.Saturday, January 1, 2005

New Years 2005 - EarthCam

New Year Traditions
[How] The New Year is celebrated differently around the world.

Scientific Background on the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami

An American Time Capsule:
Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera

A Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection

STRANGER a DAY : 2004
Since January 1st, 2004 Roark Johnson has been photographing strangers, people he doesn't know, once a day, every day.

Top Science Stories of 2004

The LadderMill is the response to the challenge for exploiting the gigantic energy source contained in the airspace up to high altitudes of 10 km.

Losing the War from Writing by Lee Sandlin, which I linked back in 2001 when This American Life (PBS radio show) featured an excerpt, got posted on this Metafilter thread.  The best none-first hand account of WW2.  Unfortunately, think it'll get more relevant as these years go by.

Lauren's Alice in Wonderland Page

2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist
Search patterns, trends, and surprises

WAUWATOSA, Wis. — A Fond du Lac teenager who became the first person known to survive rabies without a vaccination went home yesterday after nearly 11 weeks in the hospital, officials said.

Audiopad is a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music.

Net.wars: The empires strike back
""The Net perceives censorship as damage, and routes around it." What government could control what was said on the Net?
Maybe it's time to change that into, "Governments perceive the Internet as damage, and gang up on it .""

People Are Human-Bacteria Hybrid
"From the invisible strands of fungi waiting to sprout between our toes, to the kilogram of bacterial matter in our guts, we are best viewed as walking "superorganisms," highly complex conglomerations of human, fungal, bacterial and viral cells."

Walking Directions
Starting from: Bag End, Hobbiton, The Shire
Arriving at: The Cracks of Doom, Mordor

Yu-Mex - Mexican music in fifties Yugoslavia
Also, Every Cover Tells a Story - "Interesting" album covers

Russian Women Blacklist!

RUSSIAN PRISON TATTOOS

.Wednesday, January 5, 2005

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - "The Bush administration is preparing plans for possible lifetime detention of suspected terrorists, including hundreds whom the government does not have enough evidence to charge in courts, The Washington Post reported Sunday."

The Shadow Internet 
"They start with a single stolen file and pump out bootleg games and movies by the millions. Inside the pirate networks that are terrorizing the entertainment business."  Hilarious.

Classic Horror Short Stories

Top 10 Paranormal Events of 2004

Leaked Star Wars ep3 pics.  The pics are so-so, but this header photo of Chewie pawing Leia is priceless.

Dry Quicksand
"Reports that travelers and even whole vehicles have instantaneously vanished by sand have often been dismissed as products of fantasy. Rightly so? Our latest experiments show that such a dry quicksand may exist, and that objects can sink up to many diameters deep into very loose, fine sand."

The hand collector

Phrase and word origin

Boy Dolls Gallery
"Welcome to bishounen doll gallery. All dolls are made of cloth.
Some of dolls you can try to make.
Hope you enjoy. Doll artist Runo."

.Friday, January 7, 2005

Will Eisner passed away on January 3rd, 2005 at the age of 87 following quadruple bypass heart surgery.
The Spirit Of Seventy Five by Neil Gaiman.

On the Comment Box for GHMC comic #0007-0008, there's this dude with the handel "illOx" who's been using the commenting area as his "LiveJournal" of sort.  Keeps on posting day after day, for good part of  the past year.  There's also "Transfer," who occationally stops by and tries to talk to him... I don't know... why not?  I guess...

Emprapto writes, "When Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo back when Nintendo wasn't doing so hot with GameCube, Nintendo boss told Microsoft's Steve Ballmer to suck his balls." 
Fun reading, but these guys call fake on it, well, a parody. 

Longbow-archers

"Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Characters on Star Trek - a 12-year saga of deceit, lies, excuses and broken promises" 
Funny, since Star Trek is one of the gayest things in the known universe already...

Well that's until...

Slashing the Borg: Resistance is Fertile
(article about gay Borg fan-fics)

"Welcome to Beer Trek - the greatest Star Trek* Drinking game in the universe!"

The Chinese Historical and Cultural Project

Pierced Eyeglasses
"The idea of hanging eyeglasses from a piercing or a combination of piercings or even transdermal implants is something that a lot of us have toyed with — "   Riiiight.