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May 31, 2006
The Mark of the Beast
The number 666 is cool. Made famous by the Book of Revelation (Chapter 13, verse 18, to be exact), it has also been studied extensively by mathematicians because of its many interesting properties. Here is a compendium of mathematical facts about the number 666
Water Talkies How cool would it be to talk clearly underwater? Well now you can with these Water Talkies! Just place your mouth over the mouthpiece when speaking and your voice will be heard by everyone in the pool, up to 15 feet away. (From Everything And Nothing)
Looking for the art of your life? Can't find that unique personalized gift idea? Gene-Portrait creates a unique DNA digital image of your genetic world from a sample of your own DNA. Each DNA portrait is unique and holds no medical or legal value. (Thank you JL)
Intelligent Design - Only you can prevent gray goo
Patent#: US 7037243: Cordless Jump Rope
Looking for some Uranium Ore? Call United Nuclear "We specialize in small orders"
Does Viagra Keep Flowers From Wilting? (Too expensive)
Many More Unusual Inventions & Discoveries Here
May 31, 2006 in Science & Inventions | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Cuties
The Sugar Bag Tree. (Der Zuckertütenbaum) by Albert Sixtus and Richard Heinrich (1928)
Laurie Berkner's horrible children earworm Googlehead. (From Scripting. Damn you, Dave Winer)
The Happy Sunshine Story Time. (Watch first before sharing with kids. By the author of The Debbies)
Color my bath with Crayola Color Bath Tablets
Many More Unusual Links About Kids Here
May 31, 2006 in Kids | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
More REBs
Brick by brick: A lawyer’s musings on real estate law in California
Pittsburgh Homes Daily, targeted at those planning to move to (or moving within) Pittsburgh
Homewerx Home Inspection Blog, AKA "the Original Home Inspection Blog"
The Gene Molloy Real Estate Blog
Michele Flory’s Experience The Woodlands, TX
John Silos’s Fairfields Real Estate Blog
Here’s new real estate blog ranking site called PubSub
A new NAR blog (On top of In addition to the old NAR blog)
Real Estate Blog for Palo Alto & Mountain View
Tim O’Dwyer’s Australian Real Estate Blog
Ben Kakimoto’s blog of Seattle Condos and Lofts
The complete List of Real Estate Blogs as well as Grow-a-Brain’s Extensive Real Estate Archives are Here
May 31, 2006 in Real estate Blogs | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack
And then one day you’ll find ten years have got behind you...
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
Timothy Leary passed away 10 years ago today. "I was with him the evening before he died and I still remember his humor even in his final hour"... (I met Leary in 1992, at one of Jerry Rubin’s many parties in Brentwood, but of course I met him 25 years earlier in my dreams & nightmares…)
This animated short, The Bicycle Ride is a fanciful depiction of Dr. Albert Hofmann's discovery of LSD. This cartoon was debuted at the "LSD Symposium" held in honor of Albert Hofmann's 100th birthday in Basel, Switzerland
This man has invented more than 80% of the world’s known hallucinogenic drugs, has had more than 4000 psychedelic experiences, and in 1967 created the drug ecstasy. Meet Dr Alexander Shulgin, groundbreaking scientist and explorer of the human mind
More about any kind of illegal drugs especially Acid and marijuana Here
May 31, 2006 in Drugs - Timothy Leary | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Need help!
(I need to buy some lightning for my bedroom. I like this Ango Lamp. Any reader / decorator willing to come down to Riverside & help me fix my house?)
Moving Color glass tiles. (From Farpas e bitaites)
Not your same old shower curtain. (From BB Links)
Skelly, The Garden Swimmer Sculpture
Richard Sweeney’s paper lights
Step by step of how to build am aquarium coffee table for a fraction of the cost of ready-made models
Many More Unusual Design Concepts Here
May 31, 2006 in Home Decor | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Put the watch down
Robots, tigers and towns: How Celebrities Go Bankrupt
It’s the summer of 1966. The Brazilian national football team has been invited to the Swedish town of Åtvidaberg by the AB Facit company, at the time a large successful producer of calculators and typewriters. It is all a part of the Brazilian team's training program for the World Cup in England later in the summer. They have just played a training game against Åtvidaberg FF and now it's relaxation and party time. Singer Lill Lindfors is entertaining, Pelé, guys in viking helmets are there and meat is being grilled over the Churasqueiras…
A detailed analysis of David Bowie's teeth over time. (From Nag on the Lake)
Animal Superstars: Where Are They Now? (Hint: All dead...)
Making the rounds: Actors in Character. (I like the Rosemary Harris # 2. Who’s she?)
Familiar faces by Christian Witkin. (From the one-and-only, but still often NSFW, Toll Freedom)
Elvis's home sold to Uri Geller on eBay
Many More Unusual Stories About Celebrities Here
May 31, 2006 in Celebrities | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
May 30, 2006
American Beauty Lookin' For a True Patriot
Hannidate - The place where people of like conservative minds can come together to meet
The Great Czech MD Tussle and some background
Foot fetish anyone? The Kama Sutra for foot lovers
How to Make a Quick and Dirty Mosquito Trap
Tutorial: How to make an awesome logo
How to make a Dick Cheney pumpkin-head paper mask
Graphic above from Avatar animations by the folks at Nokia. Many More Unusual Things To Do With Your Life Here
May 30, 2006 in Do Something with your Life | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
May 29, 2006
Oh Lordi
"Waitin' Round to Die" sung by Townes Van Zandt
Pjotro - The man with the musical suit
The Piano Society - Free Quality Recordings of Classical Piano Masterpieces
33 versions of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah
Top fifty conservative rock songs. At No. 1: "Won’t Get Fooled Again," by The Who
Gallery of Ceramic Musical Instruments at Burnt Earth. (From Screenhead)
North Korean National Hymn Sing Along. (Click on KFA symbol)
Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush sing “Don't Give Up” and Peter Gabriel's World Music. (From Crooks and Liars)
iGoatse. The new skin for your iPod
Repost: The music score for Death Waltz by John Stump. Based on a Cro-Magnon skinning chant. Background
The official Woody Shaw page
Original concert photographs at RockPrints
Many More Unusual Musicians and their Music Here
May 29, 2006 in Music_ | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Stars of The Southern Hemisphere
Photo above by my niece, who’s traveling somewhere on the South Island.
See a new NZ post on Koru Koru, my Moving to New Zealand blog
May 29, 2006 in Music from New Zealand | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Woody Harrelson's Record is Safe
Bill Maher parodies David Blaine
Marijuana Recipes, from Butterscotch Space Pops to Ganja Cheese Ball
From PopArt: Marijuana Leaf. Created Using The Official U.S. Government List of the 647 "Street Terms" for Marijuana
Why would anybody buy Fake Silk Marijuana Plants?
Best places for a stoner vacation? Ibiza, Negril, Amsterdam
Amsterdam Coffeeshop Directory
Rocky Mountain High. University of Colorado Police Post 420 Pics Online, Offer $50 For Each ID'd Pot Smoker
Pssss…. Wanna Get stoned? By Joey Lawrence
Small things about the Las Vegas rental market
"And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them." (Ezekiel 4:12-13) More about many illegal drugs especially Acid and Pot Here
May 29, 2006 in Drugs - "Save the Roaches, Arnie" | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
The New Jerusalem by Pinhas Sadeh
The gods, from their temple distant beyond distance, call the poet,
Yet a youth, unto them.
They call to him who has no country, town or home,
To come and build his home in the heavens,
To come in betrothal to the girl of the heaven,
To go to the country church, or to the inn, to smoke his pipe,
And to ramble, on Sabbath morns, across the broad dusts of the heavens.
Life is time: the time that goes
As you dream life.
As fish live in water you live in time.
Time has no measure: the more beauteous the dream
The longer time lasts, becoming infinite and eternal.
And so you long for the most beautiful, the most beautiful of all:
The northern lights, the mist, the girls (pale or dark), the lawn
The sea-breeze,
And so you long to guess the meaning of the call of the Gods.
In the past, yet a boy, you thought much of death.
Today you think, often, of the onceness
Of manâs life.
You have thought much of late of time that passes unchanging,
Of the dream essence of things and events.
For man passes like a meteor through this his world; alone like a
Meteor, and
Like a meteor flushing for a fluttering second and falling into dusk.
He dreams much⦠He dreams all his life.
He may dream of a small home and a golden haired girlâ¦
A burning hearth at evening, a pipe, a kettle boiling in the corner,
A window looking out on the lawn, cows
Returning from pastureâ¦
You dreamed another dream: to be homeless on this earth.
Encircling the globe in trains, in boats, on foot.
Sleeping by day, roaming by night, musing and moulding phrases of
Poems.
Sitting in taverns over wine, singing in the company of strange people,
Looking around at this world⦠Weeping at times, whistling softly.
The Gods denied you happiness,
That you might not live your own life.
That you might understand the suffering of others, that
You might be able to describe their woe.
The gods chose you in your motherâs womb and will always call you
To them.
From the mists of distance the gods beckon to the poet, yet a youth,
With beckoning most painfully sweet.
And so you went out of earthly Jerusalem, to seek the new Jerusalem.
You went out of the land of Egypt to wander in the wilderness of the
World,
To celebrate the soulâs Passover.
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This is the first part of a long poem by my favorite Israeli writer, Pinhas Sadeh (1929-1994). It is taken from his autobiographical novel, âLife as a parableâ, translated by Richard Flanz (1966)
Many More Literary Links Here
May 29, 2006 in Books & Literature | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
May 28, 2006
What kind of blog reader are you?
Let's Buy Us A Damn Webby. “We'd like to congratulate the winners on being successful enough to have the dough to enter the competition. What can we say? We prefer recognition when it's not pay-for-play, and we'd way rather spend that $245 on beer.”
Sorry I can't blog anymore now that I'm married; my husband doesn't allow it: A nice excuse to stop blogging
Gimme Your Stuff, the cultural exchange blog where you can swap items of significance to your area with items from others around the world
Blogs with a face. “A site matching blogger visages/symbols to their individual URLs and grouping the images into a (presumably) ever-growing collage”
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is Ambrel, the online home of Nikola Tamindzic, nightlife photographer/provocateur. Many More Unusual blogs Here
May 28, 2006 in World of Blogging | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Will work for peanuts
How to write a proper resignation letter
How I Work, by Bill Gates, chairman and CSA
"Writer's block," "swimmer's ear," and "athlete's foot" are all examples of occupation-specific conditions. Are there any others?
Will work for… ? Will Work For Food Cartoons
Seven Career Killers: Beyond lying on your résumé, stealing office supplies or failing to show up for work
Many More Unusual Career Moves Here
May 28, 2006 in Jobs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
My Riverside
About a month ago, I was “tagged” by Alex at Neatorama with a “blog-meme” called Neat things about your hometown. I wouldn’t usually ‘do memes’, but here is “My Riverside” now (Click on photos to enlarge):
First orange trees in California, on the corner of Magnolia & Arlington.
The “Woods” Streets.
The Mission Bells, city symbol.
On top of Mt. Rubidoux.
The entrance to the gorgeous Mission Inn.
The old Evergreen cemetery by Pine & 14th St.
A sculpture of Ghandi (?) downtown.
Mario’s Place - Our favorite downtown restaurant.
The old Victoria Ave., where the last few orange groves remained.
The Whitegate area, right above my new house.
Some Bougainvilleas bushes up on Overlook.
It’s been nearly two years since I moved to town, and I feel very happy here. Elsewhere around the area: Current Riverside Real Estate market statistics
Vintage Palm Springs Postcards
More Unusual Links About Riverside And San Bernardino and about Orange County Here
May 28, 2006 in Riverside & Corona - California | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
50-Unit Apartment Building for sale in Fontana
Even though I am not about to leave for New Zealand for another 2 years, I’ve decided to sell now a 50-unit building that I own in Fontana, California. I have priced this property at $6,250,000 for a quick sale.
Like the previous building that I posted here recently, I do not expect to have many Grow-a-brain readers as potential investors in such local Inland Empire building, but I will offer to the many real estate bloggers (and other webmasters) who read this site the same deal I did before: If you link to this post, and if you’re able to generate a lead among your clients who’ll send me an accepted offer for the property, I will pay you $15,000 referral fee, at close of escrow. So please spread the word (or call me to discuss a protected arrangement).
Here are some details regarding the subject:
The Park Terrace Apartments on 1531 W. Rialto Ave, Fontana, 92335.
Price: $6,250,000
Down payment: $1,712,632
Assume existing $3,937,368 fixed rate 1st trust deed & note, due 10/10, at %5.75 interest, $23,074 per month, 1 point assumption fee
Gross Scheduled Rental Income: $48,080/monthly $576,960 Annually
Allowance for Vacancies & Credit Losses (5%) $28,848
Gross Scheduled Income $548,112
Operating Expense allowance (34%) $188,724
Net Operating Income Estimates $359,388
UPSIDE / MARKET RENT DATA 46 2/2’s @ $950/ $43,700
4 1/1’s @ $ 895/mo. $ 3,580
Laundry Income/mo. $ 800
Total Market Rent $48,080/ $476,960 yr.
MARKET RENT GRM (GROSS RENT MULTIPLIER): 10.83 x Gross
MARKET RENT CAPITALIZATION RATE (CAP RATE): 5.75%
This gorgeous property consists of a 50-Unit Apartment project, with a good mix of 46 2-Bedroom 2 Bath and 4 1-Bedroom 1 Bath units, on a spacious 2.3 acre. Security gated 2-story frame and stucco construction throughout. The buildings all have pitched, asphalt tile roofing. The project offers a Pool, Spa, and Laundry, and 50 garages. Built in the late eighties. It is located on the border between Rialto & Fontana, in a very high-growth part of town.
Please share this information with your qualified prospects. Email me at realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com, or call me on my cell for more details.
See you in escrow.
More about The Champion Company
May 28, 2006 in Real estate | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
The Cube
Leonardo Bridge Project. In 1502 Leonardo da Vinci did a simple drawing of a graceful bridge with a single span of 720-foot span. Da Vinci designed the bridge as part of a civil engineering project for Sultan Bajazet II of Constantinople. The bridge was to span the Golden Horn, an inlet at the mouth of the Bosphorus River in what is now Turkey. The Bridge was never built
Architecture of the Arctic. Buildings of the Canadian territory of Nunavut, where high winds, freezing temperatures, and the difficulty of transporting raw materials pose some interesting architectural constraints. All of the buildings below are in the city of Iqaluit, except for the flying saucer, which is in Igloolik
Gulliver Park in Valencia, Spain. (From Folderol)
The new Apple Store, Fifth Avenue. Scroll down to the bottom of Jack Cheng’s post: "We know what the next entry in your blog is going to be"
Churches and Chathedrals in France, photographed by Arnaud Frich. Also, The Beauty of The Loire Valley
West Coast Woman To Build Crash Pad Out of an Old 747
By the way, who is your favorite living architect?
Many More Unusual architectural Links Here
May 28, 2006 in Architecture | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
May 27, 2006
"Why did the Mefite cross the road?
Because someone on Boing Boing did earlier that day"
Self-linking is severely frowned upon by members of the MetaFilter community, and is an immediate cause of a pile-on. (Like the story of Amir Massoud Tofangsazan’s broken laptop he sold on eBay)
MetaFilter down;
Sad tidings of the morning.
What shall I read now?
Meta Haiku
How many MetaFilter Users does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Some classic & semi-classic AskMeFi threads: Porn in the woods. Did you, as a kid, find porn in the woods? I did, and I have noticed this is a worldwide phenomena. Why the porn in the woods? Where does the porn in the woods come from?
How can I measure the weight of my head without cutting it off? It's really important
If it feels good, do it. How long do people date before doing the deed these days?
Behind the scenes of The Star Wars MacBook clip
Metafilter as a paralell between blogs and memories
More of The Best of Metafilter Here
May 27, 2006 in Best of Metafilter | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Feminine rites of passage
“Jack Sprat
Could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean;
And so, betwixt them both,
They licked the platter clean.”
Some other Mother Goose Fairy Tales by Brian Clarke
Mary Yaeger’s embroidered Female merit badges, from Breast feeding to Weight watching. (Found on infomaniac. Also there, Fabio’s Kitchen of Love)
Cell Phone Symphony, by David Byrne
No bottles with living flies on this table, please
Farmers Only Dating Services – Beeeeeh!
Anal Fissure Self Help Page. This is a self help page for those seeking more information on anal fissures. Since hemorrhoids often appear to happen with anal fissures, I talk about them too. My goal is to help others by providing information on these ailments
Bombay TV Subtitle Adder. (Thank you, Mike)
Yeti at his best. (3 pages)
CigarettesPedia, a full encyclopedia of cigarettes. (From Billy Foxtrot)
It's time again for a Quiz at Random Good Stuff
Reporter Gets Owned. (Banners NSFW)
Bubble Magic with Tom Noddy
“Do you want some herpes or not? I ain't got all day here.” Other postcards I’ve made a-la PostSecret, by the guy who writes the Dog Blog from San Francisco
Many More Unusual Oddities and Crazy linkage Here
May 27, 2006 in Odd & Crazy | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
May 26, 2006
"Fool me once: shame on you.
Fool me twice: shame on you. Fool me three time: shame on you. Fool me four times: shame on you. Fool me five times: shame on me." A 16-year-old boy has been arrested for robbing the same gas station five times in less than a month. (Tagline from “Fark”)
Love Is Blind even if you’re not
Helen Thomas gets thousands of flowers. (Photo above from Dr. Menlo)
Use of wood chippers has not been endorsed by the AVMA as an acceptable means of euthanasia for poultry, AVMA says
NYC Tattoo Convention kicks off
Ode To Ken "Kenny Boy" Lay by Mad Kane:
Oh Kenny Boy, the jails, the jails are calling,
From state to state, and through the world so wide.
The money's gone, and all the chips are falling,
'Tis you, 'tis you must go and you must hide
Many More Unlikely News Stories Here
May 26, 2006 in Current News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Hokey Pocky
Hakone Museum is the first open-air museum of Japan. I can see myself waking its gardens for a few days, enjoying the view of the green mountains all around. (Thank you, Dafna)
Japan's Capsule Hotels. Each capsule has a little control panel. There is an alarm clock, TV/Radio speaker, light and TV on/off switch, volume knob, and some panic button
The Twilight Zone by Sato Shintaro
The Reversible Destiny Lofts, a new housing project in Tokyo which aims to keep residents sharp by throwing them off balance
“Old man bites tenderly”? A weird Library Game game show of some kind. Also, Dough Whacking
10 things to do for free in Tokyo. Depending on the season you can spot people giving away free tissues with a little commercial message almost everywhere
Picture above from The Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Japanese Postcards
Many More Unusual Links about Japan Here
May 26, 2006 in Japan | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
May 25, 2006
It’s your dough
“I’m still sore from last night” and other Things to write on check memos. When writing a check for an unpleasant bill, there are subtle things you can do to amuse yourself, while confusing those on the receiving end
One Dollar by Jean-Luc Cornec. More Graffiti Currency at “Bad Example”
Beautiful Currency Collages by C. K. Wilde
Similarly, Money art by Justine Smith. (From Neatorama)
Nick Jackson shows how to double your money in 2 minutes
“A personal finance blog of my journey to reach my goal of $2 million + the value of my primary residence”
Many More Unusual Stories about Money Here
May 25, 2006 in Money & Finances | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Blog Of The Day
I’d like to draw your attention to a little-visited page of Grow-a-brain, the Blog Of The Day collection. I’ve kept it on and off since November 2003, and I’ve quietly added new links to it in the last few months. If you are looking to read something different, you may discover some creative folks on this list. I have a few more sites to add to it, and then I’ll shut it down again for a while. If you know of some interesting blogs that are not on the list, please suggest them below, before it’s too late. Today’s BotD is Rosen Blog, by Seattle writer and consultant Matt Rosenberg
Similar collections: Dr. Menlo’s Blogeur, Arthur Coddington’s BotD, Small Business Blog of the Day. Also, Crab Apple Lane picks a Blog of the Day with every post
Domain Name Analysis for Grow-a-brain. D’uh
Previous Site News Here
May 25, 2006 in Website News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
MisFormers
It’s a waterball. It’s a water wheel. It’s inflatable. (Thank you, CB)
2000 Square Meter Of Tetris, The World’s Largest Functional Tetris Game
Homemade Super Soaker modifications
Sam Loyd's 1914 work ‘Cyclopedia of 5000 Puzzles, Tricks, and Conundrums (With Answers)'
Fantazy Land in Alexandria, Egypt, the worst run park I have ever been to
Orbox B, by Arseniy
Scott Campbell’s Transformers toys sculptures
70's Toy Commercials, including “Bing Bang Boing”
By the way, I’ve got cable at home, yeah! Many More Unusual Games and Toys Here
May 25, 2006 in Games | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
May 24, 2006
Pull the string
A nice Wonderbra ad. (From Cool Hunter. Also there, the world’s first TV for pigs, a device for smoking when in the presence of a pig)
More interactive Bra Ads at Banner Blog: Snip it, Tickle it or simply Pull it
Creative Department Douchebag, AKA AdMan, by Pete Johnson
The ads of Axes and Alleys, claiming to be an on-going 100 year old tractor magazine
Don’t It Yourself. Some things are better left to professionals
Advertisements on the overhead bins. Every bit of empty space in our lives is slowly being taken over by ads, so why would you want even more?
“Ladies, we have a problem!” The Miami Vice Spoof of Bacardi & Cola
A Large Collection of Unusual Ads Here
May 24, 2006 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The Lost Generation
Welcome to Comic Book Bondage Cover of the Day, the web's foremost reference site for bondage covers on mainstream comic books
How many of these caricatures by Colombian artist Omar Figueroa Turcios you can guess correctly without looking at the label? (From Spy's Spice)
The rough stuff at Garret World
The All New Sesame Street. (From Andy Lark’s blog)
The Last Generation and all other tracts at The Jack T. Chick Museum of Fine Art
Meet Kami, a flopsy, mopsy dandelion-colored Muppet who enjoys education, storytelling, and carrying the AIDS virus. (Thank you, Mika)
Tiger League America at “Dial B for Blog” (5 parts)
Married To The Sea, a comic by Drew and Natalie. Drew's other website is Toothpaste For Dinner. Natalie's other website is Natalie Dee. (I’m sure I blogged it before, but I can’t find it in the archives)
Decade by decade with Archie Comics. (From Daily Jive)
A giant Collection of Unusual Comics Here
May 24, 2006 in Comics & Cartoons | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The Five Stages of Grief
Unidentified dead bodies in Punjab death
A clever Swiss death notice
My Death Space - many car accidents, some murders, suicides, Iraq
(Fictional) Fred Phelp’s obituary
Afterlife Telegrams sending telegrams to people who have passed away. (Thank you, Paul Kinsella)
Am I alone here? What goes through your mind when you think you are about to die?
By the way, if you want to read this blog thru a different feed, here you go
Many More Unusual Links About Death and Eternity and about Unusual Coffins & Caskets Here
May 24, 2006 in Death & Eternity | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
May 23, 2006
Tropic of Fermata
Pop-up Books by Robert Sabuda
Anthony Burgess’s list of the best 99 novels published in English from 1939 to 1984
Jack Kerouac's own design for a book cover of “On The Road” (Never used) from a selection of Kerouac Book Covers
Also, covers of William S. Burroughs’s books . (Photo above is of the my own copy of Junkie, one of the very first books I read in English)… The Cut-Up Films of William S. Burroughs (1963-1972)
For a limited time only, Mr. Sun is offering a one-of-a-kind item: The DaVinci Coat. Hurry, order now while supplies last! (Unfortunately, when I flew to NY last month, I bought this trashy novel for the flight, so now I can say with the rest of humanity that I read this stupid, predictable, boring “thriller”, by one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature)
On the other hand, I enjoyed reading Ken Follett’s Pillars of the Earth and I was glad to read that he is planning a big, fat sequel to it…
“More commas, please.” Feedback from Joyce’s Submission of Ulysses to his Creative Writing Workshop
Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: a neuron-developmental perspective on A.A. Milne
Re-post: The tourist map of literature
What is the most profane novel ever written? Trainspotting, Maldoror, Over the Rooftops of Paris?
Once upon a time, a mouse told a browser that there should be more ways than one to find a tale. Share a Tale is a place where all kinds of tales will find a home: published and original - folk tales, romantic tales, science fiction, experimental
Many More Unusual Literary Links Here
May 23, 2006 in Books & Literature | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
May 22, 2006
Toast of the Town
10 Best Car Chases, from Blues Brothers & Bullitt to Ronin & T2
Super-Glue: Best practice for countering key stroke loggers
The Freezing Motion Illusion by Max R. Dürsteler, winner of The 2nd annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year contest. (Found on Optical illusions, Etc.)
Philadelphia Haikus at the Best of Craigslist
Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and other top 100 American speeches
Ronnie O’Sullivan plays his best frame of Snooker
Best toaster since the invention of toast
More on Slate: Best locks to protect your bike
Best village in the southern Netherlands
More Of The Best Things in Life Here
May 22, 2006 in Best of Everything | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Long lost friends
How to find long Lost Friends if you have a website
all work and no play makes zydeco fish a dull boy
A Scientific Approach to Myspace’s Failure. Using the power of Google searches, I hope to prove why Myspace.com is a failure of humanity. I’m not debating whether Myspace offers a good system or service, I’m only lamenting the place it has become thanks to its user base. There are good and bad uses for social networking websites. Most are useless and waste more time without contributing to the social good. Myspace is the worst
Get your own Gmail signature
similicio.us - find similar sites
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The Broth – A Global Mosaic. (Thank you, Amanda)
Who Built the Internet, and Is It for Sale?
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