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March 31, 2008
The Sinatra Group
(Unfortunately, with an ad. From Harris Online)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Sinatra Links Here
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General stats on hit men
How do hit men operate? Namely, how do they advertise? I wouldn't imagine they get too much repeat business outside of organized crime, so they need to get the word out somehow. But obviously, there's also strong incentive to keep as low of a profile as possible. In the same vein, how do 'normal people' find hit men?
What are some activities that are like ‘tuning up’ or 'going to the gym' for your profession?
A side by side comparison between the latest comments from Metafilter vs. YouTube. (From Cynical-C)
A Huge Depository of The Best of Metafilter Here
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Drop off the key, Lee
A NY Times article about Paul Simon as an outsider
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today, presenting a Galaxy of Glamour ~ Camp and Kitsch ~ Extreme Fabulosity ~ Divine Decadence, and so much more - Planet Fabulon. Submit yours for consideration.
A Huge Depository of Unusual Simon & Garfunkel Links Here
March 31, 2008 in Music - Simon & Garfunkel | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
By the Marne River
V–J day in Times Square, Eisenstaedt’s 1945 photograph, which was originally published in Life magazine, recreated in LEGO.
Lunch Atop a Skyscraper by Charles Ebbets
Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, 1932, by Henri Cartier-Bresson. (And how it was photographed). More Cartier-Bresson (With set-up)
Mike Stimpson ‘s Classics in Lego on flickr
(From Frog Smoke)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Photography Links Here
March 31, 2008 in Photography | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
March 30, 2008
Red-tailed
Re-post: Pale Male, (b. 1992) is a male Red-tailed Hawk who lives in New York City. He was named by the birdwatcher and author Marie Winn, due to his unusually light coloring. He is the first Red-tailed Hawk known to have nested on a building (rather than in a tree). He is known to have sired 26 chicks with four mates. Pale Male's current mate is known as Lola, and they raised 7 chicks between 2002 and 2004. (Don’t forget to browse the archives). The controversy regarding preservation & nest removal
You can find new hookups with the hottest elks and wildest herds. Whatever you're looking for, you'll get it on Adult Moose Finder. Turn your wildest fantasies into reality. (with video inside!)
The 1931 Allbatross Swimming Club and other Vintage photos
Also, Shocking eggplant
The sad story of the chimp who thought he was a boy
A Huge Depository of Unusual Animal Stories Here
March 30, 2008 in Animals | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Ladies & Gentlemen
A blog dedicated to Toilet Signs. More on flickr
Are You Lonesome Tonight knitted television covers
The Recurring Ruins of the Statue of Liberty
Star Trek beaded curtains. (From No Puedo Creer)
Reactive Art project by Daan Roosegaarde
The Nihilistic Beauty of Weapons Arranged in Patterns. (Apparently, most of those shots are from the Leeds Royal Armouries)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Art and Artists Here
March 30, 2008 in Modern Art | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Forward Through Backwards Time
The French call it l'esprit d'escalier, "the wit of the staircase," those biting ripostes that are thought of just seconds too late, on the way out of the room-or even, to tell the truth, days later. It's happened to you: you've suddenly thought of just what would put your foe in his or her place, but past the time when the arrow could sting its victim. You've stewed in your own juice ever since, and the chance for singeing repartee is gone forever
A Huge Depository of Unusual Things To Do With Your Life Here
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Has anybody told you today that you are loved?
Virtual Therapy for the Soul. (By Better to Bless. From Big Shot Bob in Texas)
Am I Still In The dog House and I miss you. (From Andre Jordan)
A Victim Treats His Mugger Right
Make music with Loader Manual
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today, Gastronautical Gastronomicon. Submit yours for consideration.
A Huge Depository of Best Things in Life Here
March 30, 2008 in Best of Everything | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
March 29, 2008
Bike fuel
A new superstore in Arizona resembles gas station down to smallest detail. (Click on photo to biggify)
Re-post: A Spinning wheel
A Huge Depository of Hilarious Pranks And Outrageous jokes Here
March 29, 2008 in Pranks | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Calling Roger Thornhill
(From Filmscreed)
Other trailers: Vertigo, Rear window, To Catch a Thief, Suspicion. (All YouTube's)
Concentration Camp Filmed, Documentary By Alfred Hitchcock In 1945. Part 1/6 (Graphic warning)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Hitchcock and Unusual Chaplin Links Here
March 29, 2008 in Cinema - Hitchcock | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Broiled babies
"Mr. Punch's Patent Nursemaid Bonnet-Screen", i.e. Don't Broil Your Babies and a resource of 1899 Infants' Wear. Found at the New York Public Library Digital Gallery. (From Quiddity)
Not your grandmother’s Girl Scouts, found on wikipedia’s portal about Scouting. The history of Girl Scout Cookie. (wikipedia has portals on many different subjects!)
The concept of a Silent Disco involves party-goers dancing to music received directly into headphones
A Huge Depository of Unusual Children Links Here
March 29, 2008 in Kids | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Watchcocks
Unreadable minimalist watches (at Oobject. Many other displays there, f. ex. Great climbing walls)
Dropclock is an aesthetically intriguing motion clock screensaver. Every minute of real time is numerically expressed with heavy Helvetica dropping into water in super slow-motion. (From Presurfer. Also there, Remember You Will Die Watch)
In the 17th and 18th century Baroque art period, time was less insisting, and artisans of the old world devoted countless hours fashioning intricate covers to protect the delicate balance wheels of fine watches. These covers, or watchcocks were placed on the movement and inside the watch cases, thereafter seen only on infrequent occasions when the cases were opened
Robert Lang, creator of delightful Origami insects,, and author of many Origami books (including Origami Design Secrets) has made an Origami Klein Bottle
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today, Tony Zimnoch’s Bench from West Yorkshire, UK (I presume)... Submit yours for consideration.
A Huge Depository of Unusual Clocks and Watches Here
March 29, 2008 in Clocks & Watches | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
Truisms
Jenny Holzer got a Way with Words
73, 2dA, HAND, 4get, and much more at Texting Term Of The Day blog
Longshot: Halloween 1972, You were dressed as a hippie
Coquille St. Jacques, Free Trampoline and many other Missed Connections ads from the people that brought you SkyMaul
Whose cauling me homophonic? A list of British-English homophones
Re-post from February 12, 2006: The Wand
(KKK Babes photo above from Table of Malcontents)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Language Links Here
March 29, 2008 in Languages | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
March 28, 2008
An interview with Obama's Grandmother
A new Grow-a-Brain category of unusual links about Barack Obama Here
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City of pain
Alphaville, a Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution, directed by Jean-Luc Godard
More at World of Kane’s “Pop Goes the Revolution: French Cinema and May '68”
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today, the website of Alexander Shoukas, a graphic designer living in Amsterdam. Currently he features Love™, a movie project (Wait for it to load). Submit yours for consideration.
A Huge Depository of French Music from the Sixties Here
March 28, 2008 in Music - French Chansons of the 60's | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
March 27, 2008
Crazy Legs Mcgoo
Painted Laptops. Also, see-thru laptops
John Cook and Waverly Cole are doing what they’ve been doing for 50 years — traveling, enjoying the company of friends and giving to charitable causes.
Cook, an 88-year-old retired teacher and school counselor, and Cole, a 78-year-old retired physician, are poised to celebrate their 50th anniversary April 15 with a cocktail party among friends…
Still Steamin' Premium Hot Doe Estrus Urine and other delightful items of Unusual Food, Drink, Medicine nature
Eleanor Powell and Fred Astaire, 1940
Crazy Legs Mcgoo takes Breakdance to the next level in this 'Evolve or Die' video tuned to American band Saosin's 'Sleepers.'
A Map of the First Moonwalk. (From Strange Maps). More moon walking
Edible tableware by Rice-Design. (From Andrew Sullivan)
4 Awesome Unfinished or Abandoned Structures in Florida
A Huge Depository of Unusual Oddities and Crazy linkage Here
March 27, 2008 in Odds & Ends | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Andy Warhol on The Love Boat
Re-post: Late Night With Conan O'Brien Picture Archive
If a bad movie has terrific costumes then actually it is a good movie, for obviously the reason the film was made was simply to showcase the outfits. Based on this reasoning, a flick like What a Way to Go is a rousing success.
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today – From St. Louis, MO, Jonco’s Bits & Pieces. Submit yours for consideration.
A Huge Depository of Unusual Film Directors and other Other Movie Links Here
March 27, 2008 in Cinema | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
March 26, 2008
Feeling inadequate?
The label museum at “Innocent Drinks”
Another tear-off wine label concept
A Huge Depository of Unusual Drinks Including Unusual Beer Links Here
March 26, 2008 in Beverages | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Who Killed Obama Shirt
Doron Braunshtein, the punk artist who created the Who Killed Obama Hoodie
I saw my first McCain bumper sticker yesterday and two things struck me. One, I’m surprised it took this long to find a single supporter in the republican-heavy area I live in, and two, the logo looked familiar. Thanks to 30 seconds of google image search, I think I figured it out
The McCain Smile
Standard Operating Procedure, a new nonfiction horror movie by Errol Morris
Hal Riney’s 1984 ad It’s morning again in America
From Chile: La Pequeña Hillary Clinton (More YT)
Un-related: Cyriak’s Darwin's infinite beard
Much more about the 2008 Election. Also, the 2004 election and other Political Posts Here
March 26, 2008 in 2008 US Election | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
More real estate blogs
From Calabasas, California - Tracey Thomas’s beautiful Blog Calabasas
604 homesblog: A Vancouver Real Estate Blog
Phyllis Rockower’s Real Estate Investor’s Club of Los Angeles
A blog by Vancouver real estate lady Maggie Chandler
Gretchen Faber's LifeStyle Denver blog
Alejandro Quenta's San Francisco blog
Sitegeist, a blog concerned with buildings and brands in urban environments
Jacqulyn Richey's Las Vegas Real Estate News
Paper Economy - A US Real Estate Bubble Blog
Dennis Blackmore's Virginia Beach, VA Real Estate
(The photo above is of my neighbor's house)
A Huge Depository of Real Estate Blogs as well as Grow-a-Brain’s Extensive Real Estate Archives Are Here
March 26, 2008 in Real estate Blogs | Permalink | Comments (10) | TrackBack
Immersion
"Going therefore, teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost." Matthew 28:19
(Previously by Oliver Laric - 787 cliparts loop. Previous projects)
David Best's Temple of Forgiveness at 2007 Burning Man
How to tell good code from bad code: Wtf/minutes
A Huge Depository of Unusual links about Unusual Gods Here
March 26, 2008 in Spirituality | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Let’s find each other tonight
The Films of Joel and Ethan Coen, a mashup by Paul Proulx from Hobnox. He also put together a video montage of films by Quentin Tarantino (YT) and Paul Thomas Anderson. Anderson was so impressed with the video that he posted it on his own website
A Beating Heart, shown at the American Heart Association's 2008 Heart of New York Gala. Dimensions 24"x24"x24". By Billy Chasen. (Previously-posted, and probably the inspiration for this art piece -Another Heart Beater)
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today – Christian Neukirchen’s Anarchaia, the first tumblelog ever. Submit yours for consideration.
A Huge Depository of Unusual Big Lebowski Links Here
March 26, 2008 in Cinema - "The Big Lebowski" | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Ten Little Known Facts
March 26 update: Welcome, 'Street' readers. Explore over 100 rich categories, (For example Money & Finance) that Grow-a-brain has to offer!
"Did you know that sometimes baby sharks will devour one another while they're still in the womb? Fighting to their death before they're even born?" —Janet Tashjian, Tru Confessions, 1999, p. 81.
(Outside the womb is no picnic, either. Here's a sea lion devouring a baby shark. And here's a fossilized shark egg and baby shark)
"There is a curious and little-known fact about the name 'penguin.' Although this name is now used exclusively to indicate the well-known birds of the southern seas, it was not originally applied to them at all. In fact, the 'original' penguin was the great auk. The actual origins of the word are fairly obscure, but one school of thought favors the idea that is made up from two Welsh words—pen, meaning 'head,' and gwyn, meaning 'white'—a possible reference to the large patches behind the great auk's eyes." —Errol Fuller, The Great Auk: The Extinction of the Original Penguin, 2003, p. 17.
"It's a little-known fact that America's first millionaire [and later first multimillionaire] was a real estate investor. A German immigrant and the son of a butcher, he was named John Jacob Astor." — Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, 2005, p. 123.
"Even as debate continues on the role of female soldiers in combat, it is a little-known fact that hundreds of women already have fought, and many have died, in our nation's wars. In fact, women fought in America's wars even before the existence of the United States." — Thomas Ayres, That's Not in My American History Book, 2000, p. 67. (Indeed, women have been warriors throughout world history.)
"The U.S. Congress has the authority to order the U.S. military to shoot the President's plane out of the sky, if the U.S. President becomes a rogue President." —Keith N. Ferreira, Simpletism, 2004, p. 28.
"It's a little-known fact that it rains more in Rome than it does in London." —Duncan Garwood, Rome, 2006, p. 288.
"It wasn't an iceberg that sank James Cameron's Titanic; it was UNIX." — Bill Wagner, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Unix, 1998, p. 10.
"So-called empty space is actually a cauldron of seething energies—the Zero Point Field." —Lynne McTaggart, The Field, 2003, p. 33.
"A little- known fact is that one could live without fruits, but not without vegetables." — Meredith McCarty, American Macrobiotic Cuisine, 1996, p. 6.
"Unlike a computer's hard drive, our brains have no known limits for memory storage." —Gene D. Cohen, The Mature Mind, 2005, p. 106.
This is another post that was composed by on-going contributor Craig Conley of the Abecedarian blog fame. Craig's new book is A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns By Sound, available in an eco-friendly low-wattage palette. Thank you again, Craig! (All previous co-blogger's posts archived here.) If other bloggers are interested to share the forum here on any other topic, please contact me for details
Please show Craig some love by leaving lots of comments below!
March 26, 2008 in Co-blogged with, Information | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
March 25, 2008
Controlled Safety Test Fireworks Videos
Every year we build a Wicker-Man at Butser Ancient Farm, and for the festival of Beltain, we burn it in a public ceremony. The event takes place on the Saturday nearest May Eve (Beltane Eve) Gates open to the public at 6:00pm, the Wicker-Man is fired at sunset. (From All Night Surfing)
Controlled Safety Test Fireworks Videos, from Metafilter
Exploding Horse. Vaguely gross instructions for blowing up a large animal corpse. (From “Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness”)
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today – Mr. Natural at Informiorium. He is selling his home in Cape Columbia, Washington, in order to move to New Zealand. Submit yours for consideration.
A Huge Depository of Unusual Fireworks Links Here
March 25, 2008 in Fireworks | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
March 24, 2008
"Sushi - The Japanese Tradition"
(This is an old, “classic” re-post). Also, an instruction video about chopsticks (hashi)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Sushi Links Here
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Ed Force One
28 highly advanced VH-71 helicopters, each costing $400,000,000. Six years after the White House called for a more advanced fleet of presidential transport helicopters, the program tasked with that mission is facing increased questions, and an uncertain future. (From Philip Greenspun’s Weblog)
Artist Charles Cohan, an art professor and printmaker by trade, has repurposed the maps from the back of airline magazines into stark, geometric silhouettes. (From Intelligent Travel)
Iron Maiden's Ed Force One
A Huge Depository of Unusual Flight Links Here
March 24, 2008 in Flight | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Spoofing David Blaine
A minimalist horror scene inspired by Dune, created with LEGO by RebelRock. (From Geekdad)
Learn how to perform tricks similar to David Blaine Style Street Magic
Mikey Day and Michael Naughton are "Those Lil’ Rabbits". They like to Spoof David Blaine's street magic specials
Ricky Jay and Errol Morris in The Ames room optical Illusion (YT).
An Ames room is a distorted room that is used to create an optical illusion. An Ames room is constructed so that from the front it appears to be an ordinary cubic-shaped room, with a back wall and two side walls parallel to each other and perpendicular to the horizontally level floor and ceiling. However, this is a trick of perspective and the true shape of the room is trapezoidal: the walls are slanted and the ceiling and floor are at an incline, and the right corner is much closer to the front-positioned observer than the left corner (or vice versa)
Tay Zonday sings Never Gonna Give You Up - Magical!
A Huge Depository of Unusual Magic Tricks Here
March 24, 2008 in Magic | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Whole milk
…There are few gifts I like to recieve more than milk. Whole milk too. That's the kind of milk that says that it's real. It's right. It's whole. I want that milk to sit there for years because that's what you do with milk. There's nothing better than milk - well except maybe radishes…
One of a thousand customer reviews for Amazon’s Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz... Bonus chuckle: Check out the "Customers Who Bought Items Like This Also Bought" list
The golden age of Canadian Cigar Boxes - 1883-1935. (From Monkey Filter)
Freakonomics book covers from around the world
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today – Cuidado’s An Island Walk. Submit yours for consideration.
A Huge Depository of Unusual Things To Buy Here
March 24, 2008 in Shopping | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
March 23, 2008
...The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades...
“…If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I’d probably just start calling out letters…”
“…I was in a store and I saw a pocket dictionary and that made me laugh because it’s such…a specific item. I don’t know that many words and I’m going out…and I have pants. Perfect…”
A quick way to start a conversation is to say something like “What’s your favorite color?” A quick way to end a conversation is to say something like “What’s your favorite color…person?”
“…Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I’m swimming, sometimes I’m not sure which one it is. I gotta go by the outfit. Pants - uh oh. Bathing suit - okay. Naked - we’ll see. Should I be swimming faster, or am I getting laid?...”
“…I was making pancakes the other day and a fly flew into the kitchen. And that’s when I realized that a spatula is a lot like a fly-swatter. And a crushed fly is a lot like a blueberry. And a roommate is a lot like a fly eater…”
“…What do you call someone who can’t tell the difference between a spoon and a ladle? Fat…”
“…Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time…”
…'Sort of' is such a harmless thing to say. Sort of. It's just a filler. Sort of - it doesn't really mean anything. But after certain things, sort of means everything. Like after 'I love you' or 'You're going to live' or 'It's a boy’…
...I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone'...
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