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August 22, 2004
What is the most-accepted crime in America? (Guess before you scroll down)
Who is the target audience for those Serial Killers Action Figures? Background about artist David Johnson: A year ago, Johnson says he was an artist struggling to sell his more conventional sculptures. But when he started making a line of action figures that included infamous serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy and began selling them over the Internet, his career took off
Dutch politicians consider toe-licking ban
Graffiti Group Kidnaps Cow, But is it Art?
Mark Billingham's top 10 fictional detectives. (From "Linkmachinego")
Prison rape, the most-accepted crime in America
More about Crime and Punishment Here
August 22, 2004 in Crime & Punishment | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack
Unofficial Beverage of the GOP convention in NYC
Amarula: Cream liqueur elephant tree symbol suggests Republican GOP convention election cocktail recipes. And, The Wandering Hillbilly discovers paradise in Manhattan
View photos of a guy who drank too much and what happened to him. In the same vain: Passed Out Wookies, which is a site for Wookies, by Wookies. If you are a Wookie, or just like the smell, this is the site for you
Two new Limited-Time Offerings of Sugar-water
Genuine and Special Bottled Loch Ness Water. Only $7.26
How much is inside Goldschlager by Rob Cockerham who has gone completely mad and is now selling Giant Low-tack Vinyl Watermelon Stickers online
Photo above is Another Julian Beever creation . Many More Unusual Drinks Here
August 22, 2004 in Beverages | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Flash, Java, Animation
Spirograph Simulator. (From "Daily Jive")
Stream of Consciousness - the creative process
Mavis in the Park by Wit Animations
Miniature automata at The Modern Compendium of Miniature Automata: "Discover, identify and create your own Steam Age nanobot."
Cut and paste - The art & history of photomontage
Abstract Evolutionary Expressionism by Mac McKean
Collection of programs at Cold Bubble
More Flash, Java & Shockwave Links Here
August 22, 2004 in Digital Art | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
August 21, 2004
I am moving today to my new home in Riverside. Too tired to blog. Sorry
August 21, 2004 in Personal | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
August 20, 2004
Life in the Occupied Territories
The hard & complicated life of Israeli Arab. More: Exiled from Babylon - The life & death of Iraqi writer Samir Naqqash
Wanna buy some Israeli surplus military systems? Here’s your chance
Breaking news (from February 14): Taliban confirms bin Laden is missing
Middle East Gawker parody
'Nobody is going to live forever' – Interview with jailed, 15-year-old suicide bomber
The Sticker Song: Honk if You Love to Sing Bumper Stickers. The new hit song in Israel. Here are the lyrics to שירת הסטיקר.
Many Unusual Links about Israel & Palestine Here
August 20, 2004 in Middle East | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
August 19, 2004
Who is Red Peters and what does he do?
Red Peters is back. Many musicologists believe that if Red Peters had stuck with just one musical style, he'd have been a power player years ago. Instead, he jumped from art-rock/new-wave ("Give Youself A Handy, You've Earned It") to a brief Punk stint with the Swollen Members. He also sang on a record for a capella group, singing "You Promised the Moon (But I Preferred Uranus)", and recorded the tear jerking true "Ballad of a Dog Named Stains" for country / folksters Smelly Water during his Nashville period. Check out this video clip of Red's TV Commercial for "Ol' Blue Balls Is Back!" Why is he not as famous as George Carlin?
“You volunteered, didn’t you?” - Bill Murray Soundboard from Ebaumsworld
The Umbilical Brothers on Leno & on Letterman
AV Club Interview with Robert Smigel
A Project by Jon Haddock: Ninety-eight paper mache pulp figures representing the members of the US senate who voted for the USA Patriot Act
"My lucky number is four billion. That doesn't come in real handy when you're gambling"
“Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.” From “The Random Groucho Marx Quotes Page”
Photo above from Celebrity wonder. Many More Unusual Comedians Here
August 19, 2004 in Comedians | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
10,000,000 comments
My many mice: By my calculations, I’ve been using computer mice for about 14 years…
A Vert (Also known as a Vertical Button) is the newest way to linking other sites
Business Plan Archive at “Voices from the Dot-com Era”
Toogle Image Generator
Comments commenting on Slashdot’s 10,000,000 comment
Before they went down, the folks at Bugmenot created a compulsory registration form which mocked all other registration forms
More to Life on the Net Here
August 19, 2004 in Internet | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
August 18, 2004
“'For NASA, space is still a priority”
The surprise of soldering in space. (From “Endless Parade of Excellence”)
The meaning of astronauts’ hand signals
Call for candidates to participate in ground-based experiments of future exploratory human missions to Mars
Apollo 11 panoramic view of the moon. Onion-inspired: Neil Armstrong’s awful truth. Warning: language!
Re-post: From Mars to Earth is too magical to see only once
Starships. A science fiction web site, dedicated to spaceships in art, science and literature
Generic Euphemisms of the Lockheed Martin’s Mission statements. (From Aerospace Resources)
Quote above by president George W Bush. Lots of links about Traveling to the Moon Here
August 18, 2004 in Space | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
WARNING: Many of the following photos contain disturbing images
Massacres and atrocities of World War 2
Photos of concentration camp orchestras. A photo essay by Philip Greenspun, Dachau Concentration Camp. The Walk to the Gas Chamber. (From Photographs of Concentration Camps). Tour of Majdanek Death Camp.
Until the Last Jew, the Nazis’s uncompromising efforts to murder every Jew in Europe
"In the fall of 1998 I set out to do more research for my book: I spent 155 Hours on Trains, making over 80 Connections through 6 Countries, visiting 39 Concentration Camps and WWII Sites in 25 Days"
Eva Braun Coffee Mug at German WW2 Mugs. Gifts from Museum of Tolerance online store Shop
The official website of the Viktor Frankl Institute. Viktor Frankl was the author of “Man's Search for Meaning” and the founder of existential Logotherapy
More Unusual Links about the Holocaust Here
August 18, 2004 in The Holocaust | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
The Politics of Fashion
How some of the world's leaders see themselves (in pictures) - On her book tour, Maureen Dowd's been focussing considerable attention on the father / son tensions of W and HW. Her operating metaphor has been Star Wars: W, in this formulation, is Luke Skywalker, and HW is his Good Father, whereas Cheney is Darth Vader
Political chic: The latest fashion by Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Premier
I love the 80’s by The Reagan Administration
Only the third black senator! There has not been but one black senator in the last 100 years? Wow
Suspicious things I've done on an airplane. (In response to the Terror in the Sky story)
Life at the Vice President's Residence . (From Hating Dick Cheney, The new national pastime is as puzzling and unsatisfying as watching baseball)
Guatanamo, the latest from the WorldNews Network
Political Donations of the Rich, Famous, & Powerful
Emails of all the Senators of the 108th Congress
A database of more than 700 political columnists
Everything you always wanted to know about The Office of Management and Budget and how they manage your trillions. (Btw, here is a table of large numbers )
Many More Strange political Links Here
August 18, 2004 in Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
August 17, 2004
“Come up, Kinch. Come up, you fearful Jesuit”
Ulysses and 1,999 other classic texts at “Bibliomania”
Yesterday was Charles Bukowski's birthday. Tony Pierce remembers "Henry Chinaski".
The 20 Best Things That Thoreau Said in Walden: Every man looks at his wood pile with a kind of affection. (19 more)
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a staunch vegetarian
Fred Gwynne as an author of children books. Here are other children's books by celebrities
Jules Verne Stamps
On the same site are the lyrics from the Jules Verne hit song Around the World (in Eighty Days):
Around the world I searched for you
I traveled on when hope was gone
to keep a rendez-vous
I knew somewhere, sometime, somehow,
you’d look at me and I would see the smile you’re smiling now.
It might have been in County Down,
or in New York, in Gay Paree, or even London Town.
No more will I go all around the world,
for I have found my world in you.
By the way, you can listen to Bing Crosby sing this and other short clips… Solve the Bing Crosby Crossword Puzzle from the incredible Bing Crosby Internet Museum
Visit our Literary Corner Here
August 17, 2004 in Books & Literature | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
August 16, 2004
Happy Birthday
Custom stamps you won’t find in the mail
It’s your birthday but it is no reason to be happy
The latest outrage from Rather Good. (Usual language & attitude caution!)
Unlikely phrases from real phrasebooks. More Phrasebooks in Russian, Italian, Danish, Dutch
5000+ random quotes:
1st graffitiist: QUESTION AUTHORITY!
2nd graffitiist: Why?
50 Lame Ways to Scare People in the Computer Lab
More Ways to Waste Time On the Internet Here
August 16, 2004 in Waste of Time | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
New real estate blogs
Here is a new crop of blogs about real estate, to add to our comprehensive list at the bottom:
Appraiser Michael Walsh’s Chicago Real Estate Blog
Home Wreckers, a nicely-designed DIY-blog
House Blogger - Tips to accelerate your online real estate success
Kristin Noll's Milwaukee Real Estate Blog
Debra Drummond’s Southeast Michigan Real Estate Blog
Real Estate Software & Technology Newsletter from Australia
Susan Berglowe from Boca Raton
Paul Long’s Florida Today
Our complete list of real estate blogs Here
August 16, 2004 in Real estate Blogs | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Coffins of Soldiers
Four months after the political storm, here’s the follow-up story: Lives altered by photo of coffins
Do you have a right to see this picture? Seditious libel's shadow
Handy Woodworking Course: Build Your Own Casket
Cosco to sell Caskets in stores
Six Feet Under, The Game
Eagle Custom Caskets has a product selection geared specifically to bikers! If you or your loved one are headed for biker heaven, there simply is no other choice
12 of Kane Quaye Fantasy Coffins at the National Museum of Funeral History
Biodegradable casket out of woven wicker or bamboo
Angel Michelangelo - This model is sold for $600 more by some Web Casket suppliers for the exact same casket!
Many More Unusual Coffins & Caskets and Links About Death and Eternity Here
August 16, 2004 in Death - Coffins | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Jewish Comics
Anne Owens’s Ouch Club. (From La Petite Claudine)
Chris Ryniak’s portfolio
ShaBot 6000 is the continuing cartoon saga of a pious Jew who purchases a robot to work as Shabbos Goy for his household. The inquisitive robot, ShaBot, decides that he is Jewish, and is therefore unable to fulfill his duties as servant
Alphabetical Listing of The Don Martin Dictionary
Many More Unique Illustrators Here
August 16, 2004 in Comics & Cartoons | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack