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February 29, 2008
Wonder Cat
The amazing adventures of Wonder Cat at The New Yorker
South African Cordylus cataphractus, i.e. the armadillo girdled lizard
When releasing a bear from a trap...
A Huge Depository of Unusual Animal Stories Here
February 29, 2008 in Animals | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Happy Presidents Day 1862
Happy Presidents Day 1862
Abraham Lincoln considering naked woman and naked boy outside the Bennington Museum
The Great Lincoln's Beard Challenge of 2008
Second Annual Message December 1st, 1862. Transcripts of all State of the Union Messages
A Huge Depository of Unusual Links About Abraham Lincoln and About Richard Nixon Here
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VR Panoramas
“Please keep our streets clean, over 818 people have to sleep on them”. Raising consciousness about the city's homelessness with signs installed on the streets of Toronto by mark daye. (From Under Wire)
An installation by German artist Gregor Schneider in Bondi Beach. It references Australia's immigration detention camps which are often dire places in remote desert locations. Here is an "aerial" view of the installation. (From Peter Murphy's Panoramic VR Weblog)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Art and Artists Here
February 29, 2008 in Modern Art | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
A red light over my head
Is Blogging Harder Than Writing A Book?
…I write the sports blog Deadspin.com, assembling more than 25 posts a day meant to enlighten, amuse and distract sports fans from the drudgery of their desk jobs. Every day, I write about 7,000 words; this means that every three weeks, I write the equivalent of an extremely long book. Sure, this book would be unreadable, and reviewers would certainly point out that none of the links went anywhere, but the word count would hold.
Recently, I wrote a real book, with words and pictures and a cover that will hurt you if you are struck across the head with it. It's an entirely separate enterprise from blogging, and not just because, when I finished a page, I didn't have people named CaptainCaveman and sexydogg1983 calling me an idiot. I wrote it in five months without taking a day off from the site….
(From Andrew Sullivan)
A Huge Depository of Unusual blogs and bloggers Here
February 29, 2008 in World of Blogging | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Worth spreading -
Every blog has some corners where independent lives develop. Sometimes readers take over posts, and build them into unusual, unpredictable creatures.
Grow-a-brain being simply a link blog generates only few comments & very seldom any heated debate. 3 years ago I posted a link to the Indian movie star Aishwarya Rai that called her “The world's most beautiful woman”, and that post (with over 150 comments) keeps bringing fans & foes to argue over this point.
Another post that mentioned Warren Buffett, the world's second-richest man brought dozens of indigent people in financial difficulties to request donations from “humble” Buffett to complete their MBA studies, for operations, or just to survive.
The most recent spat occurred in a post that mentioned a guy named Stevan Thomas Radakovich, who restores vintage stoves. Apparently, his restoration work used to be fabulous, when he was featured in this Los Angeles Times story, and his stoves were used & credited on The Food Channel’s Rachael Ray productions, etc.
But by the time I linked to his beautiful website here (The site had since been taken down), things were not going so well, and it seems that there were many customers of his, who ordered & paid for these expensive vintage stoves, and never received them.
So they formed a posse & started using that blog post as a chatroom, gathering information among themselves, forming a community to seek restitution & exposure to their losses.
It’s an interesting read. It involves the Kansas Attorney General, the Wichita BBB, the local paper, and more. I just read it like everybody else. Scroll down to read over 100 250 angry comments there.
Related Site News Here
February 29, 2008 in Website News | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack
February 28, 2008
Hoogerbrugge Stickers
Hoogerbrugge Stickers For Sale: 67 Hoogerbrugge peel-off stickers on 8 sheets. You will get each sheet twice: a total of 134 peel-off stickers for just 13,50 €
Dr. Seuss Collection Organized by Spectrum
Emmeline, the Little Girl Who Was Forgotten (Flash)
Political hacking with The Wizard of Whimsey
The Simpsons opening sequence on wikipedia
A Huge Depository Of Unusual Comics and Cartoons Here
February 28, 2008 in Comics & Cartoons | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Purple turban
The Indian condom song (YT)
A heavily damaged bus driving around
A man with a big, purple turban
A Huge Depository of Unusual Links about India And About Japan Here
February 28, 2008 in Traveling Places - India | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Advice for real estate agents
Seth Godin’s best advice to real estate agents: Plan A - Quit being an agent. Get a job doing something else.
The Real Estate Business Is Content, Not Home Selling
Connect Realty, a new real estate / multi-level marketing company
Say you're a real estate investor. Say an airport in the New York region is expanding to become a major hub. What would you do? What would you buy?
A Huge Depository of Unusual Real Estate Stories Here
February 28, 2008 in Real estate | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack
The upper deck
Cool presidential election trends 1840-2004
Meep Meep
... Clearly, it is time for the Clinton camp to start a whisper campaign that Obama has a black child...
“Whatever happens in this campaign, we'll be fine.” The Clintons’ Recent Meteoric Rise in Wealth (with graphs)
Presidential candidates 2008 Upper Deck Series 1
The Minitrue Report Presents: 2 minutes Hate week. (YT. Other political novels)
Much more about the 2008 Election. Also, the 2004 election and other Political Posts Here
February 28, 2008 in 2008 US Election | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Introduction to Gmail in Russian
(From Gmail blog)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Things To Do On The Internet Here
February 28, 2008 in Internet | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Mating slugs
Rare footage of two slugs mating in midair. (From Reality Carnival)
Images of Frost
Cloud formations by Alex Antas
A Huge Depository of Nature’s Unusual Mysteries Here
February 28, 2008 in Nature | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
February 27, 2008
A state of mind
Love in the Time of Cholera (with Javier Bardem as Florentino Ariza)
The NY Times review
A Huge Depository of Links About Gabriel Garcia Marquez Here
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Burka Fashion Show
Bill Maher’s Burka Fashion Show
5 New Yorkers that dress in only one color
The walrus style of moustache is bushy, thick, and droops down over the mouth, in a fashion similar to the whiskers on the upper lip of a walrus. Other notable Moustache styles
A Huge Depository of Unusual Fashion Trends As Well As Growabrain T-shirt Closet Collection Here
February 27, 2008 in Fashion | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Unlock The Secrets Now
Steve Wolvers’ “The #1 Agent In Iowa” Unlock The Secrets Now
Nine bloggers active in the Denver Real Estate market give facts, figures and their personal impressions of what is happening in all areas of Denver and its suburbs at All Denver Real Estate
Mack Perry’s Atlanta Real Estate Blog
Pasadena Real Estate Blog by Deena & Doug Willis
Michael Gardner’s Malibu Real Estate Blog
Michael Oliver’s Tucson Real Estate Blog
Real Estate Growth Solutions by Darin & Lloyd Persinger
Realtor.com's Let's Talk
Some Canadian blogs: Blue Mountain Real Estate Blog, Montreal Real Estate Blog, Fraser and Stephen Winters Blog from St. John's Newfoundland, Doug Lasenby's Sarnia Real Estate, the Edmonton Real Estate Blog and Saskatoon Real Estate Blog
A Huge Depository of Real Estate Blogs as well as Grow-a-Brain’s Extensive Real Estate Archives Are Here
February 27, 2008 in Real estate Blogs | Permalink | Comments (12) | TrackBack
Made in Hong Kong
LA6NCA's WW2 German Radio Collection Pictures. (From Endless Parade of Excellence)
Generally, radios made in Hong Kong between 1964 till the late 60's lacked all the style and color that made Japanese radios so popular and collectable. Today, these radios do not fetch big money on the collector's market. Generally, I will not pay more than $5 or $10 for one.
Michael Jack is a transistor radio collector who uploaded some of his 900 radios into flickr
Un-related: colored photographs of Norway in the 19th century
Many More Unusual Radio Links Here
February 27, 2008 in Radio | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack