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Where in the world was your first kiss? Share your memories with the rest of the world at WhereIHadMyFirstKiss, a fun Google Maps mashup site. Visitors can place a marker to indicate where on earth they were when they received their first kiss, and can leave comments to share their good (or bad) recollections of the event.
posted to MetaFilter by amyms
at 8:30 PM on January 20, 2007
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Better Hair Through Chemistry. Exploratorium magazine tells us how to reduce our number of "bad hair days" with a little scientific know-how and some common sense. Also, how to make your own
Hair Hygrometer!
posted to MetaFilter by amyms
at 5:01 PM on January 19, 2007
(7 comments)
Pointless Sites is a repository for all those
silly websites and
online time-wasters that we've come to know and love (or hate). Sometimes they leave us
scratching our heads and sometimes they
leave us smiling. Sometimes they're
oddly intriguing and even
educational. Pointless Sites collects them and categorizes them for our convenience.
[Note: some links on the site are flash-based, and some have sound]
posted to MetaFilter by amyms
at 2:30 PM on January 18, 2007
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Why Are British Sex Scandals So Much Better Than America's? A recent (Feb. 2007 issue)
Vanity Fair article by
James Wolcott examines the
Profumo Affair , the
Major-Currie revelations and the recent
shenanigans at the U.K.'s The Spectator magazine, as compared to
Mark Foley, Clinton-Lewinsky and much more.
posted to MetaFilter by amyms
at 10:48 PM on January 15, 2007
(35 comments)
Gobler Toys: The Fun We Can't Remember. A fictional toy company with an online collection of
toys,
dolls and
games that only exist in the inventors' imaginations. Don't miss the hilarious
Star Wars Toys That Never Were. (flash animation)
posted to MetaFilter by amyms
at 9:42 PM on January 14, 2007
(9 comments)
Dracula's Castle is for
sale. The gothic fortress (also known as
Bran Castle) was once home to
Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration for
Bram Stoker's Dracula. The local government has the right of first refusal, but if they choose not to make the purchase, the property can be offered to private buyers (as long as any potential new owner agrees to let it remain a
state-run museum for at least three years).
posted to MetaFilter by amyms
at 12:59 AM on January 12, 2007
(63 comments)
The Pan-American Highway: A Photo Voyage Photographer Melissa Fowler documented her journey along a stretch of the Pan-American Highway that flows through Mexico, Peru and Chile, providing detailed captions on
ancient sites,
local economies,
rural life, and much more.
Click here (wikipedia link) for more information on the Pan-American Highway and its history.
posted to MetaFilter by amyms
at 12:26 AM on January 11, 2007
(12 comments)
House of Deception is dedicated to the history of the deceptive arts, including
magic,
carnival sideshows and
pro wrestling.
posted to MetaFilter by amyms
at 6:21 PM on January 9, 2007
(23 comments)
Web-Building Is For Suckas (YouTube, approx. 2 mins.)... A bit of an update on Peter Witt's famous 1960s experiments on the effects of various drugs on spiders' web-building abilities (previously featured on Metafilter
here and
here)
posted to MetaFilter by amyms
at 7:18 AM on January 3, 2007
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