Last items from the 2006 file:

Every Jeopardy! question ever

Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names / Some of these must be real band names by now.

Shiberu Ban’s paper house / A house made out of paper. For real. There’s also paper log houses built as emergency shelters.

Gentle Reader, Stay Awhile; I Will Be Faithful / Some smart writing tips.

On things that aren’t fun, and fun that is bad… / Tom Coates being grumpy about WoW. Personally, I think that how you play the game matters as much if not more than what happens in the game itself; I don’t play very often – a month on, a few months off – and I play in a party with Bee, so when I do play it feels like I’m achieving more.

Natural language hCard

Hopstop / Transit and walking directions for US cities. Would’ve been handy for New York had I remembered!

Museum of Useful Things / ‘Museum’ is a misnomer as it’s really a store, but a store filled with really useful things.

Non-errors in English /

Map Symbols & Patterns for NPS Maps

A beginner’s guide to freelancing

I want to tell you a story / “Paul Auster, one of America’s greatest living novelists, argues that fiction is ‘magnificently useless’, but the act of creation and the pleasure of reading are incomparable human joys that we should savour.”

A Timeline of Timelines

Brief notes on Seattle / Still on my list of cities to visit.

Writers Dreamtools History by Decade / A timeline of facts and figures for every decade since the 1650s. Very handy for fiction writers.

How long in the freezer to chill a Coke from 89F to 35F? / The answer, according to MythBuster Adam Savage, is about 20-25 minutes. Handy to know.

Spaces speak, as do cities, Buddha Machines, films / Saved mostly for the reference to Christian Marclay’s ‘Video Quartet’, which is (was?) one of the best things at Tate Modern, and the best example of a video installation I’ve ever seen.

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