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I frequently compile a list of books and other media that either pique my interest
or that I’ve already owned and enjoyed. Then I run that list through a kind of
sibylline algorithm that analyzes various criteria and extracts the 50% or so
that (it thinks) should be the most intriguing to other people besides
just me.
The five that you see here pop up randomly from these finalists. You
can click that refresh icon at the lower left to see a different set.
Individual sections on this site draw from other, differently specialized
assortments.
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- Cool places by satellite (5 Parts)
- Online temperature conversion for 50 different scales
- Lee Speigel’s site (WEB CLIENT)
- Stanton Friedman’s site (WEB CLIENT)
- Corvus Watch (WEB CLIENT)
- World’s rarest things, Part 1 (uranium, shilajit, Manni olive oil, heavy water, 100-year-old balsamic vinegar, Château Pétrus, weird currency)
- World’s rarest things, Part 2 (rose alba, agarwood, buckminsterfullerene, buckypaper, Tyrian purple, red mercury, silphium, Semper Augustus, byssus, vicuña, Escorial wool)
- World’s rarest metals (Or, what’s $1 billion per troy ounce?)
- Real-life shortwave espionage: The mysterious Lincolnshire Poacher “numbers” station [mp3 2.2M]
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© 2012 Peter Blinn | All images on this site are either in the public domain, copyrighted by others but used with express or implicit permission (including Creative Commons), or my own. It’s always flattering when people appropriate my articles, often verbatim, but please seek my permission first. Thanks!
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