Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Etymology

This is a great list of pertinent etymologies:
http://www.westegg.com/etymology/

Friday, February 10, 2006

Ice Hotel

Interesting Ice hotel that is made out of Ice...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukkasj%C3%A4rvi
Other very interesting hotels:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel

tallet hotel in the world

The tallest hotel in the world was completed in 1999 in Dubai:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Burjalarab1.jpg

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

auto-antonym

What is a word called that 2 different meanings that are complete opposites? What are some of these words? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_self-contradicting_words_in_English

Thursday, February 02, 2006

hot water can freeze faster than cold water

Very interesting. It is called the Mpemba effect.

http://ask.yahoo.com/20030930.html

look at the earth!

There is a cool website that I was introduced to today.  Go to googleearth.com and type in a city you want to find and discover some cool landmarks:)