According to the Great Firewall of China web app, Bunch of Nerds is one of the many many many many sites blocked in China. Which is really depressing, cause, I really like China! Naturally I’m not so hot on the human rights abuse, the perverted form of commutalistism, the mad amount of industrial expansion and the pollution which follows it, but, still, I’ve never done wrong by you China, why does it have to go down like this?

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When I was a kid, I always loved going to airport cafes, many of which allowed you to plug your headphones into small boxes where you could listen to the air traffic communications as they occurred. Though I never learned to fly (and in all honesty, HATE flying), I was always curious as to what exactly was going on between the pilots and ground control. So years have passed and never did I imagine I’d be able to listen to pilot to ground communication over the internets, but hey, it *is* the future. LiveATC is a great little community site for aviation enthusiasts, aviation students and flight-sim enthusiasts to monitor live communication from various airports around the world, letting you know exactly how French pilots communicate with Korean air traffic controllers and what exactly angry pilots sound like when their takeoff spot gets scooped up by millionaires in private jets.

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We all know that the US is strange, but, this takes it to a new level. Just a few minutes looking at StrangeUSA.com, a database of strange places in the United States, one would think the whole country is one giant haunted, zombie-infested ghost town. StrangeUSA consolidates all the information it can find on haunted buildings, spooky cemetaries, unidentified monsters, ghost towns and all the scariest places they can find, collected by users and urban explorers to give you the best darn database of haunted stuff your side of the Mississippi. Oh look, that church whose bells I used to hear down the street, haunted. Super.

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With Valentine’s Day approaching this week what better way to let someone know that you’re against everything that Valentine’s Day has become than with an, er, anti-Valentine? If you think Valentine’s Day has been overly commercialized by chocolate manufacturers and greeting card companies then take part me(ish)’s organized virtual protest, by sending your loved (or hated ones) a mini virtual protest card declaring you want them to be your anti-valentine.

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If you’re anything like the morons we seem to be, you’ve sat in front of your computer for hours trying to get a good deal off of that shiny new iPod being flogged on eBay, only to have it sniped from under your mouse finger with 3 seconds to go. Bypass all that mess and get straight to the auctions that are going cheaper than you can imagine using Auction Intelligence, a search engine which checks your search term (the item name or type) against the common misspellings, providing you with a juicy list of auctions that few can find and at a price you can actually afford.

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Ok, maybe it’s not TRUE real-time, but this RSOE HAVARIA map, plotting National Association of Radio-Distress Signaling and Info-communications (say that 3 times really quickly) distress signals will keep me up at nights for weeks to come. Whether you want to be updated in real time when there’s a breakout of the pharyngeal plague in Zambia (currently flashing red on the map!!!) or biological hazard reported in Bolivia, the RSOE HAVARIA map has it all. Who needs news alerts when you can get the news direct from the source?

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Being bitter rivals doesn’t mean that the two internet search and advertising giants can’t get along. Imagine a world where Google and Yahoo would collaborate on standards, designs, technology….it would be too good to be true. Google Watch’s Steven Bryant does just that by creating a mock re-design of Google’s well accepted start page, pretending that Google would portalize along the lines of Yahoo’s design standards. Attention Google, attention Yahoo, this is brilliant and I have to admit, this is the start page I’d want to have.

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Bored at work and looking for that perfectly harmless and sometimes amusing link to send around to accounting? Then Fodey’s newspaper clipping generator is exactly what your figures and numbers-stuffed brain is looking for. Create silly, abusive or downright ridiculous newspaper clippings about your boss, the company or that creepy dude in the mail-room. Print them out and post them in the lunchroom or just pass them around viral-like through your company email. Work? Never heard of it.

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Dow (booo) and Popsci have put together a really slick and interactive periodic tables list created using Flash. Users are able to scroll over the various table entries, read short (and sometimes snarky) descriptions of the elements and link to even more useful information on the one table you wouldn’t want to eat anything off of.

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When not being swallowed by a lesser species, extraterrestrials have taken to spreading their love for the Firefox web browser throughout the United States. A recent Google Maps find going all over the internet appears to show the famous browser’s logo, crop-circled into a row of corn in what looks to be like the middle of nowhere in the Pacific Northwest. Ignore the plane, cars and people forming the ‘FX’ just below the field, this was done by real live aliens, man. Aliens!

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