September 2004

Uncle Phaedrus, Finder of Lost Recipes sure is a busy guy. He answers questions not only about recipes, but also about "history, science, popular culture, geography, sociology, psychology, trivia, etc…".

Grab your towel—the 20th anniversary edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – The Adventure Game is loose, and it's absolutely free! Requires Flash.

"Lulu is an on-demand publishing tool that lets you publish and sell books, e-books, music, images, or calendars."

Where do viruses and trojans hide on start up?

Holy recursion, Batman! There's enough extra-crunchy geeky goodness in the List of Lists to keep anyone busy for days! The site is a compilation of programs and web sites of use to the web surfer and computer user.

Here's a useful method for remembering passwords.

Backing up your Linux desktop with rsync is simpler than you might think.

Another classic comes to the screen: See the tale of Oedipus re-enacted entirely by vegetables.

"ProcessLibrary.com is a free online service… It gives users easy access to an extensive database of detailed process descriptions helping you to figure out what is running on your system."

Numbered Tabs for Firefox adds a handy enhancement to the Firefox browser.

"Visitors is a very fast web log analyzer for Linux, Windows, and other Unix-like operating systems. It takes as input a web server log file, and outputs statistics in form of different reports."

You, too, can learn How to Build a Successful Website.

Just about everyone who's been on the net for more than five minutes knows how to Google. There are some other, more unusual search engines that are worth a look, as well.

John Scalzi, currently a favorite writer of mine (buy Old Man's War when it comes out! I've read it! It's terrific!) applies the Blade Runner replicant test to the upcoming election.

The National Puzzler's League recently played a game of Human Boggle. My mom would love this.