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| Monday Jun 28, 1999 | The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is a yearly whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels. "It was a dark and stormy night..."
to Literature by joshua |
| Upstage your Möbius-owning neigbors with a zero-volume single-surface glass Klein bottle. to Art by joshua |
| I thought I had a high "sick-and-twisted" threshold, but
this story gave me the
heebie-jeebies: Man impregnates wife with the intention of killing the infant to punish her
for not cutting short a vacation a few years before their marriage and consummating the
murderous deed on Father's Day. Is there anyone in memepool's
Wackos section more sick and insane?
to Wackos by pjammer |
| Sunday Jun 27, 1999 | Total Obscurity, a page you can only find
by accident, is a humor site peppered with sardonic and eccentric observations/rants
designed to entertain the deranged.
"I fixed some angel hair pasta tonight, which probably means that somewhere in
Heaven there's a bald angel screaming for vengeance."
to Humor by pjammer |
| Meditate on the epistemology of Sinistar. to Games by peterb |
| Look. You need to realize that freakish rabid Christians and freakish rabid Satanists or Antichristians are exactly the same thing. This guy doesn't. to Wackos by peterb |
| Saturday Jun 26, 1999 | While most of us hate spammers and their inane promises of instant riches ("$50,000"
and "90 days" are 'instant-kill' subject-line keywords for my inbox), few are determined
enough to extract some cheap laughs at the expense of MLM spammers, and fewer
still have the spare time to chronicle their
lighthearted battle with a hapless MLM millionaire-to-be hopeful.
to Humor by pjammer |
| Because inside every man is a little British pig squealing "Oink! Oink! Oink!" trying to get out. to Sex by peterb |
| Scott McCloud, creator of Zot! has a fabulous online comics page, including the add-a-panel adventures of Carl.
This is just incredible.
to Comics by peterb |
| Friday Jun 25, 1999 | How to talk to your kids about blowfish. to Humor by peterb |
| Oh no. Weird Al Yankovic is back, and he's doing the Star Wars thing. This can't be good for anybody. to Music by succa |
| Trevor Brown's art may be fasciating, beautiful, bizarre, and even disturbing. But I'd hardly call it stupid. to Art by eclipse |
| If you love Sanrio and you dig the Tarot, then Hello, Tarot was made for people like you (and me). to Culture by eclipse |
| Po Bronson's Silicon Valley nonfiction
The Nudist on the Late Shift is out. Unlike most high tech writers who focus on
the movers and shakers, Bronson introduces us to a
cast of vivid unknowns seeking fame and fortune in the last arena of high-octane
capitalism. Riddles of Superachieverland,
an online excerpt from the book, offers a concentrated dose of Bronson's style and anthropological perspective.
to Books by pjammer |
| Let's face it: we all still like The Onion, but you're no longer in the avant-garde for knowing about it. McSweeney's will restore your sense of ahead-of-the-curveness in the humor market. Besides the daily updates, check out the archives for some blisteringly funny articles, including this little essay on the next Graceland. to Humor by boneyard |
| Thursday Jun 24, 1999 | When I can't remember the difference between Mnemnosyne and Mneme, I turn to the wonderful Encyclopedia Mythica. to Literature by peterb |
| For those of you heading out to California, hoping to hear the eccentric voice of Rod Roddy telling you to "Come on Down, you're the next contestant on The Price is Right!", you might want to brush up on your strategy first. to Television by succa |
| Tired of hearing only one side of the issue from the corporate-controlled media? The Korean Central News Agency, provides the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth -- according to the government of North Korea, that is. to Media by boneyard |
| Wednesday Jun 23, 1999 | As much as I like Bill Nye, the Science Guy,
his web site,
although it does have some interesting stuff,
could really use some revision. to Television by keith |
| Everyone hates those big shot greedy lawyers, but you know what's worse? They really, really hate themselves.
to Law by boneyard |
| Like a bottle of white wine, every TV show has a point when it just goes bad. Jump The Shark tracks the leading causes of tv show death -- including new adorable babies,replacing cast members and, of course, Ted McGinley.
to Television by boneyard |
| Jack's Candy Shoppe has lots of porn for people who like watching other people have sex with dwarves. to Sex by peterb |
| Tuesday Jun 22, 1999 | Finder's keepers; loser's weepers, unless the finder is a member of
the National Association of
Unclaimed Property Administrators and the loser's smart enough to
ask
for it back. But it's not just for Americans: Unclaimed
Canadian bank balances are also on the web, as well as several
sites regarding Swiss
banks and Holocaust Assets.
to Reference by braino |
| The DoD is just cool. Where else can you buy an
800-pound still picture camera, a
pallet of Apple IIgs CPU's, COOLER,AIR,ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT or STUFF,OTHER,BUTTLOADS,HONKING,WHOLE?
to Commerce by braino |
| Do you want a few hundred or thousand acres of "basically
environmentally clean" property? Do you need a fiber optic network,
satellite uplink, wet lab, swimming pool or on-site daycare center?
Are high-security facilities a definite plus? Then the
U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Economic Adjustment would like
you to consider buying
a decommissioned military base.
to Economics by braino |
| The Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry is a fact-filled inforama
of fun!
Find out the maximum
USRDA for 280 toxic substances, then see which ones are in your
drinking water. If you just want to know the raw data, the ATSDR
has 'dat too!
to Health by braino |
| Monday Jun 21, 1999 | CipherClerk is a java applet that implements a collection of historic "paper and pencil" cryptosystems. In addition, explanations of various systems, up to and including WWII codes, are covered and explained. to Computing by joshua |
| In addition to the PASDA archive of
US Geological Survey 1:24000 maps covering Pennsylvania,
quite a few other states have
maps online in this form. You can view them with a tiff
viewer, or if you're using Linux like me, grab a copy of
mXmap. It's free for
personal use, and can be used with GPS receivers as well!
to Reference by shadow |
| The Simpsons Archive is the Internet's clearinghouse of Simpsons guides, news and information, voluntarily maintained by members of alt.tv.simpsons.
to Television by joshua |
| Boss won't let you install Doom/Quake/Half-life at work? Fight back by logging on to Frag Island,
the world's first web-based Java-powered first-person-shooter game. to Games by pjammer |
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