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AutoAntonyms. Words with two opposite meanings. Buckle means both to tie together and to fall apart. #
The YouTube Sports Hall of Fame. Nice collection of YouTube gems. #
How to disappear without a trace. This is an absolutely fascinating article on how to disappear in America without leaving a trace. Great information I have never heard, and hope never to have to use. #
The Top 10 Weight Loss Tips. Alternate title: The Top 10 Things I am not doing which contribute to my ever-increasing "bandwidth." #
Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein. #
Pen Tricks. Waste time AND impress your friends. #
Colour Perception. Look at "Illusion 3" -- wacky how affected we are by surrounding colors. #
Summer Moon Illusion. The moon is low in the sky this week, which causes our sight to perceive the moon as larger than it really is. #
Larry Wall On Perl and Religion. My favorite line: Christians are fond of asking: "What would Jesus do in this situation?" Unfortunately, they very rarely come up with the correct answer, which is: "Something unexpected!" #
Kitchen Myths. Debunked beliefs on cooking. #
Marshall Brain. The creator of howstuffworks.com #
Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena. A collection of online resources into "visual hacks". #
Download Beethoven. All 9 symphonies are available in MP3 format. #
Get Yer Own Budweiser Email Address. #
A Ruthless Review of Revenge of the Sith. The general opinion... seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes.. but only in the same way that dying from natural causes is preferable to crucifixion. #
38 ways to win an argument. By Schopenhauer. I'm sure an "ad hominem" attack is in there somewhere. #
Well-Read. “Many professional readers apply the 50-page rule. If the book hasn’t grabbed them by then, they give it the heave-ho.” #
The string tripod. Nice alternative to the big one. #
The Time Traveler Convention. Technically, you only need one time traveler convention. #
Pi to 1 million places. Now that's good to know. #
The Classical Holy Grail. Investigators from BYU and Oxford are uncovering texts lost for centuries. #
How to Make a Simple Curry "Anything". #
The NASA Apollo Image Gallery A great collection of space photographs. #
13 scientific anomalies that do not make sense. #
Lost in Space. This makes a good desktop picture. via very raw. #
The Big Mirror. "That mirror image of ourselves is always there when we stare at the computer. And we see ourselves in whatever we're looking at." #
Delivery. A short movie by Till Nowak. via Coudal. #
Public version of Saddam's Capture is fiction. According to an ex-Marine. Anyone remember the movie Wag the Dog? #
Hector. Word of the day. If I had ever heard this word before, I undoubtedly mistook it for a mispronunciation of heckle. #
Three Lectures by Hans Bethe. Physics lectures in video format. via kottke #
Typer Shark. How good of a typer are you? #
Players test limits of World of Warcraft. Lance, this one's for you. #
Another Neal Stephenson Interview. #
The art of seeing without sight. A blind man from birth possesses extraordinary artistic abilities, challenging our conventional perceptions of what it means to "see." #
ESUVEE. A great flash site for an awareness promotion campaign regarding S.U.V.'s. #
Singing in the Rain. This is the version that didn't make it into the original. #
Cheerleader through a basketball hoop. It looks less fake when viewed frame by frame. #
Audioscrobbler tracks your music preferences given your player (Itunes, winamp, etc.) and gives you recommendations based on what other listeners with similar tastes are listening to. #
Jell-O Aquarium recipe I'll have to try this for my daughter. #
What You'll Wish You'd Known. Paul Graham: He always writes a damn good essay. #
Play Any Nintendo Game Online. Ah, Dr. Mario. How much I've missed you. #
Overcoming Procrastination. I can do it. I am a good person. People like me. #
Don't cut your finger. This video demonstrates a new table saw that locks up in 5 ms if a non-wood item touches the blade. #
Aliens Cause Global Warming. Michael Crichton: "I am going to argue that extraterrestrials lie behind global warming. Or to speak more precisely, I will argue that a belief in extraterrestrials has paved the way, in a progression of steps, to a belief in global warming." #
Camels and Rubber Duckies. How much should one charge for software? #
Good Gift Games of 2004. Feel free to get me any of these. #
Make your own photo mosaic. I need to try this out. #
Like A Rolling Stone. I'm listening to the song right now --- and to think the song was almost never released!? Stupid executives. #
Perfect Songs. Combined with the Beauty that is Audio Hijack Pro, that's 30 songs in my pocket™. #
The Best Books of 2004. 9/11 Commission Report tops the list. #
Hack Yourself. A great essay. Find the demon. Do you know what I'm talking about? It's the little voice in the back of your head that's always whispering, “You can't.” You know the demon. You may think you hate the demon, but you don't. You love it. You let it own you. #
I am a rabid fan of Neal Stephenson. #
Cleaning pennies with taco sauce. Ahh! The bright golden shine of polished copper! Active ingredients: vinegar and salt. #
Zipdecode. Very cool. Click the zoom option and begin typing in letters of a zip code. #
Powers of Ten. Zoom from 10 million light years away from the Milky Way to examine the atomic structure of an oak tree on Planet Earth. #
My favorite line of the day. "Clearly, something has gone wrong here." #
Tricks of the trade. A must read. A treasure trove of wisdom. My favorite is the acronym 'PEBKAC' used by Computer Support to signify 'Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair'. #
How to fold a shirt. Yes! Finally! I've been in search of this knowledge for years. It still looks like magic though. #
Escher Audi. This quicktime advertisement for the car maker borrows heavily from M.C. Escher. It is beautiful to watch. #
Company Name Origins Example: Apache got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'a patchy' server—thus, the name Apache. #
Fishing for truth. Verbal clues that indicate you are lying. #
The Jeopardy Juggernaut. Ken Jennings - King of Trivia. As of July 8, he has won 27 straight games for a total of $860,000 plus. #
Weblog ethics. Another great article by rebecca blood. #
A history of blogging. Rebecca Blood chronicles the history of the web log. #
Lance's Bike chimes in. It's doing all the work. It should have a say too. #
Utah man wins a cool 500G. Ken Jennings, a BYU graduate, dominates 16 episodes for record Jeopardy winnings. #
1000 Best Movies Ever Made How many have you seen? #