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July 31, 2007
We’re rolling if you’re rolling
Joey deVilla sees the Hemp on Wheels truck
Know your dealer - The 10 Different Kinds of Pot Dealers
The big joint
If you have to screw up when in The Netherlands, just remember one simple rule: Don't mention the shrooms
Re-post: 3D Magical Leaf (Click to biggify)
A Huge Depository of many illegal drugs especially Acid and Pot Here
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Blues compendium with madamjujujive
The Roots Music Listening Room. (Out of consideration for others, please only download/listen to about 35-40 songs in one day)
Flip the Frog in Killing Floor. A mashup of Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor" with Ub Iwerk's "Fiddlesticks". Also, Moosin' Around with Skip James
Everyday I have the Blues, hosted by Paul Fields. Daily shows are four hours and feature diverse blends of blues: Chicago, Texas, Memphis, St Louis, West Coast, and Acoustic, with knowledgeable, insightful commentary and critiques. Shows start at 8 AM Central and loop for 24 hours
You're about to take a trip inside the places where the blues began. I'm not talking about white people blues bars filled with college students. I'm talking about edge-of-a-cotton-field juke joints filled with real Delta folks. Junior's Juke Joint
Shack Up Inn - Shotgun shacks in Clarksdale Mississippi
Surreal Kid Koala in Basin Street Blues
Sold my soul, sold it to the Devil and my heart done turned to stone
I sold my soul, sold it to the Devil, he won't let me alone:
Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo. (From Lucky Mojo)
Take the free tour at the Sun Studio for some blues and early rock & roll music clips & lore
The men who invented the Blues Harp Sound, Blues Harp Legends
The Wah-wah foot fashion show. Also, a gallery of Hottie Amps
George Bush Blues and The Talkin George W Bush Paranoid Blues
Honky Tonks, Hymns and the Blues
A Virtual Tour of the Final Resting Places of Blues Musicians
Learn the blues lingo
Trail of the Hellhound - Delta Blues in the Lower Mississippi Valley
Photographs by Terry Cryer. Also, Dragan Tasic’s Jazz and Blues Photogallery
Stones in my Pathway, photographs of the North Mississippi areas by Bill Steber
Bunnie Bass - Amusing bass guitars gallery
Some YouTube Clips:
Billie Holiday - Fine and Mellow, 1944
Sonny Boy Willimiamson - Keep it to yourself
Lightnin Hopkins - Mojo hand
Big Mama Thornton w/Buddy Guy - You Ain't Nothing But a Hound Dog
Howlin Wolf - Shake It for Me
Muddy Waters - Long Distance Call
The trailer to The Blues Brothers
Etta James & Dr John - I'd Rather Go Blind
John Lee Hooker - I'm Bad Like Jesse James
Miles Davis - Red China Blues. (The music and image doesn't have direct relation)
Eric Clapton - Driftin' Blues
Booker White - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
B.B. King & Shemekia Copeland - Everyday I Have The Blues
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood
This is another post that I am “co-blogging”, this time with madamjujujive who blogs at Everlasting Blort and MetaFilter, and who provided (just about all) of today’s links. Thank you, Madam! (All previous co-bloggers archived here.) If other creative types are interested to share the forum here on any other topic, please contact me for details.
A Huge Depository of Unusual Musicians and their Music Here
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July 30, 2007
The sexy side of PEZ
A Sketch Towards a Taxonomy of Meta-Desserts, including seven Dessert Functions (Shrink, freeze, chill, put in food processor, heat, add leavening, and remove leavening)
I'm very impressed by the ingredients list on Haagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream: Cream, skim milk, sugar, egg yolks, natural vanilla. It's pretty rare to find any packaged food product with such a simple ingredients list
A visit to the PEZ museum in Easton, PA
Although we think of colorful and witty character heads when we think of PEZ, Haas's candy creation was specifically made and sold for an adult market until the 60's. To sell to adults, PEZ and its marketing team used sex to help sell their product: PEZ Girls
(Banner ad above from The blog quebecois)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Sweets and Unusual Chocolates Here
July 30, 2007 in Food - Desserts | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
July 29, 2007
O Superman
From Spain, The aged
Photos of people who were at foocamp 2007.The effects are made by playing with light toys while the shutter is open in a dark room. For more see Edible light
The Art of Quitting
Nomadic Cam: A miniature camera has been launched into the Israeli reality. It’ll rove here and there, change hands again and again, and document its journey painstakingly. You can come along, too
Also – “This is the time. And this is the record of the time”. (YT & LA)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Photography Links Here
Happy birthday, Doc Searls
July 29, 2007 in Photography | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
DRMO Junkyard
U.S. Army Maj. Chad Weddell describes Camp Al Asad's Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office (DRMO) junkyard, December 7, 2006, in Iraq. The yard houses all scrap metal and battle damaged and wrecked vehicles for western Iraq. Read between the lines. (From Crooks And Liars)
Richard Thompson’s new song Dad's Gonna Kill Me
A field study released Monday by the University of North Carolina School of Public Health suggests that Iraqi citizens experience sadness and a sense of loss when relatives, spouses, and even friends perish, emotions that have until recently been identified almost exclusively with Westerners
"I am not an animal... I am a human being..."
Grim Tattoo Subculture Growing as Iraqis Want Own Remains Easily ID'ed by Family - Iraqis Marking Selves for Death
Kadhem Sharif is an Iraqi wrestler and weightlifter. He is most famous for attempting to use a sledgehammer to bring down the statue of Saddam Hussein at the Firdos Square in Baghdad
Lieutenant Commander Philip Francis Queeg is Planning for 2009
A Huge Depository of Stories about The War Against Iran Here
July 29, 2007 in War in Iraq | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Always alone...
Two Players Required - It was another one of those moments when I should have kept my mouth shut. But in a moment of weakness, I uttered the words 'wouldn't it be cool if...' Four weeks later, we had to travel out to Maker Faire with an 83 pound, 5 foot Nintendo controller…
The definitive list of single player games
Watch the Chinese Checkers be Fergilicious
Hitler Limousine Wind-Up Toy. (Click to biggify. From Tom McMahon)
Final Fantasy 7 in real life
Fabiano Caruana was born on July 30th, 1992, which makes him one of the youngest chess grandmaster
Boy with 1700+ Transformers Toys
People playing chess on roller coasters. (Inspired by this comic)
A blogger’s high scores. (The blogger’s home page is here)
Tetris USA. (Thank you, Raymond)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Games and Toys Here
July 29, 2007 in Games | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
July 28, 2007
I’m in ur skoolz – pokin ur popperz
LOL Philosophers flickr slideshow. (From Bitch Ph.D.)
Le Grand Content, examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled to form a grand 'association-chain-massacre'. Which challenges itself to answer all questions of the universe and some more. A Film by Clemens Kogler. (Found on Indexed)
The Collected Works Of Friedrich Nietzsche
How to solve a maze with Photoshop
Spinning Silhouette Optical Illusion (Above)
A Huge Depository of Intelligent Links and Even Brainier Links Here
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“Table scalpers” for top restaurants
“I went to Subway for dinner tonight, and when I finished my transaction, I was handed this vague and uninformative receipt”
The Absent Minded Waiter, a Steve Martin short (With Buck Henry & Teri Garr. Watch until the end)
Breaking, sad news: Grant Achatz has cancer
Zimmy’s Restaurant, 531 East Howard Street, Hibbing, MN…
Hitler-Themed Bars & Restaurants found in Asia. (From Cynical-C). A letter from the original owner of Hitler Bar in Pusan, Korea
Re-post: How to make reservations at The French Laundry and other tips at the WSJ’s How to Get the Ungettable Table
You can get a free download of Steve Plotnicki’s 50 Most Recommended Restaurants in North America and Europe. Steve Plotnicki write the mouth-watering Opinionated About Dining blog
Taos Las vegas, the highest grossing independent restaurant in the US
A Huge Depository of Unusual Bars and Restaurants Here
July 28, 2007 in Food - Restaurants & Bars | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
July 27, 2007
About The CNN / Youtube Debate
Transcript: CNN / Youtube Democratic Debate on Defective Yeti
"I took the W off my car today”
James Gilmore III has announced that he is no longer running for president, thus raising some intriguing questions
Rudy and Romney: Artful dodgers
Interviews with some less than mainstream candidates on “Arabian Monkey”: With the Marijuana Party Presidential Candidate and with Frank Moore
How to tell when Alberto Gonzales is lying
Much more about the 2008 Election. Also, the 2004 election and other Political Posts Here
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Don’t eat the bread
When I visited my family last month, I heard 2 typical Israeli stories that cracked me up:
1. My aunt was sitting next to a stranger at a big dinner, and he started munching on the appetizers, so she elbowed him and whispered: “Don’t eat the bread – there’s a lot of good food coming”…
2. My cousins had to drive somewhere and got lost, so they asked a stranger “How can we get to so-and-so street?”
His answer: “Why do you have to go there?”…
Elsewhere:
A Rose is A Rose
Two Japanese businessmen are talking during their afternoon dip in the hot baths at the Geisha house.
The first businessman says, “Hiroko-san, I have some unpleasant news for you. Your wife is dishonoring you.”
His friend can’t believe what he hears and asks for more information.
“It is as I said, Hiroko-san. Your wife is dishonoring you - she is making love every afternoon with a foreigner of the Jewish faith.”
Shocked, Hiroko-san decides to go home and confront his wife. He faces her and says, “I am told that you are dishonoring me with a foreigner of the Jewish faith.”
She replies, “That’s a lie. Where did you hear such mishegoss”
An old man sits down in the confessional at the church, and says, "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned."
The priest says, "Tell me of your sins, my son."
The old man says, "Well, Father, I'm 90 years old; I've been married to my wife for 70 years, and in all that time I've always been faithful. But last night, I made love to two beautiful 19-year-old girls! We did it three times!"
The priest says, "I see. Tell me, how long has it been since your last confession?"
The old man says, "Oh, I've never been to confession. I'm Jewish."
The priest says, "So what are you telling me for?"
And the old man says, "I'm telling everybody!"
(More at Dirty Jokes for Grandma)
A Harvard man and a Yale man are at the urinal. They finish and zip up. The Harvard man proceeds to the sink to wash his hands, while the Yale man immediately makes for the exit.
The Harvard man says, "At Harvard they teach us to wash our hands after we urinate."
The Yale man replies, "At Yale they teach us not to piss on our hands."
Comic Wonder, a competitive arena for joke-tellers
(An old reminder about bread)
A Huge Depository of Jokes and other Funny Stuffs Here
July 27, 2007 in Jokes | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
July 26, 2007
RBS
Flight of the Bumble-Bee and other amazing rolling ball sculptures (also known as a RBS) by Eddie Boes, a combination of art & engineering
Other kinetic sculptures; The Octapult by Bradley N. Litwin, a vocalist and guitar player whose repertoire includes 1920's and 1930's vintage blues, stride and ragtime
When Ph.D.s Get Frustrated - Contains a fairly detailed explanation of Lord Kelvin’s formulation of the second law of thermodynamics, and a helpful diagram
A Huge Depository of Unusual Inventions & Discoveries Here
July 26, 2007 in Science & Inventions | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
You Say Mutato I Say Mutatoe
Mangiamaccheroni, the Neapolitan macaroni-eating lads
Food Design makes possible to think in food as an edible designed product, an object that negates any reference to cooking, tradition and gastronomy
Giada De Laurentiis Loves Tomatoes
July 20, 1801: A gargantuan cheese is pressed from the milk of nine hundred or so “Republican” cows—a gift for Thomas Jefferson. (From Exploding Aardvark)
The Definitive General Tso's Chicken Page
A Huge Depository of Unusual Meals and Foods Here
July 26, 2007 in Food | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
July 25, 2007
From the fertile mind of Jeff Bridges
(Original on Jeff Bridges blog)
Trailer for the new Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men
Lebowski Action Figure sets now available
A Huge Depository of Unusual Big Lebowski Links Here
July 25, 2007 in Cinema - "The Big Lebowski" | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Torre Agbar
The Philip Johnson Glass House Guessing Game
Paris windows, a photoset on flickr. (From Nag on the Lake)
The Torre Agbar, or Agbar Tower, is a 21st century skyscraper in Barcelona
A panorama of the Kremlin and other Presidential Homes around the world
The Hindu temple of Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in London
A Huge Depository of Unusual architectural Links Here
July 25, 2007 in Architecture | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Terrorcycle
(Terrifying clip above from Yule Heibel)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Harley-Davidson Links Here
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July 24, 2007
Sand Squid
From The Netherlands, the art of Stijger collective
Goaaal by Gianni Schimarini. (From Not Cot)
The work of Meridith Corson & Dan'l Doubleday
The World's Tallest Sandcastle and Other Sand sculpture Marvels
Art by Montserrat Cuesta
A Huge Depository of Sand Sculptures Galleries and Ice Sculptures Galleries Here
July 24, 2007 in Sand Sculptures | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Blog Tour USA
Rudy & Joe, the Sellsius bloggers from New York City are traveling across the country in their crazy, exciting Blog Tour USA, promoting real estate blogging, and driving to San Francisco for the Bloggers Connect next week. We met Sunday morning for conversation, coffee & bagels, as they stopped in Riverside, California. What a great way to spend a month traveling!
Sharon Simms, the # 1 ranked real estate blogger on Active Rain
The blog of The Harper Team, Danville, CA
Joanne Hanson’s Summit County Real Estate
Mariana Wagner’s The ‘Springs Realty Scoop
Steve Scheer’s Real Estate in Denver and the Suburbs
Smart Apartments, Building and Branding Smart Apartments in Gainesville, Florida, by Aubrey Zaffke
Brian Nygard’s Chicago Real Estate Blog
A Huge Depository of Real Estate Blogs as well as Grow-a-Brain’s Extensive Real Estate Archives Are Here
July 24, 2007 in Real estate Blogs | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack
Cotton is down to a quarter a pound but I'm busted
The Power of Money
Why did the K Foundation Burn A Million Quid? On 23 August 1994, the K Foundation (Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty) burnt one million pounds sterling in cash on the Scottish island of Jura. This money represented the bulk of the K Foundation's funds, earned by Drummond and Cauty as The KLF, one of the United Kingdom's most successful pop groups of the early 1990s. The duo have never fully explained their motivations for the burning….
More Money Origami by an artist named orudorumagi11 at Deviant Art. (From Geekologie)
The Wealthiest Americans Ever (A Flash-based map at the NYT)
The World’s Worst Currencies. For example, the Somali shilling which was 1,387.77 SOS per US$1 in June 2007
A Huge Depository of Unusual Stories About Money Here
July 24, 2007 in Money & Finances | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
July 23, 2007
Living photographs
The festival of Genzano, so called Infiorata, has been celebrated for more than two centuries, in the month of June. For such occasion, the high road Via Italo Belardi is transformed into a flowered carpet, and about 2000 squared meters are decorated with pictures made with flowers, petals, seed and leaves. (From Spluch). Also, in Brussels
Just before World War One, photographer Arthur Mole used his 11 x 14-inch view camera to create the so-called "living photographs", done on a monumental scale. By arranging thousands of soldiers (reservists, or nurses) in various patriotic symbols and photographing them from above, he was able to use lines of perspective to transform meaningless masses into artistic shapes and even portraits
Philippine beauties from the fabled Manila Carnivals 1908-1939. (flickr. From Iz Reloaded)
On June 29, more than hundred artists gathered near Tretyakovskoi Gallery in Moscow to paint 151 Benches of the world
A Huge Depository of Unusual Festivals Links Here
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The Future of the Internet
what the future of the web looked like in 1994. (YT)
Visualize the Internet. Akamai’s Graphics of Internet traffic
Tech's 10 most-hyped product launches
The very Big List of Internet Memes
New York Subway Map of the Internet
A Huge Depository of Unusual Things To Do On The Internet Here
July 23, 2007 in Internet | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Nuclear Survival
John Cleese selling his Santa Barbara County horse ranch for $28 million. Stalloreggi, or ''King's Stables'' has a 16,000-square-foot barn, Mediterranean-style main home with three bedrooms and four bathrooms, a view of the Santa Ynez Mountains and a swimming pool. Also, llamas, alpacas, an emu, chinchillas and nearly a dozen cats
The Salton Sea is a strange place
California Dreamin' bed prototype
Nuclear Survival in California. (From Numlok)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Stories From California, from Hawaii and from Iowa Here
July 23, 2007 in California | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
July 22, 2007
Pig face & chicken ass
Pig face at Carrefour. (From Strange / Beautiful flickr pool)
If fruits had a class structure
Chicken Ass from The Philippines, and the master list of Weird meats
Meatpaper is a print magazine of art and ideas about meat
A Huge Depository of Unusual Meat and Vegetable Links Here
July 22, 2007 in Food - Meat & Vegetables | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
HAL do you read me?
A wooden piece of the Kitty Hawk that traveled all the way to the moon, and back. (Click to enlarge image. From Things Magazine)
Picture this: You're one of several astronauts homeward bound after a three-year mission to Mars. Halfway back from the Red Planet, your spacecraft starts suffering intermittent electrical outages. So you remove a little-used service panel to check some wiring. To your unbelieving eyes, floating in midair in the microgravity near the wiring is a shivering, shimmering globule of dirty water larger than a grapefruit. And on the wiring connectors are unmistakable flecks of mold. Preventing "Sick" Spaceships
Apollo 11 35 Years Later
The sport of the future? Space diving
A Huge Depository of Unusual Space Links Here
July 22, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Look, Ma, what I got
A multimedia piece on a plural polygamous family by SLC journalist Brooke Adams
William Kamkwamba, a Malawi school 'dropout', built a homemade Windmill & power system for his family, and now has a inspiring blog detailing his bold adventures in plucky self-reliance. (Thank you, Avi)
Look Ma what I got - Bin Laden Tattoo
A Huge Depository of Unusual People Doing Unusual Things Here
July 22, 2007 in Unusual People | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
This is a legitimate offer
Ezekiel Chapter 1 in flash
Ever wondered what’s the craziest, least sensible group of people on the planet? No, it’s not Islamic fundamentalists. No, not turbo-militant creationists. No, not the evil crazy cat ladies either
If you have kept the Ten Commandments, we will give you $10,000 cash. (From Rivets)
The Federation Of Damanhur is a spiritual community in northern Italy, with its own constitution and currency, the Credito. Damanhur is named after the Egyptian city of Damanhur which was the site of a temple dedicated to Horus. It was founded in 1975 by Oberto Airaudi with around 24 followers and had grown to 800 by the year 2000. They gained fame in 1992 through the disclosure of their secret excavation of an extensive underground temple, the Temples of Humankind which was begun in 1978 under complete secrecy. (From Nava Koresh)
39 categories of activity prohibited on the Jewish Shabbat. (From Sheila Lennon)
Breaking news / Unrelated: Does Cody Wirick look like a bomb-maker?
A Huge Depository of Unusual links about Unusual Gods Here
July 22, 2007 in Spirituality | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
July 21, 2007
They’ve seen his face before
