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| Tuesday Aug 6, 2002 | From Creationism to Evolution, everyone has their own big damn idea about how it all began. to History by fatherdan |
| If PETA's Commando Chicks fought PETA's Tiger Ladies in a cage match, who would win? to Pets by fatherdan |
| DJ Q-Bert, former member of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz (heck, these guys are so good, they made their own mixer) created a concept album by the name of Wave Twisters back in 98, which, among other things, maintained a story line throughout the entire LP. This fantastic record then spawned a unique multimedia project: Wave Twisters, the movie. Reason enough for me to finally buy a DVD player, despite the warnings about watching it too often. to Movies by wheezer |
| Monday Aug 5, 2002 | The Memory Hole digs up and holds out stuff that other people don't want you to see or would rather you quietly forgot. Like the patent that acknowledges how fluoride causes gum disease or a Senate report on gas price manipulation. to Society by braino |
| Are you jealous of the other SoccerMoms in the neighborhood because your current ride doesn't have the capacity to tote around the entire girls 11-and-under team? Don't pay attention to those environmentally-conscious Green Party nuts and their CAFE standards. Minivans are for bland wimps, not an independent-minded suburban warrior like yourself. If you think the new Hummer or Unimog are too pedestrian for toting the pre-teens to the mall, be the first on your block to own the next evolution in suburban assault vehicles. to Transportation by rich |
| Friday Aug 2, 2002 | Dude, if you don't buy into that 'Dude, you're getting a Dell'-guy's pitch, you might want to ask Andy to have his friends build you a computer instead. to Commerce by rich |
| Bicycles. Carpooling. Two seemingly contradictory environmentally-friendly commute strategies. OK, maybe you can get two people on a tandem, or even three on a triple tandem. But what if you want to move seven people on the same bicycle? That's where the Conference Bike comes in. Not so much a bicycle built for two, more a tricycle built for seven. Or if you fancy getting romantic with four more friends, try the Lovebike for size. to Transportation by elder |
| Aspiring evil villain? Get all of your lair, henchperson, and doomsday device needs taken care of at VillainSupply.com. And don't forget to browse the personals at their partner site, fatalmatch.com, helping those interested in commited violently sexual relationships. Happy hunting.
to Humor by fool |
| Thursday Aug 1, 2002 | The traditional Vision Quest, or 'Hanblecheyapi', has been a symbolic rite of passage for the youth of the Native American Sioux Lakota tribe since long before the 1985 movie of the same name hit the screen. It requires nothing more than a place of solitude and one's own discipline. Recently, two young men decided to go on their own Hanblecheyapi, opting to live on the mean streets of Seattle for a seven days giving up their super-premium coffee for more down-to-earth sustenance and resorting to getting their internet fix at a local webcafe. Although I'm sure it was an unpleasant experience, I'm a bit skeptical of the claim that they can now empathize with the experience of homeless people after their brief exposure to the discrimination and criminalization faced by the homeless everyday of their lives. As Mark Watson (a character in another seminal mid-80's film, by the way) pointed out to us, how can you really know what it's like to be homeless when you can go back to Starbucks in six days? to Commentary by rich |
| If you're desperate for a little lovin' and don't have any potential prospects in sight, you might want to hire 'professional help'. But, what if their prices are just too steep for you? While some people have sought the kindness of others to help them through a financially difficult time, others may need more fundamental assistance.
to Wackos by rich |
| Wednesday Jul 31, 2002 | You can
make your
own soap
by reacting fat
and sodium
hydroxide or another strong base. to Science by gator |
| Tuesday Jul 30, 2002 | Oh grow up and be a man, will you?
to Health by isosceles |
| Epicurean time travelers should beware ancient times because apparently Ho-hos and Deviled Eggs were only recently invented.
to Food by joshua |
| Monday Jul 29, 2002 | Sure, you could use silly chalk signals to find a wireless network but it'd be much cooler to use them to
evade mind control hot spots,
locate an acceptable pub,
avoid informants,
solicit a prostitiute, or even
buy some chalk.
to Overpropagation by joshua |
| Typorganism: never will you have more fun with words. to Flash by 7layerburrito |
| Saturday Jul 27, 2002 | Shows like Robot Wars, Robotica, and Battlebots would be way more interesting if they had a bunch of Plustech Walking Forest Machines duking it out.
to Technology by saucy |
| Friday Jul 26, 2002 | Jerry Springer. Love him or
hate him, he's
a part of our world. His show has even been used in a college
research experiment. But I don't watch the show for Jerry, or the
loons on the show. I watch it for Steve Wilkos, the head
bouncer. Yum!
to Television by moose |
| Follow the depressingly fascinating adventures of a newly-minted pornographer.
to Sex by buttercup |
| Wednesday Jul 24, 2002 | Video Orbits have theoretical uses beyond panoramic photography. The software stitches images automatically, and would be great for pasting large documents scanned on consumer scanning products, if I could only get the low overlap case to work.
to Computing by shadow |
| Tuesday Jul 23, 2002 | DjVu is intended to be an all-encompassing document format. You can get a free version from SourceForge or buy it from LizardTech. I find this very odd, as the most useful part, in my opinion, is the image compression technology, which looks like it would be great for maps and especially aerial photos. That market is currently served nicely by another LizardTech product, MrSid.
Indeed, LizardTech gives away various MrSid viewers and tools, but the image server software disappeared, taking along with it the tool which could be used to batch-decode images on Linux machines. For the hobbyist, product pricing is daunting, and hand-decoding isn't very useful, if the viewer software even supports GeoTIFF exports. At least someday GDAL will likely support DjVu, which will ease the space requirements of keeping a personal cache of geodata.
to Computing by shadow |
| In the unlikely surroundings of Death Valley, California, an opera house has been running for more than 30 years. Owner Marta Becket and her work are the subject of a documentary film now as well. to Art by fringehead |
| Sometimes I wonder what it's like to have an epileptic seizure. But not often. to Health by isosceles |
| There are few people on either side of the
abortion issue
who feel comfortable with
Neal Horsley.
His
websites
provide names and pictures of abortion clinic
workers
and
patients.
He says his activities have cost him his job. His solution? A
pro-life ISP. to Internet by n |
| Monday Jul 22, 2002 |
Who needs an online
zoo when you've got O'Reilly
& Associates? (You know, the animal book people.) Their
online catalog
has information on the habits, habitats, and histories of scores of
animals, from the
traditional to
the weird,
from the venomous
to the fragile,
from the simply endangered
to the probably extinct,
and from the appropriate
to the slightly surreal.
to Zoology by voidptr |
| She loves me, she loves not.
to Sex by buttercup |
| Dr. Chaz
M. Holder, recently
deceased , was quite a remarkable
guy. Look Ma! One
hand!
to News by fatherdan |
| Sunday Jul 21, 2002 | Who's
the
best
video
game
character?
Only a
voting tournament can decide. to Games by onigame |
| Saturday Jul 20, 2002 | Are scientists afraid of
Ed Conrad? He has proof that man is as old as coal and that there is life after death. He's been posting the evidence to Usenet for years and even has his own fan newsgroup. How long can he be denied? to Wackos by nelson |
| Friday Jul 19, 2002 | Wesley Willis wants you to have a very merry Christmas. to Flash by isosceles |
| 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 |
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