June 2004 collected links

Here are the pickings from June 2004:

I don't know whether the overarching premise under this kuro5hin piece on Japanese is actually valid, but it is an interesting way to think about a human language.
I've picked Ulysses back off of its spot on the shelf, and in the process of finding my place again found these guides at the BBC and bway.net useful.
Anagramming the alphabet (in the section about 26 letter English pangrams).
I'm sure there's a scifaiku somewhere to be had from this picture of a Martian meteor
From metafilter:
- This graphical representation of the hottest google news items.
- I remember my old slide rule that got me through AP Chem but have no idea as to its whereabouts. I think that if there is a total breakdown of the power grid I could figure out how to use it once more.
From slashdot:
- Visual Art from random images on the Net.
From Making Light:
- Maybe if business is very very good, I can afford to build my own house with optical fiber loaded concrete.
- For double geeks: If "The Lord of the Rings" had been written by a Sysadmin
From Boingboing:
- I've alluded previously about the ickiness of his work, but now some artists with bona fides have had their way with the work of the late Thomas Kinkade.

Originally published: 2004/07/02 20:32:24

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