This is my attempt to piece together and open most of my fragmentary bookmarks, which have been dormant and scattered over many obsolete, obscure browser files for some years. Dedicated to those artists that take offence at being what they are: entertainers, because, luckily for them, we still find them entertaining. Don't you just love gazing into these big, blinky eyes? Addictive wallpapers to emphasize the long waiting periods for each new anime episode. Keeping track of which sites anime is available through BitTorrent can be tricky. The goal of AnimeSuki.com is to provide a one stop site where you can find links to all unlicensed English anime fansubs available through BitTorrent and also providing information about uploaders and downloaders for each file, which you might not be able to find otherwise. Traditional- and flash comics. A little Ninjai, created by some professional martial artists, that does some of the serious flash stuff! What people have written and said to entertain us. Fernando Pessoa was a mastermind born in the late 1800s who fooled entire nations and important personalities into a web of fantasy and art using conventional newspapers and magazines to create a world of imaginary people, circumstances and places. Who needs the RIAA anyway? All noteworthy music is free. The #1 industrial & EBM stream on the net! These guys are so slick, it makes the music sound even better. They're quitte good given the fact they call themselves the greatest and best MP3 reviewing site in the world. We're a record label. But we're not evil. We call it "try before you buy." It's the shareware model applied to music. Here, you can listen to 304 complete MP3 albums (not 30 second snippets) from 161 artists we've personally picked. We let the music sell itself, because we think that's the best way to get you excited by it. We intentionally keep our music selection small: we'll never waste your time with mediocrity. Internet radio haven for fantasy music. Spamradio is serving up delicious helpings of spam each hour of every day to all who are hungry. Using a complex arrangement of pipes and funnels we turn the junk mail that we receive into a streaming audio broadcast that can be enjoyed from anywhere on the Internet. Aside from being the oldest online digital music community, DMusic is a hosting platform for artists. We have built website technology to allow musicians to plug their official websites in to our platform, enabling them to add far more interactive components to their website than they normally could. DMusic.com is a portal front end for all of these sites, plus the hundreds of artists who sign up for simple templated pages they can administer through some of the same tools the official websites have. The site, I think, is pretty self-explanatory. Links to fresh porn, posted every day or so. There's also a system setup to allow you to search through the back content by category. Pretty eyecandy for my desktop Klown makes some of the prettiest wallpapers in existance, licenced under a Creative Commons licence. My favorite form of art is realism, although lately I've been working to perfect what I consider the three most important aspects of a piece: 1) dynamic light 2) volume, and most importantly, 3) refined scene composition. I am hopeful that as time progresses my work will evolve to epitomize these three points. Text and photographs by: Jian Shuo Wang Andy Goldsworthy is a brilliant British artist who collaborates with nature to make his creations. Besides England and Scotland, his work has been created at the North Pole, in Japan, the Australian Outback, and in the U.S. Finally there is effidence that the girl next door does indeed look better than those damned celebs. Debart is an open source Debian GNU/Linux graphics project. Here you'll find lots of artwork focused on Debian. At Despair, we help people realize their true potential. Each of Jason Kronenwald's portraits are made entirely from chewed bubblegum on a plywood backing; no paint or dye is used. A brief and gentle introduction to the difference between command line interfaces and GUIs. All the empiric effidence to explain why cousins shouldn't marry cousins too often. While deciding what to do with his new domain, Mike typed a few lines of HTML as its home page. The site welcomed visitors with six words in a bland typewriter font: "Are you tired? Tell us why." A growing onestop resource for artists of all media, styles, and skill levels. The Hornet Archive was opened on Sep 4, 1992. It ran continuously for the next 6 years, and 16,234 files were catalogged (7.1 gigs in total). An alien done in beautifull, high-res, colored ASCII art. Things which involve me, personally or professionaly. Projects which I involve (or, when they're interesting, submerge) myself in. NoDiscipline.Net is a PHP website application that allows people to share dreams, problems, inspiration and solutions. Topics and interests are organized in categories to keep communication focussed. Sicirec is an investment company and service centre, which functions as mediator and promotor of interests between investors in ecologically sound hardwood plantations and the companies running these plantations. The rowan tree is not only magical, it's magical as well. It's funny how some of these so-called ancient tree calendars (none of which are actually older than a few decades) attribute a completely different month to the Rowan tree. This calendar seems to have settled on January/February. "Tree Calendars are extremely ancient in origin and can be traced back as far as 5000 BC. They are therefore widespread and to be found wherever the old Goddess religion left its mark. When the Celts came to these isles they would have brought with them their own version of the old truths which in time fused with the existing beliefs from a former age to form the distinct flavour that is the Celtic magical ethos." "To the Celts and many other peoples of the old world, certain trees held special significance as a fuel for heat, cooking, building materials and weaponry. In addition to this however, many woods also provided a powerful spiritual presence." "The Rowan tree was believed to be magical tree which grew red berries that were the food of the gods. These berries were so sacred that it was believed that the Gods guarded them jealously and kept them from man." By Glennie Kindred: "The Rowan (sorbus aucuparia), Mountain Ash, Quickbeam, has the ability, perhaps more than any other tree, to help us increase our psychic abilities and connections. It has a beneficial energy which will increase our abilities to receive visions and insights which in turn will increase our communication with the spirit realms." Mathematics and mathematic machines. When making software assist us in any task, this is called a software application. Arabeske Studio is a Java tool designed to help arabesque drawings. It is particularly aimed at 3D artists wishing to use complex patterns for their scene settings, including walls, parquets, windows... but can be used as a special 2D drawing tool to design original patterns. When electronic mail was first developed, it was devised for one purpose, and one purpose only: To peddle pills of Viagra. Because internet marketers love teaching others about medicine and the alphabet, the word "Viagra" is always spelled in hot, new, creative ways. For example, it might have a lower case "L" in the space where a capital "I" would go, or perhaps an "@" symbol where the letter "a" should be. After I received 80,730 different emails trying to sell viagra, I started to wonder: How many different ways are there to spell Viagra? Just Another Web mail This book covers MH, nmh, and several interfaces to them. This document defines the format of Uniform Resource Locators (URL) for designating electronic mail addresses. It is one of a suite of documents which replace RFC 1738, 'Uniform Resource Locators', and RFC 1808, 'Relative Uniform Resource Locators'. The syntax of 'mailto' URLs from RFC 1738 is extended to allow creation of more RFC 822 messages by allowing the URL to express additional header and body fields. Mb2md.pl was originally developed by Robin Whittle. It is a Perl script that takes one or more Mbox format mailbox files in a directory and convert them to Maildir format mailboxes. The following lists 101 things that one can do with the Mozilla browser component (version 1.2) that one cannot do with IE (version 6.0). I used the Windows version of IE 6.0; the list will vary slightly for the Mac version. Combine Internet Explorer's Toolbar Favorites feature and mini applications (applets) written in jscript, stamped with a "javascript:" URI scheme, and you have Favelets - a way to add features built from DHTML to your browser. Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims google, altavista, babelfish, dejanews, freshmeat, research index, slashdot and many others from the false-prophet, pox-infested heathen lands of html-forms, placing these wonders where they belong, deep in unix heartland, as god loving extensions to the shell. Fifth Toe is a selective collection of applications that use GNOME technologies. All the applications in a Fifth Toe release are stable, maintained, and conform to the GNOME Human Interface Guide ( HIG ). Here on the Fifth Toe website we have all the applications that are in the current Fifth Toe release and those applications which haven't made the release yet but are available for download. Pdf995 makes it easy and affordable to create professional-quality documents in the popular PDF file format. Its easy-to-use interface helps you to create PDF files by simply selecting the "print" command from any application, creating documents which can be viewed on any computer with a PDF viewer. Pdf995 supports network file saving, fast user switching on XP, Citrix/Terminal Server, custom page sizes and large format printing. Pdf995 is a printer driver that works with any Postscript to PDF converter. The pdf995 printer driver and a free Converter are available for easy download. Everything for the GNU-hairy hacker. Content Management Systems Plone is powerful and flexible. It is ideal as an intranet and extranet server, as a document publishing system, a portal server and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities. Even these bookmarks are composed in a formal computer language. Abstract Syntax Notation number One is a standard that defines a formalism for the specification of abstract data types. Starting with his overview of ASN.1 to his detailing of the notation and its encoding rules, and finishing with his description of ways in which ASN.1 is today used in industry, Olivier Dubuisson provides clear examples to help the reader better understand ASN.1 and its encoding rules. Readers will no doubt be delighted at having their questions answered by the material in the book. CSS2 is a style sheet language that allows authors and users to attach style (e.g., fonts, spacing, and aural cues) to structured documents (e.g., HTML documents and XML applications). By separating the presentation style of documents from the content of documents, CSS2 simplifies Web authoring and site maintenance. In about March, 2002 I was fooling around with Linux as a newbie. Apache, sendmail, all of those things were new to me then. I was also becoming ticked off at all of the free hosts that I was going through. You've all probably done something like that too. Geocities, Tripod, F2S, all of those places. Every single one of them had something wrong with them. Space limits, bandwidth limits, ads, popups, speed, all of it... I was REALLY annoyed. Well, I decided to put my site on my computer. Not too shabby! I had everything that I have always wanted! CGI, SSI, a sexy name, etc! Although it wasn't flatface.net, it was beepbeep.2y.net. Could be worse. Lifelesspeople.com is a premier free webhosting provider established in March of 2000. Since then, Lifelesspeople.com has become one of the most reliable providers of free webhosting and still maintains an advertisement free environment for all users. CSS Play is a collection of webpages that I have made that use Cascading Style Sheets to achieve some affect. Please be warned that not all pages work completely and some are just concepts. Some pages will not work in all web browsers; the best bet is to view them using a Gecko based web browser. BNF is an acronym for "Backus Naur Form". John Backus and Peter Naur introduced for the first time a formal notation to describe the syntax of a given language. BNF diagrams & and BNF definitions for some PL's. a short article that attempts to explain what BNF is, based on message <wkwwagbizn.fsf@ifi.uio.no> posted to comp.text.sgml on 16.Jun.98. Fully fledged railroad diagram drawing tool which translates grammars in EBNF to Postscript or Fig files. Easy to use with TeX. Ebnf2ps generates nice looking syntax diagrams in EPS and FIG format from EBNF specifications and from yacc, bison, and Happy input grammars. The diagrams can be immediatedly included in TeX/LaTeX documents and in texts created with other popular document preparation systems. Extended BNF brings some order to the formal definition of a syntax and will be useful not just for the definition of programming languages, but for many other formal definitions. The Java language is an object-oriented programming language created by James Gosling and other engineers at Sun Microsystems. It was developed in 1991, as part of the Green Project, and officially announced on May 23, 1995, at SunWorld; being released in November. Gosling and friends initially designed Java, which was called Oak at first (in honour of a tree outside Gosling's office), to replace C++ (although the feature set better resembles that of Objective C). Sun controls the Java specification and holds a trademark on the Java name. JavaScript is an object-oriented scripting language used in web pages. It was originally developed by Netscape Communications under the name "Mocha" and then "LiveScript" but then renamed to "JavaScript" and given a syntax closer to that of Sun Microsystems' Java language. JavaScript was later standardized by ECMA under the name ECMAScript. The current standard (as of December 1999) is ECMA-262 Edition 3, and corresponds to JavaScript 1.5. Microsoft calls their version JScript. Butterfly XML Editor is an IDE built on top of a new real-time incremental XML parsing algorithm. The editor features syntax and error highlighting, incremental validation, code completion, XSLT pipelines, and side by side DOM and source viewing. SOX is an alternative syntax for XML. It is useful for reading and creating XML content in a text editor. It is then easily transformed into proper XML. Beating typographic correctness out of (X)HTML: more than you ever wanted to know about dashes, spaces, curly quotes, and other vagaries of online typography. PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. One of Smartys primary design goals is to facilitate the separation of application code from presentation. compiler.defun provides the ability to define a block in the template and to reference this block from within itself (recursion) phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable open-source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. Based on the powerful PHP server language and your choice of MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers, phpBB is the ideal free community solution for all web sites. Think of it as a Wiki with only one page -- a single white (or whatever, use CSS) rectangle in which to jot notes, include drawings or pictures, even embed audio and video, using HTMLArea 3.0, a free in-browser WYSIWYG editor that works with Mozilla 1.4+ and Windows IE 5.5+ Use PHP to parse, process, and validate XML markup with the Simple API for XML (SAX) and Document Object Model (DOM) Email marketing program written in PHP featuring multiple file attachments, SMTP servers, CCs, BCCs, HTML messages, and word wrap, and more. It can send email via sendmail, PHP mail(), or with SMTP. Methods are based on the popular AspEmail active server component. Savant is a powerful but lightweight PEAR-compliant template system for PHP. It is non-compiling, and uses PHP itself as its template language so you don't need to learn a new markup system (c.f. comments and explanation from Harry Fuecks and Brian Lozier). It has an object-oriented system of template plugins and output filters, so it sports almost all of the power of Smarty with almost none of the overhead. Python is an interpreted, interactive programming language created by Guido van Rossum, originally as a scripting language for Amoeba OS capable of making system calls. Python is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme, Java and Ruby. DBDesigner 4 is a visual database design system that integrates database design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a single, seamless environment. DocBook is a very popular set of tags for describing books, articles, and other prose documents, particularly technical documentation. DocBook is defined using the native DTD syntax of SGML and XML. Pulling the .Net evil into the open-source haven. LABE is a web application created to administrate a centralised LDAP directory, compatible with Mozilla, Evolution and Outlook. NameFLOW directory servers contain no data but references to existing national or organisation directory servers, thus serving as a meta-directory. Gateways allow access to the Directory via the web. aldap was designed as a groupware, Web-based, central contact manager. - The first of its kind to allow users to easily and centrally manage via a web browser their company or personal contacts. ldap-abook is an LDAP based addressbook application, intended for users wishing to maintain a centralized server-based addressbook. [..]Shockingly, the results of its poll among 200 students at the Training Camp's UK residential courses reveal that developers are malodorous headbangers playing air guitar to Megadeth, Microsoft Certified professionals get their rocks off to Britney while IT directors can be found sipping the finest wines while Mozart tinkles away in the background. No stereotype-fulfilling findings there, then. [..] A central repository for all his websites, articles, tools and contact information. As we use the Web, it may not occur to us how important our vision is for navigation. Without reading any words on the page it is easy to quickly scan it and see the area that could be called "main content." When it comes to DHTML Mozilla might be less powerful than IE4 but when it comes to JavaScript it just kicks ass. The first time a saw a setter being used with a prototype of the built-in HTMLElement constructor I was just blown away. One of my first thought at that time was that this was exactly what I needed to start emulating the IE DHTML Object Model for Mozilla. This is an attempt to make Microsoft Internet Explorer more compliant when it comes to web standards. OSCOM is the international association connecting users and developers of Open Source Content Management solutions. Kupu is a 'document-centric' open source client-side editor for Mozilla, Netscape and Internet Explorer. In this paper, we will discuss ontologies and requirements in their current instantiations on the web today. We will describe some desirable properties of ontologies. We will also discuss how both simple and complex ontologies are being and may be used to support varied applications. We will conclude with a discussion of emerging trends in ontologies and their environments and briefly mention our evolving ontology evolution environment. In this paper, we will discuss ontologies and requirements in their current instantiations on the web today. We will describe some desirable properties of ontologies. We will also discuss how both simple and complex ontologies are being and may be used to support varied applications. We will conclude with a discussion of emerging trends in ontologies and their environments and briefly mention our evolving ontology evolution environment. This behavior adds support for the most powerful raster graphic format available to Internet Explorer. It is of course our all beloved PNG format I am talking about. This format can have an 8 bit alpha channel which allows the images to be semi transparent. Transparency allows images to have antialiased edges and this makes the images look more professional. Microsoft Internet Explorer does not support current standards for HTML, XHTML, and Stylesheets. As a result, the site you have requested has been configured to deliver this message instead of the page you requested. Think the web browser wars are over? Think again. World War I was dubbed ?The Great War" and "The War To End All Wars.? Alas, that was an optimistic prediction; WWII followed in short order. The browser wars are coming back, and this time the whole World Wide Web is at risk, not just a few browsers and their vendors. If your important page information is near the top of the html markup, spiders get to it sooner, and so can accessibility screen readers like JAWS (Jobs Access With Speech). Learning to construct tables that work to your advantage is a little more work, but the optimization benefits are clear IE for Windows can render PNGs - it's just that it does it badly. By default, IE does not fully support PNG transparency; it adds an ugly grey background instead. This site attempts to offer a solution for Windows IE versions 5.5 & 6. The Web Designer's Forum (WDF) is one of the Internet's premier web design discussion groups. At WDF, we welcome all topics of Web Site Development and Internet-related Graphic Design. WHAT is a loose unofficial collaboration of Web browser manufacturers and interested parties who wish to develop new technologies designed to allow authors to write and deploy Applications over the World Wide Web. phpXIedit is a web based application to edit, validate and preview XML documents. The article discusses six widely used algorithms in graphics rendering of indoor and outdoor environments, namely: quad-based static terrain, Roettger's approach to continuous levels-of-detail in terrain, real-time optimally adapting meshes, portals, BSPs and PVSs. In each case the algorithm is discussed and some aspects of implementation are considered, as well as analyize each algorithm for its application in modern graphics systems. Rich Text Editor for ASP, PHP, Cold Fusion and ASP.net End-users must write programs to control many different kinds of applications. Examples include multimedia authoring, controlling robots, defining manufacturing processes, setting up simulations, programming agents, scripting, etc. The languages used today for these tasks are usually difficult to learn and are based on professional programming languages. This is in spite of years of research highlighting the problems with these languages for novice programmers. The Natural Programming Project is developing general principles, methods, and programming language and environment designs that will significantly reduce the amount of learning and effort needed to write programs for people who are not professional programmers. These principles are based on a thorough analysis of previous empirical studies of programmers and new studies designed to discover more natural approaches to programming. This is the first modern and sensible spin on how optimization has changed over the years. The big 'gotcha' in the middle caught me by surprise. An inspiring read." Hague begins: "Are particular performance problems perennial? Can we never escape them? This essay is an attempt to look at things from a different point of view, to put performance into proper perspective." This document collects some thoughts on the tendency to totally rewrite Version 2.0 of successful software (and standards) just because the first version is perceived to be "messy" and "unmaintainable". Does this really help anybody, does it result in better systems, and when is "good enough", well, enough? Performance Factors and Tradeoffs in Configuring for Multiple Devices This file lists the codes for each country provided in ISO 3166. There are two tables: existing codes and withdrawn codes. The Library of Congress has been designated the ISO 639-2/RA for the purpose of processing requests for alpha-3 language codes comprising the International Standard, Codes for the representation of names of languages-- Part 2: alpha-3 code. Oh yes, iso-3166 and iso-639 are so obvious standards, one might think. This I thought when I tried to compile a comprehensive table for PApp. However, the actual situation is more complex: There are different versions of each standard containing different data sets that make it impossible to compile a comprehensive table that contains all the information. About Microsoft Internet Explorer exploits and security leaks. I have been saying this for a long time but now it is offical. From Yahoo News: 'The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team touched off a storm this week when it recommended for security reasons using browsers other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer.' Worried sick about the latest rash of Internet Explorer security problems? I have the perfect solution for you, one that's even better than switching to Mozilla, Firefox or Opera. Switch operating systems: Go to Linux. SANS Internet Storm Center is reporting on a new strain of IE Malware. This one targets bank customers, which in itself is nothing new. But the catch is in the way it does it: it installs a Browser Help Object (BHO) that can capture login information before it is encrypted, and 'watches for HTTPS (secure) access to URLs of several dozen banking and financial sites in multiple countries.'. A powerful method for extracting information from supposedly secure systems is side-channel attacks: cryptanalytic techniques that rely on information unintentionally leaked by computing devices. Most side-channel attack research has focused on electromagnetic emanations (TEMPEST), power consumption and, recently, diffuse visible light from CRT displays. The oldest eavesdropping channel, namely acoustic emanations, has received little attention. Our prelimary analysis of acoustic emanations from personal computers shows them to be a surprisingly rich source of information on CPU activity. By now, you may have heard that Microsoft has received a Common Criteria certification for Windows 2000 (with service pack 3) at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4. Since a bunch of people know that I work on operating system security and on security assurance, I've received lots of notes asking "What does this mean?" On this page I will try to answer the question. For the impatient the answer is: "Security experts have been saying for years that the security of the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a rigorous government certification confirming this." Since that's a pretty strong statement, bear with me while I try to explain it in plain English. rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. Summary: Like everyone else, when I first encountered tree directory systems, I thought they were a marvelous way to organize information. I've been around computers since 1983, and have staunchly struggled to keep files and directories neatly organized. My physical filing cabinet has always been a mess, but I clung to the hope that my hard disk would be perfect. Oralux hopes to facilitate access to GNU/Linux for the visually impaired. Firstly, through lowering the barrier by facilitating installation of the necessary software. At the moment, the current version offers an experienced user a quick way to have GNU/Linux working on a PC. Most modern Unix-based operating systems (e.g. Linux, MacOS X, and BSD) come with a little console-mode utility called GNU Screen. It's a powerful tool in the hands of the console warrior, a veritable Swiss Army knife of text-mode human-computer interaction. GNUstep Live CD contains a lot of software for GNUstep, a free implementation of the OPENSTEP framework (which was also the base as Cocoa in Mac OS X). Display Postscript is one of its powerful features. It includes excellent applications for RAD (GORM and ProjectCenter). SysRQ is a 'magical' key combo you can hit which kernel will respond to regardless of whatever else it is doing, unless it is completely locked up. Progeny Componentized Linux is a new way of constructing Linux distributions, built bottom-up as a set of interchangeable parts that closely track their counterpart "upstream" open-source projects, rather than top-down as a monolithic, difficult-to-change whole. The core of the platform is an implementation of the Linux Standard Base (LSB), the cross-distribution Linux standard. Above the LSB core component are a collection of components, pulled from various open-source projects and Linux distributions, to complete the feature set and create a truly unified, "cross-pollinated" Linux platform. Linux Warez Skolelinux is made as free (as in speech) software, and is an overall computer solution based on school's resources and needs. SoL - Server optimized Linux is a Linux-distribution, which is designed and optimized especially for servers.The new XML configuration- and boot-technology and its clear and straightforward design makes configuration and setup work fast and easy. DragonFly is an operating system and environment designed to be the logical continuation of the FreeBSD-4.x OS series. These operating systems belong in the same class as Linux in that they are based on UNIX ideals and APIs. DragonFly is a fork in the path, so to speak, giving the BSD base an opportunity to grow in an entirely new direction from the one taken in the FreeBSD-5 series. PHLAK is a modular live security Linux distribution. PHLAK comes with two light gui's (fluxbox and XFCE4), many security tools, and a spiral notebook full of security documentation. PHLAK is a derivative of Morphix, created by Alex de Landgraaf. A large collection of stories and anecdotes about clueless computer users. It's a baffling phenomenon that in today's society an individual, who might in other circumstances be considered smart and wise, can sit down in front of a computer screen and instantly lose every last shred of common sense he ever possessed. I have a soft spot for people who say things like "The computer revolution hasn't started yet...we're not even close to what we should have." I'm prone to agree. But when the speaker is Alan Kay, who invented a huge proportion of what we do have today, I enthusiastically grant him credence. I see two trends in progress. In one, we're continuing movement towards application-independent data storage. In the other, we're witnessing a proliferation of devices that each store the same data in a unique and incompatible way. I believe it's a time to watch developments carefully, and to be ready to move our advocacy efforts to a new arena. Used to be sort of friend during high-school, although he never took a liking of me. Activiteiten van: Ton van der Linden en Klaartje Duijm A Landrover Series IIa, turned into an offroading machine! In 1984, Winston Smith lives in London which is part of the country Oceania. The world is divided into three countries that include the entire globe: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. Oceania, and both of the others, is a totalitarian society led by Big Brother, which censors everyone?s behavior, even their thoughts. Winston is disgusted with his oppressed life and secretly longs to join the fabled Brotherhood, a supposed group of underground rebels intent on overthrowing the government. ARL is a not-for-profit membership organization comprising the leading research libraries in North America. Its mission is to shape and influence forces affecting the future of research libraries in the process of scholarly communication. ARL programs and services promote equitable access to and effective use of recorded knowledge in support of teaching, research, scholarship, and community service. The site offers you information about developing digital collections and managing networked information for the benefit of scholarship, education, and cultural progress. FAQTs.com is a growing collection of high quality information. You can browse the knowledge bases or perform specialized searches. Anyone can contribute and everyone is encouraged to do so. Fruity hand soaps, moisturizers, emulsifying lotions, pumice stones, and Loofahs don't fucking cut it. We want to cleanse ourselves with the fat of the sweet, dead pig. Here I will describe how to make your own wooden willow or maple whistle. This is almost a lost art form. All of my grand-parents knew how to make these but none of my parents know. Don't let this die with our grand-parents generation. Teach your children how to make them. The Internet Book List (IBList) was a hobby project started by Patrik Roos in early 2003. Its purpose is to provide a comprehensive and easily accessible database of books, since Patrik considers the Book to be humanity's greatest creation. A free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT's mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT's values of excellence, innovation, and leadership. My son was making soda the other night and I decided that I would explain the process for folks who don't do it. Developed by Creative Commons, the Founders' Copyright is a legal option that allows copyright holders to voluntarily release their works to the public after the period envisioned in the original 1790 US copyright law--14 years, with the option of one 14-year extension. O'Reilly will be releasing its books under the Creative Commons Attribution license, which permits others to copy and distribute work as long as they give the original author and publisher credit. On this site you will find the full and unabridged texts of classic works of English literature. Fiction from authors like Lewis Carroll, the Bronte sisters (Anne, Charlotte and Emily), Jack London, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and many others, and classic scientific works from Charles Darwin and Rene Descartes. The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts). The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. Steal This Book is, in a way, a manual of survival in the prison that is Amerika. It preaches jailbreak. It shows you where exactly how to place the dynamite that will destroy the walls. ArXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. The contents of arXiv conform to Cornell University academic standards. arXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution. ArXiv is also partially funded by the National Science Foundation. Howtoons are one-page cartoons showing 5-to-15 year-old kids "How To" build things. Each illustrated episode is a stand-alone fun adventure accessible to all, including the pre-literate. Memento is a lightweight knowledge management system based on the principles of memetics, the theory of memes. Use it to store what you've learnt, and publish what you know - just like a weblog. And naturally, to facilitate distribution of the Memento meme this project is entirely open source. Sicilian village spooked by seemingly spontaneous combustion This site aims to help you really see insects for the miniature marvels they represent and to understand how intertwined our cultures have become with these alien creatures. A9.com, Inc. researches and builds innovative technologies to improve search experience for e-commerce applications. A separately branded and operated subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., A9.com opened its Palo Alto, California, doors in October 2003. A9.com?s technology will power search on Amazon.com and other web sites. We are building an open-content encyclopedia in many languages. Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide. A collaborative project to produce a free multilingual dictionary in every language, with definitions, etymologies and pronunciations. Wiktionary is the lexical companion to the open-content encyclopaedia Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org). Cool Works is about you finding a seasonal job or career in some of the greatest places on Earth. Get a summer job in Yellowstone, Yosemite, or another national park. Find a summer job as a camp counselor. Ski resorts, ranches, theme parks, tour companies and more are waiting for you. Let Cool Works.com show you the way to live out your own amazing adventure! PickingJobs is the place to find interesting seasonal jobs abroad. As our name suggests, fruit picking features strongly but you can now also find work in the fields of organic farming, nature conservation, the environment and green and sustainable energy. Welcome to Seasonal Employment (.com)! We are here ... serving seasonal employers and job hunters! Employers, please add your company to the database AND/OR post seasonal positions using the 'Employers Enter' link below. We currently have seven categories to choose from. Job Hunters ... contact employers directly from the category of your choice! The Consciousness Research Laboratory (CRL) conducts scientific research on commonly-reported but poorly understood human experiences called "psychic" (or psi). The founder of CRL is the Laboratory Director for the Institute of Noetic Sciences, formed by Apollo 14 astronaut, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, in 1973. Welcome to my dreamworld! Inside you will learn how to control your dreams. Yes, that is really possible, and everybody can learn to do it! The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) program was established at Princeton University in 1979 by Robert G. Jahn, then Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, to pursue rigorous scientific study of the interaction of human consciousness with sensitive physical devices, systems, and processes common to contemporary engineering practice. A government, at its very best, is a conspiracy of its members. Locked in the iron grip of the Bush administration, the United States is crying out for liberation. And who better to fulfill the promise of freedom than the wholesome and resilient lasses our men have fought for? It's mere months until election day - that marvelous occasion when we finally get to send Dubya packing back to his stinking ranch, and return our nation to the greatness that is its rightful destiny. But first, we have to kick the bum out. Babes for Bush is a grassroots organization founded in late 1999. We have continually worked to spread the news that we have a leader worthy of our pride and praise. This calendar was created out of respect and passion for our president. The Atomic Veterans History Project contains over 600 personal narratives about the military duties and memories of US Servicemen who witnessed these atomic and hydrogen weapons tests. Complete 911 timeline etc. FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. How government protects big media--and shuts out upstarts like me. By Ted Turner. The Union of Concerned Scientists in a February report pointed out something the science press has known for years: The Bush administration has no respect for science. Ideologues prefer to make up the laws of nature as they go. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was created to defend our rights to think, speak, and share our ideas, thoughts, and needs using new technologies, such as the Internet and the World Wide Web. EFF is the first to identify threats to our basic rights online and to advocate on behalf of free expression in the digital age. Beginning of a story about a town [Chernobyl] that one can ride through with no stoplights, no police and no danger of hitting any living thing. An Australian man has registered a patent for a "circular transportation facilitation device" - more commonly known as the wheel. I'm an avid practicioner. This is were Hafid drills me untill it kills me. This is the only positive side-effect of smooth, modern roads. Someone has mapped the quality of the roads in the city of Gronigen. De Friday Fun Skate Groningen (FFS) is ontstaan in het uitzonderlijk mooie voorjaar van 1999. In het Noorder Plantsoen waren regelmatig skaters rond de vijver aan het slalommen of gewoon rondjes aan het rijden. Op een van die dagen kwam het idee op om in Groningen een nightskate te gaan organiseren. Want wat in Amsterdam, San Fransisco en Parijs kon, moest hier ook lukken. Korte tijd later was de eerste FFS een feit. Cleargreen is a corporation that has a twofold purpose. First, it sponsors and organizes seminars and workshops on Carlos Castaneda's Tensegrity, and second, it is a publishing house. Théun Mares, a South African author and teacher has provided confirmation of some of the teachings described by the late Carlos Castaneda. Théun's first two books, Return of the Warriors and Cry of the Eagle reveal many of the hidden meanings that readers of Castaneda have struggled for years to decipher. Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. Produce your own CD's. Mix video soundtracks. Experiment with new ideas about music and sound. Generate sound installations for 12 speaker gallery shows. Arran Frood investigates what could have been the very first batteries and how these important archaeological and technological artefacts are now at risk from the impending war in Iraq. For Dave Jakubowski, vice-president of business development for Internet service provider United Online (UNTD ) Inc., the job isn't what it used to be. Instead of an unlimited expense account and stays at the plush Chateau Marmont, the 31-year-old Manhattanite now brown-bags his lunch and stays at a Hyatt when he's in Los Angeles on business. He logs 18-hour days to help his Westlake Village (Calif.)-based company hit its quarterly sales targets of around $8 million. How to cope? Jakubowski is no breathe-like-a-tree kind of guy. "I'm in business," he says, "and I need results." So he recently turned to a mat and 60 minutes of silence. "It's amazing," he says of his new meditation practice. "I'm able to sort through work challenges in this state of calm much faster than trying to fight through it. And I make fewer mistakes." Someone is harassing myself and my family. They are engaging in cyber crimes to do so. My family has been through enough. I'm shutting this website down. This is CPTech's collection of clauses gleaned from software EULAs (End User Licence Agreements) and internet TOS (Terms of Service) contracts -- commonly called "shrinkwrap" and "clickwrap" agreements. Because software publishers and the providers of internet-based services often change contractual terms without notice, each clause is dated and hyperlinked (if possible). Cogent Systems, Inc. is the world's leading supplier of integrated system solutions using biometrics for both goverment and commercial customers. "Words are the natural evolutionary product of the functioning of the brain. The forms of individual words are not arbitrary but directly derived from and related to the meaning of the words." In November 2002, a telemarketer called my home in D.C. at 5:24 a.m. This is the story of how that call cost him $500. Welcome to the home of the Quit Slashdot movement. (Well, it's a small movement.) Anyway, here's my humble list of materials to help you quit Slashdot: One of the great questions of contemporary American political economy is, who shall control the commons? "The commons" refers to that vast range of resources that the American people collectively own, but which are rapidly being enclosed: privatized, traded in the market, and abused. The process of converting the American commons into market resources can accurately be described as enclosure because, like the movement to enclose common lands in eighteenth-century England, it involves the private appropriation of collectively owned resources. At least 5,000 racial, ethnic, linguistic and cultural groups are lumped together into only 189 nation states. Most of the world's violent conflicts are related to struggles for dominance within or independence from some large, multi-national nation state. A large percentage of the world?s people (especially in populous India, China, Indonesia and Africa) would choose to secede from their respective nation states if given the opportunity. I am sure this is a first. The President of India has urged Indian IT Professionals to develop and specialise in OSS rather than Windows. "Writers get attached to the implement that puts words from head and heart on paper. Hemingway favored carpenter pencils for his drafts. Possibly only a blunt pencil lead would bear the vitality of words flowing from his fingertips. More recently, amid PCs on Everyperson's desktop, Northwest novelist David James Duncan noted his lengthy The Brother's K was lovingly crafted on a typewriter. Often individualistic, writers must feel free to accept or refuse new writing technology and answer only to their muse." The right to read is a battle being fought today. Although it may take 50 years for our present way of life to fade into obscurity, most of the specific laws and practices described above have already been proposed; many have been enacted into law in the US and elsewhere. In the US, the 1998 Digital Millenium Copyright Act established the legal basis to restrict the reading and lending of computerized books (and other data too). The European Union imposed similar restrictions in a 2001 copyright directive. Waypath was conceived to enhance the weblog community by providing new ways to connect people and content. It also serves as a showcase for development going on at TT23 Labs. Imagine that you are afraid of a knock on the door. Imagine that the knock could be the police, coming in secret to interrogate you. Imagine that they can demand you decrypt files for them, and demand you tell them your code keys, even to get evidence to use against you. In effect, they can force you to testify against yourself, and it is a crime to refuse... This is a label for chosen music we call deconstructed. We build structures out of fragments to compose new emotions.