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October 31, 2004
Hummus heads
Sand sculptor Rich Varano uses a plastic spoon to mold busts of Bush, left, and Kerry from 300 pounds of hummus at the Kosher fest trade show at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York
Re-post: The International Sand Collectors Society
Grow-a-Brain’s Sand Sculptures Collection used to be among our most popular links when we first blogged it. Here are some new entries:
A close-up of artist Rod Becklund
Rusty Croft’s amazing sand sculptures and ice sculptures
Neptune Festival, Virginia Beach
Sandsong by G. Augustine Lynas
Sand Scuplture at Dublin Castle
Interview with sculptor John Gruber
Un-related: Press the red button to hear how much I like you
Our Extensive Sand Sculptures Galleries and Ice Sculptures Galleries Here
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Drum solos!
The 1976-77 recordings of The Langley Schools Music Project, a 60-voice chorus of rural school children from western Canada, singing tunes by the Beach Boys, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, The Bay City Rollers, and others. You must hear them!
Tom Waits sings Make it rain on some TV show. More at ”Never could stand that dog”…, I mean, “Tom Waits Fan”. By the way, you remember Tom Waits acting in “Down By Law”, “Mystery Train” and “Coffee and Cigarettes”, right? Did you know that he played in 21 movies, including Stallone’s Paradise Alley, Fisher King, The Two Jacks and Ironweed?
The number one songs in Heaven: The Coasters on R&B Sociology
Great drum solos from “DrummerWorld”. Also, a large number of detailed biographies in the sidebar. Big Bass Drum from Purdue University. How does one go about tuning the big bass drum?
The Polyphonic Spree is a band that looks like a religious sect or a hippie commune and sounds like a flowerpower musical or an updated Mamas and the Papas. (From ”Theremin World”)
Is Pink’s “Dark Side Of The Moon” synched with “The Wizard Of Oz” ? You be the judge
The Royal Class Grand Piano is the first fully transparent grand piano in the world
Michael Jackson has 5 of the top 100 best selling albums of all time. Total sales - 54 million copies
Rare Live Songs by Leonard Cohen. (From J-Walk). Coincidently, last week I randomly pulled an old copy of “The Spice-box of Earth”, and started re-reading Cohen's poetry from 1968:
I wonder how many people in this city
live in furnished rooms.
Late at night when I look out of the buildings
I swear I see a face in every window
looking back at me,
and when I turn away
I wonder how many go back to their desks
and write this down.
(Good sounds!)
Many More Unusual Musicians and Bands Here
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Wet dreams
Christopher Kenworthy’s “Dream Sequence” - People submit their dreams to turn into shorts
How to make Dream Catchers
The Work Of Wilhelm Reich from Dream Encyclopeadia
DreamBank is a collection of dream reports
Balloon orchestra caresses Birmingham with sleep music
Tumble Dry by Alexander Micek
The Sleeping Gypsy — Henri Rousseau (1844-1910)
Many More Unusual Nightmares and Dreams Here
October 31, 2004 in Dreams | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
The Holy Land in the 19th Century
The very first photographs from “The Holy Land” ! 460 photographs and lithographs from as early as 1837. (1910 Photo above is where I’m from. Most of the camels were gone by the time I went to the beach the first time…)
Also, the poor Arab-Christian neighborhood of Wadi Nisnas in Haifa , (where my dad lived as a child in the 30’s ). Photographs by Danny Yanai’s
The Hills of Palestine . (From Dinesh Rao)
More from PBase: Underwater wrecks in the Red Sea
Kargah, Iranian Artists’ Site
Ofra Amit, an Israeli illustrator. (From ”Fish Bucket”)
Many More Unusual Views From Palestine and Israel Here
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October 30, 2004
The Brights & the Dims
I'm Not That Adam Levine, Goddamnit! There are many Adam Levines in Los Angeles, from whence Maroon5's lame music emanates, but I am the only one who is listed, so you can guess the rest
The Brights. “A bright is a person who has a naturalistic worldview. A bright's worldview is free of supernatural and mystical elements. The ethics and actions of a bright are based on a naturalistic worldview”. (From Judson Frondorf)
Alison Griffith, one of many Brutally Honest Personal Ads. If she had a phone number, I would call immediately...
Who is Joshua? A life-size, puppet-like character created by artist Charlie White and the poster boy for all men who've ever suffered rejection and low self-esteem
The Funny Spirituality of Bill Wilson. (“Keeping an open mind is a virtue, but not so open that your brains fall out”. From a comprehensice site about AA, Alcoholics Anonymous, by "Secret Agent Orange")
Mink Stole’s Official website. Who can forget her unforgettable work in Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Desperate Living & Polyester? (From ”Plep”)
Was making the rounds: Hank makes it flat
Living-room theater - Actor Gerald Hiken performs in his home
(Do you sign ASL? Then you’ll know what the lady says). Many More Unusual People Doing Unusual Things Here
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Huey, Dewey and Louie
Mike Carano’s beautiful photographs of Disneyland at night. (From Eye of the Goof. Image here is from Carano’s work for Dennis Miller Live - Click on all links!)
Don Rosa made this Donald Duck Family Tree in 1993
Magic Eye 3D Disney Images
Disney Dollars. (Give them a real dollar, and receive a printed piece of paper in return. On second thought, that’s how it works elsewhere too…)
Walt Disney’s grave(?) Maybe it’s the one in Forest Lawn. From the same source: Roy Disney’s grave. (And close by, unrelated perhaps - Liberace’s Grave)
Drunk Rockers at Disneyland. Bats day, August 29, 2004
Patent Suit Alleges Disney Stole fastPass Idea. Disney's patented fastPass system allows customers to reserve a time to ride an attraction, rather than waiting in line. (U.S. Patent No. 6,173,209. From Boing Boing)
Many More Unusual Disney Links Here
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Omnivores
How to repare mussels and fries, the quintessential Belgian specialty, moules-frites
Sunny Woo’s Chinese dishes
Everything's better with cheese (Another Fark contest). The town of Gruyטre in the Swiss Alps
Welcome to Sauerkraut Recipes. Sauerkraut is a condiment, but it's also an important ingredient is so many traditional and innovative dishes
The Omnivore - Learning to eat everything: Humans were designed to be omnivores. Blessed with all-purpose dentition and digestive systems, we are ready for anything. Unlike those of most other animals, our genes do not tell us what foods we should find tasty or repulsive
A Pepper Lover’s Guide to the World’s Best Peppercorns. Also, Religious Experience salsa and hot sauce. (From ”Gadgets for God”, theological tchotchkes)
Secret Recipes of the Soup Nazi’s Crab Bisque, his Indian Mulligatawny soup, Mexican Chicken Chili and Cream of Sweet Potato Soup
More than one thousand cooks and confectioners from 33 countries competed for medals and the Olympic champion title in an Olympic competition at the Culinary Olympics 2000 in Erfurt. Altogether 115 national and regional teams and about 300 individual exhibitors demonstrated their efficiency with culinary top performances
Cooking with Gus comic strip. (Thank you, Ralph and Darrah)
Maryland Crab Place (A commercial site)
Many More Unusual Food Stories Here
October 30, 2004 in Food | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Walter Sobchak wants you to go out and vote
Walter Sobchak did not watch his buddies die face down in the muck so you could play xbox all day and not vote. Vote! . (From ”A Whole Lotta Nothing”)
He-Man and The Masters of Lebowski: “They peed on your rug?” (Warning: Language! By ”Idiotwork”)
It's not inconceivable that "Huckabee's" could become the next "Big Lebowski," a movie that's practically worshiped by those tuned in to its wavelength… (You must type a fake zipcode to read the article)
More Memorable Quotes: “I don't need your sympathy, man, I need my johnson”... “What do you need that for, Dude?”
Excerpt from William Preston Robertson’s, The Making of a Coen Brothers Film, Chapter 1--The Idea: The Homework in a Baggie. (On Amazon)
Thank you God, for “The Big Lebowski” on a Sunday night. By “A Real Live Preacher”
Missed out on the first annual Lebowski drive-in in Oakland, last week…
See The Complete Big Lebowski Collection Here
October 30, 2004 in Cinema - "The Big Lebowski" | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
October 29, 2004
Creative vandalism -
Creative vandalism, or ‘Fun with a green Buddha in the Jersey suburbs’ is the new clip from the people who gave us “Craziest”. Creator Liz Dubelman explains What is “Vidlit”. Explore the rest of the clips!
When someone says to you, "Let's get married," and you say "okay," and then they say, "No, seriously: if I can find a priest tonight, will you do it?", this is pretty much going to be the best thing anyone ever says to you
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
Just slip out the back, Jack - Sixteen Ways to Leave Your Body
A Reliable Friend: Is there anything healthier than hours of biking and time spent in silent observation?
Top colognes for getting girls, from “Fast Seduction 101”
Selected Excerpts from the book “25 Good Reasons Why Men Should Marry Plus A Marriage Manual For Husbands On How To Treat A Wife For All Intelligent Men Aged 21 to 100”.
I am soliciting advice on the meaning of life… The "best" responses will be posted here for the world to view on October 31, 2004
The Astounding Foot Trick
The dorkiest things you can do with your time: 10 geekiest hobbies
Many More Unusual Things To Do Here
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Happy 35th Anniversary
Today is the 35th Anniversary of the Internet. Thirty-five years ago, the first Internet message was sent from computer science Professor Leonard Kleinrock's laboratory at UCLA
April Winchell’s collection of Birthday songs that will make you wish you'd never been born
Exposing the copyright status of "Happy Birthday"
2004's Scariest Halloween Costumes: From “Nancy Reagan” to “The Littlest Prisoner at Abu Ghraib”
Bizarre American Holidays: Only in the USA can we celebrate the glory of egg salad, dictionaries, and procrastination. Here we celebrate these lesser known holidays
Tom Lehrer’s Hanukkah in Santa Monica . (Thank you, Wayne M.)
Christmas Cookie Recipes. Christmas cookies are a tradition in many cultures. Here is our list of recipes sorted according to country of origin
Many More Unusual Holiday Links Here
October 29, 2004 in Holidays | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Soccer Magic
6 minutes, 51 seconds of Mr. Woo’s showcasing his amazing soccer skills. (From “Fazed”)
Sunday Bowls in Alexandera Garden
What's A RefAss Anyway? RefAss is what you get when taking photos at a sporting event, and the Ref gets inbetween you and your subject. Often this happens at the exact worse time possible. Many photos that would have made Sports Illustrated's Photo of the year have been ruined by Ref Ass. (From ”Information Junk” again: What a reliable source of uniquely-found oddities! You want to discover an endless supply of strange links? Spend 5-6 hours at John’s archives, and you’ll leave with your head spinning)
William Bell, 82-year-old pole vaulter
The truth about hacky sack: Footbag tutorials videos
“Cycling News” shows the National Polish Cycling Team. (From Pat Hayes). Other biking photos - A can bike from Verona, Italy, a wooden Bike, and a camping bike
Two roommates react to the World Series
Do you remember Jumping Joe Eigo from a couple of years ago? Here is a whole group of “jumpers”, Saltomortalez
Our Large Directory of Extreme Sports Here
October 29, 2004 in Extreme Sports | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
October 28, 2004
Looking for a new job?
The blog “Low Culture” is now hiring: Publisher, Pastry chef, Writer, Housekeeping and Cleaning, Animal Handler, more. Apply within. Contact Human Resources via email
“Its only a flesh wound” and Seig Heil, from ”Waiter Rant”. (Going to be famous very soon…)
Beltbuckles for various trades, but none for software engineers…
Memo to all employees: Company Policy Regarding Eels. 1. Eels should not distract co-workers. Bringing an eel to work can be a powerful act of self-expression, particularly when it can perform tricks or is brightly colored.
The International Butler Academy, in the small village of Warnsveld, near the city of Zutphen in The Netherlands
Marty Prather, the Cardinals "Sign Man"
Making the rounds: MART (Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists) was founded in 2004
Extreme Accounting: A new phenomenon that pushes accountants to their limits – and beyond
(Photo of waiter from Patricia Wells). Much to know about Hiring and Firing Here
October 28, 2004 in Jobs | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
Janis’s Porsche - Janis Joplin sang about a Benz, but actually she never got one
Welcome to the official website for the Morgan Motor Company
The origins of the present Tatra company go way back to the year 1850… Gallery of old Tatra cars
Adolf Hitler and Volkswagen: Sitting at a restaurant table in Munich in the summer of 1932, Hitler designed the prototype for what would become the Volkswagen (literally, the "car of the people")
Cars in South Africa. (From ”Paperholic”)
A very Shiny Beemer
1986 Ford WOW Bus: “25 Thousand Pieces $640 Worth of Glue, 2000 added pounds - two years and 600 hours to do. Why? cause I am a wacko.” (More, at ”Serious Wheels”, Classic, Sports & Muscle Cars. Also there, The new Ford Streetka Dress: Made from 85 parts from a special pink Ford Streetka, the dress, valued at £15,000, will be auctioned during London Fashion Week to raise money for Barnados.)
Hello Kitty Airstream Trailer. (From ”Link Right”)
Many More Unusual Cars Here
October 28, 2004 in Cars | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
May I have some more Kool-Aid, please
I am tired of the election charade, and can’t wait for it to be over. Here’s a final (hopefully) linkdump about this years’ circus. Looks like America is about to get the president it deserves…
Positive Thinking with "Visualize Winning". (From ”Blort”)
The Handwriting of John F. Kerry and George Bush's handwriting
The 2004 Candidates in drag. (I like Kerry & Cheney)
Here is a version of the Ohio ballot design. (From “This is broken”). Any questions?
Election Day Guide from “The Onion”: “If your election official hooks you up to a machine via a needle in your arm, you are actually donating blood”
Cats are Democrats, Dogs are Republican
'American heartland', AKA Bush country
“Four more beers!” Heeeere I come to save the daaaaay - An excellent David Scott Animation. (I wanted to collect all the jingles that came down the pike in this cycle into one big pile, but fortunately others took the time already. Many of the Democratic movies and clips can be found on No Bush in 04. New ones are at The Bush Raps (Re)Mix Contest)
Election for sale - On E-bay, the current bid for the 2004 election is $19. “This offer includes everything on the lot, from local animal control officers to the Office of the President of the United States. Regardless of alleged party affiliation, it's all up for grabs; congressional seats, governorships, mayors, even majordomos of the irrigation ditches. Includes all future appointments including 2 Supreme Court Justices”
McSweeneys Alternative Names for MoveOn.org.
Kerry & Edwards are gay lovers
The One-Fingered Victory Salute
New bumper stickers: Nixon: now more than ever
Iraqi blogger Riverbend on the American election
Darth Vader's Address to the United Nations: First of all, I’d like to thank you for allowing me to speak to you all. I always like coming to New York, especially when I don’t have to pay for my own parking. (Laughter)…
A country in which 42% of the population is totally misinformed is not a country where democracy is safe. From “The Brownshirting of America”
The Bush vs Cheney Debate. (Editing is everything)
John Kerry Better Win Big or Republicans Will Steal The Election, Again
Eric Alterman (From November 7, 2002!) about the reasons the media doesn’t confront Bush Lies. Exactly 2 years later, Interview with Ben Bradlee who says the same thing
100 Facts and 1 Opinion: The Non-Arguable Case Against the Bush Administration
Why I believe in our president, by Thomas F. Schaller
Let everybody know you support the Vice President with "I Love Dick" clothing, buttons and more! A Boi from Troy Production.
The Detroit News endorses Nobody for president! I'll concur
Enough! Are you sick of the election? If not - read more
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October 27, 2004
Your tax dollars at work
The "Blue Star" LSD Tattoo Urban Legend Page. (From ”Apothecary's Drawer”)
Re-post: Paul Krassner’s Acid Trip with Groucho
State of the Union for druggies (“Dear daddy…”)
Images of drugs on “flickr”. (From Kottke)
Cover of Baba Ram Dass’s second most famous book
OxyContin Facts. (From your DEA Information Center)
Everything you want to know about ketamine
(When I was in Italy a few weeks ago, I saw many people wearing t-shirts with "Pablo Escobar – 1949-1993” logos. Would you wear such a shirt? Weird collage above from Konrad Kuklinsky’s Surrealistic Pillows.) Many more irresponsible links about Timothy Leary and his excessive usage of Acid and Pot Here
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“Reality is an illusion”
The Goethe Institute held a competition to nominate German's most beautiful word. The winner? Habseligkeiten ("belongings")
CROP - A Language for Crop Circles. "While working on the subject of crop formations... I started to think of creating a symbolic shorthand notation that could capture the geometric essence of crop formations."
The ABC game - Learn the Norwegian alphabet by focusing on the shapes and letters. (For 6 year olds. From “Make Ready”)
The Apostrophe Protection Society was started with the specific aim of preserving the correct use of this currently much abused punctuation mark in all forms of text written in the English language
Cool Words That Are Fun To Say
20 words that should exist. (Like the old Sniglets)
Quote above from Saul Gorn's Compendium Of Rarely Used Cliches, Self-Annihilating Sentences. Many More Unusual Language Links Here
October 27, 2004 in Languages | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
October 26, 2004
What’s up
Mongolia gets surnames and more than half the population plumped for the one Mongolian that they believe put their country on the map: Ghengis Khan
Yasser Arafat’s own website: Speeches, statements, letters, articles and more from the chairman. (As usual, Debka file analyzed the consequences of Arafat’s medical emergency nearly 2 weeks before any other reliable source)
The Best of CNN
“Restoring objectivity where we find it lacking” - Who runs Fox News Channel?
A fire at an Iraqi sulphur plant caused the largest man-made release of polluting sulphur dioxide ever recorded
Those Were the Days, the Today in History feature
Real Clear Politics - Everything you’ll want to know about the coming election, and where to find it. (From “Metafilter”)
Old news from Mark Russell: A letter to James Inhofe of Oklahoma: Keep up the fight! You are a good Christian man!
Some Unusual News Bits Here
Update: Debka file reports at 1:30 AM Israeli time that Arafat is "finished". (Of course, Israel have been reporting it since the early 70's...)
October 26, 2004 in Current News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
That Desmond Tutu looks BAD in purple
Dress Codes for the Twenty First Century by Ruth L. Kern, International Etiquette Consultant
How to make Wooden shoes from “The homepage of Martien van Gasteren, wooden shoe maker by profession”
Ode to the Breast Pocket, by Dan Cederholm: “I am here today, in the year 2004, to salute the single most groundbreaking development in garment history — the breast pocket”
Learn How to make a toga and throw toga parties
Charlie's Sneaker Pages: So many sneakers... so few feet...
The History of the Fashionable Bathing Suit
“Are you putting us on?” Kenneth Cole 2004 Ads
Shock Absorber Anna Kournikova Impact Level 3 Multiway sports bra, from Amazon
The Bling Bling medallion, for the fashionista gangsta who wants to have all of his or her bases covered
Baby models for the “T-Shirt Hell” brand: Get your baby an early raunchy start (Warning: Vice presidential language and attitude on most T-shirts!)
Jens, the fashion online magazine for LDS (MORMON) teens and young adults
Many More Unusual Fashion Trends Here
October 26, 2004 in Fashion | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Crime Does Not Pay
Virtual Prison Tours from the Florida Department of Corrections
Did you know that China uses mobile death vans to execute prisoners, and that during 2001 and 2002 Amnesty International recorded more than 5,900 death sentences and more than 3,500 executions in China, although the true figures were believed to be much higher?
Ellery Queen, a website on deduction
What is the world coming to? A crime wave in Wetley Rocks. (Btw, I like this bloke’s “I am Currently Reading Side Icon” – no pretensions there!)
Similar - Crime in Beverly Hills
A large gallery of famous gangsters and their mugshots. (From “Gang Rule”)
Crime Boss - Crime Comic Books of the 1940s and 1950s
The following is a list of assassins with short comments on the assassination(s) that made them famous
The story of Gianni Versace and Andrew Cunanan. (Make sure to click on the link to Casa Casuarina, Versace’s mansion on 1116 Ocean Avenue, in South Beach, Miami)
Historical Pictures of the Lubbock Police Department from the 1920's, through the 1970's
Has anyone ever escaped from Alcatraz? An index of the convict names, escape dates, and newspaper articles
Dealing with stalkers. (From Steve Minutillo)
Please don’t do anything that will get your ass in jail
Rogues Gallery of suspicious e-mails
Photo of Benjamin Siegel above. Many More Unusual Crime Stories Here.
PS. Do you know why postings such as this one seem so "original"? Because, all but one of the links here have zero results in Technorati as of now! HA!
October 26, 2004 in Crime & Punishment | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
October 25, 2004
Famous actors in lousy movies
When did Robert De Niro stop acting? And when did he start saying yes to everything?
Hall of Shame - Famous actors in bad Sci-fi TV rolls
The biography of Milton Waddams (Stephen Root)
The charcoal, pencil & crayon Art of Peter Falk
Japanese trailer for Godard’s “Weekend”. (From ”Paperholic”)
Name your five favorite films off the top of your head and write brief summary of each. "Chances are, those films will tell essentially the same story. And chances are, your films will tell that story too. Because that is your story."
Imaginary Soundtracks from the 60’s & 70’s
I can’t wait to see “The Book of Mormon Movie, Volume 1: The Journey”…
The Capturing the Friedmans Family album
Halloween Special: Almost human wild make-up effects
Resolutions in the Key of Katharine Hepburn from Sarah Brown. More from same: Some things I could really go for right about now. Here are the lists she composed for McSweeneys: Things people said to me while I worked the front desk in lieu of Would you throw this away for me ? (Actually, why don't you read the whole Que Sera Sera story, as well as all of McSweeneys' Lists, if you haven't done so before?)
(I took the photo above next door to the Lucca house where Puccini was born.) Many More Unusual Movie Links Here
October 25, 2004 in Cinema | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
October 24, 2004
Walking in the shadow of Death Valley
Dressed for eternity – The Cappucin catacombs in Palermo
Only in Pensacola, FL – The Junior Drive-Thru Funeral Home is still there and still appears to be "out of business". At least for the time being
Also, Alpha 4x4 Funerals, a new funeral service for Land Rover enthusiasts
18 crime scene models that were built in the 1940's and 50's by the progressive criminologist Frances Glessner Lee. The crime scene models, which were based on actual homicides, suicides, and accidental deaths, were created to train detectives to assess visual evidence. (From ”Lonita”)
You don't have to be an executioner to appreciate the Hangman’s Noose
"May we live long and die out" - The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. ”Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth's biosphere to return to good health. Crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less dense.”
Welcome to Grave Addiction! This site contains photos I have taken at all of the cemeteries, haunted places, abandoned buildings, and historical parks that I have visited
Died Today - Choose a birthdate in the table below. (To be fair, there’s also Born Today)
See our extensive list of Unusual links about Death and Unusual Coffins Here
October 24, 2004 in Death & Eternity | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
A 'catastrophic success'
Want a reason for war with Iraq? Here are 21, with a nice table of who said what.
Graver than Vietnam, by Sidney Blumenthal. Most senior US military officers now believe the war on Iraq has turned into a disaster on an unprecedented scale. Quote: “The idea there are x number of insurgents, and that when they're all dead we can get out is wrong”
Here comes the Iraqi Brides. They need love too
Watch preview & clips of the new film Voices of Iraq. (From ”Catch”)
Rumsfailed blames bungled war strategy on faulty 20-sided dice. Only 57,000 more dead soldiers before you can call Iraq "Quagmire"
The only anti-war ad that ever appeared on Fox "News"
Photographs from the first gulf war (Oh what a good war it was, compared to this one)
"I rise in opposition to this bill" (From "Metafilter"!)
Graph above from The Onion. More about 1,100 dead soldiers Here
October 24, 2004 in War in Iraq | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
No matter where you go, there you are
TO:CA, Clocks that look like simple blocks of wood
There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't... LED-binary-clock
Also, The Nooka® linear watch
Ralph Brendler is Making a Cuckoo Clock
The Meccano clocks and other Clock Mechanisms of Michael Adler
Design Collection by Jacques Lemans
Many More Unusual Clocks and Watches Here
Update: Mike Pope built a client version of similar BCD clock (IE only?. Code for page here)
October 24, 2004 in Clocks & Watches | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
"Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees"
David Croy’s San Fernando Valley
"I'm going to LA. Is there anything off the beaten path that I shouldn't miss?" (A "Metafilter" thread)
Cargo Statistics from the Port of Los Angeles
Local New from The LALA Times: “Beverly Hills Morgue Offers Herbal Body Wraps to stay fresh longer” and The new fad: ”Tongue tattoos”. “LALA Times” is like the LA Times & The Onion combined, I guess.
Aerial photography from Jon Thornburgh
Breycap’s PBase galleries of Long Beach
Seven Jobs I’d Love To Have in L.A.: 2. Weather reporter. “There are only two seasons in Los Angeles: inside and outside. You don’t really have to know anything about meteorology or how to read a barometer. Basically, you just have to tell the camera that “tomorrow will be beautiful,” and your work is done”. (From the LA Weekly’s 2004 Best of L.A.. Also there, the best place for bra knitting classes)
Hotel Room for Dummies, from “Niteowl”
Quote above by David Letterman. Many More Unusual Links About Los Angeles and Orange County Here
October 24, 2004 in Los Angeles | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
October 23, 2004
Apple Chess
Josh Draper’s Chessboard made of Apples. (See also, Apple dress)
Squares 2 Flash game
A Three Card Studs poker game gone horribly wrong, but funny. Looks like the video was shot here in Riverside, California. Actually, the company, “Seven-Oh-Five” is based in nearby Pomona
The super sizing of Star Wars action figures: In each image, the figure on the left is from 1979 and the one on the right is the re-issued version from 1997. (From ”Kottke”)
Treasure box, like a simplified “Myst” for grown-up kids
Street Tetris. (From ”Bifurcated Rivets”)
The Topobo movie. Topobo is a 3D constructive assembly system embedded with kinetic memory
Craziest - Is Scrabble a religion?
Solitaire Central - hundreds of games
Making the rounds: Mindball is an experience product, a game where two players control a ball with their brain waves
The Die told me to do it. A toy inspired by Luke Rhinehard’s The Dice Man
Many More Unusual Games and Toys Here
October 23, 2004 in Games | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Fun related program activities
The Alien Song by Victor Navone. (From “American Digest”)
Find Hitler! The cunning dictator is hiding.
I would like to partly-recommend Jon Stewart’s book Naked Pictures of Famous People (1998). A few of the sketches are pretty good: The new Judaism, Pen Pals, and Adolf Hitler: The Larry King Interview which you can hear here
Defective Yeti asks his readers for jokes. Some are ok.
How to tell if your wife is a porn star. (From "Weekly World News")
Do you keep falling asleep in meetings and seminars? What about those long and boring conference calls? Bullshit Bingo will change all of that
What exactly is "improper" humor?
W. Bruce Cameron’s The Chili Judge
See our long list of Funny and Crazy Links Here
Grab a Grow-a-Brain Graphic for your site!
October 23, 2004 in Funny | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Liberace’s Hands
Vintage Vegas Postcard Museum and Vintage Vegas Matchbooks Lounge. (From ”Life in the Present”)
The Liberace "Play-A-Like" contest - Yummy. The Liberace Extreme Cheese. Shag’s Liberace's Hand
Latest news from “Vegas Tripping”: Oldest Vegas Showgirl Calls It Quits at 51
Drew’s guide to poker chips. (From ”J-Walk”)
Some Vegas architecture photos from this weekend
Hooters hotel coming to Las Vegas. (Also, ”Hooters” goes to China)
Corporate Hotel Groups - Who Owns What In Las Vegas
More from Megan Edwards: A Short Timeline of Las Vegas History
Many More Unusual Las Vegas Stories Here
October 23, 2004 in Traveling Places - Las Vegas | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
When he was 64
Everything I Learned, I Learned from The Beatles
The Blindfolded Pianist playing "Imagine" backwards. (You may remember him playing the Mario jinggles at the beginning of the year)
”Imagine” license plate in Florida
A Dutch clip of John & Yoko hosting a honeymoon "bed-in" for peace in room 902, the presidential suite of the Amsterdam Hilton
October 9, 2004 was John Lennon’s 64th Birthday. How he might have looked if he were still alive
Allan Tannenbaum's photographs of John & Yoko - New York in the 70s, (From ”PCL Linkdump”)
Beatle Money focuses on the Beatles’ financial accounts
"Create your favorite images with my hand-designed Beatles Counted Cross Stitch Charts and kits!"
Only in Las Vegas: Beatles songs, as portrayed by Cirque du Soleil, will replace Siegfried and Roy at the Mirage.
George Harrison’s sister appearing at a Michael Moore event
Our Long List of Beatles Links Here
October 23, 2004 in Music - Beatles | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
October 22, 2004
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