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Monday
Oct 25, 1999
Possible new trend: Resurrecting defunct brands for online use. First sighting: the return of S&H Green Stamps as "S&H Greenpoints."
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Commerce by tregoweth
Sunday
Oct 24, 1999
I'm embarrassed to admit that I found this site based on a reference from a friend, not from being bored and typing in random urls.
to Humor by djinn
Two authors who don't get read enough today, the eminently quotable G.K. Chesterton, and Hilaire Belloc, the only man to every write a drinking song about the Pelagian Heresy
to Literature by mpc
Support the C.A.O.F.! Even if it means your amazon.com stock will suffer...
to Web by djinn
Saturday
Oct 23, 1999
The Fight Club website has two trailers made by Fight Club director David Fincher. Unfortunately, 20th Century Fox refused to air these very bizzare and funny trailers: one with Brad Pitt and one with Ed Norton. For the actual trailer the studio used, go to the unofficial site.
to Movies by earmouse
So. Which disease of consciousness do you suffer from?
to Health by pjammer
Does God lie? Syndicate 23 certainly thinks so.
to Religion by pjammer
Next time you think, think Fertnel, a leading producer of snaks™ and snak™ by-products. Check out their high tech snack™ technology and their online zine for teens.
to Humor by riotnrrd
If the Sony Aibo's $2000 price tag is too steep, you can always make your own robotic pet. Lego Mindstorms are, of course, an option but for the more adventurous there is Solarbotics, which sells kits and parts for various simple but elegant robots. Craig Maynard also sells kits for his "Cybug" robots, including solar powered bugs that can stalk each other and feed from a cyborg sunflower powerplant. Make sure to check out Robohoo, a good general source for robotics information, books and companies.
to Robotics by riotnrrd
Friday
Oct 22, 1999
The World's Only Missile Silo Luxury Home with Runway
to Gadgets by faisal
Pyradyne has got to be a joke, the owner has to be kidding us. Nobody can wear this hat and be taken seriously.
to Wackos by mpc
This is it kids, one stop shopping for all your weird people needs, find out about Forbidden Archaeology, crop circle research, wacky crystals, and every other weirdness the human mind can conceive of, just go to The Leading Edge International Research Group. Accept no substitutes.
to Wackos by mpc
If you are like me, maybe you wonder exactly when works pass into the public domain. This has all been changed as a result of Sonny Bono or someone using his name, because now that coporations own a lot of works, instead of individuals, and corporations live forever, the list probably won't get much longer.
to Law by birgitte
During test detonations of atomic bombs during WWII, scientists encountered the electronics-destroying effects of EMPs (Electro Magnetic Pulse). Soon, it was discovered that EMPs can be generated without nuclear weapons. Everything you memepool-reading terrorists ever wanted to know about flux-compression generators and E-bombs can be found here.
to Warfare by pjammer
Remember that guy who spent his junior year abroad who came back to school with better shoes and a girlfriend in Barcelona? Be like him. If you know where you want to go search by country. If you just want general information start here. You can even find someone else to pay for you.
to Travel by birgitte
For those of you just can't get enough Pokey the Penguin, it's time to rejoice -- introducing Dada Pokey, a computer-generated version of the classic.
to Comics by jon
For those of you who are suicidal and/or lazy, check out the Rollerpup 900, an electric skate tow vehicle that promises to spice up your rollerblading sessions.
to Transportation by jon
Bob Burden is perhaps the only surrealist cartoonist. His Mystermen comics inspired the Ben Stiller movie, but he is best known in the comics world for his Flaming Carrot Comics. The Flaming Carrot is a Zen-idiot superhero, lover of life, and he frequently says, "Ut!" He even has his own action figure.
to Comics by earmouse
Thursday
Oct 21, 1999
Why learn an artificial language when you can build your own? You'll need a lot of time, and a little help from the Language Construction Kit.
to Linguistics by joshua
Film Critic is sometimes brutal, usually honest, happily terse and without distraction - and frequently the first to publish movie reviews (frequently before general public release.)
to Movies by joshua
Ad Critic is less critic and more downloadable advertisement warehouse for those who find advertising more than just an annoyance on TV.
to Television by joshua
The inevitable evolution of online auctions has arrived. eWanted, a "reverse-auction" site, pits sellers against each other to unload the overpriced crap they bought on eBay.
to Commerce by pjammer
When it comes to news about Bat Boy, Bigfoot, and Elvis, there's no finer source of news than The Weekly World News Internet Edition. Now with gratuitous free email.
to Media by keith
One of the uncontestable advantages of living in the U.S. is the vast amount of preserved parkland. Sorting it out can be a little tricky though. Of course there is the National Park Service, but often overlooked are the lands controlled by the Bureau of Land Management, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Forestry Service. Fortunately the government created Recreation.Gov a searchable database of recreation on federal lands. Once you know where you're going, you can reserve yourself a campsite online with the National Recreation Reservation Service.
to Travel by akk
As if further evidence was needed of the fundamental silliness of governments, the British Standards Organization has created an eight page specification of how to make tea . If you're really curious, you can register for free and read the text online.
to Law by riotnrrd
The Mystic Aquarium rescued, tagged and released some pilot whales into the wild and now you can track them on-line.
to Science by riotnrrd
Nothing starts the day quite like dressing Trent Reznor up in pretty, pretty clothes.
to Fashion by jon
Wednesday
Oct 20, 1999
The Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library is a search engine for academic papers in Computer Science topics that lets you search by journal, title, abstract, author and institution.
to Computing by joshua
Symbolics, now defunct, used to make computers than ran LISP in hardware. Like the Smalltalk environments at PARC, it was an environment that would affect the design and use of everything onward. Several virtual museums document their history.
to Computing by joshua
(sigh) I suppose it was only a matter of time...
to Humor by succa
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