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| Tuesday Sep 28, 1999 | Wonder how anyone ever manages to sell anyting on the web when their goofy multimedia crap keeps crashing your browser? So does web usability expert Jakob Nielsen. useit.com is his newsletter and guide to good web usability practice. to Commentary by faisal |
| Hankering for lightweight yet strong materials? Lighter than aluminium? Stronger than steel? Head over to SP Systems where they've got the latest in composite materials.
to Gadgets by faisal |
| Brain in a tank! Thing in a jar! Weird stuff in glass to impress your friends and make them worry about you! to Gadgets by magus |
| I think they're trying to sell email addresses, but I still don't understand the cow. to Web by magus |
| Hideously overpackaged media monstrosity or clever little Letterman prank? I don't know about these things. All I know is that you've gotta be fresh to fresh with the Fresh, er, what was it again? to Music by magus |
| Finally, a web portal for that lone gunman in your life. For a stirring call to arms, don't miss the Open Letter to the Community. to Warfare by fringehead |
| Judd Winick, best known for his stint on The Real World, produced the excellent (and defunct) Frumpy the Clown. to Comics by machita |
| Business News Flash:
Microsoft agrees to acquire
Stanford University for
five billion dollars. to Humor by pjammer |
| Doll Soup,
an amusing soap opera starring a trio of Barbie-type dolls, chronicles the oft-cruel
world of beautiful unemployed actresses. In the attempt to further blur the line between reality
and make-believe, the host of Doll Soup allows fans to send email to the plastic actresses
through links on their
biography pages. to Art by pjammer |
| Aerogel
is a very fine glassine substance used
to make detectors for
particle physicsexperiments.
Apart from their funky
physical properties, alternative
uses, they just
just
looks
cool.
Unfortunately, while manufacturers
exist, they're still a bit pricey.
to Science by mpc |
| The Summa
Theologica is St. Thomas Aquinas' primary work,
the center of Catholic theology, and one of the
most important books in the history of Western
Civilization. This web-based version seems
to be complete, with questions ranging from
does God exist?
To do angels eat?
To certain
Viagra-oriented questions.
to Religion by mpc |
| If normal coffee just doesn't have
enough of the
good stuff,
maybe you should try
Shock brand hypercaffinated coffee,
with 200 mg of caffeine per serving.
to Coffee by riotnrrd |
| Gay? Looking for some
rough trade?
Wealthy (or desperate) enough to fly to
Germany
for it? Well, then let
Mike and Thorsten
give you the hardcore rodgering you crave.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Temple Grandin is perhaps the
world's foremost
designer
of cattle and hog
slaughter
houses. She's also autistic, and
has written
several books about it.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Wiener Pong. Riding a wienermobile down the hotdog highway. 45 years of children blowing meat whistles. The Oscar Mayer site is wrong on so many levels I fear that I'll be plagued with recurring nightmares filled with scary music. to Food by nyarl |
| People the world over love their Trabants. Read about
its
history, hook
up with other Trabby
fanatics, or just gaze
at a vision of beauty. to Transportation by crikey |
| Monday Sep 27, 1999 | A curious hybrid of Hassidic and Christian culture aptly named Jews
for Jesus promotes the acceptance of the Torah, Talmud and New Testament as
divinely inspired texts. Having trouble discussing your new faith with Orthodox friends and
horrified Jewish family? Jews for Jesus also offers
countermemes to defend your
Christian beliefs. to Religion by pjammer |
| Does anyone else find it odd that there are Braille resources in a medium that requires sight? to Linguistics by djinn |
| Who needs real pets, when you can vicariously
enjoy them on-line without feeding the big cat
a gazelle each day or two?
Howlett's Zoo
has launched
a number of user-controllable
webcams
on some of the animals, including gorillas
and big cats. Apparently the animals were a
little shy at first and ripped out the
wires and fiddled with the webcams, according
to
The Register.
to Pets by oznoid |
| With the retirement of comic giants like Bill Watterson, Burke Breathed and Gary Larson,
the only mainstream-distribution comic strip of consistent brilliance is Bill Amend's delightfully wry
Foxtrot. to Comics by pjammer |
| The Museum of the History of Science in Florence has a roomful of the relics of Galileo Galilei. And I don't just mean lenses and lodestones. I mean genuine relics. to Science by belford |
|
View ads to feed the hungry. Just push the button.
Seriously. It's legit. In total we're talking about hundreds of
thousands of pounds of food going to the people who need it most
by way of the
United Nations World Food Programme. to Web by keith |
| Sunday Sep 26, 1999 | In the "things I didn't really need" category, Desktop.com lets you do your work in a graphical desktop environment... hosted in a web browser... that's already running on your Windows based PC. What's the advantage of this again? Your new computer is too fast and you prefer the feeling of running Office 2000 on an unstable 386? to Computing by faisal |
| EDGARspace lets you work with the SEC's EDGAR database in a spatial graphical workspace. Hard to describe, but fairly easy to use.
to Finance by faisal |
| Ever wonder what a vodka gimlet looks like up close? I mean, really up close? Enjoy the
photomicroscopy of cocktails. to Science by crikey |
| Sure the MP3 revolution is great, but too much attention is paid to a lot of pantywaist pop music for sissies. The real excitement is in MP3.com's Adult Country Music directory. Where else could we have found Government Chicken Boy? to Music by fringehead |
| The coolest trend in comics these days appears to be "science comics,"
which either retell famous events from the history of science or teach
some science, like Jim Ottaviani's
Two-Fisted Science,
his Dignifying
Science, or Jay Hosler's Clan Apis, about the
life of a honey bee.
to Comics by crikey |
| The Bible Believers Diet Plan: Obey it or suffer. Your body is NOT yours to make into a
barrel of fat. to Food by fringehead |
| Friday Sep 24, 1999 | allmixedup has
many, many fun classic games, such as
othello,
tic-tac-toe,
and my new favorite addiction,
clunk. to Games by crikey |
| Scientologists beware. The Church
of Virus is a new memetically-engineered
atheistic religion that is even now hungrily
sweeping up all your best prospects for
conversion. to Religion by arkuat |
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