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December 31, 2004
Last 2004 Posting
Beautiful Plankton Art by Louise Hibbert. (From the Hungarian linkblog “Szanalmas”)
George E. Ohr, the Mad Potter of Biloxi
Modern Guernica with influences by Dali, Picasso, Escher and Van Gogh
The Microsoft Art Collection began in Redmond in 1987 when the company had approximately 1,800 employees and occupied six buildings. In 2004, the collection includes 4,000+ works of art and is divided among 84 buildings throughout North America. (From ”Join the dots”)
When interactive art becomes bored with you at the Bar at the Folies Bergère
Pooptoth from Eastern Kentucky – The art of Ryan Greis
Fish & chicken painting by Travis A. Louie
Drawings by artist Laurie Lipton
Re-post: The master index of Jan Svankmajer's visual and tactile art. (Thanks, Frank C.)
Right now: What does 117,000 dead look like?
Happy New Year to all! Here are some 100 things we didn't know this time last year. Including, “Smoking killed nearly one million people worldwide in 2000” and Osama Bin Laden refers to 9/11 as "Manhattan")
A Large Collection of Unusual Art Links Here
December 31, 2004 in Modern Art | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Bruckheimer, Riefenstahl, Bunuel
Leni Riefenstahl . (See bio page for photos with Siegfried & Roy, Mick & Bianca Jagger)
Guide to Determine If You Are in a Jerry Bruckheimer Movie:
1. Your girlfriend is a waitress, but could be a model.
2. A bus explodes.
3. A psychopathic millionaire devises an elaborate plan to murder you or someone you know ...
4. ... and you feel compelled to stop it.
5. You are Nicholas Cage…
(Much more)
"All Stanley Kubricks please be quiet and eat their lunch"
Four Unproduced Screenplays, including “One Saliva Bubble” by David Lynch and “Avatar” by James Cameron
Some Buñuel Quotes: "Thank God I'm an atheist", being one of the famous ones. Strictly Film School: Analysis of The Exterminating Angel, Belle de Jour, and That Obscure Object of Desire
Also, End of year summery from Dave Berry: No Thanks for the Memories
Our Extensive Collections of Best Film Directors and other Unusual Film Stories Here
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Indian Funerals
150 years of train history by The Indian Steam Railway Society. Also, IRFCA, the Indian Railways Fan Club
A funeral in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu
Shree Ganesh Photo Gallery. (From ”Left Blank”)
Amar Chitra Katha comic books, Illustrated Classics from India
You are reincarnated a holy cow on the streets of New Delhi
Completely unrelated - Hippie New Year from “House Plant Pictures”, mainly because right now they are playing Muddy Waters’ “Hoochie Coochie Man”… Turn up your speakers.
Many More Unusual Links about India And About Denmark Here
December 31, 2004 in Traveling Places - India | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Iraq's best singer
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The Bob Marley of Pakistan, the Elvis of the East, Khan was one of the most popular singers in the Indian subcontinent. He predominantly sang qawwali, the music of devotional Sufism, but incorporated other forms including Khyal (traditional classical) to produce a unique style that appealed to followers of all religions. He performed with the Party, a group of highly trained Pakistani musicians which included several family members
Burger Ranch, a music video by the Israeli pop group “Ping Pong”, by Ido Fluk
Discography of Ester Ofarim
Iraq's best singer, Mohammed Abdul Razzaq Abdul Fattah Al-Gubbenchi, with many clips. (Not for the faint of heart!)
Jewish Songs of Celebration & Struggle. (From Tikun Olam)
6arab's Most Wanted songs from Miami Band
Many Links About Middle Eastern Music Here
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December 30, 2004
“Souls Along the Way”
Notes for Steven Reich’s Clapping music
Cole Marcus, the amazing 4 year old drummer. Another child prodigy, 10 year-old painter-poet Akiane
Tiny Tim sings "Santa Claus Has Got The AIDS This Year" , as the B-side of a single that also featured the heartwarming song "She Left Me With The Herpes". (Btw, the webmaster of “Empty Handed “ is married to Rubber Nun who ‘Vishnu a Hare Krishna’ for the holidays, and so do I)
Yu-Mex, Like Tex-Mex, but with Yugoslavians in Sombreros instead
Re-post: Listen to the devotional songs of Orrin Hatch, now that Hollywood discovered his talent
Songs about weddings. (From ”Incoming Signals”)
Coltrane's Giant Steps, visually explained
Interactive samba with Jemanja
Before they were rockers, they were cute little kids. Including: Janis Joplin, Marilyn Manson and Courtney Love
Many More Unusual Music Links Here
December 30, 2004 in Music_ | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
100,000+ dead & missing
Tsunami Warnings for children
Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Petra Nemcova survived the Tsunami, Thank God
Julie Brooke just came back from a trip to Thailand. Here is what Patong Beach looked like a few days before the storm.
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator
Dan Rather to Retire… but he’ll continue to work as a full-time correspondent for 60 Minutes and as a leader of his local al Qaeda cell
People in Ukraine. (Photos taken in May 2003)
The story of “Canadians Authorities Arresting Bush On War Charges” fooled Google' algorithms
Castro Announces Crude Oil Discovery - US to announce invasion plans soon
A Large Collection of Unusual Headlines Here
December 30, 2004 in Current News | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
December 29, 2004
Books I’m reading
Hamlet 2! - Ophelia’s revenge, from Amazon
Book-Happy, World of Weird Books
All of Sappho’s poems, in English & Greek
Noam Chomsky’s Scandalous Hegemony
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Nonsense Books, by Edward Lear:
"How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!"
Who has written such volumes of stuff!
Some think him ill-tempered and queer,
But a few think him pleasant enough.”
(From ”wood s lot”)
The travels and surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated with thirty-seven curious engravings from the Baron’s own designs. (From ”Exclamation Mark”). And Munchausology is occupied with the phenomenon of Munchausen
A Series Of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket
Susan Sontag essay on Bergman’s “Persona”. (From "Vitro Nasu")
Many More Unusual Books Here
December 29, 2004 in Books & Literature | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Slobs & snobs
The I-lean is a very strange concept. It's a piece of furniture that you ... lean against. Even in the world of funky furniture, that's a pretty specialized product
Some people live like Trump, in an apartment full of tacky crap . Some people are just slobs
A Dutch tub. (From ”Blanketfort”)
A folding chair from Namjoo Joh
Guerrilla birdhouses by the Wooster Collective
Re-post: Full-size automotive furniture, sofa, couches, bars, tables, mirrors, wall displays
Many More Unusual Home Decor Ideas Here
December 29, 2004 in Home Decor | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
December 28, 2004
Buy my book
If you read Hebrew, you can purchase a copy of my book “Between Geography & Mescaline”. I wrote this 128-page book of poetry in the early seventies, as I was hitchhiking and living the life on park benches and farm houses in Western Europe. A few years ago, when I was ready to get rid of all my notebooks, my sister, Dafna, discovered the manuscript of this book and got it published in Israel. I still have about 60 copies of it, and will sell each for $10 (plus shipping, no handling). If interested, send me an E-mail to realhanan (at) yahoo dot com, and I’ll get you a signed copy. The books can be sent from the US or from Israel. Thank you.
More stuff from the ol’ Middle East:
Lesson no. 12 when you learn to speak Arabic: “Ever since I was a teenager, I have loved Swedish women... The Swedish woman I love most is Britt Ekland…” (From W. Lynn Garrett)
Yasser Arafat loved to kiss his friends
Zaman Castle overlooking the Red sea. (From Living in Egypt)
Middle Eastern Weapons for sale - antiques only, unfortunately
I received this stupid E-mail chain letter: Jews & Muslims recipients of the Nobel prize. ”The Nobel Prize is rigged by the Jews”
Jerusalem Shots, a portal of photographs about Jerusalem
Dimona, Israeli comix group
Osama - Room for Infidels - What if Bin Ladin stopped releasing tapes and started releasing albums?
My old high-school, The Reali School in Haifa has now a website too. (I dropped out of it a year before graduation)
"Now that Arafat's dead, the only thing standing in the way of peace in the Mideast is Sharon." (From The Onion). Many More Unusual Links from the Middle East Here
December 28, 2004 in Middle East | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The Sound of a Harley Engine
The Motorcycle Diaries - “Let the world change you... and you can change the world”
Mike LeDuc’s Alaskan travelogue on a Harley Sportster. (From Plep)
The Trademark Registrability of the Harley-Davidson Roar: A Multimedia Analysis. Harley engine sounds, including “Potato, potato”
Restoration of a 1970 Harley-Davidson FLH 1200 Electra-Glide
Parts Unknown in Toronto
Chainsaw motorcycle - Andi Feldmann rides on a motorbike Tuesday he invented together with his brother, German cartoonist Roetger (Broesel) Feldmann, in the northern town of Wietze-Jeversen. The self-constructed bike is powered by 24 chain saw motors
Amen Motorcycles, Custom Motorcycle Chassis with Lowest Seat Frame in the Industry. (From Jaf project)
Many More Unusual Harley-Davidson Links Here
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How can you tell if your son or daughter smokes pot?
On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
12 kids of popping
11 magic mushrooms
10 yolli buttons
9 caps of dropping
8 spoons of snorting
7 whites of buzzing
6 joints of smoking
5 valiums
4 grams of hash
3 pounds of grass
200 reds and
a tab of yellow sunshine LSD
Lake County Cannabis Farm. I don’t care how politically motivated you are, but if you have a huge pot plantation on your land, should you keep such documentation online?! Better play Grow Op, all the dangers, without the risks
An extensive Weed index
Home Honey, I'm High! Kevin Kalliher’s sick & perverted “The Donna Weed Show” animation
The Smoke Filtration Systems are a series of sculptures that are also working marijuana water pipes
Making Homemade Bucket Bongs. Experience classic homemade bucket bong smoking. Then you'll know why you must have our new “Bukket”
How can you tell if your son or daughter smokes pot?
Squealer, surrealistic video with Hieronymus Bosch atmosphere. Also, from “Byronic Eye”, Marijuana In Your Brain, and “Tomorrow there will be hell to pay”, Betty Boop in a 1930 Republic Studios animation with music by Squirrel Nut Zippers
Pot sold - Only $25.25, at Target
More about any kind of illegal drugs especially Acid and Pot Here
December 28, 2004 in Drugs - "Save the Roaches, Arnie" | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack
Crazy jumpers
Mike Basich’s Helicopter jump, 120 feet high – Photo, poster, video
Jamie Pierre’s 55 meter jump - Don't try this at home
Down Under Tour 2004. Motorized by nothing but the wind ... Earthflyer Dirk Gion skates all over Australia on his mountain-board powered by his kites only
Slideshow of cluster ballooning
Danny Way breaks the World Record. 75' Backside 360 and 23.5' Backside Air
Sign up for kick-ass Dog Judo episodes
Many More Unusual Links of Extreme Sports Here
December 28, 2004 in Extreme Sports | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Tom Yum Goong
What brands of beer are available in Thailand?
Stop the cruelty towards sharks. While in Thailand, please don't eat shark fin soup
Baan Thai Recipes from Katie
Mmmm… Tom Yum Goong…
Malay Satay Hut Menu, nice photos
The Thep Padung Porn Coconut Co., Ltd. for all your coconut milk, chili paste, and chili sauce needs
More About The Best Thai Food in Southern California Here
December 28, 2004 in Best Thai Restaurant in OC | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
December 27, 2004
No holiday shopping this year
Shop at The Black & white Store. (From Seth Godin’s Blog)
Candles of modern days saints by Vicki Berndt
Bad gifts as told by Andy Rooney: "Don't Buy This For Me"
The Ashhole, the world’s first bottle-top ashtray. (From ”Church of Moo”)
How Communities are Re-Using the Big Box: what happens when the superstore leaves the local community, abandoning its huge warehouse-like structure?
Looking for a very rare video? Try Robert's Hard to find Videos. (From “Ack ack ack”)
Food Suit, for the sports fan who wants to remain at his seat at the game and not miss anything. (Found on Dave Barry's holiday Gift Guide)
…Trashy lady: "Scuse me, you got Wifebeaters?"…
Light Wedge for book lights
Here is the best story of the day: Anonymous Man Gives $35K to Homeless
Many More Unusual Things To Buy Here
December 27, 2004 in Shopping | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Kitschy art on restaurants’ walls
Gastro Kunst, the seedier side of restaurant decoration
World's highest restaurant: Sirocco Restaurant on top of State Tower, Bangkok
“Chef Revival”, trendy (or wacky) chef uniforms. (From ”Angry chef”)
Hints for chefs: So you want to open a restaurant. Well don’t bother spending three years at catering college. Here’s all you need to know
Restaurant that offers Catfish Pizza Breakfast (and hogies) in Kansas City
The Ghetto Gourmet underground restaurant in Oakland. (From RxReed)
In San Francisco, there is a great restaurant called Cafe′ Gratitude which supports local farmers and nourishes its customers with the practice of Gratitude, (From ”Violets & Lemons”)
Many More Unusual Bars and Restaurants Here
December 27, 2004 in Food - Restaurants & Bars | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
HH & MM
Markus Ruhl, Germany, 280 lbs. of a winning smile
According to Wikipedia, Hugh Hefner purchased the crypt in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California beside Marilyn Monroe so as to be interred next to her
The transformational art visions of Manwoman, tattooed Canadian Pop artist, a spiritual Andy Warhol
Dr. Octopus Costume, Rob Cockerham’s 2004 Halloween concept
Dr. Ted Rothstein's cosmetic braces. (From Thighs Wide Shut)
Many More Human Interest Stories Here
December 27, 2004 in Unusual People | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Early blogs
A different way to discover blogs and rich designs ... Blogs tell their stories with pictures - Thousands of blogs are mixing their colors on the kaleibloscope paintings
Jesse James Garrett’s list of some of the early blogs. The page was last updated on 12 Oct 2000 - in other words, a very long time ago. (From Rebecca Blood’s weblogs: a history and perspective, written in september 2000). Many of the “old-timers” are pretty much cliquey and deal only with bloggers who’d been online five years or longer.
Darren Barefoot offered his blogging services on eBay
M-C Turgeon’s 10 reasons why blogging is good for you
Top 10 words of 2004
Many More Unusual Blogs and Bloggers Here
December 27, 2004 in World of Blogging | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
December 26, 2004
A few random observations from my trip to Trinidad & Venezuela:
1. Night stars on the ocean are very beautiful.
2. Like many other social cliques, there are special bonds and relationships between yachtsmen & sailors as they move from port to port.
3. It takes real heroism to quit “normal” life, and go on a trip around the world, on a one-man vessel , like my cousin Sammy did. How did the ancient Phoenicians seamen do it, or even Columbus?
4. You have to master many disciplines and learn many practical new subjects in order to be able to sail alone around the world.
5. You either have the constitution for sailing a small vessel , or you don’t.
6. There are no American food franchises in Venezuela.
7. Instead of buying these commercial versions, marinate sliced pineapple in any good vodka for 2 weeks, stain & re-bottle. Drink carefully.
8. If you are born on a small island like San pedro de Coche, your chances of achieving great things in life are very small. Chances that you own more than a few plastic chairs and a bed are also minimal.
9. Many sailboats carry a bicycle.
10. Simple local food most anywhere is usually the best you can have there.
11. Most people are sadly out of shape.
12. Efficiency is a modern invention that hasn’t reached many parts of the Caribbean.
13. Most of the list of “Best 500 movies” is accepted knowledge. “Chinatown” probably stays at the top 20 of most lists.
14. Bring some kind of sunscreen with you if you want to avoid becoming Santa-red, after spending 10 days or more on deck with only shorts on.
15. Beat-up, early seventies Chevy Malibu’s end up as Taxis on the small islands. Who actually ships them there?
16. The more “primitive” the society, the less people know about or care about the effects of second-hand smoking.
17. When landing in Porlamar, Margarita Island’s biggest town, use Juan Baro of “Marina Juan” to help you with all your boating needs.
18. Not shaving, taking showers for a week is not the end of the world.
I’d like to start a new collection of eclectic links about Boating & Sailing. Please email me at realhanan (at) yahoo dot com any of your odd bookmarks about the subject. Indicate if you’d like me to credit you with a link-back. Here are the first few items:
Mirabella V, the largest single masted yacht in the world. 246ft-long, £30m yacht, which houses a sauna, gym, jacuzzi, plunge pool, dining area and a 600-bottle wine cellar
Worth Magazine’s Designer Yachts with Perfect Pedigree
Strange, unusual and odd-looking boats on the canals of England
The Mother Of All Maritime Links
YachtWorld.com Boating Yellow Pages
cargoshipphotos.com, the ultimate photo site for all cargo ships
Doyle's Guides for Caribbean yachting
Maakies’ Ship Of Jokes. (From “Screenhead”)
Previously posted:
Ultimate vacation on The World , expensive & luxurious condos at sea
A new meaning to the idea of a boathouse
The Rigging Of A Ship: 256 fast nautical terms
North American Land Sailing Association (NALSA)
Introducing the world's first luxury Amphibious Motor Coach / Yacht
Update, December 31, 2004 - I finally figured out how to create a photo album of the trip. Here you go.
December 26, 2004 in Boating | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack
December 25, 2004
"Borges and I"
"The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to. I walk through the streets of Buenos Aires and stop for a moment, perhaps mechanically now, to look at the arch of an entrance hall and the grillwork on the gate; I know of Borges from the mail and see his name on a list of professors or in a biographical dictionary. I like hourglasses, maps, eighteenth-century typography, the taste of coffee and the prose of Stevenson; he shares these preferences, but in a vain way that turns them into the attributes of an actor. It would be an exaggeration to say that ours is a hostile relationship; I live, let myself go on living, so that Borges may contrive his literature, and this literature justifies me. It is no effort for me to confess that he has achieved some valid pages, but those pages cannot save me, perhaps because what is good belongs to no one, not even to him, but rather to the language and to tradition. Besides, I am destined to perish, definitively, and only some instant of myself can survive in him. Little by little, I am giving over everything to him, though I am quite aware of his perverse custom of falsifying and magnifying things.
Spinoza knew that all things long to persist in their being; the stone eternally wants to be a stone and the tiger a tiger. I shall remain in Borges, not in myself (if it is true that I am someone), but I recognize myself less in his books than in many others or in the laborious strumming of a guitar. Years ago I tried to free myself from him and went from the mythologies of the suburbs to the games with time and infinity, but those games belong to Borges now and I shall have to imagine other things. Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
I do not know which of us has written this page. "
"Borges and I" Redux by Tim Jones. "Borges comes round with a six-pack just in time for the game. I tell him he could have got it cheaper down the road. He nods unhappily, as is his way..."
The Crimson Hexagon: Books Borges Never Wrote
Shipwreck on dry land - Gabriel García Márquez about Elián González
A last-minute change to Gabriel Garcia Marquez' new novel has dealt a blow to pirates who flooded his native Colombia with bootleg versions of Memories of My Melancholy
Living to tell the tale, excerpts of the first chapter, in Hebrew
I went sailing on a Caribbean vacation for a few weeks. Regular blogging will start in the next day or two. More Unusual Links About Borges & Marquez Here
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December 24, 2004
Chocolate with beer
Vosges’ Zion Collection. Exploring some of Jamaica's most loved ingredients: Allspice, Pumpkin, Red Stripe Beer, Hemp Seed, Blue Mountain Coffee and Coconut
Cioccolato all'assenzio, chocolate flavored with absinthe and beer-flavored chocolates
Cocoa Flavored Body Powder. Simply buff onto arms, legs, shoulders, and décolleté
Seven different Hershey’s Kisses
Chocolate fountains, big at weddings & Bar-Mitzvahs. Also, Cheese fountain
Chocolate reviews of a chocolate snob
Is there a "squiggle code" to identify chocolates?
Dr Peter Posnette, father of modern day chocolate has died aged 90
I went sailing on a Caribbean vacation for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Today’s “Blog Of The Day” will be on hold until after Christmas. Many More Unusual Chocolates and Unusual Desserts Here
December 24, 2004 in Food - Chocolate | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Where’s my blog of the year award?
Some needed feedback -
“Grow-a-Brain is my favorite spot on the Web. I never miss it. You do great work, finding fun, obscure, interesting, unusual things to share with all of us, and your organization is impeccable. Keep it up…” From “Verbatim”
“…Best researched blog on the net, and one of the most original…” From “Gusset”
“…You were saying the other day that your do not hear from all those mystery people that visit your website. Well I am one of them and wish to say keep it up. Being a vegetarian eclectic who has a deep concern for our planet I find your links and comments of interest. A sprinkling of humour is essential to everyday life and you supply that as well… - Email from Kevin S.
“…Just a quick message to let you know I happened to discover Grow-a-Brain today – and suddenly the day seems more complete and fulfilling. It’s great to find an intellectual site online with quirkiness and spontaneity” - Email from Jay D.
“Your site is singularly unique! A blogger's dream-come-true! It's the Google of blog sites…” - Email from Jim J.
Kudos from Bolditalic and Fast Lane
“… don’t know how he does it”… From ”Chapel Perilous”
“…full of unusual lists and links to odd websites”, from ”Bulgy Bit”
Grow A Brain - The-Bush-Really-Needs-To-Do-This-Award, From "Mad Kane"
“It's awesome”, From “The Messiah”
What do people say about Grow-a-Brain? See Here
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December 23, 2004
Frozen Music
“You should never build on top of something directly. If you build on top of a hill, you lose the hill.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
Blueprints of sitcom houses by Mark Bennett
My visit to the Villa Savoye, designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Janneret, in Poissy. (From Coudal’s Architectural Links)
The Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, DPRK: 1,082 feet tall, 105 floors, 3.9 million square meters of floor space. And it is completely empty. It doesn't even have windows
The Warsaw’s Congress Hall. (From ”Kinuk”)
Seattle's New Central Library Offers Civic Validation, a Huge Collection of Material, and a Staggering Number of Startling New Ways to Die
The Canopy project, made out of fresh bamboo. (From “Daily Dose of Architecture”)
Re-post: In the Blinkenlights Gallery you find a selection of the best Blinkenlights Movies as GIF animations
Legerlings Swedish home
Berlin in 1945 and in 1985
Like last year, Merry Christmas from Jacquie Lawson
I went sailing on a Caribbean vacation for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Today’s “Blog Of The Day” will be on hold until after Christmas. Many More Unusual architectural Links Here
December 23, 2004 in Architecture | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
December 22, 2004
Your moment of Truth
Let every day be filled with the passion of Jesus Christ, and strengthen your spirit with our 3D "Christ, the Light" screen saver. (Found on ”Metafilter”)
(Previously posted): “Hey, farmer, I’m right here beside you”…
Armageddon Online - What is an Extinction Level Event?
“God wants you” and other Random Jesus proverbs
Buddy Christ, the dashboard deity, and Bobble Head Jesus
The Baby Jesus can save you from the pain and suffering of the world and all He asks of you is that you return His love. Is that so much to ask for Salvation?
The moment of Truth, a short Flash animation of questionable political taste. (Slow load). On the same subject, What Would Jesus Do about War with Iraq? Bob Jones II, president Bob Jones University; Max Lucado, minister of the Oak Hills Church of Christ in San Antonio; Father Michael Manning, host of the international TV show "The Word in the World;" Pastor John MacArthur of the Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, And Bishop Melvin Talbert Speak Out on War With Iraq.
Hate mail sent to Normal Bob Smith, creator of the ‘Jesus Dress Up’ Site
The Jesusonic is a fully programmable effects processor for guitar, bass, vocal and general use
I went sailing on a Caribbean vacation for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Today’s “Blog Of The Day” will be on hold until after Christmas.
Meanwhile, have some Ah Pinu Yira. More Unusual Links About Jesus and Other Eclectic Spiritual Links Here
December 22, 2004 in Jesus | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
December 21, 2004
Dumb Celebrities
A Day In The Love Life Of An A-List Celebrity. 7:35A: Awake. My heart hangs heavy with the demise of yesterday's relationship with André
A current picture of Jaleel White, (aka Steve Urkel)
Michael Dare’s SX-70 Time-Zero celebrity Polaroids: “My positives are my negatives”
“If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.” Cards of the Drunken Prophets. (From ”Coudal”)
Well Known People Who Happen to be Canadian
Robert Wagner Comeback Still Incomplete
1960's and 1970's memorabilia, from Lead Pipe Posters
“Worth 1000” Fountain of Age 4 Contest - Famous people made younger and older
For the holidays: Scary Santa Gallery
I went sailing on a Caribbean vacation for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Today’s “Blog Of The Day” will be on hold until after Christmas.
Portrait above by Bonnie Colleen McCool. More Odd Celebrity Gossip Here
December 21, 2004 in Celebrities | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
First TV dinner at The Waldorf
The Oldest Map of the World , 6200 B.C. Located at the Konya Museum, Turkey
More about Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s first photograph (1826)
World's First Commercial Christmas Card, 1843
A dinner celebrating the first live television transmittion was held after the demonstration at the Waldorf Astoria. Hence, the first true TV Dinner. June 29, 1936
The 100 Oldest .com Domains that are Currently Registered. (From Jason Kottke)
An Eclectic & Long List of ‘Firsts‘ Here
December 21, 2004 in First Ever | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
December 20, 2004
The Money Shot
Uncle Tom Mechanical Bank from the largest online collection of mechanical banks
Tony Clayton’s Coins of the UK
Money Shot from “Photo Dude”
The secret history of the credit card: 641 million credit cards in circulation, $1.5 trillion of consumer spending in the US alone
Kamiel Proost Dollar Bill Art (From "Waxy")
Flipping a coin is, in my opinion, the best way to decide between two options
Tom Chau’s Top 20 Most Valuable Paper Notes
Time isn't money , and study proves it; people would rather lose time than money. ''People are relatively certain about how much their money is worth, but when it comes to their time, people are less certain about its value,''
The 550 Montgomery Street Building in San Francisco was the headquarters of A. P. Giannini's Bank of Italy (later to become Bank of America)
The costliest Bay Area home, food, education, hotel neighborhood and more are just a bank account cleaning away
Merry @#$% Christmas from JibJab
I went sailing on a Caribbean vacation for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Today’s “Blog Of The Day” will be on hold until after Christmas. Many More Unusual Links About Coins and Notes Here
December 20, 2004 in Money & Finances | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Realtors photos
Virtual tour of a house from 1900
Find Gay Real Estate Agents across the country
Jason Salavon’s amalgamations of single family homes for sale
Meet the landlord, a Notorious, scummy landlord
A few land buying tips
What does Mortgage Rates have to do with the weather in Africa ?
10 questions you ought to ask your homebuilder before buying a new house
“America’s Watchdog”, experts in consumer fraud in the mortgage arena
Many More Unusual Real Estate Links Here
December 20, 2004 in Real estate | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
December 19, 2004
Manufacturer of fine, fake news
”Pretty girls don't ride the subway”
“That’s my mother’s mother, Rose. The one falleting the pickle… That’s her boyfriend, Jessie, sitting beside her. He’s ninety-two…”
Harvard sucks! Help Harvard proclaim their true school spirit. Yale Students Perform Prank.
Diplocaulus - Does this animal really exist?
The Debut of RoboDump 1.0: I snuck RoboDump into the men's room at the office. Unfortunately, today turned out to be the day of a board meeting. Whoops! It still went over well; the office was abuzz all morning with gossip about the guy in the bathroom. Several people theorized it was the CFO. The janitor commented to someone in the hallway that he wanted to clean the restroom but "this guy's been in there all morning."
When applying for free subscriptions to trade magazines, be sure to enter stupid job titles for yourself
Hoosier Gazette, manufacturer of fake news. Like the story about the changing the name of Highway 69. Many people believed them
Photo above from the Hungarian Szanalmas. Many More Hilarious Pranks And Many More Outrageous jokes Here
December 19, 2004 in Pranks | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Du taler da flot dansk
Kate & Isaac’s trip to Copenhagen
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel as compared to the brideg between Denmark & Sweden
Cryos International Sperm Bank of Aarhus – delivering high quality frozen tested semen from Scandinavians
Who’s who in Scandinavian Design
Flat landscapes by Strange Ross
Merry Christmas to y’all
I went sailing on a Caribbean vacation for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Today’s “Blog Of The Day” will be on hold until after Christmas. Many More Unusual Links about Denmark And About India Here
December 19, 2004 in Traveling Places - Denmark | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack