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Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!
That
quote was made
famous through the old comic book
CPU Wars. The comic chronicled the battles between two companies: IPM (Impossible to Program Machines); HEC (Human Engineered Computers); and the people involved. It is now archived, in its entirety, on the web.
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at 12:17 PM on October 3, 2002
(6 comments)
Game Studies
"is a crossdisciplinary journal dedicated to games research, web-published several times a year at www.gamestudies.org. Our primary focus is aesthetic, cultural and communicative aspects of computer games." A well-designed, well-written site about a media that seems often poorly studied outside of mainstream press.
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at 9:29 AM on August 22, 2002
(4 comments)
Robotron: 2084.
Presented is an interview with the creator of the fantastic game from the mid 80s; regarding the design of enemies in the game, he has this to say: "Some of the most interesting and deadly aspects of the enemies were bugs caused by improperly terminated boundary conditions in the algorithms. Often these bugs produced behavior far more interesting and psychotic then anything I conceived of." There are many more interviews of classic game authors in the book which is the source for this interview, James Hague's
Halcyon Days. (Link thanks to
Glish.)
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at 1:32 PM on August 2, 2002
(32 comments)
The Big Book of Sign Language (from rotten.com).
Have you ever wondered how to sign phrases such as "I shovel shit all day long", "I want to pull the shrieking voices from my head and smoosh them", and "Unlock my legs and get it over with"? The Big Book shows you how. Inappropriate? Yes. Hysterical? Yes. (Portions may not be safe for work. Link via
Magnetbox. Thanks, ben.)
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at 10:41 AM on July 9, 2002
(29 comments)
The Leaves Project
catalogs sadly too few leaves from trees and personal stories associated with them. Highlight a leaf and click to view the story behind it. From their
about page: "The Leaves Project was borne of one simple thought: that every leaf has an inherent beauty and elegance. I have become fascinated with the colors and textures of leaves. This project is an attempt at capturing just a small portion of the wonder to be found in the natural world."
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at 10:46 AM on July 2, 2002
(7 comments)
Punk Rock Aerobics.
"Punk Rock Aerobics: The work out that rocks out. No more sucky classes full of braindead bimbos in spandex thongs. PRA is for fun people with discerning taste. An hour and a half of cardio and strengthening class that will have you pogoing and skanking your butt off!" Brought to you by Maura and Hilken (the latter of the band
fuzzy). As they say on the
mission page: "Free your mind and your ass will follow."
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at 12:23 PM on June 8, 2002
(12 comments)
"I get a lot of questions like
'Why are you the King of France?' Hopefully, this document will help those who just don't understand the overwhelming obviousness of it all. Then they can stop living in denial."
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at 11:07 AM on May 27, 2002
(8 comments)
Momo's parts.
All about the different parts of one Japanese man's pet hamster plus illustrations. "I have read that hamster's whiskers shows the width that they can pass through. But Momo forgets. One day Momo tried to go into the cleaner hose. As he has the big hip, he could't go into it. And in his effect to go, he could't get his head out. When I ran to him in a hurry, his head gone out of the hose, and he rolled backward."
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at 8:41 AM on May 17, 2002
(17 comments)
The Stained Apron
is "dedicated to the venting of food servers' frustrations and a harsh education of the dining public." I always try to tip generously, now.
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at 9:12 AM on May 14, 2002
(24 comments)
Up in Smoke: Drugs and the End of Music.
"It's extremely doubtful whether house would have achieved the dominance it has without E fuelling the nation's clubbers. With ecstasy dictating the musical content of many club nights, the demand for seamless, relentless grooves with little change in tempo has grown and grown ... Dance music is no longer a music that touches the head and heart as well as the feet, as it did with Northern Soul. Instead, it has become a soul-less metronome for the E generation to mark time to."
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at 9:32 AM on April 30, 2002
(57 comments)
Famous Self-Injurers.
"Johnny [Depp] has a series of seven or eight scars on his left forearm where he has cut himself with a knife on different occasions to commemorate various moments or rights of passage in his life ... 'It was really just whatever [times when he hurt himself]--good times, bad times, it didn't matter. There was no ceremony. It wasn't like "Okay, this just happened, I have to go hack a piece of my flesh off"' ... 'My body is a journal in a way.'" On this website are accounts self-afflicted injuries from Fiona Apple, Richey Edwards, Christina Ricci and more.
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at 10:43 AM on April 10, 2002
(18 comments)
The male, heterosexual victims of spousal abuse.
"Blood streamed down my face. Internal injuries dislocated my ribs. Lacerations and multiple abrasions marked my back and groin. My attacker had no injuries. I told the officer that I wanted the crime report to note my injuries and the names of witnesses. He responded, 'We ain't takin' a report from you, buddy.'" The officer refused to take Stanley seriously because he was a man who had been beaten by his wife.
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at 9:08 AM on March 28, 2002
(82 comments)
Stand and say it loud.
Soapboxgirls is a monthly webzine focused on and relating pop-culture from the perspective of contributing female writers. The issues are extensive; the archives stretch back to 2000. The march issue: porn. If the essays aren't enough, you might consider the media reviews, the fiction and the poetry. Those of you for whom a monthly fix is not enough, well --
they understand.
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at 10:07 PM on March 23, 2002
(6 comments)
All your favorite news
can be found at Stereotypography -- or, at least, the news from 18 distinct weblogs. Condensed into three frames, you can read the news from three of those sites and switch between them with drop-down boxes. Resize the font or refresh the news feeds at will. (found via
alt.sense.)
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at 8:59 AM on March 12, 2002
(10 comments)
Little Computer People
was a game produced in the '80s and at a time when the gaming landscape was very different from today's market. The point?
Life.
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at 10:17 AM on February 4, 2002
(11 comments)
Announcing CivicNet,
a Metropolitan Area Network (or MAN). In short, it is broadband for the masses in the Chicago area to be developed over a span of 10 years (if you're lucky). To be clear: I am not the man.
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 3:05 PM on January 7, 2002
(9 comments)
Everything But The Girl
has had a website for some time now, but there's more to the band than meets the eye.
Ben and
Tracey recall their interesting histories including when and where they met. Though an excellent resource for information on the releases of the band, you may also discover Ben's
struggle with
Churg-Strauss syndrome, a quite
bleak condition. And, of course, you no longer need wonder how Ben and Tracey
came up with the name.
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at 11:31 AM on January 1, 2002
(24 comments)
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA.
From the website at the Library of Congress, the posters
consist of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest. These striking silkscreen, lithograph, and woodcut posters were designed to publicize health and safety programs; cultural programs including art exhibitions, theatrical, and musical performances; travel and tourism; educational programs; and community activities in seventeen states and the District of Columbia. For examples, see a poster on the health dangers of
Syphilis and one for the play
Alison's House: A Poetic Romance.
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 11:28 AM on December 31, 2001
(4 comments)
Stickers.
Dozens of them, along with posters and "mallen," are archived on this dutch page. (The site uses frames, so you might want to click on the english version of the news there on the site;
otherwise. Found via
alt.sense.)
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at 9:22 AM on December 19, 2001
(2 comments)
Secrets of the Cold War in Space.
Deep Cold is an website with detailed renderings, quicktime movies and information about the ideas and concepts being developed for both U.S. and Soviet presences in space during the cold war.
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 12:55 PM on December 7, 2001
(4 comments)
"It's a good job you have me around to provide continual cultivation."
In the early '80s, Stephen Patrick Morrissey wrote a number of letters to a pen-pal, which have been archived on the web, and they provide a look into his life before he formed the Smiths. In his letters Morrissey produces such gems as
"Spider and I? Piffle me boy. There Gops Concorde? Sputter-butter. Vienna? Hogwash." and
"It's so old-fashioned to work. I'd much rather lounge about the house all day looking fascinating. I'd rather look fascinating than have a permanent income. Am I insane?" (the underline is, apparently, morrissey's.)
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 10:43 AM on December 3, 2001
(14 comments)
Want free admission to a baseball game? Get a tattoo.
The Daytona Cubs, a minor league affiliate (high A-ball) of the Chicago Cubs, are running a promotion where "Any fan 18 or older who gets a Daytona Cubs tattoo from Willie's Tropical Tattoo in Ormond Beach, Fla., will receive a lifetime general admission ticket."
"I'm not squeamish about where someone wants to put it," said Charlie Subock of Tropical Tattoo. "It might be disrespectful to get it on your butt. But if you didn't like the Cubs, that may be the place to put it."
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at 3:10 PM on November 30, 2001
(9 comments)
"Hello, world!" in 114 programming languages.
Whenever picking up a new language, it's customary to write a program that prints "Hello, world!" to see how one goes about writing anything in said language. Now you never need be curious about what language to write your custom-designed CMS in.
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at 10:48 AM on November 26, 2001
(19 comments)
Anorexia is a lifestyle choice?
Some, apparently, have argued that it is, and they are putting their money where their mouthes are in the form of 1 million dollars (for lack of food, I suppose). "One of the leaders of the 'Annas' gives her name only as Sahara and describes herself a 22-year-old student from the prestigious Stanford University, near San Francisco ... A computer specialist, she runs a website that provides detailed advice for those who want to starve themselves — coupled with tips on fooling parents, friends and doctors." Some
respond to the
advocacy of anorexia, but gains and losses are both apparent in what looks to be a battle of attrition.
The Starving Annas remind one of the equally controversial efforts by the
National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance and similar movements in that both advocate widely-considered unhealthy lifestyle choices. (Sunday Times link courtesy of
The Morning News.)
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at 9:20 AM on November 21, 2001
(83 comments)
"A Spear Avenue resident reported a male-type human in his backyard performing the specialty of the breed - stumbling around and cursing. The interloper without portfolio wandered off in a
random direction." This quote and more can be found in the Arcata Eye police blotter. (From
Cruel.com; also mentioned in a
comment in an older thread.)
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at 8:40 PM on November 14, 2001
(19 comments)
Welcome to Teddy.
Images, words, and comics about a relationship gone wrong, right, wrong, wrong, and wrong from Ethan Persoff; incredible stuff. Some language may not be suitable for work viewing, unless no one can see your monitor. (Thanks to
Velvet Cerebellum.)
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at 1:33 PM on November 7, 2001
(18 comments)
Baseball player plans to start a forest.
Stan Javier, of the Seattle Mariners, is retiring after this year. He and two contributors plan to spend $31 million dollars toward a forest of mahogany and teak trees to take up between 15,000 and 20,000 acres by the year 2003. They plan to harvest the trees for lumber, but the article suggests that the trees would be as crops much like a farmer harvests wheat and then replants. The potential for this idea gives me a feeling as warm and fuzzy as a
marmoset.
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at 11:42 AM on October 24, 2001
(24 comments)
Soft and still
is the artwork of
Nowhere Girl, a comic about a depressed, painfully shy and disaffected girl named Jamie. The settings and the tempo of the art seem to grab me and hold. I don't like many of the webcomics I've found on the internet, but I think this one stands out for its sincerity. Are there any other online comics like this one? (This link was found through
Memepool.)
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at 10:07 AM on October 18, 2001
(14 comments)
From safety to where.
This article provides a great, in-depth look at the World Trade Center from an architectural standpoint. Beginning with its lead architect, a Japanese man who suffered himself from the racism of the WW2 era, it goes over the structure of the buildings and reasons why the center withstood the 1993 bombing -- and, for a while, the impacts of the two hijacked planes -- and what the future for New York and the businesses affected may hold. (Thanks to
overmorgen for the link.)
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at 10:19 AM on September 26, 2001
(5 comments)
What a cool dog.
One of the rescue pooches is being lifted out of the debris zone. In case you wanted to see one of matt's
rescue dogs in action.
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at 11:41 AM on September 18, 2001
(5 comments)
Reuters is publishing photos of those unaccounted for.
I thought that this was a nice gesture on the part of Reuters, and of the AP if they're doing this as well. It's eerie to glance through yahoo's archive of the Reuters photos and to find random pictures submitted by families. They're not obvious, but if you look through enough pages, you'll find a few.
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at 11:21 AM on September 14, 2001
Potential forever unfulfilled.
Alan Turing was a great scientist and philosopher, though most famous for his work in cracking the nazi Enigma encryption used for communication by their U-boats. Turing, one of the foremost innovators in the field of computer science at its inception, was also a homosexual. Tried and convicted for such acts in 1952, Turing committed suicide in 1954. A
bronze statue is now being erected in honor of Turing, even as the research he'd begun in computer science is still incomplete.
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 2:54 PM on September 5, 2001
(25 comments)
She didn't feel the same way, and that was that.
Crush.nu has formally ceased publishing stories.
Jack mentions the possibility of a book (for which you are able to send submissions right now), but the project as it was on the web is no more than its archives. I know it hasn't been updated in quite a while, but I'm going to miss it terribly all the same. What will you miss most about it?
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at 8:34 AM on August 26, 2001
(7 comments)
Reassembled.
Assembler is back -- at least, in its latest, frozen form. Score one for indie content makers. (thanks to
Zeldman; his
exit page notes the new URL.)
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at 1:27 PM on July 27, 2001
(4 comments)
It's all about the sound.
While most bands hate to be pigeonholed, one of the styles of music which I've lately gotten into is called "post rock." I can't get enough of bands like
Stereolab,
Yo La Tengo, and the
Aluminum Group. I hope I'm not the only one who
likes this stuff... any other post rockers out there?
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at 8:09 AM on July 23, 2001
(64 comments)
Demo Design is neat.
Lots of flash to
entertain you. Try the sound section; I feel like I'm Ross from Friends wigging out on my ancient synthesizer, but with modern drum loops. And dig the clock if you click on the middle or right symbols that appear if you click on video.
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 3:28 PM on July 19, 2001
(4 comments)
What's your problem?
Find out just how screwed up you are with this handy test of common personality disorders. (thanks to
evhead.)
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 2:11 PM on July 17, 2001
(57 comments)
The Destination Matters More Than The Journey
is a well-written tutorial on typesetting and other matters typographical having to do with the web authored by
Dean Allen. It's a good read, especially coming from someone who has absolutely no design background but who pretends to be one nonetheless. How much attention do you pay to letter spacing, line height, and the like on your websites?
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 12:55 PM on July 16, 2001
(6 comments)
What's your story?
That's the question that the site EatTheseWords asks. In nature, it's quite similar to
{fray}, only not as focused. Which format do you prefer--that of {fray}'s, or the more general purpose approach seen at ETW? Find any particularly interesting stories there?
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 9:31 AM on July 13, 2001
(10 comments)
The giant list of classic computer programmers
takes you back to a time when one person could realistically author a computer game and have it published. Of course most of the people on this list will have worked on small teams to produce games, but the diversity of the games on these people's resumes is awesome. In particular, I notice Michael Cranford (responsible for The Bard's Tale I and II, the Centauri Alliance, and ports of Donkey Kong and Super Zaxxon) and Robert Woodhead (Wizardry 1-5). As an interesting sidenote, Robert Woodhead went on to
Animeigo, a japanese animation publishing company in the US. What memories of these old sk00l games do you have?
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 2:11 PM on July 6, 2001
(34 comments)
Microsoft bans use of Open Source
with its wireless internet tools. Will this be a huge PR blunder, or will people accept MS' hardline stance against this so-called "potentially viral" software?
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 1:49 PM on July 2, 2001
(25 comments)
Ghost World is made into a movie.
The comic on which it is based is by
Daniel Clowes, an "alternative" comics author of some fame. I think I'm just a bit shocked that, of all comics, a movie would be made about ... well, anything by Daniel Clowes. Starring Steve Buscemi and
Thora Birch from American Beauty. (Thanks to
URB magazine (print) for the tip and
Memepool for the Clowes interview pointer.)
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 9:51 AM on June 25, 2001
(9 comments)
