- 06/30/02 - song facts - Everything you ever wanted to know about the songs you know and love. (songfacts.com)
- 06/29/02 - don markstein's toonpedia - A vast repository of toonological knowledge. (toonopedia.com)
- 06/28/02 - origami boulder company - The number one place on the internet to buy crumpled up pieces of paper. (origamiboulder.com)
- 06/27/02 - the mini-mizer - Picture yourself in plastic. Just click a few buttons and build a custom lego figure, and put him anywhere in the world (well, almost anywhere). (reasonablyclever.com)
- 06/26/02 - the dumb network - Home of a great collection of dumb websites. Be sure to check out Dumb Laws for a collection of absurd rules and regulations, Dumb Bumpers for the dumbest bumper stickers, Warnings for an assortment of stupid warning stickers and advisories, and a lot more dumbess. This is a really dumb way to waste a lot of time. (thedumb.com)
- 06/25/02 - why is mona lisa smilling? - A project put together by students at John F. Kennedy High School about Leonardo DaVinci, his music, Mona Lisa, and more. (library.thinkquest.org/13681/data/davin2.shtml)
- 06/24/02 - parks sabers - The website for a professional Lightsaber maker. My personal favourite is Malestrom. I'm rahter impressed that someone has managed to make a living at this. (parksabers.com)
- 06/23/02 - animated engines - A nice collection of animations demonstrating the inner workings of different types of engines. (keveney.com/Engines.html)
- 06/22/02 - villainsupply.com - For all your world domination needs, I present villainsupply.com. (villainsupply.com)
- 06/21/02 - what's that stuff? - Learn what all sorts of things are made of, such as light sticks, silly putty and if you dare, Cheez Whiz. (pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff.html)
- 06/20/02 - the scientific method - There's no better way to teach the scientific method, than with a practical real life example. A scientific approach to any problem is sure to yield excellent results, a problem such as how to find a date for Friday night. This ought to be useful to the nudding scientist, in more ways than one. (www.howe.k12.ok.us/~jimaskew/hsimeth.htm)
- 06/19/02 - the official string theory web site - This site covers everything about string theory, from the basics to the in-depth history of string theory (and other areas of theoretical physics), to hot topics in present day mathematical research of interest to string theorists. (superstringtheory.com)
- 06/18/02 - the duct tape guys - A huge collection of Duct Tape resources. Among the highlights are their gallery of wall tapings, the eastern philosophy of duct tape, some fun practical jokes, cartoons featuring duct tape, the duct tape body shop, duct tape 101 and a great fashion show. (octanecreative.com/ducttape)
- 06/17/02 - cryptography a-2-z - An excellent place to look for information on cryptography. They have a well written introduction to cryptography, descriptions of some of the standard algorithms, and links to a variety of other resources. (www.ssh.fi/tech/crypto)
- 06/16/02 - molecules with silly names - A collection of hilariously named molecules, compounds and elements. Highlights include Fukalite, Fucitole, Vomicine, Crapinon, Spamol, Windowpane and many many more. (bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/silly/sillymols.htm)
- 06/15/02 - x-number world - All the calculator resources your heart desires. This site covers the history of calculating devices from mechanical devices, to electronic calculators of more modern times. Also check out there collection of online calculators. (dotpoint.com/xnumber)
- 06/14/02 - eeggs.com - A massive collection of Easter Eggs from computers, movies, books and more. The top 25 have some cool ones (weighted somewhat stronly towards movies though). (eeggs.com)
- 06/13/02 - webelements - A web-based periodic table of the elements with a bunch of information about each element. (www.webelements.com)
- 06/12/02 - gallery of fluid dynamics - A nice collection of images of Aurora Borealis, Waves, Vortices and more. The site comes complete with links to explanations of how it all works. (www.eng.vt.edu/fluids/msc/gallery/gall.htm)
- 06/11/02 - png transparency test - How well does your browser handle .png images? If you're using IE, my guess is that it doesn't do so well. Might I suggest a better browser? (entropymine.com/jason/testbed/pngtrans)
- 06/10/02 - return of the dorks - This is what happens when Late Night talk show hosts decide to make fun of Star Wars fans lined up to see Attack of the Clones. (people.bu.edu/lypham/triumph_starwars.wmv)
- 06/09/02 - dna from the beginning - An animated primer on the basics of DNS, genes, and heredity. Accessible to the uninitiated, and still interesting to the scienfically inclined. (dnaftb.org)
- 06/08/02 - yes & no - A dyseductional flash movie about driving. (koti.mbnet.fi/at3/flash/ajokoulu.swf)
- 06/07/02 - indie game jam - What do you get when you stick 14 game developpers and stick them in a room for three days with the simple instruction to design a game based on thousands upon thousands of sprites? This is it. There are some pretty cool game concepts here, complete with source code under the GPL. (indiegamejam.com)
- 06/06/02 - inventors museum - Information about all sorts of inventions, from fun things like the Frisbee, to a variety of medical inventions, a timeline of space exploration, and much more. Try you hand and the trivia, and discover just how little you know. (inventorsmuseum.com)
- 06/05/02 - the slug site - A site devoted to one of nature's most striking creatures, the slug. For over 6 years they have presented a different slug every week, you'll find scores of beautiful pictures of slugs from around the world along with a quick fact sheet for each. Who knew there was so much to learn about slugs? (slugsite.tierranet.com)
- 06/04/02 - t-shirt hell - An hilarious collection of offensive clothing. As I'm sure my taste in offensive clothing differs signifficantly from yours, I will simply suggest you peruse the site, as I'm sure you will find something that tickles your fancy, or your baby's, or maybe your dog's. They also provide free offensive email addresses. (tshirthell.com)
- 06/03/02 - the popcorn fork - The most unique eating utensil since the Dark Ages. The most useful tool for everyone out there who has trouble eating popcorn. (popcornfork.com)
- 06/02/02 - inside david's head - A big collection of MPEGs of MRI scans of David Coppit's head. He also has some other goodies at his site, such as LaTeX tips, a collection of code snippets and a collection of cool Windows crashes. (coppit.org/brain)
- 06/01/02 - hexxagon - Back in 1992 Argo Games released Hexxagon, a game similar to Othello or Reversi, and addictive as hell. Now you can play a flash version online, complete with the cool graphics and sounds. Well, not quite all of them (I miss the exploding lightbulb), but it's still quite fun to play. (neave.com/webgames/hexxagon/game.html)
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