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| Notice: GeekPress is back up and running, thanks to Paul! It's still a not-so-serious tech news blog, but the format is significantly looser. Diana, having given up programming for philosophy, has her own philosophical blog NoodleFood. More of her work can be found at DianaHsieh.com. |
| Frosty the politically incorrect snowman |
| 8:15:19 am mst / 27 December 2000 found by paul / filed in culture / source National Times 76 hits / 0 comments / 1 e-mail |
| British art historian Tricia Cusack has attacked the popular image of Frosty the Snowman (and snowmen in general) because it reinforces gender and racial stereotypes. She says that the rotund snow figures in outdoor places like front yards, gardens, and parks symbolize the "well-fed, dominating, patriarchal male" who controls the world outside of the house. Plus she adds ominously, "The snowman is, of course, white..." |
| I would have built a snow-woman too, but we ran out of black indoor snow... |
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| Exotic mating rituals of a tribe called Hollywood |
| 9:49:06 am mst / 27 December 2000 found by paul / filed in culture / source Salon 90 hits / 0 comments / 1 e-mail |
| An entertaining anthropological analysis of the nearly-mandatory mating rituals within the Hollywood community. Some of the steps include "the display of affection", "courtship", "the impulsive engagement", "the denial of engagement", and "the prenup". |
| For the geek equivalent, take a look at the classic "Linux Developer Gets Laid". |
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| Scoring system for psycho-killer shooting sprees |
| 10:40:16 am mst / 27 December 2000 found by paul / filed in humor / source Memepool 154 hits / 0 comments / 1 e-mail |
| How does yesterday's Massachusetts rampage stack up against other famous shooting sprees? Now you can decide for yourself with this handy scoring system. (Link from Memepool.) |
| Warning: tasteless. |
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| Vaporware 2000 |
| 5:05:37 pm mst / 27 December 2000 found by diana / filed in future / source Wired 88 hits / 0 comments / 1 e-mail |
| Wired has compiled their list of the biggest vaporware of 2000, from Bluetooth to the 2.4 Linux kernel. |
| My favorite comment is about Duke Nukem Forever, about which one guy said: "OMG, I nominated this one last year." |
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| Catholic Church is top ISP in Philippines |
| 9:25:20 pm mst / 27 December 2000 found by paul / filed in internet / source San Jose Mercury News 22 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| The Roman Catholic Church is the top internet service provider in the Philippines, with the largest backbone. It plans on aggressively wiring every diocese and parish house to the internet, and it charges much less than the commercial service providers. |
| Of course, the content is heavily filtered. If users try to access something like Playboy.com, they get the following error message: "Thank God you were not able to enter that bad site. CBCPNet suggests that you access wholesome sites instead. God Bless You." I wonder how CPCPNet would feel about the hilarious Jesus Christ Home Page. |
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