July 2000 Archives

Let Nader into the debates! Sign the petition, email the Commission on Presidential Debates, write letters to the editor about why Ralph belongs in the debates, and more!

No matter who you're supporting this election, I can't see why you wouldn't want Nader in the debates. If you're supporting Bush (um, why?), Nader would make Bush look like an even more solid conservative. If you're supporting Gore, Nader would nudge Gore on the important issues. And if you're supporting Nader, well...!
posted by veruca at 11:29 PM PST - 21 comments

Anglo Women are an endangered species! Actually, it's time for me to post another diatribe and I didn't want to put it here. (More in first post)
posted by Steven Den Beste at 10:48 PM PST - 18 comments

An ends-justify-the-means pro MS argument that completely ignores the merits of fair business and what the industry could have been without a juggernaut like MS.
posted by skallas at 7:39 PM PST - 5 comments

A positive MP3 story.. Yeah I know you're all sick and tired of hearing about the controversy, but this time let's try talking about the positive side to mp3 technology... [more]
posted by ZachsMind at 7:17 PM PST - 4 comments

Courtesy of CamWorld, Here is what XML is really all about.
posted by baylink at 6:54 PM PST - 4 comments

Intel's Sin: Vanity The truth about Intels new Pentium III 1.13 GHz.
posted by physics at 6:43 PM PST - 1 comments

Do the time warp Surf with the browsers of yesteryear...
posted by owillis at 4:55 PM PST - 4 comments

The CSS Anarchists Cookbook How to ruin a designers pride and joy with with one simple file
posted by Foaf at 3:44 PM PST - 4 comments

Mozilla Savaged By Suck. Yet another high-profile site calling for the open-source quagmire that might be Netscape 6 one day to put up or shut up. No word whether some crank from Mozilla has called Greg Knauss a Microsoft-loving son of a whore yet.
posted by solistrato at 1:02 PM PST - 51 comments

Magnificent Wellesian Flop to Be Remade as Mini-Series Ok, have I got something for you. Well, I think so. Actually, the title could have read : "Teenagers ruin Orson Welles' carrier", or there are a couple of other ideas, not going to bore you with them.

A&E to remake The Magnificent Ambersons at $14 mil, it will star Madeleine Stowe, Jennifer Tilly, James Cromwell, Jonathan Rhys-Myers and Thora Birch (Talk about a bad cast. Tilly? Each!)
"For those who don't know, Welles' second film was cut by over 40 minutes (mostly at the end) by order of his studio while he was away making (or trying to make) "It's All True" in Brazil. The loss of these 40 minutes is generally considered one of the great tragedies in film history, as much for the effect on Welles' subsequent career as for the masterpiece that might have been. (Not that it isn't a masterpiece of sorts, as it is.)"
Problems with this? Chances are that the original Welles script will be buried under too much new content. Then again, We could see the 40 minutes worth of cut content (Damn Teenagers). A&E claims that they have the technology and the resources to make the script better, stronger, and more agile with better reflexes than befoure. Heh. I'm goofy that way.
posted by tiaka at 10:45 AM PST - 3 comments

The Rock and Dick Cheney team up to layeth the smacketh down on Al Gore's candy ass!
posted by Nyarlathotep at 7:40 AM PST - 12 comments

Speaking of redesigns, has anyone visited http://www.kottke.org/ recently (like in the last 24 hours)? Whaddya think?
posted by Lynsey at 11:02 PM PST - 9 comments

AngryCoffee.com An interesting web interface for searching and downloading mp3s floating around on the MyNapster and OpenNap networks (Napster has currently shut them out of their network). But if everyone starts using a browser interface like this (and aren't logged into a Napster-like client) who's going to be serving the files in the first place?
posted by hit-or-miss at 10:31 PM PST - 2 comments

Mister Lance adds a bunch more words into the Napster debate. "Napster bad," he says, for the most part. But the opinions are thought-out and justified.
posted by endquote at 8:49 PM PST - 25 comments

When headlines go bad part N+1. However, the article is as important as the misused title, so read on up. Go Aussie, Go!
posted by Neale at 8:10 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

"Naming and shaming" needs to stop is being claimed by groups who are meeting with News of the World executives. These groups claim that releasing information about pedophiles to communities is degrading and sparks more violence than good. They beleive making jail sentences longer will become a better alternative to hilighting offenders, and help to reform them to the point where the information is not needed by those around them.
posted by tomorama at 5:50 PM PST - 17 comments

The new weblog/site: take back vermont covers the the recent gay marriage ruling in Vermont and the flap it has caused for some of the more kooky right wing citizens. Many citizens have go so far as to openly display their bigotry by posting signs in their yards. The best part about the site? Putting it at the domain of the people that oppose gay marriage, and asking people to deface the signs by adding a ".COM" to them so they can see a site that asks folks to support the law and all the reasons why it should stand. Simply ingenious.
posted by mathowie at 1:46 PM PST - 6 comments

Shadow Conventions start today.
posted by Mr. skullhead at 12:43 PM PST - 2 comments

What not to do to a Celeron. (Overclocked just slightly too much.)
posted by Steven Den Beste at 11:52 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

"You rowdy punk kids! Get off the lawn!"
posted by ZachsMind at 6:57 AM PST - 2 comments

I'd have given my right arm for this when I was 6. Of course, in 1959 there was no such thing as this. (A lot of research scientists would have given portions of their anatomies for this in 1959; this thing is comfortably more powerful than an IBM 7090, which was state of the art then. I think it cotains more disk space than existed in the world in 1959.)
posted by Steven Den Beste at 7:30 PM PST - 14 comments

AltaVista redesigns. Comments? I like it.
posted by Succa at 4:18 PM PST - 31 comments

Never buy anything through the net unless you're certain you know what you're getting.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 9:45 AM PST - 2 comments

I've been converted - Earlier today, I was arguing with some coworkers to the effect that napster was protected and should be free and clear. Between the document at the above link and the information in the RIAA injunction brief, it looks like I might have been wrong. Why can't these guys use more discretion in their e-mails? They might have been OK if they'd kept their mouths shut.
posted by syzygy at 3:37 AM PST - 1 comments

There's no reason they shouldn't be able to do this, but I still want to hurt them. (Via memepool).
posted by aflakete at 2:03 AM PST - 5 comments

A fresh shine on Spielberg's well-kissed ass.
posted by highindustrial at 3:36 PM PST - 11 comments

This just in: Napster's injunction to shut down tonight at midnight has been stayed (I'll add a url to a story when CNN writes it - BTW, how crazy is it that the napster news gets top level precedence as breaking news on a site as big as CNN? screenshot)
posted by mathowie at 2:59 PM PST - 19 comments

Is this for real?!? The Blair government in the UK is proposing to change the rape laws so that any man accused of such a crime will be guilty until proven innocent!!! (Even weirder, this tidbit is halfway down a story that thinks the bigger news is that they want to make sex in public legal. Which is fine, I guess, as long as I'd retain the right to hose them down if I saw them out on the sidewalk in front of my house.)
posted by aaron at 2:53 PM PST - 5 comments

Crazy Drunk Guy. Hilarious. Web developer shares RealAudio recordings of an unknown, crazy (but entertaining) drunk guy who keeps calling him at the office to chat. An example of the miracle of the web, that he is able to share this with the world...
posted by Tubes at 1:24 PM PST - 19 comments

These sliding menus may not be anything much to you design mavens out there, but to a simple engineer/management consultant like myself, they are addictively neat. Whenever I check out the site, I find myself pulling them out and playing with them while deciding where to go in the site. How'd they do that?
posted by fpatrick at 11:53 AM PST - 9 comments

wow. balthaser has a new concept...forget jakob nielsen, THIS could be the end of web design as we know it!
posted by centrs at 9:14 AM PST - 19 comments

Pagan/Wiccan underwear. [from Fark] My question is, how come none of them read "Abandon hope all ye who enter here."?
posted by plinth at 5:31 AM PST - 3 comments

I still haven't gotten my PIN number in the mail from ICANN. Has this happened to anyone else? How am I supposed to put The Head Lemur into office?
posted by CyberPal at 7:10 PM PST - 7 comments

Wow, get a life.
posted by highindustrial at 6:02 PM PST - 17 comments

I am not comforted. Anything which is based on voluntary compliance by those bastards is an empty promise at best and a delaying tactic at worse.

I want a law.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 5:49 PM PST - 7 comments

Another chink in the armor of anti-fat bigots, haters and discriminators: Scientists discover common virus appears to cause obesity. Interestingly, it also seems to lower cholesterol at the same time.
posted by aaron at 4:26 PM PST - 30 comments

This is a book I need to read. And here's a sampling of that writer's virtuousity....
posted by EssenDreck at 3:11 PM PST - 2 comments

This has been showing up in my referrer log. The site enables you to surf anonymously. It also blocks stats on systems, screen resolution and browser type. It might prove useful to some here. As a designer though, I have concerns about being able to track user statistics.
posted by centrs at 3:03 PM PST - 8 comments

Boycott the RIAA.
posted by y0bhgu0d at 12:59 PM PST - 33 comments

I reckon this is a really good idea. You can search for festivals and events pretty much anywhere, from classical music to bizarre. I've only found one made-up event, although I've got my doubts about the Baby-Jumping Festival.
posted by Mocata at 10:55 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Birth Control Pills for Men I'm not sure who the target market for this product is, though I'd think that the only women who would trust that a man is truly "on the pill" would be ones who watched him take it every day, so married/cohabitating men only, I suppose. Probably just as well.
posted by Dreama at 10:05 AM PST - 10 comments

No voyeur cam at home? Visit your local Exhibitionism Booth. Free on-camera tan for German customers. Next: Free on-camera motel room for horny couples?
posted by Tubes at 9:52 AM PST - 1 comments

Spinal Tap to post new song on the internet. [from Fark]. Unfortunately, the article doesn't crosslink you to the official site or Tapster where the song will be released.
posted by plinth at 9:39 AM PST - 3 comments

When Headlines go wrong, part III Do they know whose eyes they were?
posted by Outlawyr at 9:20 AM PST - 7 comments

I am speechless. I can't imagine the time and effort it took to create this. Unless of course there is some program out there that will do it for you. If there is, then it is just "kewl."
posted by da5id at 6:08 AM PST - 13 comments

Novel Idea. But aren't the dancing tampons in the bottom left corner a bit much? I wonder what music they are dancing to. "Ragtime" maybe?
posted by da5id at 5:01 AM PST - 3 comments

The Web is 500x larger than we think? While plausible, it also smacks of a press release...
posted by owillis at 9:36 PM PST - 3 comments

Dems blast Playboy as contradictory to equal and civil rights and human dignity, but still take big campaign donations and have fundraisers at the infamous mansion. Seems like the Democratic party wants to have it both ways. They have taken more than $25,000 in congressional campaign funds and $8,500 for Al Gore's campaign, and a dem leader handpicked by Gore himself is throwing the August 15 bash at the Hef's house, but Playboy is now supposedly officially baaaad, mmmkay? If they're so bad, shouldn't these denunciations have come with checks, made out to Playboy, returning the campaign donations????
posted by Dreama at 6:48 PM PST - 8 comments

Napster may be down, but pandora's out of the box, baby. Get OpenNap as soon as you can (if anyone finds a link to OpenNap, by all means post the URL)
posted by mathowie at 5:38 PM PST - 35 comments

Shut it down! Napster ordered to shut down immediately. Backlash anyone?
posted by Mick at 5:07 PM PST - 42 comments

It's not very often that I find a truly usefull plugin for my mp3 player, while I have nothing against incredibly cool vis plugins and shiny skins, these are just novelty...
It's good to see someone do something useful with digital audio... Even though I'm sure they can do a ton more...

This plugin (for winamp, sonique, or RA) more than makes up for the lossy nature of mp3s... it'd almost be worth registering if we didn't have AstaLaVista...
posted by Bane at 4:38 PM PST - 3 comments

A new feature from Deja.com "will automatically link mentions of product names in discussion threads to a commerce area on its site." Is it really useful, as Deja claims, or does it imply endorsements for the linked products by the authors of the posts?
posted by phichens at 1:53 PM PST - 7 comments

Farewell, Thomas Crapper, we hardly knew ye - Turns out the Chinese invented the toilet too! Next thing we'll find out they invented spaghetti, or toilet paper, or whatever.
posted by chicobangs at 1:05 PM PST - 8 comments

FRA-GI-LAY I think it's Italian.
posted by plinth at 12:08 PM PST - 4 comments

Is computer code a form of expression and therefore protected by the First Amendment? That's something being considered in the MPAA's case against Eric Corley and DeCSS.
posted by scottandrew at 9:57 AM PST - 6 comments

Kuro5hin.org has been silenced, because of a massive DDOS/Spam attack. For those of you that did not know the site, "K5" was a techy discussion forum, much like Slashdot, but with an open submission queue, meaning that everybody could decide on what topics showed up on the first page. Which was ultimately one of the means used to bring it down. Censorship by IP flooding? cyber-vandalism? doesn't matter; a nice, interesting community site has been forced off the Net...
posted by costas at 9:57 AM PST - 8 comments

Pregnant women on death row. I don't understand why this is an issue. I'm not commenting on capital punishment here, a problem in itself, but what's the rush? Why not just wait until the child is born?
posted by evilmaryellen at 7:52 AM PST - 70 comments

Police Sniper Killed Fla. Hostage
Police brutality at it's best. This is just sad.
posted by jdiaz at 4:57 AM PST - 10 comments

What kind of company sells a dual-CPU machine when the second CPU can't be used? See attached quote.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 10:58 PM PST - 11 comments

Yes, but can it stop a phaser?
posted by Steven Den Beste at 10:49 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Now admit it. You've always wanted to do this.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 10:04 PM PST - 5 comments

This reminded me of one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. Once on vacation in Eastern Oregon, there was a total eclipse of the moon, just like this one. And some people nearby were taking photographs of it. Flash photographs. The round-trip time to the moon at the speed of light is 3 seconds and I wouldn't even want to calculate the attenuation caused by 320,000 miles of range. Sometimes it seems as if some people are completely and totally clueless about what they're doing.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 9:52 PM PST - 12 comments

Now, this is what Ammuricka's all about! Let's be honest about our electoral process....
posted by EssenDreck at 5:46 PM PST - 10 comments

Beware the darkside and read the interview linked at the bottom of the page.
posted by inviolable at 3:13 PM PST - 1 comments

Sony Announces GScube Development System This new system is powered by the equivalent of 16 PlayStation2s. And created specially for development of "e-cinema," computer graphics movies and other new digital content.

Sony against Silicon Graphics?
posted by neo at 1:12 PM PST - 1 comments

Dex and Courtney's wedding is off ... and you can find out why by watching JenniCam. "Jennifer Ringley ... is in the eye of a virtual storm as a result of her relationship with Dex, ex of Dex and Courtney, whose wedding invitation promised a 'spiritual love fest' of 'two souls uniting in harmony' (it was still on Courtney's Web site -- www.latitude11.com -- even as Jenni's cam showed her and Dex having sex in her bedroom)."
posted by rcade at 1:08 PM PST - 19 comments

Say you want a revolution? Well you know, we all want to change the world..
posted by ZachsMind at 1:04 PM PST - 3 comments

O.J. Still in denial He refuses to pay the $33.5 million a civil jury awarded to the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in 1997 for his responsibility in their deaths. Good role model.
posted by Outlawyr at 10:15 AM PST - 7 comments

What's the big deal? I'm sure even if he's walking around naked from the waste down his little bits are no doubt fully entombed in his massive blubber. Then again, I'm sure dealing with his ass isn't too pleasant.
posted by Nyarlathotep at 9:26 AM PST - 7 comments

Concorde crashes near Paris. Oh, no. Not again...
posted by iceberg273 at 8:53 AM PST - 19 comments

No surprise here... Am I the only one on this planet who realizes that despite how beautiful it may be in the eyes of some, and how historically significant it may be, they're just fighting over sand? Am I the only one who sees this? Am I missing something here? [more]
posted by ZachsMind at 8:41 AM PST - 28 comments

Sears Expands Web Business, nobody notices Sears claims they've doubled their product categories. Well, they now offer one MP3 player. What did they have before, half of one?
posted by Outlawyr at 8:18 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

MTV Video Awards nominees have been announced ...and there's no "best alternative video" category anymore. What the hell! Granted, MTV has never been noted as a supporter of good music (remember 120 minutes? that got the boot a while ago), but seeing those early "alternative" bands rock out on screen was what initially got me into music as a kid - I cringe at the thought that there's a whole new batch of 11 year olds out there who see the guitar as nothing more than a prop in a choreography routine.

At least I can take solace in the fact that Weezer is finally touring the East Coast - all is not wrong with the world.
posted by NickBarat at 8:01 AM PST - 11 comments

Here's what I want for my next birthday... but I'd like to accessorize it StarSeige/MechWarriors style.
posted by riffola at 7:38 AM PST - 2 comments

Bullshit Analyzer is bullshit.
(either that or it's rigged)...
I made up a nice page of pure bullshit, and the best score I've been able to get is 100% BS, 14 points...
this is after days of looking through EULA's and clickwrap licences for inspiration... Is BA BS? or is it just too smart for me???
posted by Bane at 8:27 PM PST - 3 comments

Star Wars Episode II Trailer/Teaser Theforce.com has posted what is sapose to be the Episode II teaser, I haven't seen it yet buts its still unknown if it is the real thing.
posted by Goonan at 8:16 PM PST - 8 comments

Apparently, we're not the *only* ones who may think that Louis Freeh needs a new job.
posted by baylink at 7:35 PM PST - 1 comments

Finally, the weapon we've been waiting for. And at a bargain price really. ;]
posted by aflakete at 5:30 PM PST - 4 comments

Former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney will be George W. Bush's running mate.
posted by Awol at 5:03 PM PST - 14 comments

Arrgghh! Yuck! I guess orange is the new white.

Wrong Way! Go Back!
posted by baylink at 4:49 PM PST - 9 comments

Cyberpal, i couldn't disagree more. ESB is actually the best of the 4 SW movies because the characters aren't encumbered with destroying the Death Star or flying back and forth to Naboo by way of Tatooine and Coruscant. A New Hope and Return end all happy with medals and Ewoks. i like the tougher ending of ESB, especially as i get older. it was a little depressing when i was a kid, but, hey, i'm not one anymore.
posted by Sean Meade at 1:58 PM PST - 5 comments

Yes, Virginia, there was life before the Internet...
...but nobody's bothered to archive it yet. Thanks to those wacky .edu's, there's a fair amount of historical data out there, but if you're hoping the newspapers who charge for archive "reprints" will have material from the '40s, the '60s or even the '80s, you're still better off going to the library and flipping through microfiche (bet that's the first time THAT word's been used on MetaFilter). I hesitated blogging this story here until I saw how the Internet History Timeline caught some people by surprise... Yes, even we MetaFilterers are sitting on the shoulders of Giants (and a few of us are old enough to remember "They Might Be Giants" as a movie starring George C. Scott).
posted by wendell at 1:15 PM PST - 8 comments

Flash 5! Tasty and delectable new features including HTML TEXT! I can't wait!
posted by wiremommy at 11:53 AM PST - 4 comments

Legal weed in Alaska? It could be true, very soon. Tell your friends in AK to register to vote!
posted by snakey at 11:22 AM PST - 9 comments

Can you say "liar"? I knew you could!
posted by Steven Den Beste at 11:22 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

So let me get this straight: I buy something from an online merchant, and your company tracks the shipment for me. Does the web need a service like this, or is this another candidate for fuckedcompany.com?
posted by ratbastard at 10:51 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

I wondered who invented the Internet. Some people would say Al Gore, but even after reading parts of the history of the Internet (first link), I can't figure it out. I think the "USSR" prompted us to do it when they launched Sputnik. Is this really the case?
posted by eyesandfists at 10:24 AM PST - 16 comments

Scientists have finally come up with a good use for old people.
posted by Nyarlathotep at 9:42 AM PST - 5 comments

Awesome splash page spoof of KPMG's marketing-speak site. Of course now that web design is over, I guess it's better that sites start looking alike.
posted by mathowie at 7:47 AM PST - 10 comments

Crap, don't tell me I have to upgrade again! IBM introduced a commercial version of the "ASCI White computer" today, which it claims is the world's most powerful supercomputer, able to process 12.3 trillion calculations per second. But can I play pacman on it?
posted by Outlawyr at 7:17 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Double Entendre and the Design of Public Lavatories. From a recent Wall St. Journal article on the architecture of bathrooms...

"Bathrooms are for more than just relieving the kidneys," says Ian Schrager, owner of 16 boutique hotels in New York, Los Angeles, London and elsewhere. "It's about someone coming out with a smile on their face and wanting to tell their friends about it because it's fun."

As one of the promoters behind Studio 54, I imagine Mr. Scharger is no doubt aware of the double meaning of the above quote. The article is interesting, but of course you need a subscription to read it, as such, I have taken the liberty of posting the article myself without the WSJ's permission.
posted by lockecito at 6:51 AM PST - 5 comments

Stephen King's new serial is now online. The download is free, but he's asking people to pay; the next installment will be posted only if he receives payments for at least 75% of downloads.
posted by harmful at 6:34 AM PST - 18 comments

Apple to release the vMac and dMac [from Fark], of course we all knew that the iBrator has been around for some time. Be sure to check out the movies if you haven't seen them before.
posted by plinth at 6:28 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

In the public interest or irresponsible journalism? One of our infamous tabloid newspapers published the names, locations and pictures of convicted paedophiles yesterday, the police have condemned what they did, the paper claims it is in the public interest and that the police don't do enough to protect us.....[more inside]
posted by Markb at 5:49 AM PST - 7 comments

ramomaccessmemory.org is a site that lets you store memories when they occur to you and read the memories of others.
posted by sugarfish at 12:06 AM PST - 3 comments

Classified documents posted, greeted with big yawn. What I find interesting is... If these documents are so uninteresting, why were they classified? It kind of bolsters my opinion that most secrecy in government is not unlike Calvin in his treehouse with the sign that says "No Grils". It's all an exercise in in-group, out-group dynamics, and has little, if anything, to do with National Security. Which means this is a big deal after all, if you think about it...
posted by aurelian at 12:03 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Do you remember when HTML seemed almost elegant?
posted by sudama at 11:23 PM PST - 8 comments

Ever want a really cool email address? Like howabout @jesusisdead-getoverit.com?
Why not yourname@icantfeelmylegs.com?

DataPimp offers tons and tons of rather... umm... unique email addresses...
Unfortunately most don't pass MetaFilter's obcenity restrictions... :]
posted by Bane at 3:28 PM PST - 4 comments

First there was Jolt and now this. I refuse to speculate whether this is a spoof. If it is, it's a well-done one. (Is "Hemp Seed Oil" legal to possess in Arizona?)
posted by Steven Den Beste at 2:27 PM PST - 9 comments

TigerWoodsIsGod.Com. A site "dedicated to examining the possibility that God is walking the earth as a 21st century, multi-ethnic, superstar golfer and whether that is any more or less likely than God coming in the form of a first-century, Jewish carpenter."
posted by rcade at 2:23 PM PST - 7 comments

Uh-oh-- I got a CD-ROM from John's site a few months ago. Am I on some CIA/FBI list now? (His site is down apparently.)
posted by aflakete at 1:41 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

"If you never fly, your wings are useless..."
posted by ZachsMind at 1:07 PM PST - 4 comments

Well, I'm compleetly fed up with english speling for everything. Its so dammed inconsistant and ilogical, Ill never get the hang of it. Forchunately, now theres a way to express yourselfs using chinese-like english characters. It's called Yingzi and now you can write english as quickly as you can write for Fellini or for Peach
posted by lagado at 6:55 AM PST - 13 comments

"It never occurred to me that you could settle a case by paying one of your opponents," he said. Except this is about life and death, and directly affects everyone whether or not they use a computer.
posted by katchomko at 2:46 AM PST - 1 comments

Anyone up for a 35mb download? ...it's worth it...


Read More...
posted by Bane at 2:33 AM PST - 3 comments

This is fucked right up.
Sorry, but that's the only adequate description for it...
I love PLIF... It's one of the coolest comics ever...
posted by Bane at 2:18 AM PST - 1 comments

Like the X-Men movie? If so, it looks like you can buy a whole lot of the props and stuff from it. Kind of an interesting thing for the studio to be doing directly.
posted by endquote at 11:16 PM PST - 1 comments

It's the year 2000; I was promised flying cars. I don't see the flying cars. Why are there no flying cars; why; why!?
posted by baylink at 10:39 PM PST - 15 comments

I'm trying to buy a computer- a newer one. My 'mental health', however, won't seem to let me. Extreme paranoia and crushing guilt. How much is too much to pay for a computer (we're talking PCs here, not Macs)? Well, that depends on how much one earns, right? Let's just say that money is not an issue for me.
Plus, I'm a software engineer. So, I'll be using it for more than porn and MeFi. Why can't I 'click here to check out'?
Tell me I'm not alone...
posted by internook at 7:12 PM PST - 13 comments

Encyclopedia Mythica - An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend.
posted by y0bhgu0d at 5:19 PM PST - 9 comments

IBM's Linux commercial. Part of their Avery Brooks "serious software" ad campaign, which I like a lot, I have to say.
posted by dan_of_brainlog at 2:41 PM PST - 2 comments

Does anyone else notice the resemblance between this image and this one? Maybe something more than nominatons will be going on in there...
posted by bryanboyer at 2:10 PM PST - 3 comments

Pentagon to modify gay policy They have instituted a policy that attempts to prevent mistreatment or harassment against people who aren't even allowed to say who they are. I'm sure the gay men and women serving our country are sleeping much easier tonight.
posted by brian at 1:56 AM PST - 3 comments

Hizbollah supporters arrested for Cigarette smuggling.

The men may have netted up to $10,000, and according to an "confidential Canadian source" were under orders to buy night vision goggles for Hizbollah, which is considered a terrorist group by Israel and the United States. Their leader is said by another(?) source as being "very comfortable around weapons."

I don't think it's a coincidence that this story is coming to our attention during the peace talks at Camp David. There's nothing in any article I have read on this story giving any substantial proof that these people and their arrest were really front-page events. Does anyone else feel that reportage of the Middle East, and indeed US policy, is clouded and indeed skewed, perhaps in much the same way as the States' Cuba policy?
posted by chaz at 10:30 PM PST - 11 comments

Unleash your idea virus. A groundbreaking article from Fast Company - on the same order as the one a while back they published called "a Brand Called You". Very interesting read if you are hoping to be the holder of the next "big idea"....
posted by triptych at 10:09 PM PST - 1 comments

The government and FBI are innocent of any wrongdoing at Waco. Special Counsel John Danforth is '100% certain' that agents did not fire on Davidians or set the fires responsible for the 80 deaths. Also, he concludes that the government did not engage in any sort of cover-up.
posted by tomorama at 5:50 PM PST - 7 comments

Potential Spoiler Warning: If you're the sort who believes discussing a film before seeing it spoils it, please do not participate in this thread. Seen it yet? What'd ya think? Haven't seen it? Why or why not? I almost wasn't. till I heard Singer spoke with Stan Lee about what inspired X-Men and what makes it really tick. I'll see it tomorrow. Willing to give the benefit of the doubt.
posted by ZachsMind at 5:13 PM PST - 45 comments

George W. Bush plans to spend this weekend thinking "long and hard".
Insert your own joke here.
posted by wendell at 2:53 PM PST - 12 comments

Wish I'd Said That Dept.
If the privacy-invaders are going to collect so much information on me, why can't they seem to USE IT?
posted by wendell at 2:46 PM PST - 4 comments

Drive through Funeral Home Viewing? This has got to be the most disgusting thing I've seen in a long time. "Convience in your time of grieving"??? How about respect for the dead? [obscene word] convience. THIS is where American society is just going down the tubes. Some things just should NOT happen. And this is one of them.
posted by eljuanbobo at 1:44 PM PST - 10 comments

A new survey of online music aficianados supports claims that the Napster crowd has been making for months: MP3-swappers are more likely to purchase music after listening to it for free.
posted by harmful at 12:46 PM PST - 3 comments

WaSP! blasts Netscape. Good, good, good... about f**king time. All of my Netscape cronies are now using I.E. because of exactly what this letter says.
posted by Dean_Paxton at 12:21 PM PST - 25 comments

Finally An honest review of Harry Potter.
posted by tj at 10:13 AM PST - 2 comments

"I am Curry. A slim and handsome race car driver. Bold, handsome, confident, and good-looking are the words that immediately come to my mind when I try to describe my personality. On second thought, other words that come up are gorgeous, sexy, and brave."
posted by rcade at 10:09 AM PST - 10 comments

After a two-decade search, scientists have found the first direct evidence of one of the most elusive and ghostly subatomic particles in nature -- the tau neutrino.
posted by grumblebee at 8:58 AM PST - 1 comments

ICANN's Report on new Top Level Domains came out a few days ago, and I saw a list in a paper of some of the new proposed TLDs. These include: .shop, .travel, .news, .sex or .xxx, .web, .arts, .store. Two things worthy of discussion - what's the difference between .shop .store and .web (and where are other CONTENT based divisions such as .gay, .fan, .info, .zine, .kids) and secondly, why are these supposedly GLOBAL domain names all in full uncompressed English?
posted by barbelith at 6:50 AM PST - 17 comments

"When Plastic Surgeons Attack"? It's good to know Fox is going about pandering to the worst instincts of American television viewers *responsibly*. I feel better, don't you?
posted by Sapphireblue at 12:31 AM PST - 13 comments

"Here, Lizard, Lizard..." My take on this: there's not much difference, in nutrition terms, between mass-reared fastfood chicken, and crunchy wild lizard. (Ask the cast of Survivor or Bush Tucker Man.)
posted by holgate at 10:13 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

"The Bible says to let a secret between friends die with you. You make it your business to keep your mouth shut." Perhaps they missed the part about the Bible not recommending you kill your three year old. (Sorry if someone already posted this, but I went back to the 14th, and saw no mention of it, so here it is now.) This really isn't the kind of thing I know how to comment on, but I thought it needed mentioning. It supposedly has something to do with email snooping, but I haven't been able to find out how.
posted by Ezrael at 8:22 PM PST - 14 comments

"Tim Starback of Émigré, said when I asked him what they would like me to do, that he wanted me to go to jail and lose all my money and computer."  Four companies are currently trying to have a graphic artist sent to jail for hosting a graphics community site using Hotline. Apparently he allowed users to "store backup files" of proprietary software online. I know, I'm tempted to "ahem" over that description too, but reading the guys story leads me to believe this is more of a naive David vs. four vindictive, publicity-seeking Goliaths. What do you think?
posted by quonsar at 6:53 PM PST - 9 comments

I think it's time to start playing Taps. And amazingly, they still haven't fired Michael Cowpland.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 6:24 PM PST - 1 comments

Speed of light broken. But it may be awhile before we can harness it for anything useful. Fascinating, nonetheless.
posted by scottandrew at 1:52 PM PST - 13 comments

Read the comment.
posted by Eric_Reid at 12:46 PM PST - 11 comments

Teenager runs his VW Jetta with used canola oil.
posted by Mr. skullhead at 12:06 PM PST - 5 comments

Webzine 2000: Must or Bust? Anyone here planning to go? Why? Why not?
posted by wiremommy at 12:06 PM PST - 4 comments

Barbara promises to go away. Given her track record, I bet she goes back on her word this time, too. (Psst! Barbara! Be a mensch. Pay Harlan back his fifty bucks. You don't even have to include over forty years of interest, and/or any vigorish for inflation, OK?)
posted by aurelian at 11:36 AM PST - 2 comments

Roger Black on Design. MacAddict put up an interview with Roger Black from their August 2000 issue. There are a couple of interesting points as in his take on transitioning from print to web:

"I think that the main thing is pretty much to work as you would in print design. A good designer always focuses on the reader or the customer, the viewer, whatever the end-user is. You just have to do that on the Net the same way you do in print.... I do not believe that the technological hurdles are that big. It doesn't seem to me that big of a deal.... Most of the stuff we do on the Web is not particularly difficult. Almost anybody, particularly anybody under thirty growing up in our society has enough technological culture to work with it. Don't get scared. It’s not that big of a deal."

posted by leo at 10:03 AM PST - 7 comments

hungry robot - 20 years from now we'll all look back on this and simmer...
posted by internook at 9:47 AM PST - 10 comments

Indiana restricts violent arcade games No more Mortal Kombat for kids. I'm sure we are all aware of the many dangerous games out there. Didn't anyone make a point about the good things these games offer Indiana kids.
posted by john at 9:24 AM PST - 4 comments

This just in: Columbine principal sued by victims of massacre. aka When headlines go bad II. Bad CNN!
posted by smeat at 9:21 AM PST - 8 comments

Hacktivism, as seen from the perspective of a pretty cynical guy.
posted by Doug at 8:23 AM PST - 1 comments

An article on espionage and security lapses? FBI says No Thanks The FBI has seized a computer hard drive used by former Energy Department intelligence chief Notra Trulock, concerned that he may have included classified data in a proposed article. Or maybe they just wanted to spell check it for him.
posted by Outlawyr at 7:08 AM PST - 1 comments

Screw Survivor. I prefer a competition that involves insane challenges, heavy machinery, a junkyard, and a short time limit
posted by plinth at 5:25 AM PST - 11 comments

Compassionate Conservatives are Hate Males

It has been a strange day today. I got a letter in the mail from a nearby church asking me to change my religion because said religion was supporting homosexuals. You know what, I'm thinking of going to their service on Sunday and letting them know what I think of their Hate mail they sent me. Deeply offensive.

Then I find out that a Shrub (George W. Bush) does not support seperation of Church and State. And infact wants to have state 'sponsored' 'official' religions!

Personally I am getting a little sick and tired of intollerance. Furthermore, I am gettign sick of Gerorge W. Bush. The man makes my skin crawl. Please, someone offer me a job outside of Texas...
posted by DragonBoy at 12:46 AM PST - 7 comments

Dr Kaos: Mad about Science, Crazy about God! What's weird is that I found this site by typing www.crawdad.com, because hey, who doesn't love the word "crawdad"?
posted by Succa at 10:02 PM PST - 7 comments

Netscape Communicator 4.74 Final has been released. This is reported to be the last in the 4.xx series browsers before Netscape 6 comes. Warning: this time it finally tips the scales at just over 20 megabytes for the Win32 version, wow. It's supposed to be a better Linux implimentation.
posted by Dean_Paxton at 7:46 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Imminent Death of Internet Predicted! Napster killed the Internet star, says record exec Edgar Bronfman Jr. "Let me tell you what else is in trouble here: the Internet. In the end, the Internet itself will not be able to survive if it becomes a haven for illegal activity. Copyrights must be protected online."
posted by rcade at 4:29 PM PST - 14 comments

Yet another outlook vulnerability. This one's significantly nastier than the previous ones, because it can attack and run programs on your computer as you download the email from your server
More >>
posted by cCranium at 3:18 PM PST - 12 comments

Nader of the Above ...Michael Moore's at it again, and I think this crazy scheme just might work. But then I thought Mike's idea of getting all the candidates to bodysurf over a mosh pit was gonna work too...
posted by ZachsMind at 3:17 PM PST - 24 comments

Laurel Mountain Technologies, Inc.
Is this really what "web design" is coming to these days?

Try Phenom Tek or Circle Graphics.
posted by Eric_Reid at 2:44 PM PST - 10 comments

Must. Resist. Need. For. Toys. But, damn, it's so sexy!
posted by rich at 1:37 PM PST - 10 comments

No sense of humor. Advertisers are saying women don't "get" funny ads.
posted by owillis at 12:33 PM PST - 13 comments

Taco Bell Chihuahua gets kicked to the curb. I'm happy and not too surprised by this. There's only so much mileage you can get out of a talking dog. Now, if I could just get the phrase "drop the chalupa" (as well as its alternate meaning, [dec 19th entry]) out of my mind....
posted by jkottke at 11:48 AM PST - 12 comments

For you Survivor fans, this is how it REALLY ought to be done. (Is anyone surprised that John "Daikatana" Romero was first to die? Who do you think will be the last man standing?)
posted by Steven Den Beste at 10:34 AM PST - 5 comments

Slanted story? Does anyone really believe that most VC firms wouldn't back a solid business plan only because a woman ran the company? The argument sounds like parity for the sake of parity, without merit.
posted by owillis at 9:26 AM PST - 4 comments

TWC Givin' Away Free RePlay TV units. Gosh, wonder if there're any strings attatched?
posted by Doug at 7:01 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

c|net buys ZD I guess the bright side is, now Download.com's archives will be combined with ZDNet's, as well as shareware.com.
posted by Dean_Paxton at 5:41 AM PST - 6 comments

IIS is more widespread within the Fortune 500 than Apache?! and by a serious margin. Is there any surprise that this comes from a Windows magazine? And as someone that works for a Fortune 500 company, let me add, these are the companies that don't know what they're doing...and by a serious margin. Sounds like another win for Apache to me.
posted by jdiaz at 3:50 AM PST - 6 comments

Got a question for OJ? Duhhhhhh. Hello. Hey OJ. Did you do it? Heh heh.
posted by davewiner at 12:01 AM PST - 8 comments

nospank.org is an anti-spanking site. - Now, does this read like a letter to penthouse or am I just sick, sick, sick!?
posted by internook at 6:05 PM PST - 14 comments

Is this the strangest contest ever? Guess what the winning couple's prize is for this? Answer: your wife's weight in beer. The even have a snazzy URL for the competition. Kooky.
posted by mathowie at 3:34 PM PST - 4 comments

The Borg have sent a gift to Earth The much rumored Apple cube seems to be real. Apple Insiders has just posted what looks to be a promotional photo of the new computer. Looks pretty cool. Not sure why there are vents on top but still, I wouldn't mind having one.
posted by Brilliantcrank at 3:18 PM PST - 22 comments

Breakin' dah law breakin' dah law! The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt not plagiarize... The following was blatantly copypasty stolen. An Important Note Regarding Netiquette: Under no circumstances is credit on a "links" page a way of giving back to the creatives of the web: its an afterthought that limps pathetically around the back corners of your site, while our work brings the main pages to life. So use the Web, but no linking! Just WHAT PLANET have these offended artists been on since 1994? Why are they suddenly freaking out now?
posted by ZachsMind at 2:16 PM PST - 4 comments

You are a loser because I say so. Ellison, the second richest person in the world, decides to give some come-upance to the intellectual elite his human resource people are probably now kicking themselves in the head over.
posted by rich at 2:08 PM PST - 7 comments

Mitnick is free to use computers for work
"[The] federal judge has ruled that such blanket restrictions are unacceptable and job offers should be considered on a case-by-case basis."
posted by rschram at 11:56 AM PST - 5 comments

R.I.P. bitchslap
pimpwar is down...
 
Warning: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'bitchslap' (111) in index.inc.pimp on line 91
posted by mantid at 11:54 AM PST - 2 comments

Love, robots and ghosts are each the topic of fascinating snippets at newscientist.com.
posted by grumblebee at 9:45 AM PST - 2 comments

Suddenly a great deal of idiocy is explained. This one goes down in my book as the single biggest blunder in corporate history in the last ten years.

Who the hell at Intel was stupid enough to sign this damned thing?
posted by Steven Den Beste at 9:35 AM PST - 3 comments

Internet may need new cyber-borders-U.S. legal body By Richard Meares
The internet's only use is for commerce. That's it. The only reason anyone uses the internet is to purchase books and rugs. The internet can not be defined as anything else, thus, there are no users, they're CONSUMERS. That's all they are. Consumers.
Too bad, We "Enthusiasts" "may love the Internet's scant regard for authority and borders?" What? "Scant regard for authority"? What authority? This is just sick.
posted by tiaka at 9:17 AM PST - 3 comments

The end of a computer "empire"?
posted by Eric_Reid at 8:40 AM PST - 2 comments

Yum yum.
posted by evilmaryellen at 8:21 AM PST - 12 comments

The fact that this article isn't condemning of this is amazing. Being from Long Island, I can say that less than 1/2 hour from this house are, basically, slums. Areas of very great poverty.
posted by Doug at 7:41 AM PST - 50 comments

How (not) to improve the ventilation in your computer case.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 9:45 PM PST - 1 comments

Anyone know of any good lyric sites besides stuff like LyricSearch?
posted by milhous at 9:31 PM PST - 7 comments

From the boys who brought you Napster comes the supposed copyright-adhering, pay-to-trade file swapping service AppleSoup. Here's their press release.
posted by Awol at 8:29 PM PST - 5 comments

Harry Potter is a head. Who knew? The things some people will find to be paranoid about...
posted by baylink at 7:36 PM PST - 19 comments

We're all a bunch of ignorami. Hooray! Hurrah! It's bliss!
posted by Mr. skullhead at 3:13 PM PST - 13 comments

Razorfish fires back and files their own lawsuit against IAM.com. Razorfish maintains that IAM.com is suing because they're out of money (they just laid off a quarter of their staff). Perhaps "funding-by-lawsuit" is a new sustainable business model?
posted by kaefer at 1:39 PM PST - 4 comments

A birth control pill for men. I wonder if it will be available over the counter, or if annual prostate exams will be required before getting a prescription from a doctor.
posted by phichens at 12:42 PM PST - 13 comments

DeCSS Trial Begins Today. Today is 2600's day in court. This trial deserves more media attention than it's been getting.
posted by Doug at 12:00 PM PST - 10 comments

Target sells one hell of a tooth brush
posted by dilok at 11:43 AM PST - 13 comments

Jesus Christ was a Communist? Fidel Castro seems to think so. The article even goes as far as to hint that Fidel's once atheistic views have "mellowed" in his old age.
posted by Satapher at 11:27 AM PST - 11 comments

The Hacker's Diet has been around for a while (since 1991), created by John Walker, one of the founders of Autodesk. There's no major gimmick, just eat less than you burn. What it does offer, though, is a handy way of keeping track of your true weight using a weighted moving average, that helps dampen the oscillations of your daily water input & output. The author made Excel charts at first, but now he offers a version for the Palm. Happily, it works on even my ancient, wussy little Palm Pilot Personal edition (512K memory). I've been using it for about a month, and lost about ten pounds so far. Your mileage will almost undoubtedly vary.
posted by beth at 9:06 AM PST - 4 comments

That must have been some damn tasty chicken!
posted by Nyarlathotep at 8:49 AM PST - 3 comments

ABC : Get ready for ``Must Pee TV.''
So, imagine, there you are, at the urinal, trying to make peace, when Norm's sexist melon is right in your face, saying "Oh my God, look at the size of that thing!"; "Hey watch your shoes!"; "You're a mover and shaker, and so am I."; "visual tag lines" like: "Another fine use of the color yellow." "The campaign is designed to raise awareness that the series has been moved to ABC's Friday schedule. The audience will understand when we're done that (Friday) is an adult night of comedy."
posted by tiaka at 6:53 AM PST - 9 comments

So, um, fire and water are copyrighted now, like music? "Buy the sky and sell the sky". . .
posted by aflakete at 12:10 AM PST - 6 comments

Bleeding Africa. I don't even understand exactly what the objective of the original mission was, other than risk your lives because we tell you to. Shouldn't we have goals when we send military units into action? (I say we because to me, the UN is all of us.) It reminds me of this article about how the Kosovo operation ignored the painful lessons America learned in Vietnam. I don't pretend to understand how we can solve these mammoth problems, but they still concern me. Is military force really the answer here?
posted by Ezrael at 9:45 PM PST - 12 comments

It is time for Louis Freeh to lose his job. Carnivore, indeed. This has got to stop.
posted by baylink at 6:05 PM PST - 10 comments

For those who are gamers and love the challenge of humans on fast LAN games . . . lanparty.com.

All HAIL Half-Life & Unreal Tournament.
posted by Eric_Reid at 2:36 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

The Anatomy of File Download Spyware. A nice report on the "spyware" present in downloading utilities like Netscape/AOL's "Smart Download", NetZip "Download Demon", and RealNetworks "RealDownload". It's true, we are all being watched.
posted by Succa at 10:01 AM PST - 1 comments

rodmantv.com - see who signed up rodman may know parties... but he doesn't know the web... follow the link above to view who signed up for notification of the launch of his site
posted by efader at 10:01 AM PST - 7 comments

Who's 'Big Brother' is most boring? The Brits prize is "only" $105,000, but any sex they have will be videotaped. Is their show more boring than ours? How does it compare to the Spanish and German ones?
posted by owillis at 12:59 AM PST - 3 comments

You must be of legal drinking age to enter this site.
Oh yes, when I'm in college, I WILL be one, I WILL. . . oh yes, it will be mine.
posted by Eric_Reid at 10:35 PM PST - 2 comments

This Just In: Computer commits suicide. When headlines go bad.
posted by aaron at 9:28 PM PST - 11 comments

Weblogs get some more press ... and it's positive this time!
posted by phooey at 7:27 PM PST - 5 comments

The 'biggest band in the world' are the last to get their site on line... (Not counting the Popmart site that only lasted as long as the American tour, after which MSN simply took it down, leaving European fans bewildered. It was a money thing.) Obviously still in beta, it is surprising the site has gone live already. Check the source for the company that made it: Good Technology. I would love to hear some expert feedback on the dhtml usage.
posted by prolific at 5:56 PM PST - 11 comments

Remember the movie Magnolia? One of the themes running through the movie was of amazing coincidences and chance. This story of a people getting hit by trains near San Francisco this week mentions one such coincidence. A man was hit by a train, and on that very train was the chairman of a "nonprofit group whose goal is to reduce the number of train-related collisions, deaths and injuries." The additional fact that this safety group leader was enroute to give a speech on grade-crossing safety makes it approach urban legend status, but it did indeed happen.
posted by mathowie at 9:02 AM PST - 5 comments

Lotion.org
This is some funny stuff.
posted by Eric_Reid at 11:04 PM PST - 3 comments

Do Leahy and Hatch actually read their email? Odds are you might get read by one of their assistants, but still I recommend you send a message in your own words as opposed to what mp3.com recommends. Whether you want changes to copyright legislation or not, let your voice be heard. It's just a click away. Also, MP3 Goes To Washington contains some enlightening and thought-provoking material.
posted by ZachsMind at 9:34 PM PST - 3 comments

Help Kalki Get Laid!!!
Come on, MeFi... where's your community spirit? If he gets 1 Million visitors (current count:262940), nine girls have agreed to sleep with him.
Help the kid out, willya???
Via: Sugar & Brine
posted by EricBrooksDotCom at 7:48 PM PST - 11 comments

Oh great another "weblogs are stupid and they all suck" article came out, but what I really want to know is: why does the other article running this week at ALA acknowledge that "99% of everything is crap," but the weblog article doesn't? Comparing the cruft at the bottom of weblogs with the 1% best of writers (Ginsberg and Kerouac) seems unfair and pointless. And where are the solutions? Tell everyone to stop? Tell them to write better? What's so hard about ignoring the sites you don't like instead (I do that with most advertising)?
posted by mathowie at 1:50 PM PST - 96 comments

Holly crap! $144 Bil. punitive damages.
posted by tiaka at 12:13 PM PST - 26 comments

IAM sues Razorfish for Poor Design Maybe it doesn't work on AOL 4, but it's not that bad--is it?
posted by dan_of_brainlog at 12:08 PM PST - 14 comments

"I'd rather take a hot stick in the eye then deal with your bureaucratic nonsense. " I'm interested in hearing from people in the MeFi community who think the University of California at Santa Barbara is correct in not publishing Chris Brown's profanity peppered 2 page disacknowledgement from his masters thesis.
posted by internook at 11:37 AM PST - 10 comments

Scour is in some trouble But is it really their fault? The web is loaded with all kinds of junk, they just happen to be bring it all together in one searchable site. none the less, bad news for them.
posted by sikk at 11:24 AM PST - 5 comments

The Coalition for the Future of Music is a group started by Jenny Toomey of now-defunct indie record label Simple Machines, entertainment lawyer Walter McDonough, Brian Zisk of iCast, and Michael Bracy of the Low Power Radio Coalition. Jenny's been doing some thought-provoking writing about the subject of digital music, even if I don't agree with everything she's said, and I'm glad to see a group springing up that seems (unlike the corporate mouthpieces from the RIAA) to be thinking about how musicians are going to make a living in a post-Napster world.
posted by snarkout at 11:22 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

"Dear Senator, As a user of the Internet and a fan of music, I am extremely concerned with the issues currently facing the digital music community, particularly those affecting my rights as a consumer to listen to the music that I have purchased. Your hearing has helped the public to understand my concerns."
posted by ericost at 9:57 AM PST - 1 comments

California offers schools payola for improved test scores. Why not just pay the students directly? That would raise scores a lot faster!
posted by Mr. skullhead at 7:43 AM PST - 1 comments

I am shocked - shocked, I say!- to discover that the Linux/Open Source media would operate using the same sort of shenanigans as the media covering the Evil Empire!
posted by m.polo at 7:00 AM PST - 8 comments

DSL Hell to get worse before it [maybe] gets better. CWA Local 2108 is in negotiations for a new contract with Bell Atlantic and it is not going well. If they can't reach agreements, there is a work stoppage scheduled on August 5th. This will affect pretty much every DSL install in the Bell Atlantic region; CWA includes installers, technicians and tech support. So get it while you can, or prepare to wait a while.

[note: I'm not a CWA member, I work for an ISP trying to grapple with this]
posted by jessamyn at 5:41 AM PST - 1 comments

10.am really does rock.
posted by mallum at 4:18 AM PST - 3 comments

Vive Le Google! ...or maybe "Viva La Google" or something...
I don't think I've seen Google use their logo to celebrate a non-American holiday before. Will we get holidays from around the world now? Can we expect a glorious logo for St. Swithin's Day? Where will it end????
posted by dogwelder at 10:28 PM PST - 6 comments

Funny how the 'Net works... I got an email from Sonrisa Vertical but couldn't read it, so I went to The Babelfish and found out they were asking me to add a song called "El Cazador" that they made to my Internatonal MP3 Station. Cool. Nice song. I like it. But The Babelfish wouldn't tell me what "El Cazador" meant. So I did a search on the 'Net. Ever heard of The Wreck That Changed The World? [more]
posted by ZachsMind at 5:34 PM PST - 6 comments

Is this the real reason some people hate cellphones?
posted by thirdball at 4:32 PM PST - 15 comments

"Hatch Warns Labels, Don't Make Me Come Over There and Spank You" Oooh! This is gonna be good. [ From Inside via Dan Lyke's excellent Flutterby. ]
posted by baylink at 4:05 PM PST - 20 comments

VW New Beetle Grand Prix...that's just dope.
posted by NickBarat at 2:16 PM PST - 11 comments

More Stupidity.
Now when little Billy goes to get that violent video game he can check out the latest issue of Juggs Magazine too!
posted by Nyarlathotep at 12:29 PM PST - 14 comments

How does the rate compare to a motel room in Pasadena, anyway? Now if they could just set up some scenario where the po' prisoners get off early for providing sexual favors to these deserving folks. I mean that's appropriate, right?
posted by aflakete at 11:30 AM PST - 1 comments

Even though I've mentioned this, I should post a link. Even though solar flares are evil and will ultimatly bring down the human kind, they make for really cool night light shows.

Sky watchers should be on the lookout for aurora during nighttime hours for the next two days. The bright gibbous moon will hamper visibility of faint Northern and Southern Lights, but bright aurora may be visible in spite of the lunar interference. Usually, the best time to see aurora borealis (or aurora australis) is near local midnight.
posted by tiaka at 6:53 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Let the witch-hunt begin. Truthfully, I don't blame the police one bit for taking the guy down as hard as they did... he resisted arrest 2-3 times as well as exchanged gunfire with them twice before they subdued him.
posted by da5id at 6:24 AM PST - 71 comments

It's an election year, folks. Remember, your vote makes a difference.
posted by plinth at 5:19 AM PST - 2 comments

Countdown to Armageddon - "In the last few years the world has gone from one Earth-shaking crisis to another. While some say that we are on the threshold of a Brave New World Order, others warn that humanity now totters on the brink of unprecedented disaster & chaos!"
posted by pehtes at 5:06 AM PST - 8 comments

In case you missed the metafilter promotion, here's a big fat link. And here's where to discuss it in MetaTalk. I think that this post gives me a good enough excuse to say Happy Birthday MeFi on the main page. But I wont.
posted by Neale at 2:49 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.

Oh, excuse me, but this is a duplicate post. But why does that previous post have tomorrow's date on it? Could it be from July 14th, 1999? And if that's the earliest surviving post in the archives, then that must mean...
Happy Birthday, MetaFilter!
a day early, but I thought we needed time to collect 1216 greeting comments, and take up a PayPal collection to buy Matt something cool for under 30 bucks.
posted by wendell at 12:12 AM PST - 13 comments