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November 28, 2009

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Yes, I still post here a few links every once in a while, but I spend most of my blogging time now at the new Grow-a-baby website.

À tout à l'heure

November 28, 2009 in A new Direction | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack (0)

The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow

(From wood’s lot)

Also, Hanging with Frank - Portrait of a Glasgow prison's execution chamber and a man that worked there in the 50's

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Sheela na Gigs are figurative carvings of naked women displaying an exaggerated vulva. They are found on churches, castles and other buildings, particularly in Ireland and Britain, sometimes together with male figures

Also, Vagina Dentata Sculpture, Mature

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Re-post: The Degree Confluence Project is an all-volunteer project which aims to have people visit each of the integer degree intersections of latitude and longitude on Earth, posting photographs and a narrative of each visit online. As of October 30, 2009, 35.19% of the world's primary confluences have been completed

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The mysterious 300 Diquis Spheres of Costa Rica

November 28, 2009 in Traveling Places | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Most recorded $1 bill at “Where’s George”, found to circulate 15 times -

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The world's largest collection of tongue twisters

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Re-post: People playing chess on roller coasters, inspired by a XKCD comic

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55 Useful Online Generators for Designers

November 28, 2009 in Money & Finances | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

eBay Find of the Day: George Barris Olds Toronado 70-X is wraparound luxury (with a slide show)

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The Family Truckster is a four passenger quadricycle that splits in two to create two back to back recumbent tandems

By the folks who brought you The Couch Bike

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Can't Park here

November 28, 2009 in Cars | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

 

Amblin' (1968), the first completed film shot by Steven Spielberg on 35mm. The film is a short love story set during the hippie era of the late '60s, about a young couple making their way through the desert to a paradisiacal beach

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In the early Nineties, a man called Alan Conway went about London telling people he was Stanley Kubrick

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The years are short

November 28, 2009 in Cinema - "Jaws" | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Frida Kahlo Uterus Plushie, complete with uni-brow and an unyielding creative presence. Only $55

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Not a very impressive sale

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I’ll be gone, by Korb

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Hyperrealistic Sculptures

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Walama

November 28, 2009 in Odds & Ends | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

November 22, 2009

I laid traps for troubadours

Who get killed before they reached Bombay

Bridges to Babylon tour in St. Louis, 12/12/97

Also, Isle of Wight - 06/10/2007

1969 in Hyde Park

and on 12/6/69 in Altamont

7 versions by the Slovenian band Laibach



November 22, 2009 in Music | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)

Elton john

The Elton John Toilet Seat

My Mike Leavitt

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Julia Child, TV cook

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A short wikipedia list of Controversial doughnut-related items:

 


November 22, 2009 in Food | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Bows and flows of angel hair

Leonard Nimoy's version of ‘Both Sides Now’

November 22, 2009 in Zen | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries

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 Stoner party

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 Scroll Clock

November 22, 2009 in Bookstores | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Pope doll

Pupplenklinik make dolls of famous people

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50 Skate or Die Skateboards

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A new Guinness record was recently set - The smallest hummus plate ever: 39mm in diameter, with 14 grams of superb Israeli hummus

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Going Rogue: the Mein Kampf of Fail -


November 22, 2009 in Shopping | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Ulrich Lamsfuss: Olivier Portrat (NSFW)

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David Bowie sings "Ragozzo Solo"

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Some Peter Gabriel's costumes from the Genesis era

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A gallery of ambigrams by 01101001

November 22, 2009 in Music | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Zapruder bell

46 years & 26 seconds later:

The 414 PD 8mm Bell & Howell Zoomatic Director Series movie camera

which shot this Zapruder clip

(From Jew of the Day)


November 22, 2009 in Americana - Abraham Lincoln | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

November 16, 2009



November 16, 2009 in Cinema | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

November 15, 2009

Happy 83 birthday to my dad, ELI!

Aba sheli

November 15, 2009 in Personal | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)

November 14, 2009

Improbable movie trading cards

No country


November 14, 2009 in Cinema | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Autumn

Autumn leaves, by Kyle bean

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What is this thing called Amway?

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Hilarious re-post from last month: Don’t even reply!


November 14, 2009 in Nature | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Tintin stamp

Ephemera from Southeast Asia

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 Cowboys For Jesus -

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 Tintin in Stamps

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 How blogging has changed

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 Midgets Break Ground for their City

November 14, 2009 in World of Blogging | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Modular

Gulls eating starfish, a gallery on flickr

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Modular origami uses multiple sheets of paper to create a larger and more complex structure than a single-piece origami

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"In einem kühlen Grunde" sung Cappella style by The Comedian Harmonists. (Thank you, Patrick)


November 14, 2009 in Games | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Radishes

The Night of Radishes or Noche de Rabanos is celebrated every year on the 23rd of December in Oaxaca City, Mexico. The festival has been organized since 1897 in the „Zócalo“ (main square) of Oaxaca City.The main attraction of this event is an exhibition of sculptures made of large red radish. Radishes used in event can weigh up to 3 kilograms and have length of about 50 centimeters

November 14, 2009 in Festivals | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Fabio

Learn Italian with Fabio

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 Tu vuò fà l'americano, by Renato Carosone

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 Victorian Visions of the Year 2000

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10 jokes about Joe Lieberman & his threat to filibuster any health care bill which includes a public option

November 14, 2009 in Celebrities | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Ingmar Bergman’s lost classic, Field of Dreams

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Telly Savalas mumbles "If"

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Let the Baboon Drive Dammit -


November 14, 2009 in Cinema - Directors | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

52 Guinness World Records

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The largest known land gastropod is the African giant snail (Achatina achatina). The largest recorded specimen of this species measured 39.3 centmeters (15.5 inches) from snout to tail when fully extended. Its shell length was 27.3 centimeters (10.75 inches) and it weighed exactly 900 grams (2 pounds)

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Older model

November 14, 2009 in Fashion | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Big fat ugly

The Big Fat Ugly: A sandwich filled with four cheeseburgers, a double cheesesteak, a chicken cheesesteak, gyro meat, grilled chicken, bacon, sausage, mozzarella sticks, chicken fingers, chicken nuggets, mac n’ cheese bites, fried mushrooms, jalapeño poppers, pizza bites, onion rings, hash browns, American cheese, mayo, and ketchup on two rolls

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Kimchi isn’t the only foul-smelling treat from Asia. Here, a breakdown of the top ten smelliest foods

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Sausage bake

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Meat Hand, from 'Not Martha'

November 14, 2009 in Food | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Honk if you are

Drawings on paper towels

By Marc Jones

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Vintage Sexist Advertising, from “Mom’s basement”

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Gif animations at ‘Tacky Raccoons’

November 14, 2009 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

November 06, 2009



November 6, 2009 in Fireworks | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Party Monsters by Christopher Kutner

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Thank you for calling ScreamCo

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Youtube Hits by Judit & Judit

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Hot Fuzz

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Transgendered spam

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50 silly signs

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A Russian guy building a Wall-E Case Mod

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Steve Ballmer mash-up:

Developers, developers, developers, developers….

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History of hockey masks

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Dude, I'm Tripping Balls

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Animated stereoviews of old Japan

November 6, 2009 in Odds & Ends | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Banana
Geostationary Banana Over Texas. an art intervention that involves placing a gigantic banana over the Texas sky, being visible only from the state of Texas and its surroundings

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November 6, 2009 in Modern Art | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Albinism in Tanzania

Pieter hugo

November 6, 2009 in Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Peter max obama

It must be nice to be the president. In addition to having helicopters, jumbo jets, and motorcades, you get to rifle through the cellars of the National Gallery and the Hirschhorn for artistic masterpieces to adorn your home for the next four to eight years.

 

As with all of our recent presidents, the artistic choices made by Barack Obama and his wife say a lot about the first couple and what they want to say about themselves (Slide show)


November 6, 2009 in Americana - Barack Obama | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)


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