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	<title>Portent</title>
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	<description>Interesting Facts and Websites</description>
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		<title>30 seconds- Yokohama By Night Photos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yokohama is near where the American Commander Matthew Perry first landed in Japan in 1853 (in the Black Ships) and forced the country to end its period of isolation. It&#39;s now the 3rd biggest city in Japan, located less than 20 miles from Tokyo. These excellent photos show the city off by night.&#160; More about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/30-seconds-yokohama-by-night-photos/</link>
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		<title>French Records of OVNIs (UFO&#8217;s)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The original site (in French) is here but the main links go via Google&#39;s translation to English. The French centre for space studies (CNES) have put their UFO (or OVNI or PAN as the French call it) archives online. I think there are 1,600 in all but currently there are 350. Click seek then click [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/french-records-of-ovnis-ufos/</link>
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		<title>Flash Synthesizer Experiment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take a photo of a synthesizer, make the controls work in Flash and you have an electronic synthesizer with reverb, filter, sine, square, triangle and sawtooth waves and a 4 octave keyboard (35 white keys). Plus three sliders for clip, drive and volume. It&#8217;s fairly crude as synthesizers go sort of 1970s retro I guess [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/flash-synthesizer-experiment/</link>
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		<title>Balancing Flash Game- Tilt!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a really simple game to play (except when you&#39;re trying to take a screen shot!). Just move the mouse to keep the weight balanced on the end of the stick. It&#39;s like balancing a broom (which is something I&#39;m good at!) but doing it via a mouse is not the easiest. While the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/balancing-flash-game-tilt/</link>
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		<title>Google Cinema Showtimes (UK)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This came as quite a surprise. Google can now show all the cinemas in your area (around a postcode) with times, films, a map and an imdb link to a film. Click a link for a film and it shows all the cinemas carrying it and the times of showing.&#160;&#160; Very handy. Link Republished by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/google-cinema-showtimes-uk/</link>
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		<title>Cliche- Rotation Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally in my travels across the 987 corners of the web I encounter something a bit different and this one comes under the title of sustainable cliches. Old cliches are overused, hackneyed, weary and just deserve their final moment in an electric box or car crusher. The people at the defectiveyeti website decided to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/cliche-rotation-project/</link>
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		<title>30 Seconds &#8211; Some Great Pictures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are just humourous, clever or very subtle. My favourite is probably the woman with the handbag.&#160; Link Republished by Blog Post Promoter]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/30-seconds-some-great-pictures/</link>
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		<title>Video &#8211; High Speed Horizontal Road Skating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I could see this bloke being a future candidate for the Darwin Awards! He starts off skating normally on blades then goes horizontal; he is wearing the suit he invented with special wheels attached. It lets him go at speeds up to 60 MPH. Frenchman Jean-Yves Blondeau first conceived of his plastic Buggy Rollin&#8217; suit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/video-high-speed-horizontal-road-skating/</link>
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		<title>30 Seconds- San Jose Then and Now Photos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Do you know the way to San Jose?&#34;&#8230; These photos are the same streets taken 30 years apart. 1975 and 2005. No prizes for guessing which are which, though the faded tones make the 1975 photos look about 1945. A fascinating glimpse at the changes that time has wrought. Don&#39;t forget that in this period, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/30-seconds-san-jose-then-and-now-photos/</link>
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		<title>Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, Logic and Crytography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tim Roberts has put together a site for amateur mathematicians and cryptographers. It is to encourage thought and discussion of some of the outstanding problems in number theory, logic and cryptography. The picture is a cipher written by Sir Edward Elgar to a young companion that remains unsolved over 110 years after it was written. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/unsolved-problems-in-number-theory-logic-and-crytography/</link>
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		<title>Uncovered &#8211; Bare Breasted Women in New York</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jordan Matter is a successful New York photographer. One of his projects was persuading women to pose bare breasted in normal surroundings in New York and act as normal as if they were fully clothed. There are 72 photos and they are fascinating, and each comes with a little bit of background about the person. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/uncovered-bare-breasted-women-in-new-york/</link>
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		<title>Earthquakes Hazard Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With its own section on the U.S. Geological Section, the earthquakes Hazard Program is a database of earthquakes around the world that is kept very up to date. Just two days ago for instance there was a 5.5 magnitude quake in Iran just 15 miles from the city of Qom. Yesterday evening there was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/earthquakes-hazard-program/</link>
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		<title>Amaztype &#8211; Visualising Amazon Searches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is really clever. Select one of the Amazon websites (com, uk, Japan or Canada) then a category (books, music or dvd/videos) and a search phrase. I entered portent and you can see the word in the picture. Move your mouse over and click and it expands- I clicked a picture in the lower half [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/amaztype-visualising-amazon-searches/</link>
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		<title>Name that Website?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Which organisation was founded 61 years ago, has the endorsement of over 67 Nobel Laureate in chemistry, economics, medicine and physics, includes a massive directory of US and non US military systems, takes views on weapons in space, and even has a gallery of images showing houses made of plastic foam that can survive earthquakes? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/name-that-website/</link>
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		<title>Grow the Robot &#8211; Puzzle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This looks like a game but is more of a puzzle. It&#39;s educational in a logic type of way. For each level you have a number of fuses. You just have to fit the fuses to power up the robot. The logic part comes with what the fuses power- these are logic games- AND, OR [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/grow-the-robot-puzzle/</link>
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