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Hitchcock Quotes

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Ahhhh Hitchcock. When an actress asked Hitchcock if her right or left profile was better, he told her, "My dear, you're sitting on your best profile." To a woman who complained that the shower scene so frightened her daughter that...

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Crazy Rabbit

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Don't let him grab your cursor. [via]

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Triple Word Score. Again and again.

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M A T E R I A L
R E M A T E R I A L I Z E
R E M A T E R I A L I Z E D

A 14-letter word on a 15-row Scrabble board, and other adventures at the 2005 National Scrabble Championship. Check out the final board and try putting some of those words into sentences.

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The Not-Quite-Sunday Funnies Comics Page

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The funnies for August 28, 2005

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Parisian book-vending machines

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Cory Doctorow:

These Parisian book-vending machines sell classics, French-English dictionaries and cookbooks, priced at $2.45 each.

(Thanks, Digitaler Lumpensammler!)

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Timeline

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Timeline. I found this strangely riveting even though it is just a simple clock [flash].

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Links That Will Waste Your Time or that are Simply Stupid

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The Waste Land

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On a horse

Wrong Human

Why was he sad?

We will Attack

(The first four links above are part of something called Neen games - ? More there)

Mandonna, The All Male, All-Live Tribute to the Material Girl

Daughter ... Country ... Star Wars

50 Most Popular Quizzes for the last 24 hours, on “Quizilla” quiz foundry

Stop Alien Abductions. The thought screen helmet stops aliens from abducting humans. It's a tested device that works

August Deveraux III would like to introduce to you the new iPimp TV

Comic Book Super Heroes

April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land

Who was Buckethead? The stage name of a heavy metal guitarist who has played with Guns N' Roses, always performing with a white mask and a KFC bucket on his head

All over the place today: Things in Rubbers

Classes at The Learning Abscess include “An Evening with Mariel Hemingway”

(Ha! Ariana Huffington is reading the Grow-a-brain archives! NOT!)

<del>Graphic </del> remote Gun above from Flambore. A long List of Links That Will Waste Your Time or that are Simply Stupid Here

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Unusual Stories about Money

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Credit Card Debt

Credit_cards Why Americans are in debt - A horrible credit card promotion

Of the world's 100 largest economic entities, 51 are now corporations and 49 are countries

Large denomination bills in U.S. currency

A diagram to help you make sense of the recent Corporate Corruption scandals

Buy Blue

The Dubious Rewards of Consumption. Greater material consumption has not brought about greater happiness, argues World Watch Institute researcher Alan Thein Durning. (From ”Singlenesia”)

(By the way, I am using the last matches from an old-fashioned Norwegian matchbox that I found in my possession. Somehow I've kept it since 1974, when I lived in a farm near Oslo... It says on the cover "Velg Gul" - Choose Yellow - Nitedals fyrstikker)...

Many More Unusual Stories about Money Here

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Flash Earth

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Neave Lab



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Useless Skills

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Learning Useless Skills : Just for Fun

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The World's Coolest Gadgets

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Forbes presents the world's coolest gadgets. [via]

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Visions About The Future

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Last day on Earth

Delorean International Time Capsule Society

Wishful Thinking - January 10, 2009

Imagine waking up to the last day on Earth. What's the worst that could happen in just 24 hours? (From ”Farpas e bitaites”)

A Future Timeline of Humanity and the Universe, starting at 2010, ending at 10100

The Flash Epic 2014 has an updated, alternate version Epic 2015

365 tomorrows. One new piece of short speculative fiction each day for one year

The Vertical Farm - The future of farming

Btw, somebody left a very long comment in Arabic at the bottom of an old post, with the request that I forward it to Queen Ranya of Jordan. Anybody cares to translate it into English?

More Visions About The Future Here

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Uncyclopedia

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It's Uncyclopedia, featuring articles on sports, geography, science, history, popular culture (may be NSFW), and a host of other topics. See also: Uncyclopedia's Wikipedia entry, Wikipedia's Uncyclopedia entry, this page of templates, and Uncyclopedia's Metafilter entry.

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Fun Bush Quotations with Photos

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200 amazing secrets

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200 amazing secrets! Well, maybe not so secret to some but there are some darn helpful tips here! seen at presurfer

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Word Photos

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WordPhoto presents photographers with a challenge: Take a new photograph specifically for the word of the day, and post it for everybody to see.

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Things That Don't Exist

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Unusual Literary Links

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From William Carlos Williams

William_carlos_williams This is just to say:
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox…

Smart bitches who love trashy novels

Catch-22 Illustrated. (From ”Look at This”)

Unicorn Poetry

Shakespeare After Dinner Mints and other novelties, from ‘The Unemployed Philosophers Guild’

Your librarian hates you. Here is why

LRB about Knut Hamsun's greatest novels

Tips for improving your handwriting

Many More Unusual Literary Links Here

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My Favorite Word

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My favorite word. Add your own.

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Square America Home

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A gallery of vintage snapshots & vernacular photography



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The Construction of the Empire State Building, 1930-1931

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Wonderful photos here....

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How Observant Are You?

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Take the Quiz for results like these:

Overall, Your Observation Skills Get: A-
Hardly anything gets by you…
You have a great memory and eagle eyes


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Treasures of the Library

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Finding a site like this is why I keep blogging. The "Treasures of the Library" album and collection has been developed to share images from rare and unusual books that reside within the NOAA Central Library. These books and...

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Brush up on Your Shakespeare!

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Take this quiz to find out! Then, read more about Shakespeare's life and works. Read on...

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Intelligent Links and Brainier Links

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Smilie Dictionary

Mathematics The Salma Hayek versus Friedrich Hayek Scorecard. So, you're an intellectual who appreciates the subjectivist economic theory and classical liberal political theory of Friedrich Hayek. And you're also a moviegoer who appreciates the exotic allure of Mexican screen goddess Salma Hayek. But who would win, if they went head to head? Lucky for you, I'm keeping score

The Unlearning Annex. (From ”Informiorium”)

If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who diagree with you. More quotes from The Greenbelt

How to create Smilies. The Unofficial Smilie Dictionary

A comprehensive list of cognitive biases. Cognitive bias is distortion in the way we perceive reality

Anyone with an appreciation of a good math problem should find something they like here, with problems ranging from basic math to differential equations. Each problem also comes with a difficulty rating from one to four stars. (Thank you, Tom. I lost your URL, so please email it to me for a propert link-back!)

Snopes investigates: Student mistakes examples of unsolvable math problems for homework assignment and solves them – True or false?

Memory Master

Philosophy since the Enlightenment

Many More Intelligent Links and Brainier Links Here

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TIME.com - 50 Coolest Websites 2005

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'How do we come up with our 50 best? Short answer: we take your suggestions, probe friends and colleagues about their favorite online haunts and then surf like mad. This year's finalists are a mix of newcomers, new discoveries and veterans that have learned some new tricks..."

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Who Wrote It? -- Quiz

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Discover "who wrote it" in literature! Read more of the classics...

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Quick and Dirty IQ Test

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Not a real IQ test - but it does measure how smart you are :-) And I know normal IQ tests don’t have general knowledge on them - the author just thought it would be fun to throw it in.

Your IQ Is 140

Your Logical Intelligence is Genius
Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius
Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius
Your General Knowledge is Genius


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Unusual Flight Links

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Mile High Club

Soy_bean_futures Haute Voltage stunt flight. (Direct .mpg. Bonus if you read Russian)

Paper Airplanes

Blogger Philip Greenspun posted a review of his new airplane, the Cirrus SR20. Also, Buying an airplane. Articles by industry experts to help you choose, locate, appraise and buy a used aircraft

The interior of The Sultan of Brunei's Private Airplane. (From ”Attu”)

Jet Set Ruins. Scenes from aircraft scrap yards in Arizona and California

Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's Virgin Group developing space tourism for ordinary people

American Airlines Contest Fiasco. $52,800 tax hit comes with the certificate. (From ”J-Walk”)

Vintage airport postcards

Number of Boeing 700-series Orders and deliveries for 2005. (From 777-200LR Flight Test Journal)

Aviation Top Pics by Kees Hensen & Hubert Reuther

The "Oops" list. Pictures of accidents, mostly of airplanes

Glossary of Terms related to Blimps

Many More Unusual Flight Links Here

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Great, plain.

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Nebraska's small towns. Some of the smaller ones actually have a lot going on. Some of the (slightly) larger ones, maybe not so much. But no matter how small they are, they do all have bars. Even the two smallest.

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"Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

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I am a big fan of Dorna!'s The Guabancex Blog, (formerly of Guabancex before blogspot had a seizure and froze it on her). This take on Poe's The Raven that she wrote is wonderful. Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers...

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Unusual Stories about America

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Hippie Salad

Smallest_park The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was founded in 1925 by A. Philip Randolph and others. It was the nation's first African-American union. The Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters “George” (SPCSCPG)

Mill Ends Park, Portland, OR: Smallest park in the world - 452 square inches

Images of Walt Whitman

Trippie Dick. (From “Worth 1000” contest If Hippies Ruled)

Charles Phoenix’s “God Bless Americana” slide shows

Mom, Home & Apple Pie Songs. “Molecular Expressions” Microscopic shot of Apple Pie Yogurt

A map reducing the U.S. to 38 States

The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

Welcome to the Republic of Cascadia Homepage. Now is the time for the citizens of Cascadia to demand their freedom from the oppressive governments of Canada and the United States. For too long have our people put up with indifference and condescendence from distant seats of power. We have been subject to francophonic imperialism and wasteful spending of our tax money. Our entrepreneurs have been attacked by the so-called justice system for merely doing their jobs and growing our economy. When will we say enough is enough? (From Charlie ‘Vruba’ Loyd)

Life in the USA, a complete guide to American life for immigrants and Americans. By Elliot Essman

The Evolution of the American Front Porch

Many More Unusual Stories about America Here



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Why English is Hard to Learn

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Chris Abraham humor.



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What Is Your Animal Personality?

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This Quiz says I, dwillia, am a

Wolf

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Why do the English drive on the "wrong" side of the road ?

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"Well it's one of those trivia questions that can really nag at you until you find an answer, I did some research and discovered the following:

In days of old logic dictated that when people passed each other on the road they should be in the best possible position to use their sword to protect themselves. As most people are right handed they therefore keep to their left. This practice was formalised in a Papal Edict by Pope Benefice around 1300AD who told all his pilgrims to keep to the left."

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Unusual Links about Linguistics

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No Cursing

Cursing 100 years of British buzzwords, starting at 1904

339 Puke Synonyms, from “Barf mulch” to “Upchuck”

Wikipedia’s List of fictional curse words, from frick to grozit

HBO's series Deadwood had a reputation for salty dialogue even before the first episode aired. It was nearly impossible, they said, to keep count of the number of f-words spoken during each program. We took it as a challenge. The Number of F-words In Deadwood: 1837

Glossary of Gay Slang Terms

Treatise on the Most Immature Phrase in the English Language, "My mom can beat up your mom". (From DRT News)

If you can't master English, try Globish. "It is not a language, it is a tool"

A Dictionary of Old Hobo Slang

A long list of unusual words

(Photo above from Disney Mike blog.) Many More Unusual Links about Linguistics Here

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Web Zen: animation zen

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Xeni Jardin: mind control
creep
bellyfull
sock monkey
foreign exchange student
not my type
bangcubes
ah pook is here
niiiiiccce
web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank).



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The Alphabet of Life

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Avery Ant and his One Minute Rant



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Idioms

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This is a cool site that will explain the origins of popular idioms and expressions. Blackmail The word "blackmail" becaome popular in the 1800's and comes from the clan chieftains who ran protection rackets on farmers in Scottland. If the...

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Which Science-Fiction Writer Are You?

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Take the Quiz. I (dwillia) was

I am:
Jules Verne
The 19th century Frenchman who made science fiction into a successful commercial genre.



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How Liberal / Conservative Are You?

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Ten ways to live longer

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Forbes.com - MSNBC.com



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What Does Your Birthdate Mean?

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Your Birthdate: April 28
Your birth on the 28th day of the month (1 energy) adds a tone of independence and extra energy to your Life Path.

The number 1 energy suggest more executive ability and leadership qualities than you path may have indicated.

A birthday on the 28th of any month gives greater will power and self-confidence, and very often a rather original approach.

Unlike much of the other 1 energy, this birthday is one that endow with the ability to start a job and continue on until it is finished.

You may prefer to use the broad brush, but you can handle details as well.

You are sensitive, but your feeling stay somewhat repressed.

You have a compelling manner that can be dominating in many situations.



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Chickfactor

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One of the most legendary zines in history, Chickfactor, is now online. (Via Largehearted Boy.)

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Unusual Things To Do With Your Life (links)

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Coulda Woulda Shoulda

Coulda_shoulda Don’t leave home without it! The U.S. Living Will Registry® electronically stores advance directives and organ donor information, and makes these documents available to health care providers 24 hours a day

Don't Shave That Yak! by Seth Godin

How To Kiss by Bill Plympton

With an Imaginary Girlfriend, you can carry on a completely fictitious, yet authentic looking relationship with the girl of your choice

The purpose of No Marriage.com is to allow men to better understand two important issues that get very little attention: “4 out of 5 men regret marrying” and “Foreign women from South America, Eastern Europe, and Asia make much better wives than American women”

While You Were Sleeping, we took your picture

"What should I do, that I might best help mankind?"

Another parable: Spring Eternal, by Ecks Ridgehead

Organ Harvesting for fun & profit

Whiteboard wall. Turns out that brainstorming is an epigraphic activity -- something best done on walls

10 Ways To Get the Creative Juices Flowing. Number one: Take a bath. (From ”Dangling Pointer”)

“I used to lose my temper all the time”... Awesome cartoons by Mark Stivers who also did the “Coulda Woulda” Gif above

How to ski and how not to (1912)

Ballon string

Many More Unusual Thing To Do With Your Life Here

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What Will You Look Like

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What Will You Look Like

In 40 years?Upload a snapshot and find out.



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The Amazing Meganame Generator

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at Blogthings

Here's mine (dwillia)

David Lynn Williams's Aliases

Your movie star name: Peanuts Vernon
Your fashion designer name is David Paris
Your socialite name is Willy Denver
Your fly girl / guy name is D Wil
Your detective name is Dog Ralston
Your barfly name is Cookies Rum
Your soap opera name is Lynn Maywood
Your rock star name is Snickers Wippet
Your star wars name is Davjul Wilhol
Your punk rock band name is The Rueful Metronome



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Unusual Links About Death and Eternity

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Suicide - Man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit"

Life_death “I lost more than just a bet today…” How Not to Start a Eulogy

A Practical Guide to Suicide: “There are sure-fire plans to kill yourself, but they don't always factor in the character and feelings of the person carrying them out. This is why I have put some emphasis on contemplation and reflection in the Practical Guide to Suicide that I'm compiling: I think it is very important that the person him-/herself is taken into consideration, because any "sure-fire" plan can be disrupted by fear, uncertainty, or just plain self-deception”…

Teen Suicide Prevention ad from a Honolulu school

Lundgren Monuments creates handmade translucent cast glass memorials as an alternative to the traditional granite and bronze headstones

Botched executions. Update: Oops, I Blogged it before. Thank you, Billie

What Kills Billionaires? Billionaires are killed by the same unglamorous things that kill the rest of us: diseases such as cancer, heart attacks, kidney failure and others. The only difference is they may live a little longer. (From ”Inman Blog”)

Hope cemetery of Barre, VT. is an art gallery, celebrating life in the midst of death. (Found on The Dead Zone of New Hampshire)

Frank Rich (NYT) on the sexploitation of John Paul's "culture of life"

Re-post: I love death, a nasty, accurate, funny summation

Many More Unusual Links About Death and Eternity and about Unusual Coffins & Caskets Here

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The Mathematics of Love

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"These equations provided parameters, that allowed us to predict, with over 90 percent accuracy, what was going to happen to a relationship over a three-year period . . ."

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Unusual Inventions & Discoveries

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Engines of Ingenuity

Leonardo Minnesota's greatest invention! Twenty-Five Years of Post-it Notes by Greg Beato

Top 10 Reasons Chainless bicycles Are Better

3D-XplorMath Surface Gallery. (3D-XplorMath is a mathematical visualization program for Macintosh computers)

Pavlov conditioning and some new inventions by Mark Stivers

The Engines of Our Ingenuity is a radio program that tells the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity. 1990 episodes available

On closer inspection. Images & videos of photomicrography. (From Dave Krooshof)

Patent No. 4,320,756 for Fresh-air breathing device and method. Click on "Images" for diagram

Also, Tail-Activated Urine-Incorporation of Nitrogen Extender system: Spray switch in tail aims to reduce nitrogen-leaching! (From ”Rest Area 300M”)

Kurzweil AI dot net, big thoughts of today's big thinkers

The Great Idea Finder, a huge resource. Did you know that Henri Nestle is the inventor of baby formula?

Making the rounds: From “New Scientist”, Life's top 10 greatest inventions: Multicellularity, the brain, the eye, sex, language, death, more

Many More Unusual Inventions & Discoveries Here

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Visual Puns

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A collection of visual puns from Worth1000. The above should be an easy one.



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What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

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Your Linguistic Profile:

80% General American English
10% Midwestern
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Yankee



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What Personality Disorder Are You?

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Food For Thought

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Bread is dangerous!

BreadResearch on bread indicates that:

1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.

2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.

4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.

6. Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low incidence of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, and osteoporosis.

7. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after as little as two days.

8. Brea