Day: May 25, 2006

Unexpected finds

A couple of days back, Mr O sent me a list of URLs, none of which is quite as radical as it may first appear to a number of you: http://www.cummingfirst.com http://www.expertsexchange.com http://www.penisland.org http://www.scatissue.com http://www.childsexpress.com http://www.teacherstalk.co.uk http://www.budget.co.ck http://www.therapistfinder.com I commented that they were seriously undervalued, rather as http://burger.com would be if used to promote civic…

Spanish omelette trick

From John Henry Pepper, The Playbook of Metals: Including Personal Narratives of Visits to Coal, Lead, Copper, and Tin Mines; With a Large Number of Interesting Experiments Relating to Alchemy and the Chemistry of the Fifty Metallic Elements (The Author reserves the right of translation) (London, 1861), chapter entitled The Tricks of the Alchemists: Another…