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| Monday Dec 27, 1999 | An Ode to Castration. to Wackos by moose |
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Remember how you could listen to Christmas tunes and warm yourself by the Yule Log on TV?
Well now you can do it on the Internet. to Internet by moose |
| Sunday Dec 26, 1999 | Rate your risk of being assaulted, murdered, or burglarized. Good to know that my risk of being murdered is low, despite the fact that I drink too much. to Law by kapital |
| Some people just get annoyed by factual/consistency errors in movies. Others build websites that mock them. to Movies by pjammer |
| Saturday Dec 25, 1999 | One can be disabused of the notion that the Brothers Grimm and Walt Disney had the fairytale market cornered by reading Magic Tales of Mexico. For instance, there's a great many similarities between "Blanca Flor" and another famous story just about all children have read, have had read to them, or have at least seen on video. These pages contain both the original Spanish versions and the English translations, with assorted cultural notes. to Literature by monde |
| I was going to recommend Pharoahe Monch, Mos Def, and maybe some other artists to the more hip-hop inclined amongst us, but it's easier to just recommend Rawkus Records who are responsible for bringing us them and haven't yet put out a bad album that I've heard of. to Music by keith |
| Friday Dec 24, 1999 | Treat your terrified child within to the Pop-Up Book of Phobias this year. Remember, fear is a man's best friend. to Humor by fringehead |
| December 25 is the birthday of one of the most important
people in history --
Sir Isaac Newton.
Happy Newtonmas!
to Science by tregoweth |
| You may have not have heard of any of the bands which you'll find reviews of on Big Orange Crayon, but read what Nick has written and start buying some good music. to Music by dnm |
| Who would have guessed that The Captain ran a survey for favorite places to spend the End of the World? to Travel by dnm |
| Thursday Dec 23, 1999 | Much as I loathe about.com, I've gotta say, the Bitter Chicks section makes it all worth it. After all, who could pass up links to sites like BitterSlut?
to Culture by djinn |
| But who would believe that you've really been talking to your Aunt Suzy from beyond the grave? The After-Death Communication Project would, of course. Oh, and if you're not communicating with your deceased loved ones and would like to be, they include instructions about how to do it. to Wackos by keith |
| Normal thesuari are fine most of the time. But when you're looking for a dozen synonyms for pimp sometimes you need to break out The Crude Thesaurus. to Linguistics by keith |
| Jesus H. Christ on a Popsicle stick! LordCo is back online. Repentance is futile! to Religion by kapital |
| U.S. news services often forget that some parts of the world even exist. This is the inspiration behind political cartoonist and radio show host Ted Rall's Stan Watch. which combines links to news about countries ending in "-stan" with some of Ted's personal commentary ("Kyrgyzstan has the worst friggin' food in the Stans"). As he puts it, "Why? Because real people actually live there." to Media by kapital |
| Wednesday Dec 22, 1999 | uTOK is a nifty little freebie (with no ads, yet) that works as a browser adjunct that allows people to hold discussions about websites and vote on them using little "post-it note" boxes. It's better than the similar program Thirdvoice in that it doesn't
mangle the looks of sites with little reference dots. It lets users form groups amongst themselves, or just scrawl their notes as free agents. to Web by monde |
| Almost as enigmatic as Zeek Sheck's art and comics at Swezlex is her music, which tends to follow no linear patterns, save for some subject matter. There's even a video from Good Luck Suckers for "The Speech", which always makes me jump up and down in giddiness when I watch it. Maybe if I wasn't friends with all these people, I wouldn't be so giddy. Also enriching is Zeek's Make Your Own Ink Jet Finger instructional guide at Ausgang, which is a hub of animation and illustrated riches, though perhaps a bit more linear and shiny. "I Am Happy" is cute and disarming. Or "Joey Toad" dances for your pleasure -- and "pleasure" is used ironically here. There are fascinating travel journals too, with curious diagrams of situations. to Art by mrradon |
| It's sites like Swezlex that convince me that Memepool could use a category called "Etceterata" or "Randomonium"...or just plain "Weirdness". At first it's something like jodi.org or hell, with that eye-blinding dot-matrixism, only a little less inscrutable. One sooner (or later) finds out that this is all connected at loose ends to some sort of music project: band? label? individual(s) pretending to be one or more of these? Sort of hard to tell, but entertaining in a disjointedly psychedelic vein. You can learn a lot from cloud people. But beware the Explosion! something like a cross between a hornet and a weedwacker. to Art by monde |
| For a while, I only owned stocks, but I'm now considering diversifying by getting some
pillories too. to Law by keith |
| "Worms destroy lethargic terror/I secrete nocturnal graves/My slave grovels gloomy requiem/Wolves conspire nocturnal decay." Of course this is just one stroke of morose lyrical confusion. Generate more at the Random Goth Lyric Generator. to Music by mrradon |
| Yeah, God and Devil Show is pretty cool, but it doesn't rock. Thankfully, for that I can turn to
Radiskull and Devil Doll. Now it's time to KICK IT! to Humor by nyarl |
| Tuesday Dec 21, 1999 | I think many Indian women are totally cute, but
evidently I'm never
going to be able to date them.
At least, many of these
people seem to think I shouldn't.
to Culture by peterb |
| "A turbine-powered helicopter is no longer the ultimate accoutrement to a superyacht." What's that, you cry? Yes! Personal luxury submarines! Less than two megabucks gets you a 25-foot sub with a thousand-foot dive range, an all-transparent cockpit, and leather seats! Or, for only two-thirds of a megabuck, the cutest little submersible you ever did see. The high-end models are perhaps a bit ostentatious, I warn you. Go for something incredibly nifty-looking instead. to Gadgets by belford |
| Enough with the interesting stuff. Sociology has too long over looked mundane behavior. to Science by keith |
| William Strunk: "Vigorous writing is concise." H. W. Fowler: "Now there is something to be said for the change, or the two changes: the old-fashioned period, or long complex sentence, carefully worked out with a view to symmetry, balance, and degrees of subordination, though it has a dignity of its own, is formal, stiff, and sometimes frigid; the modern newspaper vice of long sentences either rambling or involved (far commoner in newspapers than the spot-plague) is inexpressibly wearisome and exasperating." Although Strunk's The Elements of Style appeared only ten years later, Fowler's The King's English is a monument to the old majestic oration -- and a hell of a lot more fun to read. to Linguistics by belford |
| A new Fox TV show takes old-fashioned concepts like "dowry", "gold digging", and, dare we say it, "prostitution", and updates them for a new generation. It's a whole new way to look at romance (after these important messages). to Television by faisal |
| Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel made out of clay... I got a laugh from this Yahoo knock off: Jewhoo.
to Religion by jack |
| For each web site that uses anything more advanced than lynx-compatible HTML there is a subset of losers that miss the point completely and whine about it. To these people I wish to say: bite me. Cool things like The God and Devil Show keep proving to me that things like Shockwave and Flash are pretty darn nifty, after all.
to Humor by peterb |
| Monday Dec 20, 1999 | For those rugged hunter types,
The Possum Cookbook offers a chance to taste the true cuisine of the American South. Recipes include the delicious
Possum Pot Pie and the authentic and tasty Possum Stew. to Food by jacquez |
| Hey, obnoxious cell phone users! Cloot! Cloot! to Gadgets by tregoweth |
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