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November 16, 2006
Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Hacker's Bench Unofficial Registry of Giant Digital Clocks where “Giant = greater than 1 foot tall”
A Seiko wrist watch with computer, 1984
A Chinese watch on flickr. More there: Squared circles
The World Clock (Weltzeituhr) in Alexanderplatz, Berlin
Re-post: The Watchismo Times, a blog about unusual, vintage wristwatches of the 1950s-1980s
News: Business Week reports on a new survey by Seiko that indicates that ownership of wrist watches has fallen from 70% in 1997 to only 46% today. Why? People use their mobiles to tell the time these days
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November 15, 2006
Today is my father's 80th birthday
Here is a little video I made for him. Please leave a message for him in the comments. Thank you!
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Selling the perfect offspring
A Kissing Prank: Girls think they are to participate in a blind test of lip balm by kissing two male models but at the last second the models are switched
Cats do not like men with long beards, especially long dark beards
Veterans of Future Wars and other nonviolent political pranksters
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November 14, 2006
Mind and Brain
Mandel Grow Mandelbrot Set growth animated
Blue Oyster Spiral Fractal by Dave Kliman
Fractal bacteria
Blossfeldt Fractals - Generative plant forms based on Karl Blossfeldt's photography in 1920-30s
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2006 Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest
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Jefferson Airplane
Flyaway, America's first vertical wind tunnel
Gay flight attendants in an ad for Travelocity UK
Painting an airplane. (From Name our planes)
A London man has become the first person to exchange his frequent flier miles for a trip into space with Virgin Galactic
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November 13, 2006
Pimp cups
A fireplace that hangs on the wall
Doorbell Instructions. When the presence of a doorbell isn't enough and instructions are deemed necessary. (From Coudal)
Our pimp cups are made of glass and the finest crystals and rhinestones. We take pride in the quality of our pimp cups. The styles of pimp cups change frequently. Be sure to check our site often
Steve's Weird House is Seattle's Strangest Home & Private Museum. Stephen resides in a Victorian home that is a cluttered combination of museum, library and art gallery, decorated with that old-world Addams Family charm. Not only is every inch of every wall covered with art, but all the ceilings are also decorated. (From Szanalmas)
Beth’s Wall pockets
Bright handles glows red when locked, green when unlocked. (From A Whole Lotta Nothing)
69 Wine Caddies by artist Guenter Scholz
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830!
Unofficial World Record Tower with KEVA planks, 51 ft 8 inches
Orthodox Jewish prayer Barbie. The Saudis disapprove: Jewish Barbie dolls, with their revealing clothes and shameful postures, accessories and tools are a symbol of decadence to the perverted West. Let us beware of her dangers and be careful
Sealed Shrödinger's Cat Collectible Toy, still in the original package
The Drawing Game is like an illustrated version of "Telephone." It requires at least four players, each with a piece of paper sequestered into fourths. At the start of the game, each player writes down a "prompt" on the top of the first panel. This prompt is simply a sentence, anything at all really, just to get the game started
Brian Alspach’s page of Poker Computations
From the mind of Will Wright, the creator of The Sims, comes Spore
Morgan Webb's top 20 greatest games - No nudity
How a Massachusetts carpenter got the highest Scrabble score ever
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November 12, 2006
Super yacht
This page is devoted to postcards and photographs of the passenger ferries of Townsend-Thoresen transferred from the separate Townsend and Thoresen fleets, and new ships delivered before 1974. (From Hanuman)
The floating pool in New York Harbor
The Old Steam Navy - Images of the US Navy in the late 1800s
A Mysterious catamaran photographed by someone near Ilwaco, WA. The crew was dressed as civilians but would not say a word about the boat or where they were from. It was designed by Jim Antrim
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Zelf portraits
Youtube posts showing Line Rider Stunts
Eight Eyes Eight from EnZed Blue
organic machinery and about 150 other experiments from Levitated
116 from I am bald (Start at the end, going backward until tired)
Doodles by Squid Soup allows for creation of drawn 3D shapes
The conceptual experiments of Sébastien Chevrel
Fluid mixing simulation
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November 11, 2006
Yes Nixon, No Jelly
Richard Nixon Mask is a full face mask. Use for patriotic holidays, November voting parties, school projects and historical plays. Fits adults and older children
From Presidential Doodles
When discussing political collectibles, there are the strange, and then there are the tacky. And in my opinion, little is tackier than Nixon
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For Bloggers Only
Different ways for bloggers to say Sorry I haven't posted in awhile
Theresa Duncan’s Wit of the Staircase
Chutzpah, White Truffles & Alain Ducasse, from The Amateur Gourmet, a post that Guy Kawasaki called “One of the cleverest blog postings I've ever seen”
21 Surefire Tips for a Successful Blog Launch
Mr BaliHai of “Eye of the Goof”starts a discussion about the wide-spread phenomenon of dwindling referrals, in For Bloggers Only
What do bloggers’ first posts look like?
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November 10, 2006
The True Masters of War
“Why of course the people don’t want war. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy”… (Original quote)
The images presented on this website are from a set of two World War One sketchbooks archived in the University of Victoria's Special Collections Library. They contain approximately 130 water-color and pen and ink images which were produced by a British soldier based in France and Belgium between 1917 and 1918
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Bad women / Bad Iguanas
Be Anonymous everywhere you go. Mr. and Ms. John Doe around the world
Portraits of Karl Marx. There are fifteen photographs of Marx extant. He is forty-three in the earliest one
This is no laughing matter: Ass cancer is, after all, the garbanzo bean of cancer…
Ronald Koh's " The Origami Pooper" and 33 other Fun-Filled Origami Underground creations For Your Pleasure. (Re-post)
The Bad Iguana List. Yuck!!
Know a flag design, but not the country? Scan The Flag Detective
Wikipedia’s List of years in television indexes the individual year in television pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point
A conveyor belt that represents the rate at which babies are being born on the planet. (From Campheatwole)
Also, Live embryo, where expectant parents can visualize their baby at each stage of the pregnancy by typing in the estimated date of conception. (From Jolly, Socratic Science)
Catching the spirit, art by Jalaliyyih Quinn
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November 09, 2006
Dip Dogs & Caramel Corn
Sideshows, carnivals and circuses at Sideshow World
Chicago pet store or strip club - can you tell?
Anchorage at the PM
Ground Zero, September 13, 2001
American Neon & TV at The National Portrait Gallery
The infamous Soapy Smith was an American 19th century bunco man, par excellence. King of the frontier confidence men, organizer of gangsters and grifters, master crook, and overlord of the criminal underworld in Denver and Creede, Colorado. The Soapy Smith Preservation Trust
Welcome to Middle-Class Lockdown, by Joe Bageant
Did you say goodbye to The Habeas Corpus Act of 1679?
(Pix above from Society for Art of Imagination)
Unrelated Cute Kitten YouTube Post
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November 08, 2006
By the way, I am leaving for a short winter vacation in China. As usual, I prepared daily posts for the whole time I’m away, so you’ll find enough entertainment here during the next few weeks.
I am also thinking of changing the format of this blog when I return. I used to have up to 20 pages of raw links that I gathered for future postings, but in the last few months I depleted them all. Maybe I will start more timely, more single-entry type-posts, like most other blogs. We’ll see how it works…
Meanwhile, you may read Growabrain feed on FeedFury, if you wish
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