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| Thursday Dec 14, 2000 | Whenever guests from out-of-town visit me in New York City, they're always bothering me about getting tickets for television show tapings. Some shows are easier to get tickets for than others. My secret? Audiences Unlimited. They offer free tickets to over 60 television shows if you're in New York or Los Angeles. But, if you're in the mood for something a little more intellectual (and you live in the Philadelphia area), I recommend that you sign up for tickets to Justice Talking -- National Public Radio's town hall-style forum that takes an in-depth look at the matters currently at stake in our nation's courts. to Television by rich |
| YaBB (Yet Another Bulletin Board) is a bulletin board program that offers the same powerful features of UBB but its free. Isn't open source grand? to Web by kade |
| When some "hip urban chicks" set up GeekBoyServices.com to help turn geek guys into hip urban dudes, I'd bet they didn't expect a response like GeekGirlServices.com where geek guys try to turn those hip urban chicks into nerdy, geek-loving, girls. to Humor by mdm |
| The user-fed database of "Guess the Dictator and/or Television Sit-Com Character" might very well someday gain enough contextual knowledge of the world to achieve sentience and take over said world. But for now it can only, well, try and guess the dictator and/or television sit-com character you're pretending to be. to Internet by singe |
| Put Michelle Yeoh and
Chow Yun-Fat together with director
Ang Lee and you get Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the best movie of 2000.
Reviews: USA Today, NY Times, Time Asia, Salon, People, NY Mag, EW, NY Post, NY Press, a radio interview on NPR, and my own on epionions. Can someone please introduce me to Zhang Ziyi? to Movies by gen |
| angry little asian girl is what you get when you repress your childhood anger. to Comics by gen |
| Wednesday Dec 13, 2000 | Next time, a devout Christian claims they saw the face of Jesus on a glass -- don't laugh, they might be telling the truth. to Religion by kade |
| Billionaire financier, George Soros, wrote in The Atlantic Monthly, that there is a big difference between a market-driven economy and a market-driven society. In a second article, he clarifies his position further, detailing the social deficiencies of a global capitalist system and calling for an "global open society" to help protect mankind in the future. to Commentary by gen |
| Prepare for the second coming of Christ with Divine Interventions, home of the Baby Jesus Butt Plug. to Sex by nyarl |
| The latest extreme in body modification isn't cheap -- in fact, it'll cost you an arm and a leg. to Wackos by sylvar |
| Tuesday Dec 12, 2000 | One of the most surprising details of the Swarthmore football story is that the decision
isn't about money.
Instead, they want to limit the number of students admitted based on athletic talent so they can build a more diverse and talented student body. The big talk on campus (other than the angry yelling
by some pro-sports parents
and alumni) is about process: the board of
this Quaker school didn't make
the decision
by consensus. This isn't too surprising, since one of the board members is the former president of the National Football League. to Sports by sam |
| Stop clown porn now! to Sex by tregoweth |
| On Monday, December 4, 2000, Swarthmore College's Board of Managers announced that it had voted 21-8 to end the 1,500-student liberal arts and engineering school's 121-year old tradition of fielding a varsity football team. Students and alumni are divided over the decision to cut three varsity sports (including football, wrestling, and women's badminton), which the Board argued was necessary in order to allow the school to devote the resources required to continue its tradition of academic integrity (and its place on the US News & World Report rankings). to Sports by rich |
| If you think about it, those "lose weight fast" and "make money fast"
signs posted at street intersections are a lot like spam. to Outdoors by tregoweth |
| I'm not one to hype commerce sites, but this one has a folksy style, unusual products, at fair prices. No auctions. Just pick out what you like and buy it. You can find something for everyone on your shopping list. to Commerce by rsf |
| Monday Dec 11, 2000 | Fat girls can be quite sexy too, regardless of what the completely banal, unreal and imperfectly-perfect world on television might have some folks believing. to Sex by monde |
| On December 2nd, 1999 Bill Gates was assassinated in MacArthur Park; since tht time, Citizens For Truth has waged a lonely battle to determine the truth behind the act. They have recently agreed to be featured in the new documentary about the assassination MacArthur Park to Politics by mpc |
| A New Mexico university professor has saved the front pages of several well-known websites from May 1996. They are:
AltaVista, Microsoft, Progressive Networks, Shareware.com, UPS, Xing and Yahoo. to Web by kade |
| The internet has exposed me to a wide array of unusual sexual fetishes. While I try to be as tolerant I can be, I draw the line at people who fantasize over the Columbine High shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. to Wackos by kade |
| So, a revolution overthrows the current regime and is replaced by a military
dictator who brutally enforces a misguided economic regime, promoting suffering and
eliminating human rights until he gets kicked out by the will of the people. Communist
Russia? Nope, Laissez-Faire Chile. to History by mpc |
| Saturday Dec 9, 2000 | You'll "go postal" for the U.S. Postal Service's
spiffy
merchandise! Check out the hip Postal
Blue and Rain
Sleet Snow collections! (And, er, the nifty
Daffy Duck stamp T-shirt that I actually did order.) to Commerce by tregoweth |
| Web Graffiti sites in their various forms can be a fun way to waste time, or to anonymously get something off your head that's been driving you around the bend, or to just post lots and lots of strange and silly pictures, poems, or just about anything else that comes to mind...and then successive visitors to the site can do one of three things: leave it as it is, erase it completely and put their own somethings there, or alter it in some way all their own. Metababy has been around providing a venue for perpetually alterable content for a while but is currently undergoing some sort of restructuring and the proprietor is being Very Enigmatic about the reopening date. This is the perfect opportunity to take your rampant Instant Graffitification urges to The Vortex Asynchrone, or to Sketchzilla. to Web by monde |
| CheesyJesus.com...putting the god in godawful. to Religion by tregoweth |
| Friday Dec 8, 2000 | TSR Wireless has recently fallen on some tough times, but don't take my word for it -- dial +1 619 287 5558, and find out for yourself. to Commentary by dnm |
| Al Gore - just another tree hugging liberal or the next Unabomber? to Politics by kade |
| The exact etymology of
yankee is not known. to Linguistics by birgitte |
| For those who love those
colourful building blocks for kids and also six wacky
Englishmen
(and their minstrel),
we are proud to present
Monty
Python and the Holy Grail in
LegoVision. to Art by sck |
| Thursday Dec 7, 2000 | Are you a person who believes that rules exist only to be broken? You'd probably enjoy Nomic, a "game" which solely consists of the process of inventing, debating and implementing amendments to its "rules". If you like your ever-changing-rules games to have something solid in them like cards to "ground" you, you could try Fluxx or Eleusis. And if you want your chaos, and your cards, and also want to have the players drawing the pictures on the cards to be played while they are in the middle of playing them...there's the most creatively-inspiring of the lot: a game called 1000 Blank White Cards. to Games by monde |
| Everyone knows that the top spot for Unintentionally-Entertaining Translational Screw-ups is Babelfish. But not everyone knows that there was a sort of Babelfishically-goofy book long before there was Babelfish...before there was internet, or computers, or even television. to Linguistics by monde |
| As global
anticapitalism spreads, so does global anti-anticapitalism.
Apparently anticapitalism is
"rebellion against Original Sin . . .
a protest against the human condition to work by the sweat of our
brow."
to Commerce by birgitte |
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