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| Thursday Mar 9, 2000 | Are YOU one of Jay's kids? to Culture by succa |
| The Bilderberg Group is an organisation of 120 businessmen and politicians which meets once per year
to obtain a global consensus on the issues of the day - and the future of the world. This year they're meeting somewhere in Switzerland.
The group was founded 44 years ago by the Nazi sympathiser, King Bernhard of the Netherlands, with the express vision of a single global government.
That much is real. Any connection to the Bavarian Illuminati, Freemasonry, the Wise Men of Zion, or Grey aliens are, of course, completely false. to Conspiracy by simon |
| Wednesday Mar 8, 2000 | The next time you want to pull the wool over the eyes of The Man about your recreational habit, why not use Tommy Chong approved Urine Luck? Hey dude, free shipping and handling too!
to Commerce by reid |
| Some people think that audio theatre died when radio stations switched almost entirely to music and talk radio. However, I am here to tell you that it yet lives. LodesTone Media has a hundred or so recent audio theatre works. I love the Firesign Theatre stuff, myself, but there is a multitude of more serious works as well.
to Media by keith |
| Every Dharma & Greg episode ends with a screenful of odd personal commentary by series co-creator Chuck Lorre that looks like something from the label of Dr. Bronner's Pure-Castile Soap. Not content to reach an audience strictly through the pause button, Lorre has published these funny vanity cards. to Television by rogers |
| Tuesday Mar 7, 2000 | At first glance,
Tiger-Tiger
appears no different from any other
exotic tchochke store.
But, looking closer at the selection of
Buddhist ritual items,
we find prayer beads (malas) made from
human skulls, ceremonial trumpets (kangans) made of
human thigh bone
and
silver-plated human skulls.
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| Pittsburgh native son Grady Stiles II (aka
The
Lobster Boy), like many other members of his family, was born with
malformed
hands and legs and was raised as a
circus freak,
travelling around the United States in some of the
biggest carnivals from the '40s through the '80s.
He eventually married and and had four children, but when one of his daughters
tried to elope with a boyfriend of whom he did not approve, Grady shot the
man dead at point blank range. Amazingly, the courts did not jail him for
committing this murder, and for the rest of his life the Lobster Boy
abused and terrorized his family.
So chronic was his abuse that in 1992 his wife and one of the children
eventually hired a hitman who killed Grady as he sat in his trailer in
Gibsonton,
Florida.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Inevitably, there's a site called iDrink. Also inevitably, the Internet Community has risen to the occasion and presented us with a variety of new beverages, including a yogurt-based delight, a regional specialty, and a body part. Bottoms up! to Food by fringehead |
| Can't get enough of Japanese pop culture, but can't stand embarassing yourself at the karaoke bar? Fear no more -- Dance Dance Revolution is groovin' its way into arcades all around the world, and recently even the US. For about $1, players get their chance to be a Dancing Queen by stepping on four lighted platforms in time with the throbbing music. It may not sound like dancing, but it's rumored to soon be classified by the DEA as Schedule 1 Digi-Crack. What's that? You can't believe anyone could make those moves into an actual dance? See for yourself. to Games by che |
| Ahhh, the elusive alt.sex.wizards FAQ, which is technically the alt.magick.tantra FAQ. to Sex by djinn |
| Whoot ees theese? Classic FAQs. alt.understand.FAQs.not.complete.sentences.newsgroup.format? And what's the difference between a lemur and alt.cows.moo.moo.moo? to Web by djinn |
| Are you looking for a way to tell somebody, "I hate you?" (Watch out, there are a few four letter words) to Humor by enigma |
| Michael Moore got Alan Keyes to join his moshpit. He even crowd surfed. to Politics by keith |
| The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive is a pretty astonishing repository of information. They have biographies of hundreds of mathematicians and an index of famous curves (the mathematical kind). Read all about Einstein or the circle. to History by keith |
| What's tannish, dilatant, and smells funny? (Hint:
dilatant
is the opposite of
thixotropic.)
If you knew, would you want to
win
a five-pound slab of it?
Course you would!
to Gadgets by belford |
| You've must have played "Famous Belgians". It's easy. Everyone thinks of a famous Belgian. The person who doesn't say "Tintin" wins.
If two people don't say Tintin, you probably need to look at the complete list of famous Belgians.
Warning: Some of these are only famous to other Belgians.
to Games by simon |
| Feeling uncultured? Here's everything the busy netizen needs to know about
The Iliad,
The Odyssey
Shakespeare's
plays, and
Pinky and the Brain
to Books by simon |
| Sunday Mar 5, 2000 | Speaking of pure assembly language, the V2 OS is a fresh new operating system being designed from the ground up in good ol' 32-bit Intel 386 assembly. The current version is 37 Kb in size, and contains a nice command-line interface, a rudimentary filesystem capable of recognizing your hard drive partitions, and can even be installed with image-viewing software. to Computing by succa |
| Sub-pixel font rendering is the art of seperating a pixel into its Red, Green, and Blue constituents when rendering, allowing certain display devices to smooth the font's jagged edges very effectively. This info comes to me from the Gibson Research Corporation, an extremely cool one-man-army run by Steve Gibson. A fine example of his work is ShieldsUp!, an eye-opening freeware tool for checking your computer's security. More impressive is that he codes his Windows apps in pure assembly language. to Computing by succa |
| Apparently, the pundits at headlice.org are getting tough about controlling the spread of head lice in schools. Why, they've instigated a No Nit Policy! to Health by succa |
| Mmmmm...new talking Simpsons toys... to Gadgets by tregoweth |
| Saturday Mar 4, 2000 | We've told you how to talk to your kids about blowfish. Now for you lemur fans... to Pets by djinn |
| Friday Mar 3, 2000 | dynamism.com imports the latest in supercool fast lightweight notebooks from Japan, because you really love diminishing marginal utility. to Computing by faisal |
| Read about one man's process of making his car electric.
to Gadgets by keith |
| Unfortunately, they're not discovering new animal species as fast as we're making them extinct. to Science by larrybob |
| Okay, lets face it, we all know that AOL sucks, but few of us really know in what manner or how hard. I especially liked reading the AOL vulgarity guidelines and readng about past security problems.
to Internet by keith |
| BiZcotti is
The Onion of the entertainment industry. It features top entertainment news
stories, like how
Kirk Cameron is slated to direct Terminator 3 and
Christina Aguilera will mediate
a mideastern peace summit on MTV's new show 'Chill'.
to Humor by laurel |
| Thursday Mar 2, 2000 | Graspable User Interfaces is an interesting idea -- using physical objects and artifacts to manipulate virtual objects via a sensitive desktop. to Computing by imploded |
| Some people bash Bob Jones University for being a bastion of secularism. to Religion by mpc |
| Borges is not Tulse Luper. Borges was Borges. Tulse Luper is Tulse Luper, or maybe Peter Greenaway, or maybe paul.m. And these may be his
suitcases. to Conspiracy by penth |
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