Do nothing for everyone

  • Finally, software that admits to doing nothing for everybody! (Thanks to Gel speaker David Greenberger.) Link
  • One-page cartoons for 5- to 15-year-olds, showing them how to build all kinds of stuff: Link
  • Optical illusion: undulating almonds. Link
  • Fun music video (in Flash), featuring They Might Be Giants: Link
  • Google way back in 1960. (Thanks, Kevin Fox!) Link
  • QuickTime VR (panoramic) shot from the moon landing, put together from Neil Armstrong’s photos. Don’t miss the zoom-in feature (hold down Shift). Link
  • Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2004 Results – bad opening lines of fictional novels.Link
  • Cute, low-tech animation Link
  • Common English mispronunciations. (My pet peeve: “nucular”. Now, if we could get a page on the constant misuse of the word “literally”…) Link
  • Strange and cool design stuff: Link
  • Reader Kim Antonson sends us to the Museum of Hoaxes: Link
  • The ugliest Powerpoint file ever created: Link
  • Funny because it’s the dumbest thing ever – the “hyperlink policy” on the Olympics website. They want you to send them a printed letter asking for permission to link to their site: Link
  • Geek-only humor: Essay on designing videogames for grown-up guys: Link
  • “Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines”: Link
  • Transformers break-dancing (thanks to memepool.com for the pointer): Link
  • Not updated recently, but the archives are interesting/weird/gross – not for the faint of stomach (or eye). “The most bizarre items found for sale on internet auction sites”: Link
  • RealAudio of many of the late Mister Rogers’ songs. Link
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