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April 30, 2007
BTDT
How To Insult Someone Using British Sign Language
Scott E. Fahlman, the original creator of the smiley face. Water towers with painted smiley faces can be found from Atlantic coast towns clear out to the Great Plains
Steve Job's favorite expressions. (YouTubesky. Compiled by Romain Moisescot)
Bohica (Bend Over, Here It Comes Again) and other slang army acronyms that are related to FUBAR. List of U.S. Army acronyms and expressions
Just one word, a new blog
The Visual Dictionary is a collection of words in the real world
A music video with random words - Word Dissociation. (More YT)
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April 29, 2007
I bought a new camera, it’s very advanced – You don’t even need it
My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape.
I told him, All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.
Steven Wright on YouTube: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
(From John’s blog)
SR interview on Dead Frog
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Meet Howard Beale
(Obama should pick him as his VP, if he gets the nomination)
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World of Walmart
Gibbon’s Market and the battle of mom and pop stores against mega-retailers. (From Positive Ape Index)
A Day in the World of Wal-Mart. The Walmart prank. In an effort to combat their negative media portrayal, Wal-Mart has set up a public-relations war room
Looking for copper sulfate? Or how about polyvinyl alcohol? The chemical store is the place for the home chemist and hobbyist
Catholic Mobile provides families and individuals with inspiring Catholic content that will enrich their daily wireless experiences. (From For your entertainment)
“If I buy this face cream, I will be as beautiful as the actress endorsing it” - Thoughts of the Average American Consumer (as Imagined By a Marketing Executive)
15 more ways stores trick you into spending
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April 29, 2007 in Shopping | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
April 28, 2007
Midnight matinee
Quentin Tarantino's Welcome Back Kotter
Other Pulp Fiction Parodies on YouTube
Banksy Pulp Fiction image worth more than £300,000 painted over
Werewolf Women of the SS and the other three fake trailers from Grindhouse
Watching Death Proof, the second, Tarantino-directed half of the Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino double bill, Grindhouse, there are moments that feel like a throwback to seeing Pulp Fiction in a crowded multiplex in 1994
Tarantino: I'm proud of my flop
No time to blog tonight. Sorry.
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April 27, 2007
50 million pages
For the first time, secrets of the Nazi Holocaust that have been hidden away for more than 60 years are finally being made available to the public. We’re not talking about a missing filing cabinet - we’re talking about thousands of filing cabinets, holding 50 million pages. (The text from some TV show)
Rabbit Raising in German Concentration Camps. The Angora rabbit project was an SS-administered program to breed rabbits for their soft, warm fur, one use of which was to line the jackets of Luftwaffe pilots. The rabbits were raised in luxury not far from the maltreated prisoners in 31 Nazi concentration camps in Germany, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau. (From Metafilter)
The Nazi Triangle
Calamita cosmica - Uno scheletro gigante in piazza Duomo a Milano
No time to blog tonight. Sorry.
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April 26, 2007
Around About
Online alarm clock. (From Presurfer)
Another online clock
Fake watches by Real Fake Watches
Anthony Dickens Rotating clock
The entire top surface of the Time table is a digital clock
Verbarius Clock spells out the time in a different way every minute
The Shinshoku is a continuous stainless steel band that wraps around your wrist with a matrix of punched out holes. Beneath the surface are 29 super bright LED's which illuminate to indicate the time. (From The Boings)
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April 25, 2007
Nails
Jorn Barger often complains to interviewers that 'weblog' is the least interesting of his many neologisms. Here's a sampling of others
Anil Dash on the explosion in popularity of lolcats
Han Hoogerbrugge’s new Nails
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Napkin Folding
Eero Saarinen’s Womb Chair, 1947
Johnny Swing’s Nickel Couch
A museum of original Russian samovars from Tula
Unrelated: Random image thread on Fark. (not safe for dialup)
No time to blog tonight. sorry.
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April 24, 2007
“An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh”
The Gift of a Banana, Pre-Sliced from the Inside, Cements a Friendship. Includes instructions. (By Sara Thacher)
Can’t get enough of them lemons
Red capsicum (and other of Wikipedia’s POTD)
A Rare Treat, "Foot Potatoes"
Robert Bolesta’s Meat alphabet made of raw hamburger
If you're hungry for a hotdog, you're in luck. For only $1, I will cook you a hot dog and mail it to you. If you buy 5, I'll throw one in for free, and send you 6 hotdogs.
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April 24, 2007 in Food - Meat & Vegetables | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
April 23, 2007
Dinosauria, we
We are born into this
into these carefully mad wars
into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
into bars where people no longer speak to each other
into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
Green Nazis and Tattooed Mountain Women compete for Oddest Titles prize. The winner: The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification
What's the Creepiest Thing Writer's Block Has Caused Someone to Do?
A suggestion a day from the Williamsburg Regional Library - Blogging for a Good Book
Creative uses of a fridge and stove: No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July
Classic novels penned by young authors
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April 22, 2007
Have you ever been to Schenectady
From Charles Grodin to Adrien Brody, a list of People banned from SNL
From the Cool Hall of Fame - Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
Foster Brooks on Dean Martin Roasts. Foster Brooks was most famous for his ongoing portrayal of a drunken man. Previously blogged: The drunken airline pilot. This YouTuber watches it
The new Mt. Bean’s Holiday
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April 22, 2007 in Comedians | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Atallic
The coolest personalized license plate of the day
CA OMG WTF plate
An idea from 1938 that never caught on: Words, Not Numbers, Grace New License Plates. (From J-Walk)
Austrian officials fed up with motorists stopping to urinate by the roadside have put up fake snake warnings to scare them into using toilets
Update: The "W Lied" retires
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April 21, 2007
Van Gogh baby shower
How to clown about with custard pies
A Japanese artist couple buys an extra big candy ball and decides to film its 'shrinking through licking'. They were licking, day after day, for about six months. Seasons changed, they moved around the globe, but they kept at it. Licking away
How Anne Heap of Pink Cake Box created the “Starry Night” cake
Cake tourists, traveling the globe in search of amazing cake
Russian fancy cakes (Baked by Zhanna)
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April 21, 2007 in Food - Desserts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Then and Now
More about Then and Now from Tom Tomorrow
The Languid Anger of Peterbilt Nixon by Max Udargo
May death come swiftly to the enemies of Robot Nixon
Did you know that Warren G. Harding once stabbed a hobo on a dare? Four other terrible fake secrets about U.S. presidents. (All previous 5ives)
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April 20, 2007
Shiny, neon-orange, liquefied pump-cheese, and all
The singing cowboy. (By The Truth)
Andy Warhol Japanese TDK Ad. (YouTubesky)
Iranian Advertising of many western products, 60s-70s. (From The New Shelton)
Swedish vintage ads, posted on flickr by Martin Klasch
Life-size Inflatable Doll and other Classic Comic Book Ads
Popular type of “3D Illusions” street art that was invented by Julian Beever is now being used by other advertisers
Knife throwing for children and other ads I never seem to see
Seen everywhere: Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality
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April 20, 2007 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
I am not an architect, but I play one on screen
Mark Luthringer’s Ridgemont Typologies, the American suburban landscape of consumption, status, and identity. (From Vestal Design)
A nice collection of roads, streets and bridges. (From the re-launched Biggest part of my life is me)
Nice interface: RPBW Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Flickr photo pool with images of Now and Then
Extensive resource page on Wikipedia - McMansion is a slang architectural term which first came into use in the United States during the 1980s as a pejorative description and an idiom
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April 20, 2007 in Architecture | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
April 19, 2007
How to win at Monopoly
The four rules that contribute the most to making a Monopoly game take a long time and how to play Monopoly to win
Toy robot heads on flickr
UCSC Engineering Building Attacked by Giant Gorilla: Donkey Kong in post-it notes
25,000-plus video games collection donated to Stanford
Frodo's Hobbit-house faithfully recreated as a dollhouse, and other fantasy creations, including Entrance to the Caves made of LEGOs
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Happy Bicycle Day to all bicyclists
On April 19, 1943 Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann discovered the psychedelic effects of LSD
Sid Barrett tripping on mushrooms
MindLift TV- Hundreds of spiritual videos, travelogues and other material from the video archives of Kleurnet, MySTèR Media and Luc Sala. (Thank you, Nava Koresh)
Video above of the Israeli band Boom Pam with their proposal for a peaceful solution for the conflict in near east, from From Below
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April 18, 2007
Hey, there's a kangaroo jumping down our street
On sale now: 100% David Lynch Organic coffee, an un-related (?) part of the new website for Inland Empire, The movie. (Click on photo of coffee beans to enjoy)
Breaking news: A Wayward wallaby nabbed in San Bernardino
A few weeks ago I drove north on Chicago Ave. and suddenly came to a stop by the World's Largest Paper Cup. I was shocked to find it in my back yard, so to speak…
Another blog write-up about the first orange trees in California, a block away from my office...
The Coral Sands Inn in Palm Springs
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American Citadels of Hope
Richard Dawkins visits New Life Church, just before the defrocking of Ted Haggard
Dawkins vs. Haggard/Dead Parrot Mashup
Exclusive "Scarlet Letter" T-Shirt from Richard Dawkins
Strange Benedict XVI music clips. (In Russian. From Szanalmas)
Cathedral of Hope in Dallas, claims it is the world's biggest gay church
Bishop Eddie Long and New Birth flash intro
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April 18, 2007 in Spirituality | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Big River man
Coming soon to an amusement park near you, straight from Japan: Human trebuchet. And you thought Bungee Jumping was scary
A 33-story Swing at Oribi Gorge in South Africa. With video at Didn’t you hear
We’re All Going Down Down Down
BIG wave (click to enlarge!)
Unique images of extreme climbing by photographer Simon Carter
Man completes 3,272 mile Amazon swim
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April 17, 2007
Frank Pichel's Tear-Away Suit
Inventor Frank Pichel demonstrates the tear-away suit he developed to enable stealthy streaking, the last scene of the clip shows an extremely successful demonstration of the suit's capabilities. This clip does contain pixellated genitalia
Treknology Encyclopedia - Scientific concepts and technical devices in Star Trek
How to Un-Solve a Problem
Trampe - A bicycle lift in Trondheim, Norway. With instructional video
The Cox Bolt Gun is perhaps one of the Most Dangerous tools ever conceived
Virtual Lens Plant: How Canon lenses are made
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April 17, 2007 in Science & Inventions | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Normal birth
3D medical animation showing a time-lapse view of labor and delivery during normal vaginal birth
143 Reasons That I Will Be The Best Girlfriend You've Ever Had
Re-post: “How to Good-Bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?” is a self-help book by Hiroyuki Nishigaki published in 2000
First Goatse flickr pool. Another re-post: 3D Goatse!
Guy Kawasaki on The Art of the Start
More than 4,000 clubbers danced through the rush hour at Victoria station in Britain's biggest flash mob stunt. Organized by Mobile Clubbing
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Room 606
Room 606 of the Radisson SAS Royal in Copenhagen is the only hotel room with the original Arne Jacobsen décor from July 1960 when the hotel first opened its doors
John C. Dvorak’s Slideshow from Copenhagen
The B-Society is a new Danish movement that strives to liberate people from the normal early morning start. They argue that since we don't live in an agricultural society anymore, we don't have to get up at day break
Christiania bikes started in 1976 in carfree Christiania in Copenhagen
Guide to the Danish Golden Age
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April 16, 2007
Lightning Strikes
Peo Kindgren plays Baden Powell "Retrato Brazileiro"
Bruce Springsteen joined a street musician who was playing "The River" on a street in Copenhagen (about 20 years ago)
Zack Kim Yong Woon is a brilliant, young Korean guitarist living in Kuala Lumpur. Watch him play two guitars at one time
Guitarist Eliot Fisk performing Paganini's Caprice #24 at the New York Guitar Festival's third biennial Guitar Marathon at the 92nd Street Y's Kaufman Auditorium. (More YouTube)
Lightning Strikes sung by Klaus Nomi and 133 of the Strangest Music Videos Of All Time
Also: Pavarotti loves elephants. (From Steconews)
Breaking! The Bath School Disaster was the deadliest act of mass murder in a school in U.S. history
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Iraq’d
Roger Waters sings Leaving Beirut 2006. (YouTube)
Signs of Permanent Occupation - Before / after satellite photos of Saddam's palace in Baghdad
An ad from the 1970s purchased by a number of U.S. power companies using the Shah's nuclear power program to convince Americans of the necessity and safety of nuclear energy: Guess who's building nuclear power plants
Simple swim takes careful planning, and a little luck
What price does the life of a 9-year-old boy, shot by a soldier who mistook his book bag for a bomb satchel? Random sample (pdf) of the documents showing how Iraqis are compensated by the US military after family members are killed in cases of mistaken identity
“Triple Canopy would like to correct recent media statements regarding security at the Iraqi Parliament Building in Baghdad, Iraq”
Michael Fay's Combat Art. Michael Fry is one of three combat artists for the US Marine Corps
Jawad Selim's Monument Defines Baghdad's Tahrir Square
I’m worried about Riverbend who haven’t updated her blog for nearly two months
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April 16, 2007 in War in Iraq | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Godard’s Le Mépris
Other soundtracks by George Delerue, at “Mutant Eggplant”
Re-post: Tous les garçons et les filles de mon âge at Musica Francesa. (Thank you, Dafna)
Mireille Mathieu et Sacha Distel Une histoire d'amour
Jacques Brel sings Le moribond on YouTube
Alizee’s debut single Moi Lolita
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April 15, 2007
Real Estate Roller Coaster
Will Ferrell in "The Landlord"
Landlord's nightmare in Tacoma. A house was stripped nearly to the studs after a bogus online classified ad invited people to come in and take what they wanted
US Home prices adjusted for inflation plotted as a roller coaster
Real Estate Confidential, the TV Show - The Trailer
What should you pay for a house? (Answer: It depends on rents and interest rates)