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| Tuesday Aug 20, 2002 | Fifteen years ago,
John Sculley
of
Apple
begat a vision of the future of personal computing. The dream inspired
successful
products,
unsuccessful
ones, and
sheer fantasies.
Written by
Hugh Dubberly
and
Doris Mitsch:
The original
Knowledge Navigator video.
(15 MB QuickTime movie --
mirror,
mirror,
mirror)
to Computing by belford |
| 110 Stories
in the World Trade Center, that was.
to Poetry by belford |
| Monday Aug 19, 2002 | What do Anna
Nicole Smith, Buffy
the Vampire-Slayer and Enterprise
have in common? They all suck, they're all from outer space and they
are all mercilessly, yet lovingly reviewed by people at Television Without
Pity who are clearly smart enough to be embarrassed at the amount
of time they spend thinking about this stuff.
to Television by attila |
| If you're in New York, drop your chalk, get a camera and cabfare, and start running.
to Internet by joshua |
| Sunday Aug 18, 2002 | If you don't understand who fhqwhgads is in Everybody to the Limit, perhaps this e-mail passed you by. to Flash by onigame |
| Parody king Weird Al Yankovic, like everything else in American pop culture, now has a parallel universe version of himself for the born-again set. listen and compare if you dare. to Music by fringehead |
| Love me, love my oral irrigator. to Humor by moose |
| Saturday Aug 17, 2002 | Forget The Two Towers, what you really want is this ~4MB QuickTime movie about Bilbo Baggins, sung by a man who needs to eat more salsa. Or, if you'd prefer, just listen to a RealAudio version of it here. Or, hell, just go get drunk. to Music by crikey |
| Itching to start a collection of favorite words like usufruct, salubriety, and diaphanous? Well, some folks already beat you to the juicy ones like
NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHSTROMONT. Espy their collection of
word oddities and trivia.
to Linguistics by fool |
| Friday Aug 16, 2002 | Kartoo is a relational search engine interface. Instead of displaying a list of links, in ranked order, it displays the results of a given search in a graphical, networked format. Nodes are linked to each other by common terms, which you can add and remove to further restrict the search graphically. The links between the nodes are color coded, allowing you to, with minimal effort, see how terms relate different sites, and nodes are displayed by size, according to relevance to the search term.
to Internet by imploded |
| Origami:
animal,
vegetable,
mineral. to Art by goboro |
| Thursday Aug 15, 2002 | Have you ever experienced back pains, an attraction to the number 11, demonic possession, contact with the dead, or the feeling that you are the tool for the devil to draw portraits of evil looking people? If so, please let us redirect you.
to Occult by 7layerburrito |
| Apocalyptic predictions are frequently made but soon forgotten after they fail to come true.
to Wackos by joshua |
| Finally, the Internet allows us to plunder yellow snow for its communicative possibilities. to Communication by crikey |
| It's clear that some people want Arnold Schwarzenegger to run for governor of California (an idea he's actually mulling). If he runs, perhaps then we'll finally get an explanation of a certain amazing Japanese advertisement he was in. to Commerce by crikey |
| "Hi, Billy Mays here!" to Business by crikey |
| Mint in Romania? Rub it in. Everybody's doing it! to Humor by monde |
| Wednesday Aug 14, 2002 | John Holmes, deceased
porn star icon and
MIT student.
to Sex by fool |
| Reminiscent of
"My Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable",
Seanbaby has a
collection appropriately entitled
"Kick to the
Groin" comics.
Juvenile humor is the bestest.
to Comics by fool |
| Space Imaging,
Terraserver and Spot offer easy access to
satellite imagery but
Global Security
and Cryptome's Eyeball offer satellite imagery analysis.
to Warfare by gator |
| Tuesday Aug 13, 2002 | When I was a young lad, I would often see cartoons of
Yosemite Sam singing the first few bars of
"Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum." Little did I realize what an
utterly gruesome song it was.
to Music by isosceles |
| Monday Aug 12, 2002 | I was mildly interested when I read that an error-proof prime number test was found. But, I got distracted by prime number games, mazes and spirals.
to Mathematics by dross |
| Sunday Aug 11, 2002 | Contrary to what you'd probably think, Hand on a Hard Body doesn't have anything to do with sexual hijinks. It chronicles one of many contests in which the last participant standing and touching a vehicle gets to take it home. Those eager to try their hand at standing for 81-some-odd-hours should beware the professional competition. to Movies by fool |
| Friday Aug 9, 2002 | Although it seems that Davey and Goliath are making a return to TV, the Christian efforts of Ned Flanders have not gone unnoticed. In fact, an upcoming religious festival features a tribute night that promises a lookalike contest and the tribute band Ned Zeppelin. To hear (realplayer needed) it from the organizer Ned is both humble and faithful though not necessarily all a joke.
to Television by gsean |
| Joseph Stalin once said that
"quantity has a quality all its own."
Although he was probably talking about
infantry
divisions or
tractor quotas, it's
equally true of
pet ownership.
Witness the not-so-fine line between being a mere
"cat lover" and a
full-blown
crazy
cat lady. While a
cat lover
may own two or three pampered
felines, a true crazy cat lady owns dozens (or more) and doesn't let
concerns like her ability to
feed,
house,
or clean up after her "pets"
get in the way of her obsession.
Some of America's champion crazy cat ladies include:
Gloria
Davis from Sarasota, FL (100+ cats),
Elizabeth
Riddle from Richland, PA (100+ cats),
Beverly
Hardacre from Methuen, NH (more than 150 cats),
Bonnie
Kemppainen from Virginia, MN (155+ cats),
Marilyn Barletta of Petaluma, CA
(196 cats)
Debra Rexelle
from Modesto, CA (212 cats)
and, as the reigning Queen of Crazy Cat Ladies,
Hanne Kaea
from Omaha, NE with a whopping 270 feral cats living in her house.
to Pets by riotnrrd |
| Overweening computer advocacy meets an amazing incapacity for humor in the remarkably unfunny #!/usr/bin/perl, the sitcom.
to Wackos by joshua |
| Thursday Aug 8, 2002 | Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science has received a great deal of popular attention, but does it really live up to the hype? Reviews and commentary range from the skeptical to the unimpressed to the humorous to the downright cruel.
to Science by xihr |
| Wednesday Aug 7, 2002 | Don't forward
that incredibly important email without doing a little
fact checking first.
to Overpropagation by joshua |
| Tuesday Aug 6, 2002 | Foodporn: porn for foodies.
to Food by borges |
| From Creationism to Evolution, everyone has their own big damn idea about how it all began. to History by fatherdan |
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