Whimsical Sites

• Current events
  • The Onion:
    
  • Fark
  • Darwin Awards
• Lincoln's Gettyburg Address PowerPoint slides have been discovered:
  http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/
• Placing loved ones in assisted computing facilities:
  http://www.satirewire.com/features/siliconpines/acf.shtml
• How our beloved—yet feared throughout the galaxy—Megalon 14 got its name:
  http://www.traipse.com/upgrade/
• How to say "Oh my God, there's an axe in my head!" in many languages
  http://www.yamara.com/junk/xl970512.html.
• Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie: An Effective, Low-Cost Solution To Combating Mind-Control
  http://www.zapatopi.net/afdb.html.
• Mapablast:
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/sfeature/blastmap.html
• My Hero! RIP, Larry Walters:
  http://www.markbarry.com/lawnchairman.html
• The Next Generation of SUVs
  A classic that disappeared for a while. This dates from about 2003 or so and curiously has turned out to be not far off.
• The Degree Confluence Project:
  http://www.confluence.org/. These folks deserve a lot of latitude.
• Squirrel Fishing:
  http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~yaz/en/squirrel_fishing.html.
• ASCII Art Dictionary:
  http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~freise/
• Dr. Bukk:
  http://www.drbukk.com/. The place to go for teef.
• The Easter Egg Archive:
  http://www.eeggs.com/
• A plan for unification of North America we can all get behind:
  http://mypage.direct.ca/d/deaye/captu.html
• The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
  http://minievil.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
• Art Department
  • MC Escher. The The Virtual Tours are a must.
  • Escher's "Ascending and Descending" in LEGO®
  • Escher's "Balcony" in LEGO®
  • Escher's "Belvedere" in LEGO®
• Technology Center
  • BMW Nightmare
  • The Institute of Druidic Technology has much useful information, including an introduction to the computer language Runix as well a discussion of Hyperborean Mainframes and other important topics.
  • Intrepid commentator, John C. Dvorak, reveals the technology behind new hard drive developments in "Nanodrive Uses Insect Parts":
    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,35629,00.asp
  • RFC 1149, A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers:
    http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html
  • RFC 2795, The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS):
    http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2795.html
  • The end of the Internet:
    http://www.1112.net/lastpage.html
• Google
  • !ti yrT Google for the dyslexic:
    http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/
  • GoogleFight:
    http://www.googlefight.com/
  • Google logos
• DECSS. Lest we forget.
  • For a droll sojourn on why enforcing the laws against publishing the DeCSS algorithm will be difficult, mosey on over to the Gallery of CSS Descramblers:
    http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/.
  • Note particularly DeCSS in haiku:
    http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/decss-haiku.txt.
  • MPAA's threatening letter:
    http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/mpaa-threat-feb2001.txt
  • and Professor Touretzky's amusing reply:
    http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/mpaa-reply-feb2001.html.
• Cat Corner
  • Library cats:
    
  • While we are about it, what to do to keep the pusses off our keyboards:
    http://www.bitboost.com/pawsense/
  • Flo Control or how we can keep les chats from bringing presents when they come through the cat door:
    http://www.quantumpicture.com/Flo_Control/flo_control.htm
• Exploding Whales
  • The Infamous Exploding Whale:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vmnq5dBF7Y and a bit more info at Wikipedia
• Language sites
  • Dialectizer (Converts Web pages into dialects like redneck, Swedish chef, Pig Latin, etc. Requires Java.)
    http://rinkworks.com/dialect
  • Engrish:
    http://www.engrish.com/
  • Pittsburghese:
    http://www.pittsburghese.com/. Yins check it out.
  • Efrance-Ray Ources-Say:
    • Oly-hay Ible-bay
    • Amousfay Eftlay-Andershay:
      http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/left_pl.html
• Linux Lass. Heart be still!
  • Defender of the Gnu and Open Source Way!:
    http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/240.html
  • Not so fast, you big bully!:
    http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/241.html

• Sayings
• Words that aren't in the language but should be.

July 2, 2016