January 1998

Friday 30. January, 1998 permalink

The Skeptic's Dictionary has a bunch of interesting essays.
From Hunger is pretty cool. Ulysses for Dummies and Disney's Inferno are highlights.
Lehman's serves the Amish and others without electricity with a non-electric-catalog. It's on the web. Maybe it's just me, but...
If you're looking to get out of town, Northwest CyberSavers has cheap flights.
If you're looking to send someone out of town, the USPS 1997 Postal Rates might be more appropriate (and they haven't changed yet).

Friday 23. January, 1998 permalink

A set of ...of the Day sites
For the tax and investment conscious, The Motley Fool has Roth IRA Information and a lot of other investing tips.
The Dancing Baby has caught people's attention. There's even The Dancing Baby Homepage
Linux Brings Titanic to Life
ReliaStar has a Financial Security Index, which names the Minneapolis-St. Paul region the top city to earn and save money.

Friday 16. January, 1998 permalink

Dr. Dobb's has A Conversation with Larry Wall
Don Crabb talks about Managing your digital assets with Cinebase. Why aren't there articles like this about WAM!Base?
For those catching Apocalypse Fever, there's Asteroid impact would swamp coasts
Business Week talks about Bill Gates, Robber Baron
From the San Jose Mercury News's Minister of Information, here's some humor:
- Are the pope and his clone both infallible? What if they disagree?
- Can you clone Alan Greenspan, or does it have to be living tissue?
- If Larry King clones himself and interviews himself on his show, wouldn't that pretty much make nuclear war something we could all look forward to?
- If the DNA from the bloody glove were cloned and produced a baby O.J. Simpson, then could we maybe get an actual guilty verdict?
- If Hare Krishnas start cloning themselves, how will the rest of us find out?
- If you cloned Henry IV, would he be Henry V or Henry IV Jr. or wait, Henry IV part II?
- Could they clone Al Gore, or would he have to be grafted?
- Is it possible to make a clone of Kate Moss and then attach the two together to make a regular-sized person? Sure, she'd have two heads, but that would still be way more normal.
- Would it be ethical to dig up the remains of our founding fathers, create clones from the bone cells, and place them in a theme park called Clonial Williamsburg?

Friday 9. January, 1998 - Welcome back permalink