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Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Engine
The 20 Question game quesses what knows what you are thinking about.
http://www.20q.net/
Educational .. really .. well maybe not .. but could be .. sorta
Create Your Own Superhero
Creat a Marvel comic superhero!
http://marvel.com/create_your_own_superhero
Dead at Your Age
See what famous people you have outlived.
http://dead.atyourage.com/
How Everyday Things Are Made: An Online Factory Tour
VIDEOS - over 40 products & manufacturing processes; targeted towards non-engineers and engineers
http://manufacturing.stanford.edu/
If I dig a very deep hole, where I go to stop?
Digging from Virginia ends up in the Southern Ocean off southwest Australia. Do the walk option too!
http://map.talleye.com/bighole.php
Net Frog
Frog dissection from UVA
http://frog.edschool.virginia.edu/
Nukeometer
How many nuclear-armed missiles can reach your city?
http://nukeometer.com
Shoe Lacing Methods
Check out Shoe Lacing Mathematics
http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm
Top 500 Supercomputer Sites
Select the Lists link to view the list by month/year.
http://www.top500.org/
Wacky Uses for Everyday Products
Uses brand name products
http://www.wackyuses.com/wackyuses.html
What Happened in My Birth Year
A narrative that combines time-based facts with philosophical questions and reflections on life.
http://whathappenedinmybirthyear.com
Games
Carve a Pumpkin
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/timages/page/pumpkin_sim.html
Color Test
Pick the COLOR of the word.
http://www.njagyouth.org/colortest.htm
Imagination Interactive Marker
http://www.imagination3.com/LaunchPage
Mister Picasso Head
Paint a Picasso
http://www.mrpicassohead.com/index.html
Red Square
Hand and Eye Coordination Puzzle
http://members.iinet.net.au/~pontipak/redsquare.html
Smack the Penguin
Good one for a spreadsheet
http://kevin.spleck.net/smack_the_penguin
How We Use Language and Who Reads What
Banished Words
http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php
Luciferous Logolepsy
"collection of over 9,000 obscure English words"
http://www.kokogiak.com/logolepsy/
The Social Network Map of Political Books
2008 data: "There are no bridging books between the red and blue clusters.
http://www.orgnet.com/divided.html
Word Count
"presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness"
http://www.wordcount.org/main.php
Optical Illusions
Personal Kaleidoscope
Create your own animated kalieidoscope.
http://www.zefrank.com/dtoy_vs_byokal/
Photography
James Porto Photography
AMAZING!
http://www.jamesporto.com
Visual Complexity
Visualization of Complex Networks
Data visualization ... check out the Internet images.
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
How a Computer Works
Fun to watch!
http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/
World Air Traffic
Air traffic flow in a 24-hour period
http://www.tom-phillips.info/video/world.air.traffic.24.hours.wmv