Interesting / Useful Sites

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We have an 'interesting / useful sites' thread in the Outlook forum, where I place links to sites dealing with more serious issues - this thread is more for pop culture / lifestyle / entertainment stuff.
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Listology. I've only looked at the one page, but I assume it's a site that has lots of lists, which may come in handy.

Here's the page I looked at -

VH1's 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders (From 100-1)

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Come to think of it, maybe I should've put this in the "weird stuff" thread.

Struck By Lightning
- site for people who've been struck by lightning

Excerpt from their home page:

Our purpose is to promote lightning and electrical safety education. We wish to make "When Thunder Roars Go Indoors" as effective for lightning safety as "Stop Drop and Roll" is for fire safety.

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A photographer has been taking pictures of sleeping people for years now.

You can view his images at the following site:
Ichioka Sleep Pix Gallery

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Twitter

Tech blogger Dwight Silverman describes Twitter:

.... Twitter is a Web-based application that lets you record -- second by second -- what you're doing with your life.

Sites such as this have been dubbed "the narcissystem".

.... The best way to describe Twitter:

It's like instant messaging to a Web page. You can enter brief messages onto your own Twitter page, or add "TwitterIM" to your IM client's buddy list, or send a text message via cell phone, and the result shows up on your Twitter page.

Unlike IMs, which are here and gone (or saved on your hard drive if your client logs them), Twitter messages are archived for all time and discoverable by search engines.

On its surface, Twitter forces you to make an obnoxious presumption: That anyone will care enough about what you're doing to go to this page and look at it regularly. However, your pearls of minutiae can be delivered to others via IM or RSS, saving your hordes of fans the trouble of clicking a link or typing in a triple-dub.

.... However, the second and more social aspect of Twitter is what makes it more interesting. You can designate people to be your friends, and vice versa. When you do, their musings also end up on your page. Suddenly, it's not all about you -- it's about us, and that has some intriguing possibilities.

[SouthwestRanger]

And Ladies and Gentlemen....



Here is the clip from the first episode of THE LONE GUNMEN TV Series that uncannily predicted the 9-11 "Tragedy" several months before it happened !!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUKQz-xm0is

And did THE SIMPSON'S also "predict" 9-11 as well ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKkEq0n6gPY&feature=related

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Deletionpedia

Deletionpedia is an archive of about 63,557 pages which have been deleted from the English-language Wikipedia.

Deletionpedia is not a wiki: you cannot edit the pages uploaded here. An automated bot uploads pages as they are deleted from Wikipedia.

Websites ten years ago, compared to today

....Here are some of the top-tier brands of the tech industries and their websites have stayed on the Internet for more than a decade. Let’s take a look at how these websites look like 10 years ago, comparing with that it is now. Full list after jump.

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Gender Analyzer: Man or Woman, who is writing that blog?

I know this is a board, not a blog, but I was curious. I pasted in the URL for this board's main page and got this puzzling message:

An error occurred

Sorry, we can only classify web pages written in english

They must have our board confused with Drowned Madonna, which has translated their fan site into every language known to mankind (see here), except for that weird "clicky" language in Africa or where ever. They've not gotten around to that one yet.

[knightmuzic]

You have to paste in an individual topic url. The analyzer thinks that this topic was written by a man.

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A list of the right words for everyday 'thingummys'

Excerpts:

Aglet

Is the little plastic or metal tube at the end of your shoelace. Its purpose is to stop the thread of the lace from unravelling, as well as making it easier to feed through the shoe's eyelets. (The word comes from the Old French aguillette, meaning needle.)

Fines

Are the dusty remnants at the bottom of cereal boxes - particularly delicious in the more sugary brands.

The Interrobang

Is the combination of an interrogative point, or question mark, and a bang (printers' parlance for the exclamation mark). These are some sentences which require one: 'She said what?!'; 'He ate how many slices of cake?!'; 'You're going to have a baby?!'

No one uses them more eloquently than Captain Haddock in Herge's Tintin stories.

Jabot

Is a ruffle or frill, generally of lace, worn at the throat of a woman's shirt or blouse.

Lunula

Is the white half-moon part at the base of the fingernail or toe nail. It is paler than the rest of the nail because it isn't so firmly attached to the blood vessels and is most visible on the thumbs.The thick fold of skin that overlaps the lunula, which manicurists push down, is called the eponychium (or cuticle) and it protects the area between the nail and the skin from harmful bacteria.

Phloem bundles

(Pronounced flo-em bundles) are the squidgy, stringy bits between the skin and the edible part of a banana.

Rowel

Is the spiked revolving wheel at the end of a cowboy's spur.

Tittle

If you've dotted an i, you have tittled, because the little dot above the i and the j is called a tittle. Hence the phrase 'jot and tittle', which indicates that every small detail has received attention.

Ullage

Is the space in a wine bottle not occupied by wine. If the top level of the wine is anywhere in the neck of the bottle, that's regarded as a perfect fill level. Older bottles may have a lower level than this, due to evaporation through the cork; for Bordeaux wines this is described in terms of the level's position on the shoulder, the rounded part at the top of the main bottle.

Zuchetto

(pronounced zoo-ket-oh) Is the skullcap worn by Roman Catholic clergy. The colour of the zucchetto (which means pumpkin in Italian) denotes rank. Cardinals traditionally wear red, bishops and abbots wear violet, priests black and the Pope has a white one.

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Online Guitar and Bass Tuner

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Article about WikiLeaks site.

Wikileaks Forced to Leak Its Own Secret Info -- Update

Excerpt:

What's Wikileaks, the net's foremost document leaking site, supposed to do when a whistle-blower submits a list of email addresses belonging to the site's confidential donors as a leaked document?

That's exactly the conundrum Wikileaks faced this week after someone from the controversial whistle-blowing site sent an emergency fund-raising appeal on Saturday to previous donors. But instead of hiding email addresses from the recipients by using the bcc field, the sender put 58 addresses into the cc field, revealing all the addresses to all the recipients.

Someone then submitted the email as a leaked document, writing "WikiLeaks leaks it's own donors, aww irony. BCC next time kthx."

Wikileaks, which has been criticized for lacking discretion in deciding whether to release documents or not, published the email and the donors' email addresses on Wednesday. The entry noted that the email was submitted "possibly to test the project's principles of complete impartiality when dealing with whistleblowers."

One notable email address belongs to convicted former hacker Adrian Lamo, who now runs his own security company. In a Twitter post on Saturday, Lamo noted the screw-up, writing "Thanks WikiLeaks, for leaking your donor list.[...] That's dedication." See more in his comment to this story.

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America's Worst Intersections - The bottlenecks in these 100 cities will slow you down the most.