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September 30, 2006
Nuke’m and puke’m
How to prepare a successful Halloween Supper Party with creepy, but 100% tasty and edible courses
How to knit a slice of pizza. Also, Potsticker Girls
Hottest chili peppers and hot sauces in the world. (Thank you, Mike S.). Fatalii Finnish chilehead, extensive picture gallery of chilis
From kangaroo sashimi to thinly-sliced raw horse meat, a short list of strange foods
Another description of a Dinner at El Bulli (With obligatory photos)
Ten Foods You Should Never Eat
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September 30, 2006 in Food | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Elvis Fashion Week
Jean-Paul Gaultier‘s new, virtual “Encounter Playground”
Sock Monkey Wearables by Hazel and Melvin’s Room
Pictorial history of opera gloves. (From Information Junk)
Italian Polizia are so fashion-conscious
Fall 2006 HalfSuit collection
Top ten most embarrassing fashion trends of the past 25 years
Btw, there are only two days left until the door is closed on new submissions at the 2006 Best of the Blogs contest. Grow-a-brain has been suggested for a BOB. Please go there & vote. Vielen Dank
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September 30, 2006 in Fashion | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
September 29, 2006
Arnold fights a bear
Young bodybuilder, from a site dedicated to Greatest Bodybuilder of All-Time
Schwarzenegger fights a bear (A little dark)
Attu asks: Write a Poem, Limerick or Haiku
A portrait by Mark Stivers. (His blog)
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September 28, 2006
A co-blog post with Larry Carlson!
LineTo experimental by ~Volcanic-Penguin
Namey Name - Michael Jackson/Saddam Hussein fan-site
Architect Paul Laffoley’s Lucid dreams
Medical Animations from Xvivo
Suspension of disbelief from Volume One
The art of Abdul Mati Klarwein
Everything is soft in the magic brains of Virgina Beach art collective, Dearraindrop’s fantastic world
Zeloot- freaky postermakers
Digital art by Jimmy Joe Roche
Re-posts: Peter Stanick and Spores by Image Savant
This dude went to Japan and had pictures made in photobooths. The results? - Trippy FX
Collagemania master Harry Smith's Early Abstractions part 1, 2, 3 and 4
This is another post that I am “co-blogging”, this time with visionary multi media artist Larry Carlson. (Newer psychedelic blog at Sky Has Eyes), who provided most of today’s links. (Previous posts here.) Thank you, Larry! If other bloggers are interested to share the forum here on any other topic, please contact me for details.
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September 28, 2006 in Co-blogged with, Digital Art | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
September 27, 2006
Superfans
Ryder Cup Wives and Girlfriends
Giles L. Pellerin, nicknamed the Super Fan, was a fan of the USC college football team, notable for having attended 797 consecutive USC football games over a period of 73 years until his death at age 91
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September 27, 2006 in Extreme Sports | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
What do your pets do while you're at work?
What do your pets do while you're at work?
Re-post: 8 episodes of Ze Frank’s Annie and the Naughty bird
Catfish wallpapers for your computer. (From Information Junk)
By the end of summer, before the traditional Swedish moose hunt, moose and man meet - just like in the ancient days, as warriors did before some battles - not as enemies but as friends for a few days of celebration and fellowship
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September 27, 2006 in Animals | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Coffee You Can Eat
Single malt Scotch whisky, the movie
Cocaine in a can. (The website was down)
The new Espesso by Ferran Adria
Five Things No Bar Should Have
Ice Jacket, Ice covered bottles
A British blog by the makers of Innocent Drinks smoothies. (Seen on TypePad featured blogs)
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September 27, 2006 in Beverages | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
(Many new real estate blogs in Seattle)
Real estate 2.x. (Previously known as Real Estate 2.0)
Wendy Leung’s Seattle Condo Review
Timothy Ellis’s Seattle Bubble
Open House blogger, a News Tribune blog on the real estate industry and its curious musings, gossip, facts and analysis
LushHome, a blog about Real Estate in Singapore
Nigel Swaby’s Salt Lake Real Estate Blog
The Insider Real Estate Blog from Tampa, FL
Condo Domain, written by Ron Costa of Las Vegas High Rise Condos Blog and John A Keith of Boston Real Estate Blog
4MySales Real Estate Agent Success
Matt Heafey’s East Bay Real Estate Blog
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September 27, 2006 in Real estate Blogs | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack
"Donkey - Good for the skin..."
The ultimate poseur's paradise - A restaurant that serves Nothing
Obikà, a mozzarella bar in Rome
Strange Restaurant. By Shel Silverstein
The owner of a restaurant named after Adolf Hitler said he will change its name because it angered so many people
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September 27, 2006 in Food - Restaurants & Bars | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
3D
War On Terror - The board game
3-D 3-player Tic Tac Toe. (From Not Cot)
Game: Camera mind - Pick the last born circle
Game Over by Pes
This is not a game - Please call Luke Johnson now at 602-435-3694 and wake him up
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September 27, 2006 in Games | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
September 26, 2006
Yesterday when I was young
Last night we went to see the 82-year old Chahnour Varinag Aznavourian performing “The Farewell Tour” at Universal City. I found it was very moving, after listening to him singing those songs for over 40 years.
Unveiling an Aznavour sculpture at the main square in Gyumri, Armenia
Charles Aznavour Hosting The Muppet Show (First season)
”For Me, Formidable" sung by French pop singers Alizée and Jenifer Bartoli
Elsewhere: “Annie aime les sucettes, Les sucettes à l'anis” - France Gall - Les Sucettes
Dee Dee Bridgewater. (From Szanalmas)
People, you need Jacques Dutronc singing Le Playboy in your life
Filles Sourires, a blog about Girls. Singing In French.
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September 26, 2006 in Music - French Chansons of the 60's | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
September 25, 2006
Famous on IMDb
HAL's Comments While Trapped on a Desert Island, and Your Name Is Dave
David Lynch as photographed by Gérard Rancinan
Who was born on 20 April 1889, appeared in over 300 movies as himself, died on 30 April 1945 in a bunker in Berlin and does not have a photo available on IMDb?
Citizen Kong on Uncyclopedia
50 dark movies hidden in a painting (From M&M candy)
Re-post: Drawing Marilyn Monroe on Best of Drawball
"In a world where death can make you dead," comes the preview of The Mother of all Trailers
British phone books, from 1880 to be put online
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September 25, 2006 in Cinema | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
¿Habla Kryptonese?
Klingon Dictionary. Welcome to the Klingon Language Institute
Kryptonian Languages
The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs, and Body Language Cues, From Adam's-Apple-Jump to Zygomatic Smile. By David B. Givens
“He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree”. The Worst Analogies Ever Written in a High School Essay
A monument to the L. L. Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto in Budapest
Like Sniglets, Neologasm is a blog about making up words
naDevvo' yIghoS. /// Add it to your del.icio.us /// A Huge Depository of Unusual Language Links Here
September 25, 2006 in Languages | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Torturer-in-chief
One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror...
19 Year Old Diebold Technician Wins U.S. Presidency
The 20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress
Why is the USA so frequently the victim of resentment around the world
Honoring those who died on September 11th
Declaring War on Wide Angle Lenses
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September 25, 2006 in Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Chevalier imitations
The Lumberjack Song Sung in German (!) and more Monty Python’s Fliegender Zirkus. Some background of the “Lost” German episodes. Stills
Did I ever tell you about Brasky’s lifelong goal to reunite the cast of Police Academy? Well Brasky scours the country looking for all the actors. When I told him that George Gaines and David Graf were dead he said ‘Not for long!’ Well Brasky dug those two up, pulled their rotting skins off and stretched them over a couple of drifters. Then he yelled ‘Action’ and I’ll be damned if he didn’t single handedly shoot the greatest movie in film history. Tales of Bill Brasky
I'll Say She Is. A scene from a 1931 Paramount publicity film “The House That Shadows Built” and the Four Marx Brothers appear to promote Monkey Business. (YouBoob)
Jon Stewart without The Daily Show
George Carlin: The complete 1992 HBO Jammin' in New York
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September 25, 2006 in Comedians | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Belgium sand sculptures
Matt Kaliner’s different sand castles and how to make a sand castle the Matt way. A Sandman
Sand Sculptures Festival in Blankenberge, Belgium
The Art of sand sculpture by Paul Hoggard & Remy Geerts
Building Sandcastles on Worth 1000
B3TA's Tribute to 9/11
Sandpainting is the art of painting ritual paintings for religious or healing ceremonies. It is also referred to as drypainting. Sandpainting is practiced by Native Americans in the Southwestern United States, by Tibetan monks, by Australian Aborigines, and some are known to be made by Latin Americans on certain Christian holy days
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September 25, 2006 in Sand Sculptures | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
September 24, 2006
Consume today
Joe’s Character Cups
Not for sale - I’m a boy
A collection of Doggy bags, a small portion of the magical world of airsickness bags
Butterboy and Buttergirl
Travel John Products. (And from the same cameraphone - All employees must wash, etc.)
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September 24, 2006 in Shopping | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
The 27 amendments
The Mystery of The Number 27 by Chris More - Not a complete list
A List of The Grand Inquisitors, 1483-1820 (en Español)
The Morris Dancing Wiki, one of over 1500 existing Wikis on Wikia. (From Presurfer)
Top 392 Greatest Lines From Television. No 1: "Doh!"
I ask a lot of questions, so it's only fair that I throw out some answers as well - A list of answers
A list of things that seem strange to An American in London
Re-post: The Canonical List of Weird Band Names (And The Big List o' Frank)
A list of Strange Bedfellows
Ever wondered what is the longest (Insert item) in the world is?
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September 24, 2006 in Lists | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
September 23, 2006
Oh, the humanity
Flying to Oshkosh. (Scroll down to see Mt Rushmore from an unusual angle. From Bifurcated Rivets)
The Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst 1937
Satellite images of Groom Lake area (Area 51)
The Flying Car. Better known as the Aerocar
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September 23, 2006 in Flight | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
Go Tahoe
It looks like Google put a dirtbike video on their home page for a short while & without explanation a few weeks ago. Also, Elmer Fudd Google version
SitePAl Animated avatars - Don’t you hate them? Me too
This is my powerbook g4, which after more than 5 years of hard love has stopped working.” By Sam Brown of Exploding dog
Re-post: The Therapist Finder, The Cumming First United Methodist Church and 8 other company URLs designed by stoners and drunks
How Digg Works: After less than two years, Digg has in the area of 300,000 registered users and more than 1 million unique visitors per day, with 1,500 daily news posts
Analyzing 20,000 MySpace Passwords
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September 23, 2006 in Internet | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Growing Pains
Cooking With Marijuana, Tape 3: How to Make a Marijuana Caesar Salad. (YouTube. From Unknown highway)
To advertise the comedy “Weeds”, there was created a billboard that had attached three 6-foot high bags filled with giant sandwiches and massive prop marijuana
Sliding Hues & Illusory Motion. (From Archimedes' Lab)
This is your Mouse Party on drugs
The Hemp Revolution Video Series. (From the Australian Resist. Thank you, David)
Is the rise of Euro-cannabis necessarily a bad thing?
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September 23, 2006 in Drugs - "Save the Roaches, Arnie" | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Middle Earth Village
The former home of Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett up for sale
B&W Downtown gif. (Thanks, JJ)
English-style cottages and town-homes at The Shire, of Bend, Oregon. (Thank you, William G.)
I know how she feels: Despite owning 15 units in the central Los Angeles area, landlord Marceline Brown can only count on receiving on-time rent payments from one of her tenants: full-time crack dealer Nathan "Buck" Cruz, 24
Also there: Home Sales Dropping
Handyman Special! New Orleans Charmer! Buy our moldy house! At a fraction of appraised value! Only US $6,501.00
(By the way, before getting my real estate license, I worked at the Mike Ferry Organization training company. Mike Ferry, then with his sons Tom Ferry and Matthew Ferry taught me everything about success in real estate I needed to know.)
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September 23, 2006 in Real estate | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Stonefridge
(Too tired to blog. Here are just a few old links)
Toothpick sculptures by Steven J. Backman
Little Superstar. (YouTube)
Big Red Doll Inside The Hague City Hall
Connect any two things together. Omnipelagos finds the shortest paths between any two things. (I think I linked to it before)
I love people who smile. More Smiling Faces
Stonefridge - A fridgehenge in Santa Fe, NM
Unusual payphones of Brazil
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September 23, 2006 in Odds & Ends | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
September 22, 2006
Tea Time
Paper Cars
Road legal Sofa car
Lamborghini Gallardo as ultimate centerpiece. (From Our Strange World)
The Borgward was a German automobile manufacturer
The Truth about Hummer - Now everyone will know
Lots of Traffic Jams Links from Miss Cellania
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September 22, 2006 in Cars | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
September 21, 2006
No One Dares to Help
"On a recent Sunday, I was buying groceries in my beloved Amariya neighborhood in western Baghdad when I heard the sound of an AK-47 for about three seconds. It was close but not very close, so I continued shopping.
As I took a right turn on Munadhama Street, I saw a man lying on the ground in a small pool of blood. He wasn't dead.
The idea of stopping to help or to take him to a hospital crossed my mind, but I didn't dare. Cars passed without stopping. Pedestrians and shop owners kept doing what they were doing, pretending nothing had happened.
I was still looking at the wounded man and blaming myself for not stopping to help. Other shoppers peered at him from a distance, sorrowful and compassionate, but did nothing.
I went on to another grocery store, staying for about five minutes while shopping for tomatoes, onions and other vegetables. During that time, the man managed to sit up and wave to passing cars. No one stopped. Then, a white Volkswagen pulled up. A passenger stepped out with a gun, walked steadily to the wounded man and shot him three times. The car took off down a side road and vanished.
No one did anything. No one lifted a finger. The only reaction came from a woman in the grocery store. In a low voice, she said, "My God, bless his soul."
I went home and didn't dare tell my wife. I did not want to frighten her."
The rest of the story: No One Dares to Help
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Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein - The video
Collection of polls taken on Iraq
Happy International Peace Day
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September 21, 2006 in War in Iraq | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Connecting the Dots
Stay Hungry! Stay Foolish Google Video of Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech
Public messages of thanks from students to teachers who have made a difference in their lives
Alien My Little Pony (With Progression shots!)
Five Tips to Increase Your Likeability. No 1: Be positive
If I live to be 100 - Lessons from the Centenarians
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September 21, 2006 in Do Something with your Life | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Attica! Attica!
Fictional Detectives on Stamps
Photo of Chase Manhattan Bank branch located at 450 Avenue P., the actual location of the robbery depicted in Dog Day Afternoon
Jon's Jail Journal. In 2002, British stockbroker Shaun Attwood was arrested in Arizona, charged with money laundering and drugs offences. He spent the next two years awaiting sentence in Maricopa County jail, a cockroach-infested hellhole run by the notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio, where inmates endured starvation and frequently attempted suicide. (From Hell on earth)
Crime maps from The Chicago Police Department
By the way, I received about a dozen emails from readers complaining that the RSS feed on Bloglines for this blog has not been working for the past few weeks, and that the links are inactive. I have no idea how to fix it. Ideas?
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September 21, 2006 in Crime & Punishment | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
September 20, 2006
Cockpit photos
Gallery of US Military Instrument Panels. (From Plep)
Tiananmen Square Massacre, June 4, 1989. (Google Video)
Accounts and Galleries from The Great War with more than 7500 Authentic Period Photos, Illustrations and Newsarticles
Founded in 1939, the Patten Company is the country's leading innovative designer and manufacturer of inflatable products for U.S. military
Re-post: Antonio Riello’s Ladies Weapons
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September 20, 2006 in War | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
No use cryin', talking to a stranger
Beautiful Scarlett Johansson in “'When the Deal Goes Down”
J-walk’s uses Excel pivot tables to creat useless knowledge contribution to the world: Dylan Song Title Word Analysis
Joan Baez performs Forever Young. (YouTube) Also, Diamonds & Rust
Mimi and Richard Farina with Pete Seeger sings Pack Up Your Sorrows
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September 19, 2006
Dueling Brandos
Stella Shouting Contest. Inspired by the scene in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, this contest offers participants a chance to out shout each other in their best Marlon Brando fashion
Somehow similar: Shouting love in the center of a cabbage field Festival. (From Exploding Aardvark)
The morning after The Ganesh Chaturthi Festival in Bombay, statues of Ganesh are immersed in the sea
More from India: The Tomb of Jesus. This website presents and explores the thesis that Jesus Christ is dead and buried in a tomb in Srinagar, Kashmir, India
Pictures from Burningman 2006 by James Duncan Davidson
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September 19, 2006 in Festivals | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Biological clocks
When I first started collecting Unusual Clocks and Watches in 2003, it was mostly to archive all those flash-type clocks. Since then, the collection have grown to include many hundreds of odd time pieces. Have some more:
A clock by Billy Chasen
Online clock and Online Stopwatch
Odd watches - "Why make it simple when it can be complicated ?" (From Information Junk)
Making a Watch by Hand. In these days of “fast” and “convenient” I decided to commence a work of “painstaking” and “craftsmanship”, making my own wristwatch
10:08, 8 minutes past 10, is roughly the time analog watches are set to in most advertisements, though actual times shown vary between about 10:08 and 10:10. There are several reasons offered by watch companies, many of them psychological, and none of them verifiable as the actual origin of the practice
Re-post: Clockr uses random digit images from Flickr to display the current time
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September 19, 2006 in Clocks & Watches | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
September 18, 2006
Tainted spinach! Or : The best of Ask Mefi