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April 30, 2007
BTDT
How To Insult Someone Using British Sign Language
Scott E. Fahlman, the original creator of the smiley face. Water towers with painted smiley faces can be found from Atlantic coast towns clear out to the Great Plains
Steve Job's favorite expressions. (YouTubesky. Compiled by Romain Moisescot)
Bohica (Bend Over, Here It Comes Again) and other slang army acronyms that are related to FUBAR. List of U.S. Army acronyms and expressions
Just one word, a new blog
The Visual Dictionary is a collection of words in the real world
A music video with random words - Word Dissociation. (More YT)
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April 29, 2007
I bought a new camera, it’s very advanced – You don’t even need it
My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape.
I told him, All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.
Steven Wright on YouTube: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
(From John’s blog)
SR interview on Dead Frog
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Meet Howard Beale
(Obama should pick him as his VP, if he gets the nomination)
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World of Walmart
Gibbon’s Market and the battle of mom and pop stores against mega-retailers. (From Positive Ape Index)
A Day in the World of Wal-Mart. The Walmart prank. In an effort to combat their negative media portrayal, Wal-Mart has set up a public-relations war room
Looking for copper sulfate? Or how about polyvinyl alcohol? The chemical store is the place for the home chemist and hobbyist
Catholic Mobile provides families and individuals with inspiring Catholic content that will enrich their daily wireless experiences. (From For your entertainment)
“If I buy this face cream, I will be as beautiful as the actress endorsing it” - Thoughts of the Average American Consumer (as Imagined By a Marketing Executive)
15 more ways stores trick you into spending
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April 28, 2007
Midnight matinee
Quentin Tarantino's Welcome Back Kotter
Other Pulp Fiction Parodies on YouTube
Banksy Pulp Fiction image worth more than £300,000 painted over
Werewolf Women of the SS and the other three fake trailers from Grindhouse
Watching Death Proof, the second, Tarantino-directed half of the Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino double bill, Grindhouse, there are moments that feel like a throwback to seeing Pulp Fiction in a crowded multiplex in 1994
Tarantino: I'm proud of my flop
No time to blog tonight. Sorry.
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April 27, 2007
50 million pages
For the first time, secrets of the Nazi Holocaust that have been hidden away for more than 60 years are finally being made available to the public. We’re not talking about a missing filing cabinet - we’re talking about thousands of filing cabinets, holding 50 million pages. (The text from some TV show)
Rabbit Raising in German Concentration Camps. The Angora rabbit project was an SS-administered program to breed rabbits for their soft, warm fur, one use of which was to line the jackets of Luftwaffe pilots. The rabbits were raised in luxury not far from the maltreated prisoners in 31 Nazi concentration camps in Germany, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau. (From Metafilter)
The Nazi Triangle
Calamita cosmica - Uno scheletro gigante in piazza Duomo a Milano
No time to blog tonight. Sorry.
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April 26, 2007
Around About
Online alarm clock. (From Presurfer)
Another online clock
Fake watches by Real Fake Watches
Anthony Dickens Rotating clock
The entire top surface of the Time table is a digital clock
Verbarius Clock spells out the time in a different way every minute
The Shinshoku is a continuous stainless steel band that wraps around your wrist with a matrix of punched out holes. Beneath the surface are 29 super bright LED's which illuminate to indicate the time. (From The Boings)
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April 25, 2007
Nails
Jorn Barger often complains to interviewers that 'weblog' is the least interesting of his many neologisms. Here's a sampling of others
Anil Dash on the explosion in popularity of lolcats
Han Hoogerbrugge’s new Nails
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Napkin Folding
Eero Saarinen’s Womb Chair, 1947
Johnny Swing’s Nickel Couch
A museum of original Russian samovars from Tula
Unrelated: Random image thread on Fark. (not safe for dialup)
No time to blog tonight. sorry.
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April 24, 2007
“An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh”
The Gift of a Banana, Pre-Sliced from the Inside, Cements a Friendship. Includes instructions. (By Sara Thacher)
Can’t get enough of them lemons
Red capsicum (and other of Wikipedia’s POTD)
A Rare Treat, "Foot Potatoes"
Robert Bolesta’s Meat alphabet made of raw hamburger
If you're hungry for a hotdog, you're in luck. For only $1, I will cook you a hot dog and mail it to you. If you buy 5, I'll throw one in for free, and send you 6 hotdogs.
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April 23, 2007
Dinosauria, we
We are born into this
into these carefully mad wars
into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
into bars where people no longer speak to each other
into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
Green Nazis and Tattooed Mountain Women compete for Oddest Titles prize. The winner: The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification
What's the Creepiest Thing Writer's Block Has Caused Someone to Do?
A suggestion a day from the Williamsburg Regional Library - Blogging for a Good Book
Creative uses of a fridge and stove: No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July
Classic novels penned by young authors
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April 22, 2007
Have you ever been to Schenectady
From Charles Grodin to Adrien Brody, a list of People banned from SNL
From the Cool Hall of Fame - Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
Foster Brooks on Dean Martin Roasts. Foster Brooks was most famous for his ongoing portrayal of a drunken man. Previously blogged: The drunken airline pilot. This YouTuber watches it
The new Mt. Bean’s Holiday
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Atallic
The coolest personalized license plate of the day
CA OMG WTF plate
An idea from 1938 that never caught on: Words, Not Numbers, Grace New License Plates. (From J-Walk)
Austrian officials fed up with motorists stopping to urinate by the roadside have put up fake snake warnings to scare them into using toilets
Update: The "W Lied" retires
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April 21, 2007
Van Gogh baby shower
How to clown about with custard pies
A Japanese artist couple buys an extra big candy ball and decides to film its 'shrinking through licking'. They were licking, day after day, for about six months. Seasons changed, they moved around the globe, but they kept at it. Licking away
How Anne Heap of Pink Cake Box created the “Starry Night” cake
Cake tourists, traveling the globe in search of amazing cake
Russian fancy cakes (Baked by Zhanna)
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April 21, 2007 in Food - Desserts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Then and Now
More about Then and Now from Tom Tomorrow
The Languid Anger of Peterbilt Nixon by Max Udargo
May death come swiftly to the enemies of Robot Nixon
Did you know that Warren G. Harding once stabbed a hobo on a dare? Four other terrible fake secrets about U.S. presidents. (All previous 5ives)
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