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Geostationary Banana Over Texas. an art intervention that involves placing a gigantic banana over the Texas sky, being visible only from the state of Texas and its surroundings

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November 6, 2009 in Modern Art | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Albinism in Tanzania

November 6, 2009 in Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

It must be nice to be the president. In addition to having helicopters, jumbo jets, and motorcades, you get to rifle through the cellars of the National Gallery and the Hirschhorn for artistic masterpieces to adorn your home for the next four to eight years.

As with all of our recent presidents, the artistic choices made by Barack Obama and his wife say a lot about the first couple and what they want to say about themselves (Slide show)

November 6, 2009 in Americana - Barack Obama | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

In the late '60's I worked for Bell Labs for a few years managing a data center and developing an ultra high speed information retrieval system. It was the days of beehive hair on the women and big mainframe computers. One day I took a camera to work and shot the pictures below. I had a great staff, mostly women except for the programmers who were all men. For some reason only one of them was around for the pictures that day

November 6, 2009 in Internet | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Lennart Green does close-up card magic

Lennart Green is a world champion Swedish magician. Here he is at a TED conference

November 6, 2009 in Magic | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

October 25, 2009

In 1996, a professional photographer named Charles O’rear took a photograph of a landscape around 3028 Fremont Dr. in Sonoma County, Northern California.

The photograph, names “Bliss”, was later used as the default desktop image for the XP Windows ‘Luna’ theme, and became fairly popular.

Later on it was planted with grapevines

October 25, 2009 in Internet | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Walking on Infinite Grass - 2006 grass walking piece. Filmed at CSAW Gallery. Metal with Plastic reinforced sodgrass belt

Also there: Pedal Shoes -

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Today’s wikipedia’s link: Cross section of oranges (Click to biggify)

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Classic Album Covers - New Stamps from Royal Mail

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One Hair

“Where’s Kojak?” - Passing stones

by Peter Serafinowicz

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Swimming in sewage

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Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitaetenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft (English: Association for subordinate officials of the head office management of the Danube steamboat electrical services) is an example of the virtually unlimited compounding of nouns that is possible in many Germanic languages; with 79 letters, according to the 1996 Guinness Book of World Records, it is the longest word published in the German language

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The Story of the Story of ________: Fertilizer, Sponges and Etc.

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Unsweetened Original Hemp Bliss - Certified Organic Hempmilk

October 25, 2009 in Fashion | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Ulica Kubusia Puchatka, a street in central Warsaw which is named after Winnie-the-Pooh

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Sand Dune Backflipper

Showoff, you're only doing that because it's really, really impressive

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“Girls are like square roots. If they're under 18 you just gotta do them in your head”

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United States ex rel. Gerald Mayo v. Satan and His Staff, was a court case in which a man attempted to sue Satan and his servants in United States District Court. It was dismissed on a technicality (.pdf)

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Russian bloggers tried to imagine how some famous celebrities could look without the face hair

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(I’ve never seen any episode of this show, but here’s) Every Kramer Entrance From Seinfeld

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Modern Yogurt Parfaits

October 25, 2009 in Books & Literature | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

October 19, 2009

Here's a foreign song I learned in Utah…

Hava Negeilah Blues, Dylan’s Bootleg Series Vol. 1 - 09

October 19, 2009 in Music - Bob Dylan | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

October 13, 2009

Top rated emails from an asshole (with many more in the archives)

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A cross Stitch of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours

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This pie fight was held the day before my sister's wedding to celebrate the occasion. In all, 78 pies (54 Lemon Meringue and 24 Boston Cream Pies) were disposed of in approximately 78 seconds

Laurel and Hardy's famous pie fight scene from ‘Battle of the Century’ (1927)

The Other Great Pie Fights in Movies

Candid Camera Pie Fight

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Christian cupcakes

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Mmm... Fabulous

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Salvador Dali walking his anteater

Dali’s stays in the Grand Hotels of Europe

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Dick Cavett interviews Ingmar Bergman, August 2, 1971

Also, Dick Cavett’s “Woodstock Show", August 18, 1969

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Secretary fired over meatball snack after 34 years on the job

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"Cliff" Young was an Australian potato farmer, best noted for his unexpected Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultra Marathon (875 kilometers, 544 miles) win at 61 years of age

(From Futility Closet)

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The 17 ingredients that make up Red Bull

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Another job well done

October 13, 2009 in Odd & Crazy | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)