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March 31, 2005
Produced by Phil Spector & Bruce Dickinson
A huge compendium of US Army Bands - Serving the Nation through music
Rolling Stones Portrait Art by Ronnie Wood
The complete Al Hazan Story
The folks behind the Revolved mash-up album, has a blog, CCC, containing many other winning combinations
Grateful Dead Downloads: The band released the total vault on MP3
Great Female Vocalists, and many other musical trailblazers at the “Great Song Stylists”. Found on the original, and NS4W, ”Good Shit”)
Right now I’m going through a major Steely Dan month & Everything Must Go
Enter The Blind Faith Super Group Portal; Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton, Ric Grech, and Stevie Winwood. (From Der Schockwellenreiter)
Was doing the rounds all over: Buddy Rich at the Muppet Show. (From the previously-blogged DrummerWorld Videos)
I need more Electric Cowbell!
Many More Unusual Music Links Here
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is Gokurousama. Gokurousama means "Thank you for your troubles" in Japanese and it is also the name of this blog. Gokurousama celebrates and recognizes the hard work of others. Found at Joi Ito. I finally made a little Linking Icon the “winner” can stick on their site, if they wish
March 31, 2005 in Music_ | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
March 30, 2005
A new Googlebomb: Tea
Summerhill Pyramid Winery: Every day at 2 o'clock, for three years, we toured the smaller pyramid with the general public. We did taste comparisons of the same wine, bottled on the same day, and served at the same temperature. One was stored in the pyramid for 30-90 days and the other never having being put in the pyramid. The results were overwhelming… There is a definite and profound effect on liquids placed in sacred geometry!
If you link to “Adagio Teas” Website, they will "mail you a delicious tea reward that is commensurate with your webpage's Google PageRank”. (From ”Cheesedip”)
Also, a giant Tea Related Directory
If you're too much of an impressionable idiot to watch "Sideways," then don't. Maddox opinions about the movie “Sideways”. (You can also read it in Italian. Or, just browse through a fine piece of political literature, Bill O'Reilly Bingo)
Ethnographic Potshots: Send me pictures of your coffeemaker
Spike's Root Beer Reviews and Ratings: I employ a very rigorous process when taste-testing root beer, in order to determine the most accurate grade. First, I fast for 4 hours. Then I brush my teeth with a new toothbrush using only baking soda. I rinse 3 times with distilled water, then I take some fresh mint (home grown!) and lightly crush it on my tongue. I rinse again, the finish the cleansing of my palette with a very light lime sherbet. Two final rinses and I'm ready to go!
Under the table. There are more slang words for inebriation than there are for any other word in the English language
Many More Unusual Drinks Here
March 30, 2005 in Beverages | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
One Million Served!
Since opening the doors of this blog on February 5, 2004, I had over one million visitors! Here are Grow-a-Brain's current statistics as reported by Typepad a couple of hours ago:
Total number of hits: 1,000,955
Average per day: 2394.65
Today: 12,740
In the last hour: 333
This week: 34,746
Thanks for everybody who visits. My next goal is to become like the mad Maddox, and have 100 million hits within the next few years. Won’t you tell everybody you know about Grow-a-Brain? Write your congress-person, if you have one. Nominate this blog to all kinds of prizes. Help me find a new girlfriend! I need traffic! Thank you!
So here is a little poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti for you - The World Is a Beautiful Place:
The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always being
so very much fun
if you don't mind a touch of hell
now and then
just when everything is fine
because even in heaven
they don't sing
all the time
The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind some people dying
all the time
or maybe only starving
some of the time
which isn't half bad
if it isn't you...
Also, I’ve done it before, and here it is again: Grow-a-Brain in 1998. (With The Fulifier, which turns around any website three thousand times uglier than it was before)
Read what people have been saying about Grow-a-Brain
March 30, 2005 in Website News | Permalink | Comments (15) | TrackBack
Uncle Meat
It’s soothing to hear Frank Zappa’s voice. Here you can listen to Zappa read 'The Talking Asshole' from William S. Burroughs Naked Lunch: "Um, as you know, I'm not the kind of a person that reads books, I've said this before many times, I'm not fond of reading…" From The Kilbot Factory. (Unrelated, and uncalled for, but possibly offensive Listen to Your Anus, the Zappa spirit at its worst)
A Fish Called Zappa and other Natural Phenomena Named After Zappa
Andrew Livingston and George Morris - Paintings Inspired by Zappa’s Music
Chauk Pie, the complete unreleased album, and Zappa custodian art. (From ”Metafilter”)
Shrenk Zappa, from “Worth 1000”
eBay item: Zappa Signed Fender Autographed Guitar
At last, here it is - the definitive, complete list of unquestionable Frank Zappa references that have been made on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 TV show
Many More Odd Zappa Moments Here and Unusual Dylan Links Here
March 30, 2005 in Music - Frank Zappa | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Holiday shopping done early
The Grocery List Collection. I found an abandoned grocery list in a St. Louis Schnuck's parking lot in 1996 or 1997. Quite simply, I decided to keep them every time I came across one. And the internet is a great place to do stupid things. So here it is
Bosom Buddies - Costume Accessories for your Cleavage
Hermès’s first in-house perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena creates a new perfume. (A New Yorker article)
The place to find hard-to-find Life Size Statues
The first Masonic Supply company on the World Wide Web. Family owned and operated for over 62 years with onsite manufacturing of quality Masonic Supplies
Gas Masks and safety products. Catering for all your paranoia needs. Taking all major credit cards.
The Impulsive Buy is dedicated to providing quasi-reviews about various consumer goods. Each review goes off on some tangent, but almost always comes back to complete the review
Many More Unusual Things To Buy Here
March 30, 2005 in Shopping | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Evercrack
Make delightful figures out of orange peel. (If you don't read French, click on "Galeries d'oranges ")
Games we play - The evolution of games since 1800
The Edmund Scientific company has been selling engineering, robotic, and astronomy supplies since 1942 -- but their stand out best seller and unofficial mascot is the Dippy Drinking Bird. (From “Rotten”!)
3441 pieces. No Star Wars Collection will ever be complete without a dreaded Imperial battle station of your own, The Lego Death Star II
Or, try Dennis Bosman’s Heavy Equipment Lego trucks. (From Ursi’s blog)
Philosophical Action Figures - collect them all!
Precision die-cast scale models of Corgi Toys. (From the same people who gave us 'Golden Memories from Japan', 'Kiddie Records Weekly' & Vertigo: Then and Now. Thanks, Michael)
EverQuest Widows is a forum for partners, family, and friends of people who play EverQuest compulsively. We turn to each other because it's no fun talking to the back of someone's head while they're retrieving their corpse or "telling" with their guild-mates as you speak
Unusual looking dolls: Juan Albuerne's Movie Stars Dolls. From Veronica Lake in “I married a Witch” to Julia Roberts in “Erin Brockovich”
Re-post: Figurative Art and Automata from Chomick & Meder: Monsieur Augure, Mack Kandinsky, Roland Montague, Jean Luc-le Chercheur & other pinheads.
Trailer Trash Dolls. Likewise, Barbie Enchiladas from “Food Chain Barbie”
Shelley Thornton, doll maker. Other Strange dolls
Virtual Romanian sweatshops where you play games for 10 hours - and earn £2.80 a day
Many More Unusual Games and Toys Here
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is Deuce o' clubs - Award winning waste of your precious time. I finally made a little Linking Icon the “winner” can stick on their site, if they wish
March 30, 2005 in Games | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
March 29, 2005
Mixed bag today-
How is 64 = 65?
Porta-Lung – The Iron Lung For People On The Go. If you need more portability than the old-fashioned iron lungs, use Porta-Lung, and enjoy the great outdoors
Chinese stamps of Pig-Breeding (and many other animal stamps. From ”Purse lip square jaw”)
A Collection of Postage Stamps with Bridges On Them
Petroleum-related stamps from around the world
“Avoid shopping and making important decisions from 3:20 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. EST today”, says Georgia Nicols, Canada's most popular astrologer
Also, from up there, Archives of The Canadian Pacific Railway
The ladder theory is a theory of adult male/female interaction. It has its basis in many years of sociological field testing. You'll note that a man has one ladder while a female has two
I know it’s an old hat trick, but here’s a stereogram for you. Start crossing your eyes. All right, here’s another. Have a donut
Artificial synchronicity, language manipulation, kundalini and the corners of reality. This website is about the activities and methods of foreigners operating in disguise on the surface of Earth, masquerading as terrestrials and living as characters. The two foreign groups that operate on Earth are hereinafter called "foreigners of Our Side" and "foreigners of the Other Side". A British version of same
(Photo above of Anti-Boat from Mikan Moblog.) Many More Unusual Oddities and Crazy linkage Here
March 29, 2005 in Odds & Ends | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
March 28, 2005
The war against dandruff
Gore Vidal on the War for oil. This is a must-read interview, with many sad & insightful truths:
…We're governed by public relations. Very little information gets to the people, thanks to the corruption and/or ineptitude of the media…
...Iraq is a symptom of the passion we have for oil…
...It has been part of the American propaganda machine that we have no class system. This isn't true. We have a very strong, very rigid class structure which goes back to the beginning of the country…
...The Republican Party used to be the party of the small-town businessman. It now represents nothing but the gas and oil business. They own it. And the people who go to Congress are simply bought. They are lawyers who are paid to represent Halliburton, big oil, big banking. So the very rich corporate America has a party for itself, the Republican Party. The Democrats don't have much of anything but a kind of wistful style. They just want everyone to be happy, and politically correct at all times…
..."Liberal" has been demonized. A liberal is a commie who's also a pedophile…
...In (The media) Zoo, you have a number of people who pretend to be journalists but are really like animals. Each one has his own noise--there's the donkey who brays, there's the pig who squeals…
...The art of government now, the art of control as practiced by the current junta, is: Keep the people frightened... The Russians are coming. The Poles are killing Germans who live within the borders of Poland. The Czechs are doing the same thing in the Sudetenland. These are evil people. We must go after them. We must save our kin…
"The First 1000", a portrait by Mark Bryan. (As of today, it should be “The First 1704”)
Bird With Two Right Wings, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
And now our government
a bird with two right wings
flies on from zone to zone
while we go on having our little fun & games
at each election
as if it really mattered who the pilot is
of Air Force One…
(From ”wood s lot”)
10 ways Dick Cheney can kill you
Milk makes Kofi go down easier. Milk, it does a body politic good
Many More Odd Political Links Here
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is WoodMoor Village - a community of mindfulness. I finally made a little Linking Icon the “winner” can stick on their site, if they wish
March 28, 2005 in Politics | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
March 27, 2005
Coming next year
The only comic book I ever read (is coming to the big screen)
Listen to the Zippy Theme Song:
Some say he was born on a distant planet
4,538 years ago
Others say he was sold for five hundred dollars
To a traveling carnival sideshow
67 cartoons by B Kliban
Rion Vernon’s Pin-up toons
itty bitty toon by Ultra Microscopic
Akbar and Jeff are NAKED!
The cartoons seen in the opening of each episode of Futurama come from a time when cartoons were produced to be shown in movie theatres
Favorite characters from The Crumb Museum: Mr Natural, Angelfood McSpade, Fritz the Cat, Crumb Hisself
Adventure - Life’s too short. Eat pie
Many More Unusual Comics and cartoons Here
March 27, 2005 in Comics & Cartoons | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Happy Easter
“Hello, and welcome to ABC-Banana-Real estate Blog. This is a great place to find useful articles related to real estate, and real estate investing. This is my first post” (and may as well be also the last)… So begin many of the new crop of real estate blogs that are now beginning to flood the market. But, I continue to provide here an ongoing list of all conceived real estate blogs known to man, even though I can see that very soon, it will become a task of diminishing returns. (Anybody not interested in this tedious subject, please scroll down to the juicy parts of this blog.)
Fortunately, Todd Carpenter of Lenderama decided to help compile a parallel list on his new Real Estate & Mortgage Blogs Directory. If you don’t get enough real estate blogs below, go visit Todd.
So here are new blogs that I found just in the last 3 weeks. Excluded are a bunch of single entry blogs, as described above:
Beverly Palmer's blog about Montecito and Santa Barbara. (From Doc Searls Weblog)
New Delhi real estate blog by NCR. (Started January 1994!)
Gulf Returns, focusing on the booming Southwest Florida real estate market
John Frost’s The Home Blog. A consumer’s repository for his research on buying a new home and reflections of selling his current home
Ask The Real Estate Professionals by Merv & Pam Forney
Karen Mason’s FL Real Estate
Nantucket Island Massachusetts Directory of Real Estate Resources
San Francisco Real Estate by Amy Blakeley
Investment blogs: The life and times of an Arizona Investor. (Seems to be related to a group of blogs about REI, like Hespy’s real estate blog and Joe Kelley's Real Estate Investment Weblog)
My Real Estate Investing Venture from Round Rock, Texas
From Bigger Pockekts Investing Community
Teresa Ellis’s Adventures with Real "T"
Gary Brey’s Sarasota Real Estate Blog
Andrew Ingram ‘s Grand Rapids Real Estate Solutions
Broker Outpost blog, for mortgage professionals only
Las Vegas real estate Blog, by Max Schmidt
Carrboro, North Carolina real estate by Kandyce Ellis
FSBO, (stands for "For Sale By Owner") real estate blog
North Carolina Homes, the first real estate blog for north Carolina
Suggestion: If you are a real estate agent starting a blog, don’t be a secret agent - Write your profile (About-page) and include information about your business. The complete List of Real Estate Blogs as well as Grow-a-Brain’s Real Estate Archives are Here
March 27, 2005 in Real estate Blogs | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack
March 26, 2005
Howard! Stop it
Buttplug! (Sounds like Howard Stern? May offend. From Trans Buddha)
Scott-O-Rama's Shirtless Male Athletes
New York City mug pre- 9/11
It actually says it right there - Worst tattoo ever
Welcome to the wonderful world of Coloring Book. (Warning: May also offend many people, crack up others!)
Crack My Knuckles and wince. By Rob Manuel
Rhythmic Flash, “Play” by Dustball
A few months ago, I posted this odd picture, asking What's wrong with this picture? Here's the pictorial exposé of what it was and how it was done
Walk like an Egyptian - A cosmetically-enhanced crossing signal on Wooster Street, NYC
Cartoon above by Revilo. Many More Unusual Oddities and Crazy linkage Here
In the next few days, I’m going to compose some posts about politics, shopping, newspapers, The Godfather, literature, beverages, the future & animals. If you know of some odd, new links on those subjects, email them to me for credit or a link-back (or both).
March 26, 2005 in Odd & Crazy | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Flipping over
I didn't mean to but...I bought a big, old boat. This is the ongoing saga of Lady Jane, a steel hulled fishing trawler, built in 1963, which I bought in July 2004
Marine art by James Flora
C to C roll. How to flip over with your kayak
Tim Anderson's learning the hard way: To Cuba (almost) by Outrigger Sailing Canoe
Kite power: Sky Sails will harness high-altitude winds for cargo ships which should reduce fuel consumption as well as pollution
Ellen MacArthur’s new record: Sailing alone around the world in 71 days 14hrs 18mins 33secs
Quick Sailing, a giant directory of sailing links
Many More Unusual Yachting Links Here
March 26, 2005 in Boating | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
What is a Hurdy-Gurdy
How to build a Laser harp, by "Jarrelook"
Gypsy Jazz guitar as played by 21-year old German prodigy Joscho Stephan
The homemade instruments of composer and instrument designer Buzz Kimball
Here comes The Hurdy-Gurdy Man (“singing songs of love”. From ‘A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments’)
Watch Eddie Peabody "King of the Banjo" playing "St. Louis Blues”
A Banjo on my Knee. A Vintage Banjo Gallery. (From The Cartoonist)
An Homage to Fairbanks banjos
“Broken Sorrow” from Nuttin but stringz - Rap & Violins
Over the last five decades air guitar has been created, perfected, and eventually elevated to the status of a bona fide art form. While air guitar is a fascinating and rewarding pastime, the Brothers Randall believe that an even higher form of art is that of "object guitar", the use of various objects in order to mimic the playing of a guitar
(Art above by George Callaghan). Many Odd Links of Unusual String Instruments and other Strange Musical Links Here
March 26, 2005 in Music - String Instruments | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
To soup - may it be seen and not heard
“We were eating in this open-air café when it started raining. It took us an hour and a half to finish our soup”. Many more soup jokes. (From ”Information Junk”)
"Achhk, you bahhhhhstaaard! That's not me bagpipe!" and 49 other “Absolute Bottom Joke Punchlines”. No 49: "Now you know why they call that mustard 'Poupon.'"
A man with a winking problem is applying for a position as a sales rep for a large firm…
“Pair up in threes” - Yogi Berra quotes
Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, Cokie Roberts and a U.S. Marine were hiking through the desert one day…
The political situation in Iraq is so hilarious, now that the country is liberated and democracy thrives, that the citizenry can finally release its frustrations with some harmless Iraqi ethnic jokes
Many More Jokes and other Funny Stuff Here
March 26, 2005 in Jokes | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Hello kitty, kitty
This ad for the Gaba language school asks Japanese people to fill in the blank: "If I could speak English, I would..."
Japanese name translation, the only place you can have your full name automatically translated into Japanese katakana symbols
I never thought about it before: How do you use a Japanese typewriter
The glass floor at The Tokyo Tower
Ninjukai’s Belts and Hachimaki Headbands
The new Saga “Near me” robot cat (with German-style accordion music)
Secrets of The Shuriken-do, the traditional Japanese martial art of blade throwing
Dentsu Advertising Museum from the Edo & Meiji eras
Photographer Hiroji Kubota Capturing Japan
Henshin hall of fame, dedicated to Japanese tv superheroes, mostly from the 1970s
Fast food cosplay: The McDonald Girl, the Colonel dude, the apple guy and one more individual
Many More Unusual Links about Japan Here
March 26, 2005 in Japan | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
You must be at least this high -
Chill out elevator. (Probably from the makers of the previously-blogged Disco Elevator)
Ocean's 420. A closer look at the stars of Ocean's Twelve and their many cannabis connections
You must be at least this high to enter
The world’s first and only inflatable H2O pipe
Druggie Haze from the 1970's - OUI magazine ads for drug paraphernalia
NORML Releases Most Comprehensive Analysis Of US Marijuana Arrest Data To Date. Annual cost $7.6 billion, approximately $10,400 per arrest
'Tony's Law' Would Require Marijuana Users To Inform Interested Neighbors
“We Be High”: Online marijuana travel guide with marijuana prices & information around the world
Why Marijuana is Dangerous? (In Russian)
How to make a Danish joint (mixed with tobacco)
The psychedelic art of Christopher J. Barnaby. (He is also the curator of Erowid’s Visionary Arts Vaults)
Cannabis cream for mom
More about any kind of illegal drugs especially Acid and Pot Here
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is Ze’s blog - The ZeFrank has a blog! I finally made a little Linking Icon the “winner” can stick on their site, if they wish
March 26, 2005 in Drugs - "Save the Roaches, Arnie" | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
March 25, 2005
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure
This is a hand held recording I made at Nelson Mandela's Wembley Stadium appearance, London 1990, just after he was released from 27 years in jail. 6 minutes of non-stop applause!
All Things William: A collection of over 14,000 quotes based on the name William
Ever since time began for him, Charlie Lester had been fascinated with vacuum cleaners
Siegfried and Roy Timeline: Our story began June 13, 1939…
My dear ol' dad. it was mein papas birthday on Friday and he got a new toy. (Naturally, it reminds me of this gem: “Dad’s Home and he’s rocking really hard!”)
Where are you looking to hire an Elvis Impersonator? Use this list
“If I could get my hands on Osama bin Laden” - Mario, The hedgehog, From Ron Jeremy’s Live Journal blog
“Totally Naked Toronto Men Enjoying Nudity” is a social and recreational organization for all men that promotes camaraderie and respect for the body. (Warning: Some photographs of the men promoting camaraderie)
Ashley Smith, acting calmly under extreme duress
Nice photo above of William H. Gates becoming Bill Knight. Many More Unusual People Doing Unusual Things Here
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is the poetic “Whiskey River” - ”Our imagination flies; we are its shadow on the earth". I finally made a little Linking Icon the “winner” can stick on their site, if they wish.
March 25, 2005 in Unusual People | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
March 24, 2005
Earn Money Blogging!
How do you drive traffic to your blog? How do you get your blog to that level of popularity at which it can begin generating income? (Answer at “Why God Why?”)
”I’ve started blogging” from “Gaping Void”
On the other end (Or 4-5 months later, usually): Over 2,720,000 Google results for “Sorry, I haven't posted in a while” , with an explanation from ”Cynical-C”
More garden blogs than you have time to shake a rake at. (From “Subterranean Homepage News”)
Hedgical Trevor, the Hedgehog Blog
Jan's electromagnetic system (surveillance). “DO YOU KNOW WHAT AN ELECTROMAGNETIC WEAPONS SYSTEM IS? It is a system that has capabilities like you can't imagine.THEY CALL IT NON-LETHAL.It is being used on Americans in the U.S. daily… Write your Senator and complain. YOU COULD BE NEXT!”
The Synchronicity of Indeterminacy is an experiment in creativity with daily posts of a found photo and an original one-minute short story inspired by the found photo. All stories are fictional. The idea is based on the Indeterminacy recordings by John Cage, pairing one-minute short stories with random sounds
The blogging process by Dave Pollard. A pretentious and presumptuous attempt to document what bloggers have learned, without any formal instruction, to do every day
Many More Unusual Blogs and Bloggers Here
March 24, 2005 in World of Blogging | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Smile
The LikeTelevision Classic TV channel proudly presents the great Charlie Chaplin in “The Rink” (1916). You can watch many thousands of other movies & shorts on this partially-free channel
Gerald Smith revisit Chaplin Film Locations - Then & Now. (From Ursi’s Blog)
Chaplin Freestylin', from “Worth 1000”
Photo galleries from ”Silent Gents”
Breaking news: Chaplin granddaughter's naked ambition
Chaplin cake decoration above from the homepage of French pastry chef extraordinaire JP Langlet. Many More Unusual Chaplin and Unusual Hitchcock Moments Here
Update: Ooops. The Chaplin Film Locations site is actually a re-post. I can't remember anymore all the treasures I linked to before.
March 24, 2005 in Cinema - Chaplin | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
I only have pies for you
Breath Away Mints. Finally, the power of napalm in a mint. 30 exciting flavors.
Private Labels galleries of Sweet'N Low
Step by step illustrated instructions of how to make a deliciously moist spiced banana and walnut cake (more like a teabread, acrually)
The Blue Screen of Cake. Also, Rat Birthday Cake
The Muffin Tree, from the previously-blogged Muffin Films
On May 17, 2003, in our very own back yard, Immaculate Baking Co. baked the World's Biggest Cookie. With photos
Orly Gileadi Avidor’s Art Cakes. Specialty designs from Confetti Cakes
A West Yorkshire couple ignored years of marriage tradition on their wedding day by opting for a three-tier pork pie wedding cake
This is my attempt to become the highest ranked page on google for a simple search on the word 'pies', or rather Banoffee Pie. (From ”Our Descent Into Madness”)
Dipping Dots ice cream. Cool Dog - The Best Dog-Gone Sundae Around
Capogiro. Artisanal Gelato and Sorbetto maker in Philadelphia
Rodin cake above from the amazing choccywoccydoodah. Many More Unusual Sweets and Unusual Chocolates Here
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is “Davezilla - If you’re not spewing your coffee, we’re not doing our job”. I finally made a little Linking Icon the “winner” can stick on their site, if they wish
March 24, 2005 in Food - Desserts | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack
March 23, 2005
Child of Atlas
Bodybuilding history (In German). The complete manual for training of all body parts. Charles Atlas, the 97 lbs. weakling
An excellent idea: Schwarzenegger Wants School Junk Food Ban. Ban all sales of junk food in California schools and fill vending machines with fresh fruits, vegetables and milk. Thank you.
Promises. A 12 month recap package from The Governor. (PFD presentation)
Governator rap. An Arnold Earworm, from “Scaramouche”
What question will you never hear a talk-show host ask a movie star? Answer: “How much money did you make on your latest film?”
Another Japanese ad - Boooye
Many More Unusual Schwarzenegger Links Here
March 23, 2005 in Schwarzenegger | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
H4x0r
What did we do before the internet?
A Concise Guide to the Major Internet Bodies, the bodies responsible for the Internet's protocols and parameters. (From ”Microsiervos”)
Yahoo! 10 years Netrospective: 100 moments of the Web
Snopes' 25 Hottest Urban Legends. No 21: Rumor says that female R&B singer Ciara (?) was once a man.
Nigerian Scam Letters. 540 different examples!
Web Soup - Webmaster Resource Directory
More To Life On The Internet Here
March 23, 2005 in Internet | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack
A Lot Of Spam
Allah made Azhar Usman Funny (And the FBI follows him)
Groucho Marx’s Letter to Warner Brothers. While preparing to film “A Night in Casablanca”, the Marx brothers received a letter from Warner Bros. threatening legal action if they did not change the film’s title. Warner Bros. deemed the film’s title too similar to their own Casablanca, released almost five years earlier in 1942, with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. In response Groucho Marx dispatched the following letter to the studio’s legal department
Old stuff at The American Vaudeville Museum. (From ”Bibi’s Box”)
Also, The Great Silent Clowns
What To Expect Of 'Spamalot'? A Lot Of Spam. “Spamalot" fans who signed up for a newsletter on the Broadway musical's official Web site may end up getting spammed a lot
A curtain call with 5 live Pythons, and a long list of “Spamalot” reviews, from The “Depraved Librarian”
Dave Allen - Times obituary. (He cracked me up, in the 70’s)
Woody Allen- Standup Comic, 1964-1968
Many Of The Best Comedians in the World Here
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is “Liquid Sky Art” - Explore creativity every day. I finally made a little Linking Icon the “winner” can stick on their site, if they wish.
March 23, 2005 in Comedians | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
Wheelchair skateboarding
If you want to stop dreaming about parachuting at high altitudes, watch this film. (From ”land-O-Links”)
Lay down with extreme carving, a new snowboarding discipline
Chilean Martial Art Football. Football players in Chile bring their Capoeira skills to the field. Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that also influenced breakdancing. Viral for shoes.
Tossing the caber is easily the most recognizable trademark of Scottish Highland games and is one of the most spectacular of the heavy events
Tackling the swell at the 1997 Sydney Fringe Festival
Walk and Roll with Tyler Deith, Extreme Wheelchair skateboarder. Thank you, David Crombie
The Roller Cycle, (aka "Death on Wheels") cutting edge of inline skating and skateboarding with a 1.5 horsepower engine propelling you safely up to 25 MPH. (From ”Metafilter”)
The Couch-to-5K Running Plan: Get to 3 miles in 2 months. I just did (Again!)
An interesting experiment that involves changing the color of the ice in hockey to blue so the action is easier to follow. (From ”Spikeco”)
Many More Unusual Links of Extreme Sports Here
March 23, 2005 in Extreme Sports | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
March 22, 2005
Nostalgia City
Graduations at the Iranian female police academy. (From ”Buzz”)
The Ayatollah's Book Of Etiquette. From “A Clarification of Questions,” by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, published in 1985. Khomeini's treatise sets out his position on 3,000 questions of everyday life. No. 120: "The sweat of a camel that eats unclean substances is unclean."
Posters of Assad both in Lebanon & in Syria. From “Does It Explode?”
Steven Spielberg Presents: Symphony of a city - Haifa. This 13 minutes black & white documentary from the late 40’s & early 50’s is extremely nostalgic, if you lived in Haifa around this time. (I haven’t, but it’s still choking. From ”Kol Yom”)
Arabic Manuscripts from The American University of Beirut
How to Tie the Hijjab (scarf)
Israeli photographer Vardi Kahana
The Oasis Casino in Jericho is about to open again
1st Place Muslim Matrimonials is a unique site for marriage minded Muslims around the world, whether you are Shi'ite, Ismaili, Sunni Hanafi or Sunni Shafi'i
Poster above from “Egyptian Posters, Egyptian Films”
Many More Unusual Links from the Middle East Here
March 22, 2005 in Middle East | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Wacky cases
John E. Schwenkler's Guide to Wacky Court Cases, including “Wacky Case Names”. (Warning: Lively music!)
Knitted Homes of Crime. Many to choose from
Girls Gone Wild - female mug shots from the 1940s
Art Crimes - The Writing on the Wall
“Snopes” investigates a Kern County Sheriff's car with an unusual decal
Ed Gain Gein was the original guy who inspired “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”
10 Things Your Lawyer Won't Tell You. No 1. "You might win your lawsuit and wind up with nothing."
(Help! I'm being attacked by giant fried eggs! Help! I'm being flooded! More at NetDisaster
(Photo found on ”Dark Creek”). Many More Unusual Links about Crime and Punishment Here
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is “The Adventures Of Accordion Guy In The 21st Century”, by Joey Devilla, Accordionist. I finally made a little Linking Icon the “winner” can stick on their site, if they wish
March 22, 2005 in Crime & Punishment | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
March 21, 2005
How to escape a boring job
Pizza Delivery Daze - the many mishaps of being a pizza delivery gopher
The Most Boring Jobs In The World, written by a New Zealand Road Worker
Feel like you’re in the wrong job?
The worst jobs in history: Tanner, rat-catcher, fish-wife, “groom of the stool”, anyone?
A large compensation survey of Marketing professionals 2005.
Also, How much money does a science-fiction writer make? Less than you think. (From ”Reality Carnival”)
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (At the U.S. Department of Labor) maintains an elaborate site with detailed information about many professions. Here’s, for example, their page about Taxi Drivers and Chauffeurs
How we work. We're interested in the habits, rituals and small (and occasionally big) methods people and teams use to get their work done. And in the specific anecdotes and the way people describe their own relationship to their own work. Here's a list of some stories and habits
Jobs Posted By Bloggers or Jobs For Bloggers
Many More Unusual Professions Here
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Arts & Crafts
Totalitarian Art at The Virtual Museum of Political Art
Illustrations by Jim Warren
Painted Alive. Body painting by Craig Tracy
Mona Lisa Images for a modern world
A Dancer's Journal. Learning to perform the dances of Martha Graham
The Black Rose Trick. An interactive installation by Signa Sørensen, in a strange three-floor hotel, where the audience is invited to explore the many rooms and secrets, while being watched 24 hours a day by 16 cameras
A sculpture by Kurt Wenner whose fame is not limited street painting
