Odds 'n Sods
Links to sites which I find interesting/amusing:
FortOgden (particularly the archive) BigEye The Forgotten Technology Michael Moore Reciprocality Critical thought Jewish World Review
A very well written and always interesting read may be found at Slip of a Girl's blog.
A useful site through which one can see archived pages from web sites, in addition to other material, is here
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There's a software version. |
It's a very useful program. Click on the image to get details. |
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They used to have a free version called "Lite", not the 30 day trial. If they no longer offer it on their site it is still available from download.com
The most dramatic victory of science over religion came in the 17th century when churches began putting up lightning conductors.
An interesting illusion. The colours and shades of squares A and B are exactly the same.
There's a useful program called Pixie, from Nattyware, which should convince you.
It puts on the screen a small window, which you can drag and drop where you want it.
The window displays the colour, in various formats, at the mouse cursor and gives the cursor coordinates in pixels.
A more elaborate presentation of this illusion is to be found here.
What kind of pies?
Accept that some days you are the Pigeon...and some days you are the Statue.
I still haven't broken the habit
This is the label from a Jordanian mineral water bottle
This is an enlargement of the text at the bottom on the left hand side
This is an enlargement of the text at the bottom on the right hand side
There are two words which can't be translated into Arabic
I wonder why the one on the right can't be?
Could it be, perhaps, that the concept of hygiene doesn't exist in the culture and therefore there is no word for it?
Why would anyone fill a urinal with ice?
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Buys-Ballot's meteorological information for dairy farmers in the northern hemisphere:
When it's windy, the low pressure system will be on your herd's port side.
If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink. If you stare at the black + in the center, the moving dot turns to green. Now, concentrate on the black + in the center of the picture. After a short time, all the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you will see only a green dot rotating. It's amazing how our brain works. There really is no green dot, and the pink ones really don't disappear. This should be proof enough, we don't always see what we think we see.
Some Aztec place names I invented.
Plant-a-nettle. Chuck-a-copper-kettle. Attack-a-pickle.
You know the logo
But not like this
