October 25, 2000

Am I Hot or Not?

Am I Hot or Not?
Beware of this link. If you click on it you will be sucked in for hours. The idea, rate people's looks on a scale of 1 to 10. The people? Anyone who uploads their picture to the site, both men and women.

I have never found a site more habit forming in my life. Like Dack (who I got the link from) I skipped food, drink and missed my bus.
posted by DragonBoy at 11:38 PM PST - 47 comments


Has there been a negative Nader thread here yet?
"According to his former editor David Sanford, Nader is a hypochondriac who refuses dinner invitations from anyone with pets, because he thinks cats cause leukemia, and simply hates dogs."
There are even crazy quotes.
posted by thirteen at 11:17 PM PST - 32 comments

THE AMIGA IS BACK!

THE AMIGA IS BACK! Why, oh why, did i throw out all my Amiga games. And it wasn't that long ago, that i did that either. Aaaaarrgh.
posted by Zool at 10:48 PM PST - 11 comments

Online petitions have much less clout than old-fashioned paper ones, but...

Online petitions have much less clout than old-fashioned paper ones, but... ya gotta appreciate the twist on this one, demanding that Gore withdraw from the race because he's spoiling it for Nader!
posted by veruca at 6:33 PM PST - 4 comments

Sanctions Born Of Indifference

Sanctions Born Of Indifference The United Nations' sanctions against Iraq - which would have been lifted long ago, if not for America - have been killing 4,500 children a month for nearly 10 years now. A million people in all so far, half of them kids.

The Iraqis die because America insists the sanctions continue - despite their illegality under the principles of the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, the United Nations Convention Against Genocide Convention and particularly the Geneva Convention: (Protocol 1 Additional to the Geneva Conventions - 1977 Part IV, Section 1, Chapter III, Article 54)
1. Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited.
2. It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove, or render useless objects indispensable to the agricultural areas for the production of foodstuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies, and irrigation works, for the specific purpose of denying them for their sustenance value to the civilian population or to the adverse party, whatever the motive, whether in order to starve out civilians, to cause them to move away, or for any other motive.
posted by lagado at 6:20 PM PST - 31 comments

Looking Out Across Dao, Niger, and Harmakhis Valles

Looking Out Across Dao, Niger, and Harmakhis Valles on Mars. Okay, boring subject. The Martian Global Surveyor has been in orbit around Mars for three years. Sometimes you just have to take some time to look at what's been coming back and admire the raw beauty of the landscape.

This is a mid-autumn view of three major valley systems east of the Hellas plains. From left to right, the first major valley, Dao Vallis, runs diagonally from the upper left to just past the lower center of the image. Niger Vallis joins Dao Vallis just above the center of the frame. Harmakhis Vallis extends diagonally across the right half of the picture, toward the lower right. These valleys are believed by some to have been formed--at least in part--by large outbursts of liquid water some time far back in the martian past. The picture is a composite of red and blue wide angle images obtained by MOC on September 13, 2000.
posted by lagado at 5:54 PM PST - 10 comments

Good Magazine.

Good Magazine. Some amusing stuff here. Eg, right now the home page has "An Interview with Neal Pollack Using Questions Intended for Mark Kingwell that Refer to His New Book."
posted by todd at 4:34 PM PST - 1 comments

Internet To Be Bigger Than TV - UCLA Report

Internet To Be Bigger Than TV - UCLA Report "For the first time in the history of television, TV usage by children under 14 declined," recalled Cole. "Kids finally found something that was more interesting than TV. It was an epiphany moment for me." Download the report here.
posted by owillis at 3:02 PM PST - 5 comments

thumbs up

thumbs up for Bush!
posted by gluechunk at 1:55 PM PST - 12 comments

Hi Jack!

Hi Jack! HIJACK!! Hehe... You'd think they'd have addressed this problem a long time ago with pilots being named Jack...
posted by PWA_BadBoy at 12:43 PM PST - 8 comments

Nostalgic time-wasting.

Nostalgic time-wasting. Anyone else getting misty-eyed?
posted by solistrato at 12:13 PM PST - 9 comments

Bernard Shaw can't wait...

Bernard Shaw can't wait... because everything is so exciting!
posted by owillis at 11:25 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Happy Birthday, Alexis Massie!

Happy Birthday, Alexis Massie! And oh, I do like the redesign.
posted by holgate at 10:36 AM PST - 5 comments

Be a Nader Trader!

Be a Nader Trader! This site puts American University law professor Jamin Raskin's theory into practice.
posted by bkdelong at 10:29 AM PST - 13 comments

A new concept in blogging:

A new concept in blogging: Can't think of anything to say? What the hell, just borrow someone else's life.
posted by Cobbler at 9:47 AM PST - 16 comments

just another perl poet.

just another perl poet. program your refrigerator. from /usr/bin/girl
posted by lescour at 9:12 AM PST - 3 comments

These cool, creepy images used to cover the walls of Ariel Dolan's house

These cool, creepy images used to cover the walls of Ariel Dolan's house until "almost all were destroyed when an Iraqi Scud missile crashed my house during the Gulf War." Apparantly, when Dolan isn't making these images, he's programming alife simulations like eFloys.
posted by grumblebee at 8:24 AM PST - 1 comments

Goin' green for the cause!
posted by veruca at 4:36 AM PST - 17 comments

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