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| Tuesday Jun 8, 1999 | This article nicely justifies the "wow, this interface sucks"
reaction I had when I first tried QuickTime 4.0. to Computing by akk |
| AMC, a cable channel
which specializes in classic movies, is showing a
series of movies called "American Pop", or "AmPop"
for short. These movies are definitely fun bits of Americana, but
not so terribly classic. Past selections have included
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
and Hercules Vs. the Hydra.
They also have the most fun promotional website
I've ever been to. to Television by keith |
| Many of us in the field of Computer Science have
wondered why it is that there are so few female
computer scientists. Well,
here
is a very insightful paper on that topic. It
was written in 1991 by
Ellen Spertus, now an assistant professor
of Computer Science at Mills College,
but little enough has changed in the eight years since, that it is
still very topical. She has also provided us with an
excellent page of links on that same topic
and another page about women and minorities in science and engineering.
to Commentary by keith |
| David McGuire writes a comic strip for the University of Houston's
Daily Cougar called
Citrusville, which I find amusing. He also has some other
comics and art on his site, which he calls
"The Monkey House"
for reasons which are never made clear.
to Comics by keith |
| Monday Jun 7, 1999 | New cruel sport: letting your friends smoke pot, then seating them in front of your
computer and have them watch stoned.com.
Whoa, duuuuude...
to Drugs by pjammer |
| Need a little help finishing
Zork I?
Or perhaps you could use some strategy hints for
Pole Position?
Or maybe you're looking for a little help getting up to speed with
SimCity 3000?
If so, GameFAQs has got you covered.
Whether the game is for the N64
or the C64,
if someone's written a FAQ, walkthrough, or strategy guide, you can find it there.
to Games by keith |
| The only thing on this webpage is a list of every known font in the universe. to Computing by succa |
| Get the scoop on the latest trend sweeping the nation: Scissor-jamming. It's fun, try it! to Humor by succa |
| Sunday Jun 6, 1999 | If you're tired of having to wait until Sunday for
color comic strips, you'll enjoy
Ctoons which
provides daily color versions of a number of syndicated
cartoons. You can even set up
your own little daily
page of color cartoons.
to Comics by keith |
| I'll admit that I don't quite understand the purpose of having
an 18-page photo gallery of Spam Fighters.
I am, however, glad, after looking at the gallery, that unlike certain fictional
crime fighters, these people do not run around in spandex.
to Internet by keith |
| How much would you pay for the
fastest 8-bit single-chip microcontroller?
$10? $20? But wait--there's more! You get 100 MIPS
of processing power, on-chip reprogrammable
flash memory, and a four-stage pipeline. NOW how
much would you pay?
About $5.
to Gadgets by xrayjones |
| I didn't know that misspelling
www.altavista.com could get me to something else entirely. to Web by sck |
| Scott McCloud is the writer of such comic books as
Zot and The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln.
He now has a web site.
In his book Understanding Comics, he introduced to us the example of the story of Carl.
Now you can see the story of Carl told in
two panels,
fifty-two panels, or
any
number
in
between.
Also, fans of chess will probably dig
My Obsession With Chess
And rabid Sandman groupies won't want to miss the panel of
Choose Your Own Carl
written by Neil Gaiman.
to Comics by keith |
| Are you a hacker? See what ReDragonand Robert Bickford have to say on the subject. Or just take
The Hacker Test or The Clueless Hacker Test. to Culture by keith |
| You've seen Faces of Death, but now gaze
in horror at Smiley Faces of Death.
Well, to be honest, the scary part is that some people apparently had nothing better to do
than make that page. to Humor by keith |
| Its message is profound, but the presentation is sickening in that greeting-card, yellow-smiley-face, cherub-smiled babies kind of way. to Commentary by djinn |
| Saturday Jun 5, 1999 | Want to see what someone else's desktop looks like? Course you do. to Computing by ned |
| Many of you know about "Mormonism", or the Latter-Day Saints. But not many people outside of Mormon scholars have heard of the
Deseret Alphabet, a reform of English spelling which was published in only a handful of books in the 1800s among the LDS Church.
to Linguistics by sck |
| Painfully shy and antisocial dweebs who have embarassingly high scores on
standard purity tests should take the
Virgin's Purity Test, where having crushes on members of the opposite sex earns
you points toward impurity. If you score over 80 here, there really isn't much
hope for you.
to Humor by pjammer |
| Some people have big heads. Some people have more random heads. to Art by djinn |
| Ugh. I don't like cheese and crackers normally, but that's as bad as it gets. to Food by djinn |
| He wears...interesting...clothing, at least for something that claims to be male...and you wondered why some closed-minded people think he's gay. to Culture by djinn |
| Prefer your visual humor free of meat? Check out the
Vegetarian Cartoons page.
Be sure to check out the huge listing of vegetarian cartoon characters too.
Well, okay, so it's really just
Shaggy,
Lisa Simpson,
and Count Duckula.
to Comics by keith |
| Do you ever sit around trying to figure out what the heck
those rappers are talking about? If so, you're probably just
way too Caucasian for your own good. However,
The Totally Unofficial Rap Dictionary
will probably still aid you in your quest by supplying the definitions of various
words and phrases used in rap lyrics.
to Reference by keith |
| The extent to which Rob Brezsny's immensely quirky Real Astrology
is, well, real astrology is probably somewhat debatable. But that
it is fun, amusing, and a decent thing to read if you're just looking
for some general inspiration holds true whether or not you harbor
any beliefs about planets and constellations manipulating your life.
to Culture by keith |
| Friday Jun 4, 1999 | Don't let a dead animal go to waste -- put it on the net! The Squashed Bug Zoo makes squished insects seem sublime. My favorite is the roach-thing. to Humor by oznoid |
| Continuing a nascent antique games theme for today,
check out Xyzzy News,
the newsletter for interactive fiction gamers. to Games by mpc |
| In the "publish anything about a celebrity" tradition pioneered by political rumormonger
Matt Drudge,
Luke Ford offers unsubstantiated lurid stories and news items of employees in
the porn industry. to Rumor by pjammer |
| Long before Mattel
had a web site or made
Barbie software, they made a console gaming system called
the Intellivision. Many thought that the Intellivision had
perished in the great video game crash of '83.
But the Intellivision
lives on through the magic of emulation. They recently
unveiled their newest plans to capture a young audience.
That's right:
Intellitubbies! to Games by keith |
| Thursday Jun 3, 1999 | Call me excessively retro, if you will, but when I pop
a newly acquired Quad tape into my car's player, I'm in pure
Heaven. If you're joining me on
cloud nine, and you want to stay in tune with the now, be sure to check out
the 8-track of the moment. to Music by keith |
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