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| Tuesday May 9, 2000 | Nobody here at memepool is surprised that the gold-digging opportunists rejected by girlfriend-beating "millionaire" Rick Rockwell don't have the good sense to go the hell away. So Who Wants to Marry the Millionaire Ladies? Hi, I'm a shameless hussy and "alumni" of Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire trolling for a suger daddy. Call me if you're rich, baby. Please, dear God, do not let them breed. to Sex by pjammer |
| Proctology, the study of freaks who cram things up their ass. to Wackos by jason |
| I'm kind of wishing I hadn't read the article about
Mike the Headless Wonder Chicken quite so soon after
lunch. to Wackos by peterb |
| Monday May 8, 2000 | Poor Metallica. Apparantly they're losing so much from the likes of Napster, they've had to sell some other things to get by.
And if you think there's still anything there worth saving, you can make a (non tax-deductible) donation to help Lars and the rest of the guys out. So far they've netted $247! to Music by eclipse |
| Chad Frick's YukYuk.com is a consistently bright spot for the difficult-to-define, short-attention-span entertainment for at which the web excels. The "interactive cartoons" of Mr. Furd are particularly inventive, recycling the same bleeps over and over into a cute alien language. And the dancers are good examples of Frick's trademark: Graphical User Interfaces which manage to be exotic without being irritating.
to Internet by cricket |
| The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences puts tax dollars to work collecting the lyrics of children's songs. Now you can finally learn all the words to "Nobody Likes Me", just in case you're still being ostracized by the other kids and need something to sing while you're rocking back and forth, sucking your thumb. to Music by jacquez |
| Having listened to Germans complaining about having to figure out what English Star Trek titles went to what episode, I knew that Star Trek was different in Germany. I didn't know that they remade the entire show. Beware the space infection of "Kork ist krank" and gaze in confusion at "Handys". It's enough to make me wish I had more than a semester of German--or none at all. to Television by jacquez |
| If you've never completely overcome the mysterious pre-pubescent stirrings in the nether regions of your crime-fighting outfit elicited by Julie Newmar as Catwoman (and who among us has, really?), what better way to while away your ostensible adulthood than downloading images of cheesecake photos with superhero outfits airbrushed over them? The first and best "digital manipulation artist" is Rik van Koert from 4F Creations. Most of his numerous imitators are predictably terrible, though there are a few talented up-and-comers.
to Art by cricket |
| Sunday May 7, 2000 | Japanesesnacks.com - for all your online miscellaneous Japanese silly-food needs! (And they've got Pocky!) to Food by riffraff |
| Dumbrella calls itself the "dumbest portal ever," and although it doesn't seem to be fully functional,
it is sponsored by some pretty smart sites. Each has the user send in a phrase, and the site owner might create a piece of art out of it. narbotic composes songs, explodingdog draws pictures, and Dancing Cartoon Productions
makes movies. For example, the phrase "i don't think mom likes me anymore, now that she's got her new dishwasher" inspired
the guy at explodingdog to draw this. to Art by earmouse |
| Science isn't yummy. But phenylethylamine really does rule our lives. But chemical pleasures -- of the healthy and legal variety are for sale in various places -- there's even a nice, big, searchable index. And have I mentioned that you can eat it with anything? Strawberries, pretzels, even popcorn or chilis! to Food by djinn |
| When your belief system compels you to contradict dozens of established scientific facts, there are naturally plenty of things that will annoy you. Things Creationists Hate is a whimsical collection of biological and geological realities that fly in the face of those who insist the earth is 6000 years old. to Memetics by pjammer |
| Saturday May 6, 2000 | While looking for an accappatoio online, I stumbled across Moda Online. Their intimate apparel section is excellent.
to Fashion by peterb |
| Will the correct plural of the word "mango" please stand up? "Mangos" or "mangoes"? Well, I doubt these people care. to Food by djinn |
| Ya-Tai! It's Apollo Smile, Live-Action Anime Girl! (Don't miss the pics!) to Sex by riffraff |
| NASA discovers metallic dog bone-shaped asteroid; could MST3K be real?
to Science by riffraff |
| I'm too cheap to buy real presents, but I'm never too cheap for these. They sell everything from clothing to pets. to Web by djinn |
| Friday May 5, 2000 | In the desert /
I saw a creature, naked, bestial, /
who, squatting upon the ground, /
Held his heart in his hands, /
And ate of it. /
I said, "Is it good, friend?" /
"It is bitter -- bitter," he answered; /
"But I like it /
Because it is bitter, /
And because it is my heart."
The poetry
of Stephen Crane.
to Literature by peterb |
| May 6th is International No
Diet Day, a day designed to encourage people to stop hating their
bodies and loving themselves as they are, fat or thin. Despite
popular belief, fat people are not created by overeating
nor do we eat more than thin people. Yet we fat folk are constantly
told by the
media and medical folk that being fat is bad and we have to diet or die. From the
US to as far away as
Australia research repeatedly shows that dieting doesn't
work, that there is
no proof that losing weight makes you healthier, that health and
long life comes from exercise and being
fit, no matter what you weigh, and that the world's obsession
with being thin is encouraging
eating disorders in the young. Celebrations
of INDD around the world range from simple
gatherings to activism at it's finest at the Annual Scale Smashing
held by the fat activists in Washington state who call themselves SeaFATtle (their motto: "Raising
Consciousness or Raising Hell"). Whatever you do, I encourage you to
give up dieting, at least for the day, and instead read some
enlightening material or visit some online info and activism sites and
learn why FAT is not
a four letter word. to Health by moose |
| Worst of the Worst at mp3.com has pointers to some hilariously bad tracks. I suggest starting with 'Funky Mystery' and then getting your nerve up before trying 'The Ten Commandments' The hate mail from the artists being ridiculed is also worth reading. to Music by obvious |
| Thursday May 4, 2000 | This
guy likes to tell strange tales about his
life, including such gems as giving his
cat an enema and details of a
"Drag Queen Traffic Mishap". All stories are accompanied by crayon illustrations. to Humor by laurel |
| The Hunger Site, the site that donates food to a starving person with each click-through, now has a sister site, The Rain Forest Site. Each click-through donates 19.2 square feet. Too bad you are limited to donating once a day.
to Web by reid |
| So the Great Music Flamewar seems to involve a system giving artists minimal recompense for their work and a system giving artists no recompense for their work. The Street Performer Protocol proposes an escrow-like system for producing intellectual property; it reminds me of cosource's escrow-based development model. to Music by mpc |
| Instead of listening to electronic music, how
about making your own, online and experimental, naturally.
to Music by wheezer |
| I don't think any right-thinking Americans will disagree that salsa is a pretty powerful thing. However, until recently its full potential has not been realized -- that is, the power that could be released by combining it with particularly powerful celebrities. Celebrities such as Leonard Nimoy and Billy Dee Williams. to Food by avi |
| Perhaps you don't hate squirrels, but instead just want them to stop eating all the food in your bird feeder. You might then, want to look at the squirrel-shocking solar powered bird feeder. They even have a film of it in action. Be forewarned, though, it isn't inexpensive. to Toys by keith |
| Wednesday May 3, 2000 | His and hers insta-apologies. Did these really need to be separated by gender? to Web by djinn |
| Ideo's Palm V has long made Star Trek's tricorders look like Fred Flinstone technology. Think Outside just began shipping a Portable Palm Keyboard, which elicits gasps even among Silicon Valley technerds. This baby has a full-sized keyboard, ingeniously collapses down to the size of a Palm III, and is utterly James Bond. Combine it with Cutting Edge Software's SmartDoc and leave your laptop at home. And as long as you're hotsyncing, check out my favorite Palm games: Galax (fantastic greyscale Galaxian clone), Trek (cloned from the classic mainframe game), Go (the Japanese boardgame) and the great nerd puzzle Netwalk. to Gadgets by cricket |
| Think math is hard? Try spelling. There are groups out there who are crusading to simplify English spelling, arguing that a thousand years of language change (not to mention a significant vowel shift) has caused English orthography to fail at its mission: representing sounds. Hidden in the spelling brouhaha is another potentially brilliant idea: a simplified version of English that can be used as an international language, much like Esperanto but with a built-in user base. Too bad it never caught on. to Linguistics by idat |
| 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 |
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