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Monday
Jul 19, 2004
No More Fairy Tales! Librarians Against Bush.
to Libraries by yoyology
Thursday
Jul 15, 2004
Each of Jason Kronenwald's portraits are made entirely from chewed bubblegum on a plywood backing; no paint or dye is used.
to Art by riotnrrd
Lists of things that are the "new black" are the new black.
to Culture by riotnrrd
Tuesday
Jul 13, 2004
If you think luggage searches, xray machines, and metal detectors will prevent hijackers from getting weapons onto airplanes, think again.
to Warfare by riotnrrd
Transformer porn: soiling your childhood, one memory at a time.
to Sex by riotnrrd
The World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things Traveling Roadside Attraction and Museum is coming to a town near YOU.
to Society by riotnrrd
The animals over at BuddyZoo let you compete for the title of the most popular instant messanger out in the college wild. But the social zoologists among us really want to sit back and calmly observe the animals through the bars. IMWatching does exactly that, only stopping short of letting you feed the critters peanuts.
to Zoology by fool
We all know that E Pak Sa is a hip-hop dub master, but did you know he also wrote the most awesome disco anthem ever recorded?
to Music by roo
Everybody loves Raiders of the Lost Ark, but how many people loved it enough to set themselves on fire?
to Movies by yoyology
Sunday
Jul 11, 2004
Ever Wonder what would happen if the two American Presidential candidates duel it out singing to the tune of Woody Guthrie's classic 'This Land' (*.ram file) in a Flash movie? Neither did I.

to Flash by pjammer
Nobody, especially linguists, seem able to agree on just how many words the Eskimos have for snow.
to Linguistics by nucleus
Saturday
Jul 10, 2004
When New Zealand resident and engineer Bruce Simpson, out of necessity, declared himself a freelance cruise missile designer, he started the same path taken by Dr. Gerald Bull. Bull was an engineer who believed ballistics could send satellites into space; his funding cut, he pursued "Project Babylon" in 1980's Iraq and was found dead, presumably killed by foreign agents, presumably Mossad.. The controversy was revisited with a made-for-tv movie.
to Warfare by isosceles
Friday
Jul 9, 2004
Spam will never end, because there are 1,300,925,111,156,286,160,896 ways to spell Viagra.
to Humor by riotnrrd
Howtoons are one-page cartoons showing 5-to-15 year-old kids "How To" build things, like marshmallow guns, and an ice-skateboard.
to Reference by riotnrrd
Celebrate summer by making your own whistle from a willow branch.
to Music by riotnrrd
Make your own soda! And afterwards, you can wash your hands with homemade bacon soap.
to Food by riotnrrd
Thursday
Jul 8, 2004
Explore how the English language has changed by browsing this unabridged 1913 Webster's dictionary.
to Linguistics by riotnrrd
Things the web has taught me: how to avoid death in a manure pit.
to Outdoors by riotnrrd
Travel to exotic and beautiful India and enjoy their many colorful trashcans.
to Art by riotnrrd
Black people hate me, and they hate my glasses.
to Movies by riotnrrd
Wednesday
Jul 7, 2004
Are you for, or against?
to Politics by leptirica
Tuesday
Jul 6, 2004
The severed heads and pool of synthetic genitals makes me uncertain if this photoblog is from a porn convention or the home of a serial killer.
to Sex by riotnrrd
"I collect second-hand photographs of women and dogs. That's right, both women and dogs together."
to Photography by riotnrrd
It's rare that a flash game is both elegant, clever and has a downright good musical score. The only thing circles is missing is more.
to Flash by riotnrrd
Sunday
Jul 4, 2004
The relentless, mathematics-inspired drive to formalize everything has finally paid off in juggling. At least it might give us a nice screen-saver.
to Games by pinealtap
Saturday
Jul 3, 2004
"Just buy the fucking Winnebago already or don't, you fucking dumbass. What the fuck do I care? My MIND is just a piece of shit! Fuck!"
to Humor by fatherdan
A recent report released by the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University, based on a survey of 1,010 heterosexual men aged 25 to 34, found that 53% of the respondents indicated they are not interested in getting married any time soon. Even more surprisingly, a significant number of eligible bachelors -- 22% percent agreed with a statement that marriage just isn't for them. Why are so many eligible bachelors deferring (or rejecting) the religious and legal bonds of marriage? Some people believe that we have placed marriage lower on our list of priorities in the sequence of events associated with the transition to adulthood in today's society -- after education, employment, and being financially independent. Unfortunately, sacrifices are sometimes made for these educational and professional accomplishments. As we reach our 30s, many of us recognize there's something big missing from our lives and have sought new ways to find our soulmate.
to Society by rich
Friday
Jul 2, 2004
Even with his life on the line, Saddam still has time for a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors.
to News by petek
Thursday
Jul 1, 2004
The largest big cat in the world is the liger: a hybrid between a lion and a tigress. Ligers tend to share behavioral characteristics of their parent species. Ligers are afflicted with giantism, and can reach weights of up to a thousand pounds. Male ligers are thus far sterile, although females can breed. A hybrid between a tiger and a lioness is called a tigon, and is generally smaller and never exceeds the size of its parents. This is because in the lion species, the genes for growth hormones come from the father and genes for growth inhibition come from the mother; in the tiger species this is not the case. This difference is related to the cats' social structure; lions with multiple males in prides have to compete for resources within the womb; thus is it to the father's advantage to have large children and it is in the mother's interest to limit the growth for genetic diversity. Tigers, who are solitary, are under pressure to have as many children as possible; thus it is to the father's advantage to have many, equally-sized cubs. The mother doesn't need to inhibit growth. Mixing and matching genes results in a condition called growth dysplasia, hence the giantism of ligers and dwarfism of tigons. The relations of gene expression to social behavior is part of the reason why it is difficult to breed giant domestic cats.
to Zoology by isosceles
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
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