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Food for the grey mush inside your skull

Reference

• Wikipedia
  • http://en.wikipedia.org
  • All human knowledge is there and some of it is slightly wrong. So edit it.
• Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
  • http://1911encyclopedia.org
  • No longer restricted by copyright: full text online at the above address
  • UPDATE: Not the edifying, altruistic enterprise that I had thought it was originally. Worth a look, but don't rely on accurate scans, and expect to be restricted by "copyright" if you use the material there, despite the out-of-copyright status of the source material.
• Google Maps
  • http://maps.google.com
  • Better than Multimap because it lets you mouse-drag the map
  • Some interesting places
• Google Earth
  • http://earth.google.com
  • Big and round
• The Internet Archive
  • http://www.archive.org/
  • Includes the Wayback Machine
• Metafilter
  • http://ask.metafilter.com/
  • "Querying the hive mind"
  • Ask any question, and the hive will answer

Technology

• Slashdot
  • http://slashdot.org/
• The Shakespeare Programming Language
  • http://shakespearelang.sourceforge.net/report/shakespeare/shakespeare.html
  • This really deserves to go in the Ostrich section too.
• Mozilla
  • http://www.mozilla.com
  • Firefox is a better, more secure web browser than Internet Explorer. Thunderbird is a better, more secure email client than Outlook Express. They're nicer to use, they're open-source, they make you feel all warm inside and they are not Borg.
• HTML Reference
  • http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40
• Cool Text
  • http://cooltext.com
  • A great, free, no-nonsense logo/button generator
• Makezine.com
  • http://www.makezine.com
  • "Technology on your time"
• Instructables.com
  • http://www.instructables.com/
  • Hacking
• Diylive.net
  • http://www.diylive.net/
  • More hacking
• Lifehacker.com
  • http://lifehacker.com/
  • Yet more hacking
• Flow
  • http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/
  • An unusual game. Play online in a Flash window. Very relaxing.
• Software Antipatterns
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_antipatterns
• Warm Bodies and the Mythical Man-Month
  • Interesting reading for anyone working on a project in a large organisation
  • First read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
  • and then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_body
  • Key points (which apply not only to software development):
    • "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."
    • "You cannot make a baby in a month by impregnating nine women."
• Phreaking
  • Interesting and funny. I especially like the Captain Crunch thing.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking
• Chumby
  • Chumby
  • Chumby
• Fonts
  • http://www.highfonts.com/freefonts.asp?f=0
• Mapulator
  • http://www.mapulator.com
  • Does a traceroute and plots its path on a Google map. Can trace from your own PC if you have Java enabled, otherwise traces from the mapulator server.

Language

• The Shavian alphabet
  • http://www.saytheword.org.uk/shavian
  • http://stbride.org/friends/conference/temporarytype/sixnewletters
• British National Corpus of British English (BNC) - simple search page
  • http://sara.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/lookup.html
  • Free of charge, but limited to first 50 records found. Good but slow.
• Truthiness, a word for our age
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness
• Leonese, the language of the Kingdom of Leon. Perhaps I should make an effort.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonese_language
• Silva Rhetoricae
  • http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm
  • A good glossary of rhetorical devices

Media

• Radio 4
  • Home page or Listen live
• Staplerfahrer Klaus
  • http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=9065294514717353885
• Online image resources
  • http://www.alamy.com
  • http://images.google.com

Outdoors

• Geocaching
  • http://www.geocaching.com

Food Food

• Souperfly!
  • http://www.souperfly.co.uk
• Allrecipes
  • http://www.allrecipes.com
• Epicurious
  • http://www.epicurious.com
• A Trip Inside Your Coffee Pot
  • http://www.jitterbuzz.com/coftrip.html
  • A long and interesting treatise on the different methods of brewing coffee.
• Cooking for Engineers
  • http://www.cookingforengineers.com
  • Cooking for the analytical
• Farmers' Markets
  • http://thefoody.com/regions/centralfm.html
• The Chorleywood Bread Process
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_Bread_Process
  • A good reason to get a breadmaker
• Leon. I walked into this health-food fastfood eatery (on a night of bibulousness, in search of stickers bearing my name) and sniffed the nicest restaurant I have ever sniffed. I want to live there. This chain deserves the universe: I want to see all McDonalds, Burger Kings and KFCs replaced by Leons. Also note the brilliant Giles Coren (son of recently late genius Alan) column linked below: he spends most of the time discussing what is at the top of his head, persuading you en route that it is worthwhile taking the effort to be alive, and then at the end of the article he gets around to discussing the food. This is exactly what I was trying to do with souperfly.com. I should change my profession. Descope, descope, descope.
  • http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/giles_coren/article467479.ece
  • http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1482188,00.html

Spanner

• Anti-telemarketing counterscript
  • Fight cold callers with their own weapons!
  • http://www.xs4all.nl/~egbg/counterscript.html
  • Local copy of the English version of the counterscript, in case the original site disappears

Ostrich

• Base26
  • http://www.toxi.co.uk/p5/base26/
  • An interactive 3D graphical model of the four-letter words of the English language
• William Moulton Marston
  • http://www.discprofile.com/williammoultonmarston.htm
  • Created DISC profiling, the polygraph and Wonder Woman
• Obey Giant
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_the_Giant_Has_a_Posse
• The Kooks Museum
  • http://home.pacifier.com/~dkossy/kooksmus.html
• Jack Chick Publications
  • http://www.chick.com
  • Mental religious tracts in cartoon form. The chick.com web site reproduces in full the content of all of their mini cartoon tracts. A great way to spend a rainy afternoon. I particularly recommend Killer Storm, a copy of which a friend gave me years ago, before the internet was born. I have been searching for more of this crap ever since, and now my prayers have been answered.
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• Halfbakery
  • http://www.halfbakery.com
• The Terrible Secret of Space
  • We are the Space Robots. Pushing will protect you.
  • Local copy - best because it fills your browser window
  • Internet source
  • From an old November 2006 version of the Wikipedia article on SomethingAwful.com (this part now deleted):
    • The Terrible Secret of Space is an Internet meme that originated in an instant message prank in 2000 by Richard Kyanka.
      Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
      
      Kyanka told a particularly gullible young ICQ user, Corn_Boy, that he was building "space robots" to assist humans and protect them from the mysterious space secret (which, appropriately, was only vaguely explained). These included a pusher robot that was programmed to shove, and a shover robot that was programmed to push. Kyanka made a reference to an earlier incident in which a prototype robot malfunctioned and pushed his grandmother down the steps. Later in the prank, Kyanka posed as one of the robots and chatted with Corn_Boy, making references to having pushed "GRANDMA" down the stairs. Kyanka soon "returned", and appeared confused and surprised when Corn_Boy insisted that the robot was the same one that had malfunctioned. Allegedly, the robot soon came back into the room, and Kyanka decided to see what it wanted, leaving the keyboard. Kyanka then posed as the robot again, saying that Kyanka had "GONE DOWN THE STAIRS", and then tried to find out Corn_Boy's location so it could "help" him as well.
  • The ICQ transcript
• South Korean fan death
• Flying Spaghetti Monsterism or Pastafarianism
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_spaghetti_monster
  • Images
• http://www.ihatecilantro.com
  • The Americans call it cilantro, the rest of the world calls it coriander.
  • Has a nice Flash pie chart of what ihatecilantro.com members think coriander tastes like. Currently:
    • 42% Soap
    • 28% Other
    • 11% Rotting something
    • 08% Burnt something
    • 06% Doll hair
    • 06% Stink bugs
  • I used to hate fresh coriander because I thought it tasted like soap. Now, I still think it tastes like soap, but I enjoy it in curries and chillies. Why is that? (It still tastes horrible in salads.)
• Self-Defence with a Walking Stick
  • http://ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_barton-wright_0200.htm
• The Atholl Highlanders
  • The UK's only legal private army
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atholl_Highlanders
• Operation #4: The Art of Internal Medicine
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_books#Works_invented_by_Mark_Z._Danielewski
• http://www.thetoydecides.com/blog/?cat=1
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Hatto
• Possibly record-breaking 11,500-mile moped trip
  • http://wmuma.com/moped78/index.html

Business

• http://www.investegate.co.uk/Index.aspx?company=DGG
• http://finance.google.com/finance?q=LON%3ADGG
• http://citywire.co.uk/Shares/ShareFactsheet.aspx?InstrumentID=950
• http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk

Word

• Teratogenesis

Music

• David Munrow