January 31, 2004
Here are The 2003 “Grow-a-Brain” Food Links!
20 foods I hope never to taste, from bird's nest soup and Eskimo ice cream to yak's milk and durian - 12/9/03
"2nd CIA" - The Culinary Institute of America, and other top cooking schools around the country - 7/14/03
500 Songs About Food (From "Ronsens") - 12/24/03
500 years of American Food and hundreds of articles from the Research Centre for the History of Food and Drink at the University of Adelaide. (Both from "Boynton") - 11/12/03
Association of Pizza Delivery Drivers
"BadMouth" Nut Poppers - 10/31/03
Belgian, not French, fries - 8/23/03
Best Thai Restaurant in Orange County - 10/5/03
Bread Bakers Guild of America (From Dr. Bob's Nifty Little List of Web Sites)
British Breakfast at its very best - An artist has decided to spend 12 days sitting in a bath of baked beans... 11/15/03
Caffeinated Hot Sauce, Timmy's Torrid Tonic - 12/21/03
Candy & Confectionery Art - 1/11/04
Cartoon Recipes (from Gordon Coale) and a wonderful recipe for salted water
Cheese Reporter - 9/7/03
Clark Hornbell's The Art of War (as it applies to hosting a potluck) : "Firstly Ethere are some dishes that you don't want to have left over at the end of the night..." - 11/27/03
Classical Cooking Glossary (From "Master Foods")
Condiment packets gallery and Macaroni & Cheese boxes (A web oldie) - See the complete list!
Cooking for Losers - basic recipes - 11/18/03
Cooking with Christopher Walken - 11/9/03
Cooking with Jesus, where every meal is a miracle... - 11/24/03
Cuban Cigar Pronounciation Guide - 10/31/03
Cucumber-Yoda Salad, Hobbit Hash, Chicken-Fried Godzilla Lips from The Science Fiction Cookbook - 9/29/03
David Mas Masumoto, a Poet of Peaches
Dishwasher Salmon with a Piquant Dill Souce (From "The Surreal Gourmet") - 9/29/03
Dr. Toast's Toast haiku (From Lisa de Araujo's Burnt toast)
Eat Dangerously - The book, the website
Eating Your Garden Snails (From "San Francisco Gate")
Eat Wild - 12/20/03
Ernest Hemingway's Cold Cucumber Soup
Entomophagy (Insect Eating) - 1/10/04
Everything about Herbs & Spices - Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages (and "The Spice House" in Evanston, Illinois - from a story on NPR - 9/21/03)
Fake food (9/01/03) and Artificial food
Fake Space Food - 11/13/03
Fast Food Premiums (From "Imaginary World") - 9/29/03
Filipino Food & Cooking (From "House On a Hill") - 7/15/03
Food Blogs from KIPlog
Food Porn. The article "Food Porn" is here. More Beauties from Peter Lippmann and Ulf Skogsbergh
Food sculptures, The Butter Cow Lady and World's "Cheesiest" Car
Foods of the Bible Crossword Puzzle
Food timeline and Culinary History Timelines
For about 15 years, Michael Eck has been thinking about threes. From the food section of his Book of Threes : "Irish coffee contains the three major food groups - alcohol, caffeine and sugar"... - 10/31/03
Fromages - Top Cheese site, rated by PC Magazine, Cheese-phones and What a friend we have in cheeses
Gold Kiwis - 11/8/03
Grapes, by Lura Lee, artist- 9/24/03
Grits, nobody can eat just one - 9/6/03
Head cheese Recipes - 12/21/03
High Tea Menu - 9/7/03
History of Salt (From the always reliable "Plep") - 8/8/03
"HotHotHot" - The original Hot Sauce online store, and photos of Chile Pepper
How Butter Bells work (From "Mirabilis") - 8/3/03
How to peel & mince an Onion - 8/8/03
Hungarian "meleg szendvics" or hot sandwich from Emese Gaal - 10/28/03
If it's Lebanese food, it's here
La Brea Bakery - 10/25/03
Last Dinner on the Titanic - 9/14/03
Lunch at Noon - Nice! (From "Coudal Partners", Chicago design Group) - 12/3/03
Lunch - "One man's pornography is another man's lunch" - 8/23/03
Making Bread (From "Presurfer")
Marmite - "I Love Marmite" , An Ode to Marmite, and The Marmite FAQ
Matzo Granola (From "Boing Boing")
Maurice Bennett, The "Toastman", or as he likes to call himself, "New Zealand Most Renowned Artist" has a gallery of his creations, both past & present - 1/16/04
Measuring Heat by Scoville Units - 10/24/03
Mexican Grocer and Ethnic Grocer
Mister Brain's Pork Faggots - "How many can you handle?" (From "Rude Food") Mmmmm...
Camel Cheese (From "Fark") - 11/17/03 (And The Limburger Cheese Ballad)
MRE's, Military Meals Ready to Eat and other Shelf stable Ready to eat items - 7/27/03
"Must have been Something I ate"
Native-tech, Native American recipes - 9/06/03
Pasta Log Project (From "Monkey Media Report"). Sounds of Pasta and Pasta Shapes
Pit Cooking, How to tell dinner from a hole in the ground - 11/8/03
Pizza delivery Stories - 10/28/03 (And the old Virtual Pizza Server)
Poutine, A Strange Canadian Way To Eat French Fries And Cheese - 11/2/03
Post Punk Kitchen - 11/2/03
Ramadan Soup : Breaking the Ramadan Fast with Soup and "Serving the Guest" - a sufi cookbook. Here are some mouth-watering Ramadan Recipes . And while we're on the subject of soup, don't forget Lewis Carroll's Mock turtle song Soup of the Evening, Beautiful Soup - "Beautiful soup, so rich and green, waiting in a hot tureen!", a serious Soup Site, (And here's another one The Joy of Soup ) - 11/3/03
Ramen Recipe Database (From the beautifully-designed "Shenanchie's Kitchen") - 8/8/03
Recipes from all over the world and Top Secrets Recipes of America's Favorite Brand-Name Foods
Recreating Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving (From "J-Walk") - 11/10/03
Rice crackers with flossy pork - 7/18/03
Russian Caviar and Sturgeon Aqua Farms, LLC
Screen Cuisine, 125 Movies About or Featuring Food , (From "Mirabilis") - 8/3/03
Slow Food and 'McDonald's sues 'slow food' critic'
Spices - 8/6/03
Squirrel Recipes (From "Information Junk") - 11/2/03
Story of Bread from "Lilek" - 1/10/04
Supersize it! from "Worth 1000" (some are better than others) - 8/7/03
"Surgeons & Chefs" , the Weird Show of the Week - 11/17/03
Sushi - 8/5/03
Tabasco vegetarian recipes - 12/16/03
"Taco World" is Taco joint sign gallery (From "Boing Boing") - 12/9/03
Taquitos.net - 1385 snacks reviewed
The Art of Napkin Folding
The book "Dining with Proust" is out of print. Instead, here is a Quick 'n' Dirty list of Biblio-Cookbooks - 12/14/03
The Great All-Mexican Taco Stand - 8/23/04
The holidays are upon us - Un-Happy holiday greetings from the genetically-engineered Kraft foods experiment , now new & unimproved - 11/13/03
The Mount Horeb Mustard Museum
The Nutrition Source, from The Harvard School of Public Health
The Physics of Pancake Tossing (From "Mirabilis") - 8/3/03
Things I am going to make sure my hypothetical children know about the food they eat - 10/29/03
Topher's Breakfast Cereal Character Guide - 12/13/03
Types of Korean Food
Vanilla (From "Food Reference") - 9/27/03
What does the FDA actually do at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition - 9/29/03
What would you do without salt? - 9/10/03
White Trash Recipes - 8/3/03
Our Giant Food Resource Here
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The 2003 “Grow-a-Brain” Bob Dylan Links
AJ Weberman VS Dylan. Where is AJ Weberman today? At the best psychedelic site on the internet
"Blonde on Blonde": The Missing Pictures, the Record That Can't Be Set Straight and Part II - The Versions in Detail
Forget the Dylai Lama - A review of "Visions of Sin"
Four decades of interviews with Bob
Gotta Serve Somebody (Includes a "Dylan & Chaplin" Page)
In the summer of 1984, the day before her concert with Bob Dylan, I met Joan Baez wondering in the streets of Copenhagen and she kissed me on the lips. Now she has a new CD, called "Dark Chords on a Big Guitar", which I'm going to get... - 10/8/03
Johnny 'n' Bob (From "Ethel The Blog")
Judson Huss's art cover from The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were
Kata (KAY - Tuh) Billups paints icons of pop cultures in unusal settings. Like "Bob Dylan, directionally challanged" ... She also has an Elvis room - 1/7/04
"May you stay forever young" (MP3)
Music from Big Pink and other Albums with The Band
Mystery Bob's "Dylan Space Monkey" (From "Presurfer")
Poetry and the Popular Song - Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan
Set lists & Sessionography from "Ballad of A Thin Man"
Spanish Leather - Translated Cover albums
Spirits in the Rock Chillin - Chillin like Dylan - 12/14/03
Tangled Up in Bob - About Dylanology
"Turning 60" by Jay Lincoln's - 12/13/03
Unofficial Bob Dylan Free Library
You Know You're A Dylan Fan If... .... Everytime you see a Cadillac go down the street, you reflect that it's a good car to drive, after a war...
Zimmy's Resturant in Hibbing, MN
(Photo above from Great Duos)
Many More Unusual Bob Dylan Links Here
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Do Something with your Life 2003-Links
202 Various self-tests
Apathy is Lethal. (From Liberals Are Swell) - 10/25/03
Barcode Yourself - 8/16/03
BBC's Senses Challenge. (From Burnt Toast)
Build a roller coaster in your backyard. (From Eclecticat) - 11/25/03
Butterflies for your wedding (or toss rose petals on same) - 9/27/03
Canned Hunts - 1/25/04
David Allen's productivity principles - "You can do anything - but not everything"
Don't Drink & Drive - 11/25/03
EST is now called "Landmark Education Corp." OUCH! - 8/16/03
Falconry and the fine art of Whip Cracking....
Fifteen Ways To Spice Up Your Love Life. (From Presurfer) - 9/28/03
Get Motivated, relax
Have a back rub given by a tiny Tickle Robot
Helping People get more Involved in their Communities
House Gymnastics. (From Coolio)
"If riding in an airplane is flying, then riding in a boat is swimming"
Images & Voices of Hope - Some positive, hopeful images of the world. (From Euan Semple's Weblog The Obvious)
Join the Peace Corps - 9/21/03
Jump the Grand Canyon. (From Trebuchet, dedicated to The art of Hurling)
Mind Tools - Essential skills for an excellent career
Name a Star after a loved one through The International Star Registry
Nick Irons's Swim Lessons: Ten Secrets for Making Any Dream Come True - 9/22/03
Power skip and other Unusual Human Powered Vehicles
Project Management. (From Linkdump) - 9/14/03
Remember Memorable Concerts with The Ticketstub project
Send (free) warm wishes to friends
Sew T-shirts into underwear (From Raheli)
Spread Good Cheers. Do Anything as long as you do Something - 12/24/03
Stanislav Grof & Holotropic transpersonal Therapy
Success training with Brian Tracy and with John Spencer Ellis
Take a one-minute vacation from the life you are living. (From MonkeyFilter) - 11/27/03
Take a unique taxi ride in Aspen with the World Famous Ultimate Taxi
The Simple Living Network and "The Center for a New American Dream"
The Story of Stone Soup
Thought of the day - 11/24/03
Tuesday's Children, a support organization for the children of the victims of September 11 - 9/11/03
Walk around the world or run across the USA
Wear a full-face helmet when riding a bike
What is the Best thing that you can do with your life?
What should I do with my life? by Po Bronson
When you’ve been in a relationship for a long time, say about 10 years, you start to understand why most marriages end in seven. "Dedicated to the one I love" - 10/13/03
Where do you stand? Take the Fire and Ice Survey and Social Values Survey, both from the Canadian "Environics" - Chart your personality Quadrant - 12/9/03
World Transformation. A cornucopia of ideas, resources, connections, information, inspiration and surprises, all aimed at growing, creating or discovering a world that works better
Write a love poem - 10/4/03
Got Things to do with your Life? Please submit them here!
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Here are the 2003 “Grow-a-Brain” Warfare Links
235 million dollar War-games, Millennium Challenge - July 24-Aug. 15, 2002
30 Worst Atrocities of the 20th Century and the people who set them in motion
50 Facts About U.S. Nuclear Weapons
92 nuclear bombs lost at sea (From "Quadrofonic" ) - 9/21/03
Advanced Programs from DARPA - 9/6/03
All known "Cold War" Nuclear Bunkers and Subterranean Complexes in the UK
Arms Sales Monitoring Project - "Since 1990, the United States has exported more than $152 billion worth of weapons to states around the world"... - 11/28/03
Atomic Veterans History Project (From "DM")
Calendar of US Military Dead during Iraqi War (From "Cryptome") - 8/19/03
"Counter-measure wash down systems" (CMWDS) on The new USS Ronald Reagan. CMWDS includes a series of sprinklers in vital areas throughout the ship to help contain the spread of fire or chemical, biological, radiological (CBR) attacks. (From "Lair of Tarantulas") - 7/15/03
Defense contracts awarded today by the Dept. Of Defense ($5 million or more)
Did you know that all nuclear explosions have nicknames? (From "Caterina" ) - 11/15/03
Faces of Valor - American soldiers killed in Iraq - 10/29/03
Factoid of the day: The bloodiest battle fought on earth was the first Battle of the Somme . Can you guess (or remember) how many died there? - 1/10/04
Famous Freemasons , including Audie Murphy , Ernest Borgnin, Casanova, Mark Twain, WC Fields & Ty Cobb) - 7/17/03
French Foreign Legion (From "Presurfer" ) - 11/15/03
Military Acronyms and Abbreviations
Murphy's Laws Of Combat: 1. If the enemy is in range, so are you. 2. Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo. 3. Anything you do can get you shot, including nothing, Etc. (From "Bifurcated Rivets" ) - 10/28/03
Mushroom Cloud Gallery (From Zvis) , Nuclear Film clips! and Nuclear Cauliflower
Notifications to Congress of Pending U.S. Arms Transfers - 7/12/03
Peace Through Superior Firepower Patches - 9/11/03
Pink tank - 1/10/04
Primitive Weapons - 11/22/03
Research on the German Armed Forces 1918-1945 (From "No Sense of Place" )
Roger Fenton - Crimean War Photographs , 360 photographs from 1855 - 11/14/03
Sea of artillery casings, Khe Sanh, 1968 - 10/25/03
"Strange game. The only winning move is not to play" - 10/11/03
Sun Tzu - The Art of War and Carl von Clausewitz's "On War"
The Geometry of War, 1500-1750
The hardware: Army Technology and US Weapon Systems
The National D-Day Museum in New Orleans
The price of gas for the military
The Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association (VHPA)
Tolstoy's "War and Peace" - All 365 chapters of it
"Ultimate Weapons Systems" (From "Lair of Tarantulas" ) - 7/15/03
Underwater Plane Launching (From "Coolio" ) - 11/15/03
United States Military operations
Using Child Soldiers US Army 8 Infantry Divisions: The 1st infantry division , The 2nd infantry division , The 3rd infantry division , The 4th infantry division , The 10th infantry division , The 25st infantry division , The 82nd Airborne division , The 101st Airborne division . Also, 1st Battelion 22nd Infantry in Iraq U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum Virtual tour of the submarine USS Pampanito , (From "Information Junk" ) - 12/1/03 War and Peace 5: "Make Love out of War" - a "Worth 1000" contest - 1/14/04 War Child - helping the innocent victims of War What are Weapons of Mass Destruction (from Global Security) World War 1 Military Cemeteries in France and Flanders Many More Unusual Links About War and About Peace Here
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Here is the 2003 list of “Tenacious D” Links
2 Jack Black Soundboards from "E-baumsworld" - "Dude Listen!"
"Chud" Interview with Jack Black - 10/18/03
Do her Gently (Warning: Parental Advisory / Explicit Lyrics)
Dorito Burrito (From "Cooking with Rockstars" )
Fame Audit for Jack Black (11/12/2001)
From The Makeup Gallery, Gwyneth Paltrow in "Shallow Hal"
Guitar Tabs for Tenacious D Songs
HBO Show (From the comprehensive "Tenacious Joe" )
Hot or Not (From "Tenacious D Time" )
How Jack Black Restored My Faith in Rock and Roll: The School of Rock
Jack Black and Kyle Gass "will starve for rock" (at least for 12-13 hours, or until there is peace in Middle East, whichever comes first) - 11/5/03
"Kielbasa" Lyrics (Language!)
Message Boards, "A Special Thing" - 1/16/04
Salon Column - I have seen the future: It's Tenacious D , April 27, 2000
Stills from "Enemy of the State"
"School of Rock", the Trailer , the website (9/19/03) , the reviews and the new Steve Garfield's SOR-Blog -(9/28/03)
"Tenacious D" Official website (Language!)
"The Believer" Interview with Jack Black - 1/3/04
Transworld Stance Interview , September 27, 2001
More Unusual Tenacious D’s Links Here
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Here is the 2003 "Grow-a-Brain" collection of Eclectic Pranks .
2 famous animal pranks: Bonsai Kitten and Dog Island - 9/01/03
Absolutely hilarious "Must-hear" - Ted Koppel New York Blackout Goof - 8/14/04
American Nightmare with Caligari (From "Love And The Happy Cynic") - 8/23/03
Art of Prank Calls - 9/20/03
A Swedish sailor and his beard
Aynayda Pizaqvick and Malexa Krost, please contact the airport information desk - London Airport Announcements!
Birthday Prank - 8/29/03
Broken Glass Stumps Public Safety - 9/20/03
Buy a Penguin (From "PreSurfer") - 9/8/03
Campus Pranks - 8/21/03
Circlemakers (See this perfect circle - 8/31/03)
"Daniel Hsia's Hand" - 10/20/03
David Hampton, (The inspiration for 'Six Degrees') is dead
Dick Tuck, political prankster (From "Hot Links") - 9/21/03
Dr. Phil Prank - 9/11/03
Dumping Water - A joke - 9/03/03
Erik Verducci - Phone Terrorism - 1/21/04
Ern Malley, the poet who never lived. (From "J-Walk") - 9/14/03
"Escape From Eluned" , The game where you get a friend very drunk and take photographic evidence of what happens to them.... - 9/25/03
Fake Bullet Holes (From "Prank Place")
Flash Mob Clearing Center. Flash Mob? And from the always-hilarious "McSweeneys", a spoof of Flash Mobs (so easy to ridicule) named, "Group Mobilization as a Desperate Cry for Help"
Gaming the Safeway Club Card - 8/23/03
Glass Door - 12/20/03
Half A Car on Roof, (From "Attu") - 10/9/03
High-Profile Sculpture Replacement
"Human Vegetable Farm" and The official Coyle & Sharpe Website (The best original pranksters!)
Little Pound Coin that wanted to be a Million (From "Leuschke") - 10/5/03
Magic Tricks (From the awesome "Electric Eclectic")
Magnetic Bird Poo - 9/20/03
Male Pregnancy. (From "Plep") - 9/20/03
Mario Dinis has sex with his sister Lucy Dinis - some language! (From Jason Cosper) - 12/23/03
The McDonald's Sign Prank - 1/16/04
Multimedia artist Joey Skaggs
"Ooooops, the picture was of my wife" (From "Quadrofonic") - 8/19/03
Pavements of Terror, an easily-appreciated prank, (From "Boing Boing")
Postal Experiments from "The Annals of Improbable Research" - 10/13/03
"Sniggle" - 8/21/03
Somebody landed a replica of the Wright Brother's flyer on the Great Dome to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first controlled powered flight, and other tricks at The MIT Gallery of Hacks - 12/22/03
Soundboards: Miss Cleo , Jack Nicolson, and Samuel L. Jackson (Many more at "eBaumsWorld")
"Starbucks" is closing - 8/6/03
The Astor Place Cube Prank (From "Everything NY")
The Cacophony Society, creating cultural noise, the original Flash Mob, (From "Aku-Aku")
The Cottingley Fairies - In the early part of this century, Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed these photos as genuine evidence of fairy folk... What was he thinking?
The Prank Institute offers 28779 pranks
The Rudy Letters. A man, a computer, and too much free time on his hands - 8/10/03
The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest (From Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time) and Top Ten College Pranks (From Museum of Hoaxes)
The Ultimate Practical Joke ? Dakota Deals's Brown Box Special - Oh, wow... you don't say... - 9/24/03
The Writing's On The Cake - a free and non-poisonous cake - 12/2/03
Time Travel Spam - 8/30/03
Use 32 cents Jesus Stamps on your envelopes, from Michael Hernandez's art stamps
What is The Droplift Project?
Wrapped in Foil (From "Fark") - 1/6/04. (And how they did it)
Zug's How crazy would I have to make my signature
before someone would actually notice? - And I thought I was the only one doing it every day....
Many More Hilarious Pranks And Many More Outrageous jokes Here
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Here are the 2003 “Grow-a-Brain” Links about Denmark
Bjørn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist, is being cleared of 'scientific dishonesty' - 12/19/03
Christmas in Tivoli - 12/21/03
Danish Design Center - 12/3/03
Kransekager and World's Biggest Wedding Cake (Baked by konditor Gert Sørensen)
Little Mermaid History of Decapitations
My friend Banjo at Batec Solvarme
Persons of Danish Ancestry in the US - 12/30/03
Some nice photographs of Copenhagen by Jason Kottke, June 2003
"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back" - 10,000 "Grooks" by Piet Hein, inventor of the Soma Cube
Sankthansfesten, traditional midsummer ball
SERVAS International friendship organization
Smoked Bornholm Herring, the best of Danish cooking - 12/21/03
So Danish, so simple - Danish Soundscapes
Tycho Brahe, The Noble Dane
Useful Expressions in Danish
Vampyr Programme (From "Carl Dreyer" ) - 1/3/04
When I lived in Denmark, we had an apartment in a 300 years old house, called "Sorte Hest" - "The Black Horse", on 148 Vesterbrogade in Copenhagen. Here is a Danish website about it: it seems that there is a bakery on the ground floor there now, called "Musikkonditoriet" - 5/10/03
Many More Unusual Links about Denmark And About India Here
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Here are the 2003 “Grow-a-Brain” Nature Links.
7,150 Roses
A giant salt mine under Detroit
Brian Rachford's Aurora Page - 9/05/03
Clouds - 7/16/03
Creating Reef Balls - A Reef Ball is a Designed Artificial Reef used to restore ailing coral reefs and to create new fishing and scuba diving sites - 11/15/03
Enchanted Ceiling , 563 photos of the sky - 1/15/04
Fiords
Flood Warning are forecasted for tomorrow. Park your bus on a high & dry spot
Floraphilia, Twenty-four intimate portraits from my garden - 11/24/03
Forms of Nature, by Ernst Haeckel (In German)
Gallery of Nature Scenes from “Webshots”
Giant Hail balls (From "Stormgasm", home of the most hardcore storm chasers in the world) - 1/14/04
Katinka Matson's Five lilies (From "Far far away from home")
My Tiny Garden (From "Web Zen") - 8/17/03
Phyllotaxis - Plant Pattern Formation
Plants in Motion and Carnivorous Plants
Relax with a waterfall - 1/15/04
Skulls Unlimited - The World's Leading Supplier of Osteological Specimens
Underwater hot springs - Vent systems found off New Zealand
Various Sprouts. (From "Plep")
Virtual sunrise on the Sand Dunes Near Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley National Park, California
Weather Icons from various press websites
Water Walking (From "Hoogle") , Cambridge MA - Via "Apothecary's Drawer " - 8/21/03
World's Largest Flower Mystery Solved. The Rafflesia can have a diameter up to one meter and can weigh up to 10 kilograms. It also smells like rotting flesh - 1/21/04
Many More Unusual Mysteries of Nature Here
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The 2003 “Grow-a-Brain” Eclectic Science Collection -
(See The Invention & Discovery Links Below)
Aerogel, the world's lightest solid
Alphabetical Index of Women Mathematicians - 8/29/03
A quantitative analysis of the "Mexican wave" (Laola)
A rare collection of glass eyes (From "Eye Antiques")
Baked Alaska on the Menu? A NY Times editorial about Global Warming - 9/12/03
Color Images of Histological Sections
Convert just about anything to anything else
Einstein: Image and Impact (From "Life in the present") - 11/11/03. The Einstein Archives
Everything you want to know about Dry Ice.
From "Chemical & Engineering News" - What's That Stuff?
"fsh" attractors - A short history of the rendering algorithm (From "Blort")
How a pencil is made (from "Foment")
How long would it take to recite Pi using the following Java applet? (From 1996 - 15 different languages) - 12/24/03
I don't exactly know what they are talking about, but I love the story about a 26-year old student who just discovered the new Largest prime number - 12/4/03
Junk Science (From "Dump Monkey") - 11/30/03
Linus Pauling's research Notebooks
Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists
Microwave virtual marshmallows - 8/23/03
Most Beautiful Periodic Table Displays in the World
Mathematical and Geometric Sculptures (including 72 pencils)
Moiré Effects - 1/14/04
Museum of Retro Technology - Some examples of older technology, some oddities (From "DM") - 11/25/03
Museum of Soviet Calculators - 7/12/03
Oriented Matroids (From "Reality Carnival" )
Ozone Hole infra-red photo - 9/20/03
Parallel Universes (From "Vulgar Boatman") - 1/19/04
Paul Falstad's slightly-older Math applets
Reactions of the Elements with Air, Water & Acid - Chemistry Comes Alive. (From "Muxway") - 11/28/03
Singing Science songs for kids (From Jef Poskanzer)
"Scientific American" 2002 web awards
Soda Straw Tensegrity Structures and Soda Tensegrity Model Making - 1/10/04
The Alternative Energy Institute's website
The Art of Death: "Viruses Are Beautiful" . Black and white electron micrographs of ebola, herpes, influenza and rabies were generously provided by Dr. Fred Murphy - 1/19/04
The Sound of Mathematics (From "Uncle Al") - 9/20/03
Tom Lehrer's "The Elements Song" (in Flash) - 12/1/03
Van de Graaff Electrostatic Generator
Visual Elements Periodic Table (From "PreSurfer") - 9/7/03
And here are Eclectic Invention Links from The Old “Grow-a-Brain”
A light bulb that has burned for more than 100 years
Art Fry & the team that invented "Post-It"
Basic Facts About Trademarks - 9/20/03
"Big Balls" , US Patent 5,839,968* , Issued / 1998, helping the amateur golfer in his or hers swing training technique. Other Big Balls: David Luke's art piece , "Sphere Mania" rolling down the hills , 40" soccer balls , the famous Rubber Band ball , that squirrel and of course the Bra ball - 12/23/03
Delphion's Gallery of Historic Patents
Don the Idea Guy has an idea: Submit the weirdest ideas you've ever come up with for inclusion in a soon-to-be published eBook... (From "Goatee Style") - 12/14/03
Fujitsu Laboratories is coming out with Electronic paper which looks like regular paper... (From "Red Ferret") - 1/21/04
History of the Paper Clip - 1/25/04
Invention at Play - 7/13/03
Michael Flannigan's Inventions (From "Realty Carnival") - 9/27/03
National Inventors Hall of Fame - 9/19/03
Swiss inventors develop Spaghetti plate - 10/1/03
The discovery of the cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc
The Global Idea Bank - 3000 social inventions
The US Patent and Trademark Office. also Europe's network of Patent Databases
Time Magazine 2002 best inventions
Top 20 Completely Useless Inventions - 8/22/03
Totally Absurd Inventions and Useless Japanese inventions
Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins by Ralph Keyes - 11/30/03
Wooden Mirror (From "Grouse") - 8/8/03
Many More Unusual Inventions & Discoveries Here
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Here is the 2003 list of famous Hanan’s
2 Hanan Levin's - One is a realtor, the other one a swimmer - Both were born in the same place, 30 years apart
"Ahlan Wasahlan WaMarhaban Bikum"(?)
Barry B. Hanan, SDSU Geological Sciences
Biblical meaning of the name Hanan, and Kabalarian's Name analysis
Blake Hanan, Basketball - 9/21/03
Consultative Selling by Mack Hanan
Dame Elizabeth Hanan, Councillor, University of Otago, New Zealand
Dr. Niall Hanan of Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, CSU Fort Collins, Colorado
Favorite quotes from Prof. Hanan Lutfi Lutfiyya (mostly about Chocolate)...
Hanan Consulting Group in Canoga Park, California (Networking solutions)
Hanan Family Genealogy Forum
Hanan M. Isaacs, mediator & trial lawyer in Princeton, New Jersey
Hanan Levy, killed in a car bomb explosion near the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, Nov 2, 2000
Israeli Knesset Member Hanan Porat
Israeli neurologist, Hanan Costeff
Kim Hanan, Broker in Durham, NC
Lebanese writer Hanan al-Shaykh
Life and times of Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, Secretary General of Miftah
Persian Restaurant in Buenos Aires
Professor Hanan Samet, first on "Google" first names..
Relaxing Guitar Music by Hanan harchol
The Kites of Hanan Cohen from Kibbutz Tamuz caused to get beat up on the beach
Whipped toppings from "Hanan Products"
More Unusual People Named Hanan Here
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Here are the 2003 Grow-a-Brain Fullerton, California links
2 Sister cities to Fullerton: Morelia, Mexico and Fukui, Japan
2 Water sculptures at the CSU Fullerton: The Diamond Column and The Wall Gazing Gallery
Affordable Apartments in Fullerton - 8/31/03
Air Combat National headquarters - Fighter pilot for a day
A meeting of Friends of Bacchus, celebrating fine wine & dining at Florentine's Downtown Grill (Our client) on 2/17/03
Chicano Resource Center at California State University, Fullerton
Downtown Fullerton Restaurants
History of Fullerton, Part 2 - 9/14/03
History of Fullerton's Oldest Church - 9/14/03
HOG-Tales So. Cal. - The Harley-Davidson chapter in Fullerton
Kenneth Kao's History of Orange County (with lots of good historic links)
Leo Fender, inventor of the Fender electric guitar
Register of Historic buildings in Fullerton - 8/31/03
”Rutabegorz”, 3 vegetarian restaurants
Smeltzer train accident in 1901, on Edinger Ave.
Speed traps in Fullerton & other cities (You need to scroll down)
Southern California Railway Museum at Fullerton and Fullerton Railroad Days 2003
The Fullerton Arboretum , between Nutwood & Associated
The Muckenthaler - 8/18/03
Tommy Lasorda (From "Keynote Speakers") and and other local famous residents
"The Great Team" , for all your real estate needs
Walking Tours with Fullerton Heritage - 9/14/03
Got Eclectic Links from Fullerton? Please submit them here!
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Here are the 2003 “Grow-a-Brain” San Francisco Links.
1906 earthquake related pictures
950 mystery, detective, and crime fiction titles set up in the Bay area
A day in the life of the Tenderloin
A flag On Castro St. (From "Zenzero")
Artistic Homes ca. 1888 - 1007 Gough Street , From the SF Public Library - 12/4/03
Carpool Cheats in Silicon Valley: Don't cut into the Diamond Lane in front of the guys with the camera, or you'll end up on the internet - 1/13/04
Copper Moon (From "Plep" )
De Young Museum - 12/20/03
Dolores Park was a Cemetery - 12/20/03
Ed Stephan's map of Haight-Ashbury and The Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics
Eighth annual "How Berkeley Can You Be? Festival" , like the Do Dah Parade in Pasadena, only more irreverent - 12/2/03
Film Locations in Northern California
Inside Bohemian Grove , America's most exclusive private men's club
Johnna Arnold's Golden Gate Bridge Photos
"Jumpers" , New Yorker's article: The fatal grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge
Model of San Francisco, ca. 1920s , given as a gift to president Herbert Hoover
Modern Architecture in San Francisco - 12/20/03
"Painted Ladies" are the famous Victorian homes of San Francisco. When I lived there, I used to be a house painter and I painted quite a few of them. Here is a resource for a