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Steve Lodefink returned to a parking garage and found his car mashed by some hit and run jerk. What did he do? He got all CSI on their asses. Who knew that hubcaps.org existed?

Dan bookmarked this site on how to use the Terraserver so he could remember it later, so I’m doing the same. Other things of interest are Jef P’s Acme Mapper, now with color images.

Thanks to Susan for telling me about zhongwen.com, really cool site for learning chinese characters. I’m not sure how long this particular brain worm will last, but until it does fades, I’ll have a nice online reference for my exploration of Chinese characters. If you know zero Chinese (like me), you can still use this […]

Soren Ragsdale added some interesting Google satellite images to the wikipedia, including an overall view of the Kennedy Space Center. Here is a much tighter view of the Vehicle Assembly Building, which is the building where Saturn V rockets were assembled, and now houses space shuttles as they are being fitted for launch. Totally blows […]

On a mailing list I subscribe to, Tom Duff pointed me at Conway’s Proof of the Free Will Theorem. From the background: In mid-2004, John Conway and Simon Kochen of Princeton University proved the Free-will Theorem. This theorem states “If there exist experimenters with (some) free will, then elementary particles also have (some) free will.” […]

While driving home today, I flipped on KQED, our local NPR affiliate and heard a voice I’m rather accustomed to hearing: the director of The Incredibles, Brad Bird. I get quite a few requests about what it’s like to work at Pixar, and you could do a lot worse than hearing it from Brad’s mouth. […]

Lisa has really got a lot on the ball. Enough so that I’m nominating this for the quote of the day: Art and thinking and all the Important Stuff is WAY too important to be left to the increasingly small number of people who are getting paid to do it. Way to go, Lisa.

The Voidspace Techie Blog has a brief review of Panda3D, an interactive graphics environment based on Python created by Disney and CMU’s Entertainment Technology Center. Looks cool. Haven’t done anything with it, but I thought I’d put in this link to remind me to have a look at it later.

EpiaWiki.org is trying to become the primary source of information on using the EPIA motherboards produced by VIA. This website currently runs on just such a motherboard, using FreeBSD. They are cool, capable, and run with very little power. All in all, a very good deal.

Google just added satellite imagery to their map services. Check out their view of Pixar. Too cool.

Apparently, goofing around with programming his cell phone. It’s cool that someone with such impressive skills chooses to waste his time doing things like I like to do. 🙂

Damn! That is one big catfish! Courtesy of Boing Boing.

Microsoft will be releasing six new fonts in 2006, and this preview shows some type specimens. I’m actually a big fan of Georgia and Verdana, and these seem to be similarly attractive. I’m even willing to overlook the creation of MS Comic Sans…

Slashdot has an interesting thread on the sources for interesting stuff to fill your iPod with. Some are podcasts, and some of them are more conventional audio sources, but there are some that I hadn’t considered before, and I suspect you’ll find something interesting in there too. Check it out.

Courtesy of the MAKE: Blog, check out Jeremy Wagstaff’s list of programs that can be run from USB thumb drives. Good stuff, including operating systems, mail, browsers and instant messaging.