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Jar Jar Binks: E! True Hollywood Story. Something that has to been seen and felt. Bring kleenex and your pet cat.
posted by Brilliantcrank at 10:36 PM PST - 1 comments

Vice Presidential Debates: Though I disagree with everything he stands for, Dick Cheney came off as a much more eloquent and intelligent individual than did George W. Bush. This raises an interesting question - should GWB win the election, who will really be running the country?
posted by aladfar at 10:33 PM PST - 14 comments

Fight spam with silly human tricks! This service is built around a low rent Turing test. Anyone who is not already on your list of approved correspondents gets their message bounced back to them. If the poor sod can't pass a "fast and simple" challenge, their mail won't be passed on to you as they'll be presumed to be a spambot. I use Pine: I guess I'd fail. (Found via Webmonkey).
posted by maudlin at 10:21 PM PST - 12 comments

Do you remember the magic?™
posted by highindustrial at 9:17 PM PST - 6 comments

More engineers who aren't afraid to dream. This is like that humongous telescope I posted about a few weeks ago, only in a different area. Of course, the question is "If you get it working, what do you do with it?" What would you do with a 100 GHz petaflop CPU?
posted by Steven Den Beste at 9:09 PM PST - 10 comments

CNN whips out a dual headline format to cover both Yugoslavia and VP debates. What does one do when there are 2 top stories and your design only has room for 1? Is it worthwhile to bother with an alternate design like this?
posted by smackfu at 6:57 PM PST - 13 comments

al gore came to town today and spoke on the plaza beneath my office window. unfortunately i wasn't able to hear much of what he said, since the secret service wouln't let us onto the lobby level. and you actually needed tickets to get onto the plaza. (here in conservative west michigan, where they were lucky anybody showed up at all!) those of us in the building had to settle for shooting a few pictures out the window. pretty much sucked.
posted by quonsar at 6:30 PM PST - 7 comments

Animals thought extinct found in remote Cambodian jungle: British scientists have found a wilderness in the Cardamom region of Cambodia where exotic species, some though to be extinct, have been found. These include the Siamese crocodile, the wolf snake (a new species so named because of its dog-like fangs), large populations of tigers and Asian elephants, and the gower, a forest cow. Ironically, the habitat was protected from significant human intrusion because it was a longtime Khmer Rouge stronghold and also because routes lead to and from it are landmined.
posted by jhiggy at 6:06 PM PST - 6 comments

Yahoo! Buzz See what everyone on Yahoo is looking for (excluding porn)
posted by owillis at 5:51 PM PST - 2 comments

Wondering when and where your favorite band is playing? Musi-cal is sort of the Internet Concert Database; a collaborative scheduling information site. To make it even cooler, it runs the Insanely Great™ Zope.
posted by baylink at 5:41 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Is this not the best? I laughed until I cried. Evil Flash Player required.(via /usr/bin/girl)
posted by ethmar at 5:31 PM PST - 5 comments

Teacher Fired Over Project to Plan Assassination
Tasteless or not, this poor bastard did not deserve to be fired. I just wish my high school teachers could've been half this creative.

(via christian of infliction.org.)
posted by ratbastard at 1:41 PM PST - 6 comments

Wow! Got to give it to the people in Yougoslavia... This is damn impressive and it looks like the end of Milosevic. Europe is almost completely democratic now!
posted by TNLNYC at 1:22 PM PST - 16 comments

An eaves dropping 'blog - for example:

"I looked over, and I noticed that she's stepped out of her Kia, and is talking on her Nokia cell phone... in the parking lot of Ikea." "And...?" --Two guys in line for the ATM

posted by TuxHeDoh at 12:28 PM PST - 4 comments

Order your creepy furniture today! Halloween is just around the corner.
posted by Sal Amander at 12:22 PM PST - 1 comments

A table that sets itself? Great! Now if I can just find a bathroom that cleans itself, life will be perfect.
posted by grumblebee at 12:21 PM PST - 2 comments

One word: Creepy. (Note that IBM doesn't actually own this patent -- they just run the patent lookup service.) Props to Victor.
posted by jjg at 11:52 AM PST - 15 comments

"Babylon" brothers and sisters, a fan has collected, archived and portaled a large collection of postings (Usenet and other forms) on writing, SF and TV work by J. Michael Straczynski, the "Babylon 5" creator-executive producer, also a longtime SF writer and, if you are as old as I am, you may remember him as the Scripts columnist for Writer's Digest. They're not ordered chronologically or topically, so they read more like random postcards from the volcano. But there's plenty of writing advice here and some nuggets of TV gossip dropped along the road.
posted by jhiggy at 11:42 AM PST - 1 comments

Open Letters is juicy. Here's a bit of one I liked... "I nod gravely at my wife, to assure her: He's a brother. Everything will be all right. Here is no busta-ass wigger bullshit-talkin' IRS chickenhead. This man will not use the U.S. tax code to bully a pair of struggling bohemians; he will not be so rock-ribbed or steel-hearted as to pursue some hairsplitting perversion of justice, unleavened by sympathetic understanding, in the course of setting aright whatever trivial infractions he happens to uncover on our 1998 return; he will not plow us over with penalties."
posted by Mo Nickels at 10:29 AM PST - 2 comments

Not with a whimper, but a bang... The Belgrade parliament is in flames. The State television building is broadcasting for Free Serbia. If you can get a stream, FreeB92 is the place to be listening. The revolution may not be televised, but this it has its own weblog
posted by holgate at 9:37 AM PST - 11 comments

More Hot Nader Action Coming At You. Because you cannot post enough links about Ralph Nader on Metafilter. The curious thing about this article comes at the end, with the analysis of Nader's message. Yeah, Ralph's against a lot of stuff, but what is he for? What are his plans and agendas?
posted by solistrato at 7:58 AM PST - 18 comments

Two good to be true? 12 CDs for the price of one. I thought the Napster-obsessed Major Labels didn't like free music. Perhaps there's a nasty surprise in store when the service charges arrive.
posted by Cobbler at 7:41 AM PST - 12 comments

I don't recall having heard from anybody that the consumer experience of getting online required redefinition.
posted by baylink at 7:27 AM PST - 12 comments

Obviously the Swedes have never heard of Howard Stern.
posted by thc at 6:05 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Napster for sale -- potential buyers include "a Western telecommunications giant and a brand-name 'pure' Internet service provider."
posted by johnb at 2:27 AM PST - 9 comments

Yet another attempt by the networks to use "underground marketing" to promote their new shows. Pretty transparent.
posted by owillis at 1:13 AM PST - 2 comments