This is a good example

This is a good example of something that would not have happened before the web: Steve Silverman is a science teacher who happens to publish a site called Useless Information. I found it because I’m a fan of P.T. Barnum, and Silverman has a nice page about phrases P. T. Barnum was added to the language (it’s an impressive list, including “Siamese Twins”). Poking around the rest of the site, I found an article about Charles Ponzi, who always makes for a good read… do you know what the original Ponzi scheme was? The rest of the Useless site is like this: short punchy pieces about offbeat interesting topics. Silverman got so much good feedback about his web site, he ended up writing a book called Einstein’s Refrigerator.