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| Saturday Jul 8, 2000 | Showgirls, Basic Instinct, Sliver, Jade, Flashdance... For years Joe Eszterhas has proven the naysayers wrong - you can be the least imaginative screenwriter in Hollywood and also the highest-paid, provided you use the secret formula that all women (all women worth mentioning, anyway) are hot, young, frequently evil and even more frequently naked. (Favorite moment from Basic Instinct, for which Eszterhas was paid $3 million: Sharon Stone's character writes a novel under a pen name to hide her identity, then thoughtfully includes her photo on the back cover.) Burn Hollywood Burn proves Eszterhas can write humor every bit as well as thrillers; the I was an hour in before I realized it was intended to be a comedy. (Also, not enough screen time for the hot young evil naked chick!) to Movies by cricket |
| And in other cone-related news, Robyn Hitchcock is known amongst fegmaniax for his collectible cone art. to Music by eclipse |
| Friday Jul 7, 2000 | If you are plagued with an ugly, frightening skin condition that your doctor seems clueless about but you would really like to identify, or maybe you're just in some sort of baffling self-gross-out mood, this compendium of clinical dermatological photos from the dermatology department of the medical school at the University of Iowa may be quite helpful. to Health by monde |
| Ever wonder how the number 420 came to be associated with marijuana? (It's not, as is commonly believed, a police code meaning "pot smoking in progress".) to Drugs by monde |
| While most 'Coneheads' obssess about David Cone's lackluster performance this season, some 'Coneheads' worry about wrongly imprisoned traffic cones. Are they enslaved against their will? Or, is it a vast evil conspiracy? Study their 'history', and decide for yourself. to Conspiracy by rich |
| "The Large Hot Pipe Organ is the world's only MIDI controlled, propane powered explosion organ. The LHPO's pyro-acoustic explodo-rhythmations will throbbatize your earholes and dance-ify your booty and make you realize what 'Industrial Music' REALLY means!" to Music by faisal |
| Yes, there's a support group for everything. And everything else.
to Health by fringehead |
| Tuesday Jul 4, 2000 | Movies like "Blink" and "At First Sight" gave us a fictional inkling of how surgery might be used to help a blind person see. Optobionics has begun to turn this fictional idea into a reality by being the first to implant artificial retinas (made of silicon chips) into blind
patients. Bring on the Diamond Age. to Science by laurel |
| I love Formula 1 racing; this past weekend's race at Magny Cours, France, was great: David Coulthart shut down Michael Schumacher (shortly after giving him the finger when he failed to pass). Atlas F1 republishes the FIA's 66 answers to 66 questions that introduce you to the history and rules of the sport. In our crowd, we like to play Formula Dé to warm up for the race.
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| Sunday Jul 2, 2000 | What do you do if you can't make it to New York City for Macy's Fourth of July Spectacular or hire the Grucci Brothers to put on a personal fireworks show? While we do NOT condone it, if you're willing to risk your personal safety, you can definitely buy or make the munitions to put on your own fireworks show (so long as you cooperate with your applicable state laws). to Art by rich |
| Hey there, lonely indie boy. It's summertime and you're stuck in the office. Ready to fall in love? to Literature by aleph |
| While we're on the subject of
oral
sex, there are
lots
of other
guides
and
FAQs
out there that should help you
perfect
your
technique.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| One of the best and strangest things about America is the
Museum of Jurrasic Technology in
Los Angeles. Part
museum of oddities
and part
situationist art peice,
it was written about in the book
"Mr. Wilson's
Cabinet of Wonder" by
Lawrence
Weschler. (Warning: the book contains spoilers about certain exhibits).
If you can read German, make sure to check out the website of the MoJT's sister
institution: the
Karl Ernst Osthaus Muesum.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Fountain pens
are making something of a comeback; you can get
your fix at
any
number of
online
retailers, with an almost uncountable
variety to choose from. While many are in the game as collectors (no doubt in part spurred on by the goofy "collector's editions" that are being turned out by pen factories these days), just as many just want a better way to write (pictured is a Parker Centennial
Duofold). to Toys by goboro |
| Friday Jun 30, 2000 | Everyone is familiar with Dr. Seuss' children's books, but not many know that during the early 40's he worked as a political cartoonist, focusing mainly on the Second World War. His cartoons from 1941 attacked America's isolationism and indecision about entering the war, while many of the later ones were the usual pleas to join the military, conserve resources, and buy war bonds. Mixed in with these are some interesting cartoons attacking American racism and discrimination, juxtaposed with the standard WWII portrayals of slant-eyed, bespectacled, buck-toothed Japs.
to Comics by kapital |
| If you're anything like me, you spent
your youth
stealing pills from
your aunt's medicine cabinet. If you're ever in that situation
again and you don't know what you just
grabbed a handful of,
consult this database of prescription drugs that are
searchable by imprint.
to Drugs by riotnrrd |
| Terry Moore, creator
of the popular comic Strangers In Paradise,
has put some of his non-mainstream
strips on the web. While they're not quite ready for syndication, they are fun to read. to Comics by laurel |
| Sometimes, I regret the fact that I never got the opportunity to visit Freedomland, the 1964-1965 Worlds' Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York, Boardwalk & Baseball, or Circus World. While Astroland and Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park, in Coney Island may be long past their prime, I can still visit Yesterland for a taste of what I missed. to Travel by rich |
| Unfortunately, the web sites of many motorcycle manufacturers
suck. But that's
OK, because bikepics.com
is here to rescue us! So all of you who lust after me and
want to do something nice for me, feel free to buy me
a Buell X1,
an Aprilia RS250, a
Ducati 916, or
a GSX1300r
to replace my aging BMW K75. to Toys by peterb |
| Thursday Jun 29, 2000 | There's more than just boring
Democrats and
Republicans
running for
President this year.
In fact there's over
20
candidates in the
national election.
to Politics by riotnrrd |
| The logical converse of "invisible insects" would, of course, be
bacteria
big enough to see with the naked eye.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| SenZar. SenZar, The Game. SenZar, The Authors. SenZar, The Review. SenZar, The Poetry. SenZar, The MSTing. to Games by mpc |
| Want that cool Swedish look in your apartment, but can't afford Ikea? Consult an expert on Dumpster Diving. But, foraging for furniture at the curb won't be easy. Check out the rules of the road(side), including tips on how to seek out those elusive free computers. to Art by rich |
| It's nice to see an online magazine addressing an issue that's been bothering me for quite a while: people getting tattoos they don't understand. Particularly obvious are non-Asian people getting Chinese or Japanese characters tattooed on them without taking the fairly obvious step of finding out exactly what the characters mean. Kudos to Viceland for the article; although the relentless style-poseur chic gets a little old, some of their articles are well worth a read. Especially their guides to giving men and women oral sex.
to Art by elder |
| Sprogopolis:
Baby-Powered City of the Future.
to Parenting by belford |
| Wednesday Jun 28, 2000 | RSA In Javascript. Wow.
to Computing by mpc |
| In a JavaOne interview, Jon Bosak ("father of XML") came so close to up and saying what I've been screaming for years -- SGML is the biggest fucking mess that otherwise smart people ever came up with.
For example, he observes, delicately:
"You know, with SGML, after 13 years of implementation there were fewer than half a dozen SGML processors in the world, and with the single
exception of James Clark's, all of those processors had been constructed by efforts that were Department of Defense sized effort.
So you just look at that and you say, well, I guess that SGML is probably a little on the far side of the complexity we want."
Gosh, a little, probably?
to Computing by sburke |
| I thought a mullet was a fish, but apparently I was wrong. A mullet is a haircut, but more importantly,
a mullet is a sensation. You should turn first to
Mullets Galore for the skinny.
After trying to grok the mullet mythos,
visiting a mullet portal to become wise to the technical specification, and varietals of
the mullet such as the Mullabino, catch the
news at the ezine, see the site for the definitive book,
and sympathize with one man's journey through the gantlet. You might
then want to locate a regional group, join a gang of anti-mullet vigilantes,
or simply believe the hype and submit to T-shirts and other various merchandise.
to Culture by urog |
| Having grown up on the hardcore suburbian streets of Miami, the city that begat Vanilla Ice and Two Live Crew, I've always been partial to Old School Rap. Thanks to the Internet, you can test your knowledge from back in the day, or try your hand at laying your own tracks.
to Music by rich |
| It used to be that graffiti artists concentrated their best efforts on subways, but now it seems almost everything is fair game for graffiti, even moose, pigs, and cows. But, yuppies? to Art by rich |
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