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-ware

• Everyware: a Noncanonic List of ’-ware’ Terms

14th amendment

• A digression on the word 'kulturkampf'
• The complete U.S. Supreme Court decision in Romer v. Evans
• A rebuttal to Justice Scalia's dissent in the U.S. Supreme Court case Romer v. Evans
• Summary of a rebuttal to Justice Scalia's dissent in the U.S. Supreme Court case Romer v. Evans

1992

• First Night

1996

• 1996 Notebook

1997

• 1997 Notebook

1998

• 1998 Notebook
• Books read in 1998

1999

• Correspondence Index, 1999
• 1999 Notebook
• Books read in 1999
• New Year's Resolution Reading, 1999

2000

• From the Curmudgeon's Corner
• 2000 Notebook
• Books read in 2000
• New Year's Resolution Reading, 2000

2001

• 2001 Notebook
• Books read in 2001

2002

• Correspondence Index, 2002-2003
• 2002 Notebook
• Books read in 2002

2003

• Correspondence Index, 2002-2003
• 2003 Notebook
• Books read in 2003

2004

• 2004 Notebook
• Books read in 2004

2005

• 2005 Notebook
• Books read in 2005

2006

• 2006 Notebook
• Books read in 2006

2007

• 2007 Notebook
• Books read in 2007

2008

• 2008 Notebook

253

• Raves

3d model

• Ubik: a 3D model

7200i

• Product Review: HP 7200i CD Writer

A une Damoyselle malade

• All Moles Considered
• Index Talpidae: notes a translated poem
• 'Little Mole', fifth draft
• 'Little Mole', first draft
• 'Little Mole', fourth draft
• 'Little Mole', initial draft
• 'Little Mole', second draft
• 'Little Mole', sixth draft
• 'Little Mole', third draft
• Moles are Coming: Translating a Poem
• A (formal) translation of Clément Marot's poem 'A une Damoyselle malade'
• A translation of Clément Marot's poem 'A une Damoyselle malade'
• Translating Moles: Notes on Translating
• Clément Marot's poem 'A une Damoyselle malade'

abortion

• 1998 Notebook
• Abortion

abuse

• CSS/HTML Abuse: Example 1

academia

• From Oregon Volume 10 Issue 1

accessibility

• Make your site accessible to all visitors.

accuracy

• Why Writing SF is Hard

Acrobat

• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants

actions

• Adobe Photoshop Actions

ActiveX

• The 'Dehanced for...' Campaign

address

• How my strategy for dealing with spam has evolved
• Contact Information

adjectives

• Words ending in "-ical"

Adobe

• Adobe Illustrator Artwork
• Adobe Photoshop Actions
• Photoshop Tip 1: Layer Masks
• Photoshop Tip 2: Creative Dithering
• Photoshop Tip 3: Transparent PNGs
• White Horse of Uffington

Adobe acrobat

• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants

adolescence

• Rememberance of a grim SF anthology for adolescents

advanced directive

• Death, etc.

advertising

• 1997 Notebook
• 1998 Notebook
• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants
• Advertising and Corporations

advice

• Some good advices
• Preventing bicycle theft
• Various stuff I've written since 1995
• A sonnet on the reluctant giving of advice

Aeschylus

• New Year's Resolution Reading, 1999
• New Year's Resolution Reading, 2000

aesthetics

• Comparing Old and New Logos

affect

• Lack of Affect T-Shirt

Albany

• On a Bridge in Albany NY's Central Park
• Bros cover
• First Night
• Kite Story #1
• Ben and Jerry's stories
• Circuit Breaker story
• A Hypothetical Exercise in Disarmament
• Yanni on Ice

Albany NY

• Locked out on Halloween
• Mouseslayer
• Pizza
• Pizza
• Yanni on Ice

align

• Finding the center of stars in Adobe Illustrator
• How to align irregular and complex shapes in Illustrator 7
• How to create objects with rotational symmetry in Illustrator 7

aligning

• Finding the center of stars in Adobe Illustrator
• How to align irregular and complex shapes in Illustrator 7
• How to create objects with rotational symmetry in Illustrator 7

alignment

• Finding the center of stars in Adobe Illustrator
• How to align irregular and complex shapes in Illustrator 7
• How to create objects with rotational symmetry in Illustrator 7

ambigrams

• Ambigrams

Amendment 2

• A digression on the word 'kulturkampf'
• The complete U.S. Supreme Court decision in Romer v. Evans
• A rebuttal to Justice Scalia's dissent in the U.S. Supreme Court case Romer v. Evans
• Summary of a rebuttal to Justice Scalia's dissent in the U.S. Supreme Court case Romer v. Evans

analogies

• Visual Analogies
• Visual Analogies, puzzle series 1-1
• Visual Analogies, puzzle series 1-2
• Visual Analogies, puzzle series 1-3
• Visual Analogies, puzzle series 1-4
• Visual Analogies, puzzle series 1-5
• Visual Analogies, puzzle series 1-6
• Visual Analogies puzzle series 1 discussion

analogy

• Visual Analogies
• Visual Analogies, puzzle series 1-1
• Visual Analogies, puzzle series 1-2
• Visual Analogies, puzzle series 1-3
• Visual Analogies, puzzle series 1-4
• Visual Analogies, puzzle series 1-5
• Visual Analogies, puzzle series 1-6
• Visual Analogies puzzle series 1 discussion

angels

• A rant about belief in angels

answer

• Triangles Shapes: another answer

antispam

• How my strategy for dealing with spam has evolved

aphorisms

• Short Tech Notes

applet

• Monty Hall Problem: Applet Source
• A Java applet demonstrating the Monty Hall Problem

appropriate length

• Pages shouldn't be artificially split.

area

• Triangle Shapes: an answer
• Triangles Shapes: another answer
• Triangle shapes

Aristophanes

• New Year's Resolution Reading, 1999

art

• Ambigrams
• Dancer Glyph
• Adobe Illustrator Artwork
• Performance Art Digest - deOPT
• Performance Art Digest
• Blood Glucose Testing Sites diagram
• White Horse of Uffington
• Index of Creations

artwork

• Ambigrams
• Dancer Glyph
• Adobe Illustrator Artwork
• Blood Glucose Testing Sites diagram
• White Horse of Uffington
• Using vector and bitmap tools to create mathematical illustrations

ashcan

• Beanworld Zero ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• 'The Worst of Heyoka' ashcan
• Beanworld 'While We Were Eating!' ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan

Ashcans

• Tales of the Beanworld Ashcan Index

astrology

• From the Curmudgeon's Corner
• A rant about Astrology
• Skepticism

Asylum

• Other Beanworld Stories

asymptotic geodesic

• Finding geodesics on the torus using the Clairaut parameterization

atheism

• Why I'm an atheist
• Leaving Christianity

audio

• How Not to Make an Audio Book

audio book

• How Not to Make an Audio Book

author

• Make your pages sound like you.

author index

• Author Index of Book Reviews

authorial voice

• Make your pages sound like you.

authors

• Author Index of Book Reviews

avoiding fainting

• Some good advices

avoiding junk mail

• Some good advices

avoiding morning mouth

• Some good advices

B. cepacia

• CFF Internship

baby beans

• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 8
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 9

Baby Beans

• Tales of the Beanworld: Cuties

baby boom

• A comparison of three charts based on the same data

back

• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants

backup

• Creating a backup strategy

bacteria

• Poem: 'A Call to Gut'

Bad Boy

• Half Flying the Bad Boy

Bad Day on the Midway

• The Residents' Bad Day on the Midway playing hints

bad editing

• Edited for Television, Badly

bad example

• An Example of Bad CSS Use
• An Example of Bad CSS Use (non-CSS version)
• Testing CSS as a Replacement for Frames
• Floated Sidebar CSS Example
• Demonstrates a CSS-based floated sidebar that renders well on non-CSS browsers
• Margin Note Example

bank

• 2004 Notebook

banned words

• Words banned from this Web site

barycentric coordinates

• A geometric hypothesis about plotting triplets

Battle of the Gods

• A solution to Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods’ dancing skeleton puzzle
• Things I wish I’d known when I began playing the game Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods

Beanish

• Tales of the Beanworld: Beanish
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 10
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 11
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 13
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 14
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 15
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 16
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 17
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 18
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 19
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 2
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 4
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 5
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 6
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 8
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 9
• Tales of the Beanworld: Look·See·Show
• Tales of the Beanworld: Look·See·Show Gallery
• Tales of the Beanworld: Secret Sketch

Beans

• Tales of the Beanworld: Beans
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 2
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 8
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 9

beans

• Beanworld Zero ashcan

Beanweb

• Beanworld Zero ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld Ashcan Index
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• 'The Worst of Heyoka' ashcan
• Beanworld 'While We Were Eating!' ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld: Beanish
• Tales of the Beanworld: Beans
• Tales of the Beanworld: Big Fish
• Tales of the Beanworld: Boom'r Band
• Tales of the Beanworld: Cuties
• Tales of the Beanworld: Dreamishness
• Tales of the Beanworld: Gangster Thing
• Tales of the Beanworld: Goofy Jerks
• Tales of the Beanworld: Gran'Ma'Pa
• Tales of the Beanworld: Heyoka
• Tales of the Beanworld: Hoi-Polloi
• Tales of the Beanworld: Character Index
• Tales of the Beanworld: Mr. Spook
• Tales of the Beanworld: Mr. Teach'm
• Tales of the Beanworld: Professor Garbanzo
• Tales of the Beanworld: Sprout-Butt
• Tales of the Beanworld: Ecology
• Tales of the Beanworld Glossary
• Tales of the Beanworld: Introduction
• Beanworld Story in Asylum Anthology
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue Index
• Other Beanworld Stories
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 1
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 10
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 11
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 12
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 13
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 14
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 15
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 16
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 17
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 18
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 19
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 2
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 20
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 21
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 3
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 4
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 5
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 6
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 7
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 8
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 9
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld: Map of the Known Beanworld
• Tales of the Beanworld: About the BeanWeb
• The Beanworld Press
• Tales of the Beanworld: Do-It-Yourself Beanworld
• Tales of the Beanworld Internet Resources
• Tales of the Beanworld Press Release - Beanworld: Book Two
• Tales of the Beanworld Publishing Information
• Tales of the Beanworld: Unanswered Questions
• Tales of the Beanworld: Bone Zone
• Tales of the Beanworld: Fix-It Shop
• Tales of the Beanworld: Four Realities
• Tales of the Beanworld: Places
• Tales of the Beanworld: Inspiration Constellation
• Tales of the Beanworld: Service Station
• Tales of the Beanworld: Break Out
• Tales of the Beanworld: Chow Raid
• Tales of the Beanworld: Float Factor
• Tales of the Beanworld: Gunk'l'dunk
• Tales of the Beanworld: Things
• Tales of the Beanworld: Look·See·Show
• Tales of the Beanworld: Look·See·Show Gallery
• Tales of the Beanworld: Secret Sketch

BeanWeb

• Tales of the Beanworld: About the BeanWeb
• Tales of the Beanworld: Introduction

Beanworld

• Beanworld Zero ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld Ashcan Index
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• 'The Worst of Heyoka' ashcan
• Beanworld 'While We Were Eating!' ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld: Beanish
• Tales of the Beanworld: Beans
• Tales of the Beanworld: Big Fish
• Tales of the Beanworld: Boom'r Band
• Tales of the Beanworld: Cuties
• Tales of the Beanworld: Dreamishness
• Tales of the Beanworld: Gangster Thing
• Tales of the Beanworld: Goofy Jerks
• Tales of the Beanworld: Gran'Ma'Pa
• Tales of the Beanworld: Heyoka
• Tales of the Beanworld: Hoi-Polloi
• Tales of the Beanworld: Character Index
• Tales of the Beanworld: Mr. Spook
• Tales of the Beanworld: Mr. Teach'm
• Tales of the Beanworld: Professor Garbanzo
• Tales of the Beanworld: Sprout-Butt
• Tales of the Beanworld: Ecology
• Tales of the Beanworld Glossary
• Tales of the Beanworld: Introduction
• Beanworld Story in Asylum Anthology
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue Index
• Other Beanworld Stories
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 1
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 10
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 11
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 12
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 13
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 14
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 15
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 16
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 17
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 18
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 19
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 2
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 20
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 21
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 3
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 4
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 5
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 6
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 7
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 8
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 9
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld: Map of the Known Beanworld
• Tales of the Beanworld: About the BeanWeb
• The Beanworld Press
• Tales of the Beanworld: Do-It-Yourself Beanworld
• Tales of the Beanworld Internet Resources
• Tales of the Beanworld Press Release - Beanworld: Book Two
• Tales of the Beanworld Publishing Information
• Tales of the Beanworld: Unanswered Questions
• Tales of the Beanworld: Bone Zone
• Tales of the Beanworld: Fix-It Shop
• Tales of the Beanworld: Four Realities
• Tales of the Beanworld: Places
• Tales of the Beanworld: Inspiration Constellation
• Tales of the Beanworld: Service Station
• Tales of the Beanworld: Break Out
• Tales of the Beanworld: Chow Raid
• Tales of the Beanworld: Float Factor
• Tales of the Beanworld: Gunk'l'dunk
• Tales of the Beanworld: Things
• Tales of the Beanworld: Look·See·Show
• Tales of the Beanworld: Look·See·Show Gallery
• Tales of the Beanworld: Secret Sketch
• Minicomic: Beanworld Greetings
• Tales of the Beanworld: Introduction
• The Beanworld t-shirt
• Comics
• Comics List

Beanworld Press

• The Beanworld Press

beard

• Leaving Christianity

beards

• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants

Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children

• Comics List

belief

• 2007 Notebook
• Privacy
• Skepticism

beliefs

• Privacy
• Skepticism
• Index of personal information

Ben and Jerry's

• Ben and Jerry's stories

berries

• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1

beta

• Product Review: Netscape 6 beta 1

Bethesda

• CFF Internship

bicycle

• Preventing bicycle theft

bicycling

• Preventing bicycle theft

Big Fish

• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld: Big Fish
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 3
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan

bike

• Preventing bicycle theft

Billie Holiday

• 2003 Notebook

bio

• Index of personal information
• Mark Irons' Biography
• An (obscure) Biography

biography

• Index of personal information
• Mark Irons' Biography
• An (obscure) Biography

biohazard

• Adobe Illustrator Artwork

bird's nest

• Photos of the bird's nest fungus nidula niveotomentosa

birthday club

• Ben and Jerry's stories

Black & White

• Modifying lands in the game Black & White
• A list of miracles available in the game Black & White’s story mode
• Things I wish I’d known when I began playing the game Black & White
• An analysis of the game Black & White’s totem puzzle
• An analysis of the game Black & White’s tree puzzles

Black & White 2

• A solution to Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods’ dancing skeleton puzzle
• Things I wish I’d known when I began playing the game Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods
• A short guide to increasing impressiveness in the game Black & White 2
• A detailed guide to quickly winning the game Black & White 2 as a (mostly) good god
• A detailed guide to quickly winning the game Black & White 2 as a (mostly) good god
• Building villas in the Lionhead game Black & White 2

Blazing Saddles

• Edited for Television, Badly

Bliss

• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 16

block file

• Raves

blond

• 2007 Notebook

blood glucose

• Blood Glucose Testing Sites diagram

Bloom County

• A rant about comic strips

Bob the Angry Flower

• Raves

boilerplate

• Common page elements should be put in a standard place.

Bone Zone

• Tales of the Beanworld: Bone Zone

book

• How Not to Make an Audio Book
• Author Index of Book Reviews
• Books read in 1998
• Books read in 1999
• Books read in 2000
• Books read in 2001
• Books read in 2002
• Books read in 2003
• Books read in 2004
• Books read in 2005
• Books read in 2006
• Books read in 2007
• Books I Could Not Finish
• Honorable mention reading list
• Recommended reading list
• Required reading list
• New Year's Resolution Reading, 1999
• New Year's Resolution Reading, 2000
• Books with chapters dropped in from a different planet

book purge

• 2007 Notebook

book review

• Author Index of Book Reviews

book reviews

• Author Index of Book Reviews
• Recommended reading list
• Required reading list
• Books with chapters dropped in from a different planet

books

• 2007 Notebook
• Author Index of Book Reviews
• Books read in 1998
• Books read in 1999
• Books read in 2000
• Books read in 2001
• Books read in 2002
• Books read in 2003
• Books read in 2004
• Books read in 2005
• Books read in 2006
• Books read in 2007
• Books I Could Not Finish
• Honorable mention reading list
• Recommended reading list
• Required reading list
• New Year's Resolution Reading, 1999
• New Year's Resolution Reading, 2000
• Books with chapters dropped in from a different planet

Boom'r Band

• Tales of the Beanworld: Boom'r Band
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 13
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 7

Bovine Spongiform Encephelopathy

• A rant about BSE and HIV

Brazil

• Edited for Television, Badly

Break Out

• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 4
• Tales of the Beanworld: Break Out

bridge

• On a Bridge in Albany NY's Central Park

brinkmanship

• A Hypothetical Exercise in Disarmament

Bros

• Bros cover

browser

• Product Review: K-meleon 0.6
• Product Review: Netscape 6 beta 1

browser neutrality

• Make your site accessible to all visitors.

browser-specific

• Make your site accessible to all visitors.

Bryan Ferry

• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1

BSE

• A rant about BSE and HIV

Buck Godot

• Comics
• Comics List

Buddha

• Life is Sweet: Diabetes Considered

bulletin

• Comparing Old and New Logos
• From Oregon Volume 1 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 1 Issue 2
• From Oregon Volume 10 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 11 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 12 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 2 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 3 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 3 Issue 2
• From Oregon Volume 4 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 5 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 5 Issue 2
• From Oregon Volume 6 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 7 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 8 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1
• Life in Tennessee, Volume I, Issue 1
• Life in Tennessee, Volume I, Issue 2
• Life in Tennessee, Volume II, Issue 1
• Life in Tennessee, Volume II, Issue 2
• Life in Tennessee, Volume II, Issue 3
• A digression on losing things

bulletins

• Various stuff I've written since 1995

Burkholderia cepacia

• CFF Internship

business

• Rants: the Music Industry

cabin

• At the Cabin

California

• A gallery of images
• Mt. Tamalpais
• At Point Reyes

Calvin & Hobbes

• A rant about comic strips

cannibalism

• 1996 Notebook

care

• Keep your site alive by giving it constant attention.

Carol Kovinick

• A list of Carol Kovinick's appearances in the comic Love & Rockets

cascading style sheet

• Customize this Site

cascading style sheets

• An Example of Bad CSS Use
• An Example of Bad CSS Use (non-CSS version)
• Testing CSS as a Replacement for Frames
• Cascading Style Sheets Considered Harmful?
• Floated Sidebar CSS Example
• Demonstrates a CSS-based floated sidebar that renders well on non-CSS browsers
• CSS Hack: a floated sidebar with structurally correct HTML
• Margin Note Example
• CSS/HTML Abuse: Example 1
• Short Tech Notes

CD

• Rants: the Music Industry
• CD Rot
• Product Review: HP 7200i CD Writer
• How Not to Make an Audio Book
• CD catalog
• A review of a Crash Test Dummies CD
• Reviews of CDs on the defunct Gang of Seven label
• Reviews of a Harvey Danger CD
• Reviews of Joe Jackson CDs
• Reviews of a Missing Persons CD
• Reviews of Patty Larkin CDs
• Reviews of Philip Glass CDs
• Reviews of Spalding Gray CDs
• Reviews of Residents CDs
• A review of a Vapors CD

CD collection

• CD catalog

CD rot

• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1
• Index of general stuff

CD writer

• Product Review: HP 7200i CD Writer

CD-RW

• Product Review: HP 7200i CD Writer

CDs

• CD Rot
• CD catalog

Celtic

• Knotwork
• Creating knotwork in Adobe Illustrator CS
• Knotworking

center

• Finding the center of stars in Adobe Illustrator

cepacia

• CFF Internship

CF

• CFF Internship
• Lot's Son: a CF story

CF and ethics

• 1999 Notebook

CGI

• A simple Perl CGI-based RSS aggregator

change

• The revision history of this set of patterns.
• Make frequent small improvements to your site.

change log

• The revision history of this set of patterns.
• Keep a page chronicling changes to your site.
• List of all changes to this site since May 2002
• Site Changes, 2003
• Site Changes, 2004
• Site Changes, 2005
• Site Changes, 2006
• Site Changes, 2007
• Site Changes, 2008

changes

• Keep a page chronicling changes to your site.
• List of all changes to this site since May 2002
• Chronologic Index of Site Changes
• Site Changes, 2002
• Site Changes, 2003
• Site Changes, 2004
• Site Changes, 2005
• Site Changes, 2006
• Site Changes, 2007
• Site Changes, 2008

changing Firefox

• Step by step instructions for changing Firefox's context menus

channel

• Photoshop Tip 1: Layer Masks

channels

• Photoshop Tip 1: Layer Masks

chapters

• Books with chapters dropped in from a different planet

Characters

• Tales of the Beanworld: Character Index

chart

• A comparison of three charts based on the same data

charts

• A comparison of three charts based on the same data

chemicals

• Fun with Chemicals

chipskate

• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan

Chow

• Tales of the Beanworld: Ecology
• Tales of the Beanworld: Chow Raid

chow

• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 2

Chow Raid

• Tales of the Beanworld: Chow Raid

Chow Sol'jer Army

• Tales of the Beanworld: Chow Raid

Christ

• Christ Died... T-Shirt
• My Fish... T-Shirt
• Corn Husker's Lotion and Transubstantiation
• Life is Sweet: Diabetes Considered

Christian

• My Fish... T-Shirt
• Corn Husker's Lotion and Transubstantiation

Christianity

• Leaving Christianity

christianity

• 2005 Notebook

chronological

• Chronological list of this site's pages

chronology

• Chronological list of this site's pages

cinder cones

• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1

circuit breakers

• Circuit Breaker story

civics

• Civics 101 T-Shirt

civil rights

• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1

Clément Marot

• All Moles Considered
• Index Talpidae: notes a translated poem
• 'Little Mole', fifth draft
• 'Little Mole', first draft
• 'Little Mole', fourth draft
• 'Little Mole', initial draft
• 'Little Mole', second draft
• 'Little Mole', sixth draft
• 'Little Mole', third draft
• Moles are Coming: Translating a Poem
• A (formal) translation of Clément Marot's poem 'A une Damoyselle malade'
• A translation of Clément Marot's poem 'A une Damoyselle malade'
• Translating Moles: Notes on Translating
• Clément Marot's poem 'A une Damoyselle malade'

Clairaut

• Finding geodesics on the torus using the Clairaut parameterization

Clairaut parameterization

• Finding geodesics on the torus using the Clairaut parameterization

Clang Twang

• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 6

cleaning eyeglasses

• Some good advices

cleanout

• From Oregon Volume 7 Issue 1
• CF Cleanout

Cleopatra

• Life is Sweet: Diabetes Considered

college

• Transformation Geometry

color

• A possibly novel way to look at the pole and barn paradox of special relativity
• Color can be used to indicate position in 4D space

coma

• Death, etc.

comic books

• A list of Carol Kovinick's appearances in the comic Love & Rockets
• Comics
• Comics List

comic strip

• Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy

comic strips

• A rant about comic strips
• Comics sans Crap

comics

• A rant about comic strips
• A rant about King Features syndicate
• A list of Carol Kovinick's appearances in the comic Love & Rockets
• Comics
• Comics List

coming out

• 1999 Notebook
• Coming out
• Coming out to family story
• Samuel R. Delany and Me

committees

• Effectiveness T-Shirt

community

• The best Web sites offer something to the Internet community.

comparison

• Comparing Old and New Logos
• A comparison of three charts based on the same data
• An Unnatural Similarity

computer

• Requiem for an XT

concept

• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants

concept web

• Visual Analogies puzzle series 1 discussion

concepts

• Visual Analogies puzzle series 1 discussion

conceptual art

• 2001 Notebook

cone

• Determining how many geodesics one can find between two points on a cone
• Deriving the Surface Area of a Cone

confirmation

• Leaving Christianity

confusion

• Books with chapters dropped in from a different planet

connected

• Keep sites well connected by limiting the number of required jumps by any two pages.

connectedness

• Keep sites well connected by limiting the number of required jumps by any two pages.

considered

• Proto-patterns which might be added to this set of patterns.

constant

• Never let a URL die.

contact information

• How my strategy for dealing with spam has evolved
• Contact Information

contact tokens

• Raising the Bar on Email

content

• Offer on your site a thorough exploration of something.
• Offer a variety of content to visitors.

cooking

• From Oregon Volume 8 Issue 1
• A story about learning to cook

copyright

• Rants: Copyright

corn huskers lotion

• Corn Husker's Lotion and Transubstantiation

corner

• How to eliminate corner artifacts resulting from Illustrator 7's Outline Path command

cornering

• How to eliminate corner artifacts resulting from Illustrator 7's Outline Path command

corporations

• Advertising and Corporations

correspondence

• Correspondence Index, 2002-2003
• Correspondence Index, 1999

corrosion

• CD Rot

Corvallis

• From Oregon Volume 11 Issue 1
• At the Cabin
• Half holding Lava Lamp

cover page

• A flashy cover page for a site should be optional.

Crash Test Dummies

• A review of a Crash Test Dummies CD

Craters of the Moon

• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1

creation

• Minimal HTML: writing good Web pages with less

creations

• Index of Creations

Creative Commons

• Site License

credit

• A page of rants

Creon

• Fighting Pacificare (a HMO) for required medication
• Fighting Pacificare (a HMO) for required medication refill

crypto

• A rant about the USA's cryptographic policy

cryptography

• A rant about the USA's cryptographic policy

CSS

• An Example of Bad CSS Use
• An Example of Bad CSS Use (non-CSS version)
• Testing CSS as a Replacement for Frames
• Cascading Style Sheets Considered Harmful?
• CSS Tip #1: A Navigation Bar that Degrades Gracefully
• CSS Tip #2: Making Your Site Modifiable
• Floated Sidebar CSS Example
• Demonstrates a CSS-based floated sidebar that renders well on non-CSS browsers
• CSS Hack: a floated sidebar with structurally correct HTML
• Margin Note Example
• CSS/HTML Abuse: Example 1
• Short Tech Notes
• Customize this Site

CSS abuse

• An Example of Bad CSS Use
• An Example of Bad CSS Use (non-CSS version)
• Testing CSS as a Replacement for Frames
• Floated Sidebar CSS Example
• Demonstrates a CSS-based floated sidebar that renders well on non-CSS browsers
• Margin Note Example

CSS signature

• CSS Tip #2: Making Your Site Modifiable
• Customize this Site

culture

• An examination of the concepts 'upstate NY' and 'downstate NY'

curvature

• A demonstration of why no one computes Riemann tensor components directly from the metric tensor
• Calculation of the torus's Riemann tensor and curvature
• Finding geodesics on the torus using the Clairaut parameterization
• The torus's curvature, shape operator, geodesics, and parallel transport
• The torus's shape operator

curvature scalar

• Calculation of the torus's Riemann tensor and curvature

customization

• CSS Tip #2: Making Your Site Modifiable
• Modifying lands in the game Black & White

customize

• CSS Tip #2: Making Your Site Modifiable
• Customize this Site

cuties

• Beanworld Zero ashcan

Cuties

• Tales of the Beanworld: Cuties

Cynicalman

• Comics
• Comics List

cystic fibrosis

• Free Samples T-Shirt
• 1999 Notebook
• A recipe for high-calorie pudding, good for people with cystic fibrosis
• CF Cleanout
• CFF Internship
• Fighting Pacificare (a HMO) for required medication
• Fighting Pacificare (a HMO) for required medication refill
• Lot's Son: a CF story

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

• CFF Internship

D.C

• CFF Internship

Dan Sweetman

• Comics List

dance

• Dancer Glyph

dancer

• Dancer Glyph

Darlingtonia californica

• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1

Darwin

• My Fish... T-Shirt

data corruption

• CD Rot

data formats

• Short Tech Notes

data loss

• CD Rot

date

• Chronological list of this site's pages

Dave Louapre

• Comics List

David Rakoff

• How Not to Make an Audio Book

DC

• CFF Internship

death

• Death, etc.

deception

• The Three Ways to Lie

deep content

• Offer on your site a thorough exploration of something.

deep link

• Make every page an entrance to your site.

deep linking

• Make every page an entrance to your site.

deep links

• Make every page an entrance to your site.

default page

• Ensure that each directory of your site has a default page.

defense of marriage

• 2007 Notebook

Defense of Marriage Act

• Rants - Gay Marriage

defrosting

• Some good advices

degeneration

• CD Rot

degradation

• Plan for technology failure.

degrade

• Plan for technology failure.

degrees of separation

• 1998 Notebook

dehance

• Dehanced for Java
• The 'Dehanced for...' Campaign

dehanced

• Dehanced for Java
• The 'Dehanced for...' Campaign

dehancement

• The 'Dehanced for...' Campaign
• Index of general stuff

Der Kveen

• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 2

derivation

• Deriving the Surface Area of a Cone

design

• Comparing Old and New Logos
• A comparison of three charts based on the same data

diabetes

• Blood Glucose Testing Sites diagram
• Some good advices
• Life is Sweet: Diabetes Considered

diatribe

• Rants: Copyright
• Rants: the Music Industry
• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants

diatribes

• A rant about comic strips
• Rants: Copyright
• Rants: the Music Industry
• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants
• A rant about belief in angels
• A rant about Astrology
• A rant about BSE and HIV
• A page of rants
• A rant about the USA's cryptographic policy
• A rant about Disney
• A rant about grammar
• A rant about HTML
• Response to a rant about infertile whiners
• A rant about infertile whiners
• A rant about King Features syndicate
• A rant about the Olympics
• Orson Scott Card and homosexuality
• A rant about overpopulation
• A rant abut the plaque on the Pioneer spacecraft
• A rant about privacy
• A rant about soy
• A rant about Star Trek
• A rant about Web design

differential geometry

• From Oregon Volume 8 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1
• A demonstration of why no one computes Riemann tensor components directly from the metric tensor
• Derivation of formula for, and illustration of, parallel transport of vectors on the torus

digest

• Performance Art Digest - deOPT
• Performance Art Digest

digression

• A digression on the word 'kulturkampf'

Dilbert

• A rant about comic strips

directory

• Site summary

disability

• From Oregon Volume 8 Issue 1

disarmament

• A Hypothetical Exercise in Disarmament

Disney

• A rant about Disney

distraction

• Remove images that don't serve a purpose.

dither

• Photoshop Tip 2: Creative Dithering

dithering

• Photoshop Tip 2: Creative Dithering

diverse

• Offer a variety of content to visitors.

diverse content

• Offer a variety of content to visitors.

diversity

• Offer a variety of content to visitors.

Do-It-Yourself Beanworld

• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 8
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 9
• Tales of the Beanworld: Do-It-Yourself Beanworld

dogma

• My Fish... T-Shirt

DOMA

• Rants - Gay Marriage

Doonesbury

• A rant about comic strips

door

• Monty Hall Problem: Applet Source
• Some explanations of the answer to the Monty Hall problem
• The full table of probabilities for the Monty Hall Problem
• An introduction to the Monty Hall problem
• A Java applet demonstrating the Monty Hall Problem
• Even more ways to think about the Monty Hall Problem
• How to use encryption to securely play the Monty Hall game by email

DOS

• Requiem for an XT

Douglas R. Hofstadter

• All Moles Considered
• Index Talpidae: notes a translated poem
• Moles are Coming: Translating a Poem
• Translating Moles: Notes on Translating

download

• Make particularly useful parts of your site downloadable
• A simple Perl CGI-based RSS aggregator
• Comics sans Crap
• A Windows 'droplet' that copies image dimensions to the clipboard
• Things to Download

downloadable

• Make particularly useful parts of your site downloadable

downstate

• An examination of the concepts 'upstate NY' and 'downstate NY'

dowsing

• Skepticism

Dreamishness

• Tales of the Beanworld: Dreamishness
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 13
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 15
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 5
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 6
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 8
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 9
• Tales of the Beanworld: Secret Sketch

dreams

• From Oregon Volume 8 Issue 1

drivers

• Neverhood Help

drugs

• Fun with Chemicals

Dry Falls

• From Oregon Volume 10 Issue 1

DSS

• A Hypothetical Exercise in Disarmament

dying

• Death, etc.

Easter

• Coming out to family story

Ecology

• Tales of the Beanworld: Ecology

economics

• 2005 Notebook

Edward Tufte

• A comparison of three charts based on the same data

EEG

• Death, etc.

eerie

• An Unnatural Similarity

effectiveness

• Effectiveness T-Shirt

Elusive Notworm

• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 16
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 17
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan

email

• How to use encryption to securely play the Monty Hall game by email
• Some good advices
• How my strategy for dealing with spam has evolved
• Raising the Bar on Email
• Contact Information

employment

• My experiences as a temp worker

encoding

• Implementation Details for Hopcroft & Ullman's Universal Turing Machine

end note

• Margin Note Example

entrance

• A flashy cover page for a site should be optional.
• Make every page an entrance to your site.

entrances

• Make every page an entrance to your site.

EPS

• Adobe Illustrator Artwork
• White Horse of Uffington

equal protection

• A digression on the word 'kulturkampf'
• The complete U.S. Supreme Court decision in Romer v. Evans
• A rebuttal to Justice Scalia's dissent in the U.S. Supreme Court case Romer v. Evans
• Summary of a rebuttal to Justice Scalia's dissent in the U.S. Supreme Court case Romer v. Evans

equal rights

• A rant abut the plaque on the Pioneer spacecraft

equality

• A rant abut the plaque on the Pioneer spacecraft

Ernie Bushmiller

• Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy

error handling

• Short Tech Notes

error messages

• A Frustrating Error Message

escape from noise

• 1998 Notebook

essay

• A digression on the word 'kulturkampf'
• A rebuttal to Justice Scalia's dissent in the U.S. Supreme Court case Romer v. Evans
• Summary of a rebuttal to Justice Scalia's dissent in the U.S. Supreme Court case Romer v. Evans

essays

• From the Curmudgeon's Corner
• A rant about comic strips
• Rants: Copyright
• Rants: the Music Industry
• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants
• A rant about belief in angels
• A rant about Astrology
• A rant about BSE and HIV
• A page of rants
• A rant about the USA's cryptographic policy
• A rant about Disney
• A rant about grammar
• A rant about HTML
• Response to a rant about infertile whiners
• A rant about infertile whiners
• A rant about King Features syndicate
• A rant about the Olympics
• Orson Scott Card and homosexuality
• A rant about overpopulation
• A rant abut the plaque on the Pioneer spacecraft
• A rant about privacy
• A rant about soy
• A rant about Star Trek
• A rant about Web design

esthetics

• Comparing Old and New Logos

ethics

• Morals and Ethics

Eudora

• Short Tech Notes

euphemism

• Words banned from this Web site

Euripides

• New Year's Resolution Reading, 1999
• New Year's Resolution Reading, 2000

evaporation

• Lot's Son: a CF story

evolution

• How my strategy for dealing with spam has evolved
• Make frequent small improvements to your site.

examples

• 2004 Notebook

exercise

• From Oregon Volume 11 Issue 1
• 2007 Notebook
• A Hypothetical Exercise in Disarmament

extroversion

• Recollections of working in a university film group

extrovert

• Recollections of working in a university film group

F.A.Q.

• Index of personal information
• Mark L. Irons' Frequently Asked Questions

failure

• Plan for technology failure.

fame

• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1

family

• Secret Family
• The Dad Thing

Fantastic Four

• Tales of the Beanworld: Inspiration Constellation

FAQ

• Index of personal information
• Mark L. Irons' Frequently Asked Questions

fatherhood

• The Dad Thing

feminism

• A rant abut the plaque on the Pioneer spacecraft

fetish

• Leaving Christianity

fiction

• About The Yogurt Incident
• Actuary Sketch
• The Yogurt Incident
• Various stuff I've written since 1995
• Revised Fire
• Rememberance of a grim SF anthology for adolescents

fifth draft

• 'Little Mole', fifth draft

film

• Recollections of working in a university film group

film noir hallway

• Creating an image: the Film Noir Hallway

final

• Transformation Geometry

finish

• Books I Could Not Finish

Firefox

• Step by step instructions for changing Firefox's context menus

Firefox context menu

• Step by step instructions for changing Firefox's context menus

Firefox context menus

• Step by step instructions for changing Firefox's context menus

Firefox menu

• Step by step instructions for changing Firefox's context menus

Firefox menus

• Step by step instructions for changing Firefox's context menus

first draft

• 'Little Mole', first draft

First Night

• First Night

fish

• My Fish... T-Shirt

Fix-it Shop

• Beanworld Zero ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 21

Fix-It Shop

• Tales of the Beanworld: Fix-It Shop

flag

• Adobe Illustrator Artwork

flatline

• Death, etc.

Flip-Flop tool

• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 1

float

• CSS Hack: a floated sidebar with structurally correct HTML

Float Factor

• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 17
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 5
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld: Float Factor
• Tales of the Beanworld: Secret Sketch

Float Force

• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan

floated note

• Margin Note Example

floated sidebar

• Floated Sidebar CSS Example
• Demonstrates a CSS-based floated sidebar that renders well on non-CSS browsers
• CSS Hack: a floated sidebar with structurally correct HTML

footer

• Common page elements should be put in a standard place.

footers

• Common page elements should be put in a standard place.

For Better or For Worse

• A rant about comic strips

format

• Pages should have a consistent format.
• Implementation Details for Hopcroft & Ullman's Universal Turing Machine

fortune

• 2006 Notebook

Four Realities

• Beanworld Zero ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld: Ecology
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 21
• Tales of the Beanworld: Four Realities

fourth dimension

• Color can be used to indicate position in 4D space

fourth draft

• 'Little Mole', fourth draft

Frank Herbert

• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants

Fraud

• How Not to Make an Audio Book

free

• Adobe Illustrator Artwork
• Blood Glucose Testing Sites diagram
• My Fish... T-Shirt
• WWRD T-Shirt
• White Horse of Uffington

free software

• 2003 Notebook

French

• 'Little Mole', fifth draft
• 'Little Mole', first draft
• 'Little Mole', fourth draft
• 'Little Mole', initial draft
• 'Little Mole', second draft
• 'Little Mole', sixth draft
• 'Little Mole', third draft
• A (formal) translation of Clément Marot's poem 'A une Damoyselle malade'
• A translation of Clément Marot's poem 'A une Damoyselle malade'

french

• Clément Marot's poem 'A une Damoyselle malade'

frequently asked questions

• Index of personal information
• Mark L. Irons' Frequently Asked Questions

freshness dates

• Clearly indicate the status of your pages.

From Oregon

• Comparing Old and New Logos
• From Oregon Volume 1 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 1 Issue 2
• From Oregon Volume 10 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 11 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 12 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 2 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 3 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 3 Issue 2
• From Oregon Volume 4 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 5 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 5 Issue 2
• From Oregon Volume 6 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 7 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 8 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1
• Various stuff I've written since 1995

fun

• Fun with Chemicals

functions

• 2003 Notebook

fungi

• Photos of the bird's nest fungus nidula niveotomentosa

fungus

• Photos of the bird's nest fungus nidula niveotomentosa

Gaithersburg

• CFF Internship

gallery

• A gallery of images related to the Residents
• On a Bridge in Albany NY's Central Park
• Bros cover
• A gallery of images
• Mt. Tamalpais
• First Night
• Index of personal information

game

• The Residents' Bad Day on the Midway playing hints
• Modifying lands in the game Black & White
• A solution to Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods’ dancing skeleton puzzle
• Things I wish I’d known when I began playing the game Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods
• A list of miracles available in the game Black & White’s story mode
• Things I wish I’d known when I began playing the game Black & White
• An analysis of the game Black & White’s totem puzzle
• An analysis of the game Black & White’s tree puzzles
• A short guide to increasing impressiveness in the game Bla