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A native Mac OS X Soulseek client.

"Fittingly, the asteroid carried the provisional designation 2001 DA42, thus commemorating the year of his untimely death, containing his initials, and incorporating the famous answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything."

"I guess that either you were willing to participate in the world [of Pete & Pete], or would otherwise deem it all quirkily stupid and move on. Those who got it, loved it."

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"There are many good reasons to run and hide from people (or the government) just as there are many bad reasons."

A ridiculous amount of sprites.

"If I or one of the other members of your flight crew walks the length of the plane without pants, please remain calm and seated. That's just a little game we play."

"In order to decrease the total amount of energy your heating system has to supply, TURN DOWN THE THERMOSTAT AT NIGHT!"

"A collection of legally downloadable, freely distributable creator-approved files, from electronic/indie music to movies and books, which we have made available via BitTorrent."

"Top 10 net.label MP3 releases for the year, in no particular order, all freely downloadable and Creative Commons licensed." Yes. YES. YES!!

Death tolls.

Outlandish and simple.

"Monotonik is a net.music.label that _exclusively_ releases music online in the mp3 format. All of our releases are freely downloadable and distributable under a Creative Commons license that allows free non-commercial distribution."

"Each one sells for around $10 and features real, live plants that grow in a tiny arboretum until they become too large to be contained, after which they can be transplanted to a larger pot."

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Complete text.

Trying to make sense of it all.

Marathon I, II, and III. Free!

Experimental photography: send a package with a camera attached, see if it makes it back to you, look at the pictures that were taken along the way.

"Life would be much simpler if there was a single, universal encoding that covered all of the characters in all of the writing systems in use." Enter Unicode.

Mashups.

Little kids talk about old video games again.

"The following is a lengthy list of deviations to be found when comparing the text of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and the translation of those texts to film as undertaken by Peter Jackson, et.al."

"Saturn is scheduled to release its probe named Huygens that will actually attempt to land on the shrouded moon [Titan] in early January." "Will the truth be stranger than we imagined?"

"The elimination of the poles helps to accentuate the ominous feeling of being beneath these signs as well as serve to disconnect the signs from the ground and reality."

"This face was supposed to be viewable with a spectrograph program, so I decided to try it myself." Art from Plaid, Aphex Twin, and Venetian Snares.

"In 2005, Basic Hip Digital Oddio will feature an entire year of albums from the golden age of kiddie records, lovingly transferred from the original 78s and encoded to 192kbps MP3 format. That's one a week for 52 weeks!"

CSS specs on your iPod.

On the uselessness of bike treads, crosswalk buttons, some progress bars, and more. A mildly interesting read. More investigation into this would be fascinating, though.