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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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