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Thursday
Jul 1, 2004
Because humans and chimpanzees share roughly 99% of their DNA (this number is in question), it is believed by some that these two species can crossbreed. The resulting theoretical hybrid would be called a humanzee. There are rumors of humanzees, but no hard evidence. In the 70's and 80's, a unique chimpanzee named Oliver was believed to be a humanzee: he preferred to walk completely upright, drink and smoke, had an odd smell that was considered neither human nor chimpanzee, lack of hair on his head and humanlike facial features. A recent test shows that he is genetically a chimpanzee, and is either a new subspecies or a random mutation. And so, while Oliver enjoys the golden years of his life, the search for the humanzee -- and its ethical ramifications -- continues.
to Zoology by isosceles
Wednesday
Jun 30, 2004
Sometimes you might feel as if you've really dug yourself a hole. That's all well and good, but before you equip your hole with internet access and then put pictures on the web, be sure you've got enough bandwidth to handle it. Even then, sometimes demand exceeds expectations. For these cases there is bittorrent.
to Internet by fool
Tuesday
Jun 29, 2004
Giorgio Moroder is well known as the composer and producer of many famous soundtracks and songs. He also designs sports cars, makes short films, and buildings. Truly, Giorgio is a renaissance man.
to Music by caspian
Dog Toy or Marital Aid?
to Humor by yoyology
My job sucks and I work with fools.
to Humor by riotnrrd
By now, GPS drawing has become old hat, so there is only one place left to take it: the third dimension.
to Art by riotnrrd
Upload an image of some text to What the Font? and it will (try to) determine what font it uses. Neato!
to Web by riotnrrd
Friday
Jun 25, 2004
Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to document graffitti of little octopuses around New York City.
to Art by riotnrrd
"Rather than dedicate the racoons' penis bones to overpopulated humanity, we placed them by our pond, where visiting raccoons would benefit from the resultant sexual potency and fertility among their own species."
to Outdoors by riotnrrd
John Byrne, legendary comics author and artist is writing a fun, retro webtoon.
to Comics by riotnrrd
India gets its first web-swinging superhero.
to Comics by roo
Thursday
Jun 24, 2004
I'm not a dumpster-diving gutterpunk, I'm a freegan, man!
to Culture by riotnrrd
Worst gameroom ever.
to
Games by riotnrrd
Tuesday
Jun 22, 2004
In a classic David and Goliath confrontation, Irdial-Discs, experimental independent music label from the UK, brought a High Court action against WEA International over their CD release "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" by the group Wilco, which flagrantly infringes Irdial's copyright. "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" bears a track entitled "Poor Places", which contains one minute and thirty seconds of sound from "Phonetic Alphabet Nato" lifted directly from disc one of the quadruple CD "The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations". The Conet Project track features a female voice repeating over and over the phrase, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot", which Wilco took for the title of their critically acclaimed CD.
to Music by wheezer
Monday
Jun 21, 2004
Grindcore is now transhuman, thanks to Caninus and Hatebeak.
to Music by fringehead
Sunday
Jun 20, 2004
The Avalanches got permission before they copied other peoples' copyrighted material. Did the Beastie Boys?
to Music by roo
Thursday
Jun 17, 2004
You are asked to pray for or pray against George W. Bush.
to Religion by tregoweth
After nearly six years, the Beastie Boys finally have a new album out. But don't get too excited. Turns out, if you try to play it in your Windows machine or Mac, it installs "copy protection" software without your permission, which you may not even be able to uninstall. People aren't very happy about this.
to Music by riotnrrd
Friday
Jun 11, 2004
Automotive journalist Robert Farago combines the wry insouciance of P.J. O'Rourke and irreverent humor of Hunter S. Thomson. Farago's website, The Truth About Cars offers whimsical cultural commentary in its lively reviews of new cars.
to Reference by pjammer
Andrew Clay Silverstein called himself the "Diceman", but he wasn't the original. That honor belongs to George Cockcroft who, under the pseudonym Luke Rhinehart, wrote the 1970 novel The Dice Man. It's a fictional account of the life of a New York psychiatrist, also named Luke Rhinehart, who suddenly chooses to shake up his staid, prosaic life by giving over all his decisions to the literal roll of the die. The book was based on the author's real experiences of living randomly beginning in his teenage years, and it sparked a movement that continues today in various serious and not-so-serious forms.
to Culture by yoyology
Chiff & Fipple: your gateway to tinwhistle greatness.
to Music by yoyology
Wednesday
Jun 9, 2004
Cover every roof on your block with sod, and other conceptualist pranks.
to Art by fool
Monday
Jun 7, 2004
If you take a cool album, and find its best song, and then you listen to just the coolest part of that song, it's possible that your ears might explode from sheer sonic awesomeness. Are you prepared to TAKE THAT CHANCE?
to Music by riotnrrd
Dedicated fans of Lucas Arts' NES game Manic Mansion have re-made it but what's the dirty secret behind this not-so-dirty story game?
to Games by riotnrrd
Friday
Jun 4, 2004
A good idea with a brain-peelingly poor execution: ASSASSIN'S NIGHT: A DEEPER DARKNESS takes web comics to a newer, stupider dimension with the addition of roll-over animations, repetitive metal guitar riffs, and the worst animated blowjob I've ever seen.
to Comics by riotnrrd
UFOs, crystal skulls, Roswell, the beginning of the Aquarian age, healing energy and on and on and on for hundreds of pages.
to Wackos by riotnrrd
Next time you build your own dollhouse, make sure to leave room for an arcade.
to Toys by riotnrrd
Thursday
Jun 3, 2004
Implosion World!, your one-stop-shop for building implosion pictures, information and videos.
to Reference by riotnrrd
Enjoy the world's most popular form of short cinema with this archive of dozens of music videos from famous directors and film collectives.
to Music by riotnrrd
Baka Jesus-san! It's Christian anime! (Now with 33% less tentacle rape).
to Comics by riotnrrd
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