Toronto art scene prank
Fooling journalists and artsies? Not the first time, not the last. Still damn funny, though. This one's for Markie who liked working in the poseur department of his animation studio.

Missed Connections
Would everyone on the Internet please send the Brunching Shuttlecocks five dollars? They are funny and deserve to be rewarded. Thank you.

Splash Mountain Performance Art
Now that Disney blocks all the flashing shots, what's an automated camera to do?

Air scooter!
Screw your aircar. (Actually, I like the much-linked air car better. That's got computer navigation and your hat won't blow off.)

Things my girlfriend and I have argued about
Not my girlfriend, some other guy's. A sample: "Margret thinks I'm vain because... I use a mirror when I shave. Margret proved that shaving with a mirror could only be seen as outrageous narcissism by saying "None of the other men I've been with used a mirror to shave." "Ha! Difficult to check up on that, isn't it? As all the other men you've been with can now only communicate by blinking their eyes!" I said. Much later. When Margret had left the house."

Go Back
Go Back uses 10% of your hard drive and allows you to return your system to 5 minutes ago (before you installed that buggy driver) or 5 days ago (when you opened that virus infected file). I have difficulty believing it could live up to its own promises though.

Snarg
Until not, I haven't been impressed by web sites that try to be art, but Snarg is striking. For cable modem users only.

Claire Danes' Fame Audit
The banner at the bottom of this page is gigantic, but the concept is new. Okay, the fundamental concept of dissing celebrities isn't new, but the format, that's new.

Pop!
Omigod. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down $10936 to $1. Unless this was some kind of computer error on Etrade's part...

Why Seattle Traffic is Bad
Some lead sentences should really be reserved for editors who want to invent stories as a way of quitting. "A transsexual construction worker from Olympia stopped rush-hour traffic on Interstate 5 this morning when she bared her breasts, danced and spit fire atop an electrical tower at the Ship Canal Bridge."

Hello Kitty Tarot
Be sure to scroll to Death. ("What happened to him?" "Scrolled to death.") From Fishstick.

Visualroute
See a traceroute drawn against a map of the world. Try a good far away site like http://www.pm.gov.au/

Neil Gaiman, Princess Mononoke, and the movies
Neil Gaiman discusses his many movie projects, including a movie with Death. "It would be Death: The High Cost of Living. It's about a teenage boy who doesn't want to live anymore who meets a girl who claims to be Death for her one day alive." (If this link expires, check the Corona archives for Sept 8/99.)

Also: "I remember when I was about nine, daydreaming. And I had this sort of fantasy. I really wanted to be the person who'd written Lord of the Rings. I thought, that would be so cool. So my fantasy was that I'd have a copy of Lord of the Rings with me. And I'd accidentally slip into a parallel universe exactly the same as the one I was in except nobody had ever written Lord of the Rings. But I'd have a copy. And then I'd get a grownup to type it out for me, because I'd figured that my typing wasn't good enough because I was only nine. Then I'd assassinate the grownup so they wouldn't know and tell anybody. And I'd send it off to a publisher and I'd get to be the person who wrote Lord of the Rings. And after a while you just figure that's never going to happen I may as well just sort of start writing."

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