. to Politics by skallas |
| Monday Nov 6, 2000 | I'd much rather have firefighters damage my car in the rare instance that a hydrant is going to be used, instead of paying the $100 parking fine here in Chicago. Luckily there's an on-line guide to dealing with parking Nazis.
to Transportation by skallas |
| The Dead Kennedy's Jello Biafra didn't manage to become the presidential candidate of the Greens this year, but he does have some great and sometimes wacky ideas for 2004. to Culture by skallas |
| Thursday Nov 2, 2000 | Sure, Distortions are
fun, but now even the most Photoshop-phobic websurfer can try it on these two famous guys. Need more people to Javawarp? Try the list at
Javawarp's homepage.
to Web by skallas |
| Wednesday Nov 1, 2000 | Mournless yet grateful comic strip style tribute to the late sci-fi great Philip K. Dick. to Literature by skallas |
| Monday Oct 30, 2000 | Why diaryland.com is mostly a complete failure. It's called the shift key and no, you're not the next e.e. cummings.
to Web by skallas |
| Sunday Oct 29, 2000 | Think Nader and Browne are just too mainstream? Cyberculture repenter R.U. Sirius needs your vote in his Fuck the Vote campaign. Does he still make too much sense for you? Try the wacko-infested write-in candidates list for others. to Politics by skallas |
| The signal to noise ratio at alt.tasteless, the disturbing yet interesting newsgroup, is pretty low but there are enough archived posts to keep anyone who isn't faint of heart entertained. As always, if you're planning on posting to any newsgroup please read the FAQ first. to Internet by skallas |
| Take hip-hop and mix in a strong dose of progressive politics and you'll end up with Beastie Boy Ad-Rock's Countdown. to Music by skallas |
| Friday Oct 27, 2000 | Highly interesting look at the art and business of political cartooning in an interview with This Modern World creator Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow. to Politics by skallas |
| Wednesday Oct 25, 2000 | Did the late medium Arthur Ford really discover Houdini's secret message that only he and his wife knew? As usual, some think so while others don't. While we're at it, lets ask Mr. Ford a question! to Occult by skallas |
| You have to love on-line petitions, especially ones that call Al Gore a spoiler for Ralph Nader and demand he step down. Or on a more realistic note, Dreamcast players are trying to get Sega to make a port of early 80's arcade hit Dragon's Lair. to Web by skallas |
| Tuesday Oct 24, 2000 | The enigmatic TV show The Prisoner now comes in digest form. to Television by skallas |
| Sunday Oct 22, 2000 | If you were a robot this is the classic rock you would be listening to. to Music by skallas |
| Al Gore has a special message for web power-surfers! Read the first page of the www.algore2000.com HTML source for a commented out paragraph designed especially for you. Unfortunately, the secret message isn't what he really thinks of the environment. to Web by skallas |
| Everyone deserves a Bill of Rights, especially math students, parrots, effeminate men, and people getting piercings or tarot card readings. to Humor by skallas |
| Friday Oct 20, 2000 | The mystery between the Dogon tribe in Mali and the white dwarf Sirius B.
to Occult by skallas |
| A past life regression gone horribly wrong brings about a stark but fascinating vision of the future which makes for some really great sci-fi reading. to Occult by skallas |
| Thursday Oct 19, 2000 | Electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott's Soothing Sounds for Babies is neither soothing nor suited for children. From listening to these samples its best suited for teenagers experimenting with mind altering substances. Lets keep the incredible power of analog synthesizers in the hands of the 12 and older crowd,please.
to Music by skallas |
| How to photograph little girls in a Lolita barely-legal manner. Models of ages 7-11 can start looking trampy immediately. Wait, that's not a fair comparision, Lolita was 12. to Wackos by skallas |
| Two students jailed for refusing to watch commercial-heavy corporate education Channel One. to Education by skallas |
| Wednesday Oct 18, 2000 | Make everyone you know filthy rich by dropping these fake winning lottery tickets into this year's batch of Christmas cards. to Culture by skallas |
| Listen to the first singing computer as programmed by John Kelly and Carol Lockbaum in 1961, which later influenced a famous scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey. to Music by skallas |
| Retro Future investigates hard hitting questions like where are our promised jet-packs, food pills, and robot servants? to Culture by skallas |
| Tuesday Oct 17, 2000 | The first Earthlings in space were dogs and they all got some great commemorative stamps. to Art by skallas |
| Monday Oct 16, 2000 | In 2001, blood donations may become obsolete if Oxygent is FDA approved. It's disease free, works with any blood type, and has a shelf-life of two years.
to Health by skallas |
| Surprise surprise, the fluid breathing mouse in the sci-fi masterpiece The Abyss was real, not Hollywood trickery. to Movies by skallas |
| The short and strange tale of a Taiwanese ad-agency using Hitler as their spokesman for German made space heaters.
to Humor by skallas |
| Sunday Oct 15, 2000 | This is what serotonin looks like under a powerful microscope, an imbalance of it can cause depression, anxiety, low-sex drive, and suicide. On a brighter note you can view all sorts of interesting things through microscopes like drugs, wine, feathers, and my favorite - hidden designs on computer chips. Many more images are kept at the Molecular Expressions Galleria for your viewing pleasure.
to Photography by skallas |
| Saturday Oct 14, 2000 | Space.com not only produces their own television shows, but they offer live 24x7 streaming of NASA TV. For broadband users Yahoo offers a much smoother 300kbs broadcast. to Television by skallas |
| Friday Oct 13, 2000 | Buckminster Fuller isn't just known for his breakthrough and original ideas in architecture but for huge three-wheeled cars, a new way to shower, the one-piece bathroom, completely to-scale maps, and founding the World Game Institute. More information can be found at the Fuller FAQ. to Science by skallas |
| Thursday Oct 12, 2000 | This year's Darwin Awards have been released. to Humor by skallas |
| Has the Hello Kitty phenomenon gone too far? Yes.
to Commerce by skallas |
| Wednesday Oct 11, 2000 | 20 ways the people at Discover.com think the world could end. My favorite, and the most likely, has to be mass insanity. to Science by skallas |
| Tuesday Oct 10, 2000 | A great HTML version of the original program handed out in UK theaters for 2001: A Space Odyssey. Its chock full of stunning photos and well written commentary.
to Movies by skallas |
| Monday Oct 9, 2000 | ifilm.com is a great site for broadband users to view short movies. It can even handle speeds up to 1 megabit per second. Two recent offerings like Freeware, which is a great high-tech CGI short film, and Covert Operatives, which is a great low-tech stop-motion short film, are definitely not to be missed. to Movies by skallas |
| Ralph Nader's demands and possible lawsuit after being unlawfully banned from attending the presidential debates have been delivered to the CPD.
to Politics by skallas |
| Saturday Oct 7, 2000 | What sex looks like through the eyes of an MRI. to Sex by skallas |
| A humorous and detailed look at the missing scenes from the Star Wars trilogy. The obsessive Phantom Menace fan can spend half an hour reading 11 pages of what could have been. Personally I think they should have kept this R2 design and especially this version of Yoda. to Movies by skallas |
| Friday Oct 6, 2000 | Chicago residents can access the police department's crime database just by typing in their address and viewing a neighborhood map outlining which crimes happened where. to Web by skallas |
| Now that we've shown Europe that we don't always have to be 20 years behind everyone else with the legalization of RU486, how about we show our progressive spirit by handing these anti-rape devices out along with free condoms? Variations on the same theme can be found with some other patents too. to Sex by skallas |
| Wednesday Oct 4, 2000 | Sure there are lots of great ways to lose weight, but why are these attractive people trying to gain 30lbs in 30 days? to Health by skallas |
| Tuesday Oct 3, 2000 | VR pioneer Jaron Lanier trashes AI and futurists admitting that the quality of code can never keep up with the advancement of hardware and that the belief in AI is currently producing anti-intuitive and hard to use software. The full manifesto is on Edge.org. to Computing by skallas |
| Great CGI of what the seven wonders of the ancient world probably looked like in their prime. Best of all, most of the images support 3-D glasses.
to History by skallas |
| Antebios is an original and exciting computer generated sci-fi movie that was surprisingly made on Windows NT 4.0. to Movies by skallas |
| Precious Moments for hipsters. to Art by skallas |
| Angst ridden Mark Driver has cynical yet very perceptive views on roommates, proper diet, homosexuality, and of course government. to Web by skallas |
| Monday Oct 2, 2000 | So you've already registered to vote, but do you know how the Electoral College works and how easily they can ignore twenty million third party votes?
to Politics by skallas |
| Saturday Sep 30, 2000 | Mind Machines are what you get when you cross meditation and technology. Most work off the simple concepts of binaural beats and the frequency following response. You can also get your very own shareware binaural beat generator to play around with.
to Gadgets by skallas |
| Short but very interesting documentary on a little known haunted house near Chicago and one man's obsession with it. It also contains some ambigious, but interesting ghost photography. Its nearing Halloween, scared yet?
to Occult by skallas |
| Thursday Sep 28, 2000 | A great bunch of ghost photographs from Chicago ghost hunter Dale Kaczmarek.
to Photography by skallas |
| Wednesday Sep 27, 2000 | Looks like the US is falling behind in the race to promote milk. Perhaps we need a new spokesperson. Then again, why are we trying so hard to push this product? Perhaps drinking something designed for a baby calf may not be the safest thing in the world.
to Food by skallas |
| Sure, everyone wants to win an Olympic medal, but how does a 1936 Berlin medal covered in swastikas grab you?
to Sports by skallas |
| Monday Sep 25, 2000 | Start faking email right now. Or you can get really technical and learn about remailers and SMTP. to Web by skallas |
| Phil Donahue hits the nail directly on the head with his Nader in the debates essay, where hopefully we'll see more speech like this. Maybe he'll invite me to his Nader Houseparty. to Politics by skallas |
| This shockwave movie shouldn't be on the official Nike webpage, but I'm glad it is. to Commerce by skallas |
| Sunday Sep 24, 2000 | We're getting this much closer to our Dick Tracy fantasy watch. to Gadgets by skallas |
| Saturday Sep 23, 2000 | The high priests of The Church of Celebrity have to be the official celebrity photographers, who are slightly less scum than the average paparazzi. to Photography by skallas |
| Friday Sep 22, 2000 | Death by LSD flashback, the evils of TV's Bewitched, and hippies all presented by uber-nut Jack T. Chick. to Wackos by skallas |
| Okay so you've tried the great spamming personality test from thespark.com, but have you tested your spatial IQ test lately? Or perhaps what job would you have had in Medieval Times, because they're hiring. to Web by skallas |
| Sunday Sep 17, 2000 | Why bother opting out of ad banner tracking when you can simply block most ads with one windows file? Or if you're especially computer savvy you can try Junkbuster, which will block both ads and cookies. Its amazing how much faster dial-up browsing is when you're not constantly downloading ads. to Web by skallas |
| Friday Sep 15, 2000 | When Hello-Kitty like bears attack children, especially under unsuspecting and innocent circumstances. to Art by skallas |
| Watch complete strangers sleep via Anacam or wait patiently for people to use the can. I think whichever one you pick tells a lot about you. to Web by skallas |
| Monday Sep 4, 2000 | Unfortunately, this is what happens when you can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality. Especially if you're the type that sits around waiting for computers to magically become self-aware. Failed technological predictions are nothing new, especially for uber-nerd A.C. Clarke. to Wackos by skallas |
| Sunday Sep 3, 2000 | Pets on Wheels is a program that helps get dogs and cats into the lives of people stuck in wheelchairs. On the other hand, Eddie's Wheels is a company that sells wheelchairs for pets. to Pets by skallas |
| Thursday Aug 31, 2000 | Space debris that survives reentry is a scary thing. Luckily, no one's been killed, but someone has been hit. to Science by skallas |
| What history could have been if we gave up on violence and embraced music.
to Art by skallas |
| Wednesday Aug 30, 2000 | Orson Welles' frequent cheesy commercial voice-overs didn't always go well.
to Television by skallas |
| The pathetic and very sexually frustrating quest to build a female android continues unabated. Even academia can't resist bringing V.I.C.I. to life.
to Wackos by skallas |
| Thursday Aug 24, 2000 | Enjoy the great gallery of toy robots from the fine people at the Museum of Ephemeral Cultural Artifacts. I can't decide which robot is weirder: the strangely effeminate Sparky or Electric Robot and Son. That's right -- a robot with a diaper wearing son.
to Robotics by skallas |
| Tuesday Aug 22, 2000 | Commercials for Ambien, a new sleeping pill, are on heavy rotation on late night TV, yet they suspiciously don't mention side-effects like intense hallucinations that many people, including myself, have had.
to Drugs by skallas |
| Sunday Aug 20, 2000 | ilovebacon.com is a great repository for hilarious and x-rated media, I'm especially taken by Ron and Nancy advocating drug use. to Humor by skallas |
| Saturday Aug 19, 2000 | Boxlor is a sensitive yet bad-tempered boy with a box stuck on his head trying to find his way in the world. to Humor by skallas |
| Try criticizing big business without getting sued. I'm sure the Credit Card Bill of Rights had nothing to do with this. to Politics by skallas |
| Thursday Aug 17, 2000 | I'm happy to know I'm not the only person who hates User Friendly, yet I'm careful not to fall into a Cliff Yablonski hate spiral. to Comics by skallas |
| The short film 405 is simply billed as, "2 guys, 6 computers, and 3 months of rendering time" and worth the watch. If short films aren't your thing, try sitting through the almost 1 hour parody of The Matrix. to Movies by skallas |
| Monday Aug 14, 2000 | Interested in reading Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Dead Beauty Queen or viewing some hilarious intellectual property propaganda posters? Try the Modern Humorist, that is after you've read The Onion. to Humor by skallas |
| The very strange and true story of Typhoid Mary, who may have caused up to 50 deaths most of which with the full knowledge she was carrying salmonella typhi. to Health by skallas |
| Sunday Aug 13, 2000 | Advice from clowns on how to deal with kids who are deathly afraid of them. Which must be a pretty deep seated fear considering there's at least one Clownophobics anonymous program and a site which collects negative clown experiences. Clownz.com is a nice resource for anti-clown activity including a hilarious article on a newspaper choosing John Wayne Gacy's clown photo for promoting Clown Week. to Art by skallas |
| Saturday Aug 12, 2000 | Stargeeks is a hilarious and well-produced short film about two Star Wars fanatics on their way to the premier of Phantom Menace. Its worth watching just for the militant trekkie bad guys and the matching Han Solo outfits. to Movies by skallas |
| Do you know what you're really buying into when you buy Nike and Disney products? Interested in shopping with socially and environmentally responsible companies? Try the Greenpages.
to Economics by skallas |
| Why only pseudoskeptics take CSICOP seriously, as exposed by ex-CSICOP officer Dennis Rawlins when investigating the controversial Mars Effect. to Science by skallas |
| Friday Aug 11, 2000 | Exactly why Ralph Nader is running for president and don't miss his great Visa-parody TV commercial. to Politics by skallas |
| 60's astronaut Gordon Cooper has been accusing the U.S. government of a UFO coverup for years. Maybe a trained fighter-pilot just can't tell the difference between something out of the ordinary and a weather balloon.
to Conspiracy by skallas |
| Thursday Aug 10, 2000 | Eventually this had to happen, mix one part Linux hysteria and two parts geeks with nothing better to do and you have text-mode Quake. to Games by skallas |
| Facial surgery helps transsexuals "pass" from the neck up, with sometimes amazing and, lets face it, sexy results. Here's some of the same procedures with less dramatic results and photos that show the interim healing process. to Science by skallas |
| Wednesday Aug 9, 2000 | Writing pop songs for guitar is really this easy. Its exactly what your musician friends you're so jealous of do, at least at first.
to Music by skallas |
| Tuesday Aug 8, 2000 | This obviously inflammatory and ghostwritten speech by Courtney Love has become an internet staple when discussing the music industry, while Steve Albini's superior and much more informative essay is largely ignored. to Music by skallas |
| Monday Aug 7, 2000 | Improvisation meets Manga at Impromanga where amateur illustrators collaborate on various comic book story arcs in the popular Japanese Anime style. I especially like the "consciousness in the machine" story Animate Objects.
to Art by skallas |
| Enter the strange world of the only helpful computer virus. After copying itself to your drives and floppies it nicely asks if you'd like to encrypt your data using the IDEA encryption alogrithm. Its friendly but its not free, you can buy it here for ten dollars. to Computing by skallas |
| Sunday Aug 6, 2000 | Challenge scientific materialism in your spare time with this remote psychokineses experiment hosted by the Koestler Parapsychology Unit. to Science by skallas |
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