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| Friday May 7, 1999 | Want to be able to saturate a 100Mbit network link
without using up more than 2% of your processor?
InterProphet
has ethernet cards that'll do just
that.
Their boards do TCP processing so your machine doesn't
have to, and they claim it'll scale to let you
saturate a gigabit link with 5% of your processor.
to Computing by magus |
| Thursday May 6, 1999 |
The Eye of Argon is the best known, worst fantasy story ever written.
It contains such shimmering prose as "Gaping from its single obling socket was
a scintillating, many fauceted scarlet emerald."
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Microsoft's
MURL web-site
is a free archive of
academic CS
talks
given at Microsoft and several select universities.
Unfortunately (and predictably), these talks are recorded in a
proprietary format, viewable only under Windows.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Sick of how email gets your messages to their
desired recipients quickly and for free? Well,
UPS has a
solution
for your problems. Remember, it's more expensive
than email, so it must be better. to Web by magus |
| The Bell Labs speech synthesizer has eight different voices, but you have to be old enough to hear them.
to Science by rsf |
| For the ultra paranoid, a way of knowing what's flying over your head right now.
to Science by rsf |
| Look up the names of your next door neighbors. When you're done, check out their credit reports.
to Web by rsf |
| Some folks are setting up web pages to fight back against corporate domination. Silicon Valley's Fry's computer stores seem to attract the greatest wrath, but Dunkin' Donuts customers seem to be a cranky bunch too.
to Commerce by rsf |
| While there's been some controversy surrounding DiCaprio's new film, The Beach, that hasn't deterred hundreds of Thai students from expressing undying love for him. to Movies by rsf |
| Members of the so-called 'Trenchcoat Mafia' were seen ingesting DHMO before the Littleton massacre. to Drugs by joshua |
| Wednesday May 5, 1999 | I find it charming that the Internet is occasionally used
to educate about antiquated technologies and art forms. In this case,
the daguerrotype.
Be sure to check out the daguerrotype
galleries for some pretty pictures.
to Art by crikey |
| Not since the release of Starcraft has a real-time strategy game generated as much anticipation as Homeworld. Featuring a detail-rich three-dimensional realtime space combat engine, Homeworld's pre-release beta site offers some jaw-dropping screenshots of actual gameplay. to Games by pjammer |
| Matchmaking has reached new depths of inanity: theSpark.com may be cute, but its features have tacky names like Pimpin' Cupid. to Culture by djinn |
| Variations on a theme: Girls? Ugh! and Boys are Icky. to Culture by djinn |
| Overcome with guilt thinking about the marijuana you smoked during gym in 10th grade? Turn yourself in electronically with the Citizen's Self-Arrest Form. Repeat after me: I am under arrest. I have a right to remain silent. Anything I say can and will be used against me in a court of law. I have the right to talk to a lawyer and have him/her present with me while I question myself. If I cannot afford to hire a lawyer, one will be appointed to represent me, if I wish one, before I question myself. If I decide to make a statement, I may stop at any time.
to Wackos by pjammer |
| Readers who loved Ender's Game will be happy to know that Orson Scott Card has been busy: Current projects includes completing a screenplay(!) for the movie version of Ender's Game, as well as a "parallel" novel told through the eyes of Bean entitled "Ender's Shadow," whose first chapter you can read online at the Official Orson Scott Card Website. to Books by pjammer |
| Looking for that ancient Lexicon reverb unit but have no idea how
much it should cost? Well look no further than
The Used Gear Price List
. This is yet another automated Usenet reader that compiles the low, high,
and average prices for various musical instruments -- the stuff of
rec.music.makers.marketplace
to Music by urog |
| Do you feel lucky, punk? The
Rate Your Risk test can help you to find out, based on a simple interview,
the risk that you will be raped, robbed, stabbed, shot, beaten, murdered, or burglarized.
Although it is hosted inside the very well organized
Nashville Police Department web site
the test seems to apply anywhere.
to Law by urog |
| Tuesday May 4, 1999 | Back in '94 some film students disappeared in rural Maryland while filming a documentary on the local folklore, but some of what they shot was recovered and made into a movie called The Blair Witch Project, potentially the most significant movie footage to be reconstructed since Forgotten Silver. to Movies by nyarl |
| The "sick and wrong but cool" award for April goes to Great Circle - it isn't just one of the best memory debugging / GC tools around, it also lets you remotely debug applications via a web browser. to Computing by faisal |
| Believed by millions of
Barbie-owning
girls and now confirmed by studies,
chubby girls don't get dates. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| In violation of lord-knows-how-many copyright laws, someone has
put a bunch of
Edward Gorey
illustrated books on their webpage. Enjoy them while they last.
to Books by riotnrrd |
|
Metalstorm, a radical new gun invented by a lone Australian tinkerer,
has no moving parts and can fire up to a million rounds a
second.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Scientists of the world rejoice! For, though
kings, queens, presidents, and
potentates adorn the majority of the world's
currencies,
a
bunch of physicists pictures have also
made it onto bank notes. It says something about
the U. S. of A. that
the
only American so honored was barely a "physicist"
by any modern understanding of the term.
to Economics by crikey |
| Emulation.net
is your one-stop site for the finest in emulators
running within the
MacOS. Whether you'd like to relive all
the old Commodore
64 memories of your youth, play around with a
virtual VAX,
or just ape a
PalmPilot,
it's all here for the taking. to Computing by crikey |
| Monday May 3, 1999 | The many games and toys of Erno Rubik are alive and well.
Play the Rubik's cube online and thrill
to the exciting history of this magical
invention. to Games by crikey |
| Want to find out how NOT to teach your teenager about sex? I don't care if they say it's "by teens for teens" -- it's still idiotic.
to Sex by djinn |
| F 300 Life-Jet is an interesting conceptual road vehicle from Daimler Benz research.
to Transportation by faisal |
| Cosmic Encounter is a classic board
game from the mid-70s, and is still loads of fun to play. Amazingly, you can
now play Cosmic Encounter online. to Games by peterb |
| The AD&D Book Of Sex is exactly what it sounds like - complete with hilarious spells like Change Sexual Preference, Bigby's Bitch-Slap, Prismatic Dildo, and my favorite: Power Word: Castrate. All I can say is: where are my old character sheets and 20-sided dice!?
to Sex by pjammer |
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