The 200 Bones of the Body (according to Gray's Anatomy)
The Original 64 Crayola Crayon Colors
House Rules for Monopoly
How to Play Jacks (Akron, Ohio Rules)
Area 51
...we are not alone.
Braille Cheat-Sheet
Braille Contractions
Astronimical!
Useless planetary trivia
Planetary Data
Satellite Data
Ring Data
Chess, anyone?
Karpov vs. Kasparov III
Karpov vs. Kasparov IV
Karpov vs. Kasparov V
Kasparov vs. Deep Blue I
Kasparov vs. Deep Blue II
Kasparov vs. the World
Teletubby Land vs. The Village
Is Tinky-Winky the Anti-Christ?
A History of Strange U.S. Coins
Lincoln Cents / Quantities Minted
The Almost Impossible Scavenger Hunt
My Wife's Purse
2 Rules of Thumb
Basic Clarinet Fingering Chart
Casio VL-1 Manual
The "HX-20" of synthesizers;
raw text format only, no diagrams.
Card Trick
(Stolen from the 'net and/or a box of Cracker Jacks)
Life at Cuyahoga Falls
Life at Pizza Hut
Living in the 21st Century
My Own Geek Code
My First Hate Mail
The Nigerian Web Scam
Sudoku: Another Solving Technique
Worst of the Web?
The Non-Zero Positive Integer Page
Anti-ology
The London LP's
Hocus Pocus
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore
At 10-foot tall, Tinky-Winky towers 3 feet over Barney.
Carnivorous mammals have eyes
on the front of their heads so they can HUNT.
Vegetarian mammals have eyes on the sides
of their heads so they can ESCAPE.
One third of a dog's brain is
dedicated to its sense of smell;
about the same
percentage that the human brain reserves for sight.
Dogs and cats only have eighteen
digits (finger and toes);
while they possess the human
equivalent of "thumbs" (dew claws),
they are void of
what we call the "big toes".
According to Webster's dictionary,
The slang 'HOOCH' is derived from:
"A distilled liquor made
by the Hoochinoo Indians",
NOT because it just happens to be
the symbolic chemical formula for alcohol.
The 3 familiar tones that concur
with the NBC logo are the musical tones G-E-C.
GEC is an acronym for the General Electric Company,
the original owner of the network.
A tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.
Hard-boiled eggs SPIN. RAW eggs do not.
It is the 21st century... and Wyoming still only has ONE area code.
The most frequently used letters in the alphabet are
E and T,
while the least used letters
are Q and Z in the English language.
That is why E and T were assigned as simply
"dit" and "dah" (respectively) in the Morse code;
and also why Q and Z have been omitted
on the original telephone dial.
The reason a telephone keypad is numbered from top to
bottom was to emulate its predecessor, the phone dial.
The reason a calculator keypad is numbered from bottom to
top was to emulate its predecessor, the comptometer.
And finally, the reason a clock is numbered clockwise
was to emulate its predecessor, the sundial.
The logic behind the QWERTY keyboard arrangement still reamins a mystery.
The 96 values that span a decade of
1% resistors increment by multiples of the 96th root of 10.
However, the 24 core values of 5% resistors do not exactly
follow a scaled logarithmic pattern.
Why do programmers think that
Halloween is Christmas? Because:
OCT 31 = DEC 25
~~~~Other mathematical anomalies~~~~
Sn3 = (Sn)2
0! = 1
