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Thursday
May 20, 1999
The truly fantabulous Michael Moore, writer director of Roger & Me, now has a television show which is doing some of the most hard hitting and sometimes absurd and informative TV possible.
to Television by peterb
If you're looking to get serious about web design, you'd do well to spend an afternoon neck-deep in Dr. Ozone's personal website, my personal candidate for the best site on the internet.
to Web by succa
It's possible that many of the world's problems can be remedied by careful use of Mr. T. Haiku. Requires Netscape 4.x.
to Linguistics by succa
Wednesday
May 19, 1999
Tired of getting phony virus warnings and chain letters in your e-mail, without having a way to contribute to the fun? Fear not, The Urban Legends Generator will give you the tools you need to spread blatantly fabricated, bandwidth-eating propaganda of your own.
to Culture by succa
There have been several news stories recently discussing pirated movies on the internet. Somehow I don't think they meant this.
to Movies by magus
Believe it or not, there's a government agency for searching for little green men (or ancient nanobacteria, as the case may be). You can even ask an astrobiologist about your extraterrestrial lifeform conundrums.
to Science by xrayjones
The Electronic Text Center at the university of Virginia contains a staggering amount of free, online, English documents. Books, newspapers, manuscripts from the past several hundred years in SGML format.
to Literature by nyarl
Forked Tongue is a biography of Ambrose Bierce, heavily crossreferenced with Bierce's own definitions.
to Books by nyarl
Tuesday
May 18, 1999
Highly entertaining as well as a technological marvel, The Automatic Complaint-Letter Generator will get you through the night.
to Linguistics by succa
One of the Great cover-ups of the 20th Century is at last revealed: Amazing Prehistoric Dogs. (There are also Prehistoric Mice.)
to Humor by machita
There's plain old information about menstruation, but you could also track your monthly cycles, or visit the Museum of Menstruation.
to Health by machita
Synthmuseum contains photos and histories of hundreds of vintage electronic musical instruments.
to Music by joshua
AfroSquad - Leading the fight against The Man.
to Culture by succa
Possibly the finest collection of 3D art on the web, 3D Artists is a humbling blow to those of us who think we're good 3D artists.
to Art by succa
Tired of boring error messages whenever you try to access a webpage that doesn't exist? Cool404 is an ongoing effort to archive some of the more interesting "404 not found" error messages on the web.
to Computing by succa
Not only does the Keirsey Temperament Sorter have those stilted multiple-choice personality tests, but explanations and dating advice as well. It's horoscopes for people that believe in science!
to Culture by joshua
Recycle that spam -- and get a $5 CDNow gift certificate while you're at it.
to Internet by tregoweth
Vintage Synth Explorer is an ever-growing archive of images, sound bytes, and documentation for over 200 popular retro-vintage synthesizers. Everybody needs a 303!
to Music by joshua
BodyTek sells fake dismembered body parts and special effects contact lenses that are used in many sci-fi movies and television shows.
to Fashion by joshua
Are you convinced that the news you watch is scripted, corporate PR spin? Covert Action Quarterly magazine shares your view. Staffed by former spooks and military analysts, CAQ offers an interesting perspective on the Kosovo crisis and other U.S. military operations.
to Conspiracy by pjammer
Your paranoid communications college professor, who was always ranting about how the world's publishing media is owned by a small cabal of multinational concerns, was absolutely right.
to Conspiracy by pjammer
You've seen Kevin Rubio's hilarious "Cops"-inspired Star Wars spoof Troops. Then you spent the better part of a workday playing Kristen Brennan's Star Bears. Now that you're fired for surfing Star Wars-related links and have plenty of time on your hands, you may as well go to the memepool.com of Star Wars short-film spoofs, located at the Mos Eisley Multiplex.
to Humor by pjammer
"Going on a vacation? The McDonald's Trip Planner can help you locate all the McDonald's along the way."
to Food by tregoweth
Monday
May 17, 1999
The web site of babelicious Ellen Pronk, in her guise of Ellen, Architect of Change is bit rough at the edges, but worth searching through for some of the more mindbending moments.
to Web by peterb
If you're not studly enough to develop PalmOS applications in forth, you might want to look into Waba, a subset of Java (the language, the bytecode,and the platform) designed to run on Palm OS and WinCE devices. Unlike Sun's full JVM for the Palm OS, waba has a small footprint, and provides native support for serial I/O and native databases.
to Computing by akk
It's been around for 60-odd years (which would explain the rancidness) and its main ingredient may or may not be rubber. The people who eat this stuff really worry me.
to Food by djinn
Three words: Charles Manson online.
to Wackos by riotnrrd
Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon is out. Go read it.
to Books by joshua
Sunday
May 16, 1999
It's really not a make-you-happy-pill. Really.
to Drugs by djinn
You can receive absolution either here or here, without ever having to leave your own home. Now who said sloth was a deadly sin?
to Religion by djinn
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