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Phi for Neo-phi-tes, "Phi (Φ) (=1.618033988749895…), most often pronounced fi like "fly," is simply an irrational number like pi (π) (= 3.14159265358979…), but one with many unusual mathematical properties. Phi is simply the ratio of the line segments that result when a line is divided in one very special and unique way, and is the basis for the Golden Section, Ratio or Mean. With lower case, phi (p or φ) is 0.6180339887, the reciprocal of Phi and also Phi minus 1.
-- Found on Digg by Shorty
Illusions and Paradoxes – Seeing is Believing or is it?
–Found on Digg by Shorty
Just when you thought you were safe…
BLOCK YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE FROM PUBLIC ACCESS
This is upsetting, thought I should pass it along. Check your drivers license… Now you can see anyone's Driver's License on the Internet–picture and all! I definitely removed mine, I suggest you all do the same…
Go to the website and check it out. Enter your name, city and state to see if yours is on file. After your license comes on the screen, click the box marked "Please Remove". This will remove it from public viewing, but not from law enforcement.
Eat a cherry pie with the fewest bites at the Microprizes County Fair.
— Found on Metafilter by Shorty
The [mis]use of Computers in Movies. This site lists some of the amazing (some might say impossible) feats movie computers can perform. For example, high-tech computers, such as those used by NASA, the CIA, or some such governmental institution, will have easy to understand graphical interfaces. Those that don't, have incredibly powerful text-based command shells that can correctly understand and execute commands typed in plain English.
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Printer Jam!?!. Explore the site.
-- Shorty
"hello, and welcome to pseudodictionary, the place where words you've made up can become part of an actual online dictionary! slang, webspeak, colloquialisms...you name it, if you know a word that should be in the dictionary but isn't, submit it and we'll post it on this site (with credit given to you of course)." Check out "NSFW".
-- Shorty
Things You Learn From Children; for example, "A king-size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 square foot house 4 inches deep." (at least, it seems like it!)
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Rubik's Cube Solver - Get that old Rubik's cube out, and use Rubik's Cube Solver created by Eric Dietz - you just enter your cube's configuration in the spaces provided, and hit Solve. The program solves the cube. (The program will not work on Netscape 4.x or IE 3.x or earlier).
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A few sites suggested by the San Diego Union-Tribune: www.funbrain.com, with lots of puzzles and games for all ages; Discovery School's puzzlemaker, a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists; an answer to the laptop that gets too hot for your lap, or keeps slipping off, at laplounger.com.
The PAIN, but she just keeps going, and going and going. If she gets stuck, just nudge her along with your mouse. Left click your mouse and help her right along. www.bleacheatingfreaks.com/translate.php?page=762
"Su Doku" (Japanese number game) item -- One webpage is a description of Sudoku, including an example game and links to other games and a link to Web Sudoku.
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Ballistic Defecation is just one of many topics described on “A Moment of Science”. If you are even a little bit interested in the world around you these two-minute radio programs are just for you—and you don't need to know anything about science! These vignettes remove some of the mystery from science, but not the wonder. A Moment of Science makes you think, “Wow, that's neat!”, and go tell somebody else about it. There's no end to the topics covered, and you the listener can add to the list by . Be sure to check out their library for audio and scripts.
– Shorty
Fun Pages, Quizzes / Games & Mind Readers, Farts / Beans & Beer, & more at http://www.kerman94.com/index.html
-- Shorty
SPAUG has permanently altered the concept of experiences. The aptitude to generate mega-perfectly leads to the capacity to matrix seamlessly. What do we enhance? Anything and everything, regardless of reconditeness! Our technology takes the best aspects of Unix and XForms. We apply the proverb "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink" not only to our dynamic, distributed research and development monitoring but our aptitude to brand. The reporting factor can be summed up in one word: co-branded. The infrastructures factor can be summed up in one word: collaborative. Your budget for facilitating should be at least twice your budget for disintermediating. Think ultra-back-end. Think cyber-distributed.
Generated by the Corporate Gibberish Generator. Enter your company name and click Generate to generate several paragraphs of corporate gibberish suitable for pasting into your prospectus.
-- Shorty
55 Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena - original linque found on Metafilter.
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Google Content Blocker – I have no idea how long this link will be usable, but it seems a good one for FunPages.
–Shorty
Interesting Google Satellite Maps deserves a link. Zoom in, zoom out, click and drag to scan - it's like flying!
Not to be outdone, multimap.com has lots of neat features, too. Here's an overview of the Bay Area. Note the Zoom and Scale icons - they give nice control.
-- Shorty
The puzzle that ate the world?! It's called Su Doku. It came from Japan. It's deceptively simple, but a brief tutorial reveals hidden depths. It's spreading like gangbusters through the puzzle-obsessed British public, where it is making major news and being rapidly added to the country's newspapers. Fortunately, archived puzzles and free software are out there to provide puzzle addicts their latest fix. C'mon…give it a try. It's only *one* little puzzle. (Heh, heh.)
--Shorty
The Gettysburg Address Powerpoint Presentation. It somehow lacks something...
--Stan
Puzzles, need I say more?
--Shorty
List of strange units of measurement -- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. "Strange units [Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight, etc.] are sometimes used by scientists, especially physicists and mathematicians, and other technically-minded people such as engineers and programmers, as bits of dry humor combined with practical convenience."
--Shorty
This looks like an appropriate FunPages item. Over 45,000 famous quotes by 5,000 authors from Aristotle to Zappa! www.brainyquote.com
--Shorty
Definitely a FunPages item, found on Metafilter -- SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator. An example paper [PDF] is attached, but hey, it's just a few clicks to generate your own.
--Shorty
Another worthy FunPages item -- Physics and Astronomy Fun, at www.physlink.com/Fun/Index.cfm.
-- Shorty
A missive like this is my way of keeping in touch with those whom I don't seem to spend enough time. Anyhow, the URL below is a neat review of how well you would do following the etiquette at meals throughout the world. Have fun. Tell me how you came out. I demonstrated that I was an international klutz. Regards,
Jim
Quiz on Proper Etiquette at Meals Throughout the World
The Retail Alphabet Game is one part puzzle, one part self assessment, and a pinch of postmodern art.
When you select one of the editions, you will be presented with 26 alphabet letterforms, extracted from product and corporate logos within the United States. Your job is to figure out the source of each."
-- Shorty
Here are some interesting of items -
U_thrill_me - Are you old enough to remember?
Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! - Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web
and for those of you fascinated by airplanes, here's a source of interesting wallpaper candidates for your desktop -
Grumman FM2 Wildcat,
Curtiss A3-B Falcon,
Cessna A-37B Dragonfly,
Consolidated B-32 Dominator,
Rockwell International B-1A Lancer,
Lockheed C-141B Shirtlifter,
Sikorsky H-53 Sea Stallion,
Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star,
Douglas X-3 Stilleto (or is it Stilleti?):
a comprehensive library of U.S. military aircraft cockpit photos
I remembered what I was going to send you for the fun page tonight -- hamster dance. A Google search for hamster dance turns up many sites and references. The main one is here, but it's not as good as I remember the original version. However, this interactive parody site seems much truer to the original, plus it has some additional graphics. And, with the search string hamster dance disney, I finally found the original version, as I remember it
-- Shorty
"A parent's primer to computer slang " -- phrum /\/\ | cr050ft, 0f a|_ |_ p|_ac35!
See also www.netlingo.com, and translate this: |-|3r3'5 a|\|0t|-|3r 5|t3 \/\/ |t|-| /\/\0r3 |\|3t 5|-|0rt|-|a|\|d ,|\|3t|q|_|3tt3, 3tc.
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Escher Web Sketch allows you to draw repeating patterns. You can select the symmetry of the patterns by clicking on one of the icons in the bar above the drawing area. The drawing tools are selected from the icon bar under the drawing area. You can also change the pattern size and placement with the Modify cell button. The right hand side of the drawing area is reserved for each drawing tool's usage. Typically it changes the pen size and color.
Information on M.C. Escher –numerous web sites exist dealing with the work and biography of M.C. Escher. Only a very short selection is given here, but each has a gallery and shop where you can see and buy his art:
Official M.C.Escher Website.
M.C. Escher biography, with some art in the gallery.
-- Shorty
Hi, Stan -- I think this page of three games is a worthy addition to Fun Pages. www.girlsgotech.org/games.html
—Shorty
I would like to recommend www.gameportalonline.com IT has many free online games. Jonathan Mendonca