.. with a long load time :-/
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What is it: A japanese company website built entirely on flash. It’s fascinating how the music changes as you scroll down the page. Hint: If you scroll right to the bottom you can click the genie :) Enjoy
Thrilling Wonders of the World, frequently updated
http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/
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What is it: “Dark Roasted Blend” is a blog posting all those little astonishing things you never look for and are amazed by when you receive them by mail. People converting commercial airliners into homes, extreme close-ups of gemstones, weird musical scores and so on. I was sent a link to this one (the reason for this post showing up in “visualization”), some world maps distorted to show the size of countries as a function of e.g. house prices, war deaths or alcohol consumption. Nice perspectives in that, but I think the whole blog is worth a visit.
update: I’ve become a frequent reader in the last week or so…
Don’t Try, you’ll loose. :)
http://www.llanfairpwllgwy[35 chars more]gogogoch.co.uk/say.php
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What is it: The page of the website with the longest “valid” domain name that tells you how to pronounce it. That place is a welsh village and the name means “St Mary’s church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave”. I guess I’d rather come from A in Norway or from Y in France. Maybe even L.A. or S.F. . Or Munich! But that thing up there stretches it a bit far :) . There even is a Wikipedia entry.