Interesting links, detartrated for your convenience.
Saturday, January 31, 2004
Quadrophenia.net: "Pete and Roger were so concerned that the audience might not understand every little nuance of Mod culture that Quadrophenia turned into half rock show/half lecture." [permalink]
The Hypertext Who @ www.thewho.net: "This site is a public resource celebrating The Who. It is not sponsored or formally affiliated in any other way with The Who or the band's members, management or other representatives" [permalink]
Friday, January 30, 2004
Wired 12.02: Three Blind Phreaks: "At one point during my visit with the Badirs, I pull out my cell phone and make a call. Before it even connects, Shadde, who is sitting across the room, recites all 12 digits perfectly." [permalink]
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
"Google Web Search Features": did you know there were so many things you could search for in Google, such as the number on the side of a plane? (Here's the plane I did my first solo in.) [permalink]
The Pope quoted in the New York Post Online Edition: "'Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste his talent but must develop it,'' the pontiff said." Here's the entire speech (scroll down). [permalink]
Monday, January 26, 2004
s t y l u s w a r s: "Ever wonder about the science behind break record innovations, like lock grooves, and skip-less records? Break It Down is a section dedicated to providing DJs with the know how to make great break records." [permalink]
THE 365 BEST SELLING SONGS OF THE 20TH CENTURY - BY DECADES: RIAA's "THE 365 TOP SELLING SONGS OF THE 20th CENTURY". How many of these can you play? [permalink]
Sunday, January 25, 2004
Konopka's Kinks Journal Page 1: "I remember being in my office in Deerfield, Illinois after The Storyteller '97 Fall Tour when one day I received a call from Sarah Lockwood at Konk Studios in London. It seemed that Raymond Douglas Davies had struck a deal with Vel Vel Records to license the Kinks' back catalog of fifteen albums from the band's RCA and Arista years." [permalink]
Friday, January 23, 2004
BWCON.COM: "'Whether it was related to contained searches, refunded-retainer programs, the outsourcing of displaced personnel -- along with a host of other activities -- BrickWork has distinguished itself in each engagement with EBS.' Jerry Masin Head of Global Human Resources EBS Dealing Resources" [permalink]
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
How A Spreadsheet Program Works: "When Dan Bricklin and I wrote the original VisiCalc program in 1979, our goal was to provide a high-performance tool that would allow financial planners the same kind of flexibility enjoyed by people using word processors." [permalink]
The Remediator Security Digest: Last Issue's Security Dilemma:: "Just before the program was sanctioned and put into place, someone asked which target group was monitored. The answer was even more of a shock - the group consisted solely of the people within the room." [permalink]
Sunday, January 18, 2004
Wonder what those Savings Bonds are worth? You could try the Online Bond Calculator. More info at the Bond Calculator Instructions page. [permalink]
Saturday, January 17, 2004
Here's the best color picker I've seen: moreCrayons. "Most internet users have monitors that can display more colors than the 216 that are used in the traditional “browser-safe” palette. moreCrayons is a bigger box of crayons; 4,096 colors for the web." [permalink]
I've been using the Firebird browser almost exclusively for some time now, on my Windows 2000 and 98 PCs. To make it easy to add items to this blog, I install the "blogthis" extension. Sometimes it messes up the punctuation around the hyperlinks a little, which is (usually) why some links on this blog don't work. I fix them when I notice them.

I recommend that you download Firebird and start using it right away. [permalink]
The Cartoon Laws of Physics, such as: "Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation." [permalink]
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
These videos from CES2004 featuring BillG, Carly, and Jobs are a hoot. Three of the most important people in the tech world today, right there pushing their products. IMhO, only Jobs comes across respectably. [permalink]
GROKLAW seems to be dedicated to researching and publishing the events surrounding the SCO Linux lawsuit as it unfolds. There is a lot more info here than I have seen anywhere else. [permalink]
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
100 Most Often Misspelled Words: "Here are the 100 words most often misspelled ('misspell' is one of them)" [permalink]
Microsoft Bows to Pressure, Extends Support for Older Windows Versions: "Microsoft Corp. on Monday capitulated to customer pressure and announced that it would now continue extended support for Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition and for Windows Millennium Edition (ME) until June 30, 2006." Funny thing, the print verion of this same article in this week's eWeek has a different headline: "Farewell, Windows 98"; it starts out by saying that Windows 98 support is gone, and then contains most of the same content as the online version. [permalink]
Andy Budd::Blogography is a well-designed site with links to other well-designed sites. [permalink]
Friday, January 09, 2004
"Notes From the Underground" by Nicholas Thompson: "The New York City subway has two good places for musicians to perform: the platforms where the trains stop, and the hallways leading between platforms and up to street level. The advantage of a hallway is that everyone passing by hears you for a few seconds; in a platform, you get far fewer people, but they hear you longer. Hallways, it turns out, work great for playing music that's instantly familiar." [permalink]
"The Island of Dr. Moron" and other Looney Tunes Games (flash). [permalink]
Thursday, January 08, 2004
Here's a good Flash-based VLAN Trunk Protocol (VTP). Takes about 15 minutes or so. You will need a CCO (Cisco site) login to view it. [permalink]
Wednesday, January 07, 2004
No one I know knows enough about the technical aspects of hyper-threading. No one! Know one?
But such knowledge is worthwhile, especially if you have a data center full of HP DL380G3's with Intel Xeon chips. [permalink]
It's Fishbase! "( 28300 Species, 79000 Synonyms , 178400 Common names, 35500 Pictures , 32000 References, 1030 Collaborators , 7 million Hits/month)" [permalink]
Monday, January 05, 2004
You were thinking about popup books? See the exhibit called This Magical Book. [permalink]
Sunday, January 04, 2004
"Euclid's Elements form one of the most beautiful and influential works of science in the history of mankind." [permalink]