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Farm Sluts is a side-splitting parable illustrating the seriousness of using the NSFW designation. This 49 megabyte Quicktime short runs 17 minutes and is totally NSFDU (not safe for dial-up). It's probably itself NSFW, but only because you'll have to explain ROFL.
posted on Nov-9-02 at 5:36 PM
We are burning irreplacable fuel for energy at an alarming rate. Commerce is being conducted by crooks. Five members of the house commitee on energy and commerce are upset, but not about that. They're upset about this. I love my government. It's so amusing.
posted on Jul-16-02 at 4:43 PM
A Boob in the Hall of Justice
Poet Claire Braz-Valentine's hilarious reading of her open letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft. (Text here for the QuickTime impaired.)
posted on Jun-6-02 at 8:00 PM
Geeky Kids With Garage Band #4,767 Glen Buxton, Dennis Dunaway, Vince Furnier, Neal Smith and Michael Bruce are not exactly household names. Little more than typical high school rock geeks in the early seventies, they went on to become one of the most influential rock acts ever. At the peak of popularity, the band members went thier own ways and left Vince to milk the fat cow on his own for another 25 years, yet the survivors remain good friends today.
posted on May-27-02 at 11:19 AM
Buy wadded paper
from very famous artist
and then you like it
posted on May-20-02 at 5:47 PM
Mining Artifacts
"This site is dedicated to those who daily faced the danger, uncertainty, darkness, dampness, heat and cold of underground mining, those who were drawn to toil in the depths of the earth."
simply massive collection of mining paraphernalia and images. a veritable gold mine (sorry) of cool stuff!
posted on May-15-02 at 8:34 PM
Victim of Sloppy Journalism? Wired News Intern Danit Lidor wrote a sensational, one-sided story about one of Rod Montgomery's employer's customers. Rod was quoted accurately, but he is not WordRecords.com's webmaster, was not responsible for the less-than-swift marketing campaign, and didn't know the context of Lidor's question at the time.
Lidor's sloppy journalism implies that Rod and his employer are spam-generators, when this is very far from the truth.
What would you do if you were misquoted or misrepresented in an article printed in a large Internet news site? Should Lidor post a formal retraction?
Rod's full letter to Wired can be found here.
posted on May-12-02 at 6:42 PM
silicon art
"Looking inside, Chipworks has found creative expressions on many of the chips that we have examined. Our combined facilities house six optical microscopes that provide us with the magnification required to discover the hidden art on some chips. Magnification can vary anywhere from 200 to 500 times the actual size. We think that these masterpieces deserve a wider audience. Have a look at what we've found!"
posted on May-8-02 at 6:10 PM
New NASA Satellite Zooms in on Tornado Swath
...the twister's swath is the bright stripe passing through the town and running eastward 6 miles (10 km) toward the Patuxent River beyond the righthand side of the image. This stripe is the result of the vegetation flattened by the storm. The flattened vegetation reflects more light than untouched vegetation.
posted on May-3-02 at 7:02 PM
It's an angry, violent, warmongering world out there right now. You just live in it. The human animal is capable of staggering atrocities and deadly choices and the thick-necked frat boys in charge right now are the most darkly capable we've suffered in decades... There are no peacemakers in the world right now.
posted on Apr-26-02 at 3:20 PM
and like, then i saw god, man.
remember lsd?
posted on Apr-21-02 at 7:10 PM
an opened lettuce to sodd runtlestuntle from dr. winston o'boogie
"John Lennon ain't no revolutionary. He's a fucking idiot, man. Shouting about revolution and acting like an ass. It just makes people feel uncomfortable."
posted on Apr-16-02 at 8:07 PM
NetMaster 10baseT
[boom chicka wap wap widget widget widget]
I be jackin'. I be crimpin'.
I be tracin'. I be pingin'.
I be routin' yo packets like a Cisco...
I'm gonna grease yo cables with Crisco...
posted on Apr-14-02 at 9:53 AM
The Wildlife Art of Radar O'Reilly
Gary Burghoff is a star of many art forms who has expanded his multi-faceted career to include that of wildlife artist.
posted on Apr-10-02 at 7:24 PM
Learn Irish Slang In Under 20 Seconds
Jaysus - an expression of disbelief or despair: "Jaysus! Didya see that?" "Jaysus woman! Will ya leave me be?"
discuss amongst the fecking banjaxed gobshites in your midst.
posted on Mar-10-02 at 8:28 PM
whitney biennial 2002
yummy flash goodness for friday morning.
posted on Mar-8-02 at 6:33 AM
The creator of Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp is dead at age 76.
Liberal media conspiracy or right wing fundamentalist atrocity?
posted on Jan-20-02 at 5:59 AM
"Active Denial Technology uses a transmitter to send a narrow beam of energy towards an identified subject. Traveling at the speed of light, the energy reaches the subject and penetrates less than 1/64 of an inch into the skin, quickly heating up the skin’s surface. Within seconds, an individual feels an intense heating sensation that stops when the transmitter is shut off or when the individual moves out of the beam."
[The link is to an MS Word document, I saved an HTML version here.]
posted on Jan-4-02 at 10:30 PM
Law enforcement was actively pursuing a theory that Mohamed Atta, pilot of the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center, was a homosexual.
<?php insert($tongue, $cheek); ?> wherever you have jets impacting skyscrapers, a homosexual is sure to be nearby.
posted on Nov-9-01 at 11:22 AM
aol time warner center - one central park
welcome to five-star living. at the center of everything.
posted on Oct-23-01 at 10:12 PM
A Brief Illustrated Guide to Understanding Islam, Muslims, & the Quran
"This Islamic guide is for non-Muslims who would like to understand Islam, Muslims (Moslems), and the Holy Quran (Koran). It is rich in information, references, bibliography, and illustrations. It has been reviewed and edited by many professors and well-educated people. It is brief and simple to read, yet contains much scientific knowledge."
posted on Oct-13-01 at 8:13 AM
last week, 6 days prior to the attacks, an FBI raid shut down numerous arabic websites. what did they suspect? many were offended by the action, do they feel the same way still?
posted on Sep-14-01 at 2:59 PM
YETI@Home is a scientific experiment that harnesses the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the search for giant ape-like creatures.
posted on Sep-2-01 at 7:26 PM
Windows RG (really good edition)
posted on Aug-23-01 at 1:52 PM
"We’re not behaving, sometimes we’re pretty wild."
The buggy’s interior is upholstered in royal blue velour. A triangular swatch of the same material is attached to the dash. Silver key chains with colorful emblems - Guns and Roses, Cleveland Browns, and a miniature baseball bat - hang from battery-operated light switches.
Five stereo speakers - including a 12-inch sub-woofer - line the inside of the covered buggy.
On the seat is a selection of old cassette tapes: "The Outfield," "Vixen," and "Hooters."
"This thing will rock, I’m telling you," one of the boys says.
posted on May-8-01 at 6:16 PM
Say what?
I'm sorry, could you please repeat that, I couldn't hear...
posted on Apr-24-01 at 12:24 PM
Focus on the Family Contacts Will & Grace Story Editor
...and gets more than it bargained for!
posted on Apr-10-01 at 5:48 PM
Headline Interruptus...
posted on Mar-28-01 at 5:35 AM
Fat is only ugly until you put a nipple on it.
posted on Feb-26-01 at 7:49 PM
Fermented beaver blamed as 13 fall ill.
I humbly offer this link for your 'consumption' without further comment.
posted on Jan-19-01 at 7:36 PM
monolith disappears! the monolith has disappeared as mysteriously as it first appeared.
posted on Jan-3-01 at 8:14 PM
What's Bill reading over the holiday weekend? He seems to be deliberately holding the book so it can be observed, but I don't recognize the cover and can't make out the title. Anybody?
posted on Nov-24-00 at 2:01 PM
www.georgewbush.com/Helper/CoalitionTransfer.asp?coalition=your-site-here!
this url redirects anywhere you want. heh heh. the possibilities are endless...
posted on Oct-29-00 at 12:42 PM
whois microsoft.com? You might be surprised. or maybe not.
posted on Oct-22-00 at 7:34 PM
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 on Oct-5-00 at 6:30 PM
"The shooter was Gay." "I know that, what was his name???" "Gay. The shooter was Gay." "No, his name..."
posted on Sep-23-00 at 1:33 PM
Gates and Allen setting up thier own (safety) .Net In the past three months, Gates has sold 4.15 million shares valued at about $291.2 million, while Allen has sold 16.26 million shares valued at about $1.2 billion.
posted on Sep-14-00 at 6:30 PM
Imagine that. A chat-enabled telephone... What's next - a broom-enabled vacuum cleaner? A walking-enabled automobile? A hand-scrubbing-enabled washing machine? Next thing you know, they'll want to move all television transmissions to wire, and move all telephony to wireless. Uh, wait...
posted on Sep-4-00 at 9:19 AM
Imagine if this kind of determination was directed toward accomplishing something useful. In a way this reminds me of those 'ultimate defiance' cartoons where the frog is choking the shit out of the pelican even as it slides down its throat. Noble, indomitable human spirit - or just another bored, rich guys bizarre ongoing self destruction?
posted on Sep-4-00 at 8:22 AM
Aha! Telemarketers ARE the Devil Incarnate. I always suspected as much...
posted on Aug-24-00 at 2:51 PM
"They’re just hanging out," said Cathie Levine, a spokeswoman for the first lady’s campaign. Does she mean the family, Bill's tongue, or...?
posted on Aug-20-00 at 1:48 AM
Source Code != Protected Speech
posted on Aug-17-00 at 3:40 PM
The ultimate in online gaming? But seriously, if there isn't anyone home and in danger, there is no justification for the use of deadly force. And, you'd better be able to take cover quickly in the event of a crack...
posted on Aug-17-00 at 3:15 PM
Nader Reacts To Gore's VP Candidate Choice. "You want politically correct, top this..."
posted on Aug-12-00 at 7:55 PM
ëb tvoju mat'!
posted on Aug-6-00 at 10:35 AM
Great headline, incisive commentary. The Welsh have all the luck.
posted on Aug-6-00 at 6:36 AM
The couple had been married for 37 years and had no children. Why are we not surprised?
posted on Aug-2-00 at 7:24 PM
"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 on Jul-20-00 at 6:53 PM
From the 'Green Eggs and Ham' Dept.
posted on Jul-9-00 at 2:39 PM
Louisiana's Supreme Court has upheld a two-century-old law that makes oral and anal sex between consenting adults punishable by up to five years in jail. Where they're liable to have...you guessed it... oral and anal sex. Good thinking.
"Any claim that private sexual conduct between consenting adults is constitutionally insulated from state proscription is unsupportable," Justice Chet Traylor wrote for the majority. It was hard for me to imagine a learned adjudicator uttering such nonsense, until I repeated it out loud in a slow, Boss Hogg drawl...
posted on Jul-9-00 at 12:06 AM
posted on Nov-9-02 at 5:36 PM
We are burning irreplacable fuel for energy at an alarming rate. Commerce is being conducted by crooks. Five members of the house commitee on energy and commerce are upset, but not about that. They're upset about this. I love my government. It's so amusing.
posted on Jul-16-02 at 4:43 PM
A Boob in the Hall of Justice
Poet Claire Braz-Valentine's hilarious reading of her open letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft. (Text here for the QuickTime impaired.)
posted on Jun-6-02 at 8:00 PM
Geeky Kids With Garage Band #4,767 Glen Buxton, Dennis Dunaway, Vince Furnier, Neal Smith and Michael Bruce are not exactly household names. Little more than typical high school rock geeks in the early seventies, they went on to become one of the most influential rock acts ever. At the peak of popularity, the band members went thier own ways and left Vince to milk the fat cow on his own for another 25 years, yet the survivors remain good friends today.
posted on May-27-02 at 11:19 AM
Buy wadded paper
from very famous artist
and then you like it
posted on May-20-02 at 5:47 PM
Mining Artifacts
"This site is dedicated to those who daily faced the danger, uncertainty, darkness, dampness, heat and cold of underground mining, those who were drawn to toil in the depths of the earth."
simply massive collection of mining paraphernalia and images. a veritable gold mine (sorry) of cool stuff!
posted on May-15-02 at 8:34 PM
Victim of Sloppy Journalism? Wired News Intern Danit Lidor wrote a sensational, one-sided story about one of Rod Montgomery's employer's customers. Rod was quoted accurately, but he is not WordRecords.com's webmaster, was not responsible for the less-than-swift marketing campaign, and didn't know the context of Lidor's question at the time.
Lidor's sloppy journalism implies that Rod and his employer are spam-generators, when this is very far from the truth.
What would you do if you were misquoted or misrepresented in an article printed in a large Internet news site? Should Lidor post a formal retraction?
Rod's full letter to Wired can be found here.
posted on May-12-02 at 6:42 PM
silicon art
"Looking inside, Chipworks has found creative expressions on many of the chips that we have examined. Our combined facilities house six optical microscopes that provide us with the magnification required to discover the hidden art on some chips. Magnification can vary anywhere from 200 to 500 times the actual size. We think that these masterpieces deserve a wider audience. Have a look at what we've found!"
posted on May-8-02 at 6:10 PM
New NASA Satellite Zooms in on Tornado Swath
...the twister's swath is the bright stripe passing through the town and running eastward 6 miles (10 km) toward the Patuxent River beyond the righthand side of the image. This stripe is the result of the vegetation flattened by the storm. The flattened vegetation reflects more light than untouched vegetation.
posted on May-3-02 at 7:02 PM
It's an angry, violent, warmongering world out there right now. You just live in it. The human animal is capable of staggering atrocities and deadly choices and the thick-necked frat boys in charge right now are the most darkly capable we've suffered in decades... There are no peacemakers in the world right now.
posted on Apr-26-02 at 3:20 PM
and like, then i saw god, man.
remember lsd?
posted on Apr-21-02 at 7:10 PM
an opened lettuce to sodd runtlestuntle from dr. winston o'boogie
"John Lennon ain't no revolutionary. He's a fucking idiot, man. Shouting about revolution and acting like an ass. It just makes people feel uncomfortable."
posted on Apr-16-02 at 8:07 PM
NetMaster 10baseT
[boom chicka wap wap widget widget widget]
I be jackin'. I be crimpin'.
I be tracin'. I be pingin'.
I be routin' yo packets like a Cisco...
I'm gonna grease yo cables with Crisco...
posted on Apr-14-02 at 9:53 AM
The Wildlife Art of Radar O'Reilly
Gary Burghoff is a star of many art forms who has expanded his multi-faceted career to include that of wildlife artist.
posted on Apr-10-02 at 7:24 PM
Learn Irish Slang In Under 20 Seconds
Jaysus - an expression of disbelief or despair: "Jaysus! Didya see that?" "Jaysus woman! Will ya leave me be?"
discuss amongst the fecking banjaxed gobshites in your midst.
posted on Mar-10-02 at 8:28 PM
whitney biennial 2002
yummy flash goodness for friday morning.
posted on Mar-8-02 at 6:33 AM
The creator of Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp is dead at age 76.
Liberal media conspiracy or right wing fundamentalist atrocity?
posted on Jan-20-02 at 5:59 AM
"Active Denial Technology uses a transmitter to send a narrow beam of energy towards an identified subject. Traveling at the speed of light, the energy reaches the subject and penetrates less than 1/64 of an inch into the skin, quickly heating up the skin’s surface. Within seconds, an individual feels an intense heating sensation that stops when the transmitter is shut off or when the individual moves out of the beam."
[The link is to an MS Word document, I saved an HTML version here.]
posted on Jan-4-02 at 10:30 PM
Law enforcement was actively pursuing a theory that Mohamed Atta, pilot of the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center, was a homosexual.
<?php insert($tongue, $cheek); ?> wherever you have jets impacting skyscrapers, a homosexual is sure to be nearby.
posted on Nov-9-01 at 11:22 AM
aol time warner center - one central park
welcome to five-star living. at the center of everything.
posted on Oct-23-01 at 10:12 PM
A Brief Illustrated Guide to Understanding Islam, Muslims, & the Quran
"This Islamic guide is for non-Muslims who would like to understand Islam, Muslims (Moslems), and the Holy Quran (Koran). It is rich in information, references, bibliography, and illustrations. It has been reviewed and edited by many professors and well-educated people. It is brief and simple to read, yet contains much scientific knowledge."
posted on Oct-13-01 at 8:13 AM
last week, 6 days prior to the attacks, an FBI raid shut down numerous arabic websites. what did they suspect? many were offended by the action, do they feel the same way still?
posted on Sep-14-01 at 2:59 PM
YETI@Home is a scientific experiment that harnesses the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the search for giant ape-like creatures.
posted on Sep-2-01 at 7:26 PM
Windows RG (really good edition)
posted on Aug-23-01 at 1:52 PM
"We’re not behaving, sometimes we’re pretty wild."
The buggy’s interior is upholstered in royal blue velour. A triangular swatch of the same material is attached to the dash. Silver key chains with colorful emblems - Guns and Roses, Cleveland Browns, and a miniature baseball bat - hang from battery-operated light switches.
Five stereo speakers - including a 12-inch sub-woofer - line the inside of the covered buggy.
On the seat is a selection of old cassette tapes: "The Outfield," "Vixen," and "Hooters."
"This thing will rock, I’m telling you," one of the boys says.
posted on May-8-01 at 6:16 PM
Say what?
I'm sorry, could you please repeat that, I couldn't hear...
posted on Apr-24-01 at 12:24 PM
Focus on the Family Contacts Will & Grace Story Editor
...and gets more than it bargained for!
posted on Apr-10-01 at 5:48 PM
Headline Interruptus...
posted on Mar-28-01 at 5:35 AM
Fat is only ugly until you put a nipple on it.
posted on Feb-26-01 at 7:49 PM
Fermented beaver blamed as 13 fall ill.
I humbly offer this link for your 'consumption' without further comment.
posted on Jan-19-01 at 7:36 PM
monolith disappears! the monolith has disappeared as mysteriously as it first appeared.
posted on Jan-3-01 at 8:14 PM
What's Bill reading over the holiday weekend? He seems to be deliberately holding the book so it can be observed, but I don't recognize the cover and can't make out the title. Anybody?
posted on Nov-24-00 at 2:01 PM
www.georgewbush.com/Helper/CoalitionTransfer.asp?coalition=your-site-here!
this url redirects anywhere you want. heh heh. the possibilities are endless...
posted on Oct-29-00 at 12:42 PM
whois microsoft.com? You might be surprised. or maybe not.
posted on Oct-22-00 at 7:34 PM
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 on Oct-5-00 at 6:30 PM
"The shooter was Gay." "I know that, what was his name???" "Gay. The shooter was Gay." "No, his name..."
posted on Sep-23-00 at 1:33 PM
Gates and Allen setting up thier own (safety) .Net In the past three months, Gates has sold 4.15 million shares valued at about $291.2 million, while Allen has sold 16.26 million shares valued at about $1.2 billion.
posted on Sep-14-00 at 6:30 PM
Imagine that. A chat-enabled telephone... What's next - a broom-enabled vacuum cleaner? A walking-enabled automobile? A hand-scrubbing-enabled washing machine? Next thing you know, they'll want to move all television transmissions to wire, and move all telephony to wireless. Uh, wait...
posted on Sep-4-00 at 9:19 AM
Imagine if this kind of determination was directed toward accomplishing something useful. In a way this reminds me of those 'ultimate defiance' cartoons where the frog is choking the shit out of the pelican even as it slides down its throat. Noble, indomitable human spirit - or just another bored, rich guys bizarre ongoing self destruction?
posted on Sep-4-00 at 8:22 AM
Aha! Telemarketers ARE the Devil Incarnate. I always suspected as much...
posted on Aug-24-00 at 2:51 PM
"They’re just hanging out," said Cathie Levine, a spokeswoman for the first lady’s campaign. Does she mean the family, Bill's tongue, or...?
posted on Aug-20-00 at 1:48 AM
Source Code != Protected Speech
posted on Aug-17-00 at 3:40 PM
The ultimate in online gaming? But seriously, if there isn't anyone home and in danger, there is no justification for the use of deadly force. And, you'd better be able to take cover quickly in the event of a crack...
posted on Aug-17-00 at 3:15 PM
Nader Reacts To Gore's VP Candidate Choice.
posted on Aug-12-00 at 7:55 PM
ëb tvoju mat'!
posted on Aug-6-00 at 10:35 AM
Great headline, incisive commentary. The Welsh have all the luck.
posted on Aug-6-00 at 6:36 AM
The couple had been married for 37 years and had no children. Why are we not surprised?
posted on Aug-2-00 at 7:24 PM
"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 on Jul-20-00 at 6:53 PM
From the 'Green Eggs and Ham' Dept.
posted on Jul-9-00 at 2:39 PM
Louisiana's Supreme Court has upheld a two-century-old law that makes oral and anal sex between consenting adults punishable by up to five years in jail. Where they're liable to have...you guessed it... oral and anal sex. Good thinking.
"Any claim that private sexual conduct between consenting adults is constitutionally insulated from state proscription is unsupportable," Justice Chet Traylor wrote for the majority. It was hard for me to imagine a learned adjudicator uttering such nonsense, until I repeated it out loud in a slow, Boss Hogg drawl...
posted on Jul-9-00 at 12:06 AM
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