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Sunday, July 30, 2000

Bio of right-wing LSD evangelist,

Bio of right-wing LSD evangelist, Al "Cappy" Hubbard (from the book, Acid Dreams).

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While re-reading Robert Anton Wilson's

While re-reading Robert Anton Wilson's Cosmic Trigger, I decided to look on the Web for Kerry Thornley, creator of Discordianism (a joke/not-joke religion that was prominently featured in Wilson and Shea's Illuminatus Trilogy). Turns out, Thornley died a couple of years ago. Here's his obit.

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Saturday, July 29, 2000

The front page of Gnutella.com

The front page of Gnutella.com has a funny parody.

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Thursday, July 27, 2000

Fave new blog: Astropimp.

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Wednesday, July 26, 2000

Scanwave is a nifty fun-n-games

Scanwave is a nifty fun-n-games site from the creator of Schwa (that alien-head art project).

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An excellent variation on the

An excellent variation on the "Has anybody seen Mike Hunt?" prank.

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Great comic strip about a

Great comic strip about a girl who works in a one-hour photo developing shop. Bee: Shutterbug Follies.

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Tuesday, July 25, 2000

The Lunar Hilton. From a

The Lunar Hilton. From a speech delivered in 1967.

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Tuesday, July 18, 2000

My friend David told me

My friend David told me about the novel The Toy Collector, about a guy who deals drugs to get money to buy his favorite childhood toys. (You can read an excerpt.) The book refers to a toy called Scrunch 'Em Grow 'Em Dinosaurs. The toy is real, but it was really called Strange Change and was made by Mattel. Here's a page with some pictures of the Strange Change, and here's another with a good description of the toy.

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Friday, July 14, 2000

Mondo 2000's founding editor R.U.

Mondo 2000's founding editor R.U. Sirius and ur-weblogger Justin Hall talk about the early days of cyberculture and the Web.

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Thursday, July 13, 2000

From The Mainichi Interactive: "The

From The Mainichi Interactive: "The Hyatt Regency Osaka will offer a Hello Kitty and Friends package plan from July 31 through Aug. 31. Satisfaction is guaranteed for those who love Hello Kitty. Benefits of the plan include: accommodation in a "Kitty room," which is decorated with Hello Kitty goods; a complimentary ticket to an event (held near the hotel) related to Hello Kitty; a complimentary set of Kitty merchandise (a stuffed toy Kitty, mini bag, toothbrush and more); and breakfast. The prices are set as follows: 15,500 yen per adult and 10,000 yen per child aged 4 to 12 based on double occupancy, and 13,000 yen per adult and 10,000 yen per child based on triple occupancy. On Saturdays, and Aug. 13, prices increase by 3,000 yen. Prices include service charge but not tax. The hotel will offer up to 22 Kitty rooms a day. There will be Kitty rooms specifically designed for handicapped people. Almost all the hotel's rooms have no floor-level differences. In addition, in the Kitty rooms designed for handicapped people there are features such as specially designed handrails and low washing stands. The hotel does not offer accommodations to children only. For further information and reservations, call (06) 6612-1234."

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Wednesday, July 12, 2000

A new, highly recommended, serialized

A new, highly recommended, serialized comic strip by Mack White: "Kid Hico in Diablo Canyon."

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Tuesday, July 11, 2000

Pocket knives made from meteorites

Pocket knives made from meteorites for sale.

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I wrote this article for

I wrote this article for Wired called "Revenge of the Know-It-Alls."

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Futurist F.M. Esfandiary (akaFM2030), died

Futurist F.M. Esfandiary (akaFM2030), died Saturday of pancreatic cancer. He coined the term "upwinger" (as opposed to right-winger or left-winger). Here's the LA Times obituary.

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Monday, July 10, 2000

"In a move to raise

"In a move to raise sales of its ketchup, H.J. Heinz plans to introduce a new version today that will be bright green and is intended to appeal to children."

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Friday, July 7, 2000

Interview with a collector of

Interview with a collector of old children's LPs. (Beautiful cover art.)

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Two funny art pranks.

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An impressive demo of AT&T

An impressive demo of AT&T Labs' Next-Generation Text-To-Speech technology.

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Thursday, July 6, 2000

Gallery of illustrations and cartoons

Gallery of illustrations and cartoons from 1930's Canadian cartoonist Jimmy "Birdseye Center" Frise.

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"Death at Disneyland." I read

"Death at Disneyland." I read this first time around in John Marr's wonderful zine, Murder Can Be Fun.

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Wednesday, July 5, 2000

An excerpt from a new

An excerpt from a new book of people talking about their jobs, called, Gig:

"I'm the President and owner of Crime Scene Cleaners. We clean up death scenes, like homicides. You know, the room where someone gets murdered. We also handle suicides, accidental deaths, meth labs, things like that. A lot of people have the assumption that police take care of the cleanup after a crime. That's not true. It's never been true. If Johnny or Sally gets shot in your house, or your store, and there's brains everywhere, it's your problem. You have to do the cleaning. It's not the police's responsibility at all. You clean it. Or else you call my company or one of my competitors."

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Whimgrinder is an amazing Flash

Whimgrinder is an amazing Flash cartoon by Jim Woodring.

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Monday, July 3, 2000

Cory Doctorow's "Top Ten Science

Cory Doctorow's "Top Ten Science Fiction Lawsuits."

"Harlan Ellison, notorious and prolific author, critic, reviewer, screenwriter and revenge artist is probably the last guy in the world you want to piss off. No, I mean, really. This is the guy who mailed a dead gopher to New American Library when they refused to release copyright on his books after they breached their contract by binding cigarette ads into them."

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