• The Speech Accent Archive

    “Welcome to the speech accent archive. You may need to get the Quicktime plug-in to play the sound clips. Each individual sample page contains a sound control bar, a set of the answers to 7 demographic questions, a phonetic transcription of the sample,1 a set of the speaker’s phonological generalizations, a link to a map showing the speaker’s place of birth, and a link to the Ethnologue language database.”

  • Art-o-mat

    “Art-o-mat machines are retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art. There are 82 active machines in various locations throughout the country”

  • Ask A Ninja

    “You got questions, Ninja got answers”

    I am so ashamed that I didn’t know about this site earlier! Thanks to Micah for pointing this out to me.

  • LED Throwies

    “LED Throwies are an inexpensive way to add color to any ferromagnetic surface in your neighborhood. A Throwie consists of a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together. Throw it up high and in quantity to impress your friends and city officials.”

    How to make LED Throwies

  • The More You Know - Public Service Announcements from the cast of The Office

    “People may laugh at you when you put the word smell into everyday phrases like, ”smell you later“ or ”smello“, but I promise you it’s not funny, and they are just being nice to you because you maybe are their boss.”