[extropy-chat] old toys for N-mas

[scerir]

Newtonmas is close.
FAO Schwarz, the 'ultimate' toy store
http://www.faoschwarz.com/default.cfm
isn't in good (financial) shape.
Let us turn to everlasting items.

Hero's Fountain

-reality
http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/Fluids/Heros_Fountain/Heros_Fountai
n.html

-theory
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0310039


The Drinking Bird

-reality
http://www.backstreet.demon.co.uk/oddstuff/drinkingbirds/drinkingbirds.htm

-theory
http://nautilus.fis.uc.pt/personal/mfiolhais/artigosdid/did15.pdf
http://nautilus.fis.uc.pt/personal/mfiolhais/artigosdid/did14.pdf


The Cartesian Diver

-reality
http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/Fluids/Cartesian_Diver/Cartesian_Di
ver.html

-theory
http://nautilus.fis.uc.pt/personal/mfiolhais/artigosdid/did13.pdf
http://nautilus.fis.uc.pt/personal/mfiolhais/artigosdid/did8.pdf

-philosophy
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/courses/CI241-science-Sp95/resources/philoToy/philoTo
y.html