Creative George: A Proposal. One thread per month to toot our own creative horns? more inside

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Rock Scissors Paper

lets you write a set of rules about how to generate an image, and then follows those rules to create a image The rules are in the form of a context free grammar, where each shape is defined to be made up of other shapes, possible rotated, scaled, and relocated. more inside

Sudoku. I knew some people in my office were into this game. But I was unaware of its massive popularity. Will Sudoku remain popular, or just a fad?

This is the disgusting, vile, anti-christ thing anti-gay rights groups are lobbying against. (Short Quicktime video) more inside

Yes, this is texas, yes this is our media, and yes, it involves a lawyer! I swore I would never do this, but, my word ain't worth much around here anyway... So, there's these TWO birds with a nest, and a baby bird falls out of the nest, and the birds are swooping down on folks near the baby bird... Happens all over the place, it's probably happened to you.... more inside

"Geograph British Isles aims to collect a geographically representative photograph for every square kilometre of the British Isles..."

BRATZAPPER: The high-tech electrical way to discipline children I think this is a hoax. I mean I really hope it's a hoax. Actually I'm fairly certain it's a hoax. Cuz it's pretty creepy. (via Museum of Hoaxes)

Patently Silly From the home page: "Necessity is the mother of invention. The father is unknown."

Shop 'til you drop! I know, I know, it's just a news story, but I just couldn't resist sharing...

Curious Careers: in search of any printable career aptitude tests I can use in the classroom. Any suggestions? more inside

Films of Coordination
Unicycling,(wma) Skateboarding, (QT)
Bicycle bouncing, (wma) Stunt Flying (wma)
(all embedded --- flying is biggest at ~6mins) Don't worry, there's no horrendous crashes in here although the faint of heart may want to take a couple of deep breaths (or valium). I just appreciate what some people can achieve - that, and it makes me feel like I've done some exercise when I watch others at 'play'![MI]

Chocolate. chocolate. chocolate. chocolate. chocolate. chocolate. chocolate. chocolate (nsfw). chocolate. chocolate. chocolate. chocolate. chocolate.

Everything you ever wanted to know about color..... and probably a lot more.

The Broadcast Flag and "Plug & Play": The FCC's Lockdown of Digital Television Thanks to an FCC ruling, as of July 2005, it will be illegal to manufacture or import DTV tuners unless they include DRM technologies mandated by the FCC. This means that DRM will be a standard feature on all future televisions, TiVos, and computers that want to interoperate with DTV content. more inside

2,443 Dirty Words (NSFW) Many of you remember Carlin's famous "10 words you can't say on the airwaves" monologue. Well, at his site he has an expanded list with such categories as male genitals, ejaculate and sexual arousal (both sexes). It's crude, potentially probably offensive, very NSFW and funny as hell if this is the type of thing you like. What are your favorite terms?

You No Longer Have Any Privacy Search yourself. Search your friends. Search your boss. Search your mom. The phrase, "I know where you live" just got a bit freakier. Via a story I heard on NPR just a bit ago. more inside

She's hitting him over the head with a bible An operations manager for Jack in the Box in Dallas was late for a meeting and called his boss to tell him he was running behind schedule. As he was leaving the voice mail message, he witnessed an accident and went on to provide "play by play" of the incident, including a man being beat over the head with a bible. Enjoy.

Belinda Stronach has jumped ship, crossed the floor, and abandoned the Canadian Conservative Party and joined the governing Liberals as a cabinet minister. Will Belinda be enough to keep her new found friends in power after Thursday's budget vote? Only David Kilgour and Chuck Cadman know for sure.