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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

Apple

• From Oregon Volume 13 Issue 1

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
• From Oregon Volume 13 Issue 1

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
• From Oregon Volume 13 Issue 1
• 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 13 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
• Site Changes, 2009

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
• Site Changes, 2009

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 13 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 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
• Neverhood Help
• Strategies for achieving high scores in the Windows game Space Cadet Pinball

game tips

• Index of general stuff

Gang of Seven

• An interview with William Ackerman, founder of the Gang of Seven spoken word recording label, about its history
• Reviews of CDs on the defunct Gang of Seven label

Gangster

• Beanworld 'While We Were Eating!' ashcan

gangster

• Tales of the Beanworld: Gangster Thing

gardening

• From Oregon Volume 13 Issue 1

Gaussian curvature

• Calculation of the torus's Riemann tensor and curvature
• Derivation of formula for, and illustration of, parallel transport of vectors on the torus
• The torus's shape operator

gay

• Various stuff I've written since 1995
• Rants - Gay Marriage
• 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
• Coming out
• Coming out to family story
• Leaving Christianity
• Samuel R. Delany and Me

Gay Comics

• Coming out

Gay Comix

• Coming out

gay marriage

• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1
• 2004 Notebook
• Rants - Gay Marriage

Gecko

• Product Review: K-meleon 0.6

gedankenexperiment

• A Java applet demonstrating the Monty Hall Problem
• Even more ways to think about the Monty Hall Problem

gender

• 2003 Notebook
• A rant abut the plaque on the Pioneer spacecraft

general product reviews

• Index of general stuff

general relativity

• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1

genetics

• 1999 Notebook

geodesic

• Determining how many geodesics one can find between two points on a cone
• Finding geodesics on the torus using the Clairaut parameterization
• The torus's curvature, shape operator, geodesics, and parallel transport

geodesic equation

• Finding geodesics on the torus using the Clairaut parameterization

geodesics

• Determining how many geodesics one can find between two points on a cone
• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1
• Finding geodesics on the torus using the Clairaut parameterization
• The torus's curvature, shape operator, geodesics, and parallel transport

Geoff Ryman

• Raves

geology

• From Oregon Volume 10 Issue 1

geometry

• Determining how many geodesics one can find between two points on a cone
• Triangle Shapes: an answer
• Triangles Shapes: another answer
• Triangle shapes
• A geometric hypothesis about plotting triplets
• Deriving the Surface Area of a Cone
• 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
• Derivation of formula for, and illustration of, parallel transport of vectors on the torus
• The torus's shape operator
• Transformation Geometry

gestures

• 2005 Notebook

gift

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

gift to the community

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

Girl Genius

• Comics
• Comics List

giving advice

• A sonnet on the reluctant giving of advice

glacial Lake Missoula

• From Oregon Volume 10 Issue 1

Glossary

• Tales of the Beanworld Glossary

glucose

• Blood Glucose Testing Sites diagram

glucose testing

• Blood Glucose Testing Sites diagram

glyph

• Dancer Glyph

gnuplot

• Raves

good advices

• Some good advices
• Various stuff I've written since 1995

good hair day

• Some good advices

Goofy Jerks

• Tales of the Beanworld: Goofy Jerks
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 10
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 14
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 15
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 17
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 18
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 19
• Tales of the Beanworld: Service Station

Goofy Service Jerks

• Beanworld Zero ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld: Goofy Jerks
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 11
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 16
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 8
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 9
• Tales of the Beanworld: Service Station

Goofy Surveillance Jerks

• Tales of the Beanworld: Service Station

government

• Civics 101 T-Shirt
• A rant about the USA's cryptographic policy

grammar

• Words ending in "-ical"
• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants
• A rant about grammar

Gran'Ma'Pa

• Beanworld Zero ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld: Gran'Ma'Pa
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 2
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 8
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 9

GraphViz

• Raves

Greek

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

greetings

• Minicomic: Beanworld Greetings

growth

• Make frequent small improvements to your site.
• Keep your site alive by giving it constant attention.

guessable

• Make your site's URLs simple enough to guess.

GUI

• Short Tech Notes

guide

• Site summary

Gunk'l'dunk

• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 7
• Tales of the Beanworld Internet Resources
• Tales of the Beanworld: Gunk'l'dunk

gut

• Poem: 'A Call to Gut'

hack

• Got Root? T-Shirt
• Modifying lands in the game Black & White

hacks

• Modifying lands in the game Black & White

hair

• Not Offended T-Shirt
• Some good advices

Halloween

• Locked out on Halloween

halloween

• 2005 Notebook

Hamlet

• Life is Sweet: Diabetes Considered

Harvey Danger

• Reviews of a Harvey Danger CD

hash cash

• Raves
• Raising the Bar on Email

Hatbox

• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 19

header

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

headers

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

health

• From Oregon Volume 11 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 8 Issue 1
• A recipe for high-calorie pudding, good for people with cystic fibrosis
• Fighting Pacificare (a HMO) for required medication
• Fighting Pacificare (a HMO) for required medication refill

health care

• Death, etc.
• Fighting Pacificare (a HMO) for required medication
• Fighting Pacificare (a HMO) for required medication refill

help

• Neverhood Help

heresy

• Christ Died... T-Shirt
• Blood Glucose Testing Sites diagram

Hewlett Packard

• Product Review: HP 7200i CD Writer

Heyoka

• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• 'The Worst of Heyoka' ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld: Heyoka
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 19
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld: Service Station

hidden content

• One way to offer private content for invited visitors.

hidden entrance

• One way to offer private content for invited visitors.

high calorie

• A recipe for high-calorie pudding, good for people with cystic fibrosis

higher dimensions

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

hints

• The Residents' Bad Day on the Midway playing hints

history

• Clearly indicate the status of your pages.
• The revision history of this set of patterns.
• Keep a page chronicling changes to your site.
• 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
• Site Changes, 2009

history page

• Keep a page chronicling changes to your site.

HIV

• A rant about BSE and HIV

HMO

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

hobbies

• From Oregon Volume 10 Issue 1
• Index of personal information

Hoi-Polloi

• Tales of the Beanworld: Hoi-Polloi
• Tales of the Beanworld: Ecology
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 1
• Tales of the Beanworld: Bone Zone
• Tales of the Beanworld: Chow Raid

home

• A flashy cover page for a site should be optional.
• Always provide a link to the home page.
• A home page should be a site's most useful page.
• 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
• Site Changes, 2009
• Mark Irons’ home page
• Index to Mark L. Irons' Web site

home page

• A flashy cover page for a site should be optional.
• A home page should be a site's most useful page.
• 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
• Site Changes, 2009
• Mark Irons’ home page
• Index to Mark L. Irons' Web site

homophobia

• 2007 Notebook
• Orson Scott Card and homosexuality

homosexual

• Rants - Gay Marriage
• Coming out
• Coming out to family story
• Samuel R. Delany and Me

homosexual marriage

• Rants - Gay Marriage

homosexuality

• 1997 Notebook
• 1999 Notebook
• Orson Scott Card and homosexuality

honorable mention

• Honorable mention reading list

hospital

• CF Cleanout

how-to

• Finding the center of stars in Adobe Illustrator
• Illustrator Tip index
• How to eliminate corner artifacts resulting from Illustrator 7's Outline Path command
• How to align irregular and complex shapes in Illustrator 7
• How to create objects with rotational symmetry in Illustrator 7
• Creating knotwork in Adobe Illustrator CS
• Knotworking
• Photoshop Tip 1: Layer Masks
• Photoshop Tip 2: Creative Dithering
• Photoshop Tip 3: Transparent PNGs
• CSS Hack: a floated sidebar with structurally correct HTML

HP

• Product Review: HP 7200i CD Writer

HTML

• A rant about HTML
• A rant about Web design
• CSS Tip #1: A Navigation Bar that Degrades Gracefully
• CSS Tip #2: Making Your Site Modifiable
• CSS Hack: a floated sidebar with structurally correct HTML
• Minimal HTML: writing good Web pages with less
• CSS/HTML Abuse: Example 1
• Short Tech Notes

humor

• Christ Died... T-Shirt
• Civics 101 T-Shirt
• Effectiveness T-Shirt
• Free Samples T-Shirt
• Blood Glucose Testing Sites diagram
• Got Root? T-Shirt
• Lack of Affect T-Shirt
• My Fish... T-Shirt
• Not Offended T-Shirt
• WWRD T-Shirt
• Actuary Sketch
• Life is Sweet: Diabetes Considered
• The Humor of Pain

Hungry?

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

hyperlink

• A Story
• List of Links
• Short Tech Notes

hyperlinks

• A Story
• List of Links
• Short Tech Notes

hypertext

• Short Tech Notes

hypertonic saline

• 2006 Notebook

hypothesis

• A geometric hypothesis about plotting triplets

ical

• Words ending in "-ical"

ice

• Yanni on Ice

ice cream

• Ben and Jerry's stories

ice storm

• Yanni on Ice

ichthys

• My Fish... T-Shirt

ideas

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

identity

• Pages should have a consistent format.

illustration

• Using vector and bitmap tools to create mathematical illustrations

Illustrator

• Adobe Illustrator Artwork
• Finding the center of stars in Adobe Illustrator
• Illustrator Tip index
• How to eliminate corner artifacts resulting from Illustrator 7's Outline Path command
• How to align irregular and complex shapes in Illustrator 7
• How to create objects with rotational symmetry in Illustrator 7
• Knotworking
• White Horse of Uffington

Illustrator CS

• Creating knotwork in Adobe Illustrator CS

image

• Creating an image: the Film Noir Hallway
• A gallery of images related to the Residents
• Ubik: a 3D model
• A Windows 'droplet' that copies image dimensions to the clipboard
• At Squirrel's Taven, 2008
• Half Flying the Bad Boy
• The Beanworld t-shirt
• On a Bridge in Albany NY's Central Park
• Bros cover
• At the Cabin
• A gallery of images
• Half holding Lava Lamp
• Mt. Tamalpais
• An oversharpened self-portrait
• At Point Reyes
• Returning from Washington
• First Night

image dimensions

• A Windows 'droplet' that copies image dimensions to the clipboard

images

• Remove images that don't serve a purpose.
• Index of personal information

immersion moments

• 1999 Notebook

impressiveness

• A short guide to increasing impressiveness in the game Black & White 2

improvement

• Keep your site alive by giving it constant attention.

improvements

• Make frequent small improvements to your site.

index

• Illustrator Tip index
• Index of Creations
• Correspondence Index, 2002-2003
• Correspondence Index, 1999
• Chronologic Index of Site Changes
• Index of general stuff
• Author Index of Book Reviews
• Index of personal information
• Chronological list of this site's pages
• Index to Mark L. Irons' Web site

index page

• For related pages, make an index page that links to them.

index pages

• For related pages, make an index page that links to them.

index.html

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

industry

• Rants: the Music Industry

infertile

• Response to a rant about infertile whiners
• A rant about infertile whiners

infertility

• Response to a rant about infertile whiners
• A rant about infertile whiners

infesticate

• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 2

infestication

• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 2

Influence

• Tales of the Beanworld: Service Station

info

• Site Information

information

• A comparison of three charts based on the same data
• Site Information

initial draft

• 'Little Mole', initial draft

insect-egg slime

• Photos of the slime mold leocarpus fragilis

Inspiration Constellation

• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 19
• Tales of the Beanworld: Inspiration Constellation

instruction

• Finding the center of stars in Adobe Illustrator
• Illustrator Tip index
• How to eliminate corner artifacts resulting from Illustrator 7's Outline Path command
• How to align irregular and complex shapes in Illustrator 7
• How to create objects with rotational symmetry in Illustrator 7
• Creating knotwork in Adobe Illustrator CS
• Knotworking
• Photoshop Tip 1: Layer Masks
• Photoshop Tip 2: Creative Dithering
• Photoshop Tip 3: Transparent PNGs

insurance

• A rant about infertile whiners

insurance coverage

• Response to a rant about infertile whiners
• A rant about infertile whiners

intelligence

• 1999 Notebook
• 2000 Notebook
• 2001 Notebook

intentionality

• 1998 Notebook

interface

• Short Tech Notes

interface design

• A Frustrating Error Message

internship

• CFF Internship

interview

• An interview with William Ackerman, founder of the Gang of Seven spoken word recording label, about its history

introduction

• A flashy cover page for a site should be optional.
• The what and why of these patterns for personal Web sites.

iPod

• Short Tech Notes

Issues

• Tales of the Beanworld Issue Index

Jackie Paper

• 1996 Notebook

Japanese

• An analysis of the game Black & White’s totem puzzle

jargon

• Words banned from this Web site
• 2004 Notebook

Java

• Monty Hall Problem: Applet Source
• Dehanced for Java
• The 'Dehanced for...' Campaign

Java applet

• A Java applet demonstrating the Monty Hall Problem

Javascript

• Javascript Auto-redirect
• The 'Dehanced for...' Campaign
• No Javascript

Jeff's pizza

• Pizza

Jerkcity

• A rant about comic strips

Jesus

• Corn Husker's Lotion and Transubstantiation
• Life is Sweet: Diabetes Considered

Jim Woodring

• Comics
• Comics List

Joe Jackson

• Reviews of Joe Jackson CDs

John Searle

• 1998 Notebook

juggle

• 2003 Notebook

juggling

• 2003 Notebook

jukebox

• The playlist of my ideal jukebox

junk email

• How my strategy for dealing with spam has evolved
• Raising the Bar on Email
• Contact Information

JunkBuster

• Raves

JunkBuster Block File

• Raves

K-meleon

• Product Review: K-meleon 0.6

Kachina

• Tales of the Beanworld: Inspiration Constellation

Keif Llama

• Comics
• Comics List
• An Unnatural Similarity

Killing Fields

• Morals and Ethics

King Features

• A rant about King Features syndicate

King Features Syndicate

• A rant about King Features syndicate

kite

• Half Flying the Bad Boy

kites

• Kite Story #1
• Kiting

kiting

• Half Flying the Bad Boy
• Kite Story #1
• Kiting

Klein bottle

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

knife

• A digression on losing things
• Knives

knitting

• From Oregon Volume 8 Issue 1

knot

• Knotwork
• Creating knotwork in Adobe Illustrator CS
• Knotworking

knots

• Knotwork
• Creating knotwork in Adobe Illustrator CS
• Knotworking
• Color can be used to indicate position in 4D space

knotwork

• Knotwork
• Creating knotwork in Adobe Illustrator CS
• Knotworking

Krazy Kat

• A rant about King Features syndicate

kulturkampf

• A digression on the word 'kulturkampf'

kuru

• 1996 Notebook

Kyle Baker

• Comics
• Comics List

lack of affect

• Lack of Affect T-Shirt

Lake Missoula

• From Oregon Volume 10 Issue 1

language

• Everyware: a Noncanonic List of ’-ware’ Terms
• 2002 Notebook
• 2003 Notebook
• 2004 Notebook

Larry Marder

• 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: 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
• 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: Bone Zone
• Tales of the Beanworld: Fix-It Shop
• Tales of the Beanworld: Four Realities
• 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: Look·See·Show
• Tales of the Beanworld: Look·See·Show Gallery
• Tales of the Beanworld: Secret Sketch
• Tales of the Beanworld: Introduction
• From Oregon Volume 13 Issue 1
• Comics
• Comics List

last wishes

• Death, etc.

lava flows

• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1

Lava Lamp

• Half holding Lava Lamp

lava tubes

• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1

laws

• 2004 Notebook

layer

• Photoshop Tip 1: Layer Masks

layers

• Photoshop Tip 1: Layer Masks
• Using vector and bitmap tools to create mathematical illustrations

Le Ton beau de Marot

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

learning to juggle

• Some good advices

leather

• At Point Reyes

leaving Christianity

• Leaving Christianity

leocarpus fragilis

• Photos of the slime mold leocarpus fragilis

lesson

• Finding the center of stars in Adobe Illustrator
• Illustrator Tip index
• How to eliminate corner artifacts resulting from Illustrator 7's Outline Path command
• How to align irregular and complex shapes in Illustrator 7
• How to create objects with rotational symmetry in Illustrator 7
• Creating knotwork in Adobe Illustrator CS
• Knotworking
• Photoshop Tip 1: Layer Masks
• Photoshop Tip 2: Creative Dithering
• Photoshop Tip 3: Transparent PNGs
• CSS Hack: a floated sidebar with structurally correct HTML

Let's Make a Deal

• 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

letterpress

• From Oregon Volume 13 Issue 1

Lewis Trondheim

• Comics

license

• Site License

lies

• The Three Ways to Lie

life

• Techniques for simplifying life

Life in Tennessee

• 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
• Various stuff I've written since 1995

link

• A Story
• List of Links
• Short Tech Notes
• Make every page an entrance to your site.
• Pages should contain a link to their maintainer.
• Make links readable.
• Make links recognizable.
• Make intrasite links relative.

links

• A Story
• List of Links
• Raves
• Short Tech Notes
• Make every page an entrance to your site.
• Pages should contain a link to their maintainer.
• Make links readable.
• Make links recognizable.
• Put links to related pages in their own section.
• Make intrasite links relative.

Lionhead

• 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
• Building villas in the Lionhead game Black & White 2

list

• Chronological list of this site's pages

Little Mole

• '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

living

• Techniques for simplifying life

living will

• Death, etc.

location

• Make each page's location within your site explicit.

lock

• Preventing bicycle theft

locked out

• Locked out on Halloween

locks

• Preventing bicycle theft

logo

• Ambigrams
• Comparing Old and New Logos

logos

• Ambigrams
• Comparing Old and New Logos

Look·See·Show

• Tales of the Beanworld: Beanish
• Tales of the Beanworld: Look·See·Show
• Tales of the Beanworld: Look·See·Show Gallery

Los Bros Hernandez

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

lose

• Knives

losing

• Knives

losing things

• A digression on losing things

loss

• Knives

lost and found

• Things I seek to find again

Love and Rockets

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

Luce Irigary

• 2003 Notebook

luck

• 2006 Notebook

lying

• The Three Ways to Lie

Ma Mignonne

• 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'

Mac

• From Oregon Volume 13 Issue 1

mad cow

• A rant about BSE and HIV

mad cow disease

• A rant about BSE and HIV

maintainer

• Pages should contain a link to their maintainer.

maintenance

• Pages should contain a link to their maintainer.
• Keep your site alive by giving it constant attention.
• Never let a URL die.
• Web Site Utilities

malpractice

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

mandatory drug testing

• 1999 Notebook

map

• A map showing how the patterns relate to one another.
• Provide a map showing your entire site.
• Map of Mark L. Irons' Web site
• Site summary

Marcel Duchamp

• Tales of the Beanworld: Inspiration Constellation

margin note

• Margin Note Example

markup

• Write pages that follow standards.

marriage

• 2007 Notebook

Maryland

• CFF Internship

mask

• Photoshop Tip 1: Layer Masks

masks

• Photoshop Tip 1: Layer Masks

math

• Index of Creations
• Color can be used to indicate position in 4D space
• Various mathematics pages on this site
• Transformation Geometry

mathematics

• Determining how many geodesics one can find between two points on a cone
• 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
• A possibly novel way to look at the pole and barn paradox of special relativity
• Triangle Shapes: an answer
• Triangles Shapes: another answer
• Triangle shapes
• Color can be used to indicate position in 4D space
• From Oregon Volume 8 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1
• 2004 Notebook
• A geometric hypothesis about plotting triplets
• Deriving the Surface Area of a Cone
• Various mathematics pages on this site
• 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
• Using vector and bitmap tools to create mathematical illustrations
• The torus's curvature, shape operator, geodesics, and parallel transport
• Derivation of formula for, and illustration of, parallel transport of vectors on the torus
• The torus's shape operator

Matrox

• Neverhood Help

Matt Feazell

• Comics
• Comics List

Matt Howarth

• Comics
• Comics List
• An Unnatural Similarity

maximum jumps

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

MDI

• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants

media

• 1997 Notebook
• 1998 Notebook

media coverage

• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1

medical insurance

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

memory

• My ticklers: those annoying things you can't quite recall

Menander

• New Year's Resolution Reading, 1999

metric tensor

• A demonstration of why no one computes Riemann tensor components directly from the metric tensor

mice

• Mouseslayer

microcontent

• Short Tech Notes

Microsoft Word

• Product Review: Microsoft Word 9x

millennium

• From the Curmudgeon's Corner
• Neverhood Help

minicomic

• Minicomic: Beanworld Greetings

minimal HTML

• Minimal HTML: writing good Web pages with less

miscellaneous

• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants

Missing Persons

• Reviews of a Missing Persons CD

modify

• Customize this Site

modifying Firefox

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

Mohelmot

• 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

moiety

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

mole

• 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

moles

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

Monty Hall

• 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

morality

• Morals and Ethics

morals

• Morals and Ethics

Mormon

• Orson Scott Card and homosexuality

Morty the Dog

• Comics
• Comics List

mouse

• Mouseslayer

movie

• Recollections of working in a university film group

Mr. Spook

• Beanworld Zero ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld 'While We Were Eating!' ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld: Mr. Spook
• Beanworld Story in Asylum Anthology
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• 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 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: Chow Raid

Mr. Teach'm

• Beanworld Zero ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld: Mr. Teach'm
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 10
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 12
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 13
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 14
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 19
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 20

Mt. Tamalpais

• Mt. Tamalpais

MTV

• Circuit Breaker story

music

• Rants: the Music Industry
• CD catalog
• A review of a Crash Test Dummies CD
• Reviews of a Harvey Danger CD
• Reviews of Joe Jackson CDs
• Reviews of a Missing Persons CD
• Reviews of Patty Larkin CDs
• Reviews of Residents CDs
• A review of a Vapors CD
• The playlist of my ideal jukebox

Mystery Pods

• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 17

Mystique

• Neverhood Help

myxomycete

• Photos of the slime mold leocarpus fragilis

Nancy

• A rant about comic strips
• Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy

Napster

• Rants: the Music Industry

navigation

• CSS Tip #1: A Navigation Bar that Degrades Gracefully
• Make every page an entrance to your site.
• Make your site's URLs simple enough to guess.
• Always provide a link to the home page.
• Put links to related pages in their own section.
• Provide a map showing your entire site.
• Keep sites well connected by limiting the number of required jumps by any two pages.
• Make each page's location within your site explicit.

neighbors

• From Oregon Volume 10 Issue 1

neologisms

• 2008 Notebook

Netscape

• Product Review: Netscape 6 beta 1

neutrality

• Make your site accessible to all visitors.

Neverhood

• Neverhood Help

new age

• From the Curmudgeon's Corner

new year's

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

New York

• A gallery of images
• Circuit Breaker story
• Pizza
• An examination of the concepts 'upstate NY' and 'downstate NY'

nidula niveotomentosa

• Photos of the bird's nest fungus nidula niveotomentosa

noise

• 1998 Notebook

nonsense

• 2004 Notebook

not safe for work

• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants

notebook

• Various stuff I've written since 1995
• 1996 Notebook
• 1997 Notebook
• 1998 Notebook
• 1999 Notebook
• 2000 Notebook
• 2001 Notebook
• 2002 Notebook
• 2003 Notebook
• 2004 Notebook
• 2005 Notebook
• 2006 Notebook
• 2007 Notebook
• 2008 Notebook

notify application

• Short Tech Notes

Notworms

• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 13

NSFW

• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants

nuclear

• A Hypothetical Exercise in Disarmament

numerology

• Skepticism

obscure

• An (obscure) Biography

offense

• Not Offended T-Shirt

offline

• Make pages readable both online and off.

Olympics

• A rant about the Olympics

online

• Make pages readable both online and off.

open source

• 2003 Notebook

opening out

• 2004 Notebook

Oregon

• At the Cabin
• A gallery of images
• Half holding Lava Lamp

Oregon coast

• Half Flying the Bad Boy

ornamentation

• Large sites can stand some hidden ornamentation.

Orson Scott Card

• Orson Scott Card and homosexuality

overpopulation

• A rant about overpopulation
• Another rant about overpopulation

overview

• The what and why of these patterns for personal Web sites.
• Provide a map showing your entire site.

p. cepacia

• CFF Internship

PacifiCare

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

page

• Pages shouldn't be artificially split.
• Chronological list of this site's pages

page format

• Pages should have a consistent format.

page length

• Pages shouldn't be artificially split.

page status

• Clearly indicate the status of your pages.

pages

• Chronological list of this site's pages

pain

• The Humor of Pain

Palouse Falls

• From Oregon Volume 10 Issue 1

Paperworks

• From Oregon Volume 11 Issue 1

parallel transport

• The torus's curvature, shape operator, geodesics, and parallel transport
• Derivation of formula for, and illustration of, parallel transport of vectors on the torus

paranoia

• Rememberance of a grim SF anthology for adolescents

paranormal

• Skepticism

parfait

• A recipe for high-calorie pudding, good for people with cystic fibrosis

parody

• My Fish... T-Shirt

Particle Dreams

• Comics
• Comics List

pattern

• Various stuff I've written since 1995
• Use the simplest technology that works.
• Pages shouldn't be artificially split.
• Pages should have a consistent format.
• A flashy cover page for a site should be optional.
• Offer on your site a thorough exploration of something.
• Ensure that each directory of your site has a default page.
• Offer a variety of content to visitors.
• Make particularly useful parts of your site downloadable
• Make every page an entrance to your site.
• Clearly indicate the status of your pages.
• The best Web sites offer something to the Internet community.
• Plan for technology failure.
• Make your site's URLs simple enough to guess.
• The revision history of this set of patterns.
• Keep a page chronicling changes to your site.
• Proto-patterns which might be added to this set of patterns.
• Make frequent small improvements to your site.
• Guidelines for creating a living personal Web site.
• For related pages, make an index page that links to them.
• The what and why of these patterns for personal Web sites.
• Pages should contain a link to their maintainer.
• Keep your site alive by giving it constant attention.
• A map showing how the patterns relate to one another.
• Remove images that don't serve a purpose.
• Make pages readable both online and off.
• Always provide a link to the home page.
• Make your site accessible to all visitors.
• One way to offer private content for invited visitors.
• Make links readable.
• Make links recognizable.
• Put links to related pages in their own section.
• Make intrasite links relative.
• Large sites can stand some hidden ornamentation.
• Provide a map showing your entire site.
• Common page elements should be put in a standard place.
• Keep sites well connected by limiting the number of required jumps by any two pages.
• Never let a URL die.
• A home page should be a site's most useful page.
• Write pages that follow standards.
• Make each page's location within your site explicit.
• Make your pages sound like you.

pattern language

• Use the simplest technology that works.
• Pages shouldn't be artificially split.
• Pages should have a consistent format.
• A flashy cover page for a site should be optional.
• Offer on your site a thorough exploration of something.
• Ensure that each directory of your site has a default page.
• Offer a variety of content to visitors.
• Make particularly useful parts of your site downloadable
• Make every page an entrance to your site.
• Clearly indicate the status of your pages.
• The best Web sites offer something to the Internet community.
• Plan for technology failure.
• Make your site's URLs simple enough to guess.
• The revision history of this set of patterns.
• Keep a page chronicling changes to your site.
• Proto-patterns which might be added to this set of patterns.
• Make frequent small improvements to your site.
• Guidelines for creating a living personal Web site.
• For related pages, make an index page that links to them.
• The what and why of these patterns for personal Web sites.
• Pages should contain a link to their maintainer.
• Keep your site alive by giving it constant attention.
• A map showing how the patterns relate to one another.
• Remove images that don't serve a purpose.
• Make pages readable both online and off.
• Always provide a link to the home page.
• Make your site accessible to all visitors.
• One way to offer private content for invited visitors.
• Make links readable.
• Make links recognizable.
• Put links to related pages in their own section.
• Make intrasite links relative.
• Large sites can stand some hidden ornamentation.
• Provide a map showing your entire site.
• Common page elements should be put in a standard place.
• Keep sites well connected by limiting the number of required jumps by any two pages.
• Never let a URL die.
• A home page should be a site's most useful page.
• Write pages that follow standards.
• Make each page's location within your site explicit.
• Make your pages sound like you.

patterns

• Various stuff I've written since 1995
• Use the simplest technology that works.
• Pages shouldn't be artificially split.
• Pages should have a consistent format.
• A flashy cover page for a site should be optional.
• Offer on your site a thorough exploration of something.
• Ensure that each directory of your site has a default page.
• Offer a variety of content to visitors.
• Make particularly useful parts of your site downloadable
• Make every page an entrance to your site.
• Clearly indicate the status of your pages.
• The best Web sites offer something to the Internet community.
• Plan for technology failure.
• Make your site's URLs simple enough to guess.
• The revision history of this set of patterns.
• Keep a page chronicling changes to your site.
• Proto-patterns which might be added to this set of patterns.
• Make frequent small improvements to your site.
• Guidelines for creating a living personal Web site.
• For related pages, make an index page that links to them.
• The what and why of these patterns for personal Web sites.
• Pages should contain a link to their maintainer.
• Keep your site alive by giving it constant attention.
• A map showing how the patterns relate to one another.
• Remove images that don't serve a purpose.
• Make pages readable both online and off.
• Always provide a link to the home page.
• Make your site accessible to all visitors.
• One way to offer private content for invited visitors.
• Make links readable.
• Make links recognizable.
• Put links to related pages in their own section.
• Make intrasite links relative.
• Large sites can stand some hidden ornamentation.
• Provide a map showing your entire site.
• Common page elements should be put in a standard place.
• Keep sites well connected by limiting the number of required jumps by any two pages.
• Never let a URL die.
• A home page should be a site's most useful page.
• Write pages that follow standards.
• Make each page's location within your site explicit.
• Make your pages sound like you.

Patty Larkin

• Reviews of Patty Larkin CDs

PC

• Requiem for an XT

PDF

• A rant about Web design

performance art

• Performance Art Digest - deOPT
• Performance Art Digest

Perl

• A simple Perl CGI-based RSS aggregator
• Comics sans Crap
• A Windows 'droplet' that copies image dimensions to the clipboard
• Web Site Utilities

persistent vegetative state

• Death, etc.

personal idioms

• 2003 Notebook

personal Web site

• Use the simplest technology that works.
• Pages shouldn't be artificially split.
• Pages should have a consistent format.
• A flashy cover page for a site should be optional.
• Offer on your site a thorough exploration of something.
• Ensure that each directory of your site has a default page.
• Offer a variety of content to visitors.
• Make particularly useful parts of your site downloadable
• Make every page an entrance to your site.
• Clearly indicate the status of your pages.
• The best Web sites offer something to the Internet community.
• Plan for technology failure.
• Make your site's URLs simple enough to guess.
• The revision history of this set of patterns.
• Keep a page chronicling changes to your site.
• Proto-patterns which might be added to this set of patterns.
• Make frequent small improvements to your site.
• Guidelines for creating a living personal Web site.
• For related pages, make an index page that links to them.
• The what and why of these patterns for personal Web sites.
• Pages should contain a link to their maintainer.
• Keep your site alive by giving it constant attention.
• A map showing how the patterns relate to one another.
• Remove images that don't serve a purpose.
• Make pages readable both online and off.
• Always provide a link to the home page.
• Make your site accessible to all visitors.
• One way to offer private content for invited visitors.
• Make links readable.
• Make links recognizable.
• Put links to related pages in their own section.
• Make intrasite links relative.
• Large sites can stand some hidden ornamentation.
• Provide a map showing your entire site.
• Common page elements should be put in a standard place.
• Keep sites well connected by limiting the number of required jumps by any two pages.
• Never let a URL die.
• A home page should be a site's most useful page.
• Write pages that follow standards.
• Make each page's location within your site explicit.
• Make your pages sound like you.

personal Web sites

• Guidelines for creating a living personal Web site.

PGP

• How to use encryption to securely play the Monty Hall game by email
• A rant about the USA's cryptographic policy

Phil Foglio

• Comics
• Comics List

Philip Glass

• Reviews of Philip Glass CDs

Philip K. Dick

• 1998 Notebook

Photoshop

• Adobe Photoshop Actions
• Photoshop Tip 1: Layer Masks
• Photoshop Tip 2: Creative Dithering
• Photoshop Tip 3: Transparent PNGs

Photoshop 4

• Photoshop Tip 1: Layer Masks
• Photoshop Tip 2: Creative Dithering
• Photoshop Tip 3: Transparent PNGs

phrasebook

• Raves

Phyllis

• Ben and Jerry's stories

picture

• Creating an image: the Film Noir Hallway
• A gallery of images related to the Residents
• At Squirrel's Taven, 2008
• Half Flying the Bad Boy
• The Beanworld t-shirt
• On a Bridge in Albany NY's Central Park
• Bros cover
• At the Cabin
• A gallery of images
• Half holding Lava Lamp
• Mt. Tamalpais
• An oversharpened self-portrait
• At Point Reyes
• Returning from Washington
• First Night

pictures

• Index of personal information

Piers Anthony

• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants

ping

• The Ping

Pioneer

• A rant abut the plaque on the Pioneer spacecraft

pizza

• Pizza

Places Bar

• Windows 2000's Places Bar

play list

• The playlist of my ideal jukebox

playlist

• The playlist of my ideal jukebox

plays

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

PNG

• Photoshop Tip 3: Transparent PNGs

pocket knife

• Knives

Pod'l'pool Cuties

• Tales of the Beanworld: Cuties

poem

• Various stuff I've written since 1995
• Poem: 'A Call to Gut'
• '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 sonnet on the reluctant giving of advice
• A (formal) translation of Clément Marot's poem 'A une Damoyselle malade'
• A translation of Clément Marot's poem 'A une Damoyselle malade'
• Clément Marot's poem 'A une Damoyselle malade'

poems

• Various stuff I've written since 1995
• All Moles Considered
• Index Talpidae: notes a translated poem
• Moles are Coming: Translating a Poem
• Translating Moles: Notes on Translating

poetry

• Various stuff I've written since 1995
• Poem: 'A Call to Gut'
• 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 sonnet on the reluctant giving of advice
• 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'

Poing Poing

• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 18

Point Reyes

• At Point Reyes

pole and barn

• A possibly novel way to look at the pole and barn paradox of special relativity

pole and barn paradox

• A possibly novel way to look at the pole and barn paradox of special relativity

policy

• A rant about the USA's cryptographic policy

polygon

• Finding the center of stars in Adobe Illustrator

Portable Document Format

• A rant about Web design

portrait

• The Beanworld t-shirt
• At the Cabin
• Half holding Lava Lamp
• At Point Reyes

postmodernism

• Corn Husker's Lotion and Transubstantiation
• 2003 Notebook

Postscript

• White Horse of Uffington

prayer

• Effectiveness T-Shirt

pre-person

• 1998 Notebook

pregeodesic

• Finding geodesics on the torus using the Clairaut parameterization

prepositions

• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants

preventing bicycle theft

• Some good advices

privacy

• A rant about privacy
• Privacy Policy
• Privacy
• Warm

privacy policy

• Privacy Policy

private content

• One way to offer private content for invited visitors.

private entrance

• One way to offer private content for invited visitors.

Privoxy

• Raves

probability

• 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

procrastination

• 2008 Notebook

product review

• Product Review: HP 7200i CD Writer
• Product Review: K-meleon 0.6
• Product Review: Netscape 6 beta 1
• Product Review: Websnake 1.23
• Product Review: Websnake 1.23 Problems
• Product Review: Microsoft Word 9x

Professor Garbanzo

• Beanworld Zero ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld 'While We Were Eating!' ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld: Professor Garbanzo
• Beanworld Story in Asylum Anthology
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• Beanworld Hungry? ashcan
• 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 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: Fix-It Shop

Proffy

• Beanworld Zero ashcan
• Tales of the Beanworld: Professor Garbanzo
• Tales of the Beanworld: Fix-It Shop

programming

• A Frustrating Error Message

programs

• A simple Perl CGI-based RSS aggregator
• Comics sans Crap
• A Windows 'droplet' that copies image dimensions to the clipboard
• Web Site Utilities

proof

• A geometric hypothesis about plotting triplets

proper time

• A possibly novel way to look at the pole and barn paradox of special relativity

proto-patterns

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

pseudomonas

• CFF Internship

pseudomonas cepacia

• CFF Internship

psychology

• 2007 Notebook

pudding

• A recipe for high-calorie pudding, good for people with cystic fibrosis

Puff The Magic Dragon

• 1996 Notebook

puzzle

• 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
• Triangle Shapes: an answer
• Triangles Shapes: another answer
• Triangle shapes
• A solution to Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods’ dancing skeleton puzzle
• An analysis of the game Black & White’s totem puzzle
• An analysis of the game Black & White’s tree puzzles

puzzles

• Index of Creations

queer

• Rants - Gay Marriage
• 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

quiz

• A Cranky Web Design Quiz

Rakoff

• How Not to Make an Audio Book

rant

• Various stuff I've written since 1995
• Rants: Copyright
• Words ending in "-ical"
• Rants: the Music Industry
• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants
• Rants - Gay Marriage
• Another rant about overpopulation

rantlet

• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants

rantlets

• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants

rants

• From the Curmudgeon's Corner
• Various stuff I've written since 1995
• A rant about comic strips
• Rants: Copyright
• Words ending in "-ical"
• 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

raves

• Raves

Ray Dream

• Ubik: a 3D model

Ray Dream Studio

• Ubik: a 3D model

readability

• Make pages readable both online and off.

readable link

• Make links readable.

readable links

• Make links readable.

reading

• Author Index of Book Reviews
• New Year's Resolution Reading, 1999
• New Year's Resolution Reading, 2000

rebuttal

• 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

recent changes

• Keep a page chronicling changes to your site.

recipe

• From Oregon Volume 8 Issue 1
• 2006 Notebook
• A recipe for high-calorie pudding, good for people with cystic fibrosis

recognizable link

• Make links recognizable.

recognizable links

• Make links recognizable.

recommended reading

• Recommended reading list

recording

• How Not to Make an Audio Book

recycle

• Adobe Illustrator Artwork

red hat

• Tales of the Beanworld: Gangster Thing

redirect

• Javascript Auto-redirect
• No Javascript

registry

• Neverhood Help

related pages

• Put links to related pages in their own section.

relative link

• Make intrasite links relative.

relative links

• Make intrasite links relative.

relativity

• A possibly novel way to look at the pole and barn paradox of special relativity
• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1

religion

• Civics 101 T-Shirt
• Effectiveness T-Shirt
• My Fish... T-Shirt
• 1996 Notebook
• 2007 Notebook
• Orson Scott Card and homosexuality
• Why I'm an atheist
• Leaving Christianity

Reproductive Propellant

• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 8
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 9
• Tales of the Beanworld: Service Station

required reading

• Required reading list

Residents

• WWRD T-Shirt
• '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'
• The Residents' Bad Day on the Midway playing hints

resolution

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

review

• 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

reviews

• How Not to Make an Audio Book
• 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
• 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
• 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

revision

• The revision history of this set of patterns.
• Revised Fire

revision history

• The revision history of this set of patterns.

RIAA

• Rants: the Music Industry

Ricci scalar

• Calculation of the torus's Riemann tensor and curvature

Ricci tensor

• Calculation of the torus's Riemann tensor and curvature

Riemann tensor

• A demonstration of why no one computes Riemann tensor components directly from the metric tensor
• Calculation of the torus's Riemann tensor and curvature

risk

• A rant about BSE and HIV

Robert Crumb

• Tales of the Beanworld: Inspiration Constellation

Romer v. Evans

• Various stuff I've written since 1995
• 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

root

• Got Root? T-Shirt

rot

• CD Rot

rotation

• How to create objects with rotational symmetry in Illustrator 7

Roxy Music

• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1

RSS

• Short Tech Notes
• A simple Perl CGI-based RSS aggregator

RSS aggregator

• A simple Perl CGI-based RSS aggregator

Ryland

• Warm

safety

• Preventing bicycle theft

sales

• Rants: the Music Industry

salt

• Lot's Son: a CF story

Samuel Delany

• Samuel R. Delany and Me

Samuel R. Delany

• Samuel R. Delany and Me

San Francisco

• From Oregon Volume 11 Issue 1
• A gallery of images
• Mt. Tamalpais

Savage Henry

• Comics
• Comics List

Scalia

• 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

science fiction

• Why Writing SF is Hard
• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants
• Rememberance of a grim SF anthology for adolescents

Scott McCloud

• Comics
• Comics List

scythe

• First Night

SDI

• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants

Seattle

• From Oregon Volume 10 Issue 1

second draft

• 'Little Mole', second draft

Secret Sketch

• Tales of the Beanworld: Secret Sketch

secrets

• Secret Family

self-determination

• Death, etc.

self-image

• 2007 Notebook

Service Station

• Tales of the Beanworld: Service Station

sexual orientation

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

SF

• Why Writing SF is Hard
• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants
• Mt. Tamalpais
• Rememberance of a grim SF anthology for adolescents

Shakespeare

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

shape operator

• The torus's curvature, shape operator, geodesics, and parallel transport
• The torus's shape operator

shaving

• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants
• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants

Shockwave

• The 'Dehanced for...' Campaign

shortcuts

• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants

side note

• Margin Note Example

sidebar

• CSS Hack: a floated sidebar with structurally correct HTML

similarity

• An Unnatural Similarity

simple

• Techniques for simplifying life

simplicity

• 1998 Notebook
• Use the simplest technology that works.
• Plan for technology failure.

simplify

• Techniques for simplifying life

simplifying

• Techniques for simplifying life

site

• CSS Tip #2: Making Your Site Modifiable
• 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
• Site Changes, 2009
• Web Site Utilities
• Mark Irons’ home page
• Chronological list of this site's pages
• Site Information
• Site License
• Index to Mark L. Irons' Web site
• Site summary

site info

• Site Information

site information

• Site Information

site license

• Site License

site map

• Provide a map showing your entire site.
• Map of Mark L. Irons' Web site

site overview

• Provide a map showing your entire site.

sixth draft

• 'Little Mole', sixth draft

size

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

skeptic

• Skepticism

skepticism

• Skepticism

sketch comedy

• Actuary Sketch

skinning knife

• Knives

slime mold

• Photos of the slime mold leocarpus fragilis

songs

• The playlist of my ideal jukebox

sonnet

• A sonnet on the reluctant giving of advice

Sophocles

• New Year's Resolution Reading, 1999

source

• Monty Hall Problem: Applet Source

source code

• Monty Hall Problem: Applet Source

soy

• A rant about soy

Space Cadet

• Strategies for achieving high scores in the Windows game Space Cadet Pinball

Space Cadet pinball

• Strategies for achieving high scores in the Windows game Space Cadet Pinball

Spalding Gray

• Reviews of Spalding Gray CDs
• Edited for Television, Badly

spam

• How my strategy for dealing with spam has evolved
• Raising the Bar on Email
• Contact Information

Spear Fling'n Flank'rs

• Beanworld 'While We Were Eating!' ashcan

special relativity

• A possibly novel way to look at the pole and barn paradox of special relativity
• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1

speeders

• From Oregon Volume 7 Issue 1

spirituality

• Why I'm an atheist

spoken word

• Reviews of CDs on the defunct Gang of Seven label

sporangia

• Photos of the slime mold leocarpus fragilis

sporangium

• Photos of the slime mold leocarpus fragilis

spray can

• Ubik: a 3D model

Sprout-Butt

• Tales of the Beanworld: Sprout-Butt
• Tales of the Beanworld: Ecology
• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 16

Squirrel's

• At Squirrel's Taven, 2008

standard

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

standards

• Write pages that follow standards.

star

• Finding the center of stars in Adobe Illustrator

Star Trek

• A rant about Star Trek

state table

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

status

• Clearly indicate the status of your pages.

stereotypes

• 2003 Notebook
• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants

Steve

• Yanni on Ice

Steve Willis

• Comics
• Comics List

stories

• About The Yogurt Incident
• Actuary Sketch
• The Yogurt Incident
• Index of personal information
• Edited for Television, Badly
• Ben and Jerry's stories
• CF Cleanout
• Circuit Breaker story
• Knives
• A story about learning to cook
• Lot's Son: a CF story
• Requiem for an XT
• Revised Fire
• A Hypothetical Exercise in Disarmament
• Rememberance of a grim SF anthology for adolescents
• Transformation Geometry
• Recollections of working in a university film group
• An examination of the concepts 'upstate NY' and 'downstate NY'
• Warm
• Yanni on Ice

story

• A Story
• List of Links
• Circuit Breaker story
• Knives
• An examination of the concepts 'upstate NY' and 'downstate NY'

strategy

• 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
• Strategies for achieving high scores in the Windows game Space Cadet Pinball

structure

• Large sites can stand some hidden ornamentation.

style sheet

• Customize this Site

style sheets

• CSS Tip #1: A Navigation Bar that Degrades Gracefully
• CSS Tip #2: Making Your Site Modifiable
• CSS Hack: a floated sidebar with structurally correct HTML
• CSS/HTML Abuse: Example 1
• Short Tech Notes
• Customize this Site

summaries

• Performance Art Digest - deOPT
• Performance Art Digest

summary

• Performance Art Digest - deOPT
• Performance Art Digest
• Summary of a rebuttal to Justice Scalia's dissent in the U.S. Supreme Court case Romer v. Evans
• Site summary

SUNY

• Kite Story #1

SUNYA

• Kite Story #1
• Locked out on Halloween
• Transformation Geometry

surface area

• Deriving the Surface Area of a Cone

survey

• 2004 Notebook

Sweet

• An Unnatural Similarity

Swimming to Cambodia

• Edited for Television, Badly

Swiss Army Knife

• Knives

symmetry

• Ambigrams

system

• Creating a backup strategy

system maintenance

• Creating a backup strategy

t-shirt

• Christ Died... T-Shirt
• Civics 101 T-Shirt
• Effectiveness T-Shirt
• Free Samples T-Shirt
• Blood Glucose Testing Sites diagram
• Got Root? T-Shirt
• Lack of Affect T-Shirt
• My Fish... T-Shirt
• WWRD T-Shirt
• The Beanworld t-shirt

t-shirts

• Index of Creations

table

• The full table of probabilities for the Monty Hall Problem

taboo

• 1997 Notebook
• 1998 Notebook

taboos

• 1997 Notebook
• 1998 Notebook

Tales of the 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
• Tales of the Beanworld: Introduction

tape

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

tape encoding

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

tape format

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

tech note

• How my strategy for dealing with spam has evolved

tech notes

• Various stuff I've written since 1995
• Creating a backup strategy
• 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
• How my strategy for dealing with spam has evolved
• Step by step instructions for changing Firefox's context menus
• 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
• Minimal HTML: writing good Web pages with less
• CSS/HTML Abuse: Example 1
• Windows 2000's Places Bar
• Raising the Bar on Email
• Short Tech Notes
• A Cranky Web Design Quiz
• A Frustrating Error Message
• Use the simplest technology that works.
• Pages shouldn't be artificially split.
• Pages should have a consistent format.
• A flashy cover page for a site should be optional.
• Offer on your site a thorough exploration of something.
• Ensure that each directory of your site has a default page.
• Offer a variety of content to visitors.
• Make particularly useful parts of your site downloadable
• Make every page an entrance to your site.
• Clearly indicate the status of your pages.
• The best Web sites offer something to the Internet community.
• Plan for technology failure.
• Make your site's URLs simple enough to guess.
• The revision history of this set of patterns.
• Keep a page chronicling changes to your site.
• Proto-patterns which might be added to this set of patterns.
• Make frequent small improvements to your site.
• Guidelines for creating a living personal Web site.
• For related pages, make an index page that links to them.
• The what and why of these patterns for personal Web sites.
• Pages should contain a link to their maintainer.
• Keep your site alive by giving it constant attention.
• A map showing how the patterns relate to one another.
• Remove images that don't serve a purpose.
• Make pages readable both online and off.
• Always provide a link to the home page.
• Make your site accessible to all visitors.
• One way to offer private content for invited visitors.
• Make links readable.
• Make links recognizable.
• Put links to related pages in their own section.
• Make intrasite links relative.
• Large sites can stand some hidden ornamentation.
• Provide a map showing your entire site.
• Common page elements should be put in a standard place.
• Keep sites well connected by limiting the number of required jumps by any two pages.
• Never let a URL die.
• A home page should be a site's most useful page.
• Write pages that follow standards.
• Make each page's location within your site explicit.
• Make your pages sound like you.

tech support

• Neverhood Help

technology

• Use the simplest technology that works.
• Make particularly useful parts of your site downloadable
• Plan for technology failure.
• Make pages readable both online and off.
• Make your site accessible to all visitors.
• Write pages that follow standards.

teen

• Rememberance of a grim SF anthology for adolescents

teenager

• Rememberance of a grim SF anthology for adolescents

television

• Edited for Television, Badly

temp work

• My experiences as a temp worker

temporal

• Clearly indicate the status of your pages.
• Keep your site alive by giving it constant attention.
• Never let a URL die.

temporary work

• My experiences as a temp worker

tending

• Keep your site alive by giving it constant attention.

Tennessee

• A gallery of images
• Lot's Son: a CF story

tensor components

• A demonstration of why no one computes Riemann tensor components directly from the metric tensor

testing blood sugar

• Some good advices

text editors

• 1999 Notebook

The Beatles

• A rant about King Features syndicate

The Old Grey Whistle Test

• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1

The Residents

• A gallery of images related to the Residents
• WWRD T-Shirt
• All Moles Considered
• Index Talpidae: notes a translated poem
• Moles are Coming: Translating a Poem
• Translating Moles: Notes on Translating
• Reviews of Residents CDs

The Vapors

• A review of a Vapors CD

theft

• Preventing bicycle theft

Theodore Sturgeon

• Morals and Ethics

thief

• Preventing bicycle theft

third draft

• 'Little Mole', third draft

Those Annoying Post Bros

• Comics
• Comics List

three

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

three jumps

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

tickler

• My ticklers: those annoying things you can't quite recall

ticklers

• 2003 Notebook
• My ticklers: those annoying things you can't quite recall

time

• Chronological list of this site's pages

tingle

• 2003 Notebook

tip

• Finding the center of stars in Adobe Illustrator
• How to eliminate corner artifacts resulting from Illustrator 7's Outline Path command
• How to align irregular and complex shapes in Illustrator 7
• How to create objects with rotational symmetry in Illustrator 7
• Photoshop Tip 1: Layer Masks
• Photoshop Tip 2: Creative Dithering
• Photoshop Tip 3: Transparent PNGs
• CSS Tip #1: A Navigation Bar that Degrades Gracefully
• CSS Tip #2: Making Your Site Modifiable
• CSS Hack: a floated sidebar with structurally correct HTML
• 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 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
• Strategies for achieving high scores in the Windows game Space Cadet Pinball

tips

• 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 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
• Strategies for achieving high scores in the Windows game Space Cadet Pinball

torus

• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1
• 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
• Derivation of formula for, and illustration of, parallel transport of vectors on the torus
• The torus's shape operator

totem

• An analysis of the game Black & White’s totem puzzle

transfer

• Blood Glucose Testing Sites diagram
• My Fish... T-Shirt
• WWRD T-Shirt

transformation geometry

• Transformation Geometry

transition

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

translating

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

translation

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

transparency

• Photoshop Tip 3: Transparent PNGs

transparent

• Photoshop Tip 3: Transparent PNGs

transparent PNG

• Photoshop Tip 3: Transparent PNGs

transubstantiation

• Corn Husker's Lotion and Transubstantiation

travel

• From Oregon Volume 10 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 11 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 8 Issue 1
• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1

tree

• An analysis of the game Black & White’s tree puzzles

triangle

• Triangle Shapes: an answer
• Triangles Shapes: another answer
• Triangle shapes
• A geometric hypothesis about plotting triplets

trick or treat

• 2005 Notebook

tricks

• 2005 Notebook

triplet

• A geometric hypothesis about plotting triplets

Tu'ba'lu Squib'r'ish

• Tales of the Beanworld Issue 13

Turbo Pascal

• Requiem for an XT

Turing machine

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

tutorial

• Finding the center of stars in Adobe Illustrator
• Illustrator Tip index
• How to eliminate corner artifacts resulting from Illustrator 7's Outline Path command
• How to align irregular and complex shapes in Illustrator 7
• How to create objects with rotational symmetry in Illustrator 7
• Creating knotwork in Adobe Illustrator CS
• Knotworking
• Photoshop Tip 1: Layer Masks
• Photoshop Tip 2: Creative Dithering

U.S. natality

• A comparison of three charts based on the same data

Ubik

• Ubik: a 3D model

Uffington

• White Horse of Uffington

UFO

• Skepticism

unchanging

• Never let a URL die.

under consideration

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

unfinished

• Books I Could Not Finish

universal Turing machine

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

university

• Recollections of working in a university film group

upstate

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

URL

• Make your site's URLs simple enough to guess.
• Never let a URL die.

URL length

• Short Tech Notes

URL longevity

• Short Tech Notes

URLs

• Make your site's URLs simple enough to guess.
• Never let a URL die.

US

• A rant about the USA's cryptographic policy

US flag

• Adobe Illustrator Artwork

USA

• A rant about the USA's cryptographic policy

usability

• A Frustrating Error Message
• A flashy cover page for a site should be optional.
• Make your site's URLs simple enough to guess.
• Remove images that don't serve a purpose.
• A home page should be a site's most useful page.

User Friendly

• A rant about comic strips

user interface

• Short Tech Notes

utilities

• A simple Perl CGI-based RSS aggregator
• Comics sans Crap
• A Windows 'droplet' that copies image dimensions to the clipboard
• Web Site Utilities

vcard

• Short Tech Notes

VCF

• Short Tech Notes

vector

• Derivation of formula for, and illustration of, parallel transport of vectors on the torus

vector graphics

• Using vector and bitmap tools to create mathematical illustrations

Vermonster

• Ben and Jerry's stories

version 6

• Product Review: Netscape 6 beta 1

video

• Neverhood Help
• Things I seek to find again

villain

• Tales of the Beanworld: Gangster Thing
• Beanworld Story in Asylum Anthology

villas

• Building villas in the Lionhead game Black & White 2

violence

• 1997 Notebook
• 1998 Notebook

visible location

• Make each page's location within your site explicit.

visitors

• From Oregon Volume 8 Issue 1

visualization

• 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

voice

• Make your pages sound like you.

volcano

• Revised Fire

volcanoes

• Revised Fire

walkthrough

• 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

ware

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

wares

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

warm

• Warm

warning

• CD Rot

Washington

• From Oregon Volume 10 Issue 1
• Returning from Washington

Web

• A Story
• List of Links
• A rant about Web design
• Web Site Utilities
• Site summary

Web design

• A rant about Web design
• Minimal HTML: writing good Web pages with less
• A Cranky Web Design Quiz
• Use the simplest technology that works.
• Pages shouldn't be artificially split.
• Pages should have a consistent format.
• A flashy cover page for a site should be optional.
• Offer on your site a thorough exploration of something.
• Ensure that each directory of your site has a default page.
• Offer a variety of content to visitors.
• Make particularly useful parts of your site downloadable
• Make every page an entrance to your site.
• Clearly indicate the status of your pages.
• The best Web sites offer something to the Internet community.
• Plan for technology failure.
• Make your site's URLs simple enough to guess.
• The revision history of this set of patterns.
• Keep a page chronicling changes to your site.
• Proto-patterns which might be added to this set of patterns.
• Make frequent small improvements to your site.
• Guidelines for creating a living personal Web site.
• For related pages, make an index page that links to them.
• The what and why of these patterns for personal Web sites.
• Pages should contain a link to their maintainer.
• Keep your site alive by giving it constant attention.
• A map showing how the patterns relate to one another.
• Remove images that don't serve a purpose.
• Make pages readable both online and off.
• Always provide a link to the home page.
• Make your site accessible to all visitors.
• One way to offer private content for invited visitors.
• Make links readable.
• Make links recognizable.
• Put links to related pages in their own section.
• Make intrasite links relative.
• Large sites can stand some hidden ornamentation.
• Provide a map showing your entire site.
• Common page elements should be put in a standard place.
• Keep sites well connected by limiting the number of required jumps by any two pages.
• Never let a URL die.
• A home page should be a site's most useful page.
• Write pages that follow standards.
• Make each page's location within your site explicit.
• Make your pages sound like you.

Web page

• Minimal HTML: writing good Web pages with less

Web server

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

Web site

• CSS Tip #2: Making Your Site Modifiable
• Use the simplest technology that works.
• Pages shouldn't be artificially split.
• Pages should have a consistent format.
• A flashy cover page for a site should be optional.
• Offer on your site a thorough exploration of something.
• Ensure that each directory of your site has a default page.
• Offer a variety of content to visitors.
• Make particularly useful parts of your site downloadable
• Make every page an entrance to your site.
• Clearly indicate the status of your pages.
• The best Web sites offer something to the Internet community.
• Plan for technology failure.
• Make your site's URLs simple enough to guess.
• The revision history of this set of patterns.
• Keep a page chronicling changes to your site.
• Proto-patterns which might be added to this set of patterns.
• Make frequent small improvements to your site.
• Guidelines for creating a living personal Web site.
• For related pages, make an index page that links to them.
• The what and why of these patterns for personal Web sites.
• Pages should contain a link to their maintainer.
• Keep your site alive by giving it constant attention.
• A map showing how the patterns relate to one another.
• Remove images that don't serve a purpose.
• Make pages readable both online and off.
• Always provide a link to the home page.
• Make your site accessible to all visitors.
• One way to offer private content for invited visitors.
• Make links readable.
• Make links recognizable.
• Put links to related pages in their own section.
• Make intrasite links relative.
• Large sites can stand some hidden ornamentation.
• Provide a map showing your entire site.
• Common page elements should be put in a standard place.
• Keep sites well connected by limiting the number of required jumps by any two pages.
• Never let a URL die.
• A home page should be a site's most useful page.
• Write pages that follow standards.
• Make each page's location within your site explicit.
• Make your pages sound like you.
• List of all changes to this site since May 2002
• Customize this Site
• Web Site Utilities
• Chronological list of this site's pages

Web site design

• CSS Hack: a floated sidebar with structurally correct HTML
• Short Tech Notes

Web sites

• Use the simplest technology that works.
• Pages shouldn't be artificially split.
• Pages should have a consistent format.
• A flashy cover page for a site should be optional.
• Offer on your site a thorough exploration of something.
• Ensure that each directory of your site has a default page.
• Offer a variety of content to visitors.
• Make particularly useful parts of your site downloadable
• Make every page an entrance to your site.
• Clearly indicate the status of your pages.
• The best Web sites offer something to the Internet community.
• Plan for technology failure.
• Make your site's URLs simple enough to guess.
• The revision history of this set of patterns.
• Keep a page chronicling changes to your site.
• Proto-patterns which might be added to this set of patterns.
• Make frequent small improvements to your site.
• Guidelines for creating a living personal Web site.
• For related pages, make an index page that links to them.
• The what and why of these patterns for personal Web sites.
• Pages should contain a link to their maintainer.
• Keep your site alive by giving it constant attention.
• A map showing how the patterns relate to one another.
• Remove images that don't serve a purpose.
• Make pages readable both online and off.
• Always provide a link to the home page.
• Make your site accessible to all visitors.
• One way to offer private content for invited visitors.
• Make links readable.
• Make links recognizable.
• Put links to related pages in their own section.
• Make intrasite links relative.
• Large sites can stand some hidden ornamentation.
• Provide a map showing your entire site.
• Common page elements should be put in a standard place.
• Keep sites well connected by limiting the number of required jumps by any two pages.
• Never let a URL die.
• A home page should be a site's most useful page.
• Write pages that follow standards.
• Make each page's location within your site explicit.
• Make your pages sound like you.

weblet

• Make particularly useful parts of your site downloadable

Websnake

• Product Review: Websnake 1.23
• Product Review: Websnake 1.23 Problems

Weirdfall

• Comics
• Comics List

What Would the Residents Do

• WWRD T-Shirt

white horse

• White Horse of Uffington

wiki

• Raves

wikis

• Raves

William Ackerman

• An interview with William Ackerman, founder of the Gang of Seven spoken word recording label, about its history

Windows

• Rantlets: miscellaneous short rants
• Windows 2000's Places Bar
• A Windows 'droplet' that copies image dimensions to the clipboard

winter

• Yanni on Ice

wisdom

• The Dad Thing

word processors

• 1999 Notebook

words

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

work

• My experiences as a temp worker

World Wide Web

• A Story
• List of Links

WRAB

• Comics
• Comics List

writing

• About The Yogurt Incident
• Actuary Sketch
• The Yogurt Incident
• Various stuff I've written since 1995
• Why Writing SF is Hard
• All Moles Considered
• Index Talpidae: notes a translated poem
• Moles are Coming: Translating a Poem
• Translating Moles: Notes on Translating
• 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
• Books with chapters dropped in from a different planet

writings

• From the Curmudgeon's Corner
• Various stuff I've written since 1995
• 1996 Notebook
• 1997 Notebook
• 1998 Notebook
• 1999 Notebook
• 2000 Notebook
• 2001 Notebook
• 2002 Notebook
• 2003 Notebook
• 2004 Notebook
• 2005 Notebook
• 2006 Notebook
• 2007 Notebook
• 2008 Notebook
• 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
• Raves
• 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
• Creating a backup strategy
• 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
• Step by step instructions for changing Firefox's context menus
• 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
• Minimal HTML: writing good Web pages with less
• CSS/HTML Abuse: Example 1
• Windows 2000's Places Bar
• Raising the Bar on Email
• Short Tech Notes
• A Cranky Web Design Quiz
• A Frustrating Error Message
• Use the simplest technology that works.
• Pages shouldn't be artificially split.
• Pages should have a consistent format.
• A flashy cover page for a site should be optional.
• Offer on your site a thorough exploration of something.
• Ensure that each directory of your site has a default page.
• Offer a variety of content to visitors.
• Make particularly useful parts of your site downloadable
• Make every page an entrance to your site.
• Clearly indicate the status of your pages.
• The best Web sites offer something to the Internet community.
• Plan for technology failure.
• Make your site's URLs simple enough to guess.
• The revision history of this set of patterns.
• Keep a page chronicling changes to your site.
• Proto-patterns which might be added to this set of patterns.
• Make frequent small improvements to your site.
• Guidelines for creating a living personal Web site.
• For related pages, make an index page that links to them.
• The what and why of these patterns for personal Web sites.
• Pages should contain a link to their maintainer.
• Keep your site alive by giving it constant attention.
• A map showing how the patterns relate to one another.
• Remove images that don't serve a purpose.
• Make pages readable both online and off.
• Always provide a link to the home page.
• Make your site accessible to all visitors.
• One way to offer private content for invited visitors.
• Make links readable.
• Make links recognizable.
• Put links to related pages in their own section.
• Make intrasite links relative.
• Large sites can stand some hidden ornamentation.
• Provide a map showing your entire site.
• Common page elements should be put in a standard place.
• Keep sites well connected by limiting the number of required jumps by any two pages.
• Never let a URL die.
• A home page should be a site's most useful page.
• Write pages that follow standards.
• Make each page's location within your site explicit.
• Make your pages sound like you.

WWJD

• WWRD T-Shirt

WWRD

• WWRD T-Shirt

XML

• Short Tech Notes

XT

• Requiem for an XT

Yanni

• Yanni on Ice

Yellow Submarine

• A rant about King Features syndicate

Yellowstone

• From Oregon Volume 9 Issue 1

yogurt

• About The Yogurt Incident
• The Yogurt Incident

Zompist

• Raves

Zompist phrasebook

• Raves

Zot!

• Comics
• Comics List

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