Lunar Magic: Level Editor for Super Mario World. more inside

The Idiots Guide To... Australia, Great Britain, The Soviet Union, France, Japan, and The USA. (Flash) more inside

Froogle. Smart shopping through Google. more inside

X. (flash) more inside

A brief history of Hip-Hop, told in album covers. more inside

"The bottom line is that he was there at the beginning of so much cool stuff in so many different areas it's not funny". Glen E. Friedman, considered one of the most important photographers of his generation, became well known for working with such rebellious artists as Fugazi, Black Flag, Ice-T, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, Misfits, Bad Brains, Beastie Boys, Run-D.M.C, KRS-1, and Public Enemy, as well as old school skateboarders like: Tony Alva, Jay Adams, Alan "Ollie" Gelfand, Duane Peters, and Stacy Peralta, among others.

The Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, London, the largest Hindu temple outside India. more inside

Turning The Tide. Noam Chomsky has a weblog.

Bow, nigger. "Bow, nigger." he typed. I kind of hunched uncomfortably over the keyboard at that point. Not that I should've taken offence, really. For one thing, my screen name has nothing to do with my ethnicity and for another, it's only a game and the fascist doing the typing is probably hundreds of miles away and far beyond anything you could call an actual influence on my life. But still... It's not very nice is it? What to do? more inside

Hello Cthulhu more inside

Has the turing test finally been passed? As the BBC, The Register and New Scientist report, "paedophiles attempting to "groom" children in internet chatrooms can now be detected by a computer program". This program can successfully imitate an 8-year old child, and can then alert the authorites once it detects signs of paedophile activity. The software is the work of ChatNannies, an organisation dedicated to making chat rooms safer places for children. NannieBot is the first AI construct to effortlessly pass the 'Turing Test', after more than 13 hours of conversation the AI was still undiscovered!. more inside

Meet my parent's old neighbor, Crazy Tammy. She's been gone from the neighborhood for about nine months now, hopefully getting the treatment she so sorely needed. From what I understand, and from what others have told me, Crazy Tammy is a textbook case of paranoid schizophrenia. We would have never known about her terrible mental problem if she hadn't advertised her insane views on giant sheets of cloth hung from her fence. more inside

A Break In The Road. "It's a different way, and hopefully an exciting way, of looking at gaming." (Flash, and also requires sound to play) more inside

v-2 Organisation. From day one, v-2 more inside