Main Gallery

Welcome!

Welcome to the Main Gallery of my museum. This wing contains puzzles, humor, midi music, pictures, audio, video, programs, and anything else that doesn't specifically belong in another wing of my museum. Enjoy your visit to eclectica!

I'm currently in the process of over-hauling my Main Gallery. I've removed all the dead links, and I'm currently in the process of replacing them with live links, some new and some old. So please pardon the mess!

Puzzles

The Cow And The Lighthouse a mathematical brain teaser

Cyberculture

Files about computer programming, hacking, and cyberculture:

The New Hacker's Dictionary A large compendium of hacker jargon, along with a lot of information on the hacker lifestyle. (Here I am using the word "hacker" to mean "independent, individualistic, grass-roots, unorthodox computer programmer". I most certainly do not mean "person who violates computer security". That is a "cracker". A few hackers are crackers; but most are not. Most hackers take pride in creating value, and they lable those who steal value from others as "lamers" or "lusers".)
Vera "Vera" stands for "Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms", a backronym for sure (see entry in Hacker's Dictionary for "backronym"). A large collection of acronyms used in computation.

Humor

You have two cows! A different look at government.
Write in C! Some funny advice for programmers. (To be sung to the tune of the Beatles' song "Let It Be".)
Happily Addicted To The Web All about world-wide-web addiction, to the tune of "Winter Wonderland".

Picture Collections

The Grand Canyon Pictures of the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona, USA.
Peru: Machu Picchu Pictures of the Machu Picchu region of Peru.
Miscellanious Scenic Pictures Some very nice scenic background pics. Mostly 800x600pixels, but sharp enough to be used with higher monitor resolutions as well. An http menu. Right-click the links in this menu and select "Save Target As" to download. Click your brower's "Back" button to return here.
Mars Some pictures of Mars from the Mars Global Surveyor.

Miscellanious Downloadable Files

The links below are miscellanious downloadable files stored on my web server. These include audio, video, and program files. To download these files, right click the links and select "Save Target As..." (or whatever the equivalent is in your browser). I don't recommend left-clicking; some browsers may bring up a download dialog box on left-click, but others may try open the file in-place, or download it to some "default" location where you'll never find it.

Lorena You call Lorena Bobbitt on the phone, but she's not home, so you leave a message...
Cat Food Chinese food, anyone? A hilarious wave file that'll make you wonder just what's in the Chinese food you eat!
Bunny Alien The movie "Alien", presented in 30 seconds, acted by bunnies.
Kill Bill Gates! A game in which you get to assassinate Bill Gates. Repeatedly. Have fun!
Zsmanjul A Mandelbrot-Set / Julia-Set program by Dr. Zsolt Zsoldos. On the minus side, it's a bit old, and may not work well in some versions of Windows, and it tends to keep jumping into "demo" mode. But on the plus side, it's tiny, fast, and free. (It was hand-written in assembly language, which accounts for its miniscule size and blazing speed.)
AOL A funny mp3 about AOL. (Maybe a bit dated in these days of DSL, Cable, and WiFi, but still amusing.)
GPF An animated-gif spoof of Bill Gates's infuriating error messages.