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Nifty portrait-orientation business card design
balance one ball while keeping another in the air (like breakout) - clever
Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? It’s because it gets you high. They took the cocaine out almost a hundred years ago. You know why? It was redundant.
Open source project: renders the screensaver of your choice on your desktop.
Strat Wars is a cinematic 3D screensaver in the grand space opera style. For Windows or OS X.
How to wrap various things in fabric for carrying or shipping.
Public domain music made freely available as PostScript, PDF, and LilyPond files.
Linguistic Agents flagship product is an intelligent command engine that bridges Natural Language (e.g. English) and Computer Language, enabling machines to understand and act upon normative human language.
Blog by "Old Bag": daily index card scans showing interesting intersections and correlations.
Neurophilosopher's typically enlightening fare, this time on olfaction (that's smell for those of you who went to VA Tech).
For the CAP member in the family...
I know what you're thinking.
Yes. It is.
Rules for a six-sided dice game involving bidding and bluffing. Seems pleasantly fast-paced and noisy. Perfect as a go-anywhere game or a break from other, longer games.
Variants of fungi called CORDYCEPS alter an insect's brain so it climbs up as far as it can. Then the fungus grows from the insect's corpse. VERY creepy. This is an excellent mechanism for regulating the size of the insect population.