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Lapper — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 05:00:21 +0000

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Wordcamp in San Francisco: Lectures, demonstrations, and… barbeque? It’s the Wordpress convention being held later this month. Everyone’s invited, except for, you know, those with no means to get to San Francisco.
Twenty iPhone shortcomings: We were all looking forward to the iPhone, but unfortunately, like the first-generation iPod, it’s not as perfect as we would have hoped. The one everyone’s talking about is its mindnumbingly slow internet, rather than the wifi-speed we were anticipating.
Warp: Like the classic Windows 98 screensaver, Warp lets you fly through a starfield when you leave your computer for long enough. Not to say Windows 98 was good, but the screensavers will always be in our hearts and minds.
Kongregate Badges: After months in the making, Kongregate has finally released “achievments”; tasks in games that get you both points and miniature badges that appear in your profile. Some of these just bring back nightmares, though. Like Particles.
Howard Forums Wiki: What can I say? It’s a wiki documenting mobile phones. It’s not very complete, but I’m sure you could find something of interest if you cared to look. The forum is far more interesting.
Will it Blend?: This guy’s supposedly part of an advertising campaign completely unique from other PR tactics. Watch as he uses this high powered blender, conveniently available from the online store, to blend… well, everything. From Transformers, to credit cards, and even iPhones. They’re all reduced to dust.
Microsoft Surface parody: Microsoft Surface is supposed to be the future of computing as we know it, complete with the Tangible User Interface that is, itself the next level. However, with consumers seeing business-targeted commercials, these guys have made up a frustrated voiceover.

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Lapper — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:00:41 +0000

20 WordPress Themes: I’ve never seen any of these, so I’m very surprised by how impressive they are. The first few are by far the most classy looking. They’re not on either of the top ten lists in the WordPress themes sidebar, so there’s a good chance you haven’t had the chance to check these out either.
StepMania Online: I linked to the wiki in the previous post, which actually is rather mediocre and incomplete. The idea of online StepMania play is really something, and I’m sorry that it has such limited functionality that it won’t even work for me. I can’t wait until the final release of 4.0.
Dockables!: The dock of Mac OS X has always been a portal to applications and folders, but not until now has it been able to perform system tasks at the click of an icon. Dockables has quite a few dock icon ultilities to make everything a little bit easier.
Become an M&M: This really doesn’t make any sense above making an M&M that kind of looks like you. It’s hard to do with only three body shapes, them all being rather… M&M-shaped. But you can have fun with this. Go for it.
Digg Arc API: This is a relatively new addition to the Digg API set. Stories split the circle into sections, with sub-levels of topics and large blue arcs linking related stories around the outside. It’s a bit less easy to find new stories than the other ones, such as Stack, but it’s still fun.
WikiMedia Board Elections 2007: It’s another year and time for another wide-scale election for the future members of the WikiMedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees. You need 400 edits before June 1st, including one edit before March 1st to place your vote.
Incredible Ikaruga gamer: Have you ever tried playing with two controllers in the same game? It’s nearly impossible, but this guy seems to complete the final level of Ikaruga just fine in this fashion. I really need to get that for Gamecube…

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Lapper — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:00:35 +0000

If You Stop Smoking: I really enjoyed the original post of this; it was interesting to know that eventually the effects of smoking do wear off if you take the initiative to quit. This high-resolution poster shows a timeline of what happens to your body if you stop smoking right now.
Graphic Calculator story: Never before has the struggle of a software developer been so great and told so gracefully. I’ll bet dollars to donuts you had no idea that Apple actually canceled the famous Graphic Calculator and that it wasn’t to be shipped with the new Power PC Macs. It took a little luck and a lot of help.
Safari 3.0 beta: Initial reaction for this breakthrough edition is poor, even hostile. But that’s mostly regarding the Windows version, which apparently is very buggy and is unfit to be used. The new webkit that is installed for Macintosh, however, is screwing with Colloquy, which is making me pretty down.
Vector TD: Finally, a Tower Defense worthy of mentioning since Desktop TD. Vector TD is from the creator of Flash Element and Circle TDs and is complete with eleven towers, each capable of being upgraded no less than ten times. Multiple maps, ranging from a novice level to one near impossible are now available for your playing pleasure.
Meteor Busters: This game incites the nostalgia of Game Boy and Game Boy pocket, what with its simple functionality and grayscale graphics. Play as any one of five ships and work your way through heaps of meteors, upgrading yourself along the way. The big downside is that a single hit is a death, and a single death is a downgrade. My favorite by far is the sticky bullet ship.
ZuluPad: Consolidate all your notes into a localhost wiki with this “notepad on crack”. It’s cross-platform, free, and great for both the student and the worker.
Big Ed’s Swan Song: I’m sure one must have noticed by now the Net Neutrality chicklet in my footer; it’s been there for a good eight months now. The issue now is that AT&T is pushing for the abolishment of Net Neutrality more than ever; this video explains it all in a Jib-Jab-esque way.

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Lapper — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:01:17 +0000

Health Bolt: This health blog is different from all the rest. The articles are interesting and don’t preach nutrition or exercise. He’s just telling you facts a la Damn Interesting, if you will.
Colorstrology: This site makes minimal sense. Check your birthday for your “true color” and a horoscope-like description of yourself.
CSS dock menu: This is one of the most clever uses of Javascript and CSS I’ve seen in quite some time. It emulates the Mac OS X dock we all know and love, while holding the functionality of a menu.
TripleJack: Watch out for this site; it’s completely addictive. Choose a cute avatar and get playing in this very fun no-stakes multi-player poker game. Increase your points by winning hands, and increase your cash by banking it instead of flashing it.
Web 2.0 logo: We all know that Web 2.0 is just a big buzzword, overwhemingly defined by visuals. This logo is the essence of that, complete with an optional mirror finish and Beta sticker.
WikiHow: How do I do this? How do I do that? Wikipedia doesn’t always have the answer if you’re looking to do a step-by-step, but WikiHow does.
Beat box: I find it fairly amazing how accurately and precisely this guy can keep a beat going. Can you do that? No, you can’t.

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Lapper — Sun, 27 May 2007 05:00:33 +0000

TalkAboutComics blog: The blog for the acclaimed TalkAboutComics site, most notably the forum. The latest post I thought was interesting; it was regarding BC and Johnny Hart, who died a month ago. Did I hear about that or didn’t I?
Ingredient X: Never before has one man so accurately portrayed the oddities of day-to-day life in such spectacular sketch videos and comic strips. Lev tells tales of strange women, procrastination, Saturdays, and many more things you’ll simply have to see to praise.
Polar Clock update: We can be expecting a second update to the Polar Clock screensaver from PixelBreaker, complete with localization and a universal coloring system. I just wish it wouldn’t make my fan spin up.
Particles: This game involves fully elastic collisions and transfering of energy between the several red balls that float about the screen. Your single blue ball needs to stay out of their paths as long as possible; if you get collided into once, it’s game over. How do people beat 240 seconds, anyway?
Panic ripoff: The Transmit truck icon has been so abundantly stolen that it constitutes about 60% of the design thefts on this hilarious page. Panic isn’t mad, but you have to wonder who these people think they’re fooling when they reverse the image and use it twelve times.
The OLPC Wiki: Ah, the One Laptop Per Child project; bringing Linux to children around the world with $100 hand-crank laptops. This is one of their two wikis, the other one being for software development. I don’t even know where you can buy these things.
Metal storm: The machine gun fires one million shots per minute. The handgun fires three times before it recoils. The bullets have no shells and are fired by electronic charge. Metal Storm is the most revolutionary gun to date; check it out.

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Lapper — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 05:00:27 +0000

Wordpress 2.1.3 and 2.0.10: Honestly, I miss when the Wordpress updates used to include features. 2.1.3 is yet another security update that they hope wasn’t compromised as was 2.1.1.
VIRB: This appears to be a modern, less communistically perverse version of the widely beloved Facebook. I don’t get what’s with these places; they’re just buffed-up forums.
CallWave SMS: This is an inter-widget that allows you to send SMS text-messages to any provider without trying to tap it out on your own phone’s number pad. It’s really useful for contacting friends on the go, but you can’t hide your computer in your hand during class.
Zwok: In a time when there is no war… people throw snowballs. That pretty much being the storyline of this strange game, you’ll still have a blast launching snow at the other team and racking up points as quickly as possible.
The Perry Bible Fellowship: This is the kind of webcomic that just makes you sit back and think about how you can exploit life to the fullest, or interpret it in the strangest and most surreal way possible. It doesn’t update too often, but it’s some worthwhile reading.
Citizendium: In belief that Wikipedia no longer fits the essence of being a true encyclopedia, the co-founder of Wikipedia has created a new encyclopedia. Citizendium is designed to be far stricter version of Wikipedia, where all articles must be cited and checked by experts in-the-field for them to become approved.
Craziest: As the video link replaces the IRC link, we bring you the story of a Scrabble extremist. Believing that the tiles themselves depict the future, she goes on an evangelical escapade to make everyone else aware of the truth. All the while biding her time for the legendary 311-point “triple-triple” word: craziest.

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Lapper — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:00:20 +0000

The Pirate Bay and Kim Jong-Il: After years of problems with the Switzerland government, The Pirate Bay has thrown up their hands and allied with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il. Somehow The Pirate Bay is even more illegal than it was previously.
College Humor has expired: This “expired” GoDaddy page is the first thing hundreds of people saw upon visiting the funny-video site College Humor. Unfortunately, instead of the domain being up for grabs, a click transported them back to the normal homepage, where they received a resounding “Psych!”
Blue Screen of Death screensaver: The less the prankee happens to know about computers, the better, with this amazingly realistic BSoD screensaver for Macintosh. Note that this works even better when you then disable the keyboard and mouse.
iStepMania: Now this is what I’m talking about. StepMania has dropped all Windows support to focus on the Mac; the fruits of their labor already include iPod support and integration with FrontRow. They duly note, however, that StepMania may not run so well on the screenless iPod Shuffle.
Google TiSP: Now don’t tell me you didn’t ever want a broadband toilet. Google, ever so generous, has created a system in which you flush the cable of a router down your home toilet and become instantly connected throughout your home. Also note the convenient Gmail Paper.
4.1.2007 hoaxes at Wikipedia: Although you may have made a point to parade around your favorite sites today, making sure you see all the pranks being played, you probably missed a few hilarious ones. Wikipedia has a constantly-updated list you can check out.
The WiiHelm by ThinkGeek: Sure, the Wiimote is fun, but what’s the point if you can’t eat and drink at the same time? WiiHelm seeks to fix this with their revolutionary WiiHelm, a helmet that allows you to use the Wiimote with only a few nods of the head.

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Lapper — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:00:54 +0000

Google Summer of Code: Wordpress is now an official GSoC open-source project, so any university student can apply to make over $4,000 tinkering with it for the summer. Sounds simply grand.
European Gold Finch: After seeing the large yellow banner displayed across the top of Michael Scofield’s PDA, I’m sure at least some people went to check this place out. After a few minutes of scanning it becomes clear that it’s a very elaborate, but fake, forum. Reading anything but the bottom-most post will surely result in excruciating boredom.
Monolingual: Although your iTunes music collection most likely breaks the tens of gigabytes, you can still save a nice pinch of hard drive space by removing all but your native tounge from the localization files embedded in every application. I personally saved a cool 2.2GB.
Dwarf Complete: Everyone’s been waiting for a while for the next Eyezmaze game, and it turns out On’s been working on a project for a different company. Don’t worry about compromised quality, however, as this cartoony labyrinth game will leave you scratching your head for 4+ hours the first time through.
#summer-discuss: I’m not entirely sure where the GSoC channel was located last time; it might have been on Freenode. In anycase, your Q&A can get done here.
Plugin directory: One word: finally. Wordpress.org has finally created a repository for plugins that can actually be indexed and linked-to. I mean, sure, wp-plugins.net was there, but it was pretty bad.
RandomJunk: This is from a guy over at #freenode-social. Apparently it caters to various philosophies, but you’ll just have to read into it.

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Lapper — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:00:04 +0000

Wordpress 2.1.2: This new version brings new meaning to “security update”. Apparently the integrity of the 2.1.1 download was compromised by a server cracker, leaving hundreds of blogs vulnerable. Immediate upgrading is advised.
Folding@Home: Stanford lets you lease them the power of your idle processor to them to search proteins that may one day cure various diseases. Your proteins processed are sent to the Stanford server where they rack up in the form of points. The combined power of hundreds of thousands of processors is more powerful than any supercomputer.
Darwiin Remote: Wii remote + Intel-based Mac didn’t used to mean anything, but now it means “Darwiin”. This application hijacks the infrared sensor that normally would pick up a FrontRow remote and uses it to find a Wii controller, which can be configured for use. This is joystick-squared.
Gamma Bros.: This is just about one of the best space shooters you’ll ever come across. Shoot your way through the darkness so that you can reach Earth in time for… dinner. But who cares about the storyline anyway?
#python: Python is a very dynamic coding language, but just like any language, it can be confusing as heck. Stop by here for some help with your… Pythoning. Doing… the Python.
Apple’s New Thing: Hey, don’t blame me for stumbling upon this one. Read in awe as six-year-old predictions unfold for the fate of Apple’s newest release, the iPod. Most were skeptical, but some saw the explosive potential for the device that now rules the music market.
Ubuntu Wiki: You can contribute information about one of the most popular open source operating systems, Ubuntu linux. Watch out for FiestyFawn, becoming available in April.

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Lapper — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 07:14:27 +0000

Bannage: Sick of spam or just the annoying kid? Bannage for Wordpress can ban by URL, username, email, and IP address, to ensure your crowd is just who you want it to be.
Popularity Dialer: Services such as this have existed before, but Popularity Dialer claims to be the top of the pack. Send yourself, or someone else, a pre-recorded message at any time, to alleviate yourself of awkward situations or to get out of meetings.
Finale NotePad 2007: When it comes to writing music on the computer, this program’s got it down pat. A very intuative interface includes support for multiple instruments per staff, a lyrics formatter, and auto-resting incomplete measures. An account creation and the wait for a 32MB download are all that’s required. That and some good old fashioned creativity.
Red: Defend only yourself as a small red dome, using the energy of weak, rapid fire shots to divert the course of many asteroids. Powerups come so rarely that they are indeed a luxury. Watch out for both the gigantic asteroids and the quick winds.
#poetry: It’s not the channel that’s interesting so much as the bot that inhabits it. Written entirely in perl, poetaster the poetry bot recites poems, limericks, and even obscenities. Poetaster is 0% lame.
Dino Might: A friend of mine is getting steadily better at his solo acoustic recordings. Why not check them out before he gets a label? At least, that’s what we’re hoping for eventually.
Star Wars Fanon Wiki: SWFanon is like Uncyc, but… for Star Wars. This wiki has seen it through some tough times; believe me, I pitched in myself. But now it’s attained the “Featured Wikia” status and has a great new design.

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Lapper — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:49:48 +0000

Wordpress 2.0.7: Okay, seriously you guys, this is the last one. 2.0.7 is a minor update fixing a newly-found security vulnerability and would probably be better suited as "2.0.6.1".
Kiki the Nanobot: This game is a huge brain-buster. Control your nanobot around several 3D stragety-infused levels where up/down orientation is out the window. Various forums around the internet procure novelties such as python loopholes and and new levels.
iStat Pro: This little widget can do everything from monitoring your disk space to your RAM usage. And now in the newly-released version 3.3, iStat can monitor your Intel-based Mac’s internal temperature and fan speed. Not to mention how classy it looks.
rRootage: rRootage is quite easily the best, not to mention most addicting, bullet hell shooter out there. Not to mention that yes, it’s both cross-platform and free. rRootage sports four game modes with forty levels a piece, each mode modeled after a different video game like Ikaruga or Giga Wing.
#southpark-epsiodes: The distribution network irc.TVEps.net makes a point of delivering you all your favorite shows, including 24, Scrubs, American Dad, Futurama, Heroes, and obviously, South Park. Sure, it can be confusing, but that’s why you can join #operhelp.
List of paradoxes: Wikipedia presents a near-complete list of logical paradoxes that simply boggle the mind. Remember to stay alive when thinking about them, though.
Wookiepedia: One of the most popular wikis on Wikia, this Star Wars knowledge base has extensive information on their favorite science fiction series. The lengthy articles in great numbers rival those of the early Wikipedia.

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Lapper — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:59:48 +0000

Is your plugin Naughty or Nice?: With Wordpress 2.1 on the way, developers had better look sharp… and make their plugins look sharper. Although the first plugins for the upcoming Wordpress version are sure to be buggy, I believe there’s a lot in store.
MacRumors: All the latest news-to-be about Macintosh and Apple, Inc. The scary part is how right they are, regardless of it being days later, or years in the future.
VersionTracker: This site keeps you up to date with all the versions of the programs you love; freeware included. Believe me; it’s fun to be up to date.
Winterbells: It’s been 13 months since Orisinal’s last release, and all the fans are abuzz about the new holiday game, Winterbells. At 6,800-point bells, my high-score is over 300 trillion.
Flip4Mac: This software company’s all about convenience. A WMV codec for your QuickTime player? An organization app for importing your DVDs? These guys know what you need, even if you do have to pay for it.
#: I know what you’re thinking; why just a blank channel name? The channel that exists here was created for fun and gets traffic from people incorrectly entering their channel name through Viper007Bond’s portal. It’s a great discussion forum, in any case.
Wikia’s New Features: New through Wikia, embedding of YouTube videos, among other new hard-coded novelties. Some say it’s un-wiki-like, but I say that this is pretty cool.

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Lapper — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:30:44 +0000

Filecrunch: The ultimate file storage and sharing site. You can upload unlimited files of any extension up to 250MB in size! This is truely an amazing idea.
YouTube Underground Contest: The results are in for this grand music video competition. The rules? Submit a video containing a performance of your own band’s song. Check these great submissions out.
UnRarX: One of few excellent .rar analysis programs for the Macintosh. UnRarX does the job quickly and it does it well.
Line Rider: A jovial game starring a boy and his sled where you control the landscape. Creating colossal courses with everything from nose-manuals to breathtaking landscapes has become somewhat of a cult amongst artists and gamers alike.
#wikipedia: There is literally tons of WP discussion here all day long. It’s one of the hubs of Freenode.
A Liam Show: Everyone has to watch these amazingly hilarious videos done by Liam Sullivan, a television occasional. “You still owe me $1200, betch!”
Adobe Labs Wiki: Adobe’s developmental projects wiki, with literally to-the-minute updates and information. What did you expect? It’s a wiki.

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Lapper — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 05:06:23 +0000

Xanga: An interestingly customizable blogging service, Xanga is great for blogs like online journals, communicating with friends, etc. How do you pronounce that, anyway? Xaynga… xahnga… jenga… mensa?
Manga Volume: A superb online manga reader, with all the volumes, featuring your favorite characters. No external reader is required to use. Check out their accompanying forum community, as well.
Wordpress 2.0.5: The latest version of Wordpress, containing over 50 bug fixes.
Falling Sand Game: A mesmerizing game where you control how your sand falls and interacts. Build walls, set things ablaze, and erradicate everything. This game is processor-intensive. You decide if that’s a good thing.
##wikipedia-geeks: A nice channel with a minimal crowd. Discussion is basically limitless, but expect a lot of coming and going.
Pastebin: If you’re tired to trying to send long messages in bits and pieces just so your chat client can process them, Pastebin’s for you. Any code, or other text, can be uploaded to Pastebin in seconds, and stays a permanant link.
EditThis.info: Quite literally the fastest wiki setup I’ve ever seen. A small personal wiki can be created in seconds for you to enjoy and use as you please. It seems advertising increases your allowed upload space, too.

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Lapper — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:15:33 +0000

Damn Interesting: A blog where each entry is like an article in a research magazine, but very interesting. You might even say it’s damn interesting. Cool posts include The Crypt of Civilization and Alien Hand Syndrome.
Slashdot: You haven’t heard of Slashdot? Dating back for years, Slashdot has provided tech news within a closely-knit community. Although sometimes mocked for their sheer geekiness, that’s the point, right? It is what IT is.
Google Pack: A bundle of software supplied by Google. Not all of it’s homebrewed, mind you, but you can still use the stuff. The material includes Norton Antivirus, Picasa, Google Video Player, and quite a few more. The pack is available for Windows XP download only.
UNIX Tetris: Very fun. Simply boot up your Macintosh Terminal and start playing one of the most classic games of all time.
#wordpress: An interesting support channel for all your Wordpress FAQ. You can even get some self-promoting in the process.
JustGotOwned: Good for a laugh, just replace a friend’s name with “you”, converting spaces into decimals, and watch as he or she gets incredibly owned, over and over. You got owned… owned owned owned.
2006 Wikipedia CD Selection: In lieu of waiting for the tedious processing and release of Wikipedia’s Pushing to 1.0 project, where their best articles will be released on CD-ROM for permanent usage, you can use this unofficial version, downloadable in .zip format.

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Lapper — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 05:09:57 +0000

PayPerPost: You may not believe it, but word-of-mouth is the most effective form of advertising today. PayPerPost uses that idea to get advertisers to pay bloggers to write about their products. It’s quite an interesting system.
Campfire: Created by 37signals and spoken highly of by Feedburner, Tech Crunch, and many more, Campfire is a smooth-running chat engine for your company’s project. And, best of all, it can be completely free.
GimmieSomeTune: We all love iTunes, but it’s just too bulky to keep visible all the time. GimmieSomeTune gives you a Dashboard-style floating window with song information, album artwork, etc. Definitely worth a “try”.
Program Geeks Arcade: More than 350 classic flash games from Microlife to Raiden X. You can spent hours sifting through the games you haven’t played for years.
Five Levels of Competence: The five… or six… different mindsets that people eventually end up in when they’re around IRC long enough. Ah, nirvana.
Dihydrogen Monoxide: The horror! How can this substance still be legal? We can guarentee that everything on the site is true; the forumula spelled out is H₂O.
ELWiki: An interesting system; you start off with a subdomain wiki, but once you hit ten pages of content, they give you a top level domain name free of charge. Now that’s an offer I can’t refuse.

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Lapper — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:20:15 +0000

Feedburner: Need a more organized, professional RSS feed for your blog? Feedburner’s got you covered with HTML syndication, embeddable code, and advertising widgets galore.
Talk About Comics: A fair-sized forum housing hundreds of areas for emerging webcomics. Great for professionals and just those who want some new reading material.
Adium X: If you’re connected, chances are you have at least five applications open for instant messanging alone. Adium is a fully customizable mac chat client that works with all the popular services such as AIM, MSN, YIM, ICQ, and more.
Eyezmaze: A Japanese site by On, a talented flash programmer. Irresistable games you can play for hours on end. Just try to beat Grow.
#adium: The official support and general discussion channel of the aforementioned chat client Adium X. Although most of the chat focuses around gaming and Wii jokes, you can get your questions answered here.
Leekspin: A looped animation of the Bleach character Orihime Inoue, set to Ievan Polkka. Completely mesmerizing and hypnotic.
Wikiversity: A beta wiki founded by the Wikimedia Foundation containing free student and teacher resources. We can’t wait to see this one grow up.

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Lapper — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 07:55:41 +0000

CSS Zen Garden: Professional and ameture web designers from all over make vastly different style sheets to fit the same page of HTML code. Tons of ideas for blog design.
Apple Support Forums: A flood of Mac addicts’ discussions if ever there was one. Flip through here before taking it to the Genius Bar.
Softpedia: A gigantic dump of freeware and shareware programs for all operating systems. Updated one minute ago.
iSketch: A shockwave-based game of online drawing-and-guessing, with a chat room to boot. So popular, it’s the first hit for “pictionary” on Google.
#wiki: Rarely active, but a portal to many other wiki-related channels throughout Freenode. C’mon; all the cool guys are in it.
Dontclick.It: Can you navigate this informative flash website without clicking once? If you fail, a static screen awaits you. If you can’t follow their directions, just get that spikey mouse they’re displaying on there.
Couch Slave Wiki: Formally the Bonus Stage wiki, now expanded to a Couch Slave knowledge base due to the original webtoon being cancelled after episode 87. Matt Wilson’s work is hilarious.

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Lapper — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:10:20 +0000

The Concept of Irony: Movies, self-rants, and life in general, through the eyes of a laid-back professor of philosophy.
Exit Mundi: It’s the end of the world as we know it. Well, not yet, but this site is chock full of ways that it could happen, each one in-depth and entertaining.
Lynx for Mac: Surf the Internet legacy-style with this free Lynx imitation for Mac OSX.
Second Life: This is like a more detailed, larger, and MMORPG version of The Sims, in which you build your life in the game with a personalized character.
#freenode-social: This moderated channel is a-buzz with users from all over the network, talking about anything in particular, but never seems to get too crowded. The wait from joining to being voiced is approximately three hours.
Keiichi Anime Forever: A completely free collection of all your favorite anime shows in their original, non-dubbed forms [with English subtitles].
The Unofficial Google Wiki: This wiki, although not affiliated with, is dedicated to the workings of Google, the country’s most used search engine.