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This may be a repeat, but it's worth it: Scary Squirrel World!, your source for all things squirrel
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This may be a repeat, but it's worth it: Scary Squirrel World!, your source for all things squirrel
1980 Games — old online video and arcade games for free
Letter to Northwest Airlines: a tale of holiday hell
The Great Tree of Avalon — a terrible fantasy novel, ripped to shreds bit-by-bit
Brickquest: fantasy boardgaming with Legos!
Bizarre rant about how the government is planting holograms on this guy's face. This reminds me of the ad Kris and I clipped in college: an inmate was infuriated that he was forced to play basketball at the mental hospital.
How big are things? Maybe you need a sense of scale.
Awesome! The TEAC Nostalgia Stereo System features a built-in turntable (which will even play 78s!) from which one may record to CD. This is like a dream device for me.
Open-source Mac — great, free software for the Macintosh
Video: political bloopers: "Fool me once, shame no you, fool me twice, won't get fooled again!"
Let them sing it for you is a site where you enter text and the words are then sung via song snippets. Minutes of fun.
Stange units of measurement, such as the lawyer or the warhol
Golden age cartoons features all sorts of juicy cartoon information
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is a popular Finnish Star Trek parody. What's not to love? (A trailer is available.)
Interesting AskMe thread: How far does a parent's responsibility go when they have their kid at someone else's house (who has no kids)? Is it the responsibility of the hosts to kid-proof their house? From the discussion: "I've found it useful to divide my acquaintances with children into two camps: those for whom the word 'no' means 'no', and those for whom it does not." This is a keen insight.
For the parents in the audience: The Reading Well features used rare and out-of-print children's books
The Prisoner is set to return to television. I've never seen the original, which is a crime. What kind of geek am I?
I've come to love New York Times Magazine every Sunday. The articles are fantastic. This week featured The Prodigy Puzzle, about child geniuses. A couple weeks ago there was an article about medical treatment for Amish and Mennonite children. Great stuff.
Bad Vibes: the hunt for the worst sound in the world (a dog barking? I hate that)
The cylinder digitization and preservation project seeks to archive early sound recordings
The Hidden Door Company — I've never seen an actual secret door, but the entire concept fascinates me
Everything you wanted to know about curry but were afraid to ask. I love curry. Kris does not. That's all I need to know. :(
Handy reference: Flowchart for determining when U.S. copyrights expire. General rules of thumb: 1. Anything published in 1922 or before is in public domain. 2. Nothing else will enter public domain until 2018. 3. There are a very few odd exceptions.
Ants eat away woman's eye in hospital. GROSS! [via Alan]
strongbrains.com is a sort of syllabus for "Objectivist home-schooling and self-education" — basically, these are books that the Ayn Randians approve (which is amusing, of course, but does not change the fact that the recommendations are good ones)
Live Simple: radical tactics to reduce the complexity, cost, and clutter of your life.
Packing tips for wrinkle free travel — not that I travel much
What it feels like to be an atheist. I haven't read the entire article yet, but what I've read seems spot-on.
This guy uses craigslist to trade computer repairs for sex. And he has plenty of work. Amazing.
Conspiracy theories: 9/11 Pentagon attack and Hurricane Katrina [via Jeff]
Haha. BabyCage, infant confinement specialists since 2001.
Care for some smoked salmon soda? I thought not. [via Tiff]
More for my own future reference than anything else: the indispensible comic strips reprint library
Pandora, created by the Music Genome Project, is a fascinating web-based service that recommends new music based on the songs and artists you tell it you prefer.
The Carnival of the Cats is a weekly roundup of cat-related posts on weblogs. Its purpose is to provide a non-political respite from the vehement echo chamber that the Blogopshere spins itself into during the week, demonstrating that even the mightiest and meekest of pundits have a love of cats in common.
Pet a kitten: the adorable Fenno the kitten (and here, too)
Live with this, a chilling weblog entry about the US torturing of prisoners
!!! Another instance of science fiction becoming reality: print your own organs [via Dave]
Proust's Way?, a fantastic review of the new translation of Swann's Way. The article features a fascinating comparative review of various translations, and discusses the difficulties in translating an author like Proust. I was transfixed by the entire piece.
Can you believe it? La Temps de Proust is a weblog about Proust (though one could wish it were updated more often) [via frykitty and dennoma]
The erotic coloring book — NSFW, obviously
Fun flash game (near the bottom of the list): Oh my god! The bugs are coming!
Video: Harry Potter and the Hogwarts dance team — I have no response to this...
NOOOO!!!! Arrested Development has been cancelled
Fantastic advice: How to live without the music industry — methods of legally obtaining music without buying into the whole mass media empire
MIT to stage Star Wars musical — this sounds hilarious...I wonder if there's any way to get footage of a performance
I must have died and gone to heaven: Labyrinthus Latinus is a MUD in Latin. In Latin! It doesn't get any geekier, folks.
Via Dave: opy protection problems come home to roost — viruses exploit Sony CD copy-protection. This is worth a longer weblog enry; I just wrote a ranting e-mail to Dave about this.
Information about shaving: How to get that perfect shave, ShaveBlog (a shaving weblog!), The art of shaving (a shaving store), and an AskMe thread about shaving
A one-dollar compound microscope that you build yourself
The wooden library at Alnarp is a xylothek. Fascinating.
Merde en France: background on the riots
Teaser trailer for The Fountain, the latest from Darren Aronofsky (of Pi and Requiem for a Dream fame)
At least I'm not the geekiest guy alive: What Tolkien officially said about elf sex. Also: LotR slashart (generally NSFW or for homophobes).
The ultimate ungulate page: your guide to the world's hoofed mammals. (But where are the tauren?!?)
Amazing video: 2005 yo-yo world champion
city-data.com: stats about all US cities
Carter rips Bush's policies. I wanted to write an entire weblog entry on this, but I don't have the mental stamina to deal with politics right now. Suffice it to say that Carter is spot on. Excerpt: "I don't have any doubt that he is very sincere about his Christian faith," Carter said of Bush. "There are some differences in interpretation. ... I have a commitment to worship the Prince of Peace, not the prince of pre-emptive war." Amen.