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30 Nov 2006 - Virtual pals 'soar in importance', BBC, 30 Nov 2006

Virtual communities are as important as their real-world counterparts, many members of online communities believe.

28 Nov 2006 - The fact that Canal Sur Web works better on one browser than another reminded me that competition between browsers has been sparked by the release of the new Internet Explorer. The Economist discussed it on 3 November 2006.

Now along comes IE7 with its almost holier-than-thou approach not only to cascading style sheets but to numerous other web standards. What are web designers to do?

21 Nov 2006 - The language of Šekspīrs, the Economist, 2 November 2006. I'll bet this is something you weren't worried about.
16 Nov 2006 - images from Hubble
14 Nov 2006 - 30 USB connections can produce something around 500W, enough power to cook
09 Nov 2006 - Piero Scaruffi's knowledge base. An article in the New York Times said it this isn't the best web site of all time, it's at least one of the most visited. Look at his eclectic best-of lists and see if you agree with them, or if you learn anything from them.
07 Nov 2006 - The Economist, lots of useful information. One might not agree with them, but they make points worth considering.
02 Nov 2006 - Heiligenschein is a bright spot of light around the shadow of the observer's head, cast on dewy grass land. Why do I find this interesting?
31 Oct 2006 - The worst political Web sites, by Declan McCullagh & Anne Broache, CNET news, 25 Oct 2006.
The problem in selecting the most ridiculous, poorly crafted, or just plain bizarre political Web sites is an embarrassment of riches: There are so many worthy contenders. But whatever the criteria, the Web site of Rep. Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican who's running for re-election, would qualify. Anyone thinking of putting up a Web site that's devoid of actual content should skip the project instead on grounds of sheer embarrassment.
26 Oct 2006 - "Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas, 2003, original flash animation by Michal Migurski"
24 Oct 2006 - Internet Archive - the Wayback Machine, a tool to find some stuff that isn't on the web any more
17 Oct 2006 - as we prepare for fall break, we might want to reflect on where we are. One thing to think about is our psychic health. Stress is a constant factor in life, and can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on the situation. It is useful to know something about how stress affects us. David Fontana in 1989 wrote an article about how to recognize and manage stress, and introduced the Holmes-Rahe Social Adjustment Scale. You might want to take it yourself to see how you are doing. There are several versions available, one is supposedly tuned to your specific needs, but all of them are essentially the same - reminders that seemingly small things can build up and have a negative impact on us. If we can recognize the situation, we can then prune away the unimportant stress factors from our lives.
12 Oct 2006 - Newsmap, a visual representation of news on the internet
10 Oct 2006 - Words Without Borders - The Online Magazine for International Literature "Our editors thought the following books in translation would be of special interest to our readers."
05 Oct 2006 - just for fun, Icon Wars
03 Oct 2006 - The $100 laptop is almost ready to go
28 Sep 2006 - Robert Randolph and the Family Band created their site with extras for a purpose
26 Sep 2006 - The Modern Language Association Language Map; A Map of Languages in the United States. More JavaScript
21 Sep 2006 - no class, but we discussed time zones in class on the 19th. I referred to Greenwich Mean Time as "Zulu Time". It is also known as "Z-time". Just in case one wants to know, we are here in North Carolina, we could convert from Universal Coordinated Time or just know that we are in Romeo Time.
19 Sep 2006 - INDUSTORIOUS CLOCK MONOCRAFTS3.0 by Yugo Nakamura
14 Sep 2006 - Transparent Screens - what is happening here?
12 Sep 2006 - Handheld device converts text to speech for blind people, 21 Jun 2006, BoingBoing
07 Sep 2006 - waving a dead chicken - just in case you wanted to know ... this is a pretty useful site, however.
05 Sep 2006 - The Voynich Manuscript - what is this?
31 Aug 2006 - Guide to Springfield, USA - some folks have too much time on their hands
29 Aug 2006 - Joys of Computing [is this a joke?]
24 Aug 2006 - The Human Clock™ - A Clock Photo for Every Minute of the Day