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| Tuesday Nov 9, 1999 | David Bassett's Photo Gallery reminds me that despite all the crap that humans may do to it, we still live in a phenomenally beautiful world.
to Art by keith |
| Monday Nov 8, 1999 | I went to Ad*Access because I thought a large, searchable archive of American advertising from between 1911 and 1955 would be interesting. However, what the provider of that link failed to do was link to the larger insitution of which this is a part, Duke University's Scriptorium which contains all manner of other interesting cultural and historical documents, including
an archive of scanned Egyptian papyrus, the dairy of George Percival Scriven who was an American Army signal officer stationed in the Phillipines from 1899 to 1901, and the life story of Elizabeth Johnson Harris, a black woman born in 1867.
to Culture by keith |
| Yeah, I'm probably going to die of
heart disease. to Art by peterb |
| Buy meat on-line. Don't worry, they freeze it before shipping. to Food by keith |
| Sunday Nov 7, 1999 | Should I not be surprised anymore that you can send dog doo via the internet? to Commerce by gen |
| One of the unintended (and most destructive) consequences of politicians' "get tough on crime" posturing are what is known as Mandatory Minimums. Convicted of rape? 7 years, with time off for good behavior. Caught with five marijuana plants? 10 years, no parole. Sound fair? Families Against Mandatory Minimums is a national organization working to repeal state/federal mandatory sentencing laws that remove judicial discretion. to Law by pjammer |
| Saturday Nov 6, 1999 | "It's a technological solution to the nonexistence of God; It makes us feel like our calendars are counting something." Y2k, the song. to Music by cricket |
| There's no such thing as KILLER ROBOTS, you say?
Well, what about a
ROBOT THAT EATS SLUGS, with the added benefit of garden pest control?
Look out, pathetic human--YOU'RE NEXT.
to Robotics by xrayjones |
| Friday Nov 5, 1999 | As the water continues to drop in the
Youghiogheny Reservoir, the historic
Great Crossings bridge should again be making an appearance.
to Transportation by shadow |
| Did your city ever have streetcars? If they did,
chances are
Dave's Rail Pix will have pictures of it.
This shot was taken basically right outside my office. to Transportation by shadow |
| George Elwood has collected a vast amount
of rail information and pictures on his
Erie-Lackawanna
and Other Fallen Flags web site. In fact he's picked up
so much other stuff that it dwarfs the E-L stuff he has, his
primary interest! I especially like the
Pennsylvania Railroad information he's collected.
A close second is the
light rail/streetcar info he has. to Transportation by shadow |
| If you live in the northeastern US and ever wondered
about those big blue beats you saw plying the rails
and the stuff they were pulling, the
Conrail Cyclopedia
will tell you about them and give you lots of pictures to help you figure out what's what. to Transportation by shadow |
| First there was a parody that some people thought was real. And now there is a TV show about the making of a ‘real’ boy band. Be the first in your neighborhood to try out! to Music by birgitte |
| In a world filled with sitcoms whose plot every week could be described by "something happens and then zany hilarity ensues," there is a tendency to try and break the "sitcom" mold completely like
Ally McBeal or SportsNight, but there is one show which shows that strong character driven comedy can still thrive in a situation comedy framework.
That show would be Cosby. It features Bill Cosby as a retired baggage handler. The cast includes one of my very favorite actors, Doug E. Doug, plus
Phylicia Rashad, Madeline Kahn, and T'Keyah Crystal Keymah. It even has my favorite comedic actor Wallace Shawn in a recurring minor role.
to Television by keith |
| The theme of nearly everyone's prom who graduated from high school in mid 80s to early 90s was Alphaville's "Forever Young." Unfairly dismissed as a "one-hit wonder" band, Alphaville is still alive and kicking with new material as well as remixes of old favorites like Big in Japan. to Music by pjammer |
| It's a shame that the Internet can support half a kajillion libertarians, but only one page critiquing them. to Politics by mpc |
| Thursday Nov 4, 1999 | Naively, I assumed that the differences between American and British English where largely
unimportant in that an American English sentence conveys nonambiguous meaning to a British English listener
and vice versa. However, a glance at the American<->British English Dictionary
proves otherwise, complete with search engine and colourful [sic] commentary. A spectacularly huge FAQ on other Englae
can be found in the ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH FAQ
to Linguistics by urog |
| Personal Jukebox will allow you to store up to 80 hours - about 1,200 songs worth - of mp3's on a portable player when it becomes available in December (it'll even have a car kit!). Sounds great, but at approximately $10 per playback hour, it may not be for everyone. to Gadgets by eclipse |
| If you were a big fan of Northern Exposure and would like to know the finer details of the show, then The Moose's Guide to Northern Exposure has everything you need to know. to Television by eclipse |
| As if it wasn't enough to be able to play old video games on your PC, you can now take MAME with you on your Kodak Digita Camera. to Games by eclipse |
| Before CD's, cassettes, 8-tracks and even vinyl, there was the wax cylinder, on which music was recorded to play on the first phonograph. www.tinfoil.com offers an interesting history of early recorded sounds, a resource for buyers and sellers, and a Cylinder of the Month, a wax cylinder recorded into digital format for you to hear. to Music by eclipse |
| 104 Things To Do With A Banana needs no further introduction, except to note that it has only to do with recipes and not whatever other stuff you might be thinking of. to Food by keith |
| Following in the footsteps of Jewish rappers such as the Beastie Boys and Third Bass is
MC Paul Barman. Check the mp3 single, Joy Of Your World. Also, there's an article in Mired. to Music by keith |
| This Berkeley taxi driver has a lot to say about "Non-escalating Verbal Self-Defense". Too thought-provoking to toss in with the rest of the Wackos, despite its undeniable bouquet of wackiness.
to Philosophy by obvious |
| People keep asking me if yeast is plant or animal (and therefore vegan or not),
to I normally reply is "It's as much not-animal as plants are."
That usually confuses them long enough to let me
slip away, but these days I'll just point them
to the
Tree of Life, which includes a browsable
hierarchy of
taxa with references and pictures. to Science by xrayjones |
| Wednesday Nov 3, 1999 | Need incentive to carpool? Look no further. to Culture by akk |
| E is the
latest incarnation of a
series
of
software implementations. This one has
been released under a Mozilla-style license,
and was designed to permit the implementation of capability-based
Smart
Contracts.
to Computing by arkuat |
| Prisoners is a
web site claiming to represent the interests
of the incarcerated in Pennsylvania. My definite
favorite, though, are the gleeful writeups
of police
officers who have been arrested, frequently
for sex crimes. to Law by peterb |
| Before CNN or MTV, Daniel J. Boorstin wrote "The Image - A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America" It is one of the most interesting and insightful books I have read on American culture in the Twentieth Century. He discusses everything from the 24 hour media and the art of government 'leaks,' to our fascination with celebrities. It also includes a somewhat disheartening chapter on the lost art of travel. A brief essay about the work can be found
here.
to Books by birgitte |
| 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 |
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