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This is like the grown-up version of the old 80085 joke.

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It is inevitable as we approach the end of the year there will many lists summarizing nearly everything. From here you can find several lists of this and that... a perfectly good waste of time.

Guy wants to virtually bike across the country. This is brilliant, though the warp transitions from photo location to location would be annoying.

Took a little trip out to the wind farm.

PDF attached below, but the originating site has interactive flowcharts with a lot of great notes.

These videos are from the 1983 BBC program(me) Fun to Imagine, in which Richard Feynman talks about how mind-bogglingly awesome the world is. I haven't seen all of these yet, but my favorites so far are The Train and Seeing Things.

Got cable internet installed at my new house today (an agonizing 3 hour experience). I was getting closer to 4Mb/s up earlier. I'm looking forward to seeing how well it performs with more... practical... applications. My ratios are going to get a healthy boost, I think.

As much as I want to keep playing on the internet right now, I need to go do some more packing and get ready for a long sweaty day tomorrow.

Hell of Sand physics sim. (Resource intensive Java applet)

wxSand, a standalone variant.

Miniatur Wunderland

here

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