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• Wikipedia:Unusual articles - Wikipedia
• No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » Insect Awakenings.
• FE-Schrift - Wikipedia
• Queer Anarchism, 60 year old historian Martin Bühler (who...
• Glomar response - Wikipedia "Neither confirm nor deny"
• Postcards from the Frontiers of Science • New paint colors invented by neural network
• Constrained writing - Wikipedia
• The Pi Code
• Writing in Pilish
• £sd - Wikipedia
• Goblin shark - Wikipedia
• Golden angle - Wikipedia
• how to tell if a number is divisible by another number
• The widespread and persistent myth that it is easier to multiply and divide with Hindu-Arabic numerals than with Roman ones. - The Renaissance Mathematicus
• Appendix:Words used as placeholders to count seconds - Wiktionary
• Shavian alphabet - Wikipedia (Phonetic alphabet posthumously financed by Bernard Shaw)
• SSH Port (Why is it port 22)
• Lagniappe - Wikipedia (small gift given to a customer by a merchant)
• Into the woods: how one man survived alone in the wilderness for 27 years - Michael Finkel - News - The Guardian
• The day they levitated the Pentagon - Waging Nonviolence
• Origin of Wireless Security: the Marconi Radio Hack of 1903 - Hackaday
• Betteridge's law of headlines - Wikipedia
• Here be dragons - Wikipedia
• John Rentoul on Twitter: ""Uh" and "um" are not mistakes but two distinct words. From Brian Christian, The Most Human Human https://t.co/4ti5xMimZ7"
• Women Describe The Smoothest Way They Were Asked Out - Imgur
• Last Meals
• Suicide Notes
• From 1,000,000 to Graham's Number - Wait But Why
• Why Cryonics Makes Sense - Wait But Why
• Rosenhan experiment - Wikipedia (On people being admitted to a psy hospital while faking symptoms)
• The Factory - Wikipedia
• Chinese Whispers Comic I
• The Nietzsche Family Circus
• Not even wrong - Wikipedia
• Poe's Law - TV Tropes (Parodies may be indistinguishable from the real thing)
• Atlas Obscura - Curious and Wondrous Travel Destinations
• How I socially engineered my girlfriend’s proposal. – Medium
• Teratoma - Wikipedia
• Cities of Refuge - Wikipedia
• Militärische Nacht – Wikipedia
• Ostracism - Wikipedia
• Plato's unwritten doctrines - Wikipedia
• Why Time Seems to Speed Up as We Get Older: What the Research Says @ Open Culture
• Before Siri & Alexa: Hear the First Attempt to Use a Synthesizer to Recreate the Human Voice (1939) @ Open Culture
• If I had a long enough blog delay, I could just schedule this one for 1 Jan 2026 - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 66 USA Social Classes
• Congo Free State - Wikipedia
• List of helicopter prison escapes - Wikipedia
• Lithopedion - Wikipedia
• Spite house - Wikipedia
• Sweater curse - Wikipedia
• The Miracle of 1511 - Wikipedia
• Tower of Wooden Pallets - Wikipedia
• White elephant - Wikipedia
• Work spouse - Wikipedia
• 12 Million Declassified CIA Documents Now Free Online: Secret Tunnels, UFOs, Psychic Experiments & More @ Open Culture
• 2001 Clear Channel memorandum - Wikipedia
• Otherkin - Wikipedia (~non-human)
• Species dysphoria - Wikipedia
• YSK The abbreviation "e.g." is short for 'exempli gratia' and is used to mean "for example." The abbreviation "i.e." is short for 'id est' and is used to mean "that is to say." : YouShouldKnow
• 17 y/o son is a druggie, what do I do?! @ Christian Forums
• Becoming Santa - The Boston Globe
• Things I learned in 10 episodes of Pepper and Carrot - David Revoy
• The 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time – Whatever
• The Anthropology of Optical Illusions - Sociological Images
• ; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD - Overview (free company information from Companies House)
• Lord' Raglan's Hero Pattern
• Scientists Think Cavemen Painted While High on Hallucinogenic Drugs
• The Visual Microphone
• Allegory of the long spoons - Wikipedia
• reality check - Could large but sparsely populated country control its borders? - Worldbuilding Stack Exchange
• The Problem With Dust on the Moon and Mars - now.space
• 613 commandments - Wikipedia
• Bourbaki dangerous bend symbol - Wikipedia
• Entoptic phenomenon - Wikipedia
• List of games that Buddha would not play - Wikipedia
• The Fart Party’s Over – Narratively
• "Big daddy" Christian comic about evolution
• Black and white hat symbolism in westerns
• A Lccokrkow Garneo
• Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule of Hitler analogies)