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Remember the sounds of the old coin-op arcades?

HPV & Me: An Overshare is frank and honest story about one woman's experience with HPV and its treatment.

See a font in an image and want to know what it is? WhatTheFont! will find its closest match in their database.

Killed Ideas: "...some of the best ideas never see the light of day. We think the best of these killed ideas are valuable, and should be celebrated. So we’re bringing them back to life in Killed Ideas, Volume 1."

Tom Fletcher's gallery of New York architecture in black and white contains gorgeous photographs of the city from 1885 to the present day.

And on that note, here's a photoset of Brooklyn in the 1970s.

"In A Charmed Life, A Road Less Traveled" shares the story of a couple who rebuilt a beautiful life together after tragedy.

Who doesn't love a good spiral staircase, especially when it leads down into your personal wine cellar? Spiral Cellars will build one for you in any room in your house.

For all you audiophiles out there, check out the top 3000 albums and 3000 songs of all time.

If you've ever contemplated the ways you don't want to die, No Way to Go at Legacy Matters will challenge your wildest imagination.

This human beat box blew my mind:

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I wouldn't give it the moniker "ultimate" like Smashing Magazine did, but it's a pretty darn good collection of free Photoshop patterns.

Someone has decided to show the world scanned cross-sections of sandwiches. I feel for the poor scanners that suffered crumbs and mayonnaise in the process.

Whorange is a style and design weblog. It makes me want what they like.

James Duncan Davidson has some excellent pointers that will help you engage your audience at your next public speaking spot and will allow you to appear both more professional and comfortable.

Gwendolyn MacEwen's "Dark Pines Under Water" has called back some of my favourite memories of exploring water in northern pine forests as a child.

I wouldn't have thought of it, but it only seems to make sense that someone has created an internet meme database.

This toilet is awesome. (sound warning)

"Writing for a Living: A Joy or a Chore?" asks several contemporary authors about how the act of writing makes them feel, and you might be surprised by their answers.

Check out these fascinating and melancholic photos from Pripyat, Ukraine in 2009, an abandoned Chernobyl workers' town.

If you haven't already figured it out, I have a thing for abandoned buildings and urban areas, so I also offer you photographs of 100 abandoned houses.

Watch this creepy, 1970s educational video called "If Mirrors Could Speak", but only if you are not phobic about child clowns:

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Dude hears about kosher salt and thought he should make a Christian variety. Dude, that's stupid.

While we're on the subject of gonzo religion, there is an ex-masturbators movement afoot, and you can buy the t-shirt. These ex-masturbators claim that God never created solo sex and that masturbation creates sexual disorder, among other things. I guess God put me in this body and gave me ownership of a vagina that I'm not supposed to touch, and then he made it the most sensitive and pleasurable area of my body so that I definitely wouldn't touch it, and then, on top of it all, he gave me the ability to orgasm ONLY so that a man could control it. (By the way, I was raised in a Christian home that believed masturbation was healthy and normal. Ghastly, I know.)

YourFonts has this cool application that will turn your handwriting into a font for FREE. I haven't tested it yet, but I've heard good things. Give their free handwriting font generator a whirl.

Want to know what your chances of getting a tapeworm are?

If you stay dry-eyed when you read this story about Andy the Goat, your heart is dead. Unless you don't like goats for some reason. Nope, then your heart is still dead.

If you're in your thirties or forties, this forum discussion is going to make you feel ancient. A yougun queried: "I was reading about arcades and how you'd have to queue to play popular games as well as follow rules like no throwing in fighting game or the others wouldn't let you play. This seems rather strange. The money cost must have gotten expensive pretty quickly as well. I'm not old enough to have been to them when they were around so I'm curious about what they were like." Hilarity ensues.

Peruse this excellent gallery of covers from German design books.

Forest Haven was a children's developmental center in Laurel, Maryland that was shut down by a federal court and then abandoned in 1991. Check out this Flickr photo set of Forest Haven's remains.

The Cult of Done Manifesto needs to be printed large and taped to my wall.

I avoid juice as a rule, because I assume that highly processed foods must come from lesser sources, and juice is generally high in calories, but now I have extra reasons for avoiding it, according to Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice. After reading the article, I wonder if orange juice is defined by its source or by its colour. I'm thinking that the latter is more likely.

"Southern Comfort" is an excellent documentary from 2001 about a transgender man dying of ovarian cancer in the southern United States. Now you can watch it here in ten parts.

The Science Museum's History of Medicine has a vast collection of medical objects from all over the world. I could pour through its disturbing collection all afternoon.

COLOURlovers shows you a world of colour, and I love it.

For "spectacular recipes and memorable food experiences", head to FXcuisine.com.

Great Depression Cooking with Clara is fantastic. I love hearing elders' stories, and seeing as she is 93 years old, she has a lot of them. Here's one of her episodes: