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Friday
Mar 5, 1999
Softbank, the Japanese holding company and owner of Yahoo! and Ziff-Davis, pulls wool over the eyes of the investment community through some shady financial transactions.
to Finance by pjammer
14 ways to risk your life to make a living, all on The World's Most Dangerous Jobs. Why yes, I'd love to parachute in the face of a raging forest fire to dig firewalls for the breathtaking salary of nine bucks per hour.
to Reference by pjammer
Thursday
Mar 4, 1999
Pork is more than just the other white meat.
to Food by joshua
Wednesday
Mar 3, 1999
When you breed polydactyl cats with other polydactyl cats, you get Twisty Cats.
to Wackos by eclipse
A major influence to artists such as Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam, Czechoslovakian Jan Svankmajer crafts surreal works blending cinema, animation, puppetry, and a twisted imagination. His films can be difficult to track down in America, but are well worth searching for -- his rendition of Alice in Wonderland easily beats any NBC crap, and Faust will leave you with a mortal fear of marionettes.
to Movies by nyarl
Adbusters, an anti consumer-culture media group, is the author of the hilarious Joe Chemo ads. While you're there, be sure to let Prozac wash your blues away.
to Media by pjammer
What girl doesn't dream of getting married at the Mall of America?
to Culture by tregoweth
Tuesday
Mar 2, 1999
ICab, the new German web browser for the Mac now available in English and ready for test drivers. Less than a meg and does exactly what the big guys do, maybe better.
to Computing by occupant
BADMOVIES.ORG is crammed with informative reviews of pathetic films, but the real treasure here is the huge supply of sound, image and video clips.
to Movies by obvious
Speech researchers at UPenn have compiled a map of American dialects. This mapping is a part of the larger project of constructing a phonological atlas of North America.
to Science by riotnrrd
Fossils for sale, including rare invertebrates and some truly bizarre trilobites.
to Science by riotnrrd
The Dancing Hamsters epitomized modern technique and thought. But as the millenium approaches, we think more and more of a return to faith. In that spirit, may I offer you the Dancing Jesus?
to Religion by jacquez
Humans have downward-pointing nostrils, a dive reflex, skin-bonded subcutaneous fat, and a number of other peculiar traits that we share with aquatic mammals but do not share with other primates. The Aquatic Ape Theory attempts to give an evolutionary explanation of these and other traits. Needless to say, it's controversial.
to Science by arkuat
Monday
Mar 1, 1999
The O'Reilly reference book we all really need.
to Humor by bruce
An interesting smorgasbord of very well processed nudes intermixed with things like interesting and accurate articles about layer 2 telco technologies such as DS1/T1 service.
to Culture by peterb
There's only one way to avoid being suckered by the Bastard Operator from Hell's Excuse of the Day: Read the Frigging Manual!
to Computing by penth
Can't find the Erotica, Internal Organs or Firearms you need on Ebay? Check out what their competitors has to offer.
to Humor by pjammer
Steven Sailer, one of the best online essayists on society, race, and public policy, offers a lighthearted analysis of children's television programming.
to Commentary by pjammer
Really, more men should try to figure out what the best position to have sex in is, given their needs. Ejaculation control? MIN please!
to Sex by peterb
Sunday
Feb 28, 1999
Amazon.com readers review Bill Keane's latest Family Circus anthology, Daddy's Cap Is on Backwards. "Keane has proven that a self-aware dialectic of the absurd can rekindle the original existential realization that inspired Kierkegaard and his adherents."
to Books by faisal
Saturday
Feb 27, 1999
The Rotary Rocket Company's public display of their newly completed prototype takes place on Monday at 4pm. Flight tests supposedly start this year.
to Science by riotnrrd
Friday
Feb 26, 1999
If you really like stuffed animals (aka plushies) - that is, you really really like them - then the Furry Plushie Page is for you.
to Sex by eclipse
Import a Japanese carp for your pond for only $700, learn some Japanglish, and pick up some traditional Japanese clothing, all from Japan-shop.com.
to Culture by eclipse
How many ways can you fudge your absolute statements? Rip a page from The Curmudgeon's Stylebook.
to Linguistics by penth
Dan Winter's Sacred Geometry has beautiful geometric proofs of love, psi, and the Holy Grail. Scroll through his endless home page and relive your last trip.
to Wackos by taoist
What makes CG swarms swarm? Jurassic herds, Dalmatian scrambles, and Unreal fish follow the paths traced by Craig Reynolds' 1986 work 'boids'. The ~400x400 Java applet with 3D boids schooling and wheeling is worth a new browser window.
to Computing by taoist
Alan Watts intersected Zen Buddhism with the Western mind. A few of his lectures are available in transcript at the Alan Watts Electronic University. "I am also a you." - Alan Watts
to Religion by taoist
RageBoy shreds big media, intellectual property, and other tarpaper with hallucinogenic rants.
to Culture by taoist
"Do you have to be black to speak jive?" The Jive Page brings you the answer to this and other important questions, such as "What is jive?" Get your hands off my 'fro!
to Culture by eclipse
Ever see the guy who walks back and forth downtown with a sandwich board decrying the powers-that-be for stealing his soul? Well, now he has a web site.
to Politics by peterb
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