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Floor796.com
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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A bit of time on your hands? Clearly, you're here.
Visit Floor796.com, a massive animated .gif filled with detail and amusing pop-culture references.
A throwback to when the internet used to be a fun place...
Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: a list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Basically, a list of every pop-psychology buzz-word, pseudo-science "news" articles you've ever read the last 20 or so years.
Worth reading, because any article that uses them needs clarification and unambiguous interpretation. Upon the slightest perusal you quickly realize that very little "news" is, in fact, news, it is simply verbiage to fill your time while the notes from the sponsor creep in the edges
Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01100/full
The Copiale Cipher
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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From the wiki: "The Copiale cipher is an encrypted manuscript consisting of 75,000 handwritten characters filling 105 pages in a bound volume.[1] Undeciphered for more than 260 years, the document was cracked in 2011 with the help of modern computer techniques."
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copiale_cipher
And, more images, translations, etc: https://cl.lingfil.uu.se/~bea/copiale/
Ancient masonic texts, initiations, rites, etc, for your reading pleasure.
10 Million in Silver - Still Largely Missing
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Via the CBC, a shipping container with more than $10 Million US in Silver goes missing from the parking lot of a warehouse in Lasalle, Quebec. Since when some ingots have been recovered in Massachusetts and - of all places - Nanaimo.
But the bulk is still out there, and somebody knows...
Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/silver-theft-millions-lawsuits-1.6652656
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