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June 30, 2004
MP3 Soul
Lyrics Made Famous by Bing Crosby. (From “Rash Blog”)
A mural of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon in bottle caps and more bottle cap art
The Great Organ of The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC
Play Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells. (From the Spanish “Milinkito”)
Making the rounds: Album covers that copy other album covers
The Rock Art of Mick Rock. (From “Ethereal Code”)
The Thelonious Monk Website
30 years of Live Music Archives by the Grateful Dead (At the digital library of thee “Internet Archives”)
From George Carlin: "I'll bet there aren't too many people hooked on crack who can play the bagpipes." Many More Unusual Music Links Here
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Only 12 were built
Documenting the restoration of a 1953 GM Futurliner, futuristic-looking RV of the “arade of Progress”. (Thanks, Gayle)
French Curves: The Automobile as Sculpture
Barrett-Jackson collector car auctions
Rough Terrain Vehicle (RTV) in the sand at Glamis, California
Green Car Club, a car club for owners and supporters of environmentally friendly cars
A cut-out of the Trabant- East Europe's best known transporter
When the first man discovered cow-milking, what was he trying to do?... Our large Archives of Unusual Vehicles Here
June 30, 2004 in Cars | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
"Iraq is Finally Sovereign!"
Who Lost Iraq? by Paul Krugman
Fighting Machine: If we don't want to know about the dead, we certainly don't want to know about the injured. The unseen cost of the war in Iraq
Lots to be proud of: The vast majority of Iraqis still alive
Iraq as the 51st state: Interview with Juan Cole
“Debka” wrote yesterday that Allawi’s secret deal is to gain control of Saddam and his top 11 regime officials as hostages to guarantee his life. The insurgents will be given to understand that violence against the prime minister will be met with the fast trial and execution of a member of Saddam’s “dirty dozen.” As long as the insurgents attack only American, British and Iraqi troops, the deposed dictator and his men will languish in prison without trial.
Business Opportunities in Iraq from the (now defunct) CPA
Iraq’s new flag” above from “The Onion”, obviously. More News about War in Iraq Here
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Space Cadets
Alan Bean's Space paintings describes his travels. He was the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 12, and thus the 4th man to walk on the moon. (From Incoming Signals)
Peter Thorpe Rocket Paintings
Mojave Airport calls itself “America's First Inland Spaceport”. On June 21, 2004, the age of commercial space exploration was launched there with the flight of Space Ship One…
Comets from The Astronomical Institutes of the University of Bonn
I need more readers! If you enjoy this blog, please forward it to your friends - they will appreciate it too! Lots of links about space travel Here
June 30, 2004 in Space | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 29, 2004
The Sun is the biggest clock in the world
Own a piece of rock and roll history, buy Alice Cooper’s watches: Every watch has been worn and used by Alice Cooper and are being offered from his personal collection
The Novel "Continental" Blinking Eye Clock, c. 1870, and Swimming Turtle Clock (From Novel Timepieces Gallery of the National Watch and Clock Museum. Found at “Boynton”)
The Nixie Tube Digital Wristwatch with Krusty Brand batteries
Digital Dali Clock and Spider Watch (From “Wrist Fashion”)
What time is it according to the Digital Doomsday ?
Final thought of the day: Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. Lots of Web Watches and Clocks Here
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June 28, 2004
"Less Is Best, Mr. Nabokov"
In April I submitted Vladimir Nabokov's short story "Torpid Smoke" to seven online manuscript evaluation services. Other than changing the title to "Russian Smoke" and Nabokov's name to Jonathan Shade, I left the piece unaltered. My online editors had some praise for the story, but also some suggestions on how to improve it. They each charged between three and fifteen dollars for their services…
Did Nabokov Plagiarized Lolita?
27.000 Miles through 48 States – On the road with kubrick’s 1964 version and with Adrian Lyne’s 1997 version. (Very slow downloads, but worth the wait. From The Lolita Chronology). Also the Magic Finger scene here.
A clip of James Mason sees Lolita for the first time in the garden, and James Mason reads the opening lines of the story
First American Review of “Lolita” from September 1958
Nabokov's Passion for Butterflies and Nabokov as Translator
(The reason I find the still-photo above of interest is, naturally, because it's in color, while Kubrick's film was in black & white). More Unusual Nabokov Links Here
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Wasted!
Hello, Little Brother
Sink into Quicksand! A very strange hobby (or perversion)
Get Annoyed - Thousands of Ways To Annoy People
26 More Ways to Leave Your Lover. (From “J-Walk”), and “A Scientific Approach to Understanding My Girlfriend's Role in the Overall Degradation of My Life's Quality”
Celebrating 3000 years of cat mustaches
Urban life is fraught with daily challenges. You need a box of Urban asshole notification cards
Bloopers of The Winnebago man . (Very crude language! From “Leuschke”)
What are those strange objects?!
Toilet Tennis: “Look Left & Look Right…” From “The writing on the stall”
There are thousands of books out there to help you avoid self-destructive behavior – but what fun is that? The Self Destruction Handbook is the first book designed to help you not help yourself
I’m gonna run for Governor of this Wal-Mart (From “Catch”)
The Apple Game
Lots of stuff to waste time on Here
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June 27, 2004
Flabob International
Last week we listed & sold a triplex in Rubidoux, a sleepy suburb of Riverside. The old building we sold was only a few hundred yards from Rubidoux Flabob Airport, the tiny local airstrip that boasts the Flabob Cafe and that strange biplane installation in front of it…
Rubidoux is bleak. Its Rubidoux Drive-In Theatre is one of the only two drive-ins still-operational in Southern California. Here’s “Soo 54”, Business Car 'Mt. Rubidoux' from “The Orange Empire Railway Museum”
The Kodak Brownie collection at the University of California, Riverside Museum of Photography. The Sherman Indian Museum
1986: The Riverside Prostitute Killer
Landmarks in Riverside from Helen Sanematsu
Fighting the miserable traffic on the 91 Freeway
The majority here rent. Here’s information about Riverside Apartments & Rentals
The Economic Development Division of San Bernardino County
Many More Unusual Stories About Riverside And San Bernardino and about Orange County Here
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Fashion conscious
Glossary of the Brooks Brothers Catalogue. (From “Injection” who predicts: 2005 is going to be a tough year no matter who wins…)
"Pain couture" (Bread couture) by Jean-Paul Gaultier
Every t-shirt design that Threadless has put out in 4 years
Growing a beard can be hazardous to your health...
The Red Hat Society: When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple with a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me
Flipping people off is so over. I mean, seriously, why go through all that effort to tell people they suck? Just wear this Middle Finger Tee and save your energy for more important things
The usual disclaimer: Based on the frequency of Fashion postings, readers may suspect that I am very fashion-conscious myself. Nothing could be further from the truth. By the way, I am in possession of a link to the what seems to be the original GOATSE-VIDEO-CLIP. If you are interested, email me for the address. I am not going to post it here, that's for sure. More Odd Fashion News Here
June 27, 2004 in Fashion | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
"When books are banned, only outlaws will have books"
A fully-working paper automata including a moving Oil Well and a saying goodbye Cowboy Bush and "I Love Rumsfeld" Mug. (Both from Tom McMahon)
The Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll of the race for the White House
The Stop Bush Project documents anti-Bush sentiment from around the world
Bill Clinton’s “My life”, the Random House site. 957 pages too many? Here’s the Clinton PowerPoint version
Bush and Kerry decided to resolve their differences with a "Creepiest Laughter" contest!
"An election is nothing more than an advance auction of stolen goods." Said Ambrose Bierce, so the League of Non-Voters invite you to participate in their Black Ribbon Campaign against voting. See also the large Non-Voting Archive
On the other hand, here's the Michael Moore Pledge of Democratic Allegiance
Resourceful Americans Create New Ways to Honor Dead Republicans
Top-secret conversations from “Dang Funny Politics”
The following headlines are not “Onion” posts. They are the features at the top of the GWB Official Campaign Blog:
“Kerry Struggles Not to Be Pessimistic." * "Poll: Bush Has the Highest Number of Positive Supporters in Recent History, Kerry the Lowest." * "Mrs. Bush's Oatmeal-Chocolate Chunk Cookies.”
(Is it scary or ironic?)
My pet goat ate Bush's 9-11 story. (And, Raising Meat Goat for fun & profit)
(Photo of Robot-Gore from “Honzo”.) More Odd News about Election 2004 Here
June 27, 2004 in 2004 Election | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
BASE Jumping and more
Pictures from the 2001 World Championships Recumbent bike races
Amazing 10 minutes of BASE jumping videos (including a final scene of jumping out of a window of a NYC hotel before dawn. From “Coolio”)
The 13,000+ members of the Iron Butt Association are dedicated to safe, long-distance motorcycle riding
A new French urban sport known as Le Parkour - or obstacle-coursing. (From “Deep Fun”)
Working out-Icelandic style: Bjáni Kanisson attempting some classic strongman events
Water Cycling. (From “Underwater Times”)
Many more Links of Extreme Sports Here
June 27, 2004 in Extreme Sports | Permalink | Comments (13) | TrackBack
June 26, 2004
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11
I went to see Fahrenheit 9/11 last night, but in North Orange County, with its hundreds of movie theaters, it was shown on only three screens, and was sold out. (Shame on them theater owners). So I had to come back today for the matinee. I found the movie scary & extremely sad, and I think that every American should see it before the November election, in order to form their opinions accordingly.
Here are some reviews of the movie: Rotten Tomatoes gives it a “84% freshness” level. Slate’s David Edelstein says it describes it as "part prosecutorial brief and part rabid editorial cartoon: a blend of insight, outrage, and sniggering innuendo, the whole package threaded with cheap shots". Christopher Hitchens calls it dishonest and demagogic, and the NY-Times’ David Brooks compares Moore, unflatteringly, to Sartre. CNN claims that Fahrenheit 9/11 captures the zeitgeist
On IMDb, 3159 users have rated the movie during the first day with an average rating of 6.8. 62% gave it a 10, 29% gave it a 1. (By the way, see also the IMDb’s Top 250 movies as voted by their users)
John Ashcroft sings Let the eagle soar
Box Office Domestic Totals for the film
Warning: This Movie Contains Opinions
The rest of our links about the presidential November election here
June 26, 2004 in 2004 Election | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Travel to Walden Pond
Nicaraguan Murals from Stanford University’s ”Expressions of South America”
I Love New York, video of the maiden voyage
The Explorers Club , Promoting Exploration for One Hundred Years. (From “Mookie”)
Walden Pond Photographs from Concord, MA
Many More Travel Links Here
June 26, 2004 in Traveling Places | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Do outrageous things
Waterboy is a self contained liquid-suspension environment. The unit is designed to support one individual submerged in a warm distilled liquid bath. Respirator and audio communication technology are added to allow longer submersion times. (From ”Weird Links”)
Odd celebrity portraits from Sublime Stitching
Fight Terror - Turn off your television!
Child Weddings in Alabama. Local girls and boys can marry there at age 14, with parental consent. (From ”Lots of Co.”)
Since 2002, Kempa used 2,635 caps to build a Bottle cap mosaic depicting his late brother, Chris. Here’s a quick time version of his effort
38 dishonest tricks which are commonly used in argument, with the methods of overcoming them
“You're Too Kind” - A Brief History of Flattery
LifeSharers is a non-profit voluntary network of organ donors
Gui Lian, ”Make a face” in Chinese
Anti-Smoking Stamps from many countries around the world. (But none from the US. Also, stamps honoring Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Chess on stamps)
The other day, I went and had me an hour-long, full-body Deep-tissue massage. It was heavenly and I'm going to start taking massages regularly.
Many more things to do with your life Here
June 26, 2004 in Do Something with your Life | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
June 25, 2004
A lesson in determination
The amazing courage and will of Cameron Clapp, a teenage triple amputee
Uri Geller, Does this man ever sleep? (From “Absolute Speakers”)
Jeri Ryan, a former Borg and a former wife of Jack Ryan
Rick Mills is a male model, specializing in modeling for body painting
Joseph Pujol, 'The Fartiste'. (From ”Metafilter”)
Becky Martz collects banana stickers(?). Her collection now consists of more than 4000 different banana labels, 93 broccoli bands and 157 asparagus bands. Here is the group photo of participants from the Banana Label Collectors' Convention in Munich
Bill "El Wingador" Simmons, the new winner of New Jersey Turnpike hot dog competition
Chuck Nolan is a float hunter
A Vietnamese man who has not had a hair cut in 31 years hopes to get into the Guinness Book of World Records for having the longest hair in the world
Miss Plump Universe. (From Sugar-n-Spicy)
Our large collection of unusual people here
June 25, 2004 in Unusual People | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack