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| Wednesday Nov 3, 1999 | Although it probably shouldn’t, mired.com makes me laugh. Lots of swearing, but from their obsession with all ads Macintosh to their t-shirts - RAP tougher than leather - it makes for amusing middle of the work day reading. to Web by birgitte |
| Tuesday Nov 2, 1999 | The idea of Bentham's Panopticon has been around for a while,
but it's interesting to see the beginnings of David Brin's Transparent Society
emerge not in the US, but in Singapore. (They got booted off their ISP after the local tabloid ran
a piece about how they were violating young girls' privacy in public, which explains their "rebuttal".)
to Culture by freeside |
| The most enthralling time-wasting Flash eye candy I've seen yet. Pick your season and year of preference. Autumn 99, has "Anthro (a) pology" which includes a child on a swingset and a floating chihuahua. Spring 99, has "Assembly Lines", which showcases animation with people movers! So much floating text, so little time. to Art by mrradon |
| The use of HTML features is appalling, and the content is even worse, but that’s really the whole point of The Temple of the Workshy. In fact, you would be hard pressed to come up with a website that was more appalling. For a quick sample of exactly how appalling this site can be, visit the list of Secret Documents and scroll down until you find the letter to "Opera Winfrey."
to Humor by rfh |
| Ever play Nethack? It's
a text-based dungeon crawl game that, with its
brethren rogue, urogue, and
arogue, nearly made me fail out of CMU freshman
year. Well, its time for the 1999 Nethack Tournament! to Games by peterb |
| The SF Gate's Liveviews has some pretty neat live views of San Francisco taken from the Transamerica Building, the Embarcadero Skydeck, the Bay Bridge, and more. to Web by eclipse |
| The
Epistolary Novel is a told by letters; correspondence, telegrams,
etc. This venerated art form is still practiced
here
and there. to Books by goboro |
| Our neighbors to the north have long complained of American cultural imperialism and our general lack of respect for their alleged contributions to the arts and sciences. Now it seems that a group of doughty Canadians has decided to take matters into their own hands with a plan for Canadian World Domination. Sounds pretty extreme, eh?
to Politics by rfh |
| Dogma is the latest movie from
Kevin Smith
(writer/director of
Clerks,
Mallrats, and
Chasing Amy).
Dogma is a religious comedy, that pokes fun at almost everything
Catholics hold dear, but is ultimately pro-faith (Smith is actually a
devout Catholic). Which is why it's ironic that you can read
hate mail
from people who have never seen the movie, probably because their
superiors told them to,
and who are they to question authority?
to Movies by laurel |
| Don't let those pesky skeptics with their fancy-pants science books and empirical facts upset your faith - Christian Answers offers scientific-sounding justifications for creationism and other areas where the bible contradicts science. to Memetics by pjammer |
| Monday Nov 1, 1999 | Welcome to the world's most boring
web page. Now in Icelandic
and, of course, pig-latin. to Web by moose |
| Some guy from Australia posts letters, pictures and postcards he has found at this hauntingly beautiful site. to Art by birgitte |
| Also in the insanely stupid audiophile accessory
category are mpingo discs,
which are supposed to improve the harmonics in
your room. Whatever. I'm so glad we're using
endagered trees for such a stupid purpose. At least there
are some people willing to mock
the madness. to Gadgets by peterb |
| Meet cute chicks that are
in jail.
to Sex by peterb |
| Call anyone in the United States, from anywhere
in the world, as much as you want, for free, with
Dialpad. to Internet by obvious |
| Sometimes, it's embarassing to like
fine audio
equipment, since you get lumped in with idiots who think that
green pens
help the sound of CDs and
$80 hunks
of steel covered in of wood can improve "imaging."
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
|
History of the
Potato. to Food by goboro |
| Sometimes intoxicating, sometimes a poor excuse for over-production and too much reverb,
the
traditional music of the Andean Indians remains quietly popular
throughout the world. Learn how to make a
flute that isn't, or get a
guitar that isn't,
or get yourself a set of
the Panpipes of Doom and play along! to Music by goboro |
| Sunday Oct 31, 1999 | It's quick. It's simple. It's...goth. to Culture by djinn |
| Saturday Oct 30, 1999 | James Bond may only be a few decades old, but spying
goes back centuries. Take for instance, the information
found at the site devoted to
Spy Letters Of The American Revolution. to Culture by keith |
| Friday Oct 29, 1999 | It's not a hat, it's a toessel! to Fashion by succa |
| Is it just me, or are some of the Goth
Babe of the Week not really a 'babes' no matter how generously you define that term?
to Wackos by pjammer |
|
The Talented Mr. Ripley is one of the most disturbing yet mesmerizing books I've read. Starring a
brilliant sociopath as its protagonist, the story rides the edge of macabre as only a well-told story through the eyes of a
human predator can. Apparently, Miramax/Paramount Pictures has been busy shooting the movie version to be released this winter - but fans of psychological thrillers should
still read the book before you go to the theater. to Books by pjammer |
| Find out about what other people do for a living at the word.com work archive. This week a mayor advises not to have meetings. I like the US Army Psychologist Operations Specialist because he says things like, "We have to get people’s behavior to be what we want it to be." to Culture by birgitte |
| If your roommates exercise the power of the veto over those TV shows you maintain a passive/aggressive love/hate relationship with, enjoy some sarcastic weekly recaps. This way if you can't watch while other people are in the room, you can still find out what Dawson and Joey did, or didn’t do, last week. to Television by birgitte |
| Regardless of its rampant UFOlogist paranoia, this webpage is useful in letting us know that one could
get
arrested and fined for contact with an extraterrestrial.
What does this mean for the SETI@Home
people? If that grand distributed computing effort actually decodes something, do we
all get arrested? The mind reels. to Law by crikey |
| Want some truly underground music? Detritus archives the forbidden sounds of "appropriative" music, including John Oswald's classic Plunderphonic, Negativland's infamous U2 material , and scores of links to seditious attacks on copyright. The links page itself is an artistic anarchist's delight. Don't miss gunderphonic's take on Chuck D. and Herb Alpert. to Music by fringehead |
| As you might have heard, many baseball fans got upset this week at NBC Sports reporter Jim Gray for his combative interview of former Cincinatti Red, "All Century Team," and banned-from-the-Hall-of-Fame player
Pete Rose.
What seems to have been forgotten by most fans (and dismissed by Rose) is the enormous pile of evidence collected by Major League Baseball during the tenure of the late A. Bartlett Giamatti (much of it wonderfully documented here). These
include
betting slips and
a canceled check from Rose to his bookie, strongly suggesting that, yep, ol' Charlie Hustle bet on his own team's games while playing and managing. to Sports by crikey |
| I have religiously grovelled the MOD newsgroups for years, and every
couple months a new cover of the song "Popcorn" arrives in my spool.
The last time this happened, I decided to make a web page with all the
different "Popcorn" songs I could find. While researching for the
project, I discovered that someone already has a site dedicated to
"Popcorn". As of this writing, there are 69 different versions
archived there.
to Music by braino |
| Thursday Oct 28, 1999 | House Republicans are prepared for alien attack.
to Politics by faisal |
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