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This page draws together some downright interesting sites. They may cover various disparate topics, but they do have the word fascinating in common. Good grief, I nearly bust a gut at this one. This Is True is great fun. This next site is hilarious. There's a cartoon called Family Circus that's printed daily in my local paper and that's distributed nationwide. It's about a purported family with 4 kids, Mom and Dad, a jokey one-liner and drawn in a circle (geddit?). Cute, but a little too Christian for my liking. I always thought, naively perhaps, that Bil Keane, the artist, was in his thirties with a small family like the one pictured. Boy, was I wrong. The comic has been going nearly 40 years. Anyway, someone is running a web site where he posts an original cartoon without the joke and invites surfers to add their own punch line. Some of them are hilarious, some are inside jokes with a vengeance (you'll need to have read the original cartoons to get some of them), some are just plain silly and allude to non-existant autobiographies of the main characters. But great fun. Oh yes: the site is called the Dysfunctional Family Circus. And read the customer reviews of the latest Family Circus book collection at Amazon.com... Marilyn Is Wrong! - a kind of mix between the bizarre and the fascinating (in fact, I wasn't quite sure which page I should put it on: this or Bizarro!). Marilyn vos Savant is a columnist for Parade Magazine, a free insert in major Sunday papers. Parade states that Marilyn vos Savant is listed in the "Guinness Book of World Records Hall of Fame" for "Highest IQ," and in her column she attempts to explain various questions sent to her by readers. These questions tend to be of a scientific or mathematical bent. This site picks apart some of her answers and show why she is wrong with some of them. It includes an excruciatingly long discussion on the Monty Hall problem and several lesser, but more interesting ones on other questions (such as Olber's Paradox). Worth a look, even though some of the objections to her answers could be categorised as splitting hairs. |
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