GrooveLab is a free online drum machine and rhythm manipulator. Users can create their own brief rhythm tracks as well as their adjust tempo. Further functions allow users to adjust the reverberation, echo, and volume of specific sounds. Truly distracting.
Each year since 1995, Transparency International has asked policy wonks from more than 100 countries about political and economic corruption in their corner of the globe, and then used the results to assemble a picture of the state of corruption around the world.
This year the United States ranked 16th, but that will likely change next year as the effects of Enron et al reverberate. (TI uses data from the past three years to determine the rankings.)
In this article, noted technology columnist
Dan Gillmor paints a succinct picture of the current battle between a tiny Hong Kong company and three large media/software conglomerates, the outcome of which will almost certainly eventually affect our everyday lives.
Researchers from Canada and Australia, after months of painstaking study, have concluded that the traditional feminine hourglass figure is a thing of the past. Read on.
US customs recently intercepted a man carrying a suitcase full of exotic birds and wearing a pair of pants full of monkeys. [free LA Times registration required]
Visual and auditory illusion is an important phenomenon to understand the way we percieve and recognize things around us. This Website presents various type of illusions--trick art, trick music, and other visual and auditory illustions. Check and see if what you see/hear is really there.
This Page Intentionally Left Blank is a movement to preserve on the Internet what was once common in books. Additionally, it offers internet wanderers a place of quietness and simplicity on the overcrowded World Wide Web -- a blank page for relaxing the restless mind. The site gives specific instructions for how to create a blank page in HTML, which requires surprisingly little effort. The sites maintainers welcome other people to join the movement, and they keep a list of over 100 sites that are members.
A news article about a kid that hacked into a school grades database -- for a school project. He hacked through the security that they had in place and changed his grades. Being that he was a 4.0 student, he dropped his grades to a 1.9....
Long a mystery, at least as far as its transmission is concerned, ebola may actually be carried by some members of the bird family. According to new research into the structure of the Ebola virus, it closely resembles that of other known avian viruses, leading scientists to believe that it may be transmitted by birds from region to region.
Provided by BBC Radio 3, this collection of games introduces users to music-making as well as musical structure and musical instuments. The games have varying levels of actual educational content. Requires Shockwave.