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| Friday Feb 25, 2000 | Mike's Electric Stuff
contains pictures and descriptions of obsolete
electric
glassware,
high-voltage devices
and
random cool
electronics stuff.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| The Golden Raspberry Foundation has produced a film poll I can finally feel for.
to Movies by mpc |
| Michael Lesy's classic 1973 book Wisconsin Death Trip documents the mad, miserable, and bizarre existence of turn-of-the-century Black River Falls, Wisconsin through a collage of news articles and photographs from the time. The book has recently been re-issued, and this year a film based on Lesy's book will be released.
to Culture by fringehead |
| Thursday Feb 24, 2000 | United Airlines Frequent Flier Registration has an inexplicable drop-box for Title: "Mrs," "Fleet Adm," and "Swami," but no "Ayatollah"?
to Commerce by nelson |
| Funky URL is a program to convert URLs into something really funky! It takes the hostname and converts it into a 32 bit integer, and the rest of the url into those funky hex thingies.
to Web by jack |
| After wading through the noxious arcana of the windows registry,
regedit.com is a godsend.
to Computing by mpc |
| Wednesday Feb 23, 2000 | When in Atlanta, drive nice, or you'll end up on this site, video footage and all. Wish they had one of these for where I live to Travel by reid |
| Imagine my surprise when I found that Memepool didn't have the Bill Gates wealth clock archived. It now comes in an international flavor, and with the enlightening commentary "Why Bill Gates is richer than you", an "How to become as rich as Bill Gates."
to Economics by reid |
| Bethel, Maine was the home of Angus, the world's tallest snowman -- 113 feet, 7 inches. But he's melted now. to Art by larrybob |
| Tuesday Feb 22, 2000 | Do you enjoy picking flamefights with self-righteous fundies? Or maybe just want to prove to yourself what you've known all along--that the Bible is riddled with contradictions, absurdities, scientific and historical fallacies and more sex and violence than the lyrics of all the deathmetal albums in existence? Refer to the Skeptic's Annotated Bible: the entire King James Bible, plus an unflattering concordance. to Religion by monde |
| For the last two years, whenever I had a burning question conceivably answerable via the Web, I turned it over to the ever-servile info-butler named Jeeves. Though friendly enough, he's nevertheless still artificial, and thus can't give your question the special touch of personal attention. But now there are sites where you can get your answers from real live people via email...delivered in a timely manner, free of charge. Try NoWonder for your tech support questions: queries are answered about hardware, software and all things connecting them. Abuzz will take your computer questions as well, but also aims to provide answers to questions dealing with a variety of topics related to working, playing and living, and the world in which we do these things. to Web by monde |
| Dispersion - "Your easy one stop choice for personal lethal biological pathogens." to Warfare by monde |
| Ladies, don't settle for any old washed-up millionare. Marry Tom Arnold! to Wackos by nyarl |
| Decapitate your enemies with ordinary playing cards! (Well, maybe not decapitate, exactly, but...) to Warfare by riffraff |
| Pocky!
Pocky!! POCKY!!! It's the Japanese candyish sort of snack-crackery-type thing that everyone loves! (Or they would, if they were all me.) It comes in many flavors, some of them a little strange, others a little stranger. Check out the manufacturer's weirdly cool Quicktime movies, and then find some near you! to Food by riffraff |
| The Mormons can help you overcome
your desire to
masturbate by "curing you of your difficulty" with this guide to self control.
But you must always remember: Satan Never Gives Up!
to Sex by laurel |
| Forever the eternal Kantean dilemma are Naugahyde, Diamoniques and other Fine Replicas. The hard questions are better addressed by Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia, and less obliquely (or not) in the Museum of Forgery.
to Culture by urog |
| Monday Feb 21, 2000 | My life has been leading up to the moment when I can buy Inca Kola
over the web. I'm sure
this guy agrees.
to Food by mpc |
| If you're interested in other indigenous American languages, the Society For The Study Of The Indigenous Languages Of The Americas is the place to go,
especially given their list of learning aids, and links to other useful language sites.
to Linguistics by mpc |
| In the early nineteenth century, Sequoyah created a syllabary for
Tsalagi (Cherokee). It's even available as a downloadable font. to Linguistics by mpc |
| A fundamental piece of Irish literature, the Táin Bó Cualgne (Cattle Raid Of Cooley),
available in both saxon and gaelige. Along with a handy pronunciation guide for those who find Irish orthography to be less than intuitively obvious. to Literature by mpc |
| There's a lot of Venture Capital information on the web, including
basic presentations, and "Hey, we're not that evil"
articles. I was not, however, expecting VC comic strips to Finance by mpc |
| The whole or splattered tomato icons, the "tomatometer", plus the media predictions and consensus make Rotten Tomatoes something of an indispensable site to any film fan. It's a hub for critics from all over to have witty buzzwords and full reviews posted, for both recent film and videos. There's entertainment news too, though for excessive thoroughness, trailer links, ratings updates, and "food news" Zentertainment is equally indispensable. to Movies by mrradon |
| Once you've mastered HTML, XML, HDML, and XHTML
you can move on to MRML. <!--hypnotize><suggest>Send kapital all your money right now.</suggest></hypnotize--> to Humor by kapital |
| One of the sadest tales of the Internet is the demise of GNN and The Whole Internet Catalog. With the potential to be greater than Yahoo, this massive project got swallowed up and shut down by AOL. You can still find remnants scattered about. to Internet by rsf |
| Sunday Feb 20, 2000 | The New Yorker finally launched its website. However, the New Yorker Cartoon Bank is what I was really looking for. I was particularly excited to find Glen Baxter cartoons to Comics by borges |
| Sir, if the words you've read of late have all been fill'd with loath and spite, know ye that there be brighter fare: Laugh hard and look long into Light. to Literature by goboro |
| Like BookFinder (formerly mxbf) and Alibris before it, usedbooks.com is yet another way to find the used books one craves. Of particular note, however, is the excellent Illustrated Guide to Used Book Defects in addition to a very readable and complete guide to what they mean by Very Fine and such forth; there is also an
archly charming giftshop. to Books by goboro |
| Steve Jobs gets a Gulfstream V; Bill
Gates gets a space shuttle. to Commerce by tregoweth |
| 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 |
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