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February 29, 2008
Wonder Cat
The amazing adventures of Wonder Cat at The New Yorker
South African Cordylus cataphractus, i.e. the armadillo girdled lizard
When releasing a bear from a trap...
A Huge Depository of Unusual Animal Stories Here
February 29, 2008 in Animals | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Happy Presidents Day 1862
Happy Presidents Day 1862
Abraham Lincoln considering naked woman and naked boy outside the Bennington Museum
The Great Lincoln's Beard Challenge of 2008
Second Annual Message December 1st, 1862. Transcripts of all State of the Union Messages
A Huge Depository of Unusual Links About Abraham Lincoln and About Richard Nixon Here
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VR Panoramas
“Please keep our streets clean, over 818 people have to sleep on them”. Raising consciousness about the city's homelessness with signs installed on the streets of Toronto by mark daye. (From Under Wire)
An installation by German artist Gregor Schneider in Bondi Beach. It references Australia's immigration detention camps which are often dire places in remote desert locations. Here is an "aerial" view of the installation. (From Peter Murphy's Panoramic VR Weblog)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Art and Artists Here
February 29, 2008 in Modern Art | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
A red light over my head
Is Blogging Harder Than Writing A Book?
…I write the sports blog Deadspin.com, assembling more than 25 posts a day meant to enlighten, amuse and distract sports fans from the drudgery of their desk jobs. Every day, I write about 7,000 words; this means that every three weeks, I write the equivalent of an extremely long book. Sure, this book would be unreadable, and reviewers would certainly point out that none of the links went anywhere, but the word count would hold.
Recently, I wrote a real book, with words and pictures and a cover that will hurt you if you are struck across the head with it. It's an entirely separate enterprise from blogging, and not just because, when I finished a page, I didn't have people named CaptainCaveman and sexydogg1983 calling me an idiot. I wrote it in five months without taking a day off from the site….
(From Andrew Sullivan)
A Huge Depository of Unusual blogs and bloggers Here
February 29, 2008 in World of Blogging | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Worth spreading -
Every blog has some corners where independent lives develop. Sometimes readers take over posts, and build them into unusual, unpredictable creatures.
Grow-a-brain being simply a link blog generates only few comments & very seldom any heated debate. 3 years ago I posted a link to the Indian movie star Aishwarya Rai that called her “The world's most beautiful woman”, and that post (with over 150 comments) keeps bringing fans & foes to argue over this point.
Another post that mentioned Warren Buffett, the world's second-richest man brought dozens of indigent people in financial difficulties to request donations from “humble” Buffett to complete their MBA studies, for operations, or just to survive.
The most recent spat occurred in a post that mentioned a guy named Stevan Thomas Radakovich, who restores vintage stoves. Apparently, his restoration work used to be fabulous, when he was featured in this Los Angeles Times story, and his stoves were used & credited on The Food Channel’s Rachael Ray productions, etc.
But by the time I linked to his beautiful website here (The site had since been taken down), things were not going so well, and it seems that there were many customers of his, who ordered & paid for these expensive vintage stoves, and never received them.
So they formed a posse & started using that blog post as a chatroom, gathering information among themselves, forming a community to seek restitution & exposure to their losses.
It’s an interesting read. It involves the Kansas Attorney General, the Wichita BBB, the local paper, and more. I just read it like everybody else. Scroll down to read over 100 angry comments there.
Related Site News Here
February 29, 2008 in Website News | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack
February 28, 2008
Hoogerbrugge Stickers
Hoogerbrugge Stickers For Sale: 67 Hoogerbrugge peel-off stickers on 8 sheets. You will get each sheet twice: a total of 134 peel-off stickers for just 13,50 €
Dr. Seuss Collection Organized by Spectrum
Emmeline, the Little Girl Who Was Forgotten (Flash)
Political hacking with The Wizard of Whimsey
The Simpsons opening sequence on wikipedia
A Huge Depository Of Unusual Comics and Cartoons Here
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Purple turban
The Indian condom song (YT)
A heavily damaged bus driving around
A man with a big, purple turban
A Huge Depository of Unusual Links about India And About Japan Here
February 28, 2008 in Traveling Places - India | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Advice for real estate agents
Seth Godin’s best advice to real estate agents: Plan A - Quit being an agent. Get a job doing something else.
The Real Estate Business Is Content, Not Home Selling
Connect Realty, a new real estate / multi-level marketing company
Say you're a real estate investor. Say an airport in the New York region is expanding to become a major hub. What would you do? What would you buy?
A Huge Depository of Unusual Real Estate Stories Here
February 28, 2008 in Real estate | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
The upper deck
Cool presidential election trends 1840-2004
Meep Meep
... Clearly, it is time for the Clinton camp to start a whisper campaign that Obama has a black child...
“Whatever happens in this campaign, we'll be fine.” The Clintons’ Recent Meteoric Rise in Wealth (with graphs)
Presidential candidates 2008 Upper Deck Series 1
The Minitrue Report Presents: 2 minutes Hate week. (YT. Other political novels)
Much more about the 2008 Election. Also, the 2004 election and other Political Posts Here
February 28, 2008 in 2008 US Election | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Introduction to Gmail in Russian
(From Gmail blog)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Things To Do On The Internet Here
February 28, 2008 in Internet | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Mating slugs
Rare footage of two slugs mating in midair. (From Reality Carnival)
Images of Frost
Cloud formations by Alex Antas
A Huge Depository of Nature’s Unusual Mysteries Here
February 28, 2008 in Nature | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
February 27, 2008
A state of mind
Love in the Time of Cholera (with Javier Bardem as Florentino Ariza)
The NY Times review
A Huge Depository of Links About Gabriel Garcia Marquez Here
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Burka Fashion Show
Bill Maher’s Burka Fashion Show
5 New Yorkers that dress in only one color
The walrus style of moustache is bushy, thick, and droops down over the mouth, in a fashion similar to the whiskers on the upper lip of a walrus. Other notable Moustache styles
A Huge Depository of Unusual Fashion Trends As Well As Growabrain T-shirt Closet Collection Here
February 27, 2008 in Fashion | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Unlock The Secrets Now
Steve Wolvers’ “The #1 Agent In Iowa” Unlock The Secrets Now
Nine bloggers active in the Denver Real Estate market give facts, figures and their personal impressions of what is happening in all areas of Denver and its suburbs at All Denver Real Estate
Mack Perry’s Atlanta Real Estate Blog
Pasadena Real Estate Blog by Deena & Doug Willis
Michael Gardner’s Malibu Real Estate Blog
Michael Oliver’s Tucson Real Estate Blog
Real Estate Growth Solutions by Darin & Lloyd Persinger
Realtor.com's Let's Talk
Some Canadian blogs: Blue Mountain Real Estate Blog, Montreal Real Estate Blog, Fraser and Stephen Winters Blog from St. John's Newfoundland, Doug Lasenby's Sarnia Real Estate, the Edmonton Real Estate Blog and Saskatoon Real Estate Blog
A Huge Depository of Real Estate Blogs as well as Grow-a-Brain’s Extensive Real Estate Archives Are Here
February 27, 2008 in Real estate Blogs | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack
Made in Hong Kong
LA6NCA's WW2 German Radio Collection Pictures. (From Endless Parade of Excellence)
Generally, radios made in Hong Kong between 1964 till the late 60's lacked all the style and color that made Japanese radios so popular and collectable. Today, these radios do not fetch big money on the collector's market. Generally, I will not pay more than $5 or $10 for one.
Michael Jack is a transistor radio collector who uploaded some of his 900 radios into flickr
Un-related: colored photographs of Norway in the 19th century
Many More Unusual Radio Links Here
February 27, 2008 in Radio | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
February 26, 2008
Pineapple Express
(Watch the trailer here)
Bong Recreation Area Exit 340
Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit played by the Star Trek crew. (YT. From 2Boings)
A Huge Depository of many illegal drugs especially Acid and Pot Here
February 26, 2008 in Drugs - "Save the Roaches, Arnie" | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The Gucci Yugo
Night Photography of the Abandoned West
Every day trucks pass us on the highway and we are completely unaware of what they may be carrying. But when one overturns, we get a peek into what is being carted around right under our noses. Sometimes, it's just a common item that we're not accustomed to seeing spilled on the road. Sometimes, it's a truck full of things we never thought about being hauled around by the truckfull. (From Dave Barry)
It clashes with my Gucci Yugo
Rafa cars. (Taken by Politicon trabajista)
Weird Accidents (NSFW banner)
Update: Photo above is from Cayo Bo. Sorry for not giving you credit before, sir. I have no idea where I found this photograph - - -
A Huge Depository of Unusual Car Links Here
February 26, 2008 in Cars | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Vita est Lavorum
“Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.” One of Top 10 Quotes Against Work
Best job title: Teenage Pregnancy Implementation Manager
Vita est Lavorum - Life is a job
Feeling sleepy at work?
A Huge Depository of Unusual Job Offers Here
February 26, 2008 in Jobs | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Paul Cole is dead
Smoking Marlboros (YT)
How we all live. (From a flickr set that charts graphical interpretation of songs)
Paul Cole, man on Beatles' 'Abbey Road' cover, dies
Abbey Road on wikipedia
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes
Smiles awake you when you rise;
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby,
Rock them, rock them, lullaby.
Care is heavy, therefore sleep you,
You are care, and care must keep you;
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby,
Rock them, rock them, lullaby
People Who Think About The Beatles A Little Too Much have a blog
A Huge Depository of Unusual Beatles Links Here
February 26, 2008 in Music - Beatles | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Complaints Choirs
Complaints Choir is a community art project that invites people to sing about their complaints in a choir together with fellow complainers. The first Complaints Choir was organized in Birmingham, UK in 2005 followed by the Complaints Choirs of Helsinki, Hamburg and St. Petersburg in 2006. The project was initiated by artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen. When the video clips of the choirs were distributed through online magazines and video sharing websites, the idea spread quickly to many other countries. To date additional Complaints Choirs have been organized in Bodø (Norway), Poikkilaakso primary school in Helsinki, Budapest, Juneau, Gabriola Island, Melbourne and Jerusalem
(From Jess Wundrun)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Children Links Here
February 26, 2008 in Kids | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Death in Paris
Wynn Las Vegas installs motion detectors in the minibars, and now also weight-sensitive tray of goodies on top of the minibar that knows when you've lifted anything off it. (From Intelligent travel)
A giant 'Blue Screen of Death' Hits Las Vegas
A Huge Depository of Unusual Las Vegas Stories Here
February 26, 2008 in Traveling Places - Las Vegas | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
February 25, 2008
Rockwell Automation's Retro Encabulator
Here at Rockwell Automation's world headquarters, research has been proceeding to develop a line of automation products that establishes new standards for quality, technological leadership and operating excellence. With customer success as our primary focus, work has been proceeding on the crudely conceived idea of an instrument that would not only provide inverse reactive current, for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters.
Such an instrument comprised of Dodge gears and bearings, Reliance Electric motors, Allen-Bradley controls, and all monitored by Rockwell Software is: Rockwell Automation's 'Retro-Encabulator'. Now, basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it's produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance.
The original machine had a base-plate of pre-fabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. The lineup consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzelvanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar wane shaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-deltoid type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots of the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the 'up' end of the grammeters.
Moreover, whenever fluorescence score motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal depleneration. The 'Retro-Encabulator' has now reached a high level of development, and it's being successfully used in the operation of milford-trenions.
It's available soon; wherever Rockwell Automation products are sold.
"The turbo-encabulator in industry" is the contribution of J.H. Quick, graduate member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in London, England, and was first published in the Institution's Students' Quarterly Journal vol 15 no. 58 p. 22 in December 1944
More: Forum discussion on competing products
From Damon's Daemon
Also: Homemade 400mm binoscope science inventions
A Huge Depository of Unusual Inventions & Discoveries Here
February 25, 2008 in Science & Inventions | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Fog Story
The Mission Stencil Story is an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure story that takes place on the sidewalks of the Mission district. (From blanketfort)
Time lapse of San Francisco shot on February 8th 2008
A Huge Depository of Unusual Links About San Francisco and About Los Angeles Here
February 25, 2008 in San Francisco | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The perfect cure for a sore throat
Famous scenes from Hitchcock movies shot with current stars at Vanity Fair.
A Huge Depository of Unusual Hitchcock and Unusual Chaplin Links Here
February 25, 2008 in Cinema - Hitchcock | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy
Ant sugar set, by Asobi Tsuchiya
Ancient Chinese Secrets - Candy As Art
(Re-post?)
I received a Cooking Monster tote bag in the mail, which I won in the only contest I participate in the last many years. Thanks to Dave @ Cooking Monster - Go & visit!
A Huge Depository of unique links about Candy Art And Other Unusual Desserts Here
February 25, 2008 in Food - Candy Art | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Hanan! Listen To Me!
A 2-minute Trailer for Hanan Harchol's 23-minute animation Hanan! Listen To Me!
Harchol is an animator and musician living in New York City. Much of his animation is autobiographically based. In his animations, he’s the voice of all the characters, most importantly his own parents. One of the main protagonists in his animations is "The Nuclear Physicist", based on his father, an Israeli nuclear physicist.
A Huge Depository of People Named Hanan Here
February 25, 2008 in Unusual People - Hanan's | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
February 24, 2008
Internet Museum
Location: Carthage, Tennessee
Ground-breaking Ceremony Date: May of 1996
Projected Completion Date: August of 1999
Sponsors: Prodigy, AOL, Netscape Navigator, Hotbot.com, Microsoft's Windows '95
Current Status: Under Construction
Yes, there is a better search engine, a Salon article by Scott Rosenberg from December 1998
The 100 most visited websites worldwide, according to Alexa (which is owned by Amazon, No. 32 on that list)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Things To Do On The Internet Here
February 24, 2008 in Internet | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Extreme street football
Gallery of the 1909 T206 Honus Wagner Card, a rare baseball card which is considered to be the most valuable baseball card in history
Here are 7 cards that are rarer than the T206 Honus Wagner. (From The Online Museum of Early Baseball Memorabilia by David Rudd Cycleback (An older site with many dead links, but worth exploring)
Super Bowl Logos From The Past. Also, Top 10 ridiculous Super Bowl gadgets
Re-post: Bodybuilding in Russia
Extreme street football in Mexico
A Huge Depository of Extreme Sports Links Here
February 24, 2008 in Extreme Sports | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Wings take dream
Just read claim no. 9. From a list of Crazy patents
List of countries by beer consumption per capita. No 1 - Czech Republic with 157 liter per person per year
From "I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah" to "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully" - A list of 50 Bush bon mots
The Longest novel in Latin or Cyrillic alphabets is The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, by Henry Darger: An illustrated fantasy novel manuscript typed single-spaced with 15,145 pages in 10 volumes
Update from the comments: See the Darger exhibit in Chicago. (Thank you, Richard)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Lists Here
February 24, 2008 in Lists | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
Hidden Mickeys
Hidden Mickeys throughout Disney. Largest hidden Mickey in Florida
Disney’s 1965 'That Darn Cat!' advertising spread in Look magazine
Raw Tony Curtis/Suzanne Pleshette Disneyland footage from the sixties. (From 2Boings)
Quote of the Day:
"Observers say Castro will either be replaced by his brother Raul, or by his idiot son, Fidel W. Castro." - Gene ("Poole") Letterman
A Huge Depository of Unusual Disney Links Here
February 24, 2008 in Disney | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
NSFW language
Red Peters on MySpace (Includes "How's your whole?" and "The Closing Song")
Holiday spirits: You ain't getting shit for Christmas and Holy shit, it's christmas
Covers of You Promised The Moon (But I Preferred Uranus) and Long & Hard
"Ol' Blue Balls Is Back!" TV commercial
(This is a re-hush of links from August 19, 2004)
A Huge Depository of Mildly Funny and Other Crazy Links Here
February 24, 2008 in