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June 30, 2005
Office pranks on the increase
To all office kitchen thieves. “I bring in my own half and half for my coffee because the office is too cheap to supply it any longer, and many of you on several occasions have used mine without asking, without replacing, and almost always putting it back in the fridge empty or near empty. You will now suffer some of my wrath in the following manner”…
Eugene Mirman’s Anti-gay Phone Hassles
Magnetic bumper "sticker" Pranks
Medical Scam Alert. Ladies: Be on the lookout for this breast exam scam. Let me repeat: This is a well done scam, so don't fall for it
Sunnyvale traffic signal prankster on the loose
Unrelated: Nudists on the beach!
Many More Hilarious Pranks And Many More Outrageous jokes Here
June 30, 2005 in Pranks | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Redrum
Gallery of Female Chess Players. Beth Weissman’s Chess Players
The Virgin Game. We show you pairs of real people, chosen at random from our lists of virgins and non-virgins. You guess who the virgin is. We tell you how you did
Society, The game
Welcome to o.s.Earth, a direct descendant of R. Buckminster Fuller’s famous World Game. This Global Simulation Workshop is a 3-hour interactive game that builds critical skills and teaches its participants about global issues
A highly detailed 3-D recreation of the Overlook Hotel. You play the part of Duke Nukem, U.S. Marines Special Operative, sent in to take care of the "Caretaker." (And The Real Overlook Hotel. From Redrum, The Shining Companion)
Toilets of the video gaming world
Head Games. Carl has totally lost his head
Many More Unusual Games and Toys Here
June 30, 2005 in Games | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
June 29, 2005
Misinformation about the war in Iraq
"The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself"
Media Show Only 'Negative' Side of Iraq War. There’s a "disconnect" between what's really happening in Iraq and what the American public sees and hears in the media:
Interrogation methods from Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago: The Simplest Methods which Break the Will
Breaking news! Bush To Invade Iraq Again. Last night, in an address to the nation, President Bush explained that he would have to "invade Iraq again," because "it's an awful mess over there." He said he was "not sure who was in charge" in Iraq, but that it had again become the "nexus of the axis of evil."
A day with an Iraqi actress. (From BBC’s One Day In Iraq)
Windfalls of War: List of contractors to the military in Iraq & Afghanistan. “Frontline” on private military contractors servicing U.S. military
Iraq War Fatalities is a chart of US and coalition military fatalities that have occurred in the War in Iraq since the onset, mapped across the dimensions of time and space. One thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine as of today June 28, 2005
Renewal in Iraq, a real White House page
Guantanamo – The tropical vacation of a lifetime
How to say “Moderate progress within the bounds of the law” in Arabic
Scary Juan Cole: “The launching of a sectarian war in Iraq would mean the outbreak of war in the entire region”
$20 billion in Iraq funds to be distributed quickly
Iraq Occupation: This war can't be won
Logo above from ”Crooks and Liars” blog. Many More Links About The Upcoming US War on Iran Here
June 29, 2005 in War in Iraq | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
Eat Your Veggies
Holly eats Hotdogs. Though my eating forays have been random, I seem drawn to hot dogs. One expects there are worse obsessions.
PETA’s fifth annual “World’s Sexiest Vegetarians” poll
Construct a Cheeseburger. (From ”Informiorium”)
Great Apes as Food, chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. (From ”Monkeyfilter”)
Does a Duck Have a Soul? How foie gras became the new fur
How to Win an Argument with a Meat Eater. From “Must We Kill in order to Live?” to “Hindu Religious Leaders on Noninjury”
An Inquiry into the Effects of Preservatives in McDonald's Food, or, What Does the Fungus Know That You Don't?
KonoPizza - The world needs more meat in cones
101 Burger Builders, offered by “Food Services of America”
Many More Unusual Vegetarians and Meat Eaters Here
June 29, 2005 in Food - Meat & Vegetables | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Formal edukation
Most universities typically have basketball and football teams, but if you're an agricultural university then you've also got meat judging and wool judging teams. Photos of past champions & Livestock Judging Teams at The Department of Animal Science, at Texas A&M University. (From ”WebJunkie”)
General expectations from the students at Bob Jones University. A new program at the University of Connecticut offers a master's degree in homeland security
Surreal flickr set by “noqontrol”
2000 frame-per-second digital camera shots of beer Cans and Cantalopes being shot
Crop Anomalies near Phoenix. Dozens of 400' to 600' parallel strips were reported laid down in three barley fields near Phoenix, Arizona in the town of Tolleson. The crop are all aligned North-South and don't appear to cross any of the tramlines. The farm consortium says the field damage is due to irrigation methods that create swollen barley stalk and top heavy pods that subsequently fall over
Ohio Trespassers: Abandoned Insane Asylums, Tuberculosis Hospitals, Reformatories, coal yards and long forgotten railroad tunnels
Dummy houses in the heart of London
Television Test Cards Gallery
Tattoos by Robert Hernandez. "Inked Blog", a blog about Tattoos. (From Negatendo)
Adrian Fisher is internationally recognized as the world's leading Maze Design. Adrian has designed for and creates mazes in the grounds of palaces, castles, stately homes, zoos, amusement parks, children's museums, science centers, universities, schools, city centers and farms. His mazes are made from all types of materials, including Hedges, Fences, Mirrors, Living Crops, Decorative Paving and Tiling, Mosaic, Stained Glass, Wood and Water
10 months in the the life of an abandoned bike on a bridge in Stockholm. (swf)
Show History. An encyclopedia of novelty & variety performers & showfolk
“Torture Chamber unsuitable for Wheelchair Users” (? From Kirt A. Dankmyer)
Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children - A Cotton Candy Autopsy. Written by Dave Louapre, Art by Dan Sweetman
Super Smile, The story of a guy who, despite his best effort, ends up going to work naked from the waist down. By Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries. One of 40 art installations at the Rhizome ArtBase 101
Many More Unusual Oddities and Crazy linkage Here
I need more readers. Please email this blog to all your friends. Thank you.
June 29, 2005 in Odds & Ends | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
June 28, 2005
Mister Breakfast
Rap Snacks, chips of rappers, for rappers and by rappers
David B. Fankhauser’s Cheese Making Page
125 Ways To Enjoy Toast
Michael Barrish’s Experience Machine. The first episode – Oatmeal. Warning: Includes him dancing in his bathrobe
The cover of Duane Keiser’s Painting-a-day: PB&J sandwich
Obachan’s food blog. "Obachan" means a "middle-aged woman" or "aunt" in Japanese. Here's a woman who enjoys being a non-stereotypical Obachan in a comfortably underpopulated rural area in Japan
Making a 30,000 calorie sandwich
The physiology of taste, or Transcendental gastronomy.Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents. By Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Photo above from Clare Crespo’s book. Many More Unusual Recipes and Meals Here
June 28, 2005 in Food | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Goodbye San Francisco
Dear 'Frisco,
It's taken me a good year and a half to get the courage to write this letter to you. We've been together for so long and experienced so much since I came here to you from wherever the hell I came from before.
I was so young and naive and you opened your arms to me. How I adored you the moment our eyes met. You were so hip, so cool, so exciting! Everything I wanted to be but was not...
Also, You Know You're From San Francisco When...
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David Best Hayes Green Temple, in the spirit of the Temples they have constructed at Burning Man. Project Sketch and Site Plan
Another building of a temple
Burrito Eeater. It was inevitable. Some nutcase would eventually create a comprehensive online directory of San Francisco taquerias
Comparing Baghdad by the Bay to Baghdad
Five annoyed San Franciscans you’ll meet in heaven. No 2: Bald, fifty-something massage therapist on recumbent bike
280 – Northbound. This is my commute home. It usually takes me 30-40 minutes to get home. It is very pretty for a freeway. (From “The Brady Bunch in the land of the clones”)
Crown Guides: Unique Places in San Francisco
Maps, we got maps: San Francisco Transit Map, San Francisco Bike map, SF Districts and Neighborhoods Map
San Francisco Bay Region 3D Image Tours
Companies headquartered in San Francisco
Many More Unusual Links About San Francisco and About Los Angeles Here
June 28, 2005 in San Francisco | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Weird Showers
Today, walking around Grand Central I was reminded once again that the late Victorians had a different attitude towards light bulbs than we do today. To them an exposed light bulb looked stylish and modern, to us it’s a symbol of decrepitude and poorness. We hide light bulbs behind shades and diffusers. The Victorians liked to show them off
Welcome to Weird Gardens
FedExFurniture is furniture put together by empty FedEx Boxes, and held together by fedex packaging supplies. All of the furniture seen here is 100% functional. The couch is standing/sleeping approved, I sleep on the bed every night, I eat at the dining table, and I work at the desk almost 20 hours a day. (From ”J-Walk”)
Chromatherapy - Electronic Light Showers
Chopsticks Eco-Art. (From ”Presurfer”)
Johnny Swing and his Obsessive Furniture line
Netsukes from Zen Again
Many More Unusual Design Concepts Here
June 28, 2005 in Home Decor | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 27, 2005
Lost shopping carts
”Apple” Store in Kuwait by “Miskan”
Derelict, drifting shopping carts. Does every neighborhood in the United States have shopping cart problems? I see carts all over the place in Seattle. Sometimes I'll see a clean, empty wheelchair and know there is a sad or sinister story behind it. With shopping carts I'm less sure how they came to their resting place
The proliferation of choice - Are 724 kinds of produce at Ralph too many or just right? (From ”The Nonist”)
The Wooferang, a boomerang for dogs
Top sellers at The Archie McPhee & Company
Happening Links: Surprising Expiration Dates. A handy, who-knew guide for 77 foods, beauty products, and household goods
Malls of America. Vintage photos of old Shopping Malls of the '60s & '70s
(Wow, I can't believe the enormous amount of "blogging" i did this weekend! 15 long postings!) Many More Unusual Things To Buy Here
June 27, 2005 in Shopping | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Bird Technology
The trailer of the new film March of the penguins, narrated by Morgan Freeman.
Also, “I’m lying on the snow with emperor pinguins all around me. Once you get used to the sight, the sounds and then smell are probably the most noticeable things…”
Miniature cameras help scientists learn about the flight of Golden eagles like never before
C-130 versus bald eagle, C-130 wins. [warning, graphic]. The U.S. Air Force C-130 was flying near Tacoma, Washington when it collided with an bald eagle. The pilot got splattered with blood. The C-130 and eagle landed together, but only the C-130 was still alive. From "Cellar Image of the Day"
Toilet Train Your Cat to use your toilet
The Austin Airdogz, dogs catching Frisbees
365 days of stuffed animals
On August 21, 1999, Hua Mei, the first baby panda to be born in the western hemisphere since 1990, was born at the San Diego Zoo. The parents are on loan to the San Diego Zoo from the Chinese government. The public was able to watch Hua Mei's development over the internet on the Zoo's Pandacam. From "Cellar Image of the Day"
Welcome to the Psychic cow - Touch my udders, please
Fish Pals (and layer eyes from “Magic Robot”. Thank you, Michael)
The Fly. (May take a while to load. Other videos by Bum Lee)
Many More Unusual Animal Stories Here
June 27, 2005 in Animals | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Crocheted Nudes
Yves Klein’s Leap into The Void
The Selling of Jeff Koons - $5.6 million for “Michael Jackson and Bubbles” porcelain doll?!
The Sculptural Knitting and Crochet at Eleven Eleven Sculpture Space are being censored
The Storker Project is a species propagation movement by STORKER seeking to incite select individuals from the public at large, perhaps you. If while passing by one you feel strange sensations in your nipples or fingertips, adopt the infant, breast feed, and give it plenty of TLC. It will gradually mature to a full size Tape Man or Woman to co-habitate with you and eventually take you to the Glazed Paradise (or possibly oust you from your home)
Box cutters - Another notion of possibility and Silver Pills from Tobias Wong (who also did the "Bent Pencil" above)
Many More Unusual Contemporary Artists Here
June 27, 2005 in Modern Art | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
House of Books
Tasty bookends from patisserie chef Scott Clark Woolley
Contemporary bookshelves by Berkeley artist Jim Rosenau
Haunted bookshelves. (Make sure to check out the animation)
Old books and bookends by Thomas Allen. (From ”MetaChat”)
More Unusual Bookends Here
June 27, 2005 in Bookends | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 26, 2005
Smilie Dictionary
The Salma Hayek versus Friedrich Hayek Scorecard. So, you're an intellectual who appreciates the subjectivist economic theory and classical liberal political theory of Friedrich Hayek. And you're also a moviegoer who appreciates the exotic allure of Mexican screen goddess Salma Hayek. But who would win, if they went head to head? Lucky for you, I'm keeping score
The Unlearning Annex. (From ”Informiorium”)
If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who diagree with you. More quotes from The Greenbelt
How to create Smilies. The Unofficial Smilie Dictionary
A comprehensive list of cognitive biases. Cognitive bias is distortion in the way we perceive reality
Anyone with an appreciation of a good math problem should find something they like here, with problems ranging from basic math to differential equations. Each problem also comes with a difficulty rating from one to four stars. (Thank you, Tom. I lost your URL, so please email it to me for a propert link-back!)
Snopes investigates: Student mistakes examples of unsolvable math problems for homework assignment and solves them – True or false?
Philosophy since the Enlightenment
Many More Intelligent Links and Brainier Links Here
June 26, 2005 in Brainy | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The man behind the curtain
The Milestone motel by Highway 101, the very first motel - 1925
The first Academy Award (Oscar) winners - 1929
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the first electronic digital computer, built in 1937-1942 at Iowa State University
Noughts And Crosses - The oldest graphical computer game - 1952. From the previously-blogged Pong Story
First Starbucks Coffee store opens for business in the Pike Place Market - 1971. (Ooops - This is a re-post)
The Trojan Room coffee pot - 1991, the inspiration for the world's first webcam
Craig Silverstein, Google employee No. 1, the Man behind the curtain - 1998
The British Armed Forces has officially recognized Naval technician Chris Cranmer, 24, its first registered Satanist - 2004
Many More Unusual ‘First Ever’ Stories Here
June 26, 2005 in First Ever | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Mistakes Writers Make
The Illustrated List Robert A. Heinlein’s Fiction
Winnie-the-Pooh Is My Co-worker: Maureen brought the new guy around who's going to be working in our group. After the Jason fiasco, we really could use someone with a little bit of a brain who can keep up on things. This guy's named Winnie and, I don't know, I just have a bad feeling…
A selection of original Bloomsday Cards by T. E. Kennelly - 1976-2002
The Illuminated Middle Ages database presents several hundred recently digitized illuminated texts from French national library collections
10 Mistakes Writers Don't See: Repeats / Flat writing / Empty adverbs / Phony dialogue / 5 more
The blogging of Franz Kafka’s Diaries
How to write a James Bond movie, a flowchart
The Amazing Adventures of Lethem and Chabon
70 of Chekhov’s stories
Many More Unusual Literary Links Here
June 26, 2005 in Books & Literature | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Challenging Times
Steve Bridges is Mister President. (From ”Trans Buddha”)
Glossary of Comedy Nomenclature
The Ladies of "SNL" Top Ten hotties
Commercial Samples of VoiceOvers artists
I've never paid much attention to voice-overs. Then a few weeks ago, while watching a Duracell commercial, I had an epiphany: That voice in the background, prattling on about battery life, belonged to Jeff Bridges…
“Pickles are cucumbers that sold out”. More Mitch Hedberg’s quotes
Complete Cowbell Craze Review
Many Of The Best Comedians in the World Here
June 26, 2005 in Comedians | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Deep Throat Identified!
Welcome to the Watergate Hotel
Finally revealed: After 33 years, Deep Throat, the man who brought down Nixon, confesses all
Comments from “The Onion”: "From the looks of his photo, Mr. Felt took this secret 99.5 percent of the way to the grave."
W. Mark Felt Autograph signed book offered on eBay, and snapped by Golden Palace
Nixon's conversations with Mark Felt as MP3 torrent
Ben Stein: Nixon was a peacemaker and Mark Felt made the conditions necessary for the genocide in Cambodia
Background of the Vanity Fair article. The Slate slant: His unmasking makes everybody look a little less noble
Many More Unusual Links About Nixon and About Lincoln Here /// Digg this post /// Add it to your del.icio.us
June 26, 2005 in Americana - Richard M. Nixon | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Endurance
Subway and metro maps from around the world
How many continents are there? 5, 6 or 7?
One Hundred Views of the Empire State Building
Immigrating to Canada. Every year, Canada welcomes thousands of new residents. Coming to Canada as an immigrant is an exciting opportunity, but also a great challenge. If you are interested in immigrating to Canada, you have a number of options when applying for permanent residence status. Read about these programs and decide which class suits you and your family best
1914 – 28 men sail for Antarctica aboard The Endurance
Ancient Route; A site devoted to exploring the ancient trade routes around the Mediterranean
Thursday, May 19, 2005, Nantes, France
Re-post: This is your invitation to own Piece of “The World”
Many More Unusual Travel Destinations Here
June 26, 2005 in Traveling Places | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Dream well
The World Dream Bank. A library of 2000 dream texts and images, sorted by topic--whether you want funny, sexy, spiritual, scary, or lucid dreams, we got 'em. Dreams are uncensored, but potentially offensive entries have warnings
The International Association for the Study of Dreams
How to spell Dream in ASL
Dream Keeper by James Tichenor and James Dai, a system to create tangible objects that represent dreams
The unofficial site for the works of Dave McKean
The Dream Project
Many More Unusual Nightmares And Dreams Here
June 26, 2005 in Dreams | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Flag Day
Abandoned Railroads of the US. Thousands of miles of railroads have been abandoned in the United States, much of it in the last 30 years. All of these railroad lines have a history and a story. This web site is dedicated to the preservation of the history of each of these former railroad lines
Odes to Detroit. It's not quite as ubiquitous a topic as love, but Detroit has been the subject of more than 80 songs in the past 50 years
Historical Images from Palisades Amusement Park, Fort Lee, NJ
Freedom Rides. Recollections of Montgomery, AL by David Fankhauser
Matthew Baldwin’s Proposed Constitutional Amendment
"Grain Prices Suck!" North Dakota farmer expresses dissatisfaction with crop prices by carving a message in grain field
The Gallery of American Documentia of the 80’s from the Gonzo® Institute. “The 1980's was like having your computer crash over and over again...”
A cameraman at Yalta tells what it was like to spend a few days in claustrophobic luxury with Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt—and to be offered a job by Joseph Stalin
Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803). One of 100 Milestone documents
Wanted Cowgirls. If you're lookin' for a pistol packin' cowgirl, lady gunfighter, western bad girl gunslinger, woman outlaw, bandit queen, two gun female sharpshooter, Annie Oakley, Calamity Jane, Cattle Kate or Belle Starr - you've come to the right place
Nebraska - in single frames by “Robots on strike”
Today's top three examples of Americans being dumb
Happy Flag Day - “Officer, arrest this man!” Also, Flag infographics by Brazilian artist Icaro Doria
Searching Google Images for gangsta gets you more pictures of white people making gang signs than you can shake a stizzick at…
Many More Unusual Stories about America Here
June 26, 2005 in Americana | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 25, 2005
Mail Order Sushi
Yuko Shimizu painting series "sushi girls, sashimi boys"
Krusty Sushi is the nation's leading company in the production and delivery of Sushi by mail. Krusty Sushi was founded circa 1842*, January 15, at 4:35pm in Brooklyn, NY. It was founded by a jolly but slightly askew fellow named Sir Sam, who believed adamantly that the American public needed the luxury of private delivery raw fish on rice. He was a very smart man, and noticed a trend of laziness and lethargy growing exponentially in the expanding American economy. And indeed he was right, as now even McDonalds delivers, in an era where the fat public is too lazy to get into its SUVs to drive the one mile to its favorite fastfood joint. (Read the testimonials)
Christina’s Birthday Sushi Cake
Weber grilling octopus
More about the twinkie sushi fad from “Not Martha”
Robert Parker’s Sushi Spreadsheet
Sushi virgins trying it for the very first time
Many More Unusual Sushi Links Here
June 25, 2005 in Food - Sushi | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Sad Songs of The Grateful Dead
Amazing Ragtime Automated Nickelodeons, Calliopes & Player Pianos, including Peter Jackson's new contraption
Stage Names of Jewish Rockers, from Michael Bolotin and Ellen Cohen to Chaim Witz and Lou Rabinowitz
Jazzographies of Thelonious Monk. (From Blue Daniel)
Virtual Museum of unusual instruments
The Sad Song, by Fredo Viola. (From Margaret Maloney)
Sound Toys may take the form of art, games, generative music, interactive environments, shockwave movies, etc. They could be described as "new audio visual experiences" , or multimedia experiments which explore the parameters of our new media world. They might be described as the fusion of audio and visual output through new technologies made available for the internet. (Thank you, Michael)
Jim Anderson photographed The Grateful Dead from 1974 until their last show in Chicago in 1995. (From ”Coudal Partners”)
Learn to play guitar like a superdork
List of self-referential songs. A self-reference song is a song that refers directly to itself. A song must directly refer to itself, rather than just describe a song that could fit the current song
Current line-up band of Carlos Santana, the Shaman
Han Bennink wears wooden shoes, plays a drum kit made of cheese. Possibly the Dutchest thing ever
Many More Unusual Musicians and their Music Here
June 25, 2005 in Music_ | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Where are you hiding, Dolores Haze?
Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze.
Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet.
Age: five thousand three hundred days.
Profession: none, or "starlet"
Where are you hiding, Dolores Haze?
Why are you hiding, darling?
(I Talk in a daze, I walk in a maze
I cannot get out, said the starling).
Where are you riding, Dolores Haze?
What make is the magic carpet?
Is a Cream Cougar the present craze?
And where are you parked, my car pet?
Who is your hero, Dolores Haze?
Nabokov reads from "Lolita"
More from Luna: "I said: July was hot"
Welcome to the world of Ghyll - Like an interactive game of Pale Fire! (From Gamegrene, for a-typical gamers)
Nabokov with Prof. Elizabeth Beaujour
Audio Interview with Dimitri Nobokov about his father and his father's novels. From Don Swaim's CBS Radio show, Book Beat
How to Make A Butterfly Collection
Ada Online with annotations by Brian Boyd
Many More Unusual Vladimir Nabokov Links Here
June 25, 2005 in Books - Nabokov | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
June 24, 2005
Skylines
JR, RICHARD, and RALPH are Modern Birdhouses
Shark House. A large shark appears to have crashed through the roof of a house in Headington, Oxford, England. The 25-foot long fiberglass sculpture was erected in 1986, on the 41st anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb
The Salginatobel bridge, the only "world monument" of Switzerland
Hello there. You are now entering The 99 Rooms
A site dedicated to the historic architecture of St. Louis, Missouri - mourning the losses, celebrating the survivors
How to decorate abandoned bikes and bike racks. From The Toronto Beautification Ensemble
Contemporary buildings and interiors by Johnston Marklee & Associates, including The Sale House in Venice, CA, and The Hill House in Pacific Palisades
Living in paper - How to use waste paper for affordable, sustainable housing. (From ”Treehugger”)
Midwest Rural House from PLY Architecture
Re-post: 30 St Mary Axe Gherkin tower
Thomas Locke Hobbs’s architecture of São Paulo. (From ”City Rag”). The Leaning Towers of Santos, Brazil
Many More Unusual architectural Links Here
June 24, 2005 in Architecture | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Gates to Hell
Raul Gutierrez’s Mexican Pictures from around the globe
Seventy six twins. (From TK Blog)
Field of Depth by Caroline C. van Oosten de Boer
Photo stories from Thomas Michael Corcoran (Including “Black Eye Healing” & “Hurricane Charley”. From the sensitive mind of ”One Man Safari”)
AutoStitch, a fully automatic 2D image stitcher: digital photos in, panoramas out
Hours of Darkness Night Photography
Carsten Haitzler’s large cache of Textures. (May take a while to load, due to the sheer number of images)
Gates to Hell, a flickr slide show
Instant Memories. The origins of amateur photography
Found all over the net this week: Polaroid-o-nizer, a web app makes Polaroids out of your images
Many More Unusual Photography Links Here
June 24, 2005 in Photography | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 23, 2005
Grow-a-brain Rulez
More needed feedback:
Grow-a-brain on Time Magazine! (Online edition)
Will Femia at MSNBC is putting Grow-a-brain on his "come back when I have a lot of time to kill" list
House of Weirdness and Bucket o' Fun, from “The Steel Deel”
The effect of being linked by Grow-a-brain, from Charlie ‘Vruba’ Loyd
“…By the likes of Fark and grow-a-brain and boingboing…” Quote from Rebel Yell
“As of today, Growabrain is what I consider to be the best place to find links”. From ”Lorbus”
“When I grow up, I want to have a site as good as this one...Meanwhile, I will play Visigoth and pillage (pillaging beats looting by a longshot)”. From ”Good Shit”. (Warning: Beautiful NSFW females)
“If you've got a lot of time to waste, you could do worse than visiting Grow-a-brain”. From Tim Zim
…The sort of (weblog) I imagine the Sputterly Utter could aspire to be...
…One of my favorite sites that I check out daily… From True that
“L'extraordinaire Grow a brain”, from Carnet de Zénon
“A nifty bloggy thingee’… from “altered_states”
“Bloggy Goodness” from Depraved Librarian
Here is the complete list of what people were saying about Grow-a-Brain
June 23, 2005 in People are Talking about Grow-a-Brain | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack
Military Solutions
Anyone who can knit or crochet may participate in The Red Sweaters Art Installation: Suspending 1728 hand-knit mini red sweaters from a tree
Pentagon Solutions. Dakota Tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. A recently declassified Pentagon document indicates that people in the Pentagon try other strategies. Specifically there are 23 separate and distinct strategies that people in the Pentagon try when they discover they are riding a dead horse
FEMA Guide for Nuclear Blasts - Are you ready? (From ”The Daily Pick”)
How to Handle Kids and Guns. The worst thing parents can possibly do, is to make firearms a 'forbidden fruit', because kids then become even more curious about them, and handle them improperly. With fantasy television as their sole tutor, disaster becomes inevitable
NATO Wallpapers. (From Charlie ‘Vruba’ Loyd)
Frank Hurley, “the mad photographer” of World War 2 One
Welcome to Somme Battlefield Tours Ltd. We specialize in conducted and self-drive tours to the Somme & Ypres battlefields of the Great War 1914 - 1918
American Red Cross Scrapbook from WW2. (Found on ”Bibi's box”)
Images of the American Civil War
Desert Warfare. Photo Essay by Christopher Morris
Wikipedia’s List of military invasions. Six of the seven most recent invasions were led by the good US of A. The seventh was led by Saddam Hussein
Do you believe Al Jazeera? Scott Ritter’s “The US war with Iran has already begun”
The Internet Site of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Many More Unusual Links About War and About Peace Here
June 23, 2005 in War | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack
June 22, 2005
House prices
Real Estate Commissions are Too Low. Why haven't we seen anyone propose a commission structure that says the realtor gets a 25% commission... but only on the amount above the assessed value of the property?
The stuff at Long Realty Tombstone, Tombstone, AZ. (From ”Incoming Signals”)
Strange and true broker stories. Brokers share their best and most bizarre tales
Unique properties for sale. (From ”Steel White Table”)
Repost: The Hundertwasser House in Vienna. Photo story by Uwe Steinmueller and Carl Schofield
Bubbles are for bathtubs. Condo Flip™ lets buyers of preconstruction condos resell or assign those condos to new buyers
The 387 Houses of Peter Fritz, insurance clerk from Vienna
Cozy one-bedroom. A London flat that may be the smallest apartment in the world. Its 62 square feet squeezes in a kitchenette, bath and wardrobe. The bed is on a raised platform accessed by a ladder. The rent? Only $247 a week
Directory of hard money lenders for commercial loans
Expedia founder sold on real estate idea. Richard Barton's Zillow will be online-based real estate service
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