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| Friday Jul 9, 2004 |
Howtoons
are one-page cartoons showing 5-to-15 year-old kids "How To" build things,
like
marshmallow guns,
and an
ice-skateboard.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jun 11, 2004 | Automotive journalist Robert Farago combines the wry insouciance of P.J. O'Rourke and irreverent humor of Hunter S. Thomson. Farago's website, The Truth About Cars offers whimsical cultural commentary in its lively reviews of new cars.
to Reference by pjammer |
| Thursday Jun 3, 2004 |
Implosion World!, your one-stop-shop for building implosion pictures, information and videos.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Sunday May 2, 2004 | Odd and oddly fascinating:
Banglapedia, the National
Encyclopedia of Bangladesh.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Friday Apr 9, 2004 | HousingPrototypes.org
is a large database of multi-family housing --
containing photos, floor plans and project descritpions -- that
is searchable by architect, building type, and location. to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Friday Feb 13, 2004 | Explore the genetic diversity and
interrelatedness of it
all
with the Tree Of Life's
phylogeny
tree.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jan 26, 2004 | Porno for pyros: the
virtual matchbox labels museum.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Dec 4, 2003 | Please enjoy David Dahle's collection of more than
100 powerline insulators. to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 3, 2003 | A step-by-step explanation of
American autopsy procedures.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Dec 2, 2003 | Having difficulty understanding people in real life, without
emoticons to
help you? Perhaps you should read the
Nonverbal Dictionary
of Gestures, Signs and Body Language Cues before venturing again into
the big room.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Nov 19, 2003 | A disturbing fascination with
duct tape.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Feb 6, 2003 | Traditionally, landspeed is measured in miles per hour, but I've always liked the more iconoclastic furlongs per fortnight. Wind velocity is plotted on the Beaufort scale, unless it's a tornado, which is then assigned a Fujita number. And did you know that an ounce (oz t) of gold weighs more than an ounce (oz av) of grain? Or don't you have any scruples at all?
to Reference by yoyology |
| Wednesday Jan 22, 2003 | Surfers interested in libraries who don't have the time or inclination to read more than 90 blogs and hundreds of listservs can get a quick fix at John Hubbard's Library Link of the Day. Today's link: LibraryLookup. to Reference by yoyology |
| Tuesday Mar 19, 2002 | The USGS
minerals information service provides annual summaries
about commodity minerals.
to Reference by gator |
| Wednesday Dec 5, 2001 | Tired of not knowing what funch is? Need that special word for committing all seven deadly sins at once? Can't understand why everybody refers to you as Aquaman? Well then my bumchum, you need to try the neologist's dictionary, PseudoDictionary! With definitions ranging from the boring to the interesting, you'll never be out of the loop again!
to Reference by squamishus |
| Thursday Nov 8, 2001 | Perseus is a vast digital library
containing thousands of ancient texts, both translated and in the original tongue.
to Reference by joshua |
| Wednesday Oct 3, 2001 | Ever wanted to know how to
swear
in
Yapese,
Macedonian,
or
Esperanto? to Reference by avi |
| Tuesday Oct 2, 2001 | The Ejection Site contains everything you ever wanted to know about
hitting the silk -- or just
pretending to.
And if you bail out over the
desert,
find out what the
scorpions
that might be hiding in your
boots
are injecting into your bloodstream.
to Reference by tourist |
| Friday Aug 10, 2001 | There are museums for Mushrooms ,
Barbie dolls, and beverage containers.
Plans are in the works for a menstruation museum as well.
to Reference by t23 |
| Thursday Aug 2, 2001 | Perhaps the most poorly named object since the Holy Roman Empire, the Los Angeles River is the source of much worry and consternation, as well as a proposed dual usage that is so foolish one need only look at the abstract to see a disaster waiting to happen: recreational element in addition to flood control. Few people appreciate it as engineering marvel and potential work of art as well as Greg Ercolano in this loving photo essay. to Reference by therubal |
| Tuesday Jul 24, 2001 | What do
fish,
electrical towers,
molecules,
patents,
maps,
pathology cases,
models,
roses,
minor league baseball players
and websites
have in common?
to Reference by avi |
| Sunday Jun 3, 2001 | This
fascinating chart of radio frequency allocations in the US happens
to look like a Monopoly board,
but that's not where the
similarities end.
to Reference by gator |
| Friday May 18, 2001 | In the tradition of the Internet Movie Database - which catalogs all of the movies ever filmed - comes the Roller Coaster Database with over 1000 coasters worldwide. to Reference by skyhook |
| Tuesday Mar 20, 2001 | I can't tell if i'd like a
360 degree,
decimal,
nonal,
or metric watch.
But I sure wouldn't mind a 28 hour day
to Reference by joshua |
| Tuesday Mar 6, 2001 | If you go to jail and haven't studied the Prisoners Dictionary, the other inmates will
make fun of you for learning your lingo from Oz.
to Reference by joshua |
| Tuesday Feb 27, 2001 | Need to look up a word, but the OED scares you?
Sure there's regular sized dictionaries, but what if you want something a bit more specific? There are dictionaries covering everything from stained glass to
sex.
Still not specific enough? How about dictionaries for words containing
only consonants or
only vowels. And for the truly picky, there's a dictionary for words which
contain only one letter. to Reference by skyhook |
| Friday Feb 16, 2001 | You're a normal british chap. Your girlfriend is a semi-psychotic German. You argue intensely about the most inane things. What to do? Keeping a log of
everything you've ever argued about is a good start. to Reference by skyhook |
| Friday Dec 1, 2000 | I've been waiting a long time for the author of A
Pattern Language, a brilliant book on architecture and design, to
create a Web site. What we got was one
of the ugliest sites on the Web. It's based on a silly bookshelf
metaphor, which he apparently plans to patent. There's plenty of
useful information here, but buy the book first. to Reference by monkfish |
| Friday Oct 27, 2000 | Dam,
dam,
dam,
dam,
dam,
dam,
dam.
There's lots of info about there about these nifty structures. You can take a
virtual
tour of the Hoover Dam or one of Stave
Falls, and for real fun you can play
Damagotchi.
to Reference by moose |
| Wednesday Oct 25, 2000 | Every year, good Catholic parents wake up extra early to hide colored
eggs about the yard so their good Catholic children can find them.
Godless heathen programmers have usurped this wonderful celebration of
the rebirth of Christ by hiding features in programs, audio CDs and
other things to surprise and terrorize unsuspecting users, listeners
and watchers. What's more, they mock the Easter ritual by calling
these things "Easter eggs". This disgusting, heretical practice must
be stopped!
to Reference by braino |
| Tuesday Oct 24, 2000 | If you're nominally eco-friendly yet live in a
hyperconsumerized yuppie megacondo that doesn't
have any facilities for recycling your recyclables (like me),
check out 1800CLEANUP.org.
It'll also tell you where to, say, get rid of that pile of
old tires sitting in a pickup truck in your front lawn.
The only downside to the site is that you've got
to click through layers of menus. to Reference by xrayjones |
| Thursday Oct 12, 2000 | Interested in learning about how
GPS receivers or
solar sails work?
Curious about
light sabers or
flatulence? Go visit
howstuffworks.com, which will tell you everything you need to know. You can also
buy neat stuff or
win a t-shirt. to Reference by blk |
| Sunday Sep 3, 2000 | Pueblo, dammit! to Reference by goboro |
| Monday Aug 21, 2000 | Stratfor; this a manly news service. to Reference by mpc |
| Tuesday Jul 25, 2000 | "Hey, sometimes you've just gotta go," and for those moments when you just can't wait urinal.net provides a photographic directory of urinals around the world.
to Reference by faisal |
| Tuesday Jun 27, 2000 | When you're looking for mechanical engineering data, sites like iCrank are great at disseminating static knowledge bases, but eFunda is bringing all of that static knowledge along with the interactive Q&A of guru.com into the picture.
to Reference by urog |
| Wednesday Jun 14, 2000 | StatSoft is responsible for STATISTICA, a fairly high-end statistics package. More interesting is their extraordinarily comprehensive and searchable online textbook that can be downloaded. More breadth than depth it's a useful first contact point and has received awards from Britannica. to Reference by urog |
| Tuesday Jun 6, 2000 | Paul Bourke has collected a large number of technical snippets, with special relevance to mathematics and engineering (including graphics, geometry, rendering, projection, fractals, and analysis). Most are embellished with beautiful illustrations.
to Reference by urog |
| Thursday Apr 27, 2000 | So, someone asked me recently what you call a group of ravens. So, I went looking. I found an answer at About.com, which is that they are called an unkindness, a constable, or a conspiracy. But then someone else asked me what one calls a group of rabbits. So, I found some other resources, like a much more general list amongst the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center FAQ, an educational quiz about animal group names (they also have one for baby animal names), and
a less than serious list.
to Reference by keith |
| Friday Apr 7, 2000 | For those of you military buffs who wonder just
what the hell
those
coloured bars on Army uniforms mean, you can find them
(and lots of other badge tidbits) at the U.S. Army
Institute
of Heraldry page. And if you ever find yourself in
Yugoslavia
wondering if you're at the other end of a gun from a
mladji vodnik or a potpukovnik, you'll be
glad I told you about Rank
Insignia of the World.
to Reference by sck |
| Tuesday Mar 14, 2000 | You think your job stinks? Well, at least you aren't a
taxi driver.
According to the
U.S. Department of
Health & Human Services, they have the highest
rate of on-the-job homicides
(twice the rate of the
second worst).
A lot more such morbid, quantatative data on how much
where you live and what you do sucks can be found at the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Monday Mar 13, 2000 | With self-publication via the WWW becoming a dominant method for exposing work to the outside world, Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center developed Cora, a relatively sophisticated search engine that provides access to approximately 50,000 computer science papers collected from a spider of postscript files in nearly 100 academic and industry research sites.
to Reference by urog |
| Tuesday Feb 29, 2000 | A collection of websites for journalists, this may contain links to every data source I will ever need. to Reference by mpc |
| Friday Jan 28, 2000 | Hecatohedra anyone? Dehn invariants? Polygons as projections of polytopes, dear friend? The Geometry Junkyard can help you decipher the mysteries of polyhedra and polytopes. Maybe. to Reference by mrradon |
| Wednesday Jan 12, 2000 | Sometimes I write down my dreams. Usually they tell me something important. Patricia Garfield has written many good books about working with your dreams - all without the usual baloney. (Even though the titles sound like a self help seminars from the seventies.) The Association for the Study of Dreams has some good information too, even about graduate programs. One thing I didn't realize until today though, I didn't realize there were so many products for the dreamer to buy. to Reference by birgitte |
| Tireless work on the web by otherwise common people is not praised enough. Behold Cryptome by John Young, a tireless masterpeice of a website that catalogs and archives events taking place in the field of cryptography and national security. All this by a citizen architect. to Reference by dnm |
| Saturday Nov 27, 1999 | Ever wonder how
GPS worked, or wanted to use the raw data to do
the position solution yourself? Everything you need to know, and even example
code, in Java and
C
as well as the original author's code, is available from this site,
where
GPS equations are explained. to Reference by shadow |
| Tuesday Nov 23, 1999 | Have a troubled credit history, maybe even a civil judgement or bankruptcy? Sure, you'd love to get a fresh start on life, but going to jail for forging a new identity isn't that appealing. How about stepping into the shoes of the terminally ill after they expire? to Reference by pjammer |
| Tuesday Nov 16, 1999 | As a nearly-100% ENTP (Extroverted iNntuitive Thinking Perceiving, according to the Keirsey Temperment Sorter), I find most of the descriptions of ENTPs to be unnervingly accurate. But do you want to find out how different personality types react to pressure? The Personality Type Under Stress site offers surprisingly good insight on how your you, your coworker or life partner deals with conflict.
to Reference by pjammer |
| Monday Nov 15, 1999 | Scandal!
A grievous misunderstanding of the true nature of the tropical year is being propagated in the most eminent and respectable reference books of astronomy and calendrical matters. to Reference by arkuat |
| Saturday Nov 13, 1999 | What day is it? (Brought to you by the authors of
Calendrical Calculations) to Reference by arkuat |
| Thursday Nov 11, 1999 | You've tried the Death Clock,
yet you're unsure how accurate it is. The Sparks Death Test just seemed a bit too tongue-in cheek. Well, you trust Microsoft,
don't you? Try
the MSNBC
death test.
to Reference by earmouse |
| Wednesday Nov 10, 1999 | The US Department of Commerce, a wide reaching governing and regulatory body, mandates the airwaves here in the US through the FCC and the NTIA. The NTIA manages allocation of the spectrum, and publishes a spectrum chart that contains more information that I ever needed.
Interestingly enough, the NTIA is also has some very interesting information on online profiling, domain management, and the growing divide in those who cannot access the internet.
to Reference by imploded |
| Thursday Oct 28, 1999 | Hundreds of fun and useful links in this hippy dippy web directory. They could even help you find Utopia. to Reference by rsf |
| Wednesday Oct 20, 1999 | It's true. They have a dictionary for everything. to Reference by imploded |
| APBnews: News for cops. Stuff that matters. to Reference by pjammer |
| Tuesday Oct 19, 1999 | Encyclopedia
Britannica Online is changing revenue models.
Henceforth, they will be free (or, really, funded
by advertising banners). Too bad their server
wasn't up to the load generated on the day of
the announcment. What's next? Banner ads on the
OED? to Reference by arkuat |
| Ever wonder what those strings your GPS receiver
outputs mean? Here's a
complete list of the NMEA sentences and their syntax, including
lots that you're not likely to ever see on your
consumer unit! (Actually, that's ok, because
typical software can't use them all anyhow. to Reference by shadow |
| Monday Oct 18, 1999 | Ever wonder how long you'll live? If you're the quiet, boring type, you might just live to 100.
On the other hand, if you're like any of us here at memepool, you should be dead already. Want
to find out when you'll croak? Satisfy your morbid curiosity and take the Death
Test. Bonus for sick bastards: If you know something about the unhealthy habits of rich relatives, it's also useful for
calculating the timetables of inheritence windfalls. to Reference by pjammer |
| Monday Oct 11, 1999 | October is
National Apple Jack Month and
contains
both
Sylvia
Plath Day and
National
Frappe Day.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Oct 7, 1999 | eHow: the one-stop FAQs of life. Learn how to find love and romance online and
back out of a date if you didn't like her picture
(you heartless bastard!) and other useful tips. to Reference by pjammer |
| Friday Oct 1, 1999 | Are you scared? Would you like to be?
Well then, go to the spooooooky
Hauntedhouse.com and
search for a haunted house in your area. to Reference by keith |
| Thursday Sep 30, 1999 | "Next year is the
year 2000." Sez who?
The
Gregorian calendar isn't the only one out there, you know. In
addition to the well known and still used
Hewbrew and
Islamic
calendars, there are many others floating around,
ranging from
the ancient and very non-Western
Aztec and
Mayan
calendars, to the downright goofy
Tranquility calendar (with the year zero set to July 20, 1969) and
the Thelemic
calendar, based on Aleister Crowley's mystical hokum.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Sep 21, 1999 | Reading the alt.locksmithing FAQ
won't make you a master burglar any more than watching
The Godfather will make you a mafia don (protests of well-intentioned parent groups and CDA
advocates notwithstanding) - but it can make law-abiding citizens more aware of
our more obvious security vulnerabilities.
to Reference by pjammer |
| Saturday Sep 11, 1999 | Feeling stupid? Go convince yourself you're really smart and know all the
words in the dictionary, by poking randomly around the
Collins Cobuild Student's Dictionary,
a dictionary for (if not by) British children. Example definitions:
"cigars: Cigars are rolls of dried tobacco leaves which people smoke."
"paranoia: Someone who suffers from paranoia wrongly believes that other people are trying to harm them."
Comes with sound files so you can learn to pronounce
"thorough"
like a good English(wo)man.
to Reference by sburke |
| Thursday Sep 9, 1999 | Lies, damn lies, and Web-based Statistical Calcultors. to Reference by joshua |
| Wednesday Aug 25, 1999 | Looking for a job? Two choices: think like an applicant and deal with the gimps from Personnel, or think like a manager and nail the job you want. One of the best online advisors to guide you to the latter is veteran Silicon Valley headhunter Nick Corcodilos, who has (surprise surprise) a website. Ask the Headhunter about unconventional (but dead-on right) tactics of doing the job to get the job, and you will never answer another inane question about "where do you see yourself in 5 years" again. to Reference by pjammer |
| Tuesday Aug 24, 1999 | Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but sometimes you have to question a man's fascination with really tall buildings. to Reference by boneyard |
| Sunday Aug 22, 1999 | For those of you who want to use aerial photo quadrangle quadrants, like those at
PASDA on your unix host, the
Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
can convert them to TIFF files your favorite viewer can use.
to Reference by shadow |
| Tuesday Aug 17, 1999 | Readers of the recently posted "bad buzzwords" link who had trouble distinguishing between stupid marketing terms ("extranet"), long standing hacker usage that has crept its way into business meetings ("bandwidth"), terms that business people have come up with to sound like insiders ("take it off line"), and actual legitimate geek usage that the idiotic author neither understood nor took the time to properly research and report on ("cracker") would be advised to check out the reference source on the subject: The Jargon File (or, for those of you who prefer your documents in dead tree form, The New Hacker's Dictionary (note that the print version is based on the file from three years ago, and is out of date).
to Reference by faisal |
| Friday Aug 6, 1999 | The Oxford English Dictionary needs words! to Reference by tregoweth |
| Thursday Aug 5, 1999 | How Stuff Works tells
you exactly that, with helpful diagrams and clearly written explanations.
For you
Lynx freaks out there, they also
offer a
text-only version.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jul 22, 1999 | Here's a projection library for people who are working on mapping applications.
Really useful for converting between various coordinate systems.
to Reference by shadow |
| PhotoPC works really well with my Olympus D-340R camera.
This site has information about the similar D-320L. to Reference by shadow |
| The freely available Mapserver
application from the University of Minnesota looks to be a useful way to serve
interactive map content via the web.
to Reference by shadow |
| Saturday Jul 10, 1999 | Scott Lincoln "Omar"
Davis has been gracious enough to transcribe John Baptist Porta's
Natural
Magick to the web. Omar's Dustfall
page is full of collected wisdom. I especially like his ripped
off copy of The Top 100
Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord list.
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| Thursday Jul 8, 1999 | Mario Puzo? Yes. Bob "Holiday" Hope? Not yet. (Though, sadly, he doesn't look good.) The Dead People Server tells all.
to Reference by boneyard |
| Tuesday Jun 22, 1999 | Finder's keepers; loser's weepers, unless the finder is a member of
the National Association of
Unclaimed Property Administrators and the loser's smart enough to
ask
for it back. But it's not just for Americans: Unclaimed
Canadian bank balances are also on the web, as well as several
sites regarding Swiss
banks and Holocaust Assets.
to Reference by braino |
| Monday Jun 21, 1999 | In addition to the PASDA archive of
US Geological Survey 1:24000 maps covering Pennsylvania,
quite a few other states have
maps online in this form. You can view them with a tiff
viewer, or if you're using Linux like me, grab a copy of
mXmap. It's free for
personal use, and can be used with GPS receivers as well!
to Reference by shadow |
| Thursday Jun 17, 1999 | Aspiring stand-up comics know that nothing throws off a comedian's self-confidence
and stage presence like a heckler.
The Stand Up Comedian's Responses to the Heckler is a handy archive of
snaps, retorts, and viciously cutting phrases. to Reference by pjammer |
| Tuesday Jun 8, 1999 | Fake shrunken heads
and other bizzare stuff you
can make in your kitchen. Spend a few hours learning a few fun tricks
before the next visit to your siblings' children, and you'll be the coolest aunt/uncle in the
world.
to Reference by pjammer |
| Saturday Jun 5, 1999 | Do you ever sit around trying to figure out what the heck
those rappers are talking about? If so, you're probably just
way too Caucasian for your own good. However,
The Totally Unofficial Rap Dictionary
will probably still aid you in your quest by supplying the definitions of various
words and phrases used in rap lyrics.
to Reference by keith |
| Monday May 31, 1999 | Four words: The Anarchist's
Cookbook Online Be sure to read it from an untraceable browser! to Reference by pjammer |
| Friday May 28, 1999 | Click anywhere on the globe displayed at www.url.com
and be instantly connected to the local
online news sources for the country you selected.
to Reference by pjammer |
| Thursday May 27, 1999 | The McKinsey Quarterly is the online
business publication of international management consulting firm
McKinsey & Co. While lacking the in-your-face punch of
Upside or Red Herring, their
e-commerce section offers some
articles well worth reading. to Reference by pjammer |
| Wednesday May 26, 1999 | The United States Postal Service
has an enormous web site devoted to all your stamp licking needs. The
search engine is particularly powerful, especially since nearly every
document is available in Portable Document Format (pdf). The
Addressing Standards document is really fabulous, with
every conceivable word abbreviation listed.
to Reference by urog |
| Tuesday Apr 20, 1999 | More comprehensive than Nyarl may hope, World of Coasters offers a large guide to roller coasters in North/Central America, Europe, and Asia. to Reference by pjammer |
| Monday Apr 19, 1999 | Are you puzzled by all the complicated male-oriented
Y2K survival guides out there? Do you believe that
women need an explanation that stays away from
confusing, hard-to-understand things like
technology, and focuses on emotions and the family?
If so,
Y2K for Women
should be nice and comforting. to Reference by magus |
| Wednesday Apr 14, 1999 | Dave's Math Tables
contain tons of useful equations, proofs and identities. You can even
download the whole thing
as HTML or PDF files.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Apr 7, 1999 | If you need a couplet done, may I suggest this rhyming dictionary.
There are also dictionaries more appropriate for the budding songwriter.
to Reference by goboro |
| Friday Apr 2, 1999 | If you're searching for info on
U.S. Army moonbases or any other
spaceflight technology, look no further than the
Encyclopedia Astronautica. to Reference by xrayjones |
| Sunday Mar 28, 1999 | The Lucidity Institute is an organization interested in helping people achieve lucid dreaming, including online resources for improving dream recall, and using your sleep time to turn over problems your conscious mind cannot solve. to Reference by pjammer |
| Wednesday Mar 17, 1999 | The CIA Kids
Page introduces the youth of America to
espionage and counterterrorism in a freakishly
low-impact fashion. The site does have a
link to the excellent resource
CIA World Factbook, but the highlight
of any visit are the
cute doggies, who can sniff out plastic explosives
and dismember foreign dignitaries. Other government agencies,
including the
FBI,
are building equally strange kids pages. Regrettably,
the NSA's page
doesn't have a children's section. It probably
would have cost more than the $4.37 they apparently
alloted for web design.
to Reference by mpc |
| Monday Mar 15, 1999 |
Modern Moist Towelette Collecting has come a long way since the old days of moist towelette collecting, and the hobby has a bright
post-Y2K future, too.
to Reference by obvious |
| Mention parrots and people usually think of pirates, or occassionally the wild parrots in San Francisco, or maybe even Dr. Irene Pepperberg's studies of avian intelligence. But they're far more varied than that, with the Lexicon of Parrots listing incomprehensible amounts of photos and information on all known parrot species (and several extinct ones, too). to Reference by nyarl |
| Sunday Mar 14, 1999 | Amateur crackers and other high-tech sociopaths need resources too. Lord Somer provides a collection of wordlists, password crackers, tone generators, and other crypto-illegal material. For entertainment purposes only, of course. to Reference by pjammer |
| Wednesday Mar 10, 1999 | Get wired.
Barbed wire, that is. While you're at it, make sure to prick yourself
at the barbed wire
museum.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 9, 1999 | Roadsite is a collection of sites related to highways (North American Route Numbering), roads (misc.transport.road FAQ), and more. to Reference by faisal |
| Friday Mar 5, 1999 | 14 ways to risk your life to make a living, all on The World's Most Dangerous Jobs. Why yes, I'd love to parachute in the face of a raging forest fire to dig firewalls for the breathtaking salary of nine bucks per hour. to Reference by pjammer |
| Thursday Feb 25, 1999 | refdesk.com is a very large reference and research site, ironically run by Matt "checking 'facts' only slows publication" Drudge's father.
to Reference by faisal |
| Tuesday Feb 23, 1999 | Ever wonder what the first half of a MAC address means?
Check the
Ethernet Codes Master Page. If you are on the
east coast, this
mirror may be geographically closer. to Reference by goboro |
| Thursday Feb 11, 1999 | Expand that acronym! to Reference by nyarl |
| Monday Jan 25, 1999 | Strunk's Elements of Style are always fashionable. to Reference by petey |
| Friday Jan 22, 1999 | The
Multimedia Medical Reference Library can help
when
something goes wrong with you. to Reference by goboro |
| Thursday Jan 21, 1999 | Revolutionary book in the '60s, quaint web page in
the '90s: Steal
This Book online. to Reference by tregoweth |
| Find the
nutritional content of
most anything. to Reference by goboro |
| Friday Jan 15, 1999 | United States legal information for the layman. (huge and ugly but comprehensive) to Reference by urog |
| Wednesday Jan 6, 1999 | Making your heart explode
as
cheaply as possible. to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 16, 1998 | If you're one of those people who've mastered setting up and running a computer, getting connected to a network, and being able to search the web but haven't yet figured out how to poop, at last there is help for you. to Reference by nyarl |
| Friday Dec 11, 1998 | The waves of degeneration and rampant insanity that pass through American culture are
perhaps best demonstrated in the names we inflict on our children. The
Social Security Administration has thoughtfully provided
us with a list of
the top ten male and female names in the United States since 1880, as well as other useless
but potentially humor-worthy information, such as informing idiotic family members that
"Taylor" isn't quite as original as they thought it was, or that when little Michael gets to
kindergarten, all his friends will have the same name, and the teacher will have to tattoo numbers
on their foreheads to tell them apart. to Reference by jacquez |
| Tuesday Oct 27, 1998 | The
National Center for Health Statistics tells US
citizens just how bad that pizza and highball
breakfast combo at McDonald's is for their health. to Reference by jacquez |
| Monday Oct 26, 1998 | A compendium that proves another universal: it
doesn't matter what contry you're from if you
get
sick in an airplane. to Reference by goboro |
| Wednesday Oct 21, 1998 | United States Patent & Trademark Office now has a free, searchable online database of registered and pending trademarks. Find out what your corporate archnemesis is up to and beat them to the punch! to Reference by nyarl |
| Friday Sep 25, 1998 | If you're having trouble with your teeth, perhaps you
might wish to
ask the dentist. to Reference by goboro |
| Thursday Sep 24, 1998 | OneLook, the metacrawler of online dictionaries (358 at current count). to Reference by akk |
| VISA's ATM locator is somewhat
useful now, and will be remarkably useful when wireless pilot web browsing technology sucks much less. to Reference by akk |
| Wednesday Sep 23, 1998 | Decimate fallacious arguments with Steven's Guide to Logical Fallacies.
to Reference by joshua |
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