Links posted in March 2004
March 31, 2004
Seinfeld and Superman, together at last.
What i wouldn't have sent to
Stupid conservatives beware!!!
so, if you have touble viewing this, use my email address and my password is "gregory"...
March 29, 2004
Things That I Have Learned These Last Few Days:
1. Not everyone is interested in receiving e-mails with the title: The Atlas of Congenital Anomalies of the External Genitalia.
2. People do not like looking at things with titles such as The Atlas of Congenital Anomalies of the External Genitalia.
3. Anybody whose e-mail address I have must be a friend of mine. These friends trust me for one reason or another and do not expect an e-mail about the The Atlas of Congenital Anomalies of the External Genitalia.
4. Some of my friends need to read the warnings that are posted on e-mails with titles like The Atlas of Congenital Anomalies of the External Genitalia, such as Title should be enough to inform you what the site contains. I cannot stress enough how this is not safe for work. I don't want to hear you bitching about the lack of warnings.
Action Comics #1: available for free on the web Why pay $75,000 to read the comic that debuted Superman? I guess I never knew that his first ever battle was against a wife-beater (the bastard's knife snaps against Superman's tough skin.) One other thing I noticed is how bloody fast the thing moves. And I thought today's MTV generation liked jump cuts! This comic has about four stories in the first six pages!
March 27, 2004
YouSendIt.com - With Google-like simplicity, the free service allows you to email up to 1 GB to anyone without flooding their mailbox. 1 GB... that's a whole lotta porn. (Site obtained from MetaFilter).
I Did It For Science Nerve.com's Grant Stoddard writes his thirtieth and final experiment: To literally have sex with himself.
March 26, 2004
Nazi and East German Propaganda - Propaganda was central to Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic. The German Propaganda Archive includes both propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists. The goal is to help people understand the two great totalitarian systems of the twentieth century by giving them access to the primary material.
Political Friendster - A parody of the social network Friendster. It allows a visualization of the connections between players in the political game.
Top Doc Backs Picking Your Nose and Eating It - "With the finger you can get to places you just can't reach with a handkerchief, keeping your nose far cleaner....people who pick their nose and eat it get a natural boost to their immune system for free."
War Rationale: Version 10.0
- Here then, in Silicon Valley terms, is a review of the Bush administration's year in Iraq:
In the year since the invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration has repeatedly shifted its justification for going to war and constantly changed its story on intelligence, the United Nations, reconstruction, political transition and the cost to the American taxpayer. More than anything, the administration's war in Iraq resembles a software program that, at first, works brilliantly, but then catches the user in a cycle of "fatal error" messages.
OG OG Alive - It's tough in the wilderness, if OgOg is hungry you've got to find food. Cold? Gotta find shelter.
What Does Breast Milk Taste Like? - Breast milk, or as the author calls it: freshly-pumped wife juice.
Men and Masturbation - "There are no major health consequences to frequent masturbation. If there were, plenty of men would look like Gollum from The Lord of the Rings". (Second Article).
How To Properly Beat Your Wife - "He is entitled to the obedience and cooperation of his wife, and accordingly it is not permissible for her to rebel against his authority, causing disruption. (Second Article).
March 25, 2004
Cold-Nosed. A tale near and dear to fernando's heart (and other places).
The Atlas of Congenital Anomalies of the External Genitalia - Title should be enough to inform you what the site contains. I cannot stress enough how this is not safe for work. I don't want to hear you bitching about the lack of warnings.
Here's where I'll be Saturday morning at nine. If you come, keep your eyes peeled for Rushdie novels, 'cause I'm looking for them.
What would you do with $50 million? Would you have the onions to do what this man is doing?
March 24, 2004
women's bike seats Okay, so this is my first post, because i really want to share this story about women's bike seats . I think it's pretty accurate.
This is a fun time waster. Penguin Baseball. I also like how I can store links here on Alkaline Earth rather than in my email inbox where I forget about them for months. Toodles... (:
Nanotechnology Another triumph for the Onion. "Scientists say that nanotechnology could be used to fight war on terrorism, if that will get them some damn funding."
March 21, 2004
Do you live in a liberal or conservative neighborhood? No, really, do you personally live in a republican stronghold? Because if you live in 78703 like me, you sure as hell do. Try out your own zip code, but use the information you gain for good and not for evil.
March 20, 2004
I went looking for some recent info about Mike Nelson, who was the head writer and lead actor on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Among other things, he speaks at colleges across the country (for the right price) and there's a little clip of him musing on the excellent 1989 hit Road House starring Patrick Swayze. Pretty funny.
March 19, 2004
On Top with Jessica Pivik - "They tug on it like a stuck zipper instead of treating it like sensitive machinery."
March 17, 2004
An astonishing quiz with nearly 100% accuracy. [from metafilter]
Why Guinness bubbles go down instead of up. Not quite in time for St. Patty's Day.
SXSW docu on strange musician yes, jandeck of nationwide non-fame. you too may read about the secretive rocker. there is also an article by someone who tracked him down.
March 16, 2004
Raving Lunatic Obviously Took Some Advanced Physics
- The Onion comes through. You were going to see it taped to someone's office door tomorrow, so why not read it now and save the trouble?
"It's hard for the layperson to differentiate schizophrenic ramblings like 'Modernity chunk where the sink goes flying on the ping-pang' from legitimate terminology like 'Unstable equilibria lie on the nodal points of a separatrix in phase space.'"
How To Keep Up With The Jones Good info for us college students without lots of bling...
Choice causes paralysis
-"[the paradox of choice] explains why so many marriageable singles wind up alone. You await a spouse who combines the kindness of your mom, the wit of the smartest person you met in grad school, and the looks of someone you dated in 1983 (as she was in 1983) . . . and you wind up spending middle age by yourself, watching the Sports Channel at 2 a.m. in a studio apartment strewn with pizza boxes."
Humans are stupid. Just pick already!
March 13, 2004
The End of the World . Yo.
March 12, 2004
The Unofficially Official Rules of Calvinball - I guess that since people are posting rules for Roshambo, I might as well post rules for Calvinball.
March 11, 2004
Famous people's cats (Cardinal Richelieu had a cat named Perruque, or "wig"); birthdays (Mar 12: Liza Minnelli 1946, James Taylor 1948); dying words (Malcolm X: "Let's cool it, brothers," to his assassins); and real names (Dean Martin's mom called Dino Crocetti to the table)
I was never certain whether or not to believe mrflip when it came to his crazy made-up rules for Roshambo. [no, not that one, the rock-paper-scissors one]. My crap-o-meter pegged when he talked about how fire beats everything else except you can only use it once in your lifetime! And water loses to everything but fire! Well, thanks to an exceptionally well written article on Wikipedia, I know that ultimate frisbee players the world over are indeed throwing water and fire when they need to decide who won if the game was rained out.
[Of course, I'm sure they'd only do it once ever as the word-of-mouth rules stipulate. Does that mean you have to divulge if you've used yours at the start of a RPS championship?]
March 10, 2004
Who's up for some SXSW music action next week? (I'm posting this now as I'm headed for Big Bend tonight.) I was hoping to go see Modest Mouse on Wed at La Zona Rosa. I also wanted to see Cake at the Austin Music Hall on Thursday, but since it's the big BMI showcase with Blues Traveller and keynote speaker Little Richard, that probably won't happen. Laura wants to go to Mother Egan's to see some bluegrass, so we'll probably do that instead. Let me know if you want to come. Also, suggest something to go see on Saturday, as I'm looking for something to see then.
March 09, 2004
What if oil became too expensive... as in too expensive to extract for anyone? sound crazy? sound unscientific? I will let you read some of these to judge for yourselves. turns out, my favorite, (the first), even explains why i can't just go live in a cabin in Idaho. :)
Spalding Gray found dead (nyt) - an apparent suicide after a long struggle with depression. Spalding Gray performed far-ranging, intensely autobiographical monologues that were funny, wrenching, and truthful. Damn. I never got to see him perform in person.
Funyuns -Why Frito-Lay doesn't use "[Creates] a profoundly unpleasant, multi-tonal crescendo of bad aftertaste[!]" as a new slogan is beyond me.
Toggle Google's new look - Google is testing a mean & lean new site design. A small random section of visitors are given a browser cookie that activates the new look. Someone wrote a bookmarklet to toggle google's new look by endowing you with the right cookie: drag the preceding hyperlink to your toolbar, visit google, and click on the bookmark. Enjoy your shiny new google experience!
March 08, 2004
The Sample FAQ - Look up songs or artists to see what they sample or where they're sampled. The record is incomplete but very useful (I know there's a lot more Kraftwerk samples than what are listed). Most sampled song? Funky Drummer, by the most sampled artist, the Godfather of Soul.
March 07, 2004
Tagg Dogg Small town USA, somewhere in MS. The brushed aluminum ediface of pump #4...ravaged.
The Mars Rovers, like, totally have their own LiveJournals. Would you prefer the moody, poetry writing yin of spirit or the happy-go-lucky, Christina-and-Pink lovin yang of opportunity?
March 05, 2004
Finally, a cell phone that javelina can get on board with. Super cheap, made of recycled paper, disposable, and The Man can't trace your movements. Perfect.
From a friend of mine in NC:
evidently during the last NC snowstorm,
News14Carolina set up an email submission form for school
and work closings, and it looks like they just went
straight to broadcast without a lookover.
case in point.
March 04, 2004
An update on threesomes (Threesomes Blow posted by natedogg on 9 January 2004).
How to Set Up a Threesome by Rant Morgan.
Papers of Harry Blackmun - The internal machinery of the Supreme Court is rarely revealed, but when Justice Blackmun left his papers to the Library of Congress he asked that they be made available five years after his death -- a short interval. Read how this Nixon appointee pregressed from the right to the left while the court as a whole did the opposite.
DJ Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
- In case you were unable to download it before the EMI cease and desist letter, here is a place where you can download the songs.
The Grey Album is an art project/experiment that uses the full vocal content of Jay-Z's Black Album recorded over new beats and production made using the Beatles White Album as the sole source material. Danger Mouse insists he can explain and prove that all the music on the Grey Album can be traced back to the White Album and its musical content via sampling. Every kick, snare, and chord is taken from the Beatles White Album and is in their original recording somwhere.
Yet another Googletoy - this one gives you a graphical comparison of Yahoo!'s and Google's search results. [note: site uses flash]
Bush-Cheney 2004 TV ads - way grosser than anything Ziggy posts. They seem to think it's alright to use firefighters and 9/11 imagery to sell your campaign, but I guess they didn't ask this 9/11 widow. O well. I also found this ad attacking Kerry especially endearing.
March 03, 2004
As far as I know, the job market for high technology is just as bad in Britain as it is here. Therefore, if you ever decide to move there, you might be interested in these tips for the right way to open your own fried chicken shop. You're already ahead of the competition because you come from America, known abroad as the home of fried chicken as much as the home of freedom.
March 01, 2004
Not everyone agreed that Janet and Justin's little "show" at the super bowl halftime has led to America's moral downfall. This is evinced by several letters (the minority of letters, it should be noted) that The Smoking Gun obtained from the FCC's vast collection. [The fun rolls on through the rest of the pages, too.]
See the Oscar-Nominated Shorts - or parts of them, at least. Enough to give you a taste. I guess it would make too much sense for there to be a way we could actually watch them.