List of humorous units of measurement (English Wikipedia)

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bipm.org

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Maggie Koerth (27 August 2010). "Bananas are radioactive". BoingBoing.

books.google.com

Kemp Bennett Kolb (2008). "The beard-second, a new unit of length". This Book Warps Space and Time. Andrews McMeel. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-7407-7713-4.
Sonntag, Christoph (2011). Langenscheidt Schwäbisch für Anfänger (in German). Langenscheidt. p. 12. ISBN 9783468692956.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
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Levy, Steven (2010). Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (25th Anniversary ed.). O'Reilly Media. p. 63. ISBN 978-1449393748. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
Raymond, Eric S (1996). The New Hacker's Dictionary. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262680929.

businessinsider.com

Boesler, Matthew. "Here's How Many Minutes Of Working Minimum Wage It Takes To Buy A Big Mac All Around The World". Business Insider. Retrieved March 11, 2024.

catb.org

"sagan". Jargon File.
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"The Jargon File: microLenat". Winter 2003. Retrieved July 27, 2014.

curiosity.com

Donk, Kelsey (December 9, 2019). "The Hawking Index Is a Mathematical Measure of When People Give Up on Books". Curiosity. Archived from the original on January 1, 2020. Retrieved January 1, 2020.

doi.org

P.M. Gresshoff (2004). "Book Reviews: Plant Signal Transduction". Annals of Botany. 93 (6): 783–786. doi:10.1093/aob/mch102. PMC 4242307.

dorktower.com

Kovalic, John (May 21, 2009). "The Milliwheaton". Dork Tower. Retrieved August 8, 2021.

esa.int

neo.ssa.esa.int

"Newsletter April 2024". 2024. p. 2.

ghostarchive.org

Adam Savage & Andy Weir (June 11, 2015). Adam Savage Interviews 'The Martian' Author Andy Weir - The Talking Room (streaming media). Tested.com. Event occurs at 33:15. Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
Scott, Tom (June 1, 2020). "The Worst Typo I Ever Made". YouTube. Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. Retrieved February 4, 2021.

google.com

"Google Search: 5 nanometers in beard-seconds". Archived from the original on June 9, 2017.

ibtimes.com

Mahapatra, Lisa (August 20, 2013). "The Global Economy: Minutes Of Minimum-Wage Work To Buy A Big Mac". International Business Times.

independent.co.uk

Rentoul, John (September 6, 2019). "The Top 10: Units of Measurement". The Independent.

itotd.com

Kissell, Joe. "Furlongs Per Fortnight | Interesting Thing of the Day". itotd.com.

jargon.net

"jargon, node: attoparsec". jargon.net.

mediainfo.com

"Friedman Finally Urges Fixed Date for U.S. Pullout". Editor & Publisher. December 7, 2006.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

mentalfloss.com

"The Wheaton and Other Unusual Units of Measurement". www.mentalfloss.com. May 6, 2011.

mit.edu

web.mit.edu

"Smoot in Stone". MIT News. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. June 4, 2009. Retrieved July 20, 2010. Specifically noting the bridge's length of 364.4 Smoots (+/- 1 ear), the plaque, a gift of the MIT Class of 1962, honors the prank's 50th anniversary.
"Keyser describes his top five hacks". MIT News Office. September 1999. Retrieved January 20, 2013.

web.media.mit.edu

Jehan, Tristan (2005). "3.4.3". Creating Music By Listening (PhD thesis). MIT.

nautiluslive.org

"PHOTOS & VIDEO". Nautilus Live. Retrieved April 30, 2015.

neatorama.com

Donald E. Knuth, Selected Papers on Fun & Games, Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2011, chapter 1: The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures, pages 1--8. The chapter is a reprint of the MAD #33 article "The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures". Neatorama.com. January 15, 2008. Retrieved September 5, 2011.. In the addendum, Knuth clarifies that the accidental dropping of the second 4 in the 7th decimal place was a typo by the MAD typesetters.

newscientist.com

"Towards a universal crackpot standard". New Scientist. No. 2758. April 28, 2010. p. 64. Retrieved April 6, 2012.

nih.gov

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

P.M. Gresshoff (2004). "Book Reviews: Plant Signal Transduction". Annals of Botany. 93 (6): 783–786. doi:10.1093/aob/mch102. PMC 4242307.

osu.edu

math.osu.edu

Gian-Carlo Rota (January 1997). "Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught". Notices of the AMS. Archived from the original on February 5, 2012.

prospect.org

Klein, Ezra (December 8, 2006). "TAPPED". The American Prospect. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved June 8, 2010.

psu.edu

science.psu.edu

"Live Webcams: Scientists Studying Corals Damaged by Oil in the Gulf of Mexico". Penn State Science. June 25, 2014.

qi.com

"Illness". QI. Series I. Episode 9. London. November 4, 2011. BBC. BBC Two.

quackometer.net

"The Quackometer Blog". The Quackometer.

salt.org

"SALT Talks: Election 2020 with Anthony Scaramucci".

scientificlib.com

"Barn".

sfgate.com

Hartlaub, Peter (July 7, 2005). "One-hit wonders? Has-beens? Who cares? It's a free concert at the county fair". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved January 27, 2023.

slate.com

Murphy, Cullen (October 2, 1997). "Too Much of a Good Thing – How much hype is overhype?". Slate. Retrieved March 10, 2006.

statista.com

Dyvik, Einar. "Working time required to buy a Big Mac in cities worldwide 2018". Statista.

susam.net

"Microcentury - Susam Pal". susam.net. Retrieved November 3, 2021.

techopedia.com

"Ohnosecond: What does ohnosecond mean?". Technopedia. December 12, 2022.

theatlantic.com

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Yglesias, Matthew (May 9, 2007). "More Friedman Units to Come". The Atlantic.

theatlantic.com

Nicholas, Peter (August 29, 2019). "Anthony Scaramucci Wants You to Believe Him This Time". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on August 29, 2019. Retrieved November 22, 2024.

thegameslave.com

Proteus. "A Treatise on Units of Measurement". Gameslave. Archived from the original on November 23, 2007.

thenation.com

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thinkprogress.org

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pbs.twimg.com

Parker, Andy (December 5, 2017). Jimmy Griffin Snow Index for the December 5-8, 2017 lake-effect snow event. WKBW-TV official Twitter account. Retrieved December 5, 2017.

ucr.edu

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"Crackpot index". math.ucr.edu.

uk-rec-sheds.org.uk

"FAQ for newsgroup UK.rec.sheds, version 2&3/7th". 2000. Archived from the original (TXT) on March 6, 2006. Retrieved March 10, 2006.

unc.edu

Rowlett, Russ (November 20, 2001). "How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement". University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Archived from the original on July 1, 2014. Retrieved January 23, 2014.
Rowlett, Russ (2001). "How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement". University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Archived from the original on July 1, 2014. Retrieved November 8, 2006.

utk.edu

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"1-2: Units/Sig Figs/Estimation". University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Fall 2019. Retrieved August 8, 2021.

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Drum, Kevin (November 1, 2006). "Meltdown in Iraq..." The Washington Monthly.

washingtonpost.com

Fahrenthold, David A. "The Measure of This Man Is in the Smoot". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
Froomkin, Dan (May 8, 2007). "Four More Months?". The Washington Post.

web.archive.org

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Rowlett, Russ (2001). "How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement". University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Archived from the original on July 1, 2014. Retrieved November 8, 2006.
Klein, Ezra (December 8, 2006). "TAPPED". The American Prospect. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved June 8, 2010.
Gian-Carlo Rota (January 1997). "Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught". Notices of the AMS. Archived from the original on February 5, 2012.
Nicholas, Peter (August 29, 2019). "Anthony Scaramucci Wants You to Believe Him This Time". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on August 29, 2019. Retrieved November 22, 2024.
Donk, Kelsey (December 9, 2019). "The Hawking Index Is a Mathematical Measure of When People Give Up on Books". Curiosity. Archived from the original on January 1, 2020. Retrieved January 1, 2020.
Proteus. "A Treatise on Units of Measurement". Gameslave. Archived from the original on November 23, 2007.
Madden, John (November 23, 2009). "11 Ways Geeks Measure the World | GeekDad". Wired.com. Archived from the original on September 9, 2011. Retrieved September 5, 2011.

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Madden, John (November 23, 2009). "11 Ways Geeks Measure the World | GeekDad". Wired.com. Archived from the original on September 9, 2011. Retrieved September 5, 2011.

wordsmith.org

Garg, Anu. "A.Word.A.Day -- scaramouch". Wordsmith.

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Adam Savage & Andy Weir (June 11, 2015). Adam Savage Interviews 'The Martian' Author Andy Weir - The Talking Room (streaming media). Tested.com. Event occurs at 33:15. Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
Scott, Tom (June 1, 2020). "The Worst Typo I Ever Made". YouTube. Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. Retrieved February 4, 2021.