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- pxWeather :: PHP XML Weather Utility
Instead of mucking around with weather APIs from Yahoo!, Google, and the like, why not go straight to the source? This PHP class grabs the National Weather Service's feed for the city you specify. - RGB MusicLab :: kenjikojima.com
Like Richard MacDuff's pet software project in Douglas Adams's "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency," this intriguing freeware app turns the RGB data in an image file directly into music. - The Mother Road: Historic Route 66 - Turn by Turn Road Description
Cool way to travel east-west between Oklahoma and Arizona. Turn-by-turn instructions for following every inch of the original highway that's still traversable by normal vehicles. - HeyWhatsThat Path Profiler
Google Maps-based tool that lets you point-and-click to create a route, then produces a bar graph showing the elevation at each point along the route. - xmlize() :: The Hans Anderson Corporation
Use this PHP function to parse a raw XML file and output the results as a PHP array. - COLOURlovers :: Palettes
Community-contributed five-color palettes. Great cure for mental block on new site design. - Alphametic Puzzles
An alphametic puzzle is a letters-for-numbers substitution cipher puzzle where true arithmetic equations are transformed into valid English words and phrases. Great fun for the math geek! - Physics Education Technology at CU Boulder
A lot of fairly lame little Java applets here - but some real gems thrown in the mix as well. The entire site will download and run on a local machine, too. - D-N-D Bricks - Old LEGO Manuals
Lost the instructions for your vintage Police Heliport (Set #354) or Galaxy Explorer (Set #697)? No problem! Download PDF scans of the original step-by-step diagrams. - Dreamweaver Site Password Recovery
I needed to gain FTP access to an old project whose Dreamweaver site details were stored on another machine. This article helped me grab the FTP password from the old machine so that I could configure the site on the new machine's Dreamweaver install.