I am so jealous. I've talked about writing a camera simulator so that people could get a feel for how exposure worked for a while. Now someone's gone and done a truly superb bang-up job of it. Bravo! http://www.eece.maine.edu/Power/Java/javacam/javacam.html
Welcome to Condom Country with your guide, Porphylactic Pete. An online store worth reading just for the patter.
I'm not sure exactly who this is news to, but http://www.sjmercury.com/world/center/organ073098.htm describes a paper by Dr. Helen O'Connell in the current issue of the Journal of Urology describing the clitoris as an internal organ much larger than previously thought. It's a note of the really sad state of our attitudes towards sex that we're only making these basic anatomical discoveries now.
I was commended via e-mail yesterday for having links to mature, straightforward, non-commercial sex websites. Well, so much for that: The Kama Sutra Animated . Partially commercial, computer animations of all the major positions. But worthy of note if only for the reason that this is the first large-scale application of 3d models of computer animation I've seen applied to sex. Maybe I'm just sheltered.
In case you missed it on TV, here's a transcript of Sex, Drugs and Consenting Adults with John Stossel which I found from the (Peter McWilliams home page.
http://intellectualcapital.org/
The founders of this website (see 'credits') created it to stimulate thinking about all aspects of Intellectual Capital. None of the founders have any formal credits regarding Intellectual Capital, but have built successful businesses and have experienced first hand the value of recognizing, harvesting and managing Intellectual Capital to improve their companies and the efficiency of their business.
A Cat Scan contest: http://www.unrealnation.com/crackhouse/catscan.html This contest will feature cat-loving owners across the world holding their felines on their flatbed scanners in the name of ART.
http://www.powazek.com/ including http://www.powazek.com/zdinterview.html
http://onastick.net/ The effects of Altoids on oral sex? Hello Kitty 40,000: In the grim future of Hello Kitty there is only war. And more!
For users of Numerical Recipes (the book):
http://cfata2.harvard.edu/nr/ - the official NR home page
http://math.jpl.nasa.gov/nr/nr.html - "Why not use Numerical Recipes?"
Apple is no longer the only company with "core competencies in the fashion and design areas": http://www.rockcity.net/01specs/01a-overview.html
This picture is not for the weak of heart. If roadkill bothers you, don't go there.
Emptying my pockets in between sessions at SIGGRAPH, I've got a bunch of URLs and art sites to update y'all with sometime this weekend or early next week.
The one that comes out first is Jeremy Sutton's interactive portrait painting with Fractal Design's Painter class, http://www.portrayals.com/
I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but I found talking with him and seeing the tail end of his speech interesting because he's solving many of the problems inherent with distance learning, not by trying to duplicate regular classroom situations, but by making the new medium do what it does well.
Free web-based email, Forever, From anywhere! http://www.mailexcite.com
http://www.battle1066.com/ is a huge site on the Battle of Hastings. Book size and scope.
And, as expected, the first parody of http://www.ourfirsttime.com/ has shown up: http://www.ourfirstanalsex.com/home.html
I think I posted this before when their web site sucked, but it's better now. http://www.imagek.com/ has a 35mm film cartridge shaped digital insert, turn any camera into a digital camera. Looks like they've got some fringing problems, but this puppy has potential.
A particularly good experience at a Good Vibrations workshop last night, learning how to breathe (amazing how much there is to learn about supposedly reflex actions), was the inspiration to dig up these sites:
http://www.tantra.com/hotlinks.html is a bunch of links to Tantra organizations, including Celebrations of Love , and the Source School of Charles and Caroline Muir.
catherine yronwode talks about one of the Celebrations of Love courses in Venus Takes A Refresher Course off of her Sacred Sex page.
And the teacher last night was affiliated with Margo Anand's SkyDancing tantra school.
http://www.yforum.com/ has lofty goals: a forum where people can openly talk about their differences, ask questions of other races, religions, whatever. It's interesting mainly because it's less instructive than you think; the answers really are as simple as we get every day in real life. Worth a look nonetheless.
Walter Jon Williams, the cyberpunk novelist, is at war with Wired magazine , they're trying to convince him that they've got the rights to Hard Wired, despite the fact that his book Hardwired was published in 1986.
Yet another reason to not hang with the technofetishists.
The real story of the Darwin Awards Rocket Car? We'll probably never know, but like the original it's a fun read. I've got to check, I think I found one historical inaccuracy. http://www.teisprint.com/~eric/ROCKIT.HTML
Included for completeness only. My first reaction was "wonder which porn site is trying for cheap publicity." My second was "This could be a recipe for real disaster." http://www.ourfirsttime.com/ I think you can puzzle out the premise from the URL and the recent publicity over having the baby on the Internet...
Like all anti-"New World Order" folks they miss the obvious contradiction between their stated beliefs and what they're fighting against, mainly that if majority rule is bad on a large scale, why is it okay on a small scale? But it's still fun anti-conspiracy reading at Eagle Net .
Salon Magazine today has an article by Jeff Stryker about the CRACK organization run by Barbara Harris , which offers $200 to any drug-addicted person willing to be sterilized. To whom do I write the check?
Just in case you always wanted to be one of the minions of the dark lord and laze down rebel scum, here's how to build a stormtrooper costume
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School puts historical documents on the web, pre-18th century on. This looks like a wonderful resource.
Sallie Tisdale in Salon Magazine has a column on raising children that struck a chord this morning. Second in a three part series.
And SnogWeb is a "who's-done-whom" server, kind of "six degrees of less separation" sort of thing.
Did the earth move for you, too? Not if you believe the folks at http://www.fixedearth.com/ who staunchly claim that "The Earth is not Moving".
over 400 years of deception exposed! The bible told the truth all along.
An image of the exalted Bill leading the masses forward into the future.
Bears in Bondage Land , more than just teddies in teddies.
Making Windowstm tolerable (something I'm hard pressed to believe is possible, having just set up an NT box): http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/zsh/unix_win.html
A History And Mythos Of The Knights Templar
A pro-Linux rant from elsewhere: Are You Fed Up With Your OS?
Archives of neat sites posted to Flutterby , notes to webmaster@flutterby.com
