Extremely cool 3-D drawing program.

DOODLE

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Hat tip to John Murrell.

This web-site generates the beginning portion of a Postmodern Academic paper everytime it is refreshed.

Hat tip to Karen Myers.

Cool! Now I can finally get myself a PC cased in Goncalo Alves matching the Hogue grips on my Model 29 S&W .44 Mag.

Hmmm. The only problem is: these Suissa boxes are not cheap.

H/t to Cory Doctorow.

1938 Talbot-Lago T150 C SS Teardrop Coupe

Automobile Magazine picks the 25 most beautiful cars of all time.

And AutoMotoPortal offers a list of 10.
The goute d’eau (drop of water) shaped Talbot Lago coupe, the E-type Jaguar, and (inevitably) the Gull-winged Mercedes-Benz 300SL made both lists.

Charles Babcock, at Information Week, picks the dozen greatest pieces of software ever written. His choices were:

1. Unix

2. IBM System R

3. gene-sequencing software at the Institute for Genomic Research

4. IBM System/360

5. Java

6. Mosaic

7. Sabre system

8. First Mac Operating System

9. Excel spreadsheet

10. Apollo Guidance Computer

11. Google search rank

12. Morris worm

Somehow or other, he overlooked Castle Wolfenstein and Doom.

Charles Johnson links to an Israeli blogger who reports that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s new blog set off a series of warnings from her Norton Internet Security program.

Apparently, Ahmadinejab’s site goes after Israeli visitors, but I seem to recall that he doesn’t like Americans much either, so….

****CAUTION*****
Users without good security software and all the latest Microsoft Security updates (Norton refers to “an attempt to exploit a vulnerability in Internet Explorer”) should avoid visiting this site.

The Personal Notes of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Really cool. 9:32 minutes.

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Hat tip to Seneca the Younger.

We’ve all seen the bullet versus katana videos. The same guys evidently did a more recent Japanse television appearance featuring a test of a katana versus a modern industrial water jet cutter. This one is overly long (6:68 minutes), but the sword’s performance is very impressive.

We previously linked one of the earlier videos:

pistol versus katana

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Hat tip to Neil Lanteigne.

Failed demos are really embarassing, aren’t they?

Ambient noise? what ambient noise??

David DeJean has a few user complaints about a nightmare installation.

But for a truly epic installation, I have to give the Oscar for Best Drama to Symantec’s Norton Internet Security upgrade. I just went through it not once, but twice. It is longer than the death scene from “Camille,” and more emotionally draining. Is it going to start? Do I have enough disk space? What is it doing now? Will it ever, ever, ever end?

Finally, of course, it does end. And it’s not a good end, either, because for unknown reasons the laptop I was upgrading lost its scanner drivers and the upgrade cut me off from my wireless network. And all this entertainment for only $49.95! What a bargain!

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video

This is a good one.

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Chris Anderson web-site.