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October 31, 2006
Food Balls
Sour Death Balls. A short movie which is a series of headshots of people (mostly children) trying to keep a very nasty candy in their mouths for as long as possible
21 pages of Real Cakes
The Discworld Cake, based on Terry Pratchett's books, by baker-artist Jane Fisk
Re-post: The food balls of Nir Adar
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Joyce Silveira Palhano de Jesus
How to build a homemade Vulcan lyre, just like the one Mr. Spock played. (From Brain Kane)
Louis Johnson - Slap Bass Dying fish
What kind of guitar is she playing?
Also: 2003 Ladies in waiting for Gene Simmons
Classical Sheet Music Archive
Henry Diltz rock photography from the 1960s
A tribute to Barbi Benton, the singer
All the strings on Amazon (And all the many mosaics from Coverpop by jim bumgardner)
Scott Williams' tribute to the facial expressions that squeeze those notes out of guitars - Guitar Face
The real story of Flipside Magazine, a Punk fanzine from 1977 Whittier
54 covers of Girl From Ipanema
Forbidden Crypts Of Haunted Music
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October 30, 2006
Invading Kennebunkport
What’s a “farbisseneh”? Who are the “goyim”? What’s a “shmeggegge”? Yiddish with George and Laura, by Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman
Virtual Klezmer (German site. MP3’s)
Re-post: Yinglish
A Yiddish version of "The Pirates of Penzance", AKA Di Yam Gazlonim
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The grandfather paradox
A trip in Kirghizstan. Traditional Kyrgyz felt making. Photos of traditional life in Kyrgyzstan
Largest travel trolley in the world
Bagan, the most important Asian city in the 11-13 century
Color palettes of travel companies
Time travel has been a staple of science fiction. With the advent of general relativity it has been entertained by serious physicists. But, especially in the philosophy literature, there have been arguments that time travel is inherently paradoxical. The most famous paradox is the grandfather paradox: you travel back in time and kill your grandfather, thereby preventing your own existence. To avoid inconsistency some circumstance will have to occur which makes you fail in this attempt to kill your grandfather. Doesn't this require some implausible constraint on otherwise unrelated circumstances? Time Travel and Modern Physics
Countries and Cities of the world
Blogjogging 2,950 miles from Syracuse to LA: Aspiring filmmaker jogging that stroller all the way to Hollywood, baby
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Office Survival
Back From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers That His Bid for Tenure Has Been Denied
A Visual Guide to Physical Examination
In the 136 years since Christopher Sholes invented the typewriter, the working world has changed. Early typists (almost all men, called "type-writers"), typed with one or two fingers, looking at the keys. Secretaries have truly become professionals. Year-By-Year Chronology Of The Secretarial Profession
“There's a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking…”
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October 29, 2006
R2 D2
The Official Website of the R2 Builders Club
Google periodic table of elements
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is located in the recently restored former headquarters of the U.S. Patent Office
Ever stuck your foot in one of those Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscope? (From Scribal Terror)
How does an Etch-a-Sketch work?
Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage. One of the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
Some guy built an elaborate Rube Goldberg Machine in his apartment. Re-post: incredible Japanese machines
A photo of a Plasma Lamp on wikipedia
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Literary frauds!
Similarly, Anton Chekhov spoke at Barnes & Noble and signed books
Eighteenth century Literary fraud. 10 best literary hoaxes
A short animated riff on Joyce Ulysses, in which actual pages from the book serve as frames, with figures painted over text
Has Finnegans Wake ever been translated? How?
Confederacy of Dunces: A Virtual Tour
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October 29, 2006 in Books & Literature | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Last throes
Some gentle persuasion and a little bit of waterboarding
With daily bombings by faceless insurgents, Iraq looks like a country committing suicide for the cameras rather than aspiring to independence. Iraq: the world's first Suicide State
The Ultimate Sniper by John Plaster, used as an inspiration for a new Iraqi sniper brigade
Support the Troops by Bringing Them Home, Soldiers Say
Tea and kidnapping - behind the lines of a civil war
Unrelated: Guess who’s coming out Against Nude Youth Summer Camps
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Jell-O Shots
“Signs & Wonders Peanut Milk Is great For Your Skin, Immune System, Energy and Stamina & More”
The secret Coca Cola formula and Pepsi-Cola Recipe
Bling Water and other over-hyped, over-priced, pretentious designer water brands. (From Neatorama)
Lovely vinegar drinks
Ooga-Mooga - Tiki Mug Collections
Lighting a Jell-O Shot on Fire
World’s most expensive cocktails: $51,200. Also, most expensive bottle of tequila sold, $225,000 in Mexico City. (From J-Walk)
How to Make a Watermelon Martini
More Coffee art
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October 28, 2006
Tenacious D on GooTube
Long Live The D - Trailer for the new movie, The Pick of Destiny
Jack Black schools all of you on the truth about piracy. Remember, don't be a douche
Tenacious D's tribute to the awesome recording studio
NSFW!
11/4/06 Update: First 6 minutes of “Pick of Destiny”
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Thai Fried Noodles
Appon's Thai Food Recipes and blog, including Mini Yellow Bean Fruits. (From Tom McMahon)
Thai Street Food in Bangkok
Golden Boy Fish Sauce and other Favorite Thai Brands From “Adventures in Thai Cooking & Travel”
More Thai dishes. (Hello, Bing)
(Pix above from Real Thai Blog)
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October 28, 2006 in Best Thai Restaurant in OC | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Coffee is for closers
“The good news is - you're fired. The bad news is you've got, all you got, just one week to regain your jobs, starting tonight. Starting with tonight. Sit. Oh, have I got your attention now? Good. 'Cause we're adding a little something to this month’s sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anyone want to see second prize? Second prize's a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. You get the picture? You're laughing now? You got leads. Mitch and Murray paid good money. Get their names to sell them! You can't close the leads you're given, you can't close shit, you are shit, hit the bricks pal and beat it 'cause you are going out!”
Cup above and other Sales Monologues there
Lessons learned from a sales job that sucked
Seventy years after it first appeared, Dale Carnegie’s classic self-help manual How to Win Friends and Influence People is being republished in a new edition. Is it still relevant?
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October 28, 2006 in Salesmanship | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
More & More
Prediction: Now that the market has slowed down, many agents will drop out, and many of those who stay will start real estate blogs, to fill out the times, while “waiting for the phone to ring”…
Daniel Rothamel’s Real Estate Zebra
Pete Jalbert’s pretty Maui Real Estate Blog, since January 2005
Utah’s Blue Roof
Geno Petro’s Chicago's Home Weblog
Austin Real Estate Scene by Terrill Fischer, real estate practitioner during the day, comedian at night
A blog by the employees of Trulia
Jeff Dimitry’s Selling Reno, NV blog
Stefan J. Scholl’s Northern Michigan Real Estate Blog
Andrew Mastrandonas’s Boomers In Costa Rica blog
HomesMax Bay Area Real Estate blog
From Taos Transforming Real Estate
Colorado Springs Real Estate Resources
Mike's Corner Web 2.0 For Real Estate Pros
A real estate investors interviews blog
Another Real Estate Blogroll from “In the numbers”
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October 28, 2006 in Real estate Blogs | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack
Semi-Digged
I’ve been getting tons of visitors on this blog lately from Digg. It seems that when the site is down, one of the Digg crew members recommends Grow-a-Brain, and people follow the advice. (I was digged before with the White Shirt Expriment post. Thank you, Amar)
If you want to read Grow-a-Brain on Live Journal, somebody put up a feed
“не помню, на что и зачем они ссылались, но в рефферерах у меня числятся” – Whatever that means, I hope it’s good…
From Craig Schiller: “As you read it… you are charmed, challenged, intrigued and taught”… Also, what can happen to you if you get linked here...
…”Maverick Real Estate Blogger”…
…”Don’t really know how to describe this site, except that I get lost for hours in there, chasing the cornucopia of bizarre topics…”
By “Jolly Cholly”: GrowABrain has done it again. If you have never given that blog a look, do so. He has the most interesting items, hundreds of them
“I will refer everyone I know. Nice work on your Grow-a-Brain.” - Julie Roberts
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October 27, 2006
The Spencer Tunick Experience
The Spencer Tunick Experience. (Click on pix to biggify!)
Tomatina is not the only festival in Spain -- turns out the Spanish are just crazy about wacky festivals and here is another glorious one, Cascamorras...
It seems there are two otherwise unnotable towns, Baza and Guadix. They fight over possession of this statue, the "Virgin of Piedad". They've fought over it for five centuries.
...Every year, Guadix sends a team of representatives to Baza in an attempt to get the statue. These representatives are the "Cascamorras". People of Baza wait for the Cascamorras with a big bag of dirt, tinted water, and eggs…
More from Spain - Antzar Eguna festival: Decapitate the goose
Burning Man photos by NK Guy. Since 1999
During the month of September, people from all over the world gather in Lisdoonvarna, Ireland, for the town’s famous matchmaking festival
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Things I never meant nor wished to say
Andy Warhol's Dylan screen test. (No sound)
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Bob Dylan Imitation Contest
Blowing the candles on a Birthday cake
Like a Rolling Stone cover by Jimi Hendrix
Based on the idea of “Six Degrees of Separation,” find the quickest route connecting Bob Dylan to various well-known people. How do you get from yourself to Bob Dylan?
The Times They Are A-Changin - Now On Broadway – Yuck!!
10/29/06 update: The critics agree - Bob Dylan on Broadway is an aesthetic car crash
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Different planets
You’re tall or small - I like you
You’re fat or thin - I like you
You’re rich or poor - I like you
(Warning: Earworm!)
If you spank the gay out of your kids, you might let the crazy in. (It cannot be real, can it?)
A recent report revealed that Sweden is the best place in the world to give birth, and Niger the worst
Everything You Don't Want to Know About Your Kid’s Sex Life: The 100-teen-vs.-100-parent promiscuity poll
Pee & Poo - Plush toys and Kids clothing
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October 27, 2006 in Kids | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Human Swastika
Josef Blösche was a Nazi war criminal who held the rank of SS-Rottenführer. Born in Friedland in Austria-Hungary, Blösche began his life working as a farmhand and a waiter at his father's hotel. After Nazi Germany took over the Sudetenland, Blösche became a willing servant of the regime.
In September 1941, he began serving as a guard at the Warsaw Ghetto and was in charge of the wooden bridge between Warsaw and the ghetto. He became known as "Frankenstein" for his monstrous behavior. Here he is on the right of this famous photograph...
Nazi Croats form Human Swastika, October 2006. Previous one, 1933
Home movies made by Nazi officers in the 1940s have been found in a church in rural Devon.
The films show members of the SS running a slave labor camp in southern Russia
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Waiting to Inhale
Welcome to Riverside County - We're #1 Dirtiest Air in the Nation. Deadly Health Impacts. Ask Before You Buy
Victoria Avenue Citrus Association, c. 1920. Many other apple crate label art. Victoria Ave. is one block away from my house. Here is what it looks like today, still beautiful, in a different way
Zip Code Stats - 92506 (And any other in the US)
The only Samadhi Floatation Tank in The Inland Empire
Big fire in Cabazon today, 4 firefighters dead
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October 26, 2006
The crochet lawn
Jane Bolsover’s knitted garden
Fun with Treadmills. (GooTube)
For all you trash cans needs, Trash Cans & More
Handy Japanese reading stand
IQ Light is a self assembly lighting system made up of interlocking quadrilaterals
The Coffin Kitchen. (thank you, Raluca)
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October 26, 2006 in Home Decor | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Global Century Investments
* We're entering the fourth year of a down stock market. Is it time to sell yet?
* Have we hit bottom yet?
* What can you tell small investors who are really starting to worry?
Straight Talk About Today's Markets
The Johnny Cash Prepaid Card is among the first celebrity-branded debit card programs to be launched. "We are excited to bring the legend of Johnny Cash to our card product line and believe that this marks another milestone in the prepaid card industry"
If you're interested in getting rich, I'm going to give you the simplest formula for doing so. In fact, if you follow it you're virtually guaranteed to build enough wealth to get you into the top 5% of society. The easiest way to get rich
Kazakh Bank Gets Its Own Name Wrong
(Pix above from ViceLand)
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October 26, 2006 in Money & Finances | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
October 25, 2006
gifs & jpgs X4
(Click on each photograph to enjoy full size if so desired)
(Shark pix taken by my cousin sammy who is still sailing around the world)
Stephen Hawkings with first wife
Similar collection Here and Here
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October 24, 2006
Happy Loving Day
On June 12th, 1967, interracial couples became legal thanks to the Supreme Court decision entitled Loving v. Virginia. Before that date, states had the right to separate and punish interracial couples. These punishments included imprisonment of up to ten years. Violations included marriage, sex, and living together. This issue is a part of the civil rights movement that is too often forgotten. On June 12th of every year, celebrate your legal right to love a person of any race
Only so many days / hours / minutes / second to Christmas!
Paying tribute to the nation's Jewish heritage during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
Why Dogs Hate Halloween. Also, Halloween custom for a turtle
Re-post: 300 love letters
God bless you for the beautiful radio I won
(Famous photograph above by Ralph M. Hattersley, Jr.)
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McConnell's Pork Barrel
At Mantra, hyped as the world's first ayurvedic restaurant, you don't order. The waiter looks you over and tells you what you're having
McCain, Feingold Co-Sponsor Chain Of Integrity-Themed Eateries
Waiters at a new Chinese Noodle house must wear noodle style hair
“The most dangerous species of owner is the one who gets into the business for love.” The economics behind an independt coffee shop
La Coupole, 102 boulevard Montparnasse
All patrons of the Hypnosis Restaurant would agree to be hypnotized before dining. Obviously this would make the food taste better and the service would appear spectacular. The hypnosis would all be above board and voluntary. And for liability reasons the restaurant would record everything that happens with security cameras and get signed releases
Re-post: 300 love letters
God bless you for the beautiful radio I won
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October 23, 2006
Sprint Feet
In most respects, he’s your typical triathlete. But Scott Rigsby has higher motivations than just winning medals, reaching personal goals, and enjoying the triathlon lifestyle. He is looking to do what no one else ever has done, and in the process, pave the way for others to follow. The 38-year-old Georgia native has already knocked down one wall, becoming the first double leg amputee to complete an Olympic distance triathlon while running on prosthetics. Next on the list is a Half Ironman in October, and the ultimate, a full Ironman next June. (From Stuart Hughes)
Cave diving in Florida (Many with photos). Platform Diving from b3ta
The Nutty Buddy is a revolutionary athletic cup designed by a pro baseball player for superior protection of your most valuable assets. The Nutty Buddy is stronger, more comfortable and more protective for athletes in any sport. (Click to play video)
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There but for the grace of God
10/24/06 update: It seems that both polls disappeared from the face of the earth. Too bad! There were about 300 surprising results last I looked.
The Cached version:
You stop your shiny car at a Freeway ramp. A disheveled, sickly-looking old man in a broken wheelchair holds a piece of cardboard in his lap and sadly looks you straight in the eye. Do you?
- Turn your gaze to the other side and wait for the light to change, as you discretely lock the car doors
- Mumble thru the rolled-up window that you are sorry
- Search for some coins inside the cup holder
- Give him a few dollars
- Say a little prayer as you drive away
- Curse a cruel God
- Swear at a heartless system that allows its weakest members to go hungry