Sunday,
November 18, 2001
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Pay
Phones of the World . . . and this one comes complete with a goat
Since 1988 the magazine 2600 Quarterly has been publishing pictures
of payphones around the world. They have now moved their complete collection
to their website. They are also accepting photos of foreign pay phones
to place on the web. The photo at the left is of a pay phone in India. http://www.2600.com/phones/ |
| Ken
White's Coin Flipping Page
This page lets you flip as many pennies or dimes at one time as you like
and reports the results. It has been accessed 386,917 times since September
23, 1995 There have been 11,501,580 coins flipped resulting in 5,756,786
heads and 5,744,794 tails Total face value of coins flipped so far is
$636,840.10. The only question is why? http://shazam.econ.ubc.ca/flip/index.html |
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| The
Book of Clichés
lists phrases to say in times of trouble in a number of categories. Since
it first appeared on the internet in late 1996, it has grown into one
of the classic cliché-sites and has won numerous internet awards. http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/sybev/cliche/ |
| The
Home of Seldom Used Words
This page has been created to try and resurrect some rather fine yet rarely
used words. It's worth a look. http://www.celerity.co.uk/words/ |
| Oscar
Wilde
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." |
| The
Official U.S. Time This public service is provided by the Time and
Frequency Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST). It uses the national time scale UTC(NIST) as its time reference.
This web site is intended as a time-of-day service only. It should not
be used to measure frequency or time interval, nor should it be used to
establish traceability to NIST. http://nist.time.gov/ |