Here are some links you might find interesting
Here are some links to sites of more than average interest.
I add to these regularly, so come back from time to time and look around.
- last edited Mar 10, 2007
Quotable Quotes
"Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never
judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me
that, I stopped worrying." Ronald Reagan
"I like pigs.
Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
Churchill
"A waist is a
terrible thing to mind." Jane Caminos
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to
prove anything that's even remotely true!" Homer J. Simpson
"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."
H. L. Mencken
"Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're
making too much money." Robin Williams
"Ninety percent of the politicians give the
other ten percent a bad reputation". Henry Kissinger
"It is said that power corrupts, but actually
it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually
attracted by other things than power." David Brin, author
Amazing Virtuosity
Top
Secret Swiss Drum Corps
The
TED Conference. Excellent video presentations by famous people in every
sector.
Art
Snowman
Art - by Calvin and Hobbes.
Lady drawn
from the inside out - such talent!
Vortex
art.
Four million dominoes
- a new world record.
Books, blurbs
Don't buy diamonds.
Daily semi-literary observation, usually funny. Girls
are pretty.
The Art of Conversation
- Clive James
Lots of e-books.
One dollar each.
Project Gutenberg
- 19,000 free books.
Arts and Letters Daily -
make it your home page: new reviews, articles, opinion pieces every day.
Creepy Stuff
Fungus
takes over brain of its victim. Yikes!
Giant bat-catching
centipede. Yuck!
Know what lives
in your eyelashes?
Celebrities without
make-up. Eeeeuuw!
Cuisine
The Soup Nazi's recipe for Mulligatawny
How to prepare the perfect
boiled egg
Education
If you can type it, she will pronounce
it. Any language.
US Army Survival Manual. How to meet a bear, not freeze your toes, etc.
Take International
Studies at the University of Chicago. Lectures, videos, podcasts.
Educational attainment vs. Budgets: a
graph
Chess
tutorials - become an expert.
On-line Typing
Tutor. Learn to touch type.
Grammar Girl's tips for better
writing.
Understanding Computers
and the Internet - free Harvard course for beginners, videos, slides, exams,
answers. Very well done. You'll learn a lot.
How
Stuff Works - everything about anything, clearly explained.
Free online photography
course.
Spell anything
- using live lingerie clad women.
The
Compleat Shakespeare - all searchable. Brush up your bard.
Go to MIT
for free. Take their courses online.
Podcasts
that make you smarter. Learn French or Physics on your iPod.
Environment Denial
- you've seen the pro-hype, now here's the counter-hype.
Pro-polluters
call CO2 "life". And here.
Environmental
Hysteria - by Penn and Teller
National
Post series disclaiming the 'junk science'.
Global warming stopped
in 1998, says the US Senate.
Catastrophe Cancelled - Canadian
deniers - view all 5 parts.
The Centre for Science and Public Policy reports how
they see it.
Lord Monckton replies
to the IPCC.
Ethics
Penn
& Teller take on PETA. Hypocrits exposed!!!
Darwin
Awards for 2006 - thank those who improved the gene pool by removing their
own from it.
Etiquette
Urinal etiquette. Take
the test.
8
things you should never say to your bartender
Free Software
101
Freebies - useful downloads, sites and services, all free, of course.
Top
300 freeware. Who needs Microsoft?
A non-techie's
favourite free, legal software.
Games
In case anyone thinks online gaming is not big business consider this:
one game, World of Warcraft (WoW), charges $20 to download their software and
then a subscription of about $15/month to play the game. They have 8 million
subscribers and have been growing steadily since 2004. Do the math. As usual,
Wikipedia has an article
on WoW.
Second Life - a virtual world. Start a business, go
into politics, become a star. Be one of 30,000 concurrent players.
Here is a Wikipedia
article explaining it and here is a Wired
Magazine travel guide.
15 best
places to waste time on the web.
Fun with gravity.
300 free online games
25 addictive
Flash games
Number One best
free game. Line Rider - every player creates his own game.
Linerider - demonstration,
easy.
Explanation
and more difficult examples of Linerider.
And another
Linerider example.
Geek Stuff
Build
your own high performance computer, cheap and easy.
Top 10 extensions
for the Firefox browser. Up your productivity.
100 greatest theorems.
Best accidental
discoveries.
10 most beautiful science
experiments
Gender related
Bikini Bandits - an
interesting new traffic control experiment in Copenhagen.
Are you a
girl or a boy? - let the Gender Genie sample your prose and tell you.
Genealogy
Surname
profiler
Intelligence
Take
the test. This one gives you points based on what you might not
know, like the name of any contestant on Teen Idol, or where your
neighbourhood welfare office is.
Health
Top 10 aphrodisiacs.
International Health professor, Hans
Rosling, entertains and informs.
10
things your fitness club won't tell you.
Aging
gracefully - how Michael Jackson would look without the work.
Priobiotics
- germs that are good for you. More
about probiotics.
Top
10 Detox Foods.
Colourblindness
test - these look familiar. We memorized the answers long ago.
15
foods you should not live without.
10 foods
you should never eat.
Food that makes you feel
bad.
Does high
fructose corn syrup (HFCS) have to be in everything?
11
tips to boost your metabolism.
How to...
Survive a horror
movie.
Make cocaine - for retirees with time on their hands and a need for some
extra income.
Change your fingerprints - for retirees who took the previous suggestion.
Be
a pimp - this site is not safe for work (NSFW).
Access
sites your techies might be blocking (NSFW).
Avoid
crying when chopping onions.
Mask
your IP in order to use country-restricted services. Pretend you are in the
USA; watch Desperate Housewives.
Solve
a Rubik's Cube
Internet
TV advertising is broken. Google paid $1.6 billion
for YouTube. Why? Here's
why.
The Wizards
of Buzz. New kinds of web sites are creating dispersed centres of influence.
Search engine dedicated to Wikipedia. Wikiseek.
Try it. Excellent!
Become a blogger.
Everything you need to get started.
Jobs
Top 10 dangerous jobs.
Meta sites - sites that point out other sites
Time Magazine's top
50 cool sites (Time? - so how cool can any of these really be? - ed).
The Guardian's list of 100
most useful sites.
Best Web 2.0
software (web applications) of 2006.
Music
Best pop songs -
1950-82 - play in the background.
Eine kleine Internet
Nachtmusik - free (and legal!) downloads of the Compleat Mozart oeuvre.
Swedish radio streams 400
Mozart pieces to your speakers
Download Mozart
and Beethoven to your iPod (or similar).
Photography
13
photos that changed the world.
Panorama
from the world's highest place.
Velcro
- up real close.
Wildlife
photo contest finalists
Microscopic world of
insects and of
medicine
Earth from 4 billion miles away
Fake
or photo? Decide what's real, what's Photoshop.
Religion
Scary
Bible Quotes - by God
The proper Islamic way to beat
your wife. A
second opinion.
Security
Protect yourself from phishing
and fraud.
Television
250 free TV
channels. But who needs them?
Jerri Southcott's Living
in Ottawa.
YouTube
vs. the Boob Tube - is TV doomed?
Best dialogue
from MASH - all 251 episodes.
Jack Bauer's kill
count - all 138 of them; episode, victim, method, and a short video clip of
each rub-out.
Mostly news,
sports, trailers
2000 movies, 6000 tv shows, 3000 cartoons. All
here; all free. On demand.
Transportation
Fast car - Bugatti
Veyron. See this baby go. 16 cyl, 4 turbochargers, 1001 HP, 253 mph!
Folding
bikes - throw it into the trunk of the car, take it on the subway like a
briefcase. Everyone needs one of these.
Future collector
cars. Maybe you own one.
Videos
By now everyone must be aware of sites like Youtube, which are dedicated
to videos put there by the general public, ad agencies, or just about anyone.
Youtube reportedly receives 16,000 new items every day. Most of this is junk,
but there is serious stuff as well like Sarah McLachlan's offering, just above.
Wikipedia has an entry explaining Youtube here.
Two students started it in a garage less than two years ago; they just sold it to
Google for US$1.65 billion. Networks that were about to sue Youtube to prevent
them showing clips from their shows seem to have had a change of heart.
They now compete to get their stuff onto Youtube. Having last night's show on
Youtube today is somehow good for business. Google,
Yahoo and Metacafe have rival video
sites. All have search engines so you can go directly to whatever interests you.
Try it.
War toys
Breaking
the sound barrier - astonishing photos.
Bunker
buster bomb - in action
The USAF's boneyard.
10 best one-on-one
fights from the movies (in this section temporarily)
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