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| Sunday Apr 16, 2000 | Tetris is more than just a game. Especially at fourteen stories high. to Art by eclipse |
| As someone with a morbid fascination for interpersonal virtual train
wrecks, I thought Usenet was a good place for me. Boy, have I
been missing out! to Wackos by dha |
| There are some things in this world that I don't patronize, but am nontheless happy to know exist. These things include opera, good cigars, fine scotch, and Loompanics.
Perhaps the most way-out book catalog on Earth, Loompanics has books about bombs, sex, subversion, drugs, locks, murder, privacy, anarchism, law, taxes, and all manner of things you Ought Not To Know.
In addition, there are a few articles of interest that appear in the physical catalog to wet your appetite.
to Commerce by urog |
| Mac users! Bummed out by all your PC-using friends constantly telling you how great Napster is? Well, here's what you've been looking for! to Music by riffraff |
| Myths, legends, bunk, snake-oil, and disinformation abound. If eternal vigilance is the price of freedom, then skepticism is hard currency indeed. The famous Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) was founded by The Amazing Randi, former magician and the most public of the debunkers. A page off the Discordian Society's home (a story unto itself) contains a well organized collection of skeptics links. The Skeptic Web Ring can direct you to over 118 sites on the subject. Skeptic Magazine is the official journal of the Skeptic Society. The Skeptic's Dictionary is also an excellent place to find answers for specific questions.
to Rumor by urog |
| I recall many people, when I was a child, maligning and pillorying Vanessa Redgrave. Three are, however, other perspectives. The true story is a lot more interesting, and says a lot about how ignorant pigfuckers can effectively spread libel and distort the truth.
to Movies by peterb |
| In 1949 David Bourland responded to the perennial problems of the verb "to be" by suggesting that we remove it completely from the language. Although it sounds like a moronically simple change, E-Prime (English without the being verb) results in dramatically improved clarity of communication, making the agent-hiding passive voice almost impossible, reducing hidden assumptions, and removing illusions of immutability. The massive unpopularity of E-Prime suggests that the true, unspoken purpose of language is usually not to inform but manipulate. to Linguistics by cricket |
| Visiting California any time soon? Or maybe just trying to seduce some astrology chick?
Learn how to talk New Age.
to Humor by monde |
| Can't figure out what's really going on at the IMF protests in downtown Washington, DC? Having trouble reading between the lines in AP and Reuters feeds? No problem. The A16 event, as it is so named, is well covered by its participants. The Mobilization for Global Justice is the primary organizer of the protest, with outspoken populist Michael Moore leading the charge. Similarly, the Direct Action Network (DAN) is an interest group that emerged from the Seattle WTO protests. Corporate Watch can tell you the role of the man in all of this. Independent Media Center is a (currently overloaded) depot for independent journalists working (and getting arrested at) the A16 protest, containing articles, pictures, audio, and videos from the site. And, to place historical perspective on all of this, Z-Magazine is your one-stop shop for indepdent news and opinions. to Media by urog |
| It's mind-boggling just how graphically homogenous this world is becoming: for instance, the number of company logos that contain this shape is incredibly large. (And while I'm on that page, and on that subject, what is it with this orange thing? Now it's the year 2000 and suddenly everywhere I look on the web there's orange.) to Culture by monde |
| Saturday Apr 15, 2000 | While some blame the dramatic decline in life expectancy of Russian citizens on vodka or deep-seated structural problems in modern Russian society, I place the blame squarely on the shoulder of the horrible-looking Palms' Potted Meat. to Food by pjammer |
| Since the rollover, netslaves has changed from a sporadically-updated site about dot-economy horror stories to an angry view-from-the-trenches view of the high-tech sector. to Web by mpc |
| Friday Apr 14, 2000 | Memepool music test: Who is Barbie's friend? DJ Christopher Lawrence
or DJ Blaine?
to Music by gen |
| Here's some experiences from an American marrying in Japan, and some informal surveys he did on the topic. to Culture by mpc |
| As a follow up to the interracial dating article, the U.S. Navy commissioned a very informative study on Asians in America, trying to separate myth from reality. to Culture by peterb |
| Thursday Apr 13, 2000 | Kaliber 10000, the "designer's lunchbox", is just so well-done it scares me. This webzine created by two young Denmark artists and their many talented friends occupied my teensy attention span for longer than an hour...current content includes a huge archive of desktop screenshots, a Flashtoon called Cellular Automata Man and a sort of übermetaphorical subway station.
to Web by monde |
| Moreover is a meta-newsroom linking hundreds of newswires from around the world into an XML-based webfeed system which users can either read, or have shunted to their own sites for free. Configure your prefs to view your pick of hundreds of different categories (unlike most portals they thought well enough to include one called Offbeat.)
to Web by monde |
| Although the exhortations of wacky bible-belt institutions impede intelligent discussion on the topic, interracial dating is an unresolved and emotionally charged issue worth thinking about. Why, for instance, are Asian men and Black women so unhappy with interracial relationships? One of the most thoughtful essays on this powderkeg is Steve Sailer's feature column in National Review entitled Is Love Colorblind? to Commentary by pjammer |
| The appropriately-named domain weirdart.com is home to Timothy Patrick Butler, who does some very twisted things with his inkpen. I think he and R.S. Connett (creator of Vomitus Maximus) may have been separated at birth. (And they both live in my home city of San Francisco...further testament to the notion that there's got to be something in the air here that makes for a large proportion of twistedly talented people. ) to Art by monde |
| Wednesday Apr 12, 2000 | Clearly, the need for data acquisition has gone much too far.
to Gadgets by dha |
| "With the advent of comprehensive e-commerce solutions, we have been able to demonstrate a distribution system to communities that not only allays fears about criminality, but also guarantees that users can enjoy our products safely and responsibly." Books? CDs? Nope. Dope.
It's iToke. And it's at least quasi legal. to Commerce by elder |
| Tuesday Apr 11, 2000 | SpinCircuit - design and build your own electronic components online. to Computing by faisal |
| ThreeJane3 Productions:
Disturbing toys for disturbed people. to Art by riffraff |
| Monday Apr 10, 2000 | Finally! I can look at non-objectified hot chicks while doing my calculus assignment! Wait...is that a good thing? to Science by succa |
| Mythos Games, the evil masterminds responsible for so much sleep deprivation from the X-Com series, have released a bunch of their older games for download. You'll need either a Sinclair Spectrum or an emulator, though. to Games by nyarl |
| Finally! Yet another outlet for random complaints! Beefnut - from the people who bring
you Goats, showing, yet again, that
idle hands really are the Devil's playground. to Commentary by dha |
| Warren Ellis, the coolest, smartest,
bitterest (is that a word?), and most vocal writer in comics today, currently
has a weekly column
at comicbookresources.com, but more
importantly, has just started a serialized online comic (illustrated by Jason Alexander), entitled
Bad Places.
Check it out at Reactor! to Comics by riffraff |
| Sunday Apr 9, 2000 | I can't possibly be the only admirer of Jim Henson. Ahhh, muppets of all shapes, sizes, and colors. to Culture by djinn |
| Saturday Apr 8, 2000 | You can Mr. T'inate any URL you want, even www.memepool.com! Crazy Foo! to Web by stimpy |
| 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 |
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