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::200905::

subways at scale -- Man-made urban spiderwebs [images]
http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/subway/

Warfare 1917 -- Trench warfare throws tiny men to their deaths [flash] [game]
http://armorgames.com/play/2267/warfare-1917

Hospital food -- From around the world [blog] [images] [webjo]
http://hospitalfood.tumblr.com/


::200904::

Matt Taibbi - "The Big Takeover" -- Rich men buying power so that they can gamble. When they lose, we lose. When they win, they win. [article] [blog] [webjo]
http://beatpatrol.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/matt-taibbi-the-big-takeover/

The Art of Penguin Science Fiction -- Penguin covers from 1872, accompanied by trivia [images]
http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org

Procedural City -- Notes on programming an algorithm that generates office building models [article] [blog] [webjo]
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=2940

Sarien.net - Instant adventure gaming -- Play classic Sierra games in the browser. Strangely multiplayer [flash] [games]
http://sarien.net/

Japan child robot mimicks infant learning -- Creepy image. Via boingboing.net: Biomimetic child will never leave you [article] [boingboing] [technology]
http://www.physorg.com/news158151870.html

tweenbots -- I approve of everything here [cute] [images]
http://www.tweenbots.com/

Dork Yearbook -- [cute] [humor] [images]
http://dorkyearbook.com/

The forbidden railway - a train trip to Pyongyang -- Our train trip from Vienna via Russia (Transsiberian railway) to Pyongyang [blog] [images] [ninjalicker] [webjo]
http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/

15 reasons Mr. Rogers was best neighbour ever -- "He's as close as America has ever come to producing a real-life saint". [article] [mefi]
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/07/28/mf.mrrogers.neighbor/

Video and Photos From Surprise Star Trek Showing In Austin, TX -- Via mefi: Surprise premier. [mefi] [video]
http://trekmovie.com/2009/04/07/video-and-photos-from-surprise-star-trek-showing-in-austin-tx/

Designer Accused of Copying His Own Work By Stock Art Website -- Wear down the client, not the lawyer. Send a DMCA which is free to send [copyright] [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/05/125209


::200903::

Microsoft Online Crash Analysis - windiag -- Windows Memory Diagnostic tool checks physical memory for errors. Free [software] [hardware]
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

Hex Empire by Meta:Sauce -- Risk-like, simple rules. Average game takes around 10-15 minutes [game] [flash]
http://hex.empire.fizzlebot.com/

Tracy Morgan is Totally Awesome -- Has things in your house gotten so bad you've resorted to eating a baseball cleat? Nobody pops like this, not even Orville Redenbacher. [humor] [youtube] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrngtVuexXo

Llancament -- Teens capture images of space with camera and balloon. Via boingboing: Teens send balloon into space, get aerial photos of Earth [images]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/meteotek08/sets/72157614770919393/

otisarchive1's photostream -- Rare Trove of Army Medical Photos Heads to Flickr. Via boingboing: Massive archive of US Army medical illustrations and photos free online. [images]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/medicalmuseum/

Important Things with Demetri Martin -- Timing, Power, Brains, Chairs, Safety, Coolness, Games [humor] [video]
http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/important-things/season-1/important-things-ep-101-timing/

Tactile illusions: Seven ways to fool your sense of touch -- Fun tricks [science]
http://www.newscientist.com/special/tactile-illusions

PIXIES music.com -- The Pixies. News, images, discography [music]
http://www.pixiesmusic.com/

Firebug Lite -- Use Firefox Firebug in any browser by copying and pasting a SCRIPT tag [internet]
http://getfirebug.com/lite.html

LoudLit.org - Literature for your eyes and ears -- Public domain/free books, poetry [audio] [books]
http://loudlit.org/

And Then They Came For Me -- By Lasantha Wickrematunga, editor fo the Sunday Leader. Reprinted in the Guardian: Sri Lankan journalist's final editorial [article]
http://www.thesundayleader.lk/20090111/editorial-.htm

World Panoramic Photography - 360 Cities -- [panorama]
http://www.360cities.net/

What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives? -- Donate, sell, backup [slashdot] [technology]
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/10/1517221

The Crisis of Credit Visualized -- Low interest on Treasury bonds, investors buy mortgages, increase subprime mortgages, chain reaction on defaults [video]
http://www.crisisofcredit.com/

URBAN CAMOUFLAGE -- Next Halloween ideas [images] [video]
http://www.urbancamouflage.de/

Rose & Camellia -- Slap-tastic [flash] [game]
http://nigoro.jp/game/rosecamellia/rosecamellia.php


::200902::

Canadian ISPs Speak Out Against Net Neutrality -- Quebecor and Rogers are evil. Should outlaw a company from owning both the infrastructure and the service components of media services [canada] [internet] [slashdot]
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/28/1719202

Hans Rosling: Myths about the developing world -- There's a range within countries themselves. Get data out there: http://www.gapminder.org/ [video]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4237353244338529080

Politics of the plate: The price of tomatoes -- Florida's slaves in the fields [article]
http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2009/03/politics-of-the-plate-the-price-of-tomatoes

Demetri Martin - If I -- Personal. He likes puzzles. [comedy] [humor] [youtube] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKnzPHtf9u4

Academic Earth - Introduction to Starcraft and Competitive Gaming -- Via boingboing: Academic lecture on the theory of war as conducted in Starcraft [boingboing] [gaming] [video]
http://academicearth.org/lectures/introduction-starcraft

pongmuseum -- Still looking for the one I had, a brown thing with sliders [images]
http://pongmuseum.com/collection/

Explore Roald Dahl's Writing Hut -- Full of knickknacks [images]
http://www.roalddahlmuseum.org/discoverdahl/exploring/default.aspx

Japanese facades -- A lesson in space saving? [images]
http://www.kirainet.com/english/japanese-facades/

gigapan.org: President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address by David Bergman -- [images] [panorama]
http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c

Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows -- They remember, they get curious, they are inventive and they live anywhere humans do [video]
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows.html

Rick Dangerous Flash -- Tricky 16-bit platformer [flash] [game]
http://rickdangerousflash.free.fr/

The History of the Pinball Construction Set: Launching Millions of Creative Possibilities -- Pinball Construction Set, 1981 [article]
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3923/the_history_of_the_pinball_.php

The Streets of Cairo, or the Poor Little Country Maid -- There's a place in France where the naked ladies dance [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Streets_of_Cairo,_or_the_Poor_Little_Country_Maid

Football vs. handegg -- ball foot, hand egg [humor] [image]
http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=3849

Copy Cats -- cover songs, remixes, mashups [blog] [music] [webjo]
http://copycats.tumblr.com/

birds rush in -- artsy [blog] [images] [webjo]
http://birdscene.tumblr.com/

Time lapse of a baby playing with his toys -- Via boingboing.net [boingboing] [cute] [video] [youtube]
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=8vNxjwt2AqY


::200901::

fuffernutter -- Just the right amount of nerd [blog] [cute] [images] [humor] [webjo]
http://fuffer.wordpress.com/

Commercials 1986: Part 01 -- Played during the NBC movie of the week (Babes in Toyland). 15+ parts [video] [youtube]
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=GK4A2CZvkpU

Polygon Gmen - MONOLIST -- Space Invaders. Manage 3 boards, game over if any invaders reach the bottom. Triangles are power-ups [flash] [game]
http://polig.daa.jp/monolist.html

Richard Feynman - The Last Journey of a Genius (1988) -- The quest for Tannu Tuva. Nova television special [video] [youtube]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3164300309410618119

The Beast 50 Most Loathsome People In America, 2008 -- Via MeFi. [article] [humor] [politics] [mefi]
http://buffalobeast.com/134/50mostloathsome2008.html

Google Political Transparency -- Google map of Proposition 8 supporters. The future is political transparency, and it is good [politics]
http://www.metafilter.com/78197/Google-Political-Transparency

jimmy car adverts -- Incurable romantic seeks filthy whore. [humor] [video] [youtube]
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XEc3R6TXSVA

Birdmen and the Casual Fallacy -- Nintendo is following the strategy of disruption. Via Twenty Sided [article] [gaming]
http://malstrom.50webs.com/birdman.html

Hack your brain -- Lucid dreaming? [game]
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/graphics/011109_hacking_your_brain/


::200812::

Reset Button: Most Innovative Game of 2008 -- Need options to teach new gamers [article] [gaming] [video]
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=2048

Oh My -- Hee Haw meets Cirque de Soleil [video] [youtube]
http://foryourentertainment.blogspot.com/2007/07/oh-my.html

The Video Game Systems of the 1983 Sears Wishbook -- Vectrex, Gemini, Colecovision, Intellivision, Odyessy 2, Atari. Also: Return of the Jedi Toys and Merchandise from the 1983 Sears Wishbook. Via MeFi [images] [mefi]
http://www.retroist.com/2008/12/17/the-video-game-systems-of-the-1983-sears-wishbook/

Vulture's Complete Field Guide to the Facial Expressions of Keanu Reeves -- Whoa to whoa [images] [humor]
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/12/a_field_euide_to_the_complete.html

389 years ago... -- ...the first slave ship lands in the American colonies. [history] [image]
http://www.wallstats.com/blog/389-years-ago/

Katrina's Hidden Race War -- Deep South shoots first. Via MeFi [article] [mefi]
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090105/thompson/single

100 Cereal Box Covers -- From All Stars to Wackies [images]
http://alanvalek.com/blog/2008/12/17/100-cereal-box-covers/

Downwind faster than the wind - Part 4 -- Which way does the big wheel turn? [puzzle] [science] [video]
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/12/downwind-faster-than-1.html

Dave Packard's 11 simple rules -- Think first of others, check first impressions [article]
http://www.hp.com/retiree/history/founders/packard/11rules.html

RETRO -- Prints from 80s media [images] [nsfw]
http://flickr.com/photos/benpearce/sets/72157603362219168/

How Do I Manage Seasoned Programmers? -- Hard on specs, soft on deadlight or vice versa. Insulate them from bullshit. Geeks thrive on more information. [slashdot]
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/12/1947251

A BeTaMaXMaS -- Selection of 80s Christmas television, commercials [video] [youtube]
http://betamaxmas.com/

GOMTV.net -- Korean StarCraft tournament replays, English commentary [gaming] [video]
http://www.gomtv.net/

Korea -- A niche gaming community, slow to change, taking its adopted genres to the extreme [article] [gaming]
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/12/11/korea/

Canadian Groups Call For Massive Net Regulation -- Look for it rephrased in 2009 [canada] [drm] [slashdot]
http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/12/08/1929259.shtml

SUMO Paint -- Full-featured, browser-based photo editing application [application] [flash]
http://www.sumo.fi/products/sumopaint/

The Making of... Dune II -- And the beginning of Westwood [article]
http://www.edge-online.com/magazine/the-making-dune-ii

Sepak takraw -- Volleyball with kicks [sport] [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepaktakraw

Star Wars Vs. Star Trek - DMP Edition HQ -- They are now locking LASERS on us [humor] [video] [youtube]
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=v4ijDlbvAxw


::200811::

Rediscovering Toronto's Monorail -- The Canadian Domain Ride opened in 1976 and closed in 1994. Wiki: Toronto Zoo Domain Ride [images] [toronto]
http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/11/rediscovering_torontos_monorail/

Acorns Disappear Across the Country -- Natural boom-bust to prevent squirrels from becoming too numerous [nature] [slashdot]
http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/12/01/0259238.shtml

Should Taxpayers Back Cars Only the Rich Can Afford? -- Yes when seen as helping progress alternative fuels [finance] [slashdot] [technology]
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/11/30/1620200.shtml

Look! 70's Rock Musicians and Their Parent's Homes -- Hail Atlantis! Also, Elton John's mom [fashion] [images]
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/look/look-70s-rock-musicians-and-their-parents-homes-070419

Bay Area To Install Electric Vehicle Grid -- Electric cars drawing power from coal plants produce less CO2 than their gasoline-powered equivalents [slashdot] [technology]
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/11/25/2149225.shtml

the munchkin wrangler.: why the gun is civilization -- An argument for an equalizer [article] [webjo]
http://munchkinwrangler.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-gun-is-civilization.html

Ethical Killing Machines -- Robots are built and programmed by people [slashdot] [technology]
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/08/11/25/1920224.shtml

GelaSkins - Protection with Style, Not Bulk -- iPods, iPhones, laptops [art] [gadgetry]
https://www.gelaskins.com/

QWOP -- Remember, it's not about whether you win or lose [flash] [game]
http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html

Christian the Lion -- Best to mute or turn the volume down to avoid music added on. More: Christian the Lion [wikipedia] [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adYbFQFXG0U

Japanese Lotion Spin -- Lotion and water [humor] [ninjalicker] [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BBiz_sgqN8

Dogfight 2 -- Nicely animated, high production values [flash] [game]
http://www.rocksolidarcade.com/games/dogfight2/

2D Boy: I love you, 2D Boy! 90% -- 80-90% piracy,. Preventing 1000 piracy attempts results in only a single additional sale. [article] [drm]
http://2dboy.com/2008/11/13/90/

List of problems solved by MacGyver -- Some confirmed by MythBusters [science] [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_problems_solved_by_MacGyver

Wasp Sucking Machine -- Vacuum near a wasp's nest [images]
http://www.sentex.ca/~mwandel/built/wasp-sucker.html

Maru the Cat -- Cat runs into box [boingboing] [humor] [video] [youtube]
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/08/magu-the-cat.html

Castles That Will Inspire and Haunt You -- [images]
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/10/castles-that-will-inspire-and-haunt-you.html

Emoticon mask will make you smile -- LEDs [makezine]
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/06/emoticon_mask_will_make_y.html

The 20 Funniest Web Videos of 2007: The Procedure -- They're all pretty good [humor] [video]
http://nymag.com/movies/features/videos/comedy-videos/video-019.html

scott c -- Cute watercolors. Lots of geek references [cute] [images] [webjo]
http://scott-c.blogspot.com/

Just Bento -- Food made cute [food] [images] [webjo]
http://justbento.com/

Comic Book Resources > Mail-Order Friends: The Comic Book Squirrel Monkeys -- Via boingboing: Man's account of ordering a live monkey from comic book ad [article]
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18236

Best Wild Animal Photos of 2008 -- [images] [nature]
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/photogalleries/best-animal-wildlife-photos/


::200810::

Sticky tape generates X-rays -- In a vacuum, via triboluminescence [article] [science]
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081022/full/news.2008.1185.html

The Order of the Stick -- D&D comedy gold. Cheese shoppe tribute [cartoon] [humor]
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots.html

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? -- New human ecology -- cease stripmining minds of their creativity [education] [ninjalicker] [video]
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

A difficult lesson -- Via metafilter.com: Aikido tested in urban combat. [mefi] [story]
http://bogieworks.blogs.com/treppenwitz/2006/07/thanks_i_needed.html

Take On Me: Literal Video Version -- Concept sounds simple, implementation is great [music] [youtube] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HE9OQ4FnkQ


::200809::

Students Are Always Half Right In Pittsburgh -- Start with low weighted quizzes, end with heavily weighted exams [education] [slashdot]
http://idle.slashdot.org/idle/08/09/23/1528259.shtml

Should IT Unionize? -- In a market where quality and skill naturally rises, no [business] [slashdot]
http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/09/04/1359257.shtml

Ford's 65MPG Due In November, But Not In the US -- Vehicles in Europe are pricier, but are also of better quality [environment] [slashdot]
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/09/15/2049252.shtml

50 Greatest Charles Barkley Quotes -- [humor] [ninjalicker]
http://blacksportsonline.com/index/2008/09/rl50charlesbarkley.html

Atari Modern Classics -- 8-bit box art of newer games [humor] [images]
http://the-minusworld.com/2008/09/16/atari-modern-classics/

The Next Little Thing? -- Living in tiny houses. Via These Little Footprints: Live Small, Be Free [article] [environment]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/garden/11tiny.html

Winners of the "C61 in 61 seconds" contest to create anti-Canadian-DMCA videos -- Link back to original page: C-61 in 61 Seconds - The Winners [boingboing] [canada] [copyright] [video] [youtube]
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/15/winners-of-the-c61-i.html

one hundred push ups -- 3 times a week for 6 weeks [fitness]
http://hundredpushups.com/

Scientists Fear Impact of Asian Pollutants On US -- Importing cheap goods from countries with lower emissions standards [environment] [slashdot]
http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/09/02/2024257.shtml

Independent UK Green Roof Information and Research Resource -- Put a garden on your roof. Step by step pictorial [architecture] [environment]
http://www.livingroofs.org/

Play With Spider -- A programmatic spider, realistic results [flash]
http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/

Huge Arctic Ice Shelf Breaks Off -- Size of Manhattan broken away from Ellesmere Island, leading to possible Northwest Passage [environment] [slashdot]
http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/09/03/2223208.shtml

Polinko -- Peggle/Pachinko, with relaxing music. Challenging but not frustrating [flash] [game]
http://polinko.com/

Unsolicited Offer For My Personal Domain Name? -- Be nonchalant and don't quote a price [internet]
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/09/02/1926251.shtml

Marketplace Domain Auctions -- See values of domain prices [internet]
http://marketplacepro.moniker.com/auction/

Featured pictures/Places/Panorama -- [images] [panorama]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Places/Panorama


::200808::

Springfield Punx -- Comic heros Simpson-ized [images]
http://springfieldpunx.blogspot.com/

Game Developer Asks To Hear From Pirates -- intellectual property is dead. the internet killed it. [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/08/10/1553224.shtml

Meaning in The Man in the High Castle -- Written with the I Ching [pkd]
http://web.archive.org/web/19990506202750/www.pacificnet.net/~lec/tmithc.html

Scriptorium - Philip K. Dick -- A man is an angel that has become deranged [article]
http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/dick.html


::200807::

Aesop's Fables -- 82 of them [stories]
http://www.outofprintlibrary.com/stacks/index.php?title=Aesop%27s_Fables

How Do You Fix Education? -- How can a culture that celebrates ignorance ever truly fix education? [slashdot]
http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/07/28/2042204.shtml

SNL Digital Short: Meeting -- Mounted tiger head? [humor] [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32WjO7IiHpI

How To Deal With Internet Bullies? -- "Never mud wrestle with a pig. You get all dirty and the pig likes it." -G.B. Shaw [slashdot]
http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/08/07/24/2215245.shtml

Batman Discussion -- Ledger for teh win [slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/articles/08/07/21/1334247.shtml

Leopard Vs. Crocodile -- Leopard plays First Strike, wins. video [images]
http://www.halbrindley.com/photos/leopard-seq/01.html

The Push For Quotas For Women In Science -- Take out the effects of marriage and child-rearing, and the difference between the genders suddenly vanishes. "For men and women who never marry and never have children, there is no earnings gap," [slashdot]
http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/07/15/2053207.shtml

Bike Sting Nabs Igor At His Bicycle Clinic -- Finally [toronto]
http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/07/bike_sting_nabs_igor_at_his_bicycle_clinic/

Send the ISS To the Moon -- "However, I feel compelled to explain to him and the millions of Post readers he was allowed to mislead why his idea to send the International Space Station (ISS) on interplanetary jaunts is wholly unrealistic, and frankly, impossible." [slashdot] [science]
http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/07/15/1852231.shtml

Trapped In An Elevator For 41 Hours -- Time-lapsed video from 1999. Story from The New Yorker [video] [youtube]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=p_bMhNI_TY8

How To End Bike Theft: The Honeybike Project -- Huh. So it can be done. [video]
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-End-Bike-Theft-The-Honeybike-Project/

Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers -- Make a small hole in a pumpkin, just large enough for the baboon's hand. Paint the captured baboon white, release. Originally: One, Two, Many - Language Shapes Thought [slashdot]
http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/07/14/1111234.shtml

RA DIOHEA_D / HOU SE OF _C ARDS - Google Code -- Laser scanning for low res/high res surface models [video]
http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/

GemCraft -- Conquer a map of Tower Defense [game] [flash]
http://armorgames.com/play/1716/gemcraft

Valve: Why the PC is the future -- PC's flexibility, network ability makes consoles look antiquated [article]
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=160866

Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law -- "The new law does not force teachers to teach ID, only makes it acceptable to teach ID as science. This bothers me." [slashdot]
http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/07/10/1232246.shtml

Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill -- Obama voted Yea [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/07/09/2027248.shtml

BEIJING: Public exercise equipment -- Low-tech, creative [article] [images]
http://spacing.ca/wire/2008/07/08/beijing-public-exercise-equipment/

Techno Kittens -- Synchronized staring [cute] [humor] [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-VfjutIg8s

Bias lighting on the cheap -- Improve contrast, lessen eye strain [article]
http://www.instructables.com/id/Bias-lighting-on-the-cheap/

Best Color Scheme For Coding, Easiest On the Eyes? -- Gray background, muted black and muted color foreground [slashdot]
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/08/07/03/1249246.shtml

Anti-Grain Geometry - Texts Rasterization Exposures -- Fonts, displays and you. Via Slashdot: Best Color Scheme For Coding, Easiest On the Eyes? [article]
http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/

concept ships -- oil paintings, sketches [images] [ninjalicker] [webjo]
http://conceptships.blogspot.com/

Hedgehog Launch -- Short, quickly becomes easy [flash] [game]
http://armorgames.com/play/1760/hedgehog-launch


::200806::

One-of-a-kind official Blade Runner "Spinner" car from LEGO -- Presented to Syd Mead [boingboing] [toy]
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/06/25/exclusive-oneofakind.html

The World's 10 Worst Cities -- In terms of pollution: Milan, Pittsburgh, Mexico City. Via slashdot [environment]
http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2008-06/worlds-10-dirtiest-cities

When Is a Self-Signed SSL Certificate Acceptable? -- Always. Technically the same level as CA-signed ones, but are slightly easier to break. SSL does two things: verification and encryption. [internet]
http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/06/24/2345223.shtml

SNL Transcripts: Richard Benjamin: 04/07/79: The Pepsi Syndrome -- It's harmless. It's an un-cola. [humor]
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78ppepsi.phtml

New Grads Shun IT Jobs As "Boring" -- Jobs are boring. Much of IT is janitorial in nature [slashdot]
http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/06/24/1526240.shtml

Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat" -- Averages, statistics, and insurance [slashdot]
http://idle.slashdot.org/idle/08/06/24/1420217.shtml

Google Trends vs. Community Standards On Obscenity -- It's natural to be jealous [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/06/24/1310241.shtml

Bell Canada Ordered To Justify Traffic-Shaping Practices -- Bringing net neutrality to the forefront of news [internet] [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/06/23/1356225.shtml

Simpsons Map for Quake III Arena -- Includes the Simpson house, Moe's Tavern [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LtrnnXQTc

Boston: The Big Picture -- High quality pictures of topical events and stories [images]
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/

GROW RPG ver.0 Flash Game Planet -- Version of the GROW game. CAFGHD [flash] [game]
http://www.eyezmaze.com/grow/RPG

How to nap -- 20-45 minutes is ideal, between 1 and 3pm [image] [health]
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/naps/

The Impact of Low Salaries at Google -- 0.0233 monthly mortgage payments of yearly salary, taxation indexed geographically [slashdot]
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/08/06/17/2221205.shtml

Mass Effect DRM Still Causing Issues -- Blame EA [drm] [slashdot]
http://games.slashdot.org/games/08/06/17/1850222.shtml

Denon's $499 Ethernet Cable -- Read the reviews on Amazon.com [slashdot] [technology]
http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/06/15/009216.shtml

How to Make Your Own Smart Bookmarks in Firefox 3 -- Program your bookmarks [internet]
http://lifehacker.com/387944/how-to-make-your-own-smart-bookmarks-in-firefox-3

BMW Introduces GINA Concept Car, Covered in Fabric -- Done before in cars and airplanes, reduces weight [technology] [slashdot]
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/06/10/2345218.shtml

Nano War -- Basic production, territory control [flash] [game]
http://benoit.freslon.free.fr/games/Nano_War/

MC 900 Ft. Jesus Lives -- Mark Griffin, Borders clerk, amateur pilot [article] [music]
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2008-01-31/music/900-ft-jesus-lives/

Is Google Making Us Stupid? -- It only makes you more of what you really are. [slashdot]
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/06/09/1332252.shtml

Philosophy and Phoenix Wright -- Relativism in court. Via Metafilter [images] [humor] [philosphy]
http://www.eegra.com/pages/show/title/28_05_2008_Philosophy_and_Phoenix_Wright/

Objection! -- Create an Objection message [images] [humor]
http://objection.mrdictionary.net

Full Body Scanners Installed in 10 US Airports -- Old news, not good news [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/06/07/0042248.shtml

Music Catch -- Simple scrubbing [flash] [game]
http://www.reflexive.com/index.php?PAGE=WebGamePlay&WGID=94

RoboKill -- RoboTron 2084, with money, shields, and upgrades [flash] [game]
http://www.rocksolidarcade.com/games/robokill/

NASA - Sunset on Mars -- Tatooine [image]
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_347.html

goosh.org - the unofficial google shell -- Type your way to results [internet]
http://goosh.org/

Digital Forensics: 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo -- Bayer color filter array [technology]
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=5-ways-to-spot-a-fake&print=true

WTF! -- Based on WoW. Quite large [flash] [game]
http://www.aoedipus.net/dist/wtfloader.html


::200805::

Cyclists Shut Down the Gardiner -- Critical Mass my ass. Two hippies arrested [blogto] [toronto]
http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/05/cyclists_shut_down_the_gardiner/

Net Neutrality Bill Introduced In Canadian Parliament -- NDP introduces legislation, more work, awareness needed [slashdot]
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/05/30/0133242.shtml

Filling the Finch Station Lot -- 2 hours of parking in 3 minutes [toronto] [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALL1MmO-IE8

UK Proposes Banning Computer Generated Abuse -- Thought-crime [slashdot]
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/05/28/2242228.shtml

Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' -- Win2k still popular amongst techies [slashdot]
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/05/28/2214214.shtml

Berlin Blockade -- Little Vittles [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Blockade

Brand New: The Art Gallery of Many Typefaces -- Logos reviewed [images] [webjo]
http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/

Negroponte Unveils 2nd Generation OLPC Laptop: It's an E-Book -- A fairly sweet looking one. $75? [technology]
http://www.xconomy.com/2008/05/20/negroponte-unveils-2nd-generation-olpc-laptop-its-an-e-book/

Digital Short: The Japanese Office -- The inspiration for the UK Office... [humor] [video]
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/play.shtml?mea=252558

Cycling and the City: Driver Confrontations -- Awareness, acceptance [bicycle] [blogto] [forum] [toronto]
http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/05/cycling_and_the_city_driver_confrontations/

MySpace Wins $230 Million Judgment Against Sanford Wallace -- Sanford Wallace, Walter Rines are among the oldest spammers [slashdot] [spam]
http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/05/14/1250215.shtml

ManBabies.com - DAD? -- Father and baby-son's faces swapped [images] [humor]
http://manbabies.com/

What to do if the police stop you -- Cooperate, be observant. [article]
http://www.instructables.com/id/What-to-do-if-the-police-stop-you_1/

Magic Pen by Alejandro Guillen -- Draw shapes that lead a ball to flags [flash] [game]
http://www.bubblebox.com/play/puzzle/975.htm

TypeRacer -- Type quotes against others [flash] [game]
http://play.typeracer.com/

Authors@Google: Michael Pollan -- eat food. not too much. mostly plants. Buy food along the walls of the supermarket. [health] [science] [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-t-7lTw6mA

social studies -- handmade goods [clothing] [shopping]
http://www.socialstudiesdesign.com/products

A Place All Its Own -- Honor system for payment at Kitchener bakery. Via BoingBoing [article] [boingboing]
http://www.bakersjournal.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=725

RC Car + Bottles = Mario? -- Via Twenty-sided Tale [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed4CHkN-Dkw

Mikey Likes Life Cereal Commercial 1970s -- He likes it! Hey MIKEY! [commercial] [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow5cHJx43i0

MAKE: Blog: Weekend Project: Build an Ornithopter -- Rubber-band powered, very simplistic [toy] [makezine] [video]
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/05/weekend_project_build_an_1.html

J.K. Rowling, Lexicon and Oz -- Orson Scott Card rips into the Rowling's lawsuit [article]
http://www.linearpublishing.com/RhinoStory.html

Fire -- The Ohio Players perform "Fire" on Burt Sugarmans Midnight Special 1975 [music] [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF25KEloF5g

Poetry by ee cummings -- i carry your heart with me(i carry it in [article]
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~thier/ee/


::200804::

Boomerang in space -- STS-123 [video]
http://iss.jaxa.jp/library/video/sts123_boomerang.php

Gordon Ramsey meets with The Star's food editor -- How does one set toast on fire? [humor] [video]
http://www.thestar.com/living/article/419237

Federal Reserve System -- Elaborate pyramid scheme? [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_reserve

Things my father taught me -- Foul language is a sign of limited vocabulary [craigslist]
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sea/640786074.html

Zeitgeist - The Movie -- Central banking + mass media -> global control [politics] [video]
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm -- Maximizing memorization efficiency by timing repetitions [article]
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak

Pulp Fiction, as performed by the King's Men -- Speak 'What' again! Thou cur, cry 'What' again! I dare thee utter 'What' again but once! I dare thee twice and spit upon thy name! [article] [humor]
http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/6644038.html

Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Notes from a backup of a shared network drive from 1989 [article] [gaming]
http://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_sequel_to_hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galax/

The Magnetic Scrolls Memorial -- European answer to Infocom [gaming]
http://msmemorial.if-legends.org/memorial.php

Why You Can't Find Good Eggs in Toronto -- Blame the quota system [food] [toronto]
http://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2008/04/why_you_cant_find_good_eggs_in_toronto/

Authors@Google: Jennifer 8. Lee -- Chinese food in America. West coast racism -> cooking+cleaning -> chop suey -> General Tao -> restaurant migrants. Fortune cookies (tea cakes) -> Japanese prison camps [history] [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGZ6IwSDyyo

Star Wars Urban Photography -- [images]
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/04/15/cool-stuff-star-wars-urban-photography

Microsoft Internal Emails Show Dismay With Vista -- MS got cozy with Dell, screwed HP over. Blame Will Poole. Emails Summary [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/28/1746211

TekSavvy forum -- dlsreports.com broadband community -- Throttling?? [internet] [isp]
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/teksavvy

Steampunk Star Wars -- Custom made. Also check out the Star Wars ReVision figurines [images] [toys]
http://www.sillof.com/C-Steampunk-SW.htm

CUBOCC Creepy Girl -- CGI-created woman watches your mouse cursor [animation] [flash] [uncannyvalley]
http://cubo.cc/

Edo Period filter -- Make a photo appear gray and washed out [images]
http://labs.wanokoto.jp/olds

Defender of the Crown - Digitally Remastered Edition -- Classic strategy + minigame game playable online [flash] [game]
http://www.cinemaware.com/dotcremaster_main.asp

MySong: Automatica Accompaniment for Vocal Melodies -- Reverse karaoke [technology]
http://research.microsoft.com/~dan/mysong/

Always Be Cobbling -- You see this gumdrop? [humor] [video]
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=27ecf97da6

Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent -- Straight from the Well Duh department [slashdot]
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/entertainment/08/03/30/0028211.shtml


::200803::

Starcraft: Artificial Military Intelligence -- Discussion and list of computer strategy games [article] [webjo]
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1581

Toronto Map -- Find reviews by area quickly [toronto]
http://www.blogto.com/torontomap/

Escape Game [VISION] -- Escape from a room-type game [flash] [game]
http://neutralx0.net/home/esc_vision.html

Test Your Awareness: Do The Test -- It works [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4

Around the world in 80 days -- Jules Verne's novel in full [book]
http://www.phileas-fogg.net/80days.html

Advertising Vs Reality -- Compares food packing images against the product. Primarily German. Original: werbung gegen realitat [images]
http://funtasticus.com/20080324/advertising-vs-reality-a-product-comparison-project/

White House Says Hard Drives Were Destroyed -- We'll hear a lot more about the Presidential Records Act [politics] [slashdot]
http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/08/03/23/0053215.shtml

The Right to Read -- By Richard Stallman [article]
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

Passport Files of Presidential Hopefuls Snooped -- There's a flag for when the records of famous people are accessed? [politics] [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/03/22/2227253.shtml

Core JavaScript 1.5 Guide -- Originally created by Netscape, now maintained by Mozilla [programming]
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guide

Senet -- Play what is possibly the oldest board game in the world, Senet from 3500 BC Egypt [flash] [game]
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/life/activity/act_main.html

The Best Burritos in Toronto -- As chosen by Blogto [food] [toronto]
http://www.blogto.com/toronto/the_best_burritos_in_toronto/

Arimaa (board game) -- Chess modified to be difficult for computers to beat [boardgame] [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa

Companion Cube in Toronto -- From Portal, near Bloor and Yonge [images] [videogame]
http://www.bladediary.com/index.pl?stencil=390

Boston Dynamics Big Dog -- Eerie [robot] [technology] [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

Archie In... A Different Class! -- You want to see whatever common people see? [humor] [images]
http://www.the-isb.com/?p=308

Star Wars vs. Saul Bass -- In the style of [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z25t-PQDn5A

celemony_ :: Direct Note Access -- I thought this was already possible [music] [technology] [video]
http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=dna&L=0

Marvin Minsky essays - OLPC - What makes Mathematics hard to learn? -- Need acceptance of alternative approaches [education] [wiki]
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Marvin_Minsky#What_makes_Mathematics_hard_to_learn.3F

Excuse my language, but holy fucking shit. -- Filipinos kidnapped by First Kuwaiti and forced to build an embassy in Baghdad [politics] [video] [youtube]
http://users.livejournal.com/tao_/151963.html

harmony korine on david letterman -- The pleasantly odd Harmony Korine is a funny guy [humor] [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7nrhGQteas

Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight -- Neuranatomist speaks of her stroke in intimate detail [science] [video]
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229

Magnavox Odyssey TV Commercial -- FITS ANY BRAND TV 18" TO 25". PAN FLUTE NOT INCLUDED [humor] [video] [videogame] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2EIsnr_cv4

ACM Classic: Reflections on Trusting Trust -- "You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself." [article] [code] [programming]
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

The Gift of Giving -- Cool. There's another present inside. From Green Planet [comic] [humor] [image]
http://ryanpagelow.com/2006/11/07/2006-11-7/

HTTP response status codes -- Order of resolutions [code] [images]
http://thoughtpad.net/alan-dean/http-headers-status.html#diagram

Phun - 2D physics sandbox -- Free app to create objects and see how they run. Via badscience.net [application]
http://www.phun.at/

Donkey Kong and Me -- Atari back in the day [article]
http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=987

BrickArms -- Detailed weaponry for your Lego men [images] [toys]
http://brickarms.com/

Actualidad Simpson -- Side-by-side comparison of Simpsons scenes and the films they were parodying [images]
http://www.actualidadsimpson.com/archives/category/de-cine

JohnJohn Jesse's Neo-Art Nouveau on Acid -- Punk girls, mostly [images] [nsfw]
http://minhaselecao.blogspot.com/2008/03/johnjohn-jesses-neo-art-nouveau-on-acid.html

Rare Fruit Seeds and Exotic Tropical Fruit Seeds -- For the miracle fruit. How to grow your own miracle fruit. [food]
http://www.fruitlovers.com/seedlistforeign.html

Top 10 Ways to Get Cables Under Control -- Make a cable box [furniture]
http://lifehacker.com/364054/top-10-ways-to-get-cables-under-control

now that's what I call ground clearance -- German NK-101 Minenraumer rolling mine exploder [images]
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2008/03/06/march-military-campaign-now-thats-what-i-call-ground-clearance/

Domains Blocked By US Treasury 'Blacklist' -- Cuba yet not China [politics] [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/03/04/2218220.shtml

Hallelujah -- How Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah got game. Via MeFi: The Curious Cultural Journey of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" [article] [music]
http://www.clapclap.org/2007/04/hallelujah.html

Condiment Packet Gallery -- Primarily North American [images]
http://condiment.portablefolkband.com/

Avalanches on Mars -- Taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter [images]
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/03mar_avalanche.htm?list955127

Battlestar Galactica Last supper -- Caprica in the middle [images]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34527294@N00/2177726792/

Introducing the Eyeclops: Super Magnifying Camera -- $50 for 200x zoom. Eyeclops on diaper velcro. Also: velcro being pulled apart [gift] [images]
http://www.cockeyed.com/science/eyeclops/eyeclops.shtml

Well, I guess it's for a good cause... -- Yo La Tengo cover requests [mefi] [music]
http://www.metafilter.com/69541/Well-I-guess-its-for-a-good-cause


::200802::

Bat's powerful lift is illuminated by fog -- Wings cut to create a leading-edge vortex [nature] [science]
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080228/full/news.2008.633.html

Desiree Palmen -- Making objects things appear transparent from one angle [images]
http://www.desireepalmen.nl/

How People Count Cash? -- By country/region [video]
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1098393/how_people_count_cash/

reCAPTCHA -- Free CAPTCHA with a positive side-effect [internet] [technology]
http://recaptcha.net/

Do Gamers Enjoy Dying in First-Person-Shooter -- Count your chips when you die [gaming] [slashdot]
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/25/1543236

Hakarl (food) -- Fermented shark. Icelanders eat gross stuff [food] [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl

Internet Pranks in Schools -- Kids love to tease [education] [politics] [slashdot]
http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/08/02/25/147200.shtml

The Best Hand Dryer in Toronto -- Funniest maybe. Most agree that the Husky Xcelerator is the most satisfying [humor] [images] [toronto]
http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/02/the_best_hand_dryer_in_toronto/

really cool pools -- From around the world [images]
http://www.oobject.com/category/really-cool-pools/

The Baby Name Wizard -- John James David Michael William, Mary [images]
http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html

The Ten Best Post-Apocalyptic Survival Vehicles -- Buffalo Force is my favourite [images] [vehicles]
http://jalopnik.com/360213/the-ten-best-post+apocalyptic-survival-vehicles

30 of the Most Creative Bookshelves Designs -- [furniture]
http://freshome.com/2008/02/25/30-of-the-most-creative-bookshelves-designs/

The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 - 2007 -- Who watches this dreck? commentary [images]
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/02/23/movies/20080223_REVENUE_GRAPHIC.html

The Best Chocolate in Toronto -- SOMA in the Distillery District [food] [toronto]
http://www.blogto.com/toronto/the_best_chocolate_in_toronto/

France Gall - Poupee De Cire, Poupee De Son -- Wiki link (!) [music] [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGGviSJ4Ilw

Eureka! Episode 1 - Inertia -- Animated physics lessons with wacky music [physics] [science] [video] [youtube]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=by-7kkAu2Pg

City of Toronto: DineSafe -- See health inspection status on Toronto restaurants [toronto]
http://app.toronto.ca/food2/index.jsp

ShapeShop -- Fuzzy 3D model designer [software]
http://www.shapeshop3d.com/

Linguists Marvel at Audacity of Yugoslav Swear Words -- [article]
http://www.ce-review.org/00/41/nezmah41.html

The Smell of Space -- Sweet metallic [science]
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp6/spacechronicles4.html

41 Hilarious Science Fair Experiments -- Moon Babies [images] [humor]
http://www.photobasement.com/41-hilarious-science-fair-experiments/

Trinity test -- First test of technology for a nuclear weapon [wikipedia] [science] [physics]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_test#Test_predictions

Untangle 1.2 -- 19 levels [flash] [game]
http://nonoba.com/chris/untangle

Eee PC Internal Upgrades -- Instructions on modding an ASUS Eee PC [computer] [technology]
http://beta.ivancover.com/wiki/index.php/Eee_PC_Internal_Upgrades

top 9 unique structures soon to be built -- I can't wait to get my pilot's license! [images]
http://deputy-dog.com/2007/11/22/top-9-unique-structures-soon-to-be-built/

Raccoon takes cat's food -- Via Neatorama: Cat: Back off or I'll fight! I'm warning you! Raccoon: I don't know anything about fighting. I'll just take the food. [cute] [youtube] [video]
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/13/raccoon-takes-cats-f.html

LEGO Brick Timeline: 50 years of Building Frenzy and Curiosities -- 2008 is the 50th, as of January 28th. [toys]
http://gizmodo.com/349509/lego-brick-timeline-50-years-of-building-frenzy-and-curiosities

The Six Ugliest Space Lego Sets -- [toys] [humor]
http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/

Interview: Bjarne P. Tveskov, Classic LEGO Space Designer -- The 80s were the golden age for Lego [interview] [toys]
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/02/11/interview-bjarne-p-t.html

British Columbia: Will you be putting a red dot on your mailbox? -- Preventing live spam? [environment] [discussion]
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourview/bc/2008/01/will_you_be_putting_a_red_dot_1.html

GMAN-GAMES: Gundam P.O.D. -- BattleTech pods all over again [videogame]
http://greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2007-01-07.htm

Spongebob Voice-Overs -- Casablanca, Singin' in the Rain, The Godfather [humor] [video]
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/spongebob-voice-overs

Gundam Arcade Pods Senjou no Kizuna -- Awesome 180 degree goodness [videogame] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNSodeMJ2u0

Red Dot Campaign | Say NO to Junk Mail -- Interesting if true [canada] [mail]
http://www.reddotcampaign.ca/

PROFESSOR EATS A PEA WHILE I PLAY UNFITTING MUSIC -- Billie Jean [humor] [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0QJT6ywza0

Birds Give a Lesson to Plane Designers -- Ohhh here we go again... -- Comment on the Peregrine falcon, arguably the fastest animal on the planet (over 322 km/h) [slasdot]
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=446210&cid=22345768

Drunk History vol. 1 - Featuring Michael Cera -- [humor] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V_DsL1x1uY

Gallery for Space Settlement 2009 Calendar Art Contest -- Eh [images] [space]
http://www.nss.org/settlement/calendar/gallery.htm

Valentine's Day cards -- From the 1950s [images]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23516766@N04/sets/72157603858335873/

David Lynch on iPhone -- Get real [humor] [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0


::200801::

Head of Vecna -- Spreading rumors can be dangerous and fun. Via Twenty Sided Tale [humor]
http://www.blindpanic.com/humor/vecna.htm

Downloading Binary Streams with Javascript XMLHttpRequest -- Might be mozilla/Firefox only [programming]
http://mgran.blogspot.com/2006/08/downloading-binary-streams-with.html

Being Funny -- Steve Martin discusses his theories, approaches [essay] [humor]
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/funny-martin-200802.html

Race Types - 1906 -- Just what I needed for my trip to the Americas [images]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/herzogbr/2228668286/

Superfriends meets Friends -- [humor] [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khGUPEdY-Fk

How Do I Become an IT/IS Manager? -- Be old and willing to be under-thanked [slashdot]
http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/01/22/2017257.shtml

Red Eye Rice Treats -- Rice crispie treats + coffee crystals [food] [recipe]
http://havecakewilltravel.com/2008/01/24/red-eye-rice-treats/

A dance lesson by James Brown -- Funky [video]
http://www.5min.com/Video/A-dance-lesson-by-James-Brown-4400

PHYS771 Quantum Computing Since Democritus -- Lecture notes [physics] [science]
http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/default.html

W3C Publishes First Public Working Draft of HTML5 -- Looks ugly, moving away from XHTML+CSS [internet] [slashdot]
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/08/01/22/175243.shtml

Aire Freshener -- Background sound/noise generator. Soothing. Lots of other goodies, including: Adventure: Revisited [software]
http://www.peterhirschberg.com/mysoftware.html

Crysis Review -- In comicbook form. Also: game poster of video game characters [image] [humor]
http://www.dumdeedum.com/planetcrap/crysis.html

Two AI Pioneers, Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened? -- Via slashdot: Two AI Pioneers, Two Bizarre Suicides, Chris McKinstry Replies: Telescopes, AI And More [science] [technology]
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-02/ff_aimystery?currentPage=all

(Bobby Fischer's homepage) -- found bobby fischer [webjo]
http://home.att.ne.jp/moon/fischer/

richard hammond presents bloody omaha (the graphics) -- 3 guys + 4 days + post-production = d-day (Not "Saving Private Ryan") [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRS9cpOMYv0

spoof london underground announcements -- You're not fooling anyone. Also: fridge magnet game soundbites [audio] [humor]
http://www.emmaclarke.com/fun/mind-the-gap/spoof-london-underground-announcements

Zwingo (game) -- Momentum, upgrades. Best of all, no clicking. [flash] [game]
http://www.kabomb.net/games/zwingo.html

Day of the Bobteds -- Drop balls to destroy targets [game] [flash]
http://foon.co.uk/farcade/bobteds

The Tall Stump -- Puzzle solving, jumping, inventory [game] [flash]
http://casualgameplay.com/cgdc4/?gameID=4

Consumers feeling the helium squeeze -- Helium gone by 2018? Via slashdot [environment] [science]
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-helium05nov05,0,5841908.story

No Whoppers! -- original, non-profane version: whopperfreakout.com [humor] [video]
http://www.kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=9733

Star Wars Guide to the Candidates -- Hillando Clintrissian [craiglist] [humor]
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/526482501.html

bunnie's blog >> OLPC XO-1 -- Technical under the covers of the OLPC [olpc] [webjo]
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=218

The Bear Man Of Kamchatka -- Pacific Rim grizzly bear co-existance study by Charlie Russell [environment] [video]
http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/bearman.html

ZENN on the Rick Mercer Report -- Canadian (but at the time only available in BC) community (non-highway, 40 km/h) electric car [environment] [technology] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M88k6Ipp3c

CO2 Emissions (per capita) by country -- Oil countries are the worst, Qatar #1 [environment]
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/env_co2_emi_percap-environment-co2-emissions-per-capita

Kendo 8th Dan -- 45 minute National Geographic documentary [martialarts] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afMAGsh83Xo

GUI Design Book Recommendations? -- [hci] [slashdot]
http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/08/01/03/135217.shtml

Bajiquan -- Akira Yuki's style [martialarts] [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajiquan

Airport profilers: They're watching your expressions -- Facecrime is here. Via slashdot [news]
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/344868_airportprofiler26.html

Video of Bob Staake's unusual drawing process -- Ovals in Photoshop 3.0 [video]
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/03/video-of-bob-staakes.html

When Nano-Wires Explode -- Electron scanning showing an overloaded magnetic array looks like nuke mushroom clouds [images]
http://io9.com/337132/when-nano+wires-explode

Copyright Cutback Proposed As RIAA Solution -- Disney (and its hold of Mickey Mouse) is at the heart of this problem [copyright] [slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/articles/08/01/02/1430228.shtml

"You don't Understand Our Audience" -- GE buys NBC, NBC reports on Iraq war, GE has defence contracts, GE has ties with the bin Ladens. As discussed on slashdot: "[Television] programs are nothing more than bait [for commercials]." [article] [television]
http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=19845


::200712::

Square America -- A gallery of vintage snapshots and vernacular photography. Much like shorpy [images]
http://www.squareamerica.com/

Domains May Disappear After Search -- Use EasyWhois instead [internet] [slashdot]
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/28/1458247

Circuit City Rewards Execs As Stock Tanks -- Execs risk the work of others, keeping much of the rewards for themselves [business] [slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/articles/07/12/22/2049247.shtml

Johnny Chung Lee -- Virtual desktop display for strong 3D effect without requiring glasses [humancomputerinteraction] [video]
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

Microsimulation of road traffic -- Traffic with variable paramters [applet]
http://vwisb7.vkw.tu-dresden.de/~treiber/MicroApplet/simFrame.html

Mathematicians Solve the Mystery of Traffic Jams -- As recently re-noted, a single pause can ripple to create traffic [http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/12/21/1613227.shtml]
http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/12/21/1613227.shtml

Magical Boxes: Key to Spreading Spells -- Units in the box will cast in formation if the cast is outside the box [game]
http://teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=33677

Trajan is the Movie Font -- As used by movies everywhere [humor] [video]
http://www.goodiebag.tv/episodes/06_trajan_is_the_movie_font.htm

No Right to Privacy When Your Computer Is Repaired -- Sodomsky's harddrive [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/12/20/227203.shtml

The Distant Origins of Sub-Pixel Font Rendering -- ClearType as originally seen on Apple II [computer] [history]
http://www.grc.com/ctwho.htm

Beg The Question -- petitio principii, "laying claim to the principle" [english]
http://begthequestion.info/

StarCraft II -- Official site with goodies [game]
http://www.starcraft2.com/

Summarizing Saudi history: "The Kingdom" opening credits -- [history] [video] [youtube]
http://goodexperience.com/blog/archives/010204.php

You Don't Look Like Your Head's Exploded Yet Today -- Beatles doing Stairway to Heaven [music] [video] [youtube]
http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=216

Quirky Japanese model kits -- Things you just don't see everyday [images] [humor]
http://www.geocities.co.jp.nyud.net/Playtown/4937/models/models.htm

Starcraft Board Game -- 180 figurines [game]
http://scunite.wordpress.com/starcraft-board-game/

How We Might Have Scramjets Sooner than Expected -- Material and heat are limiting factors. Oh, and your heart will fall out your backside at Mach 15 [science] [slashdot] [technology]
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/13/2248214

Watch 3000 Barrels Fall Down in Crysis -- Jealousy [video]
http://kotaku.com/gaming/clips/watch-3000-barrels-fall-down-in-crysis-333902.php

Scientists trap light in nano-soup -- Soup of micro + nano sized magnetic spheres. Via slashdot [physics] [science]
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2007/December/10120701.asp

Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo -- Neat indeed. Photosynth on microsoft live labs [technology] [video]
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129

The Word Detective -- Was looking for 'grody' [english] [language]
http://www.word-detective.com/

Mysterious mammal caught on film -- Long-eared jerboa [cute] [video]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7130484.stm

Fair Copyright for Canada rally in Calgary - Report 1 -- Media from the Hon. Jim Prentice interview/rally [canada] [copyright] [images] [video]
http://kempton.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/fair-copyright-rally-calgary-part-1/

Epcot's Spaceship Earth reopens, Steve Jobs pics -- Geeks of the ages [computerscience] [images]
http://www.lifthill.com/news/epcots-spaceship-earth-reopens-steve-jobs-pics/

What's New in Blade Runner -- The Final Cut [sciencefiction]
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/09/2342255

Ooh you tasty little things... -- Home of bacon chocolate chip cookies with maple cinnamon glaze [cooking] [food] [webjo]
http://neverbashfulwithbutter.blogspot.com/

Canadian DMCA Won't Include Consumer Rights -- Time is now [canada] [copyright] [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/12/07/1737233.shtml

that one show: Mitch Hedberg Interview -- Rare [humor] [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4csce0Qbew

Bombaytv -- Make captions, send and enjoy [ecard] [humor] [video]
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/

Unusual Data Disaster Horror Stories -- Repair stories in any industry are funny [computerscience] [humor] [slashdot]
http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/12/07/0558248.shtml

ecards for when you care enought to hit send -- I genuinely enjoy any activity in which you bend over. [humor] [images]
http://www.someecards.com/upload/flirting/

Auxetics -- Negative Poisson's ratio. Via slashdot [science] [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxetics

Philip Glass -- Sesame Street (extended cut) -- Oh man [video]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mV9CjHmcEEI

foldschool -- cardboard furniture -- Neat [furniture]
http://www.foldschool.com/

Air-Attack.com - Su-30MK Video Gallery -- Sweet [video]
http://www.air-attack.com/videos/80/page/6

Eddie Izzard -- Death Star Canteen -- "I'll have the penne alla arrabiata." [humor] [starwars] [video]
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw

Ogre Cybertank Artwork -- Winchell Chung, 1976 [gaming] [images]
http://www.projectrho.com/ogre.html

Warehouse 23: Ogre Mark V Christmas Ornament -- Boring, but they got neat miniatures. Wiki:Ogre [christmas]
http://www.warehouse23.com/item.html?id=SJG9601

Sketches of Japanese manners and customs -- High quality, amusing [images]
http://elib.doshisha.ac.jp/denshika/sketches/163/imgidx163.html

Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschft -- High quality MP3s of classical music [music] [shopping]
http://www2.ham.deutschegrammophon.com/home

Abaca Email Protection Gateway -- Gives recipients spam reputations. Via slashdot [internet] [spam]
http://abaca.com/solutions_tech.html

The two talking cats -- Relaxing [cute] [youtube] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U0udLH974


::200711::

How to Deal With Stolen Code? -- Never has info wanted to be more free [programming] [slashdot]
http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/07/11/28/1823205.shtml

meomi -- Created the Vancouver 2010 mascots [cute] [design]
http://www.meomi.com/

Sliding Rocks Bemuse Scientists -- Heat + wind + moisture (+ concave surface?) = sliding rocks [science] [slashdot]
http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/11/27/1951252.shtml

The 9 Most Badass Bible Verses -- Yikes [humor] [religion]
http://www.cracked.com/article_15699_9-most-badass-bible-verses.html

radiohead lyrics and song information -- [music]
http://www.greenplastic.com/lyrics/

How Do You Find New Non-RIAA Music? -- "I try to find a way to protest without affecting my life." People like you are the problem in the world. [music] [slashdot]
http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/07/11/22/181242.shtml

Liquid Rescale GIMP plugin: Examples -- Strength-aware resizing, seam carving, re-targeting [images] [technology]
http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/en:examples

WE THE ROBOTS -- [comic] [cute] [humor] [images]
http://www.wetherobots.com/

Cal Band Video Game Halftime Show -- Video games are here to stay [humor] [video]
http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/79608/detail/

Pixies "Head On" -- MTV days [music] [video]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3484009929256466595

6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared -- Nice put-down [environment] [technology]
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/11/21/1655255.shtml

Data Robotics, Inc. -- Neat data management system. Via slashdot [hardware]
http://www.drobo.com/

Process Explorer -- More detailed (and accurate) than Task Manager [windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processexplorer.mspx

Bearded Cap revisited -- Tasty [fashion]
http://www.doobybrain.com/2007/11/20/beard-cap-revisited/

Pigeon Point Lighthouse -- Kerosene lamps and fresnel lens [image]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mumbleyjoe/2043508173/

Stevie Wonder - Superstition live on Sesame Street -- Via Slashdot - Sesame Street DVD Deemed Adult-Only Entertainment [music] [video]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic -- Via Slashdot - Open Source Math [computerscience]
http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html

1999 West Coast Trip -- Pictures from the drive to Vancouver from Toronto in a Passat [hwan] [images]
http://picasaweb.google.com/jyseto/1999WestCoastTrip

The Nuclear Power Renaissance -- [slashdot] [technology]
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/14/2321216

Il fait beau dans l'metro -- Commercial from 1976. Via slashdot. [humor] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcC31r1BxBY

one laptop per child -- OLPC! [charity] [technology]
http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/index.php

Multics -- Multiplexed Information and Computing Service OS beguin and 1965 and used until 2000 [computerscience]
http://www.multicians.org/

Toxoplasmosis -- Up to a third of the world's populate carries this infection. Blurgh! [biology] [science] [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis

Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PC Sells Out -- I should pick up a couple on my way home [technology] [slashdot]
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/12/2235200

Chinese Sub Pops Up Amid US Navy Exercise -- From 2006 [military] [slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/12/222237

RCMP Won't Go After Personal Filesharers -- "Arrr, aye! Eh, Eh?" [internet] [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/11/11/215251.shtml

Google's Shadow Over Firefox -- CEO cashes in [internet] [slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/articles/07/11/11/2036218.shtml

Spycatcher -- By Peter Wright, former assistant director of MI5 [espionage] [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spycatcher

Gregorius - NMKY -- Man thigh overload, YMCA in Finnish [humor] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA_ULqTkV1w

Bicycle Maintenance Guide and Riding Tips -- Fairly sane, though European [bicycle]
http://www.bitrot.de/bbook_intro.html

World's First Image Taking of the Moon by HDTV -- Taken from JAXA "Kaguya" lunar explorer [science] [video]
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/20071107_kaguya_e.html

How to make a Paper Toy Transformer! -- Not the robot kind, the geometric foldy kind [video]
http://www.comnetslash.com/2007/10/11/how-to-make-a-paper-toy-transformer/

The Missile Game 3D HS -- You're the missile. Don't play drunk. Via mefi [game] [flash]
http://kongregate.com/games/FreeWorldGroup/the-missile-game-3d-hs

ArsDigita: An Alternate Perspective -- As related by Michael Yoon, former employee [internet] [history]
http://michael.yoon.org/arsdigita

MetroCard Mess -- Thoughtful piece by former ArsDigita seed [interfacedesign] [webjo]
http://pinds.com/2001/04/04/metrocard-mess

iHate -- Seriously, anonymous comments must die [humor] [video]
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XoDTmvcU_Q4

The Strangest Disaster of the 20th Century -- CO2 accumulates in still Lake Nyos [science] [history]
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/21/the-strangest-disaster-of-the-20th-century/

Counter-taserism -- Ideas on resisting tasers [technology]
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/lastword/2007/06/counter-taserism.html

Blake's 7 -- BBC series from '78 to '81 [sciencefiction] [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake%27s_7

Solid freeform fabrication: DIY, on the cheap, and made of pure sugar -- First you get the sugar.... [technology]
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/candyfab

Monopoly... How to play it (and improve it) -- Rule variants [game]
http://www.squidoo.com/monopoly/

What are the best free games online? -- Puzzle pirates? [game] [slashdot]
http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/07/11/06/1558234.shtml

Indestruct 2 Tank -- Bounce your way to victory [game] [flash]
http://armorgames.com/games/indestruct2tank_game.html

Treasure of Cutlass Reef -- Simple [game] [flash]
http://www.gameinabottle.com/

Cell Phone Jamming on the Rise -- Just shoot them [slashdot] [technology]
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/04/1450259


::200710::

The Long Tail: Sorry PR people: you're blocked -- List of emails of PR spammers [internet]
http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/10/sorry-pr-people.html?cid=88149552

Cat Confused By Scratching -- Butt-scratching [cute] [humor] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Ntrq0AHos

Factory Balls -- Unique, smart, fun [flash] [game]
http://home.scarlet.be/~bbonte/factoryballs.html

Lazy cat on a Treadmill -- Lots of laughing [cute] [video]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1645625408953222118&hl=en

Mocha in "His First Broccoli" -- It's a hamster with big cheeks [cute] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0E-0ntoNWo

Cat on air conditioner -- One picture of before, and one of after [humor] [video]
http://bp2.blogger.com/_XNXLcHFsW1U/RySqbREvPsI/AAAAAAAABxU/ZUg_ACmg3bU/s1600-h/activated.jpg

Trinity (TX) Laterals Their Way to Division III WIN -- Many passes later, they win. Via MeFi [mefi] [sports] [video]
http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?&brand=null&videoId=3083220&n8pe6c=2

Eight years of games on "The Daily Show" -- Clip compilation from 1999 to 2007 [humor] [video]
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/22/eight-years-of-games-on-the-daily-show/

The total value of all your mines, mills, money bins, and so fourth -- Model of Scrooge McDuck's vault, considered by some to be the richest fictional character [mefi] [images]
http://www.metafilter.com/65882/The-total-value-of-all-your-mines-mills-money-bins-and-so-fourth-is-one-multiplujillion-nine-obsquatumatillion-six-hundred-and-twentythree-dollars-and-sixtytwo-cents

Bruce Schneier Facts -- The man is powerful AND secure [humor]
http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/

Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Is Universal! -- Simpler computers, but he's still a jerk. Some good book recommendations [computing] [science]
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/24/1429229

The Matrix? -- Kiddie-scripted version of the Matrix [humor] [images]
http://www.duk0r.net/matrix/matrix1.php

Court Strikes Down Age Verification For Adult Sites -- Regarding Title 18 USC 2257, which imposed ridiculous record keeping requirements on all "explicit" photography, personal or otherwise [law] [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/10/23/2223200.shtml

Crime Reduction Linked To Lead-Free Gasoline -- [science] [slashdot]
http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/10/23/1839245.shtml

GMOs Perfected Down to the Chromosome Level -- Monsanto at it again [biology] [science] [slashdot]
http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/10/20/1740237.shtml

brandnamepencils -- Over 100 brands [images]
http://www.brandnamepencils.com/

Continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling swath of Pacific Ocean -- 3.5 million tons [environment]
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/19/SS6JS8RH0.DTL

Lake Peigneur -- One way to change a freshwater lake into a salt-water one [trivia] [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur

Robotic Cannon Loses Control, Kills 9 -- [slashdot] [technology]
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/10/18/1847231.shtml

Nokia Takes Thirds Swing at Internet Tablet -- WiFi, GPS, VoIP, FM-transmitter, keyboard, Firefox 3, Linux-based, 800x480 [slashdot] [technology]
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/10/18/171246.shtml

Swearing at Work is Bleeping Good For You -- [slashdot]
http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/10/16/2334253.shtml

Cisco Offices Raided, Execs Arrested In Brazil -- [slashdot]
http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/10/16/2334253.shtml

Verstehen Sie Spass? - Unsichtbar / Invisible -- Elaborate prank for no mirror [humor] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lv0-ftyMKE

The Wilhelm Scream Compilation -- [humor] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio

Time Bandits Map -- Yes [images]
http://www.fire-house.net/Metropolis/html/TB.html

Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity -- [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3exzMPT4nGI

Best Way To Teach Oneself Math? -- [slashdot]
http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/10/15/0052240.shtml

Archer Daniels Midland -- Big evil farm? [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_Daniels_Midland

My Documents -- Look for my documents on your computer [humor] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj6QoL_yuzQ

make crystal clear ice! -- double boil it first to dissolve bubbles [video]
http://www.instructables.com/id/make-crystal-clear-ice!/

Water Hobo -- Automated water hose shoots trespassers [humor] [video]
http://www.waterhobo.com/

Viva Caligula -- Violent fun [game] [flash]
http://www.adultswim.com/games/vivacaligula/index.html

The Evolution of Language -- [slashdot]
http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/10/10/2250221.shtml

Cracking Go -- Discussing Go and how computers can play it [go] [slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/articles/07/10/10/1758244.shtml

Buffon's Needle -- [mathematics] [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffon%27s_needle

Sensei's Library -- Go reference, tips etc. [go]
http://senseis.xmp.net/

Oh Snap! -- As popularized by Biz Markie of "Just A Friend" fame [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Snap%21

Triboluminescence -- Scratching, crushing, or rubbing crystals results in light [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboluminescence

The Top 10 Raps Songs White People Love -- Via MetaFilter [humor] [mefi] [video]
http://www.catsandbeer.com/music/the-top-10-rap-songs-white-people-love

Spot the Five Differences -- Animated too [game] [flash] [mefi]
http://www.ivoryboy.com/difference.html

Juror From RIAA Trial Speaks -- [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/10/09/222211.shtml

Canadian Mint Claims Rights To Words "One Cent" -- [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/10/09/0146237.shtml

D.C. Commuters to be Scanned With Infrared Cameras -- [slashdot]
http://www.springrolls.ca/location_sr.html

Pinhole photography -- Take pictures from inside things [images]
http://www.pinholephotography.org/

Using the enter key to submit a form -- Damn browsers [internet] [programming]
http://www.allasp.net/enterkey.aspx

David Bynoe -- Neat stuff [webjo]
http://dbynoe.blogspot.com/

Hunting Bats -- Be werry werry quiet [images] [webjo]
http://www.komar.org/faq/hunting_bats/

Stripe Wars T Shirts -- [fashion]
http://www.chopshopstore.com/product.php?productid=16182

Baguette Computer Wrist Rest -- [furniture]
http://www.whatonearthcatalog.com/cgi-bin/hazel.cgi?randomizer=1787072585&action=detail&item=AY3282

ColorJack -- Color Theory Visualizer [internet] [tool]
http://www.colorjack.com/sphere/


::200709::

9 Battlefield Geniuses and What They Can Teach You About Warfare -- A listing of people and contributions [nijalicker] [webjo]
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/29/9-battlefield-geniuses-and-what-they-can-teach-you-about-warfare/

First Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years -- [environment] [energy] [science] [slashdot]
http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/09/27/0336234.shtml

From Petrodollars to Petroeuros: Are the Dollar's Days as an International Reserve Currency Drawing to an End? -- Found via slashdot [money]
http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/nov03/middleEast.asp

Dice Stacking Movie Vol. 3 -- [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIayUEi_KGo

Posterchild Mario Question Blocks! -- youtubed too [images] [video]
http://www.bladediary.com/questionblocks/index.html

Awesome -- Awesome [humor] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=PaCuNi1

Flip -- Turn text upside down (local version) [tool]
http://www.revfad.com/flip.html

J.C. Penney's 1975 catalog -- continued [images] [humor]
http://janceedunn.typepad.com/wwwjanceedunncom/2007/09/jc-penneys-19-1.html

British Comedy Clips -- Collected via YouTube [humor] [video]
http://britishcomedyclips.com/

Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man -- Bonobo apes [video]
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/76

Marlene Dietrich -- Screen test for "The Blue Angel" (c. 1930) [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAwKPpyNpFI

How Lord of the Rings should have ended -- Better than the voice-acting implies. Related [humor] [video]
http://www.howitshouldhaveended.com/Divx%20links/LOTR.html

10,000 Cameras Ineffective At Deterring Crime -- Private property, and allowing people to protect their own [slashdot] [crime]
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/09/20/2318220.shtml

Run away the ray-gun is coming -- [invention] [science] [mefi]
http://www.metafilter.com/64883/Run-away-the-raygun-is-coming

The Fuller Projection Map -- Dymaxion = Dynamic + Maximum + Tension [images]
http://www.bfi.org/node/25

Save Kenneth Foster! -- Texas wants him dead [racism] [webjo]
http://savekenneth.blogspot.com/

Find the Country Game -- By the same guys who made DiceWars [game] [flash]
http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/worldmap/worldmap.html

Dolphin Olympics 2 -- Reminds me of Summer Games for the Atari Lynx [flash] [game]
http://www.rawkins.com/games/do2/

Batman by Dostoyevski -- Crime and Punishment, as told in a Batman comic [images]
http://againwiththecomics.blogspot.com/2007/08/batman-by-dostoyevsky.html

Curb Your Enthusiasm -- Jedi? -- It starts with a J and ends with an I. [humor] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nln5gC8Z4ro

Tony Jaa: The Martial Arts Pro -- [Nice]
http://www.rofl.to/tony-jaa-the-martial-arts-promartialsart video

Robotic Theology -- [comic] [humor]
http://www.jeffcohenstudio.com/bagoftoast/comic.cgi?comic=71

Pretty Dyana - A Gypsy recycling saga -- Refugees in Belgrade [video]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2181669920911563723

Amazing Freestyle Slalom On Rollerblades -- "After watching this little girl, all figure skaters should crawl into burlaps sacks and throw themselves into mine shafts." [similar] [video]
http://www.break.com/index/amazing-freestyle-slalom-on-rollerblades2.html

Animals at Play with Stuart Brown and Norbert Rosing -- Polar bear plays with a couple huskies [pictures]
http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/play/audiogallery/soundseen.shtml

The Interactive Way To Go -- Tutorials on Go [game]
http://playgo.to/interactive/

Belgium May Prosecute the Church of Scientology -- [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/09/04/1812244.shtml

Bad Science -- Pointing out modern day public idiocy [science]
http://www.badscience.net/

Bulletproof Tool For Golden Age Browsing? -- [slashdot]
http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/07/09/03/219232.shtml

Sharpest Images With "Lucky" Telescope -- The technique is "Lucky Imaging", using the parts of the best photos to make an overall good photo [science] [slashdot]
http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/09/03/2257224.shtml

Kidney Matchmaking -- Maximizing the matches for transplants and donors [webjo] [science] [math]
http://blog.sciencenews.org/mathtrek/2007/08/kidney_matchmaking.html


::200708::

Vampire Squid -- Check out its eyes [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_squid

How to Win Friends and Influence People -- Book by Dale Carnegie, 1936 [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People

Clark and Michael -- humor video [Michael] [Cera's] [side] [project]
http://www.clarkandmichael.com/

Metric!!! -- [image]
http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/006/images/006-weights_measures.gif

The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your face. -- [humor] [technology]
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone

PolarClock -- Shows date and time as arcs [internet]
http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/polarclock/

USB Necktie -- Banzai! [invention]
http://www.thanko.jp/usbnecktie/

The Realist Archive Project -- Editorials on society from the 1960s [images] [webjo]
http://www.ep.tc/realist/

Green Cars To Get Green Plates, Added Benefits -- Including free downtown parking! [blogto] [environment] [toronto]
http://www.blogto.com/environment/2007/08/green_cars_to_get_green_plates_added_benefits/

housing123.com -- Merging google-maps and MLS [realestate] [toronto]
http://www.housing123.com/map

Minesweeper: The Movie trailer -- [humor] [video]
http://www.destructoid.com/minesweeper-the-movie-37770.phtml

Child Beater -- No kids were harmed in the filming of this video [humor] [video]
http://toddand.com/2007/08/07/something-you-normally-wouldnt-laugh-at/

walk2web -- Visual link explorer [internet]
http://walk2web.com/surf/http://hwan.com

South Park script 112 "Mecha Striesand" -- Day is never finished, Masa got me working, Some day masa set me free.... [humor]
http://www.weeklyscript.com/South%20Park%20-%20112%20-%20Mecha%20Striesand.txt

Condorcet method -- Single winner election method [politics]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method

XO-1 (laptop) -- The "$100 Laptop" [wikipedia] [technology]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XO-1_%28laptop%29

Statetris -- Educational, geographical Tetris [flash] [game]
http://www.mapmsg.com/games/statetris/

NaDa vs sAviOr @ Shinhan Masters Finals (Game 4) -- StarCraft eliteness [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJSMmyrxiIw

Diggnation -- Weekly tech/web show based on digg.com's links. Reminds me of Pseudo.com's now defunct GameTime [video]
http://revision3.com/diggnation

Chick Flicks are Worse Than Porn! -- [ninjalicker] [webjo]
http://a3dfx.blogspot.com/2007/08/chick-flicks-are-worse-than-porn.html

Must-See Web Clips -- As listed by the Daily Telegraph (via mefi) [video]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;jsessionid=KRU5DEOJCQDEFQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/arts/exclusions/webtv/nosplit/top50web.xml

You are what you eat -- Vegans who will only love other vegans [mefi]
http://www.metafilter.com/63470/You-are-what-you-eat

Arrested Development on MSN -- Watch full episodes on-line [humor] [video]
http://arresteddevelopment.msn.com/


::200707::

Road Rage -- [humor]
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/van/366721693.html

Our ATM Is Broken, Go To Jail -- [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/07/29/2011214.shtml

Monkey taunts tigers -- In German [humor] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AZn5nWIj_g

PythagoraSwitch -- Calming joint bits for a Japanese children's TV show [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pAmVipomcA

Casualties of Container Shipping -- Cargo shipwrecks [images]
http://www.containershipping.nl/casualties.html

Rolling Tires Down A Ski Jump -- Those crazy Japanese scientists are at it again [humor] [video]
http://www.break.com/index/rolling-tires-off-a-ski-jump.html

Go Fug Yourself -- Mocking celebrity fashion [fashion] [humor]
http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/

The Sartorialist -- [fashion]
http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/

Spinning Silhouette Illusion -- Takes a while to happen, and often only for a second [image]
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2007/07/spinning_silhouette_.html

Living Homes -- Warm, modular design, green-oriented [technology]
http://www.livinghomes.net/

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World -- Room to Read, building schools in 3rd countries [video]
http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=328

Top 7 Online Zombie Games -- Fun killing the mindless [game]
http://www.just-whatever.com/2007/07/03/top-7-online-zombie-games/

Street Fighter Round 1 -- Breakdancer strikes kid with SFX [humor] [video] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK0Fbx82CYI

Multivax - How can entropy be reversed? -- Isaac Asimov's 1956 The Last Question [story]
http://www.multivax.com/

One giant leap for space fashion: MIT team designs sleek, skintight spacesuit -- Uses mechanical counter-pressure instead of gas pressurization [technology]
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/biosuit-0716.html

FORA.tv -- Thoughtful documentaries [video]
http://www.fora.tv/

Will Wright and Brian Eno - Generative Systems -- Game of Life, for example [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqzVSvqXJYg

What do teachers really make? Taylor Mali explains... -- [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw1MFobWD_o

Demetri Martin clips -- [comedy] [video]
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=80332&ml_comedian=11605

Raymond Scott -- Composer, inventor b. 1908, known for "Powerhouse" and other tunes [audio]
http://www.raymondscott.com/

Duckon 2007 - Steve Ward's Singing Tesla Coil video -- I wasn't aware they could make music [video]
http://www.hauntedfrog.com/gt/movies/2007/duckon/SingingTeslaShow.html?repost

Fashion SWAT -- Making fun of others [humor]
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/fashion-swat/

Figwit Lives! -- Frodo is grea-- What is that!? [fantasy]
http://www.figwitlives.net/

Runes of Shalak -- Throwback game, funky 8-bit music and graphics [flash] [game]
http://www.onemorelevel.com/games.php?game=242

Amberial by OddGoo -- Using only left and right arrows, navigate from one point to another avoiding obstacles [flash] [game]
http://amberial.fizzlebot.com/

50 States v2 -- Place the states of the US on a map [flash] [game]
http://www.addictinggames.com/50statesv2.html

iPhone in depth -- Ars Technica takes on the iPhone (July 9, 2007) [technology]
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/iphone-review.ars

Buddhism Art Dance (Thien Thu Thien Nhan) -- Chinese Disabled Performing Arts Troupe [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTKJiP_bdbE

Wellcome-images -- Collection of CC-licensed medical imagery [images]
http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/

Holophonics -- Dummy head sound recording [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holophonics

Big Wendy the muscular whippet -- Mutation in the myostatin gene, leading to approximately double the muscles [image]
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/story.html?id=67f15c17-2717-4022-bb76-1b982456e793&k=94653

Robert A. Heinlein's 100th Birthday -- List of sci-fi authors [slashdot]
http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/07/07/187251.shtml

transformer costume -- Made me laugh, but some are just crazy [humor] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK5l9tMJzYk

Desktop Tower Defense -- An excellent variation [flash] [game]
http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/game.asp

Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence -- Just a coupla good ole boys [slashdot] [politics]
http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/07/07/02/2239240.shtml

Samsonite skeletal luggage -- For Geiger-fetishist in the family [furniture]
http://www.samsoniteblacklabel.com/scatalog/shopcollection.do

Yotel -- Mini-hotel rooms in London, mini-prices too [technology]
http://www.yotel.com/

Mechanical Fingers Give Strength, Speed to Amputees -- [article] [technology] [robots]
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/07/xfinger

Message in a Bottle -- Americans spent $15 billion on bottled water? [article]
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/features-message-in-a-bottle.html

Kwik-E-Mart -- 7-11 rebrands some stores as Kwik-E-Marts [images]
http://flickr.com/photos/rdr07/sets/72157600590001691/with/686842536/

Deathbed Confession Says Aliens Were at Roswell -- [slashdot]
http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/07/01/1737226.shtml

Entertaining Sports Fights -- In non-martial art sports [video]
http://thesnagwire.com/joomla/On-The-Web/The-Most-Entertaining-Sports-Fights-Ever.html

Play Cat With Bow Golf -- You can shoot while in mid-air [game] [flash]
http://www.buzzedgames.com/play-4530-Cat_With_Bow_Golf.html


::200706::

Wondermark -- Takes pictures from old books, gives funny text [humor] [comic]
http://wondermark.blogspot.com/

Oh No Robot comics search -- Search the text of internet comic strips. Includes a search on qwantz.com [internet]
http://www.ohnorobot.com

The Bat Bombers -- Cute but deadly and silent [war]
http://www.afa.org/magazine/1990/1090bat.asp

Catchphrase -- Snake something [humor] [video]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Izet8zN1vmE

Blade Runner -- 25th Anniversary -- By Adam Savage of MythBusters [movie]
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4218376.html?series=6

Jumpstyle by Simpsons -- Via mefi [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv18nWHKZDc

Bloxorz -- I stopped at 291709. Via mefi [flash] [game]
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/bloxorz

Yahtzee -- Done in Java [game]
http://www.wartoft.nu/yahtzee/

Gnarls Barkley Crazy Theremin Jam -- [music] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW0B1sipLBI

If these words were people, I would embrace their genocide -- Ban the blog [humor] [internet] [webjo]
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=banish

The Vertical Farm Project -- Via SlashDot. [environment] [technology]
http://www.verticalfarm.com/

Dramatic Chipmunk -- original, it's a prairie dog [humor] [video]
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1764124/

Hoyden About Town -- Ladies! [webjo]
http://viv.id.au/blog/

Michael Moore's New Film Leaked to BitTorrent -- [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/06/18/0059232.shtml

Autumn Tale -- [korean] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_6jbC59hnQ

Eurythmics - It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back) -- Word [music] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-MPiBYKcz8

Indian Movie Boxing Fight Scene -- "I can see tourism India now...come to India; be the welterweight champion!" [humor] [ninjalicker] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZZ4pw2gTRI

LED Art Fan -- Programmable [toys]
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/9162/

take-g toys -- Wooden toy robots [toys]
http://take-g.com/crafts/big.html

How victim snared ID thief -- [story]
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/15/IDTHEFT.TMP

A Bicycle Built From Wood -- Read the thread for wood and bamboo bikes [mefi]
http://www.metafilter.com/62044/A-Bicycle-Built-from-Wood

Vector TD -- Another Tower Defense variant. Via MeFi. [flash] [game]
http://www.candystand.com/play.do?id=18047

Whispered Apologies -- One comic artist creates the panels, the other adds the text [comic] [humor]
http://www.qwantz.com/apologies/

RIAA Uses Local Cops In Oregon Raid -- [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/06/12/0018247.shtml

Turning the Place Over -- Rotating facade [art] [video]
http://www.biennial.com/ttpo/

Of Montreal - "Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games" -- Let's pretend we don't exist. Let's pretend we're in Antartica. [music] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PoJv4N1Too

Fujiya & Miyagi "Ankle Injuries" -- [music] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5XVeENmLMk

Feed the Head -- Art interface [flash]
http://www.feedthehead.net/

Circoripopolo Goes Artistique -- Browser magic [video]
http://users.telenet.be/kixx/

Does commercial jet traffic affect climate? -- [science]
http://www.rps.psu.edu/probing/contrails.html

Flight Lines -- Article on jet contrails [science]
http://www.airspacemag.com/issues/2007/june-july/Flight_Lines.php

Housewives Tarot Deck -- [toy]
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/04/housewives-tarot/

10-Minute Cooking School: Sin City Breakfast Tacos -- As described by Robert Rodriguez [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z27W-JZHjC8

"Forgetfulness" - Billy Collins Animated Poetry -- [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrEPJh14mcU

Request for Urban Street Sightings -- Submit and Vote on the Best Urban Images Captured by New Google Maps Tool [images]
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/05/request_for_urb.html


::200705::

Herding the cat at 6 weeks old -- [cute] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZF5S5ko8dc

M. Ward Chinese Translation -- Also on Conan [music] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToEPFDIzhNA

Microsoft Surface: Behind-the-Scnese First Look -- The infrared is neat [technology] [video]
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4217348.html

slave leia -- Female nerds, oh my! Video too. [images]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonniegrrl/515645459/

Big Ear Radio Observatory -- A memorial to the wow signal [history] [science]
http://www.bigear.org/

Damn Interesting -- Stories of amazement [history]
http://www.damninteresting.com/

Clever Hans the Math Horse -- Tapity tap tap, horses possess enhanced sensitivity to body language [history]
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=384

The Rasterbator -- Create large rasterized images from any picture, up to 20m in size [tool]
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

Giant Girl Doll -- "Decollage". CD "Jules Verne impact" by Les Balayeurs du Desert. She is above the Uncanny Valley [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3vfJ1R8uaY

BowMaster Prelude -- Combines archery with 2D real-time strategy [flash] [game]
http://www.lostvectors.com/prelude/

SF PaperCraftGallery -- Such as this intricately detailed AT-AT [craft]
http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~sf-papercraft/

A Conversation With Stephen Colbert -- Interview at Harvard's Institute of Politics [humor] [video]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5550134133036374310

Thomas Allen -- Pulp Fiction -- Adding another dimension to novels [images]
http://www.josephbellows.com/exhibitions/2006_3_thomas_allen/?view=images

illegal signs . ca -- Tracking Toronto's outdoor advertising industry [webjo]
http://www.illegalsigns.ca/

Valo -- Gentle music, simple relaxing, dreamy gameplay [flash] [game]
http://ian.janasnyder.com/valo.htm

Castle Smasher -- Catapult strategy [flash] [game]
http://www.donutgames.com/play/castle_smasher/

The Tao of Programming
http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html

Boomshine -- A lot like Chaos Theory [flash] [game]
http://www.k2xl.com/games/boomshine/

Bloons, a shooting game -- Easy at first, gets cruelly difficult [flash] [game]
http://www.ninjakiwi.com/bloons.html

Lawlolawl Games -- Try !gnition and !gnition2 [flash] [game]
http://www.lawlolawl.com/games.htm

Desserts versus insects -- Tiny desserts catapulted at bugs, captured on high-speed video [video]
http://www.dumpalink.com/videos/Dessert_vs._insects-gaf0.html

Bruce Lee "Lose Control" -- [martialarts] [video]
http://www.metacafe.co.il/watch/439334/bruce_lee_lose_control/

Pi & Black Wave/Bad Vibrations -- Arcade Fire song synch'ed to a Keith Schofield-directed music video [music] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypnqtBNXivc

Transfer: The Anti-Sit Archives -- Mostly from NYC, I think [images]
http://www.usemenow.com/web-log/archives/the_antisit/

Cycling in Toronto - Toronto Bike Plan -- [bicycling] [toronto]
http://www.toronto.ca/cycling/bikeplan/

I Chat, Therefore I Am... -- Oh Babelle, where art thou? [robots]
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/brain/i-chat-therefore-i-am/article_print

Pinups (painted ladies) -- [images]
http://flickr.com/photos/anheuser/sets/1214707/

Salvador Dali on "What's My Line?" -- [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXT2E9Ccc8A

Bike helmet crushed, but head fine -- [news]
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/index.php?ntid=133934

Cool business card designs -- [images]
http://creativebits.org/cool_business_card_designs

Gosling Parade 2007 -- Via blogto [cute] [toronto] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Syfibo7xKk

Imagining the Tenth Dimension -- Thoughtful [flash] [science] [video]
http://www.tenthdimension.com/flash2.php

Conan O'Brian - A Visit to Intel -- Kind of scary [humor] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvv28t8WR4E

Archives at The Kurt Vonnegut Library -- Books online, free [literature]
http://vonnegut.cultish.org/archives/

Amautalab -- Mouse-over fun. Check out their Project videos [flash]
http://www.amautalab.com/

Soldiers Bond With Bots, Take Them Fishing -- [robots] [slashdot]
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/05/08/1620209.shtml

IE sIEeve -- IE memory leak detector [internet]
http://home.wanadoo.nl/jsrosman/

300 Opinions -- [fitness] [growl]
http://www.gymjones.com/knowledge.php?id=36

Improve your photography with classical art -- Photoshop technique using Mach Color tool. Via boingboing. [images]
http://www.unfocusedbrain.com/projects/match_color/

LOLTrek -- "We has tribbles and also troubles" [humor] [images]
http://granades.com/2007/05/02/loltrek/

The real Computer Monster -- From Sesame Street 1971. Correction: It's the Wheel Steeler [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdAKgJDahzw


::200704::

throttling -- Comic people strangling people [images]
http://www.throttling.us/

eBay feedback for tryork5ifp -- [humor]
http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedbackMemberLeft&memberid=tryork5ifp&items=-1&item=-1&de=off

Nora the Piano-Playing Cat -- via mefi. Also see the cat-playing piano. Source. [video]
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2822657

Ontario Place circa 1985 -- Who wears short shorts? [video] [toronto]
http://www.blogto.com/sports_play/2006/12/vidto_ontario_place_circa_1985/

Takara Tomy's Nike Megatron and Optimus Prime -- Sweet [toys]
http://seibertron.com/news/view.php?id=9840

Psycho Crusher, FTW! - Take 2 -- Short and sweet [video]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=681388403953763543

15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will
http://www.avclub.com/content/node/60935/2

Gallery: The Making of Star Wars -- [images]
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/multimedia/2007/04/gallery_starwars

Enigmarelle & Co. -- Automatons of yesteryear [robots]
http://vitaphone.blogspot.com/2007/04/enigmarelle-co.html

The praying mantis Pool -- Not all are green [images]
http://www.flickr.com/groups/44216186@N00/pool/

Rave.. The kindness of others -- [beautiful]
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/den/306153825.html

StarCraft Origami -- Extensive [images]
http://flickr.com/photos/gluek/226925942/

Visual Walkthroughs -- Relive games you once played [gaming]
http://www.visualwalkthroughs.com/

Vagina Power and Penis Power -- "...all up in her brain." [nsfw] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqg_ceFM30I

Emergy-C, The Low Wattage Palette -- Not all colors are equal, according to Energy Star [environment] [webjo]
http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/emergy-c-low-wattage-palette.html

Julia Stiles is a Hacker -- "Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace?" [humor] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7tazcxWUwk

dinosaur comics -- Same graphics, fresh new texts [comic] [humor]
http://www.qwantz.com/

xkcd -- A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. [comic] [humor]
http://xkcd.com/

Dark Lord of the Sky: Darth Vader Balloon -- [images]
http://starwars.com/community/event/celebration/news20070417b.html

Anti-Span Suits and Booby-Trapped Motions:The Judge was right -- Taken from a slashdot thread [computers] [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=231291&threshold=5&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=18787009

Red Sox Pizza Party 4/16/07 -- Here comes a pizza! [humor] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuN7hmlQrkw

Twenty Sided -- Home of The DM of the Rings. Dungeons and Dragons nerdom galore [humor] [webjo]
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/

The Landlord -- Will Farrell makes me laugh. outtakes [humor] [video]
http://sjl.funnyordie.com//v1/view_video.php?viewkey=3efbc24c7d2583be6925

the ring (fruitbowl) -- Part of the "Ceramics for Breakfast" kitchen design competition [furniture] [design]
http://www.designboom.com/contest/view.php?contest_pk=16&item_pk=11648&p=1

Keepon dancing -- A creature-like robot, has two color CCDs and a microphone. He's a complex little dude, disguised by a cute yellow Peep-esque body [video]
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~marekm/projects/beatbots/

Precious Bodily Fluids -- Clips of General Jack Ripper from Dr. Strangelove. "Women sense my power, and they seek the life essence." [humor] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekw3XVq1uHs

Can't Knock It Down -- Non-weighted object always ends up on one side [science]
http://blog.sciencenews.org/mathtrek/2007/04/cant_knock_it_down.html

Quantum secrets of photosynthesis revealed -- Via Slashdot [science] [slashdot]
http://www.physorg.com/news95605211.html

Super Mario In HELL -- Tortuously difficult custom level [humor] [game]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6033487683088675509

Polyvore -- Real-life dress-up, compare fashion with others [fashion] [web2]
http://www.polyvore.com/

Is It Better to Buy or Rent? -- Calculator [financial]
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/business/2007_BUYRENT_GRAPHIC.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Modern Mechanix -- Print ads from yesteryear [webjo] [history] [images]
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/

Welcome Home, Pioneer -- Mechanized table keeps tumbleweed rolling [technology] [images] [video]
http://www.sslifer.net/welcome_home_pioneer/

Bill Dance fishing bloopers -- [video] [humor]
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Bill+Dance+Fishing

Quake 4: Raytraced -- Via a BBC News article, algorithms developed to take advantage of multiple processors to allow for faster ray-tracing [images]
http://www.d3tr.de

How "Christ, What an Asshole!" is the Answer to the New Yorker Magazine Caption Contest -- [images] [humor]
http://modernarthur.com/blog/christwhatanasshole.html

flickurbook -- Web-interface to export flickr sets to facebook accounts [tool]
http://www.mononexo.com/flickurbook/

Hamster Shredder -- Rather, it's hamster-powered [invention]
http://www.tomballhatchet.com/hamstershredder.html

The Virtual Typewriter Museum -- Naked lunches here [images] [steampunk]
http://www.typewritermuseum.org/

Amazing Visions Gallery Page -- Sci-fi art featured at Seattle's Roq LaRue gallery [images]
http://roqlarue.com/showpages/AmazingVisions/gallery/gallery.html

Urban Counterfeiters -- Exposing corporations who lift designs from artists [images] [webjo]
http://www.urbancounterfeiters.com/

Century-Old Fish Caught in Alaska -- That's just gross [images] [nature]
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070406-oldest-fish.html

Life-sized car model kit -- I like the giant X-Acto knife [images]
http://www.flatheadv8.org/v8bob/carshow.htm

Rape-Stopper's Razor-Sharp Bite -- Just hope the wife remembers to take it out [invention]
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/04/rapestoppers_ra.html

Toronto (proposed) street-furniture renderings, 2007.03.28 -- Via blogto [images] [toronto]
http://flickr.com/photos/joeclark/collections/72157600033365243/

UCSC Engineering Building Attacked by Giant Gorilla -- Post-It Notes pixel-art [images]
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~inio/dk/?fb

We Need A Fourth Law Of Robotics: Stop Fingering My Wife -- Via TheOnion [humor]
http://www.theonion.com/2056-06-22/opinion/1/

Magoto Nagano on Japanese show Ninja Warrior -- Gives hope to 34-year-olds everywhere [video]
http://amazingstufftome.blogspot.com/2007/04/from-japanese-show-ninja-warrior.html

Canada Worse than 3rd World Countries when it comes to Mobile Data Access -- In terms of pricing schemes, anyway [images]
http://www.thomaspurves.com/2007/04/09/canada-worse-than-3rd-world-countries-when-it-comes-to-mobile-data-access/

Leaping Shampoo -- Example of the Kaye effect [video] [science]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX4_3cV_3Mw

Spontaneous Discharge of a Firearm in an MR Imaging Environment -- Freaky but true [story]
http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/full/178/5/1092

trunk monkey 2 -- Not for use in extreme weather conditions [humor] [video]
http://gprime.net/video.php/trunkmonkey2

Top 25 Most Awesome (Video Game) Covers -- [images]
http://xbox.ign.com/articles/776/776392p1.html

Red-light district Pac-Man -- [video] [humor]
http://www.thebbps.com/blog/2007/04/03/red-light-district-pac-man/

Vintage French and Italian Posters -- [images]
http://www.razzia-posters.com/

Satellite map of Vancouver's clear-cut forests -- Kind of disgusting [images]
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=vancouver&ie=UTF8&z=10&ll=49.851266,-120.206909&spn=0.621596,1.275787&t=k&om=1

The Best of Conan -- Conan O'Brien, via YouTube clips [video] [humor]
http://www.uber.com/bestofconan

Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes Of All Time -- [humor]
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/P1/


::200703::

Favicon Picker 2 -- [extension] [firefox]
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3176

User Agent Switcher Extension -- [extension] [firefox] [browser]
http://chrispederick.com/work/useragentswitcher/

Otters holding hands -- [cute] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epUk3T2Kfno

Barcode Doormat -- [furniture]
http://www.perpetualkid.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1942

Mario Bros. Lego -- Stop-motion animation, with accompanying music via recorder [video]
http://www.dailymotion.com/featured/video/x1h08t_mario-bros-lego

Julia Harrison -- Wood carvings of human features [art]
http://www.siennagallery.com/artist-detail.php?record=209

Schmidt Sting Pain Index -- Rates the relative pain caused by different Hymenopteran (largeer insects) stings [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index

Shorpy photos -- The 100-Year-Old photo blog. eg. Leave It to Beaver: 1958 letter in a freeze frame, she blinded me with science, lumberjack, on the road, Amethyst Twilight [webjo] [images]
http://www.shorpy.com/

Guitar Hero 2 - Super Mario Theme Mix 5 -- Custom song [video]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eT3PjnggGl4

Blue Dragon -- More fascinating tropic critters here [images]
http://tinselman.typepad.com/tinselman/2007/03/blue_dragon.html

On My Desk -- Photos of artists' workspaces [webjo]
http://www.on-my-desk.blogspot.com/

Crystal Cave of Giants, Mexico -- Many feet long white selenite (gypsum) crystals [images]
http://www.crystalinks.com/mexicocrystals.html

I know what boys like -- Sung live by the The Waitresses [music] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3lRl_hXzyQ

Rejselplanen -- Denmark public transit (bus and train) route planner [denmark]
http://www.rejseplanen.dk/

Alice's New Adventures -- The trouble with foreign languages [story]
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/story/174970/

Advice to Young Men from an Old Man -- [list]
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/279126743.html

The Endo Magnet Clip -- Simple earth magnet made useful for holding things onto your refrigerator [tool] [furniture]
http://www.theendo.com/

Bizarro Bento -- Pictures made from bento food [food] [images]
http://justinspace.com/blog/?p=353

How to make a starship Enterprise with removable saucer section out of office supplies -- Also see the super simple Bird of Prety, made from the metal flap on 3.5" diskettes [toy]
http://nopepr.googlepages.com/

Wonder Woman, Your Car Is Ready... -- Life-size, wireframe cars [image]
http://news.windingroad.com/etc/wonder-woman-your-car-is-ready%e2%80%a6/

The Next Level Guitar -- Free video guitar lessons [music]
http://www.nextlevelguitar.com/

TrueCrypt -- Free open-source on-the-fly disk encryption software for winXp/2K/Linux [tool]
http://www.truecrypt.org/

Frank Miller movie 300 actor training - The 300 Workout -- via mefi [exercise]
http://joshsgarage.typepad.com/articles/2006/11/frank_miller_mo.html

Country Travel Reports -- From the Canadian Foreign Affairs office [travel]
http://www.voyage.gc.ca/dest/ctry/reportpage-en.asp

Monzy performs at Stanford University -- Kill dash nine (kill -9), rapping old school, linux-stylez [video] [humor]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4

Mind-Control Microbe -- A parasitic infection passed from rat to cat to human [biology]
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/feb/toxoplasma-gondii-culture-sex-ratio

Black Weatherproof disguised Bullet/Stab-proof jacket -- 3 kg /6.6 lbs [shopping]
http://www.spycatcheronline.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=380

The IT Crowd - cut scenes -- [video] [humor]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D389WFmL9IE

.NET Format String 101 -- [programming]
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathykam/archive/2006/09/29/.NET-Format-String-102_3A00_-DateTime-Format-String.aspx

Tim and Eric Awesome Show - Prank Call -- It could float [humor] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCk-zJgmVGg

Best practices for partitioning a hard disk -- Performance tips [howto]
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/tulloch_partition.mspx

A Terrible Thing to Waste -- Eco-terrorist physicist autistic's life in jail [article]
http://www.laweekly.com/general/features/a-terrible-thing-to-waste/15782/?page=1

Polaroid Eyewear -- yeah, cool [images]
http://haha.nu/misc/polaroid-eyewear/

Monty Python - Bruce -- Australian university philosophy department [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f_p0CgPeyA

Skydiver's parachute fails, hits ground, survives -- Footage from the viewpoint of the failed parachute diver, and then from his partner [video]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/mos/skydiver.html?in_article_id=435694

Fotoserie "Scheibenkleister" -- Microscopic photos of squashed gnats [images]
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,19742,00.html

Converting the ACC from hockey to basketball -- Air Canada Centre transformation [toronto] [video]
http://www3.thestar.com/cgi-bin/star_static.cgi?section=plus&page=/Videos/070221_ts_acc_480.html


::200702::

Dexter Walks -- Dynamically balancing bipedal machine [robot] [video]
http://paulgraham.com/anybots.html

PS3 Song -- "How to Kill a Brand" by Doc Adams [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R98qC0fd_1w

Future Shock -- Sci-fi clothing [fashion]
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/style/tmagazine/25tfuture.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

pallalink -- Photos of architecture twisted into odd shapes with striking perspectives [images]
http://www.pallalink.net/

Default Password List -- For routers, modems etc [tech]
http://www.phenoelit.de/dpl/dpl.html

Russian proverbs -- Lost in translation, outdated means hilarious [wikipedia]
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Russian_proverbs

Exterminate! -- Daleks knitted cozies [craft]
http://shigella.livejournal.com/519884.html?view=3621068#t3621068

The Glamour of Flight -- Stewardess promotionals from the 70s [images]
http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2007/02/glamour-of-flight.html

Steampunk walker model -- Robot walks, actually runs on steam?? [images]
http://www.sa.il24.net/%7Etakakuni/stwalker.html

Muslim Cultures photos tagged with patterns -- Eye-numbing [images]
http://flickr.com/groups/islam/pool/tags/patterns/

Steampunk Keyboard Mod -- [howto]
http://steampunkworkshop.com/keyboard.shtml

The International Hedgehog Association -- Gotta love that logo [cute]
http://www.hedgehogclub.com/

AD&D Stats Calculator -- I normally hate these but this one was fun (which everyone says) [internet]
http://www.thehaws.org/add_quiz.shtml

Trying for a 'Smile' -- Article on interaction dynamics of LavaLife [internet]
http://www.thestar.com/Life/article/179371

ParkdaleLiberty -- [toronto] [webjo]
http://www.parkdaleliberty.ca/

What's Special About This Number -- List of numbers 0 through 1000 [math]
http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html

The Visual Index of Science Fiction Cover Art -- Extensive, but not complete. Includes New Worlds, longest running British magazine. [images]
http://www.sfcovers.net/

The Simpsons Movie -- Trailers, opens July 27, 2007 [video]
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/thesimpsonsmovie/

What You Didn't Know About Bruce Lee's Kick-Ass Success -- Mute the video [video] [martialarts]
http://lifecoachesblog.com/2006/09/26/what-you-didnt-know-about-bruce-lees-kick-ass-success-2/

Asian giant hornet -- World's largest wasp, body length of 27 mm to 45 mm [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet

Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch, scammer style! -- This is your 9 o'clock alarm call! [video] [humor]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvyrzQldOKE

YeonDooJung -- Artist creates scenes based on children's drawings [cute] [images]
http://www.yeondoojung.com/wonderland.html

I see the Death Star -- Compares Star Wars arcade game versus traversing Union Square station [video]
http://www.ironicsans.com/2007/02/i_see_the_death_star.html

Daft Punk sample sources -- [music]
http://palmsout.blogspot.com/2007/02/sample-wednesday-27-daft-punk.html

Gianfranco Reverberi -- Sample for Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" [myspace] [music]
http://www.myspace.com/reverberi

Attractors -- Play with particles, two point attractors and a field [flash] [game]
http://www.thecleverest.com/content/attractors.html?

TopGear - all TopGear crew is in danger -- Contest to get attacked in Alabama [video] [humor]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtDo6efybGY

MyParkdale -- Photos from Parkdale, Toronto's west-side rundown downtown [webjo] [toronto]
http://myparkdale.blogspot.com/

Crazy Bruces Liquors -- To the tune of "The Beer Barrel Polka" [video] [humor]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNkK-aQEtMI

Joe Rogan vs Carlos Mencia -- Apparently Mencia steals jokes [video] [humor]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnTRSetqvvQ

unmaintained -- Toronto creative community site [webjo] [toronto]
http://unmaintained.com/

CoilOsapien Robosapien mod impresses, terrifies -- Toy modified to use a bb-gun and flame thrower [toy]
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/coilosapien-robosapien-mod-impresses-terrifies/

Cupcake Courier -- Way to carry those bomb frostings [food]
http://www.cupcakecourier.com/

Microwave Potato Chip Maker -- Looks tasty [food]
http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2007/02/microwave_potat.html

Champagne Chair Contest 2007 -- Chair designs made from champagne corks [furniture]
http://www.dwr.com/champagne/vote.cfm

Optician Attacks 75-Year-Old Reporter (Toronto, Canada) -- Store on King West and Strachan [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5SX_Ms5SdI

Daft Charleston -- Now that's dancing. original [video] [humor]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=339ixMtHrVk

Christopher Walken Prank Call -- From The Lance Krall Show [video] [humor]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yFuldDFmCU

Grizzly Man in Financial Ruin, Selling Halo Suit -- Sad but true [invention]
http://crunchgear.com/2007/02/06/grizzly-man-in-financial-ruin-selling-halo-suit/

GirlAlive -- The British Food Experience -- As experienced by an American [food]
http://www.girlalive.com/food

ikea hacker -- Modifications to Ikea furniture [furniture]
http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com

"Pump Up The Jam" - Sondra Prill -- Early 90s public access version [video] [humor]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z50ll1wC6F0

The Legened of Zelda Theme on theremin -- Accompanied [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJYho56INKU

Super Mario Brothers Theme Song - Homemade Versions -- A collection of videos, various quality [video]
http://www.fantent.com/2007/02/06/super-mario-brothers-theme-song-homemade-versions/

Russian Puzzle -- Hard one-time tangram-esque puzzle [puzzle] [flash]
http://www.grand-illusions.com/articles/russian_puzzle/

The World's First Surfing Mice - The Radical Rodents -- They're pretty laid back [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdbxLk8_C8c

Rag-Tag Group of Misfits to Win War, Learn Important Lesson -- I love it when a plan comes together [war]
http://wonkette.com/politics/iraq/ragtag-group-of-misfits-to-win-war-learn-important-lesson-233926.php

Scientology and Germany -- Also see the Scientology in Germany FAQ [scientology]
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/krasel/germany/

Karin Spaink -- The Fishman Affidavit -- Details of a successful defence against a Co$ lawsuit, and includes core, otherwise private Co$ literature [scientology]
http://www.spaink.net/fishman/home.html

Prison in Japan: Part 2 "The Beginning" -- Account of life in Japanese prison system [story]
http://www.stippy.com/japan-life/gaijin-in-a-japanese-prison-2/

Scientology Lies -- Anti-Co$ site [scientology]
http://www.scientology-lies.com/

Mastermind -- A javascript version of Mastermind. nb v0.4 same color logic doesn't work [game]
http://www.irt.org/games/js/mind/index.htm

Landmark Reunion for Mastermind Box Models -- From June 2003, the old intellectual and the young asian lady [image]
http://www.le.ac.uk/press/press/landmarkreunion.html

robot ride 5 -- Dude gets a ride from a large robotic arm [googlevideo]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7472502197006303244

Wikimedia Fundraising CORE -- People love wikipedia [wikipedia]
http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/

Sculpted Lighted Bra -- Makes me laugh [fashion]
http://www.enlighted.com/pages/nervebra.shtml


::200701::

games.pixeljam.com -- Webjo for pixeljam, the makers of Gamma Bros. interview, artwork [webjo]
http://pixeljamgames.blogspot.com/

Milk meets Coffee -- High speed photography of droplets of milk hitting coffee [images]
http://www.pbase.com/daria90/milk_meets_coffee_splashes

Speak n Spell -- Lite version of the Texas Instruments educational toy [flash]
http://www.speaknspell.co.uk/

JBidWatcher: eBay bidding, sniping & monitoring software for all -- [ebay] [tool]
http://www.jbidwatcher.com/

Breakdance baby -- How does he not hurt himself? [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7yWFh9yxtc

Led Zeppelin - Jimmy Page age 14 -- "teenagers were polite back then , unlike the shitheads we raised these days" [video] [music]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epXeC40P80o

shuffleparty.com -- Modern club dance mixes, nights [toronto] [music]
http://www.shuffleparty.com/

My Kinda Town -- HDR image of Chicago, lots of other great HDR pics [flickr] [image]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/217440037/

Kitty Washing Machine -- Cat seems to love it [video] [humor]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eDe3D3Afh9Y

Net Neutrality in Canada -- Highlighting telecommunication freedom issues in Canada [petition]
http://www.neutrality.ca

50 Fun Facts About Credit Cards -- By fun, they mean depressing [list]
http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/50-fun-facts-about-credit-cards.html

The Ad Generator -- Pairs randomized slogans with flickr images. Would be more interesting if the slogans were dynamically generated from the flickr tags [images]
http://www.theadgenerator.org/

Luhn algorithm -- Popular number test formula [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm

Wiimote Controlled Murder Robot -- Wiimote hooked up to control a robotic arm [gizmodo]
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/robots/wiimote-controlled-murder-robot-231550.php

Sukiyaki (Ue o muite arukoo) -- "Sukiyaki", song by Kyu Sakamoto from 1961 [music]
http://www.maddmansrealm.com/sukiyaki/

Piano Hero -- Learn piano, the Guitar Hero way. For MIDI [game] [music]
http://www.halitestudios.com/pianohero.aspx

The handmade Star Wars -- Trench battle scene, re-enacted with hand acting [video] [starwars]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IbV7ad2xgY

Reading Toronto -- Hub of Toronto goings-on [webjo] [toronto]
http://readingt.readingcities.com/

Video Games Live - Class game themes orchestrated -- Fun. History of video games musical [video] [music] [game]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVHGy9XEF9I

Alternate Reality - The City -- Intro sequence to the incredible game, Alternate Reality - The City (1985)(!). Gameplay snippet (inside a store) [video] [game]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHszmNNjY-Y

atari1982 -- Wer hat schon Atari gespielt? [video] [humor]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJyRTNZf1hs

paperrobots1999.com -- Download free PDFs, print and cut'n'fold them to make robots [toy]
http://www.paperrobots1999.com/

hook, line and succor! -- Daffy is proud [cartoon] [humor] [ninjalicker]
http://bugi.oulu.fi/~heikkiv/chan/reipasta.jpg

Star Trek Bonanza -- Photoshopped Star Trek scenes [ninjalicker] [humor] [somethingawful] [images]
http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=4396

The Luminous Landscape Tutorials -- Handy step-by-step Photoshop techniques [photoshop] [tutorial]
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/

ToyVault - Cthulhu -- Cthulhu-themed plush toys [shopping]
http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/

Tokyo Nightscape -- HDR photo taken from Roppongi Hills Mori building [image] [flickr]
http://flickr.com/photos/altus/322152193/

bob_basset's Journal -- Custom-made leather masks and other assortments (like these folding wings) [livejournal] [clothing]
http://bob-basset.livejournal.com/

Urologist slices perfectly ok penis -- Naum Ciomu "strikes" again [mefi] [gross]
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/57894

A Year in Pyongyang -- North Korea by Andrew Holloway -- Via mefi [book]
http://www.aidanfc.net/a_year_in_pyongyang.html

Top 10 CSS Tips -- [css]
http://www.72dpiintheshade.com/2007/01/16/top-10-css-tips-from-a-professional-css-architect/

Why I Don't Wear a Suit and Can't Figure Out Why Anyone Does! -- Some ideas I think many of us had [webjo]
http://www.blogmaverick.com/2007/01/16/why-i-dont-wear-a-suit-and-cant-figure-out-why-anyone-does/

Weirdest Japanese product ever on Flickr -- It's an expanding goose. [translation] [picture] [flickr]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gjagiello/360800348/

Normal Room -- Public gallery of photos of rooms in regular people's homes [pictures]
http://www.normalroom.com/

Shary Boyle -- Check out those crazy porcelain sculptures [art]
http://www.sharyboyle.com/

Wave Bubble -- A design for a self-tuning portable RF jammer [technology] [tool]
http://www.ladyada.net/make/wavebubble/

100 Person Flashmob Randomly Chasing After People -- [humor] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj0Ma2CsHME

Inventor Slims Down Exoskeletal Body Armor -- Troy Hurtubise is at it again, this time with a cheaper, lighter version of his fabled body armor [slashdot] [technology]
http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/01/15/1539221.shtml

Contour Crafting -- Manufacturing buildings by printing out concrete, reducing time, waste, and price (~50% is labour) [technology] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7r-qlKkUo

3D Printers To Build Houses -- Machine prints out concrete [slashdot] [technology]
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/01/15/0038259.shtml

Exploring the tunnels behind Niagara Falls -- [pictures] [ontario]
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=5921

Windows 386 Promo Video -- That's pretty fsked up right there [humor] [video]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4915875929930836239#7m00s

Infamous Domo-Kun's Angry Smashfest -- A mixture of many classic 80s game but starring Domokun [flash] [game]
http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/domo/

Hapkido Master -- Small joint locks (mostly wrist) demonstrated by a spry old man [video] [martialarts]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yZihj8Fi98&NR

Online Education Free -- Links to lessons on various topics [list]
http://www.eliteskills.com/free_education/

the hater -- She hates things, has levels of annoyance. I like it [webjo]
http://www.avclub.com/content/hater

The rise and fall of the "bus plunge" story -- Printing technology does away with the need for newspaper shorts [slate]
http://www.slate.com/id/2152895/nav/tap1/

Making Light: BBC Hamsters -- List of BBC articles involving hamsters since 1998 []
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008516.html#008516

Wireless Toronto -- Providing free WiFi hotspots in Toronto [toronto]
http://wirelesstoronto.ca/

soviet roadside bus-stops -- Photos from a desolated world of yesteryear [pictures]
http://www.polarinertia.com/jan07/bus01.htm

The Dungeon Master & Chaos Strikes Back Encyclopaedia -- Statistics, downloads, images, everything [game]
http://dmweb.free.fr/

Kobayashi vs Giant Bear -- Man versus Ursidae [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgqbCq_sxmo

Tower Defence by Roman Sanine -- A low frills version of Tower Defense [flash] [game]
http://www.jeannettevejarano.com/games/tower-defence.html

Tower Defense -- Based on Warcraft III gauntlets [flash] [game]
http://novelconcepts.co.uk/FlashElementTD/

Shark -- Amateur production from 1978, by 12 year olds [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L2Igd6uCrA

Global Dimming -- BBC documentary [video]
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15809.htm

the ramen blog & other goodies -- Ramen stuff, webjo [food]
http://www.ramenramenramen.net/

The Official Ramen Homepage -- Recipes, reviews, news [food]
http://mattfischer.com/ramen/

Why the housing inflation? -- A History of Home Values [shopping]
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/08/why-housing-inflation.html

Sex -- 34 kama-sutra positions, animated. Hypnotic, really [nsfw] [pictures]
http://www.dimulka.aha.ru/sex/

Bob Cringely's tech predictions for 2007 -- Includes the summaries of his 2006 ones [tech]
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070105_001440.html

Starbucks Economics : The mystery of the "short" cappucino -- [slate]
http://www.slate.com/id/2133754/

What Does 200 Calories Look Like? -- [pictures]
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-200-calories-look-like.htm

Serial Diners -- Meets to eat at every restaurant in the Toronto Yellow Pages, once a week. Alphabetically [toronto]
http://www.probability.ca/diners/

Champagne Sabering -- Instructions for sabering open a bottle [howto]
http://www.champagnesabering.com/index.php?id=4

Metal Pen -- Pen that writes with metal, no ink involved [shopping]
http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/info_48.html

Triple "A" Battery Hack -- Extract 6 AAAA batteries (usable as AAAs) from a single 9 volt battery [hack]
http://www.axecollector.com/aaa.html

Toronto Top 10 Roundups -- Lists from Now, the Toronto Star, Spacing.ca, Exclaim! [blogto]
http://www.blogto.com/city/2007/01/toronto_top_10_roundups/

Falling from space -- From a (fisheye lensed) camera mounted on a rocket booster of the space shuttle Atlantis [video]
http://www.glumbert.com/media/spacefall


::200612::

Weird Japanese "instructional" vid: Let's Sexy English -- Almost not safe for work. The "real world" scenario is amusing [boingboing] [youtube]
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/19/weird_japanese_instr.html

teplin.com -- Neat, detailed floor layout drawings [art] [cute] [pictures]
http://www.teplin.com/

founditemclothing -- Shirts from movies, tv shows [shopping]
http://www.founditemclothing.com/

Alan Partridge Zone -- Scripts for "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and "I'm Alan Partridge" [show]
http://www.gazmac.freeserve.co.uk/alanpart.htm

The Great War : Postcards -- [pictures] [retro]
http://beck.library.emory.edu/greatwar/postcards/browse.php

Cats & Mice -- Ornate armor for cats and mice [pictures]
http://www.jeffdeboer.com.nyud.net:8080/Galleries/CatsMice/tabid/63/moduleid/396/viewkey/photo/photoid/7/Default.aspx

Phil Hartman Wigs Out for Hockey for Atari 2600 -- [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lROb1vWNiig

La erotica del robot -- Robots and women, ooh la la [images] [retro] [robots]
http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2006/12/la-ertica-del-robot_26.html

Sexy Losers -- An (extremely) adult comic made in the manga style. Commentaries provided, some Japanese trivia [comic] [nsfw]
http://www.sexylosers.com/

Joseph Kittinger -- Jumped 102,800 feet (31,300 m) for Project Man High in 1960, was first man in space and to see the curvature of the earth unaided. Some of that footage was used in Boards of Canada: "Dayvan Cowboy" [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger

'boards - Screening Room -- Find, watch clever/original/influential commercials and music videos from around the world. nb: Over 3000 videos, starting with the classic Golden Shower - Video Computer System from 2000 [music] [video]
http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/

Partizan - Music Videos -- Artsy [music] [video]
http://partizan.com/partizan/musicvideos/

OK Go - Here It Goes Again -- Four guys, eight treadmills [video] [music]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI

Pachelbel Rant -- Pachelbel's Canon in D -- comedy or reality? [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM

Monkey Steals the Peach (Ninja Mind Control) -- They sure do... they sure do. [humor] [martialarts]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/theremina/17267938/

Grappling Techniques -- Also shrimping, half wall spins, kneemount spin armbar, turtle flips, etc. [martialarts]
http://www.grapplearts.com/Technique-List.htm

Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul -- Mod that turns off level-scaling in TES4:Oblivion, and add a lot of other tweaks [videogame]
http://jorgeoscuro.googlepages.com/

the other internal arts -- Thread on pa-kua/kung fu [mefi] [martialarts]
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/57132

Guy Kawasaki Interviews Steve Wozniak -- Co-founder of Apple talks for an hour on himself, Apple [video]
http://www.zbiz.tv/2006/11/19/guy-%20kawasaki-interviews-steve-wozniak/

The IT Crowd -- Official website (with scripts!) [show]
http://www.theitcrowd.co.uk/

Reg Kehoe & His Marimba Queesn - A Study In Brown -- Check out that crazy bassist [ballin] [youtube]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6VLrdgnq6eM

The Most Dangerous Roads in the World
http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2006/11/most-dangerous-roads-in-world.html

Ren and Stimpy in "Life Sucks" Animatic -- Storyboard reel from an epic R&S story. Never produced. [video]
http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2006/12/ren-and-stimpy-in-life-sucks-animatic.html

Young Folks -- Peter Bjorn And John, feature Victoria Bergsman, formerly of "The Concretes". Lyrics. [music] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51V1VMkuyx0

The Nietzsche Family Circus -- Pairs a randomized Family Circus cartoon with a randomized Friedrich Nietzsche quote. [humor]
http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/

Tony vs. Paul -- Amusing amateur stop-motion clip [ninjalicker] [video]
http://www.livevideo.com/video/81E5007774984E60A52CF5E2BABCB189/tony+vs+paul.aspx

Top 10 Gamer Cakes -- [food] [ninjalicker]
http://www.younewb.com/index.php/2006/12/12/top-10-gamer-cakes/

Child's Play Part II from 1UP.com -- Kids review old school games [humor] [ninjalicker]
http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3137498

The page cannot be displayed -- Print ad for books [advert]
http://www.scaryideas.com/Adverts/booksplus.html

Thundarr the Barbarian -- Before He-Man, there was Thundarr!! [retro] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhAobPugvsk

OpenSundaes -- Bath and beauty products, made to look like sweets [shopping]
http://www.opensundaes.com/

Shopping Zen -- Artsy fartsy urban trendster junk [boingboing] [shopping]
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/15/web_zen_shopping_zen.html

Hannibal Deuce -- All-in-one media PVR box [appliance] [shopping]
http://store02.prostores.com/servlet/tvease/Detail?no=8

Bruce Lee's Hong Kong Years -- [martialarts] [growl]
http://www.chusaulei.com/martial/articles/articles_brucelee1.html

Hachiko -- The dog Fry's Seymour in the "Jurassic Bark" episode of Futurama was based on [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachiko

Verizon Can't Do Math -- [slashdot]
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/09/0625245

How to help someone use a computer -- [howto]
http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/how-to-help.html

Misconfigured Webserver, Threats to Call FBI -- The Tuttle, Oklahoma story of the City Manager versus CentOS [slashdot] [humor]
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/27/135221&tid=133

The LHwanarithm -- Shameless self promotion! Hwan's Natural Logarithm Algorithm [math]
http://www.hwan.com/journal/lhwan.html

Knytt -- Cute game of exploration and jumping (installation required) [game]
http://knytt.ni2.se/

Paper iPod Covers free from iPaperCraft.com -- Upload a photo, creates a printable cutout template [tool]
http://www.ipapercraft.com/

Verbotomy! The creative word challenge -- Create a word to match the definition (accompanied by amusing drawings) [game]
http://www.verbotomy.com/

OnDemand Action Figure Builder Tool -- Not a lot to choose from, and male only []
http://www.vicale.com/maleondemand/

Bennett Robot Works -- Model robots, not actual functioning robots [images]
http://bennettrobotworks.com/

Battlestar Galacticsimpsons -- [images] [simpsons]
http://community.livejournal.com/pantsketch/99256.html

NASA TV -- Streaming NASA feed [video]
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

Install multiple versions of IE on your PC -- [tool]
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE

kdice -- Multiplayer DiceWars! [game] [flash]
http://www.kdice.com/

Roy Benavidez -- 37 bullet and bayonet puncture wounds! omg hackz [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Benavidez

Republic of Korea Marine Corps -- A kill ratio of 25:1! omg hackz!! most impressive [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Korea_Marine_Corps

IE Browser Compatibility Checker -- Displays (graphically) how a page renders in various IE browsers, and even the differences between them. Seconds as an anonymous browser [elven] [tool]
http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/index.php

Complete History of Final Fantasy -- Recap of all FF games up to FFXIII (via mefi) [googlevideo]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1549225267032652048

DB Fletcher Furniture Design -- Fascinating expanding/collapsing table [furniture]
http://www.dbfletcher.com/capstan/

The FruitCake Lady Remembered -- Segment from Jay Leno's The Tonight Show [video] [humor]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uSkuumT3f48

Scary 'Mary Poppins' Trailer -- [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic

Exif Jpeg header and thumbnail manipulator program -- Remove extraneous meta-data from digital photos [tool]
http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/

South Park Avatar Generator -- [flash]
http://www.sp-studio.de/

MoMAstore -- NYC's Museum of Modern Art online store [shopping]
http://www.momastore.org/

77 Design Gifts Under $77 -- [boingboing] [shopping]
http://www.core77.com/ultimategiftguide/

FlipClips -- Convert movies into flipbooks [shopping]
https://www.flipclips.com

Live Action Hamster Video Game -- Features music from "Monty on the Run" [video] [cute] [boingboing]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYSbPthEfAg

kids in the hall dating -- panty peeler [boingboing] [youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0ASm7MbgcM


::200611::

Neverwinter Nights 2 Performance Tweaks -- [game]
http://rwillmore.wordpress.com/2006/11/07/neverwinter-nights-2-performance-tweaks/

Zombie Portraits -- Have your picture zombified [substatica] [shopping]
http://www.zombieportraits.com/

Capoeira Basics -- [martialarts]
http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h96b/h9650297/cap-basics.html

If you dig straight down, where will you end up? -- Uses googlemaps [informational] [ninjalicker]
http://www.ubasics.com/dighole/

How to fix a flat tire -- Bicycle tire [informational]
http://www.bicyclinglife.com/HowTo/FixAFlat.htm

100 Greatest British Television Programmes -- [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Greatest_British_Television_Programmes

Jackass the Movie (unrated): The Failed Ending -- Alternate ending featuring a Rube Goldberg machine [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApjOaY5E_IY

Imagini -- Intuitive gift-chooser (via substatica) [flash] [shopping] [substatica]
http://www.imagini.net/

Watch Intro Clips of 1980s Cartoons -- Nostalgia, sweet animated nostalgia [ninjalicker] [youtube]
http://izreloaded.blogspot.com/2006/11/watch-intro-clips-of-1980s-cartoons.html

What kids think about marriage -- Had me laughing quite hard [humor] [ninjalicker]
http://whistlingwoods.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/what-kids-think-about-marriage/

Mitsuoka Micro Cars -- cute cars, some are assemble-yourself [technology]
http://www.mitsuoka-motor.com/english/lineup/microcar/index.html

The James Bond title sequences -- Openings from Bond films [video]
http://martinklasch.blogspot.com/2006/11/video-james-bond-title-sequences.html

Test your musical skills in 6 minutes! -- Checks ability to distinguish two samples of music [flash] [test] [substatica]
http://jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/

The Trailer Mash: Movie trailers, recut. -- Thankfully most are well done [flash] [video] [ninjalicker]
http://www.thetrailermash.com/

Make TJ Drink -- Mastermind-variant with video [game] [flash] [humor] [ninjalicker]
http://www.maketjdrink.com/

Amateur - Lasse Gjertsen -- Video/song ("By and with") made from numerous edits [video] [music]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo

Worst Burglar Ever -- Botched liquor store robbery [video] [humor] [substatica]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mim90zCi34Y

findit game -- Difficult "find the slowly changing thing" game [flash] [game]
http://newyorkdesign.hp.infoseek.co.jp/menu06.html

CSA Images -- Cool pictures [images]
http://www.csaimages.com/modart.asp

Zamzar - Free online file conversion -- [tool] [substatica]
http://www.zamzar.com/

blogTO | Toronto Blog -- a collaborative blog about Toronto, by urban hipsters [blog] [toronto]
http://blogto.com/

Ollies Dance Experience -- cute version of dance dance revolution [cute] [game] [flash]
http://www.armorgames.com/games/olliesdanceexperience_popup.html

Harpoon Lagoon -- flash game [fishing]
http://www.gameshero.com/online/harpoonlagoon-flash.html

Toon Crisis -- flash game [shoot'em] [up]
http://www.tooncrisis.com/

MC Miker G and DJ Sven - Holiday Rap -- [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNeATODLKZY

Excuse me, Princess! -- Link's infamous catchphrase from 1989 Zelda cartoon -- [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPxY8lpYAUM

images on the fly -- simple language for creating images
http://martin.gleeson.com/fly/

Blazin Hazen Demo Polished - Denny Blazin Hazen -- buff white rapper = ugh -- [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBIuPFu3IU8

Gamma Bros. -- awesome 8-bit style shoot'em/dodge'em -- [game] [flash]
http://www.pixeljam.com/gammabros/online/

Good Experience Games -- listing of fun, free online games -- [game]
http://www.goodexperience.com/games/

Crossword -- fill in the blanks -- [game] [flash]
http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/crossword/crossword.html

Funny Captions for Cats, vaguely geek -- Updated 20070208 [image] [humor]
http://www.knitemare.org/cats/

Dicewars -- hyper Risk (mefi thread) -- [game] [flash]
http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/dice/dice.html

Borat Deleted Scenes -- [video] [humor]
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=borat+deleted

Elastic bands' twang in super-slow motion -- [science]
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10421-elastic-bands-twang-in-superslow-motion.html

When Bollards Attack -- Enforcing traffic with spikes -- [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Cw0QJU8ro

Real-Time 3D in Javascript -- js/DOM/css -- [programming]
http://www.uselesspickles.com/triangles/demo.html


::200610::

Global Voices Online > Human Rights Video -- blog
http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/human-rights-video/

The Ultra-Extreme Calorie Restriction Diet Test -- Longevity through efficient eating
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/news/features/23169/index.html

The Dilbert Blog: Good News Day -- Triumph in the battle with Spasmodic Dysphonia
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/10/good_news_day.html

Pop Art Inspired by Lichtenstein -- [image]
http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-popart.html

Six Word Story -- [flickr]
http://www.flickr.com/groups/sixwordstory/

How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography -- [howto]
http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-make-digital-photos-look-like-lomo-photography/

Household items, revisted (some in a practical way) -- [image]
http://www.atelier-v.ch/

Home Inspection Nightmares
http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/tohnews/gallery/0,25895,1220600,00.html

David Lee Roth performing "Jump", Bluegrass style -- [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX9qcggRo18

SomethingAwful Physics -- Amusing classical mechanics demonstrations -- [video] [humor]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PHpRKr_tnE

ErrorZilla -- Extension that makes the default Firefox error screen useful -- [firefox]
http://roachfiend.com/archives/2006/08/28/errorzilla-useful-error-pages-for-firefox/

Rock Band Name Origins
http://library.thinkquest.org/4626/rock.htm

Please Teach Me English (part 1 of 11) -- Korean chick comedy -- [video]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=v5wGzUsSaP4

Koreanfilm.org
http://www.koreanfilm.org/

WOm! WAm! Women doing things to men (via mefi, blogged) -- [image]
http://www.womwam.net/

Battle of the Bands -- album covers, animated -- [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6bUD9PJ6i8

EZ Catch Chicken Harvester -- [video]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uRwNJxk8LrQ

Ruben's Tube -- demonstration -- [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpovwbPGEoo

Stickman Madness -- Shooting game -- [flash] [game]
http://www.digyourowngrave.com/stickman-madness/

The Online Video Game Atlas -- Maps of games
http://vgmaps.com/Atlas/

Tunnel Rush -- Reflex game -- [flash] [game]
http://www.vivalagames.com/play/tunnelrush/

8 BIT - a documentary about art and video games
http://www.8bitmovie.com/

Biff Sings
http://www.break.com/index/biff_sings.html

Texas Hold'em Poker Hands - Rankings by Winning Percentage Strength
http://www.beatthefish.com/poker-strategy/texas-holdem-poker-hands.html

The value of commitment -- reflections on my 10 year wedding anniversary (as it relates to poker)
http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2006/10/02/the-value-of-commitment-reflections-on-my-10-year-wedding-anniversary-as-it-relates-to-poker/

How to make roses from maple leaves -- [howto]
http://haha.nu/creative/how-to-make-roses-from-maple-leaves/

Torontoist: Our TTC Swag Suggestions
http://www.torontoist.com/archives/2006/10/our_ttc_swag_su.php

Skeeter Bag -- Catch mosquitos with a box fan
http://skeeterbag.com/

Start Developer Center - Atlas Runtime Reference -- [programming]
http://start.com/developer/atlasruntime.aspx

Africam -- Africam webcam with sounds
http://www.srobbin.com/africam.php

Swedish Ninja Police -- [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0R2mQRg4Dk

Brand New Sprint Commercial -- Sprint vs Cingular Spaghetti shoot-out draw (funny) (source: My Name Is Nobody) -- [video] [humor]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4vNINn1uMk


::200609::

Mozzy Tones -- That high-frequency tone only kids hear
http://www.mozzytones.co.uk/moztone.cfm

Says-It.com -- Home of the Cassette Generator. Create images with custom text
http://www.says-it.com/

Animal-Controlled Computer Games -- Crickets as ghosts in PacMan
http://pong.hku.nl/~wim/bugman.htm

How to set up a mail server on a GNU/Linux system -- [programming]
http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/

Morrowind - Infinite View Distance -- mod
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=559579

BBC Stuff -- Old broadcast equipment -- [flickr]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthew_sylvester/sets/72157594175872235/

James Jean -- illustrator (also has a blog) -- [image]
http://jamesjean.com/

MIT's intelligent aircraft fly, cooperate autonomously
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/flyingrobots.html

Joe Mathlete Explains Today's Marmaduke -- Makes funny that which is otherwise banal -- [humor]
http://marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com/

The Internet's Biggest Google Whores -- Who makes the most off AdSense?
http://www.johnchow.com/index.php/the-internets-biggest-google-whores/

Website-ready color schemes -- [programming]
http://www.colorschemer.com/schemes/

Who Called Us -- Database of unknown caller phone numbers
http://whocalled.us/

SquidSoap -- Trains people to wash thoroughly
http://www.squidsoap.com/

Presidential Doodles
http://www.presidentialdoodles.com/

Mind Performance Hacks
http://www.ludism.org/mentat/MindPerformanceHacks

c64orchestra -- C64 games redone, orchestrally -- [myspace]
http://www.myspace.com/c64orchestra

The Internet Craftsmanship Museum -- Technically impressive hand-made curiosities
http://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/

Time Magazine's All-Time Top 100 Novels
http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html

usbcell -- Batteries that charge on USB without needing extra dongles
http://www.usbcell.com/

moo | we love to print -- internet printing service, check out their mini-cards
http://www.moo.com/

Honda Jazz Spot 2006 - Tetris - German -- [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR3VNH0UjRk

Games and Interactive Activities -- Interesting moral/philosophical games -- [game]
http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/

ZBrush Gallery -- [image]
http://206.145.80.239/zbc/featured2col.php

How They Found Pussy (SFW) -- [image]
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/UFDC.aspx?c=juv&bib=UF00049570&vid=00001

When the Levees Collapsed -- Spike Lee's Katrina/New Orleans documentary -- [video]
http://ticklebooth.com/2006/09/spike-lee-joints-on-youtube/

Top Digital Cameras -- Based on volume. Sample taken from flickr.com. Good blog to boot.
http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/topcameras.php

Bloodsport Mentos -- [humor]
http://www.break.com/index/bloodsport_mentos.html

Response to: "If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about" -- MeFi discussion
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/39312

Surf Versions of Classical Themes -- [music]
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/09/japanese_surf_v.html

The Wooden Periodic Table Table -- More practical as a website
http://theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/

KITT vs KARR -- "Never say never, partner" (flash) -- [flash]
http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=2216

Building a Balancing Scooter -- Make your own Segway -- [howto]
http://www.tlb.org/scooter.html

Banksy -- Provocative graffiti art -- [image]
http://www.banksy.co.uk/

Your Karate is No Good -- Mefi thread on martial arts training
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/54422

VirtualStapler.com -- Hours of clicking satisfaction
http://www.virtualstapler.com/

Warbears -- Cute puzzle game -- [flash] [game]
http://jayisgames.com/archives/2006/02/warbears.php

Lake Superior State University: Banished Words List -- Stop word spin!
http://www.lssu.edu/banished/


::200608::

Bill Watterson's Rarest! -- Little-seen Calvin and Hobbes -- [image]
http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople/watterson.html

Virtual Apple 2 -- emulator (includes Oregon Trail)(requires IE) -- [game]
http://www.virtualapple.org/

Solla Solla Enna Perumai -- dancing maniac (related:Jan Pehechaan Ho) -- [video] [humor]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S48w8pMLrLk

Ad-supported Textbooks Are Here -- [slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/articles/06/08/27/0710228.shtml

Schneier on Security
http://www.schneier.com/blog/

Six Horrifying Parasites -- gross -- [science]
http://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/21/six-horrifying-parasites/

Home of the Twisted Films of PES -- Stop-go animation (eg. Game Over)
http://www.eatpes.com/

Star Wars matte paintings for Episode III -- [image]
http://www.dusso.com/pages/EP3/EP3main.html

2006 MTV Movie Awards - Gnarls Barkley "Crazy" -- video done in StarWars (original, nelly furtado) -- [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VCWJVvE0Fk

AOL Log Search -- See what AOL users are looking for
http://czern.homeip.net/aolsearch/

CSS3 Preview -- opacity! rounded corners! text shadows! -- [programming]
http://www.css3.info/preview/

Cat Bath -- high quality pictorial -- [image] [cute]
http://files.kavefish.com/pictures/collections/cat_bath/_index-list.html

Chuck Norris Facts -- Old now, but still alive and kicking (and incidently, hilarious) -- [humor]
http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/

Self Defense Lesson -- Remix makes it slightly more entertaining that it already is -- [humor]
http://www.freephotosandvideos.com/worksafe.php?vid=CszahclUQlU&c=Self_Defense_Lessons

What's The Greatest Software Ever Written? -- as discussed on slashdot
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=191901844

BreakDance -- Impressive jelly legs boy, David Elsewhere (as seen in commercials) (google video)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1404732775318565066

Inconspicuous Consumption -- Consumer culture commentary
http://www.core77.com/inconspicuous/

Bad Mags -- eg. occult sex -- [image] [nsfw]
http://www.badmags.com/

SwissMiniGun -- Tiny functional revolver
http://www.swissminigun.com/home.html

Photoshop tutorial on converting house to a haunted house -- [howto]
http://www.seb4d.com/tutorials/Mattepainting/mattepainting_english.htm

A Scanner Darkly -- Teaser, interviews
http://media.filmforce.ign.com/media/670/670907/vids_1.html

the sound of clothes -- [quicktime] [nsfw]
http://showstudio.com/projects/anechoic/movies/

Darth Vader being a smartass -- [video] [humor]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5blbv4WFriM

Dangerous Beauty: The Art of the Shiv -- [image]
http://www.designobserver.com/archives/016492.html


::200607::

Fuzzy Logic and its Uses
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~nd/surprise_96/journal/vol1/sbaa/article1.html

Interactive Periodic Table -- [science]
http://www.touchspin.com/chem/DisplayTable.html

Speed Test -- Bandwidth speedtest
http://www.wugnet.com/myspeed/speedtest.asp

codefetch{ -- search engine for code textbooks -- [programming]
http://www.codefetch.com/

Find five errors -- challenging puzzle -- [game]
http://teppo.tv/pelisali/index_en.html

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (1936)
http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-friends.html

How to use knockd (port knocking) -- [programming]
http://www.ducea.com/2006/07/05/how-to-safely-connect-from-anywhere-to-your-closed-linux-firewall/

CookingByNumbers.com -- Tells you what you're capable of making based on your inventory
http://www.cookingbynumbers.com/frames.html

101 Zen Stories
http://www.101zenstories.com/

NumberSpiral.com -- Interesting number relationship diagram
http://www.numberspiral.com/

artPad -- On-line painting
http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/

787 Cliparts -- Stringed together into an animation -- [quicktime]
http://oliverlaric.com/787cliparts.htm

Bedtime for kitty -- [cute]
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=18736

Top 50 Movie Endings of All Time -- (spoilers)
http://filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/95a45e26914c25ff862562bb006a85f2/394a496e465c4f38882571b900114dc5?OpenDocument

Motor scooter propels merry-go-round, results in centrifugal foolery
http://www.random-good-stuff.com/random_good_stuff/2006/07/omg_funniest_vi.html

sword vs bullet (google video)(?)
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-3818187790122256202

chindogu -- foolish Japanese inventions
http://thenonist.com/index.php/weblog/permalink/chindogu/

Entertainment Weekly's Top 25 Most Controversial Movies
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/commentary/0,6115,1202224_1_0_,00.html

Puppy dream (wmv, cute)
http://www.funmansion.com/html/Puppy-Dreams.html

Gallery of defunct underground Soviet submarine base
http://russos.livejournal.com/210363.html

Yahoo!'s bad parking jobs (flickr)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ycantpark/

Aptana: Free JavaScript IDE
http://www.aptana.com/

Let's be friends -- Cute pairs of animals
http://letsbefriends.blogspot.com/

Dr. Geek Rocks the Mic -- BluBlocker rapper in sombrero
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cxdMjC2BTwc

Litha-Paint: Browser-based paint program
http://litha-paint.com/

Strange statues around the world
http://haha.nu/funny/strange-statues-around-the-world

The f*cking short version of The Big Lebowski
http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1700131/

The Huffington Post -- World news blog, often featuring celebrity contributions
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Marx Brothers - Corbaccio at the Keys (youtube)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L-oXrstU6c8

A Different Kind of Al Gore Movie -- Short filmed by Spike Jonze in 1999
http://scienceblogs.com/worldsfair/2006/06/speakng_of_al_gore.php

Human Space Invaders -- Animated with people as pixels (qt, non-qt)
http://www.notsonoisy.com/spaceinvaders/index.html

Tremulous -- free, open-source FPS multiplayer game
http://tremulous.net/

A simple Linux backup method
http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT2280165098.html

Penetration Test -- schematic on computer hacking strategy
http://www.vulnerabilityassessment.co.uk/Penetration%20Test.html

Underwater Image Competition 2006
http://www.serpentproject.com/imagecompentries.php

Hammer and Tickle -- Essay on Russian jokes
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7412

Sugar gliders -- Flying possum flickr set
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yoko69/sets/72057594120701489/

Blonde on game show -- Confused on meaning of "urban" -- [humor] [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fG87ODtQd4

Cat massages dog -- Human-added voiceover -- [humor] [video]
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=3466744123168655228

The 9 -- Yahoo!'s daily links videocast (featuring Maria Sansone)
http://9.yahoo.com/

Bunny Yawns -- pictures of rabbits yawning (vaguely scary)
http://talkingegg.com/humor/bunnyyawns.html

Futurama Star Billy West Answers Slashdot Questions
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/05/1555200

The New Diamond Age -- Wired article from 11.09 2003
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html

The Diamond Age -- MeFi discussion on cheap diamonds
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/52902

Ricky Gervais: Office Values Pt 2 -- short shot for Microsoft
http://www.devilducky.com/media/47943/

Ricky Gervais: Office Values Pt 1 -- short shot for Microsoft
http://www.devilducky.com/media/47944/

Movie scenes as done in Russian folk art
http://ziza.ru/2006/06/16/rastamanskie-narodnye-skazki.html

Paris by night -- Panoramic image of Paris -- [images] [panorama]
http://framboise78.free.fr/Paris.htm

superbad.com -- the original (for me) artsy website
http://www.superbad.com/

The Game Theory of Penalty Kicks
http://www.gelfmagazine.com/mt/archives/the_game_theory_of_penalty_kicks.html


::200606::

Urban fairy door locations (in Ann Arbor, Michigan)
http://www.urban-fairies.com/locations.html

Dust art
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/photos/062706dustart/index.html

Sakuraba Kazushi interviewed by Kitano "Beat" Takeshi (2000)
http://www.geocities.com/global_training_report/sak55.htm

nmherps -- Snake blog
http://nmherps.blogspot.com/

Dubai is nuts! -- Images of large-scale projects
http://dubai.isnuts.googlepages.com/

GameSpot: The 10 NES Reader's Choice
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6152797/

Psychology of bad probability estimation -- via boingboing
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/17/psychology_of_bad_pr.html

Very Difficult Analytical Puzzles
http://www.folj.com/puzzles/very-difficult-analytical-puzzles.htm

CSS Bloom -- Web Gallery, CSS Showcase and WebSite Design Inspiration
http://cssbloom.com/

Anything Into Oil -- turning biomaterial into usable fuel
http://www.discover.com/issues/apr-06/features/anything-oil/

King's Quest III remake
http://www.infamous-adventures.com/index.php?page=kq3

USB Air Conditioned Shirt -- fan-ventilated
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/usb-air-conditioned-shirt-181614.php

The Supersonic Shape-Shifting Bomber
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviationspace/0f2505a52aceb010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

The PC Boot Process - Windows XP
http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/unknownreference/articles/12284.aspx

Chainless bicycle -- uses internal drive shaft
http://www.gizmag.com/go/5764/

Mozilla Firefox Cheat Sheet
http://lesliefranke.com/files/reference/firefoxcheatsheet.html

Rare "Rainbow" Spotted Over Idaho -- a circumhorizontal arc
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060619-rainbow-fire.html

Musudan-ri Missile Test Facility -- satellite imagery of DPRK
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/dprk/no_dong-imagery.htm

The New New Math of String Theory
http://www.physorg.com/news70021180.html

Advanced computer algorithms
http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~dasgupta/mcgrawhill/

Hydrogen scale model -- in in pictures
http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/atom/index.html

Simple trick to stop telemarketers -- old, possibly ineffectual
http://home.flash.net/~carlton2/telemark.htm

Relative size of planets, stars in pictures
http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

Lyrebird video -- preview for David Attenborough documentary (googlevideo)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3433507052114896375

Star Wars Transformers Deluxe Millennium Falcon -- toy
http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?prod=1&ts=2006061901&number=HS87046

xplorer2 -- Alternative to Windows Explorer (free version)
http://zabkat.com/

FireBug -- FireFox extension for debugging webpages
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1843/

Flickr: Stick Figures in Peril -- in public signs
http://flickr.com/groups/stickfiguresinperil/

Real-Life Merit Badges
http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=10806&display=photoshop#entries

David Choe -- pictures drawn by inmate in solitary confinement in Tokyo
http://www.tinyvices.com/david_choe.html

Possi's Contortion Site -- hi-res pictures of human contortionists
http://www.possic.de/

Criss Angel -- Mindfreak trick (woman pull, freaky) (wmv)
http://www.umora.ru/view.cgi?s=video&id=115070149406072

Mattel Design Summit 2005 -- Projects
http://milano.interaction-ivrea.it/mattel/projects/

xBlocks -- interactive 3D video game art piece
http://milano.interaction-ivrea.it/?p=49

Vector Park -- Oldie but goodie use of Flash
http://www.vectorpark.com/

More trauma food -- Glico makes candy based off "Grave of the Fireflies"
http://www.comicon.com/thebeat/2006/06/more_trauma_food.html

clothuk.com -- Print patterns onto fabric furniture
http://www.clothuk.com/

Rube Goldberg Contraption Machine Made Out of Sticks and Stones -- [makezine]
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/06/make_podcast_rube_goldberg_con_2.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890

Hara Kiri Covers (some nsfw)
http://palladio.free.fr/harakiri/HKM/index01.html

Big Spanish Castle -- optical illusion, persistance of vision?
http://www.johnsadowski.com/big_spanish_castle.html

Airliners.net -- Airplane photos, taken from and of (northern lights, cockpit)
http://www.airliners.net/

Yo Gabba Gabba -- New kid's show with retro graphics and tunes
http://www.yogabbagabba.com/

Issei Sagawa -- Cannibal gets away with murder, is made popular
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issei_Sagawa

TV in Japan -- blog of clips of Japanese television
http://tvinjapan.blogspot.com/

In Je Onderbroek -- escape from prying eyes game
http://games.flabber.nl/in.je.onderbroek/

Quick and Dirty Mosquito Trap -- Cheap too
http://www.diyhappy.com/quick-and-dirty-mosquito-trap/

A walk around the pyramids (mov)
http://yakkr.com/files/pyramidswalkaround.mov

Monster Island -- zombie novel trilogy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Island_%28novel%29

Robin Williams Playing Spore -- new Will Wright game video (youtube)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=P3DRiREBm9Q


::200605::

Corruption in textbook-adoption proceedings: 'Judging Books by Their Covers' -- Feynman [article]
http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm

Recurring Science Misconceptions In K-6 Textbooks
http://amasci.com/miscon/miscon4.html

Bad Science -- fixing the science you thought you knew
http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadScience.html

George Petty's Ridgid Tools Calendars
http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/05/media-george-pettys-ridgid-tools.html

Dalmation dog riding a bicycle in Japan -- it's a lot funnier than it sounds (google vid)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6742988194956129075

Resonantie -- resonance patterns using rice as the visible medium (youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkox6niJ1Wc

Oblivion Domino Day -- video of huge domino setup set to Nirvana's "Breed" (youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyHiIeBsc9E

Assorted Stereograms
http://worksafevideos.com/photos/artwork/stereograms.htm

Star Trek Cribs - The Director's Cut (youtube)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBXal1GAA4A&dpos=0

Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende -- Japanese gameshow "Silent Library"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3n_q_SsPQdg&search=silent%20library

Nest architecture of the Florida harvester ant
http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1672%2F1536-2442%282004%29004%5B0001%3ATNAOTF%5D2.0.CO%3B2#toclink6

Neverending pictures made of pictures
http://interact10ways.com/usa/information_interactive.htm

Running Breaking Ice Game (swf)
http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/content/poundice.swf

Stone Golem -- Made out of foam mattresses, glue and paint (youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHl6QkC9__8

10 Things I Hate About Commandments (youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kqqMXWEFs

wishingfish.com -- trendy urbanite housestuff
http://wishingfish.com/

Seamless Pictures
http://haha.nu/2006/05/17/seamless-pictures/

Fullscreen Panoramas from Z360 (qt) -- [images] [panorama]
http://www.z360.com/full/

Richard Sweeney's Paper Sculptures
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardsweeney/sets/72057594105588057/

Airtrax Sidewinder: Omnidirectional Forklift
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/airtrax-sidewinder-omnidirectional-forklift-174324.php

History of Console Prices -- graphs, relative and absolute
http://curmudgeongamer.com/2006/05/history-of-console-prices-or-500-aint.html

Hidden Wall Outlet Mini Wall Safe
http://www.boomergadgets.com/servlet/the-336/Hidden-Wall-Outlet-Mini/Detail

National Lampoon covers from 1970-1975
http://michaelcgross.com/design/index.html

Splash-Back -- clicking on goo game
http://www.funny-games.biz/splash-back.html

Job applicant mistakenly interviewed as 'net pundit Guy Kewney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvUuHfT-VaY

Forearm Forklift
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001229.php

The Internet's Anticipation and Reaction to the Original (Star Wars) Trilogy in the 80s
http://boards.theforce.net/Classic_Trilogy/b10002/12874627/?28

List of neologisms on The Simpsons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embiggen

Wikipedia's Lamest edit wars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars

hamachi -- secure mediated p2p -- easy VPN
http://www.hamachi.cc/

Superman #1 (June 1938)
http://dixi.blogter.com/?post_id=45670

Sticklebook - The Invisible Bookshelf (for soft covers)
http://www.sticklebook.com/

Computer Murphy Bed
http://www.flyingbeds.com/14.Euro_BunkBed/Euro-ComputerBed.htm

Beekeeper Cartoon Amusements: Comix by Jason Little
http://www.beecomix.com/

Otaku in Japan -- Japanese minidoc on American otakus in Japan
http://tvinjapan.blogspot.com/2006/05/otaku-from-usa.html

Game Six of the 1986 World Series recreated with Nintendo's RBI Baseball (youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JArXRxuVTgY&search=Baseball%20Lastowka1

Programming Fonts -- Listing of fixed-size fonts
http://keithdevens.com/wiki/ProgrammerFonts


::200604::

Total Immersion - D'Fusion (DEMO 2004) -- realtime 3D video augmentation
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3857855347623051125

"Stop the Madness" (1985, 1986) anti-drug music video -- the worst of everything
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5zJvX3pIY4&watch2

You Suck At Tetris -- vid of insane Tetris playing
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/you-suck-at-tetris-169834.php

Knife Maintenance and Sharpening
http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=26036

How to keep your bandaid going all night long (YouTube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhklMGA01Gg

Philip K. Dick -- Official site, lots of goodies
http://www.philipkdick.com/

Spoke POV - Persistence of Vision Toy with Kit
http://www.ladyada.net/make/spokepov/

Dynamic Web Controls, Postbacks and ViewState
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/092904-1.aspx

Swedish Bands of the Seventies -- images
http://allyourmeme.com/swedish[antispamstring]/

Average Homeboy! -- original white rapper?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq6vufmTJ9Q&search=average%20homeboy

Interview with Roger Sweet, creator of He-Man toys
http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000500.php

Another World -- classic game remade with better visuals
http://www.anotherworld.fr/anotherworld_uk/index.htm

Buro Vormkrijgers -- Artsy furniture
http://www.burovormkrijgers.nl/

Student Life Centre -- UofWaterloo's SLC has a website
http://www.studentlifecentre.com/

Mai'Nada Comics -- a sort of "am i a nice sketch or not"
http://www.mainada.net/comics/

Quake 3 Forever -- Quake 3 in Macromedia Flash
http://necromanthus.com/Games/ShockWave/quake3.html

Correctness by Construction: A Manifesto for High-Integrity Software
http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/2005/12/0512CroxfordChapman.html

Polish Posters Shop -- comical, art-haus, surreal versions of hollywood -- []
http://www.polishposter.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc

Secunia - Vulnerability and Virus Information
http://secunia.com/

Interactive DHTML art-demos - Yoshi's Island -- super neat scripting
http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/dhtml/yoshisland.html

MAKE: American Inventor - Live blog, full recap!
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/03/american_inventor_live_blog_fu.html

9-11 3D -- requires red/blue glasses
http://www.brianloube.com/9-11-3d/statement.htm

Giant centipede eating mouse -- youtube, slow, gross
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CL2hetqpfg

Mighty Optical Illusions -- blog
http://mightyillusions.blogspot.com/

Bear's-Eye View Shows Scuffle and Snacking -- Camera attached to bear
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0328_060328_bears_video.html?source=rss

There are at least 9 human senses (wiki)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense#List_of_Human_senses

Christopher O'Riley plays Radiohead (on the piano, classically) on album "true love waits"
http://www.truelovewaits.cc/


::200603::

Toronto Highway Traffic using Google Maps
http://toronto.ibegin.com/traffic/

What causes "watermelon snow"? (Straight Dope)
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpinksnow.html

Garfield comics made funny by removing his thought balloons (SA forums)
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1797416

Toy soldiers made out of wires
http://www.lobzik.pri.ee/modules/news/article.php?storyid=404

SkyScout -- device that identifies stars
http://www.celestron.com/skyscout/new/index.php

Swimming snake robot -- google video
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000957073583/

Today's Inspiration -- Discussion on 1940s/1950s illustration [pictures] [webjo]
http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/

Turn Your Head -- Have a goblet made in your profile
http://www.turnyourhead.com/

RetroCrush : A look at the most gruesome toy ever made
http://www.retrocrush.com/archive/monsterscenes/index.html

Water Bears - The World's Toughest Animal
http://nfttu.blogspot.com/2006/03/water-bears-worlds-toughest-animal.html

Will Wright and Spore (google vid)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-262774490184348066&q=spore

Flow in Games -- Control consuming, growing amoeba
http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/

Naru Web - Cute Pussy
http://www.nozomionline.com/pussy/

manybooks.net -- free ebooks
http://manybooks.net/categories/

pixoh: edit pictures online -- crop, rotate, resize/stretch
http://pixoh.com/

3 col layout with equalising columns and footer -- HTML/CSS tips
http://www.pmob.co.uk/temp/3colfixedtest_4.htm

Honda's "Impossible Dreams" Commercial
http://world.honda.com/message/impossibledreams/cm/

Top 10 Strangest Lego Creations
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-strangest-lego-creations

4th Annual MIT Student Origami Competition
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/arts-origami-0301.html

Jimmy Kimmel Unnecessary Censorship
http://www.break.com/index/kimmelcensor.html

Original Simpsons opening animation
http://shmorky.com/simpsons-originalopen.html

The A.V. Club -- Cheap Toy Round -- Funny reviews of cheap toys
http://www.avclub.com/content/search/av/advanced2?search=cheap%20toy%20roundup&restrict=.site:avclub

The A.V. Club -- Dining for a dollar -- Funny reviews of cheap packaged food
http://www.avclub.com/content/avclub_archives/view/features/other/title/d-e/

Real Life Simpsons Intro
http://youtube.com/watch?v=49IDp76kjPw

The Last Starfighter -- Arcade game for download
http://www.roguesynapse.com/games/last_starfighter.php


::200602::

The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Cliches
http://project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html

Transformers Heart of Steel: Steampunk Transformers
http://www.idwpublishing.com/titles/transformers/hos.shtml

I Used To Believe -- funny childhood beliefs people've had (from MSpaint your illogical childhood notions)
http://iusedtobelieve.com/

Something Awful takes on Choose Your Own Adventure
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2777&p=

BBS Ads - a photoset on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chinesejetpilot/sets/72057594071693402/

New Scientest Technology Blog -- I actually dislike NS, but this doesn't seem so bad
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/

Computer Expression Engine Automates Sneers, Smiles, Stares, Shrugs -- Train to deal with foreigners in a foreign land
http://www.isi.edu/stories/129.html

Canvas Reflection Demo
http://cow.neondragon.net/stuff/reflection/

Art Frahm (I originally saw it on Lileks) (BONUS: Frahm Live Action)
http://www.paintedanvil.com/frahm.html

Kurt Steiner, Guinness World Record Stone Skipper
http://pastoneskipping.com/steiner.htm

Recovering Scratched CDs
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/77

Firefox extensions for web developers
http://css.weblogsinc.com/2006/02/14/firefox-extensions-i-couldnt-live-without/

Katamari Damacy -- Popular rolling game interpretation [flash] [game]
http://katamaridamacy.jp/qa_data/katamari.html

all kinds of stuff -- John Kricfalusi's blog
http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/

Photos of performance artist Li Wei
http://tinselman.typepad.com/tinselman/2006/02/impossible_art.html

Ten Ways Cheny Can Kill -- Well, now you can add another
http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/001883.html

WHO GOT SHOT BY DICK CHENEY -- A story written by you
http://iwontheinternet.com/dick/

NY Blizzard 2006 on flickr
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/blizzard2006/interesting/

3D Painted Rooms
http://www.2loop.com/3drooms.html

Smartboard demonstration
http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/~rdivecha/archives/2006/02/the_world_of_sm.html

Monorail Modeling Page-Puppy Mover -- Would be more impressive if it worked
http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/PuppyMover.html

Star Wars Valentines -- as made by Something Awful
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3574

Tunnel Accident -- Crazy out of control
http://www.totallycrap.com/media/tunnelaccident/

WikiPOBia -- Patrick O'Brian wiki
http://wikipobia.hmssurprise.org/

Current style in web design -- clean, bright, big glassy icons
http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/current-style.cfm

tiny classic arcade games -- tiny as in 18x18 pixels
http://www.guimp.com/home.html

Channel 101 -- Amateur shows as voted on at screenings
http://www.channel101.com/

Intel(R) IT Manager Game -- [Flash]
http://www.intel.com/cd/corporate/europe/emea/eng/114555.htm

Aerial Photographs of Mexico City -- Taken to look isometric
http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PhotoAlbum31.html

Cool Tool: Tick Twister -- Makes me itchy just looking at it
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001127.php

Gum Wrapper Archive
http://theimaginaryworld.com/gum.html

Vertical Mouse
http://www.extremetech.com/slideshow/0,1206,pg=0&s=200&a=170872,00.asp

LEGO Technic Difference Engine
http://acarol.woz.org/

You Tube -- Will Farrell
http://www.youtube.com/results?related=snl%20will%20ferrell&sort=relevance&page=1

Super Bowl XL Commercials on Google Video
http://video.google.com/superbowl.html

Ron Fedkiw -- mathematician in computational fluid simulation
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~fedkiw/

Year of the Dog
http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2006/dogs/index.html

Overheard in the Office: The Voice of the Cubicle (sister site of overheardinnewyork.com)
http://www.overheardintheoffice.com/

Interactive CSS Box Model Demo
http://www.redmelon.net/tstme/box_model/

Super Mario Brothers soundboard
http://redruth.greenbean.org/~ben/4CR/smb_super_synth.swf

LSD Tested on British Troops -- made me laugh out loud (LOL)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=517198059628627413

Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm


::200601::

L'art et la maniere de plier un tee -- Video on how to make a T-shirt folding machine
http://www.all-tribes.info/hotstuffs/index.php?2006/01/20/1-first-post

GREYCstoration -- anistropic smoothing of images
http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/~dtschump/greycstoration/demonstration.html

TheBeerBelly -- instant girth
http://www.thebeerbelly.com/

citynoise.org -- photo moblog for cities (eg motorist vs courier)
http://www.citynoise.org/

Guess the Google
http://grant.robinson.name/projects/guess-the-google/

Model World -- Photos that look like models (theory behind shift lenses)
http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1760

fastr - a flickr game -- guess the common tag word
http://randomchaos.com/games/fastr/temp/

DuckHunt 1945 -- Call of Duty (vaguely) mixed with DuckHunt. And the theme from RedAlert
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/290917

Banned XBox 360 Ad
http://www.youtube.com/?v=WnpGtHq7Z0U

Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/

Johnny Pages -- Create book-like Flash interfaces
http://www.johnnypages.com/

Kitten Astronauts (related: helmet cat, other "helmet cats")
http://www.celestialmonochord.org/log/2005/10/kitten_astronau.html

Disney + Devo = DEV2.O (for kids)
http://disney.go.com/disneyrecords/Song-Albums/devo20/

Creatures are out there that can control brains (also)
http://parasites.metafilter.com/mefi/42671

Toei Japanese (live-action) Spiderman
http://www.pistolwimp.com/media/40930/

Flickeur - Every Picture Tells a Story -- Making Flickr surreal
http://incubator.quasimondo.com/flash/flickeur.php

Bombay TV ::: Subtitle movie
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index-uk.php

Honda commercial utilizing people to make sound effects
http://84.40.3.164/

InexpensivePanoramicVideo -- interactive -- [images] [panorama]
http://www.vrhotwires.com/InexpensivePanoramicVideo6.html

classic Commodore 64 games online! -- 100 games, some more classic than others
http://c64s.com/toplist/

Caffeine FAQ
http://coffeefaq.com/caffaq.html

Asbury Park, NJ -- photos of a ghost port town
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1771952

Mid-Century Commercial Art and Illustation -- print ads from yesteryear
http://www.ephemeranow.com/av/av.htm

Sizer -- Windows app that gives control over window resizing
http://www.brianapps.net/sizer.html

Atomic Bomb detonation by Harold Edgerton -- nanoseconds after a blast
http://www.nevadasurveyor.com/atomicbomb/

The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R.Crumb
http://www.philipkdickfans.com/weirdo.htm

Rap Lyrics Translated -- Notorious BIG's "One More Chance". Via Broken
http://www.bizbag.com/Misc%20articles/Rap%20Lyrics%20Translated.htm

little_world -- Woman makes exquisitely detailed Frodo Baggins dollhouse
http://www.livejournal.com/community/little_world/39277.html?view=211565

Renactment of Nintendo's Punch Out!
http://www.transbuddha.com/alphamonkey/mediadir/media/java/punchout.html

NNDB: Tracking the entire world -- Get info on people in the news
http://www.nndb.com/

Sam, the World's Ugliest Dog -- Verified on snopes.com
http://www.samugliestdog.com/

Quick Vibrating Lockpick -- How to make one
http://www.inventgeek.com/Projects/lockpick/lockpick.aspx

The Eagle Fire Garfield Randomizer -- Three random Garfield panels (UPDATE: It's been shutdown, but it supplies the code to host your own)
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/natetrue/gar.html

The Smoking Gun -- Like Snopes.com, exposing truths
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/

Hotdogs for Homophobes -- Conan O'Brien mockermercial
http://www.guzer.com/videos/homo_hotdogs.php

Yngwie-Related Artwork -- Rock on, my friend
http://www.yngwie.org/gallery/Artwork.html

Heli Attack 3 -- neat side-shooter [flash]
http://www.miniclip.com/heliattack3.htm

Samorost2 -- cute puzzle game [flash]
http://www.samorost2.net/

Lunchtimers.com -- Just Letters, The Scratchpad [flash]
http://www.lunchtimers.com/

World of Sand -- interesting usage of particles [flash] -- also check out Hell of Sand
http://ishi.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-158.html

The Japanese Tradition - amusing cultural video spoof
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2685202?htv=12&htv=12

Stuff On My Cat
http://www.stuffonmycat.com/

GBPPR Cellular Phone Jammers -- Instructions to build devices to disrupt the reception of cellphone frequencies
http://gbppr.dyndns.org/PROJ/mil/celljam/

PostSecret -- anonymous confessions via postcard
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

Pandora -- Sort of a personal Hot Or Not for music
http://www.pandora.com/

Knuckles in China Land -- Learn Japanese via an RPG game
http://www.tbns.net/knuckles/

Legal Rights of Photographers
http://www.kantor.com/blog/2005/12/legal_rights_of_photographers.html

Project:Check Washing
http://celtickane.com/projects/washing/index.php


::200512::

Bear and Cat -- Bubble game [flas]
http://www.zeronews-fr.com/flash/bearandcat.php

king's treasure -- clicking game [flash]
http://219.101.39.52/~nanahiro/main.html

eboy -- stylin pixel artistry, check out their store
http://eboy.com/

Ultima V - Lazarus -- Game remade by fans
http://www.u5lazarus.com/

WinkyTiki's Pinup Modeling
http://www.winkytiki.com

Festivus Poles -- Seinfeld's New Christmas
http://www.festivuspoles.com/

The Chappelle Theory -- Rise and fall of the Dave Chappelle show
http://www.chappelletheory.com/

JELLIO:FUN... By Design -- Cute retro-based kitsch, furniture, pricey
http://www.jellio.com/

The Museum of Anti-Alcohol Posters
http://www.tululuka.net/alco/

The Lonely Island -- Funny shorts
http://www.thelonelyisland.com/

Brandon Bird's Brandon Bird-O-Rama -- Comical pop culture art
http://www.brandonbird.com/

Cute Overload! ;) -- It's almost sick
http://cuteoverload.com/

pandafix -- all pandas, all the time
http://www.pandafix.com/

UP TO YOU -- Store in Toronto that sells neat stuff [toronto] [store]
http://www.uptoyoutoronto.com/

Bullet Time -- Simple reflex game
http://www.fingertime.com/bullettime.php

Stymie RIAA/MPAA spider bots -- article and app
http://p2pnet.net/story/7323

Smart Stuff -- useful household consumer inventions
http://www.smartstuff.se/pages/engelska/eng_start.html

Stick Arena -- Fun free multiplayer arena game
http://www.xgenstudios.com/play/stickarena/

LCARS -- Standards development for use of Star Trek computer interface
http://www.lcarsdeveloper.com/

1930s USA, in colour
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/glory-exhibit.html

Turn of the century Russia, in colour!
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/gorskii.html

Safe Bedside Table -- Turns into shield and truncheon
http://www.jamesmcadam.co.uk/portfolio_html/sb_table.html

Colorize Black and White Photos -- neat app
http://www.recolored.com/

Public Domain Torrents -- mostly movies (check out their sci-fi)
http://www.publicdomaintorrents.com/nshowcat.html?category=scifi

Impossible Objects -- "how'd they do that?" physical items
http://www.johnrausch.com/PuzzleWorld/toc.asp?t=_cat/io001.htm&m=cat/io000.htm

Dana's Virtual Museum of Unusual LP Cover Art
http://www.danacountryman.com/danacovers/danacovers.html

Movie Mistakes -- check out the "best"
http://www.moviemistakes.com/

The Daily Rant -- An old favourite of mine, I forget how I found it -- [webjo] [humor]
http://www.sfu.ca/~msr/

Kat Kam -- Good quality downtown Vancouver, BC cam. Scroll down for archives
http://www.katkam.ca/

VirtuSphere -- Not a bad idea, just kinda dorky looking now
http://www.virtusphere.net/applications.htm

Kotaku, the Gamer's Guide -- Perspective from Japan
http://www.kotaku.com/

Old (old) video game box art
http://games.terra.com.br/galeria/piorescapas/

RetroGaming with racketboy: Top 20 Games That Nobody Played -- But You Should
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2005/12/top-20-games-that-nobody-played-but.html

Woot: One Day, One Deal -- a deal a day (US only)
http://www.woot.com/

MAKE: Mostly Under $100 Gift Guide
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/12/makes_mostly_under_100_gift_gu.html

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer: Behind the Scenes
http://www.tvparty.com/xmasrudolph.html

Costco 2006 Ultimate Arcade Stand-Up Unit -- a bit pricey, but worth it if well built
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?whse=&topnav=&prodid=11098104


::200511::

Meanings and Origins of Phrases
http://www.phrases.org.uk/

Caffeine content in beverages
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/caffeine/caffeine_info1.shtml

The Other SF Prophet Meat -- MeFi on PKD
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/47184

Life of Larry -- Seth McFarlane's (creator of Family Guy) student videos
http://gorillamask.net/larry1.shtml

BrickQuest: Fantasy Boardgaming in an ABS (Lego) Universe
http://gunth.com/brickquest/

Try Ruby -- interactive demo
http://tryruby.hobix.com/

GRIN - Great Images in NASA
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/

Talking Back To the Junk Fax -- Tips on stopping faxspam
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/28/AR2005112800642.html

Sheeba Catalogue - Jane Siberry's music, pay whatever you want for her non-DRM music
https://www.sheeba.ca/store/

The Hacker's Diet -- Approaching diet/exercise/fitness from an engineer's perspective
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.html

The Large Hadron Collider, CERN panoram, with sound (QT) -- [panorama]
http://www.petermccready.com/portfolio/05091901.html

Motion Mountain - The Free Physics Textbook
http://www.motionmountain.net/

A Design and Technology Site -- useful for beginning engineers
http://www.technologystudent.com

wikiHow -- HowTo manual (read UPC Barcodes)
http://wiki.ehow.com/Main-Page

Quotes of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe

Speed Tangrams
http://www.gieson.com/Library/projects/games/matter/

On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
http://www.research.att.com/%7Enjas/sequences/Seis.html

Fold Paper in half any number of times -- the real news is that she's pretty
http://pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm

Ten Essential Tools: Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now -- Not that I have or will
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/12/VisualStudioAddins/default.aspx

The BeerHunter -- Only in Toronto right now
http://www.beerhunter.ca/

Videogame Ads 1982 -- Flickr set
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78362749@N00/sets/1352356/

BrightSide DR37-P HDR display -- Contrasting areas of pixels for sharper images
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/10/04/brightside_hdr_edr/1.html

fansincostume -- women dressed up in Leia's Metal Bikini
http://www.leiasmetalbikini.com/members/fansincostume_intro.html

Best Rejected Advertising Volume Three -- Some I actually liked
http://www.bestrejectedadvertising.com/

Dave Devries's Monster Engine -- Remakes of kids' drawings
http://www.themonsterengine.com/art.html

morning musume vs lizard
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-123322263707848424

Inhabitat -- technology applied to architecture/interiors
http://www.inhabitat.com/

Top 21 PHP Programming Mistakes
http://www.zend.com/zend/art/mistake.php

Maunsell Army Sea Forts -- images of giant metal huts on stilts
http://www.undergroundkent.co.uk/maunsell_towers.htm

Bains Collection -- images from 1900-1920s
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/ggbainhtml/ggbainSubjects01.html

My Pet Zombie -- Like RealDoll, only 1/10 the price. And corpse-ish
http://www.mypetzombies.com/

Classic Arcade games to play [Flash],[Java]
http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/arcade.htm

Sounds from the arcade -- 80's arcade game sounds
http://www.basementarcade.com/arcade/sounds/sounds.html

Arcade Sounds -- Recordings from arcades in '82-'88
http://www.coinopvideogames.com/sounds.html

Babycal throw -- fun game [Flash]
http://www.rubilon.kulichki.com/games/brosocen.html

So You Wanna Be A Zombie
http://zombies.tomwalsham.com/costume.html

Toronto Zombie Walk
http://www.torontozombiewalk.com/details/


::200510::

Using Image Calibration Techniques to Reduce Noise in Digital Images
http://www.photo.net/learn/dark_noise/

Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) -- Music video done on Apple II+
http://www.stewdio.org/jed/

We Are Family -- Patricia Piccinini -- Disturbing sculptures of unreal creatures
http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/wearefamily/index.php?sec=yf&pg=01

Mr Angry & Mrs Calm -- Cool optical illusion/trick
http://www.ianrowland.com/MiscPages/Mrangryandmrscalm.html

Time -- Visual timeline of a family
http://zonezero.com/magazine/essays/diegotime/time.html

Intolerable Beauty -- Portraits of American Mass Consumption
http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set.php?arch_id=1

Poker Chip Tricks -- Lose your money in style!
http://pokerchiptricks.com/

Concerned -- A Half-Life2 comic
http://www.hlcomic.com/

Nigella Bites -- Odd, disturbing, fun, simple game [flash]
http://www.crazymum.com/nigella.htm

Masterpiss with Magnus Magusson -- Crazy, gross but addictive game [flash]
http://www.crazymum.com/otter.htm

Globe Salesmen by Unknown -- Cute, simple game [flash]
http://www.donpixel.com/play/en/050526031143/

Calvin and Hobbes Snow Art Gallery
http://www.angelfire.com/wa/zzaran/calvin.html

Do-Ho Suh -- man sews lifesize replicas of his homes
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/David_Winton_Bell_Gallery/suh.html

flysui -- catch fly with chopsticks [flash]
http://www2.abc.net.au/fly/flysui/flysui.html

Which Fantasy/SciFi Character Are You? -- Dumb, but fun.
http://www.tk421.net/character/

Good sleep, good learning, good life -- Sleep FAQ, instructions
http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm

breakdance antics
http://www.big-boys.com/articles/breakoff.html

andrew.dairyland.com -- One of my fave blogs, but only recently has he started posting again [webjo] [humor]
http://andrew.diaryland.com/

Illustrated Principles of Pool and Billiards
http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~dga/pool/

Dreamcast Scene -- Sega Dreamcast stuff
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/

NHL Academy -- NHL themed flash games -- I love the woman's voice who says the name
http://home.comcast.net/~stadiumpublishing/nhlacademy/index.html

Bathsheba Grossman -- Metallic scultures
http://www.bathsheba.com/sculpt/

Slashdot | Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles?
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/16/0152240&tid=228

Shanghai Living -- Photos of interiors of random houses in Shanghai
http://china.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/archives/artist/name/huyang

USB Floppy Disk Drive RAID
http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm

Life Inside a Water Bottle -- Panoram from inside a water bottle [Quicktime] -- [panorama]
http://vrm.vrway.com/issue22/LIFE_INSIDE_A_WATER_BOTTLE.html

Probabilities in the Game of Monopoly
http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/monopoly/monopoly.shtml

Tactiva -- Awesome demonstration of touchpad tech [quicktime]
http://tactiva.com/tactadrawmoviesmall.html

Electronic Reusable Paper -- Ultra-cool
http://www2.parc.com/hsl/projects/gyricon/

Rare Freeware -- handy little utility applications
http://moon1000.com/software/download/freeware/index.shtml

SparkNotes -- Study guides, mostly highschool level
http://www.sparknotes.com/

National Geographic WildCam Africa -- Botswana watering hole [real]
http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/wildcamafrica/wildcam.html


::200509::

Cracked LCD background
http://www.fontblog.de/C1413545161/E1863918477/index.html

World War II -- The chat log! -- Made understandable for today's yoots
http://forum.thoselog.com/index.php?act=Print&client=printer&f=9&t=151

Atari Flashback 2 -- Atari 2600, redone for you
http://www.atari.com/us/games/atari_flashback2/7800

Playing Cards with CSS -- Code example
http://www.brainjar.com/css/cards/demo.html

Typing Test -- get your wpm
http://www.typingtest.com/

Batman Gets Surreal -- Amateur clip, great production values [wmv]
http://kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=2618

Switch Proxy -- Firefox extension to use proxies/anonymize your browsing IP (get a proxy list here)
http://mozmonkey.com/switchproxy/

(irc) Quote Database -- Oldie, but still a goodie (random)
http://qdb.us/

Reality Manga -- People photoshopped to look like anime
http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=7470&display=photoshop#entries

PunkG42's Toy Collection
http://board.spawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=209328

Kid Beyond -- beatboxing techninja (official site)
http://www.forgetfoo.com/?blogid=4614

Starcraft -- Minimalist version of the popular RTS
http://fpflashfarm.com/8534_starcraft.swf

3DM models -- resource on cg, animation, etc (like this)
http://www.3dm3.com/

Archive of Apple print ads
http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/gallery1.html

Jedi Trainer [Flash]
http://www.lostvectors.com/jeditrainer/

zBox Supercomputer -- 288 Athlons, working together
http://krone.physik.unizh.ch/~stadel/zBox/

Bill Gates & Napolean Dynamite [wmv]
http://www.aeonity.com/ab/video/bill-gates-napoleon-dynamite.php

digg -- link pool, moderated
http://digg.com/

Napolean's Sweed Ads [Real Video]
http://www.utah-state-fair.com/

Deep Jungle: Jungle Dancers [RealVideo]
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/deepjungle/episode1_bostwick.html

Lightning Pool -- Addictive puzzle pool game [Flash]
http://www.playaholics.com/play/lightningpool/

wohba! -- links to neat things
http://wohba.com/

Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection -- 1938-1969
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/

Color Photographs of America from the Great Depression
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsachtml/fsacsubjindex1.html

Maths is Fun -- Mathy games, some are fun
http://www.mathsisfun.com/

Word Pads -- Word game [Flash]
http://www.hotflashgames.com/wordpads.htm

Center for Environmental Health -- Lead in Children's Lunch Boxes
http://www.cehca.org/lunchboxes.htm

MetaEfficient - A guide to the most efficient things in the world
http://www.metaefficient.com/

Bad-Candy.com -- Reviews of candy barely fit for human consumption
http://www.bad-candy.com/

BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Interactive Body -- Fun, educational
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/3djigsaw_02/

steriley.com -- Test your reaction speed [Flash]
http://www.steriley.com/speed/

Tarako Fighter -- Insane clicking game [Flash]
http://tarakotappuri.hp.infoseek.co.jp/flash/tarako01.html

Jesse Sullivan, the World's First Bionic Man
http://www.ric.org/bionic/

Bindows -- oo platform for developing AJAX apps
http://www.bindows.net/

Hamlet -- The Text Adventure
http://www.robinjohnson.f9.co.uk/adventure/hamlet.html#

Transformers Universe Original Archive -- from the comics and films
http://www.seibertron.com/comics/universe/original/

Terragen -- photo-realistic scenery rendering software
http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/

Pee-wee's Playhouse
http://www.peewee.com/

CBS Special Presentation -- Back when TV could be special (via retroCRUSH)
http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/international/us_cbs.html

Web Sudoku -- Number puzzle
http://www.websudoku.com/

SiSSYFiGHT 2000 -- Social combat -- An oldie but still a goodie
http://www.sissyfight.com/

Patricia Waller:Bilder -- Uncommon Knit Art
http://www.patriciawaller.com/images.html

Nice Cup of Tea and Sit Down -- Best to start with the mouthwatering reviews
http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/

ASCII Artwork: The RTTY Collection
http://artscene.textfiles.com/rtty/

The Interdictor -- Blog of one of the admins for Something Awful, served in New Orleans, acting now as a firsthand experience blog
http://mgno.com/


::200508::

futurama panoramas -- [panorama]
http://www.punkasspunk.com/futurama/

Comic Sacrifice -- Home of House of Cosbys (via ninjalicker)
http://www.comicsacrifice.com/

EQ2: The Dog Days of Duping -- Story of exploiting an MMORPG
http://plaguelands.com/?page_id=172

Spacing magazine -- Toronto photos, stories
http://spacing.ca/

Language Corner
http://www.cjr.org/tools/lc/

StripGenerator -- Fun to use cartoon maker (Flash)
http://www.thirdframestudios.com/adgame/stripgen/

Evil Interiors -- Movie interiors remade using the UT 2003 engine
http://www.palletorsson.com/evil.php

Come from the Korean creativity -- photos vandalized with cuteness
http://www.flickr.com/photos/enet/sets/574645/

Dynomite -- ball-shooting+matching game with crunchy sounds
http://jp.shockwave.com/games/puzzle/actionpuzzle/dynomite/play.html

Games for the Brain -- Various puzzles, many visual
http://www.gamesforthebrain.com/

Einstein's 1925 quantum theory manuscript scans (via boingboing.net)
http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/history/Einstein_archive/Einstein_1925_manuscript/

Animal Planet - Panda (+cub) Video Cam -- Cute (RealVideo)
http://animal.discovery.com/cams/pandavidr.html

A clock in timeline form
http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf

The Museum of Modern Robotcop Art (Flash)
http://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=143013&mc=87&forum_id=2#2238101

Overheard on in NYC -- Random blurbs -- Addictive!
http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/

Contest to find the best website evah
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/08/ipod-giveaway-5

The Goddess Bunny (mefi link) -- Disturbing on many, many levels
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/44294

ConsumerReports.org - Vintage photo gallery: 1960-1969 -- My fave is the kid holding a sonic blaster
http://www.consumerreports.org/main/detailv2.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=2303&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2279

FedEx Furniture -- Items made out of FedEx boxing material
http://www.fedexfurniture.com/

University-brew robot
http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=8bf2T5OIaPg

Supersize Me! (with whiskey) -- Funny for about a minute
http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1599380/

Praying mantis catches hummingbird
http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/site/backyardbirds/hummingbirds/mantis-hummer.aspx?sc=birdwireJul2005

Star Wars Business Cards -- Novelty, from 1977 (more nostalgia here)
http://www.rogersbasement.com/SWscrap30.htm

3D Traceroute -- Free feature-packed IP tracer
http://www.d3tr.de/

Quantum information can be negative (slashdot post)
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/08/222245

Daily Show interview with Scott Richter, spammer
http://shortify.com/nsfw-warn.php?id=1276

egg song -- cute anime-licious music video
http://www.nata2.info/humor/flash/egg_song.swf

avoider -- simple Flash game
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/whoaboy/avoider.swf

it may be good for you -- reprographics, Chris Yates' photo-comic -- check out the Mario guerilla artfare
http://www.chrisyates.net/reprographics/

Urban Dead -- Turn-based browser game of zombies vs people. Note that all creatures in the game are controlled by humanz
http://www.urbandead.com/

Office Guns -- Projectile launchers made from office-supplies
http://www.officeguns.com/guns.html


::200507::

Palin's Travels -- Read Monty-Pythonite's travelogues on-line for free
http://www.palinstravels.co.uk/

swanksigns - dedicated to the art of mocking public works
http://www.swanksigns.org/

Bees vs Hornet video (wmf) -- Fascinating, though the quality isn't great
http://www.nearlygood.com/video/beefight.html

episode iii, the backstroke of the west -- Hilarious Chinese translation of SW:RotS
http://www.winterson.com.nyud.net:8090/2005/06/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html

Chaos Theory -- Short but fun chain-reaction game [flash] [game]
http://www.2flashgames.com/f/f-1211.htm

Simple Falling Ragdoll (woman in bikini)
http://www.izpitera.ru/lj/tetka.swf

Half Empty Comics
http://www.halfemptycomics.com/comics.php

I Know Where Bruce Lee Lives -- Old skool fave
http://www.skop.com/brucelee/

RASPPPOE - PPP over Ethernet Protocol by Robert Schlabbach
http://www.raspppoe.com/

Sofa of grass
http://www.readymademag.com/feature_6_sodcouch.php

la Pate a Son -- Fun noise machine
http://www.lecielestbleu.com/media/pateasonframe.htm

43 Folders -- Useful productivity tips
http://www.43folders.com/

Slashdot discussion on improving education
http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/05/07/10/1719223.shtml

Planarity -- simple wire-play puzzle game
http://home.cwru.edu/~jnt5/Planarity/

Paper scrunch-ball toss (Flash) -- 9570, 90 catches, 47 baskets, 1 plane, 2 blinkies, streak of 4, 6m 29s [flash] [game]
http://www.sticky.tv/game/cyrkam_airtos/

Dungeon Master -- The classic remade for Windows
http://www.ragingmole.com/RTC/index.html

Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics
http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm


::200506::

Digital Blue: QX5 Computer Microscope
http://www.playdigitalblue.com/products/qx5/info/

AutoStitch -- Make panorams using lots of pictures and a smart algorithm -- [panorama]
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

sodarace -- remember soda?
http://sodarace.net/

Project Gutenberg -- Lots (16k+) of free online books (check out their top 100)
http://www.gutenberg.org/

Pictures of Toilets in Video Games
http://www.btinternet.com/%7El.a.lester/Toilet/

Art Cars in Cyberspace -- Cars made weird-lookin'
http://www.artcars.com/

Grrr -- Cute Honda Enviro game (Flash)
http://multimedia.honda-eu.com/diesel/game/deploy/game.html

Ohio - Other sites -- Big gaudy structures
http://www.ohiobarns.com/othersites/

epicurious food dictionary
http://www.epicurious.com/cooking/how_to/food_dictionary/

Toronto RESCU Traffic Cameras
http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/rescu/

Concrete TV -- Mishmash of television, set to music. Think low-budget early MTV without the VJs. To the EXTREME!!
http://www.concretetv.com/

Canadian TV Children's Themesongs
http://billymasters.com/music/canadiantv.html

MakeZine -- Magazine for DIY hardware
http://makezine.com/

BrickJournal -- Lego magazine (not made out of, for) (PDF)
http://www.legofan.org/brickjournal/

Dive Into Greasemonkey -- Free on-line book for programming popular Firefox extension
http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/

Portable Enclosure -- Urban camouflage
http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2005/06/how_to_disappea_1.php

Hanson Robotics Project > Phillip K Dick Resurrected
http://hansonrobotics.com/project_pkd.php

Rosey Grier's Needlepoint for Men
http://www.flickr.com/photos/69799427@N00/sets/491625/

esao.net -- The artwork of. Most notably, how Flash, if ever to replace HTML navigation, should be utilized ie. with flair, subtlety, playfulness and delicious animation.
http://www.esao.net/

War Of The Worlds eComic
http://www.darkhorse.com/zones/wotw/wotw_popup.php?p=0

rabbit blog -- By Heather Havrilesky, author of suck.com's filler
http://www.rabbitblog.com/

(Possibly) Surprising Expiry Dates
http://www.realsimple.com/realsimple/content/print/0,22304,676079,00.html

Covert Operatives -- Violent Post-Matrix still-animation using GI Joes
http://covertoperatives.portland.co.uk/

Homemade Baby Wipes -- Requires table saw
http://mobry.dyndns.org/~bhorling/projects/10.2003.wipes/

10 Big Myths about copyright explained -- [copyright]
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

Operation Clambake -- The Inner Secrets Of Scientology -- Please don't hit me, ahh!!
http://www.xenu.net/

Games Of Our Lives -- Retro gaming reviews by Wil Wheaton for The Onion's A.V. Club
http://www.theonionavclub.com/gool/

Guess Which Movie -- Great way to spend an hour or two (77% first try)
http://www.guesswhichmovie.com/

Mormon Masterbation Prevention Tips! -- From the masters of prevention (via mefi)
http://www.moonmac.com/Mormon_masturbation.html

Slashdot-take on homebrew air conditioner (mirror of original article) (mefi)
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/13/2036200&tid=222&tid=126

Super Mario Pac -- Free little Mario-based game
http://www.hermitgames.com/mariopac.php

Mega64 -- click the link of Tetris and live a little longer
http://www.mega64.com/

Flickr: Pictures of Japanese women holding things
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxxmanboeuf/

The Mazda 110S L10A brochure -- for some funkadelic non-animated flash fun
http://keith.miata.net/110S/1.html

lego models (includes women) (also check out soren's flickr blog)
http://www.neutronbot.com/

Family Guy blog -- Missives from the editors/creators
http://blog.familyguy.com/

I am a Japanese School Teacher
http://outpostnine.com/editorials/teacher.html

Siegler & Co. -- Buy historical replicas, like this gas mask
http://www.sieglers.com/

Online Etymology Dictionary
http://www.etymonline.com/

G4TV -- Maybe I'll like it
http://www.g4tv.com/shows/

Celebrities Playing Table Tennis
http://www.larrytt.com/celebrities_playing_tt/

poster child mario question blocks! -- mixing reality with mario
http://www.qwantz.com/posterchild/

Best of Craigslist -- eg. "How ya like me now?"
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/

The Moon Illusion
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/3d/moonillu.htm

Rapid Afterimage -- If you, like me, like to stare at your monitor
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/col_rapidAfterimage/index.html

Van Sowerwine: Play With Me -- disturbing interaction with a doll
http://www.vansowerwine.com/installation/playwithmeint.htm

BaitCar.com -- Police trap would-be thieves, video at 11
http://baitcar.com/


::200505::

lazylaces :: games (such as the point-n-click deka 2)
http://www.lazylaces.com/default.asp?c=Games

Wilhelm scream -- [humor] [wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream

LEEROYYYY JEEEEEEEENKINS!!!! -- View the video (MeFi link
http://www.scottwills.co.uk/blogfiles/archives/2005/05/teamwork.html

Garry's Half-Life 2 Mod -- Build custom scenes using the excellent HL2 engine
http://www.garry.tv/garrysmod/

A Hamburger Today -- Hamburger blog, lotsa juicy images
http://www.ahamburgertoday.com/

B3TA : Phallic Logo Awards (conceivably NSFW)
http://b3ta.com/features/phalliclogoawards/

Optimizing SQL - structured query language tips
http://www.bcarter.com/optimsql.htm

TTC Subway Rider Efficiency Guide
http://www.ttcrider.ca/

Apartment Therapy -- hip furniture, decorating tips/news
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/

Video Thing: Panoramic Video Field Test -- Uberneat full degree video -- [panorama]
http://videothing.blogspot.com/2005/04/panoramic-video-field-test.html

MAKE: Blog -- List of gadget and "cool" nerdy links *RECOMMENDED* that is, if you like links.hwan.com
http://www.makezine.com/blog/

TOOOL: The Open Organisation of Lockpickers
http://www.toool.nl/index-eng.php

Star Wars Last Supper (jpg)
http://www.giantmag.com/images/issue05/1280x1024_starwars.jpg

Stereo images -- few frame animations to give 3D feeling
http://www.well.com/user/jimg/stereo/stereo_list.html

Lego Star Wars -- movies and products
http://www.lego.com/starwars/

Grocery Store Wars [flash] [environmental agenda]
http://www.storewars.org/

The Meatrix [flash] [environmental agenda]
http://www.themeatrix.com/

De-Animator -- Shoot zombies [flash]
http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~lee/deanimator.html

iPod Food Sculpture contest
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/05/ipod-winner-1

Interaction-Design.org -- Encyclopedia for interaction design, usability, information architecture, etc.
http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/

NPR : 'Hitchhiker's Guide' and the Answer to Everything
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4622372


::200504::

EDS Cat Herding commercial
http://www.catswithnoname.net/CatHerding.html

Waverly Films -- giggle-rific videos. fatboy slim - joker, Darude - cowboy sandstorm, Frosted Flakes - magic trick
http://www.waverlyfilms.com/

frontline: secret history of the credit card
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/credit/view/

Superdickery.com -- Superman can be, well, a bit of an ass
http://www.superdickery.com/dick/1.html

Just Cause Law Collective -- Tips on dealing with police
http://www.lawcollective.org/

Pop can + Chocolate bar = Fire
http://www.trackertrail.com/survival/fire/cokeandchocolatebar/

Bill Hicks - Revelations -- includes the "By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself." rant
http://www.gavinsblog.com/revelations.htm

nethackgear.com -- stuff to buy based on the classic rpg
http://www.nethackgear.com/

Curry Comedy -- Places you should NOT do bhangra
http://currycomedy.com/feature.php?fid=4#

Tard-Blog -- life is suffering, it is true. these teachers'/kids' lives, to be exact
http://www.tard-blog.com/

Parking Lot Duel -- the sad thing is, this seems quite possible/favourable
http://www.tian.cc/2005/01/parking-lot-duel.html

GoogleTalk! -- Type stuff in, near-random but interesting stuff comes out
http://douweosinga.com/projects/googletalk

Matrix Reloaded trailer audio remixed with anime cartoon footage
http://www.manylemons.co.uk/The_Narutrix.shtml

It's your surveillance state -- hit and run caught on parking garage-cam
http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/?p=19

The Fall of the House of Interplay
http://www.itsuckstobejoe.com/interplay.asp

Where To Find Great Free Photographs And Visuals For Your Own Online Articles
http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2005/04/01/where_to_find_great_free.htm

Misc/Pennies - Pictures of Penny Structures
http://www.fincher.org/Misc/Pennies/

622 Music Videos (primarily QT) -- lotsa classics
http://granfaro.blogspot.com/2005/04/622-music-videos-various-from-perfect.html

Sesame Street: 25 Of My Favorite Memories
http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/sesamestreet.html

Sin City -- Dark Horse Comics (previews included)
http://www.darkhorse.com/zones/sincity/

Japanese cuties!!
http://abum.com/?show_media=6058


::200503::

New Scientist Interview: Electronic maestros
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg18524921.400

Bitpress - Slow motion videos
http://www.bitpress.com/hs/

wohba!: Lurch the Wonder Watusi
http://wohba.com/2005/03/lurch-wonder-watusi.html

Bipedal octopuses (Berkeley press release)
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/%7Echuffard/index_files/Bipedal_octopuses.htm

Loretta Lux -- child photographer (then photoshopper)
http://www.lorettalux.de/

Great Teacher Mango -- GTO site, I like it for the 1 page of eps summary
http://www.angelfire.com/amiga2/greatteachermango/index.html

Derren Brown - Video clips -- (Jedi) Mind trickery
http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/M/mindcontrol/video/index.html

Claire Wendling -- awesome artwork (French)
http://www.claire-wendling.net/

Pin-up Cartoon Gallery
http://www.pinupcartoongallery.com/

ACB3 - the artwork of Anton Bogaty
http://www.acb3.com/

The Hypertext d20 SRD (v3.5 d20 System Reference Document) -- Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition
http://www.d20srd.org/

SimplyCondos -- Fairly straight dope on condominiums (esp. in Toronto)
http://www.simplycondos.com/

The Doors -- another clicking game
http://alt.tnt.tv/games/thedoors/

Zug.com -- Pranks that are funny
http://www.zug.com/

Pixar workplace -- Come for the work, stay for the Oompa-Loompas
http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=19658

Mars Rover Blog (not the livejournal one)
http://www.markcarey.com/mars/

Build Your Own Bluetooth Sniper Rifle (via /.)
http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/03/13/2146221.shtml?tid=172&tid=222&tid=193&tid=218

Forbes' Top Ten Anti-Company Websites
http://www.forbes.com/2005/03/07/cx_cw_0308hate_print.html

NYPL Digital Gallery
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/

Toronto in a shutter click -- Pictures of Toronto
http://www.livejournal.com/community/torontophoto/

Drawn! -- Blog of illustration sites
http://www.drawn.ca/

MilesTag - DIY Laser Tag System
http://www.lasertagparts.com/mtdesign.htm

1960s a GoGo - Life and Society - CBC Archives
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-69-1587/life_society/60s/

A Dictionary of Old Hobo Slang
http://www.hobonickels.org/alpert04.htm

Double-slit experiment explained in layman's terms (via slashdot)-- I've always wanted to try that....
http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/DoubleSlit/DoubleSlit.html

Toronto, Ontario, Canada -- widescreen view from CN Tower; top of the world!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32099449@N00/5756586/


::200502::

Computer ads from yesteryear (various languages)
http://www.1000bit.net/adverts.asp

Learn languages audibly, free
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/02/28/learn_german_from_de.html

Firefox extension google preview plugin thumbnails
http://ackroyd.de/googlepreview/

Following the trail to slim clients
http://bitworking.org/news/Following_the_trail_to_slim_clients

Fortified mailboxes (revisited from 2004)
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/09/06/fortified_mailboxes_.html

HOWTO get a CD, DVD or book listed on Amazon.com (via Boingboing)
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/02/26/howto_get_a_cd_dvd_o.html

Ambience Dore -- Intriguing office chair
http://www.ambiencedore.com/collection/seating_angle.php

Random Wikipedia link
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Randompage

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - The Adventure Game -- Original Infocom game with some added graphics. Flash interface, not bad
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml

EveryVideoGame -- Nintendo, arcade, Sega, Gameboy -- AWESOME!!!
http://www.everyvideogame.com/

UCSC Engineering Building Gets an 8bit Upgrade
http://www.yikes.com/~pengo/8bit/

A Biased History of Interactive Media
http://www.smackerel.net/smackerel_home.html

ajax: a new approach to web applications (via slashdot)
http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php

Mutual Funds, Exchange Traded Funds, and Self-Directed RRSP Investing -- in case you need something to put you to sleep
http://www.efficientmarket.ca/

Pictures of Zhuzhou, Hunan, China -- same guy who did that comparison between cities in New Jersey, Japan and China (via Misterpants.com)
http://www.fuseki.net/china/zhuzhou.html

A Day In The Life Of Miss McDonald
http://www.livejournal.com/users/miss_mcdonald/

bramcohen's Journal -- The author of BitTorrent blog. Lots of math
http://www.livejournal.com/users/bramcohen/

The Animal Game -- db tries to guess the animal you're thinking of
http://www.animalgame.com/

Clientcopia : Stupid Client Quotes
http://www.clientcopia.com/

harmful.org presents "Adult English" -- "porno smallbook speaking, let's go!"
http://www.harmful.org/homedespot/newtdr/NEWtdrARCHIVE/6diary/sexbook2/1.html

Gigapxl Project -- super-resolution images of the United States (via As It Happens)
http://www.gigapxl.org/

Bollywood for the Skeptical
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~dboyk/bollywood/

Ska for the Skeptical
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jboo/ska/ska.html

Extraordinary Ordinary Guy In Japan: Gravestone Shop -- cute gravestones
http://xogij.blogs.com/xogij/2005/02/gravestone_shop.html

Estonian TV ads from the 70s/80s -- disturbing, intriguing, cerebral, cathartic
http://www.lehvalehva.ee/inc/teenused_reklaamfilmid_sisu.php

100 Greatest British Television Programmes -- wikipedia strikes again!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Greatest_British_Television_Programmes

Animal-Astronauts Photo -- cute, mostly
http://www.tribe.net/template/pub%2CViewPhoto.vm/context/tribe?currentoffset=0&parentid=9a0cb3ea-b0a1-417b-9001-34ef8b834665&sortby&rows

Reason's Feb 2005 interview with Neal Stephenson
http://www.reason.com/0502/fe.mg.neal.shtml

Unsolved Problem of the Week Archive -- Mathematical, "only" 36 of them
http://cage.rug.ac.be/~hvernaev/problems/archive.html

Steve, Don't Eat It! -- Hilarious reviews of repulsive foodstuffs
http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php

the wurst gallery -- artists give makeovers to thrift art
http://thewurstgallery.com/vintage_vandals.html

Paid volunteer opportunities for tech work in Africa (via Boingboing)
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/31/paid_volunteer_oppor.html


::200501::

Ed Emberly products -- children's illustrator. You'll probably recognize his work if you've ever been a kid.
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/29/ed_emberly_products.html

gizmag Article: Michelin Tweel -- Like the spokes on that skateboard in Snow Crash
http://www.gizmag.co.uk/go/3603/

FM 34-40-2 Basic Cryptanalysis -- US Army document from 1990
http://www.umich.edu/~umich/fm-34-40-2/

Robocode -- Learn Java the fun way; teaching robots to destroy others
http://robocode.alphaworks.ibm.com/home/home.html

Parastone Mouseion --- Hieronymus Bosch action figures
http://www.3d-mouseion.com/engels/bosch_eng.htm

JNC, Barton-Wright, Self Defence with a cane -- Have at ye! (Part 2)
http://ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_barton-wright_0200.htm

MOJO's Top 100 Soundtracks of All Time List
http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view?list_id=5399&show=50&start=0

e23: Digital Content from Steve Jackson Games -- RPGs in PDF format, some are free!
http://e23.sjgames.com/

Paul Graham's "What You'll Wish You'd Known" -- A message to high school students
http://paulgraham.com/hs.html

PBF archive -- "The Perry Bible Fellowship" -- hilarious, well-drawn cartoons
http://www.pbfcomics.com/

Boing Boing: Tsunami simulator project(s) -- first is homestyle, second is government issue
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/13/tsunami_simulator_pr.html

GrowHair Photo Gallery -- japanese cosplay. Don't ask why; there is no why.
http://www.geocities.jp/layerphotos/

domo-kun mayhem -- an oldie but a goodie (drew's domo-kun page)
http://www.doebbe.com/domo-kun/

Sanrio Character Features -- Every Sanrio character ever made
http://www.sanrio.co.jp/english/characters/characters.html

Boing Boing: Shift diary from Florida call girl ring (and more)
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/10/shift_diary_from_flo.html

jay is: Best of 2004: Top 10 (Flashgames)
http://www.rit.edu/~jhb4598/jblog/archives/000563.php3

WebCams -- unsecured webcams on the net (most are using the default settings...) (you can google for ones that have controls)
http://www.opentopia.com/hiddencam.php

GPS Drawing -- people plotting their GPS paths
http://www.gpsdrawing.com/


::200412::

Swapatorium: Ski Masks -- "Found these ski masks in McCall's Needlework & Crafts Magazine from 1965. They are all a bit disturbing, but the little girl is just plain nightmarish."
http://swapatorium.blogspot.com/2004/12/ski-masks.html

TV Cream's Top 100 Toys -- of yesteryear, from a British perspective
http://tv.cream.org/extras/toys/

Query Letters I Love -- Love to post, mock, and laugh heartily at, that is. They are often MadLibs-esque. ("Query letters" being submissions for movie ideas.) (via ninjalicker) -- A source of non-stop laughter, with great comments (though lots of spam) [humor] [webjo]
http://queryletters.blogspot.com/

Delphion Gallery of Obscure Patents -- ah, the wonders of the common mind
http://www.delphion.com/gallery

Pepakura Designer -- printout papercraft. Unfortunately these require a custom file viewer
http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/

Email Tracking Tutorial -- How to trace email (Half ad, half tutorial)
http://www.visualware.com/resources/tutorials/email.html

wristfashion.com -- "for the wristwatch aficionado"
http://wristfashion.com/

A detailed pictorial on how to make tiny clay oranges
http://www.taiwankiss.com/board1/data/89162.html

VidLit - Well-Told Tales (I especially liked Yiddish with Dick and Jane)
http://www.vidlit.com/

Word Pirates -- english terms that have gone astray
http://www.wordpirates.com/

Make & Create -- LEGO Digital Designer -- Play with lego in the privacy of your computer!
http://www.lego.com/eng/create/digitaldesigner/tracker.asp

Audioscrobbler -- tune listening statistics pool
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/

euRoClAsh: the gr8 encyclopedia of ELECTRO NU WAVE
http://euroclash.com/

cheval noir -- Aya Kato's illustration, inky art nouveau
http://www.geocities.jp/b_ba_a0530/index.html

The postcards of the Keown-Boyd Family 1898-1922
http://www.fotolog.net/sent/?photo_id=7931625

Engadget -- gadget news
http://www.engadget.com/

WEBoggle -- simple, easy word fun
http://weboggle.shackworks.com/


::200411::

Table Tennis - Miniclip.com -- instantly addictive
http://www.miniclip.com/tabletennis.htm

Abandonia.com - Home of abadonware DOS games
http://www.abandonia.com/

SWRON -- sweet Tron light-cycles in Flash
http://www.cybermonkey.org/html/game/swron/

Revamped.org -- game cheats and exploits -- personally, I hate the stuff
http://www.revamped.org/

Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed -- Not pornographic, either
http://library.rider.edu/scholarly/rlackie/Invisible/Inv_Web_Main.html

Excerpts from a 60s Japanese sex instruction manual -- I kid you not. Titter-inducing and not very arousing
http://www.harmful.org/homedespot/newtdr/NEWtdrARCHIVE/6diary/SEXBOOK/1.html

Heavy.com : Free video games, jokes, free mp3 downloads, funny videos and health spanking content. Featuring Behind the Music that Sucks. -- an old bookmark of mine
http://www.heavy.com/

Photo Gallery of Japan's massive underground water system (to prevent overflow) -- looks a lot like that system in Total Recall
http://www.g-cans.jp/photo/

Boing Boing: More on modern pirates (the boat kind)
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/11/21/more_on_modern_pirat.html

The Toilet Online - Leave It To Bush! -- Funny soundbite manipulations (via ninjalicker.com)
http://www.thetoiletonline.com/leaveit.htm

Grand Illusions -- Dragon optical illusion (watch the vid)
http://www.grand-illusions.com/dragon.htm

PCSX2 - PS2 Emulator for Windows and Linux -- Still beta-ish, slow, etc.
http://www.pcsx2.net/

hamncheez flash viewer -- it's that Bust-A-Move game, kinda (they also have a mad mouse-button mashing game)
http://media.hamncheez.com/?flash=bubbels.swf

i love your t-shirt -- gallery of t-shirts
http://www.iloveyourtshirt.com/

Borat Soundboard -- What size gift will give me entry to.. uh.. her, vagin?
http://www.explodingpanda.com/vids/borat_soundboard.swf.php

Pig Parts: The Arizona State Fair 2004 -- guffaw-inducing
http://www.cardhouse.com/travel/az/pig/pig.htm

MasaMania : Japanese business man spend valuable time -- Photos of salarymen sleeping in public
http://masamania.com/archives/2004/09/japanese_busine.html

Church Sign Generator -- with a snackilicious church sign gallery
http://www.churchsigngenerator.com/

Tricks Tutorials -- instructions on aerial kicks, some fancier than others
http://trickstutorials.com/

The Complete Guide to (making) Isometric Pixel Art
http://rhysd.syntesis.org/tutorial/

Image * After -- free images
http://www.imageafter.com/

Tontie_v.1 -- Whack-a-mole with lots of twists (Note: the hammer upgrades don't add -- they'll DOWNgrade if you buy a cheaper one later) (726538941)
http://www.eyezmaze.com/tontie/v1/index.html

evilzug -- short, repetitive animations + good tunes = fun (author of the near-famous work it flash) (also check out this moving kitty)
http://www.evilzug.com/

Parking: Battle of the Sexes -- somehow addictive
http://adverts.freeloader.com/zurich/

DailyShow clips for download (in QuickTime .mov)
http://video2.lisarein.com/dailyshow/

ANIMATIONS [Ideologically Distinctive Animation System] -- eerie, slick Flash animated videos
http://www.koms.ru/eng/animation.php?sort_by=1

Rick Dangerous: www.simonphipps.com -- Classic platform game from 1989
http://www.simesr.freeserve.co.uk/simon%20phipps%20rick%20dangerous.htm

Spotting the Losers: Seven Signs of Non-Competitive States by Ralph Peters
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/parameters/98spring/peters.htm

micromusic -- old school electronica music tools -- be sure to check out their microradio!
http://www.micromusic.net

Little Sound Dj -- turns your Game Boy/Color into a full-fledged music workstation -- check out the samples (compare with Nanoloop)
http://www.littlesounddj.com/

MiniGal - a free web gallery script -- PHP-based
http://www.minigal.dk/

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_free_utilities.htm

Game Rules from Masters Games -- traditional game rules, including board, table, pub, and outdoor games
http://www.mastersgames.com/rules/rules.htm

GameSpot Presents: History Of... -- Histories of various gaming trends/businesses/fads etc.
http://www.gamespot.com/features/all/historyof/

OpenLaszlo - the premier open-source platform for rich Internet applications -- XML/JS-derivative language to create Flash apps
http://www.openlaszlo.org/

MMORPG / MPOG Top 200 - Paid and Free Multiplayer Online Gaming List
http://www.gamesites200.com/mpog/

Simcountry: A realistic simulation game -- somewhat in the vein of Civilization, but on-line against many other players
http://www.simcountry.com/

Origami Database -- over 28000+ models!
http://www.origamidatabase.com/

Joseph Wu's Origami Page -- taking paper-folding to the next level
http://www.origami.as/

Global : Ideas : Bank - Welcome to the global ideas bank -- in particular, check out Curitiba and its visionary mayor
http://www.globalideasbank.org/

UFO RALLY : spikything.com -- fun, simple racing game (lots more fun if you listen to psychedelic music at the same time)
http://www.spikything.plus.com/games/uforally/

AkibaLive -- Japanese high-tech gadget news
http://www.akibalive.com/

podLob -- flash/dhtml/photography examples/experiments
http://www.podlob.com/

20Q.net -- a huge db-backed "20 Questions" engine that is eerily good at guessing what you're thinking about
http://www.20q.net/

An Otaku's guide to the Japanese Language and Culture (a page of links)
http://denbeste.nu/Chizumatic/translation/JL_index.shtml

Kevin Sites Blog -- freelance journalist in Iraq blog, covering 20030309 up to now -- lots of photos too
http://www.kevinsites.net/


::200410::

Avoiding Corn -- for those who are allergic to this pervasive foodstuff
http://www.vishniac.com/ephraim/corn.html

the five word film review
http://www.fwfr.com/

HTML Character Codes
http://www.lyberty.com/encyc/articles/charcodes.html

Bullet Madness -- free bullets projects at stylegala.com - a fine css resource (bullets of the typography kind)
http://www.stylegala.com/archive/bulletmadness/

sorttable: Make all your (HTML) tables sortable -- via JavaScript
http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/

Unmanned Air Combat Vehicles -- collect them all!
http://perfidy.org/comments.php?id=1786_0_1_0_C

Martins Vietnam War articles -- not so much fun as interesting (to me)
http://www.diddybop.demon.co.uk/

Brian Provinciano's Grand Theftendo! -- Dude coding GTA III for the NES
http://www.grandtheftendo.com/

Project 64 -- Old school Commodore/Amiga manuals and documents -- let the nostalgia begin!
http://project64.c64.org/

CBC RADIO 3 -- nice immersion media site, great source for hip new music (macromedia)
http://www.cbcradio3.com/

ChessAtWork.com -- Easy to use chess via WWW
http://chessatwork.com/

VIM Commands Cheat Sheet
http://www.fprintf.net/vimCheatSheet.html

How to Whistle!
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=419588

NPR: Evan Wright: Reporting on 'The Killer Elite' -- I guess the real link here is to the Rolling Stone article
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4123158

Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs -- with hex layouts, perfect for printing out gameboards too
http://www.incompetech.com/beta/plainGraphPaper/

4096 Color Wheel -- with great links to other wheels
http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html

The Official Coyle & Sharpe Website -- Early Masters of the Put-On and Street Prank -- Classical street-jokesterism (run by Sharpe's daughter) (the mp3s are well worth the time)
http://www.coyleandsharpe.com/

UberMollig.com -- the quickest way to find journal entries with pictures on hwan.com (yes, yet more shameless self-promotion!)
http://www.ubermollig.com/

The PHP WTF: stuff that makes you go wha... ?? PHP code WTFs (in the vein of The Daily WTF)
http://www.thephpwtf.com/

explodingdog2004 -- send him a phrase, he draws a picture
http://www.explodingdog.com/

zoom -- neato zoom-in/out image (repeats after a while) (shockwave)
http://razghul.ice.org/misc/zoom/zoom.htm

Lemmings! done in DHTML (yes, the original Lemmings game)
http://193.151.73.87/games/lemmings/

An Illustrated Guide to Cryptographic Hashes
http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/iguide-crypto-hashes.html

American Rhetoric: Top 100 American Speeches (audio + text)
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html

hack a day
http://www.hackaday.com/

Ludbrook Tree Farm (shameless self-promotion)
http://www.ludbrooktreefarm.com/


::200409::

Common Errors in English
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

[daily dose of imagery] -- beats the pants off of coolpix.hwan.com -- Addendum: He's from Toronto!
http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/

Imagination Cubed -- Share a drawing with someone
http://admin3.imaginationatwork.com/LaunchPage

Tick Tock Toys - Snacks and Cookies -- food from yesteryear (there's more good stuff on theimaginaryworld.com) (also: snapshots from the 60s)
http://theimaginaryworld.com/fod14.html

Escher for Real -- physical models of Escher-esque items
http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gershon/EscherForReal/

Liberated Games -- videogames that are now completely free (and some are actually good) (still doesn't beat HofU)
http://www.liberatedgames.com/

Lifetimetv.com: Games -- Fun media (film, tv) based games as well as other faves
http://www.lifetimetv.com/games/index.php

The Webshite :: Airport -- airport version of Bartsimpson crank-calls
http://www.thewebshite.co.uk/airport.htm

Hand Shadows by Henry Bursill
http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/2/9/6/12962/12962-h/12962-h.htm

Photoshop Tutorials -- easy to use, lots of helpful graphics
http://home.zonnet.nl/epragt/tutorials/photoshop/index.jsp.htm

LEtters 0.9 -- typo attack, sideways
http://hannu.daug.net/letters/

VGMusic.com - Nintendo Music - Classic -- (in MIDI party format)
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/nes/index-classic.html

Esprit de Corps Military Magazine -- Canadian. Fascinating stuff, be sure to check out "Hostage in Iraq: Five Days in Hell" (he was interviewed on CBC's As It Happens)
http://www.espritdecorps.ca/

History of the Transformers (robots in disguise) -- The Silmarillion of Transformers?
http://www.angelfire.com/tx3/scorpionsnest/tfhistory2003.html

NetBabyWorld -- olde tyme Flash gaming site (check out the addictive At The Steak)
http://www.netbabyworld.com

Petals Around The Rose -- olde tyme geek puzzle (with an amusing yarn of young Bill Gates' attempts to solve it)
http://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-j.htm

Seinfeld Blog -- full of news, a searchable script DB, etc. They have CYE stuff as well
http://www.stanthecaddy.com/

Squares 2 -- fun super simple flash game
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/squares2.php

Neave Games > Tetris -- and the history thereof
http://www.neave.com/games/tetris/

Interface Hall of Shame -- an old favourite of mine
http://digilander.libero.it/chiediloapippo/Engineering/iarchitect/mshame.htm

Productivity tips
http://www.davidco.com/tips_tools/tip17.html

Viceland's Do's and Don'ts of getting along with other people in the real world -- instructions for the socially-declined. More entertaining than instructive. (more) (via Growl) -- [fashion] [humor]
http://www.viceland.com/int/dos.php

History of the Ampersand
http://store.adobe.com/type/topics/theampersand.html

JRR Tolkien Illustrations
http://www.angelfire.com/ne/mithrandir/

chessvote.com -- play chess, anonymously, democratically... kinda
http://www.chessvote.com/

Tricks of the Trade -- just started, so kinda bare right now
http://www.tradetricks.org/

Postini - Email Stats -- Direct Harvest Attacks, spam, viruses data, charts, maps
http://postini.com/stats/

retroCRUSH: The World's Greatest Pop Culture Place -- I had always thought it was some kind of dumb dating site
http://www.retrocrush.com/

Wooden Mirror -- built in 1999, kinda neat
http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~danny/mirror.html

Stop Motion Studies -- few-frame animations of people on subways around the world
http://www.stopmotionstudies.net/

Thottbot WoW -- World of Warcraft DB
http://thottbot.com/

Peter Murphy's Panormic VR Weblog (not THE Peter Murphy, but interesting parorams nonetheless) -- [panorama]
http://www.mediavr.com/blog/

The Daily WTF -- someone who understands the pain of working on terrible code
http://thedailywtf.com/

Pixture Studio icon library
http://www.pixture.com/icons.php

ColorWhore -- useful for testing colors
http://www.colorwhore.com

Fleep -- Cartoon of a boy who wakes up in a phonebooth sealed in concrete
http://www.shigabooks.com/shigabooks/csfolder/fleep.html

The Invisibility Game! -- How in tune are you with your mouse? (I got to ch33535tr@w5 -- 6 is killer)
http://madnesstemple.com/invisibility/

Pornokrates -- porn notes from the 15th-19th centuries
http://www.pornokrates.com/

Test Your Geography Knowledge
http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/

The Minesweeper Page -- full of strategies and tips for your fave default windows game
http://www.frankwester.net/winmine.html

Comparison of life in Piscataway, New Jersey; Kochi, Japan; and Zhuzhou, China
http://www.fuseki.net/home/comparison.html

PlanetDan's Senior Photo Collection - Volume 1 (not pictures of them, just ones they have on their websites, which seem to be primarily grandchildren)
http://www.planetdan.net/junk/seniors/

The Science of Word Recognition -- an interesting primer
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ctfonts/WordRecognition.aspx

CarTalk: Mechanix Files
http://www.cartalk.com/content/mechx/

Is IP Property? -- the age-old debate continues, with some good points
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/09/09/1640255.shtml?tid=123

Mathematics, marriage, and finding somewhere to eat -- the optimal method of finding the best
http://plus.maths.org/issue3/marriage/

GNR8 new/s -- Blogging the latest in comtemporary lighting design
http://gnr8.typepad.com/gnr8_news/

<------N-A-I-L-S------> -- disturbing interactive flash graphic novel
http://www.hoogerbrugge.com/

malevole - Text Generator -- taglines for various tv shows
http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/text/

Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies -- this should come in handy on Slashdot
http://datanation.com/fallacies/

Food Network: Cooking Techniques -- videos for basic cooking
http://www.foodtv.com/food/ck_demos/0,1971,FOOD_9797,00.html

BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Spot the Fake Smile (I got 12/20, boo!)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/

del.icio.us -- links links links! (via Growl) (watch out for repeats)
http://del.icio.us/


::200408::

Pepsi Max Breakout -- Flash game that makes me laugh at how hard it is
http://www.pepsi.co.uk/max/breakout/breakout.html

DFL -- "Celebrating last-place finishes at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Because they're there, and you're not."
http://www.mcwetboy.net/dfl/

Disturbing Auctions (there's also a daily version)
http://disturbingauctions.com/

Spamusement "Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines!"
http://spamusement.com/

la Fraise, online geek shop -- great T-shirts
http://www.lafraise.com/boutique/tshirts.cfm

dear catastrophe waitress -- cute Tapper-type game. The music is especially fun. (via mefi)
http://www.belleandsebastian.com/toys/justgame2.htm

Ray Caesar -- artwork of elizabethean/gothic/mutant children. Note that the images are entirely digital, rendered from 3D models
http://www.raycaesar.com/

Tricks of the Trade -- tidbit wisdom for various professions (via MeFi)
http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/how_to/tricks_of_the_trade.php

"It was a good time for a great taste" -- MeFi link to Jason Alexander singing in a McDonald's commercial
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/35172

T-shirt with hidden pockets in front for gadgetry
http://www.koyono.com/bct/BCTgallery.htm

Doom 3 teenagers freaking out -- this is why I loved Doom 3
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/08/24/doom_3_teenagers_fre.html

(Fansub of) Planet of the Apes as a Twilight Zone episode (via boingboing.net, which has a bittorrent link)
http://theforbidden-zone.com/media/tzone.shtml

1982 LIFE magazine spread of top arcade gamers (via boingboing.net) (more)
http://www.classicarcadegaming.com/contests/Nov1982/

Vintage antique postcards
http://www.postcardman.net

Kodomo no kuni ("Boats of Leaves") -- Artists and Children's Books in 1920s Japan
http://www.kodomo.go.jp/gallery/digi/KODOMO_WEB/index_e.html

pongomania! -- amateur plasticine scupltures
http://pongo.motime.com/

Living in the Antarctic blog
http://www.bigdeadplace.com/

winnebago man -- profane commercial outtakes wow
http://homepage.mac.com/stevelyon/vacation/imovie.html

Oxymoronica -- "Any compilation of phrases or quotations that initially appear illogical or nonsensical, but upon reflection, make a good deal of sense and are often profoundly true."
http://oxymoronica.com/

Oliver Byrne's edition of Euclid c.1847 -- geometry explained via colour pictures
http://www.sunsite.ubc.ca/DigitalMathArchive/Euclid/byrne.html

Difficult logic/math puzzles
http://www.geocities.com/bob_kraus_2000/

Come Poop With Me -- I am amused by profane puppets
http://www.triumphtheinsultcomicdog.com/

History of Zero Wing's "All your base are belong to us"
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/genesis/game/31239.html

imagination -- all it needs is some music
http://www.neave.com/lab/misc/imagination.html

hoverbump
http://www.richbaranmultimedia.com/v4/hoverbump.htm

ROBO Pinball
http://www.cerberos.de/pinball/popup.php?js=1

bowman -- flash arrow-shooting game
http://www.xeron.org/cosas/bowman/bowmanf.html

Mitch Hedberg, comedian
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/34887

Mohandas Gandhi quotes
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mohandas_Gandhi

The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook Collection - his scrapbook from the mid-late 1800s
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/carrollhtml/

ColorCell -- Darwin-esque game where the prettiest colored squares live longest!
http://colorcell.uneven.org/index2.php

Canadian Petition for Users' Rights
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/

Acoustic version of Radiohead's Creep done with squiggly line animation (Flash) (mirror1)
http://www.lowmorale.co.uk/creep/flash/lm_creep_(FLASH).swf

Modern Mod Ren 4 -- contemporary/classic remixes
http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=3253&display=photoshop


::200407::

scientology celebrities FAQ
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/faq-you/celeb.txt

Kurt Vonnegut: Cold Turkey -- I read this a while back, but have finally decided to post it here
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0512-13.htm

How to Remove IE from Windows
http://www.crackbaby.com/article.php?sid=10193&mode=thread&order=0

Super Marketing: Ads from the comic books
http://www.steveconley.com/comicads.htm

Akiyoshi's illusion pages -- creator of the moving almonds illusion
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html

balloonfarm animated gif collection -- cleanses your internet-soaked palate WARNING: You are likely to laugh out loud
http://www.balloonfarm.com/gifs/

Gallery of Japanese Arcades
http://www.cardhouse.com/travel/japan/arcades.htm

A sociological look at muds, Julia, and those who interact with her - Funny chatlog with a guy making the moves on a feminine chatbot -- [robots]
http://agents.www.media.mit.edu/people/foner/Julia/section3_3.html

Fetchfido's Eskiv -- simple but addictive Flash game (use arrow keys)
http://www.fetchfido.co.uk/games/eskiv/eskiv.htm

Nike's take on a Tranformer
http://www.nike.com/nikelab/video/airmaxq_marshall.jhtml

bitoogle :: the bittorrent file search engine
http://www.bitoogle.com/

SlashDot reviews film "I, Robot", with links to discussion of 3 Laws
http://features.slashdot.org/features/04/07/16/1456201.shtml?tid=186&tid=188&tid=214&tid=97

The LawMeme Reader's Guide to Ernie Miller's Guide to the INDUCE Act
http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1549

Micro Heros -- Dress-up doll superheroes and pop figures (be sure to check out the film and tv stars) with unnaturally large heads and eyes
http://jerome.galica.free.fr/

Tin Foil Bite Shocks -- why chewing tinfoil hurts (I was curious)
http://www.tambcd.edu/DentalCE/askdoc/html/tin_foil_bite_shocks.html

Checker shadow illusion -- an oldie but a goodie
http://web.mit.edu/persci/people/adelson/checkershadow_illusion.html

Crazy Visual Illusion -- wavy almonds. I think looking at this while drunk will make you sick.
http://backwardscity.blogspot.com/2004/07/our-brains-dont-work.html

Saskrotch: Nintendo Breakz Volume One -- remixes of nintendo video game themes
http://barnofhell.com/saskrotch.htm

Driving Mad -- addictive golfing practice game
http://www.kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=1420

InfocomBot for AOL Instant Messenger--play infocom text adventures via AOL IM
http://www.waxy.org/archive/2004/03/21/infocomb.shtml

Spiderman done in Lego -- high production values
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1277883&sdm=web&qtw=640&qth=400

Onion AV Room interview with Kids in the Hall (separately) -- note that the AV Room have the absolute best interviews on the internet
http://www.theonionavclub.com/feature/index.php?issue=4026

Yeti-penguin flash game antics -- it's become a franchise!
http://www.yetisports.org/

kontraband.com -- movie clips, games in the flavour of fark.com (via ninjalicker)
http://www.kontraband.com/


::200406::

LucasArts programmer teams up with child suffering from leukemia to make "cancer-battling" game -- kinda sweet story
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/29/BAGOV7DJRP1.DTL

You'reOhSoBad -- Hwan's take on Eurobad'74 *shameless self promotion*
http://www.hwan.com/images/eurobad74/

Hinterland Who's Who - Video and Sound Clips Library -- Canadian wildlife educational shorts, popular among those who grew up in the 80s
http://www.hww.ca/media.asp?mcid=1

The Infinite Cat Project -- "...cats regarding cats regarding cats."
http://www.infinitecat.com/

NYC subway photo essay -- foolishly, they use JS to navigate
http://fredshead.org/photofeatures/commute/commute_show.html

TorrentBox.com -- source of BitTorrents, go figure
http://www.torrentbox.com/

Excerpts from Ricky Jay's "Cards as Weapons" -- I actually remember perusing this book in a store once, and had adopted the technique shown. Never did pierce a watermelon.
http://www.davidslife.com/funstuff/cards/technique.htm

Computer and Sci-Fi Fonts (from Uncle Bear)
http://unclebear.com/fonts/

Cory Doctorow's speech to MSFT on why DRM is bad (Slashdot)
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/06/18/0432231.shtml?tid=137&tid=141&tid=188&tid=215&tid=98&tid=99

answers to technical interview questions -- technical riddles
http://www.techinterview.org/

The Reality of Running Away from Stuff -- speeds of various scary things
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/idris/Movie_Reviews/Reality_of_Running_Away.html

Combover: The Movie -- the top of my head tingles with fear
http://www.comboverthemovie.com/

The Stairway to Stardom Appreciation Page -- check out the tapdance routine with a most wonderful opening (from Misterpants)
http://www.sharpeworld.com/Stairway/stairway.html

Soundwave (Decepticon Transformer) breakdancing to a ghetto-electro version of said theme song (from Dangerman)
http://students.washington.edu/colin2/breakformers/Video_player_06.html

scrap book Chris Mullen index -- handy for obscure stock images (albiet low quality)
http://www.fulltable.com/SB/

vectorliciously flash video of Come Together (clicking gives you karaoke mode) (google it)
http://www.devilducky.com/media/16037/

spacetrash: a website by and for mr. brendan b. larsen -- artsy images, also has a great links page
http://spacetrash.invisiware.com/

Shiseido television ads from the 60s/70s
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/greyart/exhibits/shiseido/tv_commercials111111111111111.htm

Gallery of Antique Mouse and Rat Traps (some are pretty vicious)
http://people.hws.edu/cicciarelli/trapic1.html

A Brief History of GI Joes (the toy) from around the world
http://www.treasuresntoys.com/webcampintgallery.htm

(Studio Creations presents) Imperial Dogs - Fanvid Star Wars remixed into Reservoir Dogs
http://www.studiocreations.com/imperialdogs/index.html

The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury -- Peter Chung takes on Riddick. Make sure to check out the music video
http://www.darkfurydvd.com/

MP3 interviews with Philip K. Dick (when listening to these, it'll help to turn down the bass)
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/06/07/mp3_interviews_with_.html

Wired 12.06: The Free & The Unfree - "It's producers vs. pirates vs. consumers, from Silicon Valley to Shangai. A 10-page special [word-removed] on the global battle between liberty and control."
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.06/free.html

Super Mario War -- fun little game of Joust-like action using Mario's with up to four players
http://jnrdev.weed-crew.net/smw/

The New Hacker's Dictionary (including the timeless classic Hacker Folklore)
http://www.sss.org/~bthorn/jargon/

Curious Math (trivial stuff like this)
http://www.curiousmath.com/


::200405::

Precision explosion puzzle game (using Halo soundbites)
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/warthog.php

Famous nudes with clothes, thus made worksafe
http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=2872&display=photoshop#entries

Monzy's "UnSafeSearch" -- returns the difference between the normal search and a "Safe" search
http://www.monzy.org/unsafesearch/

Slashdot discusses "Poker and Geeks"
http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/04/05/26/1823226.shtml?tid=127&tid=186&tid=98&tid=99

Poker tips from UoAlberta
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=108990&cid=9262827

Make-A-Flake -- Now I can make paper snowflakes without the paper
http://snowflakes.lookandfeel.com/

Active FTP vs Passive FTP
http://slacksite.com/other/ftp.html

How Much Is Inside? -- Home experiments on the contents of common goods
http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/howmuchinside.html

Snopes -- Urban Legends Reference Pages (old I know, but still needs to be spread around. I guess the problem lies in people's ability to identify something as a possible urban legend)
http://www.snopes.com

Deserted Japanese island ("Gunkanjima") photo gallery
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/saiga/yuji/gallary/gunsu/thumbnail.html

JP Brown's Serious LEGO -- Making interesting bots out of Lego
http://jpbrown.i8.com/

Troy (the film) told in a 15 minute script
http://www.livejournal.com/users/cleolinda/99710.html

NYT's N.D. Kristof Op-Ed multimedia pieces
http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?srcht=s&srchst=m&vendor=&query=%22Nicholas+D.+Kristof%22

they rule (relationship diagram of the elite who sit at the top of the money pyramid)
http://www.theyrule.net/

Videos of guns shot in slow motion
http://www.bsg-dornier.de/schiessen/index.html?/schiessen/filme/filme.htm

Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness
http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/hall/

Scopitones -- "Film Jukebox" (music videos) from the 1960s
http://www.scopitones.com/

BASIC Computer Games (full scans from 1978 book of code)
http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/

The Woman's Day Star Wars Playset -- [images]
http://www.toysrgus.com/images-speci/womansday/index.html

USB adaptors + DIY antenna = "Poor Man's WiFi" -- [technology]
http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/

Video of how to fold a t-shirt (practical, not a joke clip) (here's a flash version) -- [video]
http://www.jengajam.com/r/shirt-folding

SlashDot Interview -- Egyptian Linux Advocates' Replies -- [slashdot]
http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/04/05/13/1346237.shtml?tid=106&tid=126&tid=185&tid=190

ascii pr0n (nudes, anime) (they also have a figlet server) -- Interestingly, it's Toronto-based [images]
http://www.asciipr0n.com/

Complete Guide to GI Joe -- [images] [toys]
http://joes.propadeutic.com/

Stars Wars Kid "A New Hope", the only good remake of the SWK -- [humor] [video]
http://www.starwarskid.com/a_new_hope.html

you're the man now dog! -- Sounds bites, made funny through repetition and/or song (a handful are not worksafe) -- [humor]
http://www.ytmnd.com/

Worth1000 | Photoshop contests -- somewhat higher quality than Fark crap -- [images]
http://www.worth1000.com/

Judo stories I like -- [martialarts]
http://www.ninjalicker.com/judo/judo1.php


::200404::

Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics -- [science] [movies]
http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/

Star Wars Kid versus Kill Bill -- [humor] [video]
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/04/26/star_wars_kid_versus.html

Culture Deluxe presents London Booted (Clash's London Calling remixed) -- [music]
http://patrese4.valuehost.co.uk/download.htm

Photo essay of a motorcycle tour through Chernobyl (UPDATE 20040526: It's mostly a lie, although the pictures are still nice) (original Angelfire link) -- [images]
http://www.elenaschernobyl.com/

FOUND Magazine -- Misc, curious, personal items found by strangers. Can by original [images] [webjo]
http://www.foundmagazine.com/

Subversive (ie profane) Cross-Stitching kits -- [hobby]
http://www.subversivecrossstitch.com/

Music from Windows Sound Recorder and the default WAV's -- [video]
http://mirrored.flabber.nl/winnoise/

Images recently uploaded to LiveJournal (a simple script-to-page) -- [images]
http://www.ryanwaddell.com/ljimages/

SharpeWorld (gone once, back again) (check out the Featurelettes) -- [images]
http://www.sharpeworld.com/

The State Hermitage Museum (source for archaelogical images) -- [images]
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/

Neal Stephenson interview about money and information flow
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63050,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

Canadian ISPs (screw Rogers) -- [internet]
http://www.canadianisp.com/

The Electric Company Digital Archive -- C&D'ed by Sesame Workshop [video]
http://www.wohmart.com/tec/

Museum of Unworkable Devices -- [images]
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm

Older versions of free applications -- [software]
http://www.oldversion.com/

Personal account (blog) of backpacking in South America -- [webjo]
http://detritus.net/pipermail/suramerica/

Comic Art Collective (purchase alternative comic art) (Note: Sam Henderson, of The Magic Whistle, is listed) -- [humor] [images]
http://www.comicartcollective.com/

RealAlternative/QuickTimeAlternative (exactly what they say)
http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/finalbuilds.htm

Reuters Television (realvid) -- [video]
http://reuters.feedroom.com/

Suck.com's Filler Archives - 1996-2001 -- [comic] [humor] [webjo]
http://www.suck.com/filler/archive/all.html


::200403::

Starcade -- 80s videogame game show [video]
http://www.jmpc.com/Starcade/starframe.htm

NewsMap -- Uses news.google to generate a lattice of news articles [internet]
http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm

My Miserable Life: A Compendium of Suffering -- Sob stories in the vein of lowbrow.com [webjo]
http://www.mymiserablelife.com/

Debunking bad astronomy (eg Mars, Nasa, Fox and the moon) -- [science]
http://badastronomy.com/bad/misc/hoagland/index.html

pbs.org's Frontline's documentary on the dotcom collapse -- [video]
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dotcon/view/

Morrissey Gets A Job -- [images]
http://www.angelfire.com/bc/pillowgoat/morrissey.html

Clothes that makes it look like you have a tattoo -- [fashion]
http://sleevesclothing.com/

Spring-loaded wooden kinetic sculptures -- [furniture]
http://www.woodthatworks.com/IM_pages/IM_Portfolio.html

Hybrids in Hollywood (versus the Hummers) -- Larry and Laurie David talk [environment] [video]
http://www.pbs.org/pov/borders/2004/air/air_hybrid.html

Cowgirl pinups -- In the style of Art Frahm [images]
http://www.owensvalleyhistory.com/cowgirls01/page42.html

Large animated panoram shots -- [images] [panorama]
http://www.panoramas.dk/

Natural-gait walking robots -- [robots] [video]
http://www.robotsandus.org/moving/walker/

Starship Dimensions -- Compare sci-fi craft sizes [images]
http://www.merzo.net/

Slashdot | Avi Rubin's Thoughts On e-Voting -- [slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/03/03/1456252.shtml

LOGAN's Mystery Of Time And Space Adventure -- [puzzle] [game]
http://www.albartus.com/motas/

Conduct, Misconduct, and Cargo Cult Science -- [science]
http://www.ie.ncsu.edu/jwilson/colloq.html

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Photonegatives Collection Database Search -- [books]
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/photonegatives/default.htm


::200402::

The Crimson Room -- Difficult clicking puzzle [flash] [game] [puzzle]
http://www.fasco-csc.com/works/crimson/crimson_e.php

MIDI + hamsters = sweet rodent music -- Page moved here [slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/02/19/1449211.shtml

Flying Pig -- Paper automata, cute models to make [toys]
http://www.flying-pig.co.uk/index.php

Japanese robots, fighting! (what else) -- [robots] [video]
http://www.robolympics.net/boingboing/

Metallic lighter finger tricks
http://lightertricks.com/

F*ck you and your H2 -- People giving fingers to H2 Hummers [images]
http://www.fuh2.com/

"Did you ever wonder what it would be like to see a water balloon pop in space?" -- [science]
http://microgravity.grc.nasa.gov/balloon/blob.htm

Detailed collection of "Miss " pageants -- [images]
http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/inter-national.htm

Tiny Windows applications -- [applications]
http://www.tinyapps.org/

web zen -- Popular links, by theme [webjo]
http://www.webzen.org/

Repetition: The Ring and the Diabolical Imaginary -- SPOILERS
http://cinetext.philo.at/magazine/msharpe/ring.html

Anime Icons -- [images]
http://www.cybermoonstudios.com/avatars.html


::200401::

Lego Master Builder Competition -- 2003/4. That's ALL they built in TWO HOURS? Seems kinda shabby [webjo]
http://www.sideshowjamie.com/MasterBuilder.htm

Lego Porn! -- by Drew, of toothpastefordinner.com [humor] [images]
http://drew.corrupt.net/bp/

The Brick Testament -- Bible done in Lego [comic]
http://www.thereverend.com/brick_testament/

Pinky the Cat is up for adoption -- [humor] [video]
http://homepage.mac.com/whysheep/iMovieTheater6.html

Confessions of a Car Salesman -- Edmunds.com sends an undercover reporter to investigate the world of car salesmen (in LA) [financial]
http://edmunds.com/advice/buying/articles/42962/article.html

Royal Bank (Canada) tale -- Argh, it's been turned into a flash video with a drum track. [financial]
http://www.xdude.com/thedough.htm

Harmon Leon, undercover comedy journalist -- [humor]
http://misterpants.com/library/harmonleon/

Bruce Schneier on Crypto Contests -- [technology]
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9812.html#contests

Bradley University Problem of the Week -- [puzzle]
http://bradley.bradley.edu/~delgado/potw/potw.html

StrongBad email (pops) -- [humor]
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail94.html

Strong magnet ball -- [pops]
http://www.dansdata.com/amazingmagnets.htm

Star Trek scripts (movies, tng, ds9, voyager) -- [startrek]
http://www.st-minutiae.com/academy/literature329/index.xhtml

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii - COLOR pictures pre-WW1 -- [images] [yesteryear]
http://www.ummagurau.com/art/russia/

MNFTIU goes to mars -- [comic] [humor]
http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war30.html

Larry David interview in the New Yorker -- [humor] [interview]
http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/040119fa_fact

Play Infocom adventures in a Java 1.0 applet -- [game]
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/

Time Best Inventions of 2003 - a taser'ed jacket -- [invention]
http://www.time.com/time/2003/inventions/invjacket.html

Scientific American: The Social Psychology of Modern Slavery
http://www.scientificamerican.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0005F839-CC90-1CC6-B4A8809EC588EEDF

Tricky Microsoft Interview questions
http://www.sellsbrothers.com/fun/msiview/default.aspx?content=question.htm

Flash games (no ads) -- [ninjalicker] [game]
http://www.makaimedia.com/games/

Snooker rules/tips -- [pops]
http://www.fcsnooker.co.uk

Links pool and commentary -- [pops] [webjo]
http://boingboing.net

Blurbs overheard in an English subway car -- [ninjalicker]
http://www.themanwhofellasleep.com/gossip.html

Cartalk hp-to-weight ratio (0.06)
http://cartalk.cars.com/About/Rant/r-rlast32.html

Book, Dockers ad campaign chapter -- [growl]
http://www.gladwell.com/1997/1997_07_27_a_khaki.htm

Curb Your Enthusiasm interview -- probably my favourite show on (cable) tv -- [humor] [interview]
http://www.hbo.com/larrydavid/interviews/weide1.html

Free pool playing, including head-to-head -- [pops] [game]
http://www.play3dpool.com/



If that ain't enough for ya, here are my "less popular, more explicit" links. They are often interesting, though for varied reasons.

And if you're REALLY bored, you can see what I had for lunch.