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March 31, 2007
Scenes from a Life
Dan Rather’s Segment on the 1972 Republican Re-Election Effort with Karl Christian Rove making an appearance at the four minute mark
Modified limited hang out - Frequently cited as evoking Nixon's strategy of admitting only what it was compelled to admit, the phrase has also become a political catchphrase used to describe any grudging partial release of information. (From a James Wolcott piece)
Please Impeach Me (YouTube) by Jim Terr
No apologies. No surprise. Commanding even in failure - Cheney in Defeat
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Happy April Fools Day
Scott Adams describes the best workplace prank he knows: Find someone who has two phones – say a work phone and a home phone. Pick a time when you know the target is near one of the phones and no one will answer the other. Call the phone that won’t be answered, then use three-way calling to call the phone that will be answered. When the target answers, say nothing but connect the three-way call. He’ll hear his own answering machine at home telling him to leave a message. (231 readers left comments with additional suggestions)
Coke Bomb explosion # 11
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Real Estate Wives
A blog about Real Estate Wives (and Husbands. Thank you, Lani)
Marcus Burke’s Condo Metropolis Blog (with a unique Zip Code of the Week feature)
Real estate is crazy blog. (From Sellsius)
Craig Childs’s All Around The City from San Antonio
The blog of Sue Berger, a realtor in the Gladwin, Michigan area
Angela Ward’s Tumbleweed Realty blog from Maui
Jodi Gunther & Josh Pratt’s blog about the Adirondack real estate market
Danielle Lazier’s blog from San Francisco
Jim Reppond’s Seattle Real Estate Information
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Yoga at Home
The Man Who Drew Mice by Peter Snelling
Blankets by Craig Thompson sounds interesting
Yoga at Home - Indian Comic Book. (Thank you, Avi)
The internet’s only fansite dedicated to the best Saturday Morning Cartoon show that ever wasn’t, The Adventures of Li’l Bill & Hill
Supergirl must send her mind into an alternate world to bring back the spirit of a man in a coma who did not wear his seat belt. Five pages of quizzes and a personal note from Elizabeth Dole make this package complete but not compelling. More at The World's Worst Comic Book Museum
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March 30, 2007
New Life For Biloxi's Live Oaks
Four live oak trees in the median of U.S. Highway 90 Biloxi that died as a result of hurricane Katrina received new life at the hands of a skilled chain saw artist
Flood Wall. New Orleans artist Jana Napoli collected hundreds of drawers from the flooded and abandoned neighborhoods in the days and months that followed
Map your planned trip from Fort Dick, California to Dickeyville, Wisconsin, and other interesting road trips you can make in the United States
4/30/07 Update: Chainsaw artist above is Dayton Scoggins
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Donkey Hoty - The viewing of hot donkeys
It has been scientifically proven that the viewing of donkeys, real or artificial, can attune the viewer to a warm and enlightened state of mind. The viewing of donkeys can alleviate the symptoms of day-to-day life and instill a strong feeling of "donkey-viewing" in all but the most hopeless cases. The art of (my friend) Nava Koresh (Click pix to enlarge, and see all galleries inside)
Colin Christian’s Nighttime adventures on Planet Freud
WFMU's Velvet Painting Gallery
Sketches drawn on the New York City subway system
Wrapped Reichstag®, Berlin 1971-95
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Big Metal Boxes
Build yourself an ice-skating sail
Shipping containers flickr pool
Personal mini-submarines available now
The FLIP research vessel is the only ship in the world having the ability to flip from a horizontal position to a vertical position while at sea
(Photo above by Quang-Tuan Luong)
No time to blog tonight. Sorry
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March 29, 2007
Pointy-Haired Boss
Steve Martin in Little Shop of Horrors - Be A Dentist
Who are the highest paid janitors from around the country?
Print screen, stress at work. (YouTube. From Armstrong circus)
Hire me or I’ll bite you
I don’t want to work - Please help me to retire, and continue to live a fulfilling life
PHB (above) is every employee's worst nightmare. He wasn't born mean and unscrupulous, he worked hard at it. And succeeded. As for stupidity, well, some things are inborn
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March 28, 2007
Bohos & Bohemians
San Francisco in Insurance Maps. ca. 1905. From microfilm. (Other sets by the same flickr user: Ancient Chinese Cigarette Cards and Edison's Frankenstein, cinema’s first horror film, and many others)
Jack London having Fun at The Bohemian Grove. The Alex Jones first ever hidden camera inside the Grove. More about the Grove here
Live view from the Lawrence Hall of Science, overlooking the San Francisco Bay Area. Roll over the image to see what areas you are viewing
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Not paying attention to small details
Commercial Real Estate in Russia
Ozark Mountain Railcar is the leading brokerage firm in North America for the sale of railroad equipment and railroad real estate. See their inventory of railroad cars. (From Information Junk)
25-year mortgage for a man aged 102
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Ze Frank money shot
Re-posts from Ze Show 8/30/06 - Fingers in food and Jam 1:19 from Hotdogboy
Pancake Art on flickr. (From Blort). Also, pancakes for junkies
Nihilist Chewing Gum - No flavor
Bakery in Ratchaburi, Thailand - The actual video of Body Parts Made Of Bread
Rachel Ray money shots by Naomi Leibowitz. What could possibly be more annoying than one rachel ray?
Researchers at the University of Illinois say the so-called "5-Second Rule" isn't a myth
A guide to eating a “delicious” MRE (=Meal, Ready-to-Eat)
Best grilled cheese sandwich thread on Metafilter. Previously-blogged: Winners of The Greatest Grilled Cheese Sandwich in America
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March 27, 2007
Wavy Gravy once asked a Zen Roshi…
Wavy Gravy once asked a Zen Roshi, "What happens after death?"
The Roshi replied, "I don't know."
Wavy protested, "But you're a Zen Master!"
"Yes," the Roshi admitted, "but I'm not a dead Zen Master."
(From the short blog of dead master Robert Anton Wilson)
Tim Adams interviews Robert Pirsig, November 19, 2006
Zen and the Art of Remarkable Blogging
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Canned butter
"Help me figure out the name of the brand of canned butter my mother loved as a child growing up in Taiwan"
"Some things gain value over time, like wine or rare books. But they lose value by being used -- and so many collections are dedicated to preserving objects in pristine condition. There are a few things that actually become more valuable, or even more useful, the more they are used. I can only think of two examples: the cast iron skillet (the nonstick seasoned surface gets better with each use) and the Yixing teapot. What other objects gain value through use and time?"
Snappy songs about telephones
"How do I develop a friendship with my favorite writer?"
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Big Head Caps
On Friday I received a UPS package with a white t-shirt in it. It came from Don P., a reader of the blog in Murfreesboro, TN. He owns Big Head Caps - "Headwear for the cranially endowed". Thank you, Don, it was certainly a surprise.
If you would like to have your business promoted on this snazzy “T-shirt collection”, and be seen by (up to thousands of) readers on the same day, simply send a free T-shirt (Extra Large only, unfortunately) to me
Hanan Levin
c/o The Champion Company
3714 Tibbetts Dr. # 104
Riverside, CA 92506, USA.
And I will personally ask Miranda G., or another lovely, young woman to stand beside me as I display your T-shirt here. (Click on pix to enlarge)
Elsewhere: Shower cap a la Snoop
Hat Shapers - The wooden hat block is a thing of the past!
Say Goodbye to Flipflop Tanlines, and hello to Topless-Sandals
Fire hair cut. (From The Boings)
Coudal’s rich Fashion Archives!
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March 26, 2007
American Pie Asian watermelon
12 Angry Men, a perfect example of a movie you can listen to
The Howard brothers: Ron and Ron’s brother
"They broke my watch!" The Blues Brothers Chicago movie locations. (From Information Junk)
Wrestelmania 21 Goes Hollywood - Taxi Driver Parody as performed by wrestlers
Papillon d'amour (YouTube). “By subjecting fragments from Kurosawa's Rashomon to a mirror effect, Nicolas Provost creates a hallucinatory scene of a woman's reverse chrysalis into an imploding butterfly”
Must be a Re-post: The strange & wondrous trailer to Tsai Ming-liang’s The Wayward Cloud (Le Saveur de la Pasteque). NSFW! Here is the synopsis
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Dome of the Rock
Ads from Israeli newspapers (Ca. 1967. From PCL Linkdump)
The Face to Face project is to make portraits of Palestinians and Israelis doing the same job and to post them face to face, in huge formats, in unavoidable places, on the Israeli and the Palestinian sides
Jewish and Palestinian land exchange
The construction boom that is changing The New Mecca
Portraits of Violence: The Gangs of Port Moresby and Suicide Bombers in Gaza
The Giza Archives Project. (From World History Blog)
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Odd perfumes
Get your Solar Powered Talking Bible right here. Only $99.98
From Whiskey-Tobacco & (Elmer's?) Glue to Hemp & Cosmopolitan Cocktail, crazy scents & colognes
Raising even lazier Chinese consumers
Crazy amazon deals At Jungle Crazy. (From Amanda Congdon)
Do not buy from me and other items on Amazon that you cannot (or at least should not) buy
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March 25, 2007
218-212
If You Gamble Life, Limb, and $30 at the Baghdad Airport Duty Free Shop - This Harley Could Be Yours
The Liberation of Baghdad by Sandow Birk
Solzhenitsyn wrote in The Gulag Archipelago that sleep deprivation was perhaps the worst torture inflicted on the prisoners. Interestingly, torture was also illegal in the Soviet Union, and sleep deprivation, extreme temperatures, and stress positions were merely considered coercive methods. At the end of interrogation, prisoners had to sign a statement affirming that they had not been tortured and that they had given their confessions in full awareness of their rights. How Doctors Got Into the Torture Business by Andrew Sullivan
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Piece of cake (1-4)
Pastry chef Blair Fukumura creates a chocolate reproduction of Mann's Chinese Theatre. See all 4 parts on YouTube or on his new Food Network show. Previously-blogged: His site Lateral Thinking in Pastry Design. (Thank you, Blair)
Chocolate Bath in Hakone
06:48:44 PM Update: Cory Doctorow just linked to a Blair Fukumura cookie, but he called him Damien Hurst (?)
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The Expanding Universe
Remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
(This must be a re-post. Graphic above from The Max Planck Institute)
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March 25, 2007 in Space | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
The Hive and the Honeybee
Everything about keeping African cichlids
The complete O’reilly bookshelves line. (From Cogmios)
A Man and a Woman and the turtles that threatened to come between them: Confessions of a Turtle Wife
Last Supper with dogs. Stupid YTMND. Compare to the original
In 1925, a Cornell professor of apiculture set out to create a major repository of literature on bees and beekeeping. He envisioned this library as an “accessible storehouse of our knowledge of bees and beekeeping.” By 1926, Phillips had persuaded over 223 people from twenty-nine states and twenty-six foreign countries to donate thousands of books and pamphlets, and the Everett Franklin Phillips Beekeeping Collection at Cornell was born. The Hive and the Honeybee
Wikipedia List of fictional horses
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March 24, 2007
The Full Belly Project
There are around 1/2 billion people in the world that rely on peanuts as a primary source of protein. Most people can only hand shell 2 lbs (1 kg) of peanuts an hour, but The Universal Nut Sheller can do 110lbs (50 kg) an hour. It was invented by Jock Brandis at the request of a women's coop in Mali. The Full Belly Project is a non-profit organization that designs and delivers simple agricultural machines to people in developing countries around the world. (From Rivets)
6 billion Others – A Yann Arthus-Bertrand project
The Envelope Collective, a collaborative experiment in art
Art projects by Jenny Nordberg
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Thumb pianos
Experimental thumb pianos also known as: kalimba, mbira, sansa, likembe, etc. (Thank you, RP Collier)
Jeremy Fish’s Dead Rapper Skateboards
Die Schlageretten: Tschau Tschau Bambina
Banana Ghost with Man Man. Directed by Jeremy Mayhew
Bob Marley’s Natty Dread as a baby-sitting tool
It all start with a good guitar from Chelsea guitars. (Thank you, Mercedes!)
Jazz singer Gina Saputo
Re-post: Classical Cat, a directory with over 4000 free to download classical performances, sorted by composer and work
“They Might Be Giants” and other band names which are complete sentences
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The gift of money
Cruel but true chart: Homelessness by income
Whenever I want a new toy my wife asks me, “how are you going to pay for this?” To which I respond, “With my jug of coins of course.” This trick has worked many times but this time she’s really making me cash them in: Cashing out the jug
In Hong Kong, the first plastic banknotes will be issued on a trial basis this year
Euro Bill Tracker, like the old Where’s George
One two three four five six seven
All good children go to heaven-
Songfacts about The Beatles’ You Never Give Me Your Money:
Seen everywhere: Marc Sky, the Dollar artist
How one lucky winner spent his new-found fortune: Taking home the jackpot
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March 23, 2007
Man vs. door
Man vs. door. A simple story by Pascal Campion
The really blue house with yellow door. (From Iz Reloaded)
Behind one door is tenure, behind the other is flipping burgers at McDonald's
The black eye was from the boyfriend… (Probably from Post Secrets)
A blog dedicated to photos of doors
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You’re Going to Die
You’re Going to Die, directed by by Dennis Palazzolo and a finalist at the 2003 Student Academy Awards
Chatroom users 'egged on father to kill himself live on webcam' in Britain's first 'cyber suicide'
30 Strangest Deaths in History
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"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
33 writers. 5 designers. 6-word science fiction: Very Short Stories
In 1968 various branches of the U.S. government performed an investigation into the background of civil servant Charles Bukowski. Apparently the FBI took offense to some of his writing (mainly the notes of a dirty old man column he wrote for the Los Angeles hippie tabloid Open City), and had their 'informants' report Bukowski to higher-ups in the post office: The FBI files of Charles Bukowski
The autographs of Jules Verne. (From Quartz City)
The Electronic Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
The infamous Proust Questionnaire
Text Collage and other methods of Curing writer's block
Barbara Yates’s Wooden Book Covers
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March 22, 2007
Cinnamon cake recipe
An Israeli baker who vowed to take the recipe for his cinnamon cake to the grave kept his promise by having it etched onto his gravestone. Mourners at the funeral of Jaakov Topor, 93, from Kibbutz Na'an turned up for the funeral to find all the details for his cinnamon cake recipe etched in stone. (Click on Pix to read recipe)
The best retired Girl Scout Cookies
50 Pies in the Face. (YouTube)
How to put a Stapler in Jello
The art of a Bathtub Cake at The Bathtub Art Museum
By the way, David M., Thanks for your nice note. I emailed you back, but my response bounced back!
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Prisoners of war
The longest truck in the Russian army
Historical information on World War II tanks. Photographs, specifications and for most models, their history. (From Hanuman)
Prisoners of war at the Brick Testament
Military Weaponry for Kids on flickr
The Art of War by Picasso Dream
A new seven-part PBS series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, about World War 2
Un-related: Solve the riddle (No cheating! From Everton)
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Old Zoo
Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1921 Hollyhock House. Found in Los Feliz Online
2566 Aberdeen Avenue, Los Feliz. For sale at $4,795,000
Oil Wells (pdf map) and many other Maps of Los Angeles
Carniceria store paintings - L.A.'s Mexican murals
The former site of the Los Angeles Zoo, in Griffith Park, closed in 1965
Poshest Gas Station in Los Angeles on the corner of Olympic & Robertson
One Wilshire carrier hotel, housing a hub of communications infrastructure. (From Xeni Jardin’s Day to Day report)
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March 21, 2007
Gov. Signs Legislation
Arnold shares his deepest feelings. (From Presurfer)
A large number of photographs of Schwarzenegger at ZizA.rU
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