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| Sunday May 7, 2006 | Admit it, like most movie/game/music geeks, even your favorite game, DVD or CD was likely gathering dust a few weeks after you bought them. Sure, you could sell them for less than half what you paid ... but now you can now trade them for fresh content with other movie/game/music fans using LendMonkey, at a dollar a pop. to Commerce by pjammer |
| Friday May 5, 2006 | The Oozinator, a new watergun-type toy, has generated some interesting customer reviews . to Toys by pyrrhuloxia |
| Remember,
metal fans, that a month from tomorrow is the
National Day of Slayer.
Keep it holy! to Music by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Apr 30, 2006 | All hobbies and
professions
that are, essentially, cries for
attention have one thing in common:
self-congratulatory
awards.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Apr 25, 2006 | On the moring of April 26th, 1986, V.I. Lenin Memorial Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station had a major accident in it's number 4 reactor. We still aren't sure what the total damage was, but it looks like the evacuated area around the site would make a nice park. to History by caspian |
| The Perry Bible Fellowship comics come in a variety of different styles. to Comics by fool |
| Thursday Apr 20, 2006 | I've always been skeptical of people who list participate in reenactments as a hobby. I guess I just don't see the point in spending my weekend doing something unpleasant like reliving the Civil War -- without the undesirable food, inadequate shelter, and debilitating battlefield diseases and injuries, of course. I suppose it's preferable to a lot of other ways to spend a weekend. I find a lot more value reenacting happier moments we have witnessed that are worth remembering and re-creating.
to History by rich |
| SayWhat allows you to insert cartoon speech bubbles into your photos without ever leaving the comfort of your browser. to Internet by scromp |
| Friday Apr 14, 2006 | When beloved holiday icons go bad, sometimes they go very, very, very, very, very, very bad.
to Society by rich |
| Wednesday Apr 12, 2006 | Stupid Comics
rounds up dozens of
badly written,
drawn and
conceived comics
from yesteryear. Even Superman
(that
notorious asshole) makes an
appearance.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Apr 10, 2006 | Two very disturbing perspectives on parenting. to Pets by isosceles |
| Japanese fascination with American pop culture has lead them to produce a guide to "urban" slang. to Culture by isosceles |
| Sunday Apr 9, 2006 | As advances in technology and flexible work arrangements become widely accepted in corporate environments, more and more people have opted to set up offices at home to work in their PJs while also avoiding the mundane corporate culture and time consuming commute. While this cultural shift has created a lot more personal time for those who have adopted these strategies, many people have found they miss the office and the human interaction among colleagues -- such as keeping up to date on last night's TV shows and office gossip or swapping jokes and trading recipes. For those of us who work in 'virtual officing', having a virtual watercooler to discuss our feelings about our jobs may be more fun than being there in person. to Business by rich |
| Saturday Apr 1, 2006 | Thirsty? Have a peep drink.
to Beverages by roo |
| Tuesday Mar 28, 2006 | With roots deep in America's heartland, Wal*Mart believes that being a 'family friendly' store and stocking 'family friendly products' is key to its mass appeal. What happens when 'family friendly music' becomes a euphemism for music censorship? In a stunning blow to the First Amendment, Wal*Mart has repeatedly refused to carry CDs with cover art or lyrics dealing with taboo subject matter such as abortion, homosexuality, or Satan. For example, Wal*Mart required White Zombie to airbrush a bikini onto a nude model reclining in a hammock on the cover of their record "Supersexy Swingin' Sounds". Jesus and the Devil were airbrushed over on the cover of John Mellencamp's record "Mr. Happy-Go-Lucky" on copies sold at Wal*Mart at the retailer's request. However, you can still buy all the one-gallon drums of Vlasic pickles and shotguns you want. to Commerce by rich |
| Monday Mar 27, 2006 | The Historic American Buildings Survey and Historic American Engineering Record is a project which documents historic landmarks, as well as structures which are likely to be demolished or lost due to neglect. Slowly they are putting their documents online at the Library of Congress. It seems that structures are often documented just before they are demolished with some support from the owners, perhaps as a condition of permitting. to History by shadow |
| The MLA has created a nifty web app that
lets you view, by state, county or zip code,
what languages are spoken in the United States.
(Pathetically, you will be forced to use IE or Netscape.) to Cartography by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Mar 26, 2006 | Thanks to the clever folks at NASA's Goddard Institute, anyone can tell the time on Mars, or Titan. to Science by caspian |
| Life in Japan is much more entertaining when you just make up what people are saying to you. to Linguistics by fool |
| Saturday Mar 25, 2006 | On March 26, 2006, VH1 will air the music video for Nena's "99 Red Balloons" continuously from 2pm EST to 3pm EST. The song, originally recorded in 1983 as a Cold War protest by German pop singer Nena, tells the story of 99 red balloons floating in the air on a summer's day which are mistaken for a Soviet first strike. Coincidentally, on March 23, we just celebrated the anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's famed 1983 "Star Wars" speech in which he called for "the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete." I wonder if the Great Communicator preferred the English or the German version. to History by rich |
| Monday Mar 13, 2006 | Since one good
origin
story deserves another,
here is a list of
the religious
affiliations of more than a hundred comic-book superheros.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| It suddenly all becomes clear.
Spam subject lines
are written by the same guy who translates
chinese
restaurant menus! to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Mar 9, 2006 | The Knockoff*Project catalogs album artwork with suspicious originality. to Music by fool |
| Friday Mar 3, 2006 | After 30 years, alternative press/bookseller Loompanics Unlimited is going out of business. On the upside, they're having a big sale on the remaining inventory. to Books by borges |
| Tuesday Feb 28, 2006 | "A sublime showcase for the diversity and creativity of mankind."
Music?
Bah, too pedestrian. Visual art? Nothing
so obvious, my friend. No, it's
balloon hats of the world. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Feb 26, 2006 | Is it possible for a Web site to receive 1 billion page views without marketing of any kind? AJ bet a friend £1,000 that he could do it. Why not help him out, and keep him in fish and chips for a month? to Web by fatherdan |
| Saturday Feb 25, 2006 | The inventor of the Flash Mob tells all. to Culture by roo |
| Thursday Feb 23, 2006 | I can't read Japanese, so I don't know why (and maybe I don't want to know),
but someone
has spent hours and hours posing and photographing
maid dolls
re-enacting illustrations from a Japanese army training manual.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| After lord knows how many trips to comic conventions,
Walt Parrish,
a.k.a. "The Cliff Guy", has amassed an amazing collection of
over 400 sketches of comic book characters
standing on cliffs. to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Feb 19, 2006 | Rejected Family Learning Channel Cartoon will make you feel as if you are easily amused or at least handle rejection well. to Movies by fool |
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