Friday, July 28, 2000
Give your name to the Online Cheese Comparator. No, I don't understand it either but I like it. Mmm. Stilton!
Friday, July 28, 2000
The new "Charlie's Angels" trailer makes this disaster-prone flick actually look like it might be ... funny!
Thursday, July 27, 2000
Every Wednesday, Suck is pretty reliably funny. Yesterday, it was extra good.
Wednesday, July 26, 2000
I'd like to make a joke here, but this story is just sad. The young Brando was so freaking hot.
Wednesday, July 26, 2000
Check out the homepage of Microsith and don't miss Darth Paperclip, who is evil and helpful, just like his inspiration.
Tuesday, July 25, 2000
God help me, this is the best site so far for Big Brother news, spoilers, updates and photos of Mega's naked butt.
Tuesday, July 25, 2000
Thanks to Eminem, the paradox of liking the music while despising the message has been on my mind. This essay takes a hard look at the dilemma.
Monday, July 24, 2000
So much groovier than Austin Powers -- it's "Psycho Beach Party" with the lovely and brilliant Charles Busch. Dig that crazy flash-animated chick!
Monday, July 24, 2000
Uh-oh. Stop doing Web design! It's over! No. Wait!! It's just starting!!! (Both links courtesy of the loquacious, argumentative folk at Metafilter.)
Monday, July 24, 2000
Damn, all these books sound good. How will I remember to get them when they're in paperback?
Monday, July 24, 2000
The first time I saw Billy Idol's music video for "Dancing With Myself", I thought it was the coolest! And it's still a trip: that hair, that eyeliner, that tattoo -- and most of all, that sneer. But why is he killing those Thunderdome/homeless people with deadly Idol rays? They really seem to like him.
Sunday, July 23, 2000
Take classic TV of the '60s, the most popular show of the present, Photoshop and
mix! So obvious it's scary.
Saturday, July 22, 2000
You can read a chapter of Anne Rice's new vampire novel at Contentville, the latest shiny attempt to make money in a new way online. But the first chapter of "Merrick" is free.
Saturday, July 22, 2000
The best Big Brother Synopses are at Salon. Not that the show isn't a black hole of suckiness, cause it is.
Friday, July 21, 2000
Use your mouse to play with the swirling, colored dots. Pretty.
Friday, July 21, 2000
I guess the inventors of this flesh-eating robot never saw a sci-fi flick. Can you say "robot apocalypse"?
Thursday, July 20, 2000
Okay, here's something else that's cute and little: X-Files characters, Matrix characters and others rendered as Fisher-Price people.
Thursday, July 20, 2000
This java-based toy of a site isn't very new, but if you haven't checked it out, and you've got some time to waste, go there now. Load different models, change gravity, mess around.
Wednesday, July 19, 2000
I want one of these gift sets.
Wednesday, July 19, 2000
Dream World is a kind of pretentious, flaky, young site with a lot of gorgeous flash movies.
Wednesday, July 19, 2000
Look! It's cute and little.
Wednesday, July 19, 2000
Ka-BOOM! is still another dictionary. This one is an invaluable guide to comicbook words.
Tuesday, July 18, 2000
This very cute Cat-to-English Dictionary is surprisingly accurate.
Tuesday, July 18, 2000
Did you grow up watching the "Super Friends" cartoons on Saturday morning? If so, please go immediately to Seanbaby's Super Friends Page for the funniest commentary ever. Here he is analysing Lex Luthor's business plan for the Legion of Doom:
"It's a good thing the Legion's plans always failed. Not for our sake; what do we care if some mental patients in stupid costumes rob our banks? Our accounts are federally insured. I'm saying that it's a good thing they
failed, because if they were successful, they'd end up tallying their take home pay, and realize they're in the hole 80 million dollars per mission. Extorting money from world nations makes you money, but have you ever looked into the cost of an orbital death ray, or a flying submersible headquarters? Fuck the Super Friends, the Legion of Doom really needs to worry about the collection agencies and repo men."
Tuesday, July 18, 2000
Continuing a theme of nostalgia, this site has an annotated timeline showing the history of the internet and an emulator that reproduces some antique browsers.
Monday, July 17, 2000
Ah, for the good old days! Yeah, back in 1962, maybe, before America was corrupted by Jerry Springer and "reality" TV.
Monday, July 17, 2000
"Battle Flower Bud" is X-rated slash fan fiction about ... Iron Chef!?!??
Monday, July 17, 2000
Reality Blurred is a weblog that's all about so-called Reality TV.
Monday, July 17, 2000
Spend some time on William Wegman World and get to know Fay, Man Ray and the whole hairy family a little better.
Monday, July 17, 2000
"Translate Anything" -- Anything you can cut and paste into the Babel Fish-powered window, anyhow, or anything you can find online.
Monday, July 17, 2000
I think Joyce Millman is my favorite TV columnist. This preview to the upcoming Emmy nominations Thursday is a good example of her pithy work.
Saturday, July 15, 2000
A couple of my regular readers (that's a huge percentage of you!) complained that they couldn't keep up with all the links this week. So I'm taking the weekend off! See you Monday.
Friday, July 14, 2000
"After the tragic death of a 6-year-old boy in Germany at the hands of a known criminal who'd trained his pit bull to attack people," the German government has passed bans on some breeds of dog, unreasonable restrictions on others, and the public intolerance of any large dogs has become frightening, violent and deadly. This is awful.
Friday, July 14, 2000
Variety's dictionary of show-biz slang covers Hollywood argot from the classic "ankle" ("Alan Smithee has ankled his post") to the newer "zitcom" (a television comedy aimed at teenagers).
Friday, July 14, 2000
Salon has a piece about the queer subtext in the X-Men comic books.
Friday, July 14, 2000
"X-Men" opens today and hey, look: It got a lot of good reviews. I really liked the whole anti-mutant campaign site and the similar TV ads. Meanwhile, the wags at Modern Humorist take an X-Men-related jab at the New York Times.
Friday, July 14, 2000
An Entirely Other Day isn't a weblog, it's just a really funny site. For instance, the author's wife just had a baby. So here's what he posted yesterday:
So it's three in the morning and I'm feeding Michael from a bottle since Jo is wiped out and, briefly, just for a moment, he opens his huge, dark eyes. They're deep, stormy blue -- blue just this side of black, his eyes -- and I can see a thought, a coherent thought, perhaps his first, forming deep in his soul:
"Jesus, Mom," his eyes say to me, "when the hell did you get so ugly?"
Friday, July 14, 2000
Today's Daily News has some interesting background on William, the black guy on Big Brother. They've also got info on voting for the first person to be ousted from the show -- info that isn't that easy to find at the official site.
Thursday, July 13, 2000
Every Thursday around 3 p.m., I check in at E! Online's Gossip page for the brand-new edition of Ted Casablanca's wonderfully snarky column, The Awful Truth. (Make sure you check out E! Online's Fashion Police while you're over there. Meeeeow!)
Thursday, July 13, 2000
Funny cartoon about the joys of being a short-haired woman. It just gets funnier.
Thursday, July 13, 2000
I'm sure you remember these artificial balls intended to restore a masculine look to altered pets and livestock. Well, here's another fake set of jewels, also intended to amp up the masculinity of a beloved possession. (Do you think this pet health insurance covers neuticles? Probably not.)
Wednesday, July 12, 2000
A whole page of theories about what's in the briefcase in "Pulp Fiction."
Wednesday, July 12, 2000
Hey, this dictionary of prison slang might come in handy if you're planning on watching that OZ premiere later. Let's hope that's the only reason it comes in handy, Dog. Now quit ridin' my leg and move along.
Wednesday, July 12, 2000
Once again, my amusement over a site -- in this case, Rock Paper Scissors Spock Lizard -- before I even click on its link marks me as a Star Trek geek.
Wednesday, July 12, 2000
Tomorrow night is Movie Night at my office and we're going to see Jaws!
Wednesday, July 12, 2000
The new season of OZ, HBO's graphic prison drama, premieres tonight at eleven.
Wednesday, July 12, 2000
Santana's "Smooth" is hilariously decomposed.
Tuesday, July 11, 2000
This is a CERT Advisory for dog owners -- robodog owners.
Tuesday, July 11, 2000
I have a good friend named Dax who might benefit from this very special support group.
Tuesday, July 11, 2000
Cool interactive 3D flash. Mess around with the icons. Also check out this maze and move the little arrow thing.
Tuesday, July 11, 2000
Look, if you don't want to see faked pictures of celebrities in bondage and fetish gear, just don't click on the link.
Tuesday, July 11, 2000
Ridley Scott has revealed a secret about his classic sci-fi thriller "Blade Runner," and I feel really stupid that it never occurred to me.
Monday, July 10, 2000
Go to The Leaky Cauldron for all your Harry Potter news. That's the site where the motto is "We Blog For Harry."
Monday, July 10, 2000
Heinz is on a mission: "To reintroduce ketchup as a hip part of everyday meals." No, they didn't give it piercings and a goatee. They colorized it!
Monday, July 10, 2000
At brutal.com, "the goal is to find bad news from around the world and share it with others."
Sunday, July 9, 2000
If you're planning a road trip in America, make sure you check out this site first. Otherwise, you could motor past something like The World's Largest Chair and never know it's in competition for the title with a few other huge pieces of furniture.
Saturday, July 8, 2000
For some reason, this guy Derek saved, scanned and posted all his WalMart receipts, which is weirdly amusing in itself. But make sure you check out the readers' comments on the right.
Saturday, July 8, 2000
This is amazing! Classic arcade games somehow rendered with html and java???
Friday, July 7, 2000
Rusty is a homosexual, but it all works out. This is the Cruel Site of the Day, but I don't think it's cruel at all -- it's kind of sweet.
Friday, July 7, 2000
Scientists at MIT are working on creating an Internet browser specially formatted to be used by ... parrots. Specifically, African Grey Parrots.
Friday, July 7, 2000
1 bowl. 5 fish. 36 days. $500,000. Life in the fishbowl, complete with the chance to vote, courtesy of Modern Humorist.
Friday, July 7, 2000
A positive review of two books I now want -- "Gig" (Edited by John Bowe, Marisa Bowe, and Sabin C. Streeter) and "Pastoralia" (by George Saunders)-- is also a fine essay about work in the year 2000.
Friday, July 7, 2000
Thanks to E! Online, you can quickly check out the Top Ten Freakiest Fan Sites. My favorites include Skinema, the one-and-only guide to bad celebrity skin, and The Chopped-Off Hands Of Star Wars.
Thursday, July 6, 2000
Sunflowers! Sunflower! Sunflowers! Sunflower!
Thursday, July 6, 2000
When print publications list worthy blogs, they often point their readers to Robot Wisdom. When Robot Wisdom mentions worthy blogs, one that comes up is Follow Me Here.
Thursday, July 6, 2000
You can watch the participants in the latest voyeur show ("Big Brother") right now. You can watch them whenever you want -- the live feeds are running 24-7. It's weird, boring and just what I need to feed my junk TV jones in the summer of 2000.
Wednesday, July 5, 2000
Part one of a three-part series in the Washington Post examining the global response to AIDS in Africa. "World Shunned Signs of the Coming Plague," says the subhead and in the White House, there was "indifference."
Wednesday, July 5, 2000
Grumble. I'm back to work. OK, the big news this week is Harry Potter. Naturally, I've got the scoop: the super-secret heretofore-unseen first page of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." Little Harry is growing up!
Tuesday, July 4, 2000
I read somewhere that this media hub is the new hot place to click to and I immediately felt a twang of guilt for not telling you all about it sooner. Now I feel better! Back to my vacation!
Monday, July 3, 2000
I love being on vacation. I hope I can finish reading "The Perfect Storm," though I don't think we'll have time to go see the movie. If I finish reading the book, I can leave it with my host and her Dad, who both expressed an interest in it. The Perfect Storm Foundation was started to help young people or something. It has true stories of fishermen and you can donate money there. It also has spoilers to the movie so don't check it out if you actually don't know what happens. (Hint: glug, glug, glug.)
Saturday, July 1, 2000
Yay! Vermont ROCKS!
Saturday, July 1, 2000
I'm in Maryland for the long holiday weekend, but if I was still back home, I might be tempted to check out the tall ships that're invading Manhattan.
