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1015085  Link to this entry 
Written about Friday 2008-02-29
Written: (5925 days ago)

Infrequently Asked Questions by Donald Knuth
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/iaq.html

1014852  Link to this entry 
Written about Thursday 2008-02-28
Written: (5927 days ago)

Killing Us Softly 3 - Advertising's Image of Women
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1993368502337678412

Pretty basic stuff, but well narrated and rich with examples. Half an hour.

1005554  Link to this entry 
Written about Friday 2008-01-18
Written: (5968 days ago)
Next in thread: 1005593, 1005602
1002685  Link to this entry 
Written about Thursday 2008-01-03
Written: (5982 days ago)

Incredibly cute, I think: http://www.cdolivet.net/editarea/editarea/exemples/exemple_full.html

(Er, OK. Maybe I have an unconventional understanding of "cute".)

998082  Link to this entry 
Written about Monday 2007-12-10
Written: (6006 days ago)
Next in thread: 998096, 998143, 998177

The Fine Art of Fidgeting by Andrea: http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/the-fine-art-of-fidgeting/

And, just for fun and completely unrelated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9vujyArcG4
(I couldn't believe those were the original lyrics at first)

990031  Link to this entry 
Written about Wednesday 2007-11-07
Written: (6040 days ago)
Next in thread: 990102

Information R/evolution http://youtube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM
A Vision of Students Today http://youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

Brilliant videos. Sound not required.

And their website: http://www.mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/

985610  Link to this entry 
Written about Monday 2007-10-22
Written: (6055 days ago)
Next in thread: 985642, 985650, 985679

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

3700 so far... Studying biology and reading dictionaries and Snape-centric fanfiction seems to help quite a bit ;)

984339  Link to this entry 
Written about Wednesday 2007-10-17
Written: (6061 days ago)
984251  Link to this entry 
Written about Tuesday 2007-10-16
Written: (6061 days ago)
983191  Link to this entry 
Written about Friday 2007-10-12
Written: (6066 days ago)
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982680  Link to this entry 
Written about Wednesday 2007-10-10
Written: (6068 days ago)
Next in thread: 982796

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/launchpad/launchball/

A Flash game. Comfortable interface, cute little puzzles, science trivia as a bonus :)

982049  Link to this entry 
Written about Sunday 2007-10-07
Written: (6070 days ago)

http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2007/06/02/the-words/

Unlike my previously entry, this one doesn't require any familiarity with csh :)

982033  Link to this entry 
Written about Sunday 2007-10-07
Written: (6070 days ago)

http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/

".. after I took the screenshot of myself being attacked by csh, csh was shot by friendly fire .."

P.S. You know what csh is, don't you?

973972  Link to this entry 
Written about Friday 2007-09-07
Written: (6100 days ago)
Next in thread: 973974

http://xkcd.com/

My kind of webcomic ;)

968069  Link to this entry 
Written about Saturday 2007-08-18
Written: (6121 days ago)

http://users.california.com/~mcmf/ts202a.html
http://users.california.com/~mcmf/ts203a.html

"Altruism, Pity and Compassion: Significant (and ignored) differences" by W. Teed Rockwell

It's longish but clever and it makes a lot of sense to me...

965459  Link to this entry 
Written about Thursday 2007-08-09
Written: (6129 days ago)
929992  Link to this entry 
Written about Saturday 2007-04-14
Written: (6247 days ago)

http://home.netcom.com/~cowdery/command.htm

Possibly offensive to those who don't believe in smiling at some aspects of religion, among other things.

905064  Link to this entry 
Written about Wednesday 2007-01-31
Written: (6320 days ago)
Next in thread: 905075

http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=61

"The Meaning of Power" by Amanda Baggs. Btw, everything else she's written is worth reading too.

903709  Link to this entry 
Written about Saturday 2007-01-27
Written: (6323 days ago)
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