Friday, June 24, 2005

I am truly ashamed of them.

The US Supreme Court has wiped their ass with the US Constitution!

The decision to allow the siezure of private property for the benefit of third parties is outrageous!

The implications of this decision are staggering!

The scum-bag politicians haven't even waited for the corpse of the Constitution to cool before raping the citizens!

Good ol' Boys just looking out for each others' wealth.

Please contact your local, state & federal representatives today. Even if your area is one of the few that has local bans on this, the rest of this great nation deserves the full protection of the entire Constitution & ALL its' ammendments!



I pledge Allegiance to the flag
of the Corporations of America
and to the Wealth for which it stands,
one Company under Greed, Profitable,
with Pork and Justice for the Rich.

posted by monkeyboy @ 11:29 PM 3 comments

Thursday, June 23, 2005

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Mad HTML skillz

The basic html tutorial is by Ross Shannon. He explains why standards compliance & designing for accessability are good & why frames are bad. That knowing what is going on behind the wysiwyg design process makes you a far superior designer. Check him out.

The best text editor out there is editpad. It uses a tabbed interface, opening multiple docs at once. It has several global commands, such as search & replace. Which allows you to replace a text string in all open docs with just a few clicks. Makes changing or updating all the pages on a site simultaneouly a breeze. The pro version adds autoformated display for various programming languages & color coding of tags.

Why FrontPage is BAD

Nvu is an open source wysiwyg html editor, with normal, source, tags & preview tabs. Also includes built in CSS editor & FTP.

A nice well thought-out basic CSS tutorial

A very nice CSS tutorial.

Another nice CSS tutorial.

A little more advanced CSS

A little more advanced html tutorial.

The best thing you can do to move from being a beginner to an advanced user (besides authoring in plain text), is to learn about .htaccess.

index dot html - the advanced html reference

Experts exchange web development forum. The "solutions" are there, just scroll down past the "Sign up to see solution" & the ads...

Python baby steps - very basic python tutorial

Useless Python - a bit more advanced

100 python tutorials

Have fun!

Oh yeah, I almost forgot, you'll need someplace to put that gnarly page you've created.

Host4students - offers 300MB disk space & 8 GB/mo transfer for $7.20 per quarter ($24 yearly).





GoDaddy - Domain registration $8.95 per year.

posted by monkeyboy @ 4:43 PM 0 comments

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Toto, we're not in Kansas, anymore...

Build your own telescope

Remote controll a BIG telescope

EDSAC simulator

Knoppix X MAME a bootable iso linux with mame console emulator

Shelf life of various edible & non-edible products

sparkfun.com

A rotary dial desk phone cell phone.
"I can only imagine the fun of walking into meetings with a ten pound metal-and-bells rotary and clanging in onto the table."

Electronics Shematics for hobbyists

Projects for experimenters in PDF format




Anamorphic pavement drawings byJulian Beever

This is BEAUTIFUL! Redesign the dollar bill with the US Constitution on the back! NOW!

A nice little tutorial on engraving

A funny little tutorial on safe cracking

Homemade baby wipes

HAHA automatically reject creeps who hit on you

If aliens from space carried phones, this would be the one

Tin-foil lined booster bags?

USB toolkit from hell

Button sized propane fuel cell

The US military is using the Rhino Armored bus

How to convert T-shirts to panties

Psycho EtherKiller

Google hack for displaying really big maps

Woah, color representation of the file on a rom cart for a console game, strange stuff...

Did you know they actually launched a solar sail powered spacecraft? Me neither...

posted by monkeyboy @ 10:54 PM 53 comments

Saturday, June 18, 2005

Friday, June 17, 2005

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Sunday, June 12, 2005

mouse broke, just finishing post

The home brew spot welder

Museum of technologocical oddities

Articles from from renew magazine (pdf files)

WTF? WalMart refusing to print photos that 'look' too professional!

AC for under $30

Commodore64 emulation & roms

posted by monkeyboy @ 12:27 PM 0 comments

Monday, June 06, 2005

oddball!

Really strange military history stuff




OkieDokie, a cellphone "headset" that is the handset from an old style deskphone. Yeah, you probably think this is kinda weird, but I have a really large head (gotta put that ego somewhere), and I feel weird using these little bitty phones, like I should listen, move phone down to talk, back up to listen, etc... So, I'd probably like it.

Cool! Wooden laptop & iPod cases...

posted by monkeyboy @ 7:45 PM 0 comments

Sunday, June 05, 2005

Mmmmmm, Shiny....

Links

• Feed the fark addiction
• Feed the software addiction


All of the software below is either freeware (GPL), or shareware, unless otherwise noted.


You really should have these things installed:


• Sygate Personal Firewall very secure, uses less resources. Now owned by Symantec, we'll see how THAT turns out...The Bastages discontinued it! My link goes to the old version, though... Install, right click > options > updates > uncheck auto update!
• FireFox Internet browser, faster and more secure than InternetExplorer
• ClamWin Anti-virus Seems to work better than AVG, Not so centered on getting you to upgrade to their $$$ verion, plus free updates.
• AVG Anti-virus Catches WAY more virii than Norton or Mcafee, plus free updates. Stay away frome their firewall, it uses WAY too many resources.
• LavaSoft AdAware checks for and removes spyware / malware.
• ToniArts EasyCleaner Cleans all the unused entries out of the registry.



Productivity Software:


• OpenOffice, The free, Open Source office suite, does presentations, word processor, spreadsheet, 3D illustrator & database program.
• AbiWord, use with OpenOffice as the word Processor - opens & saves MS files!
• FreeAccounting small to medium business accounting package
• Free cad program



Editing/creating software:


• EditPadLite - replaces notepad - tabbed plain text text editor
• Nvu Web authoring solution
• Easy Gallery Generator creates html pages from a directory of pictures, complete with thumbnails, backwards & forwards buttons.



Multimedia stuff:


• FastStone image viewer has some real good image manipulation / viewing tools.
• AutoGK free DVD ripping solution
• Get MediaPlayerClassic here! a replacement for Windows Media Player, less system invasive, less Digital Rights Management centric.
• Audacity multitrack audio editor
• OpenFx 3D modeling / redering tool
• FoxIt! A replacement for Adobe Acrobat, or as I like to call it MudDancer™.
• Real_Alternative For use with Media Player Classic, so it can play Real media files
• QuickTime_Alternative For use with Media Player Classic, so it can play QuickTime files



Internet:


• EmulePLUS P2P application
• cFossThis is the only one that's not free! Windows traffic shaping application, controls the speed of p2p / ftp applications, so that your web browsing is speedier.
• Internet Radio Tuner, for listening to the thousands of radio stations on the net
• Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.
• SUN Java If, for no other reason than MS is BAD
• UtilKit DLUL meter I love this litle bandwidth monitor, the company seems to be out of business. Working download links are hard to find for this file



Utilities:


• 7Zip Nice little archive program, love the right click "extract to" command, handles zips, rars & several others.
• FinePrint prints multiple pages per sheet, thinks it's a printer driver Trial version prints a small banner on each page.
• BartPE Windows XP pre-installation environment iso builder, the absolute best troubleshooting tool.
• EasyCleaner Cleans up the registry, after installing / uninstalling software.
• Serials 2000 Lost your registration number?
• ISOBuster Looks inside ISO images
• TrackerV3 A replacement for Windows Explorer with some advanced tools.
• BurnatOnce for burning ISO images.


A human being should
be able to change a diaper,
plan an invasion,
butcher a hog,
conn a ship,
design a building,
write a sonnet,
balance accounts,
build a wall,
set a bone,
comfort the dying,
take orders,
give orders,
cooperate,
act alone,
solve equations,
analyze a new problem,
pitch manure,
program a computer,
cook a tasty meal,
fight efficiently,
die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A Heinlein.
-Starship Troopers.

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