Paul Falstad's Home Page!

• Math and Physics Applets
  

• Java Pong Applet
  an incredibly lame little pong game I wrote years and years ago. There are far, far better pong games out there but I still keep getting hits on this one for some reason.

• Java Maze Applet
  3d perspective maze.

• Skydiving Pictures
  

• Coupons

Markets

• Clearstation
  Great place to learn technical analysis

• The Daily Reckoning
  Two especially good articles: Bastille Day, Empire of Dirt

• The Next Big Thing
  

• Inflation Adjusted Dow Jones
  Shows the invisible crash

• Jim Sinclair
  

• Rockefeller Forex Letter
  

• Harry Schultz
  

• Dow Theory Letters
  

• The Dines Letter
  

• Strategic Investment
  

• Rumkin's Cipher Tools
  

• Wikipedia
  I waste so much time on this thing.

• The Gulf War as a Mental Disorder
  

• Beyond Vegetarianism
  If you are interested in veganism or a raw food diet, read this; I had a lot of problems on a mostly raw vegan diet.

• 146 Failed End-of-the-World Predictions
  

• Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
  Complete with a colorful graph showing the century's worst atrocities. (Still not as cool as Wikipedia, though.)

• How Stuff Works
  

• Paul Brians' Study Guides
  Very informative and accessible study guides on various topics, including:
  • The Influence of Nietzsche, the last section in particular
  • Notes on Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
  • The Enlightenment

• Don't Drink Liquid Nitrogen
  

• Dipping Your Fingers in Molten Lead
  

• Killing Is No Fun
  

• Michael Larsen, Game Show Legend
  

• The Round Earth and Christopher Columbus
  People did not think the earth was flat.

• The Wisdom of Ann Coulter
  

• Internet Hoaxes
  Make Money Fast, Good Times, and more.

• Cargo Cult Science
  Interesting essay by Richard Feynman about scientific integrity.

• Classical MIDI Archives
  Great classical music site!

• Classical MIDI Connection
  Another great classical music site! Here are some of my favorite MIDI sequences from this site:
  • Beethoven
    • Piano Sonata No.3
    • Piano Sonata No.7
    • Piano Sonata No.23
      (seq. by Bunji Hisamori)
    • Violin Sonata No. 7, Mvmt.1 (seq. by Paul Falstad)
  • Chopin
    • Ballade No.1 (seq. by Gary D. Lloyd)
    • Scherzo No.2 (seq. by Ron Lubetsky)
    • Etude Op.10 No.4 (seq. by Robert Finley)
    • Etude Op.25 No.11 (seq. by Robert Finley)
    • Nocturne No.10 (seq. by Daisuke Inoue)
    • Fantasie-Impromptu (seq. by Gary D. Lloyd)
    • Waltz Op.64 No.2 (seq. by Valerie Tryon)
  • Liszt
    • Hungarian Rhapsody No.12
    • Petrarch Sonnet No. 104
    • Tarantella
      (seq. by Robert Finley)
  • Rachmaninov
    • Piano Concerto No.2, Mvmt.2 (seq. by Robert Finley)
  • Scarlatti
    • Sonata K.21
    • Sonata K.98
    • Sonata K.99
      (seq. by John Sankey)
  • Schubert
    • Wanderer Fantasy (seq. by M. C. Bucknall)
  • Strauss
    • Death and Transfiguration (seq. by Robert Goodyear)
  • Szymanowski
    • Thème varié op. 3 (seq. by Yuki Noguchi)

• Sheet Music Archive
  Great free sheet music site

• NetFlix
  Great way to rent DVD's! They have everything, and you never have to worry about late fees or driving back to the video store...

• Screen It!
  Great movie reviews! It also details exactly what is objectionable about each movie. I generally don't find anything objectionable about most movies. However I still like this site because I almost always agree with their ratings. Also, my wife doesn't like violent movies so we check here to avoid those.

• Rotten Tomatoes
  Collects reviews from all different sources and uses them to come up with an overall score.

• The Onion
  

• Cartoon Bank
  Distracted, Error, Santa, Whistle, Change of venue, Memo, Rhythm, Sick, Radical, Check, Feelings, Chick, Welcome, Medium, Hold, Projects, Billion, Grace, Art, Lawyer, Valentine, Blame, Bank, Weird, Fed, Latin, Nobel, Kinks, Toast, Room, View, Vote, Homework, Relative, Sick, Enough, Interview, Shoot, Antidepressants, Thoughts, Hell, Weak, Look, Thank You, Problems, Good Question, Business, Wishes

• Conan O'Brien's speech to the Harvard Class of 2000
  

• O'Brien Flops!
  

• The One True Editor
  "If you use ED you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!"

• The VICE Commodore Emulator
  Emulates the PET, VIC 20, and Commodore 64. You can ftp the ROMs, too.

• Java Fiver Game
  Also you can read about the theory behind it.

• MAME Arcade Emulator
  Emulates many arcade machines, so you can play your old favorites like Robotron.

• Stella
  Emulates the Atari 2600, so you can play your old favorite cartridges.

• Online Interactive Fiction
  Remember all those great Infocom games? Now you can play them on the web!

• Chris Pirazzi
  A friend from college who used to work at SGI. Be sure to check out the corpspeak press release generator.

• Spencer Sun
  

• Dan Heller
  

• Calyxa
  

• Todd Falstad
  Nice name. He runs Falstad Property Management.