P.C. Shannon

In the interest of keeping my desktop relatively clean, here is a bunch of crap I’ve been collecting.

General Interest

PC Magazine’s Secrets of Selling on eBay.

Lifehacker has some real tips for saving time.

The future of TV is online.

Dear Reader is a book club via e-mail.

“How to Do What You Love“, another good essay from Paul Graham.

Click to donate at the Hunger site and their brethren.

Someone found pictures of a family that may have owned a liquor store and put them online. The site also has other, uh, unusal collections of photographs and whatnot.

Apparently Belgian children’s TV is filled with singing flatulent pigs.

Bloggity

Cliptip has a new music video every day. I’d love this if they weren’t in Quicktime, which I hate.

The Incredible Hulk has a blog. Who knew? Who knew he was so funny?

A different crazy hardware hack every day at hack-a-day.

Science-y Things

Fascinating article from The New York Times on “mirror neurons”. This explains why I love to watch soccer so much.

Scientific American’s report on preparing the for pandemic.

Budding scientists (like me) might be interested in the Internation Society for Computational Biology Student Council or the World Academy of Young Scientists.

Geek Stuff

Memory Alpha is a very thorough Star Trek wiki.

Nerdy Shirts.

Tired of Pedro? Get the Vote for Cthulhu t-shirt instead.

Internet radio goodness.

What is the Internet for? The Internet is for porn. It’s a muppet-esque music video featuring creatures from some video game. They’re singing and dancing—so this is worksafe, unless the word “porn” gets you in trouble. In that case, it’s too late.

Learn all about atomic rockets.

Rudy Rucker’s latest book looks pretty cool.

I loved the old X-Com computer game. It’s apparently still available, with a fix to get it to work on modern computers.

Super-Nerdy Items

Can’t wait for Windows Vista to slow down your computer with lots of useless visual flourishes? Want to Mac-ify your desktop? You need Konfabulator (aka Yahoo Widgets).

Try social bookmarking with del.icio.us or Outfoxed.

CNet has tips on speeding up boot time.

Subclipse is a plug-in for Eclipse to interface with a Subversion repository. I use it in my various programming projects.

Here’s an article on Subversion for CVS users.