Thursday,
March 8, 2002
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The
Mega Penny Project Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult.
People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions
of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a "billion" really
is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item,
the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: "What would
a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?" http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/ |
| How fuel gauges work The main impediment to stretching your mileage is your fuel gauge, which makes you think you have less gas than you actually do. These devices are notoriously inaccurate, showing empty when there are gallons left and showing full for the first 50 miles. http://www.howstuffworks.com/fuel-gauge.htm |
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The
"Wicked" Bible In a 1631 edition of the King James
Bible a very small word was forgotten by the printers: "not."
This changed the 7th commandment to say "Thou shalt commit adultery"
and caused this version to become known as "The Wicked Bible".
http://www.catholicapologetics.net/wicked_bible.htm
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| The Grandiloquent Dictionary This is the result of an ongoing project to collect and distribute the most obscure and rare words in the English language. Cockroaches as Pets A website dedicated to all roach enthusiasts. Esoteric Pictograms for things you never need to be warned about. Waste even more time online The Virtual Stapler. |
| Mr.
Potato Head turns 50 and as part of the celebration of his birthday,
between now and November 4, 2002, Hasbro is inviting people ages 2 to
102 (and beyond!) to put their best Mr. Potato Head smiles into action
and submit a photo or drawing showing the person smiling with an image
of Mr. Potato Head. As part of this promotion, Hasbro will make a generous
donation to the children's charity organization Operation Smile. http://www.hasbropreschool.com/default.asp?x=mph_smiles |
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The History of
Gargoyles Your are about to meet a peculiar race of creatures which
inhabited the great cathedrals of the Middle Ages, proliferating between
the 11th and 13th centuries. Some of their decendants have ventured
away from churches, migrating to other important buildings, but they
have not fared as well as those still comfortably situated in cathedral
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| Stare Down Sally is a simple game. In a moment, you'll meet Sally. She'll be staring at you with a powerful green-eyed gaze. She may stare for an instant...she may stare for several seconds...or she may stare for what seems like an eternity. But eventually, Sally will blink. http://www.stairwell.com/stare/play.html |  |
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"I have always
been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence
and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those
occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory." |