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FW: Good luck

2007-06-20T10:38:00.001-07:00

I do not normally forward something like this, except the advise is
excellent :)

----Original Message Follows----
From: "courtenay shular" <courtenaydrew@hotmail.com>
Subject: Good luck
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:03:26 +0000

This is without a doubt one of the nicest good luck forwards I have
received. Hope it works for you -- and me!
You have 6 minutes

There's some mighty fine advice in these words, even if you're not
superstitious. This has been sent To you for good luck from the Anthony
Robbins organization. It has been sent around the world ten times so Far.

Do not keep this message.

This must leave your hands in 6 MINUTES. Otherwise you will get a very
unpleasant surprise. This is true, even if you are not superstitious,
agnostic, or otherwise faith impaired.

ONE.Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their
conversational skills will be as important as any other.

THREE.Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.

FOUR. When you say, "I love you ," mean it

FIVE.When you say, "I'm sorry," look the person in the eye.

SIX. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.

SEVEN.Believe in love at first sight.

EIGHT.Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have
much.

NINE. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way
to live life completely.

TEN.. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.

ELEVEN. Don't judge people by their relatives.

TWELVE.Talk slowly but think quickly.

THIRTEEN. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile
and ask, "Why do you want to know?"

FOURTEEN. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great
risk.

FIFTEEN.Say "bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.

SIXTEEN. When you lose, don't lose the lesson !

SEVENTEEN. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and
responsibility for all your actions.

EIGHTEEN.Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

NINETEEN.When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to
correct it.

TWENTY.Smile when picking up the phone The caller will hear it in your
voice.

TWENTY-ONE.Spend some time alone.

Now, here's the FUN part!
Send this to at least 5 people and your life will improve. 1-4 people: Your
life will improve
slightly.
5-9 people: Your life will improve to your liking.
9-14 people: You will have at least 5 surprises in the next 3 weeks

15 and above: Your life will improve drastically and everything you ever
dreamed of will begin to take shape.

A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
Do not keep this message

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New Years +1

2005-01-02T20:55:00.000-08:00

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New years eve

2005-01-01T12:30:00.000-08:00

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New Years Eve 2004

2004-12-31T22:18:00.000-08:00

The cold

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xmas +3

2004-12-28T21:15:00.000-08:00

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Christmas Eve -3

2004-12-21T15:40:00.000-08:00

Pa never had much compassion for the lazy or those who squandered their means and then never had enough for the necessities. But for those who were genuinely in need, his heart was as big as all outdoors. It was from him that I learned the greatest joy in life comes from giving, not from receiving.

It was Christmas Eve 1881. I was fifteen years old and feeling like the world had caved in on me because there just hadn't been enough money to buy me the rifle that I'd wanted for Christmas. We did the chores early that night for some reason. I just figured Pa wanted a little extra time so we could read in the Bible.

After supper was over I took my boots off and stretched out in front of the fireplace and waited for Pa to get down the old Bible. I was still feeling sorry for myself and, to be honest, I wasn't in much of a mood to read Scriptures. But Pa didn't get the Bible, instead he bundled up again and went outside. I couldn't figure it out because we had already done all the chores. I didn't worry about it long though, I was too busy wallowing in self-pity. Soon Pa came back in. It was a cold clear night out and there was ice in his beard. "Come on, Matt," he said. "Bundle up good, it's cold out tonight." I was really upset then. Not only wasn't I getting the rifle for Christmas, now Pa was dragging me out in the cold, and for no earthly reason that I could see. We'd already done all the chores, and I couldn't think of anything else that needed doing, especially not on a night like this. But I knew Pa was not very patient at one dragging one's feet when he'd told them to do something, so I got up and put my boots back on and got my cap, coat, and mittens. Ma gave me a mysterious smile as I opened the door to leave the house. Something was up, but I didn't know what.

Outside, I became even more dismayed. There in front of the house was the work team, already hitched to the big sled. Whatever it was we were going to do wasn't going to be a short, quick, little job. I could tell. We never hitched up this sled unless we were going to haul a big load. Pa was already up on the seat, reins in hand. I reluctantly climbed up beside him.

The cold was already biting at me. I wasn't happy.

When I was on, Pa pulled the sled around the house and stopped in front of the woodshed. He got off and I followed. "I think we'll put on the high sideboards," he said. "Here, help me." The high sideboards! It had been a bigger job than I wanted to do with just the low sideboards on, but whatever it was we were going to do would be a lot bigger with the high sideboards on.

After we had exchanged the sideboards, Pa went into the woodshed and came out with an armload of wood -- the wood I'd spent all summer hauling down from the mountain, and then all Fall sawing into blocks and splitting. What was he doing? Finally I said something. "Pa," I asked, "what are you doing?"

"You been by the Widow Jensen's lately?" he asked. The Widow Jensen lived about two miles down the road. Her husband had died a year or so before and left her with three children, the oldest being eight. Sure, I'd been by, but so what?

"Yeah," I said, "Why?"

"I rode by just today," Pa said. "Little Jakey was out digging around in the woodpile trying to find a few chips. They're out of wood, Matt."

That was all he said and then he turned and went back into the woodshed for another armload of wood. I followed him. We loaded the sled so high that I began to wonder if the horses would be able to pull it. Finally, Pa called a halt to our loading, then we went to the smoke house and Pa took down a big ham and a side of bacon. He handed them to me and told me to put them in the sled and wait. When he returned he was carrying a sack of flour over his right shoulder and a smaller sack of something in his left hand.
"What's in the little sack?" I asked. "Shoes. They're out of shoes. Little Jakey just had gunny sacks wrapped around his feet when he was out in the woodpile this morning. I got the children a little candy too. It just wouldn't be Christmas without a little candy."

We rode the two miles to the Widow Jensen's pretty much in silence. I tried to think through what Pa was doing. We didn't have much by worldly standards. Of course, we did have a big woodpile, though most of what was left now was still in the form of logs that I would have to saw into blocks and split before we could use it. We also had meat and flour, so we could spare that, but I knew we didn't have any money, so why was Pa buying them shoes and candy?

Really, why was he doing any of this? The Widow Jensen had closer neighbors than us; it shouldn't have been our concern. We came in from the blind side of the Jensen house and unloaded the wood as quietly as possible. Then we took the meat and flour and shoes to the door. We knocked. The door opened a crack and a timid voice said, "Who is it?" "Lucas Miles, Ma'am, and my son, Matt. Could we come in for a bit?"

The Widow Jensen opened the door to let us in. She had a blanket wrapped around her shoulders. The children were wrapped in another and were sitting in front of the fireplace by a very small fire that hardly gave off any heat at all. The Widow Jensen fumbled with a match and finally lit the lamp.

"We brought you a few things, Ma'am," Pa said and set down the sack of flour. I put the meat on the table. Then Pa handed her the sack that had the shoes in it. She opened it hesitantly and took the shoes out one pair at a time. There was a pair for her and one for each of the children -- sturdy shoes, the best, shoes that would last. I watched her carefully.

She bit her lower lip to keep it from trembling and then tears filled her eyes and started running down her cheeks. She looked up at Pa like she wanted to say something, but it wouldn't come out.

"We brought a load of wood too, Ma'am," Pa said. He turned to me and said, "Matt, go bring in enough to last awhile. Let's get that fire up to size and heat this place up." I wasn't the same person when I went back out to bring in the wood. I had a big lump in my throat, and as much as I hate to admit it, there were tears in my eyes too. In my mind I kept seeing those three kids huddled around the fireplace and their mother standing there with tears running down her cheeks with so much gratitude in her heart that she couldn't speak. My heart swelled within me and a joy that I'd never known before filled my soul. I had given at Christmas many times before, but never when it had made so much difference. I could see we were literally saving the lives of these people.

I soon had the fire blazing and everyone's spirits soared. The kids started giggling when Pa handed them each a piece of candy and the Widow Jensen looked on with a smile that probably hadn't crossed her face for a long time. She finally turned to us. "God bless you," she said. "I know the Lord has sent you. The children and I have been praying that he would send one of his angels to spare us."

In spite of myself, the lump returned to my throat and the tears welled up in my eyes again. I'd never thought of Pa in those exact terms before, but after the Widow Jensen mentioned it I could see that it was probably true. I was sure that a better man than Pa had never walked the earth. I started remembering all the times he had gone out of his way for Ma and me, and many others. The list seemed endless as I thought on it.

Pa insisted that everyone try on the shoes before we left. I was amazed when they all fit and I wondered how he had known what sizes to get. Then I guessed that if he was on an errand for the Lord that the Lord would make sure he got the right sizes. Tears were running down the Widow Jensen's face again when we stood up to leave. Pa took each of the kids in his big arms and gave them a hug. They clung to him and didn't want us to go. I could see that they missed their Pa, and I was glad that I still had mine.

At the door Pa turned to Widow Jensen and said, "The Mrs. wanted me to invite you and the children over for Christmas dinner tomorrow. The turkey will be more than the three of us can eat, and a man can get cantankerous if he has to eat turkey for too many meals. We'll be by to get you about eleven. It'll be nice to have some little ones around again. Matt, here, hasn't been little for quite a spell." I was the youngest. My two brothers and two sisters had all married and had moved away. Widow Jensen nodded and said, "Thank you, Brother Miles. I don't have to say, 'May the Lord bless you,' I know for certain that He will."

Out on the sled I felt a warmth that came from deep within and I didn't even notice the cold. When we had gone a ways, Pa turned to me and said, "Matt, I want you to know something. Your ma and me have been tucking a little money away here and there all year so we could buy that rifle for you, but we didn't have quite enough. Then yesterday a man who owed me a little money from years back came by to make things square. Your ma and me were real excited, thinking that now we could get you that rifle, and I started into town this morning to do just that. But on the way I saw little Jakey out scratching in the woodpile with his feet wrapped in those gunny sacks and I knew what I had to do. Son, I spent the money for shoes and a little candy for those children. I hope you understand."

I understood, and my eyes became wet with tears again. I understood very well, and I was so glad Pa had done it. Now the rifle seemed very low on my list of priorities. Pa had given me a lot more. He had given me the look on the Widow Jensen's face and the radiant smiles of her three children.

For the rest of my life, whenever I saw any of the Jensens, or split a block of wood, I remembered. And remembering brought back that same joy I felt riding home beside Pa that night. Pa had given me much more than arifle that night, he had given me the best Christmas of my life.

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Christmas -4

2004-12-21T14:42:00.000-08:00

Pa never had much compassion for the lazy or those who squandered their means and then never had enough for the necessities. But for those who were genuinely in need, his heart was as big as all outdoors. It was from him that I learned the greatest joy in life comes from giving, not from receiving.

It was Christmas Eve 1881. I was fifteen years old and feeling like the world had caved in on me because there just hadn't been enough money to buy me the rifle that I'd wanted for Christmas. We did the chores early that night for some reason. I just figured Pa wanted a little extra time so
we could read in the Bible.

After supper was over I took my boots off and stretched out in front of the fireplace and waited for Pa to get down the old Bible. I was still feeling sorry for myself and, to be honest, I wasn't in much of a mood to read Scriptures. But Pa didn't get the Bible, instead he bundled up again and went outside. I couldn't figure it out because we had already done all the chores. I didn't worry about it long though, I was too busy wallowing in self-pity. Soon Pa came back in. It was a cold clear night out and there was ice in his beard. "Come on, Matt," he said. "Bundle up good, it's cold out tonight." I was really upset then. Not only wasn't I getting the rifle for Christmas, now Pa was dragging me out in the cold, and for no earthly reason that I could see. We'd already done all the chores, and I couldn't think of anything else that needed doing, especially not on a night like this. But I knew Pa was not very patient at one dragging one's feet when he'd told them to do something, so I got up and put my boots back on and got my cap, coat, and mittens. Ma gave me a mysterious smile as I opened the door to leave the house. Something was up, but I didn't know what.

Outside, I became even more dismayed. There in front of the house was the work team, already hitched to the big sled. Whatever it was we were going to do wasn't going to be a short, quick, little job. I could tell. We never hitched up this sled unless we were going to haul a big load. Pa was already up on the seat, reins in hand. I reluctantly climbed up beside him.

The cold was already biting at me. I wasn't happy.

When I was on, Pa pulled the sled around the house and stopped in front of the woodshed. He got off and I followed. "I think we'll put on the high sideboards," he said. "Here, help me." The high sideboards! It had been a bigger job than I wanted to do with just the low sideboards on, but whatever it was we were going to do would be a lot bigger with the high sideboards on.

After we had exchanged the sideboards, Pa went into the woodshed and came out with an armload of wood -- the wood I'd spent all summer hauling down from the mountain, and then all Fall sawing into blocks and splitting. What was he doing? Finally I said something. "Pa," I asked, "what are you doing?"

"You been by the Widow Jensen's lately?" he asked. The Widow Jensen lived about two miles down the road. Her husband had died a year or so before and left her with three children, the oldest being eight. Sure, I'd been by, but so what?

"Yeah," I said, "Why?"

"I rode by just today," Pa said. "Little Jakey was out digging around in the woodpile trying to find a few chips. They're out of wood, Matt."

That was all he said and then he turned and went back into the woodshed for another armload of wood. I followed him. We loaded the sled so high that I began to wonder if the horses would be able to pull it. Finally, Pa called a halt to our loading, then we went to the smoke house and Pa took down a big ham and a side of bacon. He handed them to me and told me to put them in the sled and wait. When he returned he was carrying a sack of flour over his right shoulder and a smaller sack of something in his left hand.
"What's in the little sack?" I asked. "Shoes. They're out of shoes. Little Jakey just had gunny sacks wrapped around his feet when he was out in the woodpile this morning. I got the children a little candy too. It just wouldn't be Christmas without a little candy."

We rode the two miles to the Widow Jensen's pretty much in silence. I tried to think through what Pa was doing. We didn't have much by worldly standards. Of course, we did have a big woodpile, though most of what was left now was still in the form of logs that I would have to saw into blocks and split before we could use it. We also had meat and flour, so we could spare that, but I knew we didn't have any money, so why was Pa buying them shoes and candy?

Really, why was he doing any of this? The Widow Jensen had closer neighbors than us; it shouldn't have been our concern. We came in from the blind side of the Jensen house and unloaded the wood as quietly as possible. Then
we took the meat and flour and shoes to the door. We knocked. The door opened a crack and a timid voice said, "Who is it?" "Lucas Miles, Ma'am, and my son, Matt. Could we come in for a bit?"

The Widow Jensen opened the door to let us in. She had a blanket wrapped around her shoulders. The children were wrapped in another and were sitting in front of the fireplace by a very small fire that hardly gave off any heat at all. The Widow Jensen fumbled with a match and finally lit the lamp.

"We brought you a few things, Ma'am," Pa said and set down the sack of flour. I put the meat on the table. Then Pa handed her the sack that had the shoes in it. She opened it hesitantly and took the shoes out one pair at a time. There was a pair for her and one for each of the children -- sturdy shoes, the best, shoes that would last. I watched her carefully.

She bit her lower lip to keep it from trembling and then tears filled her eyes and started running down her cheeks. She looked up at Pa like she wanted to say something, but it wouldn't come out.

"We brought a load of wood too, Ma'am," Pa said. He turned to me and said, "Matt, go bring in enough to last awhile. Let's get that fire up to size and heat this place up." I wasn't the same person when I went back out to bring in the wood. I had a big lump in my throat, and as much as I hate to admit it, there were tears in my eyes too. In my mind I kept seeing those three kids huddled around the fireplace and their mother standing there with tears running down her cheeks with so much gratitude in her heart that she couldn't speak. My heart swelled within me and a joy that I'd never known before filled my soul. I had given at Christmas many times before, but never when it had made so much difference. I could see we were literally saving the lives of these people.

I soon had the fire blazing and everyone's spirits soared. The kids started giggling when Pa handed them each a piece of candy and the Widow Jensen looked on with a smile that probably hadn't crossed her face for a long time. She finally turned to us. "God bless you," she said. "I know the Lord has sent you. The children and I have been praying that he would send one of his angels to spare us."

In spite of myself, the lump returned to my throat and the tears welled up in my eyes again. I'd never thought of Pa in those exact terms before, but after the Widow Jensen mentioned it I could see that it was probably true. I was sure that a better man than Pa had never walked the earth. I started remembering all the times he had gone out of his way for Ma and me, and many others. The list seemed endless as I thought on it.

Pa insisted that everyone try on the shoes before we left. I was amazed when they all fit and I wondered how he had known what sizes to get. Then I guessed that if he was on an errand for the Lord that the Lord would make sure he got the right sizes. Tears were running down the Widow Jensen's face again when we stood up to leave. Pa took each of the kids in his big arms and gave them a hug. They clung to him and didn't want us to go. I could see that they missed their Pa, and I was glad that I still had mine.

At the door Pa turned to Widow Jensen and said, "The Mrs. wanted me to invite you and the children over for Christmas dinner tomorrow. The turkey will be more than the three of us can eat, and a man can get cantankerous if he has to eat turkey for too many meals. We'll be by to get you about eleven. It'll be nice to have some little ones around again. Matt, here, hasn't been little for quite a spell." I was the youngest. My two brothers and two sisters had all married and had moved away. Widow Jensen nodded and said, "Thank you, Brother Miles. I don't have to say, 'May the Lord bless you,' I know for certain that He will."

Out on the sled I felt a warmth that came from deep within and I didn't even notice the cold. When we had gone a ways, Pa turned to me and said, "Matt, I want you to know something. Your ma and me have been tucking a little money away here and there all year so we could buy that rifle for you, but we didn't have quite enough. Then yesterday a man who owed me a little money from years back came by to make things square. Your ma and me were real excited, thinking that now we could get you that rifle, and I started into town this morning to do just that. But on the way I saw little Jakey out scratching in the woodpile with his feet wrapped in those gunny sacks and I knew what I had to do. Son, I spent the money for shoes and a little candy for those children. I hope you understand."

I understood, and my eyes became wet with tears again. I understood very well, and I was so glad Pa had done it. Now the rifle seemed very low on my list of priorities. Pa had given me a lot more. He had given me the look on the Widow Jensen's face and the radiant smiles of her three children.

For the rest of my life, whenever I saw any of the Jensens, or split a block of wood, I remembered. And remembering brought back that same joy I felt riding home beside Pa that night. Pa had given me much more than arifle that night, he had given me the best Christmas of my life.

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Christmas -6

2004-12-18T23:43:00.000-08:00

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Xmas eve -7

2004-12-17T20:39:00.000-08:00

Lights Galore

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Xmas Fun

2004-12-17T00:59:00.000-08:00

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Santa Claus

2004-12-16T09:51:00.000-08:00

I remember my first Christmas adventure with Grandma. I was just a kid. I remember tearing across town on my bike to visit her on the day my big sister dropped the bomb:

"There is no Santa Claus," she jeered. "Even dummies know that!"

My Grandma was not the gushy kind, never had been. I fled to her that day because I knew she would be straight with me. I knew Grandma always told the truth, and I knew that the truth always went down a whole lot easier when swallowed with one of her "world-famous" cinnamon buns. I knew they were world-famous, because Grandma said so. It had to be true.

Grandma was home, and the buns were still warm. Between bites, I told her everything. She was ready for me. "No Santa Claus?" she snorted...."Ridiculous! Don't believe it. That rumor has been going around for years, and it makes me mad, plain mad!! Now, put on your coat, and let's go."

"Go? Go where, Grandma?" I asked. I hadn't even finished my second world-famous cinnamon bun.

"Where" turned out to be Kerby's General Store, the one store in town that had a little bit of just about everything. As we walked through its doors, Grandma handed me ten dollars. That was a bundle in those days. "Take this money," she said, "and buy something for someone who needs it. I'll wait for you in the car." Then she turned and walked out of Kerby's.

I was only eight years old. I'd often gone shopping with my mother, but never had I shopped for anything all by myself.

The store seemed big and crowded, full of people scrambling to finish their Christmas shopping. For a few moments I just stood there, confused, clutching that ten-dollar bill, wondering what to buy, and who on earth to buy it for. I thought of everybody I knew: my family, my friends, my neighbors, the kids at school, the people who went to my church.

I was just about thought out, when I suddenly thought of Bobby Decker.

He was a kid with bad breath and messy hair, and he sat right behind me in Mrs. Pollock's grade-two class. Bobby Decker didn't have a coat. I knew that because he never went out to recess during the winter. His mother always wrote a note, telling the teacher that he had a cough, but all we kids knew that Bobby Decker didn't have a cough; he didn't have a good coat. I fingered the ten-dollar bill with growing excitement. I would buy Bobby Decker a coat!

I settled on a red corduroy one that had a hood to it. It looked real warm, and he would like that.

"Is this a Christmas present for someone?" the lady behind the counter asked kindly, as I laid my ten dollars down.

"Yes, ma'am," I replied shyly. "It's for Bobby."

The nice lady smiled at me, as I told her about how Bobby really needed a good winter coat. I didn't get any change, but she put the coat in a bag, smiled again, and wished me a Merry Christmas.

That evening, Grandma helped me wrap the coat (a little tag fell out of the coat, and Grandma tucked it in her Bible) in Christmas paper and ribbons and wrote, "To Bobby, From Santa Claus" on it. Grandma said that Santa always insisted on secrecy.

Then she drove me over to Bobby Decker's house, explaining as we went that I was now and forever officially, one of Santa's helpers.

Grandma parked down the street from Bobby's house, and she and I crept noiselessly and hid in the bushes by his front walk. Then Grandma gave me a nudge. "All right, Santa Claus," she whispered, "get going."

I took a deep breath, dashed for his front door, threw the present down on his step, pounded his door and flew back to the safety of the bushes and Grandma.

Together we waited breathlessly in the darkness for the front door to open. Finally it did, and there stood Bobby.

Fifty years haven't dimmed the thrill of those moments spent
shivering, beside my Grandma, in Bobby Decker's bushes.

That night, I realized that those awful rumors about Santa Claus were just what Grandma said they were: ridiculous. Santa was alive and well, and we were on his team. I still have the Bible, with the coat tag tucked inside: $19.95.

May you always have LOVE to share, HEALTH to spare and FRIENDS that care...

And may you always believe in the magic of Santa Claus!

Merry Christmas!

Virtual girl contest

http://www.missdigitalworld.com/MDWContest/showpage/26

Flash Archive

http://www.theflasharchive.com/f/f-289.htm

MenÂs Lap Pillow

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6717610/?GT1=5936

105 year old smoker Â How long would she have lasted if she did not smoke?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6717452/

Benz stuff

http://www3.mercedes-benz.com/webspecials/2004/porter/index.php

Bored? Caution NOT all links PC

2004-12-14T10:47:00.000-08:00

Guernica 3D

http://www.cavecybernation.com/portfolio/guernica.html

Elektra sequel

http://www.elektramovie.com/shell.php?cc=ca

Games!

Slingshot Santa

http://www.fetchfido.co.uk/games/slingshot_santa/slingshot_santa.htm

Unstick that tongue

http://games.hostway.com/holiplay/games_licknbowl.asp

Come Clean for the New Year

http://www.comeclean.com/

Bubble Bobble 2

http://www.plsthx.com/disp.php?type=g&id=23

Edible Books Contest

http://colophon.com/ediblebooks/photos.html

Super Soaker Flame Thrower

http://www.plsthx.com/disp.php?type=m&id=95

Smash my Phone

http://www.smashmyphone.com/previews.htm

Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency

http://www.fvza.org/

Bored? Caution NOT all links PC

http://www.boredatwork.com/

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

http://www.dribbleglass.com/

http://www.fark.com/

http://www.collegehumor.com/

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/

Swiss Army Knife w/Memory

2004-12-13T13:25:00.000-08:00

Swiss Army Knife w/Memory

http://www.victorinox.com/newsite/en/produkte/produktdetails/swissmemory/swissmemory.htm

Marboxian

http://amfilms.hash.com/search/entry.php?entry=795

Vacant Planet Â shades of Douglas Adams

http://www.vacantplanet.com/about.htm

Swf scripting

http://www.actionscript.com/flashweek/00000417.html

Games

Snowman Jump

http://www.miniusa.com/crm/jumpgame/snowman_jumpgame.jsp

Gravity

http://homokaasu.org/gasgames/game.gas?21

Pengo

http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d3rebas/creative/martinsoft/pengo.html

Kill Bill

http://kill-bill.cz/game/index.php

Inuyasha Game

http://www.adultswim.com/games/inuyasha_demon/

Holiday Games

2004-12-11T11:57:00.000-08:00

Xmas Games

http://www.trouble.co.uk/12dazeofxmas/game.htm

http://www.boston.com/yourlife/getwrapped/game/?p1=InGetWrapped_SnowplowGame

Eye Foolery
http://www.grand-illusions.com/dragon.htm

Origami Underground
http://underground.zork.net/female_anatomy.html#Dollar%20Bill%20Vagina

In the Mac World
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,50688,00.html

The church of Spock of Latter-Day Science Officers
http://www.aalgar.com/aalcorp/2003/082503/index.html

A Christmas story

2004-12-07T11:17:00.000-08:00

With Christmas now coming closer each day I'm sending you this little
story..........

Not long ago and far away, Santa was getting ready for
his annual trip...but there were problems everywhere.
Four of his elves got sick, and the trainee elves did not produce the toys
as fast as the regular
ones so Santa was beginning to feel the pressure of being behind schedule.
Then, Mrs. Claus told Santa that her mom was coming to visit. This stressed
Santa even more.
When he went to harness the reindeer, he found that three of them were about
to give birth and two had jumped the fence and were out, heaven knows where.
More Stress.
Then when he began to load the sleigh, one of the boards cracked and the toy
bag fell to the ground and scattered the toys.
So, frustrated, Santa went into the house for a cup of coffee and a shot of
whiskey. When he went to the cupboard, he found the elves had hidden the
liquor and there was nothing to drink. In his frustration, he dropped the
coffee pot and it broke into hundreds of little pieces all over the kitchen
floor.
He went to get the broom and found that mice had eaten the strawit was made
from.
Just then the doorbell rang and Santa cussed on his way to the door. He
opened the door and there was a little angel with a great big Christmas
tree. The angel said, "Where would you like to put this tree Santa?"
And that my friends, is how the little angel came to be on top of the
Christmas tree.

--

Sunday

2004-12-05T17:02:00.000-08:00

Periodic table
http://blake.prohosting.com/go2jvp/downloads.html

Hubble Home
http://hubble.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Chandra Home
http://chandra.harvard.edu/about/axaf_mission.html

Family Science _ shades of Mr. Wizard
http://scienceforfamilies.allinfo-about.com/

The real Mr. Wizard
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/W/htmlW/watchmrwiz/watchmrwiz.htm
http://www.profzounds.com/wiz.html

Mr. Wizard - NIKE version - watch movie
http://www.friendswithyou.com/mrwizard/

Homework help
http://www.thwww.com/mrwizard/homework.htm

calculators
http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html

Math from NASA
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/John/math.htm

Math Software
http://math.haifa.ac.il./msoftware.html

Classics MIT
http://classics.mit.edu/

Dictionary of Dictionaries
http://www.free-soft.ro/index-en.html

NOVA
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/

Hawkings Universe
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html

String theory
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/

Red Gold
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/redgold/

Sci Tech
http://www.scitechresources.gov/

Sky and Telescope
http://skyandtelescope.com/

Tate Galleries
http://www.tate.org.uk/home/default.htm

The Metropolitan Museum of art
http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp

The Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm

Think Quest
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/index.html

saturday

2004-12-04T15:01:00.000-08:00

Nice flying Shooter

http://www.freeworldgroup.com/games/alpha/index.html

the world in islands Â Larry Niven you should get credit

http://guide.theemiratesnetwork.com/living/dubai/the_world_islands.php

Shroom Home page?

http://pbskids.org/boohbah/dance.html

good game

http://www.crazysleigh.com/

Relate to this? I am sure he knows how childbirth really feels.

http://www.wftv.com/news/3957734/detail.html

truly shitty art

http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/fiers/fiers1-9-01.asp

PLR Blog

http://pathologicallier.blogspot.com/

pimp 101

http://www.heavy.com/index.php?channel=americanPimp?partner=aff2

Why women live longer than men

http://www.gophergas.com/funstuff/womenlivelonger2.htm

Only in Texas

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0002/20041124/0848679886.htm

Terminator 1.0

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65885,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

Slang in the city

http://www.cox-internet.com/dabster/slang.htm

Aqua pet for your PC

http://www.myaquapet.com/

teton timeline

http://www.dribbleglass.com/boobs/index.htm

castlevania in flash

http://flashkof.free.fr/castle/intro.swf

cell phone accessory

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004550912,00.html

Friday

2004-12-03T10:36:00.000-08:00

Spy puppy?

http://www.cottonelle.com/puppyfun/webpuppy.asp

games

http://analogik.org/index.php?i=games

Saint Claus

http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=23

get happy?

http://www.gethappy.com/more1.html

celebrity Tongue

http://users2.ev1.net/~binker/New/new.htm

celebrity Tongue magazine

http://users2.ev1.net/~binker/New/jennajameson3454.jpg

global shipper

http://web.dachser.com/deu/service/global_player/spiel.htm

poodle fitness

http://littlefuckingrayofsunshine.com/poodle_fitness.mov

Human Pacman Â Singapore

http://mixedreality.nus.edu.sg/research-HP-infor.htm

spaghetti bridge construction

http://www.citg.tudelft.nl/gallery/spagh27112004

music videos

http://www.benedenpeil.nl/index.php?av&Benedenpeiler=e2cc796fd54181789f5df22010fec160

Tuesday

2004-11-23T15:03:00.000-08:00

Berkley GROKs Â All the science thatÂs fit to air

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~clgroks/

Tse Chen Ling Buddhist Lectures

http://www.archive.org/audio/collection.php?collection=tse_chen_ling

Naropa University Audio Archive

http://www.naropa.edu/audioarchive/

AV Geeks

http://www.avgeeks.com/

Sci-Fi Channel archive

http://www.scifi.com/archive/

Pirelli Calendar

http://www.pirellical.com/

Britney Spears guide to semiconductor physics

http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm

Retro Future

http://www.retrofuture.com/

Info World

http://www.infoworld.com/

CanadaÂs Turkey site

http://www.turkeytuesdays.ca/

Free MP3 books

http://www.book555.com/book555_com/index.asp

Privacy tools

http://www.epic.org/privacy/tools.html

Chasm Game

http://www.abc.net.au/gameon/chasm/

Alberta Histories collection

http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/lh_home.asp

FREE Books Please Distribute

http://www.gutenberg.net/cdproject/

Monday

2004-11-22T21:45:00.000-08:00

Gadget freaks

http://www.designnews.com/index.asp?layout=siteInfoWebzine&view=Detail&doc_id=129552

Scientific American

http://www.sciam.com/

Computer Graphics World

http://cgw.pennnet.com/home.cfm

Tech TV Vault

http://www.g4techtv.com/techtvvault/index.html

sunday

2004-11-21T09:34:00.000-08:00

The best wedding cake?

http://lifestyle.sympatico.msn.ca/Bride/Articles/How+do+you+want+your+wedding+cake.htm

The power of Flash

http://www.complexification.net/

Online cards

http://www.dribbleglass.com/subpages/cardspage.htm

Teacher in England

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041119/od_afp/britain_education_meteor_041119000654

Honda Robot

http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/3d/

Claymation shorts

http://www.fat-pie.com/clay.htm

Backyard Baseball

http://www.netstupidity.com/game/Backyard_Baseball/80/

cheap domain

http://registrar.godaddy.com/default.asp?isc=chumgdtxt

Sunday

2004-11-21T00:17:00.000-08:00

Friday

2004-11-19T22:18:00.000-08:00

http://www.winamp.com/player/bundle.php

http://www.lengele.com/CaraySnake.html

http://www.heavy.com/index.php?videoPath=/current/teriaki/cartoonz/Cartoonz3_Enforcer

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/tobby.html

http://www.kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=928

http://213.186.36.10/~al/alstudio/cv/en.htm

http://www.theflashgames.com/clown_killer-swf.html

http://www.imgag.com/product/full/ap/3067907/graphic1.swf

http://www.rathergood.com/morris_dancers/

http://nciv.flabber.nl/index.php?nciv_id=327605

http://www.eyegrid.com/shutthebox/shutthebox.html

http://www.adamszrotek.com/puloweren.htm

http://content.collegehumor.com/media/movies/pet_011.mpg

http://home.tiscali.be/jan.meinders/Voodoo.mpeg

http://www.kartvader.com/Video/KartVader_BuckleUp.wmv

http://www.nekvel.nl/clips2004/sinterklaas.wmv

http://www.metalstorm.com/04_electronic_prototype.html

http://www.torisukoshiro.com/juicypanic/

http://users.pandora.be/bakkerijcoussens/others/supercop.wmv

http://www.wowwee.com/robosapien/robo1/robomain.html#

2004-11-11T07:04:00.000-08:00

http://www.enwhore.com/viewmovie.php?mid=261

http://www.engadget.com/entry/7166385640773718/

http://www.lamelos.nl/indexWindow.html

http://abum.com/?show_media=2276

http://www.sega.com/gamesite/supermonkeyball2/minigame/

http://www.fark.com/

http://www.newgrounds.com/

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/201215

http://www.die.net/earth/

http://www.rathergood.com/katjusha/

http://www.funny365.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1099833789&archive=&start_from=&ucat=4&

http://daveola.com/Pages/Ramen/Reviews.html

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html

Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals

2004-11-07T12:55:00.000-08:00

http://www.enwhore.com/viewmovie.php?mid=261

http://www.engadget.com/entry/7166385640773718/

http://www.lamelos.nl/indexWindow.html

http://abum.com/?show_media=2276

http://www.sega.com/gamesite/supermonkeyball2/minigame/

http://www.fark.com/

http://www.newgrounds.com/

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/201215

Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals

2004-11-06T21:14:00.000-08:00

http://www.usagichan2.com/Sakura2004/index.html

http://www.usagichan2.com/Sakura2004/cosplay006.htm

http://sakuracon.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8660

http://www.eyezmaze.com/pelpet/v0/

http://www.fetchfido.co.uk/games/games_dump3/simpsons_mill.swf

http://www.theflashgames.com/virtual_keyboard-swf.html

http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2005/STUVWXYZ/StarWarsEpisode3/trailer.php

http://www.tremor.com/news/news_flashgame.aspx

http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=information

http://seneca.rsad.edu/animations/AfterYou.html

http://freegan.info/

http://www.shanklinsailingclub.btinternet.co.uk/ali/gadgets.htm

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/11/04/high.card.ap/index.html

http://www.heavy.com/index.php?channel=teriaki_strips&partner=aff2

Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals

2004-11-06T14:36:00.000-08:00

http://travelcanada.sympatico.msn.ca/TravelNews/ContentPosting.aspx?contentid=fa8220930f304c8cb8e9945895343fff&show=True&number=5&showbyline=False&subtitle=&abc=abc

http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/bloodsyrup

http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/drawntogether/

http://turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/chess.html

http://www.kozothehippo.com/snowman.htm

http://homepage1.nifty.com/koshifumi/fdc-02.html

http://www.starz.com/se/features/hareraising/template.html?fname=index.html

http://www.liquidgeneration.com/games/ashlee_dance.asp

http://www.minushi.com/

http://www.actionflash.com/celebrity_fight_club.php

http://www.kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=613

http://www.walkingincircles.com/

http://www.skt-products.com/contents/gokidashSpEdition12.swf

http://www.tycoon.mxm.cx/files/bananas/

http://multimedia.honda-eu.com/diesel/game/deploy/game.html

http://www.nos.nl/nieuws/artikelen/2004/11/2/agentneergeschoten.html

http://pya.cc/pyaimg/img200410/2004102216.swf

http://www.mashimaro.com/eng/gallery/flash_opening.asp

Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals

2004-11-06T11:35:00.000-08:00

http://travelcanada.sympatico.msn.ca/TravelNews/ContentPosting.aspx?contentid=fa8220930f304c8cb8e9945895343fff&show=True&number=5&showbyline=False&subtitle=&abc=abc

http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/bloodsyrup

http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/drawntogether/

http://turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/chess.html

http://www.kozothehippo.com/snowman.htm

http://homepage1.nifty.com/koshifumi/fdc-02.html

http://www.starz.com/se/features/hareraising/template.html?fname=index.html

http://www.liquidgeneration.com/games/ashlee_dance.asp

http://www.minushi.com/

http://www.actionflash.com/celebrity_fight_club.php

http://www.kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=613

http://www.walkingincircles.com/

http://www.skt-products.com/contents/gokidashSpEdition12.swf

http://www.tycoon.mxm.cx/files/bananas/

http://multimedia.honda-eu.com/diesel/game/deploy/game.html

http://www.nos.nl/nieuws/artikelen/2004/11/2/agentneergeschoten.html

http://pya.cc/pyaimg/img200410/2004102216.swf

http://www.mashimaro.com/eng/gallery/flash_opening.asp

2004-11-02T13:36:00.000-08:00

Good things

http://sirismm.si.edu/siris/sirisimagegallery.htm

http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/

http://soutosco.zip.net/arch2004-10-10_2004-10-16.html

http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/home/

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download.htm

http://www.research.att.com/info/Projects

http://biopresence.com/about.html

http://www.theembassyvfx.com/main.html

2004-11-02T12:15:00.000-08:00

Good things

http://sirismm.si.edu/siris/sirisimagegallery.htm

http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/

http://soutosco.zip.net/arch2004-10-10_2004-10-16.html

http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/home/

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download.htm

http://www.research.att.com/info/Projects

http://biopresence.com/about.html

http://www.theembassyvfx.com/main.html

Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals

2004-11-02T07:26:00.000-08:00

Free Medicine and Science publications

http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/

Smithsonian Picture archive gallery - the anthropolgical archive are awsome

http://sirismm.si.edu/siris/sirisimagegallery.htm

Half Life and Counterstrike source vids

http://nilhanth.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/videos.htm

Halo 2 screenshots

http://www.gameconnect.info/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=650

Battery Mov

http://www.jengajam.com/r/Battery-MOV

Xmas mp3s

http://www.bu.edu/av/cogneuro/Christmas

Ximo

http://www.2ddepot.com/tokyoto.html

puzzle photos

http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/

pumpkin carve

http://www.liquidgeneration.com/sabotage/pumpkin_carve.asp

the 40's

http://www.2meter2mark.de/einzeller/Best_of_the_40s.wmv

Pill Bunny

http://gprime.net/flash.php/pillbunny

Big toy

http://teamhouse.tni.net/Misc/bigtoy/F-14.htm

Bug art

http://soutosco.zip.net/arch2004-10-10_2004-10-16.html

2004-11-02T00:22:00.000-08:00

Good things

http://sirismm.si.edu/siris/sirisimagegallery.htm

http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/

http://soutosco.zip.net/arch2004-10-10_2004-10-16.html

http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/home/

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download.htm

http://www.research.att.com/info/Projects

http://biopresence.com/about.html

http://www.theembassyvfx.com/main.html

2004-10-18T21:55:00.000-07:00

Myst 4, download the demo just for the beauty of it

http://www.mystrevelation.com/us/index.html

Natures Wallpaper

http://balta.ikk.sztaki.hu/webshots/

Earth from Above

http://www.yannarthusbertrand.com/yann2/affichage.php?pais=Etats-Unis

Trust Territory of the Pacific

http://libweb.hawaii.edu/ttp/ttpi.html

The Ultimate IRC search engine

http://www.packetnews.com/

2004-10-16T15:28:00.000-07:00

Is Doom 3 for the PC proving to be a bit more than you bargained for, well we have some cheats to help you out.

During game play hold Ctrl plusAlt plus tilde [~] to drop the command console down, then enter these codes.

To get all weapons, ammunition, health and armor enter-- give all

To freeze everything on screen-- freeze

To enter the God Mode-- god

To make sure most enemies won't attack enter-- no target

To pass through objects in the game-- noclip

To get all keys, enter-- give keys

To get the adrenaline powerup-- spawn powerup_adrenaline

To get the Berserk powerup-- give berserk

To get Megahealth-- spawn powerup_megahealth

To become invisible-- spawn powerup_invisibility

2004-10-16T15:15:00.000-07:00

Chinese Tattoo

http://www.tian.cc/hanzismatter/

Yeti sports

http://yeti1.yetisports.org/_beta_yetisports7/

Van Helsing game

http://upivideo.universalpictures.com/vhgames/game1.htm

Family Tree Search

http://blog.outer-court.com/tree/

Movie

http://www.jhprod.com/Spontex_Eng_480x360.shtml

Make a Flash Movie

http://www.mach-parat.de/content/elfen/index.htm

2004-10-05T15:02:00.000-07:00

For those who are Christmas shopping early

http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4008252

http://shop4.outpost.com/product/3321502/

1^st in commercial space

http://www.videorocketry.com/XPRS_2004/video/USS_Bakula.wmv

Deep Sky

http://home.stny.rr.com/apilato/deepsky.htm

Ad Awards

http://www.ad-awards.com/

Kinga Ka Roller coaster

mms://streams.sixflags.com/KingDaka

Cosplay

http://www.usagichan2.com/Dragon2003/cosplay-001.html

Cute Corgee

http://www.zippyweb.com/scrapbook/

Japanese bitch slappin'

http://www.santoalt.com/jpn_bitchslappin.php

National Geographic

http://anonym.to/?http://www.killsometime.com/Video/videos/Boa.wmv

2004-09-26T20:46:00.000-07:00

WhatÂs new?

Free Books

http://techbooksforfree.com/

The challenge

http://www.makemeking.com/home/

http://home.comcast.net/~farmer9009/images/flood2004.jpg

Mountain Dew Pitch Black

http://www.x-entertainment.com/halloween/2004/september15/

http://www.mountaindew.com/home.php

Movies

http://www.archive.org/movies/collection.php?collection=sabucat_trailers

http://www.archive.org/movies/collection.php?collection=feature_films

http://www.archive.org/movies/collection.php?collection=avgeeks

http://www.archive.org/movies/siggraph.php

http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php

2004-09-19T19:57:00.000-07:00

19 September 2004

9/11 report

http://www.archive.org/texts/texts-details-db.php?collection=opensource&collectionid=911_final_report&from=mainPicks&PHPSESSID=c701973f99f288d86600578af8583f67

Bush AWOL

http://www.bloggerheads.com/bush_awol/

http://www.desertersfortruth.com/play.htm

2004-08-28T10:20:00.000-07:00

29 August 2004

The New Olympics

http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=3377&display=photoshop#entries

Funny Olympic Pictures

http://leenks.com/pics/?gid=46&view=all

Bejing 2008

http://www.arup.com/video.cfm

Will this replace DDR?

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/games/15/

Homebrew

http://eartheasy.com/eat_homebrew.htm

For making your own DVDÂs

http://www.dvd-guides.com/guides.php?category=othertodvd&name=dvdsanta

and

http://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=230988

2004-08-04T10:15:00.000-07:00

4 August, 2004 Good things are worth repeating

Patricks favorite free software

http://www.g4techtv.com/feature.aspx?article_key=350

Tech TV archive/Vault It’s Back (Thanks Sarah)

http://www.g4techtv.com/featuretype.aspx?type=techtvvault

The Dark Tipper

http://kevinrose.typepad.com/

Nice Sarah

http://sarahlane.typepad.com/

The Fashion place (caution)

http://firstview.com/

This Wonderful Life

http://www.cgchannel.com/news/viewfeature.jsp?newsid=2050

William Hung Mixtapes - get yours today

http://hung.localkats.com/

Oh Hermione, how youve grown

http://www.kreeften-garnalen.nl/hp.wmv

Free Stuff

MP3 books

http://www.book555.com/book555_com/index.asp

Free Libraries

http://www.gutenberg.net/cdproject/

http://www.bartleby.com/

http://www.infomotions.com/alex/downloads/

Free Cliff Notes, Free Book Notes, Free Book Summaries at AntiStudy.com

http://www.antistudy.com/

Engrish?

http://www.engrish.com/

Anime Web Turnpike

http://www.anipike.com

A Fan's View of Anime Conventions

http://www.afansview.com

Wonderful FLASH

http://www.scifi.com/archive/

My Favorite Animation

http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=siggraph&collectionid=et138_18_pipe_dream

My 2nd Favorite Animation

http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=siggraph&collectionid=et138_06_anjyu

2004-06-30T06:28:00.000-07:00

30 June

Cell Phones

httnewsletter%2eeetimesecomU

Nano Tubes build neuron growth

http://o

2004-06-29T20:28:00.000-07:00

29 June

Woman Hunters

http://www.womenhunters.com/meet-the-ladies.html

Side Talking

http://www.sidetalking.com/photos.html

Dance Trippin

http://www.dancetrippin.tv/

2 Advanced

http://www.2advanced.com/flashindex.htm

2004-06-25T12:28:00.000-07:00

25 June

The Fashion place (caution)

http://firstview.com/

Unusual news

Calgary Stampede Breakfast in Venezuela

http://www.petroleumworld.com/issues624.htm

Careful

http://wcco.com/localnews/local_story_169082307.html

Clothing Tag

http://images.flabber.nl/tag.clothing.php

Fun Stuff

East Indian Mixer

http://chez.kek.free.fr/bordel/indian.html

The Dangers of Drinking

http://www.sinkyadrink.com/

Particle Painter (Java)

http://www.tomkemp.com/particlepainter/index.html

How To Beatbox...

http://www.humanbeatbox.com/tutorials/video/

Drunken Walk

http://www.wagenschenke.ch/

Working (sort of) Ray guns

http://www.claytonbailey.com/galleryrayguns.htm

Soccer Pong

http://www.theflashgames.com/soccer_pong-swf.html

Retro Euro Bad interiors

http://w1.461.telia.com/~u46103335/euro.html

Where did the time go

http://www.wheredidthetimego.com/

Large TETRIS

http://bastilleweb.techhouse.org/

Robot Song

http://www.mysterybob.com/robotsong.htm

60 Foot Lava Lamp

http://www.giantlavalamp.com/index.shtml

Hornet vs bee

http://stream.eizodana.com/olympus/m01_hi.wmv

2004-06-25T11:34:00.000-07:00

25 June

The Fashion place (caution)

http://firstview.com/

Unusual news

Calgary Stampede Breakfast in Venezuela

http://www.petroleumworld.com/issues624.htm

Careful

http://wcco.com/localnews/local_story_169082307.html

Clothing Tag

http://images.flabber.nl/tag.clothing.php

Fun Stuff

East Indian Mixer

http://chez.kek.free.fr/bordel/indian.html

The Dangers of Drinking

http://www.sinkyadrink.com/

Particle Painter (Java)

http://www.tomkemp.com/particlepainter/index.html

How To Beatbox...

http://www.humanbeatbox.com/tutorials/video/

Drunken Walk

http://www.wagenschenke.ch/

Working (sort of) Ray guns

http://www.claytonbailey.com/galleryrayguns.htm

Soccer Pong

http://www.theflashgames.com/soccer_pong-swf.html

Retro Euro Bad interiors

http://w1.461.telia.com/~u46103335/euro.html

Where did the time go

http://www.wheredidthetimego.com/

Large TETRIS

http://bastilleweb.techhouse.org/

Robot Song

http://www.mysterybob.com/robotsong.htm

60 Foot Lava Lamp

http://www.giantlavalamp.com/index.shtml

Hornet vs bee

http://stream.eizodana.com/olympus/m01_hi.wmv

2004-06-22T11:30:00.000-07:00

21 June 2004

Patricks favorite free software

http://www.g4techtv.com/feature.aspx?article_key=350

Tech TV archive/Vault Its Back (Thanks Sarah)

http://www.g4techtv.com/featuretype.aspx?type=techtvvault

The Dark Tipper

http://kevinrose.typepad.com/

Nice Sarah

http://sarahlane.typepad.com/

Good Leo

http://www.leoville.com/

Sweet Sweet Morgan Webb

http://morganwebb.textamerica.com/ BLOG

http://www.morganwebb.com/ Site

Cat

http://www.catschwartz.com/

Yoshi

http://www.yoshi.us/forums/

2004-06-11T16:07:00.000-07:00

11 June again

GOTTA CHECK THIS OUT!!!!

NEW Flaashforward and Flash Film Festival NEW YORK

http://www.flashforward2004.com/peopleschoice.asp

SWEET

Voting ends 6pm June 28 2004

2004-06-11T11:25:00.000-07:00

11 June 2004

Beeku's Big Adventure

http://www.moviebomb.com/beekusbigadventure.html

TouchGraph GoogleBrowser V1.01

http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html

Pen Magic

http://clubpds.edunet4u.net/ftp/pds/200405/14/sub000984_1_best.wmv

Ingeme Productions

http://www.ingreme.com/

Remember Matchbox cars?

http://www.fingertime.com/matchcar.php

dice

http://www.miniclip.com/pipsoh.htm

This Wonderful Life

http://www.cgchannel.com/news/viewfeature.jsp?newsid=2050

Bad Micky bad bad Micky

http://212.227.152.94/mocky/mocky/google.wmv

2004-06-06T21:36:00.000-07:00

6 June 2004

Bash Your Boss

http://www.iwantmyvacation.com/bashtheboss.html

Hawaiian Happyface spiders - first recorded in 1900.

http://biology.swau.edu/faculty/petr/ftphotos/hawaii/postcards/spiders/

Pink Hello Kitty Laptop

http://www.exonome.com/fj/phkl/

More award winning Flash to explore

http://www.flashforward2004.com/default.asp?Location=5,78,307,451&SessionID={8420D226-D5B6-4CCB-8151-AB9B9FB4D343}

2004-06-05T15:40:00.000-07:00

5 June 2004

Japanese No Smoking Signs

http://www.chosetu.info/smokingroom/000/index.htm

Hand Signs

http://www.ooze.com/finger/html/foriegn.html

Emulator game movies (NES)

http://bisqwit.iki.fi/jutut/nesvideos/

Like Simon (shockwave)

http://www.gamecable.nl/game/njam/njam.html

Mix Me

http://www.looplabs.com/

How to make friends by telephone

http://contactsheet.org/junk/telephone1.html

The Fifties how nostalgic

http://www.singingman.us/DYR.htm

Fun Flash

http://www.questfortherest.com/

2004-05-25T23:12:00.000-07:00

26 May 2004

Stuff

Xbox Doomed?

http://eletters.wnn.ziffdavis.com/zd1

New Nikon Rules:

http://eletters.wnn.ziffdavis.com/zd1

LCD TV Review:

http://eletters.wnn.ziffdavis.com/zd1

Fun

Donkey Kong

http://www.candystand.com/games/gamepage.aspx?gameid=222

William Hung Mixtapes - get yours today

http://hung.localkats.com/

Looks Fun even if nischt spreken ze deutch

http://www.playability.nl/games/advocaat/

self explanitory

http://www.ratemygasmask.com/

Regae

http://www.christopherporter.com/

Make you own news

http://www.fanta.dk/news.aspB

Japanese beatbox artist

http://www.dokaka.com/

Fomula 1 racing

http://games.renaultf1.com/circuit6/Default.asp

Like it says

http://www.justtoiletpaper.com/

Writers Block?

http://www.writersblock.net/index2.html?www.writersblock.net/004/405klussen.html

Fake Road Signs Hurry submit yours before 30 June 2004

http://www.bopano.net/

Oh Hermione, how youve grown

http://www.kreeften-garnalen.nl/hp.wmv

Squirrel Fishing

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/%7Eyaz/en/squirrel_fishing.html

2004-05-25T09:38:00.000-07:00

25 May News of the day

The Cola Wars heat up

Low Carbs/

GO FLAMES!!!!

flames_lightning4

Startup Success

http://startups6

Lucent Acquiring Internet Phone Provider Telica

Bell Labs Coup M

Lucent Technologies has agreed to buy Telica, a privately held

Internet phone service provider, for about $295 million in stock and

options, the telecommunications giant announced Monday.

Show Wrap-Up: E3 Serves Up Fun

E3 1

Revisiting the Copyright Act

Access Rights1

It's a PC and TV! Sony VAIO PCV-V200G, 2.8-GHz P4 system (stuffed with 512MB SDRAM and a 120GB hard drive) hotpc2d1

Good Images are About More Than Just Megapixels

Good Camera1

First Looks: Google Gmail Beta

Gmail1

2004-05-24T23:53:00.000-07:00

25 May 2004 Flash, Fun & Free

A nice puzzle from Down Under

http://www.abc.net.au/gameon/chasm/

A wealth of Flash

http://www.flashforward2004.com/peopleschoice.asp

For Potter Fans

http://www.jkrowling.com/

Remember All? Or Virtual Light?

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_961376.html?menu=news.scienceanddiscovery

Other News from AnaNova

Reduce hyperactivity in you children?

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_966896.html?menu=news.weirdworld.strangecrime

Free Stuff

MP3 books

http://www.book555.com/book555_com/index.asp

Free Libraries

http://www.gutenberg.net/cdproject/

http://www.bartleby.com/

http://www.infomotions.com/alex/downloads/

2004-05-23T13:57:00.000-07:00

23 May 2004

Tree Houses

http://members.cruzio.com/~seaweb/corbin/treehouse.html

Dream of a Car

http://vrm.vrway.com/projects/THE_MERCEDES_BENZ_SLR_MCLAREN/

Gates Pitches Vision To CEOs
At Microsoft's annual CEO Summit, he told executives that the
company is experimenting with new approaches to software upgrades
and cited Weblogs and RFID among promising new tools.
informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20900130

Homeland Security Versus Privacy
A bill submitted by House Democrats seeks to balance both.
informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20900149

2004-05-18T11:33:00.000-07:00

May 18 Cool Links

Patrick Norton's Freeware Roundup

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/downloadoftheday/story/0,24330,3659313,00.html

Free Cliff Notes, Free Book Notes, Free Book Summaries at AntiStudy.com

http://www.antistudy.com/

Storm Sounds

http://www.stormsounds.com/home/index.html

Relaxing TV

http://www.relaxingtv.com/

GE Likely To Boost Offshoring
It could send as much as 85% of its outsourced IT work offshore, according to a company exec.
informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20301331

Offshore Outsourcing: A Question Of Balance
informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20301322

Tennessee Bill Discourages Offshoring
informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20301294

Cutting Off Blood Supply to Fat Cells Slims Obese Mice
With 65 percent of the U.S. population overweight, the battle of the bulge seems to be one we are losing. Now researchers have unveiled a new method of attack: starving fat cells of their lifeblood in order to destroy them.

Photon Entanglement Feat Could Be Boon for Optical Systems
Office managers around the world can attest that pooling resources often increases efficacy in the workplace. Apparently, this also applies to optical physics. The power of optical systems ranging from CD players to telescopes faces a technical obstacle: their data resolution is limited by the wavelength of the photons they emit. In the case of the CD player, this means that the laser can't read the information encoded in the disc's pitted surface if the pits measure less than half the wavelength of the light, thus constraining the amount of data that can be stored on the disc. Now two teams of researchers have harnessed a core property of quantum physics called entanglement to link photons together, overcoming this so-called diffraction limit.

2004-05-17T11:14:00.000-07:00

May 17, 2004

THE BEST OF THE EETIMES NETWORK

COMMS DESIGN

--Fuel cells to start powering PDAs, laptops in 2005--

http://newsletter.eetimes.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eg7h0FysaB0FrK0CXTm0Aj

Interviewing Lessons to Learn

By: Linda Matias, President CareerStrides

Going through the motions of a bad interview is like peeling back the layers of an onion. Sally learned this lesson the hard way, hands-on during an interview that should have been a piece of cake. Sally applied for a position that fit her qualifications perfectly. When she received an invitation to interview, Sally believed she was a shoo-in for the job.

Feeling confident, she approached the interview in a lax manner. She didn't prepare and prematurely celebrated an offer she was convinced would be extended.

Scientific American

Synthetic Life

A small but rapidly growing number of scientists have set out in recent years to buttress the foundation of genetic engineering with what they call synthetic biology. They are designing and building living systems that behave in predictable ways, that use interchangeable parts, and in some cases that operate with an expanded genetic code, which allows them to do things that no natural organism can.

Study Results May Resolve Long-Standing Global Warming Debate

Theoretically, if global warming is indeed happening, the troposphere should be heating up at least as fast as the earth's surface is. Yet temperature data obtained with devices called microwave sounding units over the past 25 years have consistently suggested little if any tropospheric warming. Some climate scientists have therefore argued that global warming models are flawed. New research indicates that the error lies not in the models, but rather in the temperature readings themselves.

Media Physiques Prompt Body Image Woes among Men, Too

The unrealistic ideals portrayed by many of the models that appear in magazines and on television have been shown to negatively affect the way a number of women feel about their bodies. Now research suggests that the same holds true for men.

Contest: PC Magazine Digital Dream Contest

That's right, PC Magazine is going to fulfill the digital

dreams of three lucky contestants--a homeowner, a home-office

worker and a dorm room dweller. We want to turn disconnected,

backward dwellings into digital fantasy lands complete with

all the gear you'll need to live, work and enjoy your life in

our digital age. To enter you'll have to tell us your digital

dream, where you want it, and why you deserve it. Enter today.

http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-752-1-1-46211-64867-1

Euro Patent database http://www.espacenet.com/

Patently Absurd International http://www.patent.freeserve.co.uk/internat.html

MIT's Technology Review Monday Update

The World's Hottest Computer Lab

Half a world away from the calm beauty of Seattle and Puget Sound, theres a lab where software dreams come true. At Microsoft Research Asia, the drive to succeed is as intense as the traffic that roars by the front door in unbridled, chaotic fury. If Microsofts other facilities around the globe seem idyllic, this one, in Beijing, China, is pure street. Nearby high-rises compete with smokestacks for skyline supremacy. Run-down buildings sit next to bustling consumer electronics markets and the Beijing Satellite Manufacturing Factory, where China conducts its spaceflight research. Microsofts mantra: work hard to get in the door; work harder to survive; then work even harder because the real workthat of an information technology world leaderis just beginning. The buzz of Mandarin conversations, the window views of Beijings sprawl, and the ever present hint of cigarette smoke provide a constant reminder: youre not in corporate USA anymore. The Beijing lab has already paid dividends in speech recognition, graphics, wireless multimediaand the training of future Microsoft executives.

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/huang0604.asp?trk=nl

Brooks: The Cell Hijackers

Soon, writes columnist Rodney Brooks, our knowledge of life processes will let us program cells as we do computers.

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/brooks0604.asp?trk=nl

DNA Computer Kills Cancer Cells

A new kind of DNA computer can sense cancer cells and then cause them to self destructat least in test tubes.

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_051104.asp?trk=nl

Upbeat Computers Boost Users

Positive feedback from computers gives their users a lift, enabling people to perform better at problem-solving exercises.

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_051004.asp?trk=nl

From the TR Blog

'Top Secret,' You Say? Ha!

A computer science student in Ireland has shown that it's possible to uncover blacked-out" words in classified documents by doing a grammatical analysis of all possible words that can fit in the space of the black-outs.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1409&trk=nl

Women in Technology--Still Outsiders

The technology world continues not to be a showcase for sexual equality.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1410&trk=nl

Wi-Fi Weakness

Researchers in Australia have discovered a flaw in the 802.11b wireless networking standard that could allow anyone with a $35 adapter to interfere with Wi-Fi signals.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1411&trk=nl

Poll: From the Home Office

Would you prefer to work at home and stay in touch with your office electronically?

a) Yes

b) No, because too many tasks require face-to-face contact

c) No, because I like the social contact

d) No, because there are too many distractions and temptations at home

e) a combination of b, c, and d

Cast your vote and leave a comment at http://www.technologyreview.com#poll

2004-05-14T23:33:00.000-07:00

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