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| Tuesday May 30, 2000 | Contrary to popular belief, lemmings are not normally prone to suicide - well, unless they're being herded off cliffs by Disney filmmakers, that is. to Outdoors by kapital |
| So, hey - scientists are clever. We knew that. But
FTL light? These guys have apparently figured out a way to get a beam of light to exit a container before it enters.
Not exactly Warp Drive, but it's a start.
to Science by caviar |
| I know if I were to ever write a typing tutor I wouldn't have based it on a dementedly morbid anime series involving enough sadism to adolescents to make Orson Scott Card pause for thought to Media by mpc |
| Erotic photography overrated you say? Fine. Perhaps you'd like some not real good gay erotic drawings instead. Of men with moustaches. Whatever it is that compels people to put their art online, like to sell it for instance, is not exactly the same urge as the people who put their art online just because they can. Not necessarily because they are good artists, but because they are sincere, right? Some gay erotic drawings aren't too bad, facial hair again being the theme, but then again this art at Mike's Bear Gallery is for sale. to Art by mrradon |
| Monday May 29, 2000 | The Houston Chronicle has an
archive
of all the syndicated strips that gave tribute to
Charles Shultz. Snoopy.com also has a
number of more
personal tributes. to Comics by laurel |
| It used to be that you'd have to draw your own comic strip, or come up with an original idea, but cartoonist Terrence Marks has put those archaic notions to rest. He even has rabid fans. to Comics by jon |
| The atemporal nature of the web means that we are left with little festering slices of history and well-intentioned revisions, Ghost Sites is a museum of these dead (or dying) pages.
to Web by mpc |
| The rudest search engine online is appropriately named SearchBastard. to Internet by pjammer |
| Sunday May 28, 2000 | Look out, evildoers! A preview of the new live-action Tick series is now on-line! "Here you are, citizen: a steaming hot cup of justice!"
to Television by riffraff |
| prawnography.net gives nautical perverts their daily fix of hot, hardcore/amateur images of your favorite marine life doing the wild thing. There's even Gay Prawn for marine fetishers who swing the other way. to Humor by pjammer |
| The hot new computing trend of the new millennium will be to refurbish old Macintoshes using Mega Bloks. I suppose Legos would work, too. to Computing by crikey |
| Saturday May 27, 2000 | One of the signs of the apocalypse: Gregg's home page.
Well, that, or his girlfriend's page.
Someone call up the Four Horsemen.
to Humor by jacquez |
| There's absolutely no practical reason to learn this, but How to Write Telegrams Properly from 1928 remembers a time when every word in an electronic message cost money. "Two of the fundamental merits of the telegram are that it annihilates distance and commands immediate attention." So much for progress. to Media by rogers |
| Considering that most people never spend the daylight time we save each year, and the practice makes farmers unhappy, is it time to leave our clocks in peace? to Law by rogers |
| In 1998, Frugal Gourmet TV host Jeff Smith agreed to pay $4.75 million to seven men who accused him of molesting them as teens. His TV and book career disappeared overnight, but a few diehards are still angrily proclaiming his innocence, even though their scanned-in picture makes the cook look like Baelzebub in a buttondown.
to Food by rogers |
| Friday May 26, 2000 | Geek trivia department: MP3 was invented by Karlheinz Brandenburg, of Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits. The compression algorithm was modeled on Suzanne Vega singing "Tom's Diner", which is of course readily available as an illegal MP3. Ah, irony...
to Music by cricket |
| Mosquito Bay in Vieques, Puerto Rico is known as the World's Brightest Bioluminescent Bay. The eerie light is due to the presence of Pyrodinium bahamense, a type of plankton known as a dinoflagellate. Once you check out these nifty long-exposure photos, you might be tempted to grow them at home. to Science by obvious |
| Thursday May 25, 2000 | Dave Winer is something of a character. He's
responsible for a few (sort of) interesting web sites
including EditThisPage.com, xmlrpc.com,
and his journal/weblog Scripting News. Something about his
writing style and sensibilities always weirded me out. Thanks to the multi-voiced nature
of the web (and Dave's own software!), I can read WinerLog in parallel,
keeping Dave's screwy egotism in check.
Since this past March, WinerLog has given
me the Dave-centered mockery and scorn I need to swallow the corresponding scripting news ramblings. Zooooooom!
to Culture by akk |
| Ah, the potato... such a humble little tuber. So many uses -- food, alcohol, clock, museum piece, projectile, and almost a web server (too bad it's a hoax.)
to Food by reid |
| GreyDay is a protest against rampant copyright infringement on the web. On October 1st, web pages go grey in support. This reminds me of an Anti-piracy protest held in Hong Kong last year. to Politics by mpc |
| While anarchy.org almost seems like any oxymoron, anarchy.com is downright distasteful. It's not surprising to come across some porn, but the only logical top-level domain is still available There's always anarchy.gov, now there's a web site I'd like to see. to Philosophy by rsf |
| Urban Decay is a california based cosmetic
company started by the co-founder
of Cisco Systems. Their
makeup
features eyeliners such as "Mildew" and "Stray dog",
lipsticks called "Oil Slick", "Roach", and "Smog", and
foundation products (aka coverup) called "Hallucination" and "Mirage". to Fashion by laurel |
| Wednesday May 24, 2000 | This intriguing woman has a
bunch of very cool
infrared photographs of herself on her website as well as some of her
cat.
to Photography by gen |
| One of my first computers was a Commodore 64.
As a kid, the graphics and sound from that
little machine were amazing. Ever wondered
what became of Jeff Minter,
Rob Hubbard and
all the other great games programmers and composers?
c64.org
has tracked down many of the scene and archived
a huge number of the games and original tunes.
to Computing by simon |
| Tuesday May 23, 2000 | The Hiller Flying Platform, built in 1955, consists of a really big ducted fan mounted underneath a little tiny cage. to Transportation by joshua |
| "The Metamath Proof Explorer has 60 MBytes of interconnected web pages containing over 3000 completely worked out proofs in logic and set theory." Then again, how often does one need the axiom of choice?
to Science by joshua |
| Most, but not all, digital cameras contain a filter internally that prevents near-infrared light from striking the CCD element. For those that do not, with the aid of an infrared filter, you can capture some eerie pictures. For a more in-depth look at the technology behind infrared photography with both digital and chemical cameras, there are numerous resources. Infrared photography is only one kind of photography involving spectral selection; another kind is ultraviolet photography, which lets you see the world from butterfly's eyes.
to Photography by joshua |
| For the sex pig in me, I find that "IGN For Men"
is an invaluable resource. Whoever picks their Classic Babe
of the Week has very similar taste to me,
from the divine Audrey
Hepburn to the delicious Pam Grier
(You remember Pam Grier, right?
Yes, I'm talking about that Pam Grier from
both Foxy Brown and Jackie Brown.
Mmmmmmmmmm, Pam Grier). I, uh, have to go now.
to Media by peterb |
| Monday May 22, 2000 | As a person concerned about my health, my family, and the Earth, I try to eat certified organic foods. While the U.S. Government has been trying to bastardize the organic certification, there are other equally compelling food-growing philosophies, like California Clean (which focuses on smaller farms) and Australia's Bio-Dynamic (which focuses on preserving the soil.)
to Food by rsf |
| Are you looking to build something but don't know how to hammer a
nail? Well, Better Homes and
Gardens has a guide
for you. It won't make you a New
Yankee, but you may learn the rules of carpentry and build something to boot!
to Commentary by duff |
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