Windows, Southern Edition
Windows XP Southern edition may be recognized by the unique opening screen. It reads: WINDERS XP, with a background picture of General Robert E. Lee superimposed on a Confederate flag. It is shipped … Read more
Where in the World?
There are some flash applications that are truly cool, and the geoblog site hosts one such example. Displaying a cool world map (it shows the current daylight area), the application monitors a list … Read more
Take Another Look
Just the thing for Monday: an exploration of The Principles of Artistic Illusions. This site, enriched with many illustrative examples, reviews a few classic Escher works as well as exploring the general topic … Read more
Chocolate Crackle Cookies
From Gastronome, a cool foodies web site, (self described as the gossip of a gaggle of gourmands), comes an excellent recipe for chocolate cookies (the dough is chilling as I write): Chocolate Crackle … Read more
Priorities
The sheer magnitude of the loss of the cultural artifacts and antiquities during the looting of museums in Iraq is close to incomprehensible. The fact that more attention was paid to saving oil … Read more
Digital Gramophone
From Tom comes word of yet another example of the limitless creativity and cleverness which serve as hallmarks of the human race. To be honest, I’m not 100 percent convinced this isn’t a … Read more
