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November 30, 2004
And You Will Know My Name Is The Lord
"Pulp Politicians": What do they call a quarter pounder with cheese in Iraq?
“Pulp Fiction” co-writer Roger Avary is suing Microsoft saying that the corporation stole his idea for a virtual yoga game, and writing about it in his blog
Jules Winnfield in the 1800's, a Worth 1000 Celebrity Time Travel contest
Tarantino on Kill Bill’s Camerawork. November 2003 Tarantino Playboy interview (Large irritating, noisy pop-ups)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 in a series of ASCII text images
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is “ Jesus' General”, Long Live The Christian Cultural Revolution. If you wish to have your blog considered as “Blog Of The Day”, or if you know of a blog that should get same recognition, please email me at realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com, or post a comment at the bottom of this post.
A Large collection of Pulp Fiction Links Here
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California snoring
You, me & the Salton Sea. In Los Angeles, some people's idea of traveling is to brave traffic to the Sherman Oaks Galleria. Not at Ostrich Ink. There are a lot of odd places to travel to that aren't very far from LA, and in this issue, we take you to one of the oddest of all, the Salton Sea. Click on the dead fish to advance
Northern California Light and Structure, photography by Edmond Leys
A colorful mosaic gracing the entrance of Livermore's new library is of a genre known as naןve art because of its whimsical design and childlike nature. Maybe that explains why 11 of the 175 names and words on the piece are misspelled -- from "Eistein" and "Shakespere" to "Van Gough" and "Michaelangelo."
Thousands of Nature Scenes from Northern California, by Photovault
Zero Gardens Nudist Colony. From “Weird San Diego”
California Rare Fruit Growers
Many More Unusual Stories From California, from Hawaii and from Iowa Here
November 30, 2004 in California | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Holy Molly! We’re Taste Testing Grilled Mary Sandwiches
The most useful link you’ll ever find on Grow-a-Brain: Pizza Hut simple Online ordering site
“You're looking at all the public photos on Flickr tagged with pasta”
Black Table’s Fine dining for coarse folk - A yokel’s guide to Jean Georges
Jacques Pépin, Fast food my way. A nice flash site. (From “Fish Bucket”)
How well do you know your cheeses?
Buckminster Fuller’s Synergetic Stew: Explorations in Dymaxion Dining
Last year I linked to the very tasty samples from The International Edible Book Festival Gallery. Here’s many more: 4th International Show and Tea Edible Books. The New York 2003 Festival. 2004 Booklavahs. More Books to eat. Japan's Edible books collection from Masaaki Tatsumi
The Combat Cutlery Gallery, a celebration of lethal flatware
The Worst TV Dinner Ever, and Archie McPhee’s TV Dinner Beverage Napkins. (Also there, Acupuncture Head Model)
McSweeney’s Reviews of New Food
The First Jewish-American Cookbook, by Mrs. Esther Levy, 1871
A Large Collection of Unusual Meals Here
November 30, 2004 in Food | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 29, 2004
Remember the Pueblo
Two panoramic photographs of the waterfront of Seattle, Washington, taken from the same vantage point - 95 years apart
Bobby Yang plays the Star-Spangled Banner on his funky violin. (From the always-unique “Everlasting Blort”).
Also, Scuba-naked's free Patriotic Music Downloads, including John Wayne reciting the Pledge of Allegiance
Six things you don’t know about Texas
The Not-all-Americans-are-stupid-quiz. (From “Left Edge North”)
Portraits of Americans Who Tell the Truth, by Robert Shetterly
A 12 panel piece of art which R. Crumb named "A short history of America"
Couldn't be better looking, Jantzen ad, 1948. From the re-visited Ephemera now, dedicated to the commercial art of mid-century America
The 'Streets Of America' project
U.S. Postal Service: Official Abbreviations
Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is “ We Make Money Not Art”, by a blogger who once worked at a smelly Portuguese squid museum. If you wish to have your blog considered as “Blog Of The Day”, or if you know of a blog that should get same recognition, please email me at realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com, or post a comment at the bottom of this post.
Many More All American Links Here
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I don’t usually post such requests, but here is an email I received tonight:
“Mr. Levin,
…my name is Daren Kearney Heidgerken and I am attending the Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business (Class of 2006). This semester two of my classmates and I are taking Marketing Research. The primary project of the course is to create and administer a survey. We are creating a Web based survey that we would like to use to reach as large of an audience as possible.
As I was brainstorming ways to draw people to our survey I came across your blog. I was wondering if you would mind placing a link to our survey from your blog.
You can see a draft of our survey here
We have only a short time to administer the survey, so I would appreciate hearing back from you at your earliest convenience.
Many thanks,
Daren Kearney Heidgerken
Fremont, California”
Please pass the link around. Let’s fill their box with thousands of responses!
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November 29, 2004 in Americana | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
November 28, 2004
Revised Larry Carlson
Gilles Tran’s 28 Variations on the "Assassin and his cats" picture
Charles Forman’s Snow is Fun
Wasqua Witchcraft for little beauty
Earlier you enjoyed the Flash version of Tom Lehrer's "The Elements", by Mike Stanfill, Private Hand, who also gave us The Infinite Cat Project and The Last Request. See more of his stuff: Slim Whitman’s Rainbow and Sunny, a love poem
New (up to 58) screens of psychedelic headache from DirtDirt
Also, Larry Carlson re-designed his house
A new meme, but simpler: Subservient stickman
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is Mimi’s “Smartypants”. If you wish to have your blog considered as “Blog Of The Day”, or if you know of a blog that should get same recognition, please email me at realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com, or post a comment at the bottom of this post.
(Damn, I've blogged a lot this weekend!) More Flash, Java & Shockwave Links Here
November 28, 2004 in Digital Art | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
”Further Thoughts on Exploding Heads”
Dan Ratherisms: The Wit and Wisdom of Dan Rather - "We had a slight hitch in our giddy up, but we corrected that."
From Chip Rowe: Why I love cuss words: Say you drop something heavy on your foot. "Gosh darn it!" doesn't cut it. And why should it? Language Hitlers say anyone who swears doesn't have sufficient mastery of the language. Bullshit. Invoke Shakespeare when someone cuts you off in traffic and see how fast you get through town
Euphemistic Language, from the master of tongue, Saint George Carlin
Languid is a statistical language identifier. Give it at least 20 characters of UTF-8 encoded text and hope for the best
Word Count, the most popular words in English. (From “Z-Filter”)
Fortune cookies: “It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to paint it”
The Need for a Simplified Sign System
Many More Lingulogiscal Links Here
November 28, 2004 in Languages | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Walking tall
A Jewish giant at home with his parents in the Bronx, N.Y. 1970. A photograph by Diane Arbus. Also, twelve giants and their rings. Sandy Allen, tallest woman in the world and the Cardiff Giant
12-year-old Jay Greenberg is being compared to Mozart
Famous Scots-Italians. (Warning: Music!)
A history of Niagara Falls Daredevils
The Website for all former Playboy Club Bunnies
"This is my rifle.
There are many like it but this one is mine.
My rifle is my best friend
It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.
Without me my rifle is useless
Without my rifle I am useless"
Beautiful Mutants by Mark Mothersbaugh. Who is he? His other name is Devo
Kim Peek - The Real Rain Man
"Micro-Mike”, solar-Powered hermit squatting on Los Alamos Land
More Unusual People Achieving Unusual Things Here
November 28, 2004 in Unusual People | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
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After 12 years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, "No habla ingles." From GQ’s 100 Funniest Jokes of All Time. Also there, “This greasy spoon restaurant was so bad, on the menu there were even flies in the pictures”
Funniest joke ever told by a dog
A middle-aged man and his wife are out to dinner to celebrate her forty-fifth birthday.
He says, "So, what would you like, Sarah? A Jaguar? A mink coat? A diamond necklace? A cruise?"
She says, "Bernie, I want a divorce."
He says, "I wasn't planning on spending that much."
Asked to write a composition entitled, "What I'm thankful for on Thanksgiving," a student wrote, "I am thankful that I'm not a turkey." Also, from The Friars Club Jokebook:
It was the end of the school year and the students were giving their teacher gifts. The teacher knew the profession of the kids' parents so she would guess what they got her.
The florist's daughter gave her a box, she put it over her head and shook it. "Are they flowers?" asked the teacher, the student replied, "How did you know?"
Then the candy shop owner's son came with a box, she put it over her head and said "Is it candy?" The student said, "How'd you know??"
Then the liquor store owner's son, Johnny, came and the teacher saw the box leaking. She put her finger on it, sucked juice of the finger and said, "Is it wine?"
Johnny shook his head. Then she licked it again, "Vodka?"
Johnny replied, "No. It's a puppy."
Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide. From a large cache of science jokes
(The point about jokes is that if you heard them all, you’ve heard them all. But how to remember a good joke when you need one?) Many More Crazy Jokes Here
November 28, 2004 in Jokes | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 27, 2004
The Audio Shaker
The amazing Audio Shaker looks like a simple coffee grinder. But after you talk or sing into it, just cover it up, shake it a little and uncork it. What you’ll get is a sound omelet! (Another amazing discovery from Journalist Ami Ben Basat. Also from Ami, “Why Knot?”, a kinetic sculpture/machine that continuously ties and unties a necktie)
Visions of Science photography winners
A list of Chester Carlson’s Patents. The history of office equipment : Invention of the Cellophane Tape, The ball point pen, the fax machine (Invented in 1843!), Xerography, other contraptions. (Image above of the very first Xerox copy!)
"The Gates", Christo’s Project for Central Park , New York
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it”
Robosaurus in Action, the world's first real CAR-nivorous monster: 40 feet tall, 60,000 pounds, lifts 4,000 pound cars up higher than a 5 story building and breathes 20 feet fingers of flame
Relief pants help you go faster when you fly. (From Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog)
"Why Not" Open Source Movement - How to use everyday ingenuity to solve problems big & small
How to get rid of Manchester's fridge mountains, and Norwegian fog remover. (Both from “Look at this”)
Missouri man legally changes his name to 'They'
John Hutchison The Wild Scientist From Vancouver. (From “Church of Moo”)
Guess before you click! What is this Mystery Image? Courtesy of Gerard Van der Leun’s “American Digest” which is today’s “Blog Of The Day”. If you wish to have your blog considered as “Blog Of The Day”, or if you know of a blog that should get same recognition, please email me at realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com, or post a comment at the bottom of this post.
Many More Unusual Inventions & Discoveries Here
November 27, 2004 in Science & Inventions | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
How to master things
How to master the art of the wink
How to drop out is more complex than we've been led to believe
From The Bonomo Library of Handy Pocket Manuals: Become Lovelier After Forty, Become a More Popular Hostess, Improve Your Dancing,
How to Find Your Man, and more
How you can be a Slacker – in 6 easy steps
How to Cope With Overnight Success. What do you do when your product's a hit?
How to interpret Classified ads, when seeking for a new man, woman, job
The Beauty Of Life is a 2D short film made at a German Film school
21 days to change a habit
The most comprehensive Definition of Happiness you will ever find. (From “Curiouser”)
The gift of a lifetime: Become a donor
Many More Things To Do With Your Life Here
November 27, 2004 in Do Something with your Life | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The Day after The Day after Thanksgiving
Taking out the leftovers - "This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant, that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song Alice's Restaurant..."
Miqel’s hard-to-classify and inexplicable recordings: The Yokohama Knights, Gay and Straight Together- Vol.1, Korean Childrens Choir, many more
Welcome to Norton Records , home to the frantic sounds of Hasil Adkins, Link Wray, the Pretty Things, the Flamin' Groovies, the Alarm Clocks, the Sonics, the Wailers, Question Mark and the Mysterians, Dale Hawkins, Ron Haydock, the Rockin' R's, Esquerita, Andre Williams, Jack Starr, the Flat Duo Jets, the Untamed Youth, the Phantom Surfers, King Uszniewicz, the Hentchmen, Wade Curtiss, Jackie & the Cedrics, the Church Keys, The Dictators and loads more wildies
Excellent rendition of the war president singing U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday
The life & music of George Crumb. The score for Spiral Galaxy [Aquarius]
More Elvis paintings by Naoki Mitsuse
LGCMA, The Lesbian and Gay Country Music Association, a non profit, 501-C3 organization. (From “Linkswarm”)
Ashcroft & Bacon, new in music. The Ashcroft retirement card
Julieta Venegas, accordion-playing Mexican art-punk
Nothing is forever: On the one year anniversary of it's release, these British folks are calling for a boycott of Outkast's 'Hey Ya'
Our huge collection of Odd Music and Musicians Here
November 27, 2004 in Music_ | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Uncover the ancient secrets of Babylon
Steve Gedikian writes about the end of an era at Winamp
Job Interview at Totalitarian Burger
Ten Questions You Should Never be Asked in an Interview
Dream jobs from Outside Magazine
Making the rounds: Alexandre Gueniot's Musical CV, looking for a new job as a software developer. Also, Whack your boss
A follow up on the FedEx logo posting: Interview with the designer of the subliminal arrow
The Worst Jobs in Science: The Sequel. Tampon Squeezer, Tick Dragger, Iraqi Archaeologist, Anal-Wart Researcher
Many More Unusual Professions Here
November 27, 2004 in Jobs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
New World Record
The Henry Ford Museum presents Toys! from 1840 to 1960
The Toymaker - free paper toys that you can make yourself
The eighties tarot deck. (From “Examined Life”)
Domino effect: World dominoes record is toppled: 4,250,000 pieces. The company behind it, run by Mister Domino is involved with real, serious business
The unknown yoyo boy. Also, a day in the life of a Japanese yoyo master
The Ultimate Water Gun bursts onto the Los Angeles art scene
National Toy Hall of Fame. Wes Clark's toys from the sixties
Vintage and Classic Board Games from the Board Game Company
Greetings, fools! Welcome to Mister T and me
San Andreas/Real Life Similarities in the new Grand Theft Auto. (Slow load)
Many More Unusual Games and Toys Here
November 27, 2004 in Games | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 26, 2004
To die for
"Perishables," clothing made out of tripe by artist Pinar Yolacan
The $10,000,000 Victoria Secret 2004 Fantasy bra: A heavenly bra like no other in the world
Close up of a Space shoe. Also, Manolo's Shoe Blog: “Will the suffering of the Iraqi people it never cease?”
Intrigue, Chinese Foot binding-style shoes
A collection of Dr. Martens boots designed as if each character from Neil Gaiman's Sandman series would have worn them
Banana Republican Fall ’04 catalog
Bad Vacation Tees: Iraq, Afghanistan and Baghdad
Star Trek Knitting Patterns. (From “Particles”)
Hallowig - Knit your own anime style wig
Thunderwear concealed Holster. (From “TK Blog”)
The History of My Hair and 90 days of letting my Hair grow. Both from today’s “Blog Of The Day” “Fussy”, If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten. If you wish to have your blog considered as “Blog Of The Day”, or if you know of a blog that should get same recognition, please email me at realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com, or post a comment at the bottom of this post.
Many More Unusual Fashion Trends Here
November 26, 2004 in Fashion | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Were you present when your picture was taken?
An oldie, probably a re-post: Things people actually said in court , word for word, taken down by court reporters:
Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere.
Police Blotter from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Dept.
Guide to Garroting. Best practices for half-strangling robbery victims. Originally from “Robbery as a Science,” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, May 1853
Some consumers enjoy soap carving , often using Ivory Soap: Hobby for guys in jail
The city of Chicago stole my car
"Health tip from the American Medical Association: Never pour corrosive chemicals on your testicles." More Unusual Links about Crime and Criminals Here
November 26, 2004 in Crime & Punishment | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred
How to write like a wanker: Don't capitalize. Don't punctuate. Mispunctuate. Use an Inappropriate Format.
Thomas A. Edison sent his agents round to Tennyson's home to record his voice on wax cylinders in 1890, reciting The Charge of the Light Brigade. The sound quality is far from perfect. The knocking halfway through remains a mystery. Perhaps Tennyson was providing his own sound effects
Challenge regarding Adrian Tomine’s cover for the New Yorker
“The cover for Trout Fishing in America is a photograph taken late in the afternoon, a photograph of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square.
Born 1706 - Died 1790, Benjamin Franklin stands on a pedestal that looks like a house containing stone furniture. He holds some papers in one hand and his hat in the other.
Then the statue speaks, saying in marble…”
Bone Up Your Shakespeare: A Study Guide to the Complete Porno Films of the Bard of Avon, by Daniel Radosh. Considering that William Shakespeare coined the phrase, “making the beast with two backs” (Othello, I, i), it should be no surprise that there are numerous X-rated movies based on his plays
The Men's Room, the lore of the paperback lesbian
Making a literary splash: Animated book report of How to kill a mockingbird, created by Anthony Scodary and Nico Benitez. In a similar vain, Bob The Ball; “Hide the crack”, said the dealer…
Fear & Loathing in Mos Eisley - The game
This is posting number 1,000 (in 9 months of the current blog). Art above by Lois Duffy. Many More Unusual Books Here
November 26, 2004 in Books & Literature | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Listless
You read recently that the World's oldest man died in N.Y. 12 days shy of his 114th birthday. By definition, a supercentenarian is anyone who has lived to be 110 years or older . We presently recognize 63 Validated Living Supercentenarians -- 58 Women and 5 Men. Here is the official list of Validated Living Supercentenarians
A list of people named Arthur Jones, found on Google
56 Uncommon Baby Names for Boys, Culled From the Index of Volume 3 of Master of the Senate, Robert Caro's Biography of Lyndon Johnson
Some random Top 10 lists, including but not limited to: Top 10 countries where sheep most outnumber people (#1. Falkland Islands - 339.93 sheep per person), Top 10 tea-drinking countries in the world (7 Arab countries in top 10) and Top 10 words most used by Shakespeare (The, and, I, to, of, a, you, my, that, in)
The Name Game. Who owns the market on the first name Sally? Struthers or Field?
List of funny (?) gay, lesbian or bisexual people. Famous Gays and Lesbians in History
Another huge list of Oxymorons
Lonita’s List of lists
Albino Neutrino's 100 things list about me
Grab a Grow-a-Brain Graphic for your site
Our Large List of Unusual Lists Here
November 26, 2004 in Lists | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
November 25, 2004
Geometric Art
Original paintings by Dolores Erickson, the one & only whipped cream lady…
Dolls’ Eye, weird, unsettling, beautiful dolls. (From “Art for the masses”, which also has a disturbing, short clip of Hitler dancing)
Welcome to the Bob Ross Quiz! Test your knowledge of Television's Favorite Painter
Fafi, a French graffiti artist with a feminine style. (From “Yummy Wakame”)
Termesphere paintings by Dick Termes. Other optical illusion artists at Masters of Deception
Utility Boxes in San Diego. See also previous posting of Utility Boxes in Israel
Propaganda, the art and subversion of Ron English. (From “Rashomon”)
Airform 01
Bathsheba Grossman's geometric art and mathematical objects. (From Jerry Kindall)
Twexus uses a database of 21743 images taken with small digital cameras. Every connection twexus makes is random
Re-post: Mainzer Cats showcases the funny cats drawn by European artist Eugen Hurtong
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” from Houston, TX is “Big Pink Cookie”. If you wish to have your blog considered as “Blog Of The Day”, or if you know of a blog that should get same recognition, please email me at realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com, or post a comment at the bottom of this post.
“I recently learnt that there are three people still alive who can do the minuet. Unfortunately, only one of them is able to move without a wheelchair.” A Large Collection of Unusual Art Here
November 25, 2004 in Modern Art | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
261 Columbus Ave.
Farewell, favorites places. From the wonderful site of Hank Donat, Mister SF
Over 200 Trees of San Francisco listed
Taxi dancers (“Dime-a-dance girls”), and “In the footsteps of Sam Spade”. (Both from “Snarkout”)
Photos taken at the "How Berkeley Can You Be?" parade on Sunday, September 19, 2004. (Warning: Photos of some old people walking naked in the street).
San Francisco Transit: BART, MUNI, cable cars, more. Joe Thompson’s extensive site of Cable Car Lines in San Francisco
Musée Mécanique, next to the Cliff House on Ocean Beach
Some connections between The Bohemian Grove and The Nuclear Weapons Industry
Index to the History of San Francisco. (From “MonkeyFilter”)
“Dot Dot Dot”, Vintage Herb Caen’s columns
Stencils from San Francisco's Mission Dist. Over 2,669 other Stencil Flicks From Around the World at the Stencil Archive
San Francisco Art Gallery Openings
Many More Unusual Links About San Francisco and About Los Angeles Here
November 25, 2004 in San Francisco | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
T-day
This holiday season, bring comfort, joy and style to your home or place of business with Brooks Brothers exclusive Tie Tree. Only $12500.00
Or, celebrate the holiday season in top geek style with a USB powered Xmas tree. (From “Yummy Wakame”)
A Thanksgiving prayer by William Burroughs
Tofu Turkey recipe
103 quick & easy Christmas Gift Ideas
Re-post: A short film directed by Jalmari Helander, Tracking Father Christmas, detailing the production of the most rare of Finnish exports
George Carlin Thanksgiving quote: “We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing”
Norman Rockwell illustration above found on Ffkieke Hopsakee. Many Unusual Thanksgiving Links Here
November 25, 2004 in Holidays | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The 2005 Models
Celebrity cars from “Dupont Registry”
The transformation of Acura NSX into a Ferrari in a Chinese chop chop store. (From “All Things Christie”)
Commuter Car Corporation - Introducing the high performance, road-hugging, ultra-narrow Tango. Also, Carver, a new motorcycle/car
On the other hand: The new Ford F650 truck
Seen everywhere: The right crane for the job
The Thanks Tail. You fit it on the roof of your car, and at the push of a button it wags from side to side, like a dog's tail, to show your gratitude. (From “Weird Links”)
"Free Breast examinations: As a public service, the Hell’s Angels will be conducting free breast examinations this weekend at their clubhouse behind the Chrome Sprocket Bar. If you prefer privacy, the Bikers’ Mobile Breast Patrol will be happy to perform their services in the privacy of your bedroom. Pelvic examinations and pap smears are also available but usually take a little longer"
Our Large Collection of Unusual Cars Here
November 25, 2004 in Cars | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Destroying Iraq to Save It
Destroying Iraq to Save It, by Michael Kinsley:
"Iraqi City Lies in Ruins." That would be Fallouja, a city of 300,000 (metro area) that Americans had never heard of until we felt impelled to destroy it. And our reasons were neither trivial nor contemptible. They followed with confident logic from the premise that Hussein was an intolerable danger to the United States. If so, he had to be taken down. And if that destabilized the country, we had to occupy it for a while and calm it down. And you can't run a national occupation with rebels occupying a major city, so you have to besiege the city and kill a lot of people and leave the place "in ruins."
Ashley Gilbertson’s images from Karbala
Uncensored photos from Killing fields of Fallujah. (Slow load)
Not winning the hearts and minds with moping-up operations: 111 pages of DOD report by The Defense Science Board
The American AN/MLQ-40 Prophet System takes on the Prophet Mohammed’s Fighters
Eyewitness to a failure in Iraq, By Peter W. Galbraith
The politics of the Fallujah mission: The Best Is Yet To Come
Kevin Sites describes his first-person prospective of the shooting in the Mosque last week
“Our allies, which are in Iraq”. (From “Dorks don’t rock”)
More About The War Against Iraq Here
November 25, 2004 in War in Iraq | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
November 24, 2004
Never have more children than you have car windows
In this video Mo Kin (aka 'Ri Higgin') sings a cute little song during the 2004 New Year's celebration on North Korean Television. (From “Travel with Katie”)
When They Were Young: A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood from the Library of Congress
Twisted Children Books, from “Curious George eats a bunny” to “Why mom stopped stripping”
Or, McSweeny’s Really Boring Books for Children: Sally Finds a Stick
A large resource of children books online in various languages
Son three's first Halloween was marred by an unfortunate wardrobe malfunction. The wife claims he is supposed to be an elephant
Student essays malapropisms: “Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever”. More actual statements by philosophy students: "Socrates was a man to whom his soul was the most important part of his body"
Toddlerpedes, Toy sculptures by Johnny Beinart
A gallery of Ugly babies
History of a geek: Tally the number of childhood scenarios/traumas below that you can relate to
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is “ My boyfriend is a twat”, about a British woman living in Belgium and her boyfriend. If you wish to have your blog considered as “Blog Of The Day”, or if you know of a blog that should get same recognition, please email me at realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com, or post a comment at the bottom of this post.
Mandatory George Carlin quote: “In the future, chickens will operate on gasoline, and surprisingly, many of them will get good mileage”. Other Unusual Links About Kids Here
November 24, 2004 in Kids | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
November 23, 2004
“Her Death was caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time”
How to commit suicide, the novel way. A woman trying a suicide attempt by jumping off a bridge…
Death Dot Com - What’s more real than death? (And, I need a volunteer… From “Conform & Obey”)
Virtual tour of Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise, Burial ground of Francois Raspail, Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, Allan Kardec, Simone Signoret and Yves Montand, Frederic Chopin, Marcel Proust
Ohio Death row. Life on Death row in Huntsville, TX. Revealing piece of statistics at the bottom of the Arkansas death row list. 38 states with the death penalty
One more photo from Underbunny, the hands of an 102-year-old woman in her casket
Why Men Die Younger, Four photos from the Wallis "Dress to Kill" ad campaign. Also, Chinese dude trying to catch a tree
Irreverent obituaries of the future
“Farewell, Godspeed”: The Greatest Eulogies of Our Time
Great eulogies make great funerals. From “The Funeral Directory”
The Dubuisson cemetery in Slidell, LA, is an old family cemetery somehow related to our colleague, Lee Dubuisson. It’s pretty cool when you have a cemetery named after your family… (Fake login needed)
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is “Planet Dan”, bound to offend. If you wish to have your blog considered as “Blog Of The Day”, or if you know of a blog that should get same recognition, please email me at realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com, or post a comment at the bottom of this post.
Quote above from George Carlin, naturally, who also said: “If you have twins, a good idea is to sell one of them. What the hell, you’ve got two. Why not pick up a few dollars?” (I’m afraid that I’m going to have to start quoting Carlin at any opportunity from this point onward.) Many More Unusual Links About Death and Eternity and about Unusual Coffins & Caskets Here
November 23, 2004 in Death & Eternity | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
"The voice of the great silent majority"
Another weird page from Nobody Here. Click everywhere
British Pit Game
"My name is Caroline". (Thank you, Isabella)
Stickman falling down the stairs. (Fark photoshop contest)
Jakalope(???)
Overheard “In Passing”, a collection of the random things I see and overhear on a daily basis in Berkeley
Is This You? We've been collecting these pictures for some years now. They come from photobooths and pavements all over the UK. The “Is this you” project was born out of a simple question: Is it possible to reunite these images with their owners?
Life is short, play more
Many More Ways to Waste Your Time Here
November 23, 2004 in Waste of Time | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 22, 2004
How to blog
How to blog by Tony Pierce;
1. write every day.
2. if you think youre a good writer, write twice a day.
The String Coffee Table - When advanced theoretical physicists blog . Also, a long list of Professors Who Blog
"OH Sh*t, I DELETED MY BLOG" A sad and funny video of me dealing with the loss of my TypePad blog. (Long load, worth the wait). From same documentary: Horrible production values of the Bloggies award show 2003. Features a bunch of bloggers. No Oscars to that award show! At the same time, the 2004 Webbies Nominations are being picked up right now. So, please vote Grow-a-brain as the bestest blog in the world!
OK, this is a fun meme: Type each single letter of the alphabet in the address bar of your browser and list what the auto-complete function pulls up first…
“The elite company of five-year-old or older blogs are some of the best.” (From Kiplog)
Otto Stalks Andy (Waxy), and other “A-bloggers”
Three Bits o Trivia. A blog displaying 21 Facts Per Week. Today’s one of 3: “A whiskey may only be legally described as Scotch if it is at least 80 proof and it has matured in an oak cask in Scotland for at least three years”. OK
New, tentative postings by Jorn Barger…
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is Chuck Taggart's “Looka”, about (mostly) Cajun cocktails, food, music. If you wish to have your blog considered as “Blog Of The Day”, or if you know of a blog that should get same recognition, please email me at realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com, or post a comment at the bottom of this post.
Many more Unusual Blogs and Bloggers Here
November 22, 2004 in World of Blogging | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Addicted to Wars
“The government has granted Napalm.Net exclusive rights to sell actual napalm produced for war to the public” – Finally! (From BingBangBosh)
Soviet Military Awards and Medals
In the interest of safety, here’s Rob Cockerham's recommended list for carry on luggage
Emily Donut Dollie and other women soldiers in Vietnam. (From Caiterwauling). Also, a long list of films about the Vietnam War, including films concerning post-colonial conflict in Southeast Asia, the regional fallout from the war (such as the Khmer Rouge), and the experience of Vietnam veterans
Fascinating battle reports and the Official Records of the War Of The Rebellion
Nuclear Blast Maps for any city of your choice
The Christian's Guide to Small Arms, (Because Jesus told me so)
“Hello and welcome to bayonet collectors of the world!”
Send those boys on a fun mission
In 1924, the German anarchist Ernst Friedrich published one of the great anti-war classics, War Against War. Outraged by the slaughter of World War I, Friedrich gathered pictures of battlefield butchery and mutilated soldiers. Juxtaposed with propagandistic pictures of military "glory" and labeled with ironic, sarcastic captions, these photographs showed, the sick reality of war
Oldest living veteran and last survivors of World War 1. (From Snarkout)
Many More Unusual Links About War and About Peace Here
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