Monday, June 30, 2003

Metapop launches!
(i'm "unsymbolic")

Sunday, June 29, 2003

Etymologic
- the brain-twisting etymology (word origin) game

Saturday, June 28, 2003

"PawSense is a software utility that helps protect your computer from cats. It quickly detects and blocks cat typing..."

Friday, June 27, 2003

Wednesday, June 25, 2003

Tuesday, June 24, 2003

Sunday, June 22, 2003

Friday, June 20, 2003

What Is Happening in America? ...By Eliot Weinberger!
"Perhaps it cannot be stopped,
but the first step toward slowing it down
is the recognition that this is an American government
unlike any other in this country's history,
and one for whom democracy is an obstacle"

Thursday, June 19, 2003

An Atlas of the Universe
(you are here)
Cabinets of Curiosity
"For designers who collect,
the cluttered workspace is a library of inspiration"
California Coastal Records Project
(the site that Barbra Streisand is suing for $50M)

Wednesday, June 18, 2003

Tuesday, June 17, 2003

Watchblog
A multiple-editor weblog dedicated to providing news,
opinion and commentary for the 2004 election,
broken up into three major political affiliations

Monday, June 16, 2003

Sunday, June 15, 2003

Saturday, June 14, 2003

what is headmap ?
"Headmap examines the social implications
and applications of location aware devices."


Death in the snow
"A body is found in the frozen North Dakota woods.
The cops say the dead Japanese woman
was looking for the $1m
she saw buried in the film Fargo.
But the story didn't end there."

Thursday, June 12, 2003

Wednesday, June 11, 2003

"Make way for the contender
to Google's crown:
(Turbo10)
free backgrounds for bloggers
"The tile backgrounds on the following pages
were designed especially for blogs,
and will be updated weekly"
How I Became a Socialist
by Helen Keller

Tuesday, June 10, 2003

"Sigmund Freud Action Figure
goes where no action figure has gone before"
'There There'

"The desire to own and name land
and the pleasures of seeing from a distance
color this personal survey of the history
of mapmaking in the New World.
'There There' takes a close look
at the gestures of travelers, mapmakers,
and saboteurs that determine how we read
—and live within—the lines that define the United States."
Project Implicit
"Here you will have the opportunity to assess
your conscious and unconscious preferences
for over 60 different topics ranging
from pets to political issues,
ethnic groups to sports teams,
and entertainers to styles of music.
At the same time, you will be assisting
in a large-scale study of preferences."
"Drainspotting
is all about paying attention to your surroundings.
Manhole covers, drains, grates, trench covers
--someone had to design all of these.
Functional and ornamental,
there's a lot of interesting stuff
happening down by your feet.
Check it out."
Yellow Submarine: The New Songtrack
"Yellow Submarine stamps are now available
in post offices everywhere! "
Hindu Hells
"Select your vice to see what will happen to you"

Saturday, June 07, 2003

PHOTOGRAPHS & OTHER FICTIONS
A labyrinth built by James Graham
goyagoya is...um...
horrendous birth deformities in Iraq
(result of US Depleted Uranium weaponry)
"WARNING!! Seriously hard to look at"
"these images will not go away once you've closed the page,
so know what you're clicking on"

Friday, June 06, 2003

GOP Convention NYC
"A week-long celebration of guns, God, and fear!"
"Z is a freeware fly
with variable behaviour patterns.
Each fly is genetically unique and only lives
when the pc it inhabits is on-line"

Thursday, June 05, 2003

"Life Support
is an online help desk, just like you might find
for a web hosting service or ISP, except that we don't tell
you how to connect your modem or configure your e-mail.
Instead, we answer the questions you have about life."

Tuesday, June 03, 2003

Monday, June 02, 2003

Sunday, June 01, 2003