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Wednesday
Sep, 29 1999
After reading Tom's Hardware Guide for a little while, I thought I was the shit. I felt confidant in overclocking celerons, video cards, and generally pushing my machine. Then I started reading Ars Technica. With articles like their SMP smackdown, What to do with iMacs, and Damage labs advice columns, I've brought my useless knowledge of the nearly obsolete to a truly "pimptastic" level.
to Computing by akk
Meditheses is dedicated to the science of sticking things in uncomfortable places. Some of their pictures are freaky and some are cool.
to Health by akk
Wednesday
Sep, 15 1999
Postapocalyptic Elvis inspired swordfest: now with award winning cinematography!
to Movies by akk
Monday
Sep, 13 1999
Until a few months ago, I had lost all faith in television. But then the Food Network brought me hope and fulfillment. Billed as "Ultimate Fighting Champion meets Julia Child", Iron Chef is a dubbed & subtitled show from Japan where every week a challenger must compete in Kitchen Stadium against one of the Iron Chefs, a select group of expert chefs. With much drama and fanfare, the Iron Chef and challenger then have 1 hour to create gourmet dishes celebrarting a theme ingredient. The unofficial fan site at IronChef.com provides more info and episode summaries. In my opinion, this is by far the best show on television today.
to Television by akk
Thursday
Sep, 9 1999
With Java, Sun finally brought 1960's programming language technology to the world. Someday maybe Sun will take heed of Request For Enhancement #4064105: Compile-time type safety with parameterized types and bring us early 1990's technology. Until then, we've got Generic Java, which adds polymorphic types to Java and still compiles into standard Java bytecode.
to Computing by akk
Wednesday
Aug, 18 1999
I'm not sure where I stand amongst the other 43,000 or so SIGGRAPH '99 attendees, but I thought the Morphable Model for the Synthesis of 3D Faces paper was much cooler than Teddy. From a single image of a face, this system can make a fully animated 3d model that is frightenly realistic.
to Computing by akk
Tuesday
Jul, 13 1999
You're smart and you want to know what's going on in PC hardware. C|Net's computers.com doesn't cut it. You need Tom's Hardware Guide.
to Computing by akk
Monday
Jul, 12 1999
Anthony Gallo Acoustics makes round speakers that sound good. Buy some today.
to Gadgets by akk
Thursday
Jun, 17 1999
Dynamism and JPD are importers of japanese ultralight and ultrathin notebooks before the come out in the states like the latest Fujitsu Biblo. Yum.
to Computing by akk
Tuesday
Jun, 15 1999
The Typing Injury FAQ features an interesting section on alternative keyboards. Buy a chording keyboard today and achieve true geekiness.
to Health by akk
Thursday
Jun, 10 1999
ThirdVoice is a browser plugin that talks to remote servers to implement one of my favorite features of NCSA Mosaic 1.2 (circa 1993): distributed annotations. Every time you look at a web page, the plugin asks a Third Voice server for comments left by others and then displays them inline. The most amusing part is how scared some webmasters are knowing they have no recourse other than propaganda.
to Web by akk
Macross VF-X 2 due out this september for the playstation in the US. Robotech and Macross fans rejoice!
to Games by akk
Tuesday
Jun, 8 1999
This article nicely justifies the "wow, this interface sucks" reaction I had when I first tried QuickTime 4.0.
to Computing by akk
Thursday
Jun, 3 1999
www.phonespell.org, your ticket to getting (412) ENDOWED from your local bell.
to Web by akk
Monday
May, 17 1999
If you're not studly enough to develop PalmOS applications in forth, you might want to look into Waba, a subset of Java (the language, the bytecode,and the platform) designed to run on Palm OS and WinCE devices. Unlike Sun's full JVM for the Palm OS, waba has a small footprint, and provides native support for serial I/O and native databases.
to Computing by akk
Friday
May, 14 1999
Who stoops to faux-ironic allegory comparing the Kosovo situation with Star Wars hype? None other than suck.com, an esteemed member of the ever inflating Lycos family.
to Commentary by akk
Tuesday
Apr, 13 1999
Monsanto is a "life sciences" company that (among other biologically questionable things) genetically engineers seeds for farmers. They've been so inspired by Microsoft and the software industry's growth that they're suing farmers engaged in the use of harvested 2nd generation seeds for patent violation.
to Science by akk
Monday
Mar, 8 1999
Give your banal decor a taste of fine art flair with black and white prints from LensWork's Special Edition Print Collection. Making real photographic prints from digital negatives scanned from the original artwork keeps the amortized cost low, so they can sell prints for low prices ($39-$99). They're so excited about how this might shake up the photo art world, they're using the blink tag.
to Art by akk
Friday
Feb, 26 1999
tip for the clueless:find your nearest symphony orchestra and attend performances until your mind opens itself to greatness. most people learn the value too late in life or not at all.
to Music by akk
Catch up on Elliptic Curve research, of growing importance to the future of cryptography and an all-around swell area of number theory.
to Science by akk
Although his work adorns fewer college dorm room walls than other surrealist painters, Magritte was in my opinion, the best.
to Art by akk
Phil and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing is an online book which'll teach you a lot about photography, Samoyed dogs, grad school induced bitterness, Bill Gates's current value, and pollution. If you're careful, you might learn something about the web too.
to Web by akk
Friday
Jan, 29 1999
"www.usableweb.com is an up-to-date list of the best resources on web site usability."
to Web by akk
Thursday
Dec, 3 1998
In a bout of internet exuberance, a variety of stock brokers realize that spelling counts.
to Finance by akk
Wednesday
Nov, 4 1998
The election was boring for all but the new governor of Minnesota.
to Politics by akk
That halogen lamp you bought from IKEA is no longer cool, upgrade to lighting that is ultra chic from from LumiSource.
to Fashion by akk
Tuesday
Oct, 13 1998
AltaVista has unleashed the ultimate in Porn Searching Technology. Well, ok, it has content filters blocking out the naughty from its search catalog of over 10 million images.
to Web by akk
Viagra wins Nobel Prize. Please kill me.
to Science by akk
Tuesday
Oct, 6 1998
The world is screwed up when Disney lobbies for Porn rights.
to Media by akk
Friday
Oct, 2 1998
Just when you thought you were safe from former Amiga-weenies, meet REBOL, a new "programming" language.
to Computing by akk
Tuesday
Sep, 29 1998
Big Al lowers interest rates.
to Finance by akk
Monday
Sep, 28 1998
The navigation architecture is clumsy, the selection is still limited, and the quality is mediocre at best. These factors still aren't enough to prevent LiveConcerts from being a neat way to kill bandwith.
to Music by akk
Friday
Sep, 25 1998
240 horsepower, RWD, 6 speed transmission, 2 seats, a ragtop, perfect 50/50 weight distribution, meeting Low Emissions Vehicle standards, and it's about $10k cheaper than its less powerful competitors. The new S2000 roadster from Honda.
to Transportation by akk
Talk about progressive - after apologizing for the Inquisition and the Galileo incident,the current Pope is preparing to apologize for the Crusades.
to Culture by akk
Thursday
Sep, 24 1998
information is power in the fight against selective enforccement of antiquated knee-jerk reaction legislation! smash the state! or um, just avoid speedtraps.
to Transportation by akk
OneLook, the metacrawler of online dictionaries (358 at current count).
to Reference by akk
VISA's ATM locator is somewhat useful now, and will be remarkably useful when wireless pilot web browsing technology sucks much less.
to Reference by akk
need to write a reccomendation letter? let the web do the work.
to Humor by akk
what happens if you're a hotshot hedge fund manager on wall street and you fuck up royally? bitch and moan until someone gives you $3.5 billion, obviously.
to Finance by akk
Wednesday
Sep, 23 1998
need a good stereo for under $2000 and want to get something better than the crap being pawned off at your local appliance mart? try good sound for cheap. no green makers for your cds - i promise.
to Gadgets by akk
and you thought you had it bad.
to Humor by akk
Tuesday
Sep, 22 1998
do you believe in magic? neither do we.
to Games by akk
a user interface nightmare? probably, but some technology is still sexy: pdQ
to Gadgets by akk
Monday
Sep, 21 1998
What do you get when you combine a Mazda RX-7, missile launchers, poor photography, and too much free time?
to Wackos by akk
CardWeb's collection of credit card information will make wallowing in debt all the more efficient.
to Finance by akk
PoopMoose - "It's a unique candy dispenser."
to Gadgets by akk
Sunday
Sep, 20 1998
The Australian defense forces are evaluating whether injections of caffeine, ephedrine, and 'blood loading' might prove a shot in the arm for battlefield soldiers.
to Science by akk
Who's dumping lead in your resevoirs? Why shouldn't you move to Woodford, IL? How much toxic waste does Kodak produce in a year? These answers and more from an environmental scorecard.
to Memetics by akk
Saturday
Sep, 19 1998
Confused as hell about digital cameras? You should be.
At least someone is trying to sort it all out.
to Gadgets by akk
WebTrips is a weird collection of shockwave flash animated "events", games, and generally trippy stuff worth checking out. They're also more than willing to let you know how to harness their creative potential for fun, web presence, and profit.
to Humor by akk
Friday
Sep, 18 1998
DOE engineers propose a crazy plan to get you from san francisco to tokyo in under 2 hrs.
to Science by akk
phone call in the middle of baywatch?
just hit pause.
to Gadgets by akk
objectivism "explained"
to Humor by akk
keep score on the battle against terrorism, power failures, and other mid-air mishaps in real time.
to Media by akk
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