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"Ten Things You Can Do on the Net This Week:" http://www.learnthenet.com/english/features/tenthings.htm

1. Marvel at bizarre record sleeves: http://www.io.com/~dork/records/sleeve.html

2. Dive to the bottom of the sea: http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/

3. Perfect your golf swing: http://www.strengthcoach.com/strengthcoach.php3

4. Say "cow" in 400 languages: http://www.arrakis.es/~eledu/justcows.html

5. Learn about trilobites, creatures from the distant past: http://www.aloha.net/%7Esmgon/trilobite.htm

6. Create machine translation poetry: http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/

7. Explore bowling alley architecture: http://www.roadsidepeek.com/bowling/tenpin/index.htm

8. Share a laugh with the Dinette Set: http://www.thedinetteset.com/

9. View the world from a kite: http://www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/kaptoc.html

10. Discover how your computer "sees" color: http://www.colormatters.com/comput.html

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