Kill them. Kill them all. Via Metafilter and B3ta.

Link: Realistic Internet Simulator

I once had a cowboy outfit (many years ago) but nowadays pre-school children have more options. How about a classic 1970s pimp outfit? This doesn’t seem healthy to me.

Link: Pimp Daddy Suit Child Costume

A great film can have all the depth and power of a great book.

“just like Brazil, the system doesn’t change, you just escape in your madness, that’s all.”

Link: Terry Gilliam’s Brazil

It does look as if something was going on within the US government. At the very least, Al-Qaeda is a monster created and used by the USA for it’s own profit. But did the monster simply turn on its unprepared creator, or was it allowed, even encouraged, to attack its master? Did President Bush sacrifice his own citizens to justify a war? 9/11 will make a lot of money for his friends…

Link: Gore Vidal claims ‘Bush junta’ complicit in 9/11

Emulate the youthful exuberance of everyone’s favourite desert god. Smite them! For accurate Biblical role-play, choose one person who has angered you, then smite everyone you see.

Link: Wrath

Ten useful but less popular Unix shell commands. All these years I’ve been using “tail” and didn’t realise there was a “head” too. I wonder why these commands are described as “dogs”?

Link: “Dogs” of the Linux Shell

A very detailed resource for Tolkien’s invented languages. It even includes a free course on Quenya (High Elvish). JRR Tolkien didn’t publish his languages (as they were mainly a private hobby), so this site includes a huge amount of research gathered from many sources. Only Quenya and Sindarin are complete enough to actually use as functional languages.

Link: Ardalambion

Reading this will make adjusting to the lovely new world of Mac OS X much smoother. I’m eagerly awaiting the Jaguar-compatible Fink.

Link: Top Ten Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks

“Tycoon Joseph Williamson dug a vast, bizarre network of tunnels under Liverpool almost 200 years ago.” We’re going to visit Liverpool just to see these tunnels.

Link: The enigma of Liverpool’s labyrinth

“The Newgate Calendar was one of those books, along with a Bible, Foxe’s book of Martyrs and the Pilgrim’s Progress, most likely to be found in any English home between 1750 and 1850.” A strange, influential and almost forgotten book describing some of those executed in Newgate Prison. One of the books in Ex-Classics.

Link: The Newgate Calendar