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Wednesday, September 01 1999

Philip K. Dick : The Mainstream That Through the Ghetto Flows Wherein the interviewer can't seem to stop likening the author to Kilgore Trout.
The First Virtual Meter How do you measure space when you can just change the resolution? via calamondin.
The Internet : The Last Battleground of the 20th Century from the nice man who brought us The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Intern...I mean, Galaxy. real ...
My God! It's..it's...it's the iPotty!

Thursday, September 02 1999

Some people have ladyfingers, others have...well, barbie fingers. real audio (starts 19:30)
NY Times : Capturing Not-So-Still Life Nothing you wouldn't already know if you've set up a webcam , but it got me wondering if [we] ...
Via Mr. Barrett, comes sad news that the next Bob & Doug movie has been canned. To mark this unfortunate turn of events, l...
Calvin & Hobbes Snow Art Gallery The last I heard was that Bill Watterson wanted to start painting full-time. Has anyone seen t...
Let the flames begin!
Are you a film-maker? Have you taken your Vow of Chastity yet?

Friday, September 03 1999

Spider Robinson is mad as mung.
I finally got the hardware to build my own FreeBSD box. Let's hope this isn't too humbling an experience.
Lincoln Stein : The Web Is Not TV "In this uncertain environment, how comforting it is to pretend that the Web is just a super-d...
I think I'll make my first million setting up an online bazaar where people can buy, sell and track the value of human organs. It...

Sunday, September 05 1999

NYT Magazine on the Anti-Ironist A "fine young man" and author of "For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America To...

Monday, September 06 1999

Apocalypse Countdown Clocks! requires java.
Jesus of the Week "I used to work with someone in the food and beverage industry who had a cocaine problem that ...
®TMark "Corporations are persons, and have been for over a century. Since 1886, when the U.S. Supreme...
Saturday Night : The Hole Truth "It has its own lingo, its own legends, its own cultural legacy. Tim Hortons occupies a centra...
PHP: A request from Rasmus To the post-office! via <a href = "http://alchemy.openjava.org">internet alchemy</a&g...

Tuesday, September 07 1999

Burn All GIFs Day Community action at it's best , I say.
I am one with my error messages.
Teach your children well and they'll finger you to The Man. Creepy. Eric Erikson once remarked that the best way to understan...
We (work) got our new bumperstickers back from the printer this morning! I snagged some of each, so if you'd like one drop me a lin...
DNTO : How the Internet is taking us away from work... and creating jobs "Right now the most interesting, interactive and compelling parts of the web are designed for ...

Wednesday, September 08 1999

Les objets du siècle : la carte postale "Pourquoi avoir inventé la carte postale? Parce que le 1er juillet suivant (1870), la Prusse e...
BBC : Return of the dark art A quick read on the state of the graphic novel that mentions Alan Moore alot which reminded me...
The Leisure Luge "I smiled when I got the email from my BBC contact. He asked if I could do the second part of ...

Thursday, September 09 1999

People like to be entertained and whatever else you want to say about Steve Jobs, he gets that better than most. via macinto...
I guess if you're too poor to own a computer, you must be too dumb to need an encyclopedia. Can someone tell me what happ...
La Paresse, une installation de François Girard Girard is the director of "32 Short Films about Glenn Gould" and "The Red Violin". streaming q...
What are Web standards and why should I use them?

Friday, September 10 1999

Todd Gitlin : Disappearing Ink "The point is to decide, while you're listening, what matters in the presentation. And while I...
CyberNotes "CyberNotes is published every two weeks by the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIP...
Road Stories for the Flesh Eating Future "We are the first citizens of a society that has actually been eaten by technology. A culture ...
C'est La Vie : Word of the Week What *are* those wacky French-Canadians saying, anyway?

Saturday, September 11 1999

What is surfmenu? "A few people said they wanted something that married the floating-window aspect of peterme's ...
Possible Artworks This is from an otherwise annoying piece of contemporary web/art, but I like the idea of using...
NY Times : Two Views on How to Get Johnny to Read and Think Put the television away. Acquire lots of books; leave them around the house and don't censor w...
Avril Benoit talks to Catherine Annau director of Just Watch Me : Trudeau and the 70's Generation, a film about growing up with [Tru...
Pierre Elliott Trudeau "We believe in two official languages and in a pluralist society not merely as a political nec...

Monday, September 13 1999

The Dallas Observer on Francis Bacon If you're familiar with his work there isn't much new here, but it's a good excuse to tell my ...
BBC : Txt msging: Th shp of thngs 2 cm? "Do u spk txt? The chncs r, if u dnt, u wll b4 lng. 2 jdge by ads 4 mob fns, txt msging hs ct...
Bored? Why not try bringing down military aircraft with your trusty laser-pointer.

Tuesday, September 14 1999

Janos Starker : A 75th Birthday Celebration Janos Starker, Mstislav Rostropovich and another 150 cellists performing together. Nice! Live ...
Canadian Radio-television & Telecommunications Commission "The Commission is issuing a direction to cable carriers with respect to the resale of reta...
Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals "In short, [the club] presented evidence that there is a class of people with serious medical ...

Wednesday, September 15 1999

Rick Veitch : The Daily Rare Bit Fiends "I'm about to learn that in Boston, there are a lot of firestations, but few police." I trust ...
Sam Henderson thinks you should avoid the School for Visual Arts if you want to be a cartoonist. I recommend...

Thursday, September 16 1999

Simson Garfinkel weighs in on the Unix wars "If I had to pick out the single difference between the BSD community as a whole and the propo...
Slashdot : Network Solutions E-Mail Security Alert Maybe Network Solutions will just be washed in to the sea. Yes, it would prove a nuisance but ...
Jean Dion : Fume, Kafka, c'est du bon "Mieux encore, le ministère de la Vertu pourra, de concert avec la direction de l'entreprise, ...
Boston Globe : Hurricane Cams Meanwhile, if I have to leave the basement I'll point the basementboy camera out the window. ...
The US Coast Guard doesn't seem too concerned about Floyd, if their homepage is anything to judge by. On the othe...
Wired : The RSI Generation Listen to your hands. see also : The RSI Page.
CNN : Scientists grow decaf coffee bean People always look at me funny when I say that things like this and rock bands hiring string o...

Friday, September 17 1999

Technologies to the People Foundation "is a non-profit-making organization that provides the destitute with access to the new techno...
Carfree Times I found this snooping around after reading about plans for Auto-Free Sundays in Amsterdam. Won...
Susan L. Lukesh : Email and the Potential Loss to Future Archives and Scholarship
Floyd proved to be decidedly underwhelming here on the Vineyard - a good thing. The worst of it, for me, was the ...
iDot is selling 450$ BeOS machines
Audrey Schulman on attending weddings naked "Downstairs there were a variety of surprises. The first surprise was that the sacred pie had ...

Saturday, September 18 1999

Vive le Québec webabillard!
Rex Murphy on The Great One and Clintonian Moments real (evil g2) video

Sunday, September 19 1999

What is startpage? "[S]tartpage is actually called renderStartPage, and is a Frontier macro. When you call render...
Feeling lonely or neglected? Don't fret about it, just file an IPO.
All Things Considered : The night America discovered Oscar Peterson real audio

Monday, September 20 1999

Have you never really believed that Canadians are the funniest people on the planet? Leah McLaren feels your pain : "This, a...
Do Androids Dream of Jon Katz? "As he was thousands of years ago, man will again become a fairly rare animal, probably a noma...
KCRW : Dimitri from Paris Pioneer of "bedroom culture" (there's one for your resume!) and most excellent music to cook b...
CBC : Honey is sticky alternative to antibiotics

Tuesday, September 21 1999

Speaking of objects I'm up to my eyeballs in them right now.
Morning Edition talks to the Anti-Ironist I was lying in bed, half asleep ,when I heard this and it nearly ruined my day. I will read th...
Those wacky Frontier people! "qbullet.smiley"
The government of Canada is looking for worms I had no idea that the "largest earthworm ever found in the world measured in at 22 feet from ...
What is Openlaw? "Openlaw is an experiment in crafting legal argument in an open forum. With your assistance, w...

Wednesday, September 22 1999

Not very important in the grand scheme of things, a full-sized keyboard you can fit in your pocket is still prett...
Tech Law Journal : Keyword Deception Is Common In Political Web Sites The winner is none other than Mr. Potatoe Head himself whose meta tags include every possible ...
The 1999 Phi Tau Bad Poetry Contest "The Holy God of Lentil Pods / Makes protein for hungry vegans / The Holy God of Lentil Pods /...
Le Devoir : Les étudiants bloquent le pont Jacques-Cartier «Tout le monde fait la grève, résumait un élève. D'autres étudiants l'ont faite. Les infirmièr...
Charles Naylor has a vision "that would see Northeastern American states like Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont split from ...
Notes on surfmenu I did some work with peterme adding some features to surfmenu to work more gracefully with boo...
Scott McGregor on covering your ceiling in Linoleum

Thursday, September 23 1999

Mr. Nice Guy fights the right to bad art and threatens to cut off funding to the B.M.A. unless they can the Sensation show. Meanwhile, ...
JJ Charlesworth on the Sensation Generation "But amateurism's real lack of ambition isn't simply its rejection of the limited notion of te...
Oh, that this too too solid flesh would melt "Sometimes we have to remove the navel and find a new spot for it." Not for the squeamish. sho...
Rafe Colburn I hate JavaScript. It's the bane of my existence. Mainly, I hate it because it's im...
Josey Vogels : Vulva Lickin' Good "I know it’s tough when, as one frustrated male friend recently said to me, 'Every one of you ...

Friday, September 24 1999

XHTML 1.0 has been making the rounds on the weblogs again. After Web Review did a feature on it in July, I ran off, half-cocked, an...

Sunday, September 26 1999

Thomas Friedman : Little Brother "...people suffer from the illusion that however cyberspace is right now is how it must always...

Monday, September 27 1999

Builder.com : Generating dynamic headlines with Flash
I had no idea that Canadian citizens aren't allowed to remove bandages in public.
The Anti-Rudy on the Sensation show "I share the feeling that I know many New Yorkers have that there are parts of this exhibit th...
The Times : Evidence of the Great Flood supports Noah's Ark saga "Around 7,600 years ago, guess what happens? The Mediterranean breaks through a natural dam at...
Tell me about the first time you bought gasoline. "A growing number of CEOs have become convinced that they cannot sell their brand of deodorant...
Julian Borger : It came from outer Toronto ""There was a stupid rumour going around the plant that we were building a flying saucer, and ...

Tuesday, September 28 1999

Random Urban Legend Generator Perfect for when your children tell you they hate all the bedtime stories you read them every ...
JazzerWockies streaming mp3.

Wednesday, September 29 1999

Floyd Abrams "There is no obligation from the city to fund the arts. But the First Amendment says, accordin...
All Things Considered : NY Museum Rap real audio
Philip Nobel : The Architecture of Madness “There is a certain perverse genius in the design of the building for people with poor ego bou...
Maybe Mr. Nice Guy would be happier if the B.M.A. swapped this piece for this one.
Choking Pear : Poke Figbash to learn your fate via calamondin.
Bill Clennett "Puis, j'ai convoqué la GRC et la presse locale à un restaurant. En recevant le chèque, ...

Thursday, September 30 1999

CBC : U.S. Senate cuts funding for the BMA Smells like an election year, to me.
Salon considers QuickTime4 Bastard child of the happy user-interface family.
William Safire : Manichaean Madness "If public museums win in Federal court the right to offend egregiously without being punished by...
A web-based pdf2html service What a clever hack; I'd love to see the code! I'm curious, though, why they've built their busine...
HOWTO : Inflate the value of your art collection Upset Rudy Giuliani.

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