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| Sunday Oct 29, 2000 | Take hip-hop and mix in a strong dose of progressive politics and you'll end up with Beastie Boy Ad-Rock's Countdown. to Music by skallas |
| Saturday Oct 28, 2000 | Human Powered Hydrofoils can be sometimes
graceful, sometimes fast, and at others very unsettling. to Transportation by goboro |
| The USB ports on these newfangled legacy free computers these days make it easy to hook up all sorts of interesting I/O devices. You can even give your computer the finger (does anybody know of a USB-enabled GPS receiver?) to Gadgets by goboro |
| Admit it. You used to play Dungeons & Dragons,
and your mom threw out all your cool rulebooks when you went
to college. Maybe you bought the fancy new
third edition rules
recently, but it just isn't the same. Fortunately for you,
Wizards of the Coast
is releasing all of the classic rulebooks and adventures
online,
many of them for free.
Now you don't have to hang around flea markets to pick up
what Mom threw away. to Games by magus |
| The U.S. Presidential election is approaching, and many voters are still undecided. Gore, Bush, one of the nine million crazy guys--well, I've made my decision: The Free Pony and Ice Cream Political Party. to Politics by jacquez |
| Friday Oct 27, 2000 | You're 30,000 feet above sea level in the cabin of Flight 2039 somewhere over the Australian outback. The plane is empty and what you know about piloting a 400-ton commercial airplane can fill a thimble. There's four hours of fuel in the tanks and you are dictating your life story to the aircraft's black box: the only thing that will survive the inevitable crash. You are the last member of the Creedish Suicide cult and protagonist in Chuck Palahniuk's novel Survivor. I know this because Tyler knows this. Packed with the savage apocalyptic intensity of Fight Club, Survivor begins at Chapter 47 and marches relentlessly on a countdown toward zero, telling the tale of a suicide cult's sole survivor, his rise toward fame and free-fall decent to destruction. Stop whatever you're doing and buy/borrow/steal a copy. Now. to Books by pjammer |
| Highly interesting look at the art and business of political cartooning in an interview with This Modern World creator Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow. to Politics by skallas |
| Dam,
dam,
dam,
dam,
dam,
dam,
dam.
There's lots of info about there about these nifty structures. You can take a
virtual
tour of the Hoover Dam or one of Stave
Falls, and for real fun you can play
Damagotchi.
to Reference by moose |
| Are you a US voter who wants to vote for Ralph Nader, but are afraid you might indirectly support George W. Bush? Swap your vote for Gore in a swing state for a vote for Nader in a Gore dominated state.
to Politics by akk |
| All right, look. First of all, it's no good
linking
"text adventures"
to a small directory of
shareware games,
when there are
hundreds
of free
text adventures
that
run
on
any
computer,
real
or
imaginary.
And second of all,
this
is the text adventure with the best
name
ever.
to Games by belford |
| Thursday Oct 26, 2000 | Your local forecast: Blazing
plasma fire is raining down upon you at over 620 kilometers per
second. Visit HAARP, the High
frequency Active Auroral Research Program, regularly if you're worried
that Earth's geomagnetic
field might not be able to ward off certain death. Have a nice
day!
to Science by braino |
| Shortwave radio rocks my little world, and the WWW Shortwave Listening
Guide tells me which parts of that world are rocking right now.
to Media by braino |
| Wait 10:13 minutes after the last official song on the X-Files Film Soundtrack to hear the "secret" track - Chris Carter explaining the whole shebang (listen to the mp3 or read the transcript). Turns out the X-Files conspiracy is based on the 1940 collaboration between France's Vichy régime and the Nazis: aliens are the Nazis, the world governments are the Vichy and the world population is the betrayed French people. But if everything is explained, why is the show still on? [ distant cash register noise ]
to Television by cricket |
| Strangers With Candy is like The Simpsons turned up to 11 - so intelligent, shocking and hilarious you won't believe it got on TV. I even dig the faux Crystal Method techno song that's been circulating on Napster. For extra creep-out factor, check out humorous nonfiction by Strangers star Amy Sedaris' brother, David Sedaris. He'll sometimes reveal the Sedaris household origins of something you'd assume too disquieting to be true - like feces mysteriously appearing on the bathroom towels... to Television by cricket |
| It's only fitting that I show you to the text adventure with the best name ever. to Games by djinn |
| It's possible to query image
databases by sketching
what you're looking for. Why hasn't query by image content gone
mainstream, then? Oh, right, it's by IBM.
to Photography by braino |
| Every time I've voted my conscience, I end up regretting it. So this year, I'm going to give my Presidential vote to the candidate with the hottest daughters. to Politics by pjammer |
| Rock. Paper. Scissors. Dynamite. Spock. Lizard.
to Games by boneyard |
| Disturbing Auctions features miscellaneous weird and/or disturbing items which have been listed on on-line auction sites.
to Web by keith |
| Fans of funny web comics should read my favorite sexual, anime-influenced web comic, The Thin H-Line. Well, unless they think that things like suicide, necrophilia, masturbation, tentacle monster rape, or incest are just plain wrong. to Comics by keith |
| Choking is
no joking matter.
Learn how to save others or yourself
with Dr. Henry Heimlich.
Once you know the technique, use it on your golden retreiver,
or your Dot-Com business.
The flash version is
here.
Don't get Mad,
just begin to administer CPR to your cat. to Health by gen |
| SoulBath: the banner ad is the enemy.
to Art by pjammer |
| Wednesday Oct 25, 2000 | Did the late medium Arthur Ford really discover Houdini's secret message that only he and his wife knew? As usual, some think so while others don't. While we're at it, lets ask Mr. Ford a question! to Occult by skallas |
| You have to love on-line petitions, especially ones that call Al Gore a spoiler for Ralph Nader and demand he step down. Or on a more realistic note, Dreamcast players are trying to get Sega to make a port of early 80's arcade hit Dragon's Lair. to Web by skallas |
| Be afraid. Be very very afraid. to Culture by djinn |
| Arrgh. Now that The Wave is out, I feel I've found the coolest web platform ever devised - my very own Commodore 64! Sadly, I can't afford an afterburner or a cool GUI right now, both of which are required...
to Computing by wwwwolf |
| I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the re-release of
The Exorcist
coupled with the broadcast of a TV documentary called
"Possessed" would create a
new wave
of reported demonic possessions.
Elizabeth Loftus
and other
scientists at the University
of Washington have done some fascinating research that indicates
one should be wary of supposed repressed memories. to Memetics by laurel |
| Every year, good Catholic parents wake up extra early to hide colored
eggs about the yard so their good Catholic children can find them.
Godless heathen programmers have usurped this wonderful celebration of
the rebirth of Christ by hiding features in programs, audio CDs and
other things to surprise and terrorize unsuspecting users, listeners
and watchers. What's more, they mock the Easter ritual by calling
these things "Easter eggs". This disgusting, heretical practice must
be stopped!
to Reference by braino |
| I bet a lot of you didn't know that Atari, maker of
fine video games such as Pong and now a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Hasbro Interactive used to build pretty fine computers.
That would be a shame since Atari computers are a part of many "0ld
5k00l" geeks' history. Go educate yourself at The Digital Antic Project.
If you still don't get it, "Antic" was a magazine for Atari computer
users, and a big slice of personal computing history sits between its
pages. If your personal computing religion included the Commodore 64,
you'll probably want to visit The
Def Guide to Zzap!64 or, if you're just into cover art, there's
this archive of lovingly
scanned and cleaned up Zzap!64 covers. And while we're strolling
down 64K memory lane, everyone who's ever pirated a copy of a Beagle
Bros. program should visit The Beagle Bros. Online
Museum and feel very, very bad. You know who you are and why.
Now if only I could find archives of "80 Micro", "inCider", and
"Creative Computing".... to Computing by braino |
| 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 |
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