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| Wednesday Oct 6, 1999 | Go read
Neil Gaiman's
24-hour comic book,
Being An Account Of The Life And Death Of Emperor
Heliogabolus. to Literature by keith |
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Man On the Moon is a movie about
the life of the bizarre and astonishing
Andy Kaufman. Jim Carrey stars.
The word on the street is that he's really put a lot into getting into character and does a surprisingly good Andy Kaufman. to Movies by keith |
| Forget Harry Knowles. True film lovers turn to Jeffrey Wells' Hollywood Confidential for the latest in movie news. to Movies by boneyard |
| Tuesday Oct 5, 1999 | Today's winner in the "scary fanatical devotion to has-been pop-icon" goes to the gentleman in Virgina: We cannot erase Vanilla Ice from our culture, just as we cannot erase forgotten events from our history. Enter this, the largest collection of Vanilla Ice links on the Internet. Vanilla Ice will never die. I won't let him. He lives in me, and I live for him. to Wackos by pjammer |
| Do you know precocious, mathematically-gifted teenagers bored out of their skulls slogging through high school calculus? Point them to Math Camp, an intense and stimulating summer program targeted at bright 13-to-18 year olds. Think you were pretty smart in high school, hotshot? Check out the qualifying quiz that 13-year-olds are passing to get admitted. to Education by pjammer |
| The discipline of Competitive Intelligence, once shrouded with a disreputable patina (on account of incorrect public perception of comp intel as "industrial espionage") is gaining acceptance in corporate America as a legitimate function of strategic planning. To catalyze the acceptance of comp intel in mainstream business, The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals offers FAQs (which explains the rudiments of comp intel to novices) as well as in-depth seminars for business veterans. to Commerce by pjammer |
| The Society of Robotic Combat, like Robotwars, fulfills the childhood dreams of anime-watching geeks of building your own fighting robots for gladitorial combat. to Robotics by pjammer |
| I have to wonder if Toyota's
"Is this Toyota?"
advertising campaign will lead to other interogative
ad campaigns like "Where's Audi?" and "What's the frequency, Kia?"
to Transportation by keith |
| Having a crappy life? Running from something or someone? Join the French Foreign Legion! to Warfare by fringehead |
| Remember friend, that thou art mortal, and the Death Clock will remind thou of just how mortal that is. to Web by mpc |
| Monday Oct 4, 1999 | Lots of schools have mascots, and lots of people are mascot fans. There are wacky mascots, extremely odd yet popular mascots, and then there's Amherst College, which names its teams the Lord Jeffs and Lady Jeffs after someone who, well, just wasn't a nice guy. to Sports by boneyard |
| The popular media often gets its science and astronomy
wrong.
Very,
very wrong.
Here to save the day from ignorance are Phil Platt's
Bad Astronomy
and Alistair Fraser's
Bad Science
websites.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| The prolific sci-fi and fantasy author
Jack Vance is re-publishing his
entire oeuvre in the sixty volume
Jack Vance Integral
Edition.
to Books by riotnrrd |
| Memepool is thinking about adding reviews of movies, books and music to our regularly scheduled programming. If you have any opinions, for or against, please let us know. Update: It looks like about five-to-one against reviews. If you have any other ideas, let us know.
to Memepool-News by joshua |
| Lou Minatti predicts a warm summer for 1997. There's more to dog feces than you previously thought. And the Brad Pitt Equalization Device. Spooky stuff. to Humor by jon |
| If you're tired of plain, vanilla conspiracies like Friedrich Nietzsche's plan to enslave the Earth form his C.I.A.-funded moon base, or alien plans to enslave the Earth from their alien-funded Earth bases, don't despair: now you can create your own conspiracy. to Conspiracy by jon |
| The Fifth Annual Interactive Fiction Competition has started. (Yes, IF is my pet subject.) Thirty-seven short text adventures have been entered, and anyone can vote. You have until November 15th to play and rate as many as you can. (Each game should take no more than two hours to play. All but two are playable on Mac/Unix/Windows/anything else.) Download the games from the IF Archive, or a mirror site (US, US, UK, Aus). The complete voting rules are in the same directory, or at the Competition web page. to Games by belford |
| Aliens are abducting our pants. Let's hope they take my father's acid-washed jeans. to Fashion by jon |
| As many of you know, search engine Google! ranks its search hits by the number of outside links to the subject of the search query - sidestepping the efforts of self-promoting meta-tag-abusing spamdexers. But what does Google consider to be more evil than Satan himself? to Humor by pjammer |
| Oh boy oh boy! William Gibson's got
a new book out! to Literature by sburke |
| JPEGs on cookies.
Truly, these are glorious times in which to live. to Food by tregoweth |
| Sunday Oct 3, 1999 | OH MY GOD LOOK OUT IT'S A DISASTER AAAA to Movies by crikey |
| Next on my list of cookbooks I need is the hyperdecadent Eat Dangerously, a paean to enjoying luxurious food instead of stressing about it. They've put some of their fabulous but expensive recipes on the web. to Food by peterb |
| Its Sunday, and Sunday means football. Not American football, but Serie A soccer on RAI International! And everyone knows you can't be a real tifoso without your favorite team's official jersey. I'll take Inter-Milan, please. And as long as I'm asking for gifts, someone please get me a date with RAIsport's Ilaria D'Amico. to Sports by peterb |
| Saturday Oct 2, 1999 | Again with the trouvés!
Years ago I found a vinyl-covered book from a bizarro religion known in olden days
for hearing the voice of God in AM radio static. From the dazzling art in the text,
I assembled the St Germain of Dada Silent Contemplation Shrine. to Art by sburke |
| One for the trouvé file:
It should serve me right for running an
Altavista search on "metatheory", but I stumbled on a site featuring
some pretty peculiar diagrams, supposed to diagrammatically represent philosophical systems.
They look like what you'd get if
Marcel Duchamp
had had access to Adobe Illustrator.
to Art by sburke |
| The Dynamical & Evolutionary Machine Organization group at Brandeis University evolved a to Computing by joshua |
| America's [least] favorite utensil. to Culture by djinn |
| For those concerned with their spirituality and
their waistline, there is the Jesus' Diet For Your Sins. Learn about the fountain of youth and psychic junk food vibrations. to Food by jacquez |
| New taste-test surveys reveal that five out of six squirrels prefer Budweiser. Brought to you by the wacky hosts of Wierd Pictures Archive.
to Humor by pjammer |
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