Gems from the blank card game.

Curious objects delivered by the USPS.

Black box recordings from aircraft that crashed.

First, learn assmebly language... then finish a new OS, V2_OS. It is built for speed in pure assembly.

For $7 (including shipping) CDPost will download your choice of music or software from the internet, burn it on a CD and mail it to you.

Ogg Vorbis is a file fomat like mp3. However, unlike mp3s, it does not have restrictive licensing, and is free (whereas mp3s soon won't be).

You're stupid if you don't eat Vitamin A

Tasty worms

IBM develops a screen that, at 200 pixels per inch, is almost 5 times the resolution of top-of-the-line HDTV. But, if my measurements are correct, this is not such a big deal. At 1600x1200 resolution, a 19" screen has over 10000 pixels per inch.

What is a singularity? Look here: The Singularity

Comments on Vinge's Singularity

Fascinating account of a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome.

Snow Crystal Research

Insect jewelers

This shrimp makes Geiger's Alien look tame.

Should fingerprints be admissable as evidence in a courtroom or are they just a pseudoscience ?

A car that runs on air

The Vomitus Maximus Museum

If you can prove that something has already been thought of you can earn tens of thousands and help reform the patent system at BountyQuest

A tiny (coffe-cup-sized) helicopter named Pixel

My current favorite gadget

Lovecraft meets the X-Files in a comic

Terrorists and other organizations plotting to overthrow the government should remember to register under the California Corporations Code, Title 5, the "Subversive Organization Registration Law".

I don't know if I believe this headline by BBspot: Linux Developer Gets Laid

What Hell really is.

A stunning image.

That damned elusive black dot!!!

Home-made 1-pin dot matrix printer

Enemies

Free Software developers bickering about their "Master" status.

Synthetic DNA bases

Goat with spider genes produces spider silk milk

An interesting interview with the author of "The Myth of Mental Illness"

Ethics of AI, Women in AI, Trends and Commentaries in AI

A fascinating article, "Napster and the Internet Fringe" from the July 20th issue of Silicon Valley Diary

Biochip

Slashdot has become so smarmy. Who wants to read another "media is praising Linux" article? Higher scoring comments on political articles are always repeating the party line. What a waste of bandwidth.

Solid state hard drives. $2k for 1GB, $9k for 8GB... up to 10 times faster than drives with moving parts

A professor at the University of Toronto who has been wearing a computer on his head for almost 20 years..

We may be the last generation to see living chimpanzees.

For all of you pervs that are dying to see out from inside your assholes: BBC News | SCI/TECH | Video pill's 'fantastic voyage'

If you've ever wondered who lived in the trailer park next door, look here.

Peter's Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord

Don't you wish you had a Fleshlight?

Woody Allen's The Whore of Mensa

The force is strong with this dude.

Feel the immense power of cable ties

TUBES ROCK!

The American Spy Cow

Create A Fart on the truly dark side of the web.

What a jet breaking the sound barrier looks like close-up

The coolest fucking Java app I've ever seen!!! sodaplay Click on "load model", select one of the more complicated ones, like pushpullme, select "simulate" and click on a dot and make a few short extensions and a long extension... Set it back on simulate and watch it struggle back to life... Bwahahaa!!!

Scenes from TRON that were edited out can be found here.

Mind Reading Markup Language (MRML)

Who says MS is a Monopoly? How about taking a quick glance at StatMarket - accurate internet statistics and user trends in real time.

Terence McKenna, a great contemporary psychedelic synthsizer, is dead.

US and British jets still involved in skirmishes with Iraq

Sushi Fortune Telling

4/1/00: Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity By 2100? -- a symposium at Stanford with all the usual suspects

Some may find it hard to believe, but there are still people who refuse to see the light of C++, and insist on programming in that backward langauge, C.

Shave your own head with this.

2100 reviews of programming books at ACCU - Reviews Index Page

"In fact, UNIX was originally the _only_ reason C was developed. However, C turned out to be a very powerful language that can be used for all purposes." -- C and the operating system UNIX

The Programmer Of The Month (POTM) Page

May 19-21 2000, Palo Alto $500: Spring 2000 Senior Associates Gathering marvin minsky - Society of Mind eric raymond - Cathedral and the Bazaar bill joy - cofounder of Sun tim o'reilly - those animal print books hemos - slashdot ...others

I am the Master of Time!!!

Do not heed the stranger with the Antlers of the Damned

Toss a frog in a blender or a gerbil in a microwave here, if you haven't already.

Mozilla dot Party (celebrating 2nd anniversary) at the Sound Factory, 525 harrison at 1st, san francisco

Search for patents by keyword or number here. An interesting example is the National Security Agency's word forest search patent.

NY mayor, Giuliani, who is incidentally running against Hilary Clinton for Senate, denounced a work of art that criticied his, Jesse Helms', Pat Buchannan's, and Pat Robertson's stance against artistic self-expression.

Use OptOut to detect and remove "Spy Ware" from your computer.

Vermont citizen is silenced for political criticism, a constitutionally protected form of free speech.

Euroblogs and XenoBlogs for a change from the common AmeriBlogs.

Play with the William Shatner Acting Simulator "at all cost!"

Shiny, happy, Cruel Site of the Day

Ahhh... back to blogging... And Sean, Its not the media but the content that matters. :P

Serge this seems so mainstream for you to participate. -Sean

Legalized torture in Israel is becoming a real possibility.

Is this the solution to the dynamic contect cahing problem?

Don't play the part of the offended sausage

So much to blog so little time...

The Internet Junkbuster will block ads and/or cookies. One of the nices features is that you can import large block lists that others have created (and there's no shortage of them on the internet). You can also use Junkbuster to create wafers (forged cookies).

If you're stuck with Winblows and don't have dynamic cookie filtering software yet, check out Cookie Pal from Kookaburra Software

Former CIA Director admits that US conducts industrial espionage.

Thought Reform 101 from Reason magazine

If you like your art dark... Russian Gothic Page - Dark Gothic Art - Paintings - Zdislaw Beksinski

A Picture of Weblogs shows you exactly how incestuous weblogs are.

See? No blowfish in here, little boy!

Meta surveillance at Spook

Rated "Most Highbrow Site" on the Internet by Brill's Best of the Web, Arts & Letters Daily is worth taking a look at at least to determine for yourself whether this is true, and whether its the kind of site you want to look at anyway...

Have The Counter count hits to your site and do some rudimentary statistics for you, free.

You can ask your friendly hackers on this site to scan any site you care to name for you... and they'll do it while you wait! To experience this in the comfort of your own home check out the The Infinity Project

A perl module to craft custom ethernet packets. Nice! I've created a bare-bones Arrowpoint load-balancer keep-alive simulator for testing some proprietary software using it. Very very useful... You can find it here: Net::RawIP Home Page

How much can any web server that you visit find out about you without much trouble? Look here to do an automatic test.

How about a database of "all publicly known vulnerabilities and security exposures"?

Yesterday I founded a Yahoo club for the discussion of Samhain.

The Samhain filesystem integrity monitoring tool http://samhain.netpedia.net/ is a vast improvement over tripwire and the like. It offers a steganographic option to hide your datafiles and log files, making its presence hard to detect and meaningfully modify. It can also report to a central log server to avoid leaving obvious traces through syslog, or cleartext email.