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Old 12-06-2010, 07:39 AM   #2251
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Scriv, that's pretty cute. I'm setting in aside for my G-daughter's next visit.
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Old 12-06-2010, 07:47 AM   #2252
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Sky, that list deserves a thread of it's own.

(I'm embarrassed to say I didn't know Virginia Wolfe was a real person. The name, for me, was just a of play made into a movie )
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Old 12-06-2010, 11:31 AM   #2253
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Inventions.

Extensive list of what, when, who and where.
cool.
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Old 12-06-2010, 11:31 AM   #2254
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Sky, that list deserves a thread of it's own.

(I'm embarrassed to say I didn't know Virginia Wolfe was a real person. The name, for me, was just a of play made into a movie )
At least you can say that you were never afraid of her.
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Old 12-06-2010, 11:49 AM   #2255
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Old 12-06-2010, 05:51 PM   #2256
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That's ok Lamp. Madonna caught me by surprise.
I still am a little surprised.
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Old 12-08-2010, 07:46 AM   #2257
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Virtual Fortune Cookie!

http://www.virtualfortunecookies.com/index.php
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Old 12-09-2010, 04:13 PM   #2258
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This woman sold calligraphy buttons to us when I was back in college decades ago. I still have a dog-eared copy of the old button catalog with a bunch of smarmy quotes.

I just bought some buttons yesterday, mostly to replace the "Happiness is the planet earth in your rear view mirror" button that was pinned above my rear view mirror and that I lost when I bought the new car.

I like this better than any of the big button/shirt sites because it's easier to search. I also like to minimalist approach to the website.

This isn't a product endorsement, I just like reading through the catalog.

http://www.nancybuttons.com/

One of my favorites:
I'm not God, I'm your GM. Consider me your Angel of Murphy.

Never trust a smiling GM!

Are my favorite so far
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Old 12-13-2010, 07:54 PM   #2259
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I caught Lil Griff working on this snow day calculator.
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Old 12-15-2010, 07:27 PM   #2260
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Mapping every city, every block.

http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer?hp?hp
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Old 12-15-2010, 08:46 PM   #2261
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amazing ^


Some Christmas lights around the world.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesi...lights-festive
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Old 12-16-2010, 03:27 PM   #2262
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This is a hoot!
Political cartoon slide show.
http://www.politico.com/wuerker/index-drawings.html
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Old 12-17-2010, 05:27 PM   #2263
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WARNING CAUTION BEWARE
You could end up pissing away hours, make that days, at this Google Labs site, comparing the appearance frequency of words and phrases used in books, from 1500 to date.

I warned you.
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Old 12-17-2010, 05:56 PM   #2264
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You're right ! I just spent about 30 minutes there

It's interesting to see how some words have peaks and valleys,
and then try to imagine why.
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Old 12-22-2010, 08:37 AM   #2265
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Vit-D

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/vitamin-d/

In fact, the whole damm website is pretty cool.

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

this was good too... drugs:

http://www.informationisbeautiful.ne.../high-society/

And a great collection of graphs from his Flicker account:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/2554102...n/photostream/
Map it:

http://www.informationisbeautiful.ne...ize-of-africa/
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