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Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Year Zero
For this Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia we try to figure out if there is there a year 0, a year between 1 B.C. and 1 A.D.?
Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Artificial Objects On The Moon
This Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia is a list of artificial objects found on the Moon. However, this list does not include flag, golfball or statue.
IMG_8888
Unfortunately photographs don’t com out of our digital cameras with appropriate and witty titles about the subject matter. No, they come out with titles like IMG_2457 and IMG_3396. What are the photographs titled IMG_8888 pictures of? (Eight is my lucky number).
Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Gravity Hills
A gravity hill, also known as a magnetic hill (and sometimes a mystery hill or a gravity road), is a place where the layout of the surrounding land produces the optical illusion that a very slight downhill slope appears to be an uphill slope. Thus, a car left out of gear will appear to be rolling uphill. There are hundreds of known gravity hill locations around the world. These “paranormal” sites also tend to have names like “Haunted Hill”, “Magnetic Hill”, or “Anti-gravity Hill”, reflecting attribution by local folklore of the unusual properties of the area to such “mysteries” as the supernatural or magnetism. While humans also have a sense of balance to determine the inclination of the ground, visual cues can override this sense, especially if the inclination is shallow. This wikipedia link also lists all known gravity hill locations.
Peanuts, By Charles Bukowski
These short stories and poems called “Peanuts, by Charles Bukowski” (actually by Hanstock) could possibly the most brilliant thing I’ve seen on the internet all year, maybe ever.
Flaaaaming Cursors
“I like my beer cold, my tv loud, and my cursors flaaaaming.” – A corruption of the famous Homer Simpson quote.