http://www.maximonline.com/articles/index.aspx?a_id=256 Stumbled on a Maxim article and was about to close the window automatically, then noticed that this list is actually quite fun, neat, informative and hardly sexist or annoying at all (unlike the rest of the magazine) until the ads at the bottom of the piece.
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Albert Einstein Anecdotes – The Gold Scales
http://oaks.nvg.org/sa5ra17.html Neat anecdote amongst a slew of Einstein-related trivia, which I here shamelessly steal from RufusAndRemus: One of Einstein’s colleagues asked him for his telephone number one day. Einstein reached for a telephone directory and looked it up. “You don’t remember your own number?” the man asked, startled. “No,” Einstein answered. “Why should I memorize […]