Oh, the places you'll go - oh, the things you'll see...

3.31.2003

Get caught mapping ::: The net has long been a global conversation. Now it's bringing local communities together too

GREEN EGGS REPORT for sci.geo.satellite-nav ::: Mined Geo links

Baghdad flash map ::: where it's at.

Susan Kare User Interface Graphics ::: The original designer of Mac and Windows icons.

Computer scientists petition White House
::: Don't use the was as a cover for restricting personal liberties.

Saddam's Bunker Stands Tough ::: It could withstand the shock wave of a nuclear bomb the size of the Hiroshima one detonating 250 meters away," said Karl Esser, a security consultant who designed the bunker underneath Saddam's main presidential palace in Baghdad.

Understanding the Psychology of Programming ::: Contrary to popular belief, programmers more frequently resemble artists than scientists. If you want to maximize the creative potential on your development team, you've got to start thinking about the psychology of the programmer and be willing to back it up with management policy.

To the victor go the spoils ::: If U.S. corporations get their way, none of their European competitors will be doing business in Baghdad.

Powered by your liquor cabinet, 'biofuel cell' could replace rechargeable batteries ::: booze batteries!

Adobe - The Great Render Race ::: PC beats the Mac

Mac or PC for video editing ::: surprise - the PC was almost 2x faster in most tests.

NASA Digital Mapping Data Sharpens World View ::: By combining NASA's maps with GPS data, a global terrain database can be created for pilots, providing cockpit visualization systems that display the surrounding terrain, even in darkness or heavy cloud cover.

AOL Will Test TiVo-Like Mystro Service This Year ::: The cable tv Aol connection.

‘Invisible’ coat could aid military ::: Scientists show off adaptive camouflage technology

The revenge of geography ::: It was naive to imagine that the global reach of the internet would make geography irrelevant.

Google Keyboard Shortcuts ::: cool!

Septic Tanks Or Sewers - The 21st Century Quandry ::: what to do with all the poo?

Researchers Identify Signals that Cause Hair Follicles to Sprout ::: Hope for eggheads!

Data Storage Leap Could Produce Film Library on a Disk ::: too dense!

Metaphysical Lens May Refocus Electronics ::: more on this perfect lens

Thru The Looking Glass With Lenses That "Break The Laws of Nature" ::: These calculations are an important confirmation that the speed of light is not violated by negative refraction... ::: oh good.

Cell phone number portability ::: Have cell phone, will travel

PC screen turns into speaker ::: rock on!

A California Spam Bill passes senate. ::: Sue for $500 for each spam mail - oh the bills I could pay...

Use a toaster as a precision soldering iron!

3.30.2003

BEST ACTOR’S HIP-HOP ALIAS: Adrien Brody a.k.a. A. Ranger. ::: The Pianist is a rapper too?!?

3.29.2003

An interesting graphic on the US money allocated for Iraq.

3.28.2003

And a little SNOWBOARD action.

Time for a little winter Ski Jumping ::: Flash based.

3.27.2003

A 'blog' goes silent, and world holds its breath ::: Is Baghdad Pax real?

The War After the War ::: U.S. Army Documents Warn of Occupation Hazards

3.26.2003

Dogblogs promise canine liberation ::: woof!

Bill Moyers on the Costs of War ::: "Unprovoked, the noble sport of war becomes the murder of the innocent."

Bill Moyers on Paying for War ::: "...a deficit of $300 billion or more — the largest deficit in American history. The largest — and that's before the cost of the war is added on, or the cost of occupying Iraq once Saddam Hussein is gone."

Bill Moyers on Patriotism and the American Flag | PBS ::: The flag's been hijacked and turned into a logo...

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Finds Widespread Power Manipulation in CA ::: "The price gouging abounded..." - Whoa, you're kidding!

3.25.2003

U.S. EBay Seller Refuses Canucks ::: aw, what they hell - he didn't need that darn printer anyway!

Hoverdrum ::: a cool performance art drummer. on a sad note, the artist is in the late stages of cancer. drum on!

Guggenheim Museum - Matthew Barney ::: a wild installation at the guggenheim manhattan.

Cannot find Weapons of Mass Destruction ::: look closely...

CAKE - entertainment for women ::: have your cake and eat it too...

welcome to REMOTE ::: glad to see remotelounge is still clicking away...

What is Victoria's Secret? ::: An ad spoof for bulemia.

Picture Yourself ::: This site was created to collect photographs. But not just any photograph - we specifically want pictures where you are the subject in the photo and you are the photographer too!

::: WINDSCREEN.TV ::: Windscreen Gallery is dedicated to pictures taken through the car window.

The Mirror Project ::: The Mirror Project is a growing community of like-minded individuals who have photographed themselves in all manner of reflective surfaces.

Hot topic ::: "We have not found a cell phone responsible for any fire since the beginning of mankind"

Fun with numbers ::: Hitler's foreign policy had better luck attracting allies.

U.S. Is Assembling a Civilian Team to Run Iraq ::: it's mine, all mine - muhwahah!!

3.24.2003

Screenshot History of Windows ::: oh the places we've been...

8.6 GB Internet? ::: download a full-length DVD movie in less than five seconds

Speaking of biological weapons, now you can Rate Peoples Gasmasks.

So, you wanna dance like Michael Jackson?

Peg Ball ::: fun flash based soccer game.

iGolf Game ::: really good online flash golf.

3.22.2003

metadoll ::: who says boys don't play with dolls!

strandbeest ::: tensegrity animals that walk due to wind power... trip!

carrara ::: and, a 3d driving game...

SUB MISSION ::: Cool 3d submarine game...

ScanArt.it Scan the World! ::: scanner photography - how scandalous!

Kite Aerial Photography ::: Bay area kite photography

Motel Fetish ::: good retro photo erotica

Pinhole Pictures ::: trippy ::: surreal ::: check it.

Check out this crazy Japanese Flash.

really great online games, or maybe they should be called 'gamelets'?

The Guy I Almost Was ::: Yep - I think I like this Patrick S. Farley guy...

Shapeshifter ::: Damn this guy does good comix!

Barracuda: The Scotty Zaccharine Story ::: Hilarious comix from the same artist.

This is great fantasy weblog / comix. ::: Amazing graphics and layout.

and after all, what is an orgasm, but a valve between this world and another?

.:: SKYBOLTER 3D ::. Amazingly good flight simulator written in shockwave.

He also shows how to measure your microwave ovens actual power output. ::: Nerdy cool.

this guys got an interesting way to eliminate telemarketers

3.21.2003

John C. Dvorak Prediction: Apple Computer Corp. will switch to Intel processors within the next 12 to 18 months

Orange Micro offers USB 2.0/FireWire PC card ::: add this to my wishlist!

Lordz of the rhyme

What every little girl wants for her birthday...

'Talking fish' stuns New York ::: Ah, enough already about the fish, I wish I never said anything about it

Creator of "Cops" presumed dead in fall ::: Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna dooooooooooooo...

Ever wonder why guys like car shows?

SonicBlue to File for Chapter 11 ::: Yet again, proof that the best technology never wins...

Words are a lens to focus one’s mind. Ayn Rand

Iraq Body Count Database Casualty figures are derived from a comprehensive survey of online media reports and eyewitness accounts. Where these sources report differing figures, the range (a minimum and a maximum) are given. All results are independently reviewed and error-checked by at least two members of the Iraq Body Count project team in addition to the original compiler before publication.

'Poo taboo' slows progress on world sanitation Until we can discuss shit and piss without squirming or giggling, we will not resolve this crisis

Smiling is so important that it is mentioned in a manual given to journalists covering the conflict in Iraq why women smile more than men... or do they?

3.20.2003

TI's magic Wanda Texas Instruments breaks new ground with its bundling of three technologies into a single chipset.

Mobile numbers to be added to 411 cellular providers are getting close to making wireless numbers available to 411 callers

It sounded like prolonged thunder Muir Woods loses 700-year-old Douglas fir

Must be those cold winter nights... Nerve covers Russian slang

Cisco heads home with Linksys buy Home networking is the only part of the networking market that is growing quickly

Your head is wired for conspiracy the reason people believe in conspiracy theories is that humans have an innate tendency to try to link major events with major causes...

World Wide WaErB World War II was covered on radio. The Vietnam War was watched on television. The first Gulf War was beamed in via cable TV, and now we're in the first full-fledged war of the Internet era.

Is that a chip in your pants? Benetton plans to weave radio frequency ID chips into its garments to track its clothes worldwide.

FBI Recovers Missing Copy of Bill of Rights We've got a right - to paaaarrrty!

3.19.2003

TheStar.com - Al Gore joins board of Apple Computer Apple (Nadaq:AAPL) only has a 3 per cent share of the U.S. personal computer market, according to the research firm IDC.

Water is the most abundant resource on the surface of the earth. The problem is, in large part, one of distribution.

3.18.2003

'Wash your hands' signs only work for women: study Proof - men are pigs - and they don't do what their asked...

Return on Investment (ROI) for Usability (Alertbox Jan. 2003) Nielsen's analysis of ROI for usability.

How Google Grows...and Grows...and Grows An interesting read about the culture of google.com

3.15.2003

GeoURL ICBM Address Server GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory.

Why is it called an "ICBM Address?" Old Usenet historical precedent.

Google News Beta Google turns its power to news aggregation...

3.14.2003

Talking TP entertainment for every seat!

Austin Powers Goldmember Cast: Mike Myers, Michael Caine, Beyonce Knowles, Michael York, Seth Green, Verne Troyer Oh behave....

Another reporter - with audioblogs First-person account of a news correspondent's life on the front lines.

Reporter Takes His Weblog to War Go, go, bloggers! But somehow I don't think uncle sam wants you...

SBC pulls a fast one "Your current Internet service has been replaced with SBC Yahoo DSL...", SBC lying - no way!

Visual Google Browser A tool for browsing Google's internet database, by exploring links between related sites.

Visual Amazon Browser A totally new and unique way to browse the Amazon.com Web site

R.I.P: (Mr.) Fred Rogers  A belated goodbye to Mr. Rogers...

What if Netscape had won? There's nothing particularly bad about the current state of browser technology--that is if you are frozen in a time warp, circa 1999. But for the rest of the Internet-surfing inhabitants of planet Earth, Internet browser design stopped being interesting years ago. That's simply because Microsoft no longer faces any challenge that forces it to innovate. If Microsoft were still trailing behind Netscape, Internet Explorer would be a far better product. That's what competition's all about. If the forward and back arrows constitute the last stage in Internet browser interface design, then we're an awfully sorry lot.

Happy birthday! 10 Years of the World Wide Web...

3.13.2003

Drama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man this book and cd will bring you closer than any other

William Gibson Then I remembered the first time I ever saw a fax machine...