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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.”