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Member of Ramnami Samaj, by Arpan.basuchowdhury (edited by Aristeas)
Kurdish family, by Salar Arkan
Shona witch doctor, by Lycaon
Man of the Ifugao tribe at Igorot people, by Cccefalon
Gondi women, by Yann
Sadhu man, by PICQ
Khonds woman, by PICQ
Nyishi tribesman, by Doniv79 (edited by Janke)
Apatani women, by Doniv79
Kayan girl, by Diliff
Huli wigman, by Nomad Tales
Watching the Dancers at Walpi, Arizona, by Edward S. Curtis (restored by W.carter)
Kallawaya woman, by Alejandra Vaca
Svan peasant, author unknown (restored by Adam Cuerden)
Hollow Horn Bear, by Harris & Ewing (restored by GreenMeansGo)
Inuit woman, by the Lomen Bros. (restored by Papa Lima Whiskey 2 and Crisco 1492)
Hidatsa warrior, by Karl Bodmer (edited by Adam Cuerden and Crisco 1492)
Sha-có-pay, by George Catlin
Buffalo Bull's Back Fat, by George Catlin
Wah-ro-née-sah at Otoe–Missouria Tribe of Indians, by George Catlin
Road Maker at Hidatsa, by Karl Bodmer (edited by Crisco 1492)
Armenian woman, by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (restored by Keraunoscopia)
Scout in Winter at Crow people, by Edward S. Curtis (restored by Keraunoscopia)
Iñupiat family, by Edward S. Curtis (restored by Keraunoscopia)
Jicarilla Apache, by Edward S. Curtis (restored by Keraunoscopia)
Bashi-bazouk, by Jean-Léon Gérôme
Batak warriors, by Kristen Feilberg (edited by Christoph Braun)
Maasai woman, by William Warby
Guide at Little Norway, Wisconsin, by Arthur Rothstein (edited by Durova)
Hamatsa shaman, by Edward S. Curtis (edited by Durova)
Ramallah man spinning wool, by American Colony Jerusalem (edited by Durova)
Frances Densmore records Mountain Chief, from National Geographic Magazine (edited by Mvuijlst)
Moroccan snake charmers, by Tancrède Dumas (edited by Durova)
Gaucho, by Courret Hermanos Fotogs. (edited by Durova)
Red Jacket, by Corbould/C.B. King (edited by Durova)
Ramallah woman, by American Colony (edited by Durova)
Zuni girl, by Edward S. Curtis
Hupa fisherman, by Edward S. Curtis
Mahdi follower at Khalifa, by Matson Photo Service
Nez Perce warrior, by Edward S. Curtis
Sámi family, from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Bedouin woman, by American Colony Photographers (edited by Durova)

SapphicSassmaster

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ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਇਸ ਵਰਤੋਂਕਾਰ ਦੀ ਮਾਂ ਬੋਲੀ ਹੈ।
پنجابی اِس صارف دی ماں بولی اَے۔

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इस उपयोगकर्ता को हिन्दी भाषा का लगभग मातृभाषिक स्तर पर ज्ञान है।

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This user can program in Python.

This user can program in R.

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This cisgender user supports the human rights of non-binary and transgender people.

This user may be a bit eccentric, but is definitely not demented.

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~$ This user is a geek.

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This user is an introvert.

This user belongs to Arabo - Iranian
ancestral lineage.

عرب

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This user lives in India.

This user is a citizen of the Indian state of Punjab.

This user is proud to be a
Punjabi !

This user is always fascinated as they search their family history and build a family tree to see what black sheep will turn up next.

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RH →

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This user is an autodidact in a wide range of subjects they never took in school or university.

IQ

This user thinks that IQ tests are overrated.

IQ	This user's Intelligence Quotient is 141.

This user loves knowledge.

This user is opposed to
political censorship.

This user supports the Free Territory Makhnowia a.k.a. Anarchist Ukraine, but is not a Platformist.

This user respects
Нестор Махно
and his contributions to
internationalist communism.

If this user can't dance with Emma Goldman, she doesn't want to be in your revolution.

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This user advocates Workplace democracy and Workers' self management.

This user is an Anarchist who believes capitalism is incompatible with the principles of Anarchism.

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political ideas of
Murray Bookchin.

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Josip Broz Tito's views
on Brotherhood and Unity
of the Yugoslav nations.

This user subscribes to a Marxian interpretation of economics.

This user knows Stalinism is not Communism!

This user respects
Róża Luksemburg
and her contributions to
internationalist communism.

This user supports the self-determination of each constituent ethnic region of Kashmir, whether the ultimate decision be independence, union with Pakistan, or union with India.

This user believes in the ideals of
Theyiechüthie Sakhrie —non-violence and forgiveness. We must make peace with the Indian army.

This user believes those who extort and terrorize innocent people are nothing but cowards and criminals, and have no claim to be called freedom fighters — they are the real traitors destroying Northeast India from within.

This user demands India apologize for the bombing of Mizoram and the Kakopathar massacre — instead of repeatedly begging the British for acknowledgement of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Lead by example.

⚠️ WARNING
	This user asserts that Jawaharlal Nehru supported policies that inflicted systemic violence, amounting to genocide, of the peoples of Northeast India. He must NOT* be celebrated.*

This user greatly admires and respects Dr.Manmohan Singh.

This user respects Charan Singh.

This user ardently opposes the rise of neo-fascism.

This user ardently opposes all forms of RACISM.

This user ardently opposes all forms of racial nationalism.

This user ardently opposes
the alt-right.

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ableist terms or disability-related slurs.

This user supports the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

This user supports Palestine

This user, as someone who supports Palestine and the Palestinian right of return, is against the terrorism conducted by Hamas and other organizations of any kind.

Apartheid: Wrong for South Africans; wrong for Palestinians.

This user supports one democratic state in historic Palestine, from the river to the sea.

This user doesn't trust the Israeli government

This user admires Teddy Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement!

This user knows Truman is the worst president due to his many, many, many, many, many, huge mistakes and blunders

This user wishes FDR lived to see through his Second Bill of Rights

This user has edited Donald Trump's Wikipedia article.

This user wants to
MAKE AMERICA
SMART AGAIN.

This user is an abolitionist.

This user is a secular humanist.

This user advocates eradication of suffering.

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SAY NO TO POLICE BRUTALITY

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This user knows that
Black Lives Matter.

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Net Neutrality.

This user is a pareconist.

This user is a nihilist.

This user is an absurdist.

Pessimist? Nihilist? This user is an Antinatalist.

This user is an existentialist.

Friedrich Nietzsche has
influenced this user.

"Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life"

This user likes René Descartes.

It's not worth the bother. This user is a
fan of Emil Cioran.

This user is a fan of Bertrand Russell.

This user is an atheist.

~~God~~

This user is a passionate antitheist.

This user condemns all forms of
Islamophobia.‡

This user is against all forms of pseudoscience and will use any means necessary to stomp it out.

This nontheistic user prefers BC and AD over "Common Era" for the same reason they prefer Sunday and January over "First Day" and "First Month".

This user is a naturalist, who believes that only natural laws and forces operate in the universe.

This user doesn't believe in deities, myths or superstitions

This user is a fan of
the Hitch.

This user is a freethinker.

This user is interested in the Cuban Revolution.

This user is interested in the Nicaraguan Revolution.

This user is interested in the history of the struggle against apartheid.

This user is interested in the space age.

This user is a frequent poster at 4chan.

This user believes LLMs like Claude 3 and GPT-3.5-with-browsing in general are some of the most impressive 21st century technologies so far and enjoys using Claude's Sonnet 4 as an incredibly useful coding-assistant

This user uses Discord.

This user has an account on GitHub.

This user enjoys drawing.

This user enjoys the works of
Salvador Dalí

This user enjoys the artwork of Pablo Picasso.

This user enjoys the artwork of Claude Monet.

This user loves films by
David Lynch.

“If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal... you become something else entirely. A legend, Mr. Nolan, a legend!”. This user considers Christopher Nolan to be one of the best directors, period

This user enjoys the films of Andrei Tarkovsky.

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This user is In Rainbows.

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"BLEACH"

K.Dot

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ALL CAPS!
when they spell the man name.

Biggie
Smalls

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The Notorious B.I.G.

This user never stop listening to Kanye West

This user survived all Five Nights at Freddy's Fazbear Pizzeria

This user plays Resident Evil.

This user doesn't want to visit Silent Hill.

This user has a bright red crayon just for you.

This user wished that Mermaids were real.

This user is convinced zebras are horses in disguise.

This user speaks Pig Latin.

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1894 – Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered the Colorado state militia to protect and support miners engaged in a five-month strike in Cripple Creek.
1971 – Vietnam War: Australian forces attacked a heavily fortified North Vietnamese base camp at the Battle of Long Khánh.
1976 – A plane crashed near Kota Kinabalu International Airport, Malaysia, killing politicians Fuad Stephens (pictured) and Peter Joinud Mojuntin, along with nine others.
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The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci - Clickable Image — *The Last Supper* (1495-1498). Mural, tempera on gesso, pitch and mastic, 700 x 880 cm (22.9 x 28.8 ft). In the Santa Maria delle Grazie Church, Milan, Italy, it is Leonardo da Vinci's dramatic interpretation of Jesus' last meal before death. Depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art have been undertaken by artistic masters for centuries, Leonardo da Vinci's late-1490s mural painting, being the best-known example.^[5] *(Clickable image—use cursor to identify.)*

Conspiracy theories I find cool

The Eye of Providence, or the all-seeing eye of God, seen here on the US$1 bill, has been taken by some to be evidence of a conspiracy involving the Founding Fathers of the United States and the Illuminati.

First edition of *The Protocols of the Elders of Zion*

Anti-Catholic cartoon depicting Catholicism as an octopus, from H. E. Fowler and Jeremiah J. Crowley's *The Pope* (1913)

His abolition of the caliphate and many other reforms that secularized Turkey made Atatürk the target of Islamist conspiracy theories.

Ripper explains to Mandrake that he discovered the Communist plot to pollute Americans' "precious bodily fluids", a reference to the John Birch Society's anti-fluoridation conspiracy theories (*Dr. Strangelove*, 1964).

An RFID tag, exposed by the damage to this Oyster card

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Mathematics and numbers

Ceci n’est pas un cercle. It is, however, a knot.

"BEGhIL0S", "hELL0", "B00BLESS", etc. – there are many words that can be spelled on a calculator.

Sure, the room move is inconvenient, but at least we got upgraded to the Googolplex suite.

It may be a pair of pants, but you'd never want to wear it.

−0	Zero has a negative flavor in the worlds of computing, experimental science and statistical mechanics.
0.999...	An infinitely long way to write 1.
2 + 2 = 5	...or perhaps it equals 1984...
616	The real number of the beast?
65537-gon	It can be constructed with a compass and straight edge... but so can a circle, and it's not like you'd notice the 15 parts per billion of difference.
A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates	A pioneering book that does exactly what it says on the cover. Somehow, not the only random number book either.
Abstract nonsense	An affectionate term for parts of mathematical proof.
All horses are the same color	Flawed mathematical induction proof that all horses are the same color.
Almost everywhere	Does not refer to advertising or corrupt corporate practices, but is instead a term in measure theory.
Almost integer	By a strange coincidence, $e^{\pi }-\pi \approx 20$ - and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Almost periodic function	Well, at least they tried.
Banach–Tarski paradox	Tutorial to make two spheres from one.
Belphegor's prime	1 followed by 13 zeros followed by 666 followed by 13 zeros followed by 1.
Bertrand's postulate	Despite now being a theorem, still conventionally called a postulate.
Calculator spelling	5318008!
The Complexity of Songs	A treatise on the computational complexity of songs by venerable computer scientist Donald Knuth.
Cox–Zucker machine	This machine does what‽
Erdős–Bacon number	A combination of the degrees of separation from actor Kevin Bacon and mathematician Paul Erdős.
Extravagant number	Don't take it shopping. Not very friendly with the frugal number either.
Gabriel's horn	A geometric figure with an infinite surface area but finite volume. So even if the horn was filled with paint, you could never paint its surface.
Graham's number	A number so large that the observable universe is not big enough to write it in full in decimal notation or even scientific notation.
Hairy ball theorem	Mathematicians are terrible at naming things.
Happy number	Not just a cheery song on the radio.
Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel	A fully occupied hotel cannot accommodate any more guests. Or can it? Or, once it can, can it not?
Homicidal chauffeur problem	What does a murderous driver have in common with a guided missile?
Illegal number	Does the US government forbid knowledge of the existence of certain numbers?
Illumination Problem	A room with a bit of a shadow.
Indiana pi bill	A notorious attempt to legislate the value of pi as 3.2.
Infinite monkey theorem	An infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of typewriters will (almost surely) produce all possible written texts.
Interesting number paradox	Either all natural numbers are interesting or else none of them are.
Kruskal's tree theorem	TREE(1) = 1; TREE(2) = 3; TREE(3) = ...wait, where did all my disk space go?
Legendre's constant	After 91 years and much effort, this legendary constant was found to be ... 1. Just 1.
Look-and-say sequence	Also known as the Cuckoo's Egg.
Mathematical fallacy	Trying to prove that 2 = 1 or that 1 < 0.
Mathematical joke	Complex numbers are all fun and games until someone loses an i. That's when things get real.
Minkowski's question-mark function	A function with an unusual notation and possessing unusual fractal properties.
Monty Hall problem	The counter-intuitive way to prevail when playing Let's Make a Deal.
Moving sofa problem	What is the largest area of a sofa that can be manoeuvred through an L-shaped corner?
NAND logic	Turns out you only need one logic gate to do anything.
Narcissistic number	The pluperfect digital invariant says "Count me in"!
Nothing-up-my-sleeve number	A number which is "above suspicion".
Number of the beast	For beastly people bored of the number of unluckiness.
Numbers station	[Six bars of The Lincolnshire Poacher play] "¡Atención! ¡Atención! One, four, seventeen, twenty-four..."
Pair of pants	Topology is not pants-optional.
Pi is 3	Did Japanese education guidelines shockingly redefine pi as exactly 3? No, they didn't, but where's the news story and public outcry in that?
Pointless topology	Not as useless as it sounds.
Potato paradox	If potatoes consisting of 99% water dry so that they are 98% water, they lose 50% of their weight.
Proof by intimidation	The description of this article is trivially constructed and has been left as an exercise for the reader.
Ramanujan summation	What do you get when you add all positive integers, up to infinity? You get a negative fraction.
Schizophrenic number	Can numbers have mental disorders?
Sexy prime	Prime numbers that differ from each other by sex. Er... six.
Six nines in pi	A mathematical coincidence, the sequence "999999" appears a mere 762 digits into the decimal expansion of pi. Nice.
Spaghetti sort	An algorithm for sorting rods of spaghetti.
Squaring the square	Surely easier than squaring the circle? You'd be surprised.
Squircle	Not quite a square, not quite a circle, definitely not a Pokémon either.
Tarski's circle-squaring problem	How to square the circle for real.
Taxicab number	Never tell a Numberphile that a number is uninteresting.
Tetraphobia	Sometimes found in conjunction with triskaidekaphobia (see below) in East Asian cultures. More prevalent in Japan, where 49 is associated with "suffering until death".
Tits group	The perfect sporadic group doesn't exi-
Triskaidekaphobia	No, it's not related to the Code of Hammurabi. No, it's not always considered unlucky. Yes, space exploration has been touched by it.
Tupper's self-referential formula	A formula that draws itself!
Ulam spiral	A bored mathematician discovers an unusual numerical pattern while doodling.
Umbral calculus	A mathematical method successfully used for over 100 years, despite the notable limitation of no one on Earth knowing exactly how or why it worked.
Unexpected hanging paradox	If you're told you'll be hanged on a day you'll never expect it, you can prove logically that there's no day you can be hanged at all. Which, of course, means you won't expect it when the hanging does happen as planned.
Unknot	The least knotted of all mathematical knots.
Vacuous truth	All pigs with wings speak Chinese.
Vampire number	Integers with real bite; some even have multiple pairs of fangs.
Weird number	They're called weird, so why not include them? The math behind them isn't as weird as the name, though, whose origin also can't seem to be found on Wikipedia or elsewhere.
Wheat and chessboard problem	Do not mess with exponential growth, especially while agreeing to a suspiciously-low reward for a commoner.
Will Rogers phenomenon	When moving an element from one set to another set raises – counter-intuitively – the average values of both sets. Also known as the Will Rogers paradox.
Zenzizenzizenzic	You know how x³ is called "x cubed"? Well, x⁸ is called...
Zeroth	An ordinal number popular in computing and related cultures.

Computing

.bv	A top-level domain that isn't being sold, made for an Antarctic island where no one lives.
.io	How is a top-level domain for a group of islands with a population of about 3000 military personnel and contractors where leisure tourism is banned so popular?
.kp	North Korea's top-level domain. Interestingly, some websites under this ccTLD can be accessed outside of the DPRK.
.nu	Niue's top-level domain, which is regulated by Sweden and almost exclusively used by European countries.
.su	How a piece of the Soviet Union's internet is not only still online but also still in use to this day.
.tv	Sales of websites under this top-level domain name make up 10% of Tuvalu's GDP.
999 phone charging myth	Some people in the UK seriously believe that calling their emergency phone number charges your phone.
Any key	Press any key to continue.
Blinkenlights	DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! (transl. THIS COMPUTER IS NOT FOR FINGER POKING AND MEDDLING!)
Bogosort	The world's worst sorting algorithm works like this: Randomise the list. Is it in order? If not, try again. Or maybe it is the best…
The Book of Mozilla	A well-known computer Easter egg found in the Netscape and Mozilla series of browsers.
Brainfuck	An intentionally difficult to use programming language containing only eight commands.
*Breakout*	How this simple 1976 Atari video game, started by Steve Jobs and finished by Steve Wozniak, helped spur the creation of the Apple II.
Brian's Brain	He's so smart, he has his own cellular automaton.
Builder.ai	An "AI coding" startup that went bankrupt after its "AI" was exposed to just be hundreds of Indian people.
Bush hid the facts	Revelations of a vast right-wing conspiracy, or just a glitch?
Chudnovsky brothers	A pair of mathematicians who built a supercomputer out of spare parts.
Creeper and Reaper	The world's very first computer virus and computer antivirus, respectively.
Conway's Game of Life	A simple game with only four rules that people have made beautifully complex machines with. It even has the ability to self-replicate! See also Brian's Brain above.
Electric unicycle	The ongoing academic effort to teach robots to ride unicycles.
Elvis operator	Gives a new meaning to the term "smooth operator".
Emojli	A now-defunct emoji-only social network. Started as a parody of Yo (see below).
Enshittification	Richard Stallman warned you.
Esoteric programming language	Refers to programming languages designed as a test of the boundaries of computer programming language design, as a proof of concept, or as jokes, and not with the intention of being adopted for real-world programming.
Evil bit	Indicates if a packet has been sent with malicious intent, so that it can be ignored.
Guru Meditation error	If you thought the blue screen of death was bad, this computer error would hamper your quest to reach Nirvana.
Heisenbug	A programming bug that disappears when you study it.
Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol	Protocol for controlling and monitoring coffee pots. Attempting to use a teapot while brewing coffee will yield you the "HTTP 418: I'm a teapot" error message.
I Am Rich	You must be if you could afford this $999.99 iPhone application that only displayed a red gem and a (misspelled) mantra.
IDN homograph attack	Тһіѕ lіnk іѕ tоtаllу ѕаfе! Тruѕt mе!
Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Browser Usage	Internet Explorer users have lower than average IQ, according to this (nonexistent) study.
International Obfuscated C Code Contest	A competition to create code that no human can read.
IP over Avian Carriers	An Internet protocol for sending data packets using homing pigeons.
iSmell	A computer peripheral designed to emit smells for websites and emails, later named one of the "Worst Tech Products" by PC Magazine.
Kasane Teto	A virtual voicebank that started off as an April Fool's joke back in 2008 on the Japanese textboard website 2channel. Officially 31 years old but is a teenager when converted to human years.
Lenna	How an image of a nude Playboy model became the industry-standard digital image compression test subject.
Loab	According to AI, the exact opposite of many prompts is the same picture of an old woman.
lp0 on fire	Want to panic a Unix user? Display an error that their printer is on fire.
Macquarium	Vintage Macintosh computers-turned-fishtanks.
Magic smoke	When a chip fails, it's because the smoke has gotten out.
The Million Dollar Homepage	A web page sold for advertising space at 1 dollar per pixel.
Mystery meat navigation	The process of not telling you what you're about to click on.
Not a typewriter	Well, what is it, then?
On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science	A 1990 academic paper which argues that computer programming should be understood as a branch of mathematics, and that the formal provability of a program is a major criterion for correctness.
Pentium F00F bug	An Intel Pentium bug with an unusual name.
Phillips Machine	A water-based analogue computer used to model the United Kingdom economy, bringing a new meaning to the term liquidity.
PlayStation 3 cluster	When the US Department of Defense chose a side in the console war.
Reality distortion field	Surely an obscure quantum-physics phenomenon? Nope!
Red Star OS	North Korea's official Linux distribution. In line with Kim Jong-un apparently being an Apple fanboy, s latest UI design mimics macOS.
Rubber duck debugging	Code debugging by explaining your code to a rubber duck. Quack!
RTFM	Four letters that solve most problems.
Scunthorpe problem	Spam filtering based on text strings can cause problems. Just ask the residents of S****horpe.
Send Me to Heaven	A mobile game won by throwing your phone as close to heaven as you can without it getting there.
Tay	An AI chatbot designed by Microsoft to learn the speech patterns of the Twitter users who interacted with it, Tay lasted 16 hours before becoming too racist to remain online.
TempleOS	A biblical-themed operating system designed by a single schizophrenic programmer over the course of 10 years after receiving instructions from God. Some assembly required.
Trojan Room coffee pot	The fascinating target of the world's first webcam: a coffee machine at the computer science department of the University of Cambridge.
Universal Typeface Experiment	A promotional website funded by Bic, which averaged people's handwriting together to create a unique typeface.
Utah teapot	A 3D model which has become a standard reference object (and something of an in-joke) in the computer graphics community.
Vibe coding	Lost your job to AI? Learn to code– actually, wait...
Yo	A messaging service whose only function was to send "Yo" to people.

Technology, inventions and products

Long-lost remnant of a cricket game? Made by ancient intelligent life? A mysterious natural phenomenon?

Cower, you leeches, in the presence of the Tempest Prognosticator!

300-page iPhone bill	AT&T Mobility's billing policy for the first iPhone gave a real sense of how much money was being wasted... on paper and printer ink.
Abraham Lincoln's patent	For lifting boats over shoals. Lincoln is the only US president who held a patent.
Alan MacMasters hoax	For ten years Wikipedia listed a fake article about the man who supposedly invented the electric toaster. Before it was taken down, multiple people and press outlets wrongly reported that an entirely fictional man called Alan MacMasters had invented the electric toaster in the 19th century.
Antikythera mechanism	An analog computer built in Ancient Greece.
Bad Dragon	Products that put the "fantasy" in sexual fantasy.
Baby cage	The pre-War way to get your baby some fresh air if you live in a high-rise apartment. Used by none other than Eleanor Roosevelt.
Bild Lilli doll	A German doll that was the main inspiration for Barbie and is now considered its "grandmother".
Billy Possum	When Taft tried to get his own Teddy Bear.
Blåhaj	Stuffed shark, IKEA bestseller, transgender icon.
Brown note	The laxative infrasonic frequency that doesn't exist.
Centennial Light	A light bulb that has been burning nonstop for 124 years.
Chindōgu	The practice of inventing solutions to everyday problems that just make the problem worse.
Clock of the Long Now	A clock that, once completed, should be able to keep time for 10,000 years.
Clocky	An alarm clock that hides from its owner.
Concealing objects in a book	Hopefully you weren't planning to read it before you hollowed it out.
Digesting Duck	Or "Canard Digérateur", an automaton built to simulate a duck eating, digesting, and excreting.
Digital sundial	Unlike an analog sundial, a clock that indicates the current time with numerals formed by the sunlight striking it.
Dreamachine	A device made with a light bulb and a record turntable that reportedly induces lucid dreaming. (And you thought the makers of Die Another Day made it up. There's still no news about invisible Aston Martin V12 Vanquishes.)
Electronic voice phenomenon	Alleged spiritual voices heard in white noise and radio interference.
Friendly Floatees spill	Rubber ducks and their friends who went on a long, long journey.
Gun-powered mousetrap	Patented in 1882. According to its inventor, it can also be used as a booby trap to kill attempted home invaders.
Hitler teapot	Some people thought that this JCPenney teapot resembled the famous dictator.
Marvin Heemeyer	Why it's always a bad idea to put the guy next door out of business if he has a ten-ton armor-plated bulldozer in his garage.
History of perpetual motion machines	The concept has eluded and baffled the greatest minds for thousands of years – and will continue to elude anyone who tries to build one.
Hitachi Magic Wand	Its manufacturers continue to claim that it's just a massager for health purposes and not, you know, the world's best-known sex toy.
I-Doser	Like taking drugs through your ears.
Jibba Jabber	The hot new stress toy where you simulate shaking a baby to death.
Klerksdorp sphere	Spheres with three parallel grooves dated to be three billion years old... Evidence of ancient intelligent life? An unusual natural phenomenon? Who knows...
Zbigniew Libera	Creator of the Lego Concentration Camp.
List of inventors killed by their own invention	Perilous parachutes, lethal lighthouses and murderous motorcycles!
Love chair	Made to allow a fat king to have sex with two women at the same time.
Mengenlehreuhr	You'll have to read between the lights to see the time.
Moo box	Cow in a can.
Mosquito laser	A bug zapper with a difference.
Museum of Failure	A collection of sorts focusing on... well, failed things. Notably includes the Nokia N-Gage, Bic's woman-only pens, and Google Glass.
My Friend Cayla	That doll is a spy!
One red paperclip	A man's small piece of metal turns out to be worth more than expected.
Parking chair	Using household objects to reserve parking spaces.
Pigeon photography	Pigeons were used by the Germans for aerial surveillance in World War I, and apparently also in World War II. Not to forget the CIA's own pigeon camera.
Predictions of the end of Wikipedia	All good things must come to an end...... but not for now.
Project Cybersyn	Chilean robo-socialism control chamber invented by a Brit with a gigantic beard.
Pythagorean cup	When the cup is filled beyond a certain point, it will empty itself.
Quartz crisis	Not a comic book story arc, but the upheaval in watchmaking caused by the introduction of quartz watches.
Radio hat	A strange-looking (and strange-sounding) piece of headgear.
Royal Mail rubber band	One billion are used every year and often seen littering the streets of UK cities.
Russian floating nuclear power station	Self-contained, low-capacity, floating nuclear power plants.
Sony timer	Rumours that Sony uses a particularly aggressive form of planned obsolescence continue to this day.
Splayd	33.3% spoon, 33.3% knife, 33.3% fork.
Tempest prognosticator	Meteorology by frightened annelid.
Turbo encabulator	A device whose sole function is to expose technological ignorance.
Uncanny valley	How to measure your emotional response to androids.
Useless machine	In most cases, toys for adults.
Vin Mariani	A drink made from cocaine and consumed by Thomas Edison, Pope Leo XIII, Ulysses S. Grant and French prime minister Jules Méline.
Violence and Lego	Fortunately, not actual violence, but rather an observed increase of weapon bricks within the toy brand.
Wrap rage	Ever been driven mad by packaging that just won't open?
Xianxingzhe	A Chinese robot, according to the Japanese, that will save its country from corporate capitalism with its crotch cannon.

Intriguing Questions

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?	A proverbial question of theology.
If a tree falls in a forest	Philosophy meets the logging industry.
Meaning of life	Why are we here?
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?	Have you ever wondered that? No? Apparently this is one of the most important contemporary philosophical questions.
Where's the beef?	In 1984, people thought this was really funny for some reason.
Why did the chicken cross the road?	People have asked this for over 150 years.

Unusual Media

Pictures

Lawn mower racing
Train wreck at Montparnasse
The Agassiz statue, Stanford University, California. April 1906
Medieval trepanation
Polydactyly
Isometric projection flaw
Collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Defecating seagull
Indecency
Aerial turning house
Tank treads on an airplane
Salvador Dalí
Maintenance of Mount Rushmore
One million colors
Keep your hands to yourself!
Like a fly on...
An elaborate flat Earth map drawn in 1893
Vegetable Lamb of Tartary
Carrots of many colors
Professional regurgitator Hadji Ali at work
Illustration of a Cartesian theatre
Sir Nils Olav, colonel-in-chief of the His Majesty the King's Guard, inspects his troops in 2008.

Videos

Time lapse clips

Prof. Oliver Zajkov demonstrating glow discharge in a low-pressure tube caused by electric current
Example of a performance-type video; a man building a snowman
A time-lapse video of a cicada molting
Columbia glacier Alaska time-lapse
A slow-motion video of a greater flamingo vocalizing during matin season.
Video made with Hubble Telescope images from Jupiter in 4K
A snapshot video of a volcano eruption in Iceland
360º view of a Leica I camera from 1927

Videos about media

The Kid, by Charlie Chaplin.
Spartacus trailer, by Stanley Kubrick.
A clip from The Muppets
A song by folk group OYME

Historical Videos

A Canadian Army Newsreel from 1942, about World War II
Paris during the COVID-19 lockdown, showing empty streets
John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, 1961
Philippines Independence proclamation video, 1946

Documentary type

Example of a tour-type video; Paris during the COVID-19 lockdown in April 2020
Video from NASA about the mission PACE
A documentary about the mink invasion in South America
This is my home, a video about how people live inside Chernobyl's exclusion zone

Photographic techniques

First image scanned to a computer, by Russell Kirsch (restored by JayCubby)
Self-portrait in mordançage style, by Stacey Svendsen
View from the Window at Le Gras, by Nicéphore Niépce
Kinemacolor coronation drill, by the Natural Color Kinematograph Company
Milk Drop Coronet, by Doc Edgerton
Wildlife photographer in a ghillie suit, by Giles Laurent
Ambrotype, unknown author (restored by Yann)
Multiplane camera effect, by Janke
Stereo image pair at Stereoscopy, by Franz van Duns
Strip photo, by Dllu
Yellowing of thorium lenses, by El Grafo
Early high-dynamic-range image, by Gustave Le Gray
Intentional camera movement, by Colin
Underwater photographer, by Jayme Pastoric
Space selfie, by Akihiko Hoshide
Neutral density filter, by Robert Emperley
Photomontage, by Mmxx
Focus stacking microscopy, by Richard Wheeler
Aerial photograph, by WPPilot
Focus stacking, by Muhammad Mahdi Karim
Clifton Beach at Exposure (photography), by JJ Harrison
Usage of a portable folding reflector, by Mbz1
Stereographic panorama, by gadl
Agen in 1877 at Subtractive color, by Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron
Contre-jour, by Joaquim Alves Gaspar
Infrared photograph of a tree, by Daniel Schwen

Too much further reading

References

↑ The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840, Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1841, National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG599, Given by British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1880
1 2 McDaniel, W. Caleb (2007). "World's Anti-Slavery Convention". In Peter P. Hinks; John R. McKivigan; R. Owen Williams (eds.). Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition. Vol. 2. Greenwood. pp. 760–762. ISBN 978-0-313-33144-2.
↑ Maynard 1960, p. 452.
↑ Sklar 1990, p. 453.
↑ Zuffi 2003, pp. 254–259.

[npg-1] The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840, Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1841, National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG599, Given by British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1880

[McDaniel-2] 1 2 McDaniel, W. Caleb (2007). "World's Anti-Slavery Convention". In Peter P. Hinks; John R. McKivigan; R. Owen Williams (eds.). Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition. Vol. 2. Greenwood. pp. 760–762. ISBN 978-0-313-33144-2.

[3] Maynard 1960, p. 452.

[4] Sklar 1990, p. 453.

[FOOTNOTEZuffi2003254–259-5] Zuffi 2003, pp. 254–259.

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