Wise Words:

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HA.org
A new project that I'm working on. Should launch soon.
Thursday, April 4, 2002 @ 03:35 p.m.

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Big Money
Scans of dollars, leva, francs, guilders, koruna, and every other kind of note in the world. Very cool.

Points of interest: Irish money, Czech money, old Soviet money.

Bills of the world, UNITE!
Tuesday, November 13, 2001 @ 09:17 a.m.

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Random Zen
Check it out:

• A lion who needs a dollar sometimes angers a llama.
• A king who needs a puddle of mud always uses a dog.
• A man floating on a basket of wheat happily converses with a flower.
• A mountain who needs the wind never recieves a dragon.
• A midget wishing for a hot bath happily confuses it with a spoon.

Nickel Dogens of the world, UNITE!
Monday, November 12, 2001 @ 04:40 p.m.

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God loves Legos
Storyboards of bible scenes done in legos. Just proves my point that if there's a God, he loves the cheap technology that allows us mortal types to do this sorta stuff.

Matthew, Mark, Lego, and John's of the world, UNITE!
Friday, November 9, 2001 @ 09:50 a.m.

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Subvertise
Like Adbusters crossed with attrition.org with a bit of memepool thrown in for good measure.

Homeless of Madison Ave, UNITE!
Thursday, October 18, 2001 @ 10:34 a.m.

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Now THAT's art!
Why the hell didn't I think of that?

Bellies of the world, UNITE!
Wednesday, October 10, 2001 @ 08:50 a.m.

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More from lost and found
Another pack-rat, scrap-finding, dumpster diver. Almost creepy. The "Light Sword of Mall Wolves!" one is just too much.

Hunters and gatherers of the world, UNITE!
Wednesday, September 19, 2001 @ 10:43 a.m.

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Geeks love Lit

"The John Birch Society was right. Fluoridation is a plot. Not of Communists, however.

Toothpaste, it turns out, is a virus from outer space."

Read the sci-fi truth behind the periodic table of elements. Check back weekly for added elements.

Planeteers of the world, UNITE!
Thursday, September 13, 2001 @ 12:37 p.m.

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Of Tigers and Dragons
They crouch. They hide. They whoop your ass.
Monday, August 20, 2001 @ 10:53 a.m.

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"Design Matters"? To whom?
OK. I've gotta rant a bit here. The folks at Yahoo have teamed up with ONE Media (yeah, i'd never heard of them either) to bring us "ONE - Design Matters" magazine. It's got all the stuff a good web-based magazine should have: a shopping section, a place to subscribe. Oh, and lots of meaningless drivel for content.

For example, they have a section about what inspires "Top Designers." By "Top" they mean folks like Micheal Graves; the guy who makes all that smooth oak and pine and pseudo marble stuff that they sell at Target. In short, their "designers" are people who make fun, kitschy, mass produced decorative arts for your home or apartment. Like something you see on the site? Buy it with a couple of clicks!

As if we need more junk to buy! As if we need to buy this junk in the name of "design." (OK, I admit I like shopping at Target (it's better than Wal-Mart) and I have a chess set from Graves' Target collection, but it was given to me as a wedding gift, so there.)

Basically, the site is just one big gigantic advert for the sort of design that should have been left in the 1900s. It's all a huge attempt to sell us all this junk that we don't need. Sign up for their on-line subscription, and you're signing your soul away into their mass market, demographics database. And who would sign up for the print version anyway? *shrugs*

I don't think the word "design" means what they think it means, obviously. But I'm a snob.

Crap-Deco collectors of the world, UNITE!
Friday, July 13, 2001 @ 01:06 p.m.

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The Commisar Vanishes
Interesting museum piece about photo retouching and propaganda in Stalin's Russia. It's amazing that that sort of thing happened. It's like 1984, or some Milan Kundera book.

It's odd that the author of the page seems to equate total state control and lack of freedom with communism in general. There are several spots where he mentions that the communist state has complete control of what gets produced in the media.

Equally odd is the fact that there's no relavent connection between that sort of air-brush propaganda of the Stalin era, and our current digitally remastered propoganda of our mass media. Why do we call it "twisting photo facts into propaganda lies" (paraphrased from the page) when it's done on Stalinist Russia, but it's just good ol' wholesome commerce and marketing when we digitally re-touch and enhance images for use in advertisments? Both examples seem to be cases of the people who control the media fixing the facts to suit their ends. Isn't the aim of history as a study to learn about the mistakes and successes of the past and apply them to the present?

Future primatives of the world, UNITE!
Wednesday, June 27, 2001 @ 09:18 a.m.

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"Can you help me find the Internet?"
Very nice quicktime movie. You'll like it. Trust me.
Thursday, May 10, 2001 @ 12:20 p.m.

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Super, dude.
Having trouble finding the right image of your Cleric/Fighter/Magic-User Half-Elf? Ready to visualize your alter ego super hero, The Amazing Dr. Hairypalms?

Well, look no further. This Flash illustrates your kryptonite right off.

Stuper heroes of the world, UNITE!
Wednesday, May 9, 2001 @ 10:34 a.m.

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I know you are but what am I?
Huge index of playground insults. Most seem pretty UK oriented. And some even seem to only reference single instances. But they're pretty damn funny none the less.

Smart asses of the world, UNITE!
Thursday, May 3, 2001 @ 11:03 a.m.

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the shirt off my back
I've got 2 drawers full of those crappy free t-shirts that you get on college campuses when you sign up for a credit card that will end up making you file for bankrupcy. AT&T, Discover, Nations Bank. You name it. I wear them because 1) they're nice thick cotten that's usually hard to find or expensive, and 2) they were free.

But I don't fail to realize what a travisty it is that 1) they're getting free advertisement from me, and 2) I really don't support their corporate model of the world at all. So why the fuck am I wearing the shirts? Beats me.

Problem solved: threadless lets you wear all the best stuff and support the amazing starving artists of the new digital movement. (OK, most of them have nice kooshy jobs that let them sit around and post weird shit to dreamless.org, but they're starving in spirit.)

DIY T-Shirters of the world, UNITE!
Friday, April 27, 2001 @ 03:10 p.m.

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Kickin' the Stickman
Why the hell has it taken me so long to see this gem?!!? I mean, come on guys, you're letting me down! You gotta tell the issafly when things like this happen. I don't wanna be the last to know.

Stick Figure Masters of the world, UNITE!
Friday, April 27, 2001 @ 02:37 p.m.

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Jeeez!
Bathe with Jesus. Watch the "Jesus shops for a Porsche" movie. Jesus Credit Card! Too funny.

(short) RANT:
Isn't the fact that so many christians picture Jesus as a northern european sort of like a 1500 media smoke screen? I mean, when I think of Jesus, I get an image of that guy at jesus.com. Check out this pretty cool Discovery Channel thing about what Jesus prolly looked like.

Hell bound heathens of the world, UNITE!
Friday, April 6, 2001 @ 10:01 a.m.

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Undesign
The name says it all.
Thursday, March 22, 2001 @ 01:27 p.m.

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Web-type navigation comes to your phone....
...but not how you would think.

OK, this one's better as a phone number than as a web link. Call 1.800.442.6482 and follow the instructions. How cool is that. You can set up a subscription and customize it from their web page.

Here's what I think happened: some smarty over at Intel gets the idea really early to put web content on cell phones (WAP). So he sees the great opporunity and runs it past is lard-assed, middle-management boss. The boss takes it to a committee meeting and they discuss it. The committee, who fail to see that WAP will be the next big thing, says, "that's great but instead of text, let's make it voice." Call it idiot savantism. (Prolly didn't really happen like that, but I can't control my fantasy life.)

The kooky part was that I was reading cyborgmanifesto.com when a co-worker told me to dial the number. Weird, man.

Anita lovers of the world, UNITE!
Thursday, March 22, 2001 @ 01:15 p.m.

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It's alive.... ALIVE!!!
Didn't know I was a cyborg just because I drove a car. Hmmm.... Maybe so.

But as Marshal McLuhan said, "The foot is an extension of the wheel," or something to that affect. Don't quote me on that one.

Terminators of the world, UNITE!
Thursday, March 22, 2001 @ 01:11 p.m.

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I grant thee title
I went from "Contributing IT Designer" to "Free Range Deus Ex Machina Beautifier." From "Freelance Art Specialist" to "Unfettered Beauty Surgeon." That's "Mr. Unfettered Beauty Surgeon," to you, Bub!

Sovereign Aesthetics Shapers of the world, UNITE!
Tuesday, March 20, 2001 @ 10:47 a.m.

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Fun and Games
Lots of cool Flash/Shock games. That's about it.

Arcadians of the world, UNITE!
Monday, March 5, 2001 @ 08:02 a.m.

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"In cyberspace, people become places."
This is an oldie (1995), but it's depth is still there. 253 is one of the first "interactive novels" to be put on the web. It's based on the same idea as otnemem.com (see two entries below), but it has a great deal more to it. Well written and clever, but in a good way.

Undergrounders of the world, UNITE!
Thursday, February 15, 2001 @ 09:27 a.m.

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"Great Literature Online"
Who can argue with a name like that? Ever wanna read War and Peace or Anna Karenina? (Me either.) But if you did, you could read them on line. Authors other than Tolstoy include Mark Twain, Freddy Nietsche, L. Frank Baum, Willa Cather, Hank D. Thoreau, Jane Austen, Jules Verne, Mary Shelly, and my man Walt Whitman, among many others. Read until your eyes fall out. (And lemme know what happens in chapter 22 of book 8 in War and Peace.

Ex Libris of the world, UNITE!
Thursday, February 15, 2001 @ 09:12 a.m.

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memento spelled backwards
Who woulda thought that creepy could be so cool? A hint for this page: there are hyperlinked words in the news article. Hint #2: it works best with Flash turned on.

(Note: I post this today, as Haloween is always a better holiday than Valentine's.)

Psycho killers of the world, UNITE!
Wednesday, February 14, 2001 @ 12:53 p.m.

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I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Use the psuedodictionary to translate this sentence:

"My mom middlenamed me like I was a coke-goblin when I double-dipped that charp."

An ever growing dictionary of newbiefied hip-speak. Submit your own fave non-words.

Newspeak fools of the world, UNITE!
Friday, January 26, 2001 @ 11:21 a.m.

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SOS (save our screens)
Here's a whole collection of groovy screen savers. No, I don't mean pixely stars flying by or dancing macaroni. I'm talkin' real, bona fide art here, man. Extra cool point go to the ones that use your internet connection and data from your harddrive to create the random info that gets put onto your screen.

But here's a thought... Who/what's gonna save our screens from the eventual overload of too many of these weird-ass screensavers?

Toaster Pilots of the world, UNITE!
Friday, December 8, 2000 @ 09:15 a.m.

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Jakob Dance
Jakob "useit" Nielsen gets jiggy wid it. One of the funniest things I've seen in a long time.

More Jakob Nielsen parodies can be found here.

Downdumbers of the net, UNITE.
Tuesday, December 5, 2000 @ 04:43 p.m.

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Bruce Sterling has Crystal Balls
My man Bruce is prophet. And he ain't ashamed to tell you all about it.

Digirati of the world, UNITE!
Wednesday, November 22, 2000 @ 10:30 a.m.

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Bad art for good people
There's nothing like making fun of the sincerity of the creative interests of others. Sure, we're all going to hell for it, but these paintings are just begging to be laughed at. What's up with those hands?

While you're here, make sure you look at the bad links section for even more of the same.

No-talent Monets of the world, UNITE! ('cuz the rest of the world is laughing at you.)
Tuesday, November 21, 2000 @ 08:55 a.m.

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Now you know...
...what was in all those other boxes in the warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Arc. Keep clickin' the reload button -- the fun is endless.

Illuminatis of the world, UNITE!
Monday, November 20, 2000 @ 03:56 p.m.

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Star Wars kicks ASCII
Simon Jansen is the ASCII equiv of a Jedi Knight. Pretty cool, what he's done with white text on a black background. You'll dig it.

Darths of the world, UNITE!
Thursday, November 16, 2000 @ 12:40 p.m.

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The Short and Long of it (well, mostly short)
Streaming web movies make me happy. The link above is a good directory on Yahoo! These below are actual sites. Dig it!

• ifilm.com
• hypnotic.com
• atomfilms.com
• filmfilm.com
• icebox.com

Flick Junkies of the world, UNITE!
Wednesday, November 15, 2000 @ 09:41 a.m.

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A Time of the Signs
I'm happy being a Libra, but if I was one of those loony Pisces, I'd look into changing my sign. Here's how. Sponsored by the First Global Bank of Karma. Heh!

Horoscopers of the world, UNITE!
Monday, November 13, 2000 @ 03:28 p.m.

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Addicted to Hack
I can't believe that I haven't written about this site yet. Attrition.org has a wealth of web site hacks of the past and present. So nice of them to archive them all for posterity.

While you're at the site, check out the images gallery. You'll laugh your FTP off.

Skript Kiddies of the world, UNITE!
Tuesday, November 7, 2000 @ 03:08 p.m.

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That's just gross
Pretty cool flashed-up stuff about worms, roaches, and general grossness from kids.discovery.com. A kid site for the kid in all of us.

Peter Pans of the world, UNITE!
Tuesday, November 7, 2000 @ 01:55 p.m.

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You can't say that here
I did a speech in high school speaking competitions on the evils of censorship. Even mentioned Tipper "Kiss Me" Gore by name way back then in 1987 (anyone remember her PMRC?).

So here's a site devoted to shedding light on the ugly head of censorship. Everything is covered; books, music, film, net, et al. Take a look.

First amendments of the world, UNTIE!
Tuesday, November 7, 2000 @ 01:20 p.m.

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Search Backwards
Pretty smart way to search if you know a bit of something about something, but wanna know more. For example, you heard a song on the radio, and you know all the words of the chorus, but don't know who it's by. Just submit what you know to findsame.com, and it'll spit back any pages that have that set of words, including (in most cases) all the rest of the words and info that you don't know. Great for looking up complete versions of fragmented songs or poems. Even lets you upload entire text files to be scanned and searched for.

If you can think of more uses for findsame.com, e-mail me at issafly@hotmail.com and let me in on them.

Bloodhounds of the world, UNITE!
Monday, October 30, 2000 @ 08:15 a.m.

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The Flash of the Blade
All I can say is "WOW!" This flash animation rocks my jim-jam off. Check out more flash diversity at the parent site: HotWired Animation Espress.

Yojimbo wannabes of the world, UNITE!
Friday, October 27, 2000 @ 09:35 a.m.

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The Anti-Adbusters
Adflip.com has a pretty groovy retrospective of ads over the past six decades. Not much commentary, just clean scans of print ads, old and new. Their slogo is "Search for your favorite slice of pop culture blah blah blah..." Or you could just use it for a cynical search of the evils of our manipulative, capitalist consumer culture. Go here when you're done lookin at adbusters.com.

Ad babies of the world, UNITE!
Wednesday, October 25, 2000 @ 01:15 p.m.

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Ya buncha scavengers
A fine example of someone out there keepin' their thinkin' caps on. Geocaching turns your favorite Global Positioning System into a game for fun and profit. Here's how it works...

Grab your favorite "treasure" (another man's trash), take it out into the middle of nowhere, drop it off and mark its coordinates with your handy little GPS. Come back to the web site and enter the coords. Then someone with as much time on their hands as you obviously have (hey, you're reading this instead of working, right?) goes to Geocaching.com, gets the coords, and goes out to dig up your stash. Pretty damn clever. I wonder how long it will be before someone's hiding the remains of murder victems and registering them. Yikes!

Someone in my area has hidden a "Gorilla Stash." Wonder what that is. Only one way to find out. Think global, act local.

Hi-Tech Blue Beards of the world, UNITE!
Friday, October 20, 2000 @ 01:25 p.m.

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They're Back!
MSchmidt, Token, Per and the beagle are finally back online at k10k.net. In case you missed it, they had to leave their previous web host due to the *millions* (!) of hits they were receiving each month. (What a pity!)

Also, in case you don't know or haven't figured it out yet, k10k.net is one of my absolute fave sites on the web. They're currently on a retro-flash kick. That's sooo... hyper-modern; to be diggin' the "retro-ness" of a technology that's still so relatively new that the majority of web users don't even know about it yet. Make a new friend today at K10K.

Future primatives of the world, UNITE!
Thursday, October 19, 2000 @ 08:37 a.m.

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S.U.B.A.R.
Brian Paterson has a rant page with a slightly more interesting angle (not to mention a cool URL). At screwedupworld.com you'll find an ever-growing handfull of rants about how our modern age of IT is making the world, well... screwed up.

Think of it as a collection of essays explaining what all those new Radiohead songs from Kid A are all about, but without any reference to Radiohead. All brought to you by the Jakob Nielson school of minimalistic design. (Not really, but it sure does load fast.)

Pseudo-Luddites of the world, UNITE!
Monday, October 16, 2000 @ 02:01 p.m.

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There's an idea
Got an idea but don't care if it ever makes money? Put it here and let someone else scoop you. Sorta like, "I have this idea for something that would really be great for the world and could make a lot of money, but I'm way too damn lazy to actually make it happen."

Might be nice if there was a function to comment on some of the ideas that people have submitted. Tell the other submitters that they're morons, or that you just implimented their idea and made a fortune. *hehe* Ah, but we're all too lazy to even write such comments.

Sleepy Edisons of the world, UNITE!
Monday, October 2, 2000 @ 03:13 p.m.

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"Consider a Career in Art"
That's what it said when I took the shift test from antennadesign. Real priddy flashed up site. Who needs function when you've got all this neat looking fun?!

That shift test is here, or you can follow the link called (appropriately enough) "links" that pops down from the "playground" mouse-over. Oh, and be patient. It's thinking.

Career artists of the world, UNITE!
Friday, September 29, 2000 @ 02:48 p.m.

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If K10K were a blog
san630.com is the weblog equiv of K10K.com (one of the coolest design sites ever). Pretty cool links to pretty cool sites. Don't try to figure it out; just click the links and dig it. I was thinking about stealing the links at san630.com and passing them off here as my own, but I do still have a couple of ethics left. Besides, I'm lazy and linking all their links would be way too much work. (Must not have much left in the work ethics department.)

Hey, speaking of K10K, they've been getting so many hits lately, that they're having to find a new multi-million hit capable host. (I should be so lucky.) So if you go there today, you'll only get the news about the server unplug. (*wipes a tear away*)

Bloggers of the blog, UNITE (blog)!
Tuesday, September 26, 2000 @ 03:12 p.m.

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...petting the buttery flounder.
By now you all know how much I love those random quote makers on the web. This one's easily in the top 3 of my all time favorites. It's a Random Sexual Euphemism generator, and it's right up there with the Random Food Generator. Here's a sample:

• Instead, she spent the night alone...
  dropping the invisible elves.
• You should have seen him...
  driving the butter.
• Needless to say, I promptly began...
  taking the four-legged pony.
• You should have seen your face! You looked like you were...
  spoiling the flying rubber batmobile.

Nudge nudge, wink wink.
Utterly meaningless, but pretty damn funny, if I do say.

Dada babblers of the world, UNITE!
Monday, September 25, 2000 @ 03:59 p.m.

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Been there
I applaud anyone who would take the time to make a long, detailed list of the things that he and his girlfriend have argued about and put it on a web page for the rest of the world to read. Some very funny moments in there. I would say that the things on the list are what happen when a Brit dates a German (red-head, no less), but it's happend to most of us before. (Maybe it's just the red-head part that causes it.)

My biggest question is, why does he keep putting himself through such insanity?

Dysfunctional lovers of the world, UNITE (or break up, for crissakes)!
Monday, September 25, 2000 @ 02:08 p.m.

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MST3K'ing Jack Chick and D&D
Yet another site that combines still more geek passions. This time it's Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Dungeons & Dragons, and those weird ass Chick Tracts by Jack Chick. If you have any knowledge of any of these 3 subjects, you MUST check this site out.

If you don't, it'll prolly be lost to you.

Tom Servo fans of the world, UNITE!
Monday, September 25, 2000 @ 01:57 p.m.

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Geek Double Dose
This site/toy satisfies at least 2 geek passions in one mighty gulp. On the one hand, it's an interactive periodic table of the elements that gives you all the important (read "usless, but still fascinating") info about all things atomic. But wait there's more! It's also a nicely designed, well planned marvel of USEFUL Java scripting (and we all know how rare that is!)

With one simple mouse-over, you can find out all the specifics of all your favorite elements, both naturally occuring and man-made. I mean, who knew that Californium had 12 isotopes?! These are some fine times that we're living in.

Armchair Quantum Mechanics of the world, UNITE!
Monday, September 25, 2000 @ 01:33 p.m.

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Holy Cow!!
"June 2, 2000?!?!?!" That's the last entry to this crazy thing!?!? I thought this was supposed to be a (almost) daily web log!!

OK, ya got me. I've really been slackin' in the pitas department, but I've got some pretty good excuses. Wanna hear them? Sure you do...

Lessee, I just graduated from that pillar of higher education, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Got my BALS in Tech Writing, Graphic Design, German and Philosophy (all rolled up into one handy degree). Now I gotta get a job.

I've also been working on a new site for Crazyhorse Literary Magazine. The current issue is up and includes some fine, fine writing. Archive issues should be up really soon.

What else.... Hmmmmm... I know there's something.....
Oh Yeah!! I planning for the big wedding this next weekend. That's right I'm finally gonna make an honorable woman out of the mother of Luca the Love Monkey.

OK, so this post is on the verge of getting too long. I'll let you go, 'cuz I know how much work you prolly need to get done.

BALS graduates of the world, UNITE!
Tuesday, September 12, 2000 @ 02:38 p.m.

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Putting your own Planet into Cyberspace
Wow! Here's yet another example of more spatial organization on the web. Ububu.com lets you create your own graphics-rich planet, where clickable icons rise up from the surface, taking you where you want to go. This is similar to Mapplanet.com (see it in my pitas archive), but with more of a link to the web feel, rather than just a place holder for your calling card.

Either way, Ububu, WebBrain, and Mapplanet mark an interesting direction in web navigation. And Ububu has Patrick Stewart as their spokesperson. And everyone knows that he's the coolest person over 50 on the planet.

Planeteers of the world, UNITE!
Friday, June 2, 2000 @ 01:23 p.m.

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Spatial Searching
Finally, a search-engine for the non-linear thinker. WebBrain.com has a very cool spatial interface that puts search directory topics in order of local relevance. Remember in "Lawnmower Man" when the cyber guy was floating in space, opening all these files in a 3D computer GUI? Well, WebBrain isn't quite that intuitive, but the theory is the same.

Right brained thinkers of the world, UNITE!
Friday, June 2, 2000 @ 01:15 p.m.

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The View from Below
The net brings new meaning to "DYI" and "Indy." AntEye.com is a collection of short movies made by what seem to be mostly 20somethingish college student folks with lots of time on their hands. The shorts are presented from a RealPlayer conveniently built right into the web page (Dig it!). General interface is pretty smooth, too, and I can say that this is the only sight that I've ever seen where horizontal page layout really works and doesn't send me off ranting. You won't find a "Blair Witch Porject," but there are some pretty cool little flicks.

Spike Lee Wanna-bes of the world, UNITE!
Thursday, May 18, 2000 @ 12:52 p.m.

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Less is More
Here are some great examples of smarties out there doing a whole lot with just a little. This page gives the results of a web design contest where the guideline for pages is:

All HTML, script, image, style, and any other associated files must collectively total less than 5 kilobytes in size and be entirely self-contained (employing no server-side processing).

Much cooler than you'd think anyone could do with just 5k. The 3D cube stacking page is my personal fave.
Minimalists of the world, UNITE!
Thursday, May 18, 2000 @ 12:34 p.m.

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Noodling
Noodling gets some press. Check out this news article about folks who catch catfish by hand for a hobby. Sounds funny, but ya gotta have some pretty big balls to go puttin' your hand down the gullet of a big fat catfish.

Noodlers of the world, UNITE!
Thursday, May 18, 2000 @ 12:28 p.m.

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They're Heeeere....
Terraserver.com has space pics from old Soviet satellites that show Groom Lake, Nevada, site of the rumored Area 51. The Gov says there's no air base there, but this looks like an air base to me. Cool pics. And some cool tech that keeps you from downloading the pics. Can't even do a screen capture. Cool, but frustrating.

While you're there, do a search for your house in your hometown. Conspiracy freaks of the world, UNITE!
Thursday, April 20, 2000 @ 10:03 a.m.

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One Ring to Bring Them all to the Boxoffice
And by "them all," I mean "all us geeks." Yep, The Lord of the Rings is coming to the Silver Screen. Tol Galen (the site linked above) is one of the many sites devoted to production news. Most of it's stuff like what the stars of the film had for breakfast on a given day, but there's also some good stuff there.

The best part is the download for the movie preview (in four fashonable file sizes). It's at the bottom of the page. Very cool!

The official site is at http://www.lordoftherings.net/. It's got a pretty interface, but the actual navigation is a bit goofy. The page is also slow and generally clunky. You can get streaming versions of the previews from here, but even the smallest is a bandwidth hog. Better to download the preview to your disk and watch it at your leasure than try to rely on the stream.

Hairfoots of the world, UNITE!
Thursday, April 13, 2000 @ 09:03 a.m.

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Automatic Pixel Popper
Wanna do cool (read "goofy") effects to your favorite pictures? Goto PictureIQ.com, upload your photo and put it through all sorts of torturous effects and filters. After your done screwing your pic up, you can send it as a postcard complete with funkey seasonal border.

Actually, has a pretty useful, one-step sepia-tone function that makes up for the too-pretty easter borders on the cards section. The Sega Dreamcast app is pretty groovy too, or would be if I had a Sega Dreamcast. Check out the Flash demo from the Dreamcast link (close to the bottom of the main page).
Tuesday, April 11, 2000 @ 09:08 a.m.

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Yummy Gnuts
The Battle Has Begun. Gnutella is a an open-source file/archive search/swap. Very similar to Napster, except that it allows for search/swap of any type of file format (not just MP3). I haven't downloaded it and tried it yet, but what gets me psyched about it is this philosophy of keeping things free. Free info, free files, free programs.

You could look at it as intellectual property piracy. Or you could look at it as technology finally empowering the little guy in the face of The Corporation (aka The Man). Either one works for me. It's about time that we the people get a little bit of control. And a fitting irony that we're using The Man's tools to get that control.

The best part is that corporate special interests will never be able to stop this sort of open swap meet that programs like Gnutella and Napster are bringing about. Even if they sued the makers of those two progs and won, there'd be 5 more groups and individuals with the open source code making adn distributing new versions the very next day. Free info is what the Internet should be all about.

It's a good time to be alive. Power to the people!
Monday, April 10, 2000 @ 04:19 p.m.

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I told you so
I usually try not to point you, my dear reader, to general news items, because I believe that if you wanted news stories, you'd be watching CNN or surfing Yahoo!News or something. Today, however, is an exception.

The article linked above tells how more Americans surf the Net from work than from home. That's what issafly.pitas.com is all about, man! Lazy workers of the world, UNITE!
Thursday, April 6, 2000 @ 09:09 a.m.

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DIY Geek
Bizarre Stuff rocks! This site contains instructions on how to use science in your own kitchen for these groovy tricks:

• Atmospheric can crush
• Hurricane machine
• Match stick rocket
• Musical saws
• Glowing pickle
• Pinhole cameras
• Shrunken head

If you're too lazy to actually DO the shrunken head one, you can go to HotToads.com and see a web cam of a head shrink in progress. Pretty weird, but it's better than doing that financial report that your boss has been hounding you about.
Wednesday, April 5, 2000 @ 01:34 p.m.

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Kind of Blue
Streaming music has to be part of the definition of luxurious. The Blue Note is nothing if not luxury. Hear the latest, greatest Jazz flow from your little speakers all day long. Also has good info links on artists like Miles Davis, Stan Getz and John Coltrane -- hell, just about everybody that's every been cool.
Friday, March 24, 2000 @ 09:17 a.m.

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You're getting very sleepy....
Groovycool site with lots of info on ambient music. Covers everything from shooting-up-in-the-bathroom-of-the-disco hard dub and trance, to sit-on-a-rock-and-talk-to-god new agey tree huggin' space music. I personally like something in between those two, and have had a tough time finding any. But Sleepbot has changed all that.

The "Mixes of Etheric Love" section offers what amounts to a bunch of mixed tapes of good background music in Real Audio format. That's what I'm all about; listening to raindrops and crickets playing piano as I work ever so hard to bring you this web log, while I make it look like I'm actually doing real work.

The diverse music on this site can be a great balancing force for all the caffine that you've had, or it can be a good energy boost substitute when no caffine can be found. Sleepers of the working world, unite!
Tuesday, March 21, 2000 @ 10:40 a.m.

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This is Your Life
If you're runnin' outta things to do while your supposed to be working, check this out. It takes a while to get through it all, but it's worth it for the hilarity. I made it all the way to page 88 (only 2 pages left), when my supervisor came back into the office. Is nothing sacred?!?

WARNING: This site features plastic posable animals in a funny little story that includes dirty words, mild office violence, smoking, larceny, one tiny porno pic, and a short, bloody office shooting spree. All in good fun.
Wednesday, March 15, 2000 @ 01:41 p.m.

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The Designer's Lunchbox
I've been spending too much time wandering around this huge site full of pretty things. Kaliber10000 is another site with good, subtle use of Shcokwave/Flash. My favorite part is prolly the desktop exhibition; a big ol' gallery of screenshots of the desktops of "luxurious people." Nice designs all around. Some of the Active Desktop designs are phenom.

And if you're not creative enough to come up with your own desktop layout/graphic, check out Digital Blasphemy's neat-o 3D desktop backgrounds available for download. Gotta admit that some of these are pretty hip.
Thursday, March 9, 2000 @ 01:28 p.m.

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Use the force, dude!
Well, the shockwave cream is rising to the top. Ever since I posted my "shockwave ain't worth it" rant (see the archive) I've actually been turned on to some cool flash pages. This Star Dudes movie is pretty groovy, if for no other reason than someone took the time to animate the entire (abridged) movie Star Wars and put it on the web. The goofy flash cartoonness of it is made up for by the fact that it's just cool to watch.

This was submitted by my ever vigilant friend Tanner, who has a pretty hip site of his own. He wins a prize.
Wednesday, March 8, 2000 @ 01:20 p.m.

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A Promise to You
Dearest issafly.pitas Readers,
I've recently realized that I've become quite longwinded of late. This is my personal pledge to you that I'll limit the rambling of my future logs to only a brief (yet funny and informative) few lines.
Friday, March 3, 2000 @ 10:47 a.m.

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No Sims' that I know
"Dysfunction" is too lite a term for "The Sims" game. (Note that that's also my RL last name.) You've gotta see the fan submitted photo album/sagas. Some of them are brilliantly funny.

To get there you gotta click the link above, then click on the "Album" graphic link, then click on the photo album link under "Read a Sims Family Saga." Sounds complicated, but it ain't. You'll like it.
Friday, March 3, 2000 @ 10:28 a.m.

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Pageantry for the Rest of Us
Check out 12 of the Hottest Geeks in the World! View the pics, read the bios, and cast your vote for "The Sexiest Geek Alive" contest. There's no swimsuit competition, but there are some deep, personal questions in the interview section; questions like "Who's your favorite Star Trek Captain?" and "Can you explain Heisenberg's uncertainty principle." Seems like there's an overabundance of sexy geeks down in Austin, TX for some reason.

The page starts with another goofy shockwave intro that takes forever. If you wanna skip it and go right to the contestants, click here.

Warning! If you're surfing into this site from a computer that monitors your URL's by name/content (ie, surfing from work), you'll prolly get nabbed on this site. The URL is sexiestgeekalive.com, and monitored proxies surely won't miss the "sex" part of that. You should be only be doing real work on that 'pute anyway. (hehe)
Friday, March 3, 2000 @ 09:19 a.m.

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Not just for fishes anymore
All this time I've thought Beta Bites were little pellets of shrimpness that you feed to your Siamese Fighting fish. Little did I know that it's also a pretty cool web site.

At betabites.com, you can download new games that are in beta testing to play and help get the bugs out of. They've got an index of a butt load of pretty good looking games, and they're all free! Some of them require that you register with the developers, but others are just basically free, complete games for the taking. Lots of cool web-based games, too.
Tuesday, February 29, 2000 @ 02:17 p.m.

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I'm right, you're...going to hell
Since I'm already going to hell for laughing at the midgets with mullets and for being a smart ass about those Jesus action figures (see the first archive), I'll go ahead and stoke my fire a little more while I'm here.

Chick Tracks are cute little Christian comic books with a message that YOU need to hear. You can order a package of 50 from this site. (My birthday is in October.) Or you can go to the official Chick site at www.chick.com. Once agian, we see the selfless, wholesome piety and open-mindedness that we've come to expect from modern American Protestantism. Check out these great titles and plot summaries:

• Where's Rabbi Waxman?
  In this tract, written specially for Jewish people, Rabbi Waxman comes face-to-face with prophecies of the Messiah and sees how they all point to Jesus.
• Doom Town
  Story of Sodom. Delivers a compassionate plea to repent of homosexuality.
• The Visitors
  Two Mormon missionaries learn the truth about their church.
• That Crazy Guy!
  When Suzi got AIDS, she learned that God's demand for sexual purity was for her own good.
• The Curse of Baphomet
  A Mason discovers the truth behind his lodge.

That pretty much covers the most evil things in the world: Jews, Gays, Mormons, Loose Women, and (worst of all) THE FREEMASONS! If you think that I've left an evil out, there are countless others in all the other "tracks."

Note that it should be a sin to put as many consecutive images in a single HTML as both these Chick pages do. Enjoy, you hell-bound modem demons.
Friday, February 25, 2000 @ 11:29 p.m.

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Gasping for Art
Suffocate.org seems to be a good idea. There slogo is "Pure Art, No Pretense." (Hmmmm...Not sure if there's any such thing.) Anyway, what you'll find here is e-art submitted by suffocate.org's i-members. The peices have all sorts of webby tricks like flash, sound, steaming vids, java, cool gif/jpg, and HTML. Simple but interesting feast of the senses. Note that some of them are just goofy and sorta suck, but there are some gems. There are so many peices that there are bound to be some good ones out of the whole lot. My fav part is the conform link, though I wish navigation through the gallery was a bit easier. (Nag, nag, nag.)

I get the feeling that the pre-req for submitting stuff to them is that you know the words to at least 5 Radiohead songs. (That's not such a bad pre-req actually.) "We hope that you choke."
Friday, February 25, 2000 @ 09:13 a.m.

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3D double Ds
OK, first of all, don't fault me for being male. I can't help it that there's something in me that likes to totally objectify the female body for shamlessly perverse sexual pleasure. I don't defend it. I think it's deplorable, but it's an integral part of my physiological functions as a man.

That said I now point you to the on-line swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated. Mind you that I don't point you there so that you can oggle half nekkid supermodels in places that you'll never visit. I merely note the groovy use of the 3D images of said models. You'll need to dig up your classic red/blue glasses to get the full effect (no pun intended), but it may be worth it...for the technological reasons, of course. I mean, how cool is it to have ANY sort of 3D pics on the web?!?! That's the poor man's VR.

Rant:
If you're gonna look at images of women (or men) for base sexual pleasure, don't pussy-foot (no pun intended) around with it. You're not foolin' anybody but yourself by saying that you only read Playboy for the articles. You know what they call pictures that are designed to get a strong sexual response? PORN! If you're going to be a weak male and give into your ever-present animal instincts, don't be ashamed!! Go out there and find what turns you on, give a good long look, do your business with it, and get on with your day. There are enough pictures of people doing every sexual act imaginable right here on the internet. Get your rocks off, but don't act like you're somehow above it all or morally pure, because if you've got the urge...you're not.

There's a similar rant in the latest issue of Time, but it's not on their web site. (That's another rant: papers/mags that only put selected info on their sites. Don't get me started.)
Wednesday, February 23, 2000 @ 04:26 p.m.

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The Bolggers Blog
This is a pretty cool service for all of us webloggers. It logs your log, so that each time you update, it makes a note of it on their pages. Then the rest of the world can click through and see that you've updated. It updates every hour.

It also has a free rotating banner ad service for blogs. You can submit your own custom banner ad and insert a short script into your page. The script will insert a 175x24px ad onto your page for one of the other blogs. Here's what you get:

WARNING:
If you use this ad rotator on your site, you don't have control over what ads pop up. They're all clean, but some are pretty odd. (I like the odd ones.) Most of them are actually pretty interesting, as far as the graphics go, though some are just plain goofy.

Also, I can't vouch for any of the sites that are at the end of the banner ad links. Your milage may vary.
Tuesday, February 22, 2000 @ 04:06 p.m.

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It's about damn time!
OK, that HUGE page with four months of the pitas that you've all come to love and cherish has finally been archived. Click on the link above to read the good old stuff. Watch this space for new stuff soon.

BTW, I'm still looking for submissions for really good pages that uses shockwave, good uses for MapPlanet.com, and (more) good uses for spyonit.com. Contact me at issafly@hotmail.com if you have any suggestions, and you may win a prize.

Who loves you, baby?
Tuesday, February 22, 2000 @ 01:59 p.m.

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