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| Wednesday Jan 3, 2001 | Dear pathetic Macintosh fanatics: IT'S OVER. YOU LOST. GET OVER IT. to Computing by peterb |
| In a world full of penis-stealing witches and drunken astronauts, I like to wind down with Mavis Beacon's version of House of the Dead. to Games by skallas |
| Tuesday Jan 2, 2001 | The Robotics Constructor is a versatile robotics simulator that allows one to try out different robotic designs within a variety of terrains and hazards. This site was spawned from
the Royal
Institute's Robotic
Lecture Series. to Robotics by laurel |
| George Kranz is a scary man. He provides JonBenet sex dolls to convicts, demands an industry standard of 30-40ccs of semen per cumshot in porno films and hunts for Boat People off the coast of Cuba. I personally like the posts in his guestbook from outraged vistors -- "Dude, I hope this is all satire. If not, may the FBI hunt you down and disembowel you; allowing many bad, bad things to happen to you first... maybe your own bukkake?" to Wackos by kade |
| Monday Jan 1, 2001 | If I ever decide to water cool my PC, please kick my ass. to Computing by peterb |
| AdultStaffing.com...
because you can't advertise some job opportunities on
Monster.com.
to Sex by tregoweth |
| "I'm
wearing second
hand
hats /
Second hand
clothes /
That's why they call
me /
Second Hand
Rose"
to Fashion by laurel |
| Sunday Dec 31, 2000 | Who are those blue guys obliquely
shilling for Intel? Blue
Man Group, acclaimed theatrical performers
and Mac users.
to Art by tregoweth |
| Hey, ladies...be careful about pulling down your tops when there are cameras around, or you'll wind up someplace like this.
to Web by tregoweth |
| Saturday Dec 30, 2000 | Attention, all Roman Catholics. The first weekend of January 2001 (6/7) is the last weekend to receive millennial indulgences to reduce punishment in Hell for moral sins. After all, purgatory is quite the bitch. to Religion by kade |
| Michael "Mucko" McDermott, the software tester who allegedly gunned down seven co-workers on Dec. 26, was an active Internet geek. Among his online activities, he registered the domain name mucko.com, actively posted on Usenet and established an Amazon wish list. to Wackos by kade |
| Miss the Cold War? Sure, we
all do! But do you realize how much of our film television
and music
is a direct result of nuclear
testing? to Culture by dha |
| Friday Dec 29, 2000 | f---edcompany.com is collecting donations for families of the victims of this week's shooting spree at Edgewater Technology to Culture by faisal |
| Thursday Dec 28, 2000 | Question authority. Then watch them squirm. to Commentary by kade |
| Wednesday Dec 27, 2000 | After being bounced from three networks, noted film critic Jay Sherman is back! to Television by tregoweth |
| The CONRO project is one of the first efforts
to create miniature, self-reconfigurable robots. You can look at some
simulations on their website. Stanford is
doing similar resesarch on their
Polypod robot which uses a
modular approach for its reconfiguration. to Robotics by laurel |
| It is difficult to place recent shooting sprees in their proper context without an objective ranking scale such as the Scoring System for Psycho Killer Shooting Sprees.
to News by joshua |
| Tuesday Dec 26, 2000 | It's not just old TV shows
that are being turned into movies (often bad ones), but
comics and cartoons. You can keep track of this at C2F. Sadly, the latest word on
the adaptation of Alan
Moore's The
Watchmen is not positive. to Movies by dha |
| Monday Dec 25, 2000 | Vib-Ribbon is a surreal and hard to explain game for the PlayStation. And it's from some of the people behind PaRappa the Rapper. And it's a black-and-white vector game starring a rabbit named Vibri. And you can play your own music CDs in the PlayStation, and the game will change based on the music's beats and tempo. (And, alas, Sony has no plans to release it in the U.S.) to Games by tregoweth |
| When President Reagan challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall' in a historic speech at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin in June 1987, I doubt he realized the consequences that would follow from the end of the Cold War. I wonder what he'd think of the latest mission for the folks at the North American Aerospace Defense Command, better known to most of us as NORAD since the 1983 movie "WarGames" gave us an inside look at the happenings at super-secret Cheyenne Mountain. to Government by rich |
| Sunday Dec 24, 2000 | Ghost Dog is an entertaining, sometimes poetic movie about an inner-city Mafia hitman who follows the Samurai code, as he understands it from Yamamoto Tsunetomo's 1716 book Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai. But Bushido (the way of the warrior) was an idealization, not a reality, and even scholars in Tsunetomo's time questioned the worth of warrior advice from someone who had never personally seen combat. So why has this collection of hypothetical advice become so popular with the influential? Could it be because Tsunetomo joins the ranks of Confucius, Plato and countless other upper-class writers who propose that the most noble act a lower-class person can perform is to obey superiors without question, even if it means death? to History by cricket |
| I remember
Bob Vila fearlessly reassembling a fallen deck way back when he was merely
the MC of This Old House, which incidently has been running for a consecutive
22 years on the flagship
PBS station WGBH in Boston.
A long way from those early times, the show now sports a magazine,
webcam,
merchandise, and in general
everything else you'd expect.
These days Bob occupies a sizeable estate in the DIY namespace,
been in a film, was almost an
astronaut, has been set up (in jest) with domestic analogue
Martha Stewart at least once,
been compared to a porn star,
and turns out to be a chosen one.
to Culture by urog |
| In spite of his relative obscurity (I saw him play a Moroccan bar in the basement of a Greenwich Village cafe), the solid song-writing and multi-layered harmonies of Mike Viola make him one of the undiscovered gems of the New York club circuit. Originating from the Boston music scene, you might have heard Mike Viola & the Candybutchers on a number of movie soundtracks including "Zero Effect" and as the vocals and music behind the song "That Thing You Do" from the movie of the same name. Find out what Mike's listening to, and where & when you can find him and the band live. to Music by rich |
| Only NotMilk.com would misquote the same New York Times article that mentioned the site. to Wackos by djinn |
| Saturday Dec 23, 2000 | December 25 is the birthday of one of the most important people in history -- Sir Isaac Newton. Happy Newtonmas!
to Science by tregoweth |
| If you're not in the Christmas mood, and
sick of all the crappy
toys, you might be interested in Anti-Christmas.
to Religion by rampage |
| Friday Dec 22, 2000 |
Pornography, art and the fine line in between... to Wackos by kade |
| The Eastern Sierra doesn't usually make the list
of places to see in California,
but it is worth a visit. Camping is free on BLM land, and theAlabama Hills
and Lone Pine
still serve as
Hollywood's wild west. The area is also home to the more controversial aspects of California's past. The Manzanar internment camp still stands, and the
bitter, sometimes violent, fights
over water rights in Calfornia
started here. Owens Valley, now part of
the City of Los Angeles, no longer has a lake
, but continues to have
health
problems due to the particles of arsenic, cadmium and other toxins swept from the parched lakebed during windstorms.
to History by birgitte |
| Thursday Dec 21, 2000 | E-Com-Con Corp. makes the powerful Octium IV microprocessor, which is capable of nearly 7 billion calculations per second (6.8 gigaflops). They also market an alternative OS, are working on an Zero-Gravity Automobile InitiativeTM, and are extremely spooky.
to Entertainment by jon |
| For those in extreme need of a hobby: see if you qualify to stalk William
Shatner.
to Television by dha |
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