Links to Items of Non-Professional Interest

Humor & Strangeness

• Langauge Inventor or Serial Killer? Can you tell?
• Here is the Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness
• Here is a picture from one of the so-called distant-view seats at the 2005 NCAA final four. I smell snake oil.
• The Apple Product Cycle
• Star Wars meets Bricks and Wafers.
• The Worst Album Art Ever. The page is in German, but if you scroll down to the bottom of the page, the links called Bildstrecke go to the various collections.
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• Heinrich Luebke and Babelfish have similar skills.
• The neighbor from hell somewhere in Georgia.
• A great illusion which points out the difference between perception and measurement.
• Some really wacked Mac Customizations and training tips on odd stuff.
• A place to find computer jargon explained. It is not cruft.
• Some honest M$ Word features. (Warning, a bit crude.)
• A funny set of pictures.
• For those who don't like motivational posters, there is despair.com. Try joining the Wailing list for some good laughs.
• Here are some Infrequently Asked Questions for those wondering about the deeper meanings.
• Watch out! Don't go out without your Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie! Hee hee!
• Totl.net has a bunch of gnurdly humor. Specifically
• Got Memes? See if you are infected with a Human Thought Virus.
• The E.U.N.U.C.H.S. project is worth a chortle.
• The Annals of Improbable Research let people know how thin the line between science and silliness can be.
• The Onion once from Madison, Wisconsin, but now from NYC (boooo) offers good parodies of the world around us.
• The Kooks Museum is a glimpse into the bizarre which makes News from the Wierd look normal.
• The very last page on the internet.
• A list of good taglines (or signatures or sigs or whatever you feel like calling them) for them that likes 'em. Who needs an address?

Ecology

• The Office of Inventorying and Monitoring gives all sorts of info about the State of the Species for the United States.

Politics

• The Vote Smart Home Page is supported by Project Vote Smart. Check it out! It'll allow you to make a choice based on voting records and the candidates' stands on issues (i.e. something other than the usual crud spooned out by advertisers, spin experts, and other peddlers of fantasy).
• For those interested in holding accountable those who would nuke Midland City to get a PAC contribution, look up everything from representitives' addresses to the full text of every bill introduced to Congress. Tell your congress(wo)man what you think!

Sports

• The Boston Red Sox, once thought to be on their way to the Philippines to be renamed the Manila Folders, are now the Champs. No longer will Sox fans have to ask "Why are we put here on this earth just to cheer for the Sox, suffer, and die?"
• The University of Louisville's Cardiac Cards shorten the lives of their fans by an average of 3 years. Note the careful use of dot com for the sports of an educational corporation, uh, I mean, institution.