Sharakh's directory

Links

• Stapelfahrer Klaus - Big WMV video (link is direct to download). It's in German, but wait until Klaus gets his hands on the forklift keys. Mayhem ensues.
• Homemade Sex Toys - Exactly what it sounds like. Absolutely hilarious and vaguely disturbing.
• WILLIAM SHATNER HAS BEEN - Wow. Shatner has a new album. Yes, William Shatner. Kirk. He of the spectacularly mockable album back when. This is really good. Still spoken-word on Shatner's part--he doesn't sing. But it's produced with Ben Fold, and it is really good. This site streams interviews and samples of the music. I'm not sure about the title song ("Has Been")--that's the one folks will mock on this album, I think.
• My Games - A link to my games folder, including a link to Zuma with the ball-spitting frog.
• 00 Stuff for Eddie Sorted by Date - This folder Sorted in order added. Yes, this link is going to show up on the page of links sorted by date. It messes with my head, too.

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• ...dress with care... - Danger Dame clothing. Modern vintage-moll inspired clothes. They have photo shoots and lots of pictures and I thought you might find this amusing.
• 00 Stuff for Eddie Sorted by Date - This folder Sorted in order added. Yes, this link is going to show up on the page of links sorted by date. It messes with my head, too.
• 2005 AWN Oscar Showcase - Site by the Animation World Network about the Oscar nominees for animated pieces. I think the animated shorts nominees are on the site to watch in their entirety, but I haven't checked it out yet to be sure. Still, it's cool.
• ::BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS:: - Vintage photos manipulated into odd and surreal images.
• A Dog's Life: Thermal Depolymerization - Critical commentary on the "turkey parts into oil" ("Anything into Oil") idea
• A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope - How R2D2 is actually a major player in the Rebellion against the Empire.
• Abandoned - Abandoned buildings in the former Soviet Union.
• Abandoned Castle - a photoset on Flickr - Abandoned Castle - a photoset on Flickr
• Air Wells & Dew Ponds - Getting water from the air.
• Albino Blacksheep / Flash / The Llama Song - This is one of those nonsense songs like the badger site, but I love the randomness of this one much better. \n \nBe warned, once you start the thing playing, the only way to shut it up is to close the window--it is in a continuous loop. \n
• All Things Marked » Easily get rid of change, 10 coins at a time - All Things Marked
• American Science & Surplus: Incredible Stuff at Unbelievable Prices - This is one of my favorite weird stuff sites. Get on their mailing list to recieve their no-frills catalog (the artwork on the site is pretty much what the catalog has--don't expect photos). They have a little of everything--I once bought half a pound of second-quality glass taxidermy eyes from them for super cheap. Some of the science equipment is quite cool, too.
• AR-News: (US) Anything into Oil - Refining turkey parts into oil.
• ARTISTdirect Network - Free Music Download, MP3 Music, Music Chat, Music Video, Music CD, ARTISTdirect Network \nOne of several free & legal sites for artists you've never heard of.
• Arts & Letters Daily - Ideas, criticism, debate \nLinks to interesting articles.
• AskTog: John Denver: When Interfaces Kill - How a badly designed user interface on John Denver's plane killed him. Interesting.
• Bad Decor Choices - There's a guy on the sofa- it's startling and kinda funny.
• Ballard street - Impulsivity - Wow this reminds me of Eric.
• Bert's Quarter Shrinking and Can Crushing Gallery - Quarters, shrunken to the size of dimes (and smaller). Really.
• Best of Still Photojournalism 2004
• BugMeNot.com - Gives you working ids for sites that demand registration to get to free content (for example, the NY Times site.)
• cadhla: Why Coyote doesn't give commandments. - Rules to live by. Yeah.
• Camera Tossing Unlimited - Photoblog of pictures created by using a long exposure and then tossing the camera into the air. The results are usually abstract swirls--very pretty.
• CBC Radio 3 | Music and Modern Media - streaming music site-- it seems to play from Java or something. It doesn't require a player. Stuff that isn't mainstream. Out of Canada. There's also a podcast, but I can't link to it because of the frames.
• Chris Bliss Juggling Finale - This is just a guy juggling three balls to music, but wow. He's very good, and the juggling routine fits the music to an astounding and entertaining degree. Flash video.
• Code Monkey, by Jonathan Coulton - Here's that song Eric was telling you about, Eddie. \n \nVery cool, funny song.
• CONELRAD: All Things Atomic | The Golden Age of Homeland Security - Duck & Cover film
• copper - Sweet/cute/serious webcomic of a little boy and his dog. Beautifully drawn. On haitus right now, but a fairly substantial archive, worth checking out.
• d e l t a t h r i v e s - Another web comic that seems to be really pushing the envelope artistically. This one is designed to scroll sideways, but it was surprisingly less annoying than I'd have expected. The art flows as one long continuous left-to-right panel. The character is a female (which I couldn't tell until I got to a scene partway in where there are naked breasts.) Interesting stuff.
• Daily Scans - Live Journal where folks post scans of comics, old and new. There is much drooling over guys, singly and in sexual pairs. Lots of the drooling is very funny, too.
• DAZ Productions - Free DAZ|Studio Download. 3D Content For Art & Animation. - A 3-d anime rendering program, looks like. There's an (apparently substantial) free version, and then you can buy upgrades.
• Deserted Japanese Island - A small reef off the coast of Japan became a large, artificial island-city and then was abandoned. Cool pictures.
• dropload - The site says: "Dropload is a place for you to drop your files off and have them picked up by someone else at a later time. Recipients you specify are sent an email with instructions on how to download the file. Files are removed from the system after 7 days, regardless if they have been picked up or not. You can upload any type of file, mp3, movies, docs, pdfs, up to 100MB each!" \n \nLooks very useful.
• eclecticism > March of the Sinister Ducks - This is a blog talking about a song you MUST DOWNLOAD. \n \nDo it, do it, do it.
• EepyBird.com - Fun video of diet Coke and mentos experiments. Quicktime format, I think.
• Everyday Systems - This guy has cool and practical advice about dieting and exercise. I don't think his ideas are particularly revolutionary, but his attitude is really appealing. He takes "Keep it Simple, Stupid" and adds a bit of whimsical attitude that makes attaining these goals more fun. I like the way his mind seems to work.
  \nBe sure to check out "shovelglove." *grins*
• F-bod Studios - Some of the best and funniest Cafepress tee shirts and products I've seen yet.
• Figma.com - From the Desk of Mort Walker - What are Squeans, Spurl, Crottles, Plewds, or Emanata? \n \nHere's a hint: they have to do with cartoons. \n \nFairly short article about some neato cartoon terminology.
• Films found in old cameras - Besides taking pictures with old cameras him/herself, this person also finds and develops rolls of film from old cameras. The photographers never saw these pictures. Pretty cool.
• Finding the Speed of Light with Marshmallows - Pretty cool. Very simple and short page.
• Fine Art Photographers Pinhole Photography - This is the pinhole camera site I talked to Jen about
• Flickr: The Transparent Screens Pool - This is a series of photos of folks who've set up a cool optical illusion--they took a photo of the stuff behind their computer monitor and then set the wallpaper to that image. It makes the screen look transparent. Neat. (Via Boingboing.net)
• Flying model (large scale) B-52 - 23' Wingspan - 8 Turbines - 300lbs - B-52 \nThere are films here and everything. Eric was very impressed.
• Freecycle - Place to give away your give aways and find other people's freebies.
• freshmeat.net: Project details for MPlayer - Will play Real, WMV, and MPEG files, as well as DivXes and the like. \nRecced by one of the guys that does Boingboing, I haved really checked it out yet
• G-Cans photo gallery - The site is in Japanese, but this is a photo gallery of the massive underground water-management system that is intended to protect Tokyo from flooding. It looks like something out of a video game, but boingboing says it's real. I can't help but wonder if the photos and site aren't an elaborate teaser for a new video game.
• Galleries: Daily Photography - Photos of abandoned buildings and derelict structures in Toronto. I haven't looked at this set, but I usually enjoy this kind of thing, so I'm sticking it in here.
• GHOST TOWN - A Russian motorcyclist's images and thoughts about riding through Chernobyl. \n--Turns out, any suggestion that the writer rode alone through Chernobyl is false. She was with a guide and her husband in a car. But the pics are genuine, and still interesting.
• Giant Robots and Atomic Weapons, Brotron Death Rays - Metal sculpture that looks like super-cool futuristic stuff. There's only one sculpture completed now, but the pictures are great and there's pics of the work in progress. Be sure to check out the "test footage."
• Gig Guide: How to Make an Origami CD Case - by Matthew Toledo - 2/13/2005 - Cool! How to make a CD case out of a regular sheet of 8 1/2" x 11" paper. According to to the comments, the design is copyrighted by Tom Hull, but we're still free to use it.
• gladwell dot com / The Ketchup Conundrum - This is an interesting article about ketchup. Yes, ketchup. It is kind of a "natural history," and pretty interesting.
• gladwell.com: U.S. versus U.K. - An interesting article about an interesting study - the US spends more on healthcare than the UK, but one study shows that citizens of the UK may be healthier. Good discussion in the comments, too.
• GODS OF MUSIC - Music Reviews For The Independent Music Scene \n \nSite doesn't have downloads, but leads to many band sites with downloads.
• Golf GTI commercial and Elsewhere (kottke.org) - This is about two video files, but I'm not trying to link to them, I'm linking to a page about them. So follow this link to get to the links. \n \nThere's a really cool Golf GTI commercial where they've remixed it so Gene Kelly is popping and locking through his "Singing In the Rain" number. I think it is just vaguely creepy. \n \nOne of the dancers who performed for the commercials is also linked on this page--be sure to check out the Kollaboration 2001 video. The slow-motion stuff is AMAZING
• Gotta Get My Stuff Done - Quicktime animation (loads and runs as part of the page) about procrastination. It's almost too true to be funny, but it is kinda cute, and the video itself is neat--it looks like it was made by putting a camera under a glass tabletop and then the artist drew on really sheer paper with a penetrating ink. Interesting.
• Haunted Paper Toys - Neat! Really cool "print, cut, fold and glue" paper toys, all with a haunted type theme. Skeletons, haunted houses and monsters, all for folding and pasting. Now all I need is a color printer. Dammit. (Via Boingboing.net)
• HEAVY LITTLE OBJECTS - Really neat blog of this guy just looking at and thinking about some of the miscellanous stuff he's accumulated. The test-tube pen (May 5) is very cool.
• HICK - HOP !!!! - Don't even think of going here if you hate country music. I won't be held responsible.
  \nThis is the site of an artist who does country hip-hop, aka hick-hop. The site plays a song in flash, so you can hear what I'm talking about. I think it is cool and fun, but I like country music.
• History made as man beats horse (BBC NEWS) - A man beats a horse in a race
• Homebrew Air Conditioning - Neat. A very simple & clever system using ice water, tubing, and a fan. The pictures weren't working when I went, which is a pity--the guy's bandwidth might have been exeeded by the link being posted to Boingboing.
• Homemade Sex Toys - Exactly what it sounds like. Absolutely hilarious and vaguely disturbing.
• How to Cut... - Cooking site on how to chop vegetables and meat. Neat.
• I can smell your brains - This one struck me as really funny--it's a very simple flash animation film. Totally worksafe.
• Ian Rowland: The Mindreader, The Mind Motivator. Mr Angry and Mrs Calm - Freaky crazy optical illusion. Set the monitor where you can get up and walk away from the picture and check it out. The two faces switch places! \n
• Improv Message Boards - True Porn Clerk Stories - This is absolutely hilarious. The stories of a woman who worked at a video shop with a very large porn section. Don't read it in front of people you don't want to have to explain it to. *grins*
• International Urban Glow - Europe Underground - Neato pictures of really old european sewers. TONS of pictures here. go up the tree a bit (to International Urban Glow new) an there are even more urban exploration pics.
• Intuitor Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics - By poking fun at the bad physics, we learn more about the real thing. Cool!
• Jessica Joslin - Strange and fabulous sculptures. They're sorta animals, but sorta skeletons, with brass and metal and bone. Very neat.
• jetAudio - Player that I have that will play Real formats \nI plan to check out the other one, since I suspect that this one is crashing my machine. Nothing dramatic, but it gets flaky after I run this and needs a reboot. Runs most movie files I throw at it. Freeware
• JF/DS- War Photographer - Fantastic animated music video. Once the two viking ships start their battle, you won't want to stop watching. Quicktime movie that plays in the browser.
• Jon Udell: LibraryLookup homepage - Here's where to get the LibraryLookup bookmarklet. You have to know what kind of system your library is running, but I'm thinking that ought to be fairly simple to find by checking the library webpage.
• Jonathan Coulton Songs - These are good. So far, my favorite is "First of May." Don't play it around anyone who'll be offended by the F word, but...yeah. I'm grinning. It's cheerful and fun. Seems like all his lyrics are just a little off to the weird side, which is very cool with me. Good arrangements and vocals.
• King's Capuchins' Catacombs Corpses of Palermo
• Knitted Halloween wig. - Really. A knitted halloween wig. Looks kinda like molded plastic doll-hair. Scroll down for more pictures.
• LegalTorrents - Your source for legal BitTorrent files - I haven't played with bitTorrent downloads so I can't really comment on this site.
• LILEKS (James) The Institute of Official Cheer - Fun commentary on old ads and stuff. \nThe gallery of regrettable food, "Stagworld" about old men's magazines, The Worst Comics Ever, and other stuff.
• links_and_recs Journal - Post here if you find broken links on this list
• LOW MORALE - "LOW MORALE ::: a series of flash animations portraying one man's struggle to cope with working life." \nCreated by Laith Bahrani. Check out the Radiohead "Creep" animation for how the character begins in a blank space and things appear around him. I haven't looked at all the rest of the animations, but the ones I did look at are pretty funny.
• MacGyver Challenge - Altoids Tins - The winner of a constest to make something cool from Altoids tins made a pair of speakers from a pair of tins, two playing cards and a set of Walkman headphones. The directions are here at the link.
• Magnatune: try before you buy MP3 music. - 'nother free & legal place for upcoming artists
• MAKE: Blog - Blog of Make magazine, which is a tech-oriented (but not exclusively tech) DIY magazine. Looks like it might be worth keeping an eye on.
• Maledicta Press - READER BEWARE \n \n"This Web site specializes in uncensored language research protected by the First Amendment." \n \nThat's right, there be cusswords and insults and stuff here. Very interesting.
• Maunsell Towers - Very neat World War II "forts on stilts" that are set out in the ocean. No photos from inside or really close, because they're not safe, but still pretty cool photos and history.
• may02-smilepop-soapbox4.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) - Funny flash animation about all the email crap that gets forwarded around out there.
• MFA | Music and Other Social Causes - And again--free & legal MP3s
• MilesTag - DIY Laser Tag System - Heh. This looks pretty cool. \n
• Minilogue/hitchhikers choice - Whiteboard stop motion video. Very trippy.
• Minimalist porn
• Miserable Ovoid Creature - Sharp, funny send-up of anti-depressant ads. "Are you a miserable ovoid creature?"
• Morons in wwwebbbbbbbb ssspaaaaaaaaaaace! - A slightly ranty web page about what makes good html and bad html (and web page design.) Interesting. I'm going to get Eric's take on it, see how much of this stuff he agrees with.
• Motivator: Inspire! Motivate! Mock! - Make your own motivational posters with images and text you choose.
• Motorola - "Striptease" - 30 second Motorola commercial. The title of the commercial is "Striptease" but it's pretty tame--it's a TV commercial, after all. \n \nReally funny.
• movabletype.org - Blogging service
• mrclay.org » Blog Archive » Click2Zap Bookmarklet 1.1 - Make any page a "printer friendly" page with this. It lets you delete selected elements from a web page before you print it. So you can delete the ink-wasting ads from the directions or recipe you wanted to print out. I believe it works on all browsers, though if you use firefox, you might like the extension "Aardvark" better.
• Mummies in the catacombs of Palermo - A few (very few) pictures of the mummies of the catacombs of Palermo. Interesting, especially how the mummies are near-skeletal but the clothes are almost intact
• My Audio sites - Miscellaneous stuff. Some fan video sites for various fandoms, and music sites. Many of these I haven't checked out--this is where I toss the links to music I want to check out later. Caveat auditor (listener beware!).
• My Favorite Smallware :: MarkTAW.com - One person's list of their favorite little freeware utilities for Windows. "Oscar's File Renamer" and "WhoLockMe" both look good. I haven't explored these or tested them yet, so user beware.
• My Games - A link to my games folder, including a link to Zuma with the ball-spitting frog.
• My Photo Links - Links to sites with cool or beautiful photos. No nudes that I recall (heh).
• Newgrounds.com - The Problems Of The Future, Today! - Flash animation & games
• NPR : Cincinnati's Mythical Subway System - NPR news report plus links to photos of an abandoned 1925 railway system in Cincinnati.
• Nutshell Photos Of Unexplained Death - This is a series of photos of dollhouses built in the 40's and 50's to train forensic scientists. Read the press release for a more detailed explanation, and click on the artist's name to see the pictures. Neat stuff.
• Omphalo-Stepses: Bellydancers and Harem Girls - A Historical/Cheesecake Gallery - Omphalo-Stepses: Bellydancers and Harem Girls - A Historical/Cheesecake Gallery
• Online Comics at scottmccloud.com - Scott McCloud has written a book called "Reinventing Comics." I haven't read it, and only heard of it from this site, but from what I'm seeing here, it looks like a good book. McCloud's work on this site is understandable and clear (at least, what I've read so far) while at the same time playing with new visual ideas. All of the comics I've read so far are long, vertically linked collections of images. Really neat and interesting.
• oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Mind Hacks - _Mind Hacks_ is a recent book that looks pretty cool if you're into how the brain works. This page has several examples from the book. I've only read #11 (Why People Don't Work Like Elevator Buttons) and #92 (Make the Caffiene Habit Taste Good) but it is pretty interesting so far, getting into operant conditioning and why people insist on pushing an elevator button multiple times even though we all know they don't work that way. Neat stuff.
• Otolith Repositioning ( Epley Maneuver ) - About the rocks in my head.
• Ourmedia - "Create. Share. Get noticed. That's what Ourmedia is about.
  \nOurmedia is a global community and learning center where you can gain visibility for your works of personal media. We'll host your media forever - for free.
  \nOurmedia is several things in one. We are:
  \n \n * An open-source project built and staffed by volunteers
  \n * A destination Web site that freely hosts grassroots video, audio, music, photos, text and public domain works
  \n * A community space to share and discuss personal media
  \n * A learning toolkit to help our members create rich and compelling works
  \n * An archive so that these works can be preserved for the ages
  \n * A clearinghouse that allows anyone to search for licensed video, audio or music, download it and remix it, with proper attribution. Legally."
  \n \nWow. Very cool. I haven't explored here yet, but it looks like this will be a fun place to browse for music and text and images and all kindsa good stuff, plus if you have stuff you need hosting for, this might be the place to go. (I think there's a "must allow a certain amount of sharing" requirement for hosting--read the fine print.)
• Paper airplane - The best paper airplane in the world! - I haven't tried it, but it looks cool. \n
• Peekaboom: Not just wasting your time... - Neat game where you and a random partner take turns guessing the words related to images. The really cool part is that this is used to train computers to recognize images too.
• Pentix - The Art of Pen Spinning - Spinning pens around your fingers. Geek on a different path. *grins*
• Philips Bodygroom - Absolutely hilarious Flash ad for a "bodygroomer" - a hair removal tool for men to use on...um, not their faces. Is it using bad words if they bleep them out?
• Photos of decaying amusment park - The site is in an Asian language I can't read, so all I know is that these are really cool photos of an abandoned amusement park.
• Pitchfork MP3s - Freebies from the Pitchfork record label.
• Popup linkagogo java
• PostSecret - A really interesting art project where people were invited to anonymously write secrets on postcards and mail them to the project. It's oddly absorbing.
• Power Strip Liberator Ext, 5 Pack at X-tremegeek.com - I'm such a geek. I'm drooling. I want these, bad.
• PRODUCTS WARNING LABELS FOR PHYSICISTS
• Putting Bunnies in a Trance - Very short page about, well, putting bunnies in a trance. The pictures are cute and kinda funny.
• Quintessential Player - The MP3 player I use all the time now. \nFreeware, with good features and it loads fast and plays nice. \nFeatures I especially like--if you delete a file after adding it to a playlist, the player doesn't freak out, it just skips the file. You can block things from playing without removing them from the playlist. You can also physically delete files from within the program, even while the file is playing.
• Ray's Song. - "I'm about to whip somebody's ass."
• Razzle Dazzle ? Dazzle Painting - World War 1 camouflage for warships.
• request - Short film of someone doing a Nigerian email scam as a monologue--complete with misspellings. \nIt's a quicktime film, so as soon as the page loads it will play. \nVery cool--he delivers the thing like he was one of Shakespeare's villains trying to appear honest.
• Reverse Case mod - Make a bookcase from an old computer case. Heh.
• Rion Vernon's Pinup Toons - Rion Vernon is an artist who does cute cartoon women. Some of the images are not safe for work--the toons are naked in a few--but you don't see any really risque bits. Neat stuff.
• SCIENCE HOBBYIST: Do This Now - These are bizarre "childish" things to do that look really fun (or some of them, anyway.)
• SCIENCE HOBBYIST: Ten dollar Infrared Goggles - This is the kind of thing that would fascinate Eric. *grins*
• Sherlock Holmes radio shows - More radio shows--not sure about the copyright status on these. Some of them are probably in the public domain, but I'm not sure they all are.
• Smoke - Gorgeous photos of smoke. Really.
• Sneakemail 2.0 - "Stop spam with Sneakemail 2.0, the spam stopper, disposable email, forwarding, spam filter service" \n \nIf you're going to go registering on free software or music sites, you probably want something like this--I only started getting spam after I started downloading from music sites (legal music sites thankyouverymuch--I guess they pay their bills by selling the email addresses they harvest.) I haven't tried this yet--I still don't get that much spam. But it looks good and was highly recommended by someone on one of my mailing lists, so if/when I start downloading again, I'll probably be using this.
• Solar Cooks Do It In The SUN! - The one solar cooking link I have that is still good--they were all pretty old.
• SoundClick - "Free MP3 music download and much, much more."
• Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Wow. This guy saved the world in 1983, and we never knew.
• Stapelfahrer Klaus - Big WMV video (link is direct to download). It's in German, but wait until Klaus gets his hands on the forklift keys. Mayhem ensues.
• Staten Island Boat Graveyard History - Abandoned Photography : opacity.us - Staten Island Boat Graveyard History - Abandoned Photography : opacity.us
  \nAnd if you like these, you need to follow the "news/main" link at the top of the page. Apparently "Opacity.US" is a site dedicated to photography of urban ruins.
• Superhero Journal - Seems to be about finding beauty. Lots of pictures.
• SuprNova.org - Bit torrent site --highly recommended by a comics/anime fan. I haven't fiddled with figuring out how to do it yet, so I can't comment on it personally
• T E X T F I L E S - This is a website devoted to what I guess you'd call "historic" textfiles--stuff before the WWW existed and you didn't have a GUI, but had to use text to interact online. Most of the stuff is from the mid-eighties, but some might be older. I thought you'd enjoy the section called "Phreaking" which is all about the boxes that are supposed to screw with the phone company. I'm assuming they don't work now and won't get you into trouble. *grins*
• takhisis: Roombalicious! - A Roomba is a self-propelled robotic vacuum cleaner. Everyone who owns cats and sees it realizes instantly the potential for cat insanity this thing can create. This is a hilarious account of two cats and a Roomba.
• TallOrNot. - How tall are you compared to famous people? Enter your height (in either metric or imperial units) and you get a little graphic that compares you to the people you select off a long list. Pretty cool! \n
• The Art Of Failure: Why Some People Choke And Others Panic. - An interesting article from the Gaelic Gazette about the difference between choking and panicking in a pressure situation. \n
  \nAnnoyingly, it doesn't draw any conclusions about avoiding choking or panic, just illustrates the differences. But the differences are interesting.
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar - An examination of software development in an open-source environment.
• The Infinite Mind programs - Great hourlong show about various aspects of the brain and how it works. RAM streams of lots and lots of old shows on many topics.
• The Jargon Dictionary [info.astrian.net]
• The Old Battleaxe by *ursulav - Great fantasy art poster of an Orcish grandmother. The artist is selling prints, and I'm totally tempted to buy one.
• The ORIGINAL Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products - Yup, Wile E. Coyote's favorite catalog is now online! Heh.
• The Sect of Homokaasu - The Rasterbator - Makes an image into a large, printable piece of art. Very cool.
• the smiling stingray on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Just one pic here--beautiful photo of a stingray that looks as serene as a Madonna. Lovely.
• The Sneeze - Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions. - Very funny blogmagazine thing. Not updated daily--perhaps monthly--I can't tell how often.
• The Untitled Project - Detexted landscapes--the words are stripped out of the photos. Pretty cool.
• the Vanishing Point - Another explorer of abandoned spaces. Beautiful photos. I think this guy especially likes underground places - tunnels and such.
• The Word Spy - Neat site that documents up and coming new word usages & slang
• Theory of Fun: Understanding Comics for games - Description of an upcoming book that looks right up your alley. It is what I'd call the psychology of video games. This link is a fairly detailed description of the book, with links to more info from there.
• Things My Math Teacher Did Last Year - This has to be the most incompetent math teacher I've ever heard of. What was this person smoking?
• Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed - Sites to search when the search engines aren't turning up any info. Looks useful.
• TouchGraph GoogleBrowser V1.01 - These kinds of things are getting more common, but they stay very, very cool. \n \nThis is a graphical...thing that shows the relationships of websites based on the kind of stuff they have. Enter a URL of a site you like, and it will show you others. Very slow--probably not for dialups, slow connections, or computers with low ram, but neat anyway.
• Tree growing in and through a brick wall - Actually, this is part of a whole photset of very cool urban decay photos. But this one (and the two after it of the same subject) is really amazing to me.
• Underground History - Disused Stations on London's Underground
• Undergroundkent - Underground photos taken in various sites in Kent
• Untamed Cinema - I'm totally not sure how to classify this. Is it a fan video? (Somehow, I can't call it that.) Low budget but real cinema? (Probably.) Check out the movies tab here, and look for "Grayson." It's a movie set in the DC comics universe about Dick Grayson. The big ass trailer (Big. Ass. Like 5+ minutes.) is fantastic, though the opera soundtrack gets a little old toward the end. Worth downloading and checking out, definitely. The download is a 133M zip file containing a quicktime movie. The site also has an "artwork" tab that has some pretty kick-butt stuff. I haven't explored the "music" tab yet.
• Vacuuming the Lungs (Ftrain.com) - How to reboot your breathing process when you're breathless from nervousness.
• VideoLAN - Free Software and Open Source video streaming solution for every OS!
• Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary - The site with solfeggio syllables & various scales
• webzen.org - Webzen is fun, usually--links to odd websites with a particular themes. Be sure to check out the "geek music zen"--it is the webzen for 4/9, so it will be on the main page that week, then afterward you can find it in the archives.
• Welcome to CrossFit: Forging Elite Fitness - Fitness website that says: "Our program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist." \n \nFrom the looks of it, you can access the daily menus of exercises for free. Cool. Way over my head, but cool.
• What gender is your brain? - Article in the Guardian about autism and male & female style thinking. There's an interesting test.
• When and how to use internet image formats - Not exciting info, but very, very useful. \n
• Why paladins are evil - I think this is self-explanatory, but it might not be as funny if you haven't done any role-playing with paladins. \n
• WILLIAM SHATNER HAS BEEN - Wow. Shatner has a new album. Yes, William Shatner. Kirk. He of the spectacularly mockable album back when. This is really good. Still spoken-word on Shatner's part--he doesn't sing. But it's produced with Ben Fold, and it is really good. This site streams interviews and samples of the music. I'm not sure about the title song ("Has Been")--that's the one folks will mock on this album, I think.
• worksongs - Another cool and gorgeous photo-a-day blog, with many pictures of abandoned buildings, though there are other things too.
• X-Entertainment - Spider-Man Reviews Crayons! - Silly photo story with a spiderman action figure reviewing crayons. Pretty funny
• YouTube - Pinstriping - This is a video showing several different artists hand-pinstriping cars and motorcycles. The steadiness of their hands, the skill they're showing--amazing. 10 minutes long. There's audio, but it is mainly a musical soundtrack, so you can watch this on a machine with no speakers and not miss much.
• YouTube - Tony vs Paul - Clever and amusing stop-motion video. Two guys are fighting, and their fight includes flying, running without ever moving their feet, and all kinds of other stuff.
• ZZZ Online - Cool webzine (monthly or so) that seems to have lots of weird science. This is where I saw the air wells