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Friday
Jul 19, 2002
Does it seem like there's a lot of crop circles this year? Disney Pictures is now being accused of creating numerous fakes for its upcoming movie, Signs. There's certainly a lot of interest. So why hasn't it been in the news more?
to Conspiracy by petek
Meet the relationship map (or sex chart), proving everybody's doing it. Lesson: stay protected, or else.
to Sex by petek
Thursday
Jul 18, 2002
The real Stick Wars isn't a Flash site, a Star Wars parody, or a Venetian brawling style -- it's a nifty and remarkably diverse multi-state cellular automaton co-"invented" by Mirek Wojtowicz and Rudy Rucker. (Java recommended.)
to Computing by voidptr
Jim Traficant, one of the most colorful politicians around, originator of such terms as "Bric-a-Bracin, ratchet-fratchet nincompoops" and "Internal Rectal Service", was quite vocal during congressional proceedings regarding his recent actions. Beam me up.
to News by isosceles
Wednesday
Jul 17, 2002
Ali Davis, a member of of the improv musical comedy troupe Baby Wants Candy, was recently featured on This American Life, reading excerpts from her hilarious True Porn Clerk Stories. Read her tales and be glad that your job doesn't involve handling videotapes covered in lube.
to Humor by riotnrrd
When not destroying space monsters with his devastating Specium Ray, Ultraman makes for a delicious dessert.
to Television by fatherdan
Coagula is an image synthesizer -- create and manipulate images and then turn them into sound by the inverse of the spectrogram function.
to Music by joshua
Sesame Street may have expanded their horizons recently, but Bert and Ernie's coming out at Sundance was not well-received by their owners.
to Television by fringehead
Tuesday
Jul 16, 2002
"Suddenly, Robert's flawless technique was interrupted by an uncontrollable desire for freshly squeezed lemonade."
to Sex by fatherdan
Spiderman will make you gay. (So will this mug.)
to Sex by roo
Monday
Jul 15, 2002
For the low price of $10 you can travel into the distant future.
to Transportation by onigame
Eeeagh! Flying octopus! But beware: God hates kites.
to Toys by belford
Sunday
Jul 14, 2002
Pop quiz, hot shot. You're not so bright, you live in the most expensive city on the planet, you're living far beyond your means, and you've racked up an enormous credit card debt. What do you do?
to Finance by roo
When you are worried that your messages to aliens are going to look like cyphertext that needs to be decrypted, you should study up on Anticryptography.
to Science by enigma
Friday
Jul 12, 2002
On November 16, 1974, a self-decoding message was sent from Arecibo Observatory towards the M13 globular cluster.
On August 21, 2001, their response arrived.
to
Art by joshua
Thursday
Jul 11, 2002
Bizarre mistranslation or just remarkably Dada? Strangely compelling, either way.
to Comics by joshua
You haven't lived until you've seen Cobra: The Musical.
to Art by isosceles
It's probably a good thing that there's an objective site about the media coverage that furry fandom gets, as well of some of the drop-dead hilarious satire. I still don't understand what armpit-shaving has to do with it all, though.
to Culture by onigame
Wednesday
Jul 10, 2002
Thrillseekers Unlimited will generate an exploding, burning, arsenal-toting, zip-lining, kung-fu-fighting show for you! Say, isn't Grandma's birthday coming up?
to Entertainment by fatherdan
Monday
Jul 8, 2002
Ted Williams, the cranky but revered Red Sox outfielder died Friday, July 5th. Major league baseball is planning a tribute to the legend at Tuesday's All-Star Game in Milwaukee. His former team is planning a July 22 memorial service in Beantown. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, former teammates and other baseball greats are blasting Williams’ son, John Henry Williams, for his apparent plan to cryogenically freeze his father in the hopes of someday harvesting his DNA for cloning.
to Science by rich
Google running too slow for you because of all the traffic? Try the Google mirror.
to Humor by onigame
Sunday
Jul 7, 2002
Mashimaro: He's a rabbit, he's cute, he's got lots of fans, and he's gotten quite heavily merchandised. His name is the Engrish word for "marshmallow". He has cute forest friends. But what's with the plunger?
to Culture by roo
Friday
Jul 5, 2002
Preschool Protocops looks almost too professional to be a flash animation. See if you can figure out which voices were done by Matt Chapman, of Homestar Runner fame.
to Flash by onigame
The legendary New York Dolls got their name from a very unusual hospital. And it's not the only one. Plus, of course, there's fan fiction.
to Toys by fringehead
Wednesday
Jul 3, 2002
Honest lawyers!?
to Law by sam
Tuesday
Jul 2, 2002
It seems that being a mathematician is a dangerous enterprise at times; just ask Hypatia and Galois. And you thought they were all squares.
to Mathematics by fool
Over the past few weeks, lots of people (enough for search engines to notice) have received email from "Ryan and Jacob" that begins: "There is something extremely wrong with every single person in this world. They seem to be part of a pointless simulation" After some Matrix-inspired philosophical rambling, the authors present a puzzle to lead dedicated searchers to "their" homepage (and possibly a second one) which is owned by Anthony Bourov (who works for the Web hosting company called addr.com).
to Wackos by riotnrrd
Monday
Jul 1, 2002
Neither Linux on a wristwatch nor a wristwatch camera have quite the panache of the Seiko TV Watch ( circa 1982.)
to Television by joshua
Friday
Jun 28, 2002
The secret lives of numbers: "an exhaustive empirical study to determine the relative popularity of every integer between zero and one million."
to Art by fool
Get your Bill of Rights, Security Edition -- perfect for surrendering to airport security.
to Commerce by tregoweth
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