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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Monday, October 30th, 2006

Aren’t encyclopedia’s and dictionaries supposed to make things easier to understand? Consider the very first line in Wikipedia’s article on Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822; pronounced [’pɜːsi bɪʃ ‘ʃɛli]) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the […]

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Tetris with words

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Total time waster, totally awesome, Tetris with words.

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6:02 10/23

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Happy Mole Day!
Celebrated annually on October 23 from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m., Mole Day commemorates Avogadro’s Number (6.02 x 10^23), which is a basic measuring unit in chemistry.

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Word FAQs

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

A website right up my alley and for those that want to know as many inane things as I do.
Word FAQs
What was the Great Vowel Shift?
What are the 100 most commonly used words in English?
What is the difference between the clam chowders - Manhattan, New England, and Rhode Island?
Does anything rhyme with “orange?” “YES”
What are […]

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Adventures with Form in Space

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

I found this through Gravestmor’s website. It is an art installation at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Thousands of colored polystyrene balls hang suspended in a 3-dimensional matrix. The gradation of color runs form the warmer reds and oranges at the base, to the cooler blues above. Industrial fans […]

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Geek Humor

Monday, August 7th, 2006

a snippit of converstion from a forum I’ve was checking out today.
Calebb:
Q: What’s sweet, yellow and transcendental?
A: Lemon Meringue Pi
javierror:
That can’t be, because we all know pie are round, not squared.
spooky760:
But round pie are squared.
:)

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Why I love Australia

Friday, July 21st, 2006

From Charles Krauthammer’s article:
In the Australian House of Representatives last month, opposition member Julia Gillard interrupted a speech by the minister of health thusly: “I move that that sniveling grub over there be not further heard.”
For that, the good woman was ordered removed from the House, if only for a day. She might have escaped […]

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Evil

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

[Insert evil laugh here (at 34% volume)]

You Are 34% Evil

A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well.
In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil.

How Evil Are You?

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Funny Math

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

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Jackson Pollock

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Now, we can all paint like famous artists :)
http://www.jacksonpollock.org/

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