Preserving a generation of Apple 2 disks

Posted in Design by Neal on August 14th, 2005 @ 1:27 PM

Play old Apple 2e games through your browser. The site has over 1100 disk images archived. Ahh, the memories… ‘You died from dysentery!’

WebCalc: The ultimate web based calculator

Posted in Design by Neal on August 13th, 2005 @ 8:47 AM

This site currently has 400 different calculations with more being added daily. There are many calculator sites on the Internet however WebCalc has a different approach. This is not a listing of sites and calculator links but a resource that allows you to do all of these calculations from the site itself. Anything from health, geometry, physics, programming, they have it. .

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The Big Myth

Posted in Design by Neal on August 12th, 2005 @ 4:57 PM

How do people from different cultures view themselves, the world and their origins?

The Big Myth is a new experimental learning module designed for use in European primary school classrooms. It is a sociology textbook for the comparative study of world creation mythology and it’s fucking bad ass.

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Study: No Link between Violent Video Games and Behavior

Posted in Design by Neal on August 12th, 2005 @ 4:38 PM

According to a new study from the University of Illinois, there is no link between playing violent video games and real world behavior.

The Simpsons Archive

Posted in Design by Neal on August 11th, 2005 @ 4:07 PM

The Simpsons Archive is the Internet’s clearinghouse of Simpsons guides, news, and information, voluntarily maintained by members of alt.tv.simpsons and other fans around the world. You are invited to contribute your FAQs, news items, capsule submissions, lists, guides and other paraphernalia for inclusion in the archive.

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The Scribbler Bot

Posted in Design by Neal on August 10th, 2005 @ 1:45 PM

Scribbler lets you make a simple line drawing and then generates a more complex drawing by applying a set of algorithms. The Scribbler Bot moves the drawing into the physical world. It is a simple two axis plotter using two stepper motors and a control board.

Welcome to the official 5.25″ disk sleeve archive!

Posted in Design by Neal on August 9th, 2005 @ 4:51 PM

Featuring an ever growing archive of every 5.25″ disk sleeve ever made! The work of a madman? A catalog of nostalgia? An excuse to do something with all these disk sleeves? One thing’s for sure, this person is n-u-t-s!

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Things You’re Not Supposed to Know

Posted in Design by Neal on August 8th, 2005 @ 4:55 PM

Purpose > The Memory Hole exists to preserve and spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not widely known. This includes:

• Government files
• Corporate memos
• Court documents (incl. lawsuits and transcripts)
• Police reports and eyewitness statements
• Congressional testimony
• Reports (governmental and non-governmental)
• Maps, patents, Web pages
• Photographs, video, and sound recordings
• News articles
• Books (and portions of books)

The emphasis is on material that exposes things that we’re not supposed to know (or that we’re supposed to forget).

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Convert just about anything to anything else.

Posted in Design by Neal on August 7th, 2005 @ 4:50 PM

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AT&T interactive TTS demo

Posted in Design by Neal on August 6th, 2005 @ 4:41 PM

TTS, short for Text-To-Speech, is the creation of audible speech from computer readable text. But, who care about that shit? Check this out and prepare to lose the afternoon calling people with fake voices.

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