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November 30, 2007
Lights Out
When the Lights Went Out in San Francisco
Alfredo’s photo tours of many San Francisco neighborhoods
A homeless man on 24th St. in Noe (taken by Andre Torrez)
The Taiko-Bashi Drum Bridge in the Japanese Tea Gardens
(Source of pix above)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Links About San Francisco and About Los Angeles Here
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Colored pee
"As part of an art project, I need to produce some colored urine (Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet)…"
Ce n'est pas un chat - "I need a funny saying for a sign that will go in a window. It will hang over my fat cat, who hardly moves..."
Are you blind in one eye? Please give a newbie advice
Profile Photos of MeFite members. (Icon above is of member no. 1061 NicWolff)
EatMe on Mefi Wiki - The best food threads from Ask MetaFilter
Timeline of milestones in the history of MetaFilter
September 22, 2001 - MetaFilter is now neither meta nor a filter. Discuss.
A Huge Depository of The Best of Metafilter Here
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PIN’s Revealed
A virtual tour of four historic homes in the Atlanta - If These Walls Could Speak
Every teenager dreams of working in a giant warehouse full of discarded nuclear test equipment… The Los Alamos Laboratory Salvage Yard
Top 101 U.S. Cities, Counties, and Zip Codes Lists
Everybody's PIN Number Revealed: Someone actually wrote in requesting an explanation as to how this thing works.
"Sorry, we do not reveal our trade secrets."
How to wear a American Flag Pin
Jimmy Carter, cat murderer
A Huge Depository of Unusual Stories about America Here
November 30, 2007 in Americana | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 29, 2007
Video fractals
Brain Paint, a series of pictures that were generated from people's EEG brain patterns
Ferns are fractal in nature and can be modeled on a computer by using a recursive algorithm. A frond from a fern is a miniature replica of the whole: not identical, but similar in nature. Coils within coils
Also, Spiral aloe
Arthur C. Clarke explains fractals. (YT video. From Fractal Forums)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Fractal Links Here
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Unusual books
Nietzsche et les fascistes. From Songs by Nietzsche: Lebensregeln
Cut thistles in May,
They'll grow in a day;
Cut them in June,
That is too soon;
Cut them in July,
Then they will die.
Mother Goose Alphabetical index
10 Book Titles That Have The Fockers In Them
The Most Unusual Books of the World
A Huge Depository of Unusual Literary Links Here
November 29, 2007 in Books & Literature | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
ChairStoolBench
Aktuell by Yvonne Fehling and Jennie Peiz
The Young and the Restless upholstery fabrics
XKCD creator was thinking of getting a couch or something for his room, somewhere for guests to lounge around. He decided to make a ball pit in his room
Low energy light bulb at The Plumen project
Omega Steam Shower by Jacuzzi
A Huge Depository of Unusual Design Concepts Here
November 29, 2007 in Home Decor | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
At Uranus – Things come out a little differently
Play for us by Leo Burnett, Milan for Nintendo
Richard Burton reads from Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood - An ad for Volkswagen Golf. (YT. From Coudal)
Uranus corporation presents Brown 25 (more YT)
1960's Polaroid Pictures of Signs in Washington
An old Lisa ad with Kevin Costner. (From AdFreak)
What Happens Behind the Scenes
A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
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November 28, 2007
Lincoln
The True Story of the Reincarnations of Abraham Lincoln: 5 Dollar Art Bills by Dutch artist Kamiel Proost
Medical History of American Presidents
Is that really Lincoln in 3-D?
Lincoln-Douglas debate monuments are a cottage industry. (From a Metafilter thread about the 7 debates between Lincoln and Douglas)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Links About Abraham Lincoln and About Richard Nixon Here
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Go ahead, make this prank. Your co-workers will be glad you did
Pickled dragon mystery. The author who was desperate to get his book published, staged the baby dragon hoax
Top Office Pranks, Part 3 at "Dark Roasted Blend". More ideas at AskMefi
J-Walk decided to blog less. The next day, he disclosed that the post was a copy from Scott Adams’s blog. Previous hoaxes by John Walkenbach: The 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference & Web Designs and Writing by MYRTLE
10 Great Snake-Oil Gadgets. (From Optical Poptitude)
A Huge Depository of Hilarious Pranks And Outrageous jokes Here
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What do bears do in the woods?
Thanksgiving dinner with Brutus the Bear. (First link YT. Via Friday fish wrap)
A photo of a Holoplatys, a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders)
Siamese Dream. (From Sarah Snippets)
Poor Hamster on YTMND. The original Poor Hamster as sung by Alma Gentile & Annika Kandil
Greenpeace’s Whale naming competition. More than 11,000 possible whale names were submitted but we are now down to the last 30 possible whale names. The clear winner with 71% of the votes Mister Splashy Pants. "Tomorrow’s headline: Greenpeace cancels poll to name whale. Claims a small but vocal group of internet users skewed the results"
A Huge Depository of Unusual Animal Stories Here
November 28, 2007 in Animals | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
November 27, 2007
Laptops for Africa
The $100 laptop project is working to boost education for children in the developing world
Dog Bark Wakes Baby Falling Asleep While Eating. (56 sec. YT)
I am not happy about this and I know that somehow this is all your fault
Chinese School in a cave. The school is built in a huge, aircraft hangar-sized natural cave, carved out of a mountain over thousands of years by wind, water and seismic shifts
A Huge Depository of Unusual Children Links Here
November 27, 2007 in Kids | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Blooging gone wild
"Blogging isn’t that hot anymore" - Who Is Blogging And Why, by Alex Iskold
Blooging gone wild - Top Blogs Play Telephone with Nissan
A Huge Depository of Unusual blogs and bloggers Here
November 27, 2007 in World of Blogging | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Murder in the Red Barn
Deserted Police Department in Michigan. (From Bell River Nation)
Tom Waits sings about the Murder in the Red Barn
The Look of Love: Portraits of Sex Offenders, by Jesse Wiedel
Jeffrey Deskovic served 16 years in prison for a murder and rape that took place in NY. All 16 years, he fought to prove his innocence. Last year he was exonerated of all crimes and released
Charges dropped against a man named Pheuk Kue, 37, a convicted sex offender
A Huge Depository of Unusual Crime and Criminals Here
November 27, 2007 in Crime & Punishment | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 26, 2007
Dreamed I was an eskimo
Frozen wind began to blow
A Huge Depository of Odd Zappa Moments Here and Unusual Dylan Links Here
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The $8 Billion Gift Card scam
Black kid’s computer desk at Target – Only $79.99
A brand new store has just opened in New York City that sells Husbands. When women go to choose a husband, they have to follow the instructions at the entrance…
Wenger Giant Swiss Army Knife™ V1.0. 85 Implements. 110 Functions. Price: $1,200.00
"We have done so much in the last two years, and it doesn't happen by standing around with your finger in your ear hoping everyone thinks, 'That's nice.'" Talking Donald Rumsfeld Doll with 28 different & famous phrases. (From Fire Dog Lake)
In case you had any doubt that human beings are irrational creatures, driven by stories, consider the case of the $8 Billion Gift Card scam
Zappos brings customer to tears
10 worthless products from the Holiday 2007 SkyMall catalog
A Huge Depository of Unusual Things To Buy Here
November 26, 2007 in Shopping | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Liquid oxygen
The Swiss-made Mikiphone was patented by the Vadász brothers in November 1924. It's probably the smallest gramophone ever placed on the marked, folded up to the size of a large pocket watch or a small cheese case. (From Ishbadiddle)
USPTO Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases
Most folks in the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel know Scott Jones as "the guy who invented voicemail." In the early '90s Jones made about $50 million on his company, which created the predominate form of voicemail, and he "retired" at age 31. Over the past two decades this driven inventor has been generating ideas for new products and companies - some were successful, others hit the scrap heap - at a pace that would make Thomas Edison's head spin. Inside the mind of a crazy (rich) inventor
A Huge Depository of Unusual Inventions & Discoveries Here
November 26, 2007 in Science & Inventions | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 25, 2007
Wife Swapping Party Music (1971)
Chopin, Nocturne, opus 27 #2, with harmonic interval types shown with colored lines. (YT)
The fading footprints of Billie Holiday's in Baltimore and in Washington, DC
Wife Swapping Swinger's Orgy Porgy Party (Audio Stag, AS1004, 1971)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Musicians and their Music Here
November 25, 2007 in Music_ | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Andy Warhol Eating an hamburger
Junk email meat product and other Worth 1000 parody brands
Last month I went on a Fruit tasting of a lifetime. It went on for 12 hours over two days. By the end I had sampled several hundred different kinds of apples, some like no apple I’d ever tasted before
(Clip above from Clusterflock)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Meat and Vegetable Links Here
November 25, 2007 in Food - Meat & Vegetables | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
S'iz given a shvere togedike nakht
Battle Hymn of the Republic in Yiddish sung by Seymour Rechtzeit
(Beatles YouTube above performed by California Klezmer)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Yiddish Links Here
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November 24, 2007
Hitchcock Devoured by pigeons
"1000 Frames of Hitchcock" is an attempt to reduce each of the 52 available major Hitchcock films down to just 1000 frames
'The Trouble with Harry' Screenshot Gallery
John Landis introduces the Psycho Trailer from Hell
TGIF: The .gif Friday Post VII
My Name Is Norman Bates by Landscape, and animated shower. (From a Miss Lynnster’s thread about the Shower scene)
More: Shower scene played by Potato Heads
(Pigeon video above by Juan Mingarro)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Hitchcock and Unusual Chaplin Links Here
November 24, 2007 in Cinema - Hitchcock | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Great news from Anbar!
Aftermath of a car bomb on Google Maps
The Iraqi Challenge: Plans to withdraw troops from Iraq delayed until further notice
Iraq Hotel Reviews at J-Walk
The Top 100 private contractors in Iraq & Afghanistan
Afghan Massacre - the Convoy of Death
(Logo above from One Horse Shy)
A Huge Depository of Stories about The War for Iran's Oil Here
November 24, 2007 in War in Iraq | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
November 23, 2007
Photoshopped clocks
Welcome to my private collection of Soviet and Russian timepieces
Binary Clock by Michael Battle. How to Convert an analog wall clock into a binary clock
Photorealistic Watch Drawn by pencil artist Eivind from Norway
Photoshopped clocks - In this contest you are asked to design new clocks from other things, or redesign existing clocks with some unusual elements
Angeling Around Clock. (From Presurfer)
The Shinshoku
A Huge Depository of Unusual Clocks and Watches Here
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Edgewild
Every morning, when I go for a jog, I pass by the high green fence of the Edgewild, an historic compound one block away from my house. It was built in 1891 by brothers William and Edward Gulick on the site of their forty acre citrus ranch and nursery, when Riverside was green and small. I want to go in & visit. I actually would like to move from my brand new home to this one, if I could
The City of Riverside put all the historical buildings in town on-line.
The Peace Tower on top of Mt. Rubidoux
Baby Tattooville 2008 at The Mission Inn Hotel last month
The first McDonald's
A Huge Depository of Unusual Links From Riverside And San Bernardino and from Orange County Here
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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears
If I Ever Got To Be Really Really Rich Here's One Of The Things I'd Want To Do. (Sounds like Jack Handey)
Washington, DC on $85 a Day. The US $5, $10, $20 and $50 notes feature the Lincoln Memorial, US Treasury, White House and Capitol respectively
People in Pakistan give money for Holy War
Now You Can Make The Money Come To YOU -The Money Mantra
Origami made with paper currencies from around the world
A Huge Depository of Unusual Stories About Money Here
November 23, 2007 in Money & Finances | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
November 22, 2007
Spiritually-minded sweets
Gummy Haggis. (From Wicked Boring)
Signs Above My Halloween Candy: 1996–2006. By Zach Oberman
How to: Crawly Cakes for Halloween
I-Mockery’s Ultimate Guide to the Halloween Candies of 2007
10 Religious Halloween Candies
Sex cakes for the homeless (NSFW)
Sugar overload - Sweet Tooth pool on flickr (Changes daily)
Beard Papa’s, the World’s Best Cream Puffs
A Huge Depository of Unusual Sweets and Unusual Chocolates Here
November 22, 2007 in Food - Desserts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The Singing Duck
Junior Boys Godard Mashup - Junior Boy's "In the morning" & Godard's "Bande à Part" dance scene. (YT)
Gus Visser And His Singing Duck (1925) is a short film which was an early attempt at perfecting a sound-on-film process
Garbo & Balzac The Film that never was
The history of wallpaper in film. (From Quiddity)
A selection of original Japanese "Chirashi" movie posters at Shock Cinema Magazine
Trailers of strange films from the seventies and beyond - Trailer Club 70
American Beauty & 5 other 5 second movie summaries
Around 20 covered bridges were built in Madison County during the late 19th Century. They were covered to protect the roadway, because it was cheaper to replace the boards of the roof and walls, then than the heavy beams of the actual bridge. Today there are 6 bridges, made famous by the Clint Eastwood movie. (Previously blogged on grow-a-brain. I’ve been watching again quite a few movies from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s & 90’s recently)
Happy 30th Birthday Internet! The Internet is 30 today. Exactly 30 years ago today on November 22, 1977 the first three networks were connected to become the Internet
A Huge Depository of Unusual Film Directors and other Other Movie Links Here
November 22, 2007 in Cinema | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Happy Thanksgiving
A Huge Depository of Unusual Holiday Links Here
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November 21, 2007
How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?
Working on a letterpress animated GIF
How the guy with the red chair got a job
How many golf balls can fit in a school bus? and other Questions you may expect to answer at a Google Job Interview
- "How long have you been bedridden?"
- "Why, not for about twenty years - when my husband was alive"
India's sewage workers: The World’s Worst Job
A Huge Depository of Unusual Job Offers Here
November 21, 2007 in Jobs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Negotiating with the Dentist
Meta-Joke at "Futility Closet"
A slew of Russian jokes on wikipedia
(Dentist clip above from Maggie’s Farm)
A Huge Depository of Jokes and other Funny Stuffs Here
November 21, 2007 in Jokes | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Thank you for using the Internet
After Albers Rainbow gif by Chris Collins. (More here)
Dinosaur Sightings: This gallery showcases several 1970-era computers from Steven Stengel's vintage computer collection
Some 140 Free icons
Calling all Roys or Troys or LeRoys. Background: My Year on Craigslist
Ever Wonder Why Your Internet Went Down?
The Museum of Interactive Failure. These exhibits capture many notable Web 1.0 failures, and may have value for future historians and future entrepreneurs to study
As you may know, you are currently on the internet
200 Known Spam Operations responsible for 80% of your spam
Thank you for using the Internet
A Huge Depository of Unusual Things To Do On The Internet Here
November 21, 2007 in Internet | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Inhale, exhale
“Here lies Jane Smith,
Wife of Thomas Smith, Marble Cutter.
This monument was erected by her husband as a tribute
to her memory and a specimen of his work.
Monuments of this same style are two hundred and fifty dollars”
2008 erotic calendar of an Italian company selling coffins
Star Trek Line of Urns and Caskets by Eternal Image, featuring branded licenses – The Vatican Library Collection™, Precious Moments™, the American Kennel Club™ and Major League Baseball™
…When he died, his wife commissioned this sculpture, as an expression of her love for him…
High-resolution images of Death Row at San Quentin State Prison
Signs of Dying according to Buddhism
(Epitaph above found at the “Death collection” of Futility Closet)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Coffins and Other Links About Death and Eternity Here