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| Sunday Dec 23, 2001 | Thanks to OrthoServer and MapServer, combined with free USGS data scattered about, you can build your own aerial photo browser with additional data layers from entirely open source parts and freely distributed data. to Cartography by shadow |
| Saturday Dec 22, 2001 | Crapped out on
classic sweet
but sticky
Christmas stories?
Cleanse your palate with the whiskey chaser prose of H.L.
Mencken, Mark Twain,
William S. Burroughs, David
Sedaris, and John
Waters. God
bless us, everyone. to Literature by fatherdan |
| Hey kids, the infamous, lovable Sunday-evening livestream experience formerly known as Roemerstr31.com has moved, and now that the dust has finally settled, it's time to ring in the new year in style, with a 72+ hour (starts on the 28th of December) eclectic elated electronic stream extravaganza, moving from city to city and residence to residence. The best is yet to come, you too(tm) can be a part of this seminal milestone in webstream history! to Music by wheezer |
| If you were wondering if your DVD player could play various weird media formats, someone has already figured it out for you. to Gadgets by shadow |
| There are many places you can find disused highways and some places you can find highways that were never finished but there are some relics left behind from the Nazi regime's grandiose plans.
to Transportation by shadow |
| Friday Dec 21, 2001 | Former Saturday Night Live funny lady Victoria Jackson is best remembered for her Betty Boop voice, wacky poetry, and predilection for handstands. Skim her Web site and you will discover she is also an accomplished ukuleleist, comic songwriter, and, surprisingly, more Christian than the Church Lady (though less obnoxious about it). Say, did I mention the handstands? Gulp. to Entertainment by fatherdan |
| Mark Anderson sure does read a lot of books. And, he'll generously lend you any of the books in his library (paying postage both ways!). to Books by crikey |
| What would Abraham Lincoln want to say to us today? to History by tregoweth |
| Thursday Dec 20, 2001 | If you're a Programming Languages geek, or even if you just want some example code for a given language, check out
Michael Neumann's 362 examples in 116 programming languges.
to Computing by laurel |
| Have you ever wanted a
chocolate
hammer,
TV dinner
or
cell phone?
No, neither have I. to Food by avi |
| Does caffeine cause obsessive-compulsiveness?
to Coffee by joshua |
| Wednesday Dec 19, 2001 | Project Gutenberg: Good guys? or Bad Guys?
to Literature by keiths |
| Your speed-chess technique cannot compete with my kung-fu chess style. You go and remember the ass whooping a real-time take on turn-based full information game gave you.
to Games by fool |
| Are you emo or not? Do you know how to be emo? Does your band's name follow the rules of emo? What is emo? Don't you just love Emo?
to Fashion by crikey |
| Tuesday Dec 18, 2001 | Every young and upcoming flash designer knows the name of Joshua Davis and many face east to pray to him five times daily. As a service to the interactive design community he recently released a copy of his hard drive for sale on cd-rom. Now he's taken it a step further to act of ultimate sacrifice. Beginning this January, you too can own your very own copy of Joshua Davis himself. to Flash by mrnonrespondo |
| If you live in the US, the Bureau of
Export Administration (among others)
reminds you: Don't export
nuclear
weapons components,
bio
weapons, or
other fancy
things to any bad people
or organizations.
to Warfare by gator |
| V.S. Ramachandran
is one of the leading researchers of
phantom limb pain.
Scientists used to think the reason people experienced pain in their amputated
limbs was because of nerves that were not fully severed, and would
do
further amputations to treat the problem. (Which didn't help at all).
Through his research, Ramachandran discovered that what was
actually happening was that the brain's
map of the body was
incorrectly remapped.
After publishing his theory, he started getting all kinds of
letters
from people, including some very
weird ones about people who experience orgasms in their feet (which
might explain
where
foot fetishes
come from).
While working with one patient, Ramachandran came up with a very ingenious
solution using a simple configuration of
mirrors to teach the brain the correct mappings.
to Science by laurel |
| Downtrodden intellectual? Fight back by smartly providing etymologies of your tormentor's aspersions: a geek is a side-show attraction (typically without physical deformity) who performs grotesque spectacles like biting the head off of live chickens. The term nerd was evidently coined by Dr. Seuss in If I Ran the Zoo (1950). Lastly, a dork is apparently derived from the rhyming slang for male genitalia. However some have it that dork is actually the term for whale penis.
to Linguistics by fool |
| Even though the most common language in the world is a tonal language, most artifical languages are atonal. Two notable exceptions being Vong and Gua\spi. to Linguistics by onigame |
| Do you believe that wicca is a Godly religion? Do you believe that the "green man" or "horned one" is a god? Do you believe in reincarnation? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, you might be a satanist.
to Religion by moltevv |
| Monday Dec 17, 2001 | Prosopagnosia is the medical term for "face blindness" -- a condition which causes an inability to recognize others by their faces. Sufferers can still see faces but don't have any special facility for identification, nor can they remember faces. Some are born with it, some discover it in themselves, and some develop it.
to Science by joshua |
| Sunday Dec 16, 2001 | Project
Greek Island was the code name for the
top-secret
tunnel complex under West Virginia's five-star
Greenbrier Resort to
which selected government officials would retire in the event of a nuclear attack.
The Cold War
has been over for ten years, and these days you can get
guided tours
of the "Doomsday Hotel". Call in advance.
to Warfare by voidptr |
| Friday Dec 14, 2001 | "Tape mixes are the dominant form of creativity
for modern Americans." So show off your music skills
and dubious compilation titles at
The Art of the Mix. to Music by tregoweth |
| This beautiful and cuddly sweet flash movie makes me want to get out and ride a giant bee. to Flash by lucky |
| Why bother going insane? Now there's The Woodcutter. to Art by asosa |
| Ever wondered how those old coin acceptors and rejectors worked? to Gadgets by onigame |
| The art and philosophy
of throwing yourself down a flight
of stairs. to Humor by asosa |
| Thursday Dec 13, 2001 | Forties big band leader and jazz genius Artie Shaw isn't just alive, he's online.
to Music by fatherdan |
| Never mind the Segway, here's the Megway! to Humor by fringehead |
| Feel the fury of Indian martial arts or Kalarippayattu as artists Krishnadas and Dinesan dazzle you with their fancy footwork and fierce ability with traditional Indian weaponry. Apu my ass. to Warfare by fatherdan |
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