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| Wednesday Aug 9, 2000 | John Conway's
Game of Life
is a simple and well known
cellular
automata
that can be used to generate some pretty
amazing
behavior, including a
Universal Turing machine.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Monday Aug 7, 2000 | Holographic
keychains,
holographic
clocks, and
imported holographic glass.
Yawn. Now,
holographic lollipops --
that's interesting.
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Aug 2, 2000 | The bacteria
Deinococcus
Radiodurans
lives happily in the cooling water of
nuclear reactors. Take that,
cockroaches. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jul 20, 2000 | This Monday, the New York
DeCSS trial started.
This
trial
is important because it's an early test of the
DMCA's scope and power.
to Law by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jul 14, 2000 | One of the most beautifully drawn animated movies in years,
The Thief And
The Cobbler, was a labor of love by
Who
Framed Roger Rabbit animator
Richard
Williams.
Way over schedule, the film was yanked away by Warner Brothers
(actually, by their
bond
company) and
butchered
to make it "more mainstream."
The worst offense -- worse than the cut footage or the utterly forgettable
songs -- is the jarring, painfully unfunny voiceover added to the
(silent) character of the thief by
aging ham,
Jonathan Winters.
There may be hope, though. Recently, Williams said that there are plans for a release of his original (albeit incomplete) version on DVD. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| In the Lovecraftian territory between
Survival Research Laboratories and the Sony
Aibo
lives
Spike the Robotic Dog.
to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Jul 2, 2000 | While we're on the subject of
oral
sex, there are
lots
of other
guides
and
FAQs
out there that should help you
perfect
your
technique.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| One of the best and strangest things about America is the
Museum of Jurrasic Technology in
Los Angeles. Part
museum of oddities
and part
situationist art peice,
it was written about in the book
"Mr. Wilson's
Cabinet of Wonder" by
Lawrence
Weschler. (Warning: the book contains spoilers about certain exhibits).
If you can read German, make sure to check out the website of the MoJT's sister
institution: the
Karl Ernst Osthaus Muesum.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jun 30, 2000 | If you're anything like me, you spent
your youth
stealing pills from
your aunt's medicine cabinet. If you're ever in that situation
again and you don't know what you just
grabbed a handful of,
consult this database of prescription drugs that are
searchable by imprint.
to Drugs by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jun 29, 2000 | There's more than just boring
Democrats and
Republicans
running for
President this year.
In fact there's over
20
candidates in the
national election.
to Politics by riotnrrd |
| The logical converse of "invisible insects" would, of course, be
bacteria
big enough to see with the naked eye.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jun 27, 2000 | The annual ACM
SIGGRAPH conference is taking
place next month in lovely
New Orleans. Graphics nerds
such as myself
should take a moment off from their preparations and enjoy some
SIGGRAPH humor.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jun 26, 2000 | Give in to your morbid impulses and read some
suicide
notes: the
poignant, the
adolescent
and even, apparently, that of the
creator
of the site.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Oh god,
the bugs!
The
bugs! They're crawling
under my skin!
The doctors say
they can't see
them, but
I KNOW THEY'RE
THERE!
to Health by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Jun 24, 2000 | Before the
first analog
recordings, music was stored in a
digital
format and played back by
steampunk robots.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Dr. Alexander
Abian, respected Professor of Mathematics and Usenet kook par
excellance,
died a year ago
today. We should mourn his passing by
BLOWING
UP THE MOON AND REBORBITING VENUS TO MAKE A BORN-AGAIN EARTH.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Jun 17, 2000 | If you have a
furby and you're
stupid, you can send it away to "camp" to
"socialize"
with other furbys.
to Toys by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jun 13, 2000 | While you're waiting for your
seti@home
client to find those damn
aliens already, you can pass the time by trying to decipher a
synthetic alien
message created by the good folks at the (somewhat optimistically
named)
Lunar Institute of
Technology.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jun 12, 2000 | Take part in new economy schadenfreude
at fuckedcompany.com.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jun 6, 2000 | In the vein of
"Wicked" -- a novel that cleverly recasts the Wicked Witch of the West as a
tragic political rebel --
and William Clifford's half-serious examination of the
droids-as-slaves
politics in "Star Wars", is
"The Last Bearer of the
Ring", a yet-to-be-translated Polish fantasy novel that retells
Tolkien's
"Lord of the Rings", showing us
that Sauron was just a misunderstood, progress-minded technocrat brought to
ruin by the decadent, elitist elves over a dispute about trade routes.
to Books by riotnrrd |
| Disneyworld isn't the
only place that otherwise staid women feel the
urge to flash the camera. Most famously, there's
Mardi Gras
in
New Orleans, but people also
felt compelled to let it all hang out at
Woodstock '99.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 3, 2000 | A long-time staple of
nuclear holocaust scenarios
and science fiction,
an
electromagnetic
pulse (EMP) is a powerful blast of
radio waves that can
cook
unsheilded electronics from
hundreds of miles away. Of course, anything this
potentially
destructive will be
heavily researched by the
military, but
adventerous tinkerers can
explore
the wonderful world of directed energy weapons at home, without the
need for a
multi-billion dollar budget.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Monday May 1, 2000 | Margaret
and
Walker
Keane's
"big eye"
paintings:
you've seen
them at
thrift stores
and
hanging in
trailer parks,
but I'll bet you didn't know
they're
collectable.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Early in the 19th century, a young
German man named
Kaspar Hauser was discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
Initally taken to prison, it was eventually discovered that,
for reasons unknown, he had been kept
in a dark dungeon since early childhood, and denied any senosry input or
human contact. Conspiracy theories
were as popular then as they are now,
and it was a belief of many that he was the
the lost son of the
Grand Duke of Baden,
hidden away by political rivals.
Passing from caretaker to caretaker, Kaspar eventually
learned to read and speak, and became a celebrity; famous not
only for his mysterious origin, but also for his
innocence and
"christ-like
compassion". At the age of 21, however, he was assissinated
and his true origins never discovered. His story lives on, though, in a recent
play
as well a
movie by Werner Herzog.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Friday Apr 28, 2000 | "Were there gay
vikings?" The web proves that for every question, there is
an expert.
to Education by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Apr 26, 2000 | Ordinary people
lose ordinary stuff.
Astronomers, however, sometimes
lose
whole moons.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| If you're going to be in Minneapolis any time soon, make sure to pick
up a free copy of the
Hugo Award nominated(!)
Minicon restuarant guide,
written by fan volunteers for a recent convention.
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Apr 5, 2000 | There's a
fine line
between being a
collector
and being
obsessive-compulsive.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Apr 2, 2000 | The
late, lamented
Might Magazine
was the brilliant and hilarous
brain child of three San
Franciscans, which published from 1993-1997 on a shoestring budget (they
started with $10,000 and two computers).
Old copies are just about impossible to find, but their most famous
issues were probably
Adam Rich's
celebrity death
hoax and the "sell out issue" which featured an
ad for the cover
and individually sponsored pages.
If you didn't see the magaine while it was alive (and with a
circulation of 30,000 not many did), you can still buy a
collection of essays
that ran within its pages and
the memoirs
of editor
David
Eggers (who later went on to found
Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern). to Media by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Mar 30, 2000 | Popularized by
Arthur C. Clarke
in his classic novel
"The Fountains of Paradise,"
a space elevator
(also known as a "beanstalk") is basically a
big
cable that stretches from the Earth's surface to
geosynchronous orbit.
Why the hell would you want to do this? Well, for one thing
it would make putting things in orbit extremely cheap.
Problems,
however, are legion. It's uncertain whether
any foreseeable
material is even
theoretically strong enough to support the weight of this enormous cable
(although
active materials and
buckytubes hold
promise).
Furthermore, the elevator would sweep
a path through near-Earth orbits,
further
crowding orbital space.
And what would happen if the cable broke, and thousands of miles of
ultrastrong cable
slammed into the
Earth at orbital velocities?
However, if we don't insist on our elevator reaching all the way from
the ground to orbit, it becomes
more realistic.
For example, an
orbital tether
could be used to bridge the gap between "high altitute" and "near space"
and provide not only a cheaper route to orbit, but also a
zero-gee tourist spot.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 29, 2000 | Nobody ever said sex-work was easy. But the kind people at
P.O.N.Y
are trying to make it healthier, while other
anonymous
advice-givers try to make it safer. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 28, 2000 | Every
S&M wannabe has a pair of
handcuffs, but only the most
dedicated freaks have
gigantic, online
collections.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Last week, Mathworks ran their third online
programming contest. These are unusual contests in that
they involve elements of open-source development, which in turn raises
interesting and
as-yet-unresolved questions
about how to run a competetition in the context of
a gift economy.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 14, 2000 | As if any further
evidence
was needed that the
U.S. Patent Office needs
a crunchy beating, someone has patented a
"device"
which is
completely physically impossible.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Revel in the
B1ff-inspired
surrealism of
Michael B. Farbish.
His long, rambling essays (they're too mild-mannered to be considered
true
rants) are made almost illegible
by the apparantly stochastically-generated HTML of these pages.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| You think your job stinks? Well, at least you aren't a
taxi driver.
According to the
U.S. Department of
Health & Human Services, they have the highest
rate of on-the-job homicides
(twice the rate of the
second worst).
A lot more such morbid, quantatative data on how much
where you live and what you do sucks can be found at the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Friday Mar 10, 2000 | For all you metal fans out there, there's
Metal Sludge, a heavy metal
magazine with a sense of humor. Their sprawling website contains
interviews,
record reviews,
a concert calendar
and
pitiless mocking
of press packs.
Make sure, also, to check out
Donna's Domain:
a collection of gossip and
penis rankings
by world-class crew-slut Donna Anderson.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Contrary to the opinions of some
free-lance pharmaceutical researchers,
herbal preparations (either
taken before a test
or used to
adulturate your
sample)
won't
help you pass a
drug test.
Alas, the only things that
will help are
time and lots of
water.
to Drugs by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Mar 9, 2000 | The customer is always right? Ha. Sometimes the customers are
stupid,
gross
or
just plain crazy.
Read all about them at
customerssuck.com.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| In a puzzling match-up, Alsatian saurkraut manufacturer
Stoeffler is sponsoring Rémy
Brika, a French musician, on his quest to
cross the
Pacific Ocean on foot. (If you can't read french,
Babelfish
comes to the rescue.)
to Sports by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 8, 2000 | At first glance,
Tiger-Tiger
appears no different from any other
exotic tchochke store.
But, looking closer at the selection of
Buddhist ritual items,
we find prayer beads (malas) made from
human skulls, ceremonial trumpets (kangans) made of
human thigh bone
and
silver-plated human skulls.
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| Pittsburgh native son Grady Stiles II (aka
The
Lobster Boy), like many other members of his family, was born with
malformed
hands and legs and was raised as a
circus freak,
travelling around the United States in some of the
biggest carnivals from the '40s through the '80s.
He eventually married and and had four children, but when one of his daughters
tried to elope with a boyfriend of whom he did not approve, Grady shot the
man dead at point blank range. Amazingly, the courts did not jail him for
committing this murder, and for the rest of his life the Lobster Boy
abused and terrorized his family.
So chronic was his abuse that in 1992 his wife and one of the children
eventually hired a hitman who killed Grady as he sat in his trailer in
Gibsonton,
Florida.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 1, 2000 | Taito's
Stratovox
(1980)
was the first arcade game to use voice synthesis, although
Gorf,
which came out a year later, is often mistakenly named as the pioneer.
Also of note, the painfully difficult
Sinistar
(1983) was the first to use digitized speech samples.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Feb 27, 2000 | EarthStation1 is small "internet
media museum," i.e. a big collection of funny or
interesting mp3s and wav files, cross-indexed by subject.
to Internet by riotnrrd |
| Friday Feb 25, 2000 | Mike's Electric Stuff
contains pictures and descriptions of obsolete
electric
glassware,
high-voltage devices
and
random cool
electronics stuff.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 14, 2000 | Adobe's
Portable
Document Format
is nice, but who wants to pay
hundreds of
dollars to be able to write and manipulate PDF files?
Check out Planet PDF or the
PDF Zone, where
you can find advice, information and tools for working with PDF,
including a (mostly) free ANSI C library
of functions that allows you to read and write PDF files.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Sometimes, tin foil hats
aren't enough to protect you from the CIA
mind beams.
Sometimes you need
tin foil dress shirts.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| In honor of everyone's favorite
guilt-motivated
holiday, it's a collection of
unfortunate valentines.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Feb 9, 2000 | Gates of Heck publishes books and
sells art by mainstream/underground artists such as
Joe Coleman,
Dame Darcy
and Art Speigelman.
to Books by riotnrrd |
| Ron Jeremy: the man, the myth,
the resume.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Feb 8, 2000 | Annie Sprinkle: former
porn
actress, sex-positive
feminist,
film and performance
artist,
lecturer
and nice
jewish girl.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| What do death row inmates in Texas
order for their
last meals?
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Feb 5, 2000 | Is your
horse or
pet dog
lame, feeling sick, or in pain? The
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
can
help. to Education by riotnrrd |
| While the Nazis were
unspeakably vile in so
many ways, they did have
good
graphic design.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Not all
sharks are
flesh-crazed
killers. Most, in fact, are harmless, like the enormous
whale shark
and the rare (and evidentally tasty)
megamouth.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Feb 3, 2000 | Cleveland artist and syndicated cartoonist
Derf has his own website
now, containing
recent strips and an
archive of oldies,
including a comic biography of native son (and high-school acquaintance),
Jeffrey Dahmer.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| NoHand
has amputated his own fingers, hand, half of his foot (since lost entirely),
part of his genitals, and has "accidentally" lost his left leg below the
knee and his right above the knee.
Extreme, yes, but he's
not alone
in his
obsession
with amputation.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Feb 1, 2000 | It takes a rare and
intense strain of
nerdism to enter
programming contests.
However, the actual contests are a
diverse lot.
Some of the contests are
judged on
the basis of performance, others
on size
and still others on more
philosphical grounds.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| The lurid
Crime Magazine
contains news,
history,
cops and
blood.
to Media by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 27, 2000 | Nineteenth century artist
Louis Wain was his era's
Jim Davis: a relentless drawer and
painter of
cute cats.
But that was before his
schizophrenia
asserted itself and drove his cat-art in
bizarre and
horrifying directions.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jan 24, 2000 | Nolo is a sweet online law
library and
book store, including a nice set of
searchable FAQs.
A similar, lesser, site is the
'Lectric Law Library, which contains
an interesting analysis of the
infamous McDonald's coffee
case.
to Law by riotnrrd |
| Grafica Obscura is Paul Haeberli's
wonderful collection of graphics
notes,
code
and
fun projects. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Urban legends meets
corporate America
as Proctor and Gamble try desperately to debunk the
Satanic church myth.
to Religion by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jan 19, 2000 | Nanobes
are the smallest known living thing, measuring only 20 to 100 nanometers
in size. Discovered in 1996, nanobes are still largely a mystery.
Make sure to look at the
high-resolution
microscopy images at the
discovering lab's
website.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Built by the Carnegie Mellon
Robotics Institute,
the autonomous rover
Nomad
has begun searching for
meteorites
in ice fields around
Elephant Moraine, a remote location in Eastern
Antarctica. You can follow Nomad's
daily progress at
the RI's website. to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jan 18, 2000 | Atom Films showcases short animation
and film, including those by such greats as
Aardman
Animation and
Bill Plympton.
(Requires free
registration)
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| As if childbirth needed to become more
horrifying, there
now seem to be people who willingly
eat the
placenta afterwards. to Food by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 13, 2000 | During WWII, Japan had a
secret base
in Manchuria, housing the infamous
Unit 731,
where they conducted
biological weapons
research as well as hideous "medical" experiments on Chinese, Korean, and
Mongolian prisoners of war.
In 1987, T.F. Mous made a
grisly film about it, based on first-hand reports of the atrocities.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Like the
Thundercats
before them, out-takes
from the 1960's life-size puppet show
New Zoo Review
are now available online
(as both
real audio and
MPEG).
to Television by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Jan 9, 2000 | x10's advertising is apparantly now targeting
pornographers and
stalkers. to Web by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jan 7, 2000 | Artists
Heidi Kumao and
Frank Gravey,
juggler
Michael Moschen and art critic Robert Atkins
are the four
Microsoft-sponsored Fellows in residence at Carnegie Mellon
University this year.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| If you're wondering what movie to rent tonight,
Losman's list of Disturbing and
Vile movies is a good (or bad) place to start, depending on how
strong your stomach is.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| For a quick dose of
angst and
bitter laughs,
check out Fried Society which, sadly,
is no longer being drawn. to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 6, 2000 | The Japanese surprise me yet again. Just when I think they can't possibly come up
with another
perversion, along
comes (ahem)
bukkake. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| As the world turns over and snoozes through the
dreaded y2k,
we should pause to reflect on how
another group
of people reacted to their own
flaccid
doomsday. to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jan 3, 2000 | Prepare yourself for
first contact
by reading the
Handbook of UFO Contact.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Extensive squinting at blurry images has revealed
howitzers and
Nazi regalia on Mars. to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Dec 4, 1999 | Openrecords.org provides us with the disturbing combination of
petty consumer complaints, searchable records of sexual offenders
and
gory photos
of executed criminals.
to Law by riotnrrd |
| Anyone who's been buzzed at 11pm on a Friday night knows about
Space Ghost: Coast to Coast,
a hilarious
cartoon
based on the idea
that dim-witted 60's ex-superhero
Space Ghost now
runs a late night talk show. Make sure to stay an extra half hour for
it's funnier spinoff
"Cartoon
Planet" featuring everyone's favorite man-child:
Brak.
to Television by riotnrrd |
| In an alternate reality, the U.S. was invaded by 400 ton
armored Soviet
hovercrafts, that can go 340 miles an hour, hold a crew of 400
and travel 3000 miles on a tank of gas. to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Nov 16, 1999 | You thought the
Honda walking
robot was neat? How about a
bipedal
mechanism that walks without sensors, motors or
a computer? to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| Sci-fi publisher Baen
Books is now offering
web-based subscriptions
to new novels: you get a quarter of four different novels each month,
starting four months before their publication.
to Books by riotnrrd |
| Monday Nov 15, 1999 | Turn an image and some arbitrary text into a
stunning graphic
in HTML with
png2html.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Everybody knows that
secret cabals are
controlling our minds with microwave radiation and, furthermore,
that there's only one way to protect yourself:
tin-foil hats.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Nov 9, 1999 | Unisys has announced plans to
fine websites
$5000 if they use GIFs created with unlicensed software.
In response, Bay Area nerds have declared this Friday to be
burn all GIFs day.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Monday Nov 1, 1999 | Sometimes, it's embarassing to like
fine audio
equipment, since you get lumped in with idiots who think that
green pens
help the sound of CDs and
$80 hunks
of steel covered in of wood can improve "imaging."
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Oct 28, 1999 | Contrary to accusations, I do think
Sarah Dyer is a cartoonist.
In fact, I have every issue of
"Action Girl"
ever published, and am a big fan of
her writing
for
Space Ghost: Coast
to Coast to boot.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Oct 27, 1999 | Lesser known than
Clara
Bow - the "It girl" - is
Louise Brooks, another great
actress from the 20's and 30's. She epitomized the flapper, not
only in
appearance
but in her
defiant,
racy lifestyle as well.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Although several of my favorite cartoonists
(Dan
Clowes
and
Adrian Tomine
to name two)
have no web presence, others do.
Check out
Jim Woodring's website,
which just doesn't do justice to his
creepy dreamlike art, or
Evan Dorkin and
Sarah Dyer's
House of Fun.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Reduce,
reuse, and
recycle.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Oct 26, 1999 | typographic is an old
(in net years) and
beautifully
designed site devoted to the
history and
current practice of typography.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| My all-consuming toy fetish right now is
wind-up robots.
Especially
ones from Japan
from the 50s.
I have to settle for
reproductions,
however, since the originals can cost
thousands
of dollars.
to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Oct 25, 1999 | Team ABL, an Air Force,
Boeing, TRW, and Lockheed-Martin consortium, has completed ground testing
of a
multi-hundred
kilowatt laser system
intended to be mounted on a 747 for
theater missile
defense.
This big stuff is fine and dandy, but when do we get our personal
ray guns, dammit?
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Oct 23, 1999 | Next time you think, think Fertnel,
a leading producer of snaks™ and snak™ by-products. Check out their
high
tech snack™ technology and their
online zine for teens.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| If the
Sony Aibo's $2000
price tag is too steep,
you can always make your own robotic pet. Lego Mindstorms are, of course, an
option but for the more adventurous there is
Solarbotics, which
sells
kits and parts
for various simple but elegant robots.
Craig Maynard also sells kits
for his "Cybug" robots, including solar powered bugs that can stalk each
other and feed from a
cyborg sunflower
powerplant.
Make sure to check out Robohoo, a
good general source for robotics information, books and companies.
to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Oct 21, 1999 | As if further evidence was needed of the
fundamental silliness of governments, the
British Standards Organization
has created
an eight page specification of how to make tea
.
If you're really curious, you can
register for free and read the text online.
to Law by riotnrrd |
| The Mystic Aquarium
rescued, tagged and
released
some
pilot
whales into the wild and now you can
track them
on-line.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Oct 20, 1999 | The Hello World
Page, like the
I Can Eat Glass Project
and the
Ate My Balls webring,
shows that anything not worth doing will be done anyway, in lots and lots of
different ways.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Sumea is a native Java, fully 3D, polygon
engine that supports depth-of-field, particle systems, alpha blending and
texture mapping.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Oct 19, 1999 | UPC codes
are ubiquitous -- some would say
diabolically so -- so shouldn't you know how to
read them
yourself?
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| Learn how to swear in Finnish ("Suksi vittuun!") and just about any
other language at
Scritch's Multilingual
Swear List.
to Linguistics by riotnrrd |
| Monday Oct 18, 1999 | Jerk City reads like the bastard
child of an online comic and the ramblings of a febrile
four year old.
But this is not a bad thing. In fact, it's the
insanity
that makes it
so
damn
funny.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Ken Perlin, perhaps most
famous for his
noise and turbulence
functions (which won him an Oscar), has done tons of other fantastic work.
Make sure to check out his continuing
procedural
texturing work,
his Java fractal
planet and the
animated face,
also implemented in Java.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Oct 16, 1999 | Although long thought to be
nonexistant,
it now appears that there may indeed be a
tenth planet,
a vastly distant
brown
dwarf with three times the mass of Jupiter.
to Science by riotnrrd |
|
Rastafarians:
dope-smoking
hippies or
something else?
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Monday Oct 11, 1999 | October is
National Apple Jack Month and
contains
both
Sylvia
Plath Day and
National
Frappe Day.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Even if you don't live in
San Francisco
or
Los Angeles, you're
still not safe from earthquakes.
One of the
potentially
most deadly faultlines in the
U.S. -- the
New Madrid fault
-- runs right through the seismically unprepared midwest. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Friday Oct 8, 1999 | Over the past twenty years, artist Harold Cohen has been building a robotic
painter, driven by an expert system, that he calls
AARON.
A 1995
article by
Cohen discusses Aaron's implications for art and contains some
images of
its work.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Japan: land of
exotic food,
beautiful art,
and
filthy toilets. to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Oct 7, 1999 | Wolfgang Pauli
once said about another scientist's theory that
"it's not even wrong." This withering put-down has
been adopted by folks who oppose
pathological
science, also known as
pseudo-science
or
junk science.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Restrooms.org is a memepool for
the
toilet-obsessed.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Monday Oct 4, 1999 | The popular media often gets its science and astronomy
wrong.
Very,
very wrong.
Here to save the day from ignorance are Phil Platt's
Bad Astronomy
and Alistair Fraser's
Bad Science
websites.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| The prolific sci-fi and fantasy author
Jack Vance is re-publishing his
entire oeuvre in the sixty volume
Jack Vance Integral
Edition.
to Books by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Sep 30, 1999 | In November of 1988,
Robert
Morris released a
software
worm that brought almost 60,000 machines to a halt.
A
lot has been written about
this
event, but of special historical interest is the federal government's
General Accounting
Office report from 1989 -- their first internet publication!
to Internet by riotnrrd |
| "Next year is the
year 2000." Sez who?
The
Gregorian calendar isn't the only one out there, you know. In
addition to the well known and still used
Hewbrew and
Islamic
calendars, there are many others floating around,
ranging from
the ancient and very non-Western
Aztec and
Mayan
calendars, to the downright goofy
Tranquility calendar (with the year zero set to July 20, 1969) and
the Thelemic
calendar, based on Aleister Crowley's mystical hokum.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Sep 28, 1999 | If normal coffee just doesn't have
enough of the
good stuff,
maybe you should try
Shock brand hypercaffinated coffee,
with 200 mg of caffeine per serving.
to Coffee by riotnrrd |
| Gay? Looking for some
rough trade?
Wealthy (or desperate) enough to fly to
Germany
for it? Well, then let
Mike and Thorsten
give you the hardcore rodgering you crave.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Temple Grandin is perhaps the
world's foremost
designer
of cattle and hog
slaughter
houses. She's also autistic, and
has written
several books about it.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Friday Sep 24, 1999 | For people with fat wallets and demanding aesthetics,
Moth Audio makes some
gorgeous tube amps, and
the coolest
night light
I've ever seen.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Drew Barrymore wants to
remake the Jane Fonda classic
Barbarella
, but without the camp.
What?!? Barbarella without the
furry
cat-suits or the
Mathmos?
Sacrilege!
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Sep 22, 1999 | The Blair Witch Project, like other
successful
films, has produced a plethora of parodies: the
Blair
Family Circus Project, the
Bewitched Project,
the Blair
Warner Project, and the inevitable
Blair
Witch Ate My Balls page, to name a few.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Matinee Today is a
beautifully-designed shrine to
the art of
movie
magazines and
posters,
with an extensive tribute to movie siren
Rita
Hayworth. to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Sep 21, 1999 | The
Japanese Engrish
page salutes the valiant and humorous attempts by Japanese companies to give
their products English names. to Linguistics by riotnrrd |
| Are you butch or femme?
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Sep 18, 1999 | Polish artist
Zbigniew Libera
has made some interesting art dealing with the Holocaust, using
Legos.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Interested in experimenting with
neural nets?
Then pick up a free copy of the
Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator, which has
an impressive
list of features, a nice GUI, and is availabile on
many platforms.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| The near future of rocket propulsion looks interesting.
Chemical rockets, of
course, will remain important for a while, but within a few dedacdes
we could have much more efficient
nuclear "teakettle" rockets
somewhat like the old
NERVA engines.
Ultimately, however, the future belongs to
fusion.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Friday Sep 17, 1999 | Another neato Ars Electronica exhibit was
"Hamster - symbiotic exchange of hoarded energy."
Robots, which steer themselves but have no motors, were driven by
hamsters running in on-board wheels, who had no conception of their "task."
The robot-hamster symbiote must travel between a
food station (for the hamsters) and a set of bright lights that recharges
the solar cells of the robots.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| On the border between pathetic fandom and strange humor lies the
Dune Guy Fanpage.
The humor (or is it satire?) comes from the author's apparant confusion of
Klye MacLachlan
and Matthew Perry.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Kevin Smith, writer and director of Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy,
has a
large web-site,
filled with great information about his past and
upcoming movies.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Sep 16, 1999 | One of the most popular exhibits at Ars Electronica was
"Bump" -- a pneumatically actuated wooden walkway that communicated
with a similar bridge set up in
Budapest.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| For a
class project on robotics, these Minnesota fifth graders made
deadly spiders,
death rays, and
roller coasters out of Legos.
The programs for
some projects have a certain Ballardian poetry:
"to crashcar: shine, crash, sound, end."
to Education by riotnrrd |
| I spent the past two weeks at
Ars Electronica
in Linz, Austria. The loosely-adhered-to theme this year was "LifeScience"; basically an
excuse for artists to publically worry about
biotechnology
and to display
plasticized human bodies
in the
Brucknerhaus.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Ain't nothin' a smooth
pimp daddy needs more than
a
slick
computer.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Sep 14, 1999 | Free sci-fi short stories and novellas by a variety of authors can be found
at Infinity Plus, located in
the UK.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| What are those knuckle-heads at AOL up to now?
AOL Watch has the latest scoop
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Aug 19, 1999 | Antimatter
storage and
interstellar
spaceships?
This isn't science fiction, but rather NASA
funded studies of
advanced concepts
in aeronautics and space.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Intrigued by SIGGRAPH but don't want to spring $200 for a full set of
conference proceedings?
You're in luck: you can get most of
this year's
papers on-line for free.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Several famous science fiction authors maintain their own homepages
(which include free stories and essays):
Greg Egan,
Robert Sawyer, and
David Brin, to name a few.
to Literature by riotnrrd |
| Translucent, colored plastic has never been
sexier.
Or more
popular.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| This Saturday (August 21) at 23:49:57 UTC the 10 bit
GPS
week counter will
roll over.
The
effects
will be minimal as most GPS receivers were built with the rollover in
mind. However, I certainly won't be
flying
anywhere that night.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Everyone knows about
Project Gutenberg, but there are
several less-well-known
sites dedicated to distributing free text.
Berkeley's
Alex Catalogue
is a good place to start, as is
Bibliomania and, of course,
Carnegie Mellon's own
On-Line Books Page.
If you're feeling like sticking it to
The Man, then also check out
Banned
Books On-Line, also at CMU.
to Literature by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Aug 18, 1999 | Whitey
also likes rock 'n' roll!
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| It's well known that
many diseases
are related to
meat eating.
Ironically, it may be
the hormones released in fear
by the animals right before they're slaughtered that cause these problems.
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Aug 17, 1999 | Women are merely fleshy robots, that can be
programmed to do as we like.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| The
violet wand
is a tesla-coil-like electrical device. It was originally developed
for
medical use at the beginning
of the century but has found a new home with
modern perverts.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Carolina Biological Supply
satsifies all of your
preserved animal and
owl poo.
needs.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Monday Aug 16, 1999 | One of the more popular papers at
SIGGRAPH this year was about
Teddy,
a 3d modelling program that has an artist-friendly UI and nifty
non-photorealistic rendering.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Did you know that a jury can acquit someone if they
consider the law itself to be
unjust?
Learn the astonishing truth about your rights and powers as a juror at
the homepage of the
Fully Informed Jury
Association.
to Law by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Aug 5, 1999 | How Stuff Works tells
you exactly that, with helpful diagrams and clearly written explanations.
For you
Lynx freaks out there, they also
offer a
text-only version.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Opiate of the people, meet opiate of the people. In 1958,
the Pope named
St. Clare
of Assisi the patron saint of television. Test your St. Clare
knowledge with this
handy
quiz and remember: peeking at
the
answers is a venial sin.
to Television by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Aug 4, 1999 | At one mile long, 700 feet wide and 25 stories tall, the as-yet-unbuilt
Freedom Ship aims to be be a
libertarian tax-haven as well as the world's largest cruise ship.
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| What would it look like if you
fell into a
black hole?
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Do you need a new identity for a little while? Maybe forever?
Perhaps the threateningly primitive
Identitiswap Database
can help.
to Law by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jul 14, 1999 | For a few decades at the beinning of the century, Sears sold
mail-order
house kits.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| In 1901, Greek sponge-divers found an ancient shipwreck off the coast of
Antikythera which contained the remains of a
geared
mechanism over two thousand years old.
Archaeologists and scientists now believe it was a device for calculating
the motions of stars and planets: a primitive analog computer.
The
implications
for our understanding of ancient history are potentially enormous.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jul 12, 1999 | The text on
this site
is in Japanese but it says the same thing in any language: "I am a very,
very lonely man."
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Due to a dispute over
wheat quotas,
a farmer and his wife seceded from Australia and became the
Hutt River Province
Principality, which is ruled by the benign monarch
His Royal
Highness Prince Leonard. The
legality of this
seccession is, of course, contested.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Make your next vacation a celebration of
destruction and
radioactivity,
and let the
Bureau of Atomic Tourism
help.
to Travel by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Jul 11, 1999 | Was
the Irish Potato Famine merely made worse by British neglect,
or were they actively trying to
destroy Ireland?
to Politics by riotnrrd |
| The very rare book
Codex
Seraphinianus is a artwork of breathtaking creativity and beauty
masquerading as an Encylopedia of an alternate world.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| How old is the universe? What's the shape of space-time?
Ned Wright's
Cosmology Tutorial has the answers to the really
big questions.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jul 5, 1999 | From the Cure to Insomnia department comes the
International Journal of Grey
Literature, which is devoted to the study of text created by government
agencies.
to Literature by riotnrrd |
| When you die and are buried, at least have the courtesy to do it in a
an
environmentally sound
manner.
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jul 1, 1999 | Cakerecipe.com has (no surprise
here) a ton of recipes for cakes, ranging from the
common
to the
rightfully
obscure.
to Food by riotnrrd |
| "Achoo!" "Oh baby, you know how that
turns me on!" to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Monday May 31, 1999 | Some tips and tricks to help you
commit credit-card
fraud. to Economics by riotnrrd |
| Saturday May 29, 1999 | "Can you tell me something about
transformation?" almost defies description. It has something to do
with aliens, something to do with a
man with no nose
and something to do with
freakish
mockeries of the human form.
In a humorously self-referential move, this site also contains a
museum
of itself.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| The
Museum of Black
Superheros commemorates exactly what you'd expect, and
does it extremely well. Insightful criticism and
interesting
historical essays round out the site.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Friday May 28, 1999 | Crack-heads, losers and has-beens. They're all there at
Former Child-Star
Central.
to Television by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 27, 1999 | John Adams keeps a
list of all the beers he has drunk since 1988.
Alert me when we should start caring. to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| The
Aviation Saftey Network
contains everything a plane-crash obsessed ghoul could desire:
exhaustive crash
reports,
fatality and accident
statsitics,
and -- creepiest of all --
text transcripts and
.wav files from
voice-recording "black boxes."
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Monday May 17, 1999 | Three words: Charles Manson online.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Friday May 14, 1999 | Is Christianity about love and forgiveness? Of course it is! But it's also
about piracy, arrrrr! Listen to some
audio recordings
of a ventriloquism-based children's TV show from the 70's called
"Captain Hook and
his Christian Pirate Crew". Arr! Prepare to be boarded.. BY THE LORD.
to Television by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 13, 1999 | Have you seen strange moving lights in the night sky lately?
They're not UFOs, but rather so-called
Iridium
flares,
flashes of light reflected from the 60+
Iridium
satellites now in orbit around the Earth.
To find out exactly when these satellites (and many others) are
overhead, consult the
German Space Operations Center's
satellite finder to Science by riotnrrd |
| The Billboard Liberation
Front, defacing billboards since 1977. to Culture by riotnrrd |
| The Voynich manuscript
is a mysterious medeival text, written in an unknown script in an
undetermined language.
to Literature by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 12, 1999 | Ayse Goker has a very well organzied page of links of
AI resources on the
web, including companies, journals and free software. to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Chain mail:
not just for Conan any more. to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| Mmm..
pork and
vermouth. Two great tastes that go great together. to Food by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 6, 1999 |
The Eye of Argon is the best known, worst fantasy story ever written.
It contains such shimmering prose as "Gaping from its single obling socket was
a scintillating, many fauceted scarlet emerald."
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Microsoft's
MURL web-site
is a free archive of
academic CS
talks
given at Microsoft and several select universities.
Unfortunately (and predictably), these talks are recorded in a
proprietary format, viewable only under Windows.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday May 4, 1999 | Believed by millions of
Barbie-owning
girls and now confirmed by studies,
chubby girls don't get dates. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| In violation of lord-knows-how-many copyright laws, someone has
put a bunch of
Edward Gorey
illustrated books on their webpage. Enjoy them while they last.
to Books by riotnrrd |
|
Metalstorm, a radical new gun invented by a lone Australian tinkerer,
has no moving parts and can fire up to a million rounds a
second.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Friday Apr 30, 1999 | Tales from the
Wank Factory is a hilarious account of the author's two and a half
years working in the (ahem) trenches of the British smut industry.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Unclaimed baggage? Bah. How about
unclaimed
bodies? to Law by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Apr 27, 1999 | An
old essay
written by
Freeman
Dyson discusses what the fate of
the universe (and us) might be if it is open, rather than closed.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| From the "no surprise to anyone" department comes the
light sabre homepage
which includes obsessive speculation on the different
shapes,
colors and
fighting
strategies.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Apr 22, 1999 | According to this
article on Hotwired,
the current owner of the extremely valuable "sex.com" domain may have
stolen it from the rightful owner. More interestingly, the article
notes that sex.com grosses over $100 MILLION a year.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Modern art is
crap! to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Apr 20, 1999 | Good Vibrations would like
you to celebrate
National Masturbation Day by collecting pledges for
every minute you masturbate that day.
And now that
dildos
are
legal in Alabama again, everyone can lend a.. um.. hand.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Monday Apr 19, 1999 | A View From the Back of the
Envelope is devoted to the joys of approximation and educated guessing.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| The All-Music guide, a free online
version of their
popular reference book,
contains descriptions of thousands of performers, bands and
albums in addition to careful descriptions of different musical
genres
and how they
interrelate to Music by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Apr 18, 1999 | The famous powers of ten
illustrations move the viewer from the
edges of the universe
to the smallest known
particles in 42 power-of-ten steps.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| In the Czech town of Kutna Hora is the All Saints' Chapel, whose interior
is
decorated with
the bones of the 40,000 people who have been buried in its graveyard
since 1278.
Jan Svankmeyer did a
10 minute
film about it, so you know it has to be cool.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Apr 17, 1999 | Force Ten sells
equipment and
books
for "revenge, spying, police and miltary" uses.
If you're planning on doing any serious stalking, however, you'd better
get a night-vision scope, too.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Friday Apr 16, 1999 | The Watchman Fellowship maintains a large list of
cults and relgions,
which also acts as a good glossary of
religious terms.
to Religion by riotnrrd |
| Go to the Folk Art and Craft exchange
and buy the items you need to do that
voodoo that you do
so well.
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Apr 14, 1999 | Dave's Math Tables
contain tons of useful equations, proofs and identities. You can even
download the whole thing
as HTML or PDF files.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| The Cornell department of Science and Technology Studies is sponsoring
a conference on such
gripping issues as
"The Modern Woman and Her Sanitary napkin: The Social Construction of Women
Through Feminine Technologies" and
"Psychiatrist As Chemical
Engineer, Patient As Cyborg". I wanna be a
cyborg!
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Artists' Golf claims to be an
attempt to tries to "unite the seemingly disparate worlds of Art and Golf."
The site contains
reviews
of golf courses, side by side with bizarre "what if" speculations
on how different artists
might have played golf.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Apr 13, 1999 | Volrés and Pacers
and and Gremlins, oh my!
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| The virtual retinal
display uses low-powered lasers to paint images directly on your retina.
After some of the larger components are made smaller and cheaper, the
inventors plan to commercialize the
technology.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Friday Apr 9, 1999 | Hot Bristish babe Cleo
spent a year living with
prostitutes in
Bangkok, six years as a
drug-smuggling hippie in India,
and wrote books about both adventures.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Digital movie projectors are on their way. All that remains to be
determined is which technology will triumph: the
CRT-based ILA made
by JVC-Hughes, or Texas Instrument's
MEMS-based projector.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Apr 8, 1999 | Here's some filters for converting between
HTML and other text formats,
and for
undoing the
incompatibilties between Microsoft-produced-HTML and
the standard. to Web by riotnrrd |
| Fetish stores that cater to the weird are nothing new, but the Germans manage
to go one step further into the downright bizarre:
Gasmasks,
bodybags
and..
the schnüffelpenis?
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| At this very moment, I am scouring
the toy stores of the world for
this toy.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Monday Apr 5, 1999 | Jesse "The Governor" Ventura ran some
very funny ads
during his campaign for governor of Minnesota. After comparing his
spoof of the Shaft theme-song to the dry blather of his opponents,
it's no wonder he won.
to Politics by riotnrrd |
| Friday Apr 2, 1999 | The Center for Human
Simulation has created the
Visible Human
Database, a collection of high-resolution color scans of
slices of the human body. Make sure to see the incredible
animation!
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Intersense sells ultrasonic inertial
trackers
for head-mounted displays and
motion capture
that give much higher update rates than
conventional magnetic sensors (such as the well-known
Polhemus system).
to Wearables by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Apr 1, 1999 | Straight guys aren't the only ones with
clothing fetishes.
Gay men certainly have them, too.
Whichever gender you like to nail, now you can -- thanks to e-commerce -- buy
the gear to satisfy your
twisted,
perverted desires, without making embarassing eye-contact with another
human being.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Has Ben Affleck's transition from indie-film auetur
to Hollywood commodity changed him?
Naaaaah.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Carnegie Mellon University (sporadically) maintains an immensley useful
repository of
artificial intelligence software, documentation, programming languages,
mailing-list archives, and utilities.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 24, 1999 | For people who never got over their teddy bears, comes
Fur Nation.
It contains
summer convention
and (of course)
furry porn. to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Okay, the
school girls I can
definately understand, and maybe even the
tentacles.
But the Japanese lose me when it comes to the erotic potential of
woman
shrinking to tiny size.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| The
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
is (ahem) dead serious about its call for "phasing out the human race"
for the good of the Earth's ecology.
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| 4.8 gigabytes of
images and movies of astronomical objects and spacecraft are
avialble at this French site.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 23, 1999 | Sick and tired of those floppy old genitals? Then why not
chop them off? Don't miss the cringe-inducing
image gallery. Ow.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Sandlot Science is a collection
of optical illusions, including
breathing squares
and
plans to build (apparantly)
impossible objects. to Games by riotnrrd |
| Monday Mar 22, 1999 | Tomb "Bazooms" Raider creator Core Design is
considering legal action against web sites that display
nude
images of Lara Croft. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| What would happen if an asteroid
hit New York City?
For starters, Long Island would be blanketed in molten rock and superheated
steam, so maybe it's not all bad.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Atrocities of the
Christian Church really has nothing to do with Christianity, but is
instead a collection of pictures and descriptions of medeival torture
devices. Similarly,
Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs is less about the
martyrs than what the pagans did to them. to Religion by riotnrrd |
| Friday Mar 12, 1999 | The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center provides us with a new
and interesting
anatomic pathology case each month, complete with
photographs.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Police and crime news
from around the country, including a section on those darlings of
the media:
serial killers.
to Law by riotnrrd |
| Beautiful
Russian amputee ladies wish to meet you.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Mar 11, 1999 | The Dysfunctional Family Circus
can be funny some of the time. That is, if you like jokes about incest, drug abuse, and
bad art, made at the expense of Bil Keane.
to Comics by riotnrrd |
| I like women who are fat and
hairy.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Bizarre (to say the least) fringe film-maker Joe Christ now publishes his
his newsletter on the web.
No mention is made, unfortunately, of the allegations that he
cut off his own
penis to make the film "Sex, Blood & Mutilation."
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 10, 1999 | Get wired.
Barbed wire, that is. While you're at it, make sure to prick yourself
at the barbed wire
museum.
to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Bondage for dummies,
including the ever-popular
Japanese
hog-tie.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 2, 1999 | Speech researchers at UPenn have compiled a
map of American dialects. This mapping is a part of the larger project
of constructing
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Fossils for sale, including
rare
invertebrates and some truly
bizarre trilobites. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Feb 28, 1999 | The Rotary Rocket Company's public
display of their newly completed prototype takes place on Monday at 4pm.
Flight tests supposedly start
this year. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Feb 24, 1999 | The last community of Shakers in the
world lives in New Gloucester, Maine. They beleive in
pacficism, communism and
chastity. No wonder there's only seven left.
to Religion by riotnrrd |
| A site that injects a little sanity into the
y2k bug debate.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Bizarre and tasteless stream-of-conciousness writings by someome named
Zamboni about
him, his mom, and
a goat named
Guido.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 22, 1999 | Get one of your own experiments
flown on the Space
Shuttle. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Fight like apes
and
screw like
bonobos! to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Second-hand stores are passe; the truly hip do their
thrift shopping by buying
unclaimed airline baggage. to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Feb 10, 1999 | And you thought you had some
bad dates. to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Whoa, dude. I'm, like, soooo
baked.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Feb 9, 1999 | The most thorough and interesting
reference about the
elements that I've ever seen.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| A chicken inside
a duck inside a turkey -- now that's good eatin'!
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Bizarre Magazine is a raunchy
British magazine specializing in the strange and tasteless. to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 8, 1999 | Killing insects with
high powered lasers!
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| In the same spirit as
Beerframe (a.k.a Inconspicous Consumption), is
Contraption,
a webpage about nifty gadgets.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Feb 7, 1999 | Are you ready for biker trash? The
Hell's Angels have
their own homepage, as does the
New York chapter. Biker
Trash magazine selected the
Houston Hombres
as having the best motorcycle club webpage; probably because of the
naked pictures of their
girlfriends.
to Transportation by riotnrrd |
| Just because G.I. Joe wants
some new outfits
doesn't mean he's
gay. to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 28, 1999 | Let the cloning
begin!
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Before robots take over the world, you'd better catch up on the
required reading.
to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| The Sparrow is a tiny little
electric car with with a 30-60 mile range and a
not-so-tiny pricetag.
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jan 25, 1999 | When the Fox network just isn't enough, there's
PursuitWatch. Just 99 cents a year
will get you pager alerts every time a TV station broadcasts a
high-speed chase. Unfortunately, and predictably, it's available in Los
Angeles only.
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| If you're attacking that heavily-armed nest of Cisco engineers, you'd
better know what the
best combat
shotgun for the job is.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| The story of "three very bored geeks, a leatherman, a bunch of disposable
plastic lighters, and a severe case of
pyromania."
to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jan 18, 1999 | More information that you ever needed to know about
calendars.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jan 8, 1999 | You big sissy!
to Wackos by riotnrrd |
| Funny, bitter commentary
on T.V. shows.
to Television by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jan 6, 1999 | Making your heart explode
as
cheaply as possible. to Reference by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jan 5, 1999 | The Earth has had several near-collisions with
asteroids
and
comets.
And there's more to come, of course, so
keep watching the skies.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Jan 2, 1999 | The ACM has put a
few classic papers and speeches
on their web-site. Los Alamos has a
more complete archive,
of ACM papaers, which is
searchable as well.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Catch up on the latest gossip from
the porn industry.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jan 1, 1999 | The fat guy and
the other one.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 30, 1998 | In the grand tradition of
La Petomaine comes the talented Brit
Mr. Methane, the "world's only
performing flatulist." If you're lucky enough to be in the UK on the 31st,
make sure to watch Channel 4 at midnight, when he'll be farting the
coutdown to 1999. He'll then "perform" 'Auld Lang Syne'. What better way
to start the year?
(And, yes, his site has sound clips.) to Culture by riotnrrd |
| War! What
is it good for?
Hideous, disfiguring
wounds!
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Dec 20, 1998 | Launchspace Magazine
is a space industry trade magazine filled with excellent articles and
interesting technical data. Make sure to check out the forcast of
upcoming launches and
the article on
astronaut
fatalities. Of special interest is the evidence that five
Soviet cosmonauts died in orbit before Yuri Gargarin's successful flight
in 1961.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Can a Christian enjoy late 90's glam-rock? Evidentally not without
going to hell for it.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| 'Tis the season to be jolly, so take some time to find out the details of
how you'll die when we're attacked with
biological weapons.
And if you want to hasten this Apocalypse, you can always
make some yourself.
to Warfare by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 16, 1998 | Java seems to be interesting but useless; except for creating interesting
but useless things. Like the Java simulations of
N-body gravity and.. err..
more N-body gravity.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Whether you're new to the language or an expert looking for clever tweaks,
you should check out the C-Scene
Zine, a technical e-zine devoted to C and C++. to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 9, 1998 | If don't like the sight of blood, you probably don't want to see the
breast lift and augmentation
broadcast live on the web tonight at 7:30pm PST.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| You think you're a hot programmer, but has your code
ever
killed a man?
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Take a few minutes out of
your busy day and catch up on the classics, some popular sci-fi books,
bedtime stories and movies.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 2, 1998 | This list of
"bondage" stories isn't what you think. Similar to the
News of the Weird,
it's a collection of news stories culled from the wires at the
San Francisco Examiner that
are
strange
or
grimly
funny.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Slake your thirst for answers at TOOT; the
Tool Of Objective
Truth.
Use TOOT to take the measure of
human bravery,
the measure of
human intellect,
or just
the measurements of man.
to Web by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Dec 1, 1998 | Who better to commemorate on a new stamp than
bad author and
proponent of aetheistic
selfishness Ayn
Rand?
to Culture by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Nov 25, 1998 | Admit it, geek: you like math. So indulge yourself and bask in the reflected
light of infinity with information about
the largest
known primes. Afterwards, relax in the comfortable, climate-controlled
first
50,000,000 digits of pi.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Thumb through the
Tacky Postcard Archive
and thrill to the sights of
advertising photography
from the 50's and ineptly colored holiday cards from
far off lands.
to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Nov 24, 1998 | Relax from a hard day of web surfing with a hot cup of
Makaibari Estate
FTGFOP1S Second Flush Darjeeling or any one of the other seven hundred
types of tea sold by the Upton Tea
Importers.
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Monday Nov 23, 1998 | I'm having a bad day today, so I can understand why people would
want to
shoot appliances with
shotguns to relieve stress.
Kill your
television, indeed. to Games by riotnrrd |
| We all know that C is
just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar so it should be no
surprise that there's a long-standing
contest to see who can write the most
obscure or obfuscated C program
that actually does something useful.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute has built a
robot to look
for meteorites in Antartica. There's prerecorded and live video and
telemetry available, also.
to Robotics by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Nov 22, 1998 | The Neck Brace Appreciation Klub
is a "small but growing" collection of twisted perverts who enjoy
"recreational" neck and body-bracing. It's reassuring that there's
at least one fetish out there that
Todd Friedman hasn't
exhaustively photographed.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| There's only one thing better than a good soccer game, and that's a good
soccer RIOT. Enjoy
video and pictures of
soccer hooligans from across Europe, doing what they do best: lighting
each other on fire and getting the crap beat out of them by the police.
to Sports by riotnrrd |
| Are you looking TOO good? Does your dazzling smile attract unwanted sexual
attention or -- worse -- make people think that you work in marketing?
Well, Dr. Bukk is here to save you. Select form a wonderful
selection of styles
of false teeth, all guaranteed to make you look like a
slack-jawed yokel.
to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Nov 19, 1998 | Boston baked beans? Bah. Circus Peanuts? Child's play.
You haven't seen truly horrible candy until you've visited
the
The Page of Bad Candy
to Food by riotnrrd |
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