James Kirk & Queen Victoria in the 19th Century: Steam Trek - United Kingdom of Planets  (SteamTreak.com)

"To Explore Romantic New Worlds, To Seek Out New Life And Establish Civilization, To Boldly Go Where No Gentleman Has Gone Before"."

    

Cool animation: Fatboy Slim - Weapon Of Choice
    

Cute little game: AWEXOME CROSS 98!!
    

Stereo Images - Time for Space

Nancy and Landon's Hearth"

3-d images through animatin

    

Table of Condiments That Periodically Go Bad
    

Vanity of Vanities Press: Customized Classics

"Custom paperback editions of classic novels starring YOU! We offer the largest selection of customized books where YOU and your friends and family enter the story. Whether you're looking for the perfect birthday gift or a thoughtful present for the holidays, you've come to the right place!"

    

Sistine Condition. Vatican Art is now viewable online at the Vatican website. View the Sistine Chapel and Raphael's Rooms in all their glory (sort of). [MetaFilter]
    

3000 BCE: Art of the First Cities (Metropolitan Museum via Metafilter)

As it happens, Yael's summer homework for Regional Schechter involves a trip to the exhibit.

    

Sweet Smell of Nostalgia : The Best of Creative Computing Volume 1 (via Boing Boing)

The Best of Creative Computing Volume 1 Edited by David Ahl, published 1976

My first computer magazine subscription when I was a kid. Contents include Hunt the Wumpus and other BASIC games!

    

Mars Exploration: Fun Zone! (NASA)
    

They tell me it's funny: Stella
    

Elementary, My Dear: Periodic Table of Haiku

18 Argon


Trapped inside glass tubes
glowing filaments slumber--
idle argon waits. 

    

MadBlast - Pong... It's Not Just A Game
    

New York Songlines: Walking Tours of Manhattan Streets:

 "New York has its own giants, heroes and monsters who left their marks and their names on the land around us. If we learn their stories which are written on our streets and avenues, we'll have a much better chance of knowing where we've been, and where we're going.

"To this end I offer these as the New York Songlines. An oral cultures uses songs as the most efficient way to remember and transmit large amounts of information; the Web is our technological society's closest equivalent. Each Songline will follow a single pathway, whether it goes by one name or several; the streets I plan to follow from river to river, while the avenues will at least at first be read only in part, focusing on the upper Downtown/lower Midtown part of the island I know best.

"Don't feel you need to travel in a straight line, however; at most intersections you can click on one of the arrows to turn the corner and explore a new Songline. Many of the addresses noted are simply the ordinary shops, restaurants and apartment buildings that you would pass if you were walking along a Manhattan street; you need not pay attention to them while looking for the exciting bits--unless you're the sort of person who has to look in every window that you pass. "

    

Singing Science Records: (Acme.com)

"When I was a kid my parents got this six-LP set of science-themed folk songs for my sister and me. They were produced in the late 1950s / early 1960s by Hy Zaret and Lou Singer. Zaret's main claim to fame is writing the lyrics to the classic "Unchained Melody" for the 1955 movie "Unchained", later recorded by the Righteous Brothers and more recently used in "Ghost". Three of the albums (the best three in my opinion) were performed by Tom Glazer, semi-famous 1940s folk musician and somewhat of a lyricist himself (he wrote "On Top of Spaghetti").

The Singing Science lyrics were very Atomic Age, while the tunes were generally riffs on popular or genre music of the time. We played them incessantly.

In February 1998 I found the LPs in my parents' basement. I cleaned them up, played them one last time on an old turntable, and burned them onto a set of three CD-R discs. In December 1999 I read the songs back off the CDs and encoded them into MP3, so now you can hear them on the web. They are available at either 32 Kbps (about half a megabyte each) or 160 Kbps (about two megabytes each). The higher-quality MP3 versions were encoded by Ron Hipschman. "