“Obscure Words” on Answer.com

January 8, 2007 at 9:22 am | Posted in Literature, Painting, Reference, Software | Leave a comment

A delightful array of obscure words, if that’s your bailiwick.

The Mythbusters Results

January 6, 2007 at 10:32 am | Posted in Film, Painting, Reference, Science, Technology, Television | Leave a comment

Summaries of all myths tested on the show.

The 2006 List of Lists Of Lists

January 3, 2007 at 6:50 pm | Posted in Painting, Reference | 1 Comment

Normally I’m not the list type, so I figure this should keep me squared away on lists for a good few months.

Capital Punishment Laws of the World

December 31, 2006 at 6:52 pm | Posted in Cartography, Gratis, Painting, Propaganda, Reference | Leave a comment

A map that remarkably conveys who a country’s peers are.

Atlas of Plucked Instruments

December 30, 2006 at 1:39 am | Posted in Music, Painting, Reference | Leave a comment

If you can get your finger under the strings and pull, they’re interested in including it in their collection.

Luigi Colani’s Concept Trucks

December 29, 2006 at 8:46 pm | Posted in Reference, Technology, Vehicles | Leave a comment

Like concept cars, only beefier.

The Biggest Ships In The World

December 29, 2006 at 8:45 pm | Posted in Architecture, Esoterica, FutureTech, Mathematics, Reference, Technology, Vehicles | Leave a comment

Dark Roasted Blend has a lovely three-part series on ships of unusual size, from concept to execution.

35 Outrageous Fees (And How To Avoid Them)

December 28, 2006 at 7:39 am | Posted in Commerce, Crafts, Painting, Reference | Leave a comment

CNN Money wants you to avoid getting suckered.

Patchbox

December 25, 2006 at 1:06 am | Posted in Art, Drawing, Eye Candy, Painting, Propaganda, Reference | Leave a comment

Browse artists by their 80 x 80 pixel thumbnails to discover their work.

The Table Of Gods

December 21, 2006 at 4:51 pm | Posted in Painting, Reference, Religion | Leave a comment

Search almost 5000 dieties by keyword!

TGV Cardstock Models

December 20, 2006 at 9:34 pm | Posted in Crafts, Reference, Robotics, Vehicles | Leave a comment

Make scale models of France’s fastest trains out of cardstock!

Every Lego Instruction Booklet

December 17, 2006 at 5:19 pm | Posted in Crafts, Games, Painting, Reference, Robotics, Sculpture, Weapons | 1 Comment

Page after page of assembly instructions for the best building toy ever.

LibraryThing

December 14, 2006 at 4:47 pm | Posted in Advertising, Books, Painting, Reference, Webware | 1 Comment

A web-based personal librarian.

Digital Mozart Edition

December 14, 2006 at 4:45 pm | Posted in CG, Gratis, Music, Painting, Reference | Leave a comment

The complete sheet music of Mozart is free for the picking!

How To Manually Find A Square Root

December 13, 2006 at 2:38 pm | Posted in Dance, Mathematics, Painting, Reference | Leave a comment

A nearly forgotten method, allowing arbitrary precision and similar to long division, for finding square roots.

Omniglot

December 12, 2006 at 4:13 pm | Posted in Painting, Reference | Leave a comment

A very complete guide to the world’s writing systems.

Rules For Musicians

December 12, 2006 at 3:32 pm | Posted in Humor, Music, Painting, Reference | Leave a comment

Those who perform live, heed these words!

Grown Furniture

December 11, 2006 at 4:03 pm | Posted in Crafts, Painting, Reference, Robotics | Leave a comment

An introduction to growing your own furniture from real live trees.

77 Gift Ideas Under $77

December 11, 2006 at 3:58 pm | Posted in Commerce, Crafts, Painting, Reference | Leave a comment

Don’t overdo it this holiday season: just do it right.

The Best Unread Blogs of 2006

December 11, 2006 at 3:55 pm | Posted in Painting, Reference | Leave a comment

Many are excellent, some such much so that I read them.

SOS Children’s Wikipedia CD

November 26, 2006 at 5:09 am | Posted in Animation, CG, Education, Gratis, Painting, Reference | Leave a comment

A children’s charity assembles 2,500 hand-picked articles, selected for their educational strength.

Odds For Your Death

November 26, 2006 at 5:06 am | Posted in Chemistry, Eye Candy, Painting, Reference, Statistics, Vehicles | Leave a comment

Morbid fascination meets clean design aesthetics.

Free Computer Books

November 22, 2006 at 5:37 am | Posted in Advertising, Books, Dance, Mathematics, Painting, Reference, Technology | Leave a comment

Need computer books?  They have free ones.

OttoBib

November 22, 2006 at 5:36 am | Posted in Books, CG, Gratis, Painting, Reference, Webware | Leave a comment

In: ISBN.  Out: Formatted bibliographical entry (now in three flavors: MLA, APA, and delicious Chicago/Turabian!).

Printable Cardstock Models

November 21, 2006 at 7:10 pm | Posted in Architecture, CG, Crafts, Gratis, Mathematics, Reference, Robotics, Sculpture, Vehicles, Weapons | Leave a comment

From aircraft to unbuilt skyscrapers!

The Czar Tank: Wheeled Mastodons

November 21, 2006 at 6:59 pm | Posted in Fantastic, History, Physics, Reference, Vehicles, Weapons | Leave a comment

Before engineers “got it right,” some pretty strange tank designs were explored.  The Czar tank may be the strangest.

B213

November 20, 2006 at 7:50 am | Posted in Advertising, Books, CG, Gratis, Painting, Reference | Leave a comment

Self-described “Free Ebook Central.”  Legally or not, content is escaping into the internet.

Drugs In The Brain

November 17, 2006 at 8:36 am | Posted in Books, Chemistry, Drawing, Health, Painting, Reference, Webware | Leave a comment

Everyone’s eager to tell you that drugs are bad, but not many to describe exactly what each drug does, and what the consequences are.  This site does it with pretty pictures.

How To Sharpen Your Senses

November 17, 2006 at 2:29 am | Posted in Health, Painting, Reference | Leave a comment

Down below the mess of ads, the Ririan Project outlines how each of the senses can be sharpened or dulled.

A Timeline Of Timelines Of Timelines

November 15, 2006 at 4:53 am | Posted in History, Humor, Painting, Physics, Reference | Leave a comment

Spring 2004: The Trouble With Timelines is published by Cabinet Magazine. Simultaneously, an expanded version of the Timeline of Timelines is made available on the web.

Fall 2006: Ireneo’s Memory reposts the expanded version after discovering it on Metafilter.

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