powerball and lotteries

at history of lottery.com$425 million: unclaimed. check your pocket and the history of lotteries

bandhani - tie dying for thousands of years

at indianetzone.com perhaps the oldest method of tie dying.

cyber monday

the origins of the word cyber at the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

...the study of "control and communication in the animal and the machine". (Norbert) Wiener's work in the 1940s, related to cybernetics, constitutes one of the roots of modern "cognitive science."

our cyber monday comes to us in 2005 from this article at shop.org

thanksgiving

we thought we would review some history of the day. we though we could focus on pumpkin or turkey or potatoes. we had the idea to consider the history of centerpieces or the cornucopia.

at mentalogica, we want to give you the unnoticed, the unvisited, the unknown worlds of the internet. so here is your relevant thanksgiving website.

bigpumpkins.com yes, this is legitimate.

at spacedaily.com

a dog like robot invented to explore Fukushima nuclear plants and assist in decision making for restoration efforts

at phys.org

researchers discovered a method to send code keys made of single photons over 90 miles of cable. This is a breakthrough in quantum encryption.

quantum encryption

readers on the web: essay no.1

we researched web reading habits. we learned at the great site www.useit.com that 100 words is what you will read. we discovered we read web pages in an F pattern: first the top horizontal bar, then the bottom horizontal bar.

After those bars, we read the page down on the left side looking for content and keywords. Each 100 hundred words we read keep us on a page 4.4 seconds more. So all most of us see is what our eyes find in this F-pattern. Go to useit.com for more. This is how much space one hundred words take up.

this isn't your grandpa's burger

at foodbeast.com we like macaroni, we like burgers. we are not sure we could eat this.

worlds largest sport venues

at engineering news record a look at the largest sports facilities-be sure to view the slideshow

lamellar roof structure as in New Orleans superdome

it's all Greek to everyone

at dailywritingtips.com several useful words used in English directly from the Greek language.