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| Wednesday Oct 4, 2000 | The venerable US political site Project Vote Smart, known for its National Political Awareness Test (NPAT) and its voter resources, is also among the sites letting you find a candidate who agrees with you. to Politics by sylvar |
| Tuesday Oct 3, 2000 | Seeing how the 2000 Presidental Election is coming up, you might want to read some debate info then take a survey. to Politics by rampage |
| VR pioneer Jaron Lanier trashes AI and futurists admitting that the quality of code can never keep up with the advancement of hardware and that the belief in AI is currently producing anti-intuitive and hard to use software. The full manifesto is on Edge.org. to Computing by skallas |
| Great CGI of what the seven wonders of the ancient world probably looked like in their prime. Best of all, most of the images support 3-D glasses.
to History by skallas |
| The
Sixth Annual
Interactive Fiction Competition
has
started. (Yes,
IF
is still my pet subject.) Fifty-three (!) short text
adventures have been entered, and anyone can vote. You have until
November 15th to play and rate as many as you can. (Each game should
take no more than two hours to play.
All but six are playable on Mac/Unix/Windows/anything else.)
Download the games from the
IFComp
download page
(which has links to
mirrors).
Here are
complete
voting rules.
to Games by belford |
| Antebios is an original and exciting computer generated sci-fi movie that was surprisingly made on Windows NT 4.0. to Movies by skallas |
| Precious Moments for hipsters. to Art by skallas |
| Angst ridden Mark Driver has cynical yet very perceptive views on roommates, proper diet, homosexuality, and of course government. to Web by skallas |
| Monday Oct 2, 2000 | So you've already registered to vote, but do you know how the Electoral College works and how easily they can ignore twenty million third party votes?
to Politics by skallas |
| The P-Chip is so much cooler than the V-Chip. to Television by dnm |
| Ban soft money now! Corporations have too
much influence
in American politics. to Politics by veblen |
| The humorous comedy site I-Mockery contains various features such as Blair Witch Project Action Figures, greeting cards for cynics and my personal favorite -- Martin Yan, Homicidal Chef. to Humor by kade |
| Funny how children can articulate what adults would like to. to Humor by sam |
| Sunday Oct 1, 2000 | Is it real or is it fantasy? (note: the first link is extremely violent and requires use of Windows Media Player)
to Sex by kade |
| For an intricate look into the electronic underground, check out Roemerstr31.com. The site where live mixes and sets are broadcast literally out of someone's living room, usually on Sundays. Webcam and chat included. to Music by wheezer |
| Hate annoying banner ads from evil, privacy-violating online advertisers?
AdSubtract
offers us the means to screen banner ads, cookies and other cache-clogging commercial products. to Internet by pjammer |
| Chemistry and poetry: when science and art finally meet in The Periodic Table of Poetry!. Just don't get scared off by the gallium contribution. to Literature by wheezer |
| Saturday Sep 30, 2000 | Mind Machines are what you get when you cross meditation and technology. Most work off the simple concepts of binaural beats and the frequency following response. You can also get your very own shareware binaural beat generator to play around with.
to Gadgets by skallas |
| Short but very interesting documentary on a little known haunted house near Chicago and one man's obsession with it. It also contains some ambigious, but interesting ghost photography. Its nearing Halloween, scared yet?
to Occult by skallas |
| Friday Sep 29, 2000 | While we're all waiting for Star Wars Episode II - I've managed to find five storyboards for this film. to Movies by kade |
| Volcanos
can be
scary,
but
SUPER-volcanos
are
SUPER-scary.
Erupting with a force thousands of times greater than
an ordinary volcanic eruption, a supervolcano can cover an
entire continent hip-deep in ash.
Indeed, the
Toba supervolcano eruption (in modern Sumatra) 74,000
years ago
nearly drove mankind
to extinction, creating a genetic bottleneck
that is still evident in our mitochondrial DNA.
As a side note, one of the world's most regularly
active supervolcanos,
located in lovely
Yellowstone National Park, is
long overdue for an explosion. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Have you ever thought your company's mission statement was strange or boring?
Take some inspiration from the Planetary Activation Organization
and go nuts! to Wackos by veblen |
| "Animal Farm", written
by
George Orwell
in 1945, is widely considered one of the best political satires
of the 20th century. Did you know, however, that the
1955 animated film based on this book was
edited
(to remove the scene associated with
the line "No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The
creatures outside looked from
pig
to
man, and from man to pig, and from
pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.")
by the virulently anti-communist CIA?
Indeed, the CIA
owned the film rights to this novel,
bought from his widow for the
"price" of
meeting Clark Gable.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Forget Nader. Forget Barry. Even forget Duke. S2K chronicles the story of a genuinely independent candidate. Vicious political satire, Satan and well-drawn to boot; nice. to Politics by elder |
| "Bobo - kill!" French attack monkeys! to Pets by elder |
| Hey kids! Just left high school? Wondering which institute of higher learning you should attend? Like wearing spandex, going 'grr', and throwing people across a wrestling ring? Then consider attending Ultimate University, the only institute of higher learning that not only teaches you how to conduct a 3-8 minute wrestling bout, but also a 30-second promo spot! Add that to "character/gimmick development" and I'm already filling out the student loan form.
to Sports by elder |
| Thursday Sep 28, 2000 | A great bunch of ghost photographs from Chicago ghost hunter Dale Kaczmarek.
to Photography by skallas |
| Movie Critic and all around nasty guy Joe Queenan has engaged in a couple of experiments on the web, with varying results. At some point, he decided to apologize. To everybody, apparently. to Humor by mpc |
| Every pointy-haired boss should be given a copy of the Hacker FAQ. If your boss seems to have a literacy problem, use the video version, Your New Hacker: An Employer's Guide. to Computing by sylvar |
| 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 |
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