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| Friday Apr 28, 2000 | Miss Abigail has an interesting idea. Answering questions by pulling selections from books of advice, some dating back to the 1820's. She tackles everything from body odor to sex to eating chicken. to Web by keith |
| "Were there gay
vikings?" The web proves that for every question, there is
an expert.
to Education by riotnrrd |
| Eat dangerously is what you get when you cross a Julia Child-esque zest for food with the irreverent writing of Maxim magazine. There's much to do, such as learning how to properly cook (torture) your lobster, or experiencing the sensuality of fondling fresh raw squid. My favorite recipe thought has to be the turkey from hell. to Food by reid |
| Thursday Apr 27, 2000 | Glenn Gould Interviews Glenn Gould About Glenn Gould, among other things by and about the great Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. to Music by borges |
| What better way to round out your day than with a few psychological tests! Find out how biased, smart, or insane you are. to Science by kier |
| It's a whole thing now with people asking me about
the word
"mook" and what it means.
Mook this,
mook that,
mook
mook
mook
mook.
Well, I says you pays your money you takes your chance, you use your word, you picks the meaning.
As Bob Murphy used to say, "they're not booing, they're yelling Mooooooookie, MOOOOOOkie, Mookie!!" to Linguistics by sburke |
| My new favorite web comic is Catatonic Comix! Especially what I, inveterate 1970's comic book reader, think of as the Hostess Fruit Pies strip. to Comics by peterb |
| Erratic Nasdaq got the Mark Barton in you amped? But "going postal" is just too 90's for you? Try the Knob Creek Machine Gun Range on for size. to Warfare by robray |
| The Chook Corporation seems too elaborate to beyet another irony-age hoax and too naive to be a slick ounce of corporate propaganda. This page is ridiculously odd for a firm ostensibly engaged in the culture rackets. I'm not sure whether Chook is trafficking in a witty parody of e-commerce or earnestly bizarre self-parody.
to Commerce by aleph |
| Wanna see what some mook of a marketing/demograhics agency thinks of people in your zipcode? Go have a look-see at the aptly-named
MicroVision lifestyle game!. Just feed in
your zipcode and an email address that is, to say the least, not checked for validity, and see what generalizations pop out.
My zipcode reportedly has a plurality of "very low income young single adults with young children" who "smoke 9 or more cigarette packs per week" and "don't know the amount of money needed to retire comfortably". Wow, this is even more accurate than calling my Psychic Friend! to Economics by sburke |
| So, someone asked me recently what you call a group of ravens. So, I went looking. I found an answer at About.com, which is that they are called an unkindness, a constable, or a conspiracy. But then someone else asked me what one calls a group of rabbits. So, I found some other resources, like a much more general list amongst the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center FAQ, an educational quiz about animal group names (they also have one for baby animal names), and
a less than serious list.
to Reference by keith |
| Readers who loved Ender's Shadow will be happy to know Orson Scott Card won't make readers wait another decade for more stories from Battle School alumni. Shadow of the Hegemon is scheduled to be released in January 2001 - and, like its predecesor, its first five chapters can be read online. In related news, Jake (Anakin Skywalker) Lloyd has agreed to sign on to a movie adaptation of Ender's Game once the script is greenlighted by a studio. to Books by pjammer |
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Planetarium is a free web story and puzzle. I like it. to Games by keith |
| My favorite chocolate in the world is Callebaut bittersweet. You can get it in these stupidly large 5 kilogram "bars," although calling this thing a "bar" is like calling the Titanic a rowboat. The hypererotic Chocolate Reviews site reviews Callebaut and others. Now I have to try Valrhona Noir Amer. to Food by peterb |
| Wednesday Apr 26, 2000 | I work in the technical support area of an ISP, which means I get
some really odd calls.
to Computing by rampage |
| Why on earth would you want to shoot any one with a gun when
you could use something little less lethal.
to Gadgets by rampage |
| Ever wonder what would happen if you could Ask Jesus?
More importantly, what if you could Jesus-ify a website?
to Religion by rampage |
| I scoff at mainstream gamer sites like Blue's News. Although nutty Web comic strips may
sometimes fulfill my dorky video gaming news needs, when I really need the
crispity, crunchity goodness of Real Gaming News, I take a big bite out of the Gaming Intelligence Agency.
From singing, dancing Crack Rabbits to grinning, psychotic monkeys with maracas, the GIA is
keeping a watchful eye on the best gaming goodness straight from the Land of the Rising Sun.
to Games by che |
| Since 1996, Derek's been putting every last one of his Wal-Mart receipts on the web. The best part are the visitor comments on each receipt. to Wackos by joshua |
| The Flying Circus is an excellent compendium on Genetic Algorithms, including tutorials, demos for various platforms, and movies. to Computing by joshua |
| Scott Snibe has produced several interesting art pieces involving computer algorithms such as Voronoi Diagrams. Two of his earlier works, Gravilux and Motion Sketch are reproduced as java applets and are quite amusing to play with. to Art by joshua |
| Ordinary people
lose ordinary stuff.
Astronomers, however, sometimes
lose
whole moons.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| If you're going to be in Minneapolis any time soon, make sure to pick
up a free copy of the
Hugo Award nominated(!)
Minicon restuarant guide,
written by fan volunteers for a recent convention.
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Artifical intelligence technology can be applied to many fields of life, from commerce, to social simulations (telnet required), to making sex-crazed teenagers look really pathetic. to Computing by kier |
| If there's one thing that warms my blackened, putrid heart, it's informed bashing of California and all it stands for. to Culture by mpc |
| Tuesday Apr 25, 2000 | Guys: ever wanted to grow your hair out long but weren't sure how to go about doing it? The nice thing about the Internet is that there's a FAQ for everything.
to Fashion by kier |
| Reporters throughout Texas have difficulty sleeping at night in mortal fear that this man will hack their story. to Media by joshua |
| The Japanese have made some great (and not-so-great) contributions to society. The capsule hotel, for instance. to Culture by kier |
| After Death Communications specialist Christine Toomey is helping us to pierce the veil of death and speak with both Princess Diana and, of course, Chris Farley. Future projects are under construction, and investors may wish to help spread the light. For now, Di has graciously agreed to provide a newsletter. to Wackos by fringehead |
| It may be a personal home page, but it's also art and social commentary that embraces the limitations of the Web medium. That is languid. to Art by borges |
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