The Bangus Ultimatum

These are my links for October 16th through March 4th:

• subprime works – Google Docs – an intro to the coming economic meltdown
• Shakesville – Caffeine-Free Diet Pepsi is the most hideous thing humans have ever created – really scathing review of diet pepsi
• Enturbulation.org ? View topic – Where did Hubbard steal Scientology from? – From a German book written in 1934 he had read once. Now, through the miracle of the Internets you too can read it for the first time in …well …ever
• Galaxy Dynamics | Gravitas: Portraits of a Universe in Motion – GRAVITAS is a visual and musical celebration of the beauty in a dynamic universe driven by gravity. Animations from supercomputer simulations of forming galaxies, star clusters, galaxy clusters, and galaxy interactions are presented as moving portraits of
• WH40K Starmap – really beautiful warhammer 40k map. not sure if it's canon though
• Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus – nice visual store of words
• Exercises for Better Focus and Concentration » Personal development for a perfect life – You can find strong powers of concentration in yourself. When you are decisive and sincerely want to excel in your studies, pass an important exam, or playing one of your favorite games; the power of concentration becomes available to you.
• How To Behave On An Internet Forum (Technology: MySpace, Facebook & More) – Internet forums are either a brilliant community where you can meet and chat with new, interesting people, or full of scornful idiots who deserve to be banned from The Net in its entirety.
• Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds) – Joel on Software – If you started reading these documents with the hope of spending a weekend writing some spiffy code that imports Word documents into your blog system, or creates Excel-formatted spreadsheets with your personal finance data, the complexity and length of th
• Microsoft Office Binary (doc, xls, ppt) File Formats – well, look here – microsoft finally opens up all its file format specifications to the public.
• YouTube – A History of Evil – from pandora to big brother
• The 9 Most Badass Bible Verses – If the Bible had been written by King Leonidas and the rest of the Spartans from 300, it would probably read pretty much the same as it does now.
• Text Editor: Learn and Use LaTeX Online with MonkeyTex – LaTeX is a word processing and typesetting application that gets shout-outs from our commenters whenever bibliographies or other academic documents are needed.
• Organization for Transformative Works – The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) is a nonprofit organization established by fans to serve the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms.
• Silicon Valley Users Guide: Snappy answers to stupid hippies – Biodiesel. Hemp. Local sustainable farms. Hippie tech is infuriating. You know in your engineer's heart it won't work, but because it's outside your field of study you lack the handy stats to rebut the moonbat ideas evangelized by modern-day hippies and t
• Dream Anatomy: A National Library of Medicine Exhibit – fascinating anatomy images
• Flight thru Instruments – a photoset on Flickr – cool visual guide to flying with wonderful retro-modern graphics
• DAMTP Computing – some good resources for my cr 125 class
• BBC NEWS | Special Reports | 629 | 629 | Climate scepticism: The top 10 – What are some of the reasons why "climate sceptics" dispute the evidence that human activities such as industrial emissions of greenhouse gases and deforestation are bringing potentially dangerous changes to the Earth's climate?
• NOVA | Intelligent Design on Trial | PBS – the next great rift in education
• Manga's Japanese decline — and the copyright infringers who are stopping it – Boing Boing – Wired continues its series of excellent features about manga — following up on this morning's mini-comic with a lucid and fascinating story by Daniel Pink about the faltering market for manga in Japan and the way that copyright infringing donjishi (fan-c
• Tucows Developer Blog > Blog Archive » Version Control – post with links to neat version control articles
• Cyberwar: China Declares War On Western Search Sites – new reports have surfaced that would indicate that China has unilaterally blocked all three major search engines in China and is redirecting all requests to Baidu.
• Asian Kung-Fu Generation – a blogger's weird and wonderful journey through an anime bands history, fnasub freedom, and the new shape of marketing
• LibriVox » Democracy in America Vol. I by Alexis de Tocqueville – When Alexis de Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful observations American society and political system, found in the two volume book he published after his v
• 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails – O'Reilly Ruby – ?Is there anything Rails can do, that PHP CAN?T do?? The answer is no.
• Sokka Gets No Respect – site dedicated to my favorite avatar character
• Mechanism design – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Mechanism design is a sub-field of economics. It is the art of designing rules of a game to achieve a specific outcome. This is done by setting up a structure in which each player has an incentive to behave as the designer intends.
• Rob Conery » Imploding Rails, Jesus DHH, and The Uncle Ben Principle – I love Rails – let me just get that out of the way right now. As many who?ve read my blog know, I think it?s the Dog?s Bollucks in terms of a developer?s framework. But that seems to be a problem with Rails – the focus is on rapid development only
• History of Religion – How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? Our map gives us a brief history of the world's most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism.
• American lawbreaking: How laws die. – By Tim Wu – Slate Magazine – Tim Wu, a smart and funny law prof, has a new series up on Slate that he calls his magnum opus — a series of articles examining which laws America doesn't enforce, and why