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Wired For Weird (Strange Websites)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2 - the 'Earth Edition' of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

- the original is pre-Wiki, I think, and the Guide is rather eclectic. And yes, it's got the ex-Douglas Adams' backing.

Its style is rather lighter than the standard encyclopedia, but if you stick to searching the Guide you'll miss out on the other great resource - the Researchers themselves. They're a chatty bunch, with a massive array of expertise and experience. In practical terms, you can get almost any question answered, eventually, in many different ways.
 
...and FT isn't there because..........? God forbid, someone might actually want to read it?!
 
Just found this today...does anyone find it strange that I bookmarked this site for its potential usefulness?

Cemetery Junction

I think I've decided to stop by and (attempt) to photograph as many of these in WisconSIN as I can before I leave the state. Unfortunately the list that I've compiled (read: cut & pasted) from the site is in alphabetical order of the cemetery's names. I must re-order them all in terms of location, so's I can hit as many as possible at once.

Before anyone assumes that I have a lack of respect for the dead, I'd like to simply catalog the various styles of burial and headstones throughout the ages; plus, I find old graveyards very attractive. I always approach with reverence (learned that one the hard way).

Although I've found a few graveyard photography sites online, I don't think I've ever come across one which actually attempts to record the areas themselves...they're mainly pretty pictures of select tombstones.
 
In we're into weird websites, then these two are worth a look:

This a viral collection of very suggestive instructions:
http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/main

This is a very nice example:
http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/jonathan-ball-s-proposal

And these are in the same style and just as fascinating:
http://theholders.org/

They all follow this pattern:
http://theholders.org/?Holder_of_Deception

I ran a whole collection of these through a text-to-speech program and listening to ten of them in a row puts me in a weirdly altered state of mind :)
 
I found this many years ago when looking for strange and unusual websites. I used to spend hours just going from one link to the other and reading all the information and learning about many esoteric things that always led me to other web pages , articles ,and books. There's a bit of mystery about the place and the creator and I have never really read a good explanation of the place or it's origins ,but apparently it was the creation of some tech guy who just did it for fun.

http://fusionanomaly.net/nodebase.html

one of my favorites nodes there http://fusionanomaly.net/EntitiesNode.html

ps: I thought this might have already been on the forum but search didn't bring it up.
 
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dr wu said:
I found this many years ago when looking for strange and unusual websites. I used to spend hours just going from one link to the other and reading all the information and learning about many esoteric things that always led me to other web pages , articles ,and books. There's a bit of mystery about the place and the creator and I have never really read a good explanation of the place or it's origins ,but apparently it was the creation of some tech guy who just did it for fun.

http://fusionanomaly.net/nodebase.html

one of my favorites nodes there http://fusionanomaly.net/EntitiesNode.html

ps: I thought this might have already been on the forum but search didn't bring it up.
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That's an extraordinary place, one might get quite lost. Thx for posting it @dr wu
 
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Just utterly bloody brilliant...
http://fusionanomaly.net/whydidthechickencrosstheroad.html

An extract therefrom (please do visit& read the full page)
WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD? (various authors)

Plato:
For the greater good.

Karl Marx:
It was an historical inevitability.

Machiavelli:
So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained.

Hippocrates:
Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its pancreas.

Jacques Derrida:
Any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial
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intent can never be discerned, because structuralism is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!

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Timothy Leary:
Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.


Douglas Adams:
Forty-two.

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Friedrich Nietzsche:
Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.


Oliver North:
National Security was at stake.

B.F. Skinner:
Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will.

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Carl Jung:
The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore
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synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.


Jean-Paul Sartre:
In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein:
The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.

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Albert Einstein:
Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
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dr wu said:
My apologies if this is in the wrong area and I didn't know what else to call the thread.
I found this many years ago when looking for strange and unusual websites. I used to spend hours just going from one link to the other and reading all the information and learning about many esoteric things that always led me to other web pages , articles ,and books. There's a bit of mystery about the place and the creator and I have never really read a good explanation of the place or it's origins ,but apparently it was the creation of some tech guy who just did it for fun.

http://fusionanomaly.net/nodebase.html

one of my favorites nodes there http://fusionanomaly.net/EntitiesNode.html

ps: I thought this might have already been on the forum but search didn't bring it up.
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That's terrific. I love websites like that and see fewer and fewer of them these days. May I recommend the page on owls?
 
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I'm delighted to see that at least a few have found Fusion Anomaly to be a fascinating place,......it's a never ending source of links and information... some of it quite esoteric .


http://fusionanomaly.net/alien.html
 
dr wu said:
I'm delighted to see that at least a few have found Fusion Anomaly to be a fascinating place,......it's a never ending source of links and information... some of it quite esoteric .


http://fusionanomaly.net/alien.html
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That is an interesting place. The "time slip" back to 1996 internet graphics is a bit jarring, but there's no end of things to explore.

Here is another endless treasure trove, updated daily. The author is an interesting character, for sure.

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/realitycarnival.html
 
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