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| Tuesday Dec 22, 1998 | Jane
Jacobs has spent most of her life
investigating the difficult question of why
some cities stagnate while other cities thrive. to Books by arkuat |
| Jared Diamond went to New Guinea to study bird
evolution and wound up having
a conversation with a native
politician, who ended up asking him "Why did
Europeans develop so much cargo and bring it here,
while we people of New Guinea developed so little
of our own?" Twenty-five years later, he
presented his first attempt at an answer in a
book called
Guns,
Germs, and Steel. The answer, before it
was done, had blown up into a history of the last
thirteen millennia of this planet. to Books by arkuat |
| Monday Dec 21, 1998 | The National Reconnaissance Office has information on all sorts of technology that was pretty neat 25 years ago, but can't tell us what they're doing now. They do have some informative video clips of CORONA, the US's first spy satellite system.
to Warfare by nyarl |
| Does a web site
demanding "psychic freedom from the tyranny of computers and their digital menace" constitute
irony, or is it just me? to Wackos by obvious |
| Sunday Dec 20, 1998 | Launchspace Magazine
is a space industry trade magazine filled with excellent articles and
interesting technical data. Make sure to check out the forcast of
upcoming launches and
the article on
astronaut
fatalities. Of special interest is the evidence that five
Soviet cosmonauts died in orbit before Yuri Gargarin's successful flight
in 1961.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Can a Christian enjoy late 90's glam-rock? Evidentally not without
going to hell for it.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| 'Tis the season to be jolly, so take some time to find out the details of
how you'll die when we're attacked with
biological weapons.
And if you want to hasten this Apocalypse, you can always
make some yourself.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Dec 19, 1998 | For those that have read Infinite Jest but were confused, there is help. For those that did not read Infinite Jest, there is also help.
to Books by joshua |
| Far more than you ever wanted to know about PostScript. to Computing by joshua |
| Never mind the CambridgeSoft review. Here's
Ralph Merkle's collection of resources for
computational
chemistry. Make gray goo in your garage. to Science by arkuat |
| Pigdog Journal.
GAR! RoR-Alucard. Hail Isabeau.
to Wackos by arkuat |
| Friday Dec 18, 1998 | Look out, realdoll, it's realhamster. If you liked the animated knobs at realdoll, you'll get a thrill out of what happens with Squeaky and Squicky.
to Sex by stimpy |
| Biosphere 2 seems
to have passed into the possession of Columbia
University and continues its existence as an
educational institution. No future closures are
currently planned, but the possibility remains.
The Biospherics
home page gives information about several similar
projects around the world. to Science by arkuat |
| Thursday Dec 17, 1998 | Thomas Bulfinch's canonical guide to Greek and Roman mythology is an essential source and entertaining read. It's also a shining example of what web-based reference material should be like -- with extensive hyperlinks, foot-notes, and illustrations. to Religion by nyarl |
| I wonder what you get for being number 500.
to Culture by jason |
| Screw Star Wars. THIS is a trailer.
to Movies by jason |
| Wednesday Dec 16, 1998 | Careful with that
massage oil,
Eugene. to Books by magus |
| Exciting new
candy trend
or just a pathetic
attempt at relevance? to Food by magus |
| If you're one of those people who've mastered setting up and running a computer, getting connected to a network, and being able to search the web but haven't yet figured out how to poop, at last there is help for you. to Reference by nyarl |
| Recordings played
backwards
are as good a source as any for thickly
veiled, scary, prophetic, subconcious
communiques. to Wackos by obvious |
| In search of a good read? Project Gutenberg has
copyright-free books online and for no charge. The perfect alternative to hours and hours of
solitaire on those slow days at the office.
to Books by jacquez |
| Jesus may not have come back yet, but at least he's
on the web. to Religion by magus |
| Tuesday Dec 15, 1998 | Java seems to be interesting but useless; except for creating interesting
but useless things. Like the Java simulations of
N-body gravity and.. err..
more N-body gravity.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Whether you're new to the language or an expert looking for clever tweaks,
you should check out the C-Scene
Zine, a technical e-zine devoted to C and C++. to Computing by riotnrrd |
| It seems that
some people don't like Microsoft
.
This is news?
This is burglary?
What?
to Commentary by faisal |
| ...and the Irony Of The Year Award goes to... Hotline Communications and Adam Hinkley, creators of the software pirate toolchest favorite Hotline.
It seems they're now battling it out in court, arguing over intellectual property rights. to Computing by faisal |
| Hmm, I forget. John was the mind, Ringo was the heart, George was the soul, and
Paul was the chef? to Food by urog |
| Coyote fur or dog fur?
doesn't make much difference if you ask me. to Fashion by urog |
| Monday Dec 14, 1998 | Religious fervor is directly proportional to crap glued onto your car, but until now, Satanists and scientists haven't been able to put retarded metal fish on their Dodge. Please, somebody, just nail a real live fish to the back of your car and bring this lame fad to its logical end and we can get the damn thing over with.
to Religion by nyarl |
| So you went out and bought a fancy new car, but now you are worried about Palm Pilot break-ins. Perhaps what you need is an
effective theft deterrant. to Gadgets by urog |
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