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These are hilarious.

We are surrounded by subliminal images. Even traffic signs are rich in subconscious symbols.

Warning sign for a school area
The boy shows the way; the girl follows. Shown on most panels on this site.
The girl has to dress up, not the boy. Try to find a boy with a distinct hair-dress. It is close to impossible. On modern iconized panels, the hair is sometimes the only gender signal left.

This site has a random selection of the recently most uploaded pictures posted on livejournal. Since they are random pictures then there may be a few that are not safe for work. Click at your own risk.
(via Memepool)

This isn’t the most user friendly of sites but inside it is a wealth of information. Especially if you are interested in Egyptology or Archaeology.

Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation is ambitious in its scope but simple in its aims: to make the complete records of Howard Carter’s excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun available on these web pages. It is astonishing, but no longer acceptable, that some eighty years and thousands of articles, hundreds of books, and dozens of exhibitions after the discovery of the tomb, this most famous event in the history of Egyptian archaeology has not yet been fully published. The documentation is presented in its original form and all, scholars, interested members of the public and school students, can consult it. We hope that this will help bring the knowledge and love of ancient Egypt to everybody.

Who knows if this is true or not but isn’t it way past due to invade Canada?

The following is a full-text reproduction of the 1935
plan for a US invasion of Canada prepared at the US Army
War College, G-2 intelligence division, and submitted on
December 18, 1935. This is the most recent declassified
invasion plan available from the US archival sources.
Centered pagination is that of the original document. The
spelling and punctuation of the original document are
reproduced as in the original document, even when in error
by present-day norms.

This document was first identified by Richard Preston
in his 1977 book, “The Defence of the Undefended Border:
Planning for War in North America 1867-1939″ (Montreal:
McGill-Queen’s University Press.) Preston’s reference
citation (p. 277) identified this to be archived at the US
Military History Collection, Carlisle Barracks, Pa., coded
AWC 2-1936-8, G2, no. 19A. It was located by the US
National Archives and supplied on microfilm.

(via J-Walk)

Here is a pamphelet from the 1950s on what to do in case an atomic bomb goes off.

The Writings on the Stall collects writings found in public restrooms. Why?

One day I, Jonathan Horak (Janitor in Chief), was musing at the writings on the stalls when one in particular immediately drew my attention. I started thinking not of what it read but more of what stalls can reflect in general society: a whole lot.

They serve as (informal) forums for politics, pop culture, humor, and so forth. What better, then, than to bring the best of these writings out to the world over this thing we call the Internet? Thoughts and ideas that once were localized can now be made globally available. Huzzah!

Here are a few examples:

Outhouse.
Mt. Arapiles, Victoria Australia.
Unisex restroom.
Before you condemn a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
That way, if he doesn’t like what you have to say, at least you’ll be a mile away and have his shoes.

Al’s Bar.
Los Angeles, California USA.
Men’s restroom, ground floor.
I eat human flesh…and I vote.

The “Old Pink”.
Buffalo, New York USA 14222.
Men’s restroom, 1st floor.

On the front of the condom machine in large, black print:
THIS GUM SUCKS

Everything you could possibly want to know about the Abacus is here.

There is an amusing Richard Feynman anecdote about how he beat a man doing arithmetic on the abacus that is worth the read here.