Geekfoolery

*apologies to Percy Bysshe Shelley
You may recall a high school English lesson about Ozymandias, the great king whose shattered statue sitting abandoned in the desert reads,
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
The rest is here. I was reminded of this little snippet from English Lit class when I […]

If you do not already have an account on Flickr, even just the free account, just go stand in the corner. And sign up for an account. Flickr handles the pedestrian chore of serving as a handy online photo album for vacation pictures and family snapshots very nicely, but there are plenty of sites that […]

I ran across a website in my bookmarks the other day and was reminded once again of how cool it is. The site is called Sodaplay, and it allows you to build and animate bizarre wireframe sculptures. You control a handful of parameters: whether to use rigid or fixed sticks, how strong the gravity is, […]

Adobe’s Portable Document File format-you know it, you love it. Here are a couple of my quick hints to get a bit more out of this very common (and soon to be ISO Standard) document format.

Yahoo! Inc. launched a new service called Pipes today, though there’s a good chance you saw what I and many others saw when you tried to check it out… a note from Yahoo! saying the Pipes were clogged and a plumber is on the way. Guess there was a flood of people looking to try […]

I have a dim memory of being brought to my dad’s office when I was a toddler and being shown what was then a rare marvel of modern electronic wizardy, one of the first desktop calculators. I could barely grasp what the device was for at that tender age, but with its buttons and glowing […]