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| Monday Apr 5, 1999 | She Hates My Futon. Online novella for when you've got a few hours to spare.
to Literature by faisal |
| Sunday Apr 4, 1999 | Like its ripoff/inspiration The Onion
The Mushroom offers deranged "news"
stories, but targets its spoof stories to things in the video gaming industry.
to Humor by pjammer |
| Though Mickey would have us believe otherwise, accidents do occur
at the happiest place on earth.
Funny thing about them is that, most of the time, these accidents have nothing to do with Disney or park safety, and everything to do with the
unbelievable stupidity of the guests.
to Humor by pjammer |
| Saturday Apr 3, 1999 | Aviation Week has an in depth discussion of the Roton.
to Transportation by faisal |
| Need the right words to tell your significant other what you'd like to do tonight? Unsure if being called "bathycolpian" at work qualifies as sexual harrassment? Or are you just more comfortable with scientific terms for sexual acts than actual "dirty talk"? to Sex by djinn |
| Are the misanthropic bitch and the chicks suck guy the same person or not? Well, she's a lot more cynical... to Humor by djinn |
| You can't build the possibly "ILLEGAL" or
"DANGEROUS" equipment at
Information Unlimited without first
visiting American Science
And Surplus' definitive directory of surplus...thingies.
to Gadgets by mpc |
| Friday Apr 2, 1999 | Robin Hanson explores
the economics of science fiction
and finds it wanting. The technically inclined might also want to look at
an economic analysis of the US health
care situation. (Hanson is noted as the
theorist who came up with the
idea of
Idea Futures.)
to Economics by arkuat |
| Wow, according to the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, POWs actually have it pretty good. Health care (Articles 29-33), nice treatment if they're high-ranking (Articles 43-45)...they even get paid (Articles 62-64)! And the only punishments their captors can really mete out are not paying them quite as much, making them exercise for no more than two hours a day, and confinement (Article 89). I wanna be a prisoner of war! to Warfare by nyarl |
| The Center for Human
Simulation has created the
Visible Human
Database, a collection of high-resolution color scans of
slices of the human body. Make sure to see the incredible
animation!
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Intersense sells ultrasonic inertial
trackers
for head-mounted displays and
motion capture
that give much higher update rates than
conventional magnetic sensors (such as the well-known
Polhemus system).
to Wearables by riotnrrd |
| Noam Chomsky's take on the current crisis in Kosovo. to Politics by peterb |
| If you're searching for info on
U.S. Army moonbases or any other
spaceflight technology, look no further than the
Encyclopedia Astronautica. to Reference by xrayjones |
| Thursday Apr 1, 1999 | If you ever had a fascination with oozy creepy things and embarassing noises, you'll
enjoy the yuckiest site on the internet.
You'll excuse me. I just read about zits at
The Gross and Cool Body, and I need to wash
my face. to Science by machita |
| A large collection of
Apocrypha, Pseudigrapha And Apocalypses,
providing that all-prevailing sense of despair
that made the Manicheans such a happy, perky
bunch of people.
to Religion by mpc |
| Is Furby Prostitution
legal in Nevada? to Sex by mpc |
| Peeps are those little marshmallow chicks. Peep-o-rama is a gateway to all thingspeep.
Peeps can form the basis of science experiments, to parody Monkees songs, or to or create fine art. to Food by machita |
| Straight guys aren't the only ones with
clothing fetishes.
Gay men certainly have them, too.
Whichever gender you like to nail, now you can -- thanks to e-commerce -- buy
the gear to satisfy your
twisted,
perverted desires, without making embarassing eye-contact with another
human being.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Has Ben Affleck's transition from indie-film auetur
to Hollywood commodity changed him?
Naaaaah.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Carnegie Mellon University (sporadically) maintains an immensley useful
repository of
artificial intelligence software, documentation, programming languages,
mailing-list archives, and utilities.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Move over, crack dealer, there's a new drug
addiction on the block. Let's hope the DEA
doesn't criminalize this one, or we'll end up
with a new form of street-life: the
Lip Balm
Ho.
to Health by xrayjones |
| Are your powers of observation good enough to figure out how this
misspelling of "amazon.com" is profitable to the domain owners?
to Commerce by peterb |
| Wednesday Mar 31, 1999 | Redeemed, they'll soar like a glider, race
like a Stealth, and, when overflying a barnyard or kennel, turn
into a wicked-awesome dive bomber. to Science by freeside |
| Fitshaced: the angriest, most disgruntled magazine on the net.
to Commentary by bruce |
|
Christianity is stupid.
Communism is good.
Give up. One of the most innovative bands (or, really, performance artists) of the 80s and 90s, Negativland will educate you on intellectual property issues, why U2 sucks, and give you access to Pastor Dick's jukebox. Makes extensive use of the newly-discovered primary color, squant. to Music by peterb |
| WFMU's Crackpots and Visionaries trading cards "...pay tribute to a few of the iconoclastic, free-spirited, and
sometimes dangerous souls who have inspired us over the years. We chose from among geniuses and charlatans,
saints and homicidal maniacs, from the revered to the reprehensible." Collect 'em all! to Web by eclipse |
| Denny's is the Mecca for the hungry night-owl. But one hungry man has turned a meal into a pilgrimage.
Has he visited the Denny's in your hometown? to Food by eclipse |
| There's no such thing as being too obsessed with Star Wars.
to Art by faisal |
| The race to the Moon isn't over yet,
according to
this guy. Until I read his "bungee cord"
explanation of the low gravity footage I'll
admit I was skeptical.
to Conspiracy by obvious |
| For twenty years, the Sun has hung above the south pole of Uranus. The planet glowed as a
featureless, weatherless, cyan ball. But now, as the Sun crosses the planet's equator, it's
springtime on Uranus
(or autumn if you prefer). Be sure to watch the
movies. to Science by arkuat |
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