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September 30, 2004
Experimenting with LSD
Re-post: The results of careless experiments, feeding LSD to British soldiers
Also, Goats On Acid: The FDA institutionalized laboratory experimentation on animals in 1908. At that time, the FDA's Drug Division was reorganized into four Laboratories, one of which stated its purpose as "investigating the physiological effects of drugs on animals."
The LSD No-Hitter And other drug tales from the world of baseball. Another version of former Pittsburgh Pirates' pitcher Dock Ellis's story
E-Bay auction: "Snakes on White" Blotter art
Salvia Divinorum Video Clips: Sharry's First Trip is a video taped account of her first experience with Lady Salvia
Freud and Cocaine - Freud leads the late nineteenth Century charge for the cause of cocaine
Crystal Meth - “It will consume your mind! It will destroy your future! They call it Ice! It is a raging Fire!” Mothers Against Methamphetamine
LSD Barcode Art above from Scott Blake. I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. More about any kind of bad drugs especially Acid and Pot Here
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Your Highness
Keep off the Grass (But it’s ok to smoke & drink): Tom gets in trouble when his mother finds a joint in his room. Instead of punishing Tom, his father challenges him to learn more about marijuana’s evil effects on society. Nobody gets killed in this Sid Davis film, yet Tom still learns a harsh lesson after being mugged by druggies and learning that his best friend sells pot to school children
Welcome to Hollywood! Lazyboy’s new video, Underwear goes on the inside of your pants. (From “Gomi No Sensei”)
Stoner Excited About Marijuana-Induced Breast Growth. More Marijuana News: Students recruited to harvest pot
Marijuana in Iraq, freeing the Moslems from the evil of Hashish
Flavored Zig Zags, from Absinthe and Bacon to blueberries & watermelon
Unisex hemp shoes & sandals for a fragile planet. "Hemp shoes are pure!"
Marijuana Seeds, the highest quality marijuana seeds in the world
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. More about any kind of illegal drugs especially Acid and Pot Here
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September 29, 2004
Till death do us part
Please read the touching stories of Father Gregory Boyle as he discusses his career working with former gang members in Los Angeles. (Heard on Terry Gross’s “Fresh Air”)
Food for Those in Solitude. Raven's Bread is a newsletter for hermits and those interested in the eremitical life. (From “Extreme Web Surfs”)
Use this Color Therapy Cube to calm, rejuvenate, and improve your sense of well-being
What's your life rated on the MPAA rating scale?
(On the other hand, if you have to, there's Divorce Net to help folks through the painful process of divorce and related issues)
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Visit Our Archives of Things To Do Here
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September 28, 2004
Sweet transvestites from Transsexual Transylvania
Little Elvis on the Sunset Strip: Applause or no applause. Little Elvis didn't care. Little Elvis has his own inner applause meter
Women Hunters - For women, about women, by women
A Close Shave - Razor blade related collectibles, by Amichay Bar-Yoseph. (From Bifurcated Rivets). Ahmet Sonmez, another collector of Razor Blade Wrappers
Gallery of Eccentrics from “Eccentric New Orleans”
Bill Maher and Andy Richter as Satan and Jesus repectively
A Scottish Businessman who put his money where his mouth is
John Evans, World record-holding headbalancer and Christian Adam, record holder of cycling backwards while playing a violin. Many more such record holders at Record Klub Saxonia
TK Faces (Image heavy)
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Visit Many More Human Interest Stories Here
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September 27, 2004
Surrealist and other beautiful games
Bald headed action figure (From Skydive Stunts)
The Top Ten Asian Pacific American Toys
Sports Classics Parody - If These Thumbs Could Talk ...
Reverse - The movement of your cursor has been reversed. (From "Ritilan")
Learn to Juggle . Shoot the clay kitten
What is a SpudZooka? Your own Pneumatic Potato Cannon capable of launching a potato several hundred yards
Bob Armstrong's Old Jigsaw Puzzles
Paper Former Universe
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Our Extensive Collection of Games and Toys Here
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September 26, 2004
“Dead Soldiers for Peace”
A million candles for children
Blues for Peace - Isn't it time people stopped fighting and learned to play 12 bar shuffles instead?
Sculpture of Origami Peace Dove by Livio De Marchi
Stanislav Petrov: You probably never heard of him. He may have saved the human race from extinction. Petrov (born c. 1939) is a retired Russian Army Colonel who refused to launch Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles on September 26, 1983, despite computer indications that missiles had already been launched at the USSR from the United States
Peace Not War Images. (From “Little Ray of Sunshine”)
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Many More Unusual Links About Peace and About War Here
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“Scrambled eggs, all my troubles seems so far away”…
Hand-painted cells from Yellow Submarine
Dana Pannell’s Beatles Karaoke, Rendered in General Midi for your listening pleasure
Beatles fans will soon be able to buy their very own John Lennon sneakers. Ouch!
The Ten Most Hated Men in Rock (Besides Sting): Paul McCartney is No. 1
Stella McCartney’s own site
Review of Larry Kane’s "Ticket to Ride"
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Visit Our Extensive Beatles Collection Here
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September 25, 2004
"Too many good docs are getting out of business”
Fictional elections deserve fictional candidates: Republicans for Voldemort. If I were to cast my vote, I would vote for Harry Bottom for President 2004
Top 10 Reasons to Elect George W. Bush
The Database of Bush Accomplishments contains every positive thing that George Bush has accomplished during his four years as President. To search the database, enter a word or phrase in the box below
Do you have what it takes to be President?
“If you believe that government should be accountable to the people…”
Grandmaster Bush Rap. (It’s strange how the current Bush masks look so much like the Nixon mask worn by the Ex-presidents in “Point Break”)
Campaign voodoo: Delay and distract
Where Kerry Went Wrong: Can all of Kerry's qualifiers, gaffes and flip-flops on Iraq be finessed with a KISS strategy? Yep. That's the magic of general elections, where 50 million likely voters are just tuning in. With a few choice one-liners, the onus of responsibility can be placed back where it belongs
(Nasty banner here from “Zen Anarchy”. Yummy tummy photo above from “J-Walk”)
Two dogs share a Rare private moment
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. More Fair and Balanced Election News Here
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September 24, 2004
Rubik's Revenge
Solving the Rubik's Revenge (4x4x4)
The return of Rubik's Lego Magic Cube
Urban Invasion. A mysterious French artist has gone about the globe putting mosaics of the little space invaders from the classic video games all over the place
Sloyd3. Objective: Move all red, yellow, and blue pieces to the correct face
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Everything You Need To Know About Rubik’s Cube and Hundreds of Other Games Here
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September 23, 2004
Buy, buy, buy
Welcome to Commercials I Hate. I started this site because the advertising industry thinks we're stupid. Commercials assume the worst about us. Commercials use ugly stereotypes to appeal to the lowest common denominator. That's nasty and insulting. Lucky for you, so am I
Skippy Peanut Butter’s elephants - Targeting stoners?
The Branding of Polaroid, 1957-1977 - Blog by Paul Giambarba, head of Polaroid's identity and packaging at the time
All your favorite jingles from the 80’s. You can also download these Beer commercials
One of the creepier entries in the campaign to make over-the-hill women look younger is Rejuvenique: The Ultimate Facial Toning System. Found at The Ridiculous Infomercial Review
What those DeBeers ads should really look like (Warning: Lewd sentiments/language)
Buy more Nike Shoes
The Advert Channel, 24 hours of nothing but commercials
Advertising Plagiarism (side-by-side comparisons of pirated print designs)
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Visit Our Unusual Advertising Jingles Here
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September 22, 2004
The Sisters of San Francisco
Vintage San Francisco Postcards, from America as it was. Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to journey across the United States in 1910, traveling through countryside and small towns, craning your neck to look up at the skyscrapers of the cities, stopping to see the current events and sites of this glorious country's history?
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. is a 21st Century Order of queer nuns. Since their first appearance in San Francisco on Easter weekend, 1979, the Sisters have been accused of "Ruining it for Everyone" with their habitual injection of gaiety into serious affairs including human rights, political activism and religious intolerance. The Sisters consider it their mission to "ruin" all detrimental conditions including complacency, guilt, and the inability to laugh at one's self
The Painted Ground of San Jose Avenue - sidewalk graffitists that work in and around the Mission at the base of Noe Valley
Photograph of 16th and Valencia street above from the 40’s. Many Digitized Images from the San Francisco Public Library
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Many More Unusual Links About San Francisco and About Los Angeles Here
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September 21, 2004
Israeli nostalgia
Nahum Gutman was a wonderful, Matisse-like illustrator who wrote & drawn many of the best artbooks for Israeli children during the first half of the 20th century. Many of his stories took place in “Little Tel-Aviv”, when the town was just a tiny colony stretched on empty sand dunes among the first orange groves in Palestine. Extremely nostalgic stuff. Here is a Hebrew website about the Gutman museum
Here is where I’m from, Kiriat-Motzkin, Israel. Let me tell you, it didn’t look like that at all when I left. Not even close.
Pirate Radio Stations off the Israeli shore. (From Metafilter)
Poster Art of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Ramallah Online, devoted to information about Ramallah, Palestine, the history and culture of the area
The Likudization of the World: The True Legacy of September 11. By Naomi Klein
According to the Iraq Blog Count, there are now 76 new Iraqi blog, so I am not going to keep documenting them all. Here are just a few: Pictures in Baghdad; before, during and after the war, A star from Mosul, Raghda Zaid, Baghdad Girl and Tell me a secret
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Visit Our Unusual Links from the Middle East Here
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September 20, 2004
First Barbie doll
First Kaleidoscope, invented in 1816 by David Brewster
From the Early Office Museum: Antique Office Illustrations & Photographs, 1830s - 1880s
The First Miss America Beauty Pageant, 1921
First Barbie doll, sold March 9, 1959
First 911 call - February, 1967
First woman on the moon, August 28, 1999
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Visit Our Fascinating First Ever List Here
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September 19, 2004
(I did not attend Burningman this year either)
- but 35,000 other people did. Next year, perhaps…
Skydiving over Burningman. (See also the video from 2002). More photos from above as well as samples of art installations all over the Playa, by Brad Templeton
Hips of Burningman by Patrick Roddie
360 Panorama from Greg Downing
Gallery of photographs by George Post, by John Cornicello and from flickr
4 videos of Gravity Bowl’s spinning cars. Tons of photos from Gravity Bowl
Even the Suicide girls went burning
BM’s 2004 Theme Camps & Villages
Jesus and Christ hang on a cross until the Man is set fire (From SF Gate gallery)
Many more galleries at Burningman TV
I am leaving on vacation to Italy shortly and will be away for a few weeks. But blogging here will not stop. I have prepared single daily pre-blogged posts for your entertainment, so you'll have good reasons to keep visiting Grow-a-brain on a daily basis. Any complains though will have to wait until my return. Be good. Many More Unusual Festivals Here
September 19, 2004 in Festivals | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Resources for Gaijin
Kyoto Kimono - Authentic Japanese vintage kimono, obi, fabrics and unusual items from the markets of Kyoto
Nanshoku Gay Samurai. (From The World History of Male Love. More about Procter & Gamble's gay toothpaste)
Shakuhachi, a site devoted to the traditional Japanese bamboo flute
Toys in Japan: Because real estate is at a serious premium in Tokyo, most of the toy stores I visited were five or six stories tall, each usually organized by type of toy. What I liked most about toy stores in Japan was that there was a wide variety of toys, crazy things that I had no idea they were still making.
More Bento Boxes from Chanpon
Driving in Japan: Philip Greenspun’s observations from his recent trip to Japan
The Ninja Dojo, the ultimate Ninja & Samurai movie website
Tattoos they are a-changin' Why, I ask myself, would a man invest more than 150 hours of his time, over a two year period, in a weekly series of painful puncture wounds that would leave a meter-tall image of legendary little forest-dwelling bear-killer Kintaro indelibly sunk into the skin of his shoulders, back, buttocks, and thighs?
Resources for Gaijin (foreigners) in Japan
Current Eruptions from the Earthquake Research Institute (Unfortunately, the last update on the site is 17 January 2004)
Many More Unusual Links about Japan Here
September 19, 2004 in Japan | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
September 18, 2004
Pizza on a stick
Tortilla Art and New ideas for Selling More Pizza. (Both from The Salt water Pizza Blog ). Pizza commercials from Glass Nickel Pizza. More there
Foods on a Stick at the Minnesota State Fair, from deep-fried pickles and Reubens to Macaroni and cheese on a stick…
Slowtron's How to BBQ a man. What better way to mark the dwindling of summer than with one last barbecue? (From "GreenCine Daily". Another good short from Coudal - How to break all ten commandments before breakfast)
A matzo ball soup to make the bubbes kvell and shiksas plotz
Food news from The Onion: Pick'n Save stockboy Joel Melcher said Monday that his overexposure to groceries has destroyed his taste for food. "When I first started working here, I thought, 'This is awesome—I'll be able to bring bags of food home from work every night,'" said Melcher, who receives a 25 percent discount at the store. "But now, being around it all day long, at the end of the day I can't even stand to look at frozen food, baked goods, meat, dairy items, or produce. Makes me sick just thinking about it." Melcher has vowed that, when he gets a new job, he "will never set foot in a grocery store ever again."
Mouthwatering Food Photography . (From “Extreme Web Surfs”)
Cooking with Clinton. (From the same people who brought us Nasty Santa's 12 Days of Christmas, and DJ Fred & MC Ginger)
Making the rounds: Cooking for Engineers
Visit Our Extensive Food Archives Here
September 18, 2004 in Food | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
September 17, 2004
“They make the best kinda pet”, Baby snakes...
I received the following email from Michael Keropian, the Frank Zappa Sculptor:
“A (friend of a friend)…had spoken to Frank via telephone on a number of occasions in the eighties or nineties… This lady was an army brat and had suffered with sinus problems much like Frank and received the same treatments in the nose that Frank had. This treatment was only given to Army brats or families who worked in some way with the military… It is now known and I believe back then that those that received this treatment have a very strong possibility of getting a brain tumor… Although this treatment could cause tumors, it also provided the patient/victim with amazingly sensitive hearing. As we all know Frank had an amazing sense of hearing…”
Other Zappa news:
"Monster Road" is an award-winning new documentary that explores the wildly fantastic worlds of legendary underground animator Bruce Bickford, best known for his claymation work and animated performance in Zappa's movies "Baby Snakes" and “Video From Hell”
Many More Odd Zappa Moments Here and Unusual Dylan Links Here
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September 16, 2004
Johnny Fontane will never get that movie
It looks like Khartoum's racing days are over: The Godfather Horse Head Pillow for the film buff who has everything and whose wife won't let them own a revolver. From Kropserkel, creators of elaborate costumes and props. Also there, among many other such delights, The Hannibal Lecter restraint mask, a Silence of the Lambs replica, and Fight Club Soap Replica
What’s with all the oranges of The Godfather ?
For sale - Godfather Life Mask
Café Niebaum-Coppola, 916 Kearny Street, San Francisco. The Niebaum-Coppola online wine store
Many More Unusual Links about Coppola’s Godfather, about Spielberg’s “Jaws”, and about Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” Here
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September 15, 2004
Conservative punk
Clowns Without Borders sends performances to refugee camps and zones of conflict. They bring the circus to town, providing a chance for communities to celebrate together and forget for a moment the tensions that darken their daily lives
Life in a garbage dump, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Humiliated, Angry, Ashamed, Brown - an artist’s statement: Why do you need to see my ID?
Pink Slip - The long unemployment line on Broadway
How to Lose an Election: You Can't Just Waltz Into the Capitol on Your Lunch Hour and Submit Your Name for the Consideration of the Voting Public…
Conservative punk, the "Right" Side of Punk
We the people: The Constitution of the United States of America
Many More Unusual Political Links Here
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September 14, 2004
All possible things (except skiing through a revolving door)
The story behind the "This sticker has been discontinued" sticker
Fredryk Phox and his weird mirror video. (From “Shtoink”)
Guinness World Records is 50 years old this week. To celebrate, here are 50 of the strangest achievements, the 50 Weirdest Guinness World Records
How to ship a Hippo
"I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought." More pearls at The Wisdom of Supermodels
New fetish: Women with big hands
It looks like Katzenberg, Geffen and Spielberg made a new friend over in Sweden. Subject: Unauthorized Use of DreamWorks SKG Properties. (From “Empty Bottle”)
Is it really a victimless crime? MAPSU - Mothers Against Peeing Standing Up
Scratch & Sniff website
See our long list of Funny and Crazy Links Here
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September 13, 2004
New Fractal Collection! Dig in
"Basically, a fractal is any pattern that reveals greater complexity as it is enlarged. Thus, fractals graphically portray the notion of 'worlds within worlds' which has obsessed Western culture from its tenth-century beginnings." In other words, a fractal is an object or quantity that displays self-similarity, in a somewhat technical sense, on all scales
Fractal Hypnosis, The movie (Please do not watch while on drugs). Fractal Zoom Movies By Eric Bigas. Fractal Buddha by Lori Gardi. Click on the image for an endless look effect (Similar to Molecular Expressions’s Secret Worlds)
Benoit Mandelbrot - Born: 20 Nov 1924 in Warsaw, Poland. Mandelbrot Portraits. Also, Mandelbrot Homepage
Gaston Maurice Julia - Born: 3 Feb 1893 in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria. Died: 19 March 1978 in Paris, France. Julia set Google logo
The Infinite Fractal Loop, a web ring dedicated to fractal art
Udo of Aachen, The Mandelbrot Monk by Ray Girvan. A 13th-century monk spent 9 years graphing a fractal, believing it predicted who would go to heaven
Buddhabrot from “Complexification”. The Buddhabrot Technique
Mandala Animation from Clare Goodwin’s Mandala of the Week. These fractal mandalas from “Apothecary’s Drawer”, were made by merging of traditional Islamic tilings with a lamda-sine fractal. Fractal of the Day and Fractal of the Week Archive
Do You See a Pattern Here? An open letter to the wizards of Wall Street from Benoît Mandelbrot, father of the fractal
A large gallery of Fractal Recursions
Sierpinski Carpet in math class
Fractal ferns has nothing whatever to do with real ferns except the beauty of likenesses you can create of them
Fractal Music structure, by Martin Guertner. (From An introduction to fractals)
Fractal art from Blatte. Purple Reign by Paul DeCelle
Gallery from Adam Hauner. From Fractal eXtreme
A gallery of fractals made with KPT5 Frax Flame
Chaoscope is a 3D strange attractors rendering software. Here’s the gallery
Ultra Fractal, software to create fractal artwork (And other Fractal Software Programs)
The following links have been previously blogged here: Fractal geometry was devised to help describe the structure of real world objects such as clouds, mountains and complex biological systems. Now you can also buy Fractal Jewellery
Results of the POVRay Fractal Raytracing Contest. (This and other amazing fractals can often be found on “Realty Carnival”)
Alien Tiles Official Web Page
Fractal Cauliflowers at “The Fibonacci vegetable”. More Fractals In Nature
Fractal Tic-Tac-Toe is a game played by two players using a paper board and writing instrument. The board, or game, is divided into nine sections which in turn are divided into nine boxes, each box containing nine spaces. This creates one game with a total of nine sections, 81 boxes and 729 spaces
Fractal images from Damien M. Jones
Animation above from Mind-Boggling Fractals. Got strange fractal links? Please leave them in comments. To re-visit our Fractal Galleries Click Here
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September 12, 2004
Fear more years
An angry barrage of indiscriminate posts about Kerry’s eminent implosion:
A brilliant Adenoid Hinkel parody. (From “Presurfer”). Also, the unfortunate 'Practice Your Love' quote: “Too many good docs are getting out of business”
Fox choice of photos is purely accidental: the soldier is a hippy, the deserter a hero... (From “Fact Machine”)
No wonder the polls are where they are: Three Years After 9/11 More than 40% of Americans Still Think Saddam Did It
Recent Anti-war protester in New York
6 shocking revelations from Kitty Kelley's new book "The Family”
Don’t be a terrorist - Vote accordingly
"Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over" Revisited: The Onion joke that became the sad reality
Q&A with the president: Never get involved in a land war in Asia
FactCheck monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases
2 Re-posts: What Zappa had to say about the 2004 election. Trump fires Bush
New rules: Was 9/11 a triumph of the human spirit? (From “No Bush”)
Christmas is just around the corner from Dave Lippman, The World's Only Known Singing C.I.A. Agent
Finish the analogy: Bush is to Churchill as cheese is to ____
Dick Cheney, backseat driver, The other president
Bushspeak, The President’s vernacular style. By Philip Gourevitch
No Boy Scout - The character issue in terms of the Boy Scout Oath and Motto
Military service - A critical analysis. Gerald Lechliter, a retired Army colonel made a meticulous examination of Mr. Bush's records
If Kerry can’t beat Bush, should he be elected at all? More Fair and Balanced Election News Here
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People keep talking -
Recent accolades for “Grow-a-Brain”:
“Best site on the web” – From “QuadroPHRenia” (Wow, thank you, Hank)
“…this page is amazing, chockful of links. Simply awesome. Love the way links are categorized…” From “Persentio”
“We recommend”. From Apartment therapy
From “MetaTalk” - Does anyone have other sights that are equal parts whimsy and serious thought?
A Great Blog - from “Invisible College”
“… funny and yet intelligent…” – From “Now Use It”
… (one) of my favorites from Christopher Bahn by way of “From Hereto and Now”
Cool Blog from “Chaos Generation”
“…full of fun links to things you've never heard of. Check it out.” - From “Nia’s Box”
What do people say about Grow-a-Brain? See here
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September 11, 2004
Dog photos
Frog sounds. (From Color of frogs)
Vintage Postcards of Elephants
Worlds First camel milk soap. (From Jarrod Trainque)
The American International Rattlesnake Museum
Dog Deer Afternoon. Making the rounds this week: Flying Frisbee Puppy
Alpaga, the 12kg cat
Visit Our Unusual Animal Collection Here
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“Best cotton in the world”
Hindu dolls featuring Lord Krishna, Lord Shiva, Lord Ganesha, and other deities of the Hindu pantheon
Henri Cartier- Bresson In India. (From “Eye Imagine”)
Indian women, members of the Swadhyaya Parivar
Chola bronzes from South India
Popular Devotional Art of the Indian Muslims. (From “Internet Weekly”)
India population 'to be biggest' by 2050
Many More Unusual Links about India And About Denmark Here
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September 10, 2004
Confessions of a Super Freak
Hej henkie, you must listen to this (Dutch?) children sing-a-long - All together now. It’s awesome, no matter what they say. (Anybody can provide some English translation or explanation below? From “Kol Yom”. The text is here)
While we’re on the subject of songs in languages that are not spoken well in America, here’s Music in Esperanto
The Smile Shop is a website dedicated to Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks' "Smile" album, recorded in 1966 and 1967 with the Beach Boys, but never released
One Hundred Albums You Should Remove from Your Collection Immediately
Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead & The Band in the new documentary Festival Express
Photos from the Last Phish concert
How Recording Contracts Work. Rock producer Steve Albini explains the exact Problem with Music
Visit Our Huge Music Collection Here
September 10, 2004 in Music_ | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Bad Karma
Young Jimmy Swaggart posters. (From “Easy Dreamer”)
Martin & Katy Luther Bobble Head Doll. (From “Heavy Little Objects”)
Art collection from Passion of the Shrimp
All the Plants of the Bible
In the world of Fascinating Womanhood each year we celebrate our womanhood on September 30, a day we call Womanhood Day. We invite women the world over to join us in honoring our careers in the home… (LDS text? If it is, here’s some about LDS Skinny-Dipper Connection)
Visit Our Eclectic Spirituality Collection Here
September 10, 2004 in Spirituality | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Who's Making A Killing On Killing In Iraq?
Iraq Casualty Count. Also, The forgotten dead
The Baseball Memorial Wall in Whitman, Massachusetts. The 380,422 Teeth, 131,180 fingers memorial in Minneapolis.
A Thousand Killed by Bernard Spencer
How Many Deaths Will It Take before we acknowledge that Bush's obsession with Saddam Hussein has been a catastrophe for the United States?
No Way Out - Is there any hope of avoiding catastrophe in Iraq?
Update: The Freeway Blogger was busy hanging 83 signs on LA-freeways overpasses yesterday
A 34-cent Eid stamp issued Sept. 1, 2001
Sleeping in Iraq. Also, stories about donkeys from Non Compos Mentis - Live And Redirect From Iraq
Portrait of Paul J. Bueche above, one of 1007 faces at the Roster of the dead. More about the 1,000 Iraq anniversary Here
September 10, 2004 in War in Iraq | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
September 09, 2004
"Sleep faster, we need the pillows"
"No one ever seems to use the following words"
The OEDILF project attempts to write a limerick for every word in the English language. Over 1500 limericks have been completed so far
Binary spam (for the serious geek only)
Ardalambion - The most comprehensive site about Tolkien's invented languages
Merriam-Webster's Audio pronunciation. Also, Create your own mariachi song
The Pseudo-Elizabethan Place Name Generator
Charles K. Ogden’s Basic English: If one were to take the 25,000 word Oxford Pocket English Dictionary and remove the redundancies of our rich language and eliminate the words that can be replaced by combinations of simpler words, we find that 90% of the concepts in that dictionary can be achieved with 850 words
More than 1,000 previous Columns by The Word Detective
Favorite Yiddish aphorism above is from Tikun Olam, whose author has some lovely parasailing photos to share. Our Collection of