Via YAWL , a link to The Dali Museum .
Michael Mayne passes along this link to the Center for Distributed Object Computing , if you're into object oriented design and parallel or network processing this is definitely a site to spend some time on.
Turn on JavaScript for the zoomed image pop-ups, here's a great look at the relics of the cold war from CNN , from Cheyenne Mountain to Mare Island to the rusting hulks of test equpment and old airplanes deep in the desert.
There's a neat Origins of American Animation exhibit at the Library of Congress .
How to keep a Windows NT server stable .
On the "Flutterby" theme, that ever incredible finder of useful stuff on the web Marylaine points to the USGS Butterflies of North America page .
The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices Online
Catherine Yronwode has an interesting little essay on that thin line between spirituality and wacko, titled Keyword: Nut-Case .
Beam Guides and BaBar: A visit to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center .
More random text sillyness from the Chomskybot
the Surrealism Server , including the Surrealist Compliment Generator .
If you have to ask what Kibo is, you probably won't understand anyway. Slightly whacked, included for completeness.
The Rocky & Bullwinkle Horror Picture Show , a part of Melissa's Rocky Horror Page
Craig Peacock's notes on Interfacing the PC
Frank recommends the Laura Nyro pages, I'm going to have to hook up some speakers and experience her music, 'cause he speaks highly of it.
Albert Hoffman's LSD, My Problem Child .
Via /. , here's an RS-232 or parallel port fed demo board for an MP3 decoding chipset
Social Issues Research Centre has some reasonable responses to assorted publicity stunts and seems to warrant some more reading.
Desert Blast seems like the portion of Burning Man that I'm the least comfortable with. But if testosterone, jiggling breasts, and lots of things going boom are your thing and you've got something to contribute it might be worth asking for an invite.
In order to verify the address before ragging on Memepool in today's rant, I had to check the address. And I did find something useful: Assorted obscene origami
If you're interested in the Mendocino area, I was talking with King Collins, who runs http://www.greenmac.com/ , last night. It sounds like there's probably some cool stuff there.
I don't normally feel self conscious about the number of sex links on Flutterby, so I don't know if my reluctance to had this to the list comes from the fact that I was chatting up the site with a lot of people and making it sound more diverse than it probably is right now, or if I really have been focused on one side of things for too long. Anyway, I mentioned Remote Control Sex Toys yesterday, SafeSexPlus seems to be more involved with building an online community around users of this hardware, they've also got a cyberdildonics resources and links page which might be interesting if you want to explore the topics discussed in yesterday's mouthorgan a little more.
Remember, from VCRs to the web, porn drives the technology. This could be your chance to get in on the ground floor.
http://www.erotica-newyork.com
Annoying graphics laden design of the day: The Vatican . Favorite goof, that they use Microsoft publishing tools, so with a standards compliant web browser they refer to the "daily account of the Holy Father?s activities"; it's good to know that they're questioning. A handy recurring link is the English output of the Vatican news service .
http://www.remotecontrolsextoys.com/ --- I was going to just leave it at that, but then I ran across "Here you'll find sex toys with a twist--Remote Control Sex Toys you and your partner can control over the Internet." Who says technology isn't being used for anything useful?
Computer Virus Myths : "Mundus vult decipi".
I've long argued that all we need is a little cooperation and the right leadership to break the domain name monopoly. Several have tried, but many have been really bad. The Internet Namespace Cooperative seems like it might actually be a group of people with their acts together. Worth checking out if you run DNS servers and care about openness on the 'net, although I haven't had time to go through enough of it to unreservedly recommend it.
Via Robot Wisdom , 3 synopses of Polti's 36 Dramatic Situations (an interesting book, although my personal list derived from his was more like 8 or 9 since many of the differences in his situations are based on familial and cultural differences which I don't think hold universally true). http://www.wordplayer.com/archives/poltisitu.01-12.html http://bricolage.bel-epa.com/etc/drawer/polti.html http://www.heliograph.com/space-1889/Adv/fs-36-plots-long.html
My German is shakey, but I think I've gleaned his name right. Thom Aust has some awesome sculpture .
The Childfree By Choice offers support, anecdotes, and information for those of us who think having kids means sauteed with mushrooms in a sherry sauce with a nice merlot on the side.
Biblical America Resistance Front , resisting a biblical America. Practical methods for countering the promise keepers. Coverage of Operation Rescue versus Disney.
Just when I was complaining that the 'net was mined out, here comes Sprogopolis: Baby-powered city of the future . "The only good baby is a working baby."
"Most people, and rightly so, consider babies and infants to be a complete waste of skin. They consume valuable resources, add to noise or other types of pollution, and promote general public disharmony, all without providing any benefit to society. Here in Sprogopolis we have taken steps to remedy the situation."
Via Todd: From Microsoft comes the OFFICE 97 UNIQUE IDENTIFIER REMOVER TOOL AND UNIQUE IDENTIFIER PATCH
"The Office 97 Unique Identifier Patch will prevent the insertion of a unique identifier number into all new Office 97 documents. And the Office 97 Unique Identifier Removal Tool can be used to remove the unique identifier from previously created Office 97 documents."
Genehack points to the awesome Arts & Letters Daily .
Some of John's best talk.bizarre posts , including assorted ways to ruin a play in one line: "Sure, she's dead, but that doesn't mean I have to take poison."
Dumbentia has lots of great flyers for fictional products in PDF format.
The ultimate Atmel AVR microcontroller resource page
Computers in our Schools: This Emperor has no Clothes :
Let's get real - operating a computer on the level we are talking about is a vocational skill, about as challenging as driving a car. The notion that an otherwise well-educated child will be left behind in the marketplace if they don't learn Windows 95 or get on the Internet at eight years of age is ludicrous. But the opposite IS true... a well-educated person (i.e. one with substantial thinking and language skills, and a deeper knowledge of our world and the human condition) is a rare, highly "marketable" individual that will use the computer as an adult when and how it suits their needs at the time, thank you.
Ya know, the economics of the 'net are just too weird. Here's the full text of The Future Does Not Compute , despite it being available by donation to The Nature Institute . Guess that along with lugging the hardcover around I'm going to have to put it on my Pilot too.
The Fable of the Keys is apparently the original source article for that Economist mention. The 'net seems wonky today, so I haven't gotten there yet.
Some ego-surfing found Sunshine for Women: Abortion With an Attitude with lots of links to abortion information.
Remember kiddies, steal a Word document from someone else so the machine IDs aren't traceable to you if you're going to cut and paste the source to the Melissa virus into it.
Archives of neat sites posted to Flutterby , notes to webmaster@flutterby.com