Sunday, August 18, 2002

posted by machaus August 18 2:42 PM | 11 comments. Cigarette vending machines put to a good use. The Artomat project makes local art available in cigarette box size packages for a mere $5 a pop. Find out the location of a machine near you. [MetaFilter] 7:26:37 PM    comment []

posted by vacapinta August 18 3:47 PM | 3 comments. Harry Stephen Keeler has been called one of the strangest writers who ever lived. He has also been called the Ed Wood of Mystery Writers. His plots are labyrinthine, convoluted, insane, built on coincidences. There's a Harry Stephen Keeler Society. His works are now being re-printed. And, if you're feeling brave, you can read many of his works on-line. Keeler created, and was seemingly the sole practitioner of, a genre he called the "webwork novel." This is a story in which diverse characters and events are connected by a strings of wholly implausible coincidences [MetaFilter] 7:24:21 PM    comment []

From the Baltimore Chronicle: "Go get your ten-billionth burger, America. Fatten your already fat asses with bacteria-and-hormone-ridden meat and do nothing as you sit stupefied before your mind-numbing television sets awaiting the next episode of sad families being humiliated on "Cops." This article was published over a week ago, but I hadn't heard of, or seen it yet. If only 10% of it is true, then we should be very afraid. Deep in my gut, I feel W.R. McDougall has hit it all squarely on the nose. Time for action America! [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 8:59:56 AM    comment []

Gravity control investigation raises hopes [New Scientist] 8:38:59 AM    comment []

Winged robot learns to fly [New Scientist] 8:38:29 AM    comment []

posted by baylink August 17 12:28 PM | 30 comments. The link between geekiness and Aspergers Syndrome (a mild form of autism) is fairly well known, if not scientifically proven. But now, a study reported in tbe BBC says that there's a wildly high incidence of childhood autism where geeks are mostly mating with other geeks... [MetaFilter] 8:25:04 AM    comment []

posted by specialk420 August 17 3:10 PM | 21 comments. while we're on the topic of iraq anyone suprised about these revelations/allegations? username: metafilter46 password: metafilter [MetaFilter] 8:19:00 AM    comment []

posted by drezdn August 17 7:39 PM | 23 comments. The war on drugs claims forest as casualty. A forest fire that burned out of control for almost two weeks and devastated over 50,000 acres near San Diego was caused by a helicopter looking for pot farms, a California Department of Forestry investigation has concluded. [link via disinfo] [MetaFilter] 8:06:22 AM    comment []

McDonalds Proudly Discriminates. MyFreePress.com:  McDonald's has removed from its Web page for Saudi Arabia any reference to its segregated restaurants in Mecca--less than a day after in was noted in OpinionJournal. [jenett.radio] 8:05:12 AM    comment []

Dammit. I left my cigarettes in the bar at the casino.... The Dow Jones Sindex.  The Vice Fund, a new mutual fund, enables investors to profit from the wages of sin by supporting its portfolio of smoking, drinking, gambling, and war-making companies. "We consider these industries to be nearly ‘recession-proof," explains fund manager Dan Ahrens. (08-16)  [Cruel Site of the Day] [jenett.radio] 8:04:35 AM    comment []