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Love in an elevator
The highest tennis court in the world. Via Mookie, an excellent (and curiously stylesheet-free) site I found while googling my girlfriend's dog.
From the halls of nerddom
The Top 100 Things I'd do if I were an Evil Overlord. Probably an old chestnut, but this is the first time i've ever seen it.
When nerds collide
When Einstein met G??del. Therein, a most excellent set of anecdotes (G??del finds a loophole in the constitution before his court appearance for American citizenship, Einstein tries to make him forget by telling jokes) and two very compact explanations of relativity and incompleteness.
now that's some sincere spam
From my inbox:
"We have learned from the Internet that you are interested in tents."
(fyi, I'm not.)
The Fonties
Typographica presents their choices for the top fonts of 2004. Amira may be a much needed break from Gill Sans, which has gotten a little overused lately. Like a worn out recording of a favorite song. I'm dying to try farnham's italic swash, too.
Take out the TP, Sock it to me.
Fun facts about Toilet Paper. Includes a timeline of important events in toilet paper history.
Apocalypse Aweigh
Through this excellent Monkeyfilter post, a haunting gallery of ships being dismantled.
Google world domination continues
With their new maps beta. It's like a non-sucky mapquest.
In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.
Finding fellow travellers delicious.
Gre.gari.ous takes your del.icio.us bookmarks, compares them with other users, and finds your n-dimensional vector space doppelgangers, those shadowy sorts who share your interests.
