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- Cool places by satellite (5 Parts)
- Stanton Friedman’s new site
- Recent computer animation by way of Autodesk Maya
- Today’s date in over 280 more or less obscure languages
- Online temperature conversion for 42 different scales
- Ten of the world’s rarest gemstones
- A smart aleck elephant is praying for a pepper. Hebrew tongue-twisters
- Flint, Michigan waistline laws with added historical perspective
So far I’ve cataloged 576 highly rated books, DVDs, and a few other odd items in 9 categories
that I’ve either read/seen or would very much like to. Click
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Thursday’s 5 categories: space, mythos, food, history/biography, fauna
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- Here’s Monaco’s national anthem [mp3 1.4M]
 - 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, superheavy water, 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]
- Asteroids: Never a dull moment, Part 1
- Asteroids: Never a dull moment, Part 2
- Free (well, naturally) online Latin date conversion
- Online Roman fraction conversion
- I have a vewy gweat fwiend in Wome: Adventures in popedom
- Not your father’s world history (19 chapters)
- LIPOMANIA: Lipograms on Monday’s Child, Sing a Song of Sixpence, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Jack & Jill (plus ‘Friends, Romans, Countrymen’)
- A clerihew or two
- Higgledy-piggledies / Jiggery-pokeries (also known as double dactyls)
- Martian Curiosities: Water heavily salted can easily remain liquid under Martian condtions. You rarely, if ever, hear about this.
- Anti-Aging/Life Extension (On a Budget)
- Minority language planetary gazetteer
- Weird word of the week (8/29/2010: Lateritious)
- Here are all the cheeses mentioned in the famous Monty Python “Cheese Shop” sketch.
- Long live Benjamin Ferner Beckman! Order of succession to the British Throne all the way to Number 100
- Here is Hoax Slayer with monthly updates by Brett Christensen
- Art Gallery
- SpyroGyro: Software I wrote to create polar geometric designs
- The Pia Zadora/Rondo Hatton connection
- Curious Notions: The Blog (sorry, temporarily on hold)
- Here’s the latest dope on urban legends and netlore
© 2010 Peter Blinn | All images on this site are either in the public domain, copyrighted by others but used with implicit or explicit permission, 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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