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The tiny versions of images on the Tree in the address bar (not just the Tree logo) are sweet. When did that happen?
Cheney shot and injured fellow hunter in S. Texas. I like this quote from the ranch owner, in the Times account:
''Fortunately, the vice president has got a lot of medical people around him and so they were right there and probably more cautious than we would have been,'' she said. ''The vice president has got an ambulance on call, so the ambulance came.''
Short video of a 500 kV switch opening in the Nevada desert.
Debra Burlingame Watch: her testimony is used to justify domestic spying.
you might need an extra home for this home computer.
eco-cruise
"Falcon! Is it a merlin?" cried Joe Giunta, as a small bird soared overhead just moments after the catamaran left the South Street Seaport dock on the East River. Quick discussion, and it was decided that Giunta, a retired teacher who lectures on birds for the local Audubon society and has a staggering 1,020 birds on his own "life list," was correct.
Amazing Quake II mod:
You finally saw the yacht in the seemingly random bunch of dots! You can see the dinosaurs and dolphins in the Magic-Eye books! Now use your skills to free yourself from your evil extra-dimensional zombie oppressors! Welcome to Quake II as it was never meant to be.I was never very good at seeing those magic-eye things, but it always surprised me how cool it was when I did get it. Of course the first thing I wondered was whether you could produce the effect with moving images. Evidently you can. Not sure this has any practical applications (I guess it depends on how hard it is to see and whether it gives you a massive head ache and makes you cross eyed or something like that,) but I'd love to try it out. Windows only unfortunately.
Quake II AbSIRD is a modification of the Quake II graphics engine to produce SIRDS instead of standard 3D images.
dubya fmu
Design Within Reach 2005 champagne cork chair competition winners
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Index of animated GIFs demonstrating math concepts.
wilson pickett - rip'n' it upstairs
readthebill.org
dogs can detect cancer on peoples breath.
i always feel like somebodys watching me.
some people were unfamiliar with beer pong. now youre too familiar.
92y blog
frappr - group mapping utility
Until now, it had been widely assumed by geneticists that the Ashkenazi communities of Northern and Central Europe were founded by men who came from the Middle East, perhaps as traders, and by the women from each local population whom they took as wives and converted to Judaism.
But the new study, published online this week in The American Journal of Human Genetics, suggests that the men and their wives migrated to Europe together.
schrager on bond st.
Couple weeks old, but it made me laugh out loud again today, so in case anyone missed it: The Chronic (what?) cles of Narnia SNL rap skit.
I don't know about the music but I think this is a really cool video world webcam collage type thing.
http://moon.google.com/ -- The level of detail is stunning. You can almost make out the lunar dune buggies rovers.