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July 22, 2004
To click or not to click
Dirda on Books: Michael Dirda reads books for a living. Once a week he answers questions online; Here are the transcripts of these sessions
Lynne Cheney's fabulously rare, single-printing literary masterpiece, Sisters
The sixteen first rules of fiction: Be readable; grasp the reader's attention. Don't explain. Know your characters… (13 more)
Kafka Cooks Dinner by Lydia Davis. (From “Ariel”)
The Shakespeare Canon, from Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Also, G.K.Chesterton's Works on the Web
(‘Don’t remember where I found the photo of Hemingway with a gun above.) More Unusual Links About Literature Here
July 22, 2004 in Books & Literature | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
What is this thing called “The Internet”?
An old interview with Ze Frank about the origins of his art, and Ze Frank’s blog
Bill Cameron has this report on the growing phenomenon known as “Internet” (A wmv clip from “Ebaumsworld”). More about ancient cyber experiences: This is a Naked Lady, the prurient relationship between technology and sexuality. (By Gerard Van Der Leun, from "Wired"). While we’re on the subject, ASCII Babes
British Googles for kids. How does Google calculates your site's PageRank
Active Verb Snapshots via Yahoo News. (From “Six Fruits”)
About the background of the So Tired Phenomenon: Where Web surfers go when they haven't slept a wink
This Is Broken: A new project to make businesses more aware of their customer experience, and how to fix it
Random 404 message from the elusive “Project Euh”
Many More Unusual Links About The Internet Here
July 22, 2004 in Internet | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
July 21, 2004
Banana Republicans
George W. Bush is arguably the most influential and controversial performance artist in the history of Western art . (From “Ashley B”). Similarly, Being Nothing - George W. Bush as Presidential Simulacrum. "Nobody likes to see dead people on their television screens"
Who Would Jesus Torture? The Religion of George W. Bush. And, The inner W. - Three new psychological portraits of GW. (Salon registration required)
W deck by Beetlecow
The Vice President as a young man
Ooops, Mr. Vice president has never been with Halliburton, as far as we know… and Negative Capability: The President of the United States is not (many things)…
The First John Ashcroft Video Project, from “Nerve”
Funky weird remix from W and Bruner Blog, Dick Is a Killer
“An old man approached the White House from the park across Pennsylvania Avenue…” The same story four years earlier…
HNZ - Should you Buy this stock now ? Did you buy Halliburton in 1999?
Kerry: Beer Begins At Fermentation
Something is wrong with the campaign of Richard Pilager for governor of the great state of Colorado…
In a country where many voters identify with a particular political party, "swing voters" - those who do not have a strong party affiliation - often take center stage in an election year.
Bush to dump Cheney for Hillary (From none other than Marc Perkel)
The Sacramento Girlie Men welcome you back for another winning season…
Many More Unusual Links About The 2004 Presidential Election Here
July 21, 2004 in 2004 Election | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Changes in the Middle East
Can Israel be saved? Richard Ben Cramer talks about "How Israel Lost," his exploration of how the occupation of Palestinian land has corrupted the soul of the Jewish state he loves. (Salon registration required)
A re-post: Monitoring of the West Bank separation wall. The Citizens of Israel against the fence website has links of local organizations opposing the wall.
Extreme propaganda posters from BlueStar PR
What happened to Israel? Lovers walking down the street…
Egyptian pin-up art by Mostafa Fahmy
Another magic pill from Dana Wyse: Read and write perfect Arabic in less than 3 seconds
Zena Amaar is a 13-year old, new Iraqi blogger. According to The Iraq Blog Count, there are now 62 Iraqi blogs. I am not going to add them all up any more here.
Many unusual links about the Middle east Here
July 21, 2004 in Middle East | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
July 20, 2004
Once again we're doing next to nothing
Saying No to Killers. A NY Times Op-ed about Carl Wilkens, a Seventh-day Adventist missionary, who was living with his wife and three small children in Kigali, Rwanda, in 1994... What would you do if, like Carl Wilkens, you were caught in the middle of a genocide?
When an environment of trust is created, good things start happening - Kottke’s Business lessons from the donut and coffee guy
How to create a golem from the comfort of home
How to write a winning personal ad if you’re a geak
12 Rules for Good Cursive Handwriting. (From “No, 2 self”)
Etiquette Hell... the Internet's Largest Repository of Bad Etiquette. (From “Mighty Lambchop”)
Get off the couch & kick some ass with Punk Rock Aerobics
“Illusion” - Body Art Gallery
A repost from last year – How to receive a Wedding Greetings from the White House
Grab a graphic and Link To Grow-a-Brain! Many More things to do with your life Here
July 20, 2004 in Do Something with your Life | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
July 19, 2004
"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time"
Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate Structure" Unveiled Yesterday in Millennium Park, Chicago
Seasons in Finland (I miss the beautiful summer evenings in Denmark... From “West Village”)
Hobo signs - Usually, these signs would be written in chalk or coal on a trestle, fence, building or sidewalk, letting others know what they could expect in the area of the symbol
David J Osborn, English Landscape Photographer. (From “Six Different Ways” )
Musha Cay, Exclusive private Bahamas Island resort...
Tubingen is located near Stuttgart. More from Germany, Berlin photos by Juergen Stumpe
Commute: Every day more than six million people use the New York City Transit System. (From “DigiTofu”)
Prison Tours, State Penn in Pennsylvania and West Virginia
Hong Kong - The City of Nights
Photo above from Budapest 2001-2002. Our Archives of Unusual Travel Links Here
July 19, 2004 in Traveling Places | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Maple Leaf Rag
I’ve been listening all day to the enormous collection of Ragtime MIDI Files. (From the Private Universe of Don McClane)
Also from there - Smells Like Teen Spirit played on the Kazoo by Oozak. More than you ever wanted to know about the kazoo
Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals by bandleader Raymond Scott
The complete Beethoven Sonata Cycle, played by Artur Pizarro
You are in control of The Dancing Legato…
The newly-re-designed IMDb for music, “All Music”
A wonderful Mystery Re-post clip...
Many More Unusual Music Links Here
July 19, 2004 in Music_ | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Mobile Home Parks, anybody?
We just listed three large mobile home parks for sale, one in Torrance, one in North Hollywood and the third in Lancaster. If you are in the market to own one or more of them, please call our office at (951) 682-6826, for detailed data sheets.
Here’s information about Manufactured and Mobile Homes For Sale , and a list through Loopnet, a commercial network.
Dictionary of Urban Sprawl. (From “Information Junk”)
Welcome to the "Good Eats" kitchen. Buy chef Alton Brown’s original home in Buckhead Ct., Atlanta. E-bay special - $850,000 only.
A room with(out) a view, a tiny house in Japan. Also, smallest home in Silicon Valley, originally built in 1920, Living space: 409 sq. ft., Lot size: 989 sq. ft. Smallest house in New Jersey. The smallest house in Great Britain, 182 x 309 x 254 cm, and in Vienna
New ways to pay the mortgage - Homeowners can harness loose cash to cut interest costs
Our Archives of Unusual Real Estate Links Here
July 19, 2004 in Real estate | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack
July 18, 2004
“Parking is for drive-through customers only”
My kind of restaurant - Chikalicious, the first dessert-only bar in NYC. (From Joshua Schachter )
Eat like a pro: Tribune restaurant critic tells how to make the most of a meal out
Restaurant Postcards from the days before chains took over
Francis Ford Coppola’s Café Niebaum-Coppola in San Francisco
I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time." So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance… Other Restaurant Anecdotes
Above - A Thai waiter wears a condom over his head while serving a cocktail as a patron looks on at the Condoms and Cabbages restaurant in Bangkok. We blogged about this restaurant back in October. By the way, it’s not so easy: Here is How to wear a condom on your head. Read about this and others in our Archives of Unusual Restaurants Here
July 18, 2004 in Food - Restaurants & Bars | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
My VCR flashes 01:35, 01:35, 01:35, ...
Some Dutch architects invented the Word Clock. The clock doesn't use numerical notation to show you what time it is, it uses words
Radio Shack LCD desktop lemon clock and other Fruit clocks. How to Make a Potato Clock. Also, Clock that runs on water
Pimp Clock from Andre Torrez
Discordian Mandala Clock from The Barry Bittwister Cabal's Erisian Goodness
The French Revolutionary calendar divided the day in ten hours of a hundred minutes of a hundred seconds - exactly 100,000 seconds per day
Nerd clocks, including one in Esperanto. Same guy did this Obfuscated "Hello, world!" programs in C
Quote above from Steven Wright. A complete list of Steven Wright Quotes. (For example: “I have the oldest typewriter in the world. It types in pencil”) here.
(Why do I keep posting stuff about clocks?) Our large collection of Unusual Clock Links Here
July 18, 2004 in Clocks & Watches | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
This war will be over by the next commercial break -
A Partial List of Contractors Missing in Iraq. Also, Bottom Dollar - What are Filipinos, Bulgarians and Koreans doing in Iraq in the first place?
The False "Hand-Overs" of Iraq, from “The Institute for Policy Studies”
Rock, Paper, Saddam is back up: “Will I choose Rock – Or Scissors…”
American Military Operation Name Generating Device: Provoked Wolverine, Platinum Missile, Burning Knife, more.
Hell On Earth - newly available documents about Life in Abu Ghraib
Also, “Military Personnel Unsure How To Cut Abu Ghraib Prison Population In Half: Across The Waist, Or Head To Toe?”
“We train them to kill. Afterward, they're on their own” - The Psychological Consequences of Killing, or “Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress”
The Iraq Soccer Team and the National Olympic Committee of Iraq (NOCI)
Images of the War. (From “Sachs Report”)
More News about War in Iraq Here
July 18, 2004 in War in Iraq | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Clothes make the man. (Naked people have little or no influence on society.)
Homeland Security Fashion Police - The Senate does seersucker. (Once a clown, always a clown)
I like my boots, if they are Magnum Classics…
Glamour Shower caps and hair nets for the ladies
Vintage hair fashion at the The Beauty Shoppe Archives
Knit your underwear, including this 320 calories pair of edible panties
In a pinch? Need a bra? Have you got undies? Hoist them gals up with Boogie Bra
The use of crampons has always been the source of controversy… (From “Endless Parade of Excellence”)
A repost: How did Kevin Kelm build his giant robot costume?
Braille T-shirts from “Not Vanilla”, for the short-sighted… (Which brings back the question: Why is there braille on drive-up teller machines?)
More Half-baked Ideas: Mismatched shoes for sale. Also, Shoester, the online matching service for people with asymmetrical feet
More Unusual Fashion Links Here
July 18, 2004 in Fashion | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
Link-backs
Here are some recent ‘pat on the back’s -
Which blog do you learn the most from? from “At the heart of it”
Home of stunning links from “American Digest”
... A perfect check in for everything human culture imaginable" from “Bumble”
“Grow-a-brain looks great these days”, from “Things Magazine”
“Avoid clicking on Grow-A-Brain unless you have at least thirty minutes to piss away”, from Good Grief
Lovely linklog from “Bowblog”
“One of my favourites” from “Sir Harris”
“Good linking blog to real estate issues” from “Bowulf Infosec”
“Grow-a-brain always has tons of good things to look into”, from “About Jane”
“A blog of blogs and websites” from “impress Books”
Nice looking linklog from Pete Ashton
The New York Post called Grow-A-Brain “perhaps the most recognized of the realtor blog genre”, but linked to a dead link… (June 5th, 2004)
A long List of People Talking about Grow-a-Brain Here
July 18, 2004 in People are Talking about Grow-a-Brain | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
July 17, 2004
"Everything in moderation, including moderation"
If you grow illegal marijuana plants in you back yard or your basement, would you publish their photos on the web?
Absolutely the Cheapest Possible Bong You Can Make
Who came up with The Great Banana Hoax of 1966? Country Joe McDonald...
Located near the Heineken Brewery, the Hemp Hotel is a small family-run business using a simple concept…
Chong is free at last
Welcome to our Finger Clip aka Roach Clip aka Cigarette Clip website
Get your Free web based email address, at cannabis mail. Sure...
Love is the drug - Being in love is physically similar to the buzz of taking drugs and also has withdrawal symptoms
Mandelbrot, Fractals. (From “Entropic Bloom”)
The 4 Hundred and 20 Assassins of Emir Abdullah-Harazins - New fantasy book about the origin of 420. Thank you, Joseph DeMarco
Quote by Mark Twain above. More about any kind of illegal drugs especially Acid and Pot Here
July 17, 2004 in Drugs - "Save the Roaches, Arnie" | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Remember: Vote early and vote often
Stick figure Tetris - scary
Mario Bros. MIDI files - Play all your favorite Nintendo games
July 27 is National Barbie-in-a-Blender Day. Tom Forsythe who got sued by Mattel got pissed.
Divine Intervention, The Game
Odd-Shaped Dice. (From “Lonita”). Also, Kevin Cook is a Dice Collector. Here are his Paper Dice Template
Four Pong! Two Balls, four paddles
Spiro 3 and Fan & Ball. Many more at ”Ertdfgcvb”. Check out his “Me” page
Our Large Collection of Unusual Games and Toys Here
July 17, 2004 in Games | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack