memepool
robotomy
[ articles posted by Date ] [ recent articles ] [ Search ] [ archives by Date | Subject | Author ]
Saturday
Nov 16, 2002
Here's a sure sign that the Doom Generation is old and rich: they have their own aerobics now.
to Health by fringehead
Friday
Nov 15, 2002
Those having trouble keeping track may wish to consult A Photographic History of Michael Jackson's Face.
to Music by joshua
Just because Playboy has a "reality TV show" doesn't mean you should submit freakish audition tapes. Warning: contains nudity and idiocy.
to Sex by faisal
Thursday
Nov 14, 2002
Cockfighting: once the sport of kings, now the sport of the underworld. Cockfighting (also known by the more snicker-inducing name "cocking") is still popular around the world, but is illegal throughout the U.S. except in New Mexico and Louisiana. Despite support from celebrity advocates, it appears that cockfighting will never regain its status as a legitimate sport. However, that doesn't mean there aren't farm websites, web portals, magazines, online art galleries, photo albums, forums, and stores devoted to it.
to Sports by riotnrrd
Most of the time, sex toys are hidden away, but Phallix makes blown glass erotica almost pretty enough to display on your coffee table.
to Sex by yoyology
Classmates.com and Alumni.net are great if you actually had friends in high school. If, on the other hand, you communicated at 2400 baud with other text-only geeks, you want BBSMates.com. Track down your pals from ISCA or Heinous [login as "bbs"], or find a new crew.
to Internet by yoyology
Wednesday
Nov 13, 2002
Enterprising (and sufficiently insane) tinkerers can do a wide variety of dubious and dangerous things with the microwave oven sitting so innocently in their kitchen. Besides shooting it with a gun, or using it to melt metals, you can perform various dangerous experiments with superheated liquids, coils of wire, steel wool, bars of soap and flash bulbs. You can also use a microwave to create ball lightning, take it apart in order to build a microwave gun or to build a device that disables video cameras. Just make sure to wear your Faraday cage underpants!
to Gadgets by riotnrrd
Drew's Toothpaste : it's what's for dinner.
to Comics by fringlehunter
Tuesday
Nov 12, 2002
Tensegrity structures, usually thought of as toys or art objects, may also be useful for cheaply constructing large enclosures.
to Science by riotnrrd
Railguns aren't just for amateurs anymore. enterprising engineering students and their older and scarier professors are building the weapons of the next decade.
to Warfare by fringehead
With the aid of a little acid, British military exercises devolve into one man climbing a tree to feed the birds.
to Drugs by fool
Although "lorem ipsum" is the typesetting industry's standard dummy text, other typolalia such as etaoin shrdlu (i the two leftmost rows on a Linotype typsetting machine's keyboard) and pangrams show up now and again, as well.
to Literature by joshua
Monday
Nov 11, 2002
Come to Pittsburgh and visit the Robot Club and Grille, the world's first fighting robot themed restaurant. (They also do children's parties!)
to Robotics by riotnrrd
Sacre bleu! There are so many cool French comics! Do you remember pipe-smoking superhero Mister X? Or the flamboyant motorcycling crimefighter Motoman? Or the bizarre antihero Satanik, who only robbed and killed other criminals? And who could forget reading Otomox: Master of Robots while eating camembert and sipping chardonnay before school, mes amis? Despite all this, are you prepared for the ultimate team-up of Batman and... Tintin!?! (BTW: Other Tintin parodies abound.)
to Comics by fatherdan
Friday
Nov 8, 2002
Hey, hippie! Get a haircut! Then donate the results to Locks of Love to give kids with Alopecia areata their own personalized hair pieces. Come on, you can't expect their many generous donors -- especially "Gary" -- to do all the work, can you? Say, what's Crystal Gayle up to these days? Five feet? Ten?
to Health by fatherdan
Mother nature: pornographer extraordinaire. Everything from puzzlingly complex to blatantly phallic.
to Photography by geofforama
Thursday
Nov 7, 2002
Upload a photograph to LEGO and they will sell you only the parts you need to construct a mosaic. This can be taken to extremes.
to Art by urog
Johnny Disco wants you to know about his career in television in film and the conspiracy against him, but apparently not about his sinister connection to Canada.
to Wackos by fringehead
Wednesday
Nov 6, 2002
Wonder Woman, though she has faded in the comics, is still the original superheroine archetype. Her spiritual children are legion, including pop culture icons like Buffy and Xena, and many a deviant fantasy can be traced back to her, but there are more obscure people out there fighting the good fight.
to Culture by yoyology
Tuesday
Nov 5, 2002
Ever been to a really bad wedding? It could be worse ... much, much worse. All this and more at Etiquette Hell.
to Society by tjs
Monday
Nov 4, 2002
Now there's an IMDB just for cartoons!
to Movies by fringehead
Russell Wattenberg started The Book Thing as a personal project to distribute used books when he was a bartender. Not every project combining books and bars is quite so noble.
to Books by yoyology
I thought this might catch your eye.
to Flash by fatherdan
Sunday
Nov 3, 2002
Bring even the slowest car from zero to sixty in less than three seconds with Skydriving.
to Transportation by fotbon
Saturday
Nov 2, 2002
When did dub become the stylish genre? The Infinite Wheel portends a strange union of anime, 70s kitsch and, head-candy groove. At least metal will never change.
to Music by urog
Dumb Warnings (brought to you by the friendly folks at the Dumb Network) collects warnings of all kinds: infamous, bizarre, and humorous. Though some could easily be written off as translation errors, others approach the sublime.
to Humor by yoyology
Friday
Nov 1, 2002
Step on the gas and speed into a new micro-fetish: pedal pumping, where good old fashioned foot fetishism has a head-on collision with the sexualization of the automobile.
to Sex by riotnrrd
Thursday
Oct 31, 2002
You'll find the cure for smallpox, the password to heaven , and "over 50MB of other Rome busting info" at Reformation Online. Happy Reformation Day!
to Wackos by pad
Steve Quayle is convinced that the gentle giants of our childhood myths are a conspiracy and instead are something far more sinister.
to Wackos by joshua
Wednesday
Oct 30, 2002
When found audio meets loop-based editing, the inevitable result is Owny Woo.
to Music by ron2112
copyright © 1998 - 200666666 memepool.com - all rights reserved. for entertainment purposes only. all content is provided as is, with no warranty stated or implied regarding the quality or accuracy of any content on or off the memepool.com website. all trademarks, servicemarks, and copyrights are property of their respective owners.
To find out how to become a regular contributor, contact contrib@memepool.com
To tell us about a link or two, contact link@memepool.com
Questions and comments should go to comments@memepool.com
Memepool is run by Joshua Schachter and Jeff Smith