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May 28, 2006
The Cube
Leonardo Bridge Project. In 1502 Leonardo da Vinci did a simple drawing of a graceful bridge with a single span of 720-foot span. Da Vinci designed the bridge as part of a civil engineering project for Sultan Bajazet II of Constantinople. The bridge was to span the Golden Horn, an inlet at the mouth of the Bosphorus River in what is now Turkey. The Bridge was never built
Architecture of the Arctic. Buildings of the Canadian territory of Nunavut, where high winds, freezing temperatures, and the difficulty of transporting raw materials pose some interesting architectural constraints. All of the buildings below are in the city of Iqaluit, except for the flying saucer, which is in Igloolik
Gulliver Park in Valencia, Spain. (From Folderol)
The new Apple Store, Fifth Avenue. Scroll down to the bottom of Jack Cheng’s post: "We know what the next entry in your blog is going to be"
Churches and Chathedrals in France, photographed by Arnaud Frich. Also, The Beauty of The Loire Valley
West Coast Woman To Build Crash Pad Out of an Old 747
By the way, who is your favorite living architect?
Many More Unusual architectural Links Here
May 28, 2006 in Architecture | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
May 27, 2006
"Why did the Mefite cross the road?
Because someone on Boing Boing did earlier that day"
Self-linking is severely frowned upon by members of the MetaFilter community, and is an immediate cause of a pile-on. (Like the story of Amir Massoud Tofangsazan’s broken laptop he sold on eBay)
MetaFilter down;
Sad tidings of the morning.
What shall I read now?
Meta Haiku
How many MetaFilter Users does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Some classic & semi-classic AskMeFi threads: Porn in the woods. Did you, as a kid, find porn in the woods? I did, and I have noticed this is a worldwide phenomena. Why the porn in the woods? Where does the porn in the woods come from?
How can I measure the weight of my head without cutting it off? It's really important
If it feels good, do it. How long do people date before doing the deed these days?
Behind the scenes of The Star Wars MacBook clip
Metafilter as a paralell between blogs and memories
More of The Best of Metafilter Here
May 27, 2006 in Best of Metafilter | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Feminine rites of passage
“Jack Sprat
Could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean;
And so, betwixt them both,
They licked the platter clean.”
Some other Mother Goose Fairy Tales by Brian Clarke
Mary Yaeger’s embroidered Female merit badges, from Breast feeding to Weight watching. (Found on infomaniac. Also there, Fabio’s Kitchen of Love)
Cell Phone Symphony, by David Byrne
No bottles with living flies on this table, please
Farmers Only Dating Services – Beeeeeh!
Anal Fissure Self Help Page. This is a self help page for those seeking more information on anal fissures. Since hemorrhoids often appear to happen with anal fissures, I talk about them too. My goal is to help others by providing information on these ailments
Bombay TV Subtitle Adder. (Thank you, Mike)
Yeti at his best. (3 pages)
CigarettesPedia, a full encyclopedia of cigarettes. (From Billy Foxtrot)
It's time again for a Quiz at Random Good Stuff
Reporter Gets Owned. (Banners NSFW)
Bubble Magic with Tom Noddy
“Do you want some herpes or not? I ain't got all day here.” Other postcards I’ve made a-la PostSecret, by the guy who writes the Dog Blog from San Francisco
Many More Unusual Oddities and Crazy linkage Here
May 27, 2006 in Odd & Crazy | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
May 26, 2006
"Fool me once: shame on you.
Fool me twice: shame on you. Fool me three time: shame on you. Fool me four times: shame on you. Fool me five times: shame on me." A 16-year-old boy has been arrested for robbing the same gas station five times in less than a month. (Tagline from “Fark”)
Love Is Blind even if you’re not
Helen Thomas gets thousands of flowers. (Photo above from Dr. Menlo)
Use of wood chippers has not been endorsed by the AVMA as an acceptable means of euthanasia for poultry, AVMA says
NYC Tattoo Convention kicks off
Ode To Ken "Kenny Boy" Lay by Mad Kane:
Oh Kenny Boy, the jails, the jails are calling,
From state to state, and through the world so wide.
The money's gone, and all the chips are falling,
'Tis you, 'tis you must go and you must hide
Many More Unlikely News Stories Here
May 26, 2006 in Current News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Hokey Pocky
Hakone Museum is the first open-air museum of Japan. I can see myself waking its gardens for a few days, enjoying the view of the green mountains all around. (Thank you, Dafna)
Japan's Capsule Hotels. Each capsule has a little control panel. There is an alarm clock, TV/Radio speaker, light and TV on/off switch, volume knob, and some panic button
The Twilight Zone by Sato Shintaro
The Reversible Destiny Lofts, a new housing project in Tokyo which aims to keep residents sharp by throwing them off balance
“Old man bites tenderly”? A weird Library Game game show of some kind. Also, Dough Whacking
10 things to do for free in Tokyo. Depending on the season you can spot people giving away free tissues with a little commercial message almost everywhere
Picture above from The Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Japanese Postcards
Many More Unusual Links about Japan Here
May 26, 2006 in Japan | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
May 25, 2006
It’s your dough
“I’m still sore from last night” and other Things to write on check memos. When writing a check for an unpleasant bill, there are subtle things you can do to amuse yourself, while confusing those on the receiving end
One Dollar by Jean-Luc Cornec. More Graffiti Currency at “Bad Example”
Beautiful Currency Collages by C. K. Wilde
Similarly, Money art by Justine Smith. (From Neatorama)
Nick Jackson shows how to double your money in 2 minutes
“A personal finance blog of my journey to reach my goal of $2 million + the value of my primary residence”
Many More Unusual Stories about Money Here
May 25, 2006 in Money & Finances | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Blog Of The Day
I’d like to draw your attention to a little-visited page of Grow-a-brain, the Blog Of The Day collection. I’ve kept it on and off since November 2003, and I’ve quietly added new links to it in the last few months. If you are looking to read something different, you may discover some creative folks on this list. I have a few more sites to add to it, and then I’ll shut it down again for a while. If you know of some interesting blogs that are not on the list, please suggest them below, before it’s too late. Today’s BotD is Rosen Blog, by Seattle writer and consultant Matt Rosenberg
Similar collections: Dr. Menlo’s Blogeur, Arthur Coddington’s BotD, Small Business Blog of the Day. Also, Crab Apple Lane picks a Blog of the Day with every post
Domain Name Analysis for Grow-a-brain. D’uh
Previous Site News Here
May 25, 2006 in Website News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
MisFormers
It’s a waterball. It’s a water wheel. It’s inflatable. (Thank you, CB)
2000 Square Meter Of Tetris, The World’s Largest Functional Tetris Game
Homemade Super Soaker modifications
Sam Loyd's 1914 work ‘Cyclopedia of 5000 Puzzles, Tricks, and Conundrums (With Answers)'
Fantazy Land in Alexandria, Egypt, the worst run park I have ever been to
Orbox B, by Arseniy
Scott Campbell’s Transformers toys sculptures
70's Toy Commercials, including “Bing Bang Boing”
By the way, I’ve got cable at home, yeah! Many More Unusual Games and Toys Here
May 25, 2006 in Games | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
May 24, 2006
Pull the string
A nice Wonderbra ad. (From Cool Hunter. Also there, the world’s first TV for pigs, a device for smoking when in the presence of a pig)
More interactive Bra Ads at Banner Blog: Snip it, Tickle it or simply Pull it
Creative Department Douchebag, AKA AdMan, by Pete Johnson
The ads of Axes and Alleys, claiming to be an on-going 100 year old tractor magazine
Don’t It Yourself. Some things are better left to professionals
Advertisements on the overhead bins. Every bit of empty space in our lives is slowly being taken over by ads, so why would you want even more?
“Ladies, we have a problem!” The Miami Vice Spoof of Bacardi & Cola
A Large Collection of Unusual Ads Here
May 24, 2006 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The Lost Generation
Welcome to Comic Book Bondage Cover of the Day, the web's foremost reference site for bondage covers on mainstream comic books
How many of these caricatures by Colombian artist Omar Figueroa Turcios you can guess correctly without looking at the label? (From Spy's Spice)
The rough stuff at Garret World
The All New Sesame Street. (From Andy Lark’s blog)
The Last Generation and all other tracts at The Jack T. Chick Museum of Fine Art
Meet Kami, a flopsy, mopsy dandelion-colored Muppet who enjoys education, storytelling, and carrying the AIDS virus. (Thank you, Mika)
Tiger League America at “Dial B for Blog” (5 parts)
Married To The Sea, a comic by Drew and Natalie. Drew's other website is Toothpaste For Dinner. Natalie's other website is Natalie Dee. (I’m sure I blogged it before, but I can’t find it in the archives)
Decade by decade with Archie Comics. (From Daily Jive)
A giant Collection of Unusual Comics Here
May 24, 2006 in Comics & Cartoons | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The Five Stages of Grief
Unidentified dead bodies in Punjab death
A clever Swiss death notice
My Death Space - many car accidents, some murders, suicides, Iraq
(Fictional) Fred Phelp’s obituary
Afterlife Telegrams sending telegrams to people who have passed away. (Thank you, Paul Kinsella)
Am I alone here? What goes through your mind when you think you are about to die?
By the way, if you want to read this blog thru a different feed, here you go
Many More Unusual Links About Death and Eternity and about Unusual Coffins & Caskets Here
May 24, 2006 in Death & Eternity | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
May 23, 2006
Tropic of Fermata
Pop-up Books by Robert Sabuda
Anthony Burgess’s list of the best 99 novels published in English from 1939 to 1984
Jack Kerouac's own design for a book cover of “On The Road” (Never used) from a selection of Kerouac Book Covers
Also, covers of William S. Burroughs’s books . (Photo above is of the my own copy of Junkie, one of the very first books I read in English)… The Cut-Up Films of William S. Burroughs (1963-1972)
For a limited time only, Mr. Sun is offering a one-of-a-kind item: The DaVinci Coat. Hurry, order now while supplies last! (Unfortunately, when I flew to NY last month, I bought this trashy novel for the flight, so now I can say with the rest of humanity that I read this stupid, predictable, boring “thriller”, by one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature)
On the other hand, I enjoyed reading Ken Follett’s Pillars of the Earth and I was glad to read that he is planning a big, fat sequel to it…
“More commas, please.” Feedback from Joyce’s Submission of Ulysses to his Creative Writing Workshop
Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: a neuron-developmental perspective on A.A. Milne
Re-post: The tourist map of literature
What is the most profane novel ever written? Trainspotting, Maldoror, Over the Rooftops of Paris?
Once upon a time, a mouse told a browser that there should be more ways than one to find a tale. Share a Tale is a place where all kinds of tales will find a home: published and original - folk tales, romantic tales, science fiction, experimental
Many More Unusual Literary Links Here
May 23, 2006 in Books & Literature | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
May 22, 2006
Toast of the Town
10 Best Car Chases, from Blues Brothers & Bullitt to Ronin & T2
Super-Glue: Best practice for countering key stroke loggers
The Freezing Motion Illusion by Max R. Dürsteler, winner of The 2nd annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year contest. (Found on Optical illusions, Etc.)
Philadelphia Haikus at the Best of Craigslist
Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and other top 100 American speeches
Ronnie O’Sullivan plays his best frame of Snooker
Best toaster since the invention of toast
More on Slate: Best locks to protect your bike
Best village in the southern Netherlands
More Of The Best Things in Life Here
May 22, 2006 in Best of Everything | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Long lost friends
How to find long Lost Friends if you have a website
all work and no play makes zydeco fish a dull boy
A Scientific Approach to Myspace’s Failure. Using the power of Google searches, I hope to prove why Myspace.com is a failure of humanity. I’m not debating whether Myspace offers a good system or service, I’m only lamenting the place it has become thanks to its user base. There are good and bad uses for social networking websites. Most are useless and waste more time without contributing to the social good. Myspace is the worst
Get your own Gmail signature
similicio.us - find similar sites
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The Broth – A Global Mosaic. (Thank you, Amanda)
Who Built the Internet, and Is It for Sale?
(gif above from What is the Internet?). More To Life On The Internet Here
May 22, 2006 in Internet | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Freedom on the move
The United States of Iraq, with its three provinces: Super, Unleaded & Diesel
Iraq then and now. (From Today in Iraq)
Why is Lionel Richie killing them in Samarra?
A project by Anne Bichon, Welcome to Parad (Paris Baghdad), where the maps of Paris and Baghdad merge. (From Ashley B)
A secret postcard from Sunday’s Post Secret
Local Costs of the Iraq War: $244 million a day (Based on a total cost of $315.8 billion)
How come nobody mentions the Mongolian troops in Iraq? (With photo)
Screenshots from the game Dead in Iraq
The Iraq War Collection, a compilation of videos from Internet Archive users about the Iraq War and the issues surrounding it
Much More About The Coming War With Iran Here
May 22, 2006 in War in Iraq | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack