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April 15, 2006
I am he as you are he as you are me
The original I Am the Walrus as played in “Magical Mystery Tour”, and the Zappa version
Lots of other Beatles videos on “You Tube”
Lyrics to all songs on Tragical History Tour
The Abbey Road crossing as seen from space
"Why Did The Chicken Cross Abbey Road...?" The song and the T-shirt
Help on the Ed Sullivan show
Songs the Beatles didn't do: meaning, songs they wrote while the Beatles existed, but which did not appear on official EMI Beatles records
When did the Beatles become The Beatles? Seth Godin on Outbound marketing
Yes I’m lonely wanna die. I too typed “I am lonely” into google. now I don’t feel so pathetic, almost amused
Beatles Fan fiction on Angel Fire
Many More Unusual Beatles Links and Unusual Bob Dylan Links Here
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Hall of Famers
Climbing Lost Arrow Spire. Saint John - The Second Pillar
Glacier Swimming
National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame and Museum. (From The Hall of Fame Hall of Fame)
James Campion’s 50 Greatest Sports Moments of All Time
Throwing shoes buying guide for the professional Javelin Thrower
The atlatl is an ancient spear-throwing weapon that has been gaining in popularity in the last decade
Photos of Muzzleloaders Rendezvous
I am away at the moment hosting my sisters around. This post had been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Many More Unusual Links of Extreme Sports Here
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April 14, 2006
Water into Wine
On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there and Jesus and His disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said to Him, " They have no more wine."
Steve Martin's Script Notes on "The Passion". (From White Man Stew. Also there, an interview with Steve Martin)
Jesus Christ Superstar Karma. (From Enschede a/zee)
Translation of The 'Gospel of Judas'
Since the Catholic Church is arguing against using Jesus in beer ads, photoshop some other ads that shouldn't have Jesus
I am away at the moment hosting my sisters around. This post had been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. More Unusual Links About Jesus and Other Strange Spiritual Links Here
(Click on photo above to enlarge. It was taken on the corner of Mt. View & 7th St. in San Bernardino.)
April 14, 2006 in Jesus | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
April 13, 2006
Nice Ass
Why I own donkeys. When I got back from the hardware store this morning, I planned to write a column explaining why somebody from New Jersey who'd never seen a donkey in the first half-century of his life now owned three
Hanging out with a bunch of Crabs in Kenya
The invasion of red crabs on Christmas Island
We ate this giant crab
The largest bat colony in the US (Austin, TX)
Squid, Laughing Squid's blog for all things squid
The Cow Parade of Barcelona
Ying & Yang from Alex Mizell
Since the beginning of time, baby animals have ruled the world
I am away at the moment hosting my sisters around. This post had been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Many More Unusual Animal Stories Here
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April 12, 2006
Computer-generated
Spoke POV is an easy-to-make electronic kit toy that turns your bicycle wheel into a customized display. Somehow similar, Hokey Spokes
Biff Boff – The Swedish Young Urbans play music on a Ping-Pong table. (Click on the 3rd screen to play)
Colorized images from electron microscopes
Incredible Machines a-la Rube Goldberg
Since the first cave man hurled the first rock at that first mouse, man has been battling his pesky nemesis. Thousands of years were to fly by before Baron von Trapp took time out from yodeling in the Alps to invent the infamous Mouse Trapp. Now, thousands of years after von Trapp, here’s the Mouse Catapult
HeadMaster Plus, a headpointing typing system for people with severe disabilities
Many More Unusual Inventions & Discoveries Here
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Balloon art
The whimsical fun of Petra Mrzyk and Jean-François Moriceau’s Air de Paris. (From Mira y Calla)
Balloon sculpting. The Fantastic Flying Octopus, the first ever piloted latex balloon sculpture
The Robot Hut - Toy Robot Collections from around the world
The Kinetic art of Andrew Smith. (From Bernie DeKoven’s Deep Fun)
2280 pages of Boy Scout Activities
Rubber Duckie Pool on flickr
How To Win at Monopoly. Know the odds. Most players make a complete lap around the board in five turns; you're likely to roll doubles once in those five turns (doubles happen about 17 percent of the time). From Eszter’s blog
Has anybody ever played Second Life? Please elaborate below.
Online trading game where instead of trading stocks people trade Web sites
Saltacol jumping snail
Parlor Larps are one-shot story games for 4-8 players. Each player immersively plays one character in a complete three hour story. All you need is a living room, an evening, and a group of friends
I am away at the moment hosting my sisters around. This post had been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Many More Unusual Games and Toys Here
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April 11, 2006
Shopping at Wal-Mart
The Viagra ring - Keep your Viagra securely on hand. (From Mira y Calla)
The elitists who Shop at Wal-Mart…
No More Squashed Sandwiches, with Wonder Bread Sandwich Container. Many other Branded Products at A. Aronson. (From Blog on a Toothpick)
Hide and Fur Store: Antlers & Horns, Buckskin & Leather, Skulls & Bones, Teeth & Claws. Much more. PO Box 8918, Moscow, Idaho
Frozen Lightning permanently captured within crystal clear acrylic. (Found on Science Hobbyist)
Many More Unusual Things To Buy Here
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Insanity by consensus
Re-post: Sand mandalas on flickr, and on pbase
Construction of the Medicine Buddha sand mandala at the Ackland Art Museum. On February 26, 2001, the Ven. Tenzin Thutop and the Ven. Tenzin Deshek, two Buddhist monks from the Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca, New York constructed a five-and-a-half foot Medicine Buddha sand mandala in the Ackland's Yager Gallery of Asian Art. This process concluded by March 21, and on June 8, 2001 the monks dismantled the mandala and deposited the sand in a body of water. This process symbolizes the transience of life and the ideal of nonattachment to the material world
Mandala Sand Painting from the BBC site
Elsewhere: Catholic School Girl Dolls… No, not what you’re probably thinking
Christian Paranoia: People who run everything can’t complain that they’re oppressed
The Golden Legend or Lives of the Saints. Also at Catholic Forums: Groups of Christian martyrs who have become known under a particular name
Monks produce pray-as-you-go podcasts has proved an instant success around the world
8 Wackiest self-proclaimed Messiahs
..."Our crooked delegation
wants a donation to send the preacher to the holy land
honey don't give your money
to that lyin, cheatin man"...
I am away at the moment hosting my sisters around. This post had been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Many More Unusual links about Unusual Gods Here
April 11, 2006 in Spirituality | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
April 10, 2006
Odz’n’Endz
Eggs in Hats… Knitted hats
Occasional Hell, a database of torture and execution devices and methods
Talk Therapy: Video Remixes of Dr. Phil vs Bill O'Reilly, by Sim Sadler (Who previously edited the Hard Working George video)
World’s Largest Football in Niigata, Japan
A collection of paper handkerchiefs (In German)
The Hair Book at The Cammie G. Henry Research Center. (From Presurfer)
The original January 2005 Ice Storm in Geneva photographs
Many More Unusual Oddities and Crazy linkage Here
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How To Cheat On Your Taxes
Give Us All Your Money - Simple – Direct – Effective
How To Cheat On Your Taxes by Avery Ant. For those Doing their taxes
The secret history of the credit card. Eight things a credit card user should know...and much more you probably don't. (From Caught in between)
The five kinds of rich people. Larry Samuel has thus classified American millionaires into five archetypes, each with its own Passion Points, consuming habits, and style
How to get rich. A Talk by Jared Diamond. Why, within Eurasia, was it Europeans who conquered the world and colonized other people, rather than the Chinese or the people of India or the Middle East?
Can I have change for that? Man busted with billion dollar bills
What Could America Do With $500 Billion? Each month, the best alternative option to Iraq war spending will receive $50 US. At the end of the Iraq war, by vote, the best entry will receive $500 US
Top 10 Richest Men Of All Time. Yes, Most billionaires are Virgo
I am away at the moment hosting my sisters around. This post had been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Many More Unusual Stories about Money Here
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April 09, 2006
Invading Tehran
Playing Mozart while Baghdad burns. “doesn't anybody get the obvious parallel here - between her falling short in her aspiration to become a professional musician and the exact same circumstance regarding her ability to professionally conduct the affairs of state?”
Seymour Hersh on 'The Iran Plans': What are they smoking?
Point – Counterpoint: Bomb Iran before it’s too late, and “Speaking as a Canadian who is fond of judicious language, I feel that this situation deserves careful and measured thought. So let me just open with: Is Your Entire Country on Crack?”
Joseph Stiglitz on the economic costs of the Iraq war - "The War Is Bad for the Economy"
“Nobody like beheadings!” Jon Stewart on Ramblin Man (Clip)
Iraq Pipeline Watch - Attacks on Iraqi pipelines, oil installations, and oil personnel
Redirecting Bullets in Baghdad
What's your opinion - Do you think that the US will attack Iran in the next 24 months?
Much More About The Coming War With Iran Here
April 9, 2006 in War in Iraq | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Funes, the Memorious
I remember him (I scarcely have the right to use this ghostly verb; only one man on earth deserved the right, and he is dead), I remember him with a dark passionflower in his hand, looking at it as no one has ever looked at such a flower, though they might look from the twilight of day until the twilight of night, for a whole life long. I remember him, his face immobile and Indian-like, and singularly remote, behind his cigarette. I remember (I believe) the strong delicate fingers of the plainsman who can braid leather. I remember, near those hands, a vessel in which to make maté tea, bearing the arms of the Banda Oriental; I remember, in the window of the house, a yellow rush mat, and beyond, a vague marshy landscape. I remember clearly his voice, the deliberate, resentful nasal voice of the old Eastern Shore man, without the Italianate syllables of today… (Thank you, Charlotte)
The only footage of Samuel Clemens in existence. The film was taken by Thomas Edison
BMW, in conjunction with Random House, brings you BMW Audio Books, a series of specially-commissioned short stories. (From Advertising's a bitch)
Original Kilgore Trout Stories. Corwyn Green's 'Kilgore Trout' Sci-Fi Stories
Paragraph - A workspace for writers. (From Caught in between)
American Women's Dime Novel, 1870-1920
The Four Ages of Mankind, by William Butler Yeats
By the way, if you ever find a very cool, obscure link, on any subject, that you think should have a wider distribution, please email it to me, realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com. Thank you -
.gif above by Geno Patrick Heleen. Many More Unusual Literary Links Here
April 9, 2006 in Books & Literature | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
The Green Hills of Africa
African big game hunting. I didn’t know that Bill Frist has a black son...
The Onion strikes again: Tom DeLay To Pursue Corruption In Private Sector
Bush Approval Vs. Gasoline price index
Ted Kennedy – wrong!
Cindy Sheehan – wrong!
France – wrong!
Zell Miller – right!
The Right Brothers are singing Bush Was Right
Bush's presidency will be judged entirely by the outcome of a war in Iraq that is now a failure, as per William F. Buckley Jr.
A politician at an Indian Reservation
Whitehouse.gov still running page of bogus Iraq War evidence
Woman Gets $100 Ticket for BUSHIT Bumpersticker
Right Wing neurosis; 10 telltale signs of the GOP plague. 1. You keep lying, even when it's apparent to everyone that you're lying: Insist that the situation in Iraq is not a civil war; Bush tax cuts are good for the economy; Republicans are fostering Democracy. (From ”J-Walk”)
(Photo above from The Boston Herald). Have a nice weekend, and don't step in the booyah. Much More About Corruption in Government Here
April 9, 2006 in Politics | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
26th anniversary
Solving the cube with one hand in 29:09 seconds
Ice Cube by Dave Nitsche
Touch Rubik Cube. There are six different basic materials involved. They are Metal, wood, textile, rubber, plastic and stone. Different materials give people different senses, which thus enabled the blind men to play. And here we present the very example of this inspiration - The new Rubik Cube
Acrylic Cube Table - $500
Rubik's Cars. (From Mookie)
26 July 2005 was the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Rubik's Cube
Cubeland - More than one hundred links on the Rubik's cube
Graphic above from puzzle master Scott Kim.
This post had been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Everything You Need To Know About Rubik’s Cube and Hundreds of Other Games Here
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April 08, 2006
Meet me in Vegas
After about a week of playing host, I’ve sent my sisters on a Mexican cruise, so I have this weekend to rewind. On Tuesday we will travel to Las Vegas. If any local Grow-a-brain reader would like to meet with us for lunch or dinner, or maybe even accompany us for a different-type tour of the town, please email me at realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com, and we may hook up. Or you can leave a message at the Excalibur Hotel, where we’ll stay from Tuesday to Friday. (Please remember that they have a 3 & a 5 year old with them.) I plan of doing the Grand Canyon helicopter thingy with them, and take them to a show, amusements, foods, etc. (Too touristy? Oh well... It must be really nice to see it for the first time.)
Some local links:
The culture of dissatisfaction. “Because there's always (somebody) offering a better or cheaper or faster product, or a person who's more clever than Oprah or cuter than Tyra, it's easy to shop around, to demand more, to be constantly dissatisfied”
Photos from when the Mob ran Vegas
How the Vegas slots and electronic voting machines compare
Vegas Cinema: Freemont Street Experience and party scenes by G D Chandler
Old Motel signs and “historic”, or old fashioned restaurants in Las Vegas, found on the “Los Angeles Time Machines” site
A nice collection of Vegas links from Bibi’s Box
Many More Unusual Las Vegas Stories Here
April 8, 2006 in Traveling Places - Las Vegas | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack