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| Tuesday Oct 24, 2000 | If you're nominally eco-friendly yet live in a
hyperconsumerized yuppie megacondo that doesn't
have any facilities for recycling your recyclables (like me),
check out 1800CLEANUP.org.
It'll also tell you where to, say, get rid of that pile of
old tires sitting in a pickup truck in your front lawn.
The only downside to the site is that you've got
to click through layers of menus. to Reference by xrayjones |
| Rabid Macintosh fans, unable to to wait for Apple to release their next design innovation, have begun to design their own next generation of curvy and translucent computers. Of course, pornographers and professional industrial designers are equally unable to resist the temptation of form over function, or at least rehashing an old product with a new plastic shell. to Computing by joshua |
| Want to win a million dollars
by proving that minesweeper
can (or can't) be solved in polynomial time? The Clay
Mathematics Institute offers this challenge along with seven others in its hopes
to popularize mathematics.
to Science by laurel |
| Is it science or art...or both or neither...when a man decides to create a living glowing green bunny by using genetic splicing? to Art by monde |
| So I was thinking, hey, a
cubic
inch of
gold
would look pretty good on
my shelf. How much would that cost?
Answer:
Gold weighs 19.3 grams/cc.
A
cubic inch is 16.4 cc.
There are
31.1 grams in an ounce
-- those are
troy ounces,
remember.
And, as I write this, the
plain-metal
("spot")
price of gold is
$270.50 per ounce.
(A
bit more
as
coins
or
ingots.)
Multiply it out, and my little paperweight would cost about
$2750.
Which is, weirdly, almost exactly the same price as
another little cubical paperweight...
(with
sexy display).
to Science by belford |
| While you're at Comic Book Resources, reading Zot! Online, remember to stop on in and check out the round-up of Oddball Comics. Today's features the origin of the word "foo". Some of my favorites include Baseball Comics, Uncle Milty, Woody Woodpecker in Chevrolet Wonderland, Space Western Comics, and Crest Cavity Fighting Team Activity Book. to Comics by keith |
| Do you waste countless hours at work surfing bandwidth-wasting crap? Don't let your extracurricular computer use cost you a job - Don's Boss Page offers web-cruising slackers useful downloadables like the one-click panic button as well as helpful tips on how to efficiently waste company resources. to Humor by pjammer |
| The enigmatic TV show The Prisoner now comes in digest form. to Television by skallas |
| French dadaistic Flash-orgy greatness.
to Art by wheezer |
| Monday Oct 23, 2000 | Instead of choosing between the lesser of two evils in the upcoming presidential election, vote for a candidate you can trust: vote for the Ficus plant. to Politics by kier |
| Any website with a feature called "Daily Pimpsteak",
a game described as "Pin the mustache on the drunk midget" (warning: Flash plugin required),
and a name like speefnarkle is fine
in my book. to Art by xrayjones |
| George
Katz rocked my adolescent geeky world with his solid
state oscilloscope. LEDs weren't cheap and
plentiful back then, and I never managed to scrounge up enough to
build my own. But wait; there's more! If you're interested in
leeching a bit of bandwidth off your local university, his line-of-sight
serial transceiver might do the trick. Mind you, you'll need two
laser pointers to pull that one off, and, well, one of them will be
aimed at your dorm. Perhaps you could arm one of his research
robots to keep guard. I understand at least one of them can hold
its ground against a common housecat, so fending off campus
security should be a cinch. Hmm... test equipment, wireless
point-to-point communications, and robots. All you need is an angry flower, and the world's
practically subjugated. to Gadgets by braino |
| Learn Cyberspeak! I guess I'm not fluent: I haven't seen at least three-quarters of these acronyms in any context. And who really memorizes emoticons? They're almost as well-codified as the older Language of the Flowers. to Linguistics by djinn |
| This straightforward if simplistic explanation of diglossia might just be a "gateway drug" into harder linguistics. Although you probably know more thank you think about linguistics... to Linguistics by djinn |
| Internet Text,
somewhere between the
razor
and the
edge. to Literature by goboro |
| Barkless tomatoes, Doctor Randall's Nose Cleaner, and the back of Tracy Malone's head are all For Sale By Mental Patient in a convincing parody of other online wackos. to Wackos by sylvar |
| Sunday Oct 22, 2000 | Who knew Anorexic chicks could be so damn sexy? to Sex by kade |
| If you feel the urge to socialize online, about anything, the Stalking Post BBS is for you.
to Web by kade |
| Play Cupid over the internet with BlindDate. to Web by kade |
| What better way to release your stress than upon a cute animated goldfish?
to Health by kade |
| If you were a robot this is the classic rock you would be listening to. to Music by skallas |
| Proponents of life extension suggest reduced-calorie diets as a means of extending life.
Noone has taken this as dangerously far as the Breatharians.
Breatharians, such as Jasmuheen, believe they can survive almost entirely on "liquid light."
However, even the most practiced Breatharians, such as Wiley Brooks, occasionally sneak into a 7-11 for a chicken pot-pie and a slurpee.
to Wackos by joshua |
| Custom Toilet Paper finds a new use as dotcom stock options. to Commerce by joshua |
| Al Gore has a special message for web power-surfers! Read the first page of the www.algore2000.com HTML source for a commented out paragraph designed especially for you. Unfortunately, the secret message isn't what he really thinks of the environment. to Web by skallas |
| Everyone deserves a Bill of Rights, especially math students, parrots, effeminate men, and people getting piercings or tarot card readings. to Humor by skallas |
| Shedding some light
to the obvious connection between
Microsoft and
The Illuminati...
Figures!
to Conspiracy by wwwwolf |
| Saturday Oct 21, 2000 | When the most well-known single rich guys are girlfriend-beating psychos, twice-divorced overweight actors or pathetic self-absorbed hacks, only the most motivated gold-diggers still want to marry a millionaire. Since we now know that money's not everything and technology geeks will rule the future, Who Wants to Marry a SysAdmin? to Wackos by pjammer |
| Usher in Happy Hour in America -- this November,
vote Quimby!
to Politics by tregoweth |
| Is it me, or does the editor of What A Wonderful World look strikingly similar to the "publisher" of The Onion?
to Humor by earmouse |
| Friday Oct 20, 2000 | The mystery between the Dogon tribe in Mali and the white dwarf Sirius B.
to Occult by skallas |
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