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Strong Bad emails --
(see long pants
and crying)
Lovely excerpt
on jet lag from William Gibson's Pattern
Recognition
Flickr -- photo sharing site (my
username "amyvdh")
Things My Girlfriend
and I Have Argued About
Found magazine --
found letters, pictures, etc.
Lovetron 5000 -- relationship advice
Get Your War On!
cartoons
The Weekly--Hurrah Bah,etiquette
foaf, foafnaut, foaf wiki, (my foaf data)
Myers Briggs info
test -- I'm an INTJ (Introverted 89% Intuitive 67% Thinking 67% Judging
1%) though sometimes I test INTP
color quiz -- answer too long to put
here but ask me and I'll show you
click on the shape
test (the shape I
pick)
Political Compass test
(my results:
Economic Left/Right: -4.38 Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.64)
What religion do you fit in with?(my results:Humanist)
If Americans
Knew: Accuracy in reporting on Isreal/Palestine -- shocking, important
Michael Klare on our Oil-Crunch Planet
A
Fascist America: How Close are we?
Cost
of the Iraq War and one way the money could have been spent
50 Facts
"show why we must change the world "
Textbook disclaimer
stickers -- other explorations around the evolution stickers
Capitalist
(liar)- -
zefrank (great design)
Canada 2.0 -- after the elections in November 04 (also see jwz's maps)
George Lakoff -- on how
conservatives and liberals think differently and conservative
catchphrases and the 'War
on Terror"
Fourteen defining characteristics of fascism
articles by Robert Fisk
Danbri's war links
Project for the New American
Century-- official
US government documents, chilling
Political Fact Check.org
Cursor.org and Electablog -- news and updates on
politics and the election
The Memory Hole -- rescuing knowledge, freeing information
Al Gore's NYU
speech
Thich Nhat Hanh on the abuse at Abu
Ghraib prison, the buddhist perspective
memepool
the
onion
Doodz'n'Chyx -- an unmoderated
community weblog
web zen -- always something
interesting
Post Secret --
confessional post cards
Animals on the
Underground -- very cute
Big Little Books
-- kind of creepy comics, but not as disturbing as Superman is
a Dick
Toogle -- "The most comprehensive image buggery on the web"
Team spirit -- from My New Filing Technique is
Unstoppable (same people who do Get Your War On! etc)
Tackymail -- the tacky postcard archive
exploding dog -- really great
drawings
Garden State trailer
(large) -- a really lovely movie with a wonderful soundtrack
Dean's foafcorp (fat cats)
- in SVG
Max's SVG texturizer
tool (you need the Safari browser or an SVG plug in to see this, get it here)
Dean's pi (you also need
SVG for this)
Powers
of 10 (universe to quarks)
Dean's SVG W3C member
demo and SVG desktop
examples
Max's ChessGML demo
The Exorcist in 30 seconds with Bunnies (flash)
Titanic in 30 seconds w/ Bunnies and The Shining in 30
seconds w/ Bunnies
Beatles Come Together
flash animation -- fantastic!
Xu Bing (an amazing artist I worked with
once -- see the silkworms section,
we fed them mulberry leaves)
Blind
Spot
Abelardo Morell
Air Toons
Paris By Night -- stunningly beautiful night image
Images index -- fascinating and
lovely
The UNH! project -- guttural moans from comics
Circadiana
-- Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Too Afraid To
Ask)
Derren Brown: Mind-reading?
No, just head games - neurolinguistic programming, (my favorite line: "It
is now clear why the actor, director and keen amateur magician Stephen Fry,
snookered by a fiendish card trick, said, "I just want to burn him at the
stake and watch his witch's heart bubble.") also see video
clips
Alteration of the platelet serotonin in romantic love -- romantic love
and OCD
The Tao of Star
Wars
Tricks of the trade -- secrets from different occupations
Neil Stephenson interview on
Slashdot
Tyranny of the
Extroverts
Caring for Your Introvert
Travel Tips For Americans intending to visit Sydney
for the Year 2000 Olympics
Special report: India vs. New Zealand (cricket) from the Guardian
Harry Potter from
The Onion (cited by at least
one Christian group as a real news article)
What you can't say and Why Nerds are Unpopular --
articles by Paul Grahamn
How To Use a Sock Puppet
to Pick up Tons of Women -- I can't decide what I like more, the article
or the picture of the guy with the mustache *and* rose
John Stewart's Commencement Address,
William and Mary College
How to Survive a
Zombie attack -- you may want to print this out for quick reference just
in case
Festivus -- for the rest of us, 23 December
Wikipedia -- everything
Languid -- statistical language identifier
imdb
wayback
machine
Straight Dope
Emergency procedures
Visual
thesaurus -- beautifully designed
Seat Guru -- the best seats
on different airlines
"Love and Rocket" -
Futurama episode script where Bender and Ship have an affair (favorite line:
Ship: " You're just jealous! No one loves you because you're tiny and made of
meat!")
The Hulk's Diary
rhetorical -- voice simulation w/ different accents
Mil Millington column from The
Weekly
Airlinemeals.net -- sublime, one of my favorites
Frink Rules! (see tomfoolery)
(slightly
depressed) 404
zefrank -- see the Pre-date confidence builder and How to dance properly
dollarshort --
another blog I like, see remove
(perhaps not coincidentally, shown to me after I sent a particularly mushy
email)
Ren and Stimpy Log song
Vertigo then and now
Map of the Market -- stock market data in visual form
5ives -- lists of five things
CatPrin -- dress up your
cat
Objectionable content-- another blog I like
Speech Accent Archive
dublog -- really interesting visual image blog
news map --
like the map of the market above, but with news stories
Photo
memes projects -- some interesting stuff,
seeExactitudes, the
Mirror
Project
CNNNN-- Australian news site
The
dullest blog in the world
McSweeney's-- always something
good
Dark
Passage-- Urban archeology
A Softer World-- photos with captions - like a cartoon strip only,
you know, photos
The
Science of the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind-- don't read this if you haven't seen the movie, but
definitely see the movie
Enduring
Vision-- Satire site, see Terror Alert Level Raised to "Vote Republican"
Retro
Crush -- see coolest song parts
An Introvert's Lexicon
Hints to Balance your type-- how to deal with the other Myers Briggs types
(freaks!)
Propeller Island hotel -- unique and beautiful hotel
rooms
The Final Irony -- an explanation of irony
from the Guardian
Travelang's Word of the Day --Thank you very much
Nation
Master-- more stats than you need
Essentials of
Buddhism
Dialect survey and results (US)
Robert Benchley quotations
Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed -- search
engines
Ali G show -- cast and crew
,videos
,glossary--
aight
Issac Hayes' Three Laws of Robotics
Useful French phrases
The Mating Quiz-- sounds so
romantic
Which Harry Potter Character Are You Like?-- According to this I'm like Prof. McGonagal. Damn,
more cat stuff
Project
Censored -- Top 25 Censored News Stories of 2003-04
Secrecy and Security
News -- Project on Government Secrecy, Federation of American
Scientists
Setting the Record Straight: An Analysis of the Justice Department's PATRIOT Act
Website
Bush in 30 seconds ads from MoveOn.org
Claim vs. Facts-- Center for American Progress, charting the
dishonestly of the American right
SVG planets
Langlands & Bell -- see Air Routes of the
World
weather satellite images
Stop Motion Studies Tokyo -- images taken on subway trains
worst album covers ever -- I can't stop looking at these though I've
decided Millie Jackson is the scariest woman ever.
Tao Te Ching
-- Lao Tsu
Republicans for Voldemort sticker
NASA's
visible earth
Japanese vending machines
Happy Bunny
Trouble and Desire: Quotes from Hal Hartley movies
A Child's Machiavelli
How Stuff Works
Science Hobbyist
Logical Fallacies-- just how is that argument wrong? find out
here
Swearasaurus-- how
to swear in Latin
typorganism-- cool type
graphics
Industrial art gallery-- gorgeous drawings,
images
time tales -- more found
photographs
Winnie the Pooh, Chapter
6 (Eeyore's birthday)
BBC --A Cheat's Guide to Ulysses
The Jerry Spring Show/ Philosophy
The New Yorker --new details on the
Cheney/Leahy smackdown
