YouTube - FC 2007 Fursuit Parade

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPSSSiJIg_8&eurl=http://cgi.fark.com/cgi/fark/youtube.pl?IDLink=3387565

Very relaxing video, would recommend to anyone

nonbeard 2008-02-09 12:35:22

Blind Cavefish Not So Blind After All

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,326471,00.html

Go go go, pineal gland! (This is such a great co-incidence after my previous research :)

nonbeard 2008-02-08 02:07:04

Descartes and the Pineal Gland at plato.stanford.edu

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pineal-gland/

I like this entry because the site's normally-sober tone of is infused with a distinct Descartes-is-a-crackpot vibe. "What would a principle of thought be doing in the bones and toes?"

beard 2008-02-06 10:03:34

Lguest Adventure

http://swtch.com/lguest/

This is a pretty fun adventure. I'm about 1/6 of the way to my beer.

nonbeard 2008-02-01 05:09:10

Is the Tipping Point Toast? -- Duncan Watts -- Trendsetting

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/122/is-the-tipping-point-toast.html

"My model is better than your model", but angled in this story as "My model is better than your guessing"

nonbeard 2008-01-29 06:47:43

Triviagasm: Everything You Need to Know About the Madness of Nikola Tesla

http://io9.com/349473/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-madness-of-nikola-tesla

Still waiting on the "queen bee" theory

nonbeard 2008-01-29 01:17:48

Chameleons Use Color to Communicate, Not Hide

http://io9.com/349490/chameleons-use-color-to-communicate-not-hide

sub-1ms colour changes! Animals are cool.

nonbeard 2008-01-29 01:10:17

Yahoo Censoring Open Source | Slated

http://slated.org/yahoo_censoring_open_source

This piece, the Fark reaction to it, and various other sites are making it increasingly obvious that Linux users are the new Mac users.

beard 2008-01-25 04:41:01

Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget?

http://chris-lamb.co.uk/2008/01/24/can-you-get-cp-to-give-a-progress-bar-like-wget/

This is my kind of disgusting hack! Add a progress bar to presumably any version of cp and in the process slow it down enough that such a thing is worthwhile. Via stibbons

nonbeard 2008-01-24 13:45:47

Trev (two-seater renewable energy vehicle)

http://www.unisa.edu.au/solarcar/trev/

Three wheels, tandem seating -- best attribute is its name

nonbeard 2008-01-23 03:05:12

Fixing ptrace(pt_deny_attach, ...)

http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/ptrace_deny_attach.20041010201303.11809.mojo.html

Bloody Apple

nonbeard 2008-01-21 01:32:44

Neil Gaiman - How To Talk To Girls At Parties (Text)

http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool%20Stuff/Short%20Stories/How%20To%20Talk%20To%20Girls%20At%20Parties/How%20To%20Talk%20To%20Girls%20At%20Parties%20(Text)
nonbeard 2008-01-20 18:44:06

Purple Shepherd's pie

http://everybodylikessandwiches.blogspot.com/2008/01/dont-adjust-your-monitor-purple.html

Via slashfood

nonbeard 2008-01-19 14:01:00

Rant: Eight Reasons Why The Hero's Journey Sucks

http://io9.com/345313/eight-reasons-why-the-heros-journey-sucks

Not nearly ranty enough!

nonbeard 2008-01-17 18:12:36

deconstructulator | ben fry

http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/deconstructulator/

View video memory and sprite usage of Super Mario Bros as you play it! Amazing!

nonbeard 2008-01-17 17:54:23

lMezco's Living Dead Dolls | Official Website

http://www.livingdeaddolls.com/

My new housemate has about 50 of these, all in original packaging.

nonbeard 2008-01-17 14:27:33

How Super-Precise Atomic Clocks Will Change the World in a Decade

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/12/time_nist?currentPage=all

"Some of the research clocks already need to account for changes in the NIST building's size on a hot day". Clocks are great. Via jaq

nonbeard 2008-01-08 05:54:02

BBC NEWS | Health | Universal flu jab works in people

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7171118.stm

Followup to my previous delicioused posts about hemagglutinin / neuraminidase flu classification system

nonbeard 2008-01-06 12:46:46

The significance of male hair: its presence and removal

http://www.choisser.com/longhair/rajsingh.html

"In conclusion: those in power have required their man-servants to emasculate themselves through cranio-facial hair removal as a demonstration of their submissiveness"

beard 2008-01-04 10:08:55

Mind Hacks: Would you vaccinate your child against cocaine?

http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/01/would_you_vaccinate_.html

Cool. It's an actual vaccine.

nonbeard 2008-01-03 12:22:14

Using a Linux L2TP/IPsec VPN server with Mac OS X

http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/openswan-macosx.html

Bloody Labour and their vote-pandering useless 'net filtering proposal

nonbeard 2008-01-03 09:25:08

Jackie Chan Studio Fitness J-MAT

http://www.xavix.com/products/j-mat.html

Xavix, a company consisting of ex-Nintendo employees, came out with motion sensitive bowling, tennis, and golf in 2004, way before the Wii. They also have a fitness mat. Interesting

nonbeard 2008-01-01 16:12:57

Classical Computer Science Texts

http://e7l3.org/classics.html

Extensive list

beard 2008-01-01 04:50:03

sigsegv: Rules for "Cho Tai Tee"

http://sigsegv.typepad.com/exploits_in_seattle/2005/10/rules_for_cho_t.html

Malaysian card game

nonbeard 2008-01-01 04:28:27

Bird's nest soup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird's_nest_soup

Bird's nest soup is made from the nests of cave swifts, which are built entirely out of cave swift slobber.

nonbeard 2008-01-01 03:03:35

YouTube - The state of the Wii - 24c3

http://youtube.com/watch?v=H5YB1Mmx7E4

Wii encryption broken -- key recovered by joining address lines on the bus and thus scanning entirety of memory above GameCube-accessible area. Awesome awesome

nonbeard 2007-12-29 04:47:39

Sum Divergent Series, I

http://cornellmath.wordpress.com/2007/07/28/sum-divergent-series-i/

My brain as poor benighted axiom system: ###

nonbeard 2007-12-21 01:19:34

Sock It to Me: Competitive Knitters Get Deadly Serious - WSJ.com

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119766934184930123.html

Knitting + assassination via fark

nonbeard 2007-12-19 02:56:56

Random LLVM Notes

http://nondot.org/sabre/LLVMNotes/
nonbeard 2007-12-14 02:07:43

Access USA - The Leader In Package Forwarding

http://www.myus.com/

U.S. mailing address, will forward packages

nonbeard 2007-12-12 04:26:39

MSR Asirra: A Human Interactive Proof

http://research.microsoft.com/asirra/

MS Research's HotCaptcha-inspired CAPTCHA

nonbeard 2007-12-11 03:11:53

CAPTCHA: Select the three hot people

http://www.hotcaptcha.com/

Hilariously offensive. The best part is that Microsoft used this site as inspiration for their "dog or cat?" CAPTCHA, Asirra

nonbeard 2007-12-11 03:10:16

Tapir Gifts and Toys (Stuffed Tapirs, Plastic and Resin Tapirs, Tapir T-Shirts, Sweatshirts, Jewelry, Bumper Stickers)

http://www.tapirback.com/tapirgal/gifts/friends/tapirs.htm

For Charles, when I find his address

nonbeard 2007-12-10 07:26:59

A complete list of things caused by global warming

http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
beard 2007-12-03 13:33:46

gpgID.com: The Trusted OpenID Identity Provider

http://gpgid.com/

From OSDC lightning talks

beard 2007-11-29 04:34:17

Desert Bus for Hope

http://desertbus.org/

I love every aspect of this. Great game, great idea.

nonbeard 2007-11-24 13:08:14

Scripted Re-Mark - Batch Editor for Bookmarks

http://ghill.customer.netspace.net.au/re-mark/

A slightly-broken JavaScript bulk modifier for del.icio.us

nonbeard 2007-11-22 12:55:45

Nuclear debate

http://www.uic.com.au/nip43.htm

Professional presentation of paper fails to disguise aggrieved "If only these monkeys would listen to science!" tone

nonbeard 2007-11-21 14:02:30

Snapping Shrimp Stun Prey with Flashy Bang

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/10/1003_SnappingShrimp.html

Animals are great!

nonbeard 2007-11-21 02:19:52

Anagrammed Video Games 2 (Part One)

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/video-game-anagrams.php?page=1

Teehee

nonbeard 2007-11-19 07:59:03

How many people have ever lived on Earth?

http://www.prb.org/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleHaveEverLivedonEarth.aspx

According to this random number, about 100 billion. Which means 5.5% of people who have ever lived are alive now.

nonbeard 2007-11-19 06:52:14

MySpace.com - The Beards - Adelaide, AU - Folk Rock - www.myspace.com/thebeardsclub

http://www.myspace.com/thebeardsclub
beard 2007-11-18 06:34:48

License of Intel Corporation's 4004 microprocessor historical materials

http://www.intel.com/museum/archives/4004ip.htm

nonbeard

nonbeard 2007-11-16 02:34:56

The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina

http://community.livejournal.com/greatpoets/2209107.html

nonbeard

nonbeard 2007-11-15 00:21:45

greatpoets: sestines?

http://community.livejournal.com/greatpoets/2207527.html?thread=7698471#t7698471

nonbeard

nonbeard 2007-11-14 02:38:19

Sestina - Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/03/ahead/sestina.html

nonbeard

nonbeard 2007-11-14 02:37:48

Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Sestina: Altaforte

http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15423

nonbeard

nonbeard 2007-11-14 02:37:09

W. H. Auden's "Paysage Moralisé'"

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~ian/paysage.html

I'm learning about sestinas.

nonbeard 2007-11-14 02:36:40

Sestina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sestina

The form of poetry

nonbeard 2007-11-14 02:36:06

LTL -> NBA

http://www.ti.informatik.uni-kiel.de/ABA-Simulation/ltl.cgi

nonbeard

nonbeard 2007-11-13 08:02:10