Plurib.us

An up-to-date global polution map produced by an ESA satellite.

esa.int/esaCP/SEM340NK...

Yelp, from a co-creator of paypal.  Interesting.  I think.  I never really understood what friendster was about, so I don't really know.  Someone should try it out, though, and include me in the ask list.  I probably won't have an answer.  (Although this kind of stuff is why it's so hard to have a public e-mail address and a personal e-mail address.)

theregister.co.uk/2004/10/13/vir...
yelp.com/

The internet is rife with various drinking games.  Television is rife with presidential debates.  Obvious synergy!

Take a sip if. . .
-John Kerry dribbles a basketball loudly during one of Bush's responses.
-George W. Bush somehow sets his hair on fire by taking a drink of water.
-George W. Bush pronounces spaghetti "pah-sketti".
-John Kerry calls a timeout to eat an entire huckleberry pie.
-John Kerry squirts blood out of his eyes to frighten away a predator.

somethingawful.com/articles.php?a...

A study on living without the internet.

csmonitor.com/2004/1004/p11s...

A measure of how well I'm doing at work.  We're about half way there, I'd say.  A good read anyway, if you're into software development.

allinthehead.com/retro/228

The Soros Blog.  (Updated daily.)
georgesoros.com/index.cfm?Fuse...

Some company is going to put RFID tags on their products, and they don't want anyone to know about it.  I'm haven't been paying much attention to the RFID controversy in general, but perhaps it's time I started.

spychips.com/press-releases...
nocards.org/
(via theregister.co.uk/2004/09/30/rfi...)

India recently launched a satellite that will broadcast educational programs to its people.

newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?...

First, review realultimatepower.net/index3.htm

Then:

Lutherans can absolve anyone they want!  Lutherans absolve people ALL the time and don't even think twice about it.  These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time.  I heard that there was this Lutheran who was drinking beer at the pub on Sunday.  And when some guy dropped a spoon the Lutheran absolved the whole town.

ms.uky.edu/~jstrodtb/luth...
(via my dad, via the Calvinists.)

SHOW TUNES 1, FUNDAMENTALISTS 0.

Preacher Lady: “I got freedom of speech! And GOD TELLS ME THAT THE GAY DEVILS ARE CONTROLLING NEW YORK.”

Me: (standing up) “If you do not cease and desist fouling the air with homophobia, I must sing . . . SHOW TUNES.”

livejournal.com/users/koaloha/...
(via MetaFilter.com)

You could look at Superbad.com for an hour and still have no idea what it was for or how it got there.  Love it.

superbad.com

"This Is The Title Of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times In The Story Itself."

triplette.com/by_david_moser...

Facts I did not know about the planet Mercury:
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040912....

Also, the Mars Global Surveyor has been orbiting Mars for 7 years today;  and today they offer this detailed animation of the planet in full.
msss.com/mars_images/mo...

The Weblog Review:  A site that reviews weblogs.

Onto the blog itself. I found the entries to be very easy to read. All of them talk about what is going on in "petite anglaise's" life with a focus on Mr. Frog and a Tadpole (read significant other and child). None of the entries really struck out at me as a "Wow I gotta read this site", but after reading several posts I was hooked in.

Sample: theweblogreview.com/review/2747/

How much can fit in a square tea-bag?  A seemingly simple question, but it turns out to be quite the question.  [Warning: Math.]  ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junk...

Mpls light rail ridership is still way up.

startribune.com/stories/368/49...

Mars passes behind the sun today, and it will come out the other side in 11 days.

jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mer/i...

No one really knows the precise rotation speed of Saturn.  Cassini is measuring ~1% slower than Voyager 2 measured 23 years ago.

the solution may be tied to the fact that Saturn's rotational axis is nearly identical to its magnetic axis. Jupiter, with a more substantial difference between its magnetic axis and its rotational axis, shows no comparable irregularities in its radio rotation period.

nasa.gov/mission_pages/...

Those of you who are interested in Transformers will probably want to build your own out of paper:

protoformproject.com/Paperformers/P...

The future shall bring a new era of thirst-quenching:  Mountain Dew Pitch Black.

bevnet.com/news/2004/08-0...

The Art of Casting Spells.  (from the Psychic Journal)

kajama.com/archives/99102...

My hair is lame:

tansbarbers.freeservers.com/photographs/de...

Supplies arriving at the International Space Station:

antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040824....

attached view: spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images...

File sharing, file sharing, file sharing.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technolog...

Chris has persuaded me that having a random generator is like having an intuitive and extensive knowledge of a poorly-editted copy of "Chaos Theory for Dummies."

Having said that, random sidekicks have never fought crime more successfully.

He's a bookish umbrella-wielding firefighter in a wheelchair. She's a chain-smoking communist vampire in the wrong place at the wrong time. They fight crime!

black-ink.org/fightcrime.htm

Just a cool home-brewed astronomy page.  The pictures are cool, and the explanations are well written.

moonglow.net/ccd/pictures/o...

Jason vs. Freddy was an anomoly, or so I hoped.  The new Alien vs. Predator certainly led to a bunch of computer games, but its Hollywood debut demands the following chart of Supervillian Showdowns:

defectiveyeti.com/images/showdow...

Freaky perspective of a solar eclipse:
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990830....

And "anticrepuscular rays".  I finally have a name to go along with an amazing atmospheric visual experience I had recently.  (Note: in this picture, the camera is turned *away* from the sun - not toward it.)
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap011030....

Saturn update:  Cassini is hearing lightning on Saturn; and Titan glows in infrared.

saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-rel...
(Titan pic: saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gs2.cg...)

And the Mars rovers are wearing out, but they're still sending back some mean pics.

Spirit: jpl.nasa.gov/images/mer/200...
Opportunity: jpl.nasa.gov/images/mer/200...

When I was a kid, I figured this whole scheme out myself using trial and error -- and in Mega Man, it's just about impossible to get many of the combinations just by playing.  I was extremely proud of my work, and submitted it to Nintendo Power.  They totally ignored my genious.

Now, all I have are my porely written notes from the time, and not a coherent write-up.  Fortunately someone else has done the same, and laid it out plainly for all.

mmhp.net/Passwords/Pass...