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Recent Shuttle Launch from Unusual Angles
+ Right forward Solid Rocket Booster camera (Windows media)
+ Right aft Solid Rocket Booster camera (Windows media)
+ Left aft Solid Rocket Booster camera (13.7 Mb Quicktime movie)
+ Left forward Solid Rocket Booster camera (13.6 Mb Quicktime movie)
+ Separation composite view (10 Mb Quicktime movie)
posted on Jul-9-06 at 5:05 PM
Will Wright & Brian Eno, Playing with Time. (MP3, Vorbis) Will Wright, creator of the video games "Sim City," "The Sims," and the forthcoming "Spore," spoke with Brian Eno on many subjects, including time, and generative programming, on June 26, 2006, in seminar put on by the Long Now Foundation. (Summary).
posted on Jul-8-06 at 2:57 PM
How to Spot a Jap ... scan of a 1942 US military educational comic strip, illustrated by Milton Canniff.
posted on Jul-6-06 at 4:29 PM
Amanda Congdon leaves Rocketboom. Precise reasons seem to vary.
posted on Jul-5-06 at 1:09 PM
Newspaper Snippet Generator
posted on May-9-06 at 2:07 PM
And so begins the startling adventures of the most sensational strip character of all time : SUPERMAN!
posted on May-7-06 at 6:34 AM
Titan Descent Data Movie with Bells and Whistles
posted on May-4-06 at 1:36 PM
AOOA (The Telephone) ...short, yet moody and evocative point-and-click puzzle. (If it's too short and leaves you wanting more, how about trying Magneto Syndrome? It's another short yet interesting sci-fi point-and-click/escape puzzle.) (note: flash)
posted on Apr-11-06 at 8:00 AM
Seeds of Imagination operates on the premise that talking (er, typing) to your plants encourages interesting growth. Try: sun, water, love, happy, fruit, etc. If a word is recognized, you will see it float up toward your plant. If not, it just disappears without a trace. You may also change the color of parts of the plant by typing in colors. (note: Flash, subtle ad)
posted on Apr-10-06 at 7:55 AM
Bonobo's Bongos (note: Shockwave)
posted on Apr-9-06 at 5:38 AM
drifts ... move the red bubble with your mouse cursor. do not touch the purple bubbles! collect the green bubbles! touch the blue bubbles to turn green bubbles into points. you need at least three green bubbles to earn a point. collect more than 3 bubbles for bonus points! (note: flash)
posted on Apr-6-06 at 10:54 PM
连环梦 ... (aka Kawa) "It might be an exit; It might be a trap; It might be just a dream." 连环梦 is a surreal point-and-click maze/puzzle from China, full of twists and unexpected turns. (note: flash)
posted on Apr-5-06 at 10:50 PM
Sugar babies made of marzipan.
posted on Apr-3-06 at 1:49 PM
videoville.org .. a wiki for cool music videos. An extension of videos.antville.org.
posted on Mar-30-06 at 7:41 PM
Don Pixel is a collection of little diversionary flash games, like Light Brigade, Zelda : The Collecting of Pills (a mashup of pacman and zelda), and Hapland, a sort of samorost clone. All in flash or shockwave. Something for everyone.
posted on Mar-29-06 at 10:41 AM
Puppettool lets you animate a variety of avatars. [note: shockwave, nudity]
posted on Mar-12-06 at 8:08 PM
Creative Home Engineering is a registered contracting company that adds value to homes by integrating silent, automated, hidden passageways. [note: flash]
posted on Feb-28-06 at 1:55 PM
The 25 most popular television broadcasts, actors and directors based on anonymous, aggregated data from DVR owners, updated weekly.
posted on Feb-23-06 at 2:53 PM
Kottke ends the micropatron experiment. After a year (and $39,900), Jason decides that loafing around collecting paypal payments is just too much work.
posted on Feb-22-06 at 8:59 AM
Blueprint ... Guide the ball to the target by making a path for it to follow. Fourteen levels of perplexity! (Flash)
posted on Feb-16-06 at 9:26 AM
Galactic Central is the mother lode of magazine archives, with publishing information and cover art, including a prodigious pile of pulp magazines.
posted on Feb-8-06 at 7:54 PM
The Roots Music Listening Room for Collectors of American Roots Music. We feature Old-Time Strings Bands, Ballads & Breakdowns, Early Blues & Gospel, some Early Jazz, Vintage Country Gospel, Early Bluegrass and various Ethnic Musics played by immigrants to America. Most of this material was originally recorded in the 1920s through the early 1950s and was first issued on 78 RPM Records. (Out of consideration for others only download about 15-20 songs in one day.)
posted on Feb-7-06 at 2:38 PM
Fear of Girls ... a film about elite tabletop role-players, by Ryan Wood.
posted on Jan-29-06 at 10:36 AM
Because graph paper wants to be free ... Free downloadable graph paper ... plain, lined, multi width, hexagonal, even semi-bisected trapezoid. All free, in PDF format, for all your open source graphing needs. (Let's just hope the PIAA doesn't catch on.)
posted on Jan-24-06 at 10:50 AM
Find out what's in it before it's in you ... using free software provided by the US Department of Agriculture's database. The information, which can be kept on a PC (Windows) or PDA (Palm OS), provides a detailed listing of nutrients (calories, protein, fat, carbs, sugars, vitamins, minerals) on almost 7,000 foods, including processed and fast foods.
posted on Jan-21-06 at 10:32 AM
Organic Foods ... Consumer Reports spells out which organic foods are worth buying, and which you should skip.
posted on Jan-10-06 at 8:49 AM
Burning Man 2005 ... 100 photos by Scott London. (note: some nudity. may not be safe for work.)
posted on Jan-8-06 at 9:41 PM
The 25 Most Interesting Webcams of 2005.
posted on Dec-27-05 at 2:44 PM
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale ... Montage of digital retouching techniques [note: Quicktime]
posted on Dec-17-05 at 9:44 AM
Stop-motion Animation ... Clips from some of Eastern Europe's greatest masters.
posted on Dec-15-05 at 6:30 PM
Make eggs a part of your balanced breakfast... and they're also an excellent source of protein! Uhm. Probably not for the weak of stomach / May be NSFW. (Google translation from german.)
posted on Dec-13-05 at 2:36 PM
Happy Seed [note: flash]
posted on Dec-11-05 at 9:53 PM
Woophy stands for WOrld Of PHotographY, a website founded by a Dutch collective of photo aficionados and internet designers who believe navigation on internet can be more visual, logical and associative. The goal of Woophy's founders is to create an accessible, visual, current, democratic and collective work of art comprised of a database picturing our remarkable world.
posted on Dec-10-05 at 1:01 PM
The 100 best board games ... (at least according to this guy).
posted on Dec-8-05 at 8:31 AM
pixel art tool (flash demo)
posted on Dec-7-05 at 7:24 AM
Vampz - amusing animated movie about undead hijinks. [quicktime, 31mb / smaller version (15mb) / larger version (56mb)]
posted on Dec-3-05 at 9:03 AM
Double-discharge Lichtenberg figure [qtvr] : what they are and how they're made.
posted on Dec-1-05 at 1:32 PM
Super Monk [.mov, 35mb, animated]
posted on Nov-30-05 at 1:29 PM
Cafard in french means "cockroach." [wmv, 17.5mb animation. alternate server]
posted on Nov-27-05 at 10:01 AM
comic pinbacks : a free reference and research guide for vintage comic pinbacks from the 1890s to the 1950s.
posted on Nov-16-05 at 3:22 PM
Fallen Art (16mb avi) is the second movie directed by Tomek Baginski, following his Oscar nominated "The Cathedral..." This short animated movie has been made by a group of people for whom the army has always been an unfulfilled dream. (more info)
posted on Nov-10-05 at 1:24 PM
"A car riged [sic] with a VBIED [vehicle-borne improvised explosive device] blows up on bridge in Hit, Iraq." (Caution: contains audio with profanity.)
posted on Nov-9-05 at 1:12 PM
Factbites is a new approach to web searching - the results make sense! Factbites offers users meaningful, relevant sentences from every site in the search results. For example, durian.
posted on Nov-7-05 at 8:38 AM
Quake iV full panoramic screenshots (req. QTVR) as seen on digg.
posted on Nov-3-05 at 9:05 PM
Just in time for Thanksgiving ... from the people who make Cooks Illustrated and America's Test Kitchen, a free website full of advice for planning your harvest celebration.
posted on Nov-2-05 at 1:02 PM
LA-DEEEES AND GENTLEMEN! STEP RIGHT UP! THE SHOW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN! The Strange and Unusual, the Freaks of Nature, the Shocking and the Bizarre! YOU won't BELiEVE your EYES!
posted on Oct-26-05 at 11:15 AM
Amazing Stories ... every cover of this seminal sci-fi pulp magazine, from 1926 to 1967, plus.
posted on Oct-23-05 at 11:21 PM
Fun & Joy is a addictiing little mindless game. Don't let the fact that it was probably written for younger ones stop you from zoning out. See also. [note: flash]
posted on Oct-11-05 at 9:39 AM
Balance the baguette without hitting the croissants. [note: flash]
posted on Oct-9-05 at 7:52 PM
Antkendo ... defeat the opposing samurai ant by clicking above, below and on your own samurai ant. Good luck, though. The other guy is preternaturally good. [note: flash]
posted on Sep-16-05 at 6:42 AM
+ Right forward Solid Rocket Booster camera (Windows media)
+ Right aft Solid Rocket Booster camera (Windows media)
+ Left aft Solid Rocket Booster camera (13.7 Mb Quicktime movie)
+ Left forward Solid Rocket Booster camera (13.6 Mb Quicktime movie)
+ Separation composite view (10 Mb Quicktime movie)
posted on Jul-9-06 at 5:05 PM
Will Wright & Brian Eno, Playing with Time. (MP3, Vorbis) Will Wright, creator of the video games "Sim City," "The Sims," and the forthcoming "Spore," spoke with Brian Eno on many subjects, including time, and generative programming, on June 26, 2006, in seminar put on by the Long Now Foundation. (Summary).
posted on Jul-8-06 at 2:57 PM
How to Spot a Jap ... scan of a 1942 US military educational comic strip, illustrated by Milton Canniff.
posted on Jul-6-06 at 4:29 PM
Amanda Congdon leaves Rocketboom. Precise reasons seem to vary.
posted on Jul-5-06 at 1:09 PM
Newspaper Snippet Generator
posted on May-9-06 at 2:07 PM
And so begins the startling adventures of the most sensational strip character of all time : SUPERMAN!
posted on May-7-06 at 6:34 AM
Titan Descent Data Movie with Bells and Whistles
posted on May-4-06 at 1:36 PM
AOOA (The Telephone) ...short, yet moody and evocative point-and-click puzzle. (If it's too short and leaves you wanting more, how about trying Magneto Syndrome? It's another short yet interesting sci-fi point-and-click/escape puzzle.) (note: flash)
posted on Apr-11-06 at 8:00 AM
Seeds of Imagination operates on the premise that talking (er, typing) to your plants encourages interesting growth. Try: sun, water, love, happy, fruit, etc. If a word is recognized, you will see it float up toward your plant. If not, it just disappears without a trace. You may also change the color of parts of the plant by typing in colors. (note: Flash, subtle ad)
posted on Apr-10-06 at 7:55 AM
Bonobo's Bongos (note: Shockwave)
posted on Apr-9-06 at 5:38 AM
drifts ... move the red bubble with your mouse cursor. do not touch the purple bubbles! collect the green bubbles! touch the blue bubbles to turn green bubbles into points. you need at least three green bubbles to earn a point. collect more than 3 bubbles for bonus points! (note: flash)
posted on Apr-6-06 at 10:54 PM
连环梦 ... (aka Kawa) "It might be an exit; It might be a trap; It might be just a dream." 连环梦 is a surreal point-and-click maze/puzzle from China, full of twists and unexpected turns. (note: flash)
posted on Apr-5-06 at 10:50 PM
Sugar babies made of marzipan.
posted on Apr-3-06 at 1:49 PM
videoville.org .. a wiki for cool music videos. An extension of videos.antville.org.
posted on Mar-30-06 at 7:41 PM
Don Pixel is a collection of little diversionary flash games, like Light Brigade, Zelda : The Collecting of Pills (a mashup of pacman and zelda), and Hapland, a sort of samorost clone. All in flash or shockwave. Something for everyone.
posted on Mar-29-06 at 10:41 AM
Puppettool lets you animate a variety of avatars. [note: shockwave, nudity]
posted on Mar-12-06 at 8:08 PM
Creative Home Engineering is a registered contracting company that adds value to homes by integrating silent, automated, hidden passageways. [note: flash]
posted on Feb-28-06 at 1:55 PM
The 25 most popular television broadcasts, actors and directors based on anonymous, aggregated data from DVR owners, updated weekly.
posted on Feb-23-06 at 2:53 PM
Kottke ends the micropatron experiment. After a year (and $39,900), Jason decides that loafing around collecting paypal payments is just too much work.
posted on Feb-22-06 at 8:59 AM
Blueprint ... Guide the ball to the target by making a path for it to follow. Fourteen levels of perplexity! (Flash)
posted on Feb-16-06 at 9:26 AM
Galactic Central is the mother lode of magazine archives, with publishing information and cover art, including a prodigious pile of pulp magazines.
posted on Feb-8-06 at 7:54 PM
The Roots Music Listening Room for Collectors of American Roots Music. We feature Old-Time Strings Bands, Ballads & Breakdowns, Early Blues & Gospel, some Early Jazz, Vintage Country Gospel, Early Bluegrass and various Ethnic Musics played by immigrants to America. Most of this material was originally recorded in the 1920s through the early 1950s and was first issued on 78 RPM Records. (Out of consideration for others only download about 15-20 songs in one day.)
posted on Feb-7-06 at 2:38 PM
Fear of Girls ... a film about elite tabletop role-players, by Ryan Wood.
posted on Jan-29-06 at 10:36 AM
Because graph paper wants to be free ... Free downloadable graph paper ... plain, lined, multi width, hexagonal, even semi-bisected trapezoid. All free, in PDF format, for all your open source graphing needs. (Let's just hope the PIAA doesn't catch on.)
posted on Jan-24-06 at 10:50 AM
Find out what's in it before it's in you ... using free software provided by the US Department of Agriculture's database. The information, which can be kept on a PC (Windows) or PDA (Palm OS), provides a detailed listing of nutrients (calories, protein, fat, carbs, sugars, vitamins, minerals) on almost 7,000 foods, including processed and fast foods.
posted on Jan-21-06 at 10:32 AM
Organic Foods ... Consumer Reports spells out which organic foods are worth buying, and which you should skip.
posted on Jan-10-06 at 8:49 AM
Burning Man 2005 ... 100 photos by Scott London. (note: some nudity. may not be safe for work.)
posted on Jan-8-06 at 9:41 PM
The 25 Most Interesting Webcams of 2005.
posted on Dec-27-05 at 2:44 PM
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale ... Montage of digital retouching techniques [note: Quicktime]
posted on Dec-17-05 at 9:44 AM
Stop-motion Animation ... Clips from some of Eastern Europe's greatest masters.
posted on Dec-15-05 at 6:30 PM
Make eggs a part of your balanced breakfast... and they're also an excellent source of protein! Uhm. Probably not for the weak of stomach / May be NSFW. (Google translation from german.)
posted on Dec-13-05 at 2:36 PM
Happy Seed [note: flash]
posted on Dec-11-05 at 9:53 PM
Woophy stands for WOrld Of PHotographY, a website founded by a Dutch collective of photo aficionados and internet designers who believe navigation on internet can be more visual, logical and associative. The goal of Woophy's founders is to create an accessible, visual, current, democratic and collective work of art comprised of a database picturing our remarkable world.
posted on Dec-10-05 at 1:01 PM
The 100 best board games ... (at least according to this guy).
posted on Dec-8-05 at 8:31 AM
pixel art tool (flash demo)
posted on Dec-7-05 at 7:24 AM
Vampz - amusing animated movie about undead hijinks. [quicktime, 31mb / smaller version (15mb) / larger version (56mb)]
posted on Dec-3-05 at 9:03 AM
Double-discharge Lichtenberg figure [qtvr] : what they are and how they're made.
posted on Dec-1-05 at 1:32 PM
Super Monk [.mov, 35mb, animated]
posted on Nov-30-05 at 1:29 PM
Cafard in french means "cockroach." [wmv, 17.5mb animation. alternate server]
posted on Nov-27-05 at 10:01 AM
comic pinbacks : a free reference and research guide for vintage comic pinbacks from the 1890s to the 1950s.
posted on Nov-16-05 at 3:22 PM
Fallen Art (16mb avi) is the second movie directed by Tomek Baginski, following his Oscar nominated "The Cathedral..." This short animated movie has been made by a group of people for whom the army has always been an unfulfilled dream. (more info)
posted on Nov-10-05 at 1:24 PM
"A car riged [sic] with a VBIED [vehicle-borne improvised explosive device] blows up on bridge in Hit, Iraq." (Caution: contains audio with profanity.)
posted on Nov-9-05 at 1:12 PM
Factbites is a new approach to web searching - the results make sense! Factbites offers users meaningful, relevant sentences from every site in the search results. For example, durian.
posted on Nov-7-05 at 8:38 AM
Quake iV full panoramic screenshots (req. QTVR) as seen on digg.
posted on Nov-3-05 at 9:05 PM
Just in time for Thanksgiving ... from the people who make Cooks Illustrated and America's Test Kitchen, a free website full of advice for planning your harvest celebration.
posted on Nov-2-05 at 1:02 PM
LA-DEEEES AND GENTLEMEN! STEP RIGHT UP! THE SHOW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN! The Strange and Unusual, the Freaks of Nature, the Shocking and the Bizarre! YOU won't BELiEVE your EYES!
posted on Oct-26-05 at 11:15 AM
Amazing Stories ... every cover of this seminal sci-fi pulp magazine, from 1926 to 1967, plus.
posted on Oct-23-05 at 11:21 PM
Fun & Joy is a addictiing little mindless game. Don't let the fact that it was probably written for younger ones stop you from zoning out. See also. [note: flash]
posted on Oct-11-05 at 9:39 AM
Balance the baguette without hitting the croissants. [note: flash]
posted on Oct-9-05 at 7:52 PM
Antkendo ... defeat the opposing samurai ant by clicking above, below and on your own samurai ant. Good luck, though. The other guy is preternaturally good. [note: flash]
posted on Sep-16-05 at 6:42 AM
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