World's first guide to using the telephone goes on sale
World's first guide to using the telephone goes on sale
The only known copy of the world's first telephone directory is set to fetch up to £20,000 at auction next month. The 20-page book containing the names and number of 391 subscribers around New Haven, Connecticut, was issued in 1878 - just two years after the invention of the telephone by Edinburgh-born Alexander Graham Bell. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago
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 Dave Barry's annual Holiday Gift Guide for 2007
Dave Barry's annual Holiday Gift Guide for 2007
The only gift guide that can "offer you our exclusive Holiday Gift Guide 'No Excuses' Warranty, which states: 'If you purchase any item from this Gift Guide, you basically have no excuses.'"

(Inspired by picked by runninutes 11 months ago
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 Zeezo web directory
Zeezo web directory
Submit your URL for free to zeezo web directory and classifieds website. picked by lazyurl 1 year ago
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 The world's first mobile phone was the size of a dustbin lid - and had a range of just half a mile in 1902
The world's first mobile phone was the size of a dustbin lid - and had a range of just half a mile in 1902
It was the size of a dustbin lid and had a range of just half a mile.

The world's first mobile phone could hardly be more different to today's devices, which are small enough to slip inside a pocket and can call almost anywhere in the world. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago
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 Crucial Advice for Surviving the First Years (both you AND the baby)
Crucial Advice for Surviving the First Years (both you AND the baby)
Amusing article, although the page is wayyy too busy. I'm pretty sure witty Plimates could add more to the list. picked by gnikgnok 2 years ago
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 NSFW... The C-U-Next-Tuesday Coloring Book
NSFW... The C-U-Next-Tuesday Coloring Book
’In 1973 I set out to do drawings of women’s genitals for use in sex education groups. I wanted the drawings to be lovely and informative, to give pleasure and affirmation. I organized the drawings into a coloring book because a major way we learn to understand the world, as children, is by coloring. As adults many of us still need to learn about our external sexual anatomy.’ -Te... read full post picked by gnikgnok 1 year ago
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 A day is set aside for comic book fans
A day is set aside for comic book fans
An Arizona man is celebrating a special day to promote comic books as engaging educational tools. Free Comic Book Day is set to take place the first Saturday in May. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago
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 Canada releases food guide for aboriginals
Canada releases food guide for aboriginals
Spurred by rising rates of obesity and Type 2 diabetes, the Canadian government has released a version of its food guide aimed at providing healthy eating tips for First Nations, Inuit and Metis people. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago
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 One Number That Will Ring All Your Phones
One Number That Will Ring All Your Phones
For those of you juggling multiple phone numbers. picked by suebe 2 years ago
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 First guide dog allowed in British mosque
First guide dog allowed in British mosque
A British Muslim body has issued a historic fatwa ruling that a blind student can take a guide dog with him to his local mosque, a judgment Muslim and blind advocacy groups are hailing as a breakthrough. picked by suebe 2 weeks ago
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 McGonagall beats Potter
McGonagall beats Potter
Don't panic - this is not BDSM slash fiction set in Hogwarts.

Updating Psycmoe's post, the works of William McGonagall, the world's worst poet, sold at auction for more than a set of autographed Harry Potter first editions. picked by pocksucket 5 months ago
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 Sony PSP: Fake book - The Divine Comedy
Sony PSP: Fake book - The Divine Comedy
This fake book is a way of hiding your PSP and making people think you are reading a book. This is the perfect disguise. :) picked by pjanaway 1 year ago
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 Bookcrossing - The worlds biggest free book club.
Bookcrossing - The worlds biggest free book club.
Find 'wild' books in your area or release a book into the wild for someone else to find. picked by Boomshank 2 years ago
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 PR6 Web Directory
PR6 Web Directory
PR6 Web Directory is A professional bidding web directory for website owners where listings are sorted by bidding price. picked by mattdogs 1 year ago
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 Bush in new book: 'I do a lot of crying in this job'
Bush in new book: 'I do a lot of crying in this job'
Rove in new book: "Bush is needy"

Obviously not a groundbreaking book, so Bush is a needy cry baby, BIG SURPRISE! picked by buddha 1 year ago
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 Winking Star: First Step Of Earth-Like Planet Formation Observed
Winking Star: First Step Of Earth-Like Planet Formation Observed
For the first time, astronomers have observed the initial phase in the formation of an earth-like planet. What astronomers observed was that a protoplanetary disk, or ring, around the binary star known as KH 15D, is composed of solid particles larger than what is usually observed in space. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago
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 How to dial a telephone - instructional video from 1927
How to dial a telephone - instructional video from 1927
An interesting instructional video from 1927 on how to use the dial telephone. But who could have watched it? picked by chuckayoub 1 year ago
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 The Bookship Opens For Business
The Bookship Opens For Business
The world's oldest ocean-going passenger vessel still in service has been converted into a floating Japanese bookstore. picked by VooDooPeacock 1 year ago
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 Suze Orman offering book download free
Suze Orman offering book download free
I don't know if anyone on Plime likes her (I don't, particularly... ), but my mom asked me to download the book so she could read it.
Suze Orman's book, "Women & Money", is being offered for free download from Oprah's site until 8pm tomorrow. Link is to the PDF file for the English version, but you can also find the Spanish version through Oprah.com. picked by Marli 8 months ago
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 Eoin Colfer to write sixth Hitchhiker's Guide book
Eoin Colfer to write sixth Hitchhiker's Guide book
Douglas Adams's increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy is to be extended to six titles, after Adams's widow Jane Belson sanctioned Eoin Colfer to continue the series. picked by 2manyusernames 3 weeks ago
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 Insects Use Plants Like A Telephone
Insects Use Plants Like A Telephone
Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues have discovered that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects can communicate with each other by using plants as telephones. Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant is already ”˜occupied’. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago
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