Here’s one of many good ones: 10 Most Bizarre People on Earth
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Incredible High Detail Panoramas
Company uses extremely high-resolution gigapixel digital photography to capture panorama stills. Intended for use in motion picture visual effects as background images. Take a look at the video of samples of effects created with the images.
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Site Helps You Give It Away
To help curb the amount of junk we send to landfills, this site offers a community forum to give your stuff you don’t want to someone who does. Great concept!
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Uses for Wood Ash
This Old House Magazine gives 10 uses for wood ash. One in particular interested me. I have a pond in my backyard that tends grow algae during the hot summer months. According to the article, “One tablespoon per 1,000 gallons adds enough potassiumm to strengthen other aquatic plants that compete with algae, slowing its growth.”
As I browse items on ebay, I’m always chagrined at some of the people who tend to gouge on shipping charges in order to increase the bottom line on low cost items. Here’s one for ya, how about almost $1,000,000 to ship two washers worth 38 cents! Guess who paid for it, Uncle Sam or better yet, you and me the taxpayers!
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Panoramio photo site
Photo site lets you map your photos to Google maps. They can also appear in Google Earth if accepted.
View my pics here:
http://www.panoramio.com/user/719094
YouTube member, Mr. G performs experiments more for their cool factor than in the interest of science. Here in one of his episodes, he makes a flame thrower from a match and clothes pin.
Experimental casting and distribution highlight this production. Cast auditioned by submitting videos to YouTube. Very high production values from what I’ve seen so far, seems promising.
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Sculpture from Saplings and Twigs
This artist builds unique sculptures by bending saplings and twigs into shapes and buildings.
A function on the site, Internet Archive, lets you go back in time and look at what sites looked like in years past. They have 85 billion web pages archived from 1996.