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| Saturday Nov 13, 1999 | In the future everything will be free. This year we can start with vitamins. Maybe not free, but $85 ($25 + $20 + $15+ $15+ $10 ) should feed you for at least a year.
to Commerce by rsf |
| Friday Nov 12, 1999 | Are you an Ol' Dirty Bastard or a Ghostfacer Killer? Find out with the world's first Wu-Tang namelizer. to Web by eclipse |
| Thinking about DSL but $50 a month is too high? Want a second phone line but don't wanna blow $30 a month? How does $20 a year sound? E-ring allows you to check out memepool without blocking outside calls. to Internet by rsf |
| Thursday Nov 11, 1999 | Command mobile battle suits from the anime classic Gundam into battle with the Gundam/Starcraft Total Conversion. to Games by pjammer |
| The most influential (and imitated) cornerstone of fantasy fiction, Tolkien's epic Lord of the Rings, is coming to theaters! Shot entirely on location in New Zealand, the filmmakers will produce Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King simultaneously, as though they were all one continuous motion picture production.
to Movies by pjammer |
| For the new writer who wants to learn how to make money, there is no greater resource than Vinnie Dapikowicz's Writing Guide. Includes valuable advice, as well as a glossary of terms for new writers.
to Literature by jacquez |
| Near the Big Muddy, south of Memphis, at the crossroads of Highways 61 and 49 is Clarksdale, Mississippi, the legendary birthplace of the blues. Clarksdale is also the home of the Delta Blues Museum to Music by jack |
| "YoMama is so fat, when she lays on the beach Greenpeace tries to push her back in the water."
to Humor by jack |
| You've tried the Death Clock,
yet you're unsure how accurate it is. The Sparks Death Test just seemed a bit too tongue-in cheek. Well, you trust Microsoft,
don't you? Try
the MSNBC
death test.
to Reference by earmouse |
| Back when I first was using the web, i'd fill up the boring times by
reading Aspects
Of Reality,
mostly written by Lance
Arthur of glassdog fame.
to Books by earmouse |
| The main lessons that I take from License Plates of the World are that compared to most of the world our license plates in the US are both pretty and interesting and that some people have too much time on their hands. Really though, I suppose that I already knew the second. to Culture by keith |
| Break it up and don't be a bunny. Here's the online Chinese angle on hardboiled slang. Click on this link, it's duck soup.
to Linguistics by mrradon |
| Given how many things at LISA '99
compared themselves with mon,
perhaps it warrants a look. to Computing by shadow |
| The US Geological Survey
has finally started
putting quadrangle maps online, though their collection is not even
close to complete yet.
If they don't have quadrangle maps for your area online yet,
the meta-index of maps
on the GPSy site may be able to help you.
to Cartography by shadow |
| Oh. My. God. The geniuses at goats, one
of the web's best comic strips, have just unleashed
brains4zombies.com. And
just in time for Christmas, too! to Comics by peterb |
| Happy Veteran's Day. to Culture by keith |
| Wednesday Nov 10, 1999 | Wondering what Larry Niven's Ringworld looks like? So was an enterprising computer graphics student, who rendered the thing. to Cartography by faisal |
| Need a lobotomy? to Science by keith |
| The US Department of Commerce, a wide reaching governing and regulatory body, mandates the airwaves here in the US through the FCC and the NTIA. The NTIA manages allocation of the spectrum, and publishes a spectrum chart that contains more information that I ever needed.
Interestingly enough, the NTIA is also has some very interesting information on online profiling, domain management, and the growing divide in those who cannot access the internet.
to Reference by imploded |
| Tuesday Nov 9, 1999 | The
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
is a
WIPO weapon
for global copyright legislation. That's WIPO/OMPI,
actually -- the
World Intellectual Property Organization/
Organisation Mondiale de la Propriété Intellectuelle
. They're trying to redefine the economy of
intellectual property in moneyed spaces worldwide.
The Digital Future Coalition,
educause.edu,
and the
Association of Research Libraries
have related, yet contrastive, presentations
on it and the culture around it.
to Law by oznoid |
| A repository of
science maps! That is, if
you aren't more interested in old maps and the
history of cartography. Mapping needs still unfulfilled? Check the WWWVL's guide to
online and commercial maps
and Oddens. to Cartography by arkuat |
| Not one of the sexier operating systems out there, but still perversely fun, VMS has an active hobbyist community. to Computing by mpc |
| Unisys has announced plans to
fine websites
$5000 if they use GIFs created with unlicensed software.
In response, Bay Area nerds have declared this Friday to be
burn all GIFs day.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Guys are weird. to Sex by peterb |
| Oh Fortuna, Velunt Luna, Statu va-ri-a-bi-lis!. to Music by mpc |
| Would 100 monkeys in front of 100 typewriters for 100 years eventually type a Shakespearean sonnet? The Search for Intelligent Monkeys on the Internet hopes to find out. to Web by eclipse |
| Be an alpha male - or just date like one.Don Steele, author of How to Date Young Women (for Men over 35) offers Machiavellian, politically-incorrect advice for aspiring lotharios of all stripes.
to Sex by pjammer |
| Some of That's Offensive's Showcase of Tastelessness and Vulgarity is offensive, tasteless, and/or vulgar. Most of it is just odd. to Web by keith |
| Forget about Hollywood's version of wars. The Armed Forces Retirement Home has the people who actually lived it. They're now posting profiles of their residents every two weeks. to Warfare by keith |
| 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 |
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