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| Saturday Apr 8, 2000 | New York Times language guru William Safire recommended thisisnotthat.com in his On Language column in ... well, tomorrow's paper. Except there's a small typo in the column which might leave you high and dry, as it were. to Linguistics by djinn |
| John Cletheroe offers a sizable guide for British traveling in the United States or Canada. Looking at your own country through another's eyes is always an interesting experience, especially given Vocabulary Issues. Still, I'm somewhat confused by the fascination with Taco Bell.
to Travel by mpc |
| Friday Apr 7, 2000 | James H. Vipond is a very, very special man.
Not only is he "the Web's premier fan" of Small Wonder and Concentration, but he also
writes, produces, and illustrates (rendered in 3D, natch) Spectrum Force,
"a new, ethnically diverse team of evangelical Christian crimefighters".
And if that isn't enough, baby, he's planning an animated television series, Minerva Walker. "She's black, she's stacked, and she can take the flak!" -- watch out, Tarantino, there's a new boy in town. to Wackos by che |
| The first Lord of the Rings trailer, in a saveable, rewatchable format. Whee! to Movies by stimpy |
| "The sun is a mass of incandescent gas..." Who wrote it?
BZZZZT! WRONG!
Hy
Zaret
and Lou Singer, that's who -- already world-famous
for their hit ballad,
"One Meatball".
Back in
1975,
I was already listening to
"Why
Does the Sun Shine?"
and other
Ballads
For The Age Of Science.
The albums were fifteen years old then,
and I played them
on a horrible little record player whose stylus
was probably made of
tin.
And that's why I'm the dot-com millionaire I am today.
to Science by belford |
| You're a single, dot-com gazillionaire, trying to spend all your inflated stock options before they crash back to earth. Sure you can hire some modestly attractive escort to get your rocks off. But why do that when, a few dollars more, you can get yourself an Educated Escort, who provides entertaining pillow talk after the deed? to Sex by pjammer |
| For those of you military buffs who wonder just
what the hell
those
coloured bars on Army uniforms mean, you can find them
(and lots of other badge tidbits) at the U.S. Army
Institute
of Heraldry page. And if you ever find yourself in
Yugoslavia
wondering if you're at the other end of a gun from a
mladji vodnik or a potpukovnik, you'll be
glad I told you about Rank
Insignia of the World.
to Reference by sck |
| Thursday Apr 6, 2000 | Hey, when did opera posters get so, um, interesting? to Art by boneyard |
| Flash plus vomit equals Puking Maria.
to Humor by imploded |
| Wednesday Apr 5, 2000 | Meet Rusty. Rusty is a homosexual. to Humor by succa |
| Ok, so there's this computer... product?... called Creatures. There have actually been three versions, but they all share the same fundamental concept: You raise these little guys called norns, teaching them good manners and the like. They're pretty cute; so cute, in fact, that people seem to love them as if they were real. As a testment to that, we have:
Fan fiction,
Desktop themes,
Stationery,
and, of course, there are always the sadists in the group.
to Pets by avi |
| xbattle was one of the grand old Unix/X11 games, up there with
netrek and
xpilot.
This
beautifully abstract and fun game has been
resurrected as ebattle, a networked Windows version. I miss the
old school graphics, though. to Games by nelson |
| Alternative schooling has been around for a while. Summerhill, established near Dresden way back in 1921, is perhaps the most well-known of its kind, and was the inspration for much that has come since. More recently, the Sudbury Valley School (founded in Massachusetts in 1968,) developed a philosophy called demoractic (or "free") schooling, which has been adopted by schools all over the world, including institutions in California, Australia, Denmark and Maui.
to Education by avi |
| What do you get when you put Jim "Belly" Crotty, Mike, a macintosh computer and numerous cats together in a small car? You get Monk. to Culture by avi |
| If you have some social problems like I do, and enjoyed the exploits in 1997 of the two criminals otherwise referred to as the North Hollywood Bank Robbers, you might be interested in some action figures from 21st Century Toys. I'm specifically pointing out the two Kevlar-clad figures in the Villians series, though maybe I'm just imagining the striking similarities. And while I'm on the subject of deadly action figures, obsessive fans of 21st Century Toys figures are pretty big on building dioramas, in which their toys act out training routines, situations with deadly, bloody consequences, or experience time travel (?) Some fans even build website "shrines" to their favorite little soldier toys. to Warfare by mrradon |
| There's a
fine line
between being a
collector
and being
obsessive-compulsive.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Apr 4, 2000 | And to round out this evening's symposium, here's a very nice page devoted to that Eliot of Emmenthal, the Milton of Mozzarella, Cheddar's own Chaucer: James McIntyre, author of the immortal Ode On The Mammoth Cheese! to Literature by mpc |
| One of the unintentionally funniest poets in American history, a favorite of Mark Twain, was Julia A. Moore (1847-1920), "The Sweet Singer Of Michigan" (self-described, I believe). She wrote on many varied topics, mostly involving death: by plagues, disasters, usually involving adorable children with odd names, and with circumstances as unusual aschoking on a piece of beef. Of course, in this era somebody would provide a web based archive of her work.
to Literature by mpc |
| Anytime I'm feeling depressed and lonely, I just read some bad gothic poetry and that CHEERS ME RIGHT UP. to Literature by mpc |
| Although I'm quite fond of dogs, the only pet I've ever had is a gerbil .
I'm so glad my favorite rodent appears to be a deity. It's
also
cool that it seems to have bestowed its blessing on the Satanic Hamster
Dance, although I'm not so sure about the Lime Jello... to Religion by dha |
| Some people lust after Gillian Anderson. Some people lust after cherry pie. And yes, there are some who lust after both. to Web by eclipse |
| Some people have gotten amazingly creative with The Sims. Now here's a public service announcement.
to Games by eclipse |
| There are some people who like
rubber chickens, and then there are
some people who
really like rubber chickens.
to Humor by laurel |
| IDcide tells you when you may have entered a "cookie tracking network" by alerting you when you are recieving cookies from the site you are currently not visiting. (Unfortunately, it only works for Internet Explorer under Windows.) to Computing by joshua |
| Most web ad-busting rely on a proxy between your browser and the world, but it is also possible to filter out those annoying banner ads with a neat hack. to Computing by joshua |
| Please God, do not allow some superfly
Indonesian gigolo
become the next Mahir.
to Wackos by xrayjones |
| Absinthe, that old contraband, favored by the likes of Ernest Hemmingway and Aleister Crowley and containing the neurotoxin thujone, is once again becoming popular with increasing legalization, and now has a number of excellent resources available regarding its history, rituals and paraphernalia,and procurement.
to Drugs by joshua |
| It looks like we're all going to hell (in a handbasket) -- not only have they condemned peace signs and yin yangs, Pokemon, Christmas, and most good music, but even the relatively innocuous Backstreet Boys are a satanic influence these days. to Religion by djinn |
| Slow Wave is a collective dream diary authored by different people from around the world, and drawn as a comic strip. to Comics by joshua |
| The Happy Scotsman's Page
O' Kilt Liftin' Fun includes a page o' fun things to do with
monkeys
and why both Americans and Canadians are
retards.
to Humor by laurel |
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