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WINTER 96-7 ADDITIONS TO THE KITCHEN February 26 Added Real Recipes from three favorite Wisconsin restaurants: Eggplant and Chèvre Sandwich with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce, Lake Superior Trout Meunière, and Chocolate Steamed Pudding with Ellie's Mom's Sauce. February 24: Hex Snowflakes and Spirals Added a page of CA graphics based on hexagonal lattice rules, by Ramiro Perez of Universidad Tecnologica de Panama to Lagniappe. February 21: Interface Enhancements Apparently the URoulette random Web link is permanently down. So it has been removed from the Kitchen Sink, and in its place there are now soup bowls on many pages which jump to a random location in the Kitchen. Click on a bowl to discover some of the less visited PSK sites. There is now help for current Browser Issues, accessed from the bottom of our main page. At present, sound and style sheet support are explained. February 16 There are two new Real Recipes: Janssons Frestelse and Orzo and Artichoke Salad. February 14: The Exploratorium Complexity Web Site In conjuction with their touring Turbulent Landscapes exhibit, the San Francisco Exploratorium has launched an excellent Web site which surveys the history and current scope of research on complex dynamics. A good place to start is the Dialogue between Jim Crutchfield and Ned Kahn, which appeared in Complexity 2:2 (December 1996) 3-7. In addition to a virtual version of the Exploratorium exhibit, their Complexity site includes a Timeline of 20th century milestones in dynamical systems theory and a CompLexicon of key figures and concepts. In particular, the Cellular Automata entry features some images from the PSK and a link to our CAffeine page of interactive Java experiments. This week we were also thrilled to be honored by PC Magazine as one of the 10 Best Personal Web Pages. February 4: Japan's Brain Builder Hugo de Garis works for ATR, the same Japanese research company that supports Tom Ray. See Lagniappe for links to his ongoing project - about as grandiose as Ray's Tierra - which strives to build a cellular automaton brain by the year 2001. January 29: Lagniappe We inaugurate a Lagniappe ("something extra") page about sundry CA topics with a report on some ecological competition models by Eric Klopfer. This is a detailed follow-up to the CAM8- and Mac- based experiments described in recipes of a year ago and last fall. January 23: You Are Here Thanks to Guide Editor David Medaris for featuring PSK in his weekly column in the January 24 issue of Isthmus, and for the follow-up blurb in Taking in the Sites. January 15: A CA primer from Deep Magic This week, on their cosmic Deep Magic page, the good folks at Go2Net are offering up From Cellular Mitosis to Cellular Automata, by Michael D. Bayne. This is a folksy history and overview of CA theory. Per usual the focus is on Conway's game, but there are lots of snide comments and Java demos in cute little frames. And the Kitchen gets a plug, thanks. Recommended. For comic relief, Barry DeZonia writes to tell us that if one searches the Excite Web engine for the string Complex Systems Seminar at the University of Wisconsin, then the fourth link returned is Manure Management. Try it yourself! January 8: Durrett's Tutorial Rick Durrett at Cornell has a new Hyper-Tutorial of Stochastic Spatial Models, a nice introduction to the subject which highlights his recent work on biological and ecological modeling. On a more frivolous note, links to the PSK keep popping up in unexpected places. Recent sightings include Search Voyeur (whatever), and the Cafe Ubiquitous Entertainment Page (a real time-waster before it expired). In honor of this year's upbeat MacWorld convention, check out the Macintosh Artificial Life Software page, a trove of CA-related downloadable software for that once and future computer platform. December 31: Java Updates Installed slightly improved versions of our interactive Java CA applets: Voter Models, Greenberg-Hastings Models, Cyclic Cellular Automata, and Larger than Life. Expect one more addition to the CAffeine page real soon now, a HiLife applet featuring nearest-neighbor totalistic cellular automata. Many thanks to Bruce Christenson - now on his way to Portland for a stint at Intel - who did the Java coding this fall! December 28: HAPPY HOLIDAYS! We'll be back after New Year's with the latest Cellular Automata developments. Meanwhile, check out five holiday dishes we've added to the Real Recipes collection: Brioche, Fondue Chablis, Madeleines, Mrs. Culler's Onion Dinner Rolls, and Ukrainian Borshch December 19: Rudy's CA Software Collection Rudy Rucker offers new Windows versions of his discrete and continuous CA simulation package CApow, the classic CELLAB (with John Walker), and his colorful A-Life playground Boppers. He has also posted the CELLAB manual in zip format, which includes a nice popular history of cellular automata since Ulam and von Neumann. December 16: Larger than Life The stove has been off for a couple of weeks due to a CAlifornia trip followed by a crash of our trusty Unix server. The good news: a new LtL applet added to CAffeine. Enjoy! December 2: More Kitchen Specialties Another baker's dozen of Kitchen favorites in thumbnail format. To send a postcard click its title, then click the envelope icon on the individual recipe page. Also added festive Wild Rice Dressing and Black Bean Soup to the Real Recipes. Recent Additions Spring/Summer 98 Additions Winter 97-8 Additions Fall 97 Additions Summer 97 Additions Spring 97 Additions Fall 96 Additions