October 16, 2005

Fountain phoon. Mountain phoon. Underwater phoon with an aqualung. Phoon in an underground cave. Village Chief phoon. Omo Masalai skeleton dance phoon. Military phoon. French phoon. Naboo phoon. Moon phoon! Goddam penguin phoon. Halloween phoon. More phoons than you can shake a stick at. Uh, what the hell is a phoon?

October 14, 2005

I Fuckin' KNEW it: Smoking Dope makes your brain cells grow. Maybe.

October 09, 2005

The 29 Healthiest Foods on the Planet - A "healthy food hot list" consisting of the 29 foods that will give you the biggest nutritional bang for you caloric buck, as well as decrease your risk for deadly illnesses like cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Along with each description is a suggestion as to how to incorporate these power-foods into your diet. Feel free to add your own tips on healthy fooooooood.

October 08, 2005

25 Words That Can Hurt Your Résumé - The most successful job seekers list specific accomplishments in their résumés instead of vague, stereotypical claims. This article describes the sorts of things to look out for in your existing resume & will help you avoid sterile and empty generalisations. more inside

October 05, 2005

Dolphin taught to sing the 'Batman' theme - beat that, chimps. more inside

October 02, 2005

What's the ugliest part of your body? What's the ugliest, part of your body, oh-oh, some say your nose, some say your toes but I don't think it's your mi-iind. The synapse revealed. I think it's my new desktop.

October 01, 2005

CSS 2.1 selectors, Part 1 "Among the first things you learn when you start out with CSS are selectors. Selectors are a fundamental part of CSS, but few developers use them to their full potential. Learning how to use the full range of CSS selectors available in CSS 2.1 properly can actually help you keep your HTML a lot cleaner. It will let you minimise unnecessary use of the class attribute and the need for adding extraneous div and span elements to the markup."

September 26, 2005

Gerin oil (or Geriniol to give it its scientific name) is a powerful drug which acts directly on the central nervous system to produce a range of characteristic symptoms, often of an antisocial or self-damaging nature. Geriniol intoxication has been responsible for the most barbarous and violent events in history. Learn more about Gerin oil and how to avoid it's use.

September 23, 2005

Web-Developer's Handbook - A billion links. This am good. Via Bifurcated Rivets

September 21, 2005

Opera Browser Wiki: Now that Opera is free and more monkeys probly want to try it out, here is the Wiki that gives you the good guts on tweaking and tips on getting the most out of the thing.

September 18, 2005

God: A Career Retrospective - this might explain a few things.

September 14, 2005

The Telecrapper 2000 identifies & intercepts telemarketer calls, then ensnares the caller in a software-driven 'virtual conversation' using a script that plays a series of WAV files. The entire conversation is recorded for later amusement. Here's a FLASH rendition of the kind of recording the Telecrapper will make of such an interchange. more inside

September 12, 2005

Lyons & Co., an Electronic History - a very British institution that sadly fell to the recession in the late 70's. I came to the UK in '78 as a wee nipper and caught the last of this company - it seemed the name was everywhere in quiet little village shops, tea shops in the towns, on tv, and on posters thru' London. Lyons even had the first business computer evar! Lyons Maid! Lyons Tea! Then it was gone. more inside

September 11, 2005

Reverse Dictionary gives a list of words and phrases based on the user's input descriptive terms. Can't think of a word, but know what it means? Reverse Dictionary probably can help.

September 10, 2005

Real-Time HTML Editor

September 09, 2005

How to Build a Pykrete Bong - Pykrete is an incredible substance that has the strength of something like concrete and the malleability of ice, plus it melts verrrrrry sloooooowwwwly. Some of you might recall a WW2 story about Louis Mountbatten chucking a lump of pykrete at Winston Churchill's knob in the bath. Here's how to make a bong out of it. Pykrete, not Winston's knob. more inside

September 08, 2005

Flying Spaghetti Monster - The Game In this game, you are the FSM and you must convert as many people into Pastafarians as you can before time runs out by deploying your noodly appendage. Watch out for the darkly clad school administrators! Requires FLASH more inside

September 03, 2005

Only New Zealand could bring us the Fartaphone The Fartaphone fart recording key chain. Drop your guts into the pocket sized air biscuit recorder and play the roar from the rear right back. Now you need never lament the loss of a lort, window rattler or honker, as the Fartaphone saves your trouser twangs and guffs for posterity. From frits to flutter blasts, the Fartaphone is your botty burp's best friend. Rumblers, room-clearers, rip-snorters, pocket-frogs, chuffs, beefers and parps, the Fartophone can capture the lot.

September 01, 2005

Dictator of the Month presents dictators from leading to least, consumate to crap. They're all here, folks: the oppressors, autocrats, despots, monarchs, potentates and tyrants of the world since 1900 (because adding *all* of them since the beginning of recorded history would probably be a bit of a tough task). "Biographies and picture galleries of both historical and current leaders- from the more obscure Maumoon Gayoom of the Maldives to the most notorious like Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union." Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov, otherwise known as Turkmenbashi, was dictator of the month January 2005. No doubt he'll swing round again because, well, he's just so fucking crazy.

August 29, 2005

Map of Native American Tribes - and another you can click to zoom in on. more inside
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