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| Tuesday Feb 6, 2001 | You don't have to be in prison or even behind bars to make your own license plates.
to Art by mrbill |
| "Take the HAL 9000, mix in some Talking Moose, a little Bugs Bunny, a
Stooge or three, plus a whole lot of attitude and what do you get? DeskBots, the
robotic talking desktop companion!"
to Computing by dha |
| From a co-author (and, ahem, co-subject) of the
British Medical Journal article
"Magnetic
Resonance Imaging of Male and Female Genitals
During Coitus and Female Sexual Arousal," a
first-hand
account of gettin' it on in an MRI scanner.
to Sex by tregoweth |
| Some people consider Usenet to be the cesspool of the Internet. I've found it to be the opposite. With proper filtering and categorization, sites like yarchive can result in many hours of productivity lost and tons of interesting facts gained. My particular favorite happens to be an anecdote about Iraqi tank ammo in Desert Storm. to Culture by mrbill |
| Monday Feb 5, 2001 | Finally! Web-enabled coffee sleeves! to Coffee by tregoweth |
| I used to think the Internet was populated by the intellectual elite of the world. I was wrong. to Culture by joshua |
| Sunday Feb 4, 2001 | Who cares about the Mars "face" anymore now that we've got heart shaped craters and smiley faced craters.
to Science by skallas |
| Why font smoothing? It slows things down and hurts my eyes, but some people actually like it. to Computing by djinn |
| Saturday Feb 3, 2001 | Hey baby, wanna shag? to Sex by djinn |
| Friday Feb 2, 2001 | I've seen a few episodes of Scrapheap
Challenge (or, Junkyard
Wars, as it's known in the more combative USA), and it's great
fun. The official sites are about what you'd expect, but
the NERDS answer all the
interesting
questions from their experiences on the show.
to Television by gator |
| Happy Groundhog Day. Did you catch the esteemed Punxsutawney Phil's prediction via streaming video? You didn't miss much. I still don't understand why the presence of shadows (and therefore sun) indicated six more weeks of seasonal affect disorder. to Culture by akk |
| Thursday Feb 1, 2001 | Stock
Market not going your way? Sure, you've tried
Following
The
News, dabbled a bit in
Technical
Analysis, maybe even checked in with a
Higher Power? Sure, those would work if this were the Twentieth Century. Wake up! It's time to check
Maria's Hair.
to Finance by skyhook |
| Some say cannibalism is bad for you, and they offer scientific
proof. Others say that when push comes to shove, cannibalism
is the only choice. Naturally, we should all be concerned about the serious
problem of chicken cannibalism.
In retrospect though, who among us can say that he or she hasn't dabbled
in cannibalism at one point or another? to Food by fatherdan |
| It's a little known fact that the
golden-age actress
Hedy Lamarr
and avante-garde composer
George Antheil
invented
frequency-hopping
spread spectrum radio communications.
In that same vein, did you know that
Cindy Crawford briefly attended
Northwestern University
on a chemical engineering scholarship (before abandoning
that field for a
more lucrative one)?
Not to be left out,
Mayim
Bialik (Blossom, from the
eponymous
sitcom) is doing her PhD in
neuroscience at UCLA.
And finally (for now),
Danica McKellar, who
played Winnie (the narrator's girlfriend) on
"The Wonder Years" graduated summa cum laude from
UCLA with a degree in mathematics.
She's even been published (more than most undergrads can say); her
article appeared in Britain's
Journal of Physics A: Mathematics
and General in 1998.
Incidentally, this makes her one of the few people in the world with both
a finite
Bacon number (2, through
Wally Rose) and
a finite
Erdös number
(4 through Chayes, Roman Kotecky, and David Preiss,
or Chayes, Robin Pemantle, and Svante Janson).
She also offers an online
math advice
column!
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jan 31, 2001 | Emulation got you down? Play Zelda and lots of variants running natively under DOS/Windows. to Games by george |
| As if you needed another reason to put off finding a girlfriend: Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds and Space: 1999 are finally being released on DVD, in the States, in their entirety. Anderson's model studio developed the techniques and trained the artists who made 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, James Bond, Batman, Krull, Alien, Aliens, and Dragonheart. to Television by cricket |
| Russia's Salyut 1 was
the first space station put into orbit, on April 19, 1971, losing a few cosmonauts
before deorbiting into the Pacific Ocean in October. Skylab lasted from
1973 to 1979, raining debris across the Indian Ocean and Western Australia when
it crashed to Earth. Hanging over our heads these days is Mir, expected to crash on March 6th, 2001 and the
much-touted third brightest object in the night sky (after the Moon and Venus), the $100
billion
International
Space Station. The
ISS has a little-publicized projected lifespan of 15 to 20
years, after which the orbit will decay and it will hopefully not land on
anyone you know. [sigh] The future's not what it used to be.
to Science by cricket |
| I've been getting a lot more attention from cute chicks ever since I learnd about the electron band structure in Germanium. to Science by peterb |
| Tuesday Jan 30, 2001 | Being an @Home user myself and sick of their poor service, I'll sign any petition that acts as a method to channel my rage instead of shooting up my local cable provider.
to Web by kade |
| Ever wondered what a Battlestar Galactica Daggit really was? The shocking truth revealed.
to Television by loothi |
| Monday Jan 29, 2001 | Why, everyone knows where Jesus was raised and buried: someplace in Japan. Personally, I'm partial to the sexually ambigious black Jesus. to Religion by skallas |
| The phone phreaks amongst us will love this uber-complete History of the Phone Company, which also happens to be the first web page I've seen thats nice enough to make me want to order a copy of it on CD-ROM. to History by mrbill |
| The real problem with Seti@Home is the unimaginative names. Who would you rather see catch the next Wow! signal, a corporate ad like Sun Microsystems, a lame Monty Python reference, or The Great Culinary Search for Delicious Aliens. Of course a mention of Seti@Home wouldn't be complete without mentioning ways of hiding it from your boss. to Computing by skallas |
| Is there any nobler art form than the computer industry
promotional T-shirt? View the artifacts on display
at GeekT.org and
Apple T-Shirts
and decide for yourself. (And if you want some
for your very own, you may wish to consult
a friendly
dealer.)
to Computing by tregoweth |
| Counter to what Ken Burn's Jazz series would have the world believe, there is a wealth of great jazz music that doesn't fit into Winton Marsalis' stale, stodgy, music history revisionist world. Take, for instance, the history of jazz organ music, which is exhaustively detailed at the International Archives for the Jazz Organ. Or perhaps you'd like to know about the history of jazz after Charlie Parker and Louis Armstrong? Freejazz.org is full of running commentary and discussions about where jazz has been and where it’s going. Latin Jazz Network covers just about any questions about its nebulous history. And what exactly is Brasilian jazz? Swedish jazz has a long history too. Chicago station WNUR has a useful music map/flow chart on the evolution of jazz as well as a useful and simple list of jazz musicians, which includes most of the major players in current and modern jazz, a number of entries which have their own links to more in depth information. And many important artists have their own sites or comprehensive sites about them, including Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Pharoah Sanders, Anthony Braxton (and the Tri-Centric Foundation), John Zorn and his Tzadik label, Eric Dolphy, George Russell, and one of the better sites about Cecil Taylor is nothing more than a thesis on his music.
to Music by mrradon |
| Nothing says "My business is all about wretched excess" more than stainless steel business cards.
to Gadgets by skyhook |
| The future of American democracy depends on
YOU! (and a fast mouse click...)
to Humor by gen |
| Sunday Jan 28, 2001 | Add your favorite to the generic gallery of the American classic meal, Macaroni and Cheese.
to Food by gen |
| Say you run a porn site
and you want to do some good in the world. So you decide to donate some of your profits to charity.
What happens when they
find out where the money
comes from? to Sex by moose |
| Ragtime music is more than rinky-tink
whorehouse piano music; it was a delightful syncopated American hybrid of African
and European music. Around the turn of the century, it was played by everyone
from string bands to orchestras.
In short, its rich history deserves to be explored
in depth.
to Music by fatherdan |
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