Wonderful free MP3s, written on 8-bit systems like video game consoles and old Commodore 128s. Brings me back to days of eating pita pizzas and sitting in my friend's basement playing Ultima III. Good times.
AMAZING: Try this search for "Harper's Index cultural" -- when you click on Harper's Index, the searched-for words are highlighted in the body. That's very cool.
I'll give you five reasons to visit : 1) Creepy name reminds me of "Se7en". 2) No graphics means no "Punch the Monkey" ads. 3) If you don't I might cry. 4) It's funnier than this list. 5) Any site with the word "Five" in it ROCKS!
If all the data in the world could be boiled down to three colored lights that could be on or off, bright or dim, and/or blinking, it would look a little like this . Think of it like an ultrapowerful wireless computer with a 9 pixel display.
Once again, I blog things that are interesting, as it makes me feel like someday, sometime I might actually do something with them. I won't, but still... This one's a recipe for Christmas cake.
“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)