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| Wednesday Jun 16, 1999 | Sure, everyone seems to be offering free, web-based email these days, from
rap groups to
search engines. But how many of them allow
you to check your email without even using a computer? MyTalk does, with an 800-number, voice-mail style
login that allows you to check your mail even when you are away from a computer.
But then again, how many memepool readers are ever away from a computer
enough to care?
to Internet by pjammer |
| Reconfigurable Computing (computers based entirely on programmable logic) has gotten some buzz recently as the amount of vaporware increases. However, Bournemouth University's Dynamically Reconfigurable Hardware Library points out Stanford's Adaptive Computing, Berkeley's BRASS, and MIT's RAW are providing a rigourous analysis of the challenges involved.
to Computing by joshua |
| Tuesday Jun 15, 1999 | High atop Mauna Kea on Hawaii are Keck and Subaru, two of the best ground-based observatories on Earth. Check out cool hi-res images of the Orion Nebula, Jupiter and Saturn. Keck's Photo Gallery is beautiful too. It is strangely beautiful outside the observatory as well.
to Science by gen |
| Nasa Watch is the site for those of you who want to know what is really going on inside Nasa...not just the PR hype. I love the beautiful hi-res images they have for downloading. to Media by gen |
| From Antwerp to Yokohama, Barcelona to Washington D.C., you want maps of the subways of the world. Personally, I'd rather visit the Novosibirsk Subway virtually. More "Trainspotting"here. to Transportation by gen |
| You've always wanted to know more about the Ouroboros. Found in places as early as 1600 BC Egypt (as well as in other mythologies) as well as on the TV show Millennium, the universal image of the snake eating it's own tail carries symbolism of birth, death and the cyclical nature of the universe.
to Art by gen |
| David Isenberg's The Dawn of the Stupid Network has been hailed by some as the most important article in 1998 on the subject of communications. WSJ Front Lines columnist Tom Petzinger wrote about Isenberg early last year. Read all about it and then go buy some stock in Qwest and MCI/Worldcom. to Internet by gen |
| Kyudo is the Japanese sport of archery which is very closely connected to Zen Buddhism. Whether you're looking for sport, self-improvement, a philosophy, a religious ceremony, or a way of life, Kyudo can be all of this with fast moving arrows. to Sports by gen |
| For those of you who think that stickers and spoilers make your car go faster, don't go to Bryan's Rice Boy Page. Laugh at the idiosyncracies of youth, and don't leave without reading about The Adventures of Rice-Boy and his dog Mugen.
to Humor by gen |
| Positive Feedbacks in the Economy is a reprint of the 1990 Scientific American article that brought increasing returns and W. Brian Arthur (Stanford) into the spotlight of economics. A little later, Paul Krugman (MIT) takes Arthur to task in Slate for taking credit when others had done pioneering work before him. Dominic Gates from Pretext Magazine interviews Arthur after Krugman's Slate article. Ignore the soap opera and learn more about increasing returns. to Economics by gen |
| Do you have problems with low-frequency room resonances? Your subwoofer taking advantage of you? Then you need the Giant Toilet Paper Tubes to fight those resonant bass notes. A cheap fix for you headphone geeks who spend too much money on stereo equipment. to Gadgets by gen |
| I just can't express how grateful I am to
Disney for
deleting the hideous and evil-sounding love scene from Tron. to Sex by peterb |
| The Typing Injury FAQ features an interesting section on
alternative keyboards. Buy a chording keyboard
today and achieve true geekiness.
to Health by akk |
| Everything you ever wanted to know about
Cossacks. Well, it's everything I wanted to know.
to Culture by mpc |
| Firesign Theatre
was the premier album comedy troupe of the 1970's.
In 1998 they realeased a new album,
Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death, which
takes place at RadioNow on the eve of the dawn of
the new millenium. If you've already heard the
album, you'll still appreciate
The RadioNow Website. to Humor by keith |
| More reasons Italy is better than Great Britain:
Italy elects Cicciolina to their Parliament.
Britain elects Mrs. Widdecombe, the Virgin Troll to theirs.
to Politics by peterb |
| Monday Jun 14, 1999 | Web designers often lay out a page with dummy content, show it to the client for style approval, and then input in the client's material. The dummy content, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diem nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut lacreet dolore magna aliguam erat volutpat,"
(a meaningless string of Latin gibberish), has been the standard text in printing and publishing circles for decades. What's hysterical is the number of designers who forget to replace their dummy titles with the client's title before delivering the site. An AltaVista search for "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" serves up over four thousand hits of high-end web pages cursed with residual dummy titles. to Web by pjammer |
| Jedi Knights rob diners, and Scully's a badass with a mouth like Samuel L. Jackson.
Pulp Action is only one of
the uses of action figures
at Alien Icepicktures.
to Humor by jacquez |
| Is Art the province of
rich ironic New York designers
and
dead
French guys?
A thousand times no.
The American Visionary Art Museum
in Baltimore dedicates itself to the creative outpouring of
the eccentric,
the obsessed,
the crackpotted,
the institutionalized,
the incarcerated,
the homeless,
the hopeless,
the nameless,
and people who are
compelled to paint words on everything.
to Art by belford |
| It's somehow strange being in a rural area, and having the road suddenly widen out as if there were an interchange,
but instead find myself crossing a bridge over something resembling a pasture - there were animals grazing on it!
But this pasture looked a lot like an expressway, so I followed it one way and the other, and figured out
approximately what the intent had been. After a bit of research, I found that
it as an abortive attempt at an expressway, now locally known derisively as the "goat path".
The problems which led to it still exists, and Lancaster County
is still trying to figure out what to do; the issues no clearer now than they were when construction was stopped.
In the meantime savor this post-apocalyptic vision of an expressway covered with grass,
running from just shy of another highway to an interchange in the middle of nowhere.
to Transportation by shadow |
| I like big red buttons which do nothing.
This one, for instance.
Or this one.
Or this one,
this one,
this one,
or this one.
Yeah, Internet: wave of the future. Whatever. to Humor by keith |
| It all started when
Mr. T Ate My Balls.
But now, it's gone a little too far. If you go to
Yahoo and
search for "Ate My Balls"
you find 18 category matches. And on their main
Ate My Balls category page,
there are literally hundreds of sites, from
Seven of Nine Ate My Balls
to Hello Kitty Ate My Balls.
You can also stop by The Institute for Testicular Consumption or
make your own Ate My Balls page.
to Humor by keith |
| The new Public Enemy
album, There's a Poison Going On
is out. Buy the
CD
or mp3
version. Oh, and while you're there, be sure and get
your own Public Enemy e-mail address.
to Music by keith |
| Thanks to uSucK,
you can get a free domain that will redirect to the
page of your choice. Which you can use for your
own site, or commentary. to Web by tregoweth |
| Sometimes, you get the urge to download bizarre,
deviant things. Like commercials. to Commerce by tregoweth |
| Mark you calenders: This Sunday (June 20th),
Pirates of Silicon Valley will air on your local Turner
station. Starring
Anthony "Wierd Science" Michael Hall as Bill Gates and
Noah "E.R." Wyle as Steve Jobs, it should be interesting to see what
segments of the Microsoft
vs. Apple saga TV executives will edit out.
to Television by pjammer |
| Sunday Jun 13, 1999 | In the battle for the highly contested Giant Fighting Robot consumer
dollar, FASA rules as the
Microsoft of 'Mech sims. In a very un-Microsofty move,
Mechwarrior 3 is out, ahead of projected release schedule! Featuring
fully destructable terrain and a fully functional salvage system, Mech3 should appeal to both
hard-core Mechwarrior universe purists and novices alike. to Games by pjammer |
| Ugh. It's not enough that miningco.com had to change its name to the more boring (but more easily understood by all the idiots out there) about.com, but did they have to start offering tips like this?!?! to Memetics by djinn |
| In case you don't agree with Douglas Adams and me that the world is essentially a random place, this roulette wheel will take you to a random website. Okay, so the world wide web and the *world* aren't the same thing... to Web by djinn |
| Whether or not you believe pigs fly, there's a place to report sightings. to Web by djinn |
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