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| Thursday Jan 20, 2000 | The Christmas season may be over, but it's never too late to enjoy and download "A Very Special Sedaris Christmas" from the folks at This American Life - stories from Holidays on Ice that aired on the NPR weekly radio show in December 1997. David Sedaris has also written Barrel Fever and Naked. His sister, Amy Sedaris, does that bizarre show on Comedy Central, Strangers with Candy. to Humor by birgitte |
| Cookware of
steel,
cookware of
aluminum,
bakeware of
Nerf. to Food by goboro |
| Today's reminder that you have no privacy:
a
sample chapter from Simson
Garfinkel's book Database
Nation. to Books by tregoweth |
| The lovely and talented James Squeaky presents
Mister
Ridiculous dot com...fun with a purpose. to Culture by tregoweth |
| Wednesday Jan 19, 2000 | Nanobes
are the smallest known living thing, measuring only 20 to 100 nanometers
in size. Discovered in 1996, nanobes are still largely a mystery.
Make sure to look at the
high-resolution
microscopy images at the
discovering lab's
website.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Built by the Carnegie Mellon
Robotics Institute,
the autonomous rover
Nomad
has begun searching for
meteorites
in ice fields around
Elephant Moraine, a remote location in Eastern
Antarctica. You can follow Nomad's
daily progress at
the RI's website. to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| Breaking news about the ancient world. to Science by birgitte |
| If you need to register artistic works with the US Copyright Office, you can find the forms here. There is also a handy FAQ. to Law by birgitte |
| Want to find the latest in off-the-field athlete shenanigans? Track the Thugs of Sport here. to Sports by boneyard |
| Apparently some people still haven't learned
anything from the whole Jon-Benet Ramsey thing. to Wackos by peterb |
| At the end of this month this company
will be demonstrating a product that they claim
will enable individual
VTOL flight. Either this is a really great web hoax that
has the media fooled,
or we really are living in the future. to Gadgets by peterb |
| Several years ago I read Kevin Kelly's way cool book Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World. For those of you who haven't read it, The Well now has the entire text online. to Books by kapital |
| Tuesday Jan 18, 2000 | With all this money I've siphoned into high-speed internet access, it's about time a site came around that made it worth all the effort. For example, a website where you can bet on football games, using chicken wings as currency.
to Sports by succa |
| When you've seen a community for the spinal cord, you've seen a community for everything. to Health by succa |
| GlobZ bills itself as "interactive games, stories & toys." Open a window/toy. Move it around. Resize it. Golly. It's a minor Flash masterpiece. to Computing by cricket |
| So you liked Sling Blade and you enjoyed Swingers. Now you have to see Swing Blade!
What if you liked Tie-Fighters and that Unsinkable Ship? Then you need to seeTie-Tanic!
to Movies by enigma |
| He's a cute little whiteboy, he's got freckles, and he's a pimp--Lil' Pimp, to be exact!
to Comics by enigma |
| Stupid.com is your
web resource for such essentials of life as
stupid candy,
stupid toys,
and many other stupid gift
ideas. Its heartening to see an e-commerce giant
emerging in the oft-overlooked "useless crap" industry,
manuevering to undercut local "useless crap" stores
and drive them out of business. When's the
IPO? to Commerce by peterb |
| I like the strange vision of the future that the pixel cartoons at Pixhell show, and I like to think of each pixel as representing an atom. You might want to get acquainted with the tiny cast first, so you can learn a bit about the sheep. to Art by mrradon |
| I like having unusual desktops. Recently, I've been rummaging through the Huntingdon Archive of Buddhist and Related Art.
You've got to love people whose mission is to take beautiful things and share 'em with the world. Especially worth a look is From Heaven and Earth: Chinese Jade in Context, which includes basically everything you ever wanted to know about nephrite jade (and breathtaking images). But it's not all ancient jade carvings: Posters of the Cultural Revolution gives examples of classic Maoist propaganda. Titles include
A People's Army Has No Rival, The Liberation of Beiping, and (my current desktop), Let Philosophy Be Transformed into a Sharp Weapon in the Hands of the Masses. to Art by elder |
| Somebody's been putting some very...interesting sites up near the top of the World Charts Federation's top 100 websites. Apart from the freaky right-wing low-verification news sites like World Net Daily, there's Bob Enyart's, ShadowGov site, where you get to play Fantasy Judge, and his associated sites KGOV and Theology Online . If it wasn't for his rewrite of the Constitution or odd political theories, I might be able to laugh him off as another wacko. This one however, already has a talk show and is trying to get broader reception. to Wackos by mpc |
| In case you were worried that this whole computing thing wasn't, well, macho enough, ManlyWeb comes to the rescue. A Slashdot-style annotated link digest magazine, their idea of masculinity seems to center around concepts such as reviews of power drills, car shows and (token new age bit!) soy beer. to Media by elder |
| Need to find the lat/long confluence nearest you? Try topozone, the mapblast for serious cartographers. While you're looking for that big intersection near you, try joining the degree confluence project an effort to photograph all of the "latitude and longitude integer degree intersections" in the world.
Oceans excluded of course. to Cartography by reid |
| Atom Films showcases short animation
and film, including those by such greats as
Aardman
Animation and
Bill Plympton.
(Requires free
registration)
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| As if childbirth needed to become more
horrifying, there
now seem to be people who willingly
eat the
placenta afterwards. to Food by riotnrrd |
| Bongwater, A soft drink created by removing the water, alcohol and yeast from beer.
It's supposed to be healthy, but it sounds disgusting. If you think Bongwater tastes bad, try their other flavors: Cottonmouth Quencher, Green Dreams or Purple Haze.
to Beer by jason |
| Ray's List of Weird and Disgusting Foods is an in-depth dissertation of practically everything you're afraid to eat. to Food by joshua |
| Monday Jan 17, 2000 | The revised Wargames handbook is interesting reading for both veteran wargamers and those just looking into them. to Games by peterb |
| Happy birthday, Dr. King. (Okay, so it's late, blame Congress.) to Literature by arkuat |
| 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 |
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