Windowed OS, emulated in Javascript

It's amazing what you can achieve with Javascript.

VPN How To

How to do IPSEC on any OS that can do it.

Geek of the day

Han Solo in Carbonite: awesome model. This must have required a gazillion dollars worth of LEGO bricks.

Addictive Game

Traffic Control 2: keep traffic flowing smoothly through a city. You control the lights.

Found them!

Where are my socks?

Free Mag 7 Star Charts

Free star atlas licensed under Creative Commons.

The oops list

Pictures for people who are afraid to fly.

Freaky optical Illusion of the month

Motion induced blindness. Make things disappear, while they are still there.

Friday Game

I have fond memories of playing NetHack 2.2 for days on end. The newer 3.4.3 is also quite wonderful. Play it, but don't get too addicted.

Text Generators

You can try malevole's text generator, or the many languages from Duck Island.

Kaboodle achtung sparkin ich stoppern flippin corkin. Frau und der, oof footzerstompen underbite buerger das. Floppern in footzerstompen er ist bar sightseerin buerger sightseerin die. Spitzen deutsch strudel morgen floppern mitz wunderbar die unter ich.

Relaxern sightseerin poppin strudel noodle frau biergarten gestalt keepin underbite. Yodel underbite octoberfest dorkin du mitten. Gestalt frau sparkin, hast in biergarten cuckoo blimp, biergarten lookinpeepers er, leiderhosen. Spritz rubberneckin, zur biergarten ist poken handercloppen rubberneckin stoppern sie die ker. Auf, hans waltz und blitz, weiner.

U2

I went to see U2 last night. I even took pictures.

Get Perpendicular

Hitachi found a way to increase disk storage density 10x, so they put up this rather catchy flash animation. Worth seeing once. Could spawn a new meme.

Short film review

A scathing review of the forthcoming hhgg movie.

Building an Infrared Transmitter for Your PC

Add an IR transciever to your PC, assuming your motherboard has the pins for it, for a mere $1 instead of the hyper-expensive prebuilt modules.

Oklahoma Geological Survey Catalog of Nucleat Explosions

Locations and other information about all nuclear explosions from unclassified sources, up to 1998.

Google Maps: Lots of B52s

Zoom out or pan around for lots more aircraft and stuff.
Need more?

1. Drag the TerraServer-to-Google-Maps bookmarklet to your toolbar.
2. Visit the TerraServer's famous places page
   

Google Maps: "LUECKE"

Some guy had too many trees, so he had a load of them chopped down to spell his name.
As mentioned by NASA (see bottom of page).

Plants In Motion

Dancing plants. Someone should add a soundtrack. Or, better, listen to your MP3s while you watch.

The Feds can own your WLAN too

Lock up your WLANs... with more than just WEP. It took them just 3 minutes to crack a 128-bit key.