EROS Documentation -- EROS Windowing System

Pretty nice

CritLink: Public Web Annotation

Cool, like that post-it-notes-on-sites idea.

Play This Thing! | Game Reviews | Free Games | Independent Games | Game Culture

Tabletop game. Emily Short liked it so it's probably good. :)

Browse the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay Walker's Library

Suddenly it seems like there may be a reason to own a house

Skim | Home

Read PDFs with built-in annotation support nicer than Preview.app's. Looks like it should be useful

The Origins of Microsoft's Oslo Software Modeling Platform

Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder |

The Guardian implies that RMS agrees with Larry Ellison about cloud computing. In fact, they have opposing views. Larry Ellison isn't complaining about the concept (offsite services), he's complaining about the language ("we already did all this before cloud computing came along"). RMS is complaining about the concept.

Rant: Zombie Feminism

"You've got a naked girl, strapped to a bed in a mental institution, being raped by a bunch of teenaged guys. Clearly a situation in need of a feminist zombie intervention if I ever saw one."

Channa (Chickpea) Chat with Chat Masala: A recipe « A Life (Time) of Cooking

Oh yeah.

Cheap, Easy Audio Transcription with Mechanical Turk - Waxy.org

Great idea, but: $2 per (admittedly small) job? Payment at employer discretion? No recourse for workers? Seems kinda evil.

FOXNews.com - New Iguana Species Found in Fiji - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News

This is a really handsome-looking iguana!

Audio Atrocities (TM) :: Game Index by Name

Hilariously bad voice acting in games, via Joystiq

David Foster Wallace (Harper's Magazine)

Includes the complete "The Depressed Person"

Breaking: David Foster Wallace Dead of Suicide at 46

"[L]earning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed."

Analemma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The path traced by the sun (or moon) as viewed from a fixed position over the course of a year. Couldn't remember what these were when I saw one on the cover of Anathem. There, that's surely enough keywords for next time. :)

When I say centrifugal, I mean centrifugal! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Harrumph.

FreeBSD bike shed

Teehee

Nabble - Python - python-dev - An obscene computed goto bytecode hack for "switch" :)

Evil! I like it!

Bottle maturation, colour and ullage

Oxygen (does, does not) (retard, encourage) maturation. Also I learned a new word, ullage: "Free space above a liquid contained in a tank, drum or tank-container, expressed as a percentage of the total capacity."

Waterfootprint.org: Water footprint and virtual water

Interesting

A Healthy Relationship

GlaDOS scorned (via Bryn)

Pop Feminist: Masculinity and the "Fall" of Starbucks

Wait, now *asceticism* is masculine? Long bow

Fragile Web Development with SQL on Rails

Burrows-Wheeler transform - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mind is blown

Giana Sisters DS

leet!

PAX 2008: Ken Levine teaches us about comics, sex - Joystiq

Very funny talk about being a nerd. "Let me let you in on a little secret. When certain members of your D&D group start inappropriately buffing other members of your D&D group, when certain members of your D&D group start handing over primo loot drops to other members of your D&D group who don't necessarily deserve those loot drops, and the beneficiaries of this generosity happen to have names like Heather, Kelly, and Pam, the days of your D&D group are fucking numbered."

Deadprogrammer Visits Odessa : Part II : Balconies and Yards | Dead Programmer's Cafe

Doorbells

Simple Top-Down Parsing in Python

This is clever. I thought "what a well-written article!" before noticing it was by the effbot (and thus maybe letting my knowledge that he writes great articles bias my judgement).

Page F30: Five myths about languages and how to learn them

"Languages are not all equally difficult to learn" -- duh. "Children aren't just not gifted at learning languages, they actually suck" -- less obvious

Real-Time Concurrent Issues Drive Ada versus Java Choice | COTS Journal

Freaking interesting (to me).

Cows point north thanks to in-built compasses - Telegraph

Headline

Totally Heavenly Product

I must assert that I’m generally one that does not love shopping online, but my concept on that has changed since I ordered my RESTful Web Services from ebay...

$Quid: Don't Go Boating If You Owe Money to a Giant Squid

This is great.

Are you peeling bananas wrong? - By Steven E. Landsburg - Slate Magazine

My friend Chris reckons that bananas ripen from the end furthest from the stem. But I just ate one that was clearly ripest at the stem end. This article is inconclusive.

Dennis' Whiskey Corner: Rye

"The sky is free, but the earth lives. The earth brings all our needs, but the sky contains our dreams. Ultimately earth cannot not prevent our desires from going where we cannot walk. Old Overholt is of the earth, yet from there it leads my spirit far away."

IMG_2800 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Sweet dress made from eyeball yarn

Insubordiknit Handspun Yarn Shop: Vitreous humor

Yarn with eyeballs!

Baby's First Teratoma

More things for Catie to knit

YouTube - Robot helping Human - correcting human error

It's condescend-o-bot, the humiliator! The best part is the way he makes almost a complete circle with his arm before screwing in the nut, and the meat sack's eyes obligingly follow. (via engadget)

Ostrich Egg | Dead Programmer's Cafe

The baked ostrich egg roll at the end is surely a dailyhfs candidate

Language Log » The Big Penis Book

Starts with "big penis book", ends up talking about why e.g. "penis lengthy article" is unacceptable but "penis indigenous nudity" is acceptable. I can't *not* bookmark this.

The Tombs of Asciiroth

This is a really impressive Web-based rougelike. Actually it seems like a pretty great roguelike and the Web part is incidental, which is itself quite an accomplishment imo

GoNintendo » Blog Archive » Will Wright defends Miyamoto ‘games are better than toys’ statement, shares more of his Nintendo love- What are you waiting for?

"The Wii, the way it’s reading the controller, you actually have a lot more bandwidth. It’s still a straw, but it’s a big straw - and for me that’s the really interesting part about the Wii." -- interesting perspective from Will Wright.

Michael J. Totten: The Decline and Fall of Adbusters Magazine

I just bought this magazine, and have learned two things: 1) I am desperately unhip, since according to this guy it jumped the shark in 2004; 2) it hasn't improved since that time.

See-Through Animal Photos, Translucent Creatures Wallpapers, Download, Photos -- National Geographic

Sweet gallery of translucent animals that Bruce Schneier linked to accidentally

EXTERMINUS

A cqqqquuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu a (via Jason)

C++ FQA Lite: Defective C++

Whine whine (but I have whined about these things too, so it must be legitimate whining).

Why licenses don’t matter (and why they do) « Sententia cdsmithus

I'd come to the same conclusions as this guy, but he gets there via a rather different route (though we both used the "computer programmers like to pretend that people behave logically" theory)

Mad Engineering: Five Reasons You Don't Have a Personal Jet Pack Yet

"So why the hell aren't we all flying to work via rocket power? Because you're about as aerodynamic as a potato, my friend." Someone had to say it.

SimplyNoise.com - The best free white noise generator on the Internet.

This is such a great opportunity for b-grade horror-film-style mind control.