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Sunday, February 20, 2000
The EMF Safety Catalog
A catalog of clothes and products you can buy "to shield yourself from powerline and computer electric fields, and microwave, radar, and TV radiation."

Check out the stylish CYBERCAP[tm], which they say are "Sunglasses for your brain"(tm).

There's also the FARADAY CANOPY "Low E-Field Enclosure."

Finally, a "Faraday Cage" type enclosure to completely shield yourself from E-field radiation so you can sleep peacefully at night. No need to worry about hidden power lines emitting electric fields from walls, ceilings, or floors--you're surrounded by protection!

At last! Surely $300 is a small price to pay for such shielding power.

Saturday, February 19, 2000
Unfortunate Valentine Cards
A collection of odd and funny Valentine's Day cards.

Particularly enjoyable are Batman and this pear-headed child.

There's also this one, which looks like a heart-shaped Peter Gabriel next to a heart-shaped villian from those old movies where bad guys tie women to train tracks.

Monday, February 14, 2000
Stupid picture of Blink 182
Wow, my third update of the day. I guess I'm making up for not posting any thing since last Wednesday.

I found this image of the band Blink 182 on Yahoo. It probably has something to do with the fact that I'm not a disaffected skater punk or a Top 40 enthusiast teenage girl, but I find this band utterly awful and hilarious to watch. One of their videos is a parody of videos for "boy bands" like Backstreet Boys and N'Sync--it's rather sad that the band and its fans don't realize that the punk-lite that Blink 182 churns out is much closer to Backstreet than real punk acts like Bad Religion or Black Flag. Just look at the image and try not to laugh.

Monday, February 14, 2000
The Secret Diaries of Roger Waters
A hilarious three week long fake diary of Roger Waters. Personally, I'm a huge fan of the man's lyrical and songwriting abilities--he's a genius. But he's also way too easy to make fun of.

Monday, February 14, 2000
Cube
Last night I watched this movie called Cube that a friend of mine picked out at Blockbuster. It had Nicole DeBoer in it, who recently starred as Ezri Dax on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The movie was really weird, having to do with these people who wake up in this maze, which they eventually discover is in the shape of a cube. The people fight, DeBoer's character does some math stuff, there's some dumb incidental music, and finally only one person gets out. But I'll let you see it for yourself, that is if you're really bored and feel like watching it. And one more thing, I was able to figure out that this movie was Canadian even before I read the credits, because reference is made to the "zed" axis of a 3-D coordinate system. The accents sounded American-ish, so I figured it was written by a Canuck. Surely enough, I was right.

Wednesday, February 9, 2000
Parasites, Parasites, Parasites
**Thanks to Mister Pants for pointing me in the direction of this one.**

This is a Japanese parasitology website. In addition to the fact that it's inherently creepy in the way that a lot of Japanese things are, there's some really odd and funny stuff here.

Check out Decmber 1996's "Parasite of the Month," Strongyloidiasis. There's also a "Parasite of the Month" archive.

Perhaps the strangest part of the site is the "tour" of the Meguro Parasitological Museum in Tokyo. Be sure to click through the entire tour, it's quite worth it. One page that's especially hilarious is the Diphyllobothorium nihonkaiense, which they claim to be the "most famous parasite in this museum."

This worm is 8-m long. You can really imagine the worm length by using the string which is the same size as the worm. There are so many lovers to take a pecture in front of the worm for their memory.

For some reason, it doesn't shock me that Japanese people would do this.

Tuesday, February 8, 2000
Rage Against the Machine guitarist to appear on Star Trek: Voyager
Apparently Tom Morello, guitarist for shouty rap-metal-whatever band Rage Against the Machine, will guest on an upcoming episode of Star Trek: Voyager. The article also says that he was in the last Trek movie, Insurrection, but I don't remember seeing him.