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| Wednesday May 3, 2000 | Gerry Anderson has created more than his share of excellent geeklarvae TV, including Thunderbirds, UFO and my beloved Space 1999. Rodney Matthews, though sometimes dismissed as a Roger Dean wannabe (he's also done Yes covers and, okay, his fonts are too baroque to be legible), is a gifted, idiosyncratic artist who sold millions of his insectile sci-fi posters in the '70s and has since designed numerous record covers, book jackets and recently the (unfortunately crappy) Playstation/PC game Shadow Master. The two recently collaborated on a British TV show called Lavender Castle, which combines puppets, computer graphics and poetically beautiful design to bring to life a lushly illustrated children's fantasy. to Television by cricket |
| There are some sites that just reek of testosterone. US Cavalry is one of them. It's got everything from highly cool high-intensity lightsticks (perfect for the raver kid in your life!) to tools for the paranoid (how about a stun gun for the person afraid to walk alone?)
to big swords for people who like that sort of thing. On my birthday list is the Safari Vest and the Range Bag--perfect for the geek with a lot of stuff. No flowers or hearts here, no siree.
to Commerce by idat |
| Scientists calculate that over 83% of the internet is currently being used to transmit Wassup commercials; before contributing, you had better read some guidelines. to Culture by joshua |
| A long-time staple of
nuclear holocaust scenarios
and science fiction,
an
electromagnetic
pulse (EMP) is a powerful blast of
radio waves that can
cook
unsheilded electronics from
hundreds of miles away. Of course, anything this
potentially
destructive will be
heavily researched by the
military, but
adventerous tinkerers can
explore
the wonderful world of directed energy weapons at home, without the
need for a
multi-billion dollar budget.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Note to self: remember to add SinFest to daily list of on-line comics to be read. It's sort of vaguely like God, the Devil, and Bob except it's funny. to Comics by keith |
| Bored at work? Draganfly has the remote control flying machines you need to keep yourself entertained by buzzing coworkers - start off with the basic flying saucer and graduate to tiny multi-rotor helicopters. Competitor Plantraco doesn't have the high end helicopter, but it does have a more versatile flying saucer as well as wacky "in action" and "as seen on tv" promotional video clips and a strange alien midget mascot named Hugo. to Gadgets by faisal |
| Tuesday May 2, 2000 | Today's online time-waster comes from the good folks at PimpWar. New to the world of wide-brimmed hats, gold chains and fur-lined lowriders? The Pimp's Bible tells you everything a neophyte pimp needs to know about manage his hoes, trading crack, ordering hits on rival pimps and forming alliances with other online playaz. to Games by pjammer |
| IDM stands for Intelligent Dance Music, but what I find most ironic about the term, is that most of the music I've run across that is given this term, is hardly music you could dance to. Usually there are beats, but often they are a bit too disjointed for dancing. And, it's not all just Autechre and F.S.O.L. For example, Saundart Recordings releases some vinyl and CDRs that are given descriptions as strange as song titles and band names. If you find this intriguing, read through posts at the IDM Newsbase. Recent postings toss out such things as links to IDM labels and distributors, or the fascinating Richard D. James Lyrics Transcription Resource Project. And if this isn't enough, join the IDM list and you'll be on top of the opinions and suggestions of hundreds of fans. to Music by mrradon |
| If the V-Chip were applied to the Bible, would Fundementalist Christians be so enthusiastic about supporting it? to Religion by pjammer |
| If you think you're good at puzzles, perhaps you should try your hand at solving the famous unsolved cryptograph first published in May, 1940. The author is Mr. W. B. Tyler, who may or may not be Edgar Allen Poe. to Games by keith |
| Despite the best intentions of your parents, teachers and school administrators, school often amounts to a cross between a prison and a wage-slave indoctrination center. Even those who perform well in school are saddled with a lifelong, toxic addiction to external validation. Don't surrender your childhood so easily! If you find school limiting, I urge you to explore the "unschooling" (or "homeschooling") movement. An excellent starting place is The Teenage Liberation Handbook; How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education, by Grace Llewellyn. (Yes, there are tips on how to sell your parents on the idea...)
to Education by cricket |
| Monday May 1, 2000 | Ever want to build your own model of a
large truss bridge
?
He even has a
Tcl script to aid in the design of it!
to Toys by shadow |
| Microsoft keeps asking "Where do you want to go today?", but we didn't think they meant Groom Dry Lake Air Force Base. Yes, you can now use the Microsoft sponsored TerraServer to explore satellite photos of everybody's favorite alleged alien research facility: Area 51. to Conspiracy by faisal |
| Just been dumped? Boss pass you over for a raise? Friend turning the big 30?
Send them some flowers. Some
dead flowers. to Humor by moose |
| Some of my fellow Memepoolers have mentioned the Universal
Life Church, folks who will ordain anyone just for the asking. Well thanks to the classified
ads in the back of the Globe supermarket tabloid (sorry, they don't have a web page yet!), I found
the Progressive Universal Life Church, who, with
lots more glitz and glamour (and a .com instead of a .org address), plus a small donation,
can bestow all sorts of
degrees and certificates, including the
Doctor of Philosophy in Religion,
their most prestigious degree, and the
Certified Tarot Advisor, their most popular psychic diploma! They also offer Ph.D.s in
such fields as Drug & Alcohol Counseling, Astral Projection, UFOlogy, and Exorcisms, all
based on your life experiences. And for an additional $15, you can get a
Press Card or a
Dashboard Plate stating you
are on official business as a Minister.
to Religion by moose |
| Unlike the low-capacity portable mp3 player, a number of companies are shipping home-based systems suitable for inclusion in a hi-fi stereo, such as Turtle Beach's Audiotron, the Kerbango, Lansonic's Digital Audio Server, and AudioRamp's iRad. to Music by joshua |
| Margaret
and
Walker
Keane's
"big eye"
paintings:
you've seen
them at
thrift stores
and
hanging in
trailer parks,
but I'll bet you didn't know
they're
collectable.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Early in the 19th century, a young
German man named
Kaspar Hauser was discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
Initally taken to prison, it was eventually discovered that,
for reasons unknown, he had been kept
in a dark dungeon since early childhood, and denied any senosry input or
human contact. Conspiracy theories
were as popular then as they are now,
and it was a belief of many that he was the
the lost son of the
Grand Duke of Baden,
hidden away by political rivals.
Passing from caretaker to caretaker, Kaspar eventually
learned to read and speak, and became a celebrity; famous not
only for his mysterious origin, but also for his
innocence and
"christ-like
compassion". At the age of 21, however, he was assissinated
and his true origins never discovered. His story lives on, though, in a recent
play
as well a
movie by Werner Herzog.
to History by riotnrrd |
| So what, exactly, does it cost to live on Manhattan's tony Upper East Side? Keeping up with the neighbors is expensive. And if you're rich enough to live like that, your will might end up for sale on Wills of the Rich and Famous. to Culture by idat |
| Happy May Day! to History by boneyard |
| RSA-129,
distributed.net, and SETI@home showed that
we could use the Internet to do big computations.
Electric Sheep uses this paradigm to make beautiful screensavers for you. Now,
Popular Power is a company
distributing clients that harness your idle computer resources to do
distributed processing.
to Computing by nelson |
| As best as we can guess, Bam-b is a site dedicated to rendered alien propagation. We're not sure. We have no idea. But it's cool. We think.
to Sex by faisal |
| Sunday Apr 30, 2000 | I'm was unsurprised to run across a Molecule of the Month page (and I enjoyed finding the page of molecules with silly or unusual names). But I was a little surprised to learn that there are a total of five Molecule
of
the
Month pages.
to Science by keith |
| HyperHistory Online is an interesting way to look at an overview of history. It may lack a little bit of depth in quite a number of places, but it's got quite a lot of breadth. to History by keith |
| The 404 Research Lab has a motto: "All errors...all the time." Here, you can see some of the more interesting 404 pages to grace the web. Plus: instructions that will help you to end 404 problems for visitors or at least create your own custom 404 for them to see when they try to hit a nonexistent page on your domain. 404 is your friend! to Web by monde |
| Saturday Apr 29, 2000 | Living in the Burgh, I've taken a shine to David Bliwas' photos of various area landmarks. to Art by mpc |
| LowerBound is a computer hardware search engine that scans pricewatch and many other web retailers for best prices, product features, and so on. to Computing by nyarl |
| Regardless of what you thought of last weekend's INS raid which took Elian Gonzalez back to his father, why not hoard some mementos of the event before it fades from collective memory? You could have a jar of air from Elian's neighborhood, Elian Gonzalez faberge eggs (with insightful religious commentary), and/or the raft used by Elian to get to the United States in the first place. to Politics by crikey |
| Friday Apr 28, 2000 | The
Clones of Guelph is a beautiful story that seems
to be fiction, but is actually an account written
down after the fact of a mentally ill person's
shattered view of Guelph from the inside during
a period "off meds", as we say. to Art by arkuat |
| 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 |
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