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| Wednesday Apr 14, 1999 | Into obsolete videodisc technology? The RCA
Selectavision Videodisc player lives on at
www.cedmagic.com.
The CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc) was the
only stylus-based video tech and struggled to find
a market from 1981 to 1986, before being completely
given up for dead. The site features more technical
specs than you'd probably want to know, plus a nice
CED
title database, listing everything released in
the format. to Gadgets by crikey |
| Fight the Man by violating the "strict press embargo" on the news of the
discovery of a triple planet
system orbiting Upsilon Andromedae.
to Science by peterb |
| Dave's Math Tables
contain tons of useful equations, proofs and identities. You can even
download the whole thing
as HTML or PDF files.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| The Cornell department of Science and Technology Studies is sponsoring
a conference on such
gripping issues as
"The Modern Woman and Her Sanitary napkin: The Social Construction of Women
Through Feminine Technologies" and
"Psychiatrist As Chemical
Engineer, Patient As Cyborg". I wanna be a
cyborg!
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Artists' Golf claims to be an
attempt to tries to "unite the seemingly disparate worlds of Art and Golf."
The site contains
reviews
of golf courses, side by side with bizarre "what if" speculations
on how different artists
might have played golf.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| The Hollywood Stock Exchange is dedicated to
the idea that people aren't obsessive enough
about how much money movies make.
It's a stock market where the stocks are movies,
and are valued based on how much money they make
at the box office. Sure, it's nothing like a
real stock market, but it's still fun.
to Games by tjs |
| Japanese Beetle:
Comic Strip from College Paper Hits the Web.
Film at 11.
to Comics by tjs |
| Car kitsch,
classic novelties, and
rubber rats. Find it all at the ultimate toystore:
Archie McPhee. to Culture by jacquez |
| Tuesday Apr 13, 1999 | Monsanto is a "life sciences" company that (among
other biologically questionable things)
genetically engineers seeds for farmers. They've been so inspired by Microsoft and the software industry's
growth that they're suing farmers engaged
in the use of harvested 2nd generation seeds for patent violation.
to Science by akk |
| Jesus loves you. Jesus does not love Star Wars.
The Force = Satan. And Star
Wars freaks are way, way too gullible.
to Religion by jacquez |
| The Internet Junkbuster Proxy is
yet another anonymizer -- and as a bonus, it can filter banner ads from the pages
you're viewing, as well. Be sure to browse junkbusters
web site for more information on ways to get rid of junk e-mail, telemarketing calls,
and other privacy-invading marketing techniques. to Web by peterb |
| Please make sure that all sexual activity you engage in or film conforms to this
classification scheme. Thank you. to Sex by peterb |
| Volrés and Pacers
and and Gremlins, oh my!
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| The virtual retinal
display uses low-powered lasers to paint images directly on your retina.
After some of the larger components are made smaller and cheaper, the
inventors plan to commercialize the
technology.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Monday Apr 12, 1999 | Who is reading your email, usenet posts, and can see all that extreme tentacle porn you're ogling? Phear no longer because other people are
just as worried as you! First, get an anonymous remailer. Then,
anonymize all of your usenet posts, and finally get a dental dam for your browser to surf anonymously.
to Computing by urog |
| Unlike most constructed languages,
Elephant's Memory is a pictorial language - symbols directly represent concepts.
to Linguistics by joshua |
| I'm not usually impressed by extreme body modification, but I'll give serious points to the twins
who transplanted one twin's arm
onto the other's body. to Wackos by peterb |
| Sunday Apr 11, 1999 | Some people can do practically anything with a piece of paper. Underground Origami Site will show you how to do rude things with paper without even writing on it.
to Art by djinn |
| Saturday Apr 10, 1999 | So you're the new CEO of a hot young online commerce
company. Your IPO's coming up soon. What do you
wish for? Loyal customers, rave reviews, piles of
money? Well, how about
boycotts,
class action lawsuits,
and a
webring
devoted to sites that hate you? to Commerce by magus |
| Need to satisfy your capitalist urges and buy
one of those shiny new iMacs or G3 towers? Make
sure you check
deal-mac for the
latest good deals around the web first.
And if you just want some PC hardware,
deal-pc might be
a good idea.
to Commerce by magus |
| Join
the Force...get good benefits!
to Commerce by tregoweth |
| HQ2O:
"tap, filtered or spring water taken from the
corporate headquarters of such high-technology
firms as Yahoo!, Wired or Tripod." to Commerce by tregoweth |
| Parents -- outsource your kids' allowance and
indoctrinate them into the ways of Web shopping
with ICanBuy.com! to Commerce by tregoweth |
| Friday Apr 9, 1999 | Sony-TV, the seventh and newest television network, throws its hat in the ring with seven nights of prime-time programming this fall. With bound-for-success shows bearing such titles like L.A. Dentists, Dukes of Hazzard 2000, and The World's Most Dangerous Repos, it's sure to beat the pants off its weaker rivals.
to Television by pjammer |
| Matt Howarth writes draws underground comic books frequently known for their excessive violence and warped humer, but also has most excellent taste in music. I wanna be just like the Post Brothers. to Comics by nyarl |
| Everyone wants to know if yawning is contagious, and it seems that there are quite a few theories. Of these theories, this one would have to be my favorite. to Science by djinn |
| Matt Feazell
is the undisputed king of the minicomic format, with
such fantastic titles as Cynicalman, The Death of
Antisocialman, Cute Girl, and Not Available Comics. Someday
all comics will be Not Available! to Comics by crikey |
| Hot Bristish babe Cleo
spent a year living with
prostitutes in
Bangkok, six years as a
drug-smuggling hippie in India,
and wrote books about both adventures.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) -- tiny
machines, tailor-made by the tens of thousands.
Micromachines offer tantalizing possibilites as self-reorganizing cooperative physical
systems. You can bet this is hot with the
military, as well as industry:
The MEMS
Exchange is a technology transfer organization
set up around the topic; the
MEMS Clearinghouse covers breaking news; and
Sandia National Labs are good starting places for
the memer. to Robotics by oznoid |
| Digital movie projectors are on their way. All that remains to be
determined is which technology will triumph: the
CRT-based ILA made
by JVC-Hughes, or Texas Instrument's
MEMS-based projector.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
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