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
Often just photographs and perhaps a link, this lady's blog, when she writes, is very well written and always interesting. Slip of a Girl
A useful site through which one can see archived pages from web sites, in addition to other material, is here
It's amazing what you can find on
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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?
Wordplay
For tanning your arse
Treatment for fat eyes
No, never seen it on tv. I've seen armpits though.
Time switch on a chastity belt.
High tech underwear
Accept that some days you are the Pigeon...and some days you are the Statue.
I still haven't broken the habit
I suppose it was inevitable .....
One evening, surfing the net, I came across instructions on how to make an Origami penis!
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? (answers on a postcard ..... )
I took this picture in Nevada at a roadside cafe, in January 2008, somewhere between Las Vegas and either the grand Canyon or Salt Lake City, I forget which.
and, staying with the flow, so to speak
This is a public urinal in Farnham, Surrey.
What I find interesting is the raised area to the left. What could it be for? Somewhere from which a referee might observe?
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"Those who cling to the untrue doctrine that violence never settles anything would be advised to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms."
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
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
