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As much as I enjoy urban life, there are times when it gets to me. The noise, traffic, crime, and cost of living occasionally make me long for a quiet, affordable home out in the middle of nowhere. At times like these, I like to browse the real estate listings on eBay. I don’t have the means to purchase a rural getaway, but just looking at the ads and daydreaming about them for an hour or two usually puts me i... Source: itotd.com
Happy birthday to us: Incredible but true: Interesting Thing of the Day is 10 years old! In the mid-1990s, I visited Las Vegas for the first time. I was there for an internet conference, and a friend of mine who had been there many times took it upon himself to show me all the standard tourist sites and make sure I got the complete Las Vegas experience. We walked down the Strip, taking in the obligatory pirate sho...
27.05.2013
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27.05.2013
When my mother returned from a vacation to Florida with her sister a number of months ago, I called to ask how it went. “Oh, we had the best time!†she said. “We spent most of the trip planning our funerals. It was hilarious!†Well, that wasn’t quite what I was expecting to hear. On previous vacations my mom has gone on cruises, even tried parasailing, and I thought I had a pretty good ...
08.01.2013
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08.01.2013
Happy birthday to us: Incredible but true: Interesting Thing of the Day is 10 years old! For reasons I am at a loss to explain, I never tasted Chinese food until I went to college. Around the middle of my freshman year, I decided to make myself a “to do†list of experiences I’d always wanted to have. One of those things was trying Chinese food. Not long afterward, my roommate decided to take my ...
17.06.2013
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17.06.2013
Many years ago I read an article in which the author jokingly referred to something called the “International Stop Continental Drift Society.†Believe it or not, ISCDS was an actual organization in the early 1980s that produced a tongue-in-cheek newsletter for geologists. If it were still around, I’d join in a second: stopping continental drift, like any number of other futile and pointless endeavo...
20.02.2013
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20.02.2013
Author’s Note: This article was updated on April 30, 2008 to reflect changes in absinthe’s legal status in the United States. Picture yourself at the end of the nineteenth century in France. The Bohemian movement is in full swing. Revolutions in art and literature are brewing, technology is advancing rapidly, and more and more people are putting their creative efforts into the expansion of culture. You...
28.12.2012
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28.12.2012
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