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| Tuesday Nov 5, 2002 | Ever been to a really bad wedding?
It could be
worse ... much, much worse.
All this and more at
Etiquette Hell.
to Society by tjs |
| Friday Jun 8, 2001 | Why does anyone use The Weather Channel's
weather.com?
It's annoying for the same reasons as
moviephone,
just not as bad.
Yahoo! has
a much more restrained and useful
weather service
(and better
movie times, too),
but the Weather Underground
is better still.
They seem to actually want to tell you about the
weather, not sell ad space.
They've even kept the old UMich
telnet service
running---no banner ads!
But what do you expect from people
who name themselves after a bunch of
wacko
Communists?
to Web by tjs |
| Saturday May 5, 2001 | I just watched
61*,
a movie about
Roger
Maris'
1961
home run record. It's
good,
but it's on
HBO,
so it's not getting the
usual
endless
promotion.
Of course, I ignored baseball as a kid,
and was annoyed by the
1994 strike,
so
baseball reference sites
are invaluable for catching up.
to Sports by tjs |
| Tuesday Apr 17, 2001 | Know C, the programming language?
How about
Duff's
Device?
(This article should scare C programmers for
reasons only C programmers understand, and everyone
else for reasons C programmers just don't understand.)
to Computing by tjs |
| Williams,
manufacturer of the best pinball
machines in the '90s,
stopped
about 18 months ago.
Pinball 2000
died before the end of 1999.
Now Williams makes slot machines.
But there's still hope:
Sega sold their pinball division. Now it's
Stern Pinball.
Familiar?
Remember Berzerk?
Same logo, same guys named Stern,
but it's all pinball now.
They've solicited
one of the best designers,
Pat Lawlor,
for an upcoming game.
Read up at the
Internet Pinball Database.
to Games by tjs |
| Monday Apr 17, 2000 | The Next Big Thing can be generated for you,
quickly and for free,
from this Startup Name Generator. No personal effort
required! (Note that this generator looks up
the likely domain name for your new company
saving you valuable time and effort.)
to Humor by tjs |
| Sunday Dec 19, 1999 |
csh programming considered harmful. Film at 11.
to Computing by tjs |
| In the category of geeky web-based comics, there's
User Friendly, where you can follow the
occasionally coherent life of Columbia Internet.
They hide the daily dose over
here.
to Comics by tjs |
| Anyone who watches movies at home should be aware
of
How Film Is Transferred to Video, so they can
understand whether to accept pan-and-scan or go off
looking for widescreen format. (My apologies that
this link doesn't involve naked inanimate objects
in suggestive poses; perhaps degenerate readers
can apply this to adult cinema.) to Movies by tjs |
| Tuesday Jul 27, 1999 | Yahoo! Movies
is a little like
Moviefone (the hell formerly known as
777-FILM) except that it doesn't suck.
Of course, if you're in Pittsburgh, PA, the easiest
thing to use of all is
This Week at Pittsburgh Cinemas.
to Movies by tjs |
| Friday Jul 23, 1999 | Funagain Games resells games: new games and
recycled games. New games get sold at discounts.
Old games get sold at bigger discounts.
And how many other places have Trivial Pursuit
in stock?
to Games by tjs |
| Wednesday Apr 14, 1999 | The Hollywood Stock Exchange is dedicated to
the idea that people aren't obsessive enough
about how much money movies make.
It's a stock market where the stocks are movies,
and are valued based on how much money they make
at the box office. Sure, it's nothing like a
real stock market, but it's still fun.
to Games by tjs |
| Japanese Beetle:
Comic Strip from College Paper Hits the Web.
Film at 11.
to Comics by tjs |
| Tuesday Mar 9, 1999 | Looking to move?
Apartments.com
has a list of apartments with floorplans, prices,
pictures,
and lots of other random information you just
can't get from classified ads.
to Commerce by tjs |
| Tuesday Feb 9, 1999 | Read all about
Karl's Battle with the IRS--what comes from
trying to actually find the laws that make
income tax work.
to Wackos by tjs |
| Knight Rider: because bad 80's TV will
survive in reruns, fandom, and crappy remakes
forever.
to Television by tjs |
| bsy's List of Internet Accessible Coke Machines,
in case you're curious just how wired grad students
in Pittsburgh are.
to Computing by tjs |
| MST3K fans: Joel's still alive and hanging out
at
Joel's Gizmonic Antsite.
to Television by tjs |
| Looking for Unix software?
Try the
comp.sources.unix archive.
to Computing by tjs |
| Tuesday Jan 26, 1999 | Need something stupid, annoying, and out of
style? Try
Clickable Beavis. to Art by tjs |
| You've just heard about a horrible disaster.
Ten people killed. It's sad, sure, but just
how was it? Well, check out the
Killing Spree Scoring System and rate it
against previous massacres.
to Humor by tjs |
| For all you maladjusted Unix-using freaks out
there, there's
XEvil:
because violence should be senseless.
(Kill your parents. Run with scissors.)
to Games by tjs |
| Friday Jan 8, 1999 | So have you seen the new
Starr Wars
poster yet?
to Humor by tjs |
| Thursday Dec 3, 1998 | Amazing, alarming, surprising, and free:
Siag is an "Office" package for Linux
that looks nice, yet builds using standard Unix
tools and doesn't cost a dime. You might not
notice that it has a Scheme backend.
"Siag Office - It Sucks Less!"
to Computing by tjs |
| Wednesday Dec 2, 1998 | Exploring the Internet is a somewhat dated
book about networks, OSI, ISO, ITU, and lots of
other scary TLAs--with a cameo by Motorhead and
other assorted amusements.
to Computing by tjs |
| Friday Oct 30, 1998 | The Movie Review Query Engine
is one of the most useful sites on the web
for finding out just how good (or bad)
Godzilla (1998) is.
to Movies by tjs |
| Possibly bullshit, definitely entertaining:
The Story of the Rocket Car in the Cliff.
It could be the real origin of the Darwin Award
story... or it could be still another complete
fabrication. Either way, it's funny. to Humor by tjs |
| Red Meat is a very strange comic strip
featuring people who make dysfunctional a
way of life.
to Comics by tjs |
| Dennis Ritchie is credited with the C
programming language, along with Unix.
If you have anything to do with computers, you
know what those are. He has a substantial
collection of many, many things related to C
and Unix; while not overly funny, they're damn
useful.
to Computing by tjs |
| Jamie Zawinski has a
caller-id hack that sounds cool
(although admittedly half-baked). Maybe it's time to buy
some excessive hardware at my place.
to Computing by tjs |
| Tuesday Sep 29, 1998 | Spinnwebe
is a web server with unique content including
"It's a Dysfunctional Life", the Nipple Server,
the Mystic 9-Ball, and the ever popular
Dysfunctional Family Circus.
to Web by tjs |
| Jesus of the Week: When you need an unusual
picture of the Savior, look here. Contains a
complete archive of previous weeks!
to Religion by tjs |
| UNIXUX is a collection of,
well, stuff, mostly derived from the Unix-Haters
mailing list (which begat the Unix Haters handbook).
If Unix is giving you a bad day (or month or year)
then this is worth reading.
to Games by tjs |
| Monday Sep 28, 1998 | Cheapass Games
is a game company with a slightly different approach:
instead of making expensive games with lots of
frivilous pieces, they make really cheap games,
then get you to get the pieces somewhere else.
Some of the games are good, some aren't, but for $3,
you can't go very wrong.
to Games by tjs |
| LISP: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big
is a notorious paper containing the infamous
"Worse is Better" argument, an important read for
anyone wondering why all the good ideas never seem
to work out. to Computing by tjs |
| Sunday Sep 20, 1998 | The Principia Discordia or, How I Found
Goddess and What I Did To Her When I Found Her,
is availible on the web. Hail Eris!
to Wackos by tjs |
| Goats
is a comic about a couple computer geeks,
their goat, their chicken, their bar,
and their lousy luck with women. In other words,
it's about the kind of people who do things like
read web comics and collective bookmark sites,
except for the talking animals part.
to Comics by tjs |
| Argon Zark!
is probably one of the best-drawn comics on the
web. It is also one of the least frequently
updated.
to Comics by tjs |
| "Adventure" was the first "interactive fiction"
(text adventure)
game, still running on pretty much any computer
made these days. Some information on it can be
found on
The Colossal Cave Adventure Page. (Don
Woods' web page links to this one, so it is
perhaps as official as such things get.)
to Games by tjs |
| Just when you thought you were safely out of
the Great Underground Empire comes this
(non-official)
Infocom page, featuring documentation missing
from some of the re-releases and information on
how to get Zork I, II, and III data files
and interpreters to run them.
to Games by tjs |
| Sick of inspiration? Looking for attractive,
full-color ways to advertise the seven deadly
sins? Try Seven Deadly Motivational Posters.
to Art by tjs |
| Friday Sep 18, 1998 | Sluggy
Freelance could be the most important comic
in history, but it's not.
It is nifty, though.
to Comics by tjs |
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