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| Monday Jan 17, 2000 | What USENET was like before trolls, spam, Kibo, Cattlovrr, Speedbump, net.kooks, CFVs, killfiles, binaries, Nosers and cascades: the USENET OldNews Archive, 1981-82. to Internet by rogers |
| If any memepoolers missed POV's party when memepool was announced as one of the The POV 100 Top Sites, Jeffrey Zeldman gives us his account.
to Memepool-News by earmouse |
| EvilPeople, Inc. now has job openings for all those who would like to apply. Friendly advice: it's probably best if you lie on your application, since that's what most evil people would do. to Conspiracy by earmouse |
| Sunday Jan 16, 2000 | The classic Steve Jackson wargame Ogre is going to be rereleased this year. to Games by peterb |
| Saturday Jan 15, 2000 | Who goes on this kind of thing anyway? Java Jam?
xml Excursion? When does the insanity stop?
to Travel by gen |
| Ashleigh Brilliant... the name says it all. Check out today's potshot. to Memetics by arkuat |
| I've been having this 404 not found error for favicon.ico showing up in
my website logs. Why, I wondered, were people trying to fetch a file
that's never been on my website? This
article
answers the question - it's another Microsoft
"feature".
to Computing by larrybob |
| Friday Jan 14, 2000 | Hiking, being one of my vices, lures me to all sorts of great places, like MATC, the Maine Appalachian Trail Club, the Appalachian Trail Confrence, Appalachian Mountain Club, Lightning Bolt, and GORP. Since I plan on hiking the entire Appalachian Trail (AT) in the next couple years, I oft spend too much time at Trailplace, home of the Appalachian Thru-hiker. After I drool over the beauty of the AT, I end up at McHale and Company, drooling over the Alpineer packs. Oh wait, I can't forget the boots! to Travel by imploded |
| On the cutting edge of technology: Improved Methods for Transportation of Hunted Animals, using a new tool called a "wheel". to Science by kapital |
| Looking to vacation in a town with a long name? Try llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Britain. Their web site at http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk/ also has the longest hostname I've ever seen. Oh, and they tell roughly how it got its name at the bottom of their history page. to Travel by keith |
| If you are interested in ferrets, don't go to ferret.com like I did. Instead check out Modern Ferret, because everyone needs a lifestyle magazine, but since it's still illegal, you can join a group of citizens committed to stop the ban on keeping ferrets as pets in NYC, and always, always remember to check if your pet is banned in the five boroughs. to Pets by birgitte |
| The end of the world^H^H^H^H^Hgalaxy is at hand! to Science by faisal |
| The future of the Internet and computing may be more ubiquitous and less novel yet, if Michael L. Dertouzos, director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and his compatriots' visionary project, Oxygen, turns out to work. Encompassing a plethora of fields such as chip design, user interface engineering, network infrastructure, and social impact, it may very well become as natural as the air we breathe. to Computing by dnm |
| Finding interesting things in your dreams? Following birgitte's advice? Then check out this cool DIY lucid-dreaming/brainwave generator from the guys at HackCanada. to Health by dnm |
| Bubblegun has some of the best online polls around, not to mention the sheer beauty of Snake City. Excellent in-depth analysis of fin-de-siecle British culture, including retrospectives on alternative comedy (anyone else remember The Young Ones?), Christmas toy shortages, and the Incredible Hulk. to Humor by elder |
| Thursday Jan 13, 2000 | In case you've ever been in a sushi restaraunt and thought to yourself, "just what the hell am I eating, anyway?", here's a sushi glossary. to Food by kapital |
| Pay attention, Buzz, Woody, Jesse and Bo-Peep! Before Andy grows up and abandons his toys, he's going to pose all of you flagrante delicto. to Sex by rogers |
| During WWII, Japan had a
secret base
in Manchuria, housing the infamous
Unit 731,
where they conducted
biological weapons
research as well as hideous "medical" experiments on Chinese, Korean, and
Mongolian prisoners of war.
In 1987, T.F. Mous made a
grisly film about it, based on first-hand reports of the atrocities.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| The Spotlight says it is "America's Last Real Newspaper"
but it also gets my award for
Putting As Many Words As Possible In One Link Just So You Don't Miss Any Of Their
Whackadoo Ideas And Claims. to Wackos by moose |
| Like the
Thundercats
before them, out-takes
from the 1960's life-size puppet show
New Zoo Review
are now available online
(as both
real audio and
MPEG).
to Television by riotnrrd |
| The "it's free but we spam you" business model
seems to be getting popular. Two examples
are freeDSL.com, a company
that gives you free DSL access but which displays
targeted ads in a small window while online; and
free-PC, which gives
you a (you guessed it!) free PC in exchange for
piping advertisement directly to your brain. Unfortunately,
to take advantage of these offers you have to be willing
to cripple your machine by running a certain
successful yet oft-disparaged operating system.
to Computing by xrayjones |
Can you fool a spammer's robot into traveling an infinite loop through thousands of fake Web pages collecting phony e-mail addresses? Erik Schorr's Blackflag does. The script could make the world safe again for the mailto: url.
to Internet by rogers |
| The brother of Scott Amedure, the gay man killed after revealing a same-sex crush on the Jenny Jones Show, has created an online memorial honoring America's first TV talk show martyr. to Television by rogers |
| Wednesday Jan 12, 2000 | When you were in math class, did you ever have trouble remembering all those digits in pi? Well, we've got some mnemonics(in multiple languages, at that). Or, for the truly sadistic, check out some rather constrained poetry. Hell, just check out AT&T's Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. And we wonder why some people hate math...
to Wackos by djinn |
| Even though I couldn't find what I was looking for - the open hours of the San Quentin State Prison gift store that sells items made by the inmates - I did learn about Tookie, a founding member of the Crips and how to interpret graffiti. to Culture by birgitte |
| Sometimes I write down my dreams. Usually they tell me something important. Patricia Garfield has written many good books about working with your dreams - all without the usual baloney. (Even though the titles sound like a self help seminars from the seventies.) The Association for the Study of Dreams has some good information too, even about graduate programs. One thing I didn't realize until today though, I didn't realize there were so many products for the dreamer to buy. to Reference by birgitte |
| What this world needs is more foolish large-scale building projects. Such as, for instance, the plan to build a Great Pyramid in Arizona. Or, for a slightly more interactive experience, Lightning on Demand have an alternative plan: a football pitch sized Van der Graaf generator. to Art by elder |
| For the memepoolians out there, such as myself, who may be of a certain so-called hat-wearing underground, there's no better balanced daily source of info than HNN and SecurityFocus. to Computing by dnm |
| Tireless work on the web by otherwise common people is not praised enough. Behold Cryptome by John Young, a tireless masterpeice of a website that catalogs and archives events taking place in the field of cryptography and national security. All this by a citizen architect. to Reference by dnm |
| So, not sure what to think of REBOL just yet? I don't blame you, but I would suggest checking out Scheme if you're wondering what kind of coolness REBOL descended from. to Computing by dnm |
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