April 2006

Where did that email come from? Paste the mail headers into the email graphic traceroute page, and find out.

"My advice if you’d like to expand your career horizons is to join a professional association. Now, I happen to have made my career (so far) working for these critters so I know whereof I speak."

Scientific American reviews new strategies for Shutting Down Alzheimer's.

This Game Sucks — or maybe it doesn't.

Heather Jansch creates amazing sculptures, many of them representing horses, from bronze and driftwood.

Use Google to test your web site for security problems with Ten Simple Security Searches That Work.

Popurls.com gathers lots of internet "buzz" in one place, by displaying the latest links from social bookmarking, news, and photo sites.

Shoo Fly is the timeless tale of a girl… and her fly. Requires Flash.

The Mentat Wiki is "collaborative environment for exploring ways to become a better thinker". Like any wiki, it can be edited and expanded by anyone. Thinking, of course, requires a brain in good working order. The Alzheimer's Association Maintain Your Brain program offers tips and techniques for keeing your brain in tiptop shape.

"How do you break a bad habit when it’s entirely in your mind? There are actually quite a number of ways to decondition a negative thought pattern. The basic idea is to replace the old pattern with a new one."

Okay, here goes… the very first embedded video here at geekman, and it's a doozy. I can't help but think what an eyepopper Ryan vs. Dorkman would have been with costumes and set design, but it's an astonishingly cool example of amateur film-making at its finest, nevertheless. The effects and choreography are amazing. You can also download it as a 12.5 MB Windows Media file.

Q: What monumental human achievement occurred exactly 45 years ago today? A: Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to travel into space. Yuri's Night celebrations will be held from Antarctica to Zelenogorsk.

Simply Google puts every possible Google search, and lots more of and about Google, on a single page.

The Flying Spaghetti monster is real, and he walks among us.

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