Lucinda's Internet Resources

Baby Names
The Social Security Office of the Chief Actuary has a great website that allows you to track the popularity of baby names by year or decade. Enter your own name and find out if your uniqueness is rising or falling!

Happy Little Vegemites
Having a bad day? Sing slong with the rest of the Happy Little Vegemites!

Dead People Server
This is useful for those like me who can never remember who is still with us.

404 Error Haikus
When you just can’t take another “404 Not Found” error message, visit this site featuring the results of a contest to write a the error message as a haiku. Some of my favorites:

There is a chasm
of carbon and silicon
the software can’t bridge
— Rahul Sonnad

You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
— Cass Whittington

Pi Searcher
The Pi Searcher lets you search for any string of digits (up to 120 of them) in the first 200 million digits of Pi. You can also show any substring of Pi.

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Updated August 3, 2006.