Larry's Former Pretty Good Web Log

Archive of the running log of links (not to be confused with my blog) I added to my pretty good pages in 2003.

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31 Dec 03 · · A week's worth of southeastern Arizona weather briefs, in tabular format. (added to weather)

30 Dec 03 · · Living Reviews has a large collection of in-depth articles on relativity. If you're interested. (added to science)

29 Dec 03 · · For the morbid, a database of all known nuclear weapons explosions. (added to research)

28 Dec 03 · · Need math help? Ask Dr. Math! (added to science)

27 Dec 03 · · Applications of practical Yahoo! Games. (added to fluff)

21 Dec 03 · · Applets of experimental game theory. (added to science)

20 Dec 03 · · The government has good Web useability guidelines. (added to research)

19 Dec 03 · · As a matter of fact, it isn't all relative—just most of it. (added to science)

18 Dec 03 · · Playtime! Make a sand painting or just doodle with a spirograph. (added to fluff)

17 Dec 03 · · Weather Photography: pretty things seen in the sky. (added to science)

16 Dec 03 · · A nuclear tourist may also be interested in nuclear weapons. (added to research)

15 Dec 03 · · The not so frequently asked questions about solar physics. (added to science)

14 Dec 03 · · Blow out your eyeballs with Akitaoka's illusions. (added to fluff)

13 Dec 03 · · The Solar Terrestrial Dispatch keeps track of aurora activity—so you don't have to. (added to science)

12 Dec 03 · · So just how many people have ever lived, anyway? (added to research)

11 Dec 03 · · More astronomy lecture notes. If all the others I link to aren't enough. (added to science)

10 Dec 03 · · Another source of music: iM Radio. (added to fluff)

9 Dec 03 · · Sometimes, scientists investigate useful things—like Monopoly statistics. (added to science)

8 Dec 03 · · More knowing about knowing: The Philosophy Pages. (added to research)

7 Dec 03 · · Even though they are large, there are a lot of galactic clusters out there. (added to science)

6 Dec 03 · · Have you checked a mirror site lately? (added to fluff)

5 Dec 03 · · In topology, the generalization of a string is a membrane. In theoretical physics, the generalization of string theory is M-theory. (added to science)

4 Dec 03 · · Carol Gerten's virtual art museum. (added to research)

3 Dec 03 · · The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is online. All of it. (added to science)

2 Dec 03 · · Never mind the Earth's sunlight—it's the current sunlight on Mars. How cool is that? (added to fluff)

1 Dec 03 · · The Playfair Cipher: simple to use, hard to break, delight of mystery writers. (added to science)

30 Nov 03 · · Iranian community blogging: IranFilter. (added to news)

29 Nov 03 · · Want to stargaze but can't afford the equipment? Don't worry! Here's a couple telescopes online for you can schedule and use. (added to science)

28 Nov 03 · · The Crapola Web. (added to fluff)

27 Nov 03 · · Want some more pi? (added to science)

26 Nov 03 · · The current time now. (added to research)

25 Nov 03 · · The once and future sun. (added to science)

24 Nov 03 · · The Filtered Web. (added to fluff)

23 Nov 03 · · A Cryptographic Compendium. (added to science)

22 Nov 03 · · The Glossarist has a passel of glossaries and specialized dictionaries. (added to research)

21 Nov 03 · · Oh, the embarrassment of having ring around the planet. (added to science)

20 Nov 03 · · Radio Paradise online. (added to fluff)

19 Nov 03 · · World-wide webs of string figures. (added to science)

18 Nov 03 · · Sarlcmbe yuor txet. (added to fluff)

17 Nov 03 · · World airport codes. So when your luggage gets misrouted to AEY, you know where it's gone. (added to research)

16 Nov 03 · · Runecasting. (added to fluff)

14 Nov 03 · · Another repository of astrophysical articles, written for the non-specialist. (added to science)

13 Nov 03 · · More 'Net music, broadcast from Radioio. (added to fluff)

12 Nov 03 · · News of the north: Canada.com. (added to news)

11 Nov 03 · · Steganography is the technique of hiding a file inside another, innocuous file. Like, say, coding a secret message in the least significant bits of a .JPG of a family party. Cool. (added to science)

10 Nov 03 · · A poetry wiki: OpenPoetryProject. (added to fluff)

9 Nov 03 · · Better lookups through Bible technologies. (added to religion)

8 Nov 03 · · Another Meyers-Briggs type test, just because. (added to research)

7 Nov 03 · · Now your favorite page can talk like a pirate. (added to fluff)

6 Nov 03 · · Animated stick figures are fun. Especially when they die. (added to goth)

5 Nov 03 · · More questions of weird cosmology: whether the universe has topological defects and, if so, what they'd look like to you and me. (added to science)

4 Nov 03 · · Random news from hither and yon. (added to fluff)

3 Nov 03 · · National composite doppler radar loop. (added to weather)

2 Nov 03 · · The value of money through the years. (added to research)

25 Oct 03 · · A collection of literary resources for reading matter on that rainy day. (added to fluff)

24 Oct 03 · · For easy reference, a good Norse mythology site. (added to religion)

23 Oct 03 · · Ciphers, baby. (added to science)

22 Oct 03 · · Take a single random tarot card or a full reading, as you need. (added to fluff)

21 Oct 03 · · Cats hate you. So do I. (added to goth)

20 Oct 03 · · The atlas of Mars. (added to science)

19 Oct 03 · · The wonders of machine translation in serial: Multibabel. (added to fluff)

18 Oct 03 · · The wonder that is the Internet allows people to mosaic weather satellite images into a world view. Then someone else can use that as background for a world sunlight map to get what the earth looks like now. What's the word I want? Oh yeah, that's right: "Way kewl." (added to weather)

17 Oct 03 · · A useful database of household product safety. (added to research)

16 Oct 03 · · A couple more blogs I should admit I read regularly: HG Poetics, Bemsha Swing, and Conchology. (added to fluff)

15 Oct 03 · · Why Arial is a bad typeface. (added to type)

14 Oct 03 · · Some more about that encryption stuff. (added to science)

13 Oct 03 · · Groove to the tunes that flow from SomaFM. (added to fluff)

12 Oct 03 · · The 'Net is good at not just finding disturbingly odd things, but selling them. (added to goth)

11 Oct 03 · · Sometimes, at random, you need to get out of a maze. (added to fluff)

10 Oct 03 · · Saying stars. (added to science)

9 Oct 03 · · Spoonbill Generator: the collaborative poetry project. (added to fluff)

8 Oct 03 · · A quick link to 100 random numbers from Random.org. Because when you truly need random numbers, you need truly random numbers. (added to research)

7 Oct 03 · · More music: Shoutcast. (added to fluff)

6 Oct 03 · · A couple introductions to cryptography. (added to science)

5 Oct 03 · · Science wants you to tell it which random bit of verse is better—it's the survival of the least bad in Darwin Project. (added to fluff)

4 Oct 03 · · The ACLU: another group of good people working for change. (added to politics)

3 Oct 03 · · Beautiful 19th century art sometimes happens at random. (added to fluff)

2 Oct 03 · · What units of measurement do you want to convert today? (added to research)

1 Oct 03 · · Planets around other stars. (added to science)

30 Sep 03 · · The New York Times carries a word of the day. Who knew? (added to fluff)

29 Sep 03 · · The other leading contender for how to fix the Standard Model is supersymmetry. (added to science)

28 Sep 03 · · A few goodies from LettError. (added to type)

27 Sep 03 · · A few medical things. (added to science)

26 Sep 03 · · Validate your accessibility and usability with WebXACT. (added to research)

25 Sep 03 · · When stars go boom! (added to science)

24 Sep 03 · · And if you thought 19th century paintings are beautiful, check out some other museums. (added to fluff)

23 Sep 03 · · And if you thought neutrinos are strange, check out quantum gravity. (added to science)

22 Sep 03 · · Misleading statements from our leaders. (added to news)

21 Sep 03 · · FlyBase: because you never know when you'll need a drosophila genome. (added to science)

20 Sep 03 · · ArtMagick: dippy name, beautiful 19th century paintings. (added to research)

19 Sep 03 · · A helpful map of nearby galactic clusters, for when you're cruising through the closest 200Mly. (added to science)

18 Sep 03 · · Another specialty weblog I'm finally admitting I read regularly: Mike's Formal Blog. (added to fluff)

Also: Verse Daily. (added to fluff)

17 Sep 03 · · Still more about the strange neutrino, and how it oscillates. (added to science)

16 Sep 03 · · Dead People. My favorite kind. (added to goth)

15 Sep 03 · · Human Genome Browser. (added to science)

14 Sep 03 · · W3C's link validator is useful. Very useful. (added to research)

13 Sep 03 · · The universe is big. Very big. (added to science)

12 Sep 03 · · Another one or two Latin grammar aids. (added to fluff)

11 Sep 03 · · More about the strange neutrino. (added to science)

10 Sep 03 · · If you're going to practice non-violent action, be sure you know how. (added to politics)

9 Sep 03 · · Ant cams. I like saying that—antcam, antcam, antcam. (added to science)

8 Sep 03 · · The Killeen Roos and their social studies links. Just in time for school, too. (added to research)

7 Sep 03 · · More explanations of, and therefore possibly more confusion over, the cosmological constant. (added to science)

6 Sep 03 · ·
Welcome to Eratosphere;
We critique your meters here.
(added to fluff)

Also, poetry by the clock. (added to fluff)

5 Sep 03 · · Have questions about rocks? Ask a geologist or two. (added to science)

4 Sep 03 · · A guide to corporate goth. (added to goth)

3 Sep 03 · · Archaeology on the 'Net. W00t! (added to science)

2 Sep 03 · · The medieval world is not generally recognized for its technology, but it was in fact a time of great innovation. (added to research)

1 Sep 03 · · When galaxies collide. (added to science)

31 Aug 03 · · Now that The First Heroes is scheduled for publication, I've put an excerpt of my story in it, "The Myrmidons," on a new shameless self-promotion page, along with samples of other works with line breaks. (created verse)

30 Aug 03 · · The other thing that the USPTO gives us is, of course, patent protection. (added to politics)

29 Aug 03 · · Wondering what to read next? The Rating Zone can offer recommendations. (added to fluff)

28 Aug 03 · · The 'Net's largest mineral database wants you to help out—that, or to gaze on the purty pictures of gemstones. Your choice. (added to science)

26 Aug 03 · · Is there anything more stupider than suffies of giant microbes? I think not. (added to goth)

25 Aug 03 · · All the cool links about paleontology a ten-year-old boy could want. Or I could, for that matter. (added to science)

24 Aug 03 · · The Internet Book List needs you to help create the IBDB. (added to research)

23 Aug 03 · · About that mysterious force/entity/whatnot: an introduction to dark energy. (added to science)

22 Aug 03 · · Another service of government: trademark protection by the USPTO. (added to politics)

21 Aug 03 · · A curious word of the day. (added to fluff)

20 Aug 03 · · The volcanos on some worlds look familiar, if a bit overscaled. Io's, on the other hand, are, well, otherworldly. (added to science)

19 Aug 03 · · Fark, fark, fark. (added to goth)

18 Aug 03 · · The official U.S. time: right now, when you need it. (added to research)

17 Aug 03 · · Replacement news from Mexico. Okay, it's the local paper for Guadalajara, but it's in English. (added to news)

16 Aug 03 · · Lunar pulchritude. (added to plain brown wrappers)

15 Aug 03 · · The cosmos has spent a lot of time and effort on its evolution. (added to science)

14 Aug 03 · · The place to go for U.S. copyright information is the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress. (added to politics)

13 Aug 03 · · That's just pathetic. (added to fluff and goth)

12 Aug 03 · · A tutorial on the statistics not just every writer, but every person, should know. (added to science)

11 Aug 03 · · Some people spend too much of the time on their hands worrying about the big stuff. (added to goth)

10 Aug 03 · · Things of RSS: the specifications of many formats, a validator, and useful resources. (added to research)

Thing of RSS: this log, syndicated. (added to log)

9 Aug 03 · · Daily news from Tehran. (added to news)

8 Aug 03 · · Word to the wise: it helps, when linking to the U.S. federal judiciary, to link to the actual Web page of the U.S. federal judiciary. (added to politics)

7 Aug 03 · · Would you like some green tea with your I Ching reading? (added to fluff)

6 Aug 03 · · And what exactly are you afraid of? Well? (added to goth)

5 Aug 03 · · Some snippets of randomly generated music sound more authentic than others—particularly the faux Mozart. (added to fluff)

4 Aug 03 · · Memes. Why did it have to be stupid memes? (added to goth)

3 Aug 03 · · For when you need to know what that .PVD file you just found is, a file extension database that isn't 404. (added to research)

2 Aug 03 · · Capital news from Down Under: Canberra Times. (added to news)

1 Aug 03 · · Friends General Conference offers books on Quakers at QuakerBooks.org. (added to religion)

As promised, this pretty good web log now has permalinks. Just on the off chance someone might want to bookmark an entry someday. Of course, since all links are permanently added to the pages, a bookmark seems irrelevant, but now you can make one. (added to log)

31 Jul 03 · · This site has grown enough, I need to reorganize a couple things. Anent that, this pretty good web log has moved to http://www.dm.net/~lnh/Log/log.html. Time for that quaint ritual called "Updating the Bookmarks" by early Internet users.

Coming soon: permalinks.

30 Jul 03 · · As you might expect from the name, many of the poems collected at Plagiarist are under copyright. (added to fluff)

29 Jul 03 · · On the off chance you'd prefer a list of art museums online that's been updated since 1997, a replacement. (added to research)

28 Jul 03 · · The National Scrabble Association is the perfect place to give us a Word of the Day. (added to fluff)

27 Jul 03 · · Morbid thoughts meet crass commercialism. And they don't even do it well. Feh. (added to goth)

26 Jul 03 · · Coo every day over purty pictures of Earth. (added to fluff)

25 Jul 03 · · Link up myths of the Greeks at the Greek Myth Link. (added to religion)

24 Jul 03 · · Furst yuoo teke-a a beetter incheffereezer-poo zeen yuoo poot heem in zee pege-a. Bork bork bork! (added to fluff)

23 Jul 03 · · Some saints. (added to religion)

22 Jul 03 · · As good as the BabelFish in all but name: Google also has a translator, inexplicably overlooked. (added to fluff)

21 Jul 03 · · A really large collection of sources of Myths & Legends. Please use this resource only for good. (added to religion)

20 Jul 03 · · With so many electronic editions of Faith and Practice available, someone has built a search engine. (added to religion)

19 Jul 03 · · More editions of Faith and Practice have been put online: Pacific, Ohio, and Canadian Yearly Meetings, among others. (added to religion)

18 Jul 03 · · The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies has a wealth of useful resources for the weather-engaged. (added to weather)

17 Jul 03 · · The Doppler weather radar in Tucson can tell you the current total precipitation. (added to weather)

12 Jul 03 · · The government stores a lot of weird stuff in their secret warehouse. (added to fluff)

11 Jul 03 · · Everyone needs a good business strategy. Deleted: already 404. Sic transit gloria Interneti. (added to then removed from fluff)

10 Jul 03 · · A better—i.e., replacement—Acronym Dictionary. (added to research)

9 Jul 03 · · Just another Antarctic picture server. (added to fluff)

8 Jul 03 · · write(0, poem[rand]); (added to fluff)

7 Jul 03 · · It's about time I give up and admit that a link to my local paper would be useful. (added to news)

6 Jul 03 · · Beyond the world population: other statistics. (added to research)

30 Jun 03 - Kantian philosophy indistinguishable from the real thing. (added to fluff)

29 Jun 03 - Explore the orbitals of the lighter elements. (added to science)

28 Jun 03 - TvRadioWorld has a pretty darn complete listing of the world's TV and radio stations, along with—more to the point—which ones do 'Net broadcasts. (added to fluff)

27 Jun 03 - Some crackpot theories are better than others. However, you can't tell which are which until you read them. (added to fluff)

26 Jun 03 - Wikipedia: The Collaborative Online EncyclopediaTM. (added to research)

25 Jun 03 - At random, just a simple hoax generator. Enjoy. (added to fluff)

24 Jun 03 - Because you never know when you'll need to transmit your email in Morse code. (added to fluff)

23 Jun 03 - To help you work out branches of descent, a portal of all available phylogeny software. (added to science)

22 Jun 03 - While not as way cool as the SodaConstructor, this kaleidoscope maker is just plain cool. (added to fluff)

21 Jun 03 - Just in time to help populate tonight's nightmares, it's a random creature. (added to fluff)

20 Jun 03 - KnotPlot. (added to science)

19 Jun 03 - Some random word generators use a dictionary. Some random word generators think this is the wussy way out. (added to fluff)

18 Jun 03 - Help for changing things: with the National Priorities Database, you can identify what (people think) is important. (added to politics)

17 Jun 03 - The Brunching Shuttlecocks may be gone, but picking up where they left off is The Book of Ratings. (added to fluff)

16 Jun 03 - RandomWebSite.com. (added to fluff)

15 Jun 03 - To get started in the world of math, go to PlanetMath. (added to science)

14 Jun 03 - Every writer needs a language toolbox. (added to research)

13 Jun 03 - Mars Express is also off the ground and somewhere. (added to fluff)

12 Jun 03 - Now that it's off the ground, we can keep track of where the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is now. (added to fluff)

11 Jun 03 - Want to be suggestive? Might I suggest the random euphemism generator? No? (added to fluff)

10 Jun 03 - It's important to have a list of every online comic—for the comic relief, ya know. (added to news)

9 Jun 03 - What is the sound of one koan randomized? (added to fluff)

8 Jun 03 - Explore the startling, colorful, many-neighbored worlds of cellular automata. (added to science)

7 Jun 03 - You can have a random blog or a random blog. I know which I prefer. (added to fluff)

6 Jun 03 - The religion chooser returns, now hosted by BeliefNet. (added to religion)

5 Jun 03 - Now you too can versify your home page. (added to fluff)

4 Jun 03 - If you need to cook a good meal, RecipeSource and Epicurious can help. And if you have some ingredients and want to know what you can make with them, Cooking with Google is perfect. Bon apetite! (added to research)

3 Jun 03 - Some of the 'Net's randomizers are, well, recherché. But sometimes you stumble across really a cool one, such as knots. (added to fluff)

2 Jun 03 - "On A Dead Pol's Grave" by Red-Faced Small Kip, done in words of one beat by guest translator Drew Craig. (added to words of one beat)

1 Jun 03 - Watch your favorite web page get eaten. (added to fluff)

16 May 03 - In tonight's fluff-weight match, in this cor-nah, the chaal-len-ger, Incoming Signals. In the other cor-nah, the cham-peen, Boing Boing. (fluff)

15 May 03 - Okay, possibly a little late to be getting to this, but still useful for the future: Saudi news in English from Arab News. (news)

14 May 03 - Closely to your Jedi Master listen, young padiwan, for he much wisdom for you has. (fluff)

13 May 03 - Gather resources for hunter/gatherers at Primitive Ways. (science)

12 May 03 - Sometimes, it's hard to keep styles straight. To help, an Art History Timeline from the Metropolian Museum of Art. (research)

11 May 03 - A possibly more useful Latin parsing aid. (fluff)

10 May 03 - News Dissector. (news)

9 May 03 - The totally cool, proof we're living in a freaking science fiction novel, daily picture of Mars. (fluff)

8 May 03 - Keep up with who wrote what under which name with the Pseudonym Database. (research)

7 May 03 - And in today's literary-weight matchup, the challenger Bookslut takes on Bookfilter. (fluff)

6 May 03 - Watch the powers of ten roll by. (science)

5 May 03 - More vocabulary reference: Stedman's Medical Dictionary word of the day. (fluff)

4 May 03 - Many ways to teach yourself CSS. (research)

3 May 03 - BookFilter: It's like a literate MetaFilter. (fluff)

2 May 03 - Put together number theory and the Web, and you get the Number Theory Web. Duh. (science)

1 May 03 - More health reference: Stedman's Medical Dictionary. (research)

30 Apr 03 - Medieval Latin has, of course, a different vocabulary than Classical Latin. (fluff)

29 Apr 03 - Now keep it straight: palynology is the study of fossil pollen ... (science)

28 Apr 03 - ... and paleobotany is the study of fossil plants. Got that? Good. (science)

27 Apr 03 - For help seeing through the spin, try the Institute for Public Accuracy. (politics)

26 Apr 03 - Stochastic adult entertainer. (fluff)

25 Apr 03 - Disinfopedia. (research)

24 Apr 03 - Learn the fundamentals of thermodynamics—after all, they're fundamental to you. (science)

23 Apr 03 - It's the little words that get you in trouble, in Latin as any foreign language. (fluff)

22 Apr 03 - Pinups, centerfolds, and fantasy art: the 'Net's best freebies, collected by Imagenetion. (plain brown wrappers)

21 Apr 03 - Find out what crystaline form you have using x-ray diffraction. (science)

20 Apr 03 - Three more blogs I might as well admit I read regularly: Making Light, Desert Dispatches, and carpe decorum. Did the Powers That Be write a memo dictating all blogs must have two-word names? 'Cause I didn't get it. (fluff)

19 Apr 03 - Protest well: the Civil Disobediance Manual and the Nonviolent Action Handbook. (politics)

18 Apr 03 - Resources for the ancient near east: Abzu. (research)

17 Apr 03 - Sometimes ya need a whole lot of random. (fluff)

16 Apr 03 - About that sun.... (science)

15 Apr 03 - In the department of Cool Stuff Your Taxes Pay For, it's NASA's space pictures. And they're PD! (politics)

14 Apr 03 - Why write your own blog entry, when you can generate it instead? No one will know the difference anyway. (fluff and goth)

13 Apr 03 - Insomnia aid: a self-referential aptitude test. (research)

12 Apr 03 - A knowledge worth asking about, were it only indexed: a random entry from The Guardian's "Notes & Queries" department. (fluff)

11 Apr 03 - The start of it all: a cosmology textbook. (science)

10 Apr 03 - Keep up with public health alerts from the CDC. (politics)

9 Apr 03 - Has lightning struck near you recently? (weather)

8 Apr 03 - In Google news, there's Google News. (news)

7 Apr 03 - Build your vocabulary with vitamins. (fluff)

6 Apr 03 - Finally, a Meyers-Briggs-like test with an "I'm in between" option for every question. (research)

5 Apr 03 - For those of you who can't remember what life is like when you were young, a catalog of games kids play. (science)

4 Apr 03 - Watch the Dry Valleys (near McMurdo Station in Anarctica) ... well, be dry. (fluff)

3 Apr 03 - Keep up with type design news from Microsoft (of all places). (type)

2 Apr 03 - Another Latin drill site. (fluff)

1 Apr 03 - Keep track of recent, receding history with the Atlas of the 20th Century. (research)

31 Mar 03 -
At random, some are poems, some are verse;
Until you try, you won't know which is worse.
(fluff)

30 Mar 03 - The National Weather Service has a nifty prototype weather product. Sweet. (weather)

29 Mar 03 - Look at a single Perfect Person. (fluff)

28 Mar 03 - Look at all the Perfect People. (plain brown wrappers)

27 Mar 03 - The widget that recommends what book you might like to read next has changed from Book Forager to which book?. (fluff)

26 Mar 03 - Mid-east news from a different slant: Tehran Times. (news)

25 Mar 03 - More Latin drills. Practice, practice, practice! (fluff)

24 Mar 03 - What's your evil name? (fluff)

23 Mar 03 - Watch out for Virus Myths. (research)

22 Mar 03 - Sweet, fluffy, pastel-colored, addictive games from Ferry Halim, at Orsinal. (fluff)

21 Mar 03 - To help guide your way through your life ahead, a random text. (fluff)

20 Mar 03 - What's that date mean?, and other answers from the Calendopaedia. (research)

19 Mar 03 - NASA picture of the day. (fluff)

18 Mar 03 - More easy readers for practicing your Latin. (fluff)

17 Mar 03 - Make your computer look like a typewriter, with faces from OldType. (type)

16 Mar 03 - A word for the wise. (fluff)

15 Mar 03 - e-volcano. (science)

14 Mar 03 - Learn verbs: a Latin conjugation aid. (fluff)

13 Mar 03 - Get your weather on—or find out what others are getting—with MODIS images. (weather)

12 Mar 03 - For when you don't know what you're looking for, but do know you don't want to pay for it, random shareware. (fluff)

11 Mar 03 - "White in the moon the long road lies" from A West Shire Lad by A.E. House Man. (words of one beat)

10 Mar 03 - More helpful Latin phrases for modern life. (fluff)

9 Mar 03 - In case you're interested, a short essay on what Quakers call the inner light (among other things). (religion)

8 Mar 03 - Other ways to translate. (fluff)

7 Mar 03 - Look up the words they're singing on the radio at Lyrics.com, A-Z Lyrics, or pureLyrics. (research)

6 Mar 03 - What's that DLL, anyway? (research)

4 Mar 03 - More general than a random poem: a random poet. (fluff)

3 Mar 03 - Aggregate sci/tech news from Google. (news)

2 Mar 03 - Yet another poetry archive site adds a random poem function. Ho hum. (fluff)

1 Mar 03 - I've replaced a handful of individual web games with their parent sites: Absolutist and Popcap. (fluff)

28 Feb 03 - A poem a day keeps the verses away. (fluff)

27 Feb 03 - Underneath the world is a blog. (news)

26 Feb 03 - Succumb to the addiction of Bubble Shooter. (fluff)

25 Feb 03 - Random zentences. (fluff)

24 Feb 03 - What units of measure do you wish to use today, sir? (research)

23 Feb 03 - Help with poetic forms: examples of each, collected in The Desolation Poems. (fluff)

22 Feb 03 - When you find a widget that takes a web page, any page, and creates a magnetic poetry kit from it, what's the best thing to do? Toss it random Yahoo pages, of course. (fluff)

21 Feb 03 - Sometimes, when chatting with a 12-year-old on AOL, it's easier to be understood if you translate what you say. (fluff)

20 Feb 03 - Rather than copy the business proposal from another Nigerian, generate your own. (fluff)

19 Feb 03 - Some useful, everyday Latin phrases. (fluff)

18 Feb 03 - Track down all the topless roles of your favorite actress in the Celebrity Nudity Database. (plain brown wrappers)

17 Feb 03 - Dowland's Medical Dictionary--with illustrations! (research)

16 Feb 03 - The word of the day and of the hour, from OneLook. (fluff)

10 Feb 03 - Rate 'em at PicsTrix. (plain brown wrappers)

9 Feb 03 - Good music: KUAT-FM. (fluff)

8 Feb 03 - Underneath the world is a Big Dead Place. (news)

7 Feb 03 - Dave Barry's blog. For real. Real funny, that is. (fluff)

6 Feb 03 - Ring out the bells. (science)

5 Feb 03 - The Lyttle Lytton contest has been producing funnier winners than the full Bulwer-Lytton contest. (fluff)

4 Feb 03 - Valid HTML 4.01 Strict!. Mostly.

3 Feb 03 - When a site's named Follow me Here, you pretty much have to obey. (fluff)

2 Feb 03 - What's that cartoon tune carting through your head? Ask the Classical Music Search and find out. (research)

1 Feb 03 - He's got Monkeys in My Pants. Meaning in his pants. Not mine. Just to be clear on this. (fluff)

31 Jan 03 - What is light? This site is glad you asked. (science)

30 Jan 03 - An updated link to Golan Levin's tidbits. Have fun for a couple hours. (fluff)

29 Jan 03 - Earthsights, Shuttlewise. (science)

28 Jan 03 - It takes balls to turn something as real as goth into something slutty.

Hint: not the good kind. (goth)

27 Jan 03 - Search or browse through all Clementine photos. (science)

26 Jan 03 - Be patriotic: wave one of the world's flags, assuming you can identify it. (research)

25 Jan 03 - Find and read physics e-prints at arXiv.org. (science)

24 Jan 03 - For when you don't have time to write a coherent compaint letter of your own. (fluff)

23 Jan 03 - What is a neutrino? (science)

22 Jan 03 - Between the sun and the interstellar medium is the heliosphere--a fascinating place. (science)

21 Jan 03 - All the wars of the American Peace, listed by year. (research and goth)

20 Jan 03 - Flintknapping.com: For all your flint knapping needsTM. (science)

19 Jan 03 - Not only is it all rotten, it's rotten every day. (goth)

18 Jan 03 - Computer term? Try Webopedia. (research)

17 Jan 03 - Learn firsthand just how tricky it is to create Bose-Einstein condensation with this nifty applet. (science)

15 Jan 03 - It's often claimed that the best encyclopedia ever, in terms of both writing and content, was the 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Now that it's public domain (maybe), you can decide for yourself. Warning: Correction of OCR errors and cross-references continues. (research)

14 Jan 03 - Catch up on news about the arts with the Arts Journal Digest. (news)

5 Jan 03 - Or waste time with the doodle of the day. (fluff)

4 Jan 03 - Waste time painting by numbers. (fluff)

3 Jan 03 - more good face: deez fonts (type)

2 Jan 03 - And in today's heavyweight linkup bout, it's Linkfilter versus Boing Boing. (fluff)

1 Jan 03 - Typenews::Typographer (type)

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