February 2004

Lookat is a Linux utility for viewing text files and man pages, with a few extra bells and whistles beyond less or more.

Lars Holst, whose site is itself a beauty, introduces us to well-designed weblogs.

Baking911Recipes.com offers "the best recipes for the home baker, plus help and more". The site design makes my eyes bleed, but they do have an excellent selection of recipes and tips.

History repeats itself: "In December of 1912, an amendment to the Constitution was introduced to abolish racial intermarriage…"

Tired of the real world? (I know I am.) Want to spend some time in another reality? Before you go, check out the Virtual Worlds Review, a Fodors for the unreal.

Neil Turner provides two more very nice Movable Type templates.

Hey kids! Let's all play Televangelist Bingo!

What? What? What good is watching a televangelist's show if you're not going to make fun of it?

"Howtoons are one-page cartoons showing 5-to-15 year-old kids "How To" build things… Our Howtoons are designed to encourage children to be active participants in discovering the world through Play-that-Matters."

We owe Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) his own postage stamp, especially after that piece of dreck that showed up in the movie theaters last year.

Textpattern is a "flexible, elegant, easy-to-use content management system for all kinds of websites, even weblogs." It includes Textile, a simplified markup language for non-geeks.

If you are a command-line user in Linux, there are several useful aliases you can add to make your life easier.

Learn the basics of Spamassassin, a Linux utility for dealing with unwanted email.

"A frequently asked question is:
how realistic is the scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey where astronaut Bowman makes a space-walk without a helmet? How long could a human survive if exposed to vacuum?… The quick answers to these questions are: Clarke got it about right in 2001."

Get your daily dose of funny at the syndicated comics blog. UPDATE 03/03/04: An even bigger daily dose is provided by high5.net.

Two more great CSS resources: Ruthsarian Web Page Layout Gallery and the CSS Variable Border 2/3 Columned Page Maker (whoa… what a mouthful).