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Tuesday
May 25, 1999
Bright with promises of more to come, this page offers a look into the mind of Bill Watterson, author of Calvin and Hobbes. Experience his hate and his uncanny resemblance to Groucho Marx.
to Comics by jacquez
When I seize control and institute my own dystopian society bent to the matrix of my idiosyncratic neurosis, listening to Van Halen will be mandatory for all citizens. In the interim time, those who seek to curry favor with your future overlord should check out the Van Halen FAQs, and read all the text that was flashing on the screen during their "Right Now" video.
to Music by pjammer
The Palm VII is out. Be the first on your block to blow $599 on an internet-enabled organizer.
to Gadgets by pjammer
I bet you didn't realize that crabs have a Bible. Well, they do.
to Religion by peterb
Monday
May 24, 1999
After a few years and a few million dollars worth of fancy office toys, there's finally a demo for Daikatana available. "Hi, the Quake3 Arena test came out, so we had to rush something out the door FAST."
to Games by magus
I can understand ET Gods, but why ET Corn Gods?
to Art by mpc
How many times has this happened to you? You and three friends are in a room with no apparent source of entertainment but a pack of cards and a Web browser. Why settle for Poker or Bridge when you could play Stýrivolt, a Danish game which includes birds, postmen, hay-yard mares, and lambs? Or check the index of card games and find something more to your liking.
to Games by sck
There's a temptation in popular culture to think that maybe extraterrestrials aren't such bad guys after all. Thank God we have V2/Spread the Word to set us straight. And hey, free stuff! If you don't see extraterrestrials, but you've seen where they parked, try the National UFO Reporting Center instead.
to Wackos by sck
You've thrilled to his words of wisdom on such diverse topics as booze and dump trucks which double as Machines O' Doom. Now check out The Tom Servo Fan Club and enjoy building your very own Robot Friend. There is a less neatly-designed site which however offers a contact for getting hard-to-find parts.
to Movies by sck
The latest entry in my Great Ideas That Will Never Be Implemented file: The Twenty-Eight-Hour Day.
to Science by sck
For those of you fed up with the standard conspiracy-theory tripe which infects the Internet, feast your eyes and imagination on The Incident and see what an intelligent and creative individual can devise. And don't forget to read the punchline.
to Conspiracy by sck
The Roswell UFO incident has sparked quite a few wacko hypotheses, but perhaps the most bizarre and well documanted is the famed alien autopsy. There is nothing quite like the smell of a hoax going up in white-hot flames, and the Alien Autopsy Faked or Fiction guide is just the ticket. Don't forget to read the step-by-step instruction for producing your own million dollar hoax in How To Make An Alien.
to Wackos by urog
The Childcare Action Project Analysis Reports are a collection of Christian movie reviews of current cinema, kind of . Apart from the queer compartmentalism that normally dominates 'Christian' pop culture, the CAP reports are distinguished by a well-meaning, if weird Analysis Methodology, which among other things, explains how The Basketball Diaries will turn your children into homicidal zombies.
to Movies by mpc
Keep the Skeptic's Dictionary handy when viewing anything else in our Wackos section. It has many great links and makes for wonderful reading.
to Wackos by nyarl
More pixels -- Less filling? The age old debate on how to squeeze more pixels into PDA/palmtop displays may come to an end sooner than you think. inViso has a 35 degree field of view display projected inside a 1"x1" compound microscope.
to Wearables by urog
According to the Chief of the Forest Service, having fun on federal land is not a priveledge, it's a revenue generator. This has some people righteously pissed-off. See what Wild Wilderness has to say about this.
to Politics by xrayjones
Hey, brainiac! Show off your patents with a tasteful patent award plaque.
to Commerce by tregoweth
Sunday
May 23, 1999
The website for those of you who aren't like this guy.
to Movies by crikey
Scotland's most famous non-entity (probably) now has her own webcam, just so you can check out any future appearances!
to Wackos by ned
All these new films aren't a patch on what Hollywood used to produce, right? Your granny could do better, no doubt. Send her to Plot-o-matic to confirm your fears.
to Movies by ned
Saturday
May 22, 1999
While Active Matrix's Hideaway claims to be a "white hat" hacker's resource page, dedicated to ethical hacking, the instructions on a variety of color box-building techniques suggest otherwise.
to Computing by pjammer
Search for scans of 70,000 works of fine art by keyword, artist, and/or period. An interesting zoom applet lets you scrutinize many of them at close range, too.
to Art by obvious
Friday
May 21, 1999
Got hype? The humor potential of The Phantom Menace begins to unfold.
to Media by peterb
Snarg. I think it's art. Or insane web developers. I can't tell any more.
to Art by nyarl
The Boolean Spaces Property Machine. It may be art, it may be math, it may be an obscure torture device.
to Computing by mpc
Surprisingly, some reliable, critical news about the US-NATO aggression in Yugoslavia.
to Politics by bruce
Hey! Wasshappnin'? Get Yo ass down to Pimpdaddy.com. Home of the "Yo Mama Snaps", and check out the Pimped-up products!
to Culture by loothi
How useful is the web? How can paper prototyping aid interface design? And once the software and the website are finished, who cares about testing the documentation?

User Interface Engineering, that's who.
to Computing by jacquez

Somehow, I don't think the pocket calculator industry has anything to worry about.
to Web by succa
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
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