Archive for January 30th, 2007
What is a Klein Bottle?
In 1882, Felix Klein imagined sewing two Möbius Loops together to create a single sided bottle with no boundary. Its inside is its outside. It contains itself.
Take a rectangle and join one pair of opposite sides — you’ll now have a cylinder. Now join the other pair of sides with a half-twist.
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Mojave phone booth
The Mojave phone booth was a lone telephone booth placed circa 1960 in the Mojave National Preserve which attracted an online following in 1997 due to its unusual location. The booth was 15 miles from the nearest interstate highway, and miles from any buildings. Its phone number was originally +1-714-733-9969, before the area code changed to 619 and then to 760; 733 is the Baker, California rate center.
Fans called the booth attempting to get a reply, and a few took trips to the booth to answer, often camping out at the site. Several callers kept recordings of their conversations. Over time, the booth became covered in graffiti, as many travelers would leave a message on it.
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Sushi Memory Disk Otoro
The famous and healthy sushi from Japan are now compatible with your computer.
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Pocket Mind Reader
Play the classic game of 20 questions with this sophisticated pocket guru. How does it work? It’s rather simple. Just think of an object (either an Animal, Vegetable, Mineral or Other) and then 20q will ask you a series of questions through it’s LED display. You simply answer yes, no, sometimes, or ‘unknown’ using the appropriate buttons on 20q for each question. Then your 20q will attempt to guess your object after the 20th question.
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