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| Monday Apr 19, 1999 | The All-Music guide, a free online
version of their
popular reference book,
contains descriptions of thousands of performers, bands and
albums in addition to careful descriptions of different musical
genres
and how they
interrelate to Music by riotnrrd |
| Are you puzzled by all the complicated male-oriented
Y2K survival guides out there? Do you believe that
women need an explanation that stays away from
confusing, hard-to-understand things like
technology, and focuses on emotions and the family?
If so,
Y2K for Women
should be nice and comforting. to Reference by magus |
| e-services is HP's fancy name for automated intelligent agents that handle all sorts of administrative tasks to make your life easier.
to Computing by faisal |
| Sunday Apr 18, 1999 | Following up on my earlier item about anamorphic widescreen versus pan-and-scan,
here's an excellent
tutorial that uses Shockwave Flash to demonstrate the interaction between
a film's source media and your viewing device. to Movies by peterb |
| Ever fancied yourself a porn star? Go beyond that trick with your middle name and the street you live on...try Porn-O-Matic, which is based on the same technology as Date-O-Matic. to Sex by djinn |
| The famous powers of ten
illustrations move the viewer from the
edges of the universe
to the smallest known
particles in 42 power-of-ten steps.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| In the Czech town of Kutna Hora is the All Saints' Chapel, whose interior
is
decorated with
the bones of the 40,000 people who have been buried in its graveyard
since 1278.
Jan Svankmeyer did a
10 minute
film about it, so you know it has to be cool.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| The sudden scream of battle brings your party to a halt....
....will your stalwart band choose to [F]ight or [R]un? Those of us who grew up on IBM ATs or clunky pre-Mac Apples in the 80's may remember that line from a delightful computer role-playing game sent six characters from the Adventurer's Guild into the dangerous city of Skara Brae. Like anything that appeals to larval, pupal and post-chrysalic geeks, the game has spawned a webring worth of fansites, including an dungeon level-by-level review/guide at The COMPLETE Bard's Tale Home Page. to Games by pjammer |
| Don't you want to hear what the perfect man has to say? He even has a twin brother. Furthermore, here's how to find out what a perfect man is, exactly. to Culture by djinn |
| LEGO has just
opened its
first theme park in America. See the amazing
things you can build with those little blocks! to Travel by tregoweth |
| Saturday Apr 17, 1999 | Force Ten sells
equipment and
books
for "revenge, spying, police and miltary" uses.
If you're planning on doing any serious stalking, however, you'd better
get a night-vision scope, too.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| You can never have too many intelligent agents.
I've found that Amazon.com's recommendation service just isn't doing it for me, so now I am in search of something as good as the defunct Ringo project (which eventually became
firefly to recommend music to me. It looks like MovieCritic might
be one possible solution for cinema, though. to Web by peterb |
| Friday Apr 16, 1999 | The Virtual Autopsy lets you
indulge your fantasies of being Quincy, forensic pathologist. You can also get a
detailed description of the
autopsy process for screenwriters. These and other fine links are available
from the freaks at autopsies.com
to Health by peterb |
| ifthen, a modernized fairy tale in which the heartaches and nightmares are retained and the wonderment and joy are left out.
to Comics by pjammer |
| Like Mr. Cranky for television,
TV Go Home follows the
philosophy of "If you can't say something devastatingly cutting, don't say anything
at all." to Television by peterb |
| The Watchman Fellowship maintains a large list of
cults and relgions,
which also acts as a good glossary of
religious terms.
to Religion by riotnrrd |
| Go to the Folk Art and Craft exchange
and buy the items you need to do that
voodoo that you do
so well.
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| A pretty
underground ping pong ball lined inside with
13,000 photodetectors and filled ultrapure
water, the
Super-Kamoikande has produced
some
evidence that neutrinos have mass!
It may be time to revise the
textbooks and think about cosmology: it has
been observed for some time that the sun
produces too few neutrinos, and this may be
a hint that the number detected was a result
of oscillations. The neutrino may be a
candidate for being missing or dark matter.
Check out the
official SuperK site for more hot neutrino
tips. OR just go straight to the
photos. to Science by oznoid |
| Pick through the bones of obsolete and forgotten media technology at
The Dead
Media Project. to Media by tregoweth |
| Thursday Apr 15, 1999 | Those of us who have already grown up but still watch anime in our 20's may remember a delightful Blade-Runner-esque dystopian science-fiction movie that sent a cyborg woman into a superbly animated ultraviolent world. Like anything that appeals to pupal geeks, Ghost in the Shell has spawned a shitload of fansites, including a weapon-by-weapon review/analysis at Weapons of Ghost in the Shell. to Movies by pjammer |
| Jeez, give slashdot a break, stop going to macsurfer, and give up on technology for a while.
Why not play the Art Game instead? to Art by peterb |
| Pocket Skeleton is the web site of
freelance illustrator Elise Soroka. Check out their gallery. My
favorite works of hers combine
a spare line, stylized design, and an emotional intensity nearly hidden by her disarming
use of color.
to Art by peterb |
| Neoplanet takes the WinAmp skins model to the browser. You can dress it up, and take it wherever you like. to Computing by occupant |
| Pad++ demonstrates a new idea in user interface design: the Zoomable User Interface (also known as multiscale interfaces.) to Computing by joshua |
| Squeak is an open, highly-portable Smalltalk-80 implementation whose virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk. It is essentially in the public domain, runs bit-identical on a huge number of platforms, and includes the authentic Smalltalk user interface. to Computing by joshua |
| Aside from his thrice-weekly
ABC News column, where he makes Ann Landers look like a twit,
Dan Savage also makes half the sex advice columnists on the planet look like twits with
Savage Love.
But not everyone loves
Dan.
to Commentary by jacquez |
| If you find yourself in a
deep karma canyon, why not visit Bob Mould's
web site, and find out what's going through the mind of the creative visionary
behind seminal wall-of-noise band
Hüsker Dü?
to Music by peterb |
| Apparently, the true meaning of The Force is a matter under some debate.
While there are those who view The Force as
evil, there are also those on
the other side of the debate. For instance, Andrew Harter makes
the case for Yoda...
And I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell.
to Religion by jacquez |
| Pinball 2000 is Williams/Bally's last-ditch effort to keep pinball alive. It's totally modular, based on a Cyrix MediaGX motherboard, and overlays video effects on the glass above the action. Since they're the only companies making decent pinball games these days, let's hope they stay alive a bit longer... to Games by nyarl |
| 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 |
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