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| Thursday Jul, 29 1999 | Allright, I admit it, I like watching The Furniture Guys (Joe and Ed) do their refinishing, reupholstering, and home repair stuff, all the while cracking jokes and making oblique movie references. But, did you know that Ed has his own webpage to rant about stuff, and Joe's got a gallery of his paintings up? Not surprisingly, these multi-talented gentlemen -- hey, they've even acted in a really bad movie together -- have inspired fan webpages (like this one) and verse (like this ode). to Television by crikey |
| Tuesday Jul, 27 1999 | GEMM lets you search many online sites at once for music (be it on CD, cassette, LP, regardless of if it's out-of-print, in print, used, or new). to Music by crikey |
| The late Bill Hicks was the funniest and most scathing anti-corporate comedian/critic of the last few decades. Check out some information about the man, his production company, or the foundation set up in his name. to Commentary by crikey |
| I love my drinkybird. to Pets by crikey |
| Tuesday Jul, 20 1999 | If you're interested in classic movie posters,
Matinee Today
has a nice selection of posters to peruse. to Art by crikey |
| Where's George? is a fun
little experiment in currency-tracking. Type in the serial number
from any US dollar bill and see where it's been! Of course, the
chances your dollar's already in the database is slim, but it's
still fun. to Economics by crikey |
| Wednesday May, 26 1999 | The "Lost and Found Sound" series is a weekly look back at the variety of recorded sound from the past century, courtesy of NPR's All Things Considered. Listen to archived installments of the series in RealAudio format.
to Media by crikey |
| Sunday May, 23 1999 | The
website for those of you who aren't like
this guy. to Movies by crikey |
| Thursday May, 6 1999 | I find it charming that the Internet is occasionally used
to educate about antiquated technologies and art forms. In this case,
the daguerrotype.
Be sure to check out the daguerrotype
galleries for some pretty pictures.
to Art by crikey |
| Tuesday May, 4 1999 | Scientists of the world rejoice! For, though
kings, queens, presidents, and
potentates adorn the majority of the world's
currencies,
a
bunch of physicists pictures have also
made it onto bank notes. It says something about
the U. S. of A. that
the
only American so honored was barely a "physicist"
by any modern understanding of the term.
to Economics by crikey |
| Emulation.net
is your one-stop site for the finest in emulators
running within the
MacOS. Whether you'd like to relive all
the old Commodore
64 memories of your youth, play around with a
virtual VAX,
or just ape a
PalmPilot,
it's all here for the taking. to Computing by crikey |
| Monday May, 3 1999 | The many games and toys of Erno Rubik are alive and well.
Play the Rubik's cube online and thrill
to the exciting history of this magical
invention. to Games by crikey |
| Sunday May, 2 1999 | If you're looking to buy the child in your life a doll that has dreadlocks, pubic hair, and isn't anorexically thin, you might want to check out Feral Cheryl.
to Gadgets by crikey |
| For several years now, Mr. Chank Diesel has been the Internet's premier typographer, spinnin' out the keenest new fonts with alarming speed. The fonts he charges cash money for are clearly the nicest, but, really, his free fonts are nothing to sneeze at. Especially nifty is the rockstar font archive, featuring hand-drawn fonts by members of Man or Astroman?, Six Finger Satellite, Soul Coughing, The Flaming Lips, and many more.
to Computing by crikey |
| Keeping with our tradition of bizarre
squirrel-related sites, I give you the
squirrel
fishing page.
to Sports by crikey |
| Wednesday Apr, 14 1999 | Into obsolete videodisc technology? The RCA
Selectavision Videodisc player lives on at
www.cedmagic.com.
The CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc) was the
only stylus-based video tech and struggled to find
a market from 1981 to 1986, before being completely
given up for dead. The site features more technical
specs than you'd probably want to know, plus a nice
CED
title database, listing everything released in
the format. to Gadgets by crikey |
| Friday Apr, 9 1999 | Matt Feazell
is the undisputed king of the minicomic format, with
such fantastic titles as Cynicalman, The Death of
Antisocialman, Cute Girl, and Not Available Comics. Someday
all comics will be Not Available! to Comics by crikey |
| Wednesday Apr, 7 1999 | In pre-Giuliani days, Xander Mellish
used to write up the first page of her short stories
and plaster them on New York City telephone poles, in laundromats,
and wherever she felt like it. Now, however, she puts them on a
great website where you can read without having to go outside. to Literature by crikey |
| Tuesday Apr, 6 1999 | Strangely enough, two of the best Public
Radio International programs have "American" in their titles:
This American Life,
and American
Routes. Not so international, I suppose, but great listening nonetheless. to Media by crikey |
| Tuesday Mar, 30 1999 | Arrrrrr, mateys! Teach your parrots to sing these
sea
shanties. to Music by crikey |
| The National Gallery's
exhibition of the paintings of Mark
Rothko is truly awe-inspiring. to Art by crikey |
| Monday Mar, 29 1999 | The Simpsons is such a huge cultural phenomenon that
people out there feel the need to
catalog it all. From the
stellar acting career of
Troy McClure to a compendium of Canadian
references in the Simpsons
to a list of
Stanley
Kubrick references, it seems
that it's all being kept track of by someone.
Yes, dear reader, sleep easy with the knowledge that there's a
Simpsons list for everything,
purple
monkey dishwasher. to Television by crikey |
| Instead of spending that hard-earned cash,
make
pretty objects out of it. to Art by crikey |
| Soup is good food, yes, and
soup recipes
are good recipes. Features a soup
recipe du jour.
to Food by crikey |
| Sunday Mar, 28 1999 | Ladies and gentlemen, I give you
Driveways
of the Rich and Famous!
to Transportation by crikey |
| Okay, okay, we seem to be bombarded with books, documentaries and films
about World War II these days, but ignore all
that stuff and instead check out the superb
Normandy invasion
website that Encyclopedia
Brittanica put together. to Warfare by crikey |
| Friday Mar, 26 1999 | Imagine Radio
lets you set up your own RealAudio radio station
and listen to the stations of other users. Somewhat
limited musical selection so far, but it's got
enough to stay interesting.
to Music by crikey |
| Thursday Mar, 25 1999 | It's ironic that, while Roberto Begnini
has received nothing but acclaim for his
film
Life
is Beautiful,
Jerry
Lewis's
The
Day the Clown Cried has never been released
and is generally considered to be one of the nadirs
of American cinema. Filmed in
1972, and featuring an uncannily similar plotline
to Life is Beautiful
with lead actors that have uncannily similar
comedic
styles, one wonders how much longer
it'll be before the film's released and we get to
see if it's actually any good. to Movies by crikey |
| Who watches the watchers? You do! Listen to police scanners
in New York City, Los Angeles, and Dallas from the relative safety of your home or workplace. to Law by crikey |
| Wednesday Mar, 24 1999 | Sneaker Nation
is a celebration of all things sneaker. Includes
a bulletin board, profiles of "sneaker freaks,"
and a history of the best sneaker of all time. to Wearables by crikey |
| Tuesday Mar, 23 1999 | Will a monkey armed with a typewriter ever type
out the entire works of Shakespeare? I dunno, but
this
site gives it a shot. to Web by crikey |
| Monday Mar, 22 1999 | If you aren't sure what the controversy
surrounding
Elia
Kazan's honorary Oscar at
the 1999 Academy Awards ceremony was all about,
check out
this essay (written in 1980) on the topic
of Kazan, the House Unamerican Activities
Committee, and "naming names." to Commentary by crikey |
| Friday Mar, 19 1999 | Ever wonder what the average Internet user looks
like? Check out
Webdweller,
an attempt to derive the looks of the average
man, woman, and androgyne web surfer. to Web by crikey |
| A really pretty site describing the
Theban
Mapping Project. The site details
the discovery and mapping of tomb KV5
in Egypt's Valley of the Kings (only
discovered in 1995), which has been described
by some as one of the most important
archaeological discoveries of the century.
The QTVR
movies are a nice touch. to Science by crikey |
| Learn how to swear in many different languages!
The Maledicta
Links page is a useful index pointing to pages
which tell you how to say "you eat like a pig"
in 87 languages, to pages covering Australian
slang, and pages which teach curse words in
German, Filipino, Afrikaans, and other tongues. to Linguistics by crikey |
| If you're just interested in his music or
perhaps in different branches of Christianity,
you might want to check out
The
Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church. to Religion by crikey |
| Thursday Mar, 18 1999 | Send that special someone in your life an
electronic
greeting card written by Leonard Nimoy, TV's
Mr. Spock.
to Art by crikey |
| A pretty comprehensive site dedicated to Italian author Italo Calvino (1923-1985), author of If on a winter's night a traveler..., Invisible Cities, Cosmicomics, and others.
to Literature by crikey |
| The
light
on the net project lets you control a grid of
forty-nine lightbulbs on display at the hall of
the Gifu Softopia Center somewhere in Japan.
Express yourself and make pretty patterns. to Art by crikey |
| If you've ever felt like being an search engine
voyeur, then Metaspy
is for you. Check out what people are searching for with Metacrawler. Available in both filtered
and unfiltered flavors. to Web by crikey |
| Wednesday Mar, 17 1999 | For those interested in Michael Drosnin's
Bible Code,
in which he claims that secret messages are hidden
in the Bible (and actually predicted Yitzhak
Rabin's assassination). If you're a believer, you
owe it to yourself to take a gander at the
assassinations
foretold in Moby Dick for a different
interpretation of this "prophetic text."
to Conspiracy by crikey |
| It's been said that there are only three great
world cuisines: French, Chinese, and ...
Turkish.
If that last one surprises you, check out some of
these fantastic recipes. to Food by crikey |
| Everyone's favorite
Sanrio penguin, Badtz-Maru, is finally online.
Especially entertaining is the "page
only for messages from him that you will read." to Humor by crikey |
| For the finest in electronica, check out Amsterdam's
Staalplaat.
A great independent music label, a radio program,
shop, and distribution company for anyone
interested in ambient and avant-garde electronic
music. to Music by crikey |
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