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• The Register
• Slashdot
• Prospect Magazine

• Pipex Network Status
• Robin Walker's cable modem pages have more information than anybody could ever need about UK cable modems.
• The Karma Authoring Tool page.
• Eclipse looks like a pretty cool bit of software. A completely configurable framework for producing IDEs.
• The NSIS installer project is now at SourceForge.
• LinITX specialise in Linux on Mini-ITX kit.
• There's many a bargain to be had on the Scan Computers Today-Only page.
• How did I ever forget about User Friendly?
• The Museum of Hoaxes has some pretty funny content.
• I found a few good things in the past week, but my hosting company had locked me out, so I forgot about them. Oh well.
• Read the rants at jwz.org.
• If you want to look up an integer sequence, visit the The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
• The Online Books Page links to thousands of books available online. Many broken links, but a really useful resource.
• This guy is building his own cruise missile for $5000.
• Serious Lego. Includes Rubik Cube solver.
• Read about some Mass Extinctions.
• A site about Dumb Laws. No idea how accurate this stuff is, but it's quite funny.
• From the same people as the above...Dumb Warnings - a site collecting really stupid warning labels.
• LAKS make a very cool USB-drive wristwatch. I know nothing about these people, but the watch certainly looks pretty useful.
• Somebody has figured out how to boot the DamnSmallLinux version of Knoppix from a USB Memory Stick.
• The Risks Digest.
• Some development tools of interest: Dialogblocks is a dialog design tool for WxWindows. Lua is a pretty cool language with easy hooks to C.
• The GUI Toolkit, Framework Page is a useful resource if you want to choose a GUI toolkit.
• The Lua Users site has a useful wiki.
• The Selfbuild FAQ has a lot of DIY info.
• Synergy is a very useful looking app for sharing keyboard and mouse (+clipboard) between machines.
• A great exploration of why Extreme Programming is a piss poor idea for many projects.
• A useful resource for converting Outlook address data to most formats. Of particular interest is Outpod for producing bulk vCard exports.
• ephpod looks like a fairly useful app for working with an iPod from Windows.
• PodUtil is a little app that will let you download music from your iPod.
• The iPodlounge is the best iPod user site by some way.
• InstallBase looks like a promising cross-platform installer system.
• If you have a free (No Ties) Freeserve account that you don't use much you might have to reactivate it occasionally.
• A great site for people interested in the BBC Micro.
• Eric S Raymond strikes again with The Art of Unix Programming.
• There's a wealth of interesting articles about C++ on Herb Sutter's Publications page.
• How to write unmaintainable code.
• Want to wipe some PCs? Try this or this.
• There's some interesting video art here. "Spin" is definitely worth watching.
• If you need to find out which process is locking a file in Windows, look at WhoLockMe?.
• There's a good explanation of why centrifugal force is only required in non-inertial reference frames here.
• You can buy iPod batteries here.
• A great performance comparison of languages available on Win32 platforms can be found here.
• Learn to tie your shoelaces. No joke. This really is a better shoelace knot.
• If you want to know about Athlon processor variations look here.
• You must visit AnimalsOnTheUnderground.com.
• If you want to see just how good quicksort really is, look here.
• Ryan C. Gordon's PhysicsFS is pretty interesting.
• Retrobrowsers is building a collection of old web browsers. Excellent.
• Here is a selection of amusing GUI design tips.
• Here is a gallery of old GUIs.
• The Palm Graveyard documents the many ways to destroy PalmOS devices.
• Gumstix are very small linux machines.
• Neil Gaiman keeps a very interesting blog.
• Here are some images that play with your head.
• And here are some more.
• There are some useful guides to MegaTokyo here and here.
• Read about Gravity Probe B.
• Some crazy woman rides a motorbike through the Chernobyl "dead zone".
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• Some serious origami.
• How about a cake that looks like a thorax.
• SkyOS looks like an interesting OS and GUI mainly written by one man.
• A great blog of random links.
• Everybody must read Acts of Gord. No, really. Everybody must read all of it. Now.
• It's always worth checking memepool.
• See what people say on the Underground.
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