The National Budget Simulation
“This simulation asks you to adjust spending and tax expenditures in the 2002 budget to achieve either a balanced budget or any other target deficit. In order to make the choices we face in the budget clearer, we assume that you make the adjustments all in one year.”
Using records filed with the FEC of contributions by all individuals totalling more than $200 to a single campaign, FundRace maps out campaign contributions by geography. Search your neighborhood, or view maps of the country by county, etc.
Big and Bad – How the S.U.V. ran over automotive safety.
“But that’s the puzzle of what has happened to the automobile world: feeling safe has become more important than actually being safe.”
Excellent article on the rise of the S.U.V. Talks about psychological reasons for thinking they are safe, and the implications for believing this illusion.
Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmaster
Explains different web caching tecniques and how to change your site to best utilize (and be utilized) by them.
With some similarities to the old Game of Life excercise, this is a morbid and somewhat terrifying page that generates a city and populates it with humans and some zombies. The humans are fast, the zombies are slow and each have a few basic rules to govern their behavior. Watch as the zombies slowly take over the city.
BONUS LINK! Ok, I loved this thing so much that I wrote my own version just to play with the rules. Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
Disc-Cover: From FreeDB to Cover
“Just fill in an artist and/or title below. We will search the FreeDB database and show all the results. Then, select your desired cd, the output format you want together with the type of case and we will create a cover for it.”
Search FreeDB and then print out CD covers with the appropriate information.