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January 11, 2005
More ageing irrelevant cool stuff: anthropology
Still cleaning out my "cool stuff" bookmarks, so some of this is old news. (Apologies if you saw it already or if I got the link from you and don't remember.)
Subway systems of the world, presented on the same scale.
Interesting redesign of the NYC subway map.
More than you ever wanted to know about Tokyo toilets, including a tutorial on how to use one. (via Samizdata comments, via Oxblog)
Omniglot: a guide to writing systems from Abaza to Zulu
Did you know the first written description of pasta is in the Talmud? (The Yerushalmi, which would make sense since in both geography and time it would be closest to the Roman Empire.) (Well, I am assuming that pasta is indeed Italian, and not introduced to Europe from China by Marco Polo, and the Talmud description would seem to support that since it was written way before Polo made his trips to Asia.)
Judith | 01/11/05 at 11:37 PM | Categories: - Amazing things
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