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| Tuesday Oct 10, 2006 | Democrats looking to align their politics with their investment dollars can not only vote Blue, they can now invest Blue with the first 'no Republicans' socially-responsible mutual fund, named appropriately The Blue Fund. to Finance by pjammer |
| Friday Oct 6, 2006 | With the rising price of gasoline, road-trips can be expensive without carpools. Ridester offers matchmaking services for drivers and those willing to pay for gas between major cities. to Web by pjammer |
| Tuesday Aug 29, 2006 | With two films about turn-of-the-century stage magicians released in the space of as many months (The Illusionist and The Prestige) tickets to magic shows are enjoying a resurgence in popularity. Cheap slackers too lazy to go find our own show (or those of you who can't get an invitation to The Magic Castle), rejoice! Thanks to YouTube, you can enjoy some jaw-dropping illusions from the comfort of your own home with Paper Butterfly, Burger Thief or watch Penn & Teller expose a classic illusion on national television. to Art by pjammer |
| Wednesday May 24, 2006 | Surviving the gauntlet of MCATs and medical school applications does little to prepare you for the daunting task of choosing your M.D. specialty. Undecided students can now refer to this handy guide to determine which medical profession best fits their personality. to Humor by pjammer |
| Monday May 8, 2006 | Admit it, like most movie/game/music geeks, even your favorite game, DVD or CD was likely gathering dust a few weeks after you bought them. Sure, you could sell them for less than half what you paid ... but now you can now trade them for fresh content with other movie/game/music fans using LendMonkey, at a dollar a pop. to Commerce by pjammer |
| Thursday Jan 5, 2006 | The popularity of 50 Cent has given rise to spin-offs that range from Jewish Hip-Hop to 80s Pop mixups. to Music by pjammer |
| Monday Oct 3, 2005 | The Passion: Reloaded. "Jesus Christ!" "Exactly." Not to be confused with Kill Christ. to Religion by pjammer |
| Thursday Sep 1, 2005 | Amid one of the worst natural disasters in recent memory, an ex-Green Beret is blogging live updates from a fortified position in the DirectNIC data center. to News by pjammer |
| Tuesday Jun 7, 2005 | Interpretive Arson presents Dance Dance Immolation ... an adaptation of Dance Dance Revolution, but with fire! When you do well, the computer shoots big propane blasts up into the air ... when you do
poorly, it shoots you in the face with flamethrowers. to Wackos by pjammer |
| Monday May 9, 2005 | Ihr Papieren, bitte! This Tuesday, the U.S. Senate will vote on the creation of Real ID (cleverly appended to a politically popular appropriations bill) that will effectively create a national ID card. Concerned? Get in touch with your senators and let them know what you think. to Politics by pjammer |
| Thursday Apr 28, 2005 | Bevan Barton's accomplishments and intention to ride 16,000 miles across the planet in a fundraising campaign against AIDS would be impressive at any age; all the more astonishing is the fact that he is still in high school and intends to begin his adventure at age 18. to Sports by pjammer |
| Friday Mar 25, 2005 | Jim Meskimen, the voice of George Bush and John Kerry in the 'fowarded-by-everyone-and-their-mothers' flash movie This Land, has an extensive background in voiceovers, theater and film. His website, Applied Silliness features hysterical audio skits and weekly caption contest cartoon blog. to Humor by pjammer |
| Tuesday Mar 15, 2005 | Son of a steelworker and cleaning lady, Keith Ferrazzi was born into a blue-collar world of long hours and low wages. How he ended up being the youngest elected partner at Deloitte Consulting and personal friends with some of the most powerful business and political players in the nation was the subject of an Inc. Magazine article, The 10 Secrets of a Master Networker. To most people, "networking" is a dirty word - summoning images of grubby 'here's-my-card' hustlers who can't remember your name, or recently-downsized professionals desperately pinging friends for job leads. By way of contrast, Ferrazzi's new book Never Eat Alone shares the principles behind building powerful personal and professional relationships; Ferrazzi's blog provides book excerpts and weekly networking tips. to Books by pjammer |
| Friday Mar 4, 2005 | I'm a robot, programmed not to know ... that I'm a robot but some bonehead emailed me the computer code that makes up my soul ... now I'm running around trying to forget what I know. - Pete Miser to Music by pjammer |
| Wednesday Jan 5, 2005 | "... over the years I started noticing a really strange trend. Many of the photos follow the same form: a picture of a person in the foreground, and on the background, a GIANT HEAD. Now, that's a clever picture once or twice, but it was happening so often that it really caught my attention. Was it always the same photographer? No, it turns out, it's not. So my best guess at this point is that one of the photo editors just has a GIANT HEAD fetish of some kind." to Humor by pjammer |
| Tuesday Dec 7, 2004 | American voters dissapointed by the election results of 2004 won't need to wait until 2008 to make their voices heard; while you can only cast your ballot blue every four years, you can vote with your wallet and Buy Blue every day. to Politics by pjammer |
| Thursday Nov 25, 2004 | The commercial and critical success of BMW Films spawned a raft of imitation projects from their competitors, most notable of which is Mercedes-Benz who hired Michael Mann and Benicio Del Toro to film a 'trailer' for the nonexistent film 'Lucky Star' (for inexplicable reasons, the movie files and web presence of Lucky Star have been removed since early 2003, but copies can still be found via google) Encouraged by the enthusiastic response and buzz from the online community, Mercedes continued to bankroll indie-film projects and recently released the haunting and whimsical short film The Porter, starring British actor Max Beesley and Hungarian beauty Anna Maria Cseh. to Movies by pjammer |
| Tuesday Aug 3, 2004 | Jewish Hip-Hop was just the beginning ... rapper Raj offers music from da Pakistani 'hood as The Punjabi Rapper. to Music by pjammer |
| Sunday Jul 11, 2004 | Ever Wonder what would happen if the two American Presidential candidates duel it out singing to the tune of Woody Guthrie's classic 'This Land' (*.ram file) in a Flash movie? Neither did I. to Flash by pjammer |
| Saturday Jun 12, 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 |
| Monday May 31, 2004 | Those wary of the nearly-three hour runtime of Troy can still enjoy a recap of its highlights: Troy in 15 Minutes.
to Movies by pjammer |
| 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 |
| Thursday Feb 12, 2004 | Unlike the overwrought Spielberg/Kubrik robot-themed opus, indie filmmaker Greg Pak's delightfully clever Robot Stories weaves sentimentality without shmaltz, offering compelling drama of birth, love, loss and death through four vignettes. to Movies by pjammer |
| Saturday Aug 16, 2003 | Jewish Hip Hop artist 50 Shekel may not have the audience of 50 Cent but ... wait. JEWISH HIP-HOP!? to Music by pjammer |
| Sunday May 18, 2003 | One of the most fascinating and unique pieces of horticultural and printing history are framed seed packets, which were printed nearly a century ago by manual-labor-intensive 1910-era methods that would boggle the imagination of those of us familiar with the modern-day 4-color printing process.
to Art by pjammer |
| Sunday Sep 1, 2002 | Care to buy your own piece of the most bribe-friendly state governor in the Union? Whether you're interested in stopping pesky HMO-reform consumer advocates or big raises at government-enforced monopolies, no bill is considered "too liberal" or "too conservative" for winning bidders. Step right up to eGray and bid on your favorite piece of legislation today! to Humor by pjammer |
| Thursday Aug 29, 2002 | In a transparent attempt to ape the success of its teutonic competitor and their wildly popular BMW Films, Mercedes-Benz hired Michael Mann (director of Heat) to direct the charismatic Benicio Del Toro as the luckiest man alive in Lucky Star. Lucky Star is presented as a movie trailer (though there is no actual movie to speak of) and was first shown in theaters in London along with conventional trailers.
to Movies by pjammer |
| Tuesday Dec 11, 2001 | Robert Greene (author of
The 48 Laws of Power) chronicles the exploits of great seducers as case studies to illustrate timeless principles of human psychology in The
Art of Seduction. A skeptical female reporter from Nerve.com contacted Greene in a telephone interview to grill him on his approach - and, much to her surprise,
admitted that "Greene charmed my socks off, got me to completely reconsider his approach and advised me regarding flirtation strategies
for a party I was a ttending that night (which worked)."
In addition to a
seductive official website,
Art of Seduction has inspired a online discussion
forum/community on practical applications of seduction principles.
to Books by pjammer |
| Friday Nov 9, 2001 | While the phenomenon (and danger) of Global Warming is generally accepted by the scientific community, there is fierce debate on expensive tactics to dampen its impact. The Ultimax Group proposes the radical and tantalizing idea of employing 390,000 square kilometers of space mirrors, placed in non-Keplerian orbits around
the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point, to intercept enough (~0.25%) sunlight to offset global warming and concomitant rapid climate change.
to Science by pjammer |
| Monday Oct 29, 2001 | In addition to its diameter, many firearm calibers bear suffix names, which typically describe the cartridge's history or original manufacturer. Common examples include the 9mm Parabellum, the .40 S&W (Smith & Wesson), or the .357 SIG (Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft).
The .577 Tyrannosaur, on the other hand, was named for its insanely high muzzle energy, which tips the scales at 13,700 joules (by way of comparison, the standard high-powered military/sniper .308 rifle cartridge delivers approximately 4,000 joules). While most of us may never experience the shoulder-jarring impact of shooting a gun designed to stop a charging rhino, we can all still snicker at four hapless guys trying their hand at firing a .577 Tyrannosaur-chambered Hannibal hunting rifle.
to Warfare by pjammer |
| Sunday Oct 14, 2001 | "Thunder ... thunder ... thunder THUNDERCATS, HO!!!!!" Those of us who grew up in the 80's will remember that refrain from an after-school animated series starring anthropomorphic cats in a never-ending battle against the evil forces of Mumm-ra. Like anything that appeals to larval geeks, the show has spawned a number of high-quality fansites. There's even a Thundercats: The Movie prank, complete with a teaser poster, a phony press release, a fake interview and a fictional article about Thundercats' ahem "original NC-17 content" involving the lovely Cheetara. But nostalgia is nothing compared to the side-splitting experience of hearing the familiar voices of Lion-O, Snarf and Panthro curse like sailors in the Thundercats outtakes archive. to Television by pjammer |
| Friday Sep 21, 2001 | The history and structure of the Chinese and Japanese languages offer a sharp contrast to the Indo-European languages of most of Europe and the Americas, although they can leave some students quite bitter.
to Linguistics by pjammer |
| Tuesday Aug 28, 2001 | CyberSEALs, an online community of U.S. Navy SEAL veterans, offers handy tips on How to spot a Navy SEAL faker and dedicates countless man-hours to maintain an updated Wall of Shame (which lists names, contact information and claims of exposed SEAL poseurs). Indeed, CyberSEALs is so serious about hunting down phony SEALs they maintain a 24-hour online response form so you can check up on that stranger or job applicant who brags about being a "former U.S. Navy SEAL," but blows off questions when pressed about details on his military career because they're classified "in the interest of national security." to Warfare by pjammer |
| Monday Aug 13, 2001 | Shockanime's amazing six-minute production Genryu's Blade, pays tribute to some classic science fiction/anime influences, including The Matrix and Voltron. to Flash by pjammer |
| Monday Apr 30, 2001 | Those of us in the shooting community are often aghast at the misuse and grossly inaccurate portrayal of guns in films. At the top of the cringe-list is the popular sideways-held 'gangsta-style' pistol stance.
Birdman Weapon Systems ("Unfriendly Products for an Unfriendly World") is first to capitalize on this trend - and offer gangsta-wannabes with their very own side-mounted Glock-ready HoMeBoY NyTe-SyTeS. And when doing drive-bys on the fools who diss you and your krew are just not enough, you can take they punk asses out wit tha BMG Nuke 50 MicroNuclear Round. Get yours today!
to Warfare by pjammer |
| Wednesday Apr 25, 2001 | Christian Lesbians. It's not a contradiction. Neither are you. to Sex by pjammer |
| Thursday Apr 5, 2001 | When five Asian-American college students with too much time on their hands feel the need to satirize irrationally popular boy-bands, the results can be surprisingly hilarious. Ladies and gentlemen, please give it up for the smoove sounds of ... N'Chink! to Music by pjammer |
| Wednesday Mar 28, 2001 | As a pet owner, you know how much joy and pleasure can be found in the company of animals. Perhaps your empathy for animal life runs deep enough for you to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. Good for you! So why are you still buying conventional pet food? Sure, many people dismiss the idea of dogs and cats adopting a vegetarian diet as "unnatural." But consider: is it any more "natural" for dogs and cats to eat the ground-up remains of factory-farmed meat deemed "unfit for human consumption," like dying, diseased or downed cattle? Perhaps you might consider healthier, cruelty-free alternatives. Take a look beyond commercial supermarkets and you will discover an entire industry catering to the meatless diets of both dogs and cats.
Unfortunately, most of the web resources used by Veterinarians are fee-based (like VIN), precluding links to articles in the formal literature that outline the impact of imposing a vegetarian diet on carnivorous and omnivorous animals. Cat owners take note: one responsible vegetarian organization has an article urging those thinking about a vegetarian diet for their cat to reconsider.
to Pets by pjammer |
| Saturday Feb 17, 2001 | Gorgeous, sex-crazed she-demons are after me! Is this a big problem or a adolescent fantasy? Apparently, it's both.
to Wackos by pjammer |
| Wednesday Jan 17, 2001 | Admit it, geek. You can recite the following opening credit voice-over by heart: "The year is 1987, and NASA launches the last of America's deep space probes. In a freak mishap Ranger 3 and its pilot, Captain William 'Buck' Rogers are blown out of their trajectory into an orbit which freezes his life support systems and returns Buck Rogers to Earth ... five hundred years later "
First released in 1979, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century's two-year run enjoyed syndicated play throughout the early/mid-eighties and introduced a generation of teenagers to memorable characters like Twiki and Dr. Theopolis, all the while keeping horomone-crazed adolecent boys glued to their television sets in hopes of catching an extended scene featuring the luscious Col. Wilma Deering (played by actress Erin Gray).
to Television by pjammer |
| Wednesday Dec 6, 2000 | Sumo wrestlers +
Sailor Moon = something
freakishly awful. to Wackos by pjammer |
| Friday Nov 24, 2000 | Married Match, a dating service for married people. As if unmarried people need even more competition.
to Sex by pjammer |
| Sunday Nov 19, 2000 | There's no need to hire expensive geophysicists or New-Agey dowsers when THE LORD tells you where to find profitable oil wells! You heathens would never dream of replacing your petroleum engineers with bible scholars, but that's why you don't work at Ness Energy - founded to "distribute God's SUPERNATURAL WEALTH to God's end-time ministries." Strangely, God's supernatural wealth has not translated into supernatural returns for Ness's shareholders - but we here at memepool are pretty sure it's just God's way of testing the faith of the flock. to Wackos by pjammer |
| Wednesday Nov 15, 2000 | Children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of your womb is a reward! Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of your youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. to Wackos by pjammer |
| Monday Nov 13, 2000 | Taking a cue from those intuitive, well-designed Palm Beach ballots, Amazon devised a totally new way for you to find and discover anything you want to buy online. to Politics by pjammer |
| 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 |
| Saturday Oct 28, 2000 | You're 30,000 feet above sea level in the cabin of Flight 2039 somewhere over the Australian outback. The plane is empty and what you know about piloting a 400-ton commercial airplane can fill a thimble. There's four hours of fuel in the tanks and you are dictating your life story to the aircraft's black box: the only thing that will survive the inevitable crash. You are the last member of the Creedish Suicide cult and protagonist in Chuck Palahniuk's novel Survivor. I know this because Tyler knows this. Packed with the savage apocalyptic intensity of Fight Club, Survivor begins at Chapter 47 and marches relentlessly on a countdown toward zero, telling the tale of a suicide cult's sole survivor, his rise toward fame and free-fall decent to destruction. Stop whatever you're doing and buy/borrow/steal a copy. Now. to Books by pjammer |
| Thursday Oct 26, 2000 | Every time I've voted my conscience, I end up regretting it. So this year, I'm going to give my Presidential vote to the candidate with the hottest daughters. to Politics by pjammer |
| SoulBath: the banner ad is the enemy.
to Art by pjammer |
| Tuesday Oct 24, 2000 | Do you waste countless hours at work surfing bandwidth-wasting crap? Don't let your extracurricular computer use cost you a job - Don's Boss Page offers web-cruising slackers useful downloadables like the one-click panic button as well as helpful tips on how to efficiently waste company resources. to Humor by pjammer |
| Sunday Oct 22, 2000 | When the most well-known single rich guys are girlfriend-beating psychos, twice-divorced overweight actors or pathetic self-absorbed hacks, only the most motivated gold-diggers still want to marry a millionaire. Since we now know that money's not everything and technology geeks will rule the future, Who Wants to Marry a SysAdmin? to Wackos by pjammer |
| Sunday Oct 15, 2000 | Most of us have have friends who resemble their pets, but probably not as much as these people.
to Pets by pjammer |
| Monday Oct 9, 2000 | With a forged resume and a modicum of bluffing skills, it's not difficult for an enterprising blowhard to fast-talk one's way into technical jobs he's unqualified for. Nontechnical manager dilemma: how do you efficiently cull competent employees from an applicant pool populated by both genuine gearheads and tech-poseurs? Enter BrainBench, an online technical aplitude testing service. Send applicants to the site and measure how much they really know about ASP, Oracle 8i or Javascript and you'll have a better sense of their skillset before their first day of work.
to Commerce by pjammer |
| 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 |
| Friday Sep 1, 2000 | Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) the international agricultural-products giant, is probably best known to most people by its "Supermarket to the World" ads. More than a multibillion-dollar food producer, ADM was ringleader in a 1995 worldwide price-rigging scheme that resulted in over $70 million of fines. While corporate skullduggery is depressingly common, ADM's case was unusual: a senior ADM executive VP agreed to become a undercover witness, and recorded boardroom deals for the FBI for almost a year before the firm was charged.
The Informant, a facinating chronicle of corporate greed and James-Bond antics of ADM's wire-wearing VP, reads more like a high-wire, double-dealing, dirty-tricks spy story than the nonfiction account it is.
to Books by pjammer |
| Monday Aug 7, 2000 | So. Not interested in paying to watch a wife-beating football pro lie his ass off online? Keep your credit card in your pocket and ask OJ to f*ck off.
to Humor by pjammer |
| Wednesday Jul 26, 2000 | So. Interested in paying $7.95 to a wife-beating football pro lie his ass off online? Get your credit card out and Ask OJ. (Hurry, prices go up to $9.95 on July 27th) to Wackos by pjammer |
| Monday Jul 24, 2000 | Pray to Jesus, make a wish. to Religion by pjammer |
| What is the best way to increase traffic to your site? Search engine placements? Blase. Spam? Sure, if you want to be ping-flooded by angry users. Banner ads? Too expensive. Infect yourself with athlete's foot and chronicle your day-to-day activities online? Of course! to Wackos by pjammer |
| Saturday Jul 22, 2000 | Smokedot.org: News for Stoners. Stuff that ... uhh ... whatever. to Drugs by pjammer |
| Thursday Jul 20, 2000 | Society for Future Husbands of Britney Spears: as ambitious and pathetic as it sounds.
to Sex by pjammer |
| Sunday Jul 16, 2000 | The Kama Sutra of Pooh. There goes another sweet childhood memory corrupted by perverts on the Internet. to Sex by pjammer |
| Tuesday Jun 27, 2000 | What seperates the merely competent from the genius? Malcolm Gladwell's long but fascinating essay profiling world-class performers at the top of their games sheds some light on how the Wayne Gretzkys, Yo-Yo Mas and Tony Gwynns of the world become what they are.
to Commentary by pjammer |
| Friday Jun 23, 2000 | Do you write erotica? Be sure to avoid the lame cliches of alt.sex.stories when writing your masterpiece. to Humor by pjammer |
| Wednesday Jun 21, 2000 | When your dog goes bodyboarding, be sure to dress him in a K-9 Topcoat. to Pets by pjammer |
| Wednesday Jun 14, 2000 | My name is Brad. Please buy my wisdom teeth. to Wackos by pjammer |
| Tuesday Jun 13, 2000 | If you've been online long enough to remember the phrase "September Stupidity," it's likely you've been forwarded the Darwin Awards story of the speed-crazed man who strapped a JATO rocket to his car and met his untimely demise after underestimating the boost and smashing into the face of a canyon. Fact or urban legend? Alas, it's just a yarn - the history of the Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner-inspired meme is chronicled online. to Memetics by pjammer |
| Friday Jun 9, 2000 | Those of us who grew up in the 80s can't help but notice the visual similarity between upcoming movie Titan A.E. and the laserdisk game Space Ace. It's not your imagination - the prolific Don Bluth was the chief artist of Space Ace as well as director/animator of Titan A.E. Well-respected in animation circles, Bluth holds production credits on dozens of high-powered animation projects including An American Tale and Land Before Time. to Movies by pjammer |
| Monday May 29, 2000 | The rudest search engine online is appropriately named SearchBastard. to Internet by pjammer |
| Sunday May 28, 2000 | prawnography.net gives nautical perverts their daily fix of hot, hardcore/amateur images of your favorite marine life doing the wild thing. There's even Gay Prawn for marine fetishers who swing the other way. to Humor by pjammer |
| Sunday May 21, 2000 | When geeks finally log off for some R&R in real life, the game of choice is Chess. But why bother with a boring conventional game when you can tweak the board and play an eccentric variation of the classic?The Chess Variants Page offers a links/rules to known Chess permutations, including The 3-D Chess game from Star Trek, Cooley's Hexaganol Chess and the 104-square Omega Chess. Take THAT, Deep Blue! to Games by pjammer |
| Want a intricate, AD&D-inspired web game to occupy your time between the hours between coffee breaks at work? ArchMage is a turn-based interactive simulation casting players as reincarnated magic-users turned loose on the planet of Terra. With one of the most complex rules book in existence, it's already attracted thousands of hardcore RPG geeks from around the world. to Games by pjammer |
| Tuesday May 9, 2000 | Nobody here at memepool is surprised that the gold-digging opportunists rejected by girlfriend-beating "millionaire" Rick Rockwell don't have the good sense to go the hell away. So Who Wants to Marry the Millionaire Ladies? Hi, I'm a shameless hussy and "alumni" of Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire trolling for a suger daddy. Call me if you're rich, baby. Please, dear God, do not let them breed. to Sex by pjammer |
| Sunday May 7, 2000 | When your belief system compels you to contradict dozens of established scientific facts, there are naturally plenty of things that will annoy you. Things Creationists Hate is a whimsical collection of biological and geological realities that fly in the face of those who insist the earth is 6000 years old. to Memetics by pjammer |
| Wednesday May 3, 2000 | Today's online time-waster comes from the good folks at PimpWar. New to the world of wide-brimmed hats, gold chains and fur-lined lowriders? The Pimp's Bible tells you everything a neophyte pimp needs to know about manage his hoes, trading crack, ordering hits on rival pimps and forming alliances with other online playaz. to Games by pjammer |
| Tuesday May 2, 2000 | If the V-Chip were applied to the Bible, would Fundementalist Christians be so enthusiastic about supporting it? to Religion by pjammer |
| Thursday Apr 27, 2000 | Readers who loved Ender's Shadow will be happy to know Orson Scott Card won't make readers wait another decade for more stories from Battle School alumni. Shadow of the Hegemon is scheduled to be released in January 2001 - and, like its predecesor, its first five chapters can be read online. In related news, Jake (Anakin Skywalker) Lloyd has agreed to sign on to a movie adaptation of Ender's Game once the script is greenlighted by a studio. to Books by pjammer |
| Sunday Apr 16, 2000 | While some blame the dramatic decline in life expectancy of Russian citizens on vodka or deep-seated structural problems in modern Russian society, I place the blame squarely on the shoulder of the horrible-looking Palms' Potted Meat. to Food by pjammer |
| Friday Apr 14, 2000 | Although the exhortations of wacky bible-belt institutions impede intelligent discussion on the topic, interracial dating is an unresolved and emotionally charged issue worth thinking about. Why, for instance, are Asian men and Black women so unhappy with interracial relationships? One of the most thoughtful essays on this powderkeg is Steve Sailer's feature column in National Review entitled Is Love Colorblind? to Commentary by pjammer |
| Friday Apr 7, 2000 | You're a single, dot-com gazillionaire, trying to spend all your inflated stock options before they crash back to earth. Sure you can hire some modestly attractive escort to get your rocks off. But why do that when, a few dollars more, you can get yourself an Educated Escort, who provides entertaining pillow talk after the deed? to Sex by pjammer |
| Thursday Jan 6, 2000 | Maxim Magazine, a men's-interest monthly filled with some of the sharpest, most irreverant writing I've seen, also has an equally well-designed webzine edition for cheap bastards who won't subscribe to the print version. Favorite pieces of online advice include How do I get the girl I want to drop the limp-dicked bastard she's with in favor of me? and How do I talk two girls into a threesome before I die? to Media by pjammer |
| Saturday Jan 1, 2000 | While many of us consider author Po Bronson to be the sexiest writer alive, apparently there are plenty of malcontents who disagree. to Books by pjammer |
| Like many adults who once dismissed graphic novels as glorified comic books, I was drawn back into the medium through Alan Moore's grim and brilliant Watchmen. Memepool readers who liked Watchmen as much as I did should definitely check out Ralf Hildebrandt's
Annotated Watchmen for a detailed panel-by-panel analysis of plot, cultural references and symbolism within the story. to Comics by pjammer |
| Tuesday Dec 28, 1999 | In the continuing effort to inspire confidence in its products, Microsoft proudly announces upcoming IT Professional Titles to be released in the year 1900. [ Ed. note: The site has been repaired. Happily, we got a screenshot.]
to Humor by pjammer |
| Sunday Dec 26, 1999 | Some people just get annoyed by factual/consistency errors in movies. Others build websites that mock them. to Movies by pjammer |
| Thursday Dec 16, 1999 | Hot hardcore furniture action! to Sex by pjammer |
| Thursday Dec 9, 1999 | Kyle Baker, one of the most brilliant
comic-book authors/writers alive, may be best known for
Why I Hate Saturn, a
graphic novel laced with some of the most a savagely funny writing in print -
Why do vegetarians spend so much time trying to make vegetables taste like meat? Do
monks buy a lot of inflatable sex dolls?
to Comics by pjammer |
| Saturday Dec 4, 1999 | Heads up, geek - the PalmPilot/CellPhone unit has arrived. Read all about it
here.
Yes, I'd like overnight shipping ... $799? Ok, this will be on MasterCard ... to Gadgets by pjammer |
| 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 |
| Tuesday Nov 30, 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 |
| Wednesday Nov 24, 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 23, 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 |
| Friday Nov 19, 1999 | Dan Lietha's comics tells us that evolution is a trojan meme from the evil Secular Media designed to corrupt good Christian children and that the Bible is only thing that stands between kids and school violence. to Memetics by pjammer |
| Wednesday Nov 17, 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 |
| Friday Nov 12, 1999 | Command mobile battle suits from the anime classic Gundam into battle with the Gundam/Starcraft Total Conversion. to Games by pjammer |
| The most influential (and imitated) cornerstone of fantasy fiction, Tolkien's epic Lord of the Rings, is coming to theaters! Shot entirely on location in New Zealand, the filmmakers will produce Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King simultaneously, as though they were all one continuous motion picture production.
to Movies by pjammer |
| Tuesday Nov 9, 1999 | Be an alpha male - or just date like one.Don Steele, author of How to Date Young Women (for Men over 35) offers Machiavellian, politically-incorrect advice for aspiring lotharios of all stripes.
to Sex by pjammer |
| Sunday Nov 7, 1999 | One of the unintended (and most destructive) consequences of politicians' "get tough on crime" posturing are what is known as Mandatory Minimums. Convicted of rape? 7 years, with time off for good behavior. Caught with five marijuana plants? 10 years, no parole. Sound fair? Families Against Mandatory Minimums is a national organization working to repeal state/federal mandatory sentencing laws that remove judicial discretion. to Law by pjammer |
| Friday Nov 5, 1999 | The theme of nearly everyone's prom who graduated from high school in mid 80s to early 90s was Alphaville's "Forever Young." Unfairly dismissed as a "one-hit wonder" band, Alphaville is still alive and kicking with new material as well as remixes of old favorites like Big in Japan. to Music by pjammer |
| Tuesday Nov 2, 1999 | Don't let those pesky skeptics with their fancy-pants science books and empirical facts upset your faith - Christian Answers offers scientific-sounding justifications for creationism and other areas where the bible contradicts science. to Memetics by pjammer |
| Friday Oct 29, 1999 | Is it just me, or are some of the Goth
Babe of the Week not really a 'babes' no matter how generously you define that term?
to Wackos by pjammer |
|
The Talented Mr. Ripley is one of the most disturbing yet mesmerizing books I've read. Starring a
brilliant sociopath as its protagonist, the story rides the edge of macabre as only a well-told story through the eyes of a
human predator can. Apparently, Miramax/Paramount Pictures has been busy shooting the movie version to be released this winter - but fans of psychological thrillers should
still read the book before you go to the theater. to Books by pjammer |
| Tuesday Oct 26, 1999 | So your atavistic desire to procreate with beautiful women was thwarted by constant rejection? Take heart! You can still bid for their eggs at Ron's Angels. Then again, if you have 50 grand to burn (the opening bid to make babies with Model 99) and still can't land a date - perhaps you shouldn't be in the gene pool after all. to Sex by pjammer |
| Monday Oct 25, 1999 | Michael Lewis, who may be best known for injecting the phrase Big Swinging Dick into the lexicon of business journalism through Liar's Poker (a sardonic report on the rise and fall of Salomon Brothers), has a new book out. The New New Thing is a biographical account of uber-geek Jim Clark and his rocky quest in building SGI, Netscape and Healtheon en route to being the biggest swinging dick in Silicon Valley. to Books by pjammer |
| Saturday Oct 23, 1999 | So. Which
disease of consciousness do you suffer from? to Health by pjammer |
| Does God lie?
Syndicate 23
certainly thinks so. to Religion by pjammer |
| Friday Oct 22, 1999 | During test detonations of atomic bombs during WWII, scientists encountered the electronics-destroying effects of EMPs (Electro Magnetic Pulse). Soon, it was discovered that EMPs can be generated without nuclear weapons. Everything you memepool-reading terrorists ever wanted to know about flux-compression generators and E-bombs can be found here. to Warfare by pjammer |
| Thursday Oct 21, 1999 | The inevitable evolution of online auctions has arrived. eWanted, a "reverse-auction" site, pits sellers against each other to unload the overpriced crap they bought on eBay. to Commerce by pjammer |
| Wednesday Oct 20, 1999 | APBnews: News for cops. Stuff that matters. to Reference by pjammer |
| Ever heard the expression Jesus Christ on a Pogo stick? Ever wonder what that would actually look like? Now you know. to Religion by pjammer |
| Tuesday Oct 19, 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 18, 1999 | Can childbirth be pleasureable? Somebody seems to think so. to Sex by pjammer |
| Never got into breakdancing when it was all the rage in the 80's? Fear not - you can still be a retro king and learn the moves online. to Culture by pjammer |
| Friday Oct 15, 1999 | If you're like me (and God help you if you are) losing valuable electronics is a exasperatingly regular event when you're on the road. ReturnMe is the savior of forgetful klutzes - offering stickers with unique ID numbers with the ReturnMe.com url and instructions on how to return your valuables. Your PDA/laptop/cell phone is delivered via FedEx day after it's found, and ReturnMe even offers to broker lost-and-found reward payments to the helpful Samaritians who pick up after you. to Commerce by pjammer |
| Thursday Oct 14, 1999 | PJ O'Rourke, former left-wing peacenix and pot-smoking hippie is now one of the most savagely hilarious libertarian/conservative satirist alive. His best works include the Liberty Manifesto and sardonic primer on US government Parliment of Whores.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - PJ to Politics by pjammer |
| Monday Oct 11, 1999 | According to UN estimates, the human population will reach six billion on October 12, 1999. The World Population Clock counts down (or up, as it were) to six billion. Hardcore eco-activists are using 10-12-99 as a mediagenic opportunity to voice their concerns - but not everyone believes that six billion humans is bad news. Population researcher Frank Furedi's informative essay Six Billion People? Three Cheers offers an optimistic alternative to the grim Malthusian perspective we hear so much about.
to Science by pjammer |
| 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 |
| We are always waiting the big event that will change our lives forever -- not to make our lives a paradise, but to give us direction, to find out what our mission is, what is worth struggling for. We are a nation in search of a frontier, and without one, we are overwhelmed by anxiety. - loaded 5x. to Art by pjammer |
| Want to dress just like your favorite TV characters? Have bedroom furniture matching the decor of your favorite show? I don't know what's creepier - obsessive fans who live and breathe syrupy television shows or the cynically enterprising companies who target them. to Television by pjammer |
| 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 |
| Done correctly, Psychological Operations (or "PSYOPS")
disables your opponent's motivation to fight and resolves military conflicts with minimum bloodshed. One of the most
amusing pieces of PSYOPS during the Gulf War were the subversive messages printed on the back of phony
Iraqi currency.
to Warfare by pjammer |
| Wednesday Oct 6, 1999 | Today's winner in the "scary fanatical devotion to has-been pop-icon" goes to the gentleman in Virgina: We cannot erase Vanilla Ice from our culture, just as we cannot erase forgotten events from our history. Enter this, the largest collection of Vanilla Ice links on the Internet. Vanilla Ice will never die. I won't let him. He lives in me, and I live for him. to Wackos by pjammer |
| Do you know precocious, mathematically-gifted teenagers bored out of their skulls slogging through high school calculus? Point them to Math Camp, an intense and stimulating summer program targeted at bright 13-to-18 year olds. Think you were pretty smart in high school, hotshot? Check out the qualifying quiz that 13-year-olds are passing to get admitted. to Education by pjammer |
| The discipline of Competitive Intelligence, once shrouded with a disreputable patina (on account of incorrect public perception of comp intel as "industrial espionage") is gaining acceptance in corporate America as a legitimate function of strategic planning. To catalyze the acceptance of comp intel in mainstream business, The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals offers FAQs (which explains the rudiments of comp intel to novices) as well as in-depth seminars for business veterans. to Commerce by pjammer |
| The Society of Robotic Combat, like Robotwars, fulfills the childhood dreams of anime-watching geeks of building your own fighting robots for gladitorial combat. to Robotics by pjammer |
| Monday Oct 4, 1999 | As many of you know, search engine Google! ranks its search hits by the number of outside links to the subject of the search query - sidestepping the efforts of self-promoting meta-tag-abusing spamdexers. But what does Google consider to be more evil than Satan himself? to Humor by pjammer |
| Sunday Oct 3, 1999 | New taste-test surveys reveal that five out of six squirrels prefer Budweiser. Brought to you by the wacky hosts of Wierd Pictures Archive.
to Humor by pjammer |
| In the neverending quest of web nerds working to hijack $10,000 servers and transform them into emulators of $5 games, some are more successful than others. The author behind the Java port of Nintendo's classic 1982 LCD handheld Donkey Kong offers one of the most impressive efforts I've seen. to Games by pjammer |
| Saturday Oct 2, 1999 | So did the dwarf-tossing scene in UPN's hideous new show
Shasta McNasty give you ideas on how to occupy
your idle hours? There's a jolly dwarf out there who
is happy to let you throw him around in exchange for money. Somebody shoot me.
to Wackos by pjammer |
| Wednesday Sep 29, 1999 | Ever ran across a picture that made you wince? Wonder why they posted it to their
home page? Wonder if they regret it? They will now. to Web by pjammer |
| Tuesday Sep 28, 1999 | Business News Flash:
Microsoft agrees to acquire
Stanford University for
five billion dollars. to Humor by pjammer |
| Doll Soup,
an amusing soap opera starring a trio of Barbie-type dolls, chronicles the oft-cruel
world of beautiful unemployed actresses. In the attempt to further blur the line between reality
and make-believe, the host of Doll Soup allows fans to send email to the plastic actresses
through links on their
biography pages. to Art by pjammer |
| A curious hybrid of Hassidic and Christian culture aptly named Jews
for Jesus promotes the acceptance of the Torah, Talmud and New Testament as
divinely inspired texts. Having trouble discussing your new faith with Orthodox friends and
horrified Jewish family? Jews for Jesus also offers
countermemes to defend your
Christian beliefs. to Religion by pjammer |
| Monday Sep 27, 1999 | With the retirement of comic giants like Bill Watterson, Burke Breathed and Gary Larson,
the only mainstream-distribution comic strip of consistent brilliance is Bill Amend's delightfully wry
Foxtrot. to Comics by pjammer |
| Friday Sep 24, 1999 | God is the provider of all good things to His followers: salvation for the lost, comfort for the sorrowful, healing
for the wounded . . . and
gold tooth fillings for Christians with
bad oral hygiene. to Religion by pjammer |
| Are you a passive-aggressive type with a lot to get off your chest? Need to rip on a troublesome
acquaintance before it physically chokes you up? Let The Insulter
help. to Humor by pjammer |
| Thursday Sep 23, 1999 | Some dentists suggest that daily tongue cleaning can help prevent gum disease, tooth decay and
reduce bad breath by sweeping away bacteria colonies that live in your mouth. While most of us
would consider a $2 toothbrush to be an adequate tool for this task, an ad for the
electric vibrating tongue cleaner confirmed my suspicion that there's no limit to the kinds of needless electronic
gew-gaws rich people will buy. to Gadgets by pjammer |
| Wednesday Sep 22, 1999 | As many of you know, the U.S. Navy SEALs is one of the most
selective and respected military units in the world. Every aspiring SEAL must survive the grueling
BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolitions/SEALs)
training program,
(infamous for weeding out world-class triatheletes/bodybuilders) before becoming a
probationary member and being allowed to attend additional training. Interested in signing on, you
maniac? Apply here. to Warfare by pjammer |
