Monday,
April 22, 2002
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| Name-O-Meter The Name-O-Meter graphs the top 1000 names of each decade of the 20th century. Some of the 4,139 names that make the cut are consistently high, others fade in and out of popularity. Some names appear only in one or two decades. http://www.parenting.com/parenting/tools/babynamer/name-o-meter.html |
| Gator Guard is a 25-inch long, life-sized floating replica of an alligator head, and scares geese, ducks, fish-eating birds and small animals from the water areas they love. It moves and bounces all around the pond with the wind and water with mirrored-back eyes that flash in the sun. Birds think they're being followed, so they can't acclimate to a fixed pattern. http://www.bird-x.com/products/gator.html |
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Darth
Vader on the Washington Cathedral As Washington National
Cathedral approached completion, a startling idea was hatched:
hold a competition for children to design decorative sculpture
for the Cathedral. The third-place winner was Christopher Rader,
with his drawing of Darth Vader. The head was sculpted by Jay
Hall Carpenter, carved by Patrick J. Plunkett and placed high
upon the northwest tower of the Cathedral. (Thanks Brandon)
http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/discover/darth.shtml |
| Moments of simplicity (thanks Glenn) State Mottoes (thanks Glenn) The Age Gauge (thanks Glenn) Worldometer: Population (thanks Glenn) A Complete List of Online Newspapers (thanks Glenn) Lost & Found stuff (Thanks Brandon) Dave Barry's Emoticons (Thanks Gerry) The Internet Test (Thanks Frank) Enter a phrase into the Cheese-O-Matic |
 This Internet-based research platform puts a surprisingly powerful resource at your fingertips Search a database of over 129 million school yearbook photos from schools across the United States since 1936. You may find everything from elementary school to highschool all in one location. http://www.411-find.com/ (thanks Glenn) |
| Greasecar vegetable Fuel Systems allow any diesel vehicle to run on straight, unprocessed vegetable oil.and is a cleaner, safer and less expensive alternative to petroleum based fuel. It can be locally produced, even grown in your back yard. http://www.greasecar.com/ |
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| Never let a kiss fool you, or a fool kiss you is an example of Chiasmus a grammatical figure by which the order of words in one of two of parallel clauses is inverted in the other. For a full selection of these: http://www.chiasmus.com/ (Thanks Gerry) |
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“The man who
is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to
regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.” |