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Terragen is a scenery generator, created with the goal of generating photorealistic landscape images and animations. It is available for Windows and the Mac OS. The newest version was released this week. Be sure and check out the gallery. (previously mentioned)
posted on Sep-10-05 at 8:52 PM

Mad Meg does all of her work with a black ball point pen on notebook paper.
posted on Sep-7-05 at 8:50 AM

N [note: flash, sound, some blood, and ninja killing robots]
posted on Sep-5-05 at 12:05 AM

On Friday, September 2nd, artist Mary Coble will subject herself to a marathon tattoo session that could make a career Marine wince. Beginning at 6 p.m. and likely continuing until dawn the next day, a tattoo artist will etch 400 names of victims of the nation's gay, bisexual and transgender hate crimes into the artist's back, legs and arms. And we're all invited to watch. More (WashPo [reg.rqd])
posted on Sep-1-05 at 7:47 PM

Time-lapse videos of hurricanes from space from Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center's Camex-4 Hurricane study. [note: Quicktime]
posted on Aug-30-05 at 4:43 PM

The Lotus Eater ... a creepy gallery that has a flash interface that doesn't actually suck.
posted on Aug-29-05 at 11:54 AM

The Mirror World ...a virtual tour through Seattle, WA, augmented with clips from Google Earth/Maps. [note: Quicktime]
posted on Aug-27-05 at 10:51 PM

In the Rough ..."Man has evolved throughout the ages ... Relationships, unfortunately, have not. After being kicked out of his cave, Brog discovers that living a bachelor's life is not all tha it's cracked up to be" quicktime. smaller version here.
posted on Aug-7-05 at 7:43 AM

Dr. Macro's High Quality Movie Scans ... high quality scans of famous screen stars and their movies, mostly from the 1940's and earlier, as well as a collection of film clips and movie summaries from the golden age of Hollywood.
posted on Aug-4-05 at 8:59 PM

Patent Room is a collection of early 20th Century industrial design culled from the archives of the U.S. Patent Office, featuring architecture, automobiles, toys, and trains.
posted on Aug-3-05 at 10:36 AM

Cambridge in Colour ... long exposures during twilight or moonlit conditions can produce other-worldly images. Be sure to check out the digital photo tutorials, too.
posted on Aug-1-05 at 3:07 PM

cursor-dodger ... don't let the little guy grab your pointer.
posted on Jul-29-05 at 7:14 AM

Al Qaeda Training Manual [note: PDF files]
posted on Jul-27-05 at 5:42 AM

Odd Books dedicated to that constant source of delight and wonder, the second-hand bookshop. (via)
posted on Jul-15-05 at 2:41 PM

Circus Museum : vintage circus posters
posted on Jul-9-05 at 8:20 PM

The artist swallowed a pill-sized camera that photographically auto-documented its journey through his body, taking 65,000 photographs in seven and a half hours. (Alternate link, scroll horizontally.)
posted on Jul-1-05 at 1:14 AM

“Negative eco-tourism from orbit.” Sprol shows the visual macroscopic effects of the decisions and behavior of our society. Since previous generations have not had the advantage of this perspective, it is our obligation to use it wisely.
posted on Jun-29-05 at 10:02 AM

what happens when you put too much detergent in the washing machines ... IN HELL!!! A demonstration of ragdoll physics in flash. If she gets stuck, click and drag her over the obstacle. Considering the painful contortions she ends up in, I can't help but feel a little misogynistic. [note: flash]
posted on Jun-28-05 at 9:18 AM

Commies with headphones.
posted on Jun-27-05 at 7:37 AM

You got owned ... an entertaining study of life's little mishaps on video. Some you've seen, some you may not have. (wmv)
posted on May-27-05 at 5:18 PM

Will Wright's SPORE site online. [note: flash] (Previously discussed here.)
posted on May-19-05 at 10:28 PM

Chomskytorrents.org provides a gathering place for torrents with progressive and radical content. As for now, it preserves a special place for the work of American dissident Noam Chomsky.
posted on May-16-05 at 10:18 PM

The Found Footage Festival is a live comedy event and screening featuring odd and hilarious clips from videotapes found at thrift stores and garage sales and in warehouses and dumpsters throughout the country. [note: quicktime, profanity, accidental mutilation, bad advertising, burger joint rap music, mullets] main page
posted on May-10-05 at 7:30 AM

Castle Attack 2 ... Protect your castle from the attacking horde onslaught. You can use your archers, or lob rocks, dump boiling oil, or crush under burning logs. Extra points for accuracy. [note: shockwave, loud music, death, destruction]
posted on Apr-29-05 at 1:15 PM

Can't see the forest for the trees? This mildly interesting java app generates a graphical representation the structure of a website's html coding.
posted on Apr-28-05 at 10:06 AM

Fake or Photo? Can you tell the difference between a photo and a CG render?
posted on Apr-25-05 at 5:03 AM

Buddy Rich ain't got nothin' on this cat! [note: sound, flash] swiped from J-walk
posted on Apr-14-05 at 11:18 AM

Ellis Parker Butler (1869 - 1934) American author, speaker, humorist. Author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, Ellis Parker Butler is most famous for his short story "Pigs is Pigs" in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs that soon start proliferating geometrically. This website is a loving tribute to a prolific author you've probably never heard of. Most of the stories and articles available on this web site have not been reprinted or reproduced since their original publication. Be sure to also check out the extensive library of vintage magazine covers.
posted on Apr-10-05 at 10:49 AM

Free Online Wine Course from the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). We’ll give you a sample of our in-depth, on-site courses by taking you on a virtual journey through three of the world’s top grape varieties.
posted on Apr-8-05 at 4:12 PM

Flashcii is a tool for creating ascii animations. Flaschii converts image files into ascii art, and provides a Flash-inspired interface for building animated sequences. Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
posted on Apr-7-05 at 2:48 PM

Online outlets for gourmet goods : Chef's Warehouse | iGourmet | ChefShop | Earthy Delights | L'Epicerie (french) | Ethnic Grocer| La Tienda (spanish) | French Feast (french) | Gustiamo.com (italian) | Pacific East West (japanese/chinese) | Import Food (thai) . . . (via NYT)
posted on Apr-6-05 at 7:17 AM

neurobion [note: flash]
posted on Apr-4-05 at 9:12 PM

A look at the US through China's eyes. The US has been critical of China's human rights practices for decades. In retaliation, China examines the US, and finds it comes up short in many ways. Instead of indulging itself in publishing the "human rights country report" to censure other countries unreasonably, the United States should reflect on its erroneous behavior on human rights and take its own human rights problems seriously. Summarized text in NYT
posted on Mar-28-05 at 9:20 PM

The US Living Will Registry electronically stores advance directives, and makes them available to health care providers 24 hours/day via secure internet or telephone facsimile... a free service, by the way. Be sure to check out the state-by-state list of Advance Directive Forms. See also, the American Bar Associations information for advanced medical directives.
posted on Mar-23-05 at 9:55 PM

Zelda Classic is a tribute to (what we think is) the greatest video game of all time: Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda. It has been developed into an exact replica of the NES version that we all know and love. For windows and DOS.
posted on Mar-22-05 at 5:50 PM

Look at eBay from a different angle. eBay Pulse shows the most 10 most popular search terms, as well as the 10 most 'watched' items on the auction site for any category, including the weird ones. Updated daily.
posted on Mar-20-05 at 10:38 AM

Build a huge house for only $782?! Low-cost housing for the masses! Unfortunately, you have to travel back in time to build houses for less than $1000. How many of these homes are in your town or on your block? (courtesy of J-Walk)
posted on Mar-16-05 at 8:05 AM

Phospor Alpha 4! [note: Shockwave, Intense Violence]
posted on Mar-5-05 at 8:38 PM

Bush Shoot Out! [note: flash, cartoon violence, animated blood]
posted on Mar-1-05 at 10:48 AM

Cray Supercomputer for sale on Ebay. Starting price is only 10% of it's original cost!
posted on Feb-27-05 at 6:35 PM

Ben's Bargains | The Freebie Resource | Cheap Ass Gamer | FatWallet | SlickDeals | Free After Rebate
posted on Feb-25-05 at 11:32 PM

EveryVideogame.com ... many retro videogames (arcade, nintendo, gameboy, sega) available for online play via a java applet.
posted on Feb-24-05 at 11:21 AM

Doom , Doom2, Duke Nukem 3d, Heretic, Hexen, Hexen II, Quake, Quake 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein : Enemy Territory, plus dozens more.
posted on Feb-21-05 at 8:13 PM

World Wind is a global information system that pulls together a high resolution map of the entire world and layers into it satellite information from a variety of sources. The program lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth, leveraging high resolution LandSat imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) elevation data to experience Earth terrain (or any planet with the data) in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there. Virtually visit any place in the world. Look across the Andes, into the Grand Canyon, over the Alps or along the African Sahara. Check out the screenshots. (Windows only, 169mb download, torrent available.) While you're there, check out Virtual Lab, a virtual scanning electron microscope (screenshots), available for Mac OSX, Linux, and Windows.
posted on Feb-18-05 at 11:44 PM

Ancient sculptures the way the ancients saw them.
posted on Feb-16-05 at 10:49 PM

watching america reflects global opinion about the United States, helping Americans and non-Americans alike understand what the world thinks of current issues that involve the U.S.. This is done by providing [translated] news and views about the United States published in other countries.
posted on Feb-14-05 at 9:52 PM

Covert Call allows you to alter the caller id that is sent to the phone you are calling. It can operate just like a calling card, all for the price of a normal long distance call. Caller-ID spoofing for 5¢ a minute, for all your prankster/paranoid/social engineering needs.
posted on Feb-10-05 at 10:17 PM

Community Supported Agriculture : Are you a city-dweller and tired of the wilted lettuce leaves your local grocery store considers a produce department? Looking for a way to support your local farmers while benefiting from great, fresh, often organic, in-season fruits and vegetables? Now is the time to find a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm. You buy a share (costing anywhere from $100 $600 early in the year), and every week throughout the growing season, your share pays you dividends. Here's a list of what you'd have gotten from one near me had you subscribed last year.
posted on Feb-3-05 at 1:16 PM

Faces of Meth : a visual study of the physical effects of drug abuse.
posted on Jan-26-05 at 8:09 PM

well, this ought to take care of that pesky problem of your glasses always sliding down your nose.
posted on Dec-15-04 at 12:19 PM