Friday, June 30, 2000
Courtney Love has made about 50 MP3s of Hole music available for free download on the Hole site. Rock on!
Friday, June 30, 2000
If you're chuckling even before you click this link to a list of things Janeway signs without looking, you might be a Star Trek Voyager geek.
Friday, June 30, 2000
You can celebrate Independance Day in the USA this weekend with 4th of July screensavers and wallpaper or you can check out Mel Gibson in "The Patriot" or you can just kick back and barbeque with friends and family.
zen calm ink is going on a short vacation so expect fewer updates until next Wednesday.
Friday, June 30, 2000
At my job, Friday is free doughnut day. Today the rings of fried, glazed dough were still warm.
Thursday, June 29, 2000
I'm currently reading "The Orchid Thief" by Susan Orlean, about a man obsessed with orchids. Some of these carnal flowers seem like they have creepy little faces.
Thursday, June 29, 2000
According to the splash page, the owner of the original, infamous ("This site contains filthy language and images of squished pussy") cat scan contest is getting ready to relaunch with new, daily cat scans. I hope it's true! The trippy images and stoner commentary from the first contest are still good for a laugh.
Another old cat-related favorite is the classic tale, "I Gave My Cat An Enema." Illustrated with deceptively simple crayon drawings, this is a great story of a constipated cat and his increasingly frazzled owner. The photo of Fred the cat is now available on a t-shirt, mug or mousepad.
Thursday, June 29, 2000
These eerie pics of spider mites (very, very, very small creatures) caught in the act of investigating micromachines gave me the willies. I guess the movie gallery is supposed to prove how the tiny, spinning gears stand up to attack by mini-monsters. wheeeeee!
Wednesday, June 28, 2000
My favorite sun-sign based horoscopes can be found here.
Tuesday, June 27, 2000
"Dot-com" added to the new
edition of the Random House Webster's New College Dictionary. Other additions: "gaydar," "24-7" and "energy bar."
Tuesday, June 27, 2000
Great ad from Sony which graphically depicts one of the hazards of dog companionship. (AdCritic has all your favorite ads, but you must have QuickTime installed to view them.)
Tuesday, June 27, 2000
According to this helpful infographic explaining why we're all watching "Survivor," 16% are tuning in "Hoping someone commits suicide like in the European version." Oh, relax: It's just a joke, courtesy of online humor mag The Onion.
Monday, June 26, 2000
Not all weblogs are about links. This one, for instance, is one man's "chronicle of the nextdoor neighbors and their deafening and oddly-timed sex."
Monday, June 26, 2000
A touching memorium to the little two-faced kitten. (OK, that's a lie, it's quite irreverent -- but it made me laugh. Be patient while it loads -- this is a flash animation with sound.)
Monday, June 26, 2000
Movie lovers will find that Rotten Tomatoes is to movie reviews what the Internet Movie Database is to movie info. Not just a compendium of bad flicks -- and gleeful skewerings of them -- Rotten Tomatoes is also a place to find out what recent release garnered nothing but kudos.
Friday, June 23, 2000
Love is a dog from hell is a fairly new site offering free, online personal ads. The bad thing is it is new, so there aren't that many potential dogs from hell to choose from. The good thing is that it's beautifully designed, classy, and has detailed ads (as opposed to a lot of horrible, ill-lit photos).
Thursday, June 22, 2000
The dot-communists and the digerati have all read and argued about THE SECOND COMING -- A MANIFESTO by David Gelernter, so why don't you? It's about the future of computing and how everything "is up for grabs. Everything will change. There is a magnificent sweep of intellectual landscape right in front of us."
Thursday, June 22, 2000
Your Customer Isn't An Idiot: Retail on the Web is clear, simple and smart. (from eatonweb) And you thought zen calm ink was all about dogs and gossip!
Thursday, June 22, 2000
If this German Shepherd could talk, he'd be saying, "Damn, I look cool in this outfit!" That's because dogs have trouble telling the difference between "cool" and "goofy." (from memepool)
Wednesday, June 21, 2000
The dearly departed two-faced kitten. Cute? Horrible? Yes! Both!
Wednesday, June 21, 2000
These are just adorable. I don't know why; but then all things little are cute. Here are more of these little things, this time involved in small endeavours.
Wednesday, June 21, 2000
zen calm ink just wants to help a fellow weblogger achieve his dream.
Wednesday, June 21, 2000
Suck gets in on mocking "Survivor."
Wednesday, June 21, 2000
Aw, look. Wasn't it romantic? Hmm. Maybe Angelina should see why the previous Mrs. Thornton says she ran screaming. (According to The Smoking Gun, Billy Bob denies all these allegations.)
Wednesday, June 21, 2000
Eek! Run away, run away! Sandra looks thirsty!
Tuesday, June 20, 2000
Cure for the hiccups?
Tuesday, June 20, 2000
Un-HERD of! Nearly 500 life-sized fiberglass cow sculptures are on display in New York City and the metropolitan area. Yup, pardner, that's right. It's the CowParade.
Tuesday, June 20, 2000
Casting is shaping up for the series of Harry Potter movies. Now if only my Hollywood Stock Exchange holdings were doing as well.
Tuesday, June 20, 2000
I don't think this is really the online diary of sexy, androgynous actor Brad Pitt. But it might be!
Monday, June 19, 2000
This site bills itself as the last refuge of the persecuted smoker. I dunno about that -- but they do live up to their domain name and I have a co-worker who swears by them.
Monday, June 19, 2000
Do you ever eat in New York City? If so, perhaps you should check here before your next meal in Manhattan.
Monday, June 19, 2000
Hey, want to get some high-brow voyeuristic kicks? Try PBS's "The 1900 House," where no one gets voted out, no one wins a million dollars, but everyone learns something about history and themselves. No, seriously, it's great.
Monday, June 19, 2000
This is totally wrong on so many levels. At least the guy got convicted.
Saturday, June 17, 2000
Douglas Adams, author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," (which inspired this website) says:
"I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this:
"1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;
"2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;
"3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
"Apply this list to movies, rock music, word processors and mobile phones to work out how old you are."
Here's the whole funny essay about innovation and the internet.
Friday, June 16, 2000
Think you're The Man? Play Shaftball [pinball with sound effects from the new movie] and show me! Can you dig it? (Not without Shockwave.) Any questions?
Friday, June 16, 2000
Even Barry White thinks these two (homicidal) lovebirds are "crazy."
Thursday, June 15, 2000
"How To Divorce Billy Bob Thornton" is just one chapter in the "REAL LIFE Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook" courtesy of Modern Humorist, those funny people who also brought us the brilliant MP3 propaganda poster, now on sale.
Wednesday, June 14, 2000
"Courtney Love does the math" in an intelligent, no-bullshit rant about Napster, greedy record companies, the New Economy, and artists.
Wednesday, June 14, 2000
This entry isn't a link, but a recommendation: "On Impact," Stephen King's account of his near-fatal encounter with a van helmed by a very bad driver in the current (June 19 & 26, 2000) issue of the New Yorker. "When I hear the details some weeks later," King says of the incident, "it occurs to me that I have nearly been killed by a character out of one of my own novels. It's almost funny."
The crisp writing and riveting storytelling will make you grateful anew that King wasn't killed. Okay, okay: Here's the "Official Stephen King Web Presence: Horror Books, Horror Films, Maine Author, Richard Bachman"
Tuesday, June 13, 2000
If you liked the movie (or the extras-packed DVD), you'll love the book.
Monday, June 12, 2000
I'm still on vacation. "Free the dogs! Chain the humans!"
Friday, June 9, 2000
I'm glad that singer Sinead O'Connor has come out as a lesbian and everything, but did she have to wait until she had a really bad haircut to do it?
Friday, June 9, 2000
GuruNet is a really useful resource if you're online. Once you've downloaded and installed the free program, all you have to do alt-click on any word to get an interactive pop-up window with a definition of that word and various options for more information. What makes GuruNet different from other, similar programs is that it works with offline programs as well as browsers. That means you can use GuruNet for a quick definition of something in a Word document, on a web page, or even in email someone sent you. And since it searches the Web for answers, it will find definitions of obscure technical acronyms as well as high-brow vocabulary. Check it out.
Friday, June 9, 2000
I like the ChickClick network a lot, and I keep discovering more great sites there. In today's find, the DIY ethic meets Martha Stewart by way of Eastern philosophy. It's courtesy of Get Crafty, and it's called Punk Fui: Feng Shui for the rest of us.
Friday, June 9, 2000
Salon is running a series of 31 "stories about sex" by Eric Bogosian, the riveting actor and writer (you might have seen him in the Oliver Stone-directed movie "Talk Radio"). There's a new one every day, and so far all of them have been hot, well-written and (!!!) intelligent. I'm a pervert, so I especially liked this one.
Thursday, June 8, 2000
"He's fat, but he's good." If you know what TV show that line is from, you'll love the gleefully snarky commentary at Survivor Sucks.com.
MightyBigTV also has deliciously sarcastic "Survivor" synopses, as well as summaries of a bunch of other love-to-hate-them or just plain love-them TV shows. And both sites have message boards, but I like the scene-by-scene descriptions ("In the next episode, Gervase eats a big fat bug. And Rudy and Richard start doing it. Just kidding, Rudy!") the best.
Wednesday, June 7, 2000
Slash art based on the "Sentinel" TV show. 'Nuff said.
Wednesday, June 7, 2000
Vanity caskets. And, like these tasteful urns, they're discounted! There's even something in hand-carved spruce for the bereaved pet owner.
Tuesday, June 6, 2000
I'll bet that, on top of everything else, this "slavemaster" was really fatter, older, and uglier than he claimed to be online. God, I hate people who give internet romance a bad name.
Tuesday, June 6, 2000
Word Perhect is a functioning parody of the ubiquitous word processor. In flash.
Tuesday, June 6, 2000
This movie looks totally cool -- why do I have to wait until December to see it?
Monday, June 5, 2000
Woof! Sometimes dog owners find strange foreign objects in their pet's poop. Sometimes they just want an easier way to deal with the poop.
Monday, June 5, 2000
Baseball fans in NYC were ahead of the curve on this asshole.
Monday, June 5, 2000
I like the philosophy of this anti-bag rant, if not the slightly off-putting PC spelling ("his-story"). Found the link at the feminist media watch, where I often find links and views I have mixed feelings about.
Friday, June 2, 2000
Money Origami, courtesy of Footprints|Constant Gush
Thursday, June 1, 2000
Fantasy baseball meets the Beat Generation. Why am I not surprised that Burroughs is a pitcher?
Thursday, June 1, 2000
This sucks! I just learned about this great NewsWatch site today due to the Arts & Letters Daily bemoaning its demise. For a good example of the kind of media criticism which won't be appearing there in the future, there's a nice little piece debunking cybersex addiction scare stories from two days ago, and no doubt there's more gold to be mined from their archives.
Wednesday, May 31, 2000
David Sedaris' memoir of his family's pets, "The Youth In Asia", is gruesome, juvenile, blackly comedic and kind of heartbreaking.
These are all quite funny. And he's gay, too.
Wednesday, May 31, 2000
Damn you, Gladiator, Damn you! (why didn't I get out the day after it opened????)
Wednesday, May 31, 2000
Thank the Gods and Goddesses of Gossip for plunking Angelina Jolie amongst us. Now I know a little bit what it must have been like to follow Liz Taylor in her heyday.
My co-worker predicts that Melanie will go back to Don Johnson.
Tuesday, May 30, 2000
The 5k Contest is way over. Now you can check out the entries. Go ahead. They load pretty fast. :) My favorite is the Web Color Visualizer.
Tuesday, May 30, 2000
Sick of Jeeves and his fawning good manners? Try searching with an obnoxious bastard instead.
