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August 05, 2005
Real estate investing tips
How to build a Mongolian yurt. (Thank you, Avi Solomon)
Real Estate Pick of the Week: Ranch and Missile Silo. Price: US $1,295,000.00
The Amity St. Swastika floors
Important tips to real estate investing
Mark Fiore on Eminent Domain
Realtor Karen Mason blogs the launching of the space shuttle - from her back yard!
For mortgage scammers, deed thieves and property flippers, this is the Golden Age
Here’s a good article from today’s Investor's Business Daily about Realtors who blog. Lisa Schmeiser, who mentions Grow-a-brain, interviewed me last week for the article.
Many More Unusual Real Estate Stories Here
August 5, 2005 in Real estate | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
August 04, 2005
Last day on Earth
International Time Capsule Society
Wishful Thinking - January 10, 2009
Imagine waking up to the last day on Earth. What's the worst that could happen in just 24 hours? (From ”Farpas e bitaites”)
A Future Timeline of Humanity and the Universe, starting at 2010, ending at 10100
The Flash Epic 2014 has an updated, alternate version Epic 2015
365 tomorrows. One new piece of short speculative fiction each day for one year
The Vertical Farm - The future of farming
Btw, somebody left a very long comment in Arabic at the bottom of an old post, with the request that I forward it to Queen Ranya of Jordan. Anybody cares to translate it into English?
More Visions About The Future Here
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Disneyization
Ten Things To Know About Walt Disney World. No 10: When attempting to take a naked picture lying on Mickey’s Bed, alarms will go off
The Testimony of Walter E. Disney Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities 24 October, 1947
List of Disney characters' names in various languages. I remember Anders And og Joakim von And
Disney's 50th Anniversary Paper Models of Tower of Terror and Sleeping Beauty's Castle. Other Disneyland miniatures
Free Banner ads
About Reedy Creek Improvement District, Disney World's permanent autonomous zone. (From Boing Boing)
An incomplete listing of typefaces seen and used at Walt Disney World
On July 18, 1955, David MacPherson, a CSULB student bought the first Disneyland ticket
The Disnyfication of America. You can't go to Disneyland because you're already there. Before Disneyland, with some notable exceptions, a place was what it was — the product of its own history, geography, climate, economic base, social arrangements and technological development. After Disneyland, American places increasingly came to be idealized fictional narratives about place — not real places, but metaplaces
The Elijah Factor’s - The most famous tourist attraction in Disney, Oklahoma (Pop. 226)
Infograph above from The Onion. Many More Unusual Disneyland Links Here
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August 03, 2005
Gotta Go
Sorry, Gotta Go. When you absolutely, positively have to get off the phone. (From ”Link Bunnies”)
drag racing in NYC with Lucas Brunnelle. Watch the videos!
Learning to love cannibals
Art of conversing. Not many people will guess that I’m a shy person. I’ve learned how to hide my insecurity when I converse and many people believe I am an extravert. Let me tell you how I do it, because these three pointers can help anyone go from wallflower to halfway-decent-conversationalist
How To Give A Great Presentation
Unrelated: An awesome view from the international space station looking at the shuttle... (with the earth in the background. Thanks to ”Rain City Guide”)
By the way, Ladies And Gentlemen, Say Hello to Your New UN Ambassador
Many More Unusual Things To Do With Your Life Here
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"Where are you going, my blue-eyed son? / I'm goin' to Starbucks, there’s one every two blocks / Where the coffee is crappy and the prices outrageous / But they own all the rights to an old Dylan bootleg / And it’s a hard..."
Word-by-word illustrated versions of Dylan's Isis and All along the Watchtower by Paolo Faresi. (Beautiful. Site may be down during heavy traffic)
Bob Dylan Stamps, from Gambia, Tanzania and other small countries
Dylan’s first roll as an actor (1963, with David Warner). From Dylan’s IMDB movie stats
A map of Dylan's touring schedule made with the Google Maps API. Each eye logo represents a concert, and you can click on them to get the concert details
Tour books since 1989
Bob Springsteen's classic Nebraska Skyline
“It ain’t me, Babe”. The Bob Dylan Cover List. (From Wilson’s Almanac)
Dylan’s Guitars. A survey compiled by Eyolf Østrem
The Ventures of Zimmerman and Son-O'-God Meets Zimmerman
Dylan and the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (NECLC)
A good Metafilter thread that starts with Blonde On Blonde, “The Record That Can't Be Set Straight”, and goes from there…
The Church of Bob
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go, to the valley below
Quote above from Fark. Many More Unusual Bob Dylan Links Here
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August 02, 2005
Alcoholic Father Disappointed In Pothead Son
Before Prohibition: Images from the pre-prohibition era when many psychotropic substances were legally available in America and Europe
Van Gogh's Weed by Anthony Ausgang
Francis Crick was high on LSD when he discovered the secret of life
Shroom Reunion - 20 years later, the Night remains intact
Lords of Acid. How the Brotherhood of Eternal Love Became OC’s Hippie Mafia. (From Easy Bake Coven)
Replaceable Crack Pipe Filter, from Half-bakery
Louis Armstrong: My Life As A Viper
Drugs in film, literature & music
Magic mushroom in the UK have long benefited from a loophole in the law that meant fresh varieties of the hallucinogenic fungus were legal, despite dried ones being banned. But now the trip is over
An Interview with Dark Lord Rob, writer and director of The Miskatonic Acid Test
Headline above from The Onion. Photo above from Worth 1000. More about many illegal drugs especially Acid and Marijuana Here
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August 01, 2005
Bad Movies
Are you folks ready for a journey? The road to Hell is two hours and one minute long; I could sure use the company: Review for “Candy”. Watch the scene with MacPhisto licking liquor off the clear floor of his limousine. Notice Ringo Starr as the Hispanic gardener. Many more Bad Movies
From “aces full of Links”, ”Name That Movie” no. 43 - difficult to guess! Please leave a comment below, if you were successful identifying it before all 8 clues were dispensed
Frustrated? Try also The Stick Man Movie Scenes
Welcome to FX Tailor by Danish Latex master Anders Lerche
"Cinema Theatres in Sweden". Sweden has more cinema screens per capita than anywhere else in Europe. Swedish cinemas are also internationally acclaimed for their architectonic and artistic prominence, and because there are still so many well-kept old theatres left. (From ”Plep”)
405 - Two guys and a computer produce hit web movie
Private Snafu is the title character of a series of black-and-white instructional cartoon shorts produced during World War II. The character was created by Frank Capra, chairman of the Armed Forces Motion Picture Unit, and the shorts were written by "Dr. Seuss"…
Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen
“Posterwire”, a movie poster blog
Edward Jay Epstein, author of “The Big Picture”, in a series of Slate articles: The real slump in the American box office and National Research Group, NRG, the secretive research group that helps run the movie business
Okie Noodling, The trailer. There’s nothing quite like the thrill of catching a 60-pound catfish with your bare hands, and that’s just what Oklahoma fishermen have been doing for hundred of years.
(Photo above from The Panhandle picture show.) Grow-a-brain’s Extensive Collections of Best Film Directors and other Unusual Film Stories Here
August 1, 2005 in Cinema | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack