Steve Jenkins had the insight to start a site that would become one of the premier shareware sites on the web. Over the years, as Microsoft released other variations of Windows, the site evolved. I really hate that it will no longer be there. I guess I'm too stuck in my ways. Each week we take a look at an entry from the Jargon File , a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor.
Loud music blaring from a stereo stacked in the corner is optional but recommended.
Here are this weeks picks of some of the most interesting stuff on the web. Judge for yerself after you've taken a unique microscopic look at the barbed mouth parts of a deer tick or the scruffy hairs atop a mosquito's head photographed at several hundred times life size. Then try your hand at determining if some images are animal, vegetable, or mineral. They're not kidding. Join masses and springs to form small mathematical creatures that writhe and twist in two dimensions as ya adjust spring stiffness and weight placement.