At the end of the letter, at the end of the magazine, in the wee small corners of the Web where the odd ideas and afterthoughts live, there is... P.S. Stands for postscript? No, in this case we're afraid it stands for...

Pretty Strange!


The Definitive Digital Pig Roast

A bunch of engineers at CalTech roast pigs, chicken, lamb, and veggies in the yard, managing to overintellectualize a centuries-old tradition and still undercook the lamb. Bad photos of (otherwise) good food grace the Team Mumu Pit Cooking Page. Don't miss the exciting MPEG movies....

How many engineers does it take to screw in a pickle?

Ah, the sacrifices humankind has made for science! Galileo nearly had his eyes put out by the Pope, Lister infected himself with smallpox. Franklin flew a kite in a thunderstorm, Salk tested his polio vaccine on his family. And these brave pioneers at Digital Equipment Corp. Digital Equipment Corporation have risked life, liberty and lunch testing the suitability of pickles as a source of incandescent light. It's not easy being green.

Classic Band-Aids

We'd all be leaking from various wounds or dying from infections without them. So they deserve a Web page (don't they?). 50 Years of BAND-AID chronicles the genesis of the little tin box and those miraculous strips within. But where are the hugs?

"Monica, It's Reverend Moon on Line Three..."

If all else fails, form a personal religion. If your name is Monica Chung, your acolytes are, of course, known as Monicans, and all is revealed in the pages of the Center for Monican Studies. Somehow, we don't think L. Ron Hubbard started this way.

Trans-whatizzit?

Or you can transcend this mortal coil by becoming a Transhumanist. Some of it deals with uploading human consciousness into computers. So that's where the Pentium bug came from....

Did the Web get weird on you? Send us word of your strangest discoveries. If we use an entry and you were the first to send it in, we'll give you credit for all the world to see.

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Internet Life Vol.1 No.1 Winter 1995