| memepool on the internet, everyone can hear you scream |
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| Tuesday Apr 24, 2012 | Pinterest without
without the pictures, or with more snark.
to Internet by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Apr 22, 2012 | Rands in Repose (a Jerkcity author's more serious side) is now ten years old. to Internet by isosceles |
| Wednesday Apr 18, 2012 | Gentlemint: a Pinterest for bros.
to Internet by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Apr 11, 2012 | The Dolan phenomenon is continuously updated and archived for posterity. Yet despite this, McNuggies are the new Dolan. to Internet by isosceles |
| Friday Aug 4, 2006 | All Your Base? Snakes On A Plane? Cobra Commander? Osama Bin Laden? All Your Snakes Are Belong To Us! to Internet by faisal |
| Thursday Apr 20, 2006 | SayWhat allows you to insert cartoon speech bubbles into your photos without ever leaving the comfort of your browser. to Internet by scromp |
| Tuesday Dec 6, 2005 |
Giving new meaning to the phrase a day late and a dollar short,
Donna Tocci, PR manager for Kryptonite locks, has started
a public-relations blog,
more than a year after
the humiliating
"bic pen" debacle of 2004 that cost the company an estimated $15 million.
to Internet by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Nov 24, 2005 | There's nothing more dissapointing than submitting your entry to memepool, only to find that it has been rejected. to Internet by leptirica |
| Friday Apr 22, 2005 | The increasing number of non-sentient blogs simply serves to reinforce the fact that punditry is not alone. to Internet by isosceles |
| Tuesday Mar 15, 2005 | The
Google Montage
. to Internet by roo |
| Friday Jul 23, 2004 | Sidebartenders vary from the simple to the complex. to Internet by fool |
| Wednesday Jun 30, 2004 | Sometimes you might feel as if you've really dug yourself a hole. That's all well and good, but before you equip your hole with internet access and then put pictures on the web, be sure you've got enough bandwidth to handle it. Even then, sometimes demand exceeds expectations. For these cases there is bittorrent. to Internet by fool |
| Saturday Feb 21, 2004 | Though not acknowledged in polite company, it's an open secret that a significant fraction of internet traffic is devoted to the search and downloading of smut. While Google is still the search engine of choice for conventional queries, the limitations of their Image Search function leaves a vacuum that Xahara hopes to fill with their dedicated spidering of adult-image galleries. to Internet by pjammer |
| Wednesday Oct 22, 2003 | IT'S TALK LIKE AN ANGRY FREAK DAY!
to Internet by buttercup |
| Wednesday Aug 13, 2003 | Members of the growing Friendster backlash have diverse interests including introversion, wry humor, graphic design, sexually transmitted diseases, and journalism. to Internet by fool |
| Monday May 5, 2003 | The blogs are abuzz - is this diary of a fugitive heiress factual or fictional? Jens-Christian doesn't care, and neither do I. to Internet by fringlehunter |
| Monday Mar 3, 2003 | Research maven Tara Calishain is about to publish a new O'Reilly book entitled Google Hacks. It will feature recommendations on search terminology, but also point to many third-party applications that use the Google API, like Googlert, GooPoetry, and GooCookin'. to Internet by yoyology |
| Monday Jan 13, 2003 | If you offer $100 for personal information on a certain individual, don't be surprised if that individual attempts to claim the $100 himself. to Internet by onigame |
| Thursday Nov 14, 2002 | Classmates.com and Alumni.net are great if you actually had friends in high school. If, on the other hand, you communicated at 2400 baud with other text-only geeks, you want BBSMates.com. Track down your pals from ISCA or Heinous [login as "bbs"], or find a new crew.
to Internet by yoyology |
| Monday Oct 28, 2002 | Login Lore answers the age-old question, "What the heck does that mean?" It covers logins belonging to members of the Santa Cruz / Bay Area geek social scene, ranging from mundane to disturbing to oddly moving. to Internet by yoyology |
| Friday Sep 13, 2002 | A Nigerian fee scammer (in this case a Francis Okobi of Lagos) gets defrauded as he attempts to defraud Haxial.
to Internet by gen |
| Monday Aug 19, 2002 | If you're in New York, drop your chalk, get a camera and cabfare, and start running.
to Internet by joshua |
| Friday Aug 16, 2002 | Kartoo is a relational search engine interface. Instead of displaying a list of links, in ranked order, it displays the results of a given search in a graphical, networked format. Nodes are linked to each other by common terms, which you can add and remove to further restrict the search graphically. The links between the nodes are color coded, allowing you to, with minimal effort, see how terms relate different sites, and nodes are displayed by size, according to relevance to the search term.
to Internet by imploded |
| Tuesday Jul 23, 2002 | There are few people on either side of the
abortion issue
who feel comfortable with
Neal Horsley.
His
websites
provide names and pictures of abortion clinic
workers
and
patients.
He says his activities have cost him his job. His solution? A
pro-life ISP. to Internet by n |
| Thursday Jun 13, 2002 | Fight spam with the collective power of tens of thousands of your Internet neighbors with Vipul's Razor, a collaborative spam filtering network. Version Two released today, with all new cool features. to Internet by dnm |
| Tuesday Jun 11, 2002 | People on IRC just say the darnest things.
to Internet by kade |
| Wednesday Apr 24, 2002 | Tired of entering username=bull password=shit into sites that demand registration? Try the New York Times Random Login Generator instead. Loads of random-generation excitement to be had. to Internet by fool |
| Wednesday Mar 6, 2002 | I have no idea what the purpose of the Polymorph Want A Cracker? site is, but it has really random skulls. It also has ninjas, or more precisely, the Happy Ninja Magic Action Compatriot!
to Internet by caspian |
| Friday Feb 8, 2002 | If you think that Sketchzilla
can get crazy, then you haven't tried Poo.com,
a combination no-holds-barred HTML chat site and terrifying internet performance art forum.
to Internet by lucky |
| Wednesday Jan 30, 2002 | The Global Ideas Bank has its fair share of strange and awkward, inventions. But there are also quite a few clever ideas, some of which have actually been used to record albums.
to Internet by caspian |
| Thursday Jan 17, 2002 | The same people who brought you the
Rent-a-Stalker would also like you to consider their other services. Corporate product naming by a
Japanese Drunk, your one-stop
Cloning shop, and, of course, your average
place where you can go to have sex with complete strangers. They would also like you to know that not all of them are
hoaxes. to Internet by skyhook |
| Wednesday Nov 14, 2001 | When I die, I want to send up to 60 emails. to Internet by wheezer |
| Wednesday Oct 24, 2001 | Please forgive the juvenility, but on an Internet that largely conducts itself using the English language, some find it quite humorous that so many online German companies and services have poorly-chosen names. to Internet by crikey |
| Thursday Oct 18, 2001 | Where does most news spam come from each day? Ask the hippo. That's right, the SpamHippo. to Internet by jcs |
| Tuesday Oct 16, 2001 | How do you know if you're a loser? Well, real losers waste time on the Internet reading about other losers. to Internet by onigame |
| Friday Oct 5, 2001 | Spammer forges domain name.
Owner of forged domain name, who happens to be a techie, gets revenge.
Hilarity ensues!
to Internet by tregoweth |
| Thursday Oct 4, 2001 | Ever wanted to send an email to some anonymous stranger, message-in-a-bottle style? You can...with Email Roulette.
to Internet by monde |
| Friday Sep 14, 2001 | Netfree aims to bring
free
networking to a person near you. It's not entirely free,
but it's cheap enough that anyone with a soldering gun and
a few bucks should be set. Its current project is to refine the
designs for
an
inexpensive free-space optical transceiver. In other
words, 115kbps (and later 10mbps) over your average laser
pointer. to Internet by braino |
| Wednesday Aug 15, 2001 | Finally, Peer to Peer technology is starting to be used for something other than just swapping pirated files. While URLBlaze just adds a rather sysadmin-unfriendly spin to the old concept, the fine folks over at Daliworld have come up with a more exciting idea - simulate ocean life on a P2P network! Whee! to Internet by wheezer |
| Sunday Aug 12, 2001 | I bet you've always wanted to know how to
hold a seance,
book a stripper, fake an irish accent, or the qualifications for donating sperm. So You Wanna has these oddities and others.
to Internet by laurel |
| Thursday Aug 2, 2001 | Internet Industry Partnerships: They come and they go.
to Internet by keiths |
| Tuesday Jun 26, 2001 | You have now safely shutdown the Internet. You can now turn off your computer. to Internet by kade |
| What kind of Flame Warrior are you?
to Internet by petek |
| Thursday Jun 21, 2001 | You can kill those annoying X10 wireless camera ads via an opt-out mechanism.
to Internet by boneyard |
| Tuesday Jun 12, 2001 | In the market for some bad advice? Get help with sex, ethics, games, and the world of the very miscellaneous. Or just from some random teenager. Priced per minute. to Internet by fringehead |
| Monday Jun 11, 2001 | Ever wonder how to track down those obfuscate URLs you find in spam messages? Here's how.
to Internet by jcs |
| Friday Jun 8, 2001 | MMF Hall of Humiliation, the site the "Internet Multi Level Marketing Entrepreneurs" hate, has returned the network after two years of cobwebs! I hope to see more chain letter spammer ridiculing and related poetry from now on... to Internet by wwwwolf |
| Wednesday May 23, 2001 | Loose lips sink schmucks. to Internet by boneyard |
| Monday May 21, 2001 | Amazon has one.
Microsoft has one.
Oddly, even
DoubleClick pretends to have one. Isn't it time that we all get a
Privacy Policy of our own? to Internet by skyhook |
| Saturday May 19, 2001 | If some network providers worried about your data as much as they did about a candy shortage, imagine how much nicer the Internet could be... to Internet by mrbill |
| Friday May 11, 2001 | Most
Memepool
items
are
intended
for
human
viewing.
This
one,
however,
is
mainly
for
our
spam-harvesting
bot
readers.
Enjoy
the
links! to Internet by tregoweth |
| Tuesday May 8, 2001 | Don't just report
spam or forward it
to the Federal Trade Commission...cost
those spammers some money! to Internet by tregoweth |
| Tuesday May 1, 2001 | "While it is tempting for a host/vendor to show off fancy technology
at an IETF, this audience runs and
uses the most arcane
assortment of services, and is a very poor place to find out that
your fancy new switch breaks when someone tries to run IPv42 through it. Run a simple
production network. If one must run a technology demo,
isolate it onto a separate network segment so that it is unable to
interfere with the production network." to Internet by sam |
| Tuesday Apr 10, 2001 | The 5K competition 2001 is now online with over 280 submissions of amazing web pages at less than 5k. Judge them yourself alongside the official judges! to Internet by gen |
| Wednesday Mar 28, 2001 |
DNS wildcards have been around since
before the web. Their original purpose was mail routing.
Problems have been found and fixed.
Recently, some sites let you tell the world that something
sucks or
rules,
or that someone is gay.
Of course, I have
my opinion of these.
to Internet by petek |
| Wednesday Mar 21, 2001 | Forget Bored.com. For the truly insipid web surfer, only the Toilet Museum website will do. Also to try: the Toaster Museum, the Water Gun Museum, and as an honest-to-God last resort, there’s always the Ramen Noodle Museum. to Internet by safronlwin |
| Tuesday Mar 13, 2001 | Why is DoubleClick, the scourge of privacy advocates, so interested in protecting online privacy? They're not. to Internet by rsf |
| Friday Mar 9, 2001 | AOL Instant Messenger fans: The source for disturbing and violent buddy icons is badassbuddy.com.
to Internet by faisal |
| Wednesday Mar 7, 2001 | Regular e-mail not good enough? Take it outside with BattleMail, or send a message into the unknown with BottleMail. to Internet by eclipse |
| Monday Mar 5, 2001 | First Monday is a solid peer reviewed online journal
discussing the internet and other global information infrastructures. Published once a
month, the articles cover a range of topics including the decline of mass media,
open source as a social
movement, freedom of
expression, studies of web
usage, politics,
and privacy.
to Internet by urog |
| Thursday Feb 22, 2001 | Will someone please get some Prozac over to that manic depressive web server in the Netherlands?
to Internet by gen |
| Wednesday Feb 14, 2001 | Jordan Ritter, author of the
Napster backend, explains why Gnutella doesn't scale.
to Internet by joshua |
| Wednesday Jan 17, 2001 | When Dr. Bendon Kabo of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation offered me a cut of $45 Million, I suspected that it might be a scam. Sure enough, the scam is well-known and has been around for over a decade. The Crimes of Persuasion site documents this con, as well as many others, including boiler room operations, wacky investments, and the Ponzi Scheme that almost collapsed the Albanian Economy. to Internet by borges |
| Tuesday Jan 16, 2001 | The new Federal law requiring U.S. schools and libraries to install censor software on all internet computers will go into effect this year, barring judicial interference. It's a lot more serious than many people realize: the new law will not merely keep minors from seeing "indecent" sites; the law's stipulations could encourage situations in which adults will be required to jump through an unbelievable array of hoops to get public librarians to switch off the filterware, and it proclaims swift and heavy-handed denial of vital federal funding to noncompliant libraries. What's more, censorware doesn't just block sex and violence; most censorware companies have no qualms about their "sexless values" propaganda agendas. Peacefire pulled a "bait-and-switch" trick with the makers of CyberPatrol which had some very telling results. Another censorware, CyberSITTER 2000, now features secret installation of remote control for spying on latchkey kids - or your spouse. It also inexplicably now features a category specifically blocking job search sites. It will take more than slapping blue ribbon gifs on your pages to stop this menace; as usual, consult the foremost experts on net freedom for more information. to Internet by monde |
| An interesting application of
steganography: SpamMimic turns the
super-secret messages into something that looks like
spam.
to Internet by wwwwolf |
| Thursday Dec 21, 2000 | Welcome to Planet Claire. No, I'm not referring to the website devoted to the hippest Chicago-based band since Jake & Elwood, nor am I thinking about the B-52's hit single. I wanted to find the answer to the question posed by the latest email chain letter heard 'round the world, "Who is Claire Swire?" According to a recent story in the New York Post, Claire is a 26-year-old public-relations lackey at a British B2B named MagicButton.net who may be the subject of the most embarassing exchange of fluids since Monica Lewinsky's escapades in the Oval Office. to Internet by rich |
| Thursday Dec 14, 2000 | The user-fed database of "Guess the Dictator and/or Television Sit-Com Character" might very well someday gain enough contextual knowledge of the world to achieve sentience and take over said world. But for now it can only, well, try and guess the dictator and/or television sit-com character you're pretending to be. to Internet by singe |
| Sunday Nov 12, 2000 | Am I Goth or not? to Internet by laurel |
| Saturday Nov 4, 2000 | Think you or your girlfriend is a hottie? Post your portrait on Am I Hot or Not and subject yourself to the cruel mocking abuse of anonymous Internet users. (Tip to get higher ratings: Whiteness, youth, jiggle-factor and suggestive poses/pseudo-nakkidness are key. Like you porn-surfing memepoolistas don't know that already.) to Internet by pjammer |
| Tuesday Oct 31, 2000 | Wpoison is a helpful "web poisoning" tool that trickles fake email addresses into spammers' bulk lists. Help drop poison into the water today! to Internet by succa |
| Sunday Oct 29, 2000 | The signal to noise ratio at alt.tasteless, the disturbing yet interesting newsgroup, is pretty low but there are enough archived posts to keep anyone who isn't faint of heart entertained. As always, if you're planning on posting to any newsgroup please read the FAQ first. to Internet by skallas |
| Sunday Oct 15, 2000 | Someone took Eliza and rebuilt it to use AOL instant messanger, and a lot of people had deep conversations with it. to Internet by roo |
| Friday Oct 6, 2000 | Sony Online Entertainment's Everquest is a nasty place.
Several locations feature gruesome implements of torture and severed heads.
Elements of the gameplay require killing pregnant women. But this is to be
expected, Everquest is a fantasy roleplaying game in a setting with medieval
overtones. So why did Sony's Verant unit ban a player for
writing a piece of disturbing fan fiction about the game? Their first
statement on the matter suggested that they didn't want that kind of guy
playing their game. Their second
statement implied it was all about protecting their copyrights, but this smacks
of legal damage control.
The idea that a corporation
can cut off a service because they don't like what you say is kind of chilling. My
response to all this? Sponsor the Electronic Frontier
Foundation.
to Internet by rfh |
| Sunday Oct 1, 2000 | Hate annoying banner ads from evil, privacy-violating online advertisers?
AdSubtract
offers us the means to screen banner ads, cookies and other cache-clogging commercial products. to Internet by pjammer |
| Tuesday Sep 12, 2000 | If you're using Eudora for your email, time to upgrade to version 5.0 -- if only for the new MoodWatch feature, which rates your messages for potential offensiveness. to Internet by tregoweth |
| Saturday Sep 9, 2000 | The Center for Democracy and Technology's Operation Opt-Out is a handy place to remove your name from profiling, marketing, and research databases. My favorite part, the online profiling section, collects links to Web advertising companies' opt-out pages (if they have one). to Internet by tregoweth |
| Friday Sep 1, 2000 | One of the incipient worries of the next few years may very well be "which peer-to-peer file sharing scheme will suck least?" Assuming this is no more than a flash in a pan, we already have Napster, Gnutella, Freenet, MojoNation, Scour, and openCOLA. And looming on the horizon are similar, yet expanded ideas embodied by companies such as Centrata, Lightshare, Apple Soup Popular Power, Aimster, WorldOS, DCypher, Distributed.Net, and others. Toolkits to grow your own distributed computing system such as Cosm are in heavy development and look promising. The recent explosion of peer-to-peer popularity among the computer using masses, combined with recent successes in distributed computing all seems very keen, yet, has anyone said these kids will all play nice with each other? And everyone seems in on the fun now, even Intel. Will the endgame of this revolution be the fracturing of an otherwise whole Internet? to Internet by dnm |
| Tuesday Aug 29, 2000 | Attention Internetters: Curry and Super Greg are not net dorks. They are part of a cheesy ad campaign for Lee Jeans, all cooked up by Fallon McElligott. Please stop sending me mail about them. to Internet by faisal |
| Wednesday Aug 16, 2000 | Need to access your email from someone your friend's computer or the local cybercafe, but your email doesn't come through Hotmail or Yahoo? MAILStart will let most people read their email from just about anywhere with a web browser. to Internet by faisal |
| Monday Jul 31, 2000 | Relive the sloth-like speed, nightmarish user interfaces, and new-car smell of the web browsers of yesteryear, at Dejavu.org. to Internet by succa |
| Friday Jul 28, 2000 | The people who wrote "Sharezilla", a program to spam Gnutella, are obviously pure evil. to Internet by peterb |
| Thursday Jul 27, 2000 | If you're a mail admin and you really hate spam mail, you're probably familiar with the RBL list of spam tolerant mail relays. However, if you're the average user and you hate spam, there's only one way to go: msgto.com - the email service that stops all spam mail by requiring people who mail you to 'prove' that they are not software. to Internet by faisal |
| Tuesday Jun 27, 2000 | Cyber Stalking on IRC is a serious crime,
but do we need to be afraid of the Web Gestapo
coming after us because we're all
voyeurs at heart, who're addicted to following a regular person indulge their narcissistic tendencies by
posting every mundane detail of their entire life on the
web for our entertainment (or theirs?)
to Internet by rich |
| Monday Jun 26, 2000 | Tuvalu is a small island in Oceania, about 26 sq. km. in area, or so the CIA world factbook entry says. Although they have no potable groundwater, no known mineral resources, and only ten thousand people, it has one very modern resource: it's the center of a hotly contested bidding war for the .tv domain
to Internet by urog |
| Thursday Jun 15, 2000 | People are still trying to screw chumps out of millions for stupid domain names. Guh. to Internet by che |
| Monday May 29, 2000 | The rudest search engine online is appropriately named SearchBastard. to Internet by pjammer |
| Wednesday May 10, 2000 | There's free email all over the net, but none quite as expressive as this
service in the UK. I desperately want the t-shirt. to Internet by gen |
| Monday May 8, 2000 | Chad Frick's YukYuk.com is a consistently bright spot for the difficult-to-define, short-attention-span entertainment for at which the web excels. The "interactive cartoons" of Mr. Furd are particularly inventive, recycling the same bleeps over and over into a cute alien language. And the dancers are good examples of Frick's trademark: Graphical User Interfaces which manage to be exotic without being irritating.
to Internet by cricket |
| Tuesday Apr 25, 2000 | Bulgaria.com is a central point for exchanging information on Bulgaria, offering Bulgarian personal web pages -- both elegant and simple. to Internet by rsf |
| Monday Apr 24, 2000 | Identity thieves: now make your life easier with AnyBirthday.com - the site that lets you find out anyone's date of birth based on their name and zip code.
to Internet by faisal |
| Wednesday Apr 19, 2000 | myNetSales.com lets you manage a sales pipeline online. Now your small business can waste time on "process" just as easily as the big players. to Internet by faisal |
| Monday Mar 27, 2000 | I'm not sure I feel safe getting free internet access from The Simpsons. I can just imagine the sysadmins: Homer-types who are lazy enough to set up a Drinky Bird to tap on the keyboard while they are away. to Internet by enigma |
| Thursday Mar 23, 2000 | I had been trying to find Iridium gear for cheap before it gets scarce, when a friend alerted me to Save Our Sats, an Internet-powered grassroots effort to purchase Iridium, stop it from falling out of the sky, and make it useable as the first open access and open source LEO network. Volunteer today!
to Internet by dnm |
| Friday Mar 3, 2000 | 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 |
| Tuesday Feb 29, 2000 | Freenet is like Blacknet, only without the threatening sneer on its face. to Internet by arkuat |
| Monday Feb 28, 2000 | Send digital voodoo curses to friends and enemies alike. Pinstruck is a modestly beautiful webtoy created by Steem.com (who's corporate site is a work of art). to Internet by cricket |
| Sunday Feb 27, 2000 | Here's how unprofitable Amazon.com
is. Jeff Bezos'
Amazon "member page" has a
picture of him as Austin Powers. And where is this
picture hosted? Why, on a
GeoCities account. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? to Internet by tregoweth |
| EarthStation1 is small "internet
media museum," i.e. a big collection of funny or
interesting mp3s and wav files, cross-indexed by subject.
to Internet by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 21, 2000 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Friday Jan 28, 2000 | DoubleClick is an Internet advertising company behind a lot of the banner ads you see. DoubleClick recently acquired Abacus Direct, manager of "the nation's largest proprietary database of consumer catalog buying behavior used for target marketing purposes." DoubleClick plans to link online activities with personally identifying information. You might want to get an opt-out cookie while you still can. |
| Monday Jan 17, 2000 | 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 |
| Thursday Jan 13, 2000 | Can you fool a spammer's robot into traveling an infinite loop through thousands of fake Web pages collecting phony e-mail addresses? Erik Schorr's Blackflag does. The script could make the world safe again for the mailto: url.
to Internet by rogers |
| Friday Jan 7, 2000 | Send your wishes into space. to Internet by jon |
| Wednesday Dec 29, 1999 | Nasty, short, brutish. Need
To Know is the site for all your techno-centric sarcasm needs. to Internet by lee |
| Monday Dec 27, 1999 |
Remember how you could listen to Christmas tunes and warm yourself by the Yule Log on TV?
Well now you can do it on the Internet. to Internet by moose |
| Thursday Dec 16, 1999 | Who It Is! Finally, a whois for da playas! to Internet by tregoweth |
| Monday Dec 13, 1999 | Everyone does ego searches, but all you really want to know is do you get more hits than your friends. Thanks to Altameter it's quick and easy to compare hit counts between different
people,
places, and
things. to Internet by rsf |
| Sunday Dec 5, 1999 | Why is it that one must know how to use the internet to look at NetLingo, which likes to think it's for beginners? to Internet by djinn |
| Saturday Dec 4, 1999 | So you've met someone on the web. Well, now there's a foolproof way to tell if you two are soulmates. to Internet by djinn |
| Dammit, someone registered pneumonoultra to Internet by tregoweth |
| Friday Dec 3, 1999 | Never forget a birthday/anniversary or oversleep for a early-morning flight ever again -
iPing's free MrWakeup
/Ms. Reminder service
will call you with a recorded wakeup/reminder call at home or to your cell/pager/office
number) so forgetful goofuses who can't afford personal assistants can better manage our frenzied
schedules without forgetting the important people in our lives. to Internet by pjammer |
| Monday Nov 29, 1999 | Java-powered encrypted webmail? Check. Voice-command-operated email? Check. Personal 800-number voicemail/fax/webmail account? Check. But absent a cool domain, who gives a rip about stupid features like encryption of fax capacities? From now on, my memepool posse can reach me at pjammer@nigga-please.com, thanks to the good folks from Datapimp. to Internet by pjammer |
| Take (almost) all of the headaches out of planning events by using mambo.com. to Internet by faisal |
| Monday Nov 22, 1999 | Those of us who use Lexis/Nexis (the world's most comprehensive indexed collection of major global newspapers, academic/law journals, and other such) know how hideously expensive digital archives of copyrighted material can be. Search engine Northern Light not only provides access (for a small fee) to articles in pay-subscription periodicals related to your search query, it also organizes hits by topic-driven folders. to Internet by pjammer |
| Wednesday Nov 17, 1999 | Have you had e-nough of e-everything? Well, check out Persistence Software's Society For The Preservation Of The Other 25 Letters Of The Alphabet. The scariest example is definitely eemail.
to Internet by keith |
| Monday Nov 15, 1999 | Okay, so it's not an urban legend per se, since it's just a warning about a virus, but you would be well to check to see if it's a hoax before you send it to your entire family tree. to Internet by keith |
| Friday Nov 12, 1999 | Thinking about DSL but $50 a month is too high? Want a second phone line but don't wanna blow $30 a month? How does $20 a year sound? E-ring allows you to check out memepool without blocking outside calls. to Internet by rsf |
| Monday Nov 1, 1999 | Call anyone in the United States, from anywhere
in the world, as much as you want, for free, with
Dialpad. to Internet by obvious |
| Monday Oct 18, 1999 | Funmail is an English mail service that allows you to have up to 20 e-mail addresses at any one time, and change them as often as you like (with 3,500 possible names after the @, and infinite possibilities before the @)! Take that Yahoo/Rocket/Hotmail/Hushmail/etc.
to Internet by gen |
| Want DSL? DSLreports
has an agent which will query all the DSL prequalification
engines they know about if you provide the area code and
prefix and your street address. The results will not
only tell you if you can get DSL, they'll also offer
prices, speed estimates, and the estimated line distance.
to Internet by shadow |
| Friday Oct 8, 1999 | Famous people get arrested too. Find your favorite celebrity criminal at Mugshots. Does Bill Gates too a little too happy in this supposed arrest photo in this 1977 or is it just me? to Internet by pjammer |
| From now on, I only want to read email that deletes itself. to Internet by peterb |
| Thursday Sep 30, 1999 | In November of 1988,
Robert
Morris released a
software
worm that brought almost 60,000 machines to a halt.
A
lot has been written about
this
event, but of special historical interest is the federal government's
General Accounting
Office report from 1989 -- their first internet publication!
to Internet by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Sep 19, 1999 | Regardless of what others may have told you the World Wide Web is not the Internet, although the Internet is a web of sorts. How do you map a web? The Internet Mapping Project is an effort that has produced a gorgeous collection of enormous images mapping the interconnectivity of the web. Slow connections beware.
to Internet by urog |
| Thursday Sep 16, 1999 | In the insane world where venture-cash-rich internet firms are
knocking over each other to give away free stuff in order to build market share, the only competitive
advantage a startup has is its ability to give away the house faster than its rivals.
uReach.com could very well be the winner of this bizzare
race, offering webmail, a personal 800-number voicemail box and inbound fax capacities for anyone
who logs in. Since its ability to financially sustain itself on pure advertising revenue is laughable,
I suspect they're trolling to get acquired.
to Internet by pjammer |
| Wednesday Sep 8, 1999 | Attrition.org is devoted to a variety of interesting topics both internet and everyday, but I found most interesting the pages archiving
confirmed denial of service (DoS) attacks and confirmed web mirror hacks
to unsuspecting websites. Now the packet monkeys can keep score.
to Internet by urog |
| Tuesday Aug 31, 1999 | FakeCounter works just like "real" page counters. With every visit to your page it will display a new number, except that this number has no connection whatsoever to the amount of visitors. to Internet by pjammer |
| Wednesday Aug 25, 1999 | Much like the philosophical web-site-discussion software Third Voice, you can now chat with other people visiting the same websites you visit, with Gooey. to Internet by faisal |
| Tired of keeping your own booklist online? Want the entire world to know what books you've been reading? No? Well, too bad: amazon.com is now listing purchases for all to see. to Internet by faisal |
| Friday Aug 20, 1999 | I bet you didn't know the Internet had an end. to Internet by peterb |
| Thursday Aug 19, 1999 | Wouldn't it be great if Instant Messenger/ICQ could carry voice messages? Firetalk promises multiuser voice-support with just a 28.8 modem. Question: Subversive, anti-telcom-giant revolutionaries or doomed money-hemmoraging Internet latecomers destined for a fire-sale acquisition by Microsoft? Operators are standing by ... to Internet by pjammer |
| Addicted to ebay? Too lazy to write your own monitoring software? Afraid to leave your desk for fear that you'll be outbid on a very important auction? It's time for ebay a-go-go. to Internet by faisal |
| Tuesday Aug 10, 1999 | Ever seen something like this before in your messages log? mountd[6688]: Blocked attempt of You have been owned. Lance Spitzner has a very nice collection of technical whitepapers regarding script kiddies, and their threat to UNIX varieties and Windows NT.to Internet by urog |
| Sunday Aug 1, 1999 | The Public DNS service may be useful to you if you're looking for someone to host domain name service for you for free. to Internet by peterb |
| Thursday Jul 29, 1999 | Feed your junk email to SpamCop,
and it will sort through the email headers,
tell you who to complain to, and even prepare the
complaint message for you. to Internet by tregoweth |
| Saturday Jul 3, 1999 | You want a vertical weblog? How about Russian nuclear news? to Internet by faisal |
| Monday Jun 21, 1999 | While some people prefer simply having webcams for people to look in on their life, this guy not only has two, but he's given you, the lucky surfer, control over his lights, fans, and other nifty appliances...
to Internet by djinn |
| Wednesday Jun 16, 1999 | Sure, everyone seems to be offering free, web-based email these days, from
rap groups to
search engines. But how many of them allow
you to check your email without even using a computer? MyTalk does, with an 800-number, voice-mail style
login that allows you to check your mail even when you are away from a computer.
But then again, how many memepool readers are ever away from a computer
enough to care?
to Internet by pjammer |
| Tuesday Jun 15, 1999 | David Isenberg's The Dawn of the Stupid Network has been hailed by some as the most important article in 1998 on the subject of communications. WSJ Front Lines columnist Tom Petzinger wrote about Isenberg early last year. Read all about it and then go buy some stock in Qwest and MCI/Worldcom. to Internet by gen |
| Wednesday Jun 9, 1999 | Almost no one uses finger any more, but if you need
to, you can
do it via the web,
which can actually be quite helpful if you're
using a library computer or in another situation
where you have no finger client. to Internet by keith |
| Having been stung by quick-acting anti-Bush forces who registered the
gwbush.com domain (and filled with embarassing
facts and links), Presidential hopeful
George W. Bush is taking no chances.
According to numerous accounts, the Bush exploratory committee snapped up over
100 domain names sporting Mr. Bush's moniker, the most amusing of which has to be
georgebushsux.com. to Internet by pjammer |
| Sunday Jun 6, 1999 | I'll admit that I don't quite understand the purpose of having
an 18-page photo gallery of Spam Fighters.
I am, however, glad, after looking at the gallery, that unlike certain fictional
crime fighters, these people do not run around in spandex.
to Internet by keith |
| Thursday Jun 3, 1999 | Want to Make Money Fast? Here's a complete guide on how
NOT to do it. That's right, it's the
MMF Hall of Humiliation, which
details internet chain letters and other scams and why they
are illegal, nonfunctional, or both. to Internet by keith |
| Tuesday May 25, 1999 | If you're tired of getting falsely accused of spamming in alt.erotica.memepool, as I am, you'll be pleased to hear about Unspammed.com, a forum for those who feel that their bulk-mailing habits adhere to legal and ethical guidelines. Whatever, it's still annoying. to Internet by succa |
| Tuesday May 18, 1999 | Recycle
that spam -- and get a $5 CDNow gift certificate
while you're at it. to Internet by tregoweth |
| Monday May 10, 1999 | If you feel totally clueless about things like ADSL, e-commerce, object-oriented programming, and other computer-related buzzwords, whatis.com is here to help. to Internet by eclipse |
| Sunday May 2, 1999 | Find out what insanely optimistic prices domain-name speculators expect to fetch for surrendering their addresses through eBay. A million bucks for www.elocker.com may be a bit steep, but I'd cough up $1.25 to have my private email address @SpankNasty.com. to Internet by pjammer |
| Friday Apr 23, 1999 | Yes, when news breaks, you can count on
domain
name speculators, and those
who would thwart them.
to Internet by tregoweth |
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