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January 31, 2007
Pop
The Lunchbox Museum in Columbus, Georgia
Natalie Dee preparing Scrambled Emu eggs
Bocuse d'Or World Cuisine Contest
Amy Youngs Digestive Table: A living ecosystem of worms, sowbugs and bacteria
Great Appliance Disasters
10 novel uses for your microwave oven beside cooking food in it
On the Edibility of Very Old Food: A box of 106-year-old Cadbury bars
What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants” – The summery of Unhappy Meals
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Skylines
A photographic journey through central Asia. (From ActivityBook)
The World’s Worst Toilets. (Warning: Photos of the world’s worst toilets)
Old Photos of Lower Manhattan Skyline. (Image heavy. From Code Wolf)
German industrial buildings 1910-1925. These photos are from a small book called 'Bauten der Arbeit und des Verkehrs' (buildings of work and transport) 1925, one of 'Die Blauen Bücher' (the blue books), a series of thin paperback books on art and architecture
Abandoned from Kitty Empire
A guy from Ukraine, Alexandr Pashkevich, has made a model of Eiffel Tower from matches. (with 23 photos)
Also there - Siberia at Winter. Reconstructing the 1908 asteroid explosion in Siberia
Business Week's Architectural Wonders 2006 include innovative green office buildings, Apple's showcase store, and the world's longest over-sea bridge
By the way, some telemarketer called me today from (559) 437-5359, and hung up, so I Googled his number…
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January 30, 2007
Squid brain
Congratulations to our winner of the Big Underwear Contest, Michelle from Plainfield! Enjoy our runners up as well
Tattoos #16 and dreadlocks pictures. (From Unknown Highway)
On the other hand, here’s the new look - Swedish Military Haircut
World record for the highest number of bonnets worn at the same time -51
Welcome to my Police hat collection
If you want to truly show your devotion (obsession) to your beloved Macintosh, here’s how to dress like a Mac
Bay to Breakers
Shawn Zehnder Lea’s huge T-shirt of the day archives Where’s my free T-shirt, bros?
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It was 38 years ago today
I Wanna Hold Your Hand played by The Four Squeezins
I met the Walrus, a short by Josh Ruskin
The contents of Koral Karsan’s entire blackmail letter to Yoko Ono
Last Will And Testament Of John Winston Ono Lennon
Ron Nasty (The Rutle who lives in New York) plays Cheese and Onions
Ringo's house to be museum piece
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Co-blog post about People with Disabilities
An overview of the T-4 program, the Nazi initiative to exterminate people with disabilities
How Stephen Hawking’s computerized voice synthesizer works. He is now using his blinking to communicate via IST switch. Stephen Hawking in space
The Unification of Stephen Hawking, by Mark O'Brien, disability activist and writer
Extreme Wheelchair Racing and Jumping
A list of 2,500 feature films which involve disabilities. It is directed towards anyone who has an interest in how disability is represented in films. Also, Picture Books about Disabilities for Young Readers
A gallery of photographs exploring disability and sexuality (NSFW)
Hospice helped dying man lose his virginity
In My Language, a woman with autism explains her usage of language. Her blog. The creator of the video showed up on the Metafilter thread discussing it, with many illuminating comments
Dr. Temple Grandin, a respected animal behaviorist who has autism
The Seeing Tongue
List of people with disabilities
A blog by the parents of Ashley X, an adolescent girl with severe disabilities. Ashley's parents chose to chemically and surgically freeze her physical development, a decision that has sparked controversy in the disability community
This is another post that I am “co-blogging”, this time with Mark Siegel, a Minneapolis attorney & frustrated fiction writer who blogs at The 19th Floor, and who provided most of today’s links. Thank you, Mark! If other bloggers are interested to share the forum here on any other topic, please contact me for details.
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January 29, 2007
Extreme cable Fantasticable
Fantasticable is a ride in Chatel, France. Travel at speeds of up to 120km/h for over 1km. Here’s the YouTube video. (I want! From Lancelord. If you go there, you can rent an apartment “for a wonderfully quiet and peaceful French summer or ski holiday near the Swiss Lakes”
Girl in Human Sling Shot
French Catapult Launch
Human slingshot machine, patent No. 5421783. Issue date: Jun 6, 1995
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Zabriskie Point from Space
Heading up to the Cheep Beer Mine, you've got to be good and drunk to drive this road. The Cheap Beer Mine is named after a Fine American Beer, so sit back grab a beer, and......... (From a wonderful site called Ghost Town Explorers)
Death Valley from space. (Click on corner to biggify)
Detailed descriptions of all California state highways on Wikipedia
Silicon Valley by Gérard Pétremand
Photos of San Jose, CA in 1977 and 2006
Unrelated: Enter your birth date and then scroll down for fun statistics
By the way, it seems that YahooMail does not deliver all emails sent to me, so if you’ve sent me an email recently and did not receive an answer, please re-send it; I probably did not get it.
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Next stop, Cambodia
A peck of lions in the Baghdad zoo are being fed on two live donkeys, to the cheers of spectators. (Warning: Gruesome if you don’t like to see donkeys eaten by lions / OK if you think War is tough, man, the lions have to eat too)
Tintin in Iraq - A parody, based on the original Tintin albums created by Hergé. This spoof uses images from different Tintin albums with adapted balloons, creating a completely new story about the war in Iraq. (In French. From Frog Smoke)
People Who Mattered In 2006, according to Time Magazine: Amina Sabah Shaab
Photos from Iraq by Mike Ferner
Stop Him Before He Kills Again. Bush has accomplished what Osama bin Laden only dreamed of by disgracing the model of American democracy in the eyes of the world
Did We Just Declare War on Iran?
Hail to The commander in chief - At Ease, Mr. President
"Decent interval" Redux - How to win the next election, not the war
The True Cost Of War
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Dancing video
Matt ("Where the Hell is Matt?") Harding was invited to Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont to speak about the dancing video and how it was made. Here is the talk in 3 parts
Drumhead tensioning device and method, invented by Marlon Brando. 19 other patents by celebrities not usually known for being inventors
The Einstein refrigerator is a type of refrigerator co-invented in 1926 by Albert Einstein and former student Leó Szilárd, who were awarded U.S. Patent 1,781,541
James Brown's Celebrity Hot Tub
Distortrait where celebrities come daily for a makeover
Buckaroo Banzai is a UCLA professor and that he's working toward a PhD in Italian Renaissance art history
The Forbes Web Celeb 25
(Is there anybody out there?...)
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January 28, 2007
FSM Candy
Macarons in Paris, lots of them
Flying Spaghetti Monster Candy
Japanese I ♥ Men Candy (For BM & RL….)
Map of India stitched from tea bags, made by Susan Stockwell
Cake printer with error messages
What I Did Over Christmas Vacation: This past Christmas Vacation my brothers, sister, myself and my girlfriend built a scale replica of the battle of Helms Deep, from the second book of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Two Towers penned by the late, great, J.R.R. Tolkien
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January 28, 2007 in Food - Desserts | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
9/11 every day
“Semi-Annual after-Christmas Sale” and other delightful Classified Ads
In an attempt to break through to consumers, advertisers have started to migrate from traditional media to almost anywhere outside the home with a little blank space. (NY Times slide show)
Corporate World Web 2.0 Logo redesign
Every ad in Times Square
More realistic looking ads
Cool Ads # 2
Unrelated item: I can’t figure out what is behind the Stolen ID Search website. It doesn’t show on Technorati as of now, and it doesn’t feel right to me. Your thoughts?...
Re-post: Icon War
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January 27, 2007
Please Hear My Prayer
Dear Jesus, Please Hear My Prayer. I want to believe in you and your miraculous powers, I really do. I was raised in a devout Catholic home, and as long as I remember have been hearing about your divine nature and limitless compassion. You turned water into wine, healed lepers, and even raised the dead. I know you have boundless abilities. I also know that your compassion compels you to assist those who suffer, and to hear their agonized prayers...
The Lord Is My Shepherd, He Keepeth Me in Low, Everyday Prices
$28,000 is a lot of money for a grilled cheese sandwich. So make your own Jesus on toast
Religious Ties. (From Information Junk)
If Jesus returns tonight, who will feed your pets tomorrow?
Mapping New Testament Social Networks
Japanese name pink liquor after Christ's miracle
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The Road to Utopia
"Dick Durbin went to the floor of the Senate on Thursday night to denounce the vice president as “delusional.”
It was shocking, and Senator Durbin should be ashamed of himself.
Delusional is far too mild a word to describe Dick Cheney. Delusional doesn’t begin to capture the profound, transcendental one-flew-over daftness of the man.
Has anyone in the history of the United States ever been so singularly wrong and misguided about such phenomenally important events and continued to insist he’s right in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary?
It requires an exquisite kind of lunacy to spend hundreds of billions destroying America’s reputation in the world, exhausting the U.S. military, failing to catch Osama, enhancing Iran’s power in the Middle East and sending American kids to train and arm Iraqi forces so they can work against American interests.
Only someone with an inspired alienation from reality could, under the guise of exorcising the trauma of Vietnam, replicate the trauma of Vietnam.
You must have a real talent for derangement to stay wrong every step of the way, to remain in complete denial about Iraq’s civil war, to have a total misunderstanding of Arab culture, to be completely oblivious to the American mood and to be absolutely blind to how democracy works..."
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Rating the videos of Clinton, Obama, Richardson when they announced their running in ‘08
(Hitcher pix above from Stencil Revolution)
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The magic of a Harley gathering
2 pages of Harley Couture
How Harley Motorcycles Are Made (and 60 other videos of Cool Stuff Being Made at the National Association of Manufacturers website)
circular bike. Nine salvaged bikes were reassembled into a carousel formation. The bike is modular and can be dismantled and reassembled. It is normally left in public places where it can attract a variety of riders. Also by Robert Wechsler: A penny as a manhole cover
Transparent chopper: My brother, Joe Stanaway unveiling his hand-blown glass motorcycle masterpiece ‘The Glass Ride’
By the way, after 4 or 5 years of usage, I forgot to renew the initial domain name with which I started this blog, The Great Team. If you are still linking to the original re-direct, please switch your Growabrain linkage to here. Thank you, The Management
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January 26, 2007
The Sinatra Doctrine
18 April 1985 concert at Tokyo's Budokan Hall - Ruck be a Rady Tonight
Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin Together
Sinatra with Groucho Marx sing “It’s only money”
Many more Sinatra videos
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Fathers and Daughters
One hundred six balloons in a mass ascension at the Reno Balloon Race 2006. (From Coudal)
Luke Jerram, a sound artist, working with hot air balloon pilot Peter Dalby and composer Dan Jones has developed Sky Orchestra. Seven hot air balloons, each with speakers attached, take off at dawn to fly across a city. Each balloon plays a different element of the musical score creating a massive audio performance that many hundreds of people experience sub-consciously as the balloons fly over their homes
A wikipedia list of the largest historic gatherings of people for a single event. Naturally, top 5 gatherings were in India & in China
Would you pledge your virginity to your father? Colorado Springs’ Seventh Annual Father-Daughter Purity Ball
The Okalolies of Tristan da Cunha are coming. (From Exploding Aardvark)
Over 500 types of mango are featured at the International Mango Festival in Delhi
The Maldon Mud Race: 180 competitors racing through the mud of the River Blackwater at low tide. The winner wadded it for 3 mins 20 seconds. Photos on flickr. (From Welsh View)
By the way, I received quite a few emails today from readers, telling me of difficulties they have reading Growabrain with RSS feeds on NetVibes. In September, there were similar problems on Bloglines. Unfortunately, I have nothing to do with it, and have no clue of how to fix it. Sorry about that.
Instead, I’m gonna flip out like a Ninja
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January 25, 2007
How to build an offshore wind farm
In the summer of 2002, the world’s largest offshore wind farm was constructed at the Danish west coast. Horns Rev facilities were placed 14-20 km into the North Sea and represent the first phase of a large-scale Danish effort to produce non-polluting electricity from offshore wind turbines
Bang & Olufsen virtual factory tour
The paintings of surrealist Danish artist Otto Frello
Gross art. Danish artist Marco Evaristti liposuctioned some of his belly fat, fried meatballs in it and served it to friends
Pulmonic ingressive, the quick gasping noise that Danes make while conversing
Why do Danes score higher than any other Western country on measures of life satisfaction. (From NY Times)
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January 24, 2007
I do not like them in a box
Fruit and vegetables, at an Exhibition in Bern, Switzerland
2000 pigs sacrifice to the deity General Chao of Wudeh temple at a temple festival in Jendeh, southern Taiwan, 19 Jan 2007. (Posted by Avant1997)
How to make Green Eggs and Ham
Grāpple, the flavor of Concord grapes combined with the crispness of a juicy Washington apple
How to harvest a turkey. (Warning!)
Re-post: Guide to sausage from the world over
The BBQ oral history project, mostly about Tennessee Barbecue. (Funded by a grant from the National Pork Board. From Gastronautical Gastronomicon)
Plums and Pomegranate
America's top pork producer churns out a sea of waste that has destroyed rivers, killed millions of fish and generated one of the largest fines in EPA history. Welcome to the dark side of the other white meat
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January 24, 2007 in Food - Meat & Vegetables | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
10,000+
From “Occasional Wife” to ”My mother the car” - 10 most outlandish concepts for TV shows
I currently work at a call center as an email representative. During the Christmas season, the company I work for receives a great volume of emails from our customers. However once the season passes, work becomes very slow. These slow periods can become very boring, in fact, so boring that a person can go insane. How insane can someone become due to boredom? Well... I decided to start writing on a note pad whatever first came to mind. I began to write numbers starting with one, and then stopped until I reached Ten Thousands. Do you not believe me? See for yourself
Wacky uses, weird facts by Joey Green
Roll the toilet paper…
Liftits, re-perkify your breasts
The complaints of an unhappy neighbor
Incredible optical illusion
New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual (1970)
Share Your Cloggiest Moment ... And Win $25,000 to Flush Your Worries Away. (From Heresy)
Click anywhere on the map to find out the local time
(No time to blog tonight. This post was pre-composed for your pleasure)
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January 23, 2007
It’s morning again in Eurasia
Welcome to the US presidential election of 2008
John Edwards’s 2008 Presidential Campaign Web 2.0 / Social Networking Checklist
With Barack Obama’s presidential campaign underway, his advisors are working overtime to make sure their man appeals to the American public, and the first challenge is the name. Obama to the Drawing Board
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Google-Yahoo Mash-up
More Accurate Wikipedia Warnings
Falling down through a pub trap door - 10 years later
What if Google Made a Yahoo-like Start Page?
Problems with Misspelling Google (YouTube)
A diagram documenting every instance of the phrase "is the new" encountered from various sources
Apple 80's ad - The rug!
Fingers in fruit by Ze Frank, one of 12 of the Funniest People On The Internet
2006 weird news stories from Peculiarosities. (Part 1 & 2 only…)
Some basic URL's for future dates: 2008, 2009, 2012, 2015
The dangers of pro-anorexia websites
Adieu to Google Answers (11/28/06)
Breaking news (Sounds just like The Onion): Time Inc. Lays Off 289 Persons of the Year
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January 23, 2007 in Internet | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
January 22, 2007
The Spanish Civil War in LEGO
Marcos Vilariño’s LEGO re-creations of Historical photographs (Including, the first ever photograph, taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1826, and Death of a loyalist soldier by Robert Capa! From Microsiervos)
Life Size Tetris game in a Street in Ecuador
Human Size Gundam Model Being Assembled by the Maru Kids
White Jigsaw. It starts out easy, but you might go blind before it's over. (From Fazed)
Sheep Dash - How fast are your reactions?
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January 22, 2007 in Games | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The last shots of Cinema Paradiso
Also: Re-post – The last shot of Dr. Strangelove
You get nothing from AccordionGuy
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January 22, 2007 in Cinema | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Cubism is Alive and Well
It seems that in the last few years there have been a resurgence of fresh Cubism on the net. So here’s more:
Tyson Mao solving the Cube while blindfolded
Xylocarpus granatum, Nature’s Rubik’s Cube
Rubik Cube Mp3 Player by Hee Yong
Rubix Cubicle T-shirt – Only $20
The new iCube from Apple, Inc. and a whole slew of Apple's Next Products
A video of film director Michel Gondry Solving the Cube with his Feet popped on YouTube a few months ago. Within a few days Beyond Belief Media explained in another YouTube video how Gondry faked it
I linked to George Helm’s Cube pages in the past. Here are hundreds, maybe thousands, from his enormous Cube Collection (All on one large page). See how to solve a 6x6x6 cube
Get Your Own Personalized Cube
Sudoku Cube, from Microsiervos collection of Cube links
(Image above from Prof. Jessica Fridrich)
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January 22, 2007 in Games - Rubik's Cube | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
January 21, 2007
Every Book I've Ever Read
"For the longest time, I've had a vague but persistent compulsion to make a list of every book I've ever read…
Frankly, 750 books is a lot less than what I figured the total would be at the outset. I'm 25, and I've been reading since I was about 6, f you're counting pop-up books and such, which I am, so that works out to roughly 39.5 books a year. That's respectable, it just seems like there should be more, given how much of a giant nerd I am…
While I was actually compiling the list, I decided I wanted to make something tangible out of it. I decided I would make a poster Showing Every Book I've Ever Read..."
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The Jungle Book
Employees sorts through books at Amazon UK warehouse on November 17, 2006
LA Times reporter finds fluctuating costs for his obscure chosen titles - Amazon book price mystery
Book Mooch is a community for exchanging used books. It lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want
Curiosities of Literature by Isaac D’Israeli (1766-1848)
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Metafilter Shmetafilter
A Well-Linked Obituary for a guy you may never heard of
A New Site Design for MetaChat!
Posted on December 29, 2006: How many MeFites were waiting to be The First to post that Hussein is dead?
The need to know: Will squirrel spit kill me?
Nice job of sleuthing by Plutor uncovering the astroturfing of Preacher Tom
Reasons for Deleted Posts on Metafilter:
4585 deleted threads (with a reason)
349 contain 'previously'
192 contain 'double'
106 contain 'self' and 'link'
(Previously)
The Big MetaFilter User Survey (As an answer to a question that is often asked about the demographics of MeFi users)
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Extreme Piano
The Girl With The Flaxen Hair by Claude Debussy, played on a guitar
Old upright piano gets a $3,000 pimp makeover
I am addicted to You Tube. And specifically one micro-genre of films contained within - People trashing their guitars at gigs
Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon Comic book. More: Pink Floyd 1984
Casey Jones sung in Winterland, 1978. (Thank you, Patrick Crosley)
Gollum and Smeagol - The first schizophrenic duet featuring Barry White
Play your banjo well (Who are those people?!)
(Art above from Teenink)
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January 21, 2007 in Music_ | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
January 20, 2007
Mike J. Curran, RIP
Our good friend & colleague, Mike Curran, died on January 3, and his memorial will be held today at the Elks Club in Garden Grove.
We’ll miss him.
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January 19, 2007
Shrooms can be fun
Fake Marijuana Plant - One form of marijuana you can proudly flaunt without ever getting arrested
The Urban Grower is the only Internet show that tells you how to harvest two pounds or more per light. You'll learn how to produce the biggest, juiciest yields you've ever seen
A map of international marijuana laws. (From Look at This)
A brief history of the criminalization of cannabis: Why is Marijuana Illegal?