cool links from Loren

Commuter photomosaic generating software
Make your own photomosaics using this software in conjunction with ImageMagick.

The Naked Face
Can you tell someone's emotions just by looking at their face? Some people can - a couple of scientists mentioned in this article, for sure.

Hard Disk Speakers
In case you're tired of turning your toasted hard drives into wind chimes, here's something different to try.

Book Crossing
Essentially, a book trading club. Sounds like a neat idea.

Porn to Save the Third World
A story about the Adam & Eve company - among other things, how a portion of their profits helps to fund contraception programs in Third World countries. Cool.

Complete Sun And Moon Data For One Day

You can obtain the times of sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, transits of the Sun and Moon, and the beginning and end of civil twilight, along with information on the Moon's phase by specifying the date and location in one of the two forms below and clicking on the "Get data" button at the end of the form.

AOL Quick Buddy
If you use AOL Instant Messenger, here is a way to log into it via a web browser. Or if you have accounts on several instant messaging services (like AOL, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo) you can log into all of them at once using Trillian.

Bush Senior: Hating Saddam, Selling Him Weapons
A detailed history of the United States' dealings with Saddam Hussein. Can you say, Afghanistan all over again? (The old "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" trick gone bad once more.)

Total Recorder
A great product made by a Canadian company that allows you to record ANY audio to your hard disk. The greatest use for this would be to record streaming audio sources to WAV, MP3, or other sound formats. The Standard Edition is very reasonably priced ($17.95). And no, I don't work for them, I just think it's an incredible product at a great price!

Linus Pauling Research Notebooks

As with many scientists, Linus Pauling utilized bound notebooks to keep track of the details of his research as it unfolded. A testament to the remarkable length and diversity of Dr. Pauling's career, the Pauling Papers holdings include forty-six research notebooks spanning the years of 1922 to 1994 and covering any number of the scientific fields in which Dr. Pauling involved himself. In this regard, the notebooks contain many of Pauling's laboratory calculations and experimental data, as well as scientific conclusions, ideas for further research and numerous autobiographical musings.

TiVo Turbonet Adapter
A network card that you can install in your TiVo for downloading TV listings, more easily hacking your TiVo, etc.

Turmoil in the Toybox II
One of the reviewers for this book gives a pretty good description of its contents:

Just when ya thought the world was safe cause ya burned all of your OZZY records, think again. Your Care Bear collction[sic] is an abomination in the sight of God, and don't forget to chuck your Smurfs out also! Just another "Paranoid Guide To Christian Thinking" about, get this, Demonic Toys.

Opt-out Links
Links for opting out of various ad agencies' cookie tracking and pop-up ads. Speaking of pop-up ads, though...

PopUpBuster is useful for killing pop-up ads, provided you're using Internet Explorer as a web browser. It allows you to temporarily disable it by pressing the Shift key, in the event that a pop-up window that's NOT an ad isn't working properly for you.

In on the joke in Silicon Valley
Kinda out-of-date but funny. This is an article about what several Silicon Valley companies did for April Fool's Day pranks.