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Randy Cassingham's Bonzer Web Sites of the Week: Recognizing Interesting Sites that are Beyond the Microsoft/AOL-Time Warner/Media Megalith

Online Conversion

Er... Conversion? No, they don't want you to change your religion. And no, it's not just another boring metric-to-English calculator site. Sure, they have that, but how about what an American size 9 shoe is in Europe? Or what's the date 100 days from today? Or how to convert any keyboard character to ASCII decimal, hex or binary. Or... just about anything else you can think of. (You nerdy types too: how many square inches/day in 22.3 lentors? Find out here.)

From This is True for 6 May 2007

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