Thursday, October 21, 1999	8:05 PM PST
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This is kind of funny... the new Cinnamon Altoids site looks so much like porn site...but it isn't. I have to admit, that's some strange marketing. I bet a lot of people don't enter the site for fear of the flesh.
posted by mathowie at 2:50 PM PST - (0) comments - Post a Comment

Proof that you can find *anything* for sale on the web. If you ever need human bones, and your local human bone dealer is too far away, or closes early, use the internet to buy your bones!
posted by mathowie at 10:59 AM PST - (0) comments - Post a Comment

I'm putting this link to TomDelMundo here just to remind myself to go there each week. I've been enjoying this single-paneled 'comic' for over a year. It's always good for a laugh.
posted by mathowie at 1:27 AM PST - (0) comments - Post a Comment

A few months ago, I told a friend I discovered a band called Moxy Fruvous through some mp3s on a hotline server. I'd never heard them on the radio in this country and was suprised to find out they had 6 recent albums. Well this week my friend said 'hey remember that obscure band you like? They're playing he Troubador next week.' To which I replied: 'They're not obscure, they're Canadian!'
posted by mathowie at 1:16 AM PST - (0) comments - Post a Comment

I've heard a lot of good buzz about Being John Malkovich, and I wasn't sure it could live up to the hype. After seeing the trailer, I want to see this NOW. It looks like the first original story I've seen all year, appearing to be a mix between Alice in Wonderland and Naked Lunch.
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PIXELTIME is neat, albeit hard to understand quickly. Basically, it's a gallery of icon art, i.e. art made from those very small images of Windows fame. There are some neat things up here.
posted by tdecius at 5:04 PM PST - (0) comments - Post a Comment

I like Mark Rosenfelder's Metaverse. This site is cool. He has a few neat things up there.
posted by tdecius at 5:03 PM PST - (0) comments - Post a Comment

I get lost for hours in the wealth of information on Judaism 101. It's a great way for a goy to spend a Sabbath.
posted by tdecius at 5:01 PM PST - (0) comments - Post a Comment

Wow, never pay more than necessary for anything! This is a nutty little app, it automatically queries dozens of ecommerce sites while you surf. The downside is someone might be convinced to buy a book after reading several reviews at Amazon, but their RUSure app would tell them that it's 2 bucks cheaper at Buy.com, so they'd get it there. Before a shopper had to do this deliberately, now it's done automatically. This app could be as big as ICQ, since the founders of both companies are family.
posted by mathowie at 1:00 PM PST - (0) comments - Post a Comment

Oh. My. Gawd. These are pretty funny, drawings of various pulp fiction scenes by the Simpsons animators.
posted by mathowie at 3:33 PM PST - (0) comments - Post a Comment

Todd at Tremble.com has a few neurosises. I was laughing pretty hard after reading these, mostly because I share quite a bit of them myself...mostly...
posted by mathowie at 2:44 PM PST - (1) comments - Post a Comment

I went to Catholic high school for two years, and being the incredibly geeky type, I wondered, given the Pope is the Bishop of Rome, how he ran the whole church and his provincial diocese. This site is a good snippet that answers the question, for those people like me who have academic interests in theology.
posted by tdecius at 12:49 PM PST - (0) comments - Post a Comment

Recently, MTV had a special on 'hackers' (scroll down to last weeks show), but apparently the people they contacted for background info didn't give them an interesting enough story. So the guys made one up. The guy behind it all says he was just trying to make MTV's journalists look bad, but that's restating the obvious. Of course MTV is clueless and goes to any length to create a story. The worst part is that MTV isn't alone in this, every news outlet does this. The nightly news looks the way it does for the same reasons, it's all about entertainment.
posted by mathowie at 10:32 AM PST - (0) comments - Post a Comment

Derek put some photos from the Fray Day online, and is working on getting the audio together. In the meantime, enjoy a picture of me at the festivities (I'm the guy walking towards the left in between the two people looking at the small house). My favorite image and memory from the Fray Day is this, the caption says it all.
posted by mathowie at 11:35 PM PST - (1) comments - Post a Comment

This is pretty cool, a map based on frequency of people saying they felt the recent earthquake in Southern California. It's clearly non-scientific, but interesting that the USGS is collecting 'community data.'
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'Jesus Christ! How much is that new DVD player? Ok, just put it on my VISA card'
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The CAUS has a page with their predictions on popular colors for 1999. I don't know about you, but I'd say there's far too many pastels in the mix, and the dark-gray/greenish-gray has been played out by Martha Stewart/Pottery Barn/Crate&Barrel; crowd already.
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