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Free 3D Models of Great Buildings – Great Buildings Online
Hundreds of free 3D walkthough architectural computer models are included here at the Great Buildings Online web site, linked with free DesignWorkshop Lite architectural 3D walkthrough software for both Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 and Power Macintosh.

The models range in detail from very simple formal massing models of just a few blocks, through basic interior/exterior spatial walkthrough models, up to detailed interior/exterior models complete with furnishings and landscaping.

It’s all free for your own personal architectural enjoyment, experience, and understanding.

Edge 166
“Is ‘intelligent design’ a legitimate school of scientific thought?” asks Dennett? “Is there something to it, or have these people been taken in by one of the most ingenious hoaxes in the history of science? Wouldn’t such a hoax be impossible? No. Here’s how it has been done.” he continues.

stu2 nicholls 7C the CSS playground 7C CSS sliding photo-gallery
It is just an unordered list of images that are normally compressed vertically 28reduction 83A129. When you hover over one of these compressed images it expands to full size.

Portable Firefox 1.0.4 (USB Drive-Friendly) :: Mozilla Stuff :: JohnHaller.com
Portable Firefox is a fully functional package of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.

Portable Thunderbird with Enigmail / GPG
Portable Thunderbird with Enigmail/GPG is a modified version of John Haller’s Portable Thunderbird that includes the Enigmail extension giving Thunderbird OpenPGP functionality and an interface to GnuPG.

Jeff Moore’s Blog � Blog Archive � rsync to remote server via ssh
If you ever need to repeatedly upload to a remote server, here is the command line of the day:

rsync -zrptL –delete-after -e “ssh” –include=core –include=tags –exclude=.DS_Store –cvs-exclude /local/dir user@host:/remote/dir/

Fiddler HTTP Debugger – Fiddler
Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and “fiddle” with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler is designed to be much simpler than using NetMon or Achilles, and includes a simple but powerful JScript.NET event-based scripting subsystem.

Mike’s Classic Cartoon Themes & Images
If you know the name ofthe cartoon you would like to revisit and you can spell, then click on the letter corresponding to the first letter. If you fail in your attempt to locate your first request, click on the Cartoon Logo to return back here and try another one. Thanks and be sure to spread the word about Mike’s Classic Cartoon Themes to the World. Thanks for coming… That’s All Folks!!!

JNC, Barton-Wright, Self Defence with a cane part 1
Self-defence with a Walking-stick: The Different Methods of Defending Oneself with a Walking-Stick or Umbrella when Attacked under Unequal Conditions

ABE, The University of Liverpool: Introducing Vectorworks
These tutorials are divided into two sections; first notes and then tutorial exercises. The notes outline the principles of using Vectorworks (but are relevant to many CAD packages), the tutorials detail, step by step, the creation of a number of Vectorworks drawings.

Javascript Optimization Content
There are a few web sites out there that deal with JavaScript optimization, but most only deal with size issues, and if they do deal with other issues, it is in a very general way. I seek to rectify that here. I will also delve into some of the more obscure issues related to programming optimization, and how they might impact on JavaScript. This document is divided into three main sections: Speed, Size and Memory.

12 sided calendar
Download a 12 sided calendar after your own specifiation. Choose PDF format if you can’t print PostScript files. Choose PostScript format if you want to modify the calendar. The PostScript file explains how to mark holidays and birthdays.