The first random links post of the year, plentiful in size and usefulness:
- Plink – Just what FOAF needed, a pretty looking parser and search service. Nice.
- Speech Reversal – An article on reversing speech in songs, and human perception thereof.
- Smarty For Beginners – A fairly straight forward tutorial on the Smarty templating language.
- Live Comment Previews – Very cool use of javascript to provide a live preview of comments as they are entered. Could get quite complex, dependent on text processing, but great nonetheless.
- Shrook Intervals – A misbehaving RSS reader? Maybe it should be more polite.
- Banished Words – A list of words banished for 2004. None will be missed.
- Gawsh – Google results displayed by host. Could be useful to someone.
- GoogleSynth – A program that pulls 2 random images from Google and blends them together. Mostly crap, but some interesting results.
- CSS vault – A stronghold of CSS tips. Bookmark it.
- Escher For Real – People creating the impossible designs of Escher for real. Absolutely bizarre.
- Google Spellchecker – Using Google to check if a word is spelled correctly. Simple, but very smart.
- Accept Headers Broken – Almost no browsers do Accept headers correctly. Not surprising.
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**[Quick Guide to C#](http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/quickcsharp.asp?target=Quick C#)** – Learn C# quickly, if yo already know Java.
And we’re done.