Ah, lugnuts. M-W seems to have implemented a block to external forms accessing their database, such as mine. Has anyone found a work-around? I use that dictionary a lot...
Anyone close to my age (22) will enjoy visiting compilations of 90's pop music via Amazon.com and clicking on the RealAudio clips. I would im agine it's equally fun for you older folks to go back the appropriate number of decades, but I wonder if there is something about the eerie proximity that makes these particularly entertaining...
Jason's recent question on mirrors reminded me of David Feldman's Imponderables books. A quick domain name guess landed me at David Feldman's web site. Alas, there is no index of Imponderables. But you can participate in gender-oriented surveys, buy the books, or buy the board game.
For an answer to the mirror question, you can consult the rec.puzzles archive, Physics puzzles (search for "mirror"); Gardner's New Ambidextrous Universe (3rd revised edition) has a concise explanation, if I remember correctly. You might find this Glenbrook High School Physics tutorial on image formation helpful in visualizing it, as well.
Pixhell. Start watching here, here and here. (Thanks mrradon of memepool.)
