Alan B. Cobo-Lewis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
University of Maine
alanc@maine.edu
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last updated 29 May 2003 02:17 AM %z

 

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(Some silly, some serious. You guess which are which.)

a green & black eye Vision Research Graphics, makers of state-of-the-art VisionWorks hardware and software for vision research
a red ball Worth a look at its new st00pid url is Dave’s Bitchin’ Look at the Miami Dolphins, though you’re likely to read as much about Beavis and Butthead as you are about the Dolphins. Much like Ross Perot in 1992, Dave has been threatening to retire from the race for the majority of his tenure on the web. (Maybe it’s because the Stillers threatened to ruin his daughter’s wedding.)
a red ball At Main Sanitary Nag (Anagram Insanity) you can type in a phrase and get back a (usually long) list of its anagrams. “Cobo-Lewis” is an anagram of “Web is co-ol.”
a bud uglly icon The Bud Ugly page, which showcases all sorts of fancy-schmancy Netscape 3.0 and Internet Explorer 3.0 features in a truly ugly fashion. Be sure to follow the links to fictitious companies for whom they’ve set up home pages whose comic value is superseded only by their bud-ugliness. Also great fun is Torture Castro. You’ll want to visit Bud Ugly early and often to see their ever-expanding “multitude of high powdered websites form industry leaders around the glob!”
a red ball The Numerical Recipes page, where you can even read full text-plus-graphics versions of Numerical Recipes in C (Postscript or PDF) or Numerical Recipes in Fortran (Postcript or PDF) online.
a colorful pi Design Science, makers of MathType, a very nice equation editor. These guys make the Equation Editor found in MS Word, WordPerfect, and Claris Something-or-Other, but MathType is much more capable. Highly recommended.
a funny onion “America’s Finest News Service”, The Onion used to be a print rag published in Madison, Wisconsin. Now it’s a print rag published in Seattle, Washington. You might not want to know which issue is my favorite.
an atomic twinkie The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project (Cognitive psychologists might wish to pay special attention to the Turing Test [Twinkie vs Sophomore].)
npr tattoo Real-time audio file archives of National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Talk of the Nation. Because it’s clickable, it’s very nice for looking up and listening to a specific story you may have missed. ME generally gets posted about 12 hours post-broadcast, and ATC generally gets posted within a couple days. You can also visit NPR’s own site, where you can hear the latest hourly 5-minute news broadcast in either 28.8 or 14.4 format. Or, visit the World Radio Network, from which you can listen to all sorts of stuff from all sorts of countries, live on the web. It’s like shortwave radio for the net surfer.
a red ball The Acoustical Society of America’s demonstration of auditory analogues of Escher’s forever-ascending staircase. These are tones whose pitch changes unidirectionally, but never goes anywhere. It’s my favorite demo from their Auditory Demonstrations CD, which is very nice for helping to teach students about psychoacoustic phenomena.