Treehouses
I’ve always wanted to build a treehouse. No just a simple little platform up in a tree, but a REAL treehouse for the kids to spend time in. Maybe if I add The Treehouse Book to my Amazon wishlist one will show up under the Christmas tree.
Baloney Detection Kit
Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit: tools for testing arguments and detecting fallacious or fraudulent arguments
QuickTime Panoramas
Panoramas.dk has a weekly Quicktime VR panorama. My favorites are this underwater scene from Bali and Times Square (Quicktime 5 required).
Gateway Grid Computing
Gateway now offers Processing on Demand – a grid computing service using 8,000 PCs in their store showrooms. The grid is managed using United Devices Metaprocessor platform.
Hollow Earth
One of my high school teachers told our class about the Hollow Earth theory, and although he never said so, I think he believed it (along with other things too numerous to list here). I think this is the diagram he showed us. There are some who think Hitler escaped there at the end of […]
Dexes (or is it Dexi?)
First blogdex, now popdex. What will the next dex be?
The Man Behind Bigfoot Dies
Ray Wallace’s family confirms that he ‘created’ Bigfoot along with his brother using wooden 16-inch-long feet to create tracks in 1958. Oh well, at least there are other Pacific Northwest unsolved mysteries like D. B. Cooper.
Who Owns the Alphabet?
Gerv has done an interesting experiment: searching Google for each of the 26 letters of the alphabet, and seeing who comes up as the first result of that search.
Anti-Telemarketing Script
Telemarketers generally have a script they use when they call, so Junkbusters has a handy anti-telemarketing script you can keep handy throw them off track (and perhaps sue them).
Arachnophobia
A biology professor in northern British Columbia found a clover field covered with a 60 acre spider web, with about two spiders per square centimeter laying the silk.
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