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2011-06-03 07:38:42     BBC News - Creating Cumbria's musical hill

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13602686

Five hundred musical instruments, powered only by the wi...
The sound made by the instruments, some conventional and ...
French composer Pierre Sauvageot, along with French grou ...
He explains how it works and how his team went about ins ...
"Harmonic F

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2011-10-30 08:30:52     BBC News - The Halloween myth of the War of the Worlds panic

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15470903

Mass panic and hysteria swept the United States on the e... 1938, when an all-too-realistic radio dramatisation of T... Worlds sent untold thousands of people into the streets ...
The radio show was so terrifying in its accounts of inva ...
Or, more ac

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2011-10-30 08:31:06     BBC News - The only living master of a dying martial art

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15480741

A former factory worker from the British Midlands may be... master of the centuries-old Sikh battlefield art of shas... father of four is now engaged in a full-time search for ...

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2012-10-22 21:29:18     Bubble Ball Unicode (Characters Map)

http://www.bubbleballtext.com/unicode

Bubble Ball Text - Unicode Character Map
This table shows the conversions (mapping) used to gener ...

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2010-11-08 23:36:15     Out of Print on Cool Hunting

http://www.coolhunting.com/style/out-of-print.php

Turning classic book covers into inspirational t-shirts,... recently added a kids line to its collection of "intelli... fashions. Tykes can don soon-to-be-favorite reads like "... Rye," "Moby Dick," "Pride and Prejudice" or "Brave New W... distressed,

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2010-07-18 15:10:54     Self-Referential Aptitude Test

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lorch/personal/self-ref.html

Self-Referential Aptitude Test
by Jim Propp (propp@math.mit.edu)
A few years ago I wrote a "Self-Referential Aptitude Tes ...
The solution to the puzzle is unique, and in some cases ...
... all of the above

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2011-10-11 16:53:37     Draw a Stickman

http://www.drawastickman.com/

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2012-02-07 14:27:51     Euphemisms: Making murder respectable | The Economist

http://www.economist.com/node/21541767

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2012-04-08 10:09:10     EXTERMIKNIT! Dalek knitting pattern

http://www.entropyhouse.com/penwiper/who/extermaknit.html

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2012-03-14 08:05:17     Pi Land

http://www.eveandersson.com/pi/index2


Pi Land
by Eve
Fun Activities:
... Source: xkcd

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2012-12-19 18:50:30     Hexaflexagon poem: "No one names a black cat ginger" | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/natematias/8287421473/


photo
Hexaflexagon poem: "No one names a black cat ginger"
David Varela has taken on a 100 hour writing challenge t ...
... ously wrote me a Hexaflexagon poem about Ginger the cat!

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2015-04-19 14:45:15     George Orwell - A Nice Cup of Tea - Essay

http://www.george-orwell.org/A_Nice_Cup_of_Tea/0.html

If you look up 'tea' in the first cookery book that come...
will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most yo ...
lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling on se ...
important points.
... as golden:

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2014-01-04 11:33:55     101 Household Tips for Every Room in your Home | Glamumous!

http://www.glamumous.co.uk/...ld-tips-for-every-room-in.html

I love to discover tips which make housework easier! Fro... tricks to finding new and ingenious uses for old things,... provides a wealth of information and advice.
In this post I've collected 101 visual tips from all ove ...

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2012-07-30 07:40:55     5 Guys, 1 Piano - Goodnet

http://www.goodnet.org/articles/412

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2012-02-16 08:29:47     (sqrt(cos(x))*cos(200x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(9-x^2), -sqrt(9-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5 - Google Search

http://www.google.co.uk/search?...

Graph for (sqrt(​cos(​x))*​cos(​200*​x)+​sqrt(​abs(⮮. sqrt(​9-​x^​2), ‑sqrt(​9-​x^​2)

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2012-01-04 12:05:05     Tech Specs | Sphero

http://www.gosphero.com/sphero/tech-specs

Sphero is like nothing you’ve seen before. It’s the ... that you control with a tilt, touch, or swing from your ... tablet. Sphero delivers a unique mixed-reality experienc... multi-player games that let you engage in the virtual wo... real one. M

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2012-02-13 09:53:59     The great escape of bath toys in the Pacific | Environment | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...at-escape-bath-toys-pacific?...

When 28,800 bath toys fell off a cargo ship in the Pacif... they began an incredible journey. While some washed up i... and Hawaii, countless others circumnavigated the globe. ... from his new book, Donovan Hohn follows the fantastic voyage

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2010-11-19 14:48:46     Video: Test driving the Parrot AR.Drone | Technology | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology.../gadgets-parrot-drone

Technology editor Charles Arthur sees if he has the righ... Parrot's Wi-Fi controlled quadricopter for a test flight

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2007-12-21 13:05:40     Twelve Days of Christmas - Notes on the Festival and the Carol

http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/...of_christmas.htm

The twelve days of Christmas,1 as a festival, have a lon... According to one source, it was first mentioned as a fes... eastern Father, Ephraem Syrus, at the end of the fourth ... declared to be such by the western Council of Tours in 5...
As a song,

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2010-07-12 17:42:52     Dry Erase White Board Paint for Offices | IdeaPaint

http://www.ideapaint.com/work/ideapaint/

When you’re confined to the space of a typical whitebo... destined to be small. IdeaPaint turns virtually anything... a high-performance dry-erase surface, giving you the spa... collaborate, interact and fully explore your creativity.... you use it,

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2010-07-31 09:28:00     First and last letter of sentence - Interesting Illusions

http://www.interestingillusions.com/...ge-first-last-letter/

First and last letter of sentence
<< Previous Next >>
First and last letter of sentence
This text started circulating the internet in 2003. Its ...

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2007-11-13 09:34:55     Playing Cards

http://www.jfitz.com/cards/index.html

"Classic" Playing Cards
Download:
PNG's: classic-cards.zip
TGZ: classic-cards.tgz *

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2012-02-15 16:16:20     Makego

http://www.makegotoys.com/

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2012-08-24 10:33:20     JS/UIX - Terminal

http://www.masswerk.at/jsuix/

JS/UIX is an UN*X-like OS for standard web-browsers, written
entirely in JavaScript (no plug-ins used). It comprises ...
tual machine, shell, virtual file-system, process-manage ...
and brings its own terminal with screen- and keyboard-ma ...

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2012-04-19 09:29:06     Space-age Christmas c.1973 | Retronaut

http://www.retronaut.co/2010/12/space-age-christmas-c-1973/

“There are two theories about the kind of Christmas pr... expect in 2003, and no one can say exactly which of them...
“Because of the incredible advances in automation, mac ...
“So, if that theory is correct, Christmas presents in ...
“The oppo

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2012-07-30 10:44:50     Piano Staircase | The Fun Theory

http://www.thefuntheory.com/piano-staircase

”Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator ... is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers.... actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to t... the escalator by making it fun to do? See the results here

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2012-11-27 10:20:53     Mining enthusiast creates his own replica in his garden (From The Northern Echo)

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/...n_replica_in_his_garden/

A MINING enthusiast has built his very own 150ft ironsto... his back garden.
John Wiggins has spent years making the perfect 19th cen ...
Despite being located just 15 feet underground, the mine ...

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2012-01-27 09:18:28     Toronto News: Toronto teens send Lego man on an a balloon odyssey 24 kilometres high - thestar.com

http://www.thestar.com/...balloon-odyssey-24-kilometres-high

Toronto teens send Lego man on an a balloon odyssey 24 k...
Published On Wed Jan 25 2012
Email
Print
... the typical cruising altitude of a commercial aircraft.

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2010-07-03 10:44:59     the history of computing project

http://www.thocp.net/index.html

history of computing project

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2014-03-11 09:20:35     20 Jokes That Only Intellectuals Will Understand. Number 5 Took Me A Minute.

http://www.tickld.com/...-only-intellectuals-will-understand

...

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