My Scattered Thoughts

With my sweet new computer, I can now run graphics heavy programs like this. Yay!

A fun wikipedia entry on archaic printing jobs.

A cool Wikipedian search engine.

An essay on the problems (and potentials) for library catalogs. This is the space that I occupy to a certain extent in my workaday life.

A major book distributor for many small presses has just gone bankrupt. Yikes!

It’s always useful to get new tips on killing spam.

A web-based comics community.

This could be a potentially powerful tool for the revelation of governmental/corporate malfeasance. Groovy.

A BBC internet “television” show. Looks interesting.

A website for trading CDs. Kind of like BookMooch.

Ah, the marvelous extensibility of FireFox….

A very cool (though bandwidth heavy) periodical table of visual language techniques.

It’s amazing, the things people put in bottles.

An article about blogging. Haven’t read it yet. Sounds fascinating and vaguely absurd.

12 book recommendations by Jeff VanderMeer. He never lets me down, bookwise.

A neat little music video with science fiction-y imagery.

A freaking huge list of books (recommendations?).

Parrots are amazing birds. I expect that this parrot is not an outlier, but far closer to the norm. What else can you expect from creatures that live a century.

It looks like we have a wild and woolly future coming. It’s nice to know that there are some who thinking about these big picture kinds of things.

A ton of jazz music to download.

Some cool webcomics. Especially the pirate one.

Pretty interesting… Basically a long collection of aphorisms/sayings.

It’s a metal pen from the future! (I would recommend chewing on it, though…)

A Tintin-esque (Tintinian?) webcomic. Read it forever, because that’s how long it will take you to get through it all…

This is really really strange. Hooray for the filthy rich (or something).

Some cool “steam punk” artwork.