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| Friday Mar 19, 1999 | First it was Dancing Hamsters, then it was Dancing Jesus. Now we've made the important transition from the Divine to the Bovine. And continued on to the Asinine. to Humor by mfp |
| Ever wonder what the average Internet user looks
like? Check out
Webdweller,
an attempt to derive the looks of the average
man, woman, and androgyne web surfer. to Web by crikey |
| A really pretty site describing the
Theban
Mapping Project. The site details
the discovery and mapping of tomb KV5
in Egypt's Valley of the Kings (only
discovered in 1995), which has been described
by some as one of the most important
archaeological discoveries of the century.
The QTVR
movies are a nice touch. to Science by crikey |
| Learn how to swear in many different languages!
The Maledicta
Links page is a useful index pointing to pages
which tell you how to say "you eat like a pig"
in 87 languages, to pages covering Australian
slang, and pages which teach curse words in
German, Filipino, Afrikaans, and other tongues. to Linguistics by crikey |
| If you're just interested in his music or
perhaps in different branches of Christianity,
you might want to check out
The
Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church. to Religion by crikey |
| Thursday Mar 18, 1999 | Send that special someone in your life an
electronic
greeting card written by Leonard Nimoy, TV's
Mr. Spock.
to Art by crikey |
| Good old Webcrawler. Searches performed on the site can be collated privately, as you may know; the better plan is to let someone else research the bizarre. to Web by ned |
| Offset the loss involved with having to identify a loved one's charred remains at the Los Angeles County Coroners by buying a little memento at the gift shop. to Law by nyarl |
|
The 1999 Burning Man festival will
be here sooner than you think. Now might be a good time to make those travel plans, organize your
village's theme,
and purchase
tickets before April 15th's price increase.
to Culture by erynn |
| A pretty comprehensive site dedicated to Italian author Italo Calvino (1923-1985), author of If on a winter's night a traveler..., Invisible Cities, Cosmicomics, and others.
to Literature by crikey |
| The
light
on the net project lets you control a grid of
forty-nine lightbulbs on display at the hall of
the Gifu Softopia Center somewhere in Japan.
Express yourself and make pretty patterns. to Art by crikey |
| Nagoya Broadcast Network provides one of the
largest online museums of
Ukiyo-E, Japanese wood block prints. The
Horror Series by Yoshitoshi is especially
interesting, especially when you consider that
NBN's homepage
has a bunch of dancing
Bombermen
to Art by mpc |
| An unsuspected history
of mechanical stimulation awaits you at the
Antique Vibrator Museum. Short essays,
photos and suspected celebrity users accompany each device.
to Sex by erynn |
| If you've ever felt like being an search engine
voyeur, then Metaspy
is for you. Check out what people are searching for with Metacrawler. Available in both filtered
and unfiltered flavors. to Web by crikey |
| Wednesday Mar 17, 1999 | The brainchild of Larry Ellison, Mitchell Kertzman, and David Roux, HEYIDIOT.COM combines a vertical portal and irrational exhuberance to take the Internet stock crazy to its rational conclusion.
to Finance by faisal |
| For those interested in Michael Drosnin's
Bible Code,
in which he claims that secret messages are hidden
in the Bible (and actually predicted Yitzhak
Rabin's assassination). If you're a believer, you
owe it to yourself to take a gander at the
assassinations
foretold in Moby Dick for a different
interpretation of this "prophetic text."
to Conspiracy by crikey |
| It's been said that there are only three great
world cuisines: French, Chinese, and ...
Turkish.
If that last one surprises you, check out some of
these fantastic recipes. to Food by crikey |
| Everyone's favorite
Sanrio penguin, Badtz-Maru, is finally online.
Especially entertaining is the "page
only for messages from him that you will read." to Humor by crikey |
| So I'm in a Lovecraftian mood. Be sure to check out
the reader's guide to the Cthulhu Mythos,
as well as the thoroughly evil Lovecraft Tarot.
to Literature by peterb |
| Iä! Iä! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young! to Wackos by peterb |
| For the finest in electronica, check out Amsterdam's
Staalplaat.
A great independent music label, a radio program,
shop, and distribution company for anyone
interested in ambient and avant-garde electronic
music. to Music by crikey |
| For this weekend, Firenze, Italy is the capital of
the Internet. Requires the Shockwave plugin. to Web by peterb |
| TheStreet.com is one of the better financial sites with a great mix of timely news and insightful, unbiased commentary. While a subscription-based site, their strict conflict and disclosure policy makes it much more valuable than listening to the talking heads on CNBC or reading the touters on Yahoo!'s stock boards. to Finance by petey |
| The CIA Kids
Page introduces the youth of America to
espionage and counterterrorism in a freakishly
low-impact fashion. The site does have a
link to the excellent resource
CIA World Factbook, but the highlight
of any visit are the
cute doggies, who can sniff out plastic explosives
and dismember foreign dignitaries. Other government agencies,
including the
FBI,
are building equally strange kids pages. Regrettably,
the NSA's page
doesn't have a children's section. It probably
would have cost more than the $4.37 they apparently
alloted for web design.
to Reference by mpc |
| Tuesday Mar 16, 1999 | Nerve Magazine advertises itself as "literate smut".
With articles by Erica Jong,
an unparalleled gallery of nudes and
erotic photographs, and intelligent discourse on everything from
obscenity trials to
S&M restaurants. Erotic,
sensual, and brimming with socially redeeming value. to Culture by jacquez |
| More proof that if you are obsessive you can justify any damn fool theory. See,
James Cameron's Titanic was really an homage to Kubrick's The Shining. Also,
I am Marie of Roumania. to Movies by peterb |
| Operation Re-Information couldn't find the sort of electronic music software they wanted for their performances, so they wrote their own and give it away free. to Music by nyarl |
| The
Slink-e is
a serial-port controller for S-link, Control-A, Control-S, and infrared equipment. It comes with CDJ which lets you interface your Sony 200-disc CD player with the CDDB. to Music by joshua |
| Monday Mar 15, 1999 | Multics was developed in the mid-1960s in
the programming language PL/1. Unix folklore has it that Unix began as a miniature
mutant offshoot of Multics. to Computing by arkuat |
|
Modern Moist Towelette Collecting has come a long way since the old days of moist towelette collecting, and the hobby has a bright
post-Y2K future, too.
to Reference by obvious |
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