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| Monday Sep 20, 1999 | Travlang
provides us with
free translating dictionaries for sixteen languages.
Esperanto
is included; Klingon is not. to Linguistics by keith |
| Sunday Sep 19, 1999 | SpinnWebe, host to The Dysfunctional Family
Circus for nigh upon forever, has
been bitchslapped by Bil Keane's syndicate. The "cease and desist" must
be complied by today (20-Sep-1999), so check out this piece of 'web
history before it's gone.
to Comics by braino |
| Opera For Everyone, a series-in-progress of recordings of famous operas with a narrator explaining the context, is certainly a noble idea... to Music by djinn |
| Regardless of what others may have told you the World Wide Web is not the Internet, although the Internet is a web of sorts. How do you map a web? The Internet Mapping Project is an effort that has produced a gorgeous collection of enormous images mapping the interconnectivity of the web. Slow connections beware.
to Internet by urog |
| Indy magazine only
publishes online these days, and doesn't update
as much as I'd want it to, but jeez, what fantastic
interviews and reviews! In particular, check out the recent
in-depth interview with Eightball's
Dan Clowes. to Comics by crikey |
| Zen
is an interesting little web game/procrastination
device. However, don't take the name too seriously
unless you believe achieving enlightenment should be a competitive
activity. to Games by crikey |
| Read about and contribute to the debate on the
most important issue of our day:
Which way should the toilet paper go? to Commentary by crikey |
| Saturday Sep 18, 1999 | Unlike the politically-correct, antigun Anti-Defamation League, Jews for the Perservation of Firearms Ownership believes that the best defense against genocide and anti-Semitism is an armed and informed citizenry. Questions about politics, ammo selection or Hassidic law on self defense? JPFO also features a column that lets readers Ask the Rabbi. to Politics by pjammer |
| Everything you ever wanted to know about the impact of digital cash on the shady world of money-laundering. to Law by pjammer |
| Well, with pages like XXX-rated Shed Talk, Absolut Humour is actually pretty funny stuff.
to Humor by djinn |
| One of the most bizzare rituals of American television is an annual rite where young
unmarried women parade their bodies in front of national television to be rated by a panel
of middle-aged men in exchange for cash and prizes. While
Miss America makes a perfuntory nod toward "scholarship," its insistence that contestants be undivorced and pregnancy-free
betray its patriarchial roots: the archaic fantasy of attractive virgin women presenting
themselves for the viewing pleasure the community's alpha males. to Television by pjammer |
| Does anyone ever stop to think that sometimes consumerism can go too far? to Gadgets by djinn |
| I never learned the alphabet up to the letter S; I went to public school.
to Humor by djinn |
| Polish artist
Zbigniew Libera
has made some interesting art dealing with the Holocaust, using
Legos.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Interested in experimenting with
neural nets?
Then pick up a free copy of the
Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator, which has
an impressive
list of features, a nice GUI, and is availabile on
many platforms.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| The near future of rocket propulsion looks interesting.
Chemical rockets, of
course, will remain important for a while, but within a few dedacdes
we could have much more efficient
nuclear "teakettle" rockets
somewhat like the old
NERVA engines.
Ultimately, however, the future belongs to
fusion.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| I found the page of the Meme Factory, a software company, by not paying attention while trying to get to memepool.com. What I found there, though, was a very nice collection of memetics links. to Memetics by djinn |
| Friday Sep 17, 1999 | Independent Reader recommends fifty-five grandmas and a llama.
to Books by djinn |
| When it comes to sports, there is none better than Paintball. With sites like WARPIG to keep me up to date, and plenty of places like Ravi Chopra's to show me that I haven't spent enough money, and The Physics of Paintball to show me I still don't know enough. to Sports by imploded |
| Censorware is a big debate today, with libraires and schools installing it on every machine they have. But thankfully, folks like Peacefire, Censorware.org and IANS are helping the censored find the content they seek.
to Computing by imploded |
| Contortionism: athletic feat, art form, or fetish? to Sex by machita |
| High-class karaoke via the WWW. to Music by machita |
| The world's smallest nuclear-capable country, indeed the smallest country of any kind, the
Fascist Democratic Dictatorship of Djelibeybi
has long been recognised by all sane people as planet Earth's last, best hope against international Communism. to Humor by pjammer |
| Another neato Ars Electronica exhibit was
"Hamster - symbiotic exchange of hoarded energy."
Robots, which steer themselves but have no motors, were driven by
hamsters running in on-board wheels, who had no conception of their "task."
The robot-hamster symbiote must travel between a
food station (for the hamsters) and a set of bright lights that recharges
the solar cells of the robots.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| On the border between pathetic fandom and strange humor lies the
Dune Guy Fanpage.
The humor (or is it satire?) comes from the author's apparant confusion of
Klye MacLachlan
and Matthew Perry.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Kevin Smith, writer and director of Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy,
has a
large web-site,
filled with great information about his past and
upcoming movies.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Sep 16, 1999 | My name is Mr. USA. to Wackos by crikey |
| One of the most popular exhibits at Ars Electronica was
"Bump" -- a pneumatically actuated wooden walkway that communicated
with a similar bridge set up in
Budapest.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| For a
class project on robotics, these Minnesota fifth graders made
deadly spiders,
death rays, and
roller coasters out of Legos.
The programs for
some projects have a certain Ballardian poetry:
"to crashcar: shine, crash, sound, end."
to Education by riotnrrd |
| In the insane world where venture-cash-rich internet firms are
knocking over each other to give away free stuff in order to build market share, the only competitive
advantage a startup has is its ability to give away the house faster than its rivals.
uReach.com could very well be the winner of this bizzare
race, offering webmail, a personal 800-number voicemail box and inbound fax capacities for anyone
who logs in. Since its ability to financially sustain itself on pure advertising revenue is laughable,
I suspect they're trolling to get acquired.
to Internet by pjammer |
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