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| Sunday Sep 12, 1999 | Dinner out for me, nine times out of ten, is sushi, at Kasuga Sushi. Think I'll have the agedashi tofu, chawan mushi (if I can get someone else to order one too), or maybe an okonomiyaki, aka japanese pizza. A bowl of edamame on the side, and I'm in japanese vegetarian food heaven. to Food by stimpy |
| If you've ever wondered about the origin of the word "Masochism", this web page is all about it. The short version is that it's named after Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, the author of Venus in Furs, which I highly recommend, and of which the full text can be found here. to Literature by keith |
| Saturday Sep 11, 1999 | "...Now therefore, while the youthful hew
Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing Soul transpires At every pore with instant Fires, Now let us sport us while we may;..." -- so says Andrew Marvell, the 17th century's version of Smoove B to Sex by sburke |
| They tell me you are wicked and I believe them. to Literature by sburke |
| Stop using the gibberish phrase "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..." and use the real thing it's based on --
Cicero's De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33.
Look for the familiar bits
starting at "...neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum, quia dolor sit, amet, consectetur, adipisci
velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt, ut labore et dolore magnam
aliquam quaerat voluptatem.".
("Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to
obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances
occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure.")
Deep, huh?
to Linguistics by sburke |
| Witness a (possibly somewhat expurgated)
history of Tetris,
everyone's favorite "Soviet mind game".
to Games by sburke |
| Feeling stupid? Go convince yourself you're really smart and know all the
words in the dictionary, by poking randomly around the
Collins Cobuild Student's Dictionary,
a dictionary for (if not by) British children. Example definitions:
"cigars: Cigars are rolls of dried tobacco leaves which people smoke."
"paranoia: Someone who suffers from paranoia wrongly believes that other people are trying to harm them."
Comes with sound files so you can learn to pronounce
"thorough"
like a good English(wo)man.
to Reference by sburke |
| Fast forward to the future with snobol4.com!
And be sure to get the t-shirt they got there. It'll go great with your Nagel prints and your Coleco Adam game collection.
to Computing by sburke |
| The Center for
Responsive Politics has set up Open
Secrets to show you the money. Lobbyist
money, Presidential election
contributions, and Congressional campaign
funding, that is.
to Politics by braino |
| Friday Sep 10, 1999 | A dictionary of
slang is a comprehensive lexicon of British slang, much of which
is not offensive. On the other hand, so to speak, there is Roger's
Profanisaurus, a list of mostly British slang consisting mostly of
words for naughty bits and things to do with them. This latter link
is not for the easily offended.
to Linguistics by braino |
| The National Archives presents the greatest political meeting in American history: Elvis Presley's visit to Richard Nixon to become "a federal agent in the war on drugs." to Politics by tregoweth |
| It's good to know that in this modern topsy-turvy e-commerce world, The Three Stooges aren't getting left behind. to Commerce by keith |
| I have to admit that Eleanor's Czech Kitchen has recipes which, although not low fat, certainly sound good and appear to be authenticly Czech. What I am trying to figure out, however, is the accompanying drawings, such as, for instance, what a drawing of a heavy-set woman jumping rope has to do with roasted pork, dumpling, and cabbage. to Food by keith |
| Another browser to add to your collection:
WebTV Viewer,
a WebTV emulator for Macs 'n Windows. to Web by tregoweth |
| Thursday Sep 9, 1999 | The minions of Hell are surely taking over the net, and their latest weapon is FamilyPoint. Now all your relatives who you don't want to talk to can do more than just pester you with their AOL and WebTV accounts, but share a web-based fridge with you as well! Please kill me. to Web by nyarl |
| Learn about health by chatting with famous celebrities and watching videos of their invasive surgery: A Doctor in Your House to Health by faisal |
| With Java, Sun finally brought 1960's programming language technology to the world. Someday
maybe Sun will take heed of
Request For Enhancement #4064105: Compile-time type safety with parameterized types
and bring us early 1990's technology.
Until then, we've got Generic Java, which adds polymorphic types to Java and still compiles into
standard Java bytecode. to Computing by akk |
| Even if you're not gay, see if you have what it takes to join the team. Play Gay or Eurotrash? And if you think you're good at that, (which queer as I am I was terrible at) play Lesbian or German Lady, for an even more difficult challenge involving stereotypes and the fashionably challenged. This and other less-interactive fun from the folks at Blair. to Humor by mrradon |
| Warning: The Surgeon General has determined that associating with Bill Clinton can be hazardous to your health. to Conspiracy by pjammer |
| My favorite band lately has been The Old 97's. Their most recent
album, Fight Songs, has been getting a bit of press due to its
barenakedladyesque production values, but I'm still
a sucker for the west-texas-meets-pop feel of
Too
Far To Care, and lead singer Rhett Miller's
songs about drinking and girls. to Music by peterb |
| Hasbro just bought Wizards of the Coast -- adding them to a harem which already includes Milton Bradley, Parker Brothers, Avalon Hill, Microprose, Playskool, and others. This means that a single company now produces Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon, Dungeons and Dragons, Civilization 2, Pictionary, Scrabble, Clue, Tinkertoys, G. I. Joe, Furby, the Supersoaker, and, um, wait, what's that game about acquiring all the properties on the board? to Games by belford |
| Alice is tool designed to make it easy for novices to develop interesting 3D environments and to explore the new medium of interactive 3D graphics. to Computing by joshua |
| Lies, damn lies, and Web-based Statistical Calcultors. to Reference by joshua |
| Carol Gerten's Virtual Art Museum contains scans of a stunning amount of artwork from a huge number of artists. to Art by joshua |
| Patrick Bridges maintains a comprehensive list of Current Operating Systems Projects and OS-related research. to Computing by joshua |
| Velvet: The Unusual Superheroine isn't about mindless sex and senseless violence; it's about comprehensive writing. You can tell because it says so right there on the web page. Still, I do have to wonder how the author can "portray Velvet in a very respectable manner" in such a skimpy costume. to Comics by keith |
| Transmetropolitan is, in my ever-so-humble opinion, hands down the best comic book still being published regularly. I would urge everyone to go buy it, even if you don't usually read comic books. Also, its writer, Warren Ellis has his own web site, which is pretty mod. to Comics by keith |
| Wednesday Sep 8, 1999 | Somewhere at the intersection between Shockwave-saavy users (blessed with plenty of spare time) and Bill-Gates-hating computer users (unafraid of publicly broadcasting their homicidal fantasies) lives the producer of K.I.M.: the Director's Cut. to Humor by pjammer |
| Thanks to recent articles about options-laden single men in high technology, opportunistic women have decended on Silicon Valley in hopes of riding the information-economy-fueled gravy train. Moment of truth, geek: flattering as it may be to get pinged by women who ignored you in high school, you know that a tech-groupie is not what you ultimately need. What you need is a NerdSlut. to Sex by pjammer |
| ARTS (Analog Realtime Synthesizer)
is a software-based modular synthesizer running under linux. Now you don't
need a soldering iron and PAiA schematics to build that super-rad ARP knockoff.
While you're considering audio for linux, you should really spend some time surfing
the metalinks at Dave Philips' linux audio links.
to Music by urog |
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