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Monday
Jan 24, 2000
Though it first seemed to be a lame gift, I have to admit that the George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine is actually damn useful and I can make an awesome steak or burger quickly. But for pure entertainment value, even it can't compare to George Foreman's website. Turn up the speakers and listen to the champ's piano music and maybe a sermon on the Doctrine of Love while you order the strange Buddha-like sculpture that might be a rocking chair where you sit in George Foreman's lap but I can't really tell.
to Food by nyarl
You think someone spending twenty-some bucks on America Online for Dummies (6th edition) is frightening? How about Buying Online for Dummies, ICQ for Dummies, or Yahoo! for Dummies?
to Computing by tregoweth
If you are willing to endure the radical blandness of eating the same two Subway sandwiches every day for 600 days, you might lose 245 pounds.
to Food by borges
Bartleby.com has long been a valuable source of quotations and poetry. Now they have expanded their offerings, with the 18-volume Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
to Literature by jacquez
In honour of Burns Night (Jan 25th - the celebration of the best damn poet in the world) we present the recipe for haggis, the best damn food in the world, and what you're supposed to say to it before you eat it.
to Culture by elder
Nolo is a sweet online law library and book store, including a nice set of searchable FAQs. A similar, lesser, site is the 'Lectric Law Library, which contains an interesting analysis of the infamous McDonald's coffee case.
to Law by riotnrrd
Grafica Obscura is Paul Haeberli's wonderful collection of graphics notes, code and fun projects.
to Art by riotnrrd
Urban legends meets corporate America as Proctor and Gamble try desperately to debunk the Satanic church myth.
to Religion by riotnrrd
Is the nearest confessional just too far away? Confess your sins online! I knew this whole internet thing would come in handy one day.
to Religion by birgitte
Sunday
Jan 23, 2000
Jerry Lawler's homepage is like a lot of other self-made pages on the web, with shots of his artwork, a page for his son, and a collection of pictures of him covered in blood from his 20+ years of professional wrestling.
to Web by mpc
Saturday
Jan 22, 2000
I stumbled upon the Adult Video Network site while in search of this years best adult film. Home to the Adult Video New magazine, I expected industry gossip, timely stock info, breaking news, and video reviews. But video card reviews?
to Sex by reid
Dr. Lillian Scwartz, (who looks a bit too much like Carrie Donovan) suggests that the Mona Lisa was actually a DaVinci self-portrait. One can view a computerized merge of the two that she created.
to Art by laurel
What the software industry needs: more trophy wives!
to Sex by tregoweth
Before the inevitable court injunction, try the 10-day-old My.MP3.com. The site plays CDs that you own in Real and MP3 format, even if you just bought the CD online.
to Music by rogers
Friday
Jan 21, 2000
Protest the MPAA lawsuit against distributors of DeCSS by getting a shirt with the source code for css_descramble.c from Copyleft. Or, if you're really 31337, you can get a shirt identifying yourself as one of the 500 "Doe" defendants named in the MPAA's Complaint.
to Wearables by kapital
Snow Crystals covers the history of snowflakes, explains how to make designer snowflakes and provides an in-depth discussion of snowflake physics.
to Science by joshua
Celebrity death match: Dilbert vs. Covey.
to Commentary by arkuat
Yes, that is Nixon, the original's apparently at The Nixon Library. You think that's scary? You should read the essay I found the picture in.
to Art by mpc
Some people love their guillotines a little too much.
to Sex by mpc
Even though Hello Cthulhu will be taking a vacation from the web, it pleases me to no end that I can still buy Hello Cthulhu merchandise online. I wonder if they'll take my Campus Crusade for Cthulhu discount?
to Conspiracy by reid
While trying to find the Christian Coalition site, so I could check and see if they have weighed in on the recent brohaha over three entertaining children's books, I found that the site www.christiancoalition.org is actually run by some of my favorite people - those who believe in the separation of church and state.
to Religion by birgitte
Warhol thought it would be fifteen minutes, but no, it's one web site.
to Web by mpc
Ah, alt.non.sequitur, home of the vaunted holy text, Liber Nonsequitoria.

Let us read now, brothers, chapter 18, Verse 4: The host of the LORD shall descend in formations forty-two thousand feet by forty-two thousand feet. I should know, for Arephwael, the Angel of Pointless Measuring did tell me.
to Humor by mpc

One of the highlights of the Microsoft Museum is the company timeline, which notes the "months of maniacal hours" spent working on 1981's MS-DOS without mentioning that Microsoft didn't create it.
to Computing by rogers
I love to watch eclipses, but nobody is more devoted to them Fred Espenak, Mr. Eclipse himself. He's even got a great collection of eclipse stamps. And if you're fascinated with things beyond our chunk of rock, you'll enjoy Views of the Solar System as well. Pictures of Saturn also make great desktops!
to Science by eclipse
With a prominent link on its home page, the University of New Hampshire is publicly denying its role in breeding beakless, featherless, feetless mutant chickens for Kentucky Fried Chicken.
to Food by rogers
Thursday
Jan 20, 2000
Noodle is a free software toy which provides a visual metaphor for music-making that's so simple to use a non-musician will take to it instantly, so play-friendly and sophisticated experienced musicians will love it. It was built by the uberbrains from Realworld (who Peter Gabriel has tapped several times for CDRoms and stuff). Noodle is one of those oddities that reminds me software can be so good it makes you weep or laugh or call old friends to proselytize.
to Music by cricket
Suddenly there's all these sites popping up everywhere devoted solely to in-depth, encyclopedic accounts on the subject of self-abasement. I really thought there wasn't that much one could say about the practice of manual autoeroticism. But now you can not only learn more than you ever wanted to know about it...you can buy a special gift for the man who has everything in hand...and tends to make a mess of it.
to Sex by monde
If you're looking for information on the Blowfish encryption algorithm, don't do the obvious thing by going to www.blowfish.com. You may regret it if your boss is glancing over your shoulder, like I did.
to Sex by succa
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
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