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| Wednesday Sep 22, 1999 | We've mentioned odd
film reviewers in the past, here's
one who rewrites
the scripts to get his point across.
to Movies by mpc |
| They're not exactly accurate enough to target
cruise missles with, but the
U.S. Gazetteer Place and Zipcode Files
may be a good starting point for any applications
that need to know where in the US certain zipcodes are.
to Cartography by sburke |
| Digital cameras are finally becoming a competitive alternative to traditional film for snaps of the family and friends. And with 24-bit color it would seem that they provide the naked eye a full spectrum of distinguishable color. But for some applications what you really need is 960-bit color and Wintress Engineering Corporation fits the bill nicely.
to Computing by urog |
| Tuesday Sep 21, 1999 | As many of you know, the U.S. Navy SEALs is one of the most
selective and respected military units in the world. Every aspiring SEAL must survive the grueling
BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolitions/SEALs)
training program,
(infamous for weeding out world-class triatheletes/bodybuilders) before becoming a
probationary member and being allowed to attend additional training. Interested in signing on, you
maniac? Apply here. to Warfare by pjammer |
| A simple flowchart to help men get dressed. to Fashion by djinn |
| The web-site for game designer Warren Spector's impending conspiracy-theorist's wet dream adventure Deus Ex claims to have been shut down and is being monitored, presumably by the secretive UN Anti-Terrorist Coalition. Me? I sent mail asking for a job to UNATCO. Sadly, their kid's page is still under construction. to Conspiracy by nyarl |
| How many calories does sex use up, exactly? How does your favorite color affect your sex life? If you're female, what do you need to know about condoms More of the same appears on College Humor. to Humor by djinn |
| Asparagus can make your pee stink. to Food by machita |
| Julia Butterfly Hill climbed into a redwood almost two years ago, in protest and to protect the forest. She hasn't come down since. She named the tree Luna. Of course, you can read her poetry about her motivations and experience. to Culture by machita |
| I remember long afternoons laying out solitaire hands at my grandparents on rainy days. No longer an innocent pastime, solitaire is clearly evidence of a sinister conspiracy to decrease productivity and keep a Windoze PC on your desk. Solitaire will imprision you in your cubicle under the delusion you are interacting with other people. to Games by machita |
| School violence has been the media's favorite topic of the moment, and it has raised a lot of issues. Many were profiled in Slashdot's Voices from the Hell Mouth, and now the U.S. Department of Justice, along with the U.S. Department of Education, have stepped in, with a well written, and hopefully, guiding document for schools. But one question: Would you trust your school nurse? to Education by imploded |
| Reading the alt.locksmithing FAQ
won't make you a master burglar any more than watching
The Godfather will make you a mafia don (protests of well-intentioned parent groups and CDA
advocates notwithstanding) - but it can make law-abiding citizens more aware of
our more obvious security vulnerabilities.
to Reference by pjammer |
| George W. Bush's campaign contributions
can be viewed daily. These guys did a statistical analysis of the contributions, including who exceeded the legal limits.
Unfortunately you need to download a "free trial version" of their Table Lens application
in order to view and manipulate the data, however the press release
includes some interesting conclusions about his campaign donors.
to Politics by birgitte |
| So who thought up the parts that Starbuck's
got right? (There are a few, you know.) Their
main competition in the Bay area, especially
the East Bay, Peet's, who
strangely seem to have no desire to parlay their
success in roasting coffee into the creation of
yet another international fast-food chain. to Coffee by arkuat |
| Wondering what to do with the that script buried in your desk drawer somewhere
beneath your Sallie Mae loan papers and free
aol disks?
Well,
if you aren't worried about indie cred
send it here.
It will cost you, but then look at how much
money
some scripts are going for. If this is the future of Hollywood, it doesn't look good people.
to Movies by birgitte |
| The
Japanese Engrish
page salutes the valiant and humorous attempts by Japanese companies to give
their products English names. to Linguistics by riotnrrd |
| Are you butch or femme?
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| He
once made 5,221 consecutive freethrows, and now
he wants to help you shoot freethrows too. to Sports by keith |
| I'm sure that there are a few people out there who
think that the last thing that the world needs is
another witty, irreverant advice columnist, but
despite these people, I dig
The Advice
Goddess. to Commentary by keith |
| In the 80's, there was a dream. A brave dream
of substance control. They plotted a
game that
would reach into the hearts of crackhouse dimebag
whores and purify their lives with its positive
message. to Drugs by laurel |
| Monday Sep 20, 1999 | Real Men don't quote Keats. According to these fellas, you should be brushing up your Lenin, Malcolm X, and LBJ instead. And you'd better know how to talk about poker.
to Books by penth |
| One of the most unusual and delightfully entertaining theater/skit troupes is staffed
entirely by an all-deaf crew. What Deafywood's
shorts lack in conventional "dialogue" they make up for with original and
wickedly sardonic material
- especially the side-splitting "John Leno"
spoof.
to Humor by pjammer |
| How an urban-planning class integrates the work
of non-academic Jane
Jacobs. to Education by arkuat |
| After you put the Piddler's toilet targets in the toilet, you can teach your children more advanced targeting techniques with these fine bathroom decorations. to Gadgets by mrradon |
| The United States Geological Survey maintains a very near realtime bulletin of current seismic activity, with a spectacular array of interpretations of the data. Take for example today's Taiwan earthquake, for which waveform data is available. Also worthy is WILBER (Web Interface to Lookup Big Events for Retrieval) which is a usable interface to all the near realtime seismic data available online.
to Science by urog |
| Get yer wordlists, get yer pipin' hot wordlists! Big and free and multilingual, and available for download. (Courtesy of Grady Ward, AKA the Moby wordlists guy) to Linguistics by sburke |
| Al Gore (Gore Vidal's slower, straighter cousin, as well as
inventor of the Internet, doncha know!)
opined a while back
that sex in the media causes teen pregnancy.
That must be an odd kind of causation, seeing as how media is getting more
pr0n-o-rific all the time, while
teen pragnancy rates are plummeting.
to Politics by sburke |
| Yom Kippur is getting
so
commercialized these days.
People forget it's supposed to be
all about the sin! to Religion by sburke |
| Jesux (pronounced Hay-sooks) is a new Linux distribution for Christian hackers, schools, families, and churches. There is already a core distribution being prepared, based on RedHat's distribution. Jesux will be distributed under the Christian Software Public License which is aparently much like the BSD licence. to Computing by joshua |
| Travlang
provides us with
free translating dictionaries for sixteen languages.
Esperanto
is included; Klingon is not. to Linguistics by keith |
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