Building a Balancing Scooter

Segway (ginger/it) clone built for about $2000 using off the shelf parts.

dead link: http://www.tlb.org/scooter.html

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Hates Software

A collection of blogs from people ranting about software idiocy. Fun reading in the vein of the Unix-Haters list.

dead link: http://hates-software.com/authors/

Gender Genie

Examimes text to guess the author's gender. Reportedly 80% accurate, but less so in my tests.

dead link: http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html

What is your Battle Cry?

Prowling over the terrain, cutting down all who dare stand in the way using a studded crowbar, cometh QZ! And he gives a booming bellow:

"Vengeance and goo flow from my veins! I am on a crash course with bloody destiny!"

dead link: http://bdmonkeys.net/~chaz/battle.php

Bochs

A portable IA-32 (x86) machine emulator capable of running common operating systems like Linux, Windows 95, and Windows NT.

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The Household Cyclopedia

Scans from an 1881 encyclopedia dealing with all manner of home life issues: agriculture, medicine, cleaning, pottery, etc.

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Language Log

This blog presents a linguist's view of world. Working from phrases and ideas found in current media, the blogger examines the grammatical and semantic significance of the examples.

dead link: http://www.languagelog.org/

2020 Update: At this remove, I can't be sure what I was looking at 2003. It probably was different than the now well known Language Log at UPenn, because who goes from "languagelog.org" to "languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu"? The second is a lot less memorable.