Get Cynical

“In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less
susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some
connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him
by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening.
The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by
the Government of Oceania itself, “just to keep people frightened.”
This was an idea that had literally never occured to him.”

–1984
(Thanks Paul for this quote.)

Incredible graphical representation of any zipcode in the US.
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An Applet that will recite about 42000 digits of pi in the language of your choice. It takes about 362 minutes. I didn’t last 1/362nd of that time.

From JSOnline:

HELSINKI, Finland (AP) — Santa’s workshop may not be the joyous place it was in years past for the tens of thousands of tourists expected to visit northern Finland this winter. Facing a blizzard of debt, Saint Nick laid off many of the elves who work at the SantaPark attraction near the Arctic Circle.

Yesterday I blogged about how evil PETA was. They were handing out leaflets to children with the graphic pictured showing how evil their moms are for wearing fur.

I am in the mood for steak for lunch suddenly. Extra rare.

(Thanks Kim for pointing out that they had a leaflet)

Nice shockwave app of a zen fishpond.

Fish is an interactive pond that simulates the rudimentary actions of fish and human interaction.

The user has a choice of dropping ‘food’ into the pond (to attract and feed the fish) or to drop various sized stones in (to scare the fish away). The project demonstrates basic behavioural patterns and consequent changes due to user interaction. This was explored further in the projects sw3d:exp and my final degree project audio intelligence.

Some really nice star wars wallpaper for your desktop. Unfortunately I think it is wallpaper for the new trilogy and not the episode 4, 5 and 6.
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Pretty funny.
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