At first the Useless Use of Cat Award sounds like more snide Unix gurus, but there's lots of really good stuff if you ever have to do shell scripting.
Via NTK , a game proposal for Atlas Shrugged Interactive . Unfortunately, basing your pitch for bucks on the success of Myst is liable to get you laughed out of any office of someone who knows the business, but the thought has promise.
When I moved out of my parent's home ages ago, they bought me a chef's knife. A good forged blade. And over the many years I've gotten pretty darned good with it, except for pesto and grated cheese, in the quantities I cook there's nothing the food processor can do that I can't do as fast with the knife (when you include clean-up times, especially). But I've been sharpening it with this old steel, that I snitched from my parents about the same time.
Recently when I was in Atlanta doing "guy stuff" with my dad (building cabinets in the basement, with side trips to some absolutely awesome hardware stores), he raved about the Diamond Whetstone Sharpener . I bought an 8" coarse one yesterday. Wow. That knife is downright frightening now. I think I'm going to have to get a fine one just go take the burrs off the edge, but these things are way cool, and they use water rather than oil for lubrication.
In my search for Emperor Norton stuff I ran across http://www.notfrisco.com/ a wonderful resource for various histories of San Francisco.
Also via the Daily Illuminator comes Find A Grave . So looked for the pilgrimage I've been wanting to make recently, and sure enough here's the grave of Emperor Norton , Emperor of The United States and Protector of Mexico, down in Colma just south of San Francisco.
Interested in implementing small devices with embedded TCP/IP? The Seiko S7600 iChip supports TCP and UPD, PPP+PAP, is easily hooked to a small microcontroller, and costs about $10 in ones and twos.
Dang it, for some reason this URL is too long for Netscape (Works from a command line, though): http://twas.brillig.and.the.slithy.toves.did.gyre.and.gimble.in.the.wabe.all.mimsy.were.the.borogoves.and.the.mome.raths.outgrabe.jabberwocky.com/
American maize mazes: http://www.maizemaze.com/ http://www.americanmaze.com/
In England, alas: Mazes made of maize. http://www.mazemaker.com/
Apropos to various discussions recently about user interface, and the discussion last night with Cameron about information design, from the ATSR manual comes the Nietzsche Guide to Tech Support :
"Our product is obviously too complex and advanced for you. Please desist from using it - you are soiling it. Nevertheless, there may come a time when you actually must help the user, even though he is sucking away your magnificent intellectual vitality with his grotesque shambling confusion."
Is there someone in your life who deserves some "special" sentiments from you? Would sending them flowers or some other gift not do the trick? At SendaTurd.com we will help you share your feelings for that special person by sending them REAL feces. That's right! We don't send any fake plastic or rubber stuff but instead real feces from your choice of animals...
Tired of SETI's bungles? The Search for Terrestrial Intelligence strives to answer the question: "will the inhabitants of Earth read a webpage, no matter how silly?"
What more can be said about The Simpsons Archive ?
Three chapters of Alan Turing's treatise on the Enigma , retyped from the only known paper copy, are now available with the rest to come soon.
Debra Hyde keeps a diary which is one of the few pieces of DS/SM/NLOP writing that makes me understand why someone would be interested in that lifestyle. Well, now she's got the DebWeb LogJam , a web log covering sex. She claims she's going to leave the fringes to me, but she's way further out there than I am.
From the URL you might think it's a swinger's site, but http://www.sex4couples.com/ is more of a Yahoo style index of articles on the web that might be interesting to couples looking at spicing up their relationship. Links to sex information all across the web, pretty comprehensive.
Due to some oddnesses in order of how the glossary gets filled in, the 3D Nature URL isn't filled in below. It's http://www.3dnature.com/
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Cool stuff from the show floor: Stratasys has a 3d object "printer" that works in cheaper plastics, but they've also got one that works with ABS, so you can print to objects that you can actually work with later. Starting from $50k.
Terrence Masson's CGI 101, a dictionary and history of computer graphics and imaging, looks pretty cool. New Riders is the publisher.
And the 3D Nature folks are not only cool, they've got a neat project. Highly recommended if you're working with geography datasets, at least from the stuff I saw here.
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How long can a human survive vacuum ?
The subject later reported that he could feel and hear the air leaking out, and his last concious memory was of the water on his tongue beginning to boil.
How the octothorpe ("#") got that name
The ASCII table from hell , including Morse code.
Regarding my color complaints, Wes Felter points out that Mozilla has color sync code .
Mike's Electric Stuff covers tesla coils, high frequency valves, and all sorts of other cool stuff.
Via Camworld some cool notes on interactive fiction as a guilde to writing hyperfiction .
Some tips for common portrait photography situations , ways to diminish or enhance various facial features, suggestions for posing individuals and groups, a few common lighting notes.
Archives of neat sites posted to Flutterby , notes to webmaster@flutterby.com