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December 31, 2007
Childrens do learn
Personalized Rock Posters baby announcements by Rattle-N-Rock
Body magic! What’s wrong with kids nowadays?
Gallery of children painted by Norman Rockwell
How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take in a Fight? This short survey will tell you approximately how many five year old children you could fight at once. Results are based on physical prowess, training, swarm-combating experience, and the flexibility of your moral compass
A list of child prodigies
A Huge Depository of Unusual Children Links Here
December 31, 2007 in Kids | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Rainforest M&M’s
Toastvertising is a project promoting a new book about SPAM, that creates an animated history of the meat-like product. (From Not Cot)
How to eat rainforest M&M’s
(Very) exotic Chinese farmers market, photographed by Thomas H. Hahn
Build your own Whopper Sandwich. (Found on The Generator Blog)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Meat and Vegetable Links Here
December 31, 2007 in Food - Meat & Vegetables | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
Mad Balls
Watch 3000 oil barrels crash in some computer game. (From Unique Daily)
Vida, the world's largest jigsaw puzzle with 24,000 pieces. (From Planet Apex)
Plush toys by Lizette Greco
A Huge Depository of Unusual Games and Toys Here
December 31, 2007 in Games | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
December 30, 2007
Mano de Dios
Kudu Dung Spitting , or 'Bokdrol Spoeg' as it is known locally by the Afrikaans community, is indeed a real sport. There are even World Championships held every year. As far as it is known, or anyone will admit, the formal version of the sport has existed since 1994. It is unknown when the first informal game actually took place, but it is my guess that large quantities of alcohol were involved
Diego Maradona’s Hand of God goal in 1988. The YouTube video
The Ruth steamroller
Field Guides to Evel Knievel's Injuries
Introduction to cluster ballooning
Crazy basketball videos
A Huge Depository of Extreme Sports Links Here
December 30, 2007 in Extreme Sports | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
First person in a photograph
In 1838, a man made history by having his boots polished. He was the only thing standing still when Louis Daguerre took a photograph of a busy Parisian street. Because the film was exposed for 10 minutes, the rest of the traffic blurred into nothing — and the anonymous man became the first person ever to appear in a photograph
A photographic competition to mark World Alzheimer's Day
As part of his artistic statement, Thomas Hawk wants to take & publish 500,000 photographs before he dies. Here is his 17,000th photo uploaded to Zooomr
Explore Flickriver, a different way of searching and browsing flickr photos
A Huge Depository of Unusual Photography Links Here
December 30, 2007 in Photography | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
December 29, 2007
The Man of 100 Voices does it again
Jared M. Gordon impersonates the voices of another 100 cartoon characters in less than 5 minutes. (Usually he does voice-over work for Nickelodeon, A&E & Saturday Night Live's TV Funhouse)
Previously posted: The original 100 voices YouTube clip
A Huge Depository of Unusually Funny Comedians Here
December 29, 2007 in Comedians | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
I was sleepin' like a rat
When I heard something jerkin'.
There stood Rita
Lookin' just like Tony Perkins
She said, "Would you like to take a shower?
I'll show you up to the door."
I said, "Oh, no! no!
I've been through this before."
I knew I had to split
But I didn't know how,
When she said,
"Would you like to take that shower, now?"
Film Dialogue in Dylan’s Lyrics. References to particular films and fragments of film dialogue are scattered throughout the lyrics of Bob Dylan’s songs, particularly in the 1985 album Empire Burlesque. I have attempted to compile these snatches from the songs and cite the original film dialogue, although some of the quotes may be coincidental rather than deliberate, using phrases that have passed into common usage
Animated All Along the Watchtower
A Huge Depository of Unusual Dylan Links Here
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December 28, 2007
iKlimt
A beautiful Flash site about the life and work of Gustav Klimt. (Also, click on number 7 to see the Klimt house, part of a property for sale in Ibiza)
Inside the Chinese art factories/sweatshops
10 artists who employ everything from ice cream trucks to high explosives in their creations - The new alchemists
A Huge Depository of Unusual Art and Artists Here
December 28, 2007 in Modern Art | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
2 cars in one
Russian-born inventor Shalom Bloch built a two-sided car, by combining two cars so that they have two fronts. Now he can drive it either way. One side has an automatic transmission, the other a stick shift. The interviewer asks him: Why do you need to switch sits, instead of putting it in reverse? He answers: Now you don’t need to use reverse at all.
The biggest danger of driving this car (in Israel) is the possibility of accidents, due to curious drivers. The project to create this hybrid car took three months to complete. If he runs out of gas in one side, he can switch to the other & keep driving. (Thank you, Dafna!)
This is not the only 2-sided cars. There’s a Japanese version too.
Letterheads from trucking companies. On David A. Bontrager’s transportation page
Peel microcars were built in Peel, Isle of Man in the 1960's by Peel Engineering
A Huge Depository of Unusual Car Links Here
December 28, 2007 in Cars | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
December 27, 2007
Da Jesus Book
"I give you guys one new ting you gotta do: show love an aloha fo each odda. Jus like I get love an aloha fo you guys, dass how you guys gotta get love an aloha fo each odda. If all you guys get love an aloha fo each odda, den everybody goin know you my guys." Found at Da Jesus Book - Da Hawai`i Pidgin Bible. (From Your Monkey Called)
Alchemical and Hermetic Emblems
This Vampire Killing Kit has been sold recently on ebay for US $1,000. The items enclosed in the box are as followed: One wooden hammer (6.5 inches long), four stakes 6 inches-each), the wooden hammer has applied a small holy cross, same as the stakes; the lower side containing: prayer book, crucifix, knife and eight bottles with Pamant (holy soil), Agheazma (holy water), Mir (anointing oil), Tamaie (holy incense), Usturoi (garlic), red serum, blue serum and secret potion
Rubber Buddha made of old tires
The OMG! What is this gif
The Song of Solomon Illustrated
A Huge Depository of Unusual links about Unusual Gods Here
December 27, 2007 in Spirituality | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Headless Body Found in Topless Bar
Haddon Sundblom was best known for the images of Santa Claus he created for The Coca-Cola Company. He also designed many of the FormFit ads in the late 1940s and early '50s. His last assignment was for the December 1972 cover of Playboy magazine. (From the extensive American Art Archives, where you can also find an illustrated essay of Pepsi advertising from the 1950s)
Hal Riney's holiday e-card. (From Paula Zargaj-Reynolds)
The Most Controversial Ads in Fashion History
A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
December 27, 2007 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Symphony for Theramin & Matryoshka
38-string acoustic Harp-Sympitar with custom piezo pickups, and other instruments built by Fred Carlson
Everything you always wanted to know about fiddling but were afraid to ask
A Huge Depository of Unusual String Instruments and other Strange Musical Links Here
December 27, 2007 in Music - String Instruments | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
December 26, 2007
Gun Porn
This is my rifle.
There are many like it but this one is mine.
My rifle is my best friend. It is my life.
I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my rifle is useless.
Without my rifle I am useless. I must fire my rifle true.
I must shoot straighter than my enemy, who is trying to kill me.
I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will.
Before God I swear this creed: my rifle and myself are defenders of my country, we are the masters of my enemy, we are the saviors of my life.
So be it, until there is no enemy, but peace.
Amen.
A Huge Depository of Unusual War Links and Unusual Peace Links Here
December 26, 2007 in War | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Mersey Beat - full of beat, melody and close harmonies
Here is another “co-blogged” post, this time composed with Avi Abrams, of the popular Dark Roasted Blend blog, who provided most of today’s links. Thank you, Avi! (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.
The late great Freddie and the Dreamers: "Funny over you" (YT) - full of infectious joy
Milkman by The Merseybeats (YT)
Billy J. Kramer Official website
Justin Hayward (before he joined The Moody Blues) I Can't Face The World Without You
The Iveys "Maybe tomorrow"
Joe Meek, Britain's first independent record producer
'Across the universe', performed by the Slovenian experimental music group, Laibach
The Beatles come to town - Rare Pathe News clip from 1963 (in color). Also, Beatles on "Thank Your Lucky Stars", Dec 15th 1963
More from Liverpool, the Super Lamb Banana sculpture
Piggies (YT) is sandwiched between two other songs with animals in their titles ("Blackbird" and "Rocky Raccoon")…
John, Yoko & baby. More there
A rare video for “Something”
Many other rare bands from this era - across the world. Even Russia joined the fun: The Singing Guitars. The last echo of Merseybeat in the 70s - Ten O'Clock Postman by the Swedish group "Secret Service"
A Huge Depository of Unusual Beatles Links Here
December 26, 2007 in Co-blogged with, Music - Beatles | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
December 25, 2007
Stuffs
Designed in 1927, The Brannock Device® foot-measuring device is a must in all retail footwear stores
The Lands' End fall catalog is porn for the heartsick man
Gorgeous Wrap art
Annie Leonard's "The Story of Stuff"
How to Know if You Are Really Helping a Tree or Tiger by Brian Unger
A Huge Depository of Unusual Things To Buy Here
December 25, 2007 in Shopping | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The people in background
Joseph Zeman, 73, commonly known as the Pigeon Man of Lincoln Square
Pentti Linkola is a radical Finnish environmentalist who has often been accused of ecofascism. He lives a materially very simple life and works as a professional fisherman.
Linkola is a misanthropist who blames humans for the destruction of the environment and he has promoted ideas such as genocide for saving the environment and to keep the population in control. He strongly promotes deindustrialization. His ideal of society is a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by a small educated elite, where the majority of the population has the living standards of the Middle Ages, where consumption is limited only to renewable resources, and where "defective" people are killed
Danny Lloyd played Danny ("Doc") Torrance in Kubrick's Shining. He acted in only one other film, The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy, and is now a professor for Biology in a collage in Kentucky. (Also, four other bit actresses from the film would never appear in another movie after The Shining)
And in the early Nineties, a man called Alan Conway went about London telling people he was Stanley Kubrick
Silicone implants for tattoo boobs
Bill Maher’s Dickheads of the Year 2007
Watch the people in background
Marry Christmas from The Flying Spaghetti Monster
(No time to blog tonight - Sorry. This post was composed a few weeks ago)
A Huge Depository of Unusual People Doing Unusual Things Here
December 25, 2007 in Unusual People | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
December 24, 2007
A fistful of Leone
A Sergio Leone tribute (YT)
A Happy 75th Birthday To Russ Yelburton, The Deputy Chief Of The Water Department
…Hundreds of newspaper headlines, TV trailers and episode titles, etc. have played on Soderbergh's first film title, usually in the form sex, lies and something else or “something, something and videotape”…
Fan Tan, a novel by Marlon Brando
My favorite Frank Langella’s rolls: William Paley in “Good Night, and Good Luck”, Clare Quilty in Adrian Lyne’s Lolita (1997), Bob Alexander in Dave (1993) Ostap Bender in “The Twelve Chairs”. What’s yours?
The various WideScreen Systems
Happy Holidays to all
(No time to blog tonight - Sorry. This post was composed a few weeks ago)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Film Directors and other Other Movie Links Here
December 24, 2007 in Cinema | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
December 23, 2007
Shrooms - The Movie
Doing nothing has never been so amazing
Shrooms - The Movie
20 Creative Ways People Have Smuggled Drugs and Been Caught. (Thank you, ThinkingMan)
De Sjamaan magic mushrooms for sale
Re-post: Hallucinations
Google search No. 1 for How to make acid
(Thanks to John Madsen for sending in the original graphics above)
(No time to blog tonight - Sorry. This post was composed a few weeks ago)
A Huge Depository of illegal drugs especially Acid and pot Here
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December 22, 2007
Guild for Reality Integrators
Animal icon of the Guild for Reality Integrators and Generators
The Rat Princess portraits with babies
The roaring camel
My cat won a contest, sponsored by Kitty Pan cat litter, when I was just 10 years old. We were part of a crazy, week-long cat-beauty pageant, held at the Playboy Plaza Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. Yes, it was insane… The All American Glamour Kitty Contest
Virtual Prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Also, a purring podcast
(No time to blog tonight - Sorry. This post was composed a few weeks ago)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Animal Stories Here
December 22, 2007 in Animals | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
December 21, 2007
Pixar's in-jokes
Comic Strip Classics a series of postage stamps , honoring the centennial of the newspaper comic strip. (Click to biggify)
A definitive list of where the in-jokes & self references in Pixar's feature films & shorts are located
The world of Matt Furie
Merry Bluesy Christmas to all. (Thank you Joe Truck!)
A Huge Depository Of Unusual Comix and Cartoons Here
December 21, 2007 in Comics & Cartoons | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
December 20, 2007
HGP
Completed in 2003, the The Human Genome Project was a 13-year project coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health.
Project goals were to
• identify all the approximately 20,000-25,000 genes in human DNA,
• determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA,
• store this information in databases,
• improve tools for data analysis,
• transfer related technologies to the private sector, and
• address the ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) that may arise from the project.
Though the HGP is finished, analyses of the data will continue for many years...
Video: Omni directional wheels
Edison labs, Henry Ford Museum, Detroit
Re-post: The Rube Goldberg Alarm Clock
A Huge Depository of Unusual Inventions & Discoveries Here
December 20, 2007 in Science & Inventions | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Solar Flare
NASA Video of active Solar Flare
The Old Negro Space Program. (More by Andy Bobrow: Everything I Know About Life I Learned From My Cock)
Fly me to the moon 3D adventure
A giant spider attacks the shuttle Atlantis
A Huge Depository of Unusual Space Links Here
December 20, 2007 in Space | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
December 19, 2007
Got shrimps?
Automated Shrimp Peeling Machine in action
Forget Turducken! How about a turkey, goose, chicken, pheasant, partridge, pigeon squab, Aylesbury duck, Barbary duck, poussin, guinea fowl, mallard-and quail roast?
Fruit Vessel by Helena Schepens
For J-Walk: Bacon Scented Bacon Print Tuxedo
A Huge Depository of Unusual Meat and Vegetable Links Here
December 19, 2007 in Food - Meat & Vegetables | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Mexican Vintage Ads
Cola for babies - How soon is too soon. (From Quipsologies)
AICP Midwest Sponsor Reel done in 80’s Cheese style
A blog about Mexican Vintage Ads
Lingerie for men, one of the freakiest ads of 12007
A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
December 19, 2007 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
December 18, 2007
Staying Hungry
The Arnold Apple “Revaluing and upgrading the image of the apple to a successful and healthy premium product”
Schwarzenegger Prank Calls Gateway
Picking the pieces after the fire
From Mozart to Hedy Lamarr - A list of famous Austrians
The Arnold on Magnum
Review of Stay Hungry (1976. I haven’t seen this movie since the time it came out. I remember I liked it a lot then)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Schwarzenegger Links Here
December 18, 2007 in Schwarzenegger | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Crazy Robertson
Facial shapes & facial features: picking a style that suits you
Gisele Bundchen’s water dress
Hot plumber's crack is still crack
More Fashion ads from Ebony Magazine, 1970 - '76
The Crazy Robertson fashion line
24 unusual bras
A Huge Depository of Unusual Fashion Trends As Well As Growabrain T-shirt Closet Collection Here
December 18, 2007 in Fashion | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
December 17, 2007
Who is winning
Kant Attack Ad by James DiGiovanna and Carey Burtt
Why Mommy and Daddy Are Democrats, Rush Limbaugh’s favorite children books
Philip Greenspun predicts the 2008 Election 2008 - Obama wins by 5 percent; we will all be depressed
“Charm only goes so far if you're full-bore nuts”… Huckabee said he would oppose gay marriage "until Moses comes down with two stone tablets from Brokeback Mountain saying he's changed the rules"
"I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah." Unamerican Pie (by darkblack66666)
The reasons why Molly Ivins Will Not Support Hillary Clinton for President
Who is winning, based on official meetups
Forty years of work, millions spent on printing books and magazines, yet Lyndon LaRouche has had almost no effect on U.S. politics
Much more about the 2008 Election. Also, the 2004 election and other Political Posts Here
December 17, 2007 in 2008 US Election | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
The Art of Preserving Animal and Vegetable Substances for Many Years
1485 - Le Morte d'Arthur, by Sir Thomas Malory. The first book in English
1809 - The French confectioner Nicolas François Appert developed a method of vacuum-sealing food inside glass jars, thus creating the first can
1889: The first jukebox is installed at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. It becomes an overnight sensation and its popularity spreads around the world
Re-post: The first transistor was built 60 years ago on Dec. 16, 1947
Kicki Håkansson, the first woman to win the Miss World title, 1951
Rocket 88 by Ike Turner & Jackie Brenston (1951), first recorded at Sam Phillips' recording studio in Memphis, on 3 March or 5 March 1951. It is usually acknowledged as the first "rock and roll" song (YT)
The First Ever Coin-Operated Arcade Machine from 1971 (with Video)
2000 - Erik Weihenmayer, first blind person to Summit Everest and the only blind person to have climbed the "Seven Summits"
A Huge Depository of Unusual ‘First Ever’ Stories Here
December 17, 2007 in First Ever | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
December 16, 2007
Three Wise Men
The 8th Annual Santa Speedo Run in Boston
Come down to the manger, see the little stranger
Wrapped in swaddling clothes, the prince of peace
Wheels start turning, torches start burning
And the old wise men journey from the East
Old Christmas cards from Ukraine
Some Chilled holiday grooves on SomaFM
12 Days of Christmas Indian style
Left window right window?
30 Years of LucasFilm Christmas Cards
A Huge Depository of Unusual Holiday Links Here
December 16, 2007 in