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| Tuesday Aug 17, 1999 | Need good reviews of bad movies? Well, go
Stomp Tokyo. to Movies by keith |
| Women are merely fleshy robots, that can be
programmed to do as we like.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| The
violet wand
is a tesla-coil-like electrical device. It was originally developed
for
medical use at the beginning
of the century but has found a new home with
modern perverts.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Carolina Biological Supply
satsifies all of your
preserved animal and
owl poo.
needs.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Microserf Love: End
that doomed romance or pop
The Question with a web card from the
Redmond Behemoth. Also available for the
ladies...Microsoft
Fabio! to Web by tregoweth |
| Monday Aug 16, 1999 | Tattoos? Pah. Body piercings & branding? Ho-hum. The truly avant-garde know to be on the cutting edge, you have to do exactly that - with your penis. Penile subincision, originally an Australian Aboriginal practice, splits Mr. Happy down along the urethra - theoretically exposing the previously-closed nerve-dense urinary tract tissue to enhanced sexual pleasure. Right. Ok, I'll add Australia to the list of countries I'm glad I wasn't born in.
to Sex by pjammer |
| The Canadian Taxpayers Federation. My fellow Canadians, let's all be bitter together. to Finance by succa |
| Just when you thought you knew everything about every proprietary web plug-in, along comes the WildTangent Web Driver. This thing allows you to serve up DirectX content over the web with surprising results. Get it. Then be amazed when you're playing Monster Truck Madness over the web. But it's Windows-only right now. Sorry, Vic-20 users. to Web by succa |
| Grow up, would ya? to Science by succa |
| According to some "experts" AIDS
isn't actually caused by HIV. Apparently, we've all been believing a perpetuated
myth. to Conspiracy by laurel |
| One of the more popular papers at
SIGGRAPH this year was about
Teddy,
a 3d modelling program that has an artist-friendly UI and nifty
non-photorealistic rendering.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Did you know that a jury can acquit someone if they
consider the law itself to be
unjust?
Learn the astonishing truth about your rights and powers as a juror at
the homepage of the
Fully Informed Jury
Association.
to Law by riotnrrd |
| What do you prefer? Apples or apples?
to Food by djinn |
| Sunday Aug 15, 1999 | In 1999, two young filmmakers went into the woods to make a SCARY movie and they never returned (!!!). One and a half days later their footage was found mysteriously at a lab where it had been mysteriously canned, prepped for video, and edited (!!!). The Blah Witch Project. to Media by faisal |
| Some people like golf a little too much. to Sports by faisal |
| As if you RTS geeks don't waste enough time playing Starcraft
on Battle.net, along comes a guy who dedicated
six months of his life to bring you the user-built, jaw-dropping
Antioch Chronicles expansion.
Damn - and I just used up all my sick days to finish "Brood Wars."
to Games by pjammer |
| Back Orifice 2000 can help your love life.
to Commentary by faisal |
| The Shareware Music Machine is a nicely organized, and comprehensive looking, index to music software on the net. Lots of platforms, too. to Music by obvious |
| Saturday Aug 14, 1999 | Joe Cartoon gives you the killer app the Internet has long been waiting for: the power to blow up a gerbil in a microwave. to Humor by faisal |
| Because they think that
Cliff's Notes are sometimes too
hard to understand (according
to the latest issue of Harper's, anyway)
the good folks at
Schoolbytes.com offer
plot summaries
that some might call easier to grasp, as well as
Term Papers
(such as
this), and
a quaint little section on
History (such as
that).
Personally, I'm moving my family to
Sweden.
to Education by goboro |
| Friday Aug 13, 1999 | So you have more AOL CDs than you know what to do with, and you just
gotta get rid of
them somehow. Perhaps fashioning them into boomerangs
isn't such a good idea.
to Art by braino |
| I wish I had kept my old Nintendo Game & Watch games. Others build shrines to the original designer. Other people make collector sites. I'll bet most of you don't remember the origns of Zelda ^_^ to Games by gen |
| According to Gap Sucks and the SF Gate, the Fisher family that owns the Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy are also planning to clearcut their 230,000 acres of California forests, some of which contain old-growth redwoods near Mendocino. Want more cargo pants now?
to Fashion by gen |
| As long as we're reminiscing over cool networked Mac games, let's not forget Bolo! Stuart Cheshire's awesomely simple yet amazingly fun networked tank strategy game. Use Boloweb to find games and bone up with the Bolo FAQ. Keep your fingers crossed for WinBolo.
to Games by gen |
| Apart from being an enjoyable first-person shooter
Bungie's Marathon
can be considered an epistolary novel with copious
bloodshed. Read it here. to Art by mpc |
| Mad scientists really do exist.
Paul Pietsch at Indiana University
has performed some head
transplants, limb grafts,
and other sorts of strange things to
Axolotls.
to Science by laurel |
| Sure, everyone abuses their workplace internet connection for personal use. However, everybody is not equally pathetic. Memepool Quiz: Who is the biggest loser?
[A] The individual who plays Battleship with an former coworker over email
[B] The individual's current coworker, who took digital-camera spy photos of his Battleship layout and secretly built a dedicated Battleship Cheat Page to mock him behind his back
[C] The shamelessly self-referring narccissist who submits the site to a shitty, low-traffic weblog as part of his grueling race to eclipse its most prolific contributor before the end of the millenium
First respondent to send the correct answer to comments@memepool.com will receive a free memepool T-shirt.
to Games by pjammer |
| Thursday Aug 12, 1999 |
Jester is a system at
Berkeley that
recommends personalized jokes using on
collaborative filtering system. See, statistics really are useful for something. to Humor by laurel |
| Way back in 1897, the 45th U.S. Congress and President Rutherford
Hayes established the United
States Geological Survey, principally to help the American
mineral industry. Over a century of diligence, however, has
yielded a mountain of data about the geological makeup of our
country, including mineral and water resources, arial
photography, and the most comprehensive set of Topo Maps of any
nation on the planet (searchable by
map,
name,
zip code,
or paw through the lists by state) at
four bucks a
pop.
to Cartography by goboro |
| Iridium, the satellite phone system, backed by Motorola, tanks. My guess? Microsoft gets to buy a global satellite communication system for a song.
to Commentary by joshua |
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