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| Thursday Sep 28, 2000 | You've all heard about such famous
"chatter
bots" as
Eliza and
Parry,
which can imitate human conversation (over a limited domain) fairly well.
However, another, less well-known, program called
Racter
once
wrote
(or at least
helped to write)
a whole book.
This collection of stories and poems, "The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed," was published
in 1984 under the amusing pen-name of
"Mark V. Cheney" (later changed to "Racter").
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Wong Fei-Hung was a Chinese healer, martial artist, and genuine folk hero of the late 19th and early 20th century who is also the father of modern Hung-Gar kung fu. Kwan Tak-Hing portrayed him in hundreds of movies. More recently, he has been seen in films such as Once Upon a Time in China (where Jet Li kicks the crap out of Americans exploiting China) and Drunken Master II (where Jackie Chan kicks the crap out of Brits exploiting China). to History by nyarl |
| Wednesday Sep 27, 2000 | Looks like the US is falling behind in the race to promote milk. Perhaps we need a new spokesperson. Then again, why are we trying so hard to push this product? Perhaps drinking something designed for a baby calf may not be the safest thing in the world.
to Food by skallas |
| Sure, everyone wants to win an Olympic medal, but how does a 1936 Berlin medal covered in swastikas grab you?
to Sports by skallas |
| Watch "Spin," a one-hour documentary by Brian Springer, which details the events of the 1992 election through the satellite backhauls (unpackaged and uncensored news feeds which viewers do not see in the final edition.) to Media by joshua |
| When that annoying Office paperclip makes you wish you were dead,
it's time to consider assisted
suicide. to Humor by sylvar |
| What's better than a fistful of dead presidents? A site full of dead
presidents saying wacky stuff, that's what. Think of it as the Dysfunctional Presidents Circus. to Humor by sylvar |
| By simply trying the most obvious URL, I stumbled across an impressively complete non-commercial guide to cheese. It has a database of 652 cheeses including Jusstoleipa, Buffalo, and Stinking Bishop. You can also view cheese by country, texture, or what animal the milk comes from. They also have cheese recipes and, surprisingly, cheese news. to Food by keith |
| Suffering from an
overdose of
popular net games? Try
text
adventures via applets. (But then again,
MUDs are more fun when
you're online).
Or try Slashdot Quest -
Just to show that one doesn't need clumsy stuff like
Java, Flash or even CGI to make or play cool web games.
to Games by wwwwolf |
| Tuesday Sep 26, 2000 | The PBS show, Mystery! (which features the art of Edward Gorey (1925-2000)) has little Macromedia Director games on their site, done in the same artistic style.
to Art by enigma |
| Tired of those geek paper dolls? Try Dame Darcy's Flash-enabled Paper Doll Fun. What could be more fun than dressing up siamese twins, Igpay the pig, and a shrimp named Scampi (who actually has no possessions and can do nothing but rattle and insult you)? I'm sure I can think of
something.
to Comics by enigma |
| Monday Sep 25, 2000 | Start faking email right now. Or you can get really technical and learn about remailers and SMTP. to Web by skallas |
| Phil Donahue hits the nail directly on the head with his Nader in the debates essay, where hopefully we'll see more speech like this. Maybe he'll invite me to his Nader Houseparty. to Politics by skallas |
| Art should be free. Artists should be paid.
OpenCulture.org
is helping to achieve that. to Commerce by blk |
| The last thing I usually expect to find when I'm sitting in a Starbucks in 516 [Nassau County, Long Island, for you non-New Yorkers] is an unique and entertaining blend of folk-pop and improvisation. Last Saturday night, instead of the usual bold expressions of Komodo Dragon Blend at the Starbucks on Hempstead Turnpike, I sampled the intriguing and fun blend of 28 Orange Street. Comprised of premium sharp-witted lyrics spontaneously blended with a perfect balance of only the finest honey-voiced, self-effacing vocalists, this flavorful group is truly exceptional. Distinctive and assertive, yet full-bodied, smooth, deep and earthy. Yum. to Music by rich |
| Attention, single men! Have you ever wanted to date a dot.com CEO? to Sex by kade |
| I've found the next Jon-Benet Ramsey or one really perverse mother-daughter relationship. (She even has a fan club! - Note the majority of her members are male, aged 25-45. *WINK!*) to Wackos by kade |
| This shockwave movie shouldn't be on the official Nike webpage, but I'm glad it is. to Commerce by skallas |
| Sunday Sep 24, 2000 | We're getting this much closer to our Dick Tracy fantasy watch. to Gadgets by skallas |
| He's suave, silly, sexy, and Swedish. He sings, he writes newspaper articles and memoirs, he cooks,...and he's even got his own FAQ
to Culture by djinn |
| The Indrema L600 is an upcoming gaming console with a 100 megabit ethernet port, HDTV outputs, large hard drive, built-in dvd player, mp3 storage/playback system and lots of other nice things. Oh, and it's powered by Linux and will feature open source APIs, so it's possible we'll end up with a culture of freelance developers on the platform. to Games by obvious |
| Saturday Sep 23, 2000 | The high priests of The Church of Celebrity have to be the official celebrity photographers, who are slightly less scum than the average paparazzi. to Photography by skallas |
| The Creating Your Own OS FAQ. For everyone who says they can make a better operating system than Microsoft.
to Computing by kade |
| Since we're on the topic of classic videogames. I present to all of you - Nintendo Classics. to Games by kade |
| Friday Sep 22, 2000 | Death by LSD flashback, the evils of TV's Bewitched, and hippies all presented by uber-nut Jack T. Chick. to Wackos by skallas |
| LIS News: News for libraries. Stuff that matters. (Librarians are more interesting than you probably think.) to Education by tregoweth |
| It only took eighty years...but, finally, action figures for Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari! to Toys by tregoweth |
| Okay so you've tried the great spamming personality test from thespark.com, but have you tested your spatial IQ test lately? Or perhaps what job would you have had in Medieval Times, because they're hiring. to Web by skallas |
| The Brazilian electronic music group Golden Shower's recent video, Video Computer System (mirrored here and here) will remind you of all the great games for the Atari 2600 VCS.
to Music by joshua |
| One of the universal laws of the internet is that it is rarely possible to make a parody of a funny site that is as funny as the site itself. to Web by joshua |
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