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Wednesday
Jul 14, 1999		 For a few decades at the beinning of the century, Sears sold mail-order house kits.
to Culture by riotnrrd
In 1901, Greek sponge-divers found an ancient shipwreck off the coast of Antikythera which contained the remains of a geared mechanism over two thousand years old. Archaeologists and scientists now believe it was a device for calculating the motions of stars and planets: a primitive analog computer. The implications for our understanding of ancient history are potentially enormous.
to Science by riotnrrd
Now, I can die content, knowing there really was a General Tso, even if he probably had nothing to with the chicken which bears his name.
to Food by boneyard
Tuesday
Jul 13, 1999		 You're smart and you want to know what's going on in PC hardware. C|Net's computers.com doesn't cut it. You need Tom's Hardware Guide.
to Computing by akk
Monday
Jul 12, 1999		 A fifteen-foot-tall monument to Grimace? If you're looking for something for you and your friends to do for summer vacation, take a stab at The University of Chicago's 1999 Scavenger Hunt List, sure to provide days of mirth. Once you've finished that one, there are many more available.
to Wackos by boneyard
Are you under the impression that Oswald didn't kill Kennedy? That the Media is a lapdog of corporate interests? That the CIA operates without presidential authority? If so, you will find everything you need to justify your paranoid suspicions at the Real History Archives.
to Conspiracy by pjammer
Anthony Gallo Acoustics makes round speakers that sound good. Buy some today.
to Gadgets by akk
The Dr. Seuss Web Page contains the usual opportunities to buy stuff. The best part of the site contains links to parodies of Seuss. These include a brief Freudian analysis of The Cat in the Hat and a Dr. Seuss Purity Test.
to Culture by machita
The text on this site is in Japanese but it says the same thing in any language: "I am a very, very lonely man."
to Wackos by riotnrrd
Due to a dispute over wheat quotas, a farmer and his wife seceded from Australia and became the Hutt River Province Principality, which is ruled by the benign monarch His Royal Highness Prince Leonard. The legality of this seccession is, of course, contested.
to Wackos by riotnrrd
Make your next vacation a celebration of destruction and radioactivity, and let the Bureau of Atomic Tourism help.
to Travel by riotnrrd
Sunday
Jul 11, 1999		 Was the Irish Potato Famine merely made worse by British neglect, or were they actively trying to destroy Ireland?
to Politics by riotnrrd
The very rare book Codex Seraphinianus is a artwork of breathtaking creativity and beauty masquerading as an Encylopedia of an alternate world.
to Art by riotnrrd
How old is the universe? What's the shape of space-time? Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial has the answers to the really big questions.
to Science by riotnrrd
Saturday
Jul 10, 1999		 I can sleep better at night knowing that the mysteries of the Great Pyramid have been solved at last. Again.
to Wackos by sck
Buttons, buttons, who's got the buttons? If you mean those 88x31 GIF rectangles pasted all over the web, then these folks have the buttons: Buttons Now!, Animated Buttons Now!, The 88x31 Button Gallery, Bunches of 88x31 Buttons, Dr. Cheap's Button Collection, and Michael's Plug Page. Too bad hardly anyone preserves the links behind them. Caution: A lot of these buttons are animated, and a lot of them run at full speed.
to Web by braino
As the age of Wired mercifully draws to a close. It may be time to consider the virtues of the antithetical perspective. Enlightened Luddism, the works of Neil Postman, Ubiquitous Computing, and the possibly heretical thesis that technology isn't a panacea.
to Computing by mpc

Scott Lincoln "Omar" Davis has been gracious enough to transcribe John Baptist Porta's Natural Magick to the web. Omar's Dustfall page is full of collected wisdom. I especially like his ripped off copy of The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord list.
to Reference by braino

The Incredible Five-Cent Sugar Rocket is 35KB worth of serious model rocketry instructions. These babies are supposed to reach 300 feet, and making them requires a serious time and attention commitment. Don't tell your parents where you found this, okay?
to Science by braino
Friday
Jul 9, 1999		 Sic Et Non - Internationl Concerned Family & Friends Of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Justice For Police Officer Daniel Faulkner.
to Politics by mpc
I didn't think that butling was that high-demand a field, but International Butlers Guild disagrees. As does the International Butler Academy.
to Commerce by mpc
Thursday
Jul 8, 1999		 Great Galaxies! Behold! KIRBY!. Thrill to disturbingly overwrought analyses. MARVEL at cosmic domestic stories! SEE football of the future! SMILE at drawings for his granddaughter's 7th grade report!
to Comics by mpc
"Rods are cylindrical or cigar shaped objects that have been discovered appearing in the skies. The objects are not like the typical 'cigar' shaped UFOS that have been reported throughout history." -- Are these guys kidding?
to Wackos by urog
Are you dreaming of moving to Silicon Valley and becoming the next Internet gazillionaire? Conventional journalism will never reveal the devilish maze of nondisclosure/gag orders, noncompete covenants and venture capital double-crosses that every entrepreneur must confront on the road to seemingly overnight IPO riches. That's why it's gratifying to see Bronson's candid commentary on the fictions Silicon Valley invent for itself and the dirty laundry that it successfully buries.
to Commentary by pjammer
Mario Puzo? Yes. Bob "Holiday" Hope? Not yet. (Though, sadly, he doesn't look good.) The Dead People Server tells all.
to Reference by boneyard
Hypercool doesn't even begin to describe Matt Madden's comic-strip experiment Exercise in Style. I especially liked this one.
to Comics by peterb
Wednesday
Jul 7, 1999		 As long as I'm ranting about disturbing faces, I might as well add the Evil Queen Of Plastic Surgery. Jo(y)celyn(e) Wildenstein, Wildenstein. There's almost nothing on her on the web (surprising), but here's a slight description.
to Wackos by mpc
My Simon is an online department store which. Not interesting in itself, but its mascot may be the most frightening creature I have ever seen. Especially in its plethora of frightening outfits.
to Commerce by mpc

Smarter Living is a sensible, no-nonsense guide to buying things cheaply on the Internet. They feature a step-by-step guide to finding cheap airfares with consolidated links to Internet specials, online agents, etc. They are also working up a guide to shopbots.
to Commerce by nelson

Nifty new games invented by independent small companies and individuals? Contagious Dreams is a new on-line game store devoted to just that. And they playtest and review the games that they sell. (Sponsored by Looney Labs, who have invented a couple of games themselves.) Contrariwise, if you're looking for nifty old games, check out Crazy Egor's Game Warehouse, which stocks all sorts of used, rare, and out-of-print gaming-phernalia.
to Games by belford
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