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| Tuesday Dec 2, 2003 | CalorieLab is a search engine for the calorie content of various foods.
to Food by joshua |
| Tuesday Oct 7, 2003 | Batten down the hatches and swab your poop-deck: Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates lets you play many massively multiplayer puzzles and role-play a pirate at the same time.
to Games by joshua |
| Sunday Sep 21, 2003 | Watch Atomic Age Dog's
Cows Are Evil and never
quite the same about that cool, refreshing glass of milk again.
to Art by joshua |
| Friday Aug 29, 2003 | Kinchan and Katori Shingo's
Zen Nihon Kasou Taisho is an amazing talent show and the source of many amusing videos (including "Matrix Pong" and "Magic Shadow").
to Television by joshua |
| Thursday Aug 14, 2003 | The Speech Accent Archive has 264 speech samples of accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph.
to Linguistics by joshua |
| Thursday Jul 24, 2003 | Stoke your gaming nostalgia with 8-bit videogame fonts.
to Typography by joshua |
| Saturday Jun 7, 2003 | Manhole covers may not be exciting but they are
often artistic both artistic inspiration and sometimes, art themselves.
See covers from Manhattan, the
United States,
Russia,
Hungary,
London,
Norway,
Japan, and
France.
to Art by joshua |
| Sunday Jun 1, 2003 | Arthur Ganson makes fascinatingly
delicate and elegant mechanical sculptures and machines.
Some will take thousands of years to complete their tasks and some are astoundingly ephemeral.
You can see his work at the MIT Museum and see his creations in action.
to Art by joshua |
| Sunday May 18, 2003 | While the Open Source daily software update site
Freshmeat attracts the mechanical sarcasm of
RottenFlesh,
it takes a human touch to parody the Mac OS-oriented VersionTracker: over at PerversionTracker only the worst software is reviewed. (And for more interesting fare, the review archives at What Do I Know are excellent.)
to Computers by joshua |
| Tuesday Apr 1, 2003 | Sure, your diet is tough, but at least it's more palatable
than Weight Watchers
circa 1974.
to Food by joshua |
| Monday Mar 24, 2003 | Whether you actually understood
A New Kind Of Science
or were just pretending,
Tim Tyler's
interated algorithmic systems including
cellular automata,
artificial life,
and evolved creatures
provide fascinating applet-based simulations.
to Science by joshua |
| Friday Mar 21, 2003 |
Manhattan Timeformations: Mapping Manhattan's skyscraper districts
through time.
to Flash by joshua |
| Thursday Dec 26, 2002 | Hugh MacLeod draws cartoons drawn on the back of business cards.
"With life in New York being what it is, with each person being hit
with a million strange, random moments a day, there's a lot to be said
for being able to fit your entire studio inside your coat pocket."
to Art by joshua |
| Wednesday Nov 27, 2002 | What is the
meaning of the
mysterious
giant letters on the sides of mountains
and hills?
to Art by joshua |
| Tuesday Nov 26, 2002 | Show Me Your Wound is a
twisted little commmunity dedicated to sharing and discussing
stories and images of
scrapes,
cuts,
burns
and
worse.
to Art by joshua |
| Monday Nov 25, 2002 | Guilloche patterns are the intricate sinusoidal forms created by a Rose Machine and are found in ornamental metal such as watches and are frequently used as anti-counterfeiting security devices in money and other financial paperwork .
to Art by joshua |
| Saturday Nov 16, 2002 | Those having trouble keeping track may wish to consult
A Photographic History of Michael Jackson's Face.
to Music by joshua |
| Tuesday Nov 12, 2002 | Although
"lorem ipsum" is the typesetting industry's standard dummy text, other typolalia such as
etaoin shrdlu (i
the two leftmost rows
on a Linotype typsetting machine's
keyboard) and pangrams show up now and again, as well.
to Literature by joshua |
| Thursday Oct 31, 2002 | Steve Quayle is convinced that the gentle giants of our childhood myths
are a conspiracy and instead are something far more sinister.
to Wackos by joshua |
| Tuesday Oct 29, 2002 | Scientists are pretty sure men cannot
actually lactate, but that doesn't stop some
from trying.
to Art by joshua |
| Tuesday Oct 22, 2002 | Recapture that oppressive bureaucracy chic with the ElectriClerk, a nightmarish combination of a classic Macintosh, an Underwood Typewriter, and a fresnel lens.
to Computers by joshua |
| Friday Oct 11, 2002 | Despite being quintessentially useless, home robots such as the Evolution
ER1, the Probotics
Cye, and Sony's
Aibo are beginning to gain popularity,
and the next iteration of personal robots such as the vacuuming
Roomba and the
Solar Mower may actually prove to be useful.
As robots coopt humanity's upright
mode of transportation they may even become downright ubiquitous.
Consider, however, the increasingly creepy implications of current robotics research - from the emotional
Kismet, to the humanoid
Asimo, robots are becoming both
visually accute and dextrous,
capable of recharging themselves,
feeding themselves as well as
hunting and devouring prey, and finally
reproducing themselves.
Indeed, with
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles rapidly becoming
Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles and
beyond, there may be
no place for humans at all in the
impending robotic holocaust.
to Robotics by joshua |
| Thursday Oct 10, 2002 | "Driven by a dream I had at the age of twenty-three during my junior year at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, I began to draw pigs with wings. I drew pigs with wings over and over until, during my senior year, I realized it might be possible to actually create a real winged pig by employing tattoos."
to Art by joshua |
| Thursday Oct 3, 2002 | Typophile's Smaller Picture is an attempt to collectively design a typeface.
to Art by joshua |
| Friday Sep 13, 2002 | Tensegrity structures, typified by Kenneth Snelson's
Needle Tower,
are structures whose elements rely on tension and compression without torque. Typically,
this means that the rigid elements do not touch each other.
You can construct a small tensegrity sphere out of soda straws and rubber bands, or a large one with quite a bit of patience as well.
to Mathematics by joshua |
| Friday Sep 6, 2002 | 2300 years after Euclid penned Elements, a thorough treatise on geometry, Oliver Byrne published his version, in which the striking use of color creates beautiful visual explanations of Euclid's work. A more modern advance represents each proof through the use of interactive java.
to Mathematics by joshua |
| Wednesday Sep 4, 2002 | Plucky American upstart NucOS
aims to dethrone entrenched British stalwart HarrixOS using the secret weapon of code!
to Computing by joshua |
| Friday Aug 30, 2002 | Clifford Pickover,
staff researcher at
IBM, fractal connoisseur,
and author of dozens of
popular science books
examining the future of thought has published
a new series of science
fiction novels
that explore the boundaries of reality.
to Books by joshua |
| Thursday Aug 22, 2002 | Help Sammy Sperm reach Planet Prostate.
to Flash by joshua |
| Tuesday Aug 20, 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 | Apocalyptic predictions are frequently made but soon forgotten after they fail to come true.
to Wackos by joshua |
| Friday Aug 9, 2002 | Overweening computer advocacy meets an amazing incapacity for humor in the remarkably unfunny #!/usr/bin/perl, the sitcom.
to Wackos by joshua |
| Wednesday Aug 7, 2002 | Don't forward
that incredibly important email without doing a little
fact checking first.
to Overpropagation by joshua |
| Tuesday Jul 30, 2002 | Epicurean time travelers should beware ancient times because apparently Ho-hos and Deviled Eggs were only recently invented.
to Food by joshua |
| Sure, you could use silly chalk signals to find a wireless network but it'd be much cooler to use them to
evade mind control hot spots,
locate an acceptable pub,
avoid informants,
solicit a prostitiute, or even
buy some chalk.
to Overpropagation by joshua |
| Wednesday Jul 17, 2002 | Coagula is an image synthesizer -- create and manipulate images and then turn them into sound by the inverse of the spectrogram function.
to Music by joshua |
| Saturday Jul 13, 2002 | On November 16, 1974, a self-decoding message was sent
from Arecibo Observatory towards the M13 globular cluster. On August 21, 2001, their response arrived. to Art by joshua |
| Friday Jul 12, 2002 | Bizarre mistranslation or just remarkably Dada? Strangely compelling, either way.
to Comics by joshua |
| Tuesday Jul 2, 2002 | Neither Linux on
a wristwatch
nor a wristwatch camera have quite the panache of the Seiko TV Watch ( circa 1982.)
to Television by joshua |
| Wednesday Jun 12, 2002 | You're not really in the Midwest until you're greeted by one of those huge beings: a Muffler Man.
to Travel by joshua |
| Wednesday Jun 5, 2002 | Real-life Miltons of the world have expressed such demand for red Swingline staplers that a
second-hand market in painted units boomed on eBay
until
Swingline introduced their own.
to Art by joshua |
| Thursday May 30, 2002 | Trade your massively multiplayer sublimation of the sexual urge for massively multiplayer overt sexuality.
to Sex by joshua |
| Thursday May 23, 2002 | No program conveys more geek cred than the screen saver.
to Art by joshua |
| Wednesday May 8, 2002 | In at least
one universe parallel to ours,
the future of online social interaction is not IRC and
AIM but instead
Virtual Reality Nightclubs.
And afterwards you can take your virtual vixen back to your virtual
hotel room, but pray that she's not
a furni whore.
to Net by joshua |
| Thursday Apr 18, 2002 | A Segway is not nearly as awe-inspiring as Spring Walker, as scarily unstable as Swing Bike, as buoyant as a WaterCycle or as terrifying as any of hundreds of other unusual and bizarre human-powered vehicles.
to Transportation by joshua |
| Tuesday Apr 9, 2002 | That car commercial had really catchy music! I wonder who recorded it.
to Music by joshua |
| Friday Apr 5, 2002 | The Museum of Online Museums is an intriguing collection of ... intriguing collections.
to Art by joshua |
| Chisenbop is a method of doing basic arithmetic using your fingers.
to Mathematics by joshua |
| Thursday Mar 7, 2002 | Cover up the blinkenlights on your modem... and your CRT, too.
to Computers by joshua |
| Friday Dec 21, 2001 | Does caffeine cause obsessive-compulsiveness?
to Coffee by joshua |
| Monday Dec 17, 2001 | Prosopagnosia is the medical term for "face blindness" -- a condition which causes an inability to recognize others by their faces. Sufferers can still see faces but don't have any special facility for identification, nor can they remember faces. Some are born with it, some discover it in themselves, and some develop it.
to Science by joshua |
| Wednesday Dec 5, 2001 | The future potential of
Dean Kamen's
Segway
is frequently compared to
Preston Tucker's
Torpedo.
However, perhaps a more apt comparison is to
Clive Sinclair's
C5...
or Buckminster Fuller's
Dymaxion Car...
or Paul Moller's Skycar...
or Wendell Moore's
Rocket Belt...
or Glen Curtiss's
Autoplane...
or Waldo Waterman's
Arrowbile...
or Robert Fulton's
Airphibian...
or Moulton Taylor's
Aerocar...
to Transportation by joshua |
| Tuesday Nov 27, 2001 | OneAcross is a computational crossword puzzle solver based upon Proverb, The Probabilistic Cruciverbalist. So armed, go forth and tackle the New York Times Crossword Puzzle.
to Linguistics by joshua |
| Tuesday Nov 13, 2001 | Not content with just music, pirates move on to swapping album cover art.
to Music by joshua |
| Friday Nov 9, 2001 | You can take the yinzer out of Pittsburgh, but you can't take the Pittsburgh out of yinz.
to Linguistics by joshua |
| 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 Nov 7, 2001 | My favorite condiment is definitely
ketchup.
Or maybe mayonnaise.
Oh, they're all good.
to Food by joshua |
| Wednesday Oct 24, 2001 | Sweetcode reports innovative free software and intriguing new ideas instead of the same old crap reimplemented for the latest platform.
to Computers by joshua |
| Tuesday Oct 2, 2001 | Comic Book Guy
also has a video game rental store.
.
to Culture by joshua |
| Thursday Sep 27, 2001 | Both the Lexical Freenet and WordNet allow you to dynamically explore the relationships and pathways between words. to Linguistics by joshua |
| Every hobby has its dark side. to Art by joshua |
| DeskSwap is a screensaver that swaps images of the user's desktop with others, exchanging candid glimpses of familiar-looking but ultimately unfamiliar workspaces. to Computing by joshua |
| Wednesday Sep 26, 2001 | Find out everything about your prescriptions with RXlist, a comprehensive pharmaceutical encyclopedia.
to Health by joshua |
| Monday Sep 17, 2001 | Real Time Battle and Robot Battle are just two of many games in which the object is not to do battle with the competition directly but instead write little programs that fight each other on a virtual battlefield.
Core Wars, one of the oldest of these games, has spawned an entire subgenre in which fighters are evolved
genetically instead of being written by hand -- programs writing programs for fighting programs inside programs.
to Computing by joshua |
| Friday Sep 7, 2001 | Not sure what ingredients can be substituted for others? Consult The Food Thesaurus.
to Food by joshua |
| Tuesday Aug 7, 2001 | While the Internet Movie Database is a great
reference, the plot summaries leave a bit to be desired. Sometimes I'm
just too busy
to sit through some movie and
discover
the inane ending
and exactly what happens so I can
spoil the movie for all my friends
or nitpick endlessly.
to Art by joshua |
| Friday Jul 27, 2001 | Marvel at Xiao Xiao's latest episode of stick figure death combat - and this time, you've got the gun.
to Flash by joshua |
| Amongst the sundials at Sundial Park in Genk an intriguing digital sundial stands. The Digital Sundial has no moving parts or electronics, but still displays the time in clear arabic numerals.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Thursday Jul 19, 2001 | Perhaps Jarrod lost all that weight when Subway ditched the classic cut.
to Food by joshua |
| Tuesday Jul 17, 2001 | You Damn Kid painfully examines all those childhood memories you were hoping to forget.
to Comics by joshua |
| Tuesday Jul 10, 2001 | Lonely people make web pages about their cats. Lonely, freaky people make web pages about their sex toys.
to Sex by joshua |
| Wednesday Jun 27, 2001 | Some have turned childhood cartoons, such as
The Transformers, into an all-consuming
obsession.
And some go far, far beyond.
to Transportation by joshua |
| Wednesday Jun 20, 2001 | Warning: Failure to turn off your webcam before having sex may inadvertently catapult you into the seedy world of amateur pornography.
to Sex by joshua |
| Friday Jun 8, 2001 | Super Mario Bros Snazzy Jazz remix (by the Arabian Rap Sensations.)
to Flash by joshua |
| Monday Jun 4, 2001 | Most people watch television for the shows. I watch television for the advertising.
Unlike the grueling half-hour shows, a good ad can tell a story in as little as thirty seconds.
Modern ads,
80's ads,
70's ads
saturday morning cereal commercials from the '60s and '70s,
soundtracks,
political ads,
Superbowl ads,
jingles,
soft drink,
British ads,
French ads,
foreign ads,
American actors in Japanese ads,
public service ads,
the best ads ever,
even that stupid Taco Bell chihuahua, I love them all!
to Media by joshua |
| The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form, including an archive of the entire Web, Usenet, 2000 Presidential Election, and historical Arpanet documentation. One of the more fun collections is the movie archive which contains hundreds of movies from 1903 to the late 1970s which focus mainly on everyday life, culture, industry, and institutions in North America in the 20th century.
to Media by joshua |
| Thursday May 31, 2001 | The World Puzzle Federation
is hosting the 10th World Puzzle
Championship
in Brno.
There's going to be a qualifying
test
used to select members of the US and Canadian teams.
One of the previous Dutch team members has a page
with lots of puzzles of the sort seen on the test.
to Games by joshua |
| Wednesday May 30, 2001 | While we haven't yet achieved
nanotechnology, several groups are building coin-sized autonomous walking and wheeled robots.
to Robotics by joshua |
| Tuesday May 22, 2001 | Vector Park offers a dream to explore and a game in which balance is key.
to Flash by joshua |
| Wednesday May 9, 2001 | Those who seek to keep their heads in the clouds would do well to remember
that which goes up must come down.
to Wackos by joshua |
| Monday May 7, 2001 | Stanford's Matchbook PC created the competition for tiniest webserver, and the matchhead-sized iPic may have won for a time, but Jim Rees' Webcard is a webserver running entirely on a smartcard.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Thursday May 3, 2001 | Dizzy City has 3D panoramic images for every intersection in Manhattan.
to Travel by joshua |
| Tuesday May 1, 2001 | Inhabit the virtual five-star Habbo Hotel, where your avatar can dance or drink the night away in one of the many virtual clubs or or bars.
to Shockwave by joshua |
| Monday Apr 23, 2001 | Through hard work and dedication, the employees of the
Miami Valley Rail Authority
hope to run the best darn public transport system in the continental United States.
to Transportation by joshua |
| Thursday Apr 19, 2001 | Xiao Xiao brings
Stick Figure Death Theater to the next level.
(Mirrors:
1
2
3)
to Flash by joshua |
| Wednesday Apr 18, 2001 | Daughter of a brilliant, peace-loving scientist, Chi Chian braves giant insects, worm trains, and the Patahn Pahr to save Manhattan of the 31st century.
to Flash by joshua |
| Tuesday Mar 27, 2001 | Frequently mistaken for an urban legend, the dreaded Brazilian candiru fish is known to parasitize humans by lodging themselves in the urethra.
to Zoology by joshua |
| Monday Mar 26, 2001 | Afraid to eat beef but hate tofu?
Enjoy some human meat product!
to Food by joshua |
| Friday Mar 23, 2001 | If you can't dance like Paul, then perhaps you can learn.
to Style by joshua |
| Thursday Mar 22, 2001 | As a child, not only did I use matches to start fires, but I also made them into
match rockets.
Sadly, all the wooden matches perished in the unfortunate "flaming toilet" incident, or I would have made wooden match rockets.
to Toys by joshua |
| Wednesday Mar 21, 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 |
| Friday Mar 16, 2001 | Please check the FAQ before having sex with a
sow,
boar,
goose,
hawk,
miniature stallion, or a
dolphin.
to Sex by joshua |
| Thursday Mar 15, 2001 | Playing "Charades" online using a chatroom and a shared whiteboard can be horribly addictive, even if it requires Shockwave and maybe some sort of drawing tablet.
to Games by joshua |
| Monday Mar 12, 2001 | Transformed from a mere repository of dreadful poetry, Bad Haiku has become a slowly boiling combination of part flamewar, part poop humor, and (almost) all in traditional haiku form.
to Poetry by joshua |
| Corporate marketing sees highly viral ideas and tries to invent a few of their own, while some folks would like to protect them from being hijacked.
to Memetics by joshua |
| Friday Mar 9, 2001 | The Payphone Project is attempting to index and photograph
pay telephones throughout the United States.
to Communication by joshua |
| Earthquake as artist: a sand-tracing pendulum captures the recent quake in Seattle.
to Art by joshua |
| Wednesday Mar 7, 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 |
| Monday Mar 5, 2001 | When I am King is a reproduction
of strange ancient hieroglyphics in which a king wakes up from a dream
which will change his life forever, if only he can find it in the waking world.
to Comics by joshua |
| Tuesday Feb 27, 2001 | Convert your archaic record player into a video display system with Vinyl Video.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Managers: If your spiffy new mission statement didn't energize morale, perhaps a corporate anthem will.
to Business by joshua |
| Monday Feb 26, 2001 | IBM's half-keyboard prototype is now
available for the Palm and as a patch for Linux.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Friday Feb 16, 2001 | ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US: The Rock Video (Shockwave required.)
to Culture by joshua |
| Thursday Feb 15, 2001 | Express your Valentine's desire in eight letters on a Candy Heart or
borrow someone else's.
to Art by joshua |
| Wednesday Feb 14, 2001 | Jordan Ritter, author of the
Napster backend, explains why Gnutella doesn't scale.
to Internet by joshua |
| Wednesday Feb 7, 2001 | While many artificial visual languages are of only limited use, several real-world languages have become profoundly useful. SignWriting is an iconic printed language designed to represent signed languages, while Dance Writing allows the transcription of choreography. Blissymbolics, originally designed for "international communication" has found a niche with autistic children.
to Linguistics by joshua |
| Mark Tilden builds tiny robots which follow the BEAM philosophy - Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, and Mechanics.
Despite being built with scavanged parts and run by only a few transistors and a solar cell, the robots
engage in sometimes startlingly insect-like behavior.
The BEAM philosophy has inspired many hobbyists to create their own mechanical progeny and assemble-it-yourself kits.
to Robotics by joshua |
| Tuesday Feb 6, 2001 | I used to think the Internet was populated by the intellectual elite of the world. I was wrong. to Culture by joshua |
| Friday Jan 26, 2001 | Even if your scooter isn't rechargable, you can still get around town in extreme style.
to Transportation by joshua |
| Tuesday Jan 23, 2001 | Dotcommunists, having purchased all the
obvious gadgets, are now acquiring GPS units
despite not needing to find the
coordinates of their desk more than once
or twice a month. Take that GPS unit outside
and try to find some
geocaches or
perhaps score some photographs of an integer lattitude/longitude intersection.
Geeks of the world, stand up -
you have nothing to lose but your flab.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Thursday Jan 4, 2001 | Dr. Math answers any math question, from Elementary School
to College level, with cogent and concise explanations.
to Mathematics by joshua |
| Wednesday Dec 27, 2000 | It is difficult to place recent shooting sprees in their proper context without an objective ranking scale such as the Scoring System for Psycho Killer Shooting Sprees.
to News by joshua |
| Tuesday Dec 5, 2000 | Some guy hates mayonnaise so much that he started the
"Worldwide I Hate Mayonnaise Club." Some
other guy hates it so much that he decided to sue the first guy for rights to the domain name.
to Food by joshua |
| Wednesday Nov 29, 2000 | Elout de Kok's Java-based interactive art will keep you fascinated for hours. My favorites are Louise, Bezup and ZabZero.
to Art by joshua |
| Tuesday Nov 28, 2000 | A sonogram is an image created from a sound. Peter Meijer's JavOICe is a Java applet that does the opposite. to Linguistics by joshua |
| Tuesday Nov 21, 2000 | Chopping Block: because serial killers are people too. to Comics by joshua |
| Thursday Nov 16, 2000 | FindSame is a search engine that searches by content instead of keywords. Enter a URL or upload a document and FindSame returns a list of Web pages that contain any fragment of that document longer than about one line of text. This is remarkably handy for finding plagarized content. to Web by joshua |
| Tuesday Nov 14, 2000 | Thanks to everyone that took part in the first Memepool contest. Our winners included pictures of
a homeless guy,
a palm pilot,
a palm,
an eight bit video game,
an lsd trip,
quake,
dinner,
more dinner,
a bird,
the bird,
a tattoo,
way too much free time,
modern sculpture,
old rhetoric,
knuckles,
chests,
and let's not forget
breasts,
breasts,
breasts,
breasts, and
breasts.
to Memepool-Contest by joshua |
| Monday Nov 13, 2000 | We're giving away twenty Memepool teeshirts to the most creative and interesting pictures to appear on Am I Hot or Not? featuring the word "memepool". Entries must be posted by Nov. 12 and will be judged on Nov. 13. Send a note to contest@memepool.com after you've embarassed yourself publically. And remember -- if you can't be creative or interesting, you can be cute and naked.
to Memepool-Contest by joshua |
| Friday Nov 10, 2000 | She's an ex-porn star. He's a robot. They're dating. to Comics by joshua |
| Thursday Nov 9, 2000 | Karl Sims' groundbreaking 1994 Evolving Virtual Creatures featured a fascinating movie of the behavior of evolved artificial creatures in simulated physical environments - and took unbelievable amounts of computational power to create.
Modern day systems such as Framsticks and Ventrella's
Gene Pool and Darwin allow you to evolve your own artificial creatures on your desktop computer. to Art by joshua |
| Friday Nov 3, 2000 | If women's sneakers make you feel all funny inside but you aren't exactly sure what to do with them, be sure to consult the Keds Masturbation Manual. to Sex by joshua |
| Tuesday Oct 31, 2000 | If you live in NYC and are interested in meeting some of the Memepool crowd,
we will be gathering for dinner on Tuesday, October 31st at Menchanko-Tei Restaurant 131 E 45th St (between 3rd and Lexington) at 8pm.
Please drop a note to dinner-nyc@memepool.com if you will be coming.
Bonus points for wearing a promo t-shirt from a bankrupted dot-com!
to Memepool-News by joshua |
| Wednesday Oct 25, 2000 | Rabid Macintosh fans, unable to to wait for Apple to release their next design innovation, have begun to design their own next generation of curvy and translucent computers. Of course, pornographers and professional industrial designers are equally unable to resist the temptation of form over function, or at least rehashing an old product with a new plastic shell. to Computing by joshua |
| Sunday Oct 22, 2000 | Proponents of life extension suggest reduced-calorie diets as a means of extending life.
Noone has taken this as dangerously far as the Breatharians.
Breatharians, such as Jasmuheen, believe they can survive almost entirely on "liquid light."
However, even the most practiced Breatharians, such as Wiley Brooks, occasionally sneak into a 7-11 for a chicken pot-pie and a slurpee.
to Wackos by joshua |
| Custom Toilet Paper finds a new use as dotcom stock options. to Commerce by joshua |
| Saturday Oct 14, 2000 | What do you get if you mix American Pie and the Phantom Menace? American Jedi. to Movies by joshua |
| Thursday Sep 28, 2000 | Watch "Spin," a one-hour documentary by Brian Springer, which details the events of the 1992 election through the satellite backhauls (unpackaged and uncensored news feeds which viewers do not see in the final edition.) to Media by joshua |
| Saturday Sep 23, 2000 | The Brazilian electronic music group Golden Shower's recent video, Video Computer System (mirrored here and here) will remind you of all the great games for the Atari 2600 VCS.
to Music by joshua |
| Friday Sep 22, 2000 | One of the universal laws of the internet is that it is rarely possible to make a parody of a funny site that is as funny as the site itself. to Web by joshua |
| Sorry for the downtime; we had a systems failure (a power supply died.) to Memepool-News by joshua |
| Wednesday Sep 6, 2000 | The Institute for Applied Autonomy's GraffitiWriter is a tele-operated field programable robot which employs a custom built array of spray cans to write linear text messages on the ground at a rate of 15 kilometers per hour.
to Robotics by joshua at Ars Electronica |
| Golan Levin, from the MIT Media Lab's Aesthetics and Computational Group recently demonstrated his
Audio-Visual Environment Suite (AVES) is a set of five interactive systems which allow people to create and perform abstract animation and sound in real time.
Golan's home page also contains java versions of many of his previous pieces, including Meshy, Stripe, and Blebs.
to Art by joshua at Ars Electronica |
| Sunday Sep 3, 2000 | Monotonik is an online mp3 network label that distributes mostly electronica for free. While many of the artists, including Lackluster (with deFocus) and Dharma+Dice (with Moving Shadow Records) got their start in the MOD and demo scene, they now distribute their music in mp3 format.
to Music by joshua at Ars Electronica |
| Tissue Culture & Art is a research and development project into the use of tissue technologies as a medium for artistic expression. The project is currently creating semi-living "Worry Dolls", named after the Worry Dolls of Guatemala.
to Art by joshua at Ars Electronica |
| Sperm Race gives Ars Electronica visitors and presenters the opportunity to submit semen and have the quality of their sperm tested against the other entrants.
to Sex by joshua at Ars Electronica |
| Saturday Sep 2, 2000 | Icon Town is a village of pixels in which each
resident resides in their own 32x32 icon.
to Art by joshua at Ars Electronica |
| Years before Maxis made the Sims, Activision pioneered the simulated human market with Little Computer People. to Games by joshua |
| Memepool will be covering Ars Electronica Festival 2000: Next Sex from September 2nd through September 8th as part of the Electrolobby. If you're in the neighborhood (Linz, Austria) be sure to check it out.
to Memepool-News by joshua at Ars Electronica |
| Thursday Aug 17, 2000 | Mac On Linux allows a PowerPC Linux box to boot a copy of MacOS in a unix process. to Computing by joshua |
| Xlibris, a Random House subsidiary,
does on-demand vanity book publishing.
to Books by joshua |
| Linux weenies keep yapping on and on about running Linux on the mainframe, but it's a much cooler hack to run a mainframe under Linux. to Computing by joshua |
| Tuesday Aug 15, 2000 | Why bother trying to run Linux on your
PalmPilot
or
iPaq when you can get
something designed specifically to run Linux, such as the the monochrome
Agenda
or the color
Yopy.
to Gadgets by joshua |
| Thursday Jul 27, 2000 | Memepool t-shirts are now available in both black and grey, and in a variety of sizes. to Memepool-News by joshua |
| Thursday Jul 20, 2000 | It is frequently difficult to find highly caffeinated beverages, such as Bawls Guarana or Bong Water, in bulk. Happily, companies such as Beverages Direct and Pop Soda will let me order some online. to Food by joshua |
| Monday Jun 26, 2000 | The fine folks over at PunkAssGear have begun selling Memepool teeshirts. Now all we need is a few cute models... Send us pictures of yourself wearing the memepool shirt (or otherwise embossed with the memepool logo) for our gallery.
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| Tuesday Jun 20, 2000 | Ĉon Flux, originally a segment of MTV's creative animation shorts show Liquid Television is now being rebroadcast online, so don't miss the eponymous dominatrix, spy, and foot fetish model's adventures. Be sure to check out the episode guide and FAQ and other resources beforehand.
to Comics by joshua |
| Tom Grant and Andrew Amirault believe that the evidence of Kurt Cobain's death suggests murder.
Some people find their argument persuasive.
to Conspiracy by joshua |
| Thursday Jun 15, 2000 | While the slashdot crowd orders Bulk M&M's and
Bulk Legos, I will be ordering
Bulk Ammo so I can defend my territory. to Commerce by joshua |
| Sunday Jun 11, 2000 | Jeskola's Buzz is a novel realtime music synthesizer that allows for the easy creation of new sound generation and filtration plugins. Not only does it sound great, but there are many free synthesis modules available. BuzzTrack, a news site covers the day-to-day development of Buzz. to Music by joshua |
| Wednesday May 31, 2000 | Panoramic photography used to be dominated by custom cameras such as the Horizont, Widelux, or Noblex. These days, a growing number of enthusiasts show us how to create panoramic pictures both traditionally as well as with a to Photography by joshua |
| Wednesday May 24, 2000 | The Hiller Flying Platform, built in 1955, consists of a really big ducted fan mounted underneath a little tiny cage. to Transportation by joshua |
| "The Metamath Proof Explorer has 60 MBytes of interconnected web pages containing over 3000 completely worked out proofs in logic and set theory." Then again, how often does one need the axiom of choice?
to Science by joshua |
| Most, but not all, digital cameras contain a filter internally that prevents near-infrared light from striking the CCD element. For those that do not, with the aid of an infrared filter, you can capture some eerie pictures. For a more in-depth look at the technology behind infrared photography with both digital and chemical cameras, there are numerous resources. Infrared photography is only one kind of photography involving spectral selection; another kind is ultraviolet photography, which lets you see the world from butterfly's eyes.
to Photography by joshua |
| Friday May 19, 2000 | Tired of wearing silly glasses to get a headachy 3-D effect? Don't worry, Deep Video Imaging layers a number of LCD displays to provide depth of field. They aren't cheap ($10,000 or so) but they'll be available soon.
to Computing by joshua |