eye candy

eye candy -- Pretty graphics for the sake of pretty graphics.

contents:

• Virtual Food
  • Chocolate
  • Other foods
• parody: Pseudo-science, pseudo-advertisements, pseudo-corporations
• eye candyPretty graphics for the sake of pretty graphics.
• electronic greeting cards
• comics (cartoons and fiction)
• movies DAV has seen.
• movies DAV hasn't seen yet
• Searching for movies ("what actor played in which film" search tools; movie reviews, etc.)
• books where cool pictures totally dominate over the text
• unsorted

see also

Related pages:

• computer_graphics_tools.html

Virtual Food

Chocolate

Give David Cary chocolate, and you've pretty much made a friend for life.

• ``Eating Chocolate Is Healthy, Doctors Say'' By Patricia Reaney http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010903/sc/health_chocolate_dc_1.html ``Flavonoids are thought to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, the number one killer in many industrialized countries, by reducing platelet aggregation -- when blood platelets combine into a sticky mass and form clots. ... a small bar of dark chocolate contains as many flavonoids as six apples ... Carl Keen ... ``These results lead us to believe that chocolate may contribute to a healthy, well-balanced diet,'' Keen added. ... ''
• ``Chocolate may foil flight thrombosis'' http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001304763,00.html
• "Chocolate is made from cacao beans, which come from 8- to 12-inch pods that grow on the tropical Theobromo cacao tree. ... today, home gardeners have difficulty finding cacao seeds" -- http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/features/huber/1830128 (Thanks you Debora)
• Why Engineers Don't Write Recipe Books: Chocolate Chip Cookies from Redd Emmett R http://repairfaq.cis.upenn.edu/sam/humor.htm#hum021 engineering humor. "Cooking Versus Engineering" http://repairfaq.cis.upenn.edu/sam/humor.htm#hum094 actually finds electronics and cooking very similar.
• Star Chefs : Recipes of Chefs and Recipes by Cookbook Authors http://www.starchefs.com/ culinary questions, recipe archives, QuickMeals, biographies of top chefs, and lots of chocolate info.
• ACME Chocolate Registry. http://www.acme.com/chocolate/ "This is the same idea as a wedding gift registry at a department store. You can register your preference in chocolate, and then your friends and relatives can look it up so they know what to get you."
• the movie ``Chocolat'' (2000). http://www.miramax2000.com/chocolat/ Review: http://www.missliberty.com/Filmchoc.html
• play "Name that Candybar" http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/tf/c/crosssection/namethatbar.html
• http://www.virtualchocolate.com/
• The Chocolate Lovers' Page http://chocolate.emanon.net/chocolate.cgi
• Chocolate http://www.bpe.com/food/recipes/hotchoc/
• Arrange chocolates in a personalized assortment http://food.epicurious.com/c_play/c04_victual/valbox/chocolate.html
• Chocolate Covered Strawberries http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/4121/
• Shari's Berries http://berries.com/ sells gourmet chocolate-covered strawberries
• "M&M's" Studios(tm), "The CyberCenter for Millennium Hype Online" http://www.m-ms.com/
• The Chocolate Lovers' Page http://chocolate.emanon.net/
• Virtual Desserts http://www.icecreamusa.com/cgi-bin/icusa/vrsundae/vrsundae/
• http://www.hersheys.com/
• GODIVA CHOCOLATIER http://www2.godiva.com/
• Virtual chocolate http://www.freep.com/browsing/sitings/food/food_082596_choc.htm
• "Chocoholics Unite!" web ring

  	This Chocoholics Unite! site is owned by: d.cary@ieee.org David Cary . Are you a chocoholic too? Join us!
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Once you gather up some virtual chocolate, then what ?

Other foods

• "ACME Heart Maker: Make your own candy valentine!" http://acme.com/heartmaker/
• Pasta http://www.flyingnoodle.com/
• This is a list of Online soft drinks to wash down the virtual chocolate http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/bsy/coke.html
• The Internet Pizza Server Home Page (Virtual Pizza) (Also hosts the KotH Core War tournament) http://www2.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/
• http://www.waiter.com/ seems to involve real food ...

parody: pseudo-science, pseudo-advertisement, pseudo-corporate humor

You have to have a appropriately twisted mindset to understand the humor here.

Stuff that looks like a very professional advertisement, serious piece of journalism, etc., but turns out to be tongue-in-cheek humor.

Some people call this sort of parody ``culture-jamming'' or ``hand-to-brand combat''.

See also my Mad Scientist list. It includes stuff that looks like serious science articles that turn out to be tongue-in-cheek humor.

• Cannot find Weapons of Mass Destruction http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
• The Yes Men http://theyesmen.org/ Mike, Andy, Matt, Caz, Wolfgang, Snafu, Andrew, Rich, anti-corporate activist-pranksters ... impersonate the World Trade Organization on TV and at business conferences around the world. The experts don't notice the joke. "This is what I like about America. Any idea is accepted -- without discussion!"
• http://gatt.org/ in particular, http://gatt.org/irelease.html
• http://freewayblogger.com/ is serious culture-jamming.
• the Kenworth Pilgrimage, the SUV of the future http://poseur.4x4.org/futuresuv.html "eight rear wheels for handling those trips to Sam's Club." "Fits under MOST bridge underpasses!"
• http://www.phobe.com/ includes lots of stuff that looks serious at first glance, including

  Department Of Education One: the "rolling oval office" http://www.phobe.com/deone/ ``Modified for highway-speed refueling''

• http://despair.com/ a parody of those inspirational posters
• "How To Spot A Psychopath" by Daniel Rutter http://www.dansdata.com/psycho.htm "Other signs to look for:" includes ... Strong interest in war and/or firearms. 90% of teenage boys should, for this reason, be incarcerated immediately. ... Mood swings and depression. We'd better make that 100% of all teenagers, regardless of gender. ... "Goth" tendencies. A teenager with an interest in fastidious dressing is clearly deeply aberrant. Note, however, that some particularly flamboyant apparent Goths may in fact be science fiction geeks dressed up as Centauri noblemen. Since no science fiction geek has yet killed a load of people, the plastic battery-powered phaser is not yet considered to be dangerous. ...
• Billionaires for Bush or Gore http://billionairesforbushorgore.com/
• http://www.cewindows.net/reviews/comdex99-1.htm advertisement for the fictional movie "Austin Gates: International Man of Technology" (Spoof on Steve Balmer of Microsoft and the movie _Austin Powers_)
• ZDTV's Leo Laporte wins "Evil Genius Of The Year" Award http://members.aol.com/EvilCHawk/illuminati.html
• "The Pseudo Scientific Visualizer" is *not* pseudo-science, but actually a nifty experimental tool. http://www.catalog.com/hopkins/psiber/pseudoscientific.html
• "with the help of some semiautomatic weapons, documents the durability of old school hardware versus the flimsy cases being used in newer peripherals." http://slashdot.org/articles/00/05/30/0214203.shtml
• "All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." --Aristotle
• http://www.nullsoft.com/ ???
• SOS (Students for an Orwellian Society) http://www.studentsfororwell.org/ is a more literate parody.
• ``California's Velcro Crop under Challenge (1993)'' by Ken Umbach http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html
• ``Adequacy.org'' http://adequacy.org/ At first glance looks like a normal magazine. And it has a nice section at the bottom where you can add your comments to the articles. I was fortunate to read ``On the Establishment of a Palestinian State'' article by gbd 2001-10-12 http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/10/3/19415/1691 first. I find myself thinking, ``No one could be that clueless. I think he's faking clue-less-ness, being deliberately offensive. Ah -- I see -- it's a troll, a parody.'' Some people also recognized it that humor, and continued it with tongue-in-cheek ``comments'' to the article, with silly puns and everything. Other people posted serious information related to the subject, which is sometimes helpful in understanding how funny it is. But all too many of the people who commented apparently missed out on the humor. I feel like yelling out ``It's a JOKE, okay ?''. Then I read http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/3/26/215/61646 (some people at http://www.geekculture.com/ultimatebb/Forum13/HTML/000164.html discuss this article ) ( ``A Reader Disputes Our Wisdom'' by Electronic Raver http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/3/27/233930/265 is a sequel ) where the sheer number of incorrect assertions tempted me to write some comments to ``straighten out the author's misunderstanding''. But since I already knew this was a parody site -- then I realized the author already knew that, he was deliberately making up these incorrect ``facts'' to make the article funnier. (``BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos'').
• parody web site http://www.gwbush.com/ Apparently sells "Democracy was getting old anyway" bumper stickers. points to funny (yet controversial) posters at http://www.whitehouse.org/initiatives/posters/index.asp .
• Banner Ads We'd Like To See http://www.valleyofthegeeks.com/Features/BannerAds.html
• ``PA: Personal Abacus Magazine'' http://www.geekculture.com/geekycomics/Aftery2k/y2Karchives/050.html
• http://www.attrition.org/gallery/spoof/
• http://www.adbusters.org/
• http://www.theblob.net/ Huh ?
• nebcorp http://www.nebcorp.com/
• _Bill Gates: The Secret Diary of Bill Gates, Aged 42 1/4_ http://www.billg.org/secretdiary/main/index.htm a strange little online book, a parody of Microsoft web pages. Some of it is actually funny :-).
• Gan Gillmor wrote a story http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg031999.htm on the bogus internet company http://www.etattler.com/ and its competitor http://www.heyidiot.com/
• the Bogus News Network http://www.acclaimedmedia.com/voafa/bnn.htm http://www.acclaimedmedia.com/voafa/ "the nation's second leading source for misinformation" seems to be related to the Common Conservative http://commonconservative.com/ and seems to be connected to Mark's Humour Site http://members.xoom.com/Harmless/ More bogus news at http://www.impactmedia.com/mentadec.html
• Surfing Made Easier http://www.2scotts.com/chairs/ a Psuedo Company that markets combination office chair/commode that will make it so you can indeed be a 24/7 person on the Internet.
• "a new remote-controlled remote control. " http://www.theonion.com/onion3104/newremote.html
• the EPA has placed good single men--rapidly disappearing in these non-romantic modern times--on the Endangered Species List. http://www.theonion.com/onion3119/singlemen.html
• The Havendam Story http://www.havendam.com/story/1.html Read the whole thing through -- diamond fibers and all. At first I thought this was serious journalism. (It *is* fiction -- isn't it ? But it makes a great scenario.)
• Vixens In Black (VIB) http://www.vixensinblack.org/
• Megaspork Industries "Fred The Stick Figure is one of our top executives here at Megaspork Industries." "Web Page for the Exceedingly Un-Cool" http://www.mindspring.com/~megadee/weirdo.htm
• "The Corporation" http://www.thecorporation.com/
  • Realistic awards anyone can put on their site http://www.thecorporation.com/icon/icon.html
  • A shocking exposé of "kitty porn" http://www.thecorporation.com/oneoffs/96/kittyporn/index.html
  • The RGB Ribbon Campaign to Eradicate Free Speech on the Internet http://www.thecorporation.com/runninggags/htmlaugh/freespeech/freespeech.html
• Futuristic weapons http://www.primenet.com/~dhuffman/weapons.html
• http://www.webgurus.com/ especially
• http://www.webgurus.com/pressrelease/alliance.shtml
• http://www.x86.org/digest/Nov97/intelart.html
• Huh ? I don't get it. http://apple-corps.westnet.com/
• Ms Netters, Netiquette Columnist http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~mnetters/ http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~mnetters/9.25.94.html
• The Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything http://www.pixelscapes.com/spatulacity/button.htm
• AbracadAB Roller Plus http://pages.prodigy.com/lemus/abroll.htm

eye candy

Pretty graphics for the sake of pretty graphics. (from serious art galleries to humorous computer graphics parodies).

see computer_graphics_tools.html

see movie.html

• Prix Ars Electronica 98 http://prixars.orf.at/ in Linz, Austria "celebrates the use of computers for artistic expression ... computer music, interactive art, Internet art, and computer animation / visual effects."
• http://www.envirolink.org/mkzdk/
• http://www.et-arts.com/
• Dave's (Sci Fi movies & TV shows) Pictures Site http://www.uni-fit.com/chia/
• sito http://www.sito.org/
• http://www.crazyraven.com/
• Bruce & Priscilla's Online Photo Album http://put.com/~lucas/
• send Virtual Flowers http://www.allyourneeds.com/ or http://www.virtualflowers.com/
• Virtual Florist http://www.virtualflorist.com/ (bouquet)
• http://www.1800flowers.com/ | mirror http://1-800-flowers.com/ (bouquet)
• Remedy for a DULL Day http://www.users.interport.net/~sibll/
• Musée du Louvre http://www.paris.org/Musees/Louvre/ classic paintings and sculpture
• pretty visual illusions. http://www.illusionworks.com/
• http://www.cnam.fr/fractals/mandel.html lots of pretty colorized Mandelbrot fractal images.
• http://i30www.ira.uka.de/~ukrueger/fractals/ lots of pretty colorized Mandelbrot fractal images.
• http://www.threnos-media.com/prune/art.html very detailed, on many media.
• 3D Visions http://www.3dvisions.com/
• Ctein http://www.plaidworks.com/ctein/ is a very serious artist, creating very detailed prints.
• Amazing Images http://www.amazingimages.com/
• The Eye Candy WWW Site Reviews http://www.5beans.com/
• Hamish's Incredibly Diverse Homepage http://student.uq.edu.au/~s343124/
• http://www.wmin.ac.uk/~hysec/
• http://www.striton.com/
• http://www.elated.com/gorgeous/web_design/
• Fractal Art Show http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/#Fractal
• http://www.yitch.com/
• smiley list :-) http://www.netlingo.com/smiley.html
• Electronic Greeting Cards and wierd links http://www.wanderers2.com/pegasus/menu.html?
• Trivedi http://www.ellusions.com/trivedi/ Graphics-intensive web site developer.
• http://www.finalreality.com/ They claim that "Final Reality is a suite of graphical tests designed to examine the processing power of 3D graphics in your PC. The benchmark also tests 2D image processing and the new AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port)." But during the test, it has some really cool graphics and sound.
• http://www.andyart.com
• "sub net", a web design company http://www.subnet.co.uk/
• http://infinitefish.com/
• Ribbon-O-Matic http://www.webgurus.com/ribbon-o-matic.shtml

electronic greeting cards

[FIXME: move greeting cards sites from elsewhere to here]

...

• http://www.postcard.net/ has a long list of pointers to online greeting card sites, with ratings.
• http://www.123greetings.com/ has many, many electronic greeting cards, including categories of
  • Encouragement And Inspiration http://www.123greetings.com/encouragement_and_inspiration/
  • Religion http://www.123greetings.com/religion/ Jainism; Bible Quotes; ...
  • pets http://www.123greetings.com/pets/
  • chocolate http://www.123greetings.com/food_and_drink/chocolates/
• http://freewebcards.com/
• Imation Picture Postcard http://www.imation.com/cgi-shl/imation/postcard/agent.pl?send email customized picturesque postcards to your friends.
• http://deskmates.com/ecards/
• egreetings http://www.egreetings.com/e-products/m_main/cgi/homepage free digital postcards
• http://www.e-cards.com/ electronic postcards
• http://www1.bluemountain.com/ (includes Bible verse cards)
• Space & Flight http://www.spaceandflight.com/postcards/ Space Exploration, Astronomy, or Aviation Themes [FIXME: offline ?]

comics

comics and cartoons. web comics.

technical humor. and a little text SF.

also some religious comics.

see also pdx-b5.html for some B5 and Portland-area SF.

• User Friendly: the comic strip http://www.userfriendly.org/ pokes fun at the hacker culture, the web industry.

  "One of the characteristics of healthy cultures is that they can poke fun at themselves." - Eric S. Raymond

  "coloured lights! pretty! pretty!" http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20040904&mode=classic

• DAV: I really like the "Rose is Rose" daily comic strip by Pat Brady http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/roseisrose/
• Scott McCloud
  • ``Scott McCloud describes ... a drawing tablet that will serve as a portable digital comics studio'' http://www.c-realm.com/comix/daily/view.cgi?date=15%20Dec%202000 also http://www.c-realm.com/comix/daily/view.cgi?date=22%20Mar%202001
  • http://scottmccloud.com/
  • "I Can't Stop Thinking!" http://scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/ a comic strip *about* Scott McCloud writing a comic strip. Thoughts on transitioning from paper comics to the current Web, and ideas about the future Web. [FIXME: finish reading] There's a few things his comics do that paper comics can't do: - a tiny bit of animation - links to more detailed information ... using cartoon graphics to convey a serious message: explaining micropayments.
  • 10 suggestions for first-time WebComics artists http://scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-3/icst-3.html
• Irregular Webcomic ! http://dangermouse.net/irregular/ this comic strip is *photographed*, not *drawn*.

  I first heard about it when Anton Sherwood pointed out the space elevator strip:

  To: space-elevator at yahoogroups.com
  From: Anton Sherwood <bronto at pobox.com>
  Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:34:22 -0700
  Subject: [space-elevator] but the worst part
  
  http://dangermouse.net/cgi-bin/comic.pl?comic=43
  
  -- 
  Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
  

• http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/
• http://dilbert.com/ | also called http://unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/
• http://www.nerd-boy.net/
• "VERY amusing cartoon ... "Helen, the Sweetheart of the Internet" http://www.peterzale.com/ . Helen's a savvy programmer-type, and there are some B5 (and other SF) references." -- recc. AmyCat 1997-04-12
• The Sev Wide Web http://www.sev.com.au/ ( http://cartoons.sev.com.au/ ) includes "desktop publishing tips and tricks", and some hilarious cartoons, including "Sevylon 5, a parody of Babylon 5. ", "Sev Trek, a comic strip parody of Star Trek", "Sev Wars, a cartoon parody of Star Wars", and "The Sev Files: A cartoon parody of the X Files set in 1st Century Palestine where Agents Mouldy and Scummy investigate the alleged resurrection of a Jewish sect leader named Jesus."
• Absurd Notions http://www.absurdnotions.org/ A systems administrator, a programmer, a sculpter, and a video game player share an apartment. DAV likes http://www.absurdnotions.org/page35.html
• Vinny the vampire. http://vinny.myqth.com/ comic strip series by t.briery and m. zawistowski
• The Joy of Tech http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/ ``Interesting ! By applying opposing forces ... the kinetic energy of two metamorphic rocks can be transformed into a brief yet intense incendiary event !'' -- http://www.geekculture.com/geekycomics/Aftery2k/y2Karchives/prideday.html
• TheTechSide.com - Daily cartoons for the engineering community http://www.pcbcafe.com/CARTOONS/ points to several technical online comics, including geek-o-rama
• Sluggy Freelance http://www.sluggy.com/
• GeekToons http://geek.com/gtoons/gtoonsmain.htm
• MacToons http://geek.com/gtoons/mactoons/
• Reverend Fun http://www.reverendfun.com/
• http://christiancartoons.com/
• The Suburban Jungle (Starring Tiffany Tiger) http://www.suburbanjungle.com/ A computer programmer that happens to be a cheetah. Of course.

  Suburban Jungle Haiku Night http://www.suburbanjungle.com/w/20001016.html [ link_farm.html#haiku ]

• OK, so I have a weird sense of humor. http://raeofdarkness.keenspace.com/d/20010806.html 2001-08-06 ``Rae is modeling the Coat of Intimidation +1. ... Rae also weilds the Sunglasses of Apathy +1 and Headphones of Distraction +1. Both allow him to perceive 10% less of the crappiness of the world around him. My computer weilds the item: Modem of Retardation. This item allows my computer to use the power: Disconnect From Earthlink at will.''
• http://www.jewishworldreview.com/tpl/tpl122601.asp
• http://www.laughseeds.com/ ???
• Cathy by Cathy Guisewite http://www.ucomics.com/cathy/
• After Eden http://www.answersingenesis.org/AfterEden/AE_Pages/ae3-26-2001.asp | http://www.answersingenesis.org/AfterEden/AE_Pages/ae6-19-2000.asp
• Church of the Covered Dish http://www.botcw.com/thom/ ``A Christian comic strip drawn by a real, honest to goodness Southern Baptist pastor''
• ``Do you ever get that feeling, that all this career stuff, and dressing up to go out to dinner, and filling out your income tax, that it's all just play-acting ? That you're still just a little ten-year-old, and this is all some big hoax ?'' -- Kathy Swanson, a character in the illustrated mystery ``Rapid Eye Movement'', an online comic by Joe Zabel http://amazingmontage.tripod.com/trespassers/remch4.html Interesting concept...
• http://www.happychaos.com/julie/
• World Famous Comics http://www.wfcomics.com/ has some good online comics (``webcomic''), plus articles, reviews, and forums to allow discussion of the comics industry.
• http://www.pvponline.com/ daily comic strip
• Inet Comics http://www.inetcomics.com/ "the world of online comics and cartoons -- comics and cartoons that are made for the web. Stay tuned to the digital domain of comics."
• http://charon.mcs.kent.edu/~morris/Personal/Comics/ reviews some (paper) comics, and links to some (online) comics.
• http://www.islandfoundry.com/humor_comic_cartoons_1.html ??? lots of links to online comics.
• http://www.sequentialtart.com/ reviews of comics
• http://www.ametro.net/~phouck/cartoon.shtml has a long list of online cartoons
• http://www.msnbc.com/comics/ comics and News of the Wierd
• Spike Webb http://www.spikewebb.com/home.html online cartoon series
• Steve Conley's Amazing Space Thrills http://www.astoundingspacethrills.com/
• http://www.nextcomics.com/ hosts many online comics including
  • "Death takes a holiday" comic strip series by Jim Massey http://www.nextcomics.com/comics/template.php?comicnum=31 I think the scenes at the airport are funny. http://www.nextcomics.com/comics/template.php?comicnum=31&cp=23 [FIXME: maybe not that funny.]

NanoWars http://www.erinet.com/prass/nanowars/nw.html an online comic book including nanotechnology.

Charley Parker's virtual comic book - ARGON ZARK! http://www.zark.com/

Duncan Long http://www.kansas.net/~duncan/cht.html SF Short Stories and (nonfiction) "Praise the Lord and (Please Do) Pass the Ammunition" anti-immortality. (see video_game.html#forgy )

The David Gerrold Home Page http://www.gerrold.com/homepage.htm links to The Martian Child http://www.gerrold.com/martian.htm by David Gerrold ... -- recc. Jeff Duntemann (in PC Techniques Jan 1996) mentions Jeff Duntemann and his dog, Mr. Byte ... awarded Hugo and Nebula awards.

Peter Morwood and Diane Duane http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~owls/ has some interesting and funny and odd links under "Miscellanea".

http://www.2meta.com/april-fools/ "an archive of net.humor" "Quanta is the electronically produced and distributed magazine of science fiction and fantasy."

3D Adventure (a 3D comic strip) http://www.dair.com/init/indexs.htm

Robotman http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/robotman/

1995 1995 1995 (I got 50 DNRC status points for putting a link to http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert in my web site.)

http://interactive.phillynews.com/comics/ "build-it-yourself funnies page"

MST3K http://sunsite.unc.edu/lunar/mst3k/mst3k.html

User Friendly: the Comic Strip http://www.userfriendly.org/

InterText: The Online Fiction Magazine http://www.intertext.com/

http://www.unitedmedia.com/ Rose is Rose (cartoon) by Pat Brady PBrady8222 at aol.com

TECH SUPPORT TALES http://www.auricular.com/TST/ [humor] mirror: Tech Support Tales http://www.dnai.com/~aherrick/TST/ http://www.completepcs.com/tales.htm Tech Support Horror Tales http://www.completepcs.com/tales.htm Tech Tales http://www.azstarnet.com/~sean/ PC Users SIG: Humor http://ncf.davin.ottawa.on.ca/freeport/sigs/computer/pc-user/humor/menu Apple/PC Humor http://www.execpc.com/mactech/Humor/index.html (comics)

Computer Jokes http://www.dreamscape.com/muffin/library/computer/index.htm

Computer Humor http://helpdeskfunnies.cyberjuice.com/jokes.htm

http://www.taponline.com/rant/download/ ??? humor

http://www.zark.com/front/comics.html a long list of other online comics.

movies DAV has seen.

[FIXME: what other movies has DAV seen ?]

My standards for movies have gone down, and I'm worried that I'm becoming de-sensitized to violence.

• Gattaca "there is no gene for the human spirit" http://hem.passagen.se/replikant/gattaca.htm , http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/essays/gattaca.htm a film about some things that were impossible before, and will be simple soon -- the question needs to be changed from "Can we do that ?" to "Should we do that ?" ... ... discrimination ... a kind of discrimination that hasn't happened yet, yet all too similar to the kinds of discrimination that have happened for millenia. Rejects the idea of "genetic determinism". DAV thinks it's a very good movie.
• 2005-05-28 (?) Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith Ella Enchanted Bend it like Becker Spider Man II
• "Pay it forward" movie future_history.html#pay_it_forward
• "A Little Princess" (1995 ?) tells the story of Sara Crewe (Liesel Matthews), based on a book by Frances Hodgson Burnett Classified: G "Miss Burnett's plots understand that ... that all stories are really about the uncertain place of the child in the mysterious world of adults." -- Roger Ebert
• Star Gate http://www.stargate-sg1.com/
• "Braveheart" (1995 ?) with Mel Gibson Classified: R (for brutal medieval warfare)
• http://www.starwars.com/
• Men In Black http://www.meninblack.com/ the movie. funny.
• "Saving Private Ryan" DAV saw 1999-06-04 Yes, it's every bit as violent and bloody as you have heard. But (I think) it was an accurate portrayal of WWII.
• "Contact" http://www.contact-themovie.com/
• "What is the Matrix ?" DAV saw 1999-03-24. DAV: Excellent. Spectacular visuals, lame plot, a couple of interesting ideas. Lots of guns and blood, a bit of stylized karate, and some interesting philosophical ideas. Is what I'm seeing reality, or merely illusion ? (The same question asked by "Dark City"). Lots of eye_candy. "No one has ever done anything like this." "That's why it's going to work." "All I'm offering is the truth, nothing more." http://www.WhatIsTheMatrix.com/ 1st trailer http://www.whatisthematrix.com/tease/dld/matrix-ref.mov (1 MB) 2nd trailer: http://www.whatisthematrix.com/tease/dld/24matrix00.mov (8 MB) (Everything from the 1st trailer, at higher resolution, plus more scenes and dialog )

  What Matrix Persona Are You? http://quizilla.com/users/trinitykills/quizzes/What%20Matrix%20Persona%20Are%20You%3F by trinitykills http://xanga.com/trinitykills

  Parodies:

  • The Pizza Matrix: What if the Matrix had been about making pizza? http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1466
    Pizza boxes. Lots of pizza boxes. http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1466&p=3
• "Dark City" DAV saw 1998
• Titanic (facts www.rms-titanic.demon.co.uk/faxcts.htm ) (related humor: http://store.theonion.com/book/page_titanic.html )
• the Wilhelm Scream http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/wilhelm.html I feel disillusioned.

movies DAV hasn't seen yet,

but people have recommended to me.

• filmmaker Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
• "The Passion of the Christ"
• Touching the Void, an auto-biographical account of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates doomed mountaneering trip to the Peruvian Andes.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke's_list_of_the_best_science_fiction_films
• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MoviesToConsider
• "Manufacturing Consent" movie by Noam Chomsky, MIT Professor http://normanuufellowship.tripod.com/event2.html

  "Manufactured Consent" a feature-length video about the work of Noam Chomsky -- recc. Janet Nagel

• "Return to me" movie "David, you would like it" -- recc. Mom.
• "Freedom Downtime" about Kevin Mitnic; produced by Emmanuel Goldstein
• two movies, both called "Shadowlands", about C.S.Lewis. 2002-01:DAV: saw one of them. Very sad.
• "The Princess Bride" movie -- recc. Sam Williams
• ``Minority Report'' PG-13 Directed by: Steven Spielberg

  4 / 5 ... clearly Spielberg's best, most thoughtful picture since Schindler's List

  ...

  Philosophically, the movie will intrigue both Christians and non-Christians for its presentation of the free will vs. determinism debate ... whose resolution (not coincidentally, I think) depends on the identical arguments used to argue both sides of the current capital punishment controversy.

  ... As a Christian, I conclude that it is not, shall we say, sympathetic to Christianity ...

  ...

  ... will both entertain and provoke the viewer to think about metaphysical, philosophical, and political issues which have been and always will be important to our culture and to our faith.

  -- recc. Michael Karounos

  ... a great deal of violent and haunting images ... If you were bothered by movies like "The Sixth Sense" that had a lot of dark, death-related images, then please DO NOT see this movie. ...

  -- Katy Carnohan, age 20 http://christiananswers.net/spotlight/movies/2002/minorityreport.html
• ``Nowhere to land'' movie ``It's a good movie because all the bad guys die'' -- recc. J. Leskowat.
• the movie based on the book _The Lord of the Rings_
  • http://www.lordoftherings.net/
  • http://www.theonering.net/
  • "RingBearer.org :: J.R.R. Tolkien fan community" http://ringbearer.org/
  • the Lord of the Rings: the official movie site http://lordoftherings.net/
  • "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: Compositing the Middle-Earth Adventure" article by Vicky Gray-Clark http://www.apple.com/shake/stories/lotr2/ describes some of the visual effects and the software and other tools used to create them.
  • http://www.hobbitfeats.com/ sells maps "Drawn by renowned illustrator Daniel Reeve -- the official cartographer for The Lord of the Rings films" [FIXME: #maps]
• http://www.filmvalues.com/ movie reviews ???
• ``A Beautiful Mind''
• "The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari" -- recc. Greylock
• The Animatrix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animatrix The Animatrix is a collection of nine ... short films set in the world of The Matrix, partly written by the Wachowski brothers.
• ``The Fast and the Furious'' movie ``A total car movie'' -- recc. Tim Osborne (sp ?)
• http://www.rendezvouswithrama.com/ ???
• "Kon-Tiki" a documentary of the 4,300 miles (8,000 km) voyage of Thor Heyerdahl on a wood raft.
• ``Dr. Strangelove, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb'' movie directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick http://www.indelibleinc.com/kubrick/films/strangelove/

• [DAV: snipped all but movie info from this email]
  Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 19:59:16 -0600
  To: christlib@swcp.com
  From: Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com>
  Subject: Re: Christlib: Porco Rosso
  ...
  
  >To bring this back on-topic, I agree that the Crimson Pig is a good example
  >of an operational anarchist. I find it similar to Prof. de la Paz's
  >"rational anarchy" in Heinlein's _The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress_. For me,
  >it's an ideal that I might hope to strive for, but will likely never reach.
  
  The "likely never reach" feeling is understandable, statism seems to
  be in engrained part of how we act and think.  I associate this with
  the movie.  As in our time line, but more so in the Porco Rosso time
  line, statism is equivalent to humanity.  Perhaps it was a loss of
  love for the state, a direct violation of this fundamental equation,
  that caused the cosmic aberration that created the fork in time (and
  one side of the fork including a pig who flies cool variations of
  wonderful early century airplanes).
  
  Dar Scott
  who loved the airplanes
  
  From: David Oakey <DOakey at ENCAD.com>
  To: <christlib at swcp.com>
  Subject: RE: Christlib: OT Porco Rosso
  Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:31:06 -0700
  
  Without dubbing or subtitles, it is still possible to enjoy
  the movie with a detailed synopsis.
  
  There are two synopses of Porco Rosso at
  http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/porco/story_porcosyn.txt
  One of them was written by a Christlib subscriber!
  
  David Oakey
  
  OT here stands for Off Topic not Old Testament.
  
  

• Little Buddha (1994) Keanu Reeves
• Colossus: the Forbin project.
• Fearless (1993)
• Forbidden Planet http://members.xoom.com/duo3/fbhome.htm
• Casablanca
• BattleStar Galactica
• Highlander II, III, 4.
• October Sky http://www.octobersky.com/
• Earth Versus the Flying Saucers (1956) http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/usrpages/Rick/liz_evfs.htm
• "Revenge of the Nerds", "Real Genius", and "Nice Girls Don't Explode" http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic_plus/series.php?view=archive&chapter=18906

Searching for movies

• insultingly stupid movie physics http://intuitor.com/moviephysics/
• MovieLink (local movie listings) http://www.movielink.com/
• Mr. Cranky movie reviews http://www.mrcranky.com/
• The Internet Movie Database http://us.IMDb.com/ Movie reviews and other movie info.
• American Film Institute http://afi.100movies.com/ top 100 movies

books

books where cool pictures totally dominate over the text

[FIXME: crosslink to calligraphy...]

• the Book of Kells
  • http://www.tcd.ie/kells.html
  • http://www.tcd.ie/
  • http://www.tcd.ie/Library/kells.htm
  • http://www.austinc.edu/Academics/English/kells/KELLSarticle.html
• "The Voynich Manuscript looks a little like a lot of things, but really like nothing else at all; it is a completely unique artifact." [FIXME: move this info to Wikipedia:Voynich_manuscript ] http://champollion.nu/english/voynich/index.html /* was http://www2.micro-net.com/~ixohoxi/voy/voynich.htm */ /* was http://www2.micro-net.net/~ixohoxi/voy/voymfq.htm */

  more on the Voynich manuscript:

  • Jorge Stolfi http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/ links to many other pages on the Voynich manuscript, including color photographs.
  • http://www.crystalinks.com/voynich.html

    the Voynich Manuscript ... It is written in a language of which no other example is known to exist. It is an alphabetic script, but of an alphabet variously reckoned to have from nineteen to twenty-eight letters, none of which bear any relationship to any English or European letter system.

  • ``To this day the Voynich manuscript resists all efforts at translation. It is either an ingenious hoax or an unbreakable cipher.'' http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/voynich.html has a nice picture of 1 page of the manuscript.
  • http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/00-06-07-word-grammar/Notes/015/pages-html-old/ seems to have every word of the manuscript, translated into nice machine-readable ASCII.
  • ``The Voynich Manuscript'' by René Zandbergen, 2002 http://www.voynich.nu/ has photos of a few pages of the Voynich manuscript
  • ``The Voynich Manuscript'' by John Baez 2001 http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/voynich.html has color photos of 2 pages of the Voynich manuscript, and points to Voynich Manuscript -- photo gallery http://voynich.no-ip.com/folios/ which appears to have (black and white) photos of almost the entire manuscript.
  • frogguy voynich manuscript botanical archive http://www.fsbobiz.com/voynich/ has nicely organized thumbnails of the entire (?) manuscript, linked to full-size images (black and white).
  • http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/8389/voynich.htm has a gallery of thumbnails of part of the manuscript, linked to full-size images (black and white). also The Voynich Manuscript Transcription Systems http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/8389/vmt.htm , the 5 most common systems for transcribing the Voynich manuscript into plain ASCII, with a short comparison table.
• _Star Wars Episode I : Visual Dictionary_ by David West Reynolds et. al. http://www.bits2atoms.com/addvalue/0789447010.html |
• http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0789434814/jtpservices/002-1608424-1970253 "the pics of the lightsabers are incredible"
• The "Ultimate Visual Dictionary" by Dorling Kindersley http://www.littlepeople.co.za/reviews/books/visdictionary.htm
• The Visual Dictionary http://www.cdaccess.com/html/quick/visdictdr.htm | http://www.j-2.com/books/visdict.htm (includes a CD)

unsorted

• Tron 2.0 http://www.tron-movie.com/2.0/
• HUMORIX All Linux Humor. All Copied Mottos. All the Time. http://i-want-a-website.com/about-linux/ [FIXME: move to periodicals ? not really visual.]
• ice cream personality chart http://www.womentodaymagazine.com/features/icecream.html
• ??? Muffin Films http://www.muffinfilms.com/
• ??? http://www.thisisrealart.com/
• http://www.colorstereo.com/ stereograms and autostereograms ("Magic Eye")
• http://www.real.com/ makers of RealPlayer has lots of pointers to "Best Audio and Video on the web"
• Superguy http://www.eyrie.org/superguy/
• "No Highway in the Sky" ("a mechanical engineer as hero")
• [movies] Blade Runner http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/perki/films/brunner/br.html
• "You Can't Do That On Star Trek!" http://washington.xtn.net/~philipb/youcant.htm has a lot of humorous (and a few thought-provoking) digitally enhanced images.
• Dave Heaton http://www.visi.com/~dheaton/home/ has a page about weird wedding accessories.
• http://www.commpro.com/qtvr/
• The Electronic Picture Show http://users.erols.com/ckholter/
• http://www2.netdoor.com/~fb/
• http://www.mondo2000.com/ [FIXME: is there something about "nanocyborgs" here ?]
• dictionary of visual art http://www.artlex.com/
• The After Life of Bob , a weekly comic strip http://web.cs.ualberta.ca/~davidw/ALoB/bob.cgi
• Third Eye Over Iowa http://www.yawp.com/3rd-i/ paranormal/conspiracy parody.
• DAV: in books and movies, I look for interesting ideas and better ways of expressing those ideas.

• ------------------------------
  
  Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 09:05:53 -0700 (PDT)
  From: Greg Kuperberg <greg at math.ucdavis.edu>
  Subject: Re: fx-discuss: SW_Ep1 excitement continues to build!
  
  > I've seen mention of this, and supposedly the top ranking movie by this
  > standard is "Gone with the Wind".  Number two is said to be "Star Wars".
  > I don't have a URL for a complete list, though.
  
  Here is a list giving inflation-adjusted movie grosses (whatever that
  means):
  
      http://www.erank.com/movies/box_office_inflated.htm
  
  The top listings:
  
  1. Gone with the Wind (1939)
  2. Star Wars (1977)
  3. The Sound of Music (1965)
  4. E.T. (1982)
  5. Titanic (1997)
  
  Of course adjusting for inflation is only one of several ways to reshuffle
  the list.  You could look at worldwide sales instead of domestic.
  You could include video rentals.  You could divide by the total base
  population.  I would say that among the different fair ways to count it,
  both Gone with the Wind and Star Wars dominate, and other movies don't.
  
  			Greg
  
  ------------------------------
  

• ``Get Out of Hell Free'' http://www.thisistrue.com/goohf.html [parody]
• ``The Pre-Raphaelites were an artistic movement in Victorian England. They were part of the revival of Gothic architecture. Their art is stunning - try and see the originals if you can.'' -- recc. Greylock http://www.darkwave.org.uk/faq/ag/#Subject:4.12
• http://www.morbidoutlook.com/
• Corporate Goth: advice and networking http://www.waningmoon.com/corpgoth/ How to maintain that dark, mysterious aura, and still have good professional working relationships (rather than frightening the mundanes). ``good-quality unique stuff''
• CELT, the Corpus of Electronic Texts http://www.ucc.ie/celt/ ``The online resource for Irish history, literature and politics.'' ???
• [comics] http://www.the5thwave.com/ lots of technical humor about computers, laptops, the internet, education, etc.
• World of Escher http://www.worldofescher.com/ ``M.C. Escher was a Dutch graphic artist, most recognized for spatial illusions, impossible buildings, repeating geometric patterns (tessellations), and his incredible techniques in woodcutting and lithography.'' M.C. Escher (1898-1972) ``Along with discussions on Escher we have also included ideas and readings regarding Professor Roger Penrose and his mathematically based puzzles.'' [FIXME: link from 2D and 3D design ?]
• Texas Rangers movie. I hear that it is historically accurate. PG-13 (violence -- duh !)
• http://www.airliners.net/ Many, many airplane photographs. A few photographs of aircraft wrecks. [3D design ?]
• http://www.utne.com/bCulture.tmpl?command=search&db=dArticle.db&eqheadlinedata=Lost%20and%20Found

  But according to Richard Chalfen, a visual anthropologist ... family snapshots are anything but representative of real life. ...

  In Western cultures, "Kodak moments" tend to fall into obvious groupings: happy social events shared with kin; proud new possessions like cars, houses, and boats; athletic events and teams; and moments of public acknowledgment like graduations or award ceremonies. Snapshooters avoid recording commonplace activities like sleeping, watching TV, or cleaning the house. Given the amount of time spent earning a living, surprisingly few photos are taken of people at work. Nor do people document dramatic experiences like divorce, illness, death, and poverty. It adds up to a highly selective visual trail, yet people still see their photo albums as their lives in sum.

• http://www.cheekies.com/cgi-bin/imageFolio.cgi?direct=Computers has a small collection of computer humor single-panel cartoons.
• ``Rashomon'' movie ( Japan, 1950 ) ``Japanese film maker Akira Kurosawa ... one of the ten greatest motion picture directors of all time ... It's said that four witnesses to an accident will all offer different accounts of the same event, but there are things in Rashomon (namely, that each of the three participants names himself or herself as the murderer) that cannot be explained away on this basis. ... In the end, we are left recognizing only one thing: that there is no such thing as an objective truth. It is a grail to be sought after, but which will never be found, only approximated. Kurosawa's most brilliant move in Rashomon is never to reveal what really happened. ... a marvelous piece of cinema that asks unanswerable questions of great import. ... a true classic. It's hard to find a more rewarding way to spend ninety minutes. '' -- recc. James Berardinelli 1998 http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/r/rashomon.html
• http://www.moviecliches.com/
• PigeonRank(TM) http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html ``Building upon the breakthrough work of B. F. Skinner, Page and Brin reasoned that low cost pigeon clusters (PCs) could be used to compute the relative value of web pages faster than human editors or machine-based algorithms. ... By collecting flocks of pigeons in dense clusters, Google is able to process search queries at speeds superior to traditional search engines, which typically rely on birds of prey, brooding hens or slow-moving waterfowl to do their relevance rankings. '' DAV: OK, the last is obviously a reference to the Linux penguin. Do the other kinds of birds refer to something obvious that I missed ? ``What's the future of pigeon computing?''
• The Man and The Woman (Pic) http://jack.finalapproach.net/manandwoman.jpg
• http://satirewire.com/ fake news.
• http://www.brunothebandit.com/ dragons, wizards, and TV sets.
• http://www.superosity.com/ time travel ?
• http://www.spacedinoart.com/ ``God ... is ... He must be observable, consistent, and available for testing on scientific and historic grounds.'' Also: interesting space art. interesting dino art.
• Star wars spoofs. http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/spotlights/starwars/ [FIXME: watch some.]
• http://www.lokigames.com/ games for Linux
• http://www.reallifecomics.com/ ???
• ``Comics I Don't Understand : I know these are supposed to be funny... but can somebody explain them to me?'' http://www.comicsIdontUnderstand.com/ ???
• http://www.cassiopaea.org/jokes/ a collection of (digitally-modified) images. Some of them funny (cats, dogs, children). Some of the political. Others ... disturbing ( snail on a tiny scooter ? ).
• ``The Ultimate Sandbox'' by Michael Whelan http://holyjoe.org/greypix.htm DAV finds this a very powerful image. ../mirror/image/sandbox1.jpg
• Cyan Worlds (makers of Myst and Riven) http://www.cyanworlds.com/ [FIXME: video_game.html]
• Ireland: Light, Body and Soul A Photographic Essay of Spiritual Places In Ireland by Justin Knecht. http://ireland.aov.com/
• "A new angle on Ansel Adams' image" article by David Pagel February 6, 2003 http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-wk-pagel6feb06,0,2917153.story?coll=cl%2Dart%2Dfeatures
• http://members.cox.net/roeckelein_aaip/eyecandy.htm ???
• http://hersheyshappiness.com/ funny chocolate-related t-shirts.
• TheLaughWeb.com http://thelaughweb.com/ has some online comic strips; jokes.
• Cornelie Müller-Gödecke http://www.avantart.com/ has been to interesting places; has travel photos.
• http://itmakesyouthink.com/ ???
• Warren Ellis http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/1727245&mode=nocomment&tid=188&tid=192 recommends the online comics
  • http://www.nowheregirl.com/ by Justine Shaw
  • http://www.e-sheep.com/ by Patrick Farley
• "Your Angels Speak" by Guy Gilchrist http://gilchriststudios.com/angels/ very inspirational. [FIXME: read] [crosslink to creed # inspirational ?]
• Medieval Weddings http://www.knightstour.org/poetry/wedding.html

• Subject: Tie fighters take out Tacoma Narrows ?
  From: David Cary
  Date: 2002-06-01
  
  Dear Star Wars Fans,
  
  I'm so confused. Remind me again which episode these scenes came from ?
  
  :-)
  
  -- 
  David Cary
  
  http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop/whathappened/DocEvil_invasion.jpg
  http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop/whathappened/DocEvil_moon.jpg
  http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop/whathappened/toasterhead_xwings.jpg
  http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop/whathappened/Mien%20Eyes!_titanic.jpg
  http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop/whathappened/Digital%20Arse_wtc.jpg
  

  [FIXME: have these gone offline ? Or just moved ... perhaps somewhere near http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=396 ]

• a little graphic that shows a representation of the weather ... As the weather in a particular location changes, the characters clothes will reflect the weather and the graphic will show rain, snow, airborne particles and changes in cloud cover. Daylight, sunset and current moon phase are also displayed. http://weatherpixie.com/

  At the end of the FAQ, the question about the cat has an answer that I think is a bit funnny. http://weatherpixie.com/index.php?page=FAQ

• [eye candy; SF book recommendations; computer graphics] http://clients.wavi.com/walrus/ lots of advice on how to use Photoshop
• Virus of the Brain is a film based on the ideas of Douglas Hofstadter and co-directed by Daniel Dennett. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_of_the_Brain
• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MoviesToConsider recommends some interesting movies
• _Easy Rider_ movie

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