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November 30, 2005
The Dogs Of War
US-Made Suicide Bombs! These are by US military, law enforcement agencies or commercial security firms - whether for training or marketing or spooking the public
The Democratic Party Informing The Dog of war
Reaction to the Victory in Iraq speech
The Rendon Group response to Rolling Stone Magazine story about The Man Who Sold the War
Much More About The Upcoming War on Syria Here
November 30, 2005 in War in Iraq | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Flying
Colors of the Underground , by Jakob Ehrensvהrd. Depending on the mineral composition, the colors of the underground can sometimes be spectacular.
Garden (2000) by Marc Quinn is a real botanical garden, full of plants and flowers from all over the world. They are displayed in full bloom, and are potentially eternal: the nearly 1000 specimens are immersed in twenty-five tons of liquid silicon kept at a constant temperature of -80˚ Celsius
Cloudy Sky
47 feet high Stainless Steel Aspen
Virtual Caves. (From ”Presurfer”)
2,000 metaflowers
(Photo above from City Rag). Many More Unusual Mysteries of Nature Here
November 30, 2005 in Nature | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
November 29, 2005
Work Makes You Free
Dear Anne: An Italian CG Animated Film Loosely Based on The Diary of Anne Frank. (From ”Twitch”)
Nachlass eines Soldaten - Private and military archive photos of a German officer during WWI
Himmler's Speech at Poznan. On October 4, 1943, Reischsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler gave a speech to a secret meeting of SS officers, in Poznan, Poland. In this speech, he spoke frankly about the ongoing extermination of the Jewish people. This is one of the most chilling documents of the Holocaust
Re-post: Shoah cartoon. (A Greatest Story Ever Told winner)
Aerial Photographs of Auschwitz taken by the Allied Air Forces
Definition of Genocide, per Genocide Convention 1948
The Forgotten Camps. This list is far from complete. It is estimated that the Nazis established 15,000 camps in the occupied countries
A Virtual Tour of Auschwitz/Birkenau
Number of Jews Murdered by Country in Europe
Eichmann Timeline. (From The Trial of Adolf Eichmann)
Nazi Persecution of homosexuals
A Year In Treblinka. An Inmate Who Escaped Tells the Day-To-Day Facts of One Year of His Torturous Experiences
The testimony of Otto Ohlendorf, Einsatzgruppe D. He admitted killing 90,000 Jews, was convicted and hanged by the U.S. Josef Mengele
Amon Goeth, the Commandant of the Plaszow labor camp. (From "German Daggers")
Leni Riefenstahl’s Nuba & Olympia
Truman Announces Germany's surrender, May 8, 1945. "The Nazis Strike", Chapter II of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series, summarizes Hitler's plan for world conquest. Both from Internet Archive
Photo above of two children, seated for a family photograph in the Kovno ghetto, from Holocaust Encyclopedia. One month later, they were deported to the Majdanek camp. Kovno, Lithuania, February 1944
This is another post that I am “co-blogging”, this time with Anne Mathewson, who blogs at ”Ample Sanity”, and who provided most of today’s links. (Previous posts here.) Thank you, Anne! If other bloggers are interested to share the forum here on any other topic, please contact me for details.
Many More Unusual Links about the Holocaust Here
November 29, 2005 in Co-blogged with, The Holocaust | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
November 28, 2005
Best blog I know
The most common question that I get in emails is “Can you link to my site?” The second most common question is “Where do you find all that stuff?” Well, now it can be told. For over a year now, I’ve been scouring this most original site, and so I bring to you here - Hemaworstje / Fulminatia / TollFreedom / Hopsakee.
This Shock-blogger (From Holland? From Alabama?) digs into places that few of the traditional “Link-sifters” dare go, and his generous daily link-dump is always filled with incredible finds.
Be warned that his choices are often NSFW, and sometimes they are extremely offensive. Still you’ll regularly find there undecipherable Russian cartoons, obscure East-European eye-candy, outrageous usage of large weaponry, absurdities from the orient, unrelated wonders & some of the most gorgeous naked women in the world. The site often changes design (A few months ago, it went all white and you had to blindly click on a white screen to find the hidden links!), so don’t get too comfortable when approaching it.
Since it doesn’t look like he keeps archives which preserves his complete output, I decided to do something a little different here today, and under the category of Best of Everything, simply copy a bunch of unusual links (Many video clips) from the excellent Hemaworstje Fulminatia / Hopsakee !
The Naked Box video
Archival footage taken from the 1999 documentary on the war on drugs "Grass”, showing a squad of Vietnam soldiers smoking marijuana through the barrel of an unloaded shotgun at base camp
Dead Chicken Processing In China
Dennis Leary sings “I’m an Asshole”. (The uncensored version)
The Kafkaesque Cafard. (Showed up on Metafilter a few hours later)
The old Candid camera trick with the eggs on the conveyer belt
"Beautiful Boxer", the true story of the Best Thai Transvestite Kickboxing Film Ever
Let’s Moose Around. (From ”Avery ant”)
The 100 Best Doctors in America list
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November 28, 2005 in Best of Everything | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack
November 27, 2005
Some Video clips
John Cleese Ringtones at $ 2.49 a pop. (Who buys that junk?) It’s a long way from Fawlty Towers
Kugelmass, a professor of humanities at City College, was unhappily married for the second time. Daphne Kugelmass was an oaf. He also had two dull sons by his first wife, Flo, and was up to his neck in alimony and child support.
"Did I know it would turn out so badly?" Kugelmass whined to his analyst one day. "Daphne had promise. Who suspected she'd let herself go and swell up like a beach ball? Plus she had a few bucks, which is not in itself a healthy reason to marry a person, but it doesn't hurt, with the kind of operating nut I have. You see my point?"
Kugelmass was bald and as hairy as a bear, but he had soul…. (From ”O Mundo De Claudia”)
John Cocktosten and the rest of Fletch's Identities in order of appearance. (From a creative thread about creative fictional character names - Benovan Stanchiano, Noboru Watanabe, Ivanna Humpsalot, Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Mucho Maas , Lili Von Shtupp, Scooter Libby, so many more). The subject was raised by John Martz
Dave Chappelle’s The Niggar Family
Will Ferrell in this week’s Earth to America “global Warming” gala. “We now return to your regularly scheduled program”
The 8 types of joke archetypes
The Goon Show Preservation Society
Colbert Nation recaps
Many Other Funny Comedians Here
November 27, 2005 in Comedians | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 26, 2005
The 51st state: The state of denial
The Farm. Their parents left San Francisco 30 years ago to build a utopia in rural Tennessee. Now some of the products of that grand experiment - their children - have come back. (From ”Whippleworld”)
Christian Exodus is coordinating the move of thousands of Christians to South Carolina for the express purpose of re-establishing Godly, constitutional government. It is evident that the U.S. Constitution has been abandoned under our current federal system, and the efforts of Christian activism to restore our Godly republic have proven futile over the past three decades. The time has come for Christians to withdraw our consent from the current federal government and re-introduce the Christian principles once so predominant in America to a sovereign State like South Carolina
The History of 4-H in Florida! (From Happy Palace)
The Field Guide to the North American Bird
Invented landscapes by Carlos Diaz
Another American I’m not familiar with: Stephen Sondheim
Robert Clark travels around the US taking photos with a Sony Ericsson s710a
(While blogging this post, I’m listening right now to Twang City, Americana, Alt-Country, Bluegrass, Folk, Honky Tonk, Zydeco, Blues and Roots Rock. Photo above is of Victoria Ave. in Riverside leading to my new house). Many More Unusual Stories about America Here
November 26, 2005 in Americana | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 25, 2005
Tawchuh, What Tawchuh
Paul Fusco’s Bitter fruit, documenting the funerals of US soldiers
Not condoning torture (Warning! Graphic denials of allegations of torture). From Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches
Dick and Don's Cabal. A map of the major figures involved in Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld's 2002-3 campaign to invade Iraq
January 26, 1998 - A letter to the president
Greeted with flowers and Saddam’s war crimes
The art of Mark Bryan: March of the cowboy thugs
While We Were Sleeping. Where Was the Media Between Invasion and Murtha?
Crude Designs: The Rip-Off of Iraq’s Oil Wealth
"Baghdad Burning" about the recent assassinations
Kurdistan, The Other Iraq. The Government and the peoples of Kurdistan invite you to discover their peaceful region, a place that has practiced democracy for over a decade, a place where the universities, markets, cafes and fair grounds buzz with progress and prosperity and where the people are already sowing the seeds of a brighter future
Much More About The Upcoming War on Syria Here
November 25, 2005 in War in Iraq | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 24, 2005
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody – Please give thanks today
Just in time for Christmas: Dogs Playing Poker Drink Coaster Set
Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving. This is usually the day that kicks off Winter/Christmas sales, so most stores have their best deals today. Usually such great deals that people will camp out overnight to be sure to get whatever is on sale. Is it worth the $50 in savings? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. It's how much you value your time. It's one thing to wait to get the item, it's another thing to have to wait in line to actually purchase that item. NYT story about how Michael Brim developed the site
Just two days after the opening West Texas Prada store in the middle of the desert, it was vandalized…
The Hemorrhoid Cryotherapy Device is a simple, do-it-yourself, means to reduce or remove hemorrhoids. It works by apply freezing temperatures directly to the inflamed tissue
America's #1 book on fire eating: You can eat fire
Soapcards, where your words are always clean no matter what you say. Thank you, Kate
Many More Unusual Things To Buy Here
November 24, 2005 in Shopping | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 23, 2005
Slash / slash
Now many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three,
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her, and soon they, too, were wed…
I'm My Own Grandpa. Sung by Ray Stevens
Naked German men by their cars
Amos Latteier built a chainsaw-powered walking machine called the "prosthetic ass". It didn't walk very well. Still, it was named Best Prosthetic Ass in Portland, OR. The prosthetic ass was demonstrated at the Science Faire at the Old Lab in 2000. Happily no one was hurt in the process
Who pays for international mail? Why does the U.S. deliver foreign mail when we don't get any money for the stamps?
Money Making Scheme No. 4675
So You Want To Shoot A Giraffe In The Forehead. Come with me. Up to where giraffe’s brains reside. (From ”Anarchaia”)
Summary of Harry Potter slashfic. (What is Slash fiction, you’re asking). Also, Save Harry from the grasp of Coca-Cola
A giant collection of Art Bikes. (From ”Look At This”)
The What is it? blog. I've been photographing and collecting unusual objects for quite a few years and have just recently started posting them on this site as puzzles for others to figure out what they are. blogger Rob's other blogs
The enduring popularity of El Chavo del Ocho, a Mexican sitcom about a street kid who lives in a barrel. (From ”Slate”)
Number spirals are very simple. To make one, we just write the non-negative integers on a ribbon and roll it up with zero at the center
Many More Unusual Oddities and Crazy linkage Here
November 23, 2005 in Odds & Ends | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 22, 2005
Co-blogging with Revilo!
Out of the blue, I was contacted by one of my illustrator-heroes, the hugely-popular and enormously-famous Oliver Christianson, known as REVILO. (No, not that Revilo Oliver). After some communication, he agreed to co-blog the following post, here on Grow-a-brain. Yippee! Enjoy the following -
First, here are some reasons for liking Revilo’s art: It hurts when I pee, Hang on, Cliff, Flowers, This is you, Informal Survey. More on Revilo’s Cartoons.
The links:
Comic pinbacks, a free reference and research guide for vintage comic pinbacks from the 1890s to the 1950s
Potential Comics UK 001. (From "McGuffin")
Excellent doodles by Grumblebee
Characters in Motion, a compilation of over 90 films by 60 international studios, artists and designers. Music by Pheonix Foundation - Hitchcock
Simpsons body count. How many deaths will it take for the notorious Simpson clan to be brought to justice? How long will the Simpsons' bloody rampage be allowed to run unchecked? What lesson are we teaching our children while this lawless bunch remains free?
Brian Fremly Rocks! And he has a Big Head…
Religious Tracts on flickr
The illustration art of Everett Peck, Duckman's daddy
The dark world of Charles Burns
Dream of Becoming a Professional Cartoonist? Get Your Cartoons PUBLISHED and EARN $$$$ Within THREE MONTHS... GUARANTEED! With tuition from world-famous cartoonist, Lou Darvas!)
Everyone loves The Reverend Howard Finster. Finster was the creator of Paradise Gardens Park & Museum, a product of all his folk art and Chattooga County's largest tourist attraction
Re-post: Salad Fingers in search of the perfect rusty spoon. Ah, the feeling of rust! The new David Firth piece Spoilsbury Toast Boy 2 is very disturbing. “I am your grandmother. Yes!”
Worst Comic Ever. Uncle Ray in The Spirit, 1947, without question he worst Spirit drawn by anyone, anywhere, at any time
Portfolio by Olivier Kugler
Another Favorite webcomics thread from ‘Ask Metafilter’
This is my tenth “co-blogging” post. (Previous posts here.) Thank you, Oliver! If other bloggers/writers are interested to share the forum here on any other topic, please contact me for details.
Copyright above Oliver Christianson. A giant Collection of Unusual Comics Here
November 22, 2005 in Co-blogged with, Comics & Cartoons | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 21, 2005
Sprawl
I don't understand why it's so hard to sell this Swedish apartment. (From ”Milk and Cookies”)
Own a piece of America & Become an instant land owner! Now you can actually own property in any state in the country...FREE. All you have to do is select a state on the next page and follow the easy instructions. Within seconds you'll be a proud owner of your very own parcel of land.... FREE. OK, so it's only one square inch of land, but it is land, and it is free. How many of your friends can claim that they own land in Colorado, or California, Hawaii, or even New York? For that matter in any state?
If Dilbert built his own house, he'd start with a list of functional requirements that looked like this:
• Zero maintenance inside and out
• Energy usage approaching zero
• Green building materials when practical
• Healthy indoor air quality
• Practical to build, using local contractors, etc.
Sprawl near San Ramon, California
A New Service Named HomePages Combines Real Estate Listings, Local Data, and Aerial Imagery. More about HomePages. (Thanks, Shawn Zehnder Lea)
Rising from Ruin - Real estate in Hancock County, LA, post-Katrina
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody
Art above by Polish artist Jacek Yerka, found at ”Neatorama”. Many More Unusual Real Estate Stories Here
November 21, 2005 in Real estate | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
November 20, 2005
Zarqawi dead?
Breaking news: Al-Zarqawi killed by explosions in Mosul.
At least one Arab television media outlet reported that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of the al-Qaida in Iraq, was killed in Iraq on Sunday afternoon when eight terrorists blew themselves up in the in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. (9AM)
Later: More from Debka
November 20, 2005 in War in Iraq | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Bad parents!
What Color Eyes Would Your Children Have?
A 9 sec. Google video - Kid gets hit by basketball
Chinese Babies come with a microwave
Move over Garbage Pail Kids, here come The Krypt Kiddies
Feral children, also known as wild children or wolf children, are children who've grown up with minimal human contact, or even none at all. They may have been raised by animals (often wolves) or somehow survived on their own. (Probably a repost)
Drawings of aliens by the children the aliens abduct
The focus of the Donor Sibling Registry is to assist individuals conceived as a result of sperm, egg or embryo donation who are seeking to make mutually desired contact with others with whom they share genetic ties. (From a NY Times cover story: Hello, I'm Your Sister. Our Father Is Donor 150)
Seen everywhere: Zubbles colored bubbles
Many More Unusual Links About Kids Here
November 20, 2005 in Kids | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 19, 2005
2B? NT2B?=???
How Many Animals It Takes To Make A Fur Coat? (From ”Ueba”)
Ronaldinho’s Golden Nike Shoes – Did he really hit the goal post 4 times from that distance?
ICON shoes & handbags printed with modern art images. (From ”Mcguffin”)
Shoewawa’s really Ugly Shoe Of The Week
Welcome to the one-stop website for antique clothing buttons, Vintage buttons, collectible buttons, new and vintage Czech glass Buttons, uniform buttons and lots of button information
The Magic Wardrobe custom costumes. (From The ever Growing Peter Pan's Fashion Collection - Always good to re-visit old cyber-friends)
Inside My Bag. What does your handbag say about you?
Sex And The City - The Look
The Secret Language of $130 Jeans
Many More Unusual Fashion Trends Here
November 19, 2005 in Fashion | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 18, 2005
No unwounded soldiers
Uzi Owner’s Manuals and Uzi Brochures and flyers, at UziTalk
More than 750 participants wearing yellow T-shirts join hands to create the world’s largest “Human Yellow Ribbon” on the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar flight line at the 2005 Miramar Air Show Oct. 15. (A high resolution photo at the bottom)
A Russian multimedia map, Soldiers of the Great War
Air Raid Siren
H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds as eComic
Info on defense spending. How are your 558 billion dollars being spent every year?
The War on Terror as viewed from the Bourne shell
Lars Brüll’s Hell Destroyed
Many More Unusual Links About War and About Peace Here
November 18, 2005 in War | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Cyber stalkers
Allan Lööf, 93 - Sveriges oldest blogger?. (From Dave Winer, who was born on my 2nd birthday)
Six Figure Blogging! Ten! Thousand! Dollars! A Month! How to make $10,000 a month blogging – Yea, Baby
Steve Rubel’s Ten Blogging Hacks
Broads on Blogs. Is the blogosphere still a man's world?
Is Russell Beattie Yahoo’s most incompetent employee? This is what Jacek Rutkowski really, really wants to know. If you really, really, really dislike Russell Beattie, that is definitely the site for you!
More About bloggers and blogging Here
November 18, 2005 in World of Blogging | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 17, 2005
Virals & Freebees
What makes an idea viral? By Seth Godin. “For an idea to spread, it needs to be sent and received”
Jason Fried asks: Would you pay $5/month to use Google? If Google wasn’t free, would you pay $5/month for it? Would you?
A history of Apple Homepages. (From ”Paxtonland”. Also from there: David Lanham Icons)
"I want to..." or "I need to" or "How do I?" These are all questions we all ask all the time. This is a small collection of resources that will help to answer those questions... Now listing over 200 applications
Plagiarist alert! Copyscape uses Google API technology to identify distinctive sentences and phrases from your site and then sniffs around for other sites that use the same or similar phrases. (From ”SiteLines”)
The Flickrization of Yahoo, by Erick Schonfeld
A Natural History of the @ Sign. While in some languages @ is simply called "at," in others, a wide variety of interesting nicknames have been developed for this little symbol. Most are based on the shape of the character, others are more abstract. Some are original and unique, others are derived from other languages
The Transparent Screens meme keeps going & going
Just a little unrelated freebee: "Ária (Cantilena)" from Bachianas Brasileiras nº 5 by Heitor Villa-Lobos
More To Life On The Internet Here
November 17, 2005 in Internet | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 16, 2005
Death in the snow
Live Japanese laundromat webcam. (From ”Boring webcams”)
How to make Monja-yaki? Monja-yaki ("letter-cake") is similar to Okonomi-yaki, except the batter is more watery and does not use egg
Fruit bus stops. (From ”Cardhouse”)
From 2003: Death in the snow. A body is found in the frozen North Dakota woods. The cops say the dead Japanese woman was looking for the $1m she saw buried in the film Fargo. But the story didn't end there
Re-post: Very Tired Japanese Business Men. (Probably drunk, most of them)
No, I’m not going to link to the morning musume vs. The Lizard game show, since you can see it everywhere else
Vintage Kimonos from Kyoto. (A commercial site)
Many More Unusual Links about Japan Here
November 16, 2005 in Japan | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Words To Live By
An awesome Text-to-Speech Demo from “Natural Voices Project” at the AT&T Labs Research
Buying pants at Marshall’s and other ‘Sexual Euphemisms That Won't Catch On’
‘HelloWorld’ is a term for any simple program or component that verifies the correct functioning of the environment, usually by outputting the words "Hello World''. HelloWorld holds very little value in the learning or evaluation of a language and its constructs. Its primary purpose is to ensure that compiler is in the path, the libraries are in the right place and the build script is sane. Hello World In Many Programming Languages
Numbers from 1 to 10 in Over 5000 Languages. Compiled by the irrepressible Mark Rosenfelder
The Intellectual Poison’s Fictionary, a lexicon of invented words. Example: Ashhole - one of those smoking pricks who walk around blowing smoke like their the only person in existence. Also, List of neologisms on The Simpsons. Many of these are intentional mutations, mispronunciations, amplifications, or portmanteaus of recognizable words which reveal or emphasize aspects of the characters using them.
Reading Test. Apaerpntly olny the frsit and lsat lteetrs need to be in oderr for hmunas to udnretsnad the wrod
The bolshiest English to Nadsat list. Nadsat found in A Clockwork Orange, the book by Anthony Burgess
Illustration above from Words To Live By, a daily vocabulary lesson in a form of a cartoon strip, by Adam Koford. (Found by Mr. Natural)
Weird and wonderful vocabulary from around the world. How come only German has a word for 'a person who leaves without paying the bill' (Zechpreller) or that Albanians need 27 words for moustache?
Many More Unusual Language Links Here
November 16, 2005 in Languages | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
November 15, 2005
When Bad Things Happen to Your Good Name
It's official: Nixon to run for governor in '08!
Have you no soul, Mr. President? How the Liberal Media Can Finally Ask the Questions They're Dying to Ask. (From Metachat)
Curious George W. Bush by Dave Itzkoff. (Originally appeared in Maxim in Oct/Sept of 2000)
The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of sexually transmitted disease. This disease is contracted through dangerous and high risk behavior. The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim. (From Anarchaia)
US Facing Crony Shortage. Not Enough Cronies to Fill Government Positions, President Warns. By: Andy Borowitz
Ten years ago, could you have imagined evolution being challenged, ‘affirmative action’ a political liability, or a pregnant GI posing for torture photos? Tom Gilroy is dishing it out
“But they jumped off the bridge with me...just because it was my idea to jump doesn't mean I'm to blame”
Become a Republican. (Thank you, Derek)
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a text frequently quoted and reprinted by anti-Semites, purporting to describe a plan to achieve Jewish global domination. It has been proven a hoax by numerous independent investigations during the last hundred years. The Encyclopædia Britannica describes the Protocols as a "fraudulent document that served as a pretext and rationale for anti-Semitism in the early 20th century". (From Wikipedia)
Many More Unusual Links About the Biases of The Liberal Media Here
November 15, 2005 in Politics | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else
Message To Justin, Son of Wayne. You suck, Justin, son of Wayne. You suck it hard. Funny thing is, you probably don't even realize just how hard you suck it…
Make your own Homemade Flamethrower. Fun for pyros of all ages
Also, Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot. 5 min 18 sec of excitement for the whole family.
Uncyclopedia about Your mom. Little is verifiably known about your mom. It can be determined with some veracity that she was born sometime in the 20th century as a Cylon, and proceeded to do dick all her life, during which period she created you. (From Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog)
Praying at the German Cheese isles
Poop Today? by JAGoff Productions, with bizarre lyrics
How many bowls of your oat bran cereal would it take to equal the fiber content of one bowl of Super Colon Blow? Guess again. (From ”Milk and Cookies”)
An oldie: The Buttafly Guide to Interpreting Friendster Photos
The archives of The Reverend Gary Birdsong. (From ”Wikipedia”)
World Mouseclicking Competition. Have you got what it takes to be a Big Fast Finger round town? Or are you a bit of a limp clicker?
448 Girl On Girl Action - Who's on top?
At the End of a long working day
A long List of Links That Will Waste Your Time or that are Simply Stupid Here
November 15, 2005 in Waste of Time | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 14, 2005
Truman Streckfus Persons
Yesterday I saw Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Capote movie, a “tragic story of unfulfilled love”, and I loved it. I see so few movies nowadays, as they are so noisy. This one was on purpose quite and slow. The music by Mychael Danna was just right.
Most critics felt the same. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 92% Fresh Reading.
If you saw the movie, you'll appreciate the following; Here’s a beautiful, extended collection of photos related to "In Cold Blood” from Lawrence, KS Journal-World's 40th anniversary of the non-fiction novel .
Capote in Kansas. Written by Ande Parks, a comic book account of Capote and Harper Lee's time researching In Cold Blood
Capote, a Black and White Tribute
Map of Holcomb KS
Elsewhere: A Kenyan camel library
Six Grimms Fairy Tales with 39 Etchings by David Hockney
The Penguin Classic Library: Purchase all 1,082 titles from Amazon. Save: $5,326.34. Only $7,989.50 with free shipping
A virtual walk through James Joyce's Trieste
Home Fweet Home - 71,000 notes related to Joyce's Finnegans Wake
The complete Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Many More Unusual Literary Links Here
November 14, 2005 in Books & Literature | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
November 13, 2005
More Nice Words
"Do you read Grow-a-Brain? They always have loads of interesting and bizarre links"...
Don't miss out! Best blog ever! (Thank you, James)
“A truly amazing collection of links”, from “Jolly Cholly”
Always good for a nice word, Charlie ‘Vruba’ Loyd; "Grow-a-Brain’s hype is true: it will increase your IQ. Of the Velvet Underground it’s said that almost no one bought their records, but everyone who did started a band. Grow-a-Brain is like that"...
Nice graphic from Soulaquarium...
“You could lose yourself in there on a lazy Saturday. Consider yourself warned”. From Bleed Cubbie Blue
Brain Headlines from Web Nymph
…Excellent site, intelligent and entertaining, from “Is this the world?”
From Whippleworld
I'd buy him a beer, if I'd dare step foot in SoCal anytime soon
“Wonderful distractive fun links”, from Informiorium
A blog I like, from “Teachers' Lounge”
From All About Nothing
From “The Great Leap Forward”
Here is the complete list of what people were saying about Grow-a-Brain
November 13, 2005 in People are Talking about Grow-a-Brain | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Car vs Boat
Trilobis 65 Floating Home is a semi-submerged
dwelling environment. Reaching 20 meters in length it is designed for habitation by six people at sea. It is ideal for living in bays, atolls and maritime parks
Comments about Le Grand Bleu, apparently the world's fifth-largest private yacht
Dom Mee’s Kite Quest, an attempt to cross the Atlantic solo and unsupported in a 14-foot boat pulled by a kite. More about kite sailing
The Newcastle Tall Ships Race 2005
Staten Island Boat Graveyard. Off the shore of Staten Island New York rests a veritable graveyard of decommissioned, scrapped, and abandoned ships of various sizes, ages, and states of decay
The infamous ‘Low Tolerance’ ad from Pleasure Boat Captains for Truth
Illustration above by David Suff. Many More Unusual Boats & Yachts Here
November 13, 2005 in Boating | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Space Mountain
The new Dmobo M900, the Walt Disney phone, with Mickey and Minnie
Walt's Shadow on flickr
The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts. This site covers all of the short subjects Disney made between the years 1922 to the present.
Secrets of The Haunted Mansion
Yoda’s list of Jungle Cruise Jokes. Not all of the jokes have been approved for use on the Jungle Cruise. On October 11, 1997, the Orange County Register reported that at least 8 Jungle Cruise skippers had been fired for telling jokes which were either unapproved or not appropriate to the 1938 theming of the attraction
A replica of the Space Mountain ride
Disneyland Paris and other Disney International locations
Many More Unusual Disneyland Links Here
November 13, 2005 in Disney | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 12, 2005
Rail Splitting
“Hoist up the flag for Abraham” - Songs of the 1864 Presidential Campaign. (From ”Goodshit”. Source is NSFW!)
Chomp champ a burger with Abe Lincoln
Lillian Colton’s portrait of Lincoln made of wild rice
Friends of Abe: How to win friends
The Lincoln Lawyer: A Novel by Michael Connelly
Lew Rockwell’s Lincoln archives
Poetry: Abraham Lincoln
his hand and pen
he will be good but
god knows When
Exhibits at the New Lincoln Museum
Want to know more about Lincoln? Just ask
Elsewhere: Brother Bones whistles Sweet Georgia Brown
Many More Unusual Links About Abraham Lincoln and About Richard Nixon Here
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The Next Generation
Space Shuttle EVA Space Suit Replica. Get highly detailed replicas of spacesuits, flight suits, and space-crafts for sale and for rental
Watch PBS’s The Elegant Universe (3 hours)
The successful launching of the Shenzhou V, the Divine Vessel, on 15 October 2003, with taikonaut Yang Liwei on board, marked a giant leap forward in the Chinese space program that saw its origins in the 1960s
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Wikipedia on Star Trek. (I actually never seen even one of the 726 episodes and ten motion pictures). Buy 212 Star Trek DVDs in one package
It is impossible to identify a meteorite from a photograph. Often, however, we can say “This is almost certainly not a meteorite” by looking at a photograph... The tongue-in-cheek term for a rock that is not a meteorite is a Meteorwrong
Many More unusual links about space travel Here
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November 11, 2005
Birth of Modern Punk
Miro - Animated music short commissioned by MaGiC Studios, based on the piano piece by Bach. Target audience are children from 3 to 5 years old
Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band
Honey, Where You Been So Long? - Pre-war blues. ‘Put some sugar in my bowl’
Did you know that when Brian Jones died, the Rolling Stones first offered his place in the band to the then-unknown Michael Palin? Other interesting pieces of pop music trivia that you know (that are 100% false)
Coverpop, a world music instruments. An interactive mosaic, made of tiny images, such as magazine covers