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6 June, 2003
Famous Monkeys
A list of monkeys who have made their mark on society.
Shown here is Nim Chimpsky:
Nim
Chimpsky, named after the great linguist Noam Chomsky, was the first chimpanzee
to learn American sign language. Nim became famous, and was the subject of
numerous books and television specials. But when the researchers had no more use
for him, they opted to sell him to a hepatitis research lab, where he would have
been the subject of painful experiments and eventually killed. Nim enjoys
looking at magazines, watching television, and putting on hats and shoes.
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Banished Words List
A collection of words and phrases that should be banished from the language. Examples include: alternative lifestyle, conventional wisdom, going forward, perfectly candid, and turned up missing.
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Cat Stevens Cover Songs
This is pretty cool. At the Cat Stevens site, they invite people to submit cover versions of Cat Stevens songs. Unfortunately, they chose the Real Audio format rather than MP3 (man, that Real Audio player sucks!).
Currently, 328 songs are available. Some are good, some are terrible.
(via Love and the Happy Cynic)
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Feral Children
An entire web site devoted to feral children.
Feral children, also known as wolf children, are children who've grown up with minimal human contact, or even none at all. They may have been brought up by animals (often wolves) or somehow survived on their own. In some cases, children are confined and denied normal social interaction with other people.
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The Hotel of the Future
PC World's Michael Lasky spent the night in the Hotel of the Future. And lived to write about it.
The invitation-only "Room of the Future" is housed in a special Hilton University wing of the property near Los Angeles International Airport. It comes furnished with a legion of next-generation products to enhance guests' business productivity, comfort, and entertainment.
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Chain Saw Accidents
Which body parts are subject to the most chain saw accidents? Click here to find out, and read some stats about chainsaw injuries.
(Thanks VoGE)
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Misunderstood Lyrics
The Kiss This Guy site is an internet classic. The site's name comes from a Jimi Hendrix lyric, "Excuse me while I kiss the sky."
You'll find hundreds of other frequently misunderstood lyrics, and you can submit your own.
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Motorized Scuba Bike
Australia's only suppliers of the Scuba-Doo motorized scuba bike.
Scuba-Dooing
means you don't need to wear a mask or mouthpiece. The air tank and diving
weights are on the Scuba-Doo motorised scuba bike.
You are seated on your Scuba-Doo, with your head and shoulders in a clear dome. Your air is constantly being replenished from a scuba tank, enabling you to breathe normally!
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Pearl Jam Going Indie?
I'm not exactly a Pearl Jam fan, but I did find this MSNBC article interesting. Pearl Jam's 12-year contract with Epic Records is expiring.
If Pearl Jam -- now touring the United States to wildly enthusiastic crowds -- is able to create a successful business model mobilizing its fans via the Internet and engaging in such "crazy" stunts as releasing live double albums of every show it performs, this could be the beginning of a stampede away from the lumbering dinosaurs that the major labels have become.
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Create Custom Posters
Go here, and create your own posters. Enter some "long live" text, along with some "down with" text. Choose your images, and click a button to generate the posters. For example:
Posted on 6 June, 2003