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Teen Accused in Plot to Kill 'N Sync. Foiled Again! Doh!
posted by Brilliantcrank at 10:45 PM PST - 20 comments

The rock-critic "community" Jack Saturn and Jack Saturn manqués, ahoy! A young fella runs an entire site, Popped, dedicated to the art of rock criticism. And despite being from Toronto, he's not so prissy as to pretend he isn't a fan. Because those are the worst rock critics. If rock even matters anymore.
posted by joeclark at 10:02 PM PST - 8 comments

The Strong Colo(u)r Classic One keeps running across coverage of the cult of the Macintosh Color Classic. Imagine stuffing a G3 parentboard and a CD-ROM into one of those wee chunks o' sculpture. Or stop imagining and go do it. (Second article.) Note: Some Strong Color Classic fan sites crash every browser I have, even iCab. Too strong for the Web, perhaps.
posted by joeclark at 10:00 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

A movie-quote page that avoids the obvious Harry Knowles wishes he were this good. (And so do his readers. Gah!) Anyway, Andrew de la Rosa's Movie Quote Page epitomizes the Wildean dictum that there is no high or low art, only good and bad. You want quotes from Serial Mom? Alphaville? Everyone's welcome. (But why no mention of the infamous exchange between Diana Christensen and Loreen Hobbs in Network?
posted by joeclark at 6:46 PM PST - 5 comments

As a despised and adored lesbian historian, I... The hottest date I could imagine (with a woman) would be an overnight escapade with... Camille Paglia. Yes! McSweeney's sums up her life in introductory catchphrases from the goddess's own Salon columns. How Dada. How cut-n-paste.
posted by joeclark at 6:43 PM PST - 7 comments

Relaxed encryption exports get green light. See comment inside.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 6:18 PM PST - 3 comments

These guys need to go back and look at some movies of the Normandy invasion. [more inside]
posted by Steven Den Beste at 5:40 PM PST - 2 comments

Imagine the reaction in the delivery room! Baby swap in hospital is one thing, but fetus-swap?
posted by Steven Den Beste at 5:33 PM PST - 2 comments

Alien (1979; dir. Ridley Scott) original props and stuff for auction. Here's a Halloween costume the kids down the street won't soon forget. And wouldn't a plaster cast of Tom Skerritt's teeth make a great stocking stuffer? Also, this prop seems like it could be put to some alternative uses the makers never intended.
posted by jjg at 4:23 PM PST - 3 comments

Tired of stepping in some dog's crap??? Behavior modification starts at your poperty line! This doesn't only work for people that don't have dogs. It can also work for those of us who do, and are tired of our trusted companions going into the neighbor's yard to do their doodi.

Though I could care less that they do, I like my neighbors, so I am gonna give this a shot.
posted by da5id at 2:16 PM PST - 6 comments

Wicked Series - For long-suffering BoSox fans, New York's Subway Series is a Jacob's Ladder tube ride to baseball Hell.
posted by kevincmurphy at 1:12 PM PST - 26 comments

Bezos and O'Reilly teamed up with a new approach at Patent reform. And if you can prove someone else had this idea first, they will give you $14k.
posted by th3ph17 at 1:04 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Essay by Richard Dawkins (the scientist, not the game show host) on the supposed convergence on science and religion.
posted by Optamystic at 11:59 AM PST - 47 comments

The US Government should buy it and make it a national monument. PARC up for sale? I didn't realize that Xerox was hurting so badly.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 11:03 AM PST - 4 comments

Kinship database written in Prolog
From your friends at the Center for Computing in Anthropology at U of Kent / Canterbury
posted by rschram at 11:00 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Imaxo pays you go on job interviews Fees for interviews range from $25 - $1000 Some people could You can only interview a maximum of 12 times a year, so you couldn't live off of doing this unless you had a lot of aliases
posted by Dean_Paxton at 10:36 AM PST - 6 comments

Takuu, an atoll community in Papua New Guinea, threatened by rising sea levels
I don't know what to make of it, but I've heard similarly dire fates predicted for minor islands of Oceania, if present trends continue into the next 50 years.
posted by rschram at 10:27 AM PST - 1 comments

Deja.com is putting its archive of Usenet news, covering a period from 1995 to the present, up for sale. As you might have noticed, for some months now Deja's archive of older (pre-1999) news has been unavailable. They had claimed the situation was temporary, but now it appears to be permanent. This leaves me with something of a sick feeling. While much of late-1990s Usenet is junk, it has both practical and historical significance. The notion that archiving Usenet is not commercially viable does not bode well for saving other parts of the Internet's history.
posted by tranquileye at 9:47 AM PST - 12 comments

Travolta's officially lost his marbles: "George Lucas and Quentin Tarantino and a lot of people saw [Battlefield Earth] and thought it was a great piece of science fiction." In an alternate universe, maybe.
posted by highindustrial at 9:46 AM PST - 19 comments

Gore and horses have something in common...big feet. Al Gore has endured criticism for years that he's constantly giving his image a makeover. Now Inside.com reports that Rolling Stone magazine airbrushed some of Gore's assets in its latest issue. Apparently, a certain bulge in the vice president's pants had to be "brought down a bit" in the photo adorning the rock magazine's cover.
posted by Brilliantcrank at 8:40 AM PST - 3 comments

Am I the only one who finds this disturbing? It's the "official britney spears website" and the intro flash is quite illuminating. Different parts of Ms. Spears' body get highlighted during the opening flash animation while areas of the site are displayed. When her breasts get illuminated, "Your Stuff" is the area that gets shown. (Her breasts are also used to showcase the "tour info", which may say more about the flash designers than anything else.)
posted by bison at 7:50 AM PST - 39 comments