Other Interesting Stuff

The Wal-Mart You Don't Know

Amazing skiing

From www.askmen.com comes a truly awesome clip with the most amazing trick skiing I can imagine, and some beautiful videography as well. Hope this embedded video works.

 

GE Research Blog

A totally fascinating blog site about GE's global research projects. Here is their 'about' page:

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From Edison's Desk is the blog of GE Global Research. It offers a

Viewzone -- "Interesting Stuff"

Indeed it is. Somewhat sci-fi, conspiracy theories, junk science, lot's of "stuff"

THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT: What They Didn't Want You To Know

One of the A & E Channel's investigative TV programs has now found the tables turned on it in the most ironic fashion.

Implicit Association Test

From their site:

It is well known that people don't always 'speak their minds', and it is suspected that people don't always 'know their minds'. Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology.

World Heritage List

An interesting list described as

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The World Heritage List includes 830 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value.

Opt out of unsolicited credit cards

Recently bumped across https://www.optoutprescreen.com/opt_form.cgi which I had heard about. Checked it out (Google "fraud optoutprescreen") and got comfortable that this was the site:  important because it requires your SSN.  I took the 5 year opt out.

Annual credit report - free

You are entitled to a free annual credit report -- once yearly. Go to this link, or to:
Annual Credit Report Request Service
P.O. Box 105281
Atlanta, GA 30348-5281

There are three national reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian, TransUnion) and you can get the report on all three from either the website or the mail.

Shuttle tiles and gap fillers

Unprecedented Shuttle Repair a Success - Yahoo! News There are 24,300 glass coated tiles on the shuttle, a majority of them on its belly.

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