Damn cool illusion

Very fun optical illusion. The refractory period of receptors creates a negative image over time. Watch as you process a bunch of pink dots and see them disappear and a green dot appear, but there is no green dot...

David Cope

Pretty amazing algorithmically generated music.

Moodle - A Free, Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning

The power of programming and networks are being realized at last! This is a way cool tool to help create online learning communities.

EllaZ - artful intelligence

EllaZ - artful intelligence
A pretty well-done bot site.

Similarity

Similarity
described by Robert Goldstone of Indiana University.

Conscious Entities: leading theories about consciousness, and the mind.

A site with summaries & critiques of theories of consciousness.
Something for me to waste more time on...

Process Information

Process Information
Want to know what all those friggin' process are that are consuming all of your cycles & memory? Are they apps? viruses? spyware?

Here is a resource to identify what they are likely to be.

Moving Ideas Network

Issues, ideas & research in furtherance of "progressive" policy.

WolframTones: An Experiment in a New Kind of Music

Music generated from cellular automata as described in Wolfram's book, "A New Kind of Science". This is cool stuff, but it's not really a "new" kind of science...