According to the photographer's daughter, "All photos in this collection were taken by then Lt. and later Capt. George S. White, my Father, while he was serving in the Pacific as a pilot. They are generally between 1945 and 1948 from what is documented." My favorites? The barmaid or postwar Tokyo or wrecked planes and airplane graveyards.
posted on Jul 5, 2008 - View this thread

Friday Flash Java Fun - 'Building Houses With Side Views' Entertaining Java game/exercise/doodad.
posted on Jun 13, 2008 - View this thread

Annoying Software : A Rogue's Gallery. (single-page version). Software that makes us hate the internet and wish it had never been invented. High on their list : Adobe Reader, Java, RealPlayer, and Flash.
posted on May 20, 2008 - View this thread

Bytecode-based virtual machines are the Next Big Thing in programming. You can run Lisp, Ruby, Python, OCaml, and yes even COBOL on the JVM. Or if you prefer your languages to be a bit more melodic there's J#, A#, P# and F#. Even C/C++ has a bytecode compiler now. That's not to mention languages that have their own VMs like Erlang or that are writing their own like Parrot or PyPy.
posted on Dec 4, 2007 - View this thread

Interactive mathematics miscellany and puzzles, including 75 proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem, an interactive column using Java applets, and eye-opening demonstrations. (Actually, much more.)
posted on Dec 1, 2007 - View this thread

Cinematic particles is an online applet that draws watercolor-like visualizations of movie dialogs, from Apocalypse Now to Zabriskie Point. See also: Spinal Rhythms, L-Garden, SpyCamp and other online toys by Austrian artist Eva Schindling.
posted on Sep 15, 2007 - View this thread

Time Travel, or, the art of causing events after they've already happened. [requires java, more inside]
posted on Jul 23, 2007 - View this thread

Flash Sunday: Particle-based (explosive) sandbox - another fun toy to play with! Besides the classic earth, water, fire, and plants, this version has air pressure-based physics for wind effects. A mesmerizing tinker-toy. (requires java) (previously) (via)
posted on Jun 2, 2007 - View this thread

Spend a bit of your Sunday getting a little more acquainted with Indonesian musical culture. Balinese gamelan. And a little more. See how they make some of those fabulous-sounding gongs. And here's the fabulous Kecak. And more Kecak. And just for good measure, howsabout a little Angklung karaoke? Meanwhile in Sumatra the gals are playing the dishes! [all links YouTube]
posted on May 13, 2007 - View this thread

Agents - one of many Flash experiments and projects by Sébastien Chevrel.
posted on May 2, 2007 - View this thread

The stupa (aka the chorten or the pagoda) is Buddhism's universal piece of symbolic architecture. Borobodur in Java is probably the most famous, while Burma's Shwedagon Pagoda is the largest, and the Kyaik-htiyo Pagoda on the Golden Rock may be the most precarious. They're common across the Himalayas, and sometimes hidden in caves.
posted on Apr 26, 2007 - View this thread

JGuitar, a rather useful tool for those learning the guitar or experimenting with alternate tunings. You can even bookmark a certain tuning.
posted on Apr 18, 2007 - View this thread

You have spacial skills. Apply them in Building Houses 2, on mathsnet.net. Or freestyle in Building Houses 1. Or at night! Oh and also there's like a hundred more puzzles over there too. Some java required.
posted on Apr 12, 2007 - View this thread

Double Wires (flash) Point and click to shoot out grapples or webs. Move to the right to advance your score.
War of the Hell (java) Get the stick figures to climb your rope and then carefully fling them skyward to 'Heaven'.
(Via d_of_i's always unique DOFI-BLOG, creator of Cat Sledding and the mesmerising Sand Sand Sand.) (Third in a continuing series of physics games posts.)
posted on Oct 23, 2006 - View this thread

Not your ordinary mud volcano. This erruption might be manmade and it is quickly engulfing a large swath of Eastern Java. The putrid gas and mud have been flowing since May, and recent attempts to control the flow have led to demonstrations serious enough for the govenrment to issue "shoot-on-sight" orders. The flow could last for another hundred years.
posted on Sep 27, 2006 - View this thread

Web programmers take note, gotAPI is an excellent collection of searchable programming references wrapped up into a customizable interface.
posted on Sep 21, 2006 - View this thread

Open Source Physics is a great resource for science eduactors and students alike. Here is a page of great examples that take advantage of OSP.
posted on Sep 8, 2006 - View this thread

Fuzetsu Fire bullets by manuevering your pixel as close as possible to the shots fired by the enemy in the center. Requires Java Runtime Environment. (Since there's no sound, here's a sharity blog whose music would provide an excellent soundtrack: Curved Air.) Game via Jay and Good Experience.
posted on Aug 6, 2006 - View this thread

Metaphorical.net - A collection of interactive studies and strange thoughts by william ngan. Favorites: Eichstatt and Sosostris. [via futurefeeder.com]
posted on Jun 26, 2006 - View this thread

Advances in traffic management are slowly being recognized as superior to stoplights. (java, video, video)
posted on May 3, 2006 - View this thread

In April of 1817, a distraught, exotic, bizarre young lady wearing a black turban appeared in the village of Almondsbury, England. She spoke an unintelligible language, and mystified villagers brought her to see the local magistrate. Linguistic experts of the day were baffled: until a Portuguese sailor appeared, who claimed to be able to translate. He explained that she was kidnapped royalty from the island of Javasu. She called herself Princess Caraboo.
posted on Mar 18, 2006 - View this thread

Tetrod is a jigsaw puzzle and a four-sided domino game mixed together. -- Java puzzle game; choose 3x4, 4x4, 5x4, or 5x5.
posted on Feb 24, 2006 - View this thread

Teddy: A sketching interface for 3D freeform design (in Java). Noodle around with the online applet (see the tutorial for instructions; there's also a demo in .avi format), or download the program so you can save your creations. An even niftier upgrade is available, SmoothTeddy (.avi demo), but SmoothTeddy doesn't have an online version to play with.
posted on Feb 22, 2006 - View this thread

Flea Circus! It's just like Lemmings! Only tinier! And faster! And you can only make three moves: Block, ramp, and other ramp! (java)
posted on Feb 17, 2006 - View this thread

The Flowering Nose in Slugland adventure game. As a goblin with a flower for a nose, your ultimate goal is to find the lost sprout. Defeat enemies by throwing flowers at them; power up with hearts; teleport from level to level with such esoteric trinkets as donuts and cherries. (Java.)
posted on Jan 27, 2006 - View this thread

Opera Mini is now available worldwide, for free. A quality web browser for your Java enabled cellphone.
posted on Jan 24, 2006 - View this thread

Sodaconstructor. "Looking at the fluid, lifelike way these creatures walk and roll and slink across the screen you might think that there must be some very complicated stuff going on behind the scenes. well fear not, it's actually very simple. it only looks complicated because lots of simple bits are working together." Be sure to stop at the sodazoo to see others' creations.
posted on Jan 9, 2006 - View this thread

cool, but slow loading particle physics trick using interaction between your mouse & the Google logo. Software is in Java, page isn't related to Google in any specific way other than that the logo was chosen for its recognizability.
posted on Jan 7, 2006 - View this thread

Sheep and Dogs [Java] Tricky, but not impossible game of sheepherding with Boids-like movements.
posted on Jan 5, 2006 - View this thread

War of The Hell. World of Sand. Hell of Sand. Cat Sledging. Java Friday. [via]
posted on Dec 30, 2005 - View this thread

Friday Java Fun - Junk's Hanoi, a cool puzzle for this lovely Festivus.
posted on Dec 23, 2005 - View this thread

Dreamlines
posted on Nov 23, 2005 - View this thread

Sunday Java Fun. Doodle with your mouse, fun for 10 seconds, guaranteed.
posted on Nov 20, 2005 - View this thread

Game-Oldies.com features a boatload (approximately) of classic games, playable in Java. Lemmings! Duke Nukem! Toejam and Earl! Trampoline Terror! (What?)
posted on Nov 11, 2005 - View this thread

Mologogo Track any Java/GPS enabled phone through a convienent Google Maps based interface with mologogo.
posted on Oct 30, 2005 - View this thread

Java applets to help visualize various concepts in math, physics, and engineering
posted on Sep 9, 2005 - View this thread

A picture of English nouns is a map of 33,000 English nouns. Each tiny rectangle corresponds to a noun. The color of the rectangle has been assigned a color, based on an internet image search for that noun. The words are clustered so that similar words are near each other. Gallery. (Java required)
posted on Aug 14, 2005 - View this thread

Peekaboom! It's not Friday -- then again this isn't flash -- but it sure is fun. Partner with another anonymous player to identify pictures by gradually revealing them. The kicker is that as we play, the system gets smarter -- the goal is to teach computers how to identify photos the same way we can.
posted on Aug 4, 2005 - View this thread

Phutball (Rules, Java Applet), aka Philosophers' Football or ConwayGo is a deceptively simple 2-player game you can play on a Go board, or any rectangular grid. (It may be simple, but finding the right move is [PDF] NP Complete.)
posted on Aug 2, 2005 - View this thread

Sodarace is the online olympics pitting human creativity against machine learning in a competition to design robots that race over 2D terrains using the Sodaconstructor virtual construction kit.
posted on Jul 1, 2005 - View this thread

Resonata - A Wave Machine [Java]
posted on Jun 21, 2005 - View this thread

Great collection of java image manipulation thingies by Paul Schmidinger
posted on May 13, 2005 - View this thread

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, 2005 - View this thread

Play chess against the computer & Watch it think.
posted on Apr 28, 2005 - View this thread

Hand bookbindings.
web design by Mihai Parparita, via Evan Martin's LJ
posted on Mar 10, 2005 - View this thread

Bubble Chambers are used to observe the tracks of subatomic particles at extremely high resolution. The photographs taken of these tracks are often stunningly beautiful and elegant. This website contains a java applet which simulates a bubble chamber, to gorgeous effect.
posted on Feb 25, 2005 - View this thread

The first rule of Internet Scrabble Club is that you make a predictable Fight Club reference in any posts pertaining to it.
posted on Feb 17, 2005 - View this thread

J-Track 3D is an interesting JAVA web-app offered by NASA which gives a 3D interactive display of over 500 satellites currently orbiting the Earth.
posted on Feb 16, 2005 - View this thread

Escher Web Sketch [Java]
posted on Feb 13, 2005 - View this thread

The vOICe: Seeing with sound {java} “...vertical positions of points in a visual sound are represented by pitch, while horizontal positions are represented by time-after-click. Brightness is represented by loudness. In this manner, pixels become... voicels!”
posted on Dec 14, 2004 - View this thread