(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
User Friendly the Comic Strip (
2003-09-19)
Geek Cruises (
2003-09-19)
3M SARS FAQ -
Respiratory Protection and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Is Beer Food?
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." (
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
Frank
Canada's Definitive Satirical Magazine
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 (
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. (
2003-10-05)
The Ig
Nobel Prizes Annual awards for achievements that make people Laugh, then
Think (
2003-10-05)
Earth at Night
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (This is the background on my
dual monitor system.) (
2003-10-07)
Test your reaction time
Requires shockwave (
2003-10-09)
Transparency International fighting corruption (
2003-10-14)
Subeo the world's first underwater sports car (
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. (
2003-11-10)
The Notebooks of Lazarus
Long by Robert Anson Heinlein. (
2003-11-10)
Wrecked Exotics Exotic, ordinary, police, truck etc wrecks of all kinds.. (
2003-11-09)
The Goddess Art
of Jonathon Earl Bowser (
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?" (
2003-12-07)
Pulsed Magnets Just
how strong are they? (
2003-12-07)
Moller Sky Car Nice stuff! (
2003-12-20)
The Big
Dig $14 Billion 2 mile highway underneath Boston. (
2003-12-21)
Polar Bear photos,
Churchill Manitoba. (
2004-01-03)
physics central dear
lou - metal in a microwave Metal in the microwave only sparks if it has
sharp edge or points. (
2004-02-01)
Microwave melting -
Melting metals in a domest microwave. (
2004-02-01)
Pin Saver,
Pin Saver Canada Very handy device indeed!
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> (
2003-09-04)
Rubber Faces (
2004-01-18)
Morphases (
2004-01-18)
I don't fly FS but this one in
particular is an awesome setup.
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