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Getting off on-line
Nerve. The first internet magazine about sex for men and women. It incorporates prose, fiction, and photographs by the likes of Andres Serrano and Richard Kern that capture more than just flesh. The creators are Rufus Griscom, 29 and Genevieve Field, 27, self-described "garden-variety sex enthusiasts." They met two years ago, fell in love, and quit their publishing jobs to develop Nerve. Their credo is "sex is beautiful and absurd, remarkably fun and reliably trauma-inducing... a subject in need of a fearless, intelligent forum for both genders."
Recent stories have included former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders' defense of masturbation and novelist Rich Moody's ode to his favorite erotic passage. Norman Mailer gave permission to use an out-of-print interview about whorehouses, pornography, and his own sexuality. The website receives about 900,000 hits a day, proving that there's an audience for what Griscom and Field term "literate smut."
 www.rollitup.org
Growing Marijuana
Everything you've ever wanted to know about the world's favourite soft drug can be found here. Especially worthy is the discussion boards dedicated to helping users grow and cultivate their own
marijuana. Check it out: cultivation articles, marijuana seeds, pictures and FAQs. Roll It Up fights for the legalization of marijuana by teaching people to grow.
 www.revue.cz
There's a new web site in town: REVUE - Prague's Contemporary Culture Connection. Can it make sense & order out of the plethora of culture & lively entertainment options available to Prague Folks? You decide. REVUE is part of the new www.pragueone.cz information web. The Prague One team wants REVUE to be the most reliable & comprehensive culture listing for Prague. REVUE is created by an international group of contributors, and is accessible in both Czech & English. Check out this cool site and see what you can learn about this mad, mad city many of us call home.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC MOTHER LODE
For Sci-Fi newbies and zealous fans alike, the Alpha Ralpha Boulevard is an... incredible? Superlative? Stupefyingly comprehensive? web site.
Words fail me when it comes to describing the remarkable scope and detail that permeates this bibliographic resource. The creators of the site have put the powers of hypertext to excellent use here - surfers can skip from author to author with the greatest of ease, and a handful of artists are cataloged as well.
The pages of better-known writers include short bios, links, in addition to the listings of published works. A must-have reference for any time you want the poop on the new author who's captured your imagination.
ARTISTS ON ART
This site, Constable.net, has an extensive library of writings by artists and their reflections both on their own art and their theories and ideas relating to the creative process.
The repository can be browsed by artist (mostly European painters of the nineteenth- and twentieth centuries), or chronologically through a timeline which highlights not only the artists who are cited but the other artists of that period. Many of the artists also have one of their major works reproduced here, so that you can visually identify them if you do not know them by name.
The topical index allows you to access a variety of artists' writing according to specific themes, such as Painting Style and Originality. Giff Constable, the editor and creator of the site, has done a wonderful job putting together this useful and engaging assemblage. Those with an interest in recent art history would be well-served by a visit.
  Bert is Evil!
We have reason to believe that Bert of Sesame Street is evil and you should keep your children away from him. Here at these webpages are collected incriminating images and documents that prove that Bert is not the lovable harmless geek he so successfully makes us think he is. Including: THE ERNIE MURDER, XXX FILES, THE PORN CONNECTION, BERT’S BLOW JOB OF THE DAY and much, much more!
Survival Research Laboratories
For a long time now they’ve been re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product or warfare.
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THINKING IS COOL:
The railway bridge across the Vlatva River, just south of the National Theater, was reportedly Einstein’s favorite place in the world to think. Try it out. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) Albert Einstein Archives: The homepage of the repository of the personal papers of the great scientist and humanist, Al Einstein http://sites.huji.ac.il/jnul/einstein
BIG COOL:
Prague Castle - Prazsky hrad - Take an autumn stroll to top of the walls of the largest castle in Europe with a bottle of chilled sekt and take in the sunset. If you’d rather stay at home; read all about it - www.hrad.cz/index_uk.html
COOL READING:
Hedgehog’s tales of Prague, Czech Republic - www.hedgehog-review.com/ttt/index.html Original stories about Prague, books, history, links to photos and travel info.
ORIGINAL COOL:
Somewhere before or after a big American beer company started hawking a watery beechwood-aged pilsner under a Czech brewery’s brand-name, American leaders from Illinois to Chicago started naming their towns and cities after the Czech capitol.
Here are but a few:
Prague Oklahoma Facts and Information, Prague, Oklahoma, www.pe.net/~rksnow/okcountyprague.htm
Prague Nebraska Facts and Information, http://www.pe.net/~rksnow/necounty prague.htm
New Prague Minnesota Facts and Information,
www.pe.net/~rksnow/mncountynewprague.htm
Postscript: Later Anhieser Busch embarrassed Czech pivophiles by running longneck bottles of swill wearing ‘Budweiser’ jerseys in several Superbowls.
 USEFUL COOL:
Radio Prague - www.radio.cz
Radio Prague is the Foreign Service of Czech Radio providing daily news in English, Czech, German, Spanish and French. The radio is sending news via e-mail and it is available in RealAudio and text formats on the Radio’s website.
You’ll also find a Czech HAM Radio Club http://crk.mlp.cz which boasts “really cool diagrams and pictures”and the ILG International Broadcasting Web Directory www.ilg.de/ilg.htm with links to more than 6000 radio stations all over the world.
COOL CULTURE:
Prague Autumn International Music Festival RN - http://www.pragueautumn.cz/ One of the most important classical music festivals in Central Europe, held in September every year. www.manifestinternational.org “MANIFEST is a bold, new organization formed to support and promote contemporary art and culture.”Founded in December 1998 as a civic association in a Prague flat, the founders see MANIFEST as a vehicle to realizing artistic exhibitions and interactive projects through concrete support and promotion, as a non-governmental, not-for-profit association. Preliminary Outline of Important Cultural Events in Prague - www.pis.cz/ascii/k98_eng.htm Listing of Prague’s State and Commercial Galleries http://www.prague.org/listings/galleries.html
CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENT:
KinoRevue Magazine: “How do you like Prague, being an admirer of Franz Kafka?”
David Lynch: “I do not like to keep repeating that I love Franz Kafka, because everybody says that. But I truly love him. We had a plan with Frantisek Daniel, to make a film based on Kafka`s story, The Metamorphosis. I’ve even finished the storyboard, but the problem is with the cockroach (In Kafka`s story a man changes into a cockroach). It would have been fine to make it as a mechanical puppet five years ago, but now it would only be possible to do it with computer animation. And that is very expensive. Maybe in another five years the cost will be lower and perhaps than it will be possible to make it. That would be wonderful. www.geocities.com/Hollywood/9843/lynch.htm
HISTORY IS COOL:
www.launchpoint.com/cafeprague/history.html Prague’s History and the history of the town goes back to the foundation of Prague Castle which, after 870, became the main seat of the oldest ruling dynasty of the state Bohemia, the Premyslid princes.
GAMBLING COOL:
Casinos in Prague brought to you by Absolute Prague Guide: www.prague.dk/cityguides/prague-english/amusement/casino.asp Prague has many opportunities for those who like to gamble. Many bars around the city offer some kind of gambling. So register to lose!
MASS TRANSPORT IS COOL:
Subway Navigator, Subway system of Prague “Update 99”
- http://metro.ratp.fr: 10001 Awarded by SNAP in recognition of its overall excellence in content, design and usefulness, and is rated among the top 5% of all sites by Point Communications, Subway Navigator network includes all subway stations.
To find a route, choose your starting and destination and hit the return button. You can use abbreviated names. Also, you can consult the list of stations if you have forgotten a name. Alternatively, you can use the map to orient yourself. You can also search a route in another city, get further information about the subway navigator and get more information on Prague.
Czech Railways Searchable Database - http://idos.datis.cdrail.cz/default_e.htm Don’t queue in line to find out departure and arrival times for trains at the station. Log on Czech Railway’s site and save your waiting time for restaurant service, or make your own picnic, and sneak off to Stromovka Park with some friends.
THE COOLEST:
LENY Taxi: The first Prague taxi service available on the Internet - www.leny.cz/index_e.htm
YOU DECIDE:
While “Ron’s”castle is not necessarily in Prague, I couldn’t leave this out. “Celebrating the New Millennium the only way we know how: Extravagantly.”- Ron’s Castle Party - www.bluecanvas.com “Bring in the new Millennium at a Castle Party in Bohemia! We are assembling the most fascinating, entertaining, and altogether fun group of people from all over the world.”Held in a baroque Castle built in 1700, located about 45 minutes outside Prague,”Ron continues describing the party, “The Castle looks awesome with lots of atmosphere: to be more precise, it is spacious, has lots of cool frescoes on the ceilings, 30 rooms with 82 beds, including 8 “historic rooms”which look, well, historic. We are renting the entire Castle including: One big room for a lavish New Year’s Eve dinner, One bigger room for the drinking and dancing and general decadence, A number of smaller historic side rooms for more, private decadence.
As for the New Year’s Party itself, we still have to make the whole plan (input welcomed) but I think we will go for a classy look in the beginning with nice outfits for dinner/cocktails before moving on to the more decadent evening attire. An internationally renowned Thai Chef at 7:00 PM in the Castle Dining Hall will cater the party. The idea is to assemble a big, fun group of people and just rock out. In addition to obvious activities such as a lavish dinner, drinking, body shots, dancing, we will be planning some bonus stuff to be determined, possibly including fireworks, belly dancers and, depending on our imagination, who knows what else! The whole aim is to party not only with friends here but more importantly, with friends from our respective homes. He goes on, “BTW, we do need to emphasize that this is a CASTLE party not a fraternity party and people need to take some care with it - no painting faces on statues, vomiting on frescoes, etc.”
The Prague Stringology Club - http://cs.felk.cvut.cz/psc There are many areas that utilize the results of this field (information retrieval, computer vision, chemistry, biology, ... etc.). Centered at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Czech Technical University of Prague, the Club’s purpose is to group people researching the field of stringology (a science on strings and sequences) and includes pattern matching, text algorithms, information retrieval, finite automata etc. |
Ever Wondered?
What does BIC stand for? "BIC" is actually a shortened version of founder Marcel Bich’s name. Go to this website for a complete history of BIC pens.
Who is that little guy standing next to the BIC logo? That’s the "BIC Boy." He was originally drawn as a school boy, with a head in the shape of a ball, holding a pen behind his back. All you ever wanted to know about that little Bic... Bic World
Andy Art
This site's tips area contains over 100 pages of helpful hints and secrets on everything to do with the web, a quick overview:
• Graphics Tips - Outlines many helpful hints on such things as: Drawing programs, image size & quality, GIF animations, image maps, transparent Gifs, etc.
• HTML Tips - A good overview of most HTML tags, an HTML tag dictionary and examples of different HTML tags.
• Illustrator tips - This is a new section they've been working on that will contain helpful hints of Adobe Illustrator.
• Java tips - Java and Java Script are briefly explained here as well as some great links and some quick examples of Java Script such as mouseovers.
• PhotoShop Tips - A huge step-by-step area explaining neat graphics effects that can be accomplished quickly with Adobe PhotoShop.
• Web Design tips - General tips on the process of making a web page as well as hints on what to do and what not to do when designing a web page.
• AndyArt Bookstore - Check out some books that they feel give the best tips and help in learning PhotoShop, Web Design and JavaScript.
The Free Images Section of the site contains 1000's of images that you can download and use on your site. Most of the images found here, they have created themselves, but there are some they haven't as well. All of the images in these pages are free for you to download and use on your own web pages.
Check out GIF Wizard to reduce the file size of any image up to 90%!
The Weird-Rock list
The Weird-Rock list was created because there is an extreme lack of support for Christian artists that perform strange music. There are many Christian artists in the music business, but many of them do not get the support many groups get. Radio stations won’t play them a lot because they aren’t in the top 20 most requested or the radio stations don’t think they fit in with the goal of the station. The Christian music scene as a whole doesn’t take these groups seriously. Do you?
The Obscure Reading Room
This is the perfect web site for all those who like to read the stories that don't make it on CNN and onto the pages of USA Today. Formatted in index format, they scour the web with hundreds of readers who compile links to a variety of bizarre and unusual web stories, such as the fate of this poor Florida fellow (19 years old) who was arrested for getting his 17 years old girlfriend pregnant. They were one week away from getting married! This is not stories of the strange, just the real news from around the web.
Troops
Long before the new Star Wars movie began finishing, some enterprising young film students couldn't wait for George Lucas to get to work and decided to take matters into their own hands. Creating a bunch of replica StormTrooper suits, they filmed some 1/2 hour segments titles "TROOPS" and produced a spoof of the popular TV docu-drama "COPS". Following the StormTroopers in their daily routine of dealing with arguments between Jawas and unsatisfied 'droid buyers, fights between bar locals, and just basically patrolling the beat.
A website you can't refuse
 Calling all Gangsters! Looking for some inspiration or want to see how your criminal career ranks against those who are the best? Then this premier website is where you need to go. A painstakingly compiled dossier of the greatest criminals of all time, their correspondences, biographies, photos and often brutal bitter ends.
Give up the old and tired Central European news sites for the newest and coolest group of regional websites around. For daily Central European news (including The Balkans) and information upddated all day long, check out:
http://eeu.orientation.com
Art & culture, travel info., sports and recreation, accomodation, chat, useful related links and more, are all right here. With a few clicks, Asian, Russian and other regions are also available.
Subculture of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a sociology research project investigating the cultic appeal that has developed around this popular midnight movie. http://members.aol.com/maggyblu/rocky1.htm
Webmaster’s Note: "My bachelor’s degree in Sociology required the completion of an in-depth Senior Seminar project. I wanted to do something fun. After spending four years with the cast of Erotic Nightmares in Palo Alto, CA.I was interested in the academic possibilities that lay behind the atmosphere of Rocky Horror. I also had a more juvenile motivation in writing this paper, in that I wanted to prove to my mother that Rocky wasn’t a complete waste of my time if I could manage to turn it into a college degree. Due to the interest expressed by several people involved with the project, and a few people who weren’t involved, I have made the final paper available here."
Also worth a look:
Diabolical Designs. Subversive Subculture, Welcome to Diabolical Designs. They have a full line of politically and socially subversive t.shirts. Stay tuned ‘cause they’ll be adding new designs all the time. Sign up for their mailing list and they’ll let you know whaz up.
And last, but not least:
The Prague Kosher Server
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