Interesting links, detartrated for your convenience.
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Here are a couple of tools for air travellers:

Flytecomm: "Customize your search by entering an airline and flight number, or by selecting an arrival city. Select a departure airport to further focus the flight search."

Seatguru: To find the best airline seats in First Class, Business Class or Coach, select the airline and aircraft you're flying using the menu on the left." [permalink]
International Moblogging Conference: "Moblogging is a blanket term that covers a variety of related practices. At its simplest, moblogging (from 'mobile web logging') is merely the use of a phone or other mobile device to publish content to the World Wide Web, whether that content be text, images, media files, or some combination of the above." [permalink]
LILEKS (James) Gallery of Regrettable Food 3.0: "The pictures in the books are ghastly - the Italian dishes look like a surgeon got a sneezing fit during an operation, and the queasy casseroles look like something on which the janitor dumps sawdust." [permalink]
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
This is a very cool article:
Accessible Pop-up Links: A List Apart. [permalink]
Saturday, March 27, 2004
This is interesting: type in your zipcode on the neighbor search to see who the movers and shakers are in your area.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Japan.com - Technology - Magnetic Fan in Japan - Japanese Magnetic Fan: "Minato's motors consume just 20 percent or less of the power of conventional motors with the same torque and horse power. They run cool to the touch and produce almost no acoustic or electrical noise. They are significantly safer and cheaper (in terms of power consumed), and they are sounder environmentally." [permalink]
Crossfire "is a multi-player graphical arcade and adventure game made for the X Windows systems environment. It has certain flavours from other games, especially gauntlet and the rogue-like games (Nethack, Moria, Angband, and Ragnarok.) Any number of players can move around in their own window, finding and using items and battling monsters. They can choose to cooperate or compete in the same world." [permalink]
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Netcraft What's That Site Running Results: "Whats that site running?" [permalink]
Thursday, March 18, 2004
Antenna, May 1999: "The vacuum tube plays a dual role in the history of technology. In addition to its behind-the-scene significance as one of the principal enabling technologies for long-distance telephony, radio, radar, television, and (at first) the electronic computer, it was familiar to the general public as well." [permalink]
Here's where you get those cool custom-made earplugs and earphones. Etymotic Research, Inc. - Musicians Earplugs (ER•9, ER•15 & ER•25): "Accurate sound reduction is achieved by combining a patented filter with the specific acoustics of a custom earmold. The combination of the two produces a resonance at approximately 2700 Hz (as in the normal ear) resulting in a smooth, flat attenuation." [permalink]
Sunday, March 14, 2004
Slow Wave "...is a collective dream diary authored by different people from around the world, and drawn as a comic strip by Jesse Reklaw." [permalink]
Confuse A Cat, Ltd.: "We are Confuse A Cat. We have been in the business of feline bewilderment for over 30 years and we are exceptionally good at it. Never once have we failed to confuse a cat which we set-out to confuse." [permalink]
Friday, March 12, 2004
Here's a guy who, among other things, posts Google search strings to help you find insecure stuff. He sez
I'm j0hnny. I hack stuff.: "If these people posted web pages with default sitebuilder directory names, I wonder what else they got wrong?" [permalink]
Thursday, March 11, 2004
Here's how I made my answering machine messages: the "Interactive Multi-Lingual Demo" at AT&T. [permalink]
Here's a large collection of bookmarklets. I just started using "linkify" and "zap colors" (in Firebird) and don't know how I ever did without them. Jesse's Bookmarklets Site: "Bookmarklets are free tools to help with repetitive or otherwise impossible tasks in your web browser." [permalink]
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Adobe Adds Bar Code to PDF: "Adobe, of San Jose, Calif., says its new bar-code technology for PDF forms will help businesses move data more easily from paper to electronic databases". [permalink]
Tuesday, March 09, 2004
Directions to Leadbelly's grave: "You go up here a piece an' git on 169." [permalink]
Here's a useful and interesting HTML/CSS color picker. Down with web-safe colors! [permalink]
Sun Adopts RSS: "In an exclusive conversation with Sun Executive Vice President Jonathan Schwartz and eWEEK Contributing Editor Steve Gillmor, the software chief revealed Sun's plans to adopt RSS (Really Simple Syndication or RDF Site Summary) as a fundamental transport for developer communications and community building." [permalink]
Friday, March 05, 2004
"Reviews of all the dog runs. Dog- friendly beaches and weekend getaways. Help on getting around and getting out of town. Swimming spots. Airline travel tips." All this and more at urbanhound - the city dog's ultimate survival guide. [permalink]
Thursday, March 04, 2004
Bloglet: About RSS: "All you techies can think of it as an RSS-to-email converter." [permalink]
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
Hamburger Helpless (Harpers.org): "Once I had a strange dream about a never-ending line of oversized buns coming toward me, all dripping with extra mayonnaise." [permalink]
MOZCO !GARASH! Icons: "Hundreds of bold-and-physical-looking icons are available here." [permalink]
DShield - Distributed Intrusion Detection System: "DShield provides a platform for users of firewalls to share intrusion information. DShield is a free and open service." [permalink]
Found a new search engine: teoma.com. Brian Livingston says it may be more accurate than Google. [permalink]
Tuesday, March 02, 2004
An RFID tag in each new $20 bill, in Jackson's right eye! RFID Tags in New US Notes Explode When You Try to Microwave Them: "RFID Tags in New US Notes Explode When You Try to Microwave Them" [permalink]
Monday, March 01, 2004
The Bicycle Forest: "...what made our bike so special, and also what seemed to be Constable Demeau's chief concern, was the couch." [permalink]