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ATPM 7.05
May 2001

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About This Particular Web Site

by Paul Fatula, pfatula@atpm.com

kicking giants

I discovered this site while looking for information on Paul Valéry. The “universalities” section has short biographies and excerpts from the writing of a number of carefully selected authors, a photo archive of Valéry, and a beautiful bit of interactive fiction called “the island of Xiphos.” Other sections of the site contain images, poetry, and stories, often with a surrealistic tone. It’s a very visually appealing site, which just begs to be explored and enjoyed.

ResExcellence

If you’re into customizing your Mac’s user interface, this site is a gold mine. Going well beyond ResEdit hacks, everything from desktop pictures to shareware utilities to themes to customizing OS X is covered. It also published an editorial recently, taking a firm stand against Apple’s attempts to prevent the creation of themes for OS X. If the ability to customize your Mac is important to you, you should read the editorial and send Apple some feedback on the issue.

Todd & Holland Tea Merchants

This is the Web site of my favorite tea store. It offers a great variety of the highest quality teas, and, just as importantly, it offers expertise on the tea world. The site’s UniversiTea gives information on harvesting the tea plant, types of tea, and how best to prepare and enjoy its many different varieties. You can also browse Todd & Holland’s selection by choosing a flavor characteristic or kind of tea. My current favorite is a Lapsang Souchong called Fujian Smoky #1.

Spertus vs. Kozmo.com

The true story of someone who sued a spammer and won. While the results of the lawsuit could have been better (she only won $50, and it looks like she wouldn’t have won at all if she hadn’t been her own e-mail service provider), it is definitely reassuring that some judgment was awarded. Spam is common not because of its high success rate, but because of its near zero cost. If suits like this become more popular, perhaps they will serve to deter spamming.

Otanoshimi Page

Everybody knows the first 1,000 digits of are:
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974
944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282
306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938
521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648
233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393
607260249141273724587006606315588174881520920962829254091
715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609
433057270365759591953092186117381932611793105118548074462
379962749567351885752724891227938183011949129833673362440
656643086021394946395224737190702179860943702770539217176
293176752384674818467669405132000568127145263560827785771
342757789609173637178721468440901224953430146549585371050
792279689258923542019956112129021960864034418159813629774
771309960518707211349999998372978049951059731732816096318
595024459455346908302642522308253344685035261931188171010
003137838752886587533208381420617177669147303598253490428
755468731159562863882353787593751957781857780532171226806
6130019278766111959092164201989.
But if precision is important to you, you can download the first 400 million digits (in convenient 10 million-digit segments) from this site.

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If you’d like to suggest a site to be featured in a future ATPW, please send the URL to atpw@atpm.com.

appleCopyright © 2001 Paul Fatula, pfatula@atpm.com.

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