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August 2002 (continued)

Wil Wheaton boxing with Barney the Purple Dinosaur [via Fark]

Textism » What Happened [via fragment.nl]

"Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass" [via tastylog]

Tales of the Plush Cthulhu [via Boing Boing]

theora.org :: FAQ
"Q: What music was listened to when this FAQ was first being written, back on June 8th?
A: What a strange question
[...]"

July 2002

London Underground map 'hacks' [via one.point.zero]

Buy George B*sh a gift from his Amazon.com: Wish List, whydontcha. [via one.point.zero]

IRC Quote Database: Top 50 Quotes [via ntk.net and others]

Maybe I should have saved this for post 1337. ^_^

YAPC 2002: THE MOVIE (probably even funnier if you're a Perl programmer.) [via 0xDECAFBAD]

June 2002

Loobylu - Who Wants to be a "Phone-a-friend"?

May 2002

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog takes on Star Wars fans waiting in line. [via Triptych Cryptic]

Acts of Gord [via woodge.com]

April 2002

whatsbetter?com - get served two random items, pick the better one. In time, this leads to a list of the best things of all things.
[via plasticbag.org]

Dit was mijn 1997 [via alt0169.com/start/]

Language Jokes [via Anywhen.nl]

Seratorium: Banana

March 2002

Freestyle walking [via Linklust]

Slipups.com - Movie and TV Bloopers and Mistakes and More
[via Low]

Karma Universe - Quote of the day: "There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't."

February 2002

brentashley on NS4: "Okay, I'm tired of being polite about it [...] I'm not listening LA LA LA LA LA."

RealNetworks: 'Buffering' [via ntk.net]

January 2002

That's how you get someone's attention - a personally targetted Google ad. [at scripting.com]

Come to where the flavor is...

Merriam Webster: how to pronounce "John Ashcroft"
[via David Chess]

December 2001

Institute for Naming Children Humanely [via little.yellow.different]

Yours is a very bad hotel - a PowerPoint presentation. [via rebeccablood.net]

Kottke reveals the 'Megway Transporting Human'. Brilliant! [via Metafilter]

Client Quotes - been looking for this - based on a thread from the now closed dreamless.org forum. Just remember: the client is not always to blame. [via Metafilter]

Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Lists [via tijs.org]

Ook! - a programming language designed for orang-utans. [via pallalink]

November 2001

Hah, someone submitted the word 'pseudodictionary' to the pseudodictionary.

Movie poster parodies by mark bakalor: Ali and A.I..

"at last, a 'usable' snackfood!"

October 2001

Een Groningse versie van Windaz 2000.
[bij jeewee]

Microsoft Windaz 2000 [via frownland.com]

Verbal Attack: Daily Satire Zine [via owillis]

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog visits a Bon Jovi concert. [via MeFi]

Update: even more clips at insultcomicdog.com.

Palindromes at Metafilter. This one's good:
"Rettebs iflahd noces, eh?
Ttu, but the second half is better."
[via Low]

Die Rembo < Rembo filmpjes op beterbeter.com zijn wel leuk zeg...

September 2001

Eeuhhh... The Beatrix. [at curry.com]

The Onion is back. [via one.point.zero]

Holy Grail: LEGO Style - finally, something combining LEGO and Monty Python. [via wilwheaton.net]

Now this doesn't look very safe, Bill. What if you fall asleep, wake up and forget that you left all those lightbulbs lying around? Especially considering you're only wearing socks! I know the trashcan is full, but that's no excuse for creating such a home-safety hazard.

Also, I hope the bulbs are not your only source of illumination. When they eventually wear out, you wouldn't want to attempt traversing a dark room whose floor is covered with such potentially painful objects.
[via B l o g p a d]

Amazon.com reader comments on the Top 20 books of the 20th century. [via ntk.net]

August 2001

Ballmerfunk Music Video (6MB Quicktime)
[via scottandrew.com]

brainsluice: nasa fakes moon landing!
[via not.so.soft]

Slighty Less Common Latin Phrases [via pOw]

'The page of a rabbit' - lots of photos of a rabbit (obviously) with varying household-items on its head. English translation here. [via liquidgnome]

Using an online tool to translate Japanese to English can produce interesting results. The page in question contained the following gems:
- 'I congratulate you on the new century of you'
- 'First snow coverage! A mustache is dust dust'
- 'The grass of a basket is eaten greedily'

'Funniest' T-Shirts of 2001 [via Medley]

April 2001

The Mandelbrot Monk - Udo of Aachen, a 13th century German monk, plotted a 120x120 Mandelbrot fractal by hand. Took him 9 years to calculate. [via Glassdog mailing list]

The Mentos FAQ - Talking about dropmentos: "A sudden overpowering licorice flavor consumes you!" [via megnut]


Lzip lossy compression - the most advanced file-compression scheme. Reduces files to 0% of their original size! [via Wouterd]

March 2001

fight club airplane leaflet

Remember that fake airplane leaflet from Fight Club? Here's a reproduction. [via Metafilter]


Evolution of Latin Characters in 173kb animated gif. [via Alt]

January 2001

Apparently Arnold Schwarzenegger enjoys making prank phone calls. [via Boing Boing]

September 2000

Can Skeletor Cope With Losing His Shirt....Before It's Too Late?

June 2000

'How to use a tablet pen...'

August 1999

William Shatner Acting Simulator
This is hilarious, for the first few minutes anyway. Check the clever use of colors to make a very simple and accessible interface.

The Gnome shows himself
Chris Pirillo, of Lockergnome fame, having fun with a webcam... [Direct link to 97KB zipped RealVideo here]