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By JULES ALLEN Feel free to browse Picture perfectPhotographer Simon Hoegsberg brings the best of random pictures taken in London and assimilates them into a usable order. It's gorgeous and the content, for once, is more important than Flash, the medium. If the description of the way the photographs were taken is accurate, it's an almost perfect example of order coming from chaos. And if you're a budding photographer, keep on snapping. The more you shoot, the better chance you have of getting a few right. Primate prideHere's a wonderful distraction for a Monday morning and worth printing out if you're heading to some boring meeting. The simian parallels to those trying to show how clever they are in most meetings are quite wonderful and will help take your mind off the tedium. This page lists famous and not-so-famous primates of yore with a particular emphasis on those that have become air- or space-borne. It's the home-grown Web at its finest. Rock onWelcome back, old friend. You've been missed. If you're of a certain age and had a good time of living it up in the '70s and '80s (that's the last century), you'll really enjoy this one. It's a discology, review and mostly hype-free source of information of all the music that mattered at the time. Take a walk down memory lane or learn what your boring parents did when they were not so boring. Boldly goI had a few chums over recently, and they're pretty serious science fiction devotees. In fact, they packed themselves into a vehicle and made the, ahem, trek to Atlanta to attend a sci-fi convention. The photos they brought back were wonderful. Judging by the costumes, people take this stuff seriously. If you've ever wanted an example of the devotion of fandom, this might be a good one to give you some insight. The Trekkies, as they're known, can be some of the most fervently devoted and really do have an eye for detail. No Apple lunch invite for youIBM, bless its heart, popularized an industry based around open architecture. The idea that one could inexpensively expand one's computer with commodity hardware was proven by the Apple II and energized by the original IBM PC. Buy a board, slot it in, instant modem. So it's always been feasible to build your own PC if you've got a little time, a mailbox and a few screwdrivers. But the Mac has never officially let you walk down this path. But that doesn't stop the hard core from showing you how to put together a pretty decent Mac-compatible system for somewhere in the $800 range. Have more time and screwdrivers than money? Or you are idly curious? Read on.
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