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Choose Death: http://www.choosedeath.com/. WARNING: EXTREME CONTENT. This web site contains explicit, deathly oriented materials. Through these exclusive galleries, as well as being for the purely aesthetic aspect, we would like to demonstrate that death is preferable to a pathetic existence of a human being. The section Kill yourself is dedicated to that purpose.
Fun with Grapes -- A Case Study: http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/~pmichaud/grape/ Grapes, when properly prepared and microwaved, spark impressively in an extremely entertaining manner.
Grammar Lady Online: http://www.grammarlady.com/
How to keep an idiot busy: http://intelligentx.svwh.net/taf.html?url=http://junior.apk.net/~jbarta/idiot/idiot.html Just press the button?
How to Light Your Barbecue: http://www.copie.com/science/barbecue.htm (Added 8 Jan 01.) One of our favorite charcoal-grill lighters is a guy named George Goble (really!!), a computer person in the Purdue University engineering department. Goble uses a bucket attached to a 10-foot-long wooden handle to dump 3 gallons of liquid oxygen (not sold in stores) onto a grill containing 60 pounds of charcoal and a lit cigarette for ignition. What follows is the most impressive charcoal-lighting I have ever seen, featuring a large fireball that according to Goble, reached 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The charcoal was ready for cooking in (this has to be a world record) 3 seconds! You can see actual photographs and a video at:
. . . George Goble (GHG) [EXTENDED HOME PAGE]: http://ghg.ecn.purdue.edu/ 1996 winner of the Ig Nobel prize for chemistry. Don't try this at home. One briquette presoaked in LOX is approx equiv to 1 stick of dynamite.
Lactating woman's milk saves 16 lives at sea: :http://www.nationalpost.com/ National Post Online, 9 Feb 01. Inspired by God to share her breast. Ivan Roman, The Orlando Sentinel.
SABANA DE LA MAR, Dominican Republic - A boat-load of starving people, adrift on the sea, were kept alive by sharing a mother's milk.
Faustina Mercedes decided to offer her breast milk as she and 15 others drifted helplessly during a desperate trip from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. . . .
On the 12th day, they reached land and found they were back in the Dominican Republic.
Most of the passengers spent three days in hospital.
Latent Print Examination: http://onin.com/fp/ Fingerprints, palmprints, and footprints. Includes copy of an electronic version of the RCMP Ridgeology booklet thousands of LP Examiners have studied during the past decade. (Added 13 Feb 01.)
License Plates of the World: http://danshiki.oit.gatech.edu/~iadt3mk/index.html (Added 8 Jan 01.)
Light-Emitting Vegetable Diode: http://www.tiac.net/users/reilly/levd-page.html Some folks in Digital's Semiconductor Engineering Group plugged a pickle into the wall. It glowed. Soon after this discovery, colleagues at Digital's Western Research Laboratories published a technical report. The work was illuminating to say the least.
Live Radio on the Internet. Thousands of live radio stations: http://www.live-radio.net/info.shtml The largest directory of working links to radio stations broadcasting live on the Internet. The links on this site, which are monitored and updated daily, are the most accurate available on the Internet. (Added 20 Jan 01.)
Microwaving Water: http://www.urbanlegends.com/ulz/microwave.html You can be injured when water heated in a microwave suddenly boils.
Photo Stereo: http://www.midcoast.com/~nlund/photo.html Stereo Photography, Stereo Science, Stereo Art; Clubs, Suppliers, Fractals. (Added 8 Jan 01.)
pickover.com Clifford Pickover home page. The Risks Digest Volume 16: Issue 18
ping datascape view: http://www.artcom.de/projects/ping/ On an interactive map you position images, hypertexts, movies, sounds, and objects located in the WWW, which then form the ping datascape. A virtual camera, called the eye agent, is constantly moving through the datascape, thereby generating the Ping-movie, a live and real time flight through the Internet. (Added 8 Jan 01.)
Planet Earth Home Page: http://www.tidusa.com/PEHP2000/Planet_Earth/info.html The Planet Earth Home Page website was one of the first websites in cyberspace. Born out of the vision of what was to come, it came to life at the U.S. Naval Space Warfare Research and Development Center, San Diego, California. The website's original webmaster was Dr. Richard Bocker. On 23 Oct 97 the website was transferred by Dr. Bocker personally to http://www.tidusa.com/ to begin life in the non-military domain.
Every one of our 9000 or so links have all been personally reviewed and added upon its own merit. Quality, is first in our decision to add or not certain links. We do not use politics as a basis, nor do we use poor taste as a criteria to not considerl. Hence, you may find a country whose political system is not in alignment with that of your own, but you probably will not find a topic that is in poor taste simply because we support free speech. What we chose in placement of links is reflective to the course we set for ourselves … that of education being top of the mission list.
P&G's Symbol Is
Satanic! This urban legend that simply will NOT die! It
started in the 1980s when some folks claimed that Procter &
Gamble's Moon-and-Stars symbol was a satanic symbol and that
P&G was donating profits to the satanic church. The claim is
bogus, and P&G has actually sued individuals and companies,
including an Amway salesperson, for spreading the rumor.
P&G's symbol was created in the late 1800s when company
symbols were still relatively rare. You can read more about the
history of the symbol at their Website. The supposed
"confession" by the company's president is bogus! No
president of any multinational company would ever do something
that stupid. Click here for the truth about Procter &
Gamble's corporate symbol. http://www.pg.com/common/applytemplate.jhtml?document=%2Fcontent%2Fen_US%2Fxml%2Fcorporate%2Fcorp_overview_jun202000_trademark_general_info.xml&templateFile=%2Fabout_pg%2Foverview_facts%2Ftrademark_facts.jhtml
Tip from EMAZING: http://www.emazing.com. 12
Jan 01.
Random Facts: http://gurlpages.com/calicowgirl/ORANGEROCKS.html
scary squirrel world - the Voice of the Anti-Squirrel Coalition: http://www.scarysquirrel.org/page1.html ARE THERE SQUIRRELS IN HEAVEN? LOVEY SQUIRREL'S PHOTO GALLERIES . . .
Smart TV: Mike Wallace reported on CBS 60 Minutes TV 18 Mar 01 on personal video recording devices that could drastically change television viewing habits. A box from TiVo or ReplayTV attaches to your TV set and to your telephone (for downloading schedules automatically). It has a hard drive that can store 60 hours of TV, of programs of your choice, by name (let it figure out times and channel numbers). Allows easy skipping of commercials. Current install base: 100,000. Expected by one year hence: one million. By two years: 100 million. Because of this, expect the loss of advertising base and the advent of pay TV for all programs -- maybe 25 cents per hour?
tv.html: http://www.goldenrocket.com/tv.html Television and Cable. Many links to programs and more, including:
. . . ReplayTV: http://www.replaytv.com/ ReplayTV and Panasonic ShowStopper products make it easy to find all your favorite shows, record them digitally, and then watch them whenever you're ready. You can also pause, rewind, instant replay or slo-mo live TV all without the hassles of videotapes or VCR programming.
. . . TiVo Home: http://www.tivo.com/home.asp (also at http://www.tivo.com/home_flash.asp) The greatest innovation in television since color! TiVo powers a digital video recorder and works with every TV system—cable, digital cable, satellite, antenna, or combinations—to give you complete control over LIVE TV. And because it’s smart, TiVo automatically finds and records your family’s favorite programs. TiVo-powered digital video recorders are available from trusted brands like Philips and Sony. If you enjoy or are considering digital satellite services, check out the DIRECTV Receiver with TiVo.
CanadaComputes.com - Big Brother in hot water for hiding behind screen: http://www.canadacomputes.com/v3/story/1,1017,6308,00.html?tag=81&sb=299 A group of high-tech privacy advocates have lambasted TiVo Inc. for its ability to track individual viewing habits without telling the individual about it.
UltimateTV Home: http://www.ultimatetv.com/ UltimateTV® service from Microsoft is the only service that takes DIRECTV® programming and combines it with digital video recording, live TV controls, interactive TV and Internet access, in one complete package. UltimateTV is available exclusively on the DIRECTV Receiver with UltimateTV service. And only the DIRECTV Receiver with UltimateTV service has dual satellite tuners, which lets you record two live shows simultaneously, or watch one live show while recording another. The DIRECTV Receiver with UltimateTV service is manufactured by RCA and Sony and is scheduled to be available in stores soon.
Advanced TV, Interactive TV, Smart TV, Digital TV, Internet Video, VSP, HDTV Links: http://www.cwgh.com/pages/links/tvintera.html Many links.
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The Useless Pages [ Go2Net ]: http://www.go2net.com/useless/
World Map of Live Webcams: http://dove.mtx.net.au/~punky/World.html (Added 8 Jan 01.) If you just have to escape from our Winter Wonderland for a moment and look at scenery without snow in it, or watch TV in Buenos Airies, you could do worse than click below. It also points to:
. . . On the other hand, if you truly do not have enough winter, click below. How far south could you go for a winter vacation? You won't need a compass here to find your way north, mate!
The AASTO at the South Pole: http://bat.phys.unsw.edu.au/~aasto/#
. . . Sedona Arizona Webcam Eduvista Learning Network: http://www.sedonawebcam.com/
. . . *Special Note: $1000 Reward for
information leading to the arrest, conviction, and imprisonment
of the Sedona Webcam thieves. Anyone with information is urged to
call the Sedona Police department at: 520-282-3100.
. . . It appears
that cattle-rustling has been replaced by Web-cam rustling in the
Old West. Click below for the sordid details of the crime scene! Sedona Webcam service from this
location is currently unavailable, but:
http://ws.sedonawebcam.com/pri/icam?func=getimage&name=Camera1
UMC Web Cams: http://www.crk.umn.edu/technology/webtech/cameras.htm Scenes captured from across the globe by web cameras. (Added 8 Jan 01.)
Virtual Garden of Gary Matson: http://www.garysgarden.com/default.htm You won't find Gary's Virtual Garden growing any one place in this world - it grows everywhere. Each picture you'll find here has been contributed by a gardener or an artist, in his memory. Gary and his life partner, Winfield Mowder, had been killed in their Happy Valley, California home in 1999 -- for no reason but that they were gay. His life was dedicated to horticulture, to nurturing growth, balance, and beauty. So is this garden. (Added 8 Jan 01.)
Virtual Garden: The ultimate gardening information resource: http://www.vg.com/ "Honest, encyclopedic, and up-to-date, Barbara J. Barton's Gardening by Mail is a one-woman phenomenon": Tom Christopher Conde Nast House and Garden; May, 1999. Apart from advice, it also has images and, for example, a virtual-reality tour (in QuickTime VR) of the spectacular 1997 Chelsea Flower Show (Added 20 Jan 01.)
Xmas Is a Mockery of
Christmas: Have you ever heard the ranting of preachers
who claim that the word Xmas is an attempt by modern-day atheists
to remove the word "Christ" from Christmas? Some others
believe that the X is a sign of the cross. Neither is
correct. Actually, "Xmas" is almost as old as
"Christmas." The X is actually a throwback to the Greek
letter "Chi," part of Chi-Rho, the symbol of Christ.
Thus, Xians is a legitimate word for Christians. "Xmas"
has been used for centuries as a very respectful term. Tip from EMAZING: http://www.emazing.com. 21
Dec 00.
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