Soviet war photography at Howard Schickler Fine Art. A Mike Disfarmer gallery. Five thousand photographs by Bret Wallach. Photos of occupied Japan. The Bush asshole mosaic and the Ashcroft porn mosaic. The Bush dead soldier mosaic. Photos of derelict London and Britannia Moribundia. Rob Dobi’s photos of New England ruins. Some Japanese ruins. Photos of the ice-encrusted Sir William Alexander. Shaun O’Boyle’s ruin photography. Mark-Steffen Göwecke’s photos within photos.
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Computer
“Exploring the Java Archive (JAR) Format” by Kulvir Bhogal. A terse Samba tutorial. Debian’s Apt How-To. Extant Gopher servers at Floodgap.com and Quux.org. Bash programming guides at arachnoid.com and Rutgers University. Furl, an online “filing cabinet” for saved webpages. Ad-blocking host files and advice about curbing ads and spyware under Windows. A big collection of links to online computer books at Ju Rao’s homepage.
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Footnotes
Jukka Korpela on footnotes and endnotes in webpages. You can use OpenOffice.org, which records linked notes in its HTML-editing mode just fine. Don’t forget to count the words in footnotes.
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Vehicles
Bicycles. A great deal of information about school buses. Mr. Sharkey’s compendium of information relating to house buses and house trucks. Truck painting in Pakistan. A gallery of Japanese Winnebagos and their owners. Fan pages for the AMC Pacer: Pacermania and The Washington Grove Pacer Farm. A fan page for the AMC Gremlin. The Web homes of The Catboat Association and the Beetle Cat. The Floating Neutrinos. Quite a lot about the Columbia space shuttle’s demise.
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Gypsies
The European Roma Rights Center. Muzeum Romské Kultury. The Gypsy Lore Society. Etudes Tsiganes. Gypsy Collections at The University of Liverpool, including photographs. The Romany Gypsy Photograph Collection.
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Soldering
Alan Winstanley’s Basic Electronics Soldering and Desoldering Guide. Movies from NASA demonstrate how to solder electronics. EPE Online Soldering FAQ, with soldering and desoldering picture galleries. How to solder, including different metals and flat pieces of metal. Soldering copper pipes: Tim Carter, Chris Tabone, and acmehowto.com explain how. Soldering stained glass. Carl Brannen on soldering very tiny things. How not to solder.
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The Moon
A moon phases calculator. Moon phases for every day from 3999 B.C. to 3999 C.E. View the earth and the moon from the earth, the moon, the sun, and other perspectives. Images of the moon.
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Miscellaneous Linux
The fundamental differences between the Winworld and the Nixworld. A page that explains, in a roundabout way, how to set up the appropriate relationships between /var/www/users and /home. Meanwhile, Apache virtual host documentation. comp.os.linux.misc on Google Groups. A serial laplink howto. IBM’s Windows-to-Linux overview pages. A guide to Linux groups on Usenet.
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Knoppix Linux Tricks
A script that allows the Knoppix CD to achieve LAMP with a MySQL database stored on a USB stick. A package that allows the CD to access a bundled copy of phpMyAdmin and a test PHP website. A Knoppix Samba FAQ. Using update-rc.d to add services on boot (this is also useful). Use /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh to start the odd hardware driver or other processes. A script and a package list that are both helpful for apt-get-removing clutter from a hard-disk installation of Knoppix. Three knoppix.net discussions (one, two, three) on sorting out problems with mounting removable media. Godot’s Debian/Knoppix page. Klik installs key software to Persistent Home. Apt-get and dpkg tutorial and links. Configuring /etc/apt/sources.list using any number of mirror sites.
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Web
The Text Encoding Initiative: “TEI is an international and interdisciplinary standard that helps libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars represent all kinds of literary and linguistic texts for online research and teaching, using an encoding scheme that is maximally expressive and minimally obsolescent.” Jeffrey Veen on accessible design, with links to examples. Position Is Everything: a CSS site with an emphasis on designing around browser quirks (good links, too). CSS column layouts compatible with Netscape 4.x (and more here, too). How to use CSS to make line spacing consistent when using superscript and subscript characters. Design Detector pulls an extreme CSS stunt.
