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| Friday Aug 31, 2001 | Suppose someone tells you that you're going to hell. What are you going to do? to Humor by onigame |
| There have been various efforts to modernize the games of the Ultima game series, or to make them run on modern machines. The latest, and admittedly pretty nice-looking reworking of these classics is Ultima IV: The Dawn of Virtue, which based on screenshots looks like sort of cross-breed of Ultima IV and Baldur's Gate, made by the same guy who made Falcon's Eye graphics patch for Nethack. to Games by wwwwolf |
| Thursday Aug 30, 2001 | Living in the big city can be a bit dangerous. Maybe you'd be better off in a town a little smaller. to Culture by idat |
| Just imagine what you could do with a giant magnifying glass ... to Flash by nucleus |
| While we can only ponder what crimes Bush is committing against humanity, we know too well of his crimes against the English language.
to Linguistics by borges |
| Play PC games? Ever wish you could separate the wheat from the chaff, but without giving in to the Big Corporations?
The Independent Game Festival's list of winners is a good start. to Games by onigame |
| Wednesday Aug 29, 2001 | Before Clint Mansell scored films like Pi and Requiem for a Dream he was the front man of the band Pop Will Eat Itself. to Music by klint |
| Think the weather has been a little crazy lately? It has. to Science by borges |
| Who Wants To Be a Cheapass? is a small trivia quiz about something you already know about. (Or something you should know about.) I got up to the $125,000 level myself. to Games by onigame |
| Take your kids to Sunday school...ARGGGHHHH! SATAN IS GOD! These and
other musical blasphemies may be found at the Bran
Flakes' site.
to Music by fatherdan |
| Tuesday Aug 28, 2001 | It's all about Sausage By Mail. Please do not forget your etiquette, either. (You know, the scary thing is, they have a photo gallery, too.) to Food by imploded |
| Sure, once they say Yobaseayo, Weiwei, or Moshimoshi, you can tell. But before that, don't they all look the same? to Culture by onigame |
| In 1978,
DC comics
cancelled 31 comic titles (while adding only 8
more). This dramatic reduction in the number (and page count) of
DC comics became known as the
"DC Implosion"
(in reference to DC's own
"DC Explosion" ad campaign of a few years earlier). Several of these
cancelled comics hadn't even been published yet, so to preserve their
copyright, DC put out a collection called the
Cancelled
Comic Cavalcade.
Thankfully, information, plot summaries and artwork from this
ultra-rare publication has been collected by
Mike Grabois.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Worship from afar,
cringe
from up close.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Forget Miss Manners, Heloise, and the demoded duo -- Ask the Police Expert is a (now-defunct) advice column with advice that you can actually use. Or if you have a more specific question about criminal law, there are tons of experts just waiting for your questions. to Law by onigame |
| Monday Aug 27, 2001 | Remember when you couldn't get Coors in the eastern United States? (Actually, I don't, but that's beside the point.)
Well, some friends recently introduced me to Cheerwine (it's a soft drink),
first in cake form (see the sidebar), and 2 months later
in liquid form. It's only available in the southeastern United States unless you want to
mail order; I opted to
road trip to Elkins, WV to get some.
to Food by shadow |
| CyberSEALs, an online community of U.S. Navy SEAL veterans, offers handy tips on How to spot a Navy SEAL faker and dedicates countless man-hours to maintain an updated Wall of Shame (which lists names, contact information and claims of exposed SEAL poseurs). Indeed, CyberSEALs is so serious about hunting down phony SEALs they maintain a 24-hour online response form so you can check up on that stranger or job applicant who brags about being a "former U.S. Navy SEAL," but blows off questions when pressed about details on his military career because they're classified "in the interest of national security." to Warfare by pjammer |
| Join the quest for the perfect Camel Toe today... no camels involved.
to Sex by buttercup |
| Sunday Aug 26, 2001 | Joe Lieberman's
latest kick is the
Media Marketing
Accountability Act of 2001, which would
prohibit
marketing any media product with an adult
rating to kids.
Of course, all the current
rating systems
(even the new, web-enabled ones)
are voluntary... so the MPAA finally has an excuse to discontinue its
stone-age rating system.
to Media by voidptr |
| Beware of the gross grocery manipulation...you are being enslaved by your neighbourhood supermarket. to Conspiracy by monde |
| What the Drugs Taught Me is an autobiographical comic that ran in The Stranger about one man's experiences with drugs. What did he learn? That smoking pot makes you cool. to Comics by klint |
| Saturday Aug 25, 2001 | Looking for a new sources for musical inspiration? It all depends on how you look
at it. Harry Partch looked
between the staff lines to explore microtonal
composition, and built some new
instruments to make it possible. Metasynth
can help you uncover some synesthetic
possibilities. For some, the vision of future
music is inspired by planets,
Mandelbrot sets,
or..cats? to Music by asosa |
| Friday Aug 24, 2001 | Opi8 is a really cool online magazine featuring columns such as Dial C for Chaos (the latest of which details the fall of "spy punk"), the wonderful goth comic strip Writhe and Shine, Jason Lex's Awful Science Fair (one of the best online comics out there), and a series of online comics by Andrew Dabb (who Warren Ellis calls one of his favorite young writers). to Web by klint |
| Beer must kill brain cells -- why else would a certain brewery insist that you be over 21 to visit the Web site of a "non-alcoholic brew"? to Beer by tregoweth |
| Thursday Aug 23, 2001 | Lots of destinations post websites encouraging you to visit. Unfortunately, here's one place you can't visit anymore. to Travel by boneyard |
| For those of you
interested
in making your own
magnetic
ferrofluid
sculptures, order a
liter of the magic
goo from Carolina scientific supplies.
Or make your own
(certrifuge, toxic chemicals and mutagens are required).
For the more dedicated researchers, the original paper that this technique
is based on can be
ordered from the JCE.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Girl Genius is a wonderful comic by
Studio Foglio. It's got Giant steam-powered robots, fantastic airships, bizarre creatures, and a really cute steampunk heroine named Agatha. They've also created a strategy card game called The Works which contains themes from the game. to Comics by laurel |
| Wednesday Aug 22, 2001 | The strange odyssey of Crispin Glover: From Happy
Days, to Hollywood, to a
bizarre confrontation
with David Letterman, to fiction
writing, to music
and spoken word recordings, to real
estate, to avant
garde cinema and performance art, and back
to Hollywood, Crispin Glover might be called a modern day DaVinci..or
something like that. to Art by asosa |
| Schlock Mercenary is probably one of the few science-fiction comic strips out there that actually tries to be scientifically consistent. Not that you'll notice; you'll be too busy laughing at the humor.
to Comics by onigame |
| The infamous
and ubiquitous blue screen of death. If you've
left a PC running a Windows product for more than an hour at a time you have
most likely experienced it yourself. Not
even Chairman Bill can escape its hoary clutches. Take heart, now you can
finally experience the pink
screen of death and others! Or why not join in the fun and amuse your friends
and terrify your enemies with the BlueScreen
Screen saver.
to Computing by asosa |
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