Plurib.us

Science tells us what sorts of flavors please horses:

Horses prefer fenugreek, banana and cherry-flavored feed to all other flavors, according to one of the most detailed studies yet on horse flavor preferences.

dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20...

Photo cluster:

Box of Sloths!

cultofdegan.com/images/costari...

If you have Quicktime, you can share my local Happy New Year!

panoramas.dk/new-year-2006/...

A Firefox quirk/hack that needs to be exposed for what it is:  a hideous non-interface that has no right to exist.  (Browser in a tab)

first section here:
cow.neondragon.net/index.php/415-...

or type this in Firefox:
chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

Interesting after-effect of Google's 5% AOL purchase:  IM is going somewhere.

arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/...

(If you're confused, this analogy should clear things up: )

The situation is reminiscent of a Star Trek Next Generation episode where the eccentric ambassador Spock goes to Romulus in order to end the age-old conflict that separated the Vulcan and Romulan people.

Surprising stats on Nintendo DS sales.
news.com.com/Nintendo+DS+sa...

Besides advanced video games with sophisticated graphics and realistic actions, Nintendo focuses on games for women, adults and seniors--traditionally noncore segments for game makers--in a bid to expand the overall game-playing population.

New and improved, ajaxy Shrub of Conciousness:

plurib.us/shrubofconscio...

Neat fluid line drawing that tracks your mouse movements.  (needs Java)
eigelb.at/HP/Links/Speci...

This page is unbelievable.  You don't even have to scroll.  Just hold your mouse in one place and click when you see something interesting.  It's like an internet reading video game.  (After loading, give it a minute to start changing.)

digg.com/spy

Kittenwar is the reason for the internet.

kittenwar.com/

Just click on the cutest kitten!  Why waste your time doing anything else?

Setellite image of UK smoke:
esa.int/esaEO/SEMTBYVL...

Killer whales' blubber contains "pesticides, flame retardants and PCBs".  ewww.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/n...

If famous poets and dramatists wrote pieces using anagrams of their names as titles:  (Whole book!  CC licensed!)

LIKABLE WILMA
WILLIAM BLAKE

Wilma, Wilma, in thy blouse,
Red-haired prehistoric spouse,
What immortal animator
Was thy slender waist’s creator?

yarnivore.com/francis/Holy_T...

Some convincing evidence that the EFF is totally nuts.  (Funny, URL, but not title, named "EFF needs to die".)

theregister.co.uk/2005/12/06/eff...

Unrelated internet things:

The first video game, from 1958 (surprisingly cool, needs real player):
bnl.gov/bnlweb/history...

Firefox or IE street poll video (Mostly because of the soundtrack, this video made me happy.  Needs QT.)
rocketboom.com/vlog/archives/...

Funny story of how the Apple "command" symbol came to be:
folklore.org/StoryView.py?p...

The tallest building in the world is also very pretty.

emporis.com/en/il/im/?id=3...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation completely gives up on the US copyright office's competency.  Perhaps the EFF is a little too sane for its own good.

business.newsforge.com/business/05/12...

Story, layer by layer, of the weather on Saturn's moon titan, all from readings from a single falling probe.

newscientist.com/article.ns?id=...

Every so often, I come across one of those websites where the owner has developed a Grand Unified Theory Of All Things, Including Plans For Protective Hats.  With article titles like, "Please Make the UN Do Its Job to counter mind control," and "Light energy, genes, and mind control projects controlling powerful family lines," it sounds like it would be hard to argue with these people.

rhfweb.com/

Firefox 1.5 is out.
mozilla.com/firefox/

A lesser known (and at this point totally unutilized) feature of Firefox 1.5 is its support for SVG (scalable vector graphics) files like these:

openclipart.org/clipart/animal...
openclipart.org/clipart/animal...

Interesting all-in-one music program.  Built on top of some Firefox code (XUL), some development affiliation with WinAmp.  Out in December.

songbirdnest.com/

World Digital Library.
... has a nice ring to it.

publicknowledge.org/news/breaking/...

A little insight on the "mouse hover" interface phenomenon.  (The web introduced it to the desktop.  Never thought of it that way.)

looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com/2005/11/musing...

Funny, bad hover use:
webpagesthatsuck.com/mysterymeatnav...

"Why You Should Continue to Date Me: A Series of Charts and Graphs"

culturehole.com/dateweb/index....

Everyone knows, Ladies Love Data!  (via Grow-a-brain, whom I adore.)

Vonn Cummings Sumner paints neat, neat things.

vonnsumner.com/recent.htm

Two things:
First, it's Election Day.  Go vote for local offices.  The mayor of Minneapolis left me a voice mail saying he's counting on my vote.  Have you cast your ballot yet?

Second, bad national news.
today.reuters.com/news/newsArtic...
First paragraph:

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - The U.S. government is aggressively taking action to protect Americans from terrorism but "we do not torture," President Bush said on Monday, responding to criticism of reported secret CIA prisons and the handling of terrorism suspects.

Subsequent paragraph:

Vice President Dick Cheney has been spearheading an effort on Capitol Hill to have the CIA exempt from an amendment by Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain that would ban torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners.

The exemption would cover the secret prisons that the Post said were located in several eastern European democracies and other countries where key al Qaeda captives are being kept.

As I've previously noted, this administration has already stated that Bush's election gave them a mandate to torture prisoners.  I can't remember a politician ever lying more obviously, especially over something as egregious as this.

Someone, tell me what I can do to help stop this.

Whoa.  Straight from Memepool: demonbuster.com is here to help you with all your demon-removal needs, and they will also teach you how to steer clear of dark forces.  Article titles include, "Candles - Don't Burn Them; Get Them Out Of Your Home!" and "Dish washing and demons."  And, from my favorite,

BOYCE and BOICE are two demons that interfere with any electronic equipment, i.e., phone, computer, printer, automibile.

If something malfunctions, BIND UP these two demons, and command them to leave your equipment, in the name of Jesus.

They would also like to sell you Mary Kay cosmetics.  Apparently, they haven't read my groundbreaking article, "MARY KAY IS MANUFACTURED FROM GROUND-UP DEMONS!!"

Teens relate to the internet the way I think everyone should.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technolog...

Among other highlights:

Interestingly, the teenagers who blogged (52%) were more likely to care about copyright issues than those who did not blog.

"These teens were born into a digital world where they expect to be able to create, consume, remix, and share material with each other and lots of strangers," Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, told the BBC News website.

Also, this is a pretty broad (nothing new) introduction to Open Source, but it's on the front page of BBC News.  I think we're in some kind of cultural shift.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programme...

The Game is something you should probably know about.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_...

I see a reference to it about once every 3 weeks.

I've seen stories like this [lawsuits against the general public for file sharing] used as fodder for reasoning that copyright law isn't fulfilling its original purpose anymore;  normally I just think they're appealing to our emotions, but this just seems over the top.

publicknowledge.org/news/breaking/...