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| Monday Feb 18, 2002 | Hotels
have been built out of
ice.
Everyone from the
ancient Balinese
to
Frank Lloyd Wright
has built on
water.
But the NY architects
Diller+Scofidio
are the only ones wacko enough to try
creating
a building out of water vapor
(or so it will
seem).
Visit at
Swiss Expo '02,
assuming it
works.
to Art by belford |
| Sunday Feb 17, 2002 | Thanks to the dilligent efforts of some inspired people, you too can be world famous for fifteen minutes. to Art by engelbot |
| Saturday Feb 16, 2002 | Hailed as something we love to hate, the Am-I-X-Or-Not phenomenon seems to be running out of things to rate. Of course we're all curious if people think our raw sex, animals, and cars are hot. But if you really want to find if you're hot, why not whip out your PDA at the next party and programatically see if you're hot enough for some PDA. It will work wonders for your sex life.
to Culture by fool |
| Some people love their pets a bit too much. to Pets by laurel |
| Friday Feb 15, 2002 | If you thought Richard D. James was a bad girl, wait until you see Dubbya! to Art by fringehead |
| When you get a good one going, why not immortalize it? Their competitor makes sure the ladies aren't left out either. True connoisseurs will want to join the club.
to Fashion by fringehead |
|
Obscene t-shirts, for
adults, fine;
but these baby clothes are
slightly worrying. to Fashion by elder |
| Thursday Feb 14, 2002 | Many Finnish children's programs get dubbed for export.
Most of the dubs are good, but some are
not so good,
particularly those from a company called
"Agapio
Racing Team".
Here's some
serious evidence
why some movies and TV programs should not get dubbed.
to Television by wwwwolf |
| Be more careful with your tugboat, ok? to Transportation by fringehead |
| Wednesday Feb 13, 2002 | Are you tougher than Bronson
Pinchot? Find out in this
rather dull tug-of-war contest. Wait a minute: is that really supposed to
be Jackie
Chan?
to Shockwave by fatherdan |
| Quake brought us Rocket Jumping. Counterstrike brought us Bunny Hopping. Now Halo brings us the Warthog Jump.
to Games by kade |
| Ännihilation: dee-generation, navigation, information, automation, presentation, textualization, visualization. Whoa. to Art by roo |
| We are obsessed with the things that we cannot change:
the
weather,
history and, of course,
death.
So indulge your need to
quantify
the
unknowable and take
some
quizzes
to
calculate
your
life
expectancy.
Then, if you're feeling especially
morbid, plug your expected
death date into the
Life Clock
and watch your precious time on Earth tick, tick away.
to Health by riotnrrd |
| Sir John
A. Macdonald,
commonly known as
"Sir John
Eh?", was the
first prime
minister of Canada, and as "colorful" a
politician as you could wish on your worst enemy.
Drunken,
corrupt, and immensely popular,
he held office from 1865 to 1873 until his administration was
felled by
scandal.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Catholics around the world are celebrating Ash Wednesday, and most will abstain from eating meat today. So why will they have fish? Fish are cold-blooded, and therefore don't count. By that logic, I guess snake or turtle is acceptable then, too. to Religion by petek |
| With DJ'ing having become something of a pop phenomenon, and the competition in the various championships being as hard as it is, now would be the perfect time to branch from the vinyl to another semi-obscure music medium - the cassette. Heck, maybe one can still win those championships...
to Music by wheezer |
| Tuesday Feb 12, 2002 | Newsflash for geeks: J.R.R. Tolkien didn't invent Modern Fantasy! He consciously followed in the footsteps of the genre's trailblazers: E.R. Eddison, Lord Dunsany, William Morris and George MacDonald. None of which answers the juiciest mystery raised by Lord of the Rings, namely "Is Frodo gay?" to Literature by cricket |
| So, what do you do when you have forgotten to iron your shirt, and you are on the top of the mountain? Well, iron the shirt at the top of the mountain. to Culture by leptirica |
| Diecorp is currently beta-testing a wireless
handheld p2p player with a claimed download speed of 1 mb per minute -
the RIAA is going to have a field
day with this...
to Technology by wheezer |
| Bring me the head of Jesus de Christo. Warner Sallman created the most popular, and prettiest, portrait of Christ ever. to Religion by fatherdan |
| Monday Feb 11, 2002 | Did you know that No Talent Ass Clowns of Tech Support have their own theme song? to Music by faisal |
| Sunday Feb 10, 2002 | Yet another way to satisfy your
Settlers of Catan craving is to play WanCatan. This network friendly game supports multiuser play much better than NetSet and also allows you to play the Cities and Knights and Seafarers expansions simultaneously. Additionally, you can use the chat client Wanna Catan to allow you to seek other people to play with. There is even a ranking system. to Games by laurel |
| Looking for a GPS
tracking
application? Xastir may be just the thing, even if you don't have an
amateur radio license.
to Cartography by shadow |
| Sure, Serial Experiments: Lain was mind-bending. Perfect Blue and Blood: The Last Vampire were scary (in their own ways) as well. The Kikia flash animation, however, nearly frightened me to death.
to Art by caspian |
| Saturday Feb 9, 2002 | I sit on the couch. I watch TV. But no matter what I do, I can't get Magical Sound Shower, one of the songs from a Sega arcade game OUT OF MY HEAD. You can listen to it at The Arcade Museum, if you dare. I tried to find some other videogame music to drive it out, and stumbled onto the "Party Remix" (what the fuck?) version of Saria's Song from the first N64 Zelda game, The Ocarina of Time, at vgmusic.com. If you can tolerate the cheesiness of MIDI, it's pretty neat. Excuse me, I have to go listen to the theme to Sonic the Hedgehog again and again and again and again... to Music by peterb |
| Friday Feb 8, 2002 | If you think that Sketchzilla
can get crazy, then you haven't tried Poo.com,
a combination no-holds-barred HTML chat site and terrifying internet performance art forum.
to Internet by lucky |
| In one corner: mild-mannered public
radio host Terry Gross. In the other: KISS'
Gene Simmons.
Ready...fight!
to Music by tregoweth |
| Thursday Feb 7, 2002 | There is only one way to properly bury a drunk. Don't forget to add Meister Brau (see illustration). to Humor by fatherdan |
| Wednesday Feb 6, 2002 | As far as your music conspiracies go you've got your Paul is
Dead and the more recent Richey James Edwards is not dead
(well, except for maybe legally). There is the idea that Morrissey foretold the death of
Princess Diana and there is the infamous Pink Floyd/Wizard of Oz connection. But don't ignore the enormous One Love
Story. It suggests that everything
the Stone Roses did (their lyrics, their cover art, even magazine cover
appearances) was a clue to a higher meaning. Drummer Reni is the
Messiah, while the rest of the band, Noel Gallagher and Richard Ashcroft are all Angels. Some are hopeful, but alas, Mani (the Roses'
bassist) shot the story down in an
interview. to Music by gsean |
| Children, beware of the evil Keyboard Woman. Got to wonder if she is a relative or self-proclaimed Peter Pan. to Culture by leptirica |
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