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January 31, 2008
Serious Sandwiches
Nietzsche Pops, the first breakfast cereal that is not afraid to proclaim that "God Is Dead". From Ben Hillman & Company
Serious Sandwiches: The Overlooked Sandwiches of 2007
Can you find three foods such that all three do not go together (by any reasonable definition of foods "going together") but every pair of them does go together? The Incompatible Food Triad
Horrible news: Poor Haitians Resort to Eating Mud Cookies
A Huge Depository of Unusual Meals and Foods Here
January 31, 2008 in Food | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
"Manos" The Hands of Fate
Richard Beymer's Twin Peaks Gallery
"Manos" The Hands of Fate is a 1966 American horror film written, directed and produced by El Paso fertilizer salesman Harold P. Warren. Warren also starred in the film, alongside El Paso theater actors Tom Neyman and John Reynolds. The film is best known for having been featured in a 1993 episode of the television comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000, a show based on the premise of mocking B-movies, which gave the film cult status…
Upon its theatrical debut, the film was poorly received, and remained obscure until its Mystery Science Theater appearance. It has since gained infamy as one of the worst films ever made
The seafarers, (1953) Kubrick's first feature made in color
More Of The Best Film Directors and other Cinematic Links Here
January 31, 2008 in Cinema - Directors | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Blind Man's Rubik
Blind Man's Rubik Cube (or for playing in the dark)
Stefan Pochmann solves the Megaminx In 1:21.67. (From Unique Daily)
(Pix above from Alison Jackson)
A Huge Depository of Links About Rubik’s Cube and Hundreds of Other Games Here
January 31, 2008 in Games - Rubik's Cube | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Great Clocks of Christendom
The Typo clock
Great Clocks of Christendom. (From Quiddity)
The 10 Most Difficult to Read Tokyoflash Watches
A Huge Depository of Unusual Clocks and Watches Here
January 31, 2008 in Clocks & Watches | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Egg in a bottle
How to put an egg into a small bottle without breaking it
Daniel Chesterfield, Magic That Defies The Ordinary (As played by Belgian comedian Chris Van den Durpel)
Turning Tables Optical Illusion
Quick-change is a performance style in which a performer or magician changes quickly within seconds from one costume into another costume in front of the audience. From wikipedia’s list of magic tricks
Top 30 Magic Trick Tutorials Of All Time - Part one
A Huge Depository of Unusual Magic Tricks Here
January 31, 2008 in Magic | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
January 30, 2008
Are You Better Off Now Than We Were Four days Ago?
Defective Yeti on Giuliani & Edwards abandoning their bids for the White House: “Edwards said the decision to withdraw was a tough one, but he wanted to devote more time to his 2012 presidential campaign”
About John Edwards’s unbearable phoniness
Also: Fred Thompson's exit speech
(From the comments of “God Bless You President Bush - A Great SOTU Address”) …”We are going to miss George W. Bush for so many reasons. He has been the voice of reason and wisdom…the best president we have had in 140 years, imho. I want to be more like him as each day passes and I pray for him daily…”
Ron Paul Sign Waving How To on YouTube
Much more about the 2008 Election. Also, the 2004 election and other Political Posts Here
January 30, 2008 in 2008 US Election | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Interactive Universal Scale
Universcale, a Nikon-sponsored web-based flash animation, written by Cyanide Seelowe. It presentthe relative scale of everything from the universe down to the smallest particles
Particle physics simulation. (From Ehrensenf)
Superelectronic is an interactive art piece by Aoineko, a group of award-winning Web artists specializing in audiovisual aesthetics. (From Jayis games)
A Huge Depository of Digital Eye Candy Here
January 30, 2008 in Digital Art | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Sit back and let the evening go
The Full Promo Videos for Paperback Writer / Rain (YT). It was filmed at Chewick House
Liverpool Cityscape 2008, the most detailed landscape picture ever painted
A new re-design to the George Harrison.com site
Sissy Spacek singing John, You Went Too Far This Time (mp3 4.9 megs) , an expression of her shock over the "Two Virgins" cover. (From a WFMU post about Girls Who Loved The Beatles and the Beatles Who Hated Them)
John and Ringo in the Crowd at the Isle of Wight Dylan concert, August 31st, 1969
Ringo wrote a song?! Yes, he did
Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper (YT)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Beatles Links Here
January 30, 2008 in Music - Beatles | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Worlo Series Champions
If you like tennis, look to the left
What is wrong with this photo of Asians?
Who are the Packers Bikini Girls?
From Eric's Little Heroes, a basketball wiz kid
Moving questions by wrestling fans
The 'Tough Guy Challenge', in Perton, UK
A Huge Depository of Extreme Sports Links Here
January 30, 2008 in Extreme Sports | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Foreclosure Blogs
Countrywide Foreclosures Blog. Others: Foreclosures Fish & Mark Ijlal’s Michigan Foreclosure Report
From Scotland, A slice of the property cake, a blog composed by Mr Jackson, a 72 year old English property investor, who manages to get his love for cups of tea and cakes in nearly every post
Also, A piece of the pie by Farrah Wilder
From Austin - RE Revealed
60646 blog from Sauganash and Edgebrook zip codes, near Chicago
Jerold and Terry Smith’s Dallas Homes Center
Ryan Ward’s Atlanta Real Estate Blog
The San Diego Real Estate Insider
The (fake?) Secret Diary of Greg Swann
The blog of S.W. Florida Real Estate Investors Association
A Huge Depository of Real Estate Blogs as well as Grow-a-Brain’s Extensive Real Estate Archives Are Here
January 30, 2008 in Real estate Blogs | Permalink | Comments (15) | TrackBack
Mystery Bench
Mystery Bench Baffles City Officials
Schwarzenegger pranks Mitt Romney
The entire class of 2008 was expelled, but it was worth it: Bouncy-Ball Senior Prank
Similar: 500,000 colored balls thundered down Rome’s Spanish Steps (With video)
Icelandic teen dupes White House
A Huge Depository of Hilarious Pranks And Outrageous jokes Here
January 30, 2008 in Pranks | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
January 29, 2008
Russian cops
An unofficial gallery of the Russian police
In 1979/80 my family took part in the biggest espionage scandal that the former country of East-Germany saw in its entire 50 years of existence... My spy story. If it had not been for 15 minutes...
“Here I am, my name is Billy McCune. My prison number is 12-20-54”…
The Dark & Disturbing Art of Nico Claux. (Thank you, Pierre)
The Child Molester, a creepy educational film from 1964
Seen everywhere: Crimes of fashion - Allentown man charged in two homicides
A Huge Depository of Unusual Crime and Criminals Here
January 29, 2008 in Crime & Punishment | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Dennis Hopper on Andy Warhol
Dennis Hopper on Andy Warhol, a 20 min. interview. The 1971 Hopper painting mentioned in the interview
Warhol’s Time Capsule 21
16 Post-It Note Pranks, Sculptures and Murals on "Weburbanist"
Objects embedded in asphalt found in Brooklyn. (A beautiful flickr set. Also from 2Boings)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Art and Artists Here
January 29, 2008 in Modern Art | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
Sensation White
Sensation White is a Dutch indoor dance-event that is held in Amsterdam ArenA. It started in 2000, and draws as many as 45,000 trance fans to the annual parties. I wanna go!
A Huge Depository of Unusual Festivals Links Here
January 29, 2008 in Festivals | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
McDonald's Beard
McDonald's Beard Ad, directed by Brian Lee Hughes
Go to hell! With Big Bill Hell's (Strong language warning!)
A collection of smart ads
19 unusual advertising concepts. Also, 12 Crazy Old Ads
A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
January 29, 2008 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Henry Miller’s Bathroom monologue
(2 more videos at Wes Unruh’s home)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Literary Links Here
January 29, 2008 in Books & Literature | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
How to Learn Any Language in 1 Hour
Before you invest (or waste) hundreds and thousands of hours on a language, you should deconstruct it. During my thesis research at Princeton, which focused on neuroscience and unorthodox acquisition of Japanese by native English speakers, as well as when redesigning curricula for Berlitz, this neglected deconstruction step surfaced as one of the distinguishing habits of the fastest language learners…
So far, I’ve deconstructed Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Norwegian, Irish Gaelic, Korean, and perhaps a dozen others. I’m far from perfect in these languages, and I’m terrible at some, but I can converse in quite a few with no problems whatsoever—just ask the MIT students who came up to me last night and spoke in multiple languages. How to Learn (But Not Master) Any Language in 1 Hour
Mother Tongues of Computer Languages. (Click to biggify)
False friends (or faux amis) are pairs of words in two languages that look and/or sound similar, but differ in meaning
The web’s first Shaggy Dog Story Archive. (From Neatorama)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Language Links Here
January 29, 2008 in Languages | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
A-OK
Every day, more people are making more things "okay." Consider the following examples:
The television character Adrian Monk made it okay to have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
The film Bonnie and Clyde made it okay to sympathize with murderers
The Cold War and space race made it "okay to be smart" in America
The actress and glamor model Pamela Anderson made it okay for a chick to be "wild, adventurous, reckless, kittenish"
The film Deliverance made it okay to make fun of rednecks, backwoodsmen, and simpletons. However, comedian Jeff Foxworthy made it "okay to be a redneck" (source is in PDF format)
"In his humble, brilliant simplicity, Dave [Thomas, the founder of the Wendy's restaurant chain] made it okay to be, well, just okay"
Arquitectonica's Atlantis, a "tropical modernist" condominium in Miami, made it okay to "color outside of the box"
The HBO show “Six Feet Under" made it "okay to laugh at, think about and talk about death and your dysfunctional family"
The film Superman (1978) made it okay for Hollywood to adapt comic books
The character Tracy Turnblad from John Waters' Hairspray (1988) "made it okay to be fat"
Children's television icon Mister Rogers made it okay to be curious
The famous collie Lassie "made it as much as many of us have always loved dogs”
Prozac "made it okay to take a psychotropic drug"
The HBO series Sex and the City "made the world safe for sluts, and Paris Hilton made it okay to hate them again"
Balloon delivery man Don F. Cheeseman made it okay for a guy to drive a pink van (and don lingerie after a night of drinking)
New York City "is so hip to walking, they've made it okay to eat en route"
J. Mascis, of the band Dinosaur Jr., is the man who made it okay to rip a guitar solo in underground rock
(O.K. Corral sign image above by RileyOne)
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January 28, 2008
Live eels
They call it 'The Peruvian Viagra' and they say it's great for you if you have a low sex drive. It's the best aphrodisiac. 'Extracto de rana' (Frog Juice) is in very high demand at local markets of Lima, Peru
Live eels in some Vietnamese markets. (My picture of live eels from last year's trip to Shanghai)
From Nova: Bugs you can eat
A visit to Typhoon, an insect-restaurant over in the Santa Monica Airport
Beautiful Larva Candy, Hand Made by Komatsuya in Japan
A Huge Depository of Unusual Insect Eating Links Here
January 28, 2008 in Entomophagy (Insect Eating) | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
The Pixie Page
Fell in love with a prostitute. Lasted 3 years; ended badly. How to get over it?
An old Pixie page
...I'm a young, healthy guy in my early 20s who has so far lived an uneventful, sheltered life. I'm thinking about willingly forgoing my apartment/job/life, moving to a new city, and living on the streets...
How to compose a really bad FPP on Metafilter
Free artist proof to the first 7 people who post a photo of themselves holding a sign
Dot Threads are threads containing at least one comment consisting solely of a single "." character. (Found on the shadowy back alleys of MetaFilter)
Metafilter Pool on flickr
ShopMe, aka MeFi Mall
A Huge Depository of The Best of Metafilter Here
January 28, 2008 in Best of Metafilter | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Gem Bones
The Infinite Variety of Agatized Dino Bone, one of the many beautiful flickr sets by Gem Bone
The ten Nastiest Fish of All Time
Un-related: Last week a ship sank off the south coast of England dumping over 2,000 tones of timber lumber into the channel. Here's the flickr slide-show
A Huge Depository of Nature’s Unusual Mysteries Here
January 28, 2008 in Nature | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack
January 27, 2008
Send a message
For 30 euros, you can have a Palestinian artist spray your message on “The Wall”. The symbol of separation becomes a conduit of communication. (From Crimes and Corruption of the new world order)
In search of the best hummus in the world
The Carmelit, the underground train in Haifa
Haj Pilgrimage in 1953 from National Geographic Magazine
Experts can agree on one thing
A Huge Depository of Unusual Stories from the Middle East Here
January 27, 2008 in Middle East | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
A disappearing Act
100 Items to Disappear First. “Survival guide books” are no. 17
From CEO Ransom Love to baseball player Rusty Kuntz. Wikipedia’s list of unusual personal names
Americans Love Lists, by Goodie Bag TV
The Grand List Of Console Role Playing Game Clichés
A list of derogatory nickname for various cities on Ask MeFi
Tackle Any Issue With a List of 100
A Huge Depository of Unusual Lists Here
January 27, 2008 in Lists | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Socrates is mortal
"Why should merely cracking down on terrorism help to stop it, when that method hasn't worked in any other country? Why are we so hated in the Muslim world? What did our government do there to bring this horror home to all those innocent Americans? And why don't we learn anything, from our free press, about the gross ineptitude of our state agencies? about what's really happening in Afghanistan? about the pertinence of Central Asia's huge reserves of oil and natural gas? about the links between the Bush and the bin Laden families?"
Loaded questions. Found at The Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies
A Huge Depository of Intelligent Links and Even Brainier Links Here
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January 26, 2008
cocktails first. questions later
Ivan and Mick explain the odd reaction that occurs when cream is added to Tia Maria liqueur - The Tia Maria and Cream Experiment
Alcohol & Ammo don’t mix
One cup or two by Anna Bullus is a cup made of sugar
Drunken watermelon on tap
Russian Vodka Now and Then
Breaking the world record for the Largest Champagne Fountain
A Huge Depository of Unusual Drinks Including Unusual Beer Links Here
January 26, 2008 in Beverages | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Wood Streets
La Garenne Colombes: 1, 2 , 3 rue Raymond Ridel
Dream Door. (From Coisas)
Spectacular doors of St. Louis by Bill Keaggy
Doors from the Woods streets in Riverside
9 intriguing doors at “Deputy dog”
A Huge Depository of Unique Doors and other Unusual Architectural Links Here
January 26, 2008 in Architecture - Doors | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
I'll never kiss your lips again
I will leave behind all of my clothes, I wore when I was with you, all I
Needs my railroad boots, and my leather jacket, as I say goodbye to Ruby’s
Arms, although my heart is breaking, I will steal away out through your
Blinds, for soon you will be waking.
The morning light has washed your face, and everything is turning blue now,
Hold on to your pillow case there’s nothing I can do now, as I say goodbye to
Ruby’s arms, you’ll find another soldier, and I swear to God by Christmas,
There’ll be someone else to hold you.
The only thing I’m taking is the scarf off of your clothesline, Ill hurry
Past your chest of drawers, and your broken window chimes, as I say goodbye
Ill say goodbye, say goodbye to Ruby’s arms.
Ill feel my way down the darken hall, and out into the morning, the hobos
At the freight yards, have kept their fires burning, so Jesus Christ this
Goddamn rain, will someone put me on a train, Ill never kiss your lips again,
Or break your heart, as I say goodbye Ill say goodbye, say goodbye to Ruby’s Arms.
An Old-New Depository of Unusual Links About Tom Waites Here
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January 25, 2008
Alphabet faces
The mystery of these Found faces. I got this lot of slides about three years ago and I've never been able to figure out just what is going on. There are about 50 slides in all- all dating from between 1959 and 1969 and all of young women. Some, like the ones here have letters written on their foreheads, others have press type with their names on it affixed to either their temples or foreheads
David Hale has uploaded the most photos on flickr
The complete works of Shakespeare by Kevin Bewersdorf
80 Million Tiny Images, a visualization of all the nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning
Black and White Spider Awards (Thank you, Neil Graf)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Photography Links Here
January 25, 2008 in Photography | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Crazy cycle lanes
Former Swedish Shell gas station at Strandvägen, Stockholm
How to design park benches so that homeless people won’t be able to sleep on them
Brutalist Architecture photo pool at flickr
Unrelated re-post: Don’t call me Gringo, you Beaner - "Refried Molotov" by Jason Archer & Paul Beck
A Huge Depository of Unusual architectural Links Here
January 25, 2008 in Architecture | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Face Of The Day
Father Juan Manuel Villar touches the nose of a Carlino dog with an aspergillum while he blesses the dog during the feast of San Anton, the patron saint of animals
Wild horses in Chernobyl. Photos by Tim Mousseau and colleagues of research in the Chernobyl Region. Thank you, Avi Solomon)
What is this? (and this?)
Vampire energy of devices in passive and active standby modes
A Huge Depository of Unusual Animal Stories Here
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