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June 30, 2007
1000 Real Estate and Mortgage Blogs
Shaun McLane’s Bad MLS Pic of the Day
Todd Carpenter’s REMBEX reached the milestone of indexing 1000 Real Estate and Mortgage Blogs!
A good article at “Keepin’ It Real Estate” - Well Priced Homes Sell Fast
Doug Aegerter’s St. Louis Real estate Voice
Green Spaces Real Estate by Wendy Hughes-Jelen
Jeff Rohde’s Concrete Cactus from Arizona
Robert B Barrett’s Real Estate Blog Asheville, NC
Spencer Williams You Save Real Estate Blog
The Mortgage Brat
A Huge Depository of Real Estate Blogs as well as Grow-a-Brain’s Extensive Real Estate Archives Are Here
June 30, 2007 in Real estate Blogs | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack
Pickles
Welcome to the official site of The Corkxedo
How to Knit a Fetus Coin Purse, With Umbilical Cord. (From Unknown Highway)
Pickles are just cucumbers soaked in evil
Crocs wedding testimonial letters
How jeans are made in Thailand. (From Information Junk)
Are Mutton Chops Professional or a Poor Idea?
Vibram Bare toe shoes
(Click on pix above to biggify)
Un-related: The feel-good story of the day: An Arab businessman offered an all-costs paid nuptials to 30 poor couples in Djibouti
/// A Huge Depository of Unusual Fashion Trends As Well As Growabrain T-shirt Closet Collection Here
June 30, 2007 in Fashion | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 29, 2007
Bad cops
Naked Driver Asks Girl For Directions
Did you know that corporate crime inflicts far more damage on society than all street crime combined? Twenty Things You Should Know About Corporate Crime
10 most interesting prisons on earth
Good cop, bad cop with Will Ferrell & “Pearl”. Bad Cop News
This is your cornfield on cocaine
/// A Huge Depository of Unusual Law and Order Links Here
June 29, 2007 in Crime & Punishment | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The great Eugene Sandow
Bertha Benz was the first person to drive an automobile over a long distance (1888)
The great Eugene Sandow (YT) & Loïe Fuller's Danse Serpentine - What the first moviegoers saw
Mary Phelps Jacob, Inventor of the Modern Brassiere (1914). From Neatorama’s stories about the origins of everyday objects
Many of us think of the movie “Tron” as the the first film to use computer animation or effects in any form. But the technology goes back a lot further than 1982, when Tron was released. The World's First Computer Animation And Effects In Film
Also - UNRELATED - a missing puzzle piece gallery from Planet Dan
/// A Huge Depository of Unusual ‘First Ever’ Stories (my favorite collection) Here
June 29, 2007 in First Ever | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 28, 2007
Jagtvej Street Name Hack
Stop motion: Copenhagen Sleepwalker
Activists in Copenhagen has renamed a number of streets by covering the real street names with a new one - "Jagtvej"
Webcam of Rådhuspladsen (City hall in Copenhagen)
Breaking news from Silkeborg: Students' stage strip for teachers
/// A Huge Depository of Unusual Links about Denmark And About India Here
June 28, 2007 in Traveling Places - Denmark | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Mr, Brig Gen or Sister
That's a long list in the "Title" dropdown
Jack, the one person you should never call from a plane
The best and worst airports in the world
Concorde parts to hit auction block
(.gif above from Ashes and Snow)
/// A Huge Depository of Unusual Flight Links Here
June 28, 2007 in Flight | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Yin/Yang
Yin-Yang outdoor sofa. (From Out Next)
Questionable Hotel Rugs taken at an Atlanta hotel by Tina Roth Eisenberg
A set of Mac OS x dock icon pillows
International “dream toilet” competition for architects, designers and engineers, dreamt by Oliviero Toscani, former Benetton ad guru
Pimp My Chair: La-Z-Boy Thrives on Overstuffed Innovation
Nutri-plates. (From dérive)
A really huge ceiling lamp - The XL(AMP) by Objet B’ Art. Also, Wiener Dog Lamp
(Image above from Natanson)
/// A Huge Depository of Unusual Design Concepts Here
June 28, 2007 in Home Decor | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 27, 2007
Loli-Goth
El Señor Nabokov on French Television with Spanish subtitles. (From Achtung Baby!)
How to Be a Gothic Lolita. Gothic Lolita or "GothLoli" (ゴスロリ, gosurori) is a subcategory of the Lolita fashion, a street fashion among Japanese female teenagers
Christopher Plummer as Nabokov lecturing on Kafka’s Metamorphosis (1989)
Forget Lolita - let's hear it for lepidoptery
The tale: an ape in a zoo is taught how to draw. The first thing it draws is the bars of its cage. I've heard this story a couple of times (often in connection with Vladimir Nabokov), but can't find any information about the original experiment. Did this actually happen? Is it just a fable? Did Nabokov get Punk'd? Who was this ape and where can I find out more?
/// A Huge Depository of Unusual Nabokov Links Here
June 27, 2007 in Books - Nabokov | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack
Bang! You're Dead
Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Made the Movies. (1973 by Richard Schickel. Narrated by Cliff Robertson)
12 parts of The Hitchcock/Truffaut Tapes at the incredible If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
How to turn your boring movie into a Hitchcock thriller
/// A Huge Depository of Unusual Hitchcock and Unusual Chaplin Links Here
June 27, 2007 in Cinema - Hitchcock | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
MyName@MyBlogName.com
Email Obfuscation does not work. Some people think email obfuscation is a good way to fight spam. But here's what they're doing: in addition to making email more difficult for legitimate uses, they're actually making it easier for spammers
How do I know this person? Through the Web!
A nice story on Vanity Fair about how the author spent more than a year attempting to track down the shot location of a desktop picture called Autumn that came with his copy of Windows
What happened to the search engines of yesteryear?
LOL80's: A Picture Thread
I am reading Mark Frauenfelder’s new book “Rule the web - How to do anything and everything on the internet - better, faster, easier”…
50 pictures from the history of Apple
/// A Huge Depository of Unusual Things To Do On The Internet Here
June 27, 2007 in Internet | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
June 26, 2007
The Gas-Mask Community
Driving a Nuclear Submarine Through Britain's Roads
Shots of the various Chechen Self-Made Weapons seized by Russian army and police. There is even self-made machine gun
Military gas masks for animals
Gas-Mask Community. More and more
Waterloo. (From One Good Move)
Live Torpedo Testing
10 Strangest Weapons through History
/// A Huge Depository of Unusual War Links and Unusual Peace Links Here
June 26, 2007 in War | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Naked Monks
The Naked Monks of Kundalpur
Between 1727 and 1734 Maharajah Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories in west central India. The observatories, or "Jantar Mantars" as they are commonly known, incorporate multiple buildings of unique form, each with a specialized function for astronomical measurement. The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh II
Sell Samosas, Go to Jail? The semi-legal world of Street food in Delhi. (Including a slideshow below. From Activity Book)
Early morning motion in Rajasthan
Horn OK please is a phrase commonly painted on vehicles in India. This is spotted almost without exception on commercial vehicles like trucks, buses or local taxis
Treehouse at Green Magic Resort, Vythiri, Kerala. (Warning – music!)
Three airlines in India go after each other big time using innovative ad placement and ad content
/// A Huge Depository of Unusual Links about India And About Japan Here
June 26, 2007 in Traveling Places - India | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 25, 2007
Human curiosity
Simple extra handle added to a shovel makes it almost fun to dig. I came up with this idea while digging a 100 foot long, 2 foot deep drainage trench and it works so well that I wanted to put it on my webpage. On the web I find a SNOW shovel for sale that has an added handle, but could not find any reference to using a second handle with a regular dirt-digging type shovel
Home Made Welding Machine and other African gadgets and ingenuity
Make a personalized bottle of Clear Slime
The 999 black wooden cubes represent the material representation of human curiosity
10 years of Weird Inventions at The Daily Show
/// A Huge Depository of Unusual Inventions & Discoveries Here
June 25, 2007 in Science & Inventions | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
For heaven's sake - put your vodka in the freezer
Seven tips on how to run a successful community. The slideshow
6-11 pm filter: what do people do between these hours? I am tired of watching bad TV and drinking warm vodka
Eponysterical MeFi moments. Eponym is a word based on or derived from a person's name. Eponysterical posts and comments are ones which are funny in light of the poster's user name. The word was coind by scarabic here
What does “MeFi” mean in the background of Mythbusters?
What do you know about that's awesome?
Some Metafilter users who were screwing up the screen scraper
The Youngest Mefite
A personal take of the seven equities of Metafilter
/// A Huge Depository of The Best of Metafilter Here
June 25, 2007 in Best of Metafilter | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Heeeeeere's Johnny's Clock
Beautiful, elegant design. Fun to watch: Polar Clock v2 at Pixel Breaker
World’s Largest Clocks visible on Google Earth
Chris Dimino's The Shining cuckoo clock
Marvin Schneider, New York City's Official Clock Master
Wake up to the gentle sound of wind chimes with Wind Chime Alarm clock
/// A Huge Depository of Unusual Clocks and Watches Here
June 25, 2007 in Clocks & Watches | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack
June 24, 2007
Framing devices
Quote/unquote bookends by Eric Janssen. (From Blog on a Toothpick)
Star Wars Bookends: Mos Eisley Cantina
In screenwriting terminology, “Bookends” is a term denoting scenes at the beginning and end of a film that complement each other and help tie a film together; AKA framing device
/// A Large Depository of Unusual Bookends Here
June 24, 2007 in Bookends | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Production and consumption
“For every building that rises from the ground, there is a corresponding hole somewhere else where the raw materials have been mined for the construction”. Last week I saw the gripping movie Manufactured Landscapes. It follows Canadian Edward Burtynsky, as he travels to China, Pennsylvania & Bangladesh and documents how nature is being transformed by industry. I highly recommend it. Here is an interview with the director Jennifer Baichwal
44 photos of Chechnya’s rural schools. (From Sargasso)
Betelnut girls are a unique part of Taiwan culture. They sit in brightly-decorated glass booths wearing skimpy outfits, and sell cigarettes, drinks and betelnut to passing drivers
Pint of beer –€4.50. 50 liters of fresh water – €1.50
/// A Huge Depository of Unusual Travel Destinations Here
June 24, 2007 in Traveling Places | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
If you got bad news, you wanna kick them blues
Art made by cocaine & sugar, by Comenius Roethlisberger
Hong Kong Art Archive. (From Hanuman)
The Essential DADA
Albrecht Dürer on stamps and other topical stamps
Processing Pool on flickr
Decomposing Mondrian. Marta de Menezes's latest project is a series of "living" artworks inspired by Mondrian’s paintings. The colors from those paintings are progressively degraded by the bacteria Pseudomonas putida MET94, a "microorganism of putrefaction." (From We Make Money Not Art)
Re-post / Repost: Super Bad, always changing
Probably a re-post: White People Dancing. (YT)
/// A Huge Depository of Unusual Art and Artists Here
June 24, 2007 in Modern Art | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 23, 2007
Iggy Pop Concert Rider
The baby on Nirvana’s Nevermind is 17
Paint some music with point-and-play interface of Visual Acoustics
Which band would you pay to see, and why? The Abba tribute power-quintet composed of former Branch Davidians and Renaissance Fair enthusiasts? Or the Eastern Bloc Backstreet Boys?
As if you need another reason to love Iggy Pop, his is the single most entertaining concert rider The Smoking Gun has ever obtained
Red Raven Animated Records were cardboard children's records with the animation printed right onto the disc itself
/// A Huge Depository of Unusual Musicians and their Music Here
June 23, 2007 in Music_ | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Dance of death
Naval Officers of the Civil War. (Thanks A.)
Dance of death calendars of The Antikamnia Chemical Company (1897 to 1901) by Louis Crucius. (From Nancy L.)
18th Century Clothing & Accoutrements of the people of New England
Use images from the Bayeux tapestry to weave a story with the Historic Tale Construction Kit. (From FaW)
The blog of John Brown, abolitionist. Brown was the first white American abolitionist to advocate and practice insurrection as a means to the abolition of slavery. (From Henry M)
A beautiful smile at Shorpy. (Thank you, UB)
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June 23, 2007 in American History | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 22, 2007
Sneakers Vs. tennis shoes
“Canadian French is essentially bad English as spoken by a Belgian with an inferiority complex”. A list of 875 additional "Essentialist explanations" of the form "Language X is essentially language Y under conditions Z".
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES alternates vowels and consonants
Old fashioned words like Tennis shoes, Cell phones, Multimedia, Hi-definition, etc. By Scott Adams.
The Vulgate is the Latin Bible. Translated from the Hebrew and Aramaic by Jerome between 382 and 405 CE, this text became known as the 'versio vulgata', which means 'common translation'. 'Vulgate' should not to be confused with the term 'vulgar', which has taken on a divergent meaning in modern English
From Pretzel to Kindergarten, a List of German expressions in English
Esau Wood sawed wood. Esau Wood would saw wood. All the wood Esau Wood saw, Esau Wood would saw. In other words, all the wood Esau saw to saw, Esau sought to saw
Eager to preserve the English language against a rising tide of nonsense, we asked readers to compose a piece of prose crammed with as many infuriating phrases as possible
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June 22, 2007 in Languages | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Solar One
The History of Kirk Kerkorian's MGM Grand
Why is the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign so famous? Because it was never copyrighted: everyone's free to reproduce its likeness
Nevada Solar One, the largest solar thermal power plant built in 16 years, is now providing power to Nevada's electrical grid
Analysis of Casino Design. (From a class with Michael Shanks about design)
Images of Las Vegas. (From Plep)
June 23 update: Bizarro about the Fabulous sign
/// A Huge Depository of Unusual Las Vegas Stories Here
June 22, 2007 in Traveling Places - Las Vegas | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
June 21, 2007
The story of Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi
In 1791 and 1792, Andrew Ellicott and his surveying team placed 40 boundary stones around the perimeter of the District of Columbia, one at each mile of the original diamond shape…
Brookline ♥ U on Google Earth
Artist Kim Dingle asked teen-aged school kids in Las Vegas to draw their country in the shape they thought it had. The result is The United Shapes of America
The True Story of the Statue of Liberty, at Neatorama
/// A Huge Depository of Unusual Stories about America Here
June 21, 2007 in Americana | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Fringe candidates
Chuck Norris campaign promises, should he run for president
The mighty General Zod 2008
Who Is The Scariest GOP Presidential Candidate? and GOP Hopefuls Clash Over Who is the Whitest
Which bumper sticker would you most likely put on your car?
1. I’m Already Against the Next War
2. Nice Hummer—Sorry About Your Penis
3. America: One Nation Under Surveillance
4. Of Course It Hurts, You’re Getting Screwed by an Elephant
5. Evolution Is Just a Theory . . . Kind of Like Gravity
6. May the Fetus You Save Be Gay
(From Daniel Kurtzman’s What Breed of Liberal Are You?)
Mike Gravel’s surreal campaign commercials
Purple America. How Americans voted from 1960-2004
The Revolution Will Need Warm Underwear
Is America ready for a Mormon president?
What really happened to Bush’s watches. Also, George Bush: General Contractor
Unimpeachable! by Steve Bates
This is another post that I am “co-blogging”, this time with Madeleine Begun Kane, famed humorist & song parodist who blogs at Mad Kane and who provided most all of today’s links. Thank you Madeleine! (All previous co-blogged posts archived here.) If other bloggers are interested to share the forum here on any other topic, please contact me for details.
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June 21, 2007 in Co-blogged with, Politics | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
June 20, 2007
The salvage of the Kursk
On April 15, 1912, the German liner Prinze Adelbert was steaming through the North Atlantic when its chief steward noticed an iceberg with a curious scar bearing red paint. He took a photo. Later on he learned that the Titanic had gone down in those waters less than 12 hours earlier. (From Futility closet)
Kursk – Lost Russian nuclear cruise missile submarine
The ‘TRICOLOR’ is a 1987 built Norwegian flagged vehicle carrier, which, in the early hours of 14 December 2002, was struck by ‘Kariba’, a 1982 built Bahamian flagged container ship in the French Exclusive Economic Zone some 20 miles north of the French coast in the English channel… The salvage of the Tricolor
Specifications of The Maltese Falcon, largest privately-owned sailing yacht in the world, owned by Tom Perkins of KPCB
Liveras Yachts, owners and charterers of luxury yachts, (note the languages the site is translated to) and some other High-tech Luxury Yachts
The emirate of Dubai buys QE2
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June 20, 2007 in Boating | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Martha My Dear
The Lost Lennon Tapes, The Original Radio Shows, as broadcasted by Westwood One almost 20 years ago
The official video for Paul McCartney's UK single 'Dance Tonight', taken from the album 'Memory Almost Full'
Troubleclef plays Martha My Dear
Montana judge's sentencing memo cites the Eggman. Goo Goo G'Joob
Everything You Know About Sgt. Pepper's Is Wrong
Auctioned: The original draft design for the Rubber Soul album cover lettering. Re-post: I feel fine
Fake movie trailer: A Hard Day's Night of the Living Dead and other relatively rare Beatles thread on MF
/// A Huge Depository of Unusual Beatles Links Here
June 20, 2007 in Music - Beatles | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
June 19, 2007
Real Estate for the Future
Philip Greenspun on the inefficiency of the NYC real estate market
Experience the majestic serenity of full Ocean View Property for generations to come…Lo'ihi Development Co. is to start selling lots in Hawaii with spectacular 360º ocean views for the introductory price of $36.05. The catch: these prime real estates are still submerged more than 3,000 feet below sea level and won't surface for another 10,000 years. That is, if the submerged volcanic island will actually break the surface. (From Pruned). More about the Man Who Sells the Moon
Constructing the top floors of a 57-story tower
Housing maps, a mashup application which combines Google maps with craigslist housing data to show where houses are for sale
Trulia Hindsight is an animated map of homes in the United States from Trulia. The animations use the year the properties were built to show the growth of streets, neighborhoods and cities in the US over time
Breaking news tonight! The Moon is occulting Venus as reflected in these 18 national flags
A Huge De