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Friday
Feb 18, 2000
Take the hard line against spam and relay abuse! The Mail Abuse Prevention Center can provide you with a great tool: lists of open mail relay IPs.
to Internet by borges
Let's see. I get rewarded with free beer when I do something right, and Steve Jobs gets this. I need a conglomerate to lead.
to Commerce by imploded
Avoid missing a single second of that important sporting event by peeing into a Stadium Pal.
to Fashion by succa
Remember all those dopey psychology quizzes? Well now you can find them all in one place. Some of them are very serious business indeed.
to Culture by halfjack
Even though it's in Swedish, you can watch Heather Lundquist's hamster giving birth live later tonight.
to Pets by laurel
Etxtreme serves up "your daily info breakfast" via an odd little email list. It's essentially a new form of data mining...a sort of big-picture analysis of huge sections of web-space. The output sample is somewhat perplexing upon first glance, but this press release should help to clarify things a bit. And once I saw the list of sources that Etxtreme sifts through, it seemed interesting enough that I signed up for the mailings.
to Web by monde
The Stile Project: If you value your job, don't browse it at work!
to Wackos by tregoweth
Hey, boys... Vampire chicks! Robot chicks!
to Sex by tregoweth
Thursday
Feb 17, 2000
Everyone agrees that clowns are terrifying. Here's graphic proof.
to Art by fringehead
Sysadmins and other members of the Hitchhiker's Guide Demographic will enjoy Folding The Monkey.
to Commentary by freeside
Hunting for the apt cliche shouldn't be hard as nails. They are classified by topic in the Book of Cliches, indexed with search engine in the Cliche Finder, and Taglines Galore! offers the most complete reference of abused signatures for those needing to affect witticism in their everyday mail. Strictly a cliche is not only an overused expression but can be a situation, owing to the Evil Overlord List, a whole site (enormous) devoted to movie cliches, and Cirque de Cliche which offers a different perspective: the living cliche.
to Culture by urog
Clerks: The Cartoon!
to Television by tregoweth
Wednesday
Feb 16, 2000
Like superbad and hell.com, New York's Dia Center has been setting up artist web projects.
to Art by rsf
I should have known he'd have a website, I just didn't think it would be so eye-bleedingly awful.
to Web by mpc
Bill Clinton may like porn, but, despite what it looked like he didn't say so during an on-line chat at CNN.
to Politics by keith
Make our commutes better. Study the physics of traffic waves, including merging and simulating traffic light timing (with Java). For the humanities majors, read the principles of driving psychology.
to Science by enigma
This piece on intimacy by Michael Atavar presents some interesting thoughts about the intimate nature of the internet. Relaxing click-free user interface, too.
to Commentary by larrybob
You can now backup your pets in case disaster (or natural death) strikes.
to Pets by faisal
I find The Flummery Digest much more interesting, entertaining, and just plain not-as-irritating as News of the Weird.
to Media by peterb
Crypto-gram is a security based news and commentary newsletter published by Bruce Schneier, author of Applied Crypography and the Electronic Privacy Papers, and founder of Counterpane Internet Security. With his excellent, well argued commentary, and his panache for hitting a softspot in the security community, it's a must read for all.
to Computing by imploded
Green? Peterb, you're a wuss. Hold out for the blue laser pointers -- and save one eyeball for the violet that is to come.
to Gadgets by belford
Tuesday
Feb 15, 2000
I love academic jargon. Here it is applied to the classic newspaper comic strip, Krazy Kat: "Krazy exposes the false consciousness of his companions through ignorance of their habits and conventions; his naive misrecognitions of their kynical misrecognitions deny their denial, pointing out the pretensions and misrecognitions necessary for the maintenance of everyday life." Whatever.
to Comics by peterb
Standardized tests are so ubiquitous in American academic life that it is hard to remember a time when one's future didn't depend on them. While I was disappointed to find out that the gender gap in SAT scores continues, I was fascinated to learn about the uptopian experiment that created the tests.
to Education by birgitte
"Happy Fun Ball may stick to certain types of skin."
to Television by birgitte
Someone please buy me a green laser pointer.
to Gadgets by peterb
Don't get me started. I will say this though, why wasn't American Movie nominated?
to Movies by birgitte
Ultralight has Shockwave Flash animation, including the dialog-free adventures of an escaped Sex Slave.
to Art by larrybob
Now, some of you may have heard the recent news article (not urban legend) about a man who got an unlicensed doctor to cut his leg off to satisfy his amputation fetish. Now, we all know that fetishes can be outright wacky and drive people to do really weird things, but, you may wonder, why would a doctor, even an unlicensed one, agree to participate? Well, the LA Weekly has an article all about the bizarre and astounding life and practice of Dr. John Ronald Brown, which is appropriately entitled "Why Did He Cut Off That Man's Leg?" It's not recommended for the squeamish (although there are, fortunately, no pictures of that or any of his past surgeries).
to Wackos by keith
Monday
Feb 14, 2000
Or, if you're still undecided on a presidential candidate, you can always Vote Jello in 2000.
to Politics by kapital
R.U. Sirius has formed a new political party called The Revolution®, which he says "combines the best of the Libertarians and St. Ralph". You can read a lengthy explanation of their origins and philosophy, or a summary of their platform, but I might vote for them just becuase I like their slogan: Victory Over Horseshit!
to Politics by kapital
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