Eclectic web sites

(Updated 2013-01-20)

I thought these were interesting, useful, unusual, wound up on my favourites or just tickled my fancy.  I really don't care about your opinion. <smile>

Cool looking Plasma Saber. I'm not going to spend the money though.
Urban Legends Reference Pages
breakthechain.org Common-sense evaluations of e-mail chain letters.
Verified Voting - Campaign To Demand Verifiable Election Results.  While this is not a problem in Canada this is a very large problem in the United States due to it's much more complex voting systems.  I completely agree with the concept that paper must be either be retained or be created and retained to be verified.
Bullfighter — Stripping The Bull Out Of Business. A consulting jargon fighter from Deloitte Consulting.  Press Release  Fox News: Bull Detector Could Clean Up Political Jargon
Hubble Site - Press Release Images - Celestial Fireworks  Image is now my desktop background.   (Reminds of a ex girl friends mother. <shudder>)
Dilbert
Small Canadian flag bullet User Friendly the Comic Strip  (New 2003-09-19)
Geek Cruises  (New 2003-09-19)
3M SARS FAQ - Respiratory Protection and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Is Beer Food?
Small Canadian flag bullet Big Rock Beer Traditional - My favourite beer
The Hundred Dollar Hamburger  A Pilot's Guide to Fly-In Restaurants (includes a small village where some relatives live.)
Darwin Awards The Darwin Awards honor those who improve our gene pool... by removing themselves from it.
Bugs, Glitches & Stuffups  "helping people beat the latest spyware trends"
Refdesk.com "The single best source for facts on the Net."  (New 2003-09-26)

We've got washers and dryers instead of wringer washers and wash boards so the following items only make sense. (Unless you have teens who need some work to keep them out of trouble.)
Roomba Intelligent Floor Vac Automatically cleans the floors while you enjoy life. Canada
    Yahoo Roomba Users Group
Robomower - Robotic lawn mower
Wired News: Robot Vacs Are in the House

Small Canadian flag bullet Frank Canada's Definitive Satirical Magazine
Small Canadian flag bullet The Hill Times Canada's Politics and Government Newsweekly
Rag Doll  (Skeleton)  Amazing.  You gotta see it yourself.
Risks Digest - Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems (Well worth reading.  Prepare to be very concerned.)
Big Bang® Carbide Cannons
Mahi House and Coffee Farm B & B at South Kona, Hawaii (New 2003-10-02)
The origin of Murphy's Law - The original is "If there’s any way they can do it wrong, they will",  Currently it's "If anything can go wrong, will go wrong".  And it wasn't Murphy who made the law.  (New 2003-10-05)
The Ig Nobel Prizes Annual awards for achievements that make people Laugh, then Think  (New 2003-10-05)
Earth at Night NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (This is the background on my dual monitor system.) (New 2003-10-07)  
Test your reaction time Requires shockwave (New 2003-10-09)  
Transparency International fighting corruption (New 2003-10-14)  
Subeo the world's first underwater sports car (New 2003-10-25)  
Rate My Teachers Now I can see why the teachers union wouldn't like this website.  But when I review a few comments by the students they are usually quite consistent about the teachers.   When I ask about local teachers the comments I read on the website correlate very nicely with the comments of folks who know them.   (New 2003-11-10)  
The Notebooks of Lazarus Long by Robert Anson Heinlein.   (New 2003-11-10)  
Wrecked Exotics Exotic, ordinary, police, truck etc wrecks of all kinds..   (New 2003-11-09)
The Goddess Art of Jonathon Earl Bowser     (New 2003-11-22)
Bullets in the Sky  "Will bullets fired into the air return to the earth at the same speed they left the gun?"     (New 2003-12-07)
Pulsed Magnets Just how strong are they?     (New 2003-12-07)  
Moller Sky Car Nice stuff!     (New 2003-12-20)  
The Big Dig $14 Billion 2 mile highway underneath Boston.    (New 2003-12-21)  
Polar Bear photos, Churchill Manitoba.    (New 2004-01-03)  
physics central dear lou - metal in a microwave Metal in the microwave only sparks if it has sharp edge or points.     (New 2004-02-01)  
Microwave melting - Melting metals in a domest microwave.    (New 2004-02-01)  
Pin Saver, Pin Saver Canada Very handy device indeed!

Children's Stuff

Boohbah Zone  I was so captivated by the weird noises and tunes you could make by moving around the mouse on the circles that I took me several minutes to realize you could click on those and pull up new screens. <smile>   (New 2003-09-04)   
Rubber Faces    (New 2004-01-18)   
Morphases    (New 2004-01-18)    

News

Small Canadian flag bullet CBC
BBC
CNN

Flight Simulator

I don't fly FS but this one in particular is an awesome setup.
Project Magenta - Our Customer Cockpits

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