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| Thursday Nov 2, 2000 | The Goth thing has been going for so long that they've all grown up and got jobs. So it's apparently time for them to get furniture, including beds for undead pets and the Entertainment Center of the Damned. to Culture by fringehead |
| Meat Wars: Star Wars meets Red Meat via the Red Meat Construction Set. to Comics by kapital |
| I recently spent a week in the Heartland of America. Little Rock, Arkansas is found at the crossroads of America's South and the Midwest regions; the result is a unique combination of Middle American cultures that truly frightened me a lot. It's a place where you can get ANYTHING 'Chicken Fried', where George W. Bush seems like a genuinely nice guy who is merely getting a bad rep from the media, and where the Governor lives in a triple-wide. Do you still think it's merely a coincidence that Arkansas is also the home state of retailing titan Wal*Mart or our esteemed President Bill Clinton?
to Travel by rich |
| Brutal News -- your source for up-to-the minute misery. to Web by kade |
| Nadersucks.org is, surprisingly enough, not published by the Democrats but by the Libertarian Party of Seattle.
to Politics by kade |
| Dancing, in its many forms, is a very natural thing. But someone always has to take it too far: Dancing with cats and dancing with dogs. to Wackos by imploded |
| Sure, Distortions are
fun, but now even the most Photoshop-phobic websurfer can try it on these two famous guys. Need more people to Javawarp? Try the list at
Javawarp's homepage.
to Web by skallas |
| There are alternative voting systems to the ones the US uses, and many of them are detailed in Donald Saari's book. It's a good introduction to why we often accept the lesser of two evils (and I'm not talking about Cthulhu, you weenies). And as long as I'm on the subject: why the fuck isn't election day a national holiday? Please don't forget to vote next Tuesday, whether you vote for Gore (and his daughters,) George W. Bush, or George W. Bush.
to Politics by peterb |
| Wednesday Nov 1, 2000 | A man, a plan, a canal... to Linguistics by djinn |
| Poets House, a New York City-based organization with a unique mission plan and an amazing library collection, has collaborated with the New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library to create Poetry in the Branches, which they hope will eventually become a nationwide program. to Linguistics by djinn |
| Mournless yet grateful comic strip style tribute to the late sci-fi great Philip K. Dick. to Literature by skallas |
| Tuesday Oct 31, 2000 | 'Tis time of year to again artfully
lop up a gourd: even with this late start,
one has all
sorts of
wonder
to aspire to. to Art by goboro |
| Wpoison is a helpful "web poisoning" tool that trickles fake email addresses into spammers' bulk lists. Help drop poison into the water today! to Internet by succa |
| Monday Oct 30, 2000 | Why diaryland.com is mostly a complete failure. It's called the shift key and no, you're not the next e.e. cummings.
to Web by skallas |
| If you live in NYC and are interested in meeting some of the Memepool crowd,
we will be gathering for dinner on Tuesday, October 31st at Menchanko-Tei Restaurant 131 E 45th St (between 3rd and Lexington) at 8pm.
Please drop a note to dinner-nyc@memepool.com if you will be coming.
Bonus points for wearing a promo t-shirt from a bankrupted dot-com!
to Memepool-News by joshua |
| Spice up your desktop with amazing wallpaper backgrounds at EndEffect. to Art by kade |
| You can too compare apples and oranges (pommes et oranges) and even onions. to Food by djinn |
| Elves
are not just for the fantasy genre anymore.
Milind Tambe and his colleagues at
The University of Southern California have done some fascinating
work with intelligent agents (aka "elves") that
can coordinate with other elves to schedule meetings, order meals, and track
other users of the system using GPS devices. to Computing by laurel |
| Why vote for the lesser of two evils, when you can just vote for evil? to Politics by boneyard |
| Sunday Oct 29, 2000 | Think Nader and Browne are just too mainstream? Cyberculture repenter R.U. Sirius needs your vote in his Fuck the Vote campaign. Does he still make too much sense for you? Try the wacko-infested write-in candidates list for others. to Politics by skallas |
| If you've got a rain of frogs on hand, Charles Fort
would have been the man to call. Unfortunately, he's dead. Even
though, given Fort's devotion to weird phenomena, that might not
actually stop him, it's fortunate that many have carried on the study of
Forteana. One of the best known
current sources of information in this area is The Fortean Times, a magazine
devoted to carrying on Fort's work. Sort of a Skeptical Inquirer for those not
quite so skeptical. to Occult by dha |
| "Quite simply, if you haven't seen this, your life is incomplete." This
quote about The
Curious Dr. Humpp really applies to the whole of the Something Weird video catalog. Something
for everyone (except possibly one's parents): Blaxsploitation trailers,
drive-in theater
intermission films and so much more! Oh, and, of course, pornography.
Frighteningly, they have started releasing DVDs. to Movies by dha |
| The Dancing Jakob Nielsen. Get jiggy wit it. to Web by dnm |
| What better way to spend a lazy Saturday and what better task to allocate a few beers for than shooting inanimate objects with various types of weaponry? The answer, of course, is filming the activity and posting clips online. to Culture by singe |
| Most everybody knows about that anime that caused Japanese kids to have seizures a few years back. Let's try that again. to Humor by singe |
| Privacy International,
a
privacy
watchdog group based in London and Washington D.C., has just
announced a new set of
Big Brother Award
"winners."
Highlights include the
European Telecommunication Standards
Institute's
Lawful Interception Working Group, which is designing
standards for
eavesdropping
on
digital networks;
Adolf Ogi, the man
behind
Satos 3,
Switzerland's version of the notorious
Echelon system; and everyone's
open source darling:
Apache.
to Law by riotnrrd |
| Hotendotey --
kind of
like
"Red Meat" but
much
more
offensive.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Spring forward, fall back:
Daylight Savings Time
confuses, enrages, and plunges
Trick-or-Treaters
in the dark. It breaks
computers.
It
saves
lives
in the fall, only to
take
them
back
in the spring.
At least it wasn't involved in the correlation between
the
dog star Sirius
and
the
sinking of the Titanic.
Should we abolish
the
conspiracy
today?
to Science by nelson |
| The signal to noise ratio at alt.tasteless, the disturbing yet interesting newsgroup, is pretty low but there are enough archived posts to keep anyone who isn't faint of heart entertained. As always, if you're planning on posting to any newsgroup please read the FAQ first. to Internet by skallas |
| 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 |
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