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September 30, 2005
Aloha au iā ‘oe
He‘e holua, or the ancient Hawaiian tradition of lava sledding. Buy your Papaholua Sled here. (From ”Metafilter”). Before and after photos of Kilauea lava banch collapse site
Pele, the Goddess of Fire. (Thank you, Robin)
How to say "I Love You" in Hawaiian? Other Hawaiian Dictionaries
More Unusual Links about Hawaii Here
September 30, 2005 in Traveling Places - Hawaii | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
September 29, 2005
Getting ready for San Francisco
New York Artist & Realtor, also known as The Loft Ninja folded some of his blogs (Loftblog, Urban foto & Ninja Listings) into Just In New York
“826 Cambridge Oval” is a blog about a wonderful home that is for sale in San Antonio, TX . (From ”Inman Blog”)
Similarly, “Mattamy Homes in Hawthorne Village, Milton” is a weblog about buying a new Mattamy home in Hawthorne Village, Milton
Miami Sun Post Columnist & Realtor Phyllis D. Huguenin’s South Florida Real Estate Blog
Mandeville Responds: The purpose of this Weblog is to publish information about the response of the local and national communities in the aftermath of the Katrina disaster. Also: Realtors respond
From Petaluma, California - It’s your best move
The blog of Jason Nowlin, Realtor in Columbia, MO. (I once drove to Columbia, MO, to meet with one of my favorite authors, William Least Heat-Moon)
Denver Modern Homes. The newest from Todd Carpenter, publisher of a network of mortgage and real estate blogs
Vince Bindi of Keller Williams, a new blog from Orange County, CA
Cleveland Ohio Real Estate with Cecilia Sherrard
Real Estate Internet Marketing
Dom Tassone’s My Place Chicago
By the way, if you are going to be in San Francisco at the end of October, and you'd like to meet, let me know...
The complete List of Real Estate Blogs as well as Grow-a-Brain’s Extensive Real Estate Archives are Here
September 29, 2005 in Real estate Blogs | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack
Food fight
The 50 States of Cheese
Kevin Kostner’s delicious low-cal Bison Chili Recipe
Recipe for disaster: Katrina a la Bush
2 funky Jews sell Kosher food. (From ”Screenhead”)
Chances are, if you've eaten at an Asian, Thai, Korean or Vietnamese restaurant, you've used the red bottle of Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce, made right here in Rosemead, CA
Boomers remember their childhood food . From 'Chocolate Soldiers' and 'Cherry Mash' to 'Frozen Mellon Balls' and 'Flavored Straws'
The top 50 things every foodie should do. From “Catching your own dinner” to “Take coffee at Caffé Florian”
Do you want to be a character in a food fight?
Close-up salt and pepper. Winner of The “Visions of Science Photographic Awards”
Pizza Fork and Cutter. Slice and eat with the same utensil!
Many More Unusual Recipes and Meals Here
September 29, 2005 in Food | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
September 28, 2005
2,000,000 hits
Congratulations to the blog! Here are last night’s statistics:
Total number of hits: 2,001,100
Average per day: 3335.17
Today: 8044
In the last hour: 508
This week: 39717
I know it’s not Go Fug Yourself, and still I’m very pleased...
Every day there are thousands of visitors who arrive here through the search engines (mostly through Google), because “Grow-a-brain” shows as the first or second result to hundreds of search queries. Generally I assumed that these are people who “stumble” into the site, and who possibly stumble right out again. But the more I thought about it, the more I’ve to come appreciate these visits. I now realize that there are many postings here that truly deserve to be the answers people are looking for when they hit the “I feel Lucky” button. It’s actually pretty humbling. Here are a few examples:
Things to do before you die
Realtors Bloggers
Odd & Crazy
Coppola's The Conversation
Unicorn for sale
Military invasion of Iran
Death & Eternity
Who we’all honorin’ here today?
Alinea restaurant
Entomophagy
"You're entering a world of pain". And many more.
So, until the next benchmark, here are a few, free gifts for you: The beautiful Magic carpet and Escape from The Museum of visual poetry by artist Jose Santos
Grab a graphic to link to Grow-a-brain
September 28, 2005 in Website News | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
We don’t do body counts
“Once I wasn't and then I was And now I ain't all over again”. Virtual tour of Pere-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, including many famous graves…
Violent Art. (Warning: Violent Art!)
Obituary for one Dorothy Gibson Cully, 86: She was born the second child of six in 1919, daughter to Kathleen Heard Gibson and Calvin Hooper Gibson, an inventor best known as the first person since the Middle Ages to calculate the arcane lead-to-gold formula. Unable to actually prove this complex theory scientifically, and frustrated by the cruel conspiracy of the so-called "scientific community" working against his efforts, he ultimately stuck his head in a heated gas oven with a golden delicious apple propped in his mouth. Miraculously, the apple was saved for the evening dessert. Calvin was not. (From “Bifurcated Rivets”)
Death in Venice, based on the novel by Thomas Mann
Smelleze™ Funeral Home/ Autopsy Deodorizer Pouch
Another great product: Vidstone, a pioneer in multimedia tombstone technology, has introduced the first product of its kind, the Serenity Panel
Rapture Letters online death notification. After the rapture, there will be a lot of speculation as to why millions of people have just disappeared. Unfortunately, after the rapture, only non believers will be left to come up with answers. You probably have family and friends that you have witnessed to and they just won't listen. After the rapture they probably will, but who will tell them?
We have written a computer program to do just that. It will send an Electronic Message (e-mail) to whomever you want after the rapture has taken place, and you and I have been taken to heaven
Many More Unusual Links About Death and Eternity and about Unusual Coffins & Caskets Here
September 28, 2005 in Death & Eternity | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
September 27, 2005
That Cooper baby
“…To dispel the myth that Diane Arbus only took pictures of freaks, she made up a list of elegant people she wanted to photograph...As if to prove her point, she took a remarkable portrait of Gloria Vanderbilt's sleeping baby son, Anderson Hays Cooper, for a Harper's Bazaar Valentine issue…”
Portroids are Polaroid Portraits
Celebrities outlandish requests: When touring, Macy Gray likes to bring a chimpanzee on the road with her to keep her company. Singer Robbie Williams decorates his dressing room with kumquats, a bonsai tree, a pair of undies, and a framed photo of Bob Holness. Re-post: The Smoking Gun’s extensive list of contract riders
Mark Seliger portfolio
Portraits by John Kascht
From “Supermasterpiece”: Aaron and John Cougar Mellencamp's Wife
Peter Marshall: In one state, you can deduct $5 from a traffic ticket if you show the officer...what?
Paul Lynde: A ten dollar bill. Paul Lynde’s greatest Hollywood Squares lines
Short shelf life of celebrity marriage
Many More Unusual Stories About Celebrities Here
September 27, 2005 in Celebrities | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
September 26, 2005
Social bookmarks manager
Improve this article! A magazine article on Wikipedia - written by Wikipedia. (From ”Pathologically Polymathic”)
Blocked pages to the internet in the middle east: From Qater, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabian and Iran. Screen shots from China
del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others.
Here are some of the most popular bookmarks on the network:
43 Folders with 3242 users,
Boing Boing with 2500 users,
PostSecret (2793 users),
Fark (1942 users),
CNN (1944 users),
Grow-a-brain (with 86 users – c’mon, people, what’s up with that? Bookmark it already!)
flickr (4054 users),
and Slashdot with 7675 users
Russian Wooden PC Case Mod. From the same outfit: Decorative hand-painted mice
Kevin Schofield writes: Ten Reasons Why I Love Microsoft. (From Michel Vuijlsteke's blog)
How to Write sensible email messages
More To Life On The Internet Here
September 26, 2005 in Internet | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Ukiyo-e
Go to pretty much any Japanese super market or combini and you'll find Umaibou. Literally translated it means "delicious stick"
The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife, an erotic woodcut made circa 1820 by Hokusai. Interpretations in stained glass by Judith Schaechter, and by New Zealand artists at Otago Stained Glass. Also, NSFW galleries by photographer Juergen Specht
Hello Kitty Vibrator Sale. Now Only $ 189 + $ 4 for priority mail shipping in the U.S
Yosuke Yamahata Photographing the Bomb in Nagasaki Journey. (From ”Folderol”)
Japan on Uncyclopedia. The physical geography of Japan is characterized by upheavals and the depressed. Because so much of the land mass is mountainous, 94% of the population is forced to live on mountaintops so that the limited amount of flat land can be used for cultivating monsters. Being squeezed onto mountaintops has forced the Japanese people to come up with space-saving innovations such as Game Boy Advance
Originally filmed in November 2001, this short video shows an extremely rare and ancient Japanese geisha dance as performed in Niigata, Japan by life-long, professional Japanese Geisha
The Pachinko Museum
Japan Seldom Asked Questions (SAQ). What do Japanese People wear underneath their Kimonos? Why do all the Jizo statues in Japan wear "bibs"? What is the sound of one hand clapping? Many more
Anime Phone Cards. (From Podwall)
(Graphic above from The Octopus News Magazine.) Many More Unusual Links about Japan Here
September 26, 2005 in Japan | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
September 25, 2005
"#2 Grandpa
Losing consciousness - Don't make the commitment if you can’t handle the stress. (Very funny)
Complaint letter of the year. (From ”Wesa Turtle”)
Cumulative wind distribution - Rita in red & orange
Midlife Assessment. I'm 41 years old, and I'm absolutely falling apart. I'll start from the top and work my way down, cataloging, as it were, my disintegration
Who would throw away a perfectly good horse?
Many More Unusual Oddities and Crazy linkage Here
September 25, 2005 in Odd & Crazy | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
I Smoke Pot. Whats The Big Deal? "So what? I smoke pot. Think about it. Out of all the after work activities, there are about a bazillion other things that I could be doing that are worse than getting high. I am a tax paying citizen. I have a full-time job in the mental health field. I attend college full-time and carry a 3.5 GPA. And yes, I smoke marijuana"
Five kids smoked this - Two are in the hospital, one in jail – And the others have blown their mind!
Cannabis pipes made from vegetables
flickr set tagged with Cannabis. Some folks are very brave or stupid
A guide to higher education - High Times annual list of the Top 10 Cannabis Colleges in the US
Re-post: Kermit rolls a joint
At up to £300 an ounce, exotic strains of designer cannabis are fuelling a booming market in herbal highs for affluent smokers
Myron Stolaroff finally discloses the name of the Secret Chief of The Underground Psychedelic Therapy Movement
(Graphic from ”Holy Mother of God!”). More about any kind of illegal drugs especially Acid and Pot Here
September 25, 2005 in Drugs - "Save the Roaches, Arnie" | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Technicolor Dreamcoat
Men’s leather pants for sale. You are bidding on a mistake
Apple Logo Shoes. Very Rare. Distributed to Apple employees in the 90's
Benefits of wearing a foil hat. (From ”Look at This”)
Billie Jean King’s tennis dress, 1973
Alice in Wonderland slideshow. Vogue Style version
Awkward Moments In Knitwear Modeling
Many More Unusual Fashion Trends Here
September 25, 2005 in Fashion | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Real Estate Commissions -
The Malibu Pyramid house presented by Gary Harryman
Rows of Low-income housing in Ixtapaluca, Mexico
Small Polish Houses. (From ”Things Magazine”)
Rare opportunity in Rhode Island. 1494 sq. ft. house from 1979 - on sewer. Includes 245 sq. ft. porch
My Gay Agent. (From FHC's aborted blog)
If you own apartment buildings, you can find out how your tenants are rating your complex
More about brokerage fees: The 6 Percent Solution. Skip Real Estate Agents all together? (A NY Times article)
Many More Unusual Real Estate Stories Here
September 25, 2005 in Real estate | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Fake Beatles
Last weekend, we saw a performance of “Classical Mystery Tour”, a Beatles tribute band at a Newport Beach show. This was the first time I ever attended a Beatles-like performance, and as suspect & artificial as this concept is, I actually liked it a lot. The band tried to look & sound as closely to what The Beatles must have been in ‘64 & ’67, and they did a pretty good job at it. However, it must be strange to live a live of a performer, pretending to be somebody else like that.
There are many other Beatles tribute bands; Yahoo lists 31 of them. I imagine that there’s an Artistic Management Conglomerate that runs all of them, and when a Ringo or John is sick or indisposed at one band, they replace him with another…
Lucy In the Field With Flowers, Susan Lawlor’s grandmother. (More kitsch at The Museum Of Bad Art. Thank you, Julie!)
A different MIDI version of Revolution #9
Flash version of Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Beatles Blotter Art - Have your LSD & eat it too. Obviously, Lennon did a thousand trips…
Wax Ringo Lost his sticks. More than a 1000 photos tagged with Beatles on flickr
9" long version of George Harrison Gretsch Country Gentleman Guitar and other Beatles Mini Guitars
A great version of Don't Let Me Down. Letting us down: What is Paul McCartney doing in that Fidelity ad? Going to the McCartney concert in Las Vegas November 30?..
Hard to find Beatles tracks from 1960 & later
A Hard Day's Night Screen Grabs
While my ukulele gently weeps. More at Ukulele Disco
Re-post: Musicologist Alan W. Pollack’s copious Notes on all of Beatles 187 songs & 25 covers
What's your favorite Beatles record?
The radio wars that erupted around the Beatles in 1964
A short story composed exclusively of Beatles song titles
Many More Unusual Beatles Links and Unusual Bob Dylan Links Here
September 25, 2005 in Music - Beatles | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
September 24, 2005
Vermeer
The Iconography of Saint Sebastian. (From ”Cipango”)
Alison Lapper Pregnant, A statue of an armless, naked, pregnant woman was unveiled in London's Trafalgar Square
The Girl with a Pearl Earring. An In-Depth Study of Vermeer's masterpiece, by Jonathan Janson. (From “Presurfer”, which celebrates 5 years of blogging today)
Realistic Tattoo Portraits by Hungarian tattoo artist Boris
This poster features famous surrealists posing at a photo booth, one of the first of the time. The goal of the poster was to portray the quintessence of surrealism. (From “Jaf Project”). A photo booth blog
Art of Crap? Do you know your Dada from your Moma? Try the quiz and see
Society for Art of Imagination
Many More Unusual Contemporary Artists Here
September 24, 2005 in Modern Art | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
September 23, 2005
e = mc hammer
Prophets to the Nation. The Founders of Gospel Mime. Ladies & Gentlemen - The animated ministry of J&K Mime
Lourdes water bottle. Since the first healing, of Catherine Latapie, on March 1st, 1858, as many as 2,500 unexplained healings have been recorded
The Bible Translated In Glaswegian: At the start, the Big Yin, brought aboot up rerr and doon here. An doon here wis sod all, and all the lights were oot. So the Big Yin says,"put the lights oan rerr"and here did the lights no go oan! The Big yin saw rat and sez "rerr, sorted" "Ah'll keep that dark bit though and call that the night and when they lights are oan Ah'll call rat the day!"
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is 95 years old
From NPR’s middlebrow “This I believe”, listen to Bill Gates’s Unleashing the Power of Creativity
Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian. No 2: You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers
Welcome to the Christian Tattoo Association website
Photo galleries from “Jesusland” abandoned - PTL Heritage USA, Fort Mill, SC
The Poetic Eddas, the oral literature of Iceland which were finally written down from 1000-1300 A.D, are like big summer movies, full of gore, sex, revenge and apocalyptic violence
Himalayan Art. Images of the hand and foot prints of famous teachers, predominantly Kagyu and Nyingma
The Dilgo Khyentse Fellowship (DKF) is dedicated to fulfilling the vision and projects of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991. Last two links from “Malanda”)
Many More Unusual links about Unusual Gods Here
September 23, 2005 in Spirituality | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
"Have you got anything I'd like?"
Una Visita a Vallarta's: May 29, 2005, The Family Goes Grocery Shopping at a typical Mexican market
Narrow Ice Cubes Fit into Water Bottles. Only $5.49 for tray.
The Oculas private relaxation theater. Developed over four years by renowned British designer Lee McCormack, the McLaren Formula One™ racing team, computer interface designers, and yacht builders. Exclusively from Hammacher Schlemmer, and only $45,000. Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery
Tired of receiving mounds of unsolicited letters and offers in the mail? Want to fight back? Want to get rid of that old tire in your garage that the garbage man won't take? Then read on.....
Advertise! Advertise! Capture people's exclusive attention with an offer from Just Toilet Paper - Stupid idea!
Spotted at Atlanta Airport - a vending machine selling iPods
Unique Vending Machines of Japan, including eggs, rice cleaners, fishing bait & flight insurance. More things you wouldn't normally expect to find in vending machines: vegetables & fried octopus
Hello Kitty Fire Extinguisher, just in time for the busy & cute fire season
Toothpaste and Mouthwash in 32 unusual & refreshing flavors: Sweet Almond, Darjeeling Tea, Coffee, Pumpkin Pudding, Sweet Potato…
Mission: Go to GAP, buy a pair of pants
2,500 Vintage Items at “Esnarf”, a Midwest Source for Unique and Unusual Antiques and Collectibles
Many More Unusual Things To Buy Here
September 23, 2005 in Shopping | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
September 22, 2005
Specific-Measurable-Attainable-Realistic-Tangible
From The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Zombies in philosophy, including many other philosophical zombie resources
What do these have in common?, a game played on MetaChat last month. Before looking at the answers, get warmed up with some easy ones before you move into more and more difficult ones
Face in blocks. Dali painted “Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea”, which at 30 meters becomes the portrait of Abraham Lincoln
Antidepressant derivatives of cis-4-phenyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1-naphthalenamine: The Zoloft patent
Some of Stephen Hawking's lectures
Many More Intelligent Links and Brainier Links Here
September 22, 2005 in Brainier | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
September 21, 2005
10050 Cielo Drive
Grand Lodge Officers Jewels Stolen
The Testimony of Charles Manson. November 19, 1970. An extensive site about Charles Manson
How to Help a Friend Who Gets Arrested in the Middle of the Night
Weight lifting in prisons & correctional recreation, pros & cons
Protecting international treasures . FBI Returns Eight Ancient Stone Seals Looted From Iraq
Former New York Times crime reporter Selwyn Raab's new book The 'Five Families' of New York Crime. (Heard on Fresh Air)
Dangers and foul deeds during the 19th century. (From ”Asylum Eclectica”)
Many More Unusual Links about Crime and Punishment Here
September 21, 2005 in Crime & Punishment | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
September 20, 2005
Arabic for Vietnam
Aesop in Mesopotamia, by J. Daniel Janzen. “Sooner or later, you run out of children to lie to”
What has happened to Iraq's missing billion dollars? By Patrick Cockburn
Know your enemy - The video of Al-Qaeda Leader in Iraq, Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi Declaring "Total War" on Shiites, from The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI-TV)
Killer Products. The Perpetual War Portfolio is an evenly weighted basket of five stocks poised to succeed in the age of perpetual war. The stocks were selected on the basis of popular product lines, strong political connections and lobbying efforts, and paid-for access to key Congressional decision-makers
With God on Their Side. Today in Iraq (But not in your news. From Crisis pictures)
Breaking news! According to White House sources, President Bush is bracing for intensified criticism following Monday's report that the body of Tyler Sheehan, son of outspoken anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, was recovered from the receding floodwaters in New Orleans…
Also, Vacation Ruined By 'Stupid Dead Soldier'. Bush addressed Mrs. Sheehan, who was not present, by saying "a mother should not have to bury her son this way, by which I mean allowing her son's death to destroy his commander-in-chief's one chance to relax and unwind."
Final Draft of Iraqi Constitution (as translated from the Arabic by The Associated Press)
Smells Like Victory. Victory is never have to say you’re sorry
Much More About The Upcoming US War on Iran Here
September 20, 2005 in War in Iraq | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Late cuts and Long hops
South Korean ice water divers and those Indonesian water boxers. (Both from Cellar Image of the Day)
Get your bullfighting tickets in Madrid, Sevilla, Malaga, and Valencia
Five Indian cricketers return, one of them diagnosed with a niggle
Gary Smith’s collection of Classic goalie masks
A List of Technical Cricket Terms
2005 English cricket season. (The only article from the Wikipedia category articles that are too technical I could slightly understand)
In This Corner, in the Flouncy Skirt and Bowler Hat... Wild Women of Bolivian wrestling
An oral history of San Jose's legendary skate-punk subculture
Red, White and Blue Popcorn Holder Cone with N.Y Yankees emblem on it
Many More Unusual Links of Extreme Sports Here
September 20, 2005 in Extreme Sports | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
September 19, 2005
The Song Remains Insane
Richard Thompson’s Song-o-matic
Herman Leonard Photography of Jazz musicians
A list of the 1000 most-frequently recorded jazz standard compositions
Generate new compositions, with Stephen Wolfram’s A New Kind of Music.
I first read about Kenna through Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink
"A Million Ways" by ”OK GO” in the backyard dancing. (Probably a re-post)
Robert Moog, ca. 1964
A Music video by Carl Lewis, ca. 1986
Many More Unusual Musicians and their Music Here
September 19, 2005 in Music_ | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
September 18, 2005
Kangaroo Traffic Courts
Ticket Assassin – How to successfully fight traffic tickets in California
Forty-one Anomalies of Water, by Martin Chaplin
The US Census Bureau. Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data
Sunrise/Sunset Calculator anywhere
20 Things They Don't Want You to Know about Computers
Wikipedia:Community Portal. Photo of Two bread rolls at the Wikipedia:List of images. Also, List of internet slang from "10-4" to "zOMG". Much more there
Many More Unusual Bits of Information Here
September 18, 2005 in Information | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Here is the Secret News
“Ammerika Today” - The last Italian-language daily in the States
Headlines Here: Lorem oopsum
Read the full text of the Nov 4, 1869 first ever issue of “Nature” Magazine, published on 4 November 1869
100 largest world newspapers - now by continent. Top 150 US Newspapers by Largest Reported Circulation
Here is the Secret News:
"All people are afraid. No one knows what they’re doing. Everything is getting worse. Some people deserve to die. Your money is worthless. No one is properly dressed. At least one of your children will disappoint you. The system is rigged. Your house will never be completely clean. All teachers are incompetent. There are people who really dislike you. Nothing is as good as it seems. Things don’t last. No one is paying attention. The country is dying. God doesn’t care.
Shhhhh."
(From When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?)
"On Evil" - Bill Maher’s New Rules for September 17, 2005 – As sharp as the week before. If anybody finds the text, please email it to me. Update: Full text from the HBO site: "Some people think Satan is real and some people think global warming is real. If you think stopping gays from doing it is more important than the ice caps melting, the boogeyman is you..."
Many More Unusual Newspapers and Magazines Here
September 18, 2005 in Newspaper & Magazines | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Drinking on the job
Unique Thai Drinks and reviews of more Crazy Asian Drinks
Liquid Cereal from “Brain Twist”, developers of unique beverage products.
Other Rejected soda pop flavors from Fark.
Soda Fountain Recipes from the 20's and 30's
Other sodas: Virgil's, micro-brewed root beer, Vernors Ginger Ale, aged in oak, and Faygo Original Rock & Rye
There is no alcoholic beverage more popular among the poorest people of Brazil than Cachaca. Made by distilling the liquids extracted from sugar cane, containing between 70 - 80% of alcohol, and remarkably cheap and remarkably intoxicating, there is probably no beverage better designed to make people forget their poverty
Did you ever know a "chocoholic"? One of those folks who just can't get enough chocolate? I bet there's at least one in your home or workplace. At my house, it's my wife Emily. She's got to have her little bowl of Hershey's Kisses in the living room. She can't go shopping without bringing home some chocolate ice cream or a chocolate-cake mix. She's even got a funny little sweatshirt that says, "My Name Is Emily, And I'm A Chocoholic." To be honest…I'm Like A Chocoholic, But For Booze
Also, According to a new study on female alcohol use and blood pressure, young women who consume two or three alcoholic drinks a week are much more fun to do research on than women who do not consume alcohol
More latte art, from flickr
What's in those cans beside beer? If you're a six-pack enthusiast, you're not going to like the explanation
Anheuser-Busch Water Cans Donated to Hurricane Katrina Victims
The iPod bartender allows 3rd or 4th generation iPod owners to take a list of drinks with them
Many More Unusual Drinks Including Unusual Beers Here
September 18, 2005 in Beverages | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
September 17, 2005
Water Drip
Liquid Sculpture is the process of creating shapes by dropping and splashing water, or other liquids. These sculptures are then photographed, since they last only a few thousandths of a second. By Martin Waugh, and by The Carranza Field Astronomers
“Maximum Beauty”, An exhibition of new works by Leonard Nimoy
Digital photo of the day from Steve’s Digicams
The 2005 Photobloggies
Infinite Flickr: The Movie. Also, flickr Engrish tag
Celebrity shots by Annie Leibovitz: Nude Lennon hugging Yoko, taken the morning before his death, pregnant Demi Moore on the cover of Vanity Fair, Keith Haring, Bruce Springsteen, 1987, Merce Cunningham, fully-wrapped Christo, Meryl Streep, and more
Many More Unusual Photography Links Here
September 17, 2005 in Photography | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
May 15, 1905
The notorious Casino Carpet Gallery. six pages of casino carpeting and nothing but
Casino Floor Plans. (From The Near Future of Las Vegas)
“Dead showgirl in trunk”, one of Things That Did Not Stay in Vegas
The Vegas Boom. Long seen as only a tourist destination, Las Vegas is currently America's fastest-growing city. Why are so many people moving there? Other Onion News
Kevin Knapp’s trip of The Stratosphere Tower
Follow the Money - The city's economy
Is Sathorn One design in Bangkok based on The Venetian Casino?
Welcome to the most detailed history of the Las Vegas Strip on the internet today, considered by many to be possibly the worst website ever
Many More Unusual Stories From Las Vegas Here
(By the way, Pod, please stop…)
September 17, 2005 in Traveling Places - Las Vegas | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
September 16, 2005
The Peter Schmuck File
Pete, ever think of changing your name?
"Actually I did, Buddy."
"You did?!"
"Yeah, my name used to be Richard, but I got tired of people calling me Dick." (From 'Getting over the Hump in Learning Yiddish')
Homeland security in Yiddish: "How long did it take the Twin Towers to fall? 8 seconds. How long will it take to save Williamsburg from the artists???"
A contract with God, the first graphic novel in Yiddish, by Will Eisner. (Thank you, Steven M. Bergson)
Bagels and Bongos, Yiddish standards done to a 50’s Latin beat by Irving Fields
The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music
A short glossary of Yiddish words. Online Yiddish Dictionary
The National Yiddish Book Center
Blogs in Yiddish: שלום בערגער, The Yiddish Journal, קטלא קניא, naye un alte lider, דער חָסיד נוֹעם סטאַריק, אין מױל אַרײַן
More Unusual Yiddish Links Here
September 16, 2005 in Yiddish | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
September 15, 2005
God's Lonely Man
The Vanished Garden of Allah, Southwest corner of Sunset Blvd and Crescent Heights Blvd., Hollywood
“Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water”. Jerry Goldsmith’s haunting score to Chinatown
Moxie blog is intended to chronicle the process of developing, financing, starting, and maintaining a small, independently-owned, art-house theater. Movie theater preservation and awareness, at Cinema Treasures
Now Playing - QuickTime Movie Trailers
Doctor Macro’s Hi Quality Movie Scans
Neomuet, a collection of seven silent films. (From