Monday, July 21, 2003

Andrew's got a comic of his own, "Trent".  And going against the grain, it features NO pink haired girls.

"Ragnarok Online" Comics

French Government Bans Term 'E-Mail'

A Kind of Fascism Is Replacing Our Democracy  "The American system is evolving its own form: "inverted totalitarianism." This has no official doctrine of racism or extermination camps but, as described above, it displays similar contempt for restraints."

Political Posters from the United States, Cuba and Viet Nam 1965-1975

U.S. Children Fatter but Less Violent, Report Says Ripe picking for leaner, meaner kids.

Utterly Outrageous Recipes ™  "This site is dedicated to the weirdest food people actually eat. If you have a dish you love eating, but your family and friends think it's repulsive, this is your chance to share it with the world."

"Welcome to Daily Dead Celeb, where we will endeavour to educate and inform you about famous people who have sadly passed into the afterworld."

Re-live the Columbine experience for yourself in our indoor paintball Columbine High-School re-creation. Yeah, yeah, it a joke...

Anti-masturbation equipment, also a spoof, but funny. From British Conservative Catholics.

Skortman.com  Men in sexxxy skirts!

'Garbage Pail Kids' are back, and they've got Harry Potty!

Graffiti Stencils from THOMAS MULLER.

Dsico Mash-up & Absurd Remixes

Bad Tattos.com A cautionary website.

0R1g1N5 0f l33t.  Though Ghastly calls bullshit on it.  But he is OLD, you know...

SoBe is a softdrink, Jesse and Ryan does fun radio commercials for it.

Tuesday, July 22, 2003.

Congratulations! You are one of the lucky Americans who have the opportunity to Discover Hip Hop!

Don't be that guy.org  You know, the jerks and assorted asshats, those guys? Don't be that guy.

DOLPHIN STRESS TEST is a simple test designed to indicate whether people have too much stress in their life.

Answer to the mystery of life is four [not 42 as previously thought].

chinese pop posters collected over a three year period while working in China on a book project on traditional rural Chinese architecture.

America's Truck Beats advertising, I suppose. More pictures and info on bottom of page.

Bad Designs.com  Dos and don'ts of product design.

"This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet."

Tired of the Darwin fish, try Cthulhu fish.

AirplaneHome Rental Property being built  Wanna live in an rotating airliner?

Your web site may suck if... Guilty.  Oh well.  Or try the Minimalist Web project.

WEARY TRAVELLERS NO LONGER NEED TO STAND FOR HOURS ON END... USE YOUR GOVERNMENT ISSUED PHOTO ID CARD TO DOWNLOAD A FREE SEATING LICENSE.

Napsterbits.com  Napster lives... in this Flash toons.

"It has come to my attention that several employees are talking at their desks during scheduled work hours. I must convey the importance of NOT talking at your desk, or to your desk partner. Talking greatly decreases work productivity, and company morale."

Best Bar Moves for all you studs...

Tony Blair for President 2004! Well, at least he'll be eloquent.

The Lemming Migration myth, explored and deflated.

Wednesday, July 23, 2003.

"River's Edge is a manga about...well, nothing. It's just a story about a few people in highschool as they lead their everyday lives. And as we can all probably attest too, those days back in highschool could be pretty fucked up. This is a manga for all of us who are or were at one point angsty/apathetic/cynical teenagers." BitTorrent file (BitTorrent FAQ)

Install the prog, open the torrent file to download the comic.  You'll likely do so some   time in the future anyway and It's worth it.  It's a good read.

The Difference Between HaidaBucks and Starbucks® "We know it's not easy. I mean, it's just so confusing, we almost can't stand it. But we've learned to tell the difference between a small, friendly cafe in the NW of Canada and a corporate conglomerate that employs too many lawyers with too much time on their hands."

Does comic-book salvation lie in the mysterious East? "I hate manga. I really do. All the big eyes and small mouths, the giant robots, the ham-fisted moral lessons (usually something deep and meaningful, like, "War is bad") -- frankly, I can do without all of it."

Poetry Slam Incorporated!  Listen to some Real Audio outtakes from Slam Nation

Thursday, July 24, 2003.

"This VisualRoute Server provides a graphical traceroute from this server to any other network device you choose, useful for pinpointing network connectivity problems and identifying IP addresses."

TangMonkey.com Dan say it mag written by Cnadians! Dan only American in mag.  Poor Dan.  Just shoot them!

Neko Neko... Wai? (Flash)

F U: An anthology of  fuck you poems.

Anne of Green Gables Shot Glass Unique! (eBay) Very unique.

'Yes, we have no weapons of mass destruction' game!

"PRESENTING: AMY'S DIARY. Amy found her third grade diary, and ten entries have been painstakingly colored with crayon and narrated by experts to preserve the essence of the third grade gestalt."  Celebrity voices read diaries.  Funny, some of them.

Bad & Scary Place "A figment of you imagination."

Norbert's Emulator Software: ONE, the Online NES Emulator  Nothing works on Macs, of course, but I'm told it's great on IE.

Proof that wealth can't buy class:  The top four ugliest cars on the road

Windows CEMENT Text below funnier then the pic.

Star survey reaches 70 sextillion

Equine A Cappella backup (Flash, sound)

OperationSlaps: Hand to Hand Combat Impressive Flash presentation of "hand chicken" game.

Pixar animated shorts are online.  Neat.

Our Top 10 Outsider Videos

Friday, July 25, 2003.

Squeaking Singing White Rice! (Flash toon)

Comicon Report: Dirks Tiedes (Dynamanga), Scott McCloud (Morning Improv), and Dumbrella (WIGU).

Explains The Unexplainable "Why for a Hindu is beef a tabooed item whereas in Canada and in the U.S.A. and most of the Western world is it considered to be a very honorific and delicious food?" (via DFG)

"They Dressed Well" "A troubling fascination with Third Reich regalia elevates the Nazi look to what's chic in South Korea."

Careful: The FB-eye may be watching "That was my mom," I tell them. "The FBI's coming for me." They laugh; it's a good joke, especially when the FBI actually shows up. They are not the bogeymen I had been expecting. They're dressed casually, they speak familiarly, but they are big. The one in front stands close to 7 feet, and you can tell his partner is built like a bulldog under his baggy shirt and shorts."

Virtual Bubble Wrap, New and Improved.

The Original Hip-Hop (Rap) Lyrics Archive Version 2.0 (Beta)

Rotating Opitical Illusions and Checkershadow Illusion

Monkeys on The Simpsons "This was the FIRST index of monkey references on the net! All others are cheap immitations!"

Playing God: Archives detail California group's eugenics plan "Within the brittle files is the story of the state's long and largely forgotten effort to sterilize mental patients. Memos show how California civic leaders helped popularize eugenics around the world, including Nazi Germany. Case histories offer a glimpse of the more than 20,000 people who were, by law, sterilized in state hospitals from 1909 through the 1960s in anticipation of curing an array of social ills — from poverty and promiscuity to overcrowded institutions."

"The amazing (but true!) journey of a can of S & W® brand black beans as they make their way across this great land of ours, and to other nations!"

"ACME is a worldwide leader of many manufactured goods. From its humble beginnings providing corks and flypaper to bug collectors ("Buddy's Bug Hunt/1935") to its heyday in the American Southwest supplying a certain coyote, from Ultimatum Dispatchers to Batman outfits, ACME has set the standard for excellence."  You know from the Warner Bro's Cartoons.

Dude, I should so do this. "Anime" portraits!