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Estimating World GDP, One Million B.C. - Present
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The 11 types of sundials.
Software to calculate an analemma in case you want to
build an accurate sundial for your latitude.
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Spices and Their Costs in Medieval Europe.
"In Diocletian's (a Roman emperor) day a pound of ginger cost 5,000 days
wages (18.5 years, with 270 workdays per year); but in 1875, only 1.4
days' pay."
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This page has a few animated gif zoom-ins of electron
microscope images.
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The Map Room -- a weblog about maps.
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All of Vermeer's paintings in one place.
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The best UFO pictures ever faked taken!
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Function parser for C++.
Finally, an easy way to take a user-entered
string, such as "5*sin(x)+1", and evaluate it
on the fly.
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Many scans of Babbage's original blueprints for his legendary difference engine.
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Roadable Times.
The Internet Magazine Of
Flying Cars & Roadable Aircraft
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Semiotics for Beginners.
A Semiotic Analysis of Political Cartoons.
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Physics: The Standard Model Chart.
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The Sprint Anti-Ballistic Missile (1975).
"Within seconds, the missile reached a speed of Mach 10+,
and the extreme thermodynamic heating demanded sophisticated ablative shielding
(the nose was already glowing red-hot less than a second after launch)."
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A page with a self-explanatory title: Cool Rocket Pictures.
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Battle tactics for the RPG-7 rocket propelled grenade.
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Quotations on simplicity in software design.
"There's an old story about the person who wished his
computer were as easy to use as his telephone.
That wish has come true, since I no longer know
how to use my telephone.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup
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The Saturn V motherlode of technical data.
PDF scans of the Saturn V News Reference from 1968.
Over 100 pages separated across 15 files.
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Electoral Systems Index -- a detailed description of the various
democratic voting systems.
Table of voting systems by nation.
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Unreal Aircraft.
Illustrated database of experimental air-transportation concepts from the
past. Categories:
Q-BRANCH,
LOST CLASSICS,
WEIRD WINGS,
FLYING FOREVER,
BEATING GRAVITY,
HYBRID AIRCRAFT,
ROADABLE AIRCRAFT.
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Syntax Across Languages.
Extensive cross-reference that helps you translate functions, keywords, operators, etc
from one programming language to another. Useful if you're programming in a language
you're unfamiliar with.
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Take a sequence of slightly different sculptures, put them on a rotating platform,
flash a strobe at the proper frequency, and you have an animated sculpture.
- Gregory Barsamian creates some really large
ones based on dreams he's had (with pop-up Flash video).
- The 3-D Zoetrope displays the mathematical Costa-Torus metamorphosis.
- A Chris Eckert sculpture: Perpetual Labor (with animated GIF).
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Lengthy technical discussion on the development of the
H-1 and F-1 rocket engines. F-1's were the massive engines that propelled the
first stage of the Apollo Saturn V rocket.
Neat factoid: scientists would detonate small bombs in the engines (while they were running) to test
combustion stability.
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Straightforward rule for deciphering C statements like int (*fpa())[].
The "right-left" rule is a completely regular rule for deciphering C
declarations. It can also be useful in creating them.
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Various search engine ratings. Top four: google, yahoo, MSN, & AOL.
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Amazing. There may be a small portion of the population with
pseudonormal vision -- that is, they see red as green
and green as red. However, it's probably impossible to design an experiment to
determine if this is true, because these people (if they exist) would
call green red and red green.
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Brief history of the JavaScript (nee LiveScript) language.
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Mathematical inequalities. Pages from MathWorld, Wikipedia, and PlanetMath.
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Stephen Hawking talks about gravitational entropy.
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Extensive list of contemporary clippings about the
Battle of the Somme. Authorities (generals, politicians) called it
a great victory, whereas soldiers referred to it as "the Great Fuckup."
There were over 600,000 allied casualties, for a gain of 12 km.
Tolkien alluded to the battle in his "Journey Through the Dead Marshes" scene in LOTR.
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Jürgen Schmidhuber's interesting homepage on Artificial Intelligence.
Subjects covered include Universal Learning Algorithms, Metalearning Machines and
Low-Complexity Art.
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Edmunds discussed automotive braking distances. Also some links about
the pitfalls of anti-lock brakes, and the benefits of disk vs drum brakes.
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Brief summary of the important events of the Vietnam War, from 1961 to 1969.
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Short video clip from 1966 documentary The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam in which
a pilot gleefully describes a napalm attack.
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Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century ;
Subpage listing the Twenty bloodiest wars in history.
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The 100 best novels of the 20'th century (list is a few years old) ;
The 100 best nonfiction books.
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Yahoo's most emailed photos list. Mostly a mix of sex, war, technology, and cute fuzzy animals.
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Scenic photographs of polyhedral models situated in natural settings.
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Well-phrased rant against X-TREMETM foodstuffs.
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MineSweeper3D -- play MineSweeper on the surface of different types of polyhedra.
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Nice CG rendered images of Von Braun/Bonestell era spacecraft.
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JavaScript simulation of the Apollo LM DSKY flight computer.
Input is mostly numeric with "VERB" and "NOUN" specifiers.
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Researchers measure distinct characteristics in speech of individuals at high risk of suicide.
As he interviewed patients in the psychiatric emergency room,
Silverman found that the sound of some voices literally caused the hair
on the back of his neck to rise. As he analyzed the voices that created
this sense of alarm, he concluded that it was caused by a distinctive
quality in the pattern and tone of the voices of individuals likely
to attempt suicide...
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Mugshots of influential people in computer science.
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VirtuaWin with "Mouse Support" disabled and with the "Cool Desktop Switcher" and "Switch Desk"
modules installed makes a functional, free, multi desktop switcher
for Windows.
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The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard explains the rationale behind the typical
*NIX directories, like /usr/bin, /sbin, /etc, /var, etc.
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Do-it-yourself bomb shelter plans from 1980;
Hardcore bomb shelters that can withstand a 1-megaton blast at 1 mile (only $60,000);
Well-funded crankpot puts 42 buses in a hole in the ground, encases them in concrete,
dubs it "Ark Two."
(blueprint GIF)
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The Experimental Television Society. Descriptions and reconstructions
of mechanical(!) television systems from the ~1930's.
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The Purdue University Math Problem of the Week.
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Illustrated guide to triangle centers.
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Cell-phone tower disguised as a tree is just... rotten!
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Interesting technical discussion on the early history of the
C programming language. One of C's innovations was the
idea of making arrays, pointers and strings basically the same thing.
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The Large Scale Crystal. A 3-D crystalline representation of the
surrounding clusters of galaxies gives a clear idea of the filamentary
structure of the large-scale universe.
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An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists.
Gives the impression that VCs
are a shifty bunch of greedy dullards.
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Profusely illustrated Fungus of the Month.
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Glow-in-the-dark Thinking Putty (A.K.A. Silly Putty) that
you can draw on with a flashlight, or make your own crude shadow
photographs with.
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kEwL. Wikipedia lets you enter TeX markup now.
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Exotic Probability Theories and Quantum Mechanics: References.
Just in case you need to calculate an imaginary (as in "square-root-of-minus-one-imaginary")
probability.
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Code charts of Unicode characters.
Unicode is an attempt to classify every character from every known language.
(PDF format)
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How To Write Unmaintainable Code --
Coding Obfuscation.
"C compilers transform myArray[i] into *(myArray + i),
which is equivalent to *(i + myArray) which is equivalent
to i[myArray]. Experts know to put this to good use."
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The world's biggest trilobite was discovered in Manitoba, and
is/was larger than a cat.
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Rivet-oriented photo gallery of a lunar module that was
partially completed by Grumman and is undergoing restoration
at the Cradle of Aviation, New York. (contact sheet and image directory)
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Java/GIF animations of:
19 types of engines;
Dozens of pumps;
and 16 fundamental linkages.
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Archive of historic documents in computer science dating back to
Konrad Zuse's attempt to patent his computer in 1941.
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Introduction to Labanotation.
Labanotation is a standardizied system for
analysing and recording any human motion.
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Funny quote about C++, via USENET:
To have a
fighting chance of your C++ program even seeming to work, you have to
think. And some people consider that a fatal flaw. (James Kanze)
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Girl folds paper in half twelve times.
She also wrote a booklet on her experience:
"How to Fold Paper in Half Twelve Times - An "Impossible Challenge" solved and explained."
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A gallery of OLD DINOSAUR BOOKS! This page triggers intense flashbacks
of my childhood obsession with dinosaurs.
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Category Theory for Beginners. Beginner's (what-EVER) guide to the utmost abstraction
in abstract mathematics. (PDF format & google cache)
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"Ardalambion,
The most comprehensive site about Tolkien's invented languages that you are likely to find on the net."
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One man's crusade against traffic waves.
"While I was slightly slowing down to allow a space to gradually
open up before me, I was creating a pulse of "antitraffic" ahead of me.
When my antitraffic-pulse finally collided with the dense "traffic" of
the jam, the two annihilated each other like a positron meeting an
electron. It's nonlinear soliton physics." ;
Java simulation of road traffic.
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Collection of Bee Beard Photos.
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Collection of radioactive quack cures from the 1920's and 30's.
"place Radiendocrinator in the adapter . . .
wear like any athletic strap . . . under the scrotum as it should be. Wear at night. Radiate as directed."
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Sorting algorithm demos in Java. Typical sorts, like Bubblesort, Quicksort, Shellsort, etc ;
Sorting algorithms designed for parallel architectures, like Odd-Even Transposition Sort, and the Shear Sort (which looks cool).
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Name That Candybar. Guess the candybar based on a cross-section image.
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Code of the Day. Geeks get together and share their favorite code fragments.
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WAR... CONSUMING... ALL... CPU... CYCLES....
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Amazing closeup pics of Star Wars props.
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Terminator Endoskeleton Bobble Head.
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Gödel, Tarski, Church, and the Liar -- bleeding-edge mathematical
research on the phrase "this sentence is false." (23 pages, PS format)
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Wow, a search engine specifically for satire.
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Secrets of the Ninja -- unintentionally funny, detailed book
on the art of being a ninja. (PDF, 1.8 MB)
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Gallery of PsyOp leaflets being dropped over Iraq.
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Uber-kEwL video of a common octopus "de-cloaking." (AVI or MPG)
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Frequently Asked Questions About Quaoar.
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The Post-OOP Paradigm.
Great article on new programming paradigms such as
AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming),
Design Patterns, and
Extreme Programming.
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UML: A Modern Dinosaur? A Critical Analysis of the Unified
Modelling Language.
Quote: "It is a semantically retarded, mighty ruler oppressing
the development of sophisticated methods for conceptual modelling
and information system design."
(PS and PDF)
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Guided Tour on Wind Energy. A technical site that talks about
every conceivable aspect of wind power.
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The pointiest airplane ever -- the Douglas X-3 Stiletto from the 1950's.
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Comprehensive site about Archimedes and his inventions.
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The history of the biohazard symbol.
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Humor(?) -- The Donald Rumsfeld Soundbyte-of-the-WeekTM
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Napoleonic Artillery - Firepower Comes of Age.
Cool image shows the effects of a cannonball on steel armor.
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Comparison of the U.S. Space Shuttle to the Russian Shuttle Buran.
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First Lunar Outpost -- NASA's 1992 plans for a huge lunar lander.
Unlike Apollo, the entire spacecraft (including Earth return capsule)
is landed on the Moon. The NASA designers settled for this configuration
since it would enable the lunar crew to leave from landing sites in middle latitudes.
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A gallery of Gollum.
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Aquatic slug of the week.
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Technical discussion on why Java sucks.
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Introduction to subatomic particles.
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Living-jewels.com -- gallery of colorful iridescent beetle photographs.
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Quick reference cards for a variety of languages, editors, OS's, apps, etc.
(all in PDF format)
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Neat, non-traditionally-oriented panoramic photograph.
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Simple Vandals or a Unique Social Movement?
A Psycho-Sociological Discourse on Internet Trolls
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The Laws of Anime.
#12 - Law of Phlogistatic Emission -
Nearly all things emit light from fatal wounds.
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aquaMOZ, the best Mozilla skin EVAR!
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Alas the day, for the balancing bunny is dead.
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In 1980, the US army strapped solid rocket boosters to
a C-130 Hercules to give it vertical takeoff and landing capabilities. The
goal was to rescue hostages in Iran.
Not surprisingly, the modifications didn't work properly. There's even
a video of a test that failed catastropically (MPG, 3 MB).
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Aerial pictures of Hiroshima, before and after the bombing. (at bottom of page)
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The Great Computer Language Shootout. Comparisons of speed and efficiency
for many different languages.
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Discussion on why Hungarian Notation stinks.
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The MegaPenny project clarifies large numbers through
images of piles of pennies.
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Technical descriptions of the colors of noise, from white noise to black noise(???),
and all the shades in between ;
an ancient Mayan whistle that produces noise (with WAV files).
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CBC commentator Rex Murphy wracks his brain trying to
elucidate the mysterious cause of obesity.
"Now this may be radical, but I think they should look at food.
Nor should I wish to prejudice the experiment, but I think the amount
is important. Just a guess, I know, from a layman, but take a look at food
and the amount of food."
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The BuddhaBrot, an alternative calculation of the Mandelbrot set,
produces ghostly images that look like interstellar nebula.
"instead of recording the behavior of the series at each point
z0 we now consider only those points that escape to infinity and
we create a density plot of the terms in the series."
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Bridge Basics -- a short visual glossary of bridge design techniques.
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THEMANWHOFELLASLEEP is a total mishmash of disorganised hyper-creative non-sequiturs.
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How David Blaine levitates in public (he uses the Balducci Method.)
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A short history of the laugh track.
"Early uses of the laugh track are quaint by today's standards:
'The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet' used only one laugh throughout
its half-hour running time, and 'The Abbott and Costello Show' used an
uproarious laugh track which ran continuously, regardless of the action on screen."
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The Cellar Image of the Day, a surprisingly interesting and varied photo blog.
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Short USENET post argues that the much maligned concept of syntactic sugar
isn't all that bad, and is even necessary for programming languages to progress.
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An interview that proves that Apple's Steve Wozniak is a true genius.
He designed the original Apple hardware (which I knew), but I did not know that he also
wrote the original BASIC interpreter!
"So I wrote the syntax table... came up with a really clever,
structured way to implement an interpreter. I don't know if I did anything
that's taught in school. I don't know if I did anything by normal rules,
but it was very, very structured".
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C++ inventor Bjarne Stroustrup's latest project: "XTI -- Extended Type Information." (PDF format)
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MathWorld has a nice archive of optical illusions.
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Physicist analyzes stone skipping.
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Doug Chiang, the artistic director for the last two Star Wars movies,
discusses (in detail) his painting and drawing techniques.
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How Magna Doodle works.
The magnetophoretic display panel is what makes the Magna Doodle unique.
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Did U kno that Canada's flag is based on the flag of the KKK?
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An Editor Recalls Some Hopeless Papers.
Journal editor discusses the many papers he's rejected in
which people try to disprove Cantor's Theorem.
Cantor's Theorem states that, no matter how you arrange them, there
will always be more reals than integers.
(first link in page, PS format)
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Speculation as to why short science fiction (i.e., Analog, Asimov's, etc) seems to
be dying out.
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The true story of the NASA space pen, which supposedly cost millions of dollars (it didn't)
even though a pencil would have done just fine (it wouldn't).
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Do-it-yourself paper models of historic rockets, such as the Gemini Titan and Saturn 1B.
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Complete taxonomy of bumper fish emblems. (Inspired by the Jesus Fish, Darwin Fish and Evolve Fish.)
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One-page proof of the irrationality of pi (not that I "get" it, but it looks neat anyways).
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BuzzWhack - Comprehensive buzzword compliant dictionary.
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Risks Digest - Focus is on computer security, but has many interesting stories of bugs and glitches.
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How to use i.e. and e.g. (e.g. means "for example", i.e. means "that is").
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The Glenn Gould De-Vocalizer 2000.
This module effectively removes breathing, coughing, knuckle
cracking, and farts from most live performances.
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A Sodium Party - fun with metallic sodium.
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Gwynne Dyer says that it wouldn't be the end of the world if
Saddam Hussein ever got his hands on some nukes.
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Search referral of the day: "software design planning cartoon swing customer architecture humor". Jesus.
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Why XML sucks and is here to stay.
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Gaggle - For those of us who are too lazy to actually think of a word to search for.
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Symbolic animation of the internet domain namespace being consumed since 1988.
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A Concise Dictionary of Middle English is stored in PDF image format (it's a scan of an old book),
hence the huge file sizes.
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Search engine referrals of the day:
tolkien topology maps, wolfram asshole, rilly big boobs, monty python chocolate brains, and the ever-popular
electrode sex videos.
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Space:1999 photoscripts -- frame grabs along with script. (in English, just ignore front page).
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Space:1999 Eagle wallpapers.
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Many beautiful atmospheric ice halos ("Images" menus at left, hard to find) ;
Halos that would be seen from the atmosphere of Saturn ;
Software to ray-trace your own halos.
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Archive of quotations from mathematicians. I.E.:
If you open a mathematics paper at random, on the pair of pages before you, you will find a mistake. [J.L.Doob]
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. [von Neumann]
Any good idea can be stated in fifty words or less. [Stan Ulam]
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You too can own a reprint of the Principia Mathematica for only $600!
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Computer scientists create simulated economies where the rich get richer and the
poor get poorer.
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Fine Art : the tranquil "Philosopher in Meditation" by Rembrandt.
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Engineers worship at the temple of Cassini (image).
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Audio system test files ; white noise, violet noise, square waves, etc, in WAV format.
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Central database of open problems in mathematics.
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Nouse - Downloadable demo (Windows). Use your nose as a joystick or a mouse.
You supply the USB camera, and Nouse associates your nose position with a point on the screen,
allowing you to select an item in the menu or play a game without a mouse. (game included)
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Fine Art : the apocalyptic Triumph of Death, by Bruegel, 1562.
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Introduction to Conway's surreal numbers (PDF format).
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Old (2000) interesting article about anti-Einstein crackpots.
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The weird monkey (and cat and dog) paintings of Donald Roller Wilson. (menu at lower left).
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Chocolate brains and hearts ; jello molds for creating jiggly brains and hands.
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Stunningly detailed images of Jupiter and Io from the ground-based Very Large Telescope (VLT).
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Summaries of text input methods (Graffiti, Quikwriting, etc).
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The Cerne Abbas Giant or the 'Rude Man' is the largest hillfigure in Britain...
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Literary techniques in action -- experts rework a mediocre poem into a work of art.
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History of maps of the moon, from Galileo the the present.
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Many versions of computer Go, the ancient board game.
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Fast food ain't making those Americans fat... it's those damn history lessons!
Lesson: Introduce Abraham Lincoln to young students by making a log cabin from pretzels & chocolate icing.
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Head Hunting -- Semi-gruesome shrunken head gallery.
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YIPPEE! A tiny plugin lets
Mozilla
display IMG ALT-text as tooltips!
(just like IE and NS 4).
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Jon Sullivan takes lovely photographs, and amazingly, places them
all in the public domain.
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Mesmerizing photo gallery of amateur rock-band glamour shots.
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Archives of online mathematics textbooks.
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Geniuses (genii?) share the questions that keep them awake at night. (Some lame, some profound.)
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A cellular automaton (WireWorld) binary multiplier. Can calculate
163 x 149 in 18,000 generations.
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D&D story generator.
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These automated search-engine ad placements are ridiculous sometimes.
...Read about "assrape" at Forbes.com...
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Brief history of the concept of infinity.
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Checklist comparing and contrasting Christianity and Islam, the world's
two largest religions.
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The Art Of Debunkery : HOW TO DEBUNK JUST ABOUT ANYTHING.
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Google Sets seems to work well for finding the "peers" of a particular
person. Examples:
Bjarne Stroustrup,
Galileo,
Vermeer,
Alan Turing,
Jean Luc Picard.
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Welcome to Bjarne Stroustrup's homepage!
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The inventor of The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
discusses his favorites (PDF or PS format).
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Spectacular Monty Python and the Holy Grail site, with alternative scripts,
images from the movie, audio fragments, and videos!
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Google Answers questioner spends $15 to find out if zig-zagging
is a good strategy for avoiding an enraged elephant.
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Bill Gates' official webpage, in which he poses in an obtuse metaphor
involving light bulbs, a loveseat, and a wastepaper basket. (Looks like they
photoshopped out his legendary huge butt though). I wonder how many focus groups
and variations that picture had to go through.
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Learning About the Vendian Animals.
The Vendian era was 560 million years ago, when the most complicated
lifeforms were odd, slithery things.
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Some contemporary poetry for you to mock.
"HOW NOW BROWN WOW"
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Anecdotes from a retired math professor.
Then she said, ``You're a f**king asshole, you know that? All you care about
is yourself, asshole. You're a teacher, why won't you teach?''
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The University of Alberta GAMES group has lots of cutting-edge game
programs, including Chinook, the world human/machine checkers champ,
a Roshambo-bot that actually tries to predict your moves, and
Poki, which plays a reasonable game of poker.
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A couple of Axolotl pages.
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Accelerate your web surfing with the help of the
Mozilla Keyboard Assignment Map.
(Works only for Mozilla, of course).
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The Tate Gallery of London buys a Can of Human Shit for £22,300.
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Travelers Diagram links to here, but I'm not sure why. The topics seem different than mine
(but maybe that's the reason?) Anyhoos, the picture adjacent to my link is refreshing to see.
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An utterly
arseholed
Colonel Sanders blithers his way through a KFC commercial (RealAudio format).
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After a hard day's work, nothing relaxes me more than watching a video of
a naked PCP user being "dropped" by an Advanced Taser (TM).
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Mathematical Lego sculptures include the Mobius strip, the trefoil knot, and my favorite, the Klein bottle.
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Did you know that Charles Atlas was at the height of his power in 1922?
Or that his body was the model for sculptures of Washington and Hamilton?
Or that he trained Joe DiMaggio?
Or that he co-created the famous cartoon?
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Detailed argument that Dutch artist Vermeer (1660's) used a lens to help him with his painting.
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Java animations of figure-8 gravitational orbits.
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The mission of MOON BASE CLAVIUS is to debunk conspiracy theories that the moon landing never
took place. The site's loaded with technical discussions and pictures, and even
devout Apollo-believers will find a few interesting factoids within.
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Java animation of the Antikythera mechanism ; technical details of its differential gearing.
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Exhaustive compilation of GUI toolkits and frameworks.
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An Ancient Greek Computer.
In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a
clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to have been
a device for calculating the motions of stars and planets.
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Small gallery of gross-looking sea creatures:
sea slug,
sea cucumber,
pleurobranch,
moon snail,
tongue fish,
and
looks OK, but stupid name.
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The Amphioxus Song or, "It's a Long Way From Amphioxus" (1921).
The amphioxus, or lancelet
[picture],
is a primitive worm-like creature that
has a prototypical spinal cord called a notochord.
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A Guide to the Eight Orders of Trilobites.
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An Overview Of Ramanujan's Notebooks (ps or pdf format).
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The Home Depot Leaf Blower, for kids 3 and up, may
possibly be the most annoying toy in the universe.
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Electrum -- The World's Largest Tesla Coil is 38 feet tall. The top electrode is a spherical
cage that someone sits in while it's operating.
The designers are also planning to build a pair of 12-story coils.
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Who would want to use MathML for equations on webpages? Its verbosity is insane!
For example, this short equation,
"{ x | x < 5 }",
takes 109 keystrokes
-- without spaces! I.e.
<math> <set> <bvar> <ci> x </ci> </bvar> <condition> <reln> <
lt/> <ci> x </ci> <cn> 5</cn> </reln> </condition> </set> </math>
.
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History of mathematical symbols ; History of the words of mathematics .
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A concise listing of small, stable, well-designed, freeware Internet utilities.
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The Easiest Hard Problem.
Take a set of integers and separate it into two sets that have
the same sum. This is known as a perfect partition, and is the simplest NP-complete problem.
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The Case Against Extreme Programming.
"A common attitude amongst XPers is that if you're not using XP (or some other trendy methodology),
then you're one of the "old guard":
you're crusty, old-fashioned, not up with the times. Horsefeathers."
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Dennis Ritchie's homepage holds a great wealth of anecdotal and
historical C and UNIX information, among other things.
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If the IEC had their way, we'd be buying RAM by the mebibyte, hard drives
by the gibibyte, and really big things by the hard-to-pronounce exbibyte.
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Simple chart shows why Ronald Reagan is considered to be
one of the great presidents. (He was in office from '81 to '89).
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Advanced gambits for Rock-Paper-Scissors, from the devious Scissors Sandwich
to the agressive Avalanche.
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Escher Web Sketch - a neat little Java app that lets you draw Escheresque pictures.
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Scans of Galileo's handwritten Notes on Motion.
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Reflections on Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science".
By Ray Kurzweil.
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Atomic Patrol, a group of realistic radiation-induced superheros.
"MR. STERILE IS COMPLETELY UNABLE TO FATHER CHILDREN!"
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Obsession with terrorism is distorting U.S. policies.
Gwynne Dyer tells the U.S.: "it's time to get over it."
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Quicktime VR of the face of Kennewick Man (340K).
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Chinese rural architecture (photo gallery).
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Man builds Periodic Coffee Table.
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The world's ten ugliest buildings.
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Wisecracking grrl leads Nigerian scammer on wild goose chase.
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Nice use of rollover image to clarify celestial alignment.
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Interactive bible quizzes, including
the Wrath of God Quiz, the Whose God is More Vicious Quiz,
and the Bible Sex Quiz.
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The Popular Mechanics cover gallery, all the way from 1902.
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Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study.
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Java Turing machine simulator demonstrates an incrementer and an adder.
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Useful small matrix class that works for many C++ compilers.
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The William Blake Archive ; A Blake portal ; A few
well
known
pics.
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May pre house the seamy side volatition!
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Mathematicians reverse-engineer the mythological Gordian knot ;
Ropers Knots Page — The knot site on real knots in rope.
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Gallery of mite-infested micromachinery.
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Patent law gone insane: Method of Swinging on a Swing ; Story of the 7-year old who patented it.
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The Hoax Picture Gallery has pics from the 1800's to the present, including
Subduing a Giant Grasshopper and
Hitler's Baby Picture.
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38 proofs of the Pythagorean theorem.
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Interesting theory that starchy foods cause myopia.
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Knuth has posted a new chapter, Generating all Permutations, for his upcoming sequel to TAOCP*.
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The Skeptic's Dictionary explains Amway.
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Science songs from the 50's. (mp3 format).
Excerpt: "There is no disputin' / There is no refutin' / We're all indebted / To Sir Isaac Newton"
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A whole pile of photoshopped absurdity based on a 'kid at Hooters' pic. (Takes a while to load).
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You will either be deeply inspired or will burst out laughing
(drawings of Jesus helping hard-working white folks).
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Search-engine referral of the day: "mozart iq fetal programming"
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Nice photo gallery for the world's largest fusion reactor, the JET (Joint European Torus) ;
Fave pics:
Cutaway Diagram and
Remote Manipulator System ;
Next generation ITER reactor will be twice the linear dimensions (or 8x the volume).
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Hawaiian Happyface Spider - Theridion grallator
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Donald Knuth's God and Computers Lecture Series at MIT (mp3 or Real format).
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Fighting Whites T-Shirts : Click here
to get email address.
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Telling people they're unliked before an IQ test reduces scores by 25%.
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Indian team dubs itself "The Fighting Whities".
The team chose a white man as its mascot to raise awareness of stereotypes.
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Nuclear waste architecture designed to scare away future archaeologists. IE, "Landscape of Thorns".
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The amusing confessions of a slush pile reader.
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Space Shuttle shock-diamonds ; Some SR-71 Blackbird examples ;
The physics of shock-diamonds (AKA Mach diamonds).
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What celebrities would look like with evil goatees, including Mr Rogers and Britny Spears.
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average color of all the stars in the universe has just changed... |
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Another Shakespeare wasn't Shakespeare theory (he was supposedly a dead Marlowe) ;
A quick debunking of the theory via USENET.
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If Star Wars was set in Glasgow. "Darth Vader would referred to as 'Auld Helmet Heid' or in moments of
stress 'That Dome-Heided Basturd'"
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The Onion explains chat-room shorthand. "NTBUSWAB = Not To Bring Up Star Wars Again, But..."
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HOW TO WRITE A BETTER WEBLOG by Dennis Mahoney
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Summary of yes/no gestures in different cultures.
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Extremely detailed cutaway view of the Saturn V moon rocket.
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Free typewriter fonts.
Delight the customer by giving your next proposal that
"my-computer-broke-down-and-all-I-could-find-was-a-40-year-old-Underwood" look.
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Artistic-looking photo-finish of tied Olympians.
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TRIVIA QUIZ: who is the man at the left in the picture?
HINT: He was well know to Canadian TV viewers about 20 years ago.
(answer)
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The convoluted (but interesting) history of English customary weights and
measures.
"...barleycorns are at the origin of both weight and distance units in the English system."
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A frightening image, if you look closely enough.
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The FC++ library lets you write functional-style code, a-la Haskell, in C++.
The library uses every template feature available, thus it only works with
the GNU compilers.
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The Signetics WOM (Write-Only-Memory) invented in 1973. The world's only
FINO (First-In, Never-Out), is hailed as the first RURP (Realized
Ultimate-Reality Product) and has infinite capacity.
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The disgusting history of the polyphagists -- people
who will eat anything (usually for fame and fortune)
regardless of whether it's animal, mineral, alive, dead, cooked, or raw.
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Best fractals I've seen in a long time!
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Satanic rock-singer tempts Christian concert-goer in this anti-rock screed.
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A rilly rilly neat multiple exposure of the moon rising.
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What do styracosaurus boobs, crapulent porkers, and spelunking yeti nuggets all have in
common? They're all the result of Googlewhacking.
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Witness the cat-artist's descent into insanity.
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Search-engine referral of the day: "beaver testicles photo"
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1952 recording of J.R.R. Tolkien reading a poem in Elvish (47 second MP3)
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Videos of jumping spider courtship dances. The third one, Habronattus tuberculatus, is oddly comical.
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Medieval Woodcuts Clipart Collection ; Medieval Macabre ; Tacuinum Sanitatis
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A creepy, creepy dolly... the simulated Fetal Alcohol Syndrome baby.
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World's strangest skyscraper looks like it was designed by a committee.
The style is described as brutalist.
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| This is the average color of all the stars in the universe. |
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The Viking Answer Lady knows everything about Vikings.
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The banned book of Dr. Seuss. Excerpt:
"Next Saturday I'll blow my head off.
No one is going to stop me next Saturday" ;
Image of gun-toting delinquent from the book
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A whacked-out "reconstruction" of Orcish society. Tolkien would be
rolling in his grave if he saw this.
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This short (1 to 2 hours) Haskell tutorial, by IBM, could also be seen as a cautionary tale
explaining why mathematicians shouldn't design programming languages.
Free registration required.
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Encase your head in a single-sided, nonorientable, wool manifold ;
Miniature Portrait of Gauss for Sale ;
Klein bottle jigsaw puzzles, real cheap!
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This guy likes frying strange things in microwave ovens --
and has the photos to prove it.
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100 Watt class Stirling Engine, Ecoboy-SCM81 ; development, structure, and assembly
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Misc examples and 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall done in many, many programming languages
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Google's new catalog search does OCR on the scanned pages... with less than 100% accuracy.
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Print and fold your own planetary icosahedrons
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Yes, We Have No Bananas, sung by the Yerkes Novelty Five, 1923 (mp3 format)
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Yes, we have no Higgs bosons.
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Illustration: "The beaver is a gentle animal whose testicles have a medicinal value.
When hunted, the beaver escapes with his life by biting off his testicles.
If he is hunted for a second time he shows his incompleteness and is spared."
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An amazing artificial language: PPW -- Phonetic Picture Writing -- in which imagery,
pronunciation, and meaning merge together seamlessly
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Style guidelines for The Economist magazine
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The Ten Oxherding Pictures
from The Manual of Zen Buddhism
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Algebraic Topology by Allen Hatcher (online textbook)
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York Boat on Lake Winnipeg, by Walter J. Phillips, 1930
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Screenshot of Donald Knuth's* desktop environment (he uses emacs*)
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Comical dinosaur depiction from 1838 book, The Country of the Iguanodon*
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2500 YO Zoroastrian* holy book seems more like an ancient encyclopedia, with chapters such as The planets and cosmology,
The nature of trees, Regarding liquids, Measuring distances, and The nature of the ape and bear
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Online sacred texts of the world's religions ; Detailed timeline of texts from 5000 BC to present ; Religion timeline
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Winnipeg* featured in Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)
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Object Oriented Numerics : libraries, tools and software
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PETA* decides to attact the true source of the milk atrocity -- That's right; the stunted, milk-swilling scumbags also known as "schoolchildren"
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Perpetual motion* museum. Also explains the fatal flaw of each machine
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Grotesque head of Valerie, a domestic android
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Thorough technical history of the Apollo space program: Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft
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Frank Gehry* design portends future WTC collapse
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Did worldwide random-number generators "register" the WTC attacks before they even happened?
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Concise explanation of nukes; learn what "dial-a-yield" means.
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Introduction to Lambda Calculus* (PDF or PS format)
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The ten faces of the Man in the Moon
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Lost Moon-landing* tape found. The audio file is a cacophonic barrage.
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BridgeBuilder - Finite element analysis* has never been more fun!
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critters.org - This group cured me of the irrational belief that I could make a living writing fiction
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Visual list of tallest structures in the world. CN Tower* is a shorter than I thought, and Empire State* is taller.
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Labeled albedo maps of Mars*
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The retrotech artwork of Tom Jennings including annotated history of character codes
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Clever crusade to wipe out spam
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The Glass Engine - advanced interface for searching through the works of Philip Glass* based on
5 parameters : joy, sorrow, intensity, density and velocity.
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What drove Canada's Tunit*, a tribe of giants, to extinction circa y1k?
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18th c Ships and Tactics:
"The British used the tactic of firing
into the enemy hulls, causing a storm of flying splinters that
killed and maimed the enemy gun crews."
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Ugly Soviet LK Lunar Lander that was built but never flew
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Another reason to avoid Netscape 4.x
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Midflight Lunar module* with Gene Cernan* peering out of window
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Free WebSeminars - slideshow accompanied by RealAudio lectures
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Jpeg + RealAudio webseminar on Monstrous Moonshine
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Anvil Shooting: an ancient sport undergoing a revival
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1600 treatise on the Bear Ape, aka ARCTOPITHECUS (actually was a 3-toed sloth)
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Cannibalistic Satan from 14th century version of Dante's Inferno*
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80's Lunar Lander game done in Java
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Harrison's Description of England in Shakespere's Youth (1575)
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Indexed mishmash of short entertaining sound files (WAV)
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English as she is Spoke - the worst/funniest phrasebook ever written (1883)
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History of English with WAV soundbites of Old and Middle English (unintelligible)
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The Earth Is Born, Hadean* Era cover for 1952 issue of Life mag by Chesley Bonestell*.
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Image & description of the Archaean* Earthscape, 3 Billion years ago.
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CLIsource: A resource for the unhip command line interface*
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Mozart* and Beethoven* compared (B wins)
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E.T. Jaynes* explains the thought processes that evolved into modern thermodynamics
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Computer vision* test images
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Algorithms and Complexity by Herbert S. Wilf (online textbook)
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Elements of Abstract and Linear Algebra by Edwin H. Connell (online textbook)
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Abstract Algebra Online - terse online textbook
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A Course in Universal Algebra by Burris and Sankappanavar (online textbook)
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Collatz Conjecture* (aka 3n+1 problem) research... join the distributed search project!
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An Analysis of Recent Work on Clustering Algorithms
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Ccard 2.0 - the Category Theory card game!
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Gaelic proverbs & sayings. IE: The chief's house has a slippery doorstep
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1500 BC board game
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Local boy does good in Hasselblad* photo contest.
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Original wooden prototype of R2D2 action figure
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The famous worst short story ever written - THE EYE OF ARGON
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York Boat Bill of Lading, 1803
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Stories such as this one makes me wonder if Zen* is in fact a load of crap
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Caricature of mathematician Alan Turing*, with beyond-Elvis* hair
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Good God! ESR* should stick to writing free software!
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IBM Voice Synthesis* circa 1961 (A Bicycle Built for Two) which inspired Kubrick*
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Award-winning Onion* Humor: HOLY SHIT! MAN WALKS ON @#$%ING MOON!
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this is a test.
this is another test 
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YETAUE
MOREHTUE TESTINGTRH
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