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Showing posts with label interesting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interesting. Show all posts

Friday, April 3, 2009

'Oddity Central' offering collection of odd stuff around the world

'Oddity Central is one of those interesting sites which I recommend to this blog readers. There is a collection of odd but interesting stuff collected from around the world. I personally book mark the sites which attract me and love to share it with all.

Facing image is taken from the site which shows 'World's smallest car':

Oddity central is a collection of odd stuff from around the world. There are news, videos, pictures and all the stuff which is fun to see or read and interesting as well.

There are news around the world which are fun to know or watch the pictures of those events.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Learn about interesting facts around us

The wide world around us is full of surprises and interesting things and it points out towards wonderful creativity of the God. Many interesting facts surprise us and compell us to know the reality hehind it. Teachers, students or people who love to learn from nature would like 'The Big Site of Amazing Facts'.

The Big Site of Amazing Facts offers Interesting and Unusual Facts about the world around us.

Mission: (In their own words)
“The aim of The Big Site of Amazing Facts is to be low fat, easy to navigate, and to fill a niche in the Internet database by providing real information that is not found anywhere else on the Internet.As a dot com experiment, our mission is to use technology to facilitate knowledge and information transfer and sharing.”

What kind of interesting facts you can find at the site?

Few titles are:

Is There a Difference Between a Rabbit and a Hare?
Which Animal Defends Itself by Spitting?
What Are Antlers?What Makes a Skunk Smell?
Are Bats Really Blind?
Why Is a Sloth Called Lazy?
Are There Really Such Animals as Ligers and Tigons?
Is It True That the World’s Largest Animal Feeds on the Smallest?
Can Dolphins Talk?Why Does a Whale Spout?
Why Do Turtles Live For More Than 200 Years?
How Does a Turtle Get into Its Shell?
How Does a Chameleon Change Colors?
What Is a Mammal?
Can a Porcupine Shoot Its Quills?
Why Do Raccoons Wash Their Food?Do Cats Really Have 9 Lives?
Do Cats Eyes Really Shine in the Dark?
Which Insects Keep Their King and Queen Prisoners?
What Animal’s Favorite Game Is Bellywhopping?

There are many how to facts, but I was searching the site with interesting posts, which I found at ‘odd facts’ page.
Few of the titles are really interesting like as:
- What Is the Last Largest Number You Can Count To?- What Is the Largest Single Cooked Food in the World?

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Few interesting sites and blogs

There are many blogs around the net, which you would love to browse and read for fun. My journey around the net results in bringing and discovering interesting and useful sites, links and resouces. Today's post is about few sites and I have placed these sites at one place because their authors are the same.

Joe Kissell and Morgen Jahnke, are husband and wife who are authoring many interesting sites. You need time to browse for each and every bog, because there is a lot of fun stuff which you can enjoy reading.

- First interesting site is

* 'Interesting Thing of the Day' which is called a virtual museum of interesting things. It offers series of entertaining and educational articles about unusual or intriguing topics of all kinds. Subjects include foods, places, language, ideas, history, science, and many more.

New articles appear on average about twice a week.


- 'Sense list' is a site about lists. Combining practical information with a sense of fun, SenseList brings you lists of things you need to know, things you’ve always been curious about, and things you never knew existed. Amusing, surprising, and occasionally silly, these lists create order out of the chaos of everyday life. With so much information out there, SenseList makes sense of the world, one list at a time.
Top 5 Lists:
14 Odd Deep-Fried Foods

8 YouTube Videos Featuring Non-Newtonian Fluid Experiments

32 Weirdly Specific Museums

13 ways to find north if you're lost in the woods

Six Depictions of Shakespeare Using Inanimate Objects

- 'Truffles for Breakfast' the story of Joe and Morgen’s life in Paris.

- Spectatrix, a blog that provides humorous and insightful commentary about the world of introverts



- I am Joe's Blog is about Joe Kissell who is an author, computer geek, cook, and dreamer living in Paris.