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Monday
Oct 8, 2001
The World Wrestling Federation presents a parents' guide to smackdowns and such.
to Parenting by tregoweth
Programs that print themselves are called "Quines". If that's not enough recursion for you, then try Godel, Escher, and Bach. Or perhaps you'd rather read the book by Douglas R. Hofstadter.
to Mathematics by tourist
Sunday
Oct 7, 2001
Tired of getting busted in tasteless attire? What you need is a pimp hat.
to Commerce by fool
Saturday
Oct 6, 2001
The Zodiac was a San Francisco-based serial killer who wore a bizarre costume, sent coded messages to the police and newspapers, and was never apprehended. There were many Zodiac suspects, but none stranger than...BATMAN!
to Wackos by fatherdan
Friday
Oct 5, 2001
Spammer forges domain name. Owner of forged domain name, who happens to be a techie, gets revenge. Hilarity ensues!
to Internet by tregoweth
Who knew there was such a market for tchotchkes commemorating intellectual property awards?
to Commerce by gator
Likemynudephotoand its sister sites, alt and adultfriendfinder don't waste any time getting to the good stuff.
to Sex by tourist
What is your secret hobbit name you pale, sexless geek?
to Literature by fatherdan
Thursday
Oct 4, 2001
Ever wanted to send an email to some anonymous stranger, message-in-a-bottle style? You can...with Email Roulette.
to Internet by monde
When you're a kid they're dolls; when you're an adult suffering from arrested development, they're action figures. Aboyd.com won't judge you. They present the best in figures portraying obscure media icons like Young Frankenstein,Norman Bates, the Forgotten Prisoner of Castelmaré, and...R. Lee Ermey?
to Toys by fatherdan
Instead of letting someone else do your homework, why not read the original text yourself? It is bound to be more accurate, plus it is cheaper than the bookstore and easier than the library!
to Books by enigma
Wednesday
Oct 3, 2001
OpenUniverse is a really cool free astronomy program that renders the solar system vividly. Decent video card recommended.
to Astronomy by obvious
Of all my childhood memories, one of the most bitter and disappointing was my experience with Sea Monkeys. Promised a happy, aquatic nuclear family, we were given instead a few stinking brine shrimp. Clearly, I was not the only one scarred by this experience.
to Toys by riotnrrd
Anyone who's read Usenet has seen "do my homework" requests thinly disguised as questions. With the advent of the web, the burden of this search for "knowledge" is shifting to the web and, as always, there are people out there eager to mislead and confuse the lazy and dishonest.
to Education by riotnrrd
Ever wanted to know how to swear in Yapese, Macedonian, or Esperanto?
to Reference by avi
Comicbook magus Alan Moore wrote From Hell partly as a reaction to most Jack the Ripper stories, which pay lip-service to denouncing serial murder while transparently pornographing it: "The lushness of the bosom, the glint of the knife, the exciting music..." Alas, to judge by the trailer, the upcoming From Hell movie is everything the novel was written to oppose.
to Movies by cricket
New photoshopographic evidence sheds new light on the Sep 11 attack and other recent events.
to Conspiracy by faisal
Anthrax - the sheep disease...and bioweapon. The unthinkable threat that is getting more scary in these weird times. By the time you know you've inhaled it, it's usually too late. There's a vaccine - but good luck getting one: even military personnel started running out of vaccine in June 2001.
to Warfare by monde
Tuesday
Oct 2, 2001
The first rule of fight club is no one talks about fight club. The GroundPounders®, however, have a Web page. So does their founder Sammy Franco.
to Warfare by fatherdan
You could gape in fear at one of the world's ugliest couches, or you could try to buy a contender.
to Fashion by fool
The Ejection Site contains everything you ever wanted to know about hitting the silk -- or just pretending to. And if you bail out over the desert, find out what the scorpions that might be hiding in your boots are injecting into your bloodstream.
to Reference by tourist
Monday
Oct 1, 2001
Comic Book Guy also has a video game rental store. .
to Culture by joshua
I don't care if they look neat; I'm not putting something in my eyes as part of a Halloween costume.
to Fashion by tregoweth
If today's comics links have you wanting to book a superhero for a special event, Marvel can help you out.
to Comics by tregoweth
Strangely, one of the best comics news sites around is from a geek in Canada.
to Comics by jcs
Kevin Smith wrote a comic for the New York Times' Style Section about how he met his wife. It is very much in the style you would expect from him, and it, umm, includes new fall fashion.
to Comics by keith
Weapons for him. Weapons for her.
to Fashion by kade
Sunday
Sep 30, 2001
Some people are so obsessed with rock stars that they turn into dangerous stalkers. The rest of us can just look thorugh the collection of pictures taken by someone who already knows the rock star. Britneeeey!
to Culture by faisal
Friday
Sep 28, 2001
The US General Accounting Office publishes an immense flow of reports on subjects from the topical to the obscure.
to Government by gator
Thursday
Sep 27, 2001
Apparently, everyone knows that Nostradamus predicted it, but I found it odd that random number generators may have predicted it, as well.
to Science by brainwave
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