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Two great things:A new illusionThe sci-fi magazine time-dependent rainbow

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del.icio.us is an interesting something. An online bookmark service, it also categorizes users' bookmarks and shows you what's hot.

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A big bad page o' fun. The interactive toys and whatnot I found interesting.

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Physical pong moved, now it's here.

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Fleep, a great little story.

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Rube Goldberg using Half-Life 2. I've checked out only one so far, how to drown a zombie.The other quick, fun thing for the day: Guess the Google. The only problem with it is that the word search list is short, so you quickly get repeats.

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Create a research paper, automatically!

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Press Your Luck, a great tale until the end.

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Farid the Crime-Fighting Falcon Original story here which has its own great lines, e.g. "The original idea was to make the mascot 'Clucko the Crime-Fighting Chicken,'" said Chief Warrant Officer 2 Rod Barnes, a platoon commander with the MPs, "But we decided the falcon represented dignity, strength and independence." and The biggest challenge that the Marines will face while introducing

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OK, so I'm starting to list just good free software, so sue me. Picasa is photo management and editing software. The previous version sold for $50; now the new, much better version, is free from Google. OK, Google's bought my heart and mind (though the Yahoo Desktop Search seems better than Google's). Picasa 2 is pretty great, it's not the usual, "here's the free piece of almost usable software,

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A nitpicker's guide to Lord of the Rings, book vs. movie. What can I say, I've been catching up with Slashdot and noticed this one. Pretty insanely thorough, though what I found most interesting were the letters at the end. I like the books more than the movies, though both have their points. I agree that Merry, Pippin, and especially Gimli being portrayed mostly as comic relief was disappointing

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Another useful site: http://www.cleansoftware.org, which lists worthwhile free (and ad-free) software. I don't want to lose this link, so that's why it's here.

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Tres clever: mounting tiny video cameras on an eagle.

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I know I don't usually publish information that's actually useful, but this one's great: Xenu, a free standalone utility program that looks at a web page and checks if all its links are still valid. I've wanted a good one of these for years; there have been other programs, but those companies went out of business. Don't confuse this program with Xenu, the alien guy that the Scientologists say 75

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Election 2004 Results; ahhh, Ithaca, a blue county surrounded by red (though I'm happy to see it's more purple nearby than I once thought). More interesting maps here (thanks, Ryan).

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Fine research!

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A cat on the Vomit Comet. Would you try to catch it and calm it down?

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The world is a wondrous place: someone made a physical Pong game. I love that the computer that runs it uses telephone relays (and don't miss Almut's explanation).

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Legal U.S. stamps with your own picture on them. A dollar a pop, but pretty cool for Christmas cards or other events.

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A truly convincing video. I was particularly entertained because my father worked for Dodge and Reliance.

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Find what your phone number spells: http://www.phonespell.org/. I wrote Phonewrd in 1993 to do this same thing, but with an unfriendly command-line interface. Nice to see someone's finally made one for the web.

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Would you use it? Yes, the glass is all one-way mirrors, people outside cannot see in.

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Yes, the origami robot: news here and research here (there are videos).

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The Infinite Cat Project- wonderful LaminaDesign - interesting tool, and the Inspiration links are fascinating.

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Here is a thing.

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Ahhh, the WeatherPixie.

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The Weather Pixie: Ithaca / Tompkins County

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Xiao Xiao - great stick figures, and Xiao Xiao 9 is a pretty amusing game.

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High concept: IF Quake, which is Quake as a piece of Interactive Fiction. Other interesting variants include NPR Quake, Unreal Tournament in the Cornell box (ahhhh, color bleeding), and the Doom Sysadmin tool. I can't find a good link for Ascii Doom, however...

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Bill Gate's House, in paper form. Many others are available: Angkor Wat, Tyrannosaurus Rex, etc. I just liked the concept of making Bill Gate's house from paper.

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The Game, a truly great concept. The best article on it is Rolling Stone's: pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. To view these JPEGs properly, go to Internet Explorer's Tools menu, select "Internet Options...", select the "Advanced" tab on the upper right, scroll to the "Multimedia" section, uncheck the box "Enable Automatic Image Resizing", and hit "OK".

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Highly amusing pair of articles about a shysterpreneur: here and here. His resume is great, jumping from bankruptcy to bankruptcy, burning through capital faster than anyone could think possible. Why would anyone continue to trust this guy with more than $10 for picking up the pizza (and then, only if he had a GPS wristlocked to him)?

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Flying Pig, for all your animated models made from paper needs.

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BrettspielWelt - Lots of famous online games. Hit the English flag, then hit Help, and Start Here. I haven't figured out much, but it looks pretty interesting. Here is a more coherent help page. Other places: 3D Setters of Catan, Cosmic Encounter online (the horror, the horror), and Tigris & Euphrates online.

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Educational Innovations - lots of cool semi-educational toys and demonstrations. A place for all your dunking bird and energy ball needs.

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Cute little word game for the day, for the kids (though it'll teach them words I've never heard of), and actually tough for adults, too: Dungeon Scroll. First 6 levels are free. Clever idea, and there's some strategy to it: you save your special "spell" letters for nastier monsters if you can, you keep your small words around to finish off monsters efficiently, etc. For $8 for the full game, it's

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Kollaboration - click on the guy in the orange shirt ("DAVE ELSEWHERE"), his part starts about 50 seconds in (though the whole clip is fairly fun, he's the master).

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Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates: Home - interesting concept, a multiplayer role-playing game that's based around solving puzzles in order to do stuff.

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Red vs Blue - I've just started watching these; they're pretty great.

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Modded computer - quite amazing, no other comments are necessary (you could write a thesis about this one).

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Metal Men - "Lead and Mercury both lure their adversaries...Osmium and Gallium...into a trap!"

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STAR WARS ASCIIMATION - Main Page - an old but great link.

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Dictionaraoke.org - The Singing Dictionary - songs devoid of all emotion, what more could you want?

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Amazing illusions - don't forget to scroll down. More here.

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Unisys | LZW Patent and Software Information - party on July 8, 2004, when this patent expires everywhere. My favorite quote from this related story: But Unisys credited its exertion of the LZW patent with the creation of the PNG format, and whatever improvements the newer technology brought to bear. "We haven't evaluated the new recommendation for PNG, and it remains to be seen whether the new

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The Game Trailer Movies Index keeps track of the top ten games movies.

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Exploring the New York State Canal System - a friend's site, with tons of information about doing just that. Life is all about pointing to URLs. Here's one I want to remember, about books for kids. A friend, Andrew Glassner, writes lots of computer game reviews.

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L33t speak, you know you want to look obscure yet geeky.

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Go now and get the Google Toolbar 2.0 beta. It has the nice feature of blocking popups. Also, you can (more easily) add a viewed page to your blog by clicking a button - it's why I started this blog, in fact.

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Matrix-style (on the cheap) ping pong. And here's a better blog than mine, lots more stuff there. So why are you reading this one?

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Go to my homepage for my electronic life. This blog is really just a way for me to store away URLs that fly by before they disappear. Here's one to try if life becomes boring: Craig Reynold's bookmarks page.

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