The 10 Region Of US Politics

September 20, 2007 at 12:45 am | Posted in Gratis, Painting, Politics, Propaganda, Reference, Webware | Leave a comment

Political thinking outside the state box.

How To Write Consistently Boring Scientific Literature

September 15, 2007 at 2:45 am | Posted in Humor, Painting, Reference, Science | Leave a comment

4. Remove most implications and every speculation.

The World According To Oil Reserves

September 14, 2007 at 4:15 am | Posted in Painting, Reference | Leave a comment

The Middle East certainly does stick out, doesn’t it?

Information Policy For The Library Of Babel

September 11, 2007 at 3:35 pm | Posted in Advertising, Books, Chemistry, Dance, Mathematics, Painting, Reference, Statistics | Leave a comment

Inspired by a wonderful short story by Borges, James Grimmelmann has outlined how to manage impossibly huge amounts of information.

Spirit Of The Centry

August 9, 2007 at 9:11 am | Posted in CG, Fantastic, Games, Gratis, History, Kinesthetics, Painting, Physics, Reference | Leave a comment

Spirit of the Century is a 1920s pulp tabletop roleplaying game.  Here are the rules, free of charge, courtesy of the Open Gaming License.

Maps of War

August 5, 2007 at 7:52 pm | Posted in Cartography, History, Painting, Physics, Reference, Religion | Leave a comment

Animated cartography for the historically inclined.

Your Real Age

August 2, 2007 at 9:55 am | Posted in Books, Health, Painting, Reference, Webware | Leave a comment

Calculate your physical age and your life expectancy in 34 easy steps!

The Fantasy Atlas

August 2, 2007 at 9:54 am | Posted in Drawing, Eye Candy, Fantastic, Kinesthetics, Literature, Painting, Reference, Software | Leave a comment

An admittedly German archive of fictional cartography.

WikiWorld

July 28, 2007 at 10:48 pm | Posted in Drawing, Eye Candy, Humor, Painting, Reference | Leave a comment

Wikipedia articles transformed into comic strips by illustrator Greg Williams.

Walk Score

July 24, 2007 at 11:24 pm | Posted in Books, Health, Painting, Reference, Webware | Leave a comment

How walkable is your address?

Map Of World Faiths

July 23, 2007 at 4:53 am | Posted in Cartography, Painting, Reference, Religion | Leave a comment

From the 2002 Encyclopedia Britannica.

The Laws Of Software Development

July 18, 2007 at 6:25 pm | Posted in Esoterica, FutureTech, History, Humor, Painting, Reference, Science, Software, Technology | Leave a comment

A list of all the “named laws” in software, hardware, and management.

The Open Library

July 18, 2007 at 1:26 am | Posted in Advertising, Books, Painting, Reference, Webware | Leave a comment

A project, still under construction, to create a first-class web-based library.

Adinkra Symbols And Their Meaning

July 14, 2007 at 5:54 pm | Posted in Drawing, Eye Candy, Painting, Reference | Leave a comment

Symbol buffet, anyone?

Body Hacks

July 11, 2007 at 1:28 am | Posted in Biology, Health, Painting, Reference, Statistics | Leave a comment

A list of perhaps-effective, perhaps-placebo body tricks.

Grow A Brain

July 7, 2007 at 8:47 pm | Posted in Books, Esoterica, Painting, Politics, Reference, Webware | Leave a comment

A linkdump like many others, with prodigious output.

The Canting Dictionary (1736)

July 1, 2007 at 8:40 pm | Posted in Advertising, Books, CG, Gratis, History, Painting, Physics, Reference | Leave a comment

“ACADEMY: a Bawdy House; a Receptacle for all sorts of Villains, where the Young Ones are initiated in the Canting Language, and all manner of Cheats and Impostures, and sorted into Tribes and Bands, according to their several Capacities for Mischief.”

Video Wall

June 30, 2007 at 7:26 pm | Posted in Books, Painting, Photography, Reference, Television, Webware | Leave a comment

Select a subject or create your own.

The Largest Known Prime By Year

June 24, 2007 at 6:16 pm | Posted in Chemistry, Dance, History, Mathematics, Painting, Physics, Reference, Statistics | Leave a comment

1,000,000,000 digits by 2024!

Tory Atlas of the World

June 23, 2007 at 7:13 am | Posted in Drawing, Eye Candy, FutureTech, Humor, Mashup/Remix, Painting, Reference | Leave a comment

An unkind view of the Tory view of the world.

Predator At The Chessboard: A Field Guide To Chess Tactics

June 20, 2007 at 5:06 am | Posted in Games, Painting, Reference | Leave a comment

Need tactics?

The Island/Lake Combinations

June 13, 2007 at 7:45 am | Posted in Painting, Reference | Leave a comment

What is the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island?

The Journey Of Mankind

June 4, 2007 at 6:45 pm | Posted in Animation, Books, Education, History, Painting, Physics, Reference, Webware | Leave a comment

The Bradshaw Foundation gives an educated guess as to the history of human migration.

A Fair(y) Use Tale

May 27, 2007 at 5:20 am | Posted in Animation, Architecture, Education, Fiction, FutureTech, Humor, Legal, Mashup/Remix, Painting, Reference | Leave a comment

Disney instructs us about the public domain, through a clever application of fair use.

Best & Worst Airports (To Sleep In)

May 19, 2007 at 6:11 pm | Posted in Painting, Reference | Leave a comment

Singapore?  Thumbs up.  Bombay?  Thumbs down.

The Great War In A Different Light

May 19, 2007 at 6:06 pm | Posted in History, Painting, Photography, Physics, Reference, Television | Leave a comment

Quarrels between nations and groups of people do indeed produce misery and suffering for all those willingly or unwillingly involved, but thankfully there is much more to study and learn about the great conflicts of our time than merely the violence and destruction they caused.”

Faking High Dynamic Range Photography

May 14, 2007 at 6:19 pm | Posted in Painting, Photography, Reference, Television | Leave a comment

How to bootstrap yourself to near-HDR with any old picture.

Travelling Cross-Country By Train

May 13, 2007 at 8:17 pm | Posted in Humor, Painting, Reference, Vehicles | Leave a comment

Hilariously snide travel advice.

The Tough Guide To The Known Galaxy

May 9, 2007 at 2:52 am | Posted in Esoterica, FutureTech, Humor, Painting, Reference, Science, Technology | Leave a comment

Killing our science fiction dreams, one sobering reality at a time.

Best Online Documentaries

May 5, 2007 at 9:04 pm | Posted in Film, Gratis, Journalism, Literature, Painting, Propaganda, Reference, Television | Leave a comment

Here: have over 500 documentaries, for free from the Internet.

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