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Archive for May, 2005

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

Un Chien Andalou

Un Chien Andalou, 17 minutes of classic Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali in MPEG. There are many other goodies over there, including films by Hans Richter, Man Ray, Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith and more. See their main page for other things worth seeing.

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

Magnetism

Magnetism: use the magnets to get your ball into the cup. 2 levels of difficulty.

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

How to Perform Strong Man Stunts

How to Perform Strong Man Stunts by Ottley R. Coulter, a 1952 book that will make you popular at parties.

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

The Stinkymeat Project

Thanks to Garry for the link to the disgusting Stinkymeat Project.

Monday, May 30th, 2005

Firefox Back Up Programs

If you use the Internet browser Firefox, you may want to look into a way to back up all of those themes, extensions and settings (I have had several crashes and reinstalling is a time waster.) BackupFox creates backup profiles for Firefox and Mozilla’s Thunderbird email program. The Firefox Deployment program creates similar backups, but it seems to create an entirely new Firefox folder, hence taking up unnecessary space. MozBackup, the predecessor to BackupFox, has a similar clean interface and backs up the latest FF /Thunderbird profiles and even Mozilla 1.6. Here’s some more 411 on Mozbackup. If you’re looking simply to back up your FF/Thunderbird extensions, go for the Mass Installer (cumbersome at first, but well worth it!)

Friday, May 27th, 2005

RecordBrother

RecordBrother is full of the records I love to find. Come on, they have motorcycle sounds from LP’s and Tolkien reading Lord of the Rings. Excellent!

Friday, May 27th, 2005

Alt.sex.fetish.robots FAQ

The Alt.sex.fetish.robots FAQ makes for some creepy reading. Link via Mister Pants.

Friday, May 27th, 2005

Hit or Stand

This Blackjack game and trainer has shown me why I would lose everything I own if I went to Vegas.

Friday, May 27th, 2005

Safety at Work

Safety at Work, a short Flash piece.

Friday, May 27th, 2005

Fun For Mobile

If you’re trying to get ringtones or wallpaper to your cellphone, Fun For Mobile lets you create a few text message to retrieve them.

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

The Birthday game

Guess if a celebrity is older or younger than you: Birthday game. Warning: may make you feel old.

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

BMX Park

Control a little bike and do some tricks: BMX Park. It’s very Nintedo Gameboyish.

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

Xtra-Google

Yet another “let’s take Google and change the interface” site: Xtra-Google.

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Chicago Crime Maps

Here is a useful Chicago Crime Locator site. You can search by: Crime type, Street, Date, Police District and Location Type (i.e.bar, school) or “meta filter” by City map. Oh, almost forgot…it incorporates a certain search engine mapping system.

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst

PBS has been making some great webpages for their programming lately. They started airing Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst this week and the site is worth checking out if you find the case interesting. Of course, the whole SLA was a conspiracy

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Bottle Shoot

Bottle Shoot had me frantically hitting space to reload as the bottles started flying like crazy.

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Disney’s Virtual Magic Kingdom

I’m not much of a Disney fan, but their Virtual Magic Kingdom game looks interesting as well as a bit simple. I know, it’s for kids.

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Los Angeles in the 1900’s

This site has a great section on Los Angeles in the 1900’s with lots of newspaper articles and more.

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

James Munro

Watch some strange Flash cartoons courtesy of James Munro. Cat Conspiracy’s my personal favorite.

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

Why English is Hard to Learn

Read 21 examples showing why English is hard to learn.