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Construction

All of these pages are made from scratch in HTML in conjunction with CSS, using TextPad. No WYSIWYG programs like Frontpage or Dreamweaver were involved. This is because I want a clean, structured web site that does not deviate from its main purpose; information. Semantically correct (and clean) code helps while messy, automated code doesn't.

All images on these pages are in the wonderful PNG image format, except for a few that were better suited in JPG. I compress all my PNG images using two small command-line programs called pngrewrite and pngcrush. pngrewrite is located on Jason Summer's web site, and pngcrush is found on Sourceforge.net.

The header image, which I'm infinitely fond of, is created by Even Alander.

Conformance

MathML

Some of my pages and news items use MathML to render mathematical expressions. This method is superior to using plain text or images. Pages or news items with MathML included will have a notice about it, accompanied by a link to this section. To view the expressions as intended, you need a Gecko based browser such as Mozilla or FireFox and some special fonts. Internet Explorer users can download MathPlayer.

If you don't have the fonts, Mozilla will display a pop-up notice every time you enter a page with MathML. This can get very annoying, but it's not my fault. Solution: Download the fonts.

Structure

There are two navigation bars present on almost every page on this site; the site navigation bar and the jump to navigation bar. The site navigation bar is structurally located at the end of the page, but is brought to the top and placed on the right in the screen medium using CSS. The jump to navigation bar is located at the top, both in the source and visually.

CSS signature

My site makes use of so-called CSS signatures. On the <body> start-tag of every page is id="havard-awegasm-net". You can use this in combination with contextual selectors to restyle my entire site as you please. If that didn't make sense to you, it doesn't apply to you; I only expect highly interested people to take advantage of this.

Say you don't like the font I use. Change it!

#havard-awegasm-net {
  font-family: "comic sans ms";
}

Does the footer annoy you? Remove it!

#havard-awegasm-net #footer {
  display: none;
}

Random quotes

At the top of every page is a randomly generated quote. There are currently 91 quotes. They are as follows:

Quote Source
1. Just because you are unique does not mean you are useful. "Unique" by `krash, deviantART
2. This is a place for crazy people. I'm not crazy. 3 Monkeys - Crazy People
3. Why don't you let the word 'machine' conjure up images of patterns of dancing light rather than of giant steam shovels? A Coffeehouse Conversation on the Turing Test by Douglas R. Hofstadter
4. Names are for friends, so I don't need one. Agent 47, Hitman: Blood Money
5. To make this mundane world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme. Aldous Huxley
6. Well, that activates my hilarity unit. Bender, Futurama
7. The question is how to arrive at your opinions and not what your opinions are. Bertrand Russel, Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?
8. There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere. Betrand Russell, 1967
9. Genies of death, patiently awaiting the rubbing of the lamps. Carl Sagan, Cosmos
10. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Carl Sagan, Cosmos
11. From somewhere, a transmission... Cave Story
12. Every sentence deserves a good save. Cecilia, Piled Higher and Deeper
13. File! Exit! Format C! Enter! Yes! Enter! Cole Richards, Player vs Player
14. I'm a 57% pure Homer Simpson ninja. Conor Knighton, Google Current
15. Ignorance exists in the map, not in the territory. Eliezer Yudkowsky
16. Aren't you supposed to follow the Three Laws? Ethan, Ctrl+Alt+Del
17. Don't wipe my memory! I keep all the stuff I remember there! Ethan, Ctrl+Alt+Del
18. I like your tactics. They are similar to mine. Even Alander
19. We don't like it when the city pigeons break wings. When the pigeons break wings, then we can't get down. Evil Nine - Crooked
20. There are no save points when it comes to ladies, honey. Faye, Questionable Content
21. Apparently knowing someone's name doesn't make it easier to set them on fire with your mind. Faye, Questionable Content
22. Give me an analysis, Joey... Foster, Beneath a Steel Sky
23. We're two friends who haven't seen each other since college. Remember that time so-and-so did that thing? Haha! Gianna Parasini, Mass Effect
24. You have bad case of the suffering. Yes. I recommend happiness. God, Sinfest
25. The world is a sensitive place. You need to use non-denominational festive salutations. Graham Stark, Loading-Ready-Run
26. Damn you, quantum physics! Graham Stark, Loading-Ready-Run
27. Not many people know, but after Vatican 2, Hell became kickass! Graham Stark, Loading-Ready-Run
28. Do not meddle in the affairs of webmasters, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Greg Dean, Real Life
29. In the Country of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is King. H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind
30. I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. HAL, 2001
31. I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do. HAL, 2001
32. Ah! You seen one Earth, you've seen them all. Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17
33. Well, I haven't learned to pick up rocks, which is a very embarrassing thing for a geologist. Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17
34. Our bullets to Batmans ratio is fucked. Hockey Zombie
35. To fathom hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic. Humphrey Osmond
36. Star X, spectral class G0, 4 planets plus debris. Isaac Asimov, View from a Height, "By Jove!"
37. INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER Isaac Asimov, The Last Question
38. I need a computer! Johnny, Johnny Mnemonic
39. At least it's not polio. Jones Avenue
40. The lawyers insisted. Jones Avenue
41. I'm sure with the proper training, a bear could probably hold its own in a firefight. Kathleen De Vere, Loading-Ready-Run
42. I'm a woman, and sometimes, that's hard! Kathleen De Vere, Loading-Ready-Run
43. God is powered by irony. Kimiko Ross, Dresden Codak
44. I must decline your girlish advances, as your brain is filled with sawdust and lies. Kimiko Ross, Dresden Codak
45. I have reservations about reconciling a quantum mechanics thought experiment with Egyptian mythology. Kimiko Ross, Dresden Codak
46. Tell me what I want or I'll blast your virtual ass into actual dust! Krogan warrior, Mass Effect
47. Apparently the prudes up there can't appreciate the beauty of expressing physical love between a man and a woman ... and another man and a dwarf and Siamese twins, two amputees, Abraham Lincoln, and a bull elephant. Kyota, Hellbound
48. Death by irony is always painful. Lara Croft, Tomb Raider: Legend
49. That's what windows and m4d ninja skillz are for. Largo, MegaTokyo
50. Ubi dubium, ibi libertas. Latin motto
51. It's a level eighty female-only persuasion spell. We try not to overuse it. Lilah, Ctrl+Alt+Del
52. If you don't relax your face muscles, you're going to invert your entire skull. Lucas, Ctrl+Alt+Del
53. They're everywhere! Marathon
54. Somewhere in the heavens… they are waiting. Marathon
55. You try being funny when your life is flashing before your eyes! Marten Reed, Questionable Content
56. Laughter may be the best medicine, but it's no substitute for the Heimlich maneuver. Mighty Wombat
57. The radiation from your monitor will not replenish you, no matter how long you sit in front of it. Mike Slackenerny, Piled Higher and Deeper
58. Good runners still get tired; they just get tired at higher speeds. Paul Graham, Is It Worth Being Wise?
59. Christmas in Hell is great. Instead of turkey, we have doom! Paul Saunders, Loading-Ready-Run
60. Is this bass really strong enough? Pendulum - Slam
61. If an advisor says to me 'My liege, he is but one man. What can one man possibly do?', I will reply 'This.' and kill the advisor. Peter Anspach, Evil Overlord List
62. My force-field generators will be located inside the shield they generate. Peter Anspach, Evil Overlord List
63. The explanation of a lesser entity in terms of a greater one is a perversion of what it means to explain. Peter Atkins, Awesome Versus Adipose
64. Math, my dear boy, is nothing more than the lesbian sister of biology. Peter Griffin, Family Guy
65. Christians don't believe in gravity. Peter Griffin, Family Guy
66. If you squeeze me, I make bad people go away! Petie the pistol, Family Guy
67. That is what a 404 error feels like. Pintsize, Questionable Content
68. That's the TriOptimum way! Protocol Droid, System Shock 2
69. When aren't they heavily armed? Ratchet, Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction
70. You saw the blades; what did you think was gonna happen? Rayne, BloodRayne 2
71. There is no obvious limit to human gullibility. Richard Dawkins, The Devil's Chaplain
72. Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation. Richard Feynman
73. Oh, I'm just too good for my own bad self. Hello, Earth. Who's your daddy? Why, yes, I am. Scwang Scwing, MDK2
74. Loserdom is a bottomless pit of infinite lameness. Slick, Sinfest
75. Whoever invented boredom must've been mad at life for being so amazing. Squigley, Sinfest
76. Douglas Adams thinks space is big; maybe he should have used Asimov's bibliography as an analogy. Talk Origins' jargon file
77. All that moves is easily heard in the void. The Bentusi, Homeworld
78. I know Kung Fu. Thomas A. Anderson, The Matrix
79. Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise. Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
80. My curiosity and patience just ran out simultaneously. Have fun. Tony, Real Life
81. I may be full of crap, but it's superior crap. Tony, Real Life
82. You don't need oxygen when you look this good! VG Cats
83. Gallum galla gilla ma. Vortigaunt, Half-Life 2
84. How many are there in you? Whose hopes and dreams do you encompass? Vortigaunt, Half-Life 2
85. Far distant eyes look out through yours. Vortigaunt, Half-Life 2
86. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. Winston Churchill
87. A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them. xkcd
88. Communicating badly and then acting smug when you're misunderstood is not cleverness. xkcd
89. Some nights typing '*hug*' just doesn't cut it. xkcd
90. The Universe is notorious for not giving a shit what people think. YouTube video
91. Existence is meaningless, but it doesn't have to be tasteless. Drink Coca-Cola. YouTube video

Favicon

The favicon, a black circle with three smaller cirles embedded within (two white with another black embedded within the largest of the white ones), is the insignia of the Sjet kiith, a fictional political unit in the Homeworld computer game series. (An 816 x 816 PNG version is found here. If, like me, you believe that SVG is the future, here's an SVG version, courtesy of Alexander K. Schrøder.) I chose their insignia as the favicon for my site because I adore their history of science and pascifism. In addition, I have a crush on their greatest neuroscientist, Karan Sjet, who has the cutest voice ever.

Best viewed with

This site is theoretically best viewed with any user agent, on any operating system, running any thinkable resolution. This is because this site is designed using HTML for describing structure, and CSS for describing presentation. The way it should be done.

That said, there are some browsers I do recommend, and those are Opera, Mozilla, and Mozilla Firefox. Unlike Internet Explorer, these browsers render pages in a much more standard-compliant way.

Purpose

The purpose of this web site is to spread all (or mostly all) of the information that I find interesting to other people who might find it interesting as well.