June 07, 2009
Your Winning Numbers
4, 12, 23, 25, 33 and 40
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November 30, 2008
Misc.
In October 1968, Nobuo Sekine constructed Phase - Mother Earth in the Sumarikyu Park in Kobe. Consisting of a hole dug into the ground, 2.7 metres deep and 2.2 metres in diameter, with the excavated earth compacted into a cylinder of exactly the same dimensions, Phase — Mother Earth was instrumental in the early development of work by the Mono-ha artist group, and has been considered a landmark work in Japanese postwar art history. (From Your Monkey called)
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20 Computer Mouse Designs from the Past to the Present: From Functionality to Fantasy
If your standing in line to purchase something at your local Shell station, and a woman suddenly enters the store... defective yeti's Konsumer Korner
Packaging goes Postal - turn-of-the-century envelopes with illustrations of product packaging
Messages on girls’ T-shirt
Re-post: Theo Jansen’s new skeletons of life
More examples of Vinyl Sleeve Faces
The Tale of Bao Xishun, The World's Tallest Man
The dog groomer from Hell
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September 25, 2008
King Marries Bishop
Wedding announcements: Unfortunate name combinations
If you can read this, my cardigan fell off, by Natalie Dee
Unfortunate World Trade Center Old Ads. From the NYT: The Twin Towers are still around
Ginger Anyhow's embroidered text messages
Sorry we closed - we out of meet
How to solve a maze puzzle using Photoshop
A growing number of women in Britain have become fascinated with lifelike baby dolls known as Reborns. These dolls have beating hearts: they are dressed like real babies and even have their diapers changed, as their “moms” take them on outings and cuddle with them. My Fake Baby
Seen everywhere: A nasty tenant
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September 02, 2008
The internet says "no"
28 Most Cliché Dorm Room Posters
Who knew Botticelli was from the hood? Renaissance Gang sign
The internet says "no"
A dead frog devoured by ants
The Atlasphere, a dating site for devotees of “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead,”
How to build a wooden brain
Re-post: The Erdös Number Project, describing the "collaborative distance" between an author and the late Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, one of the most prolific writers of mathematical papers
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July 31, 2008
All Heil Honus Wagner
The tobacco card set known as T206 was issued from 1909 to 1911 in cigarette and loose tobacco packs through 16 different brands owned by the American Tobacco Company. It is a landmark set in the history of baseball card collecting, due to its size, rarity, and the quality of its color lithographs.
It included the Honus Wagner baseball card
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Art Deco Stamps and other Deco items at Deco-Pix, an Art Deco Architecture site
Bill Bryson’s Wizards of Oz, about the notorious, high-profile obscenity trial of 1971 in the UK
A Peace of Cake - Make cake, not war
A Girl, Her Tongue and a Hotel Room: (YT) A crazy, disgusting advertisement for Extended Stay Hotels where a girl licks everything in the hotel room. (From Lancerlot)
AIDS: The giant gift card that destroys young girls
Why bother splitting hairs about Facial Hair Styles terminology? Good question... This is an attempt to define a little more clearly different facial hair style categories. I am by no means an authority on the subject; I am just trying to note and organize sources, from popular usage to dictionary definitions
A giraffe sucks on an ice block containing fruit
The beautiful nightmares of Zdzislaw Beksinski
Diners flock to flooded restaurant
Also, Please help reader Mr.Natural sell his Beach Home in S.W. Washington
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July 17, 2008
GoogleUnique names
There are many contemporary strategies for naming children. You can echo family traditions or heritage. You can try to balance given names with too-unusual or too-common family names. You can refer to people, places and qualities you admire. Our you can name children purely for the poetry of the sound, or in nod to the circumstances of the times, or your aspirations for them. You can find names that either fit in or stand out. All these ways work.
Recently I've noticed two new strategies in naming children.
One I call the global brand naming strategy. Here the object is to devise names that work in as many languages and regions of the world as possible. These names are kind of esperanto names…. The other recent strategy is to find GoogleUnique names
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Self portraits after 70s by Julie
If walls could talk. (From Uncertain Times)
TRK-9 Owner's Manual, and many others at The Early Television Foundation and Museum Website
Dancing mania was a social phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 18th centuries; it involved groups of people, sometimes thousands at a time, who danced uncontrollably and bizarrely, seemingly possessed by the devil. Men, women, and children would dance through the streets of towns or cities, sometimes foaming at the mouth or speaking in tongues, until they collapsed from fatigue. Rethinking the Dancing Mania
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June 22, 2008
Sit and Fart in my Duck (NSFW)
Pseudopsycho, a thingie by Harmlog. Also there, Sleepwalkers, animated found photos of sleeping people walking off the screen, leaving cutouts as residue, or becoming part of furniture
Typical Reaction to the Revelation That I Do Not Own a Cell Phone, By Year. From “Defective Yeti”
My Wife Is the Greatest Corn Cob Eater In the World
World’s Oldest Fisherwomen: “I will just say it...my Mom is 82 years old in 2005 and I couldn't be prouder of her. This year she caught a 90 pound Halibut, a 55 pound King salmon and then a 50 pound King salmon. This year was a good year for her AND for us as she can't possible get all that fish back to Atlantic, Iowa. The freezer is half full of fresh fish!! Thank you, Mom.” (From Unique Daily)
Old Calculator Web Museum, devoted to preserving, documenting, and sharing the technology of desktop automatic calculating machines - from the electro-mechanical calculators of the 1950's into the early 1980's. (From Anarchaia)
Date Nails were used for showing ownership, treatment purposes, Identification, sequencing poles and bridge timbers. Dating ties and poles for replacement purposes. Some nails show the height of a pole, or the wood it is made from. This is just a few of the many uses for Date Nails. A virtual collection of Date Nails. One of 25 of the Strangest Collections on the Web
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June 06, 2008
Some YouTube videos, Tagged “Amazing”
Faryl Smith, a 12-year-old opera singer
Frisbee Dogs Tricks
Coordinated Samsung Dance
Burning salt water, an invention by John Kanzius
John Kanzius is an American inventor and engineer from Erie, Pennsylvania, who has invented a method that has the potential to treat cancer. He has also demonstrated a device that can "burn salt water". Both effects involve the use of his radio frequency transmitter.
Ram by Cazzamaru
Pipe dreams
By Animusic, a company specializing in 3D visualization of MIDI-based music that was founded by Wayne Lytle
Hasan bin Abdullah Al Awadh reciting from the Qur'an
Tim Jackson drum solo
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May 14, 2008
One Hundred Ways I’ve Failed to Boil Water
The Chanel bowler by Joel-Peter Witkin, one in the series “The History of Hats in Art”
One Hundred Ways I’ve Failed to Boil Water
Software that creates water and fire effects, by Scanline, a Visual FX house in Germany
Drawing all The Simpsons on YouTube
Wesley Clark, before being retouched by Glenn Feron
The Canadians have French, Celine Dion, and hockey. They also have the best screwdriver you've never heard of. The Robertson Screwdriver
Dog, Cat, and Rat (YouTube. Thank you, Dafna)
Dialing 911 Worldwide - International Emergency Phone Numbers. (From gCaptain)
Who Calls From (800) 807-4106? Maybe terrorists....
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April 22, 2008
12 Bad situations
12 Bad situations to wait until the last minute and 2 that are worth waiting for
Chaetopterus pugaporcinus, the Pigbutt Worm, the most NSFW creature ever. (From Coil House)
Inside stuffed animals
Chain food characters by Genevieve Gauckler
The photoshop art of Francois De Witte
Submitted photos of people playing chess on roller coasters
Loopable is a blog that collects loopable animated GIFs. (From Who Killed Bambi)
Make new friends, practice wrestling. With Manual de Lucha Libre
Use a bowl of milk, some food colors & washing liquid to perform the Milk Trick. (YT)
A Tufted Titmouse (flickr)
Flip that Ho: Is DirecTV's programming guide racist?
Slightly-used Rubber Fist for sale
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April 10, 2008
A Teenage Prayer
Mr. Matsubayashi is having a very bad day. (From Giavasan)
Procrastination is playing imaginary computer games with your furniture. (By Johnny Kelly)
The Levi van Veluw Portfolio
Various Trophy Sizes
The pearl farm
John Hood, the artist behind the iconic 'running immigrants' image
Henrik Bolle’s Killing pencils
PowerCube renewable energy makes deployable renewable energy simple. By integrating the latest solar energy, power storage and power management technologies, the PowerCube is engineered for home use, emergency response, construction, and any other remote power needs
(John Waters video above from Bird Dog. Some characters created by Waters "with alliterated names for his movies including Bo-Bo Belsinger, Donald Dasher, Donna Dasher, Dawn Davenport, David Divine, Francine Fishpaw, Link Larkin, Mona Malnorowski, Motormouth Maybelle, Mole McHenry, Penny Pingleton, Prudy Pingleton, Ramona Rickettes, Sylvia Stickles, Sandra Sullivan, Todd Tomorrow, Tracy Turnblad, Ursula Udders, Wade Walker, and Wanda Woodward")
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today, from Kay West Cayobo Reggae Lounge, where you will Listen to some Sweet Island Music, Learn about Reggae Artists, and copy Authentic Caribbean Recipes. Submit yours for consideration.
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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
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March 17, 2008
No more “themed” posts
This is the final post of the “Old” style Grow-a-brain -
For 5 years, I've kept a giant stash of links that I saved for later postings, and from which I would pull a handful into "themes" every night. It made some posts more interesting than others. More often than not, by the time I would publish the stuff, much of it have already been seen elsewhere on the web. So this post is the last of the pile. Now I have nothing saved for tomorrow, and I’ll have to start posting only FRESH, probably "single-link" posts, like everybody else.
Oh, well... Here we go -
Like no version of Animal Farm you've read
Atila Meireles is a Brazilian designer. Silencio is a sample from his portfolio
The Good, The Bad, and The Beautiful - A baby being born to Buckeye Timmy & family
Henna hands by Payal Juthani
Jimi Hendrix and George Frideric Handel lived in adjoining houses on Brook Street in London (in different times, of course)
Soggy clothes taken by Archie FlorCruz
Bruce Willis Porn (SFW)
If you always wanted to "make it with an alien... this could be your chance. The Area 51 love doll - (NSFW)
HDR images of Chicago. Chicago at night
When geeks and graffiti combine
Sponsored Links inside (By Planet Dan, who's been all over Digg & Reddit this weekend...)
What comes after OT III, the most significant document in the history of the human race? From The Secrets of Scientology
lack of enthusiasm by Lucas Thompson
With Logobama, the Obama Logo generator, you can take any photo of your favorite character and create your own. (From Find Substance)
Mariah Carey’s “Without You” in Bulgarian (I couldn’t watch it, but maybe you can)
10th Annual Lake Worth Street Painting Festival
Behind the thick walls of the superb 15th century gothic building that is The Frog Museum in Estavayer-le-Lac, a host of interesting, exciting and unusual surprises await you. Countless objects on the themes of frogs, lamps, weapons and local history are lovingly displayed in a series of small interconnecting rooms. The collection also features items from the Bronze Age and lacustrian period, weapons, lamps and rare railway signals typical of the history and legends of the region. One special attraction is the 108 frogs all portrayed in scenes from everyday life. Back in about 1850, a Napoleonic guards officer developed a fascination with frogs and started collecting them as a hobby. He extracted the innards through their mouths and refilled them with sand before putting them into displays
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March 01, 2008
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Gas signs, a HUGE online collection of gasoline logos from photos and maps (By John Cirillo. Must be a re-post)
Nigga With Bikes (?)
Related re-post: Parts Unknown Bike Shop in Toronto
Eventually, I believe, everything evens out. Let’s say you want a big cupcake, with lots of icing, so you go buy one and eat it. But then you realize, I don’t have the cupcake anymore. Or maybe you take a bite of salsa that’s labelled “HOT,” and it doesn’t seem that hot, but then about a second later it seems really hot
Gay porn twins turn to burglary
P.I.P. The Post-It Project
Odd Figures You Can Form with Your Hands
20 Things I Wish I Had Known When Starting Out in Life
Video above by by Job & Roel Wouters. (From Swiss Miss)
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February 21, 2008
Bomba
San Diego 10952 Topiary. (From Mental Floss “Your pants” flickr series)
Bomba (YT)
Life got you down? Maybe God can help
Angels We Have Heard On High performed on a homemade big broccoli, by a Japanese guy who plays on vegetables
A recent Fark Photoshop challenge: Unfinished portrait
Lessons in Calligraphy and Penmanship from The International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers and Teachers of Handwriting
The Jerry Hunt Home Page, the official Internet resource on the life and work of composer/intermedia artist Jerry Hunt (Thank you, Neil G.)
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