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| Saturday Jul 31, 1999 | Remember internet cafes? Sure, they were big for a while, but there was just something missing from the "browse the web while sipping latte" business plan. Clearly, the wave of the future is the internet steakhouse. to Food by magus |
| Science and Industry for Half-Life is one of the weirdest damn game modifications ever. Keep your scientists happy and they'll develop technology for you. Need more researchers? Go over to another lab, whack a grad student on the head with a crowbar, sling him over your shoulder, and carry him back to your own lab....just like real life! to Games by nyarl |
| Friday Jul 30, 1999 | Microsoft rulez d00d. Definitely not for users of "linus os". to Wackos by succa |
| Forgetting the Good Old Days, hunkered over the Apple //e down in the basement running up long-distance charges on your parents' phone bill? Experience it again, right down to the phosphorescent green glow! to Computing by petey |
| "Hi, my name is Steve, and I'm addicted to heroin." ... "Hi, my name is Bob, and I'm addicted to hamsters." ... "Hi, my name is Ed, and I'm addicted to lip balm."
to Drugs by joshua |
| Formerly just the writer for the weekly Late Show News, Aaron Barnhart has expanded his repertoire. His TV Barn covers all the news you'd ever need on the television biz. to Television by boneyard |
| Thursday Jul 29, 1999 | Well, Ms. or Mr. Intelligent Computer User, you look just like the right kind of person who should be shopping for a cash machine. And wouldn't you love an attractive case and matching accessories to go with it? to Commerce by penth |
| Riotgrrl is a nervy, bitchy, totally hilarious webzine filled with estrogen-pumped rants about sex with nerds, infidelity, and the hunky Po Bronson as well as a speculative round table on celebrity sexual orientation.
to Commentary by pjammer |
| Enter your name and discover your Egyptian roots. to Web by eclipse |
| Dallas Semiconductor builds the clever iButton, a computer chip armored in stainless steel. They have a Java-powered cryptographic iButton that can do public key cryptography. Java iButton rings were given out at JavaOne 1998, but the crypto was disabled. One person decided to program his Java Ring to simulate a German ENIGMA machine. to Computing by petey |
| It's a spaceship! And it's
flying!
Only eight feet off the ground, granted. But it flies!
(Sans-frame)
to Transportation by belford |
| I remember being about nine, and rushing home to hear the
thrilling strains of...We're off
to outer space!
to Television by mpc |
| Allright, I admit it, I like watching The Furniture Guys (Joe and Ed) do their refinishing, reupholstering, and home repair stuff, all the while cracking jokes and making oblique movie references. But, did you know that Ed has his own webpage to rant about stuff, and Joe's got a gallery of his paintings up? Not surprisingly, these multi-talented gentlemen -- hey, they've even acted in a really bad movie together -- have inspired fan webpages (like this one) and verse (like this ode). to Television by crikey |
| If you're planning a visit to a foreign land, it is a good idea to learn a few key phrases in that country's language. You know, things like "Hello", "Please", "Thank you", and the ever-useful "I can eat glass, it doesn't hurt me". to Linguistics by succa |
| Ditherati
presents a daily dumb quote from "new media" people
who should know better. to Commentary by tregoweth |
| Feed your junk email to SpamCop,
and it will sort through the email headers,
tell you who to complain to, and even prepare the
complaint message for you. to Internet by tregoweth |
| Wednesday Jul 28, 1999 | When multiple passengers share a ride, the first to call "shotgun" wins the coveted front seat. Are there bizzare and complicated subrules and exceptions to the "shotgun rule?" Gee, is the Pope Catholic?
to Humor by pjammer |
| "She struggled against me, just enough to look like a struggle but not enough to actually thwart my evil Britney Spears aims. Her whole Britney Spears body was writhing and undulating, and her Britney Spears boobs were jiggling back and forth across her Britney Spears chest, as I ran a piece of Britney Spears rope lightly around her Britney Spears wrist...." may be the funniest piece of spider bait exer posted by a lying, sleazy porn site operator ever. to Humor by penth |
| Funny thing about finite populations... hardcore computer users seem to have them in much larger (sometimes inverse) proportions to the general population. Thus, there may be no end to the number of people who love ugly or hate cute. to Computing by penth |
| Looking for a collection of kickass computer-drawn images to use as wallpapers and general entertainment? Digitalblasphemy offers some jaw-dropping examples of Myst-reminiscient still shots and stunning animations. to Art by pjammer |
| Girls, you may as well lower your standards and memorize these handy
Tips for Dating Emotional Cripples. to Humor by obvious |
| Tuesday Jul 27, 1999 | There are a lot of things they don't teach you in school, and one of them is how to use an escort service. Learn the code-words that "escort services"-nee-brothels use in the name of skirting prostitution laws (if a service announces their escorts provide "full female companionship" you can expect exactly that) and other escort etiquette at Mark Perkel's Guide to Using Escort Services. to Sex by pjammer |
| The TOM Conversion Service allows you to convert a file from your local disk or from the Web to a format useful for viewing with your Web browser or saving to your local disk. Turn Excel spreadsheets into HTML tables. Turn Word documents into web pages. Turn PowerPoint presentations into GIFs. Turn PDF files into GIFs.
to Computing by petey |
| Not to toot my own horn or anything, but the CMU NASD project has released the source code to their network-attached secure disk prototype. Now you too can pretend that your computer is really an intelligent disk drive attached directly and securely to the network, without any pesky general-purpose machines in the way. to Computing by magus |
| Yahoo! Movies
is a little like
Moviefone (the hell formerly known as
777-FILM) except that it doesn't suck.
Of course, if you're in Pittsburgh, PA, the easiest
thing to use of all is
This Week at Pittsburgh Cinemas.
to Movies by tjs |
| GEMM lets you search many online sites at once for music (be it on CD, cassette, LP, regardless of if it's out-of-print, in print, used, or new). to Music by crikey |
| The late Bill Hicks was the funniest and most scathing anti-corporate comedian/critic of the last few decades. Check out some information about the man, his production company, or the foundation set up in his name. to Commentary by crikey |
| I love my drinkybird. to Pets by crikey |
| Monday Jul 26, 1999 | Starshine is a "small, optically reflective spheroid" launched from Space Shuttle Discovery in June 1999. This mirror-covered satellite is naked-eye visible after dark to folks between the latitudes of 60 degrees North and 60 degrees South.
The GSOC Satellite Predictions page allows you to enter your home latitude and longitude and get information about when and where Starshine might be visible to you. It also gives the current position of Starshine, as well as 10-day predictions for Mir, ISS, Columbia, and Iridium Flares, among lots of other things. to Science by eclipse |
| I'm real bacon! Ssss. to Comics by eclipse |
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