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March 27, 2008
Crazy Legs Mcgoo
Painted Laptops. Also, see-thru laptops
John Cook and Waverly Cole are doing what they’ve been doing for 50 years — traveling, enjoying the company of friends and giving to charitable causes.
Cook, an 88-year-old retired teacher and school counselor, and Cole, a 78-year-old retired physician, are poised to celebrate their 50th anniversary April 15 with a cocktail party among friends…
Still Steamin' Premium Hot Doe Estrus Urine and other delightful items of Unusual Food, Drink, Medicine nature
Eleanor Powell and Fred Astaire, 1940
Crazy Legs Mcgoo takes Breakdance to the next level in this 'Evolve or Die' video tuned to American band Saosin's 'Sleepers.'
A Map of the First Moonwalk. (From Strange Maps). More moon walking
Edible tableware by Rice-Design. (From Andrew Sullivan)
4 Awesome Unfinished or Abandoned Structures in Florida
A Huge Depository of Unusual Oddities and Crazy linkage Here
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Andy Warhol on The Love Boat
Re-post: Late Night With Conan O'Brien Picture Archive
If a bad movie has terrific costumes then actually it is a good movie, for obviously the reason the film was made was simply to showcase the outfits. Based on this reasoning, a flick like What a Way to Go is a rousing success.
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today – From St. Louis, MO, Jonco’s Bits & Pieces. Submit yours for consideration.
A Huge Depository of Unusual Film Directors and other Other Movie Links Here
March 27, 2008 in Cinema | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
March 26, 2008
Feeling inadequate?
The label museum at “Innocent Drinks”
Another tear-off wine label concept
A Huge Depository of Unusual Drinks Including Unusual Beer Links Here
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Who Killed Obama Shirt
Doron Braunshtein, the punk artist who created the Who Killed Obama Hoodie
I saw my first McCain bumper sticker yesterday and two things struck me. One, I’m surprised it took this long to find a single supporter in the republican-heavy area I live in, and two, the logo looked familiar. Thanks to 30 seconds of google image search, I think I figured it out
The McCain Smile
Standard Operating Procedure, a new nonfiction horror movie by Errol Morris
Hal Riney’s 1984 ad It’s morning again in America
From Chile: La Pequeña Hillary Clinton (More YT)
Un-related: Cyriak’s Darwin's infinite beard
Much more about the 2008 Election. Also, the 2004 election and other Political Posts Here
March 26, 2008 in 2008 US Election | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
More real estate blogs
From Calabasas, California - Tracey Thomas’s beautiful Blog Calabasas
604 homesblog: A Vancouver Real Estate Blog
Phyllis Rockower’s Real Estate Investor’s Club of Los Angeles
A blog by Vancouver real estate lady Maggie Chandler
Gretchen Faber's LifeStyle Denver blog
Alejandro Quenta's San Francisco blog
Sitegeist, a blog concerned with buildings and brands in urban environments
Jacqulyn Richey's Las Vegas Real Estate News
Paper Economy - A US Real Estate Bubble Blog
Dennis Blackmore's Virginia Beach, VA Real Estate
(The photo above is of my neighbor's house)
A Huge Depository of Real Estate Blogs as well as Grow-a-Brain’s Extensive Real Estate Archives Are Here
March 26, 2008 in Real estate Blogs | Permalink | Comments (22) | TrackBack
Immersion
"Going therefore, teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost." Matthew 28:19
(Previously by Oliver Laric - 787 cliparts loop. Previous projects)
David Best's Temple of Forgiveness at 2007 Burning Man
How to tell good code from bad code: Wtf/minutes
A Huge Depository of Unusual links about Unusual Gods Here
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Let’s find each other tonight
The Films of Joel and Ethan Coen, a mashup by Paul Proulx from Hobnox. He also put together a video montage of films by Quentin Tarantino (YT) and Paul Thomas Anderson. Anderson was so impressed with the video that he posted it on his own website
A Beating Heart, shown at the American Heart Association's 2008 Heart of New York Gala. Dimensions 24"x24"x24". By Billy Chasen. (Previously-posted, and probably the inspiration for this art piece -Another Heart Beater)
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today – Christian Neukirchen’s Anarchaia, the first tumblelog ever. Submit yours for consideration.
A Huge Depository of Unusual Big Lebowski Links Here
March 26, 2008 in Cinema - "The Big Lebowski" | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Ten Little Known Facts
March 26 update: Welcome, 'Street' readers. Explore over 100 rich categories, (For example Money & Finance) that Grow-a-brain has to offer!
"Did you know that sometimes baby sharks will devour one another while they're still in the womb? Fighting to their death before they're even born?" —Janet Tashjian, Tru Confessions, 1999, p. 81.
(Outside the womb is no picnic, either. Here's a sea lion devouring a baby shark. And here's a fossilized shark egg and baby shark)
"There is a curious and little-known fact about the name 'penguin.' Although this name is now used exclusively to indicate the well-known birds of the southern seas, it was not originally applied to them at all. In fact, the 'original' penguin was the great auk. The actual origins of the word are fairly obscure, but one school of thought favors the idea that is made up from two Welsh words—pen, meaning 'head,' and gwyn, meaning 'white'—a possible reference to the large patches behind the great auk's eyes." —Errol Fuller, The Great Auk: The Extinction of the Original Penguin, 2003, p. 17.
"It's a little-known fact that America's first millionaire [and later first multimillionaire] was a real estate investor. A German immigrant and the son of a butcher, he was named John Jacob Astor." — Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, 2005, p. 123.
"Even as debate continues on the role of female soldiers in combat, it is a little-known fact that hundreds of women already have fought, and many have died, in our nation's wars. In fact, women fought in America's wars even before the existence of the United States." — Thomas Ayres, That's Not in My American History Book, 2000, p. 67. (Indeed, women have been warriors throughout world history.)
"The U.S. Congress has the authority to order the U.S. military to shoot the President's plane out of the sky, if the U.S. President becomes a rogue President." —Keith N. Ferreira, Simpletism, 2004, p. 28.
"It's a little-known fact that it rains more in Rome than it does in London." —Duncan Garwood, Rome, 2006, p. 288.
"It wasn't an iceberg that sank James Cameron's Titanic; it was UNIX." — Bill Wagner, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Unix, 1998, p. 10.
"So-called empty space is actually a cauldron of seething energies—the Zero Point Field." —Lynne McTaggart, The Field, 2003, p. 33.
"A little- known fact is that one could live without fruits, but not without vegetables." — Meredith McCarty, American Macrobiotic Cuisine, 1996, p. 6.
"Unlike a computer's hard drive, our brains have no known limits for memory storage." —Gene D. Cohen, The Mature Mind, 2005, p. 106.
This is another post that was composed by on-going contributor Craig Conley of the Abecedarian blog fame. Craig's new book is A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns By Sound, available in an eco-friendly low-wattage palette. Thank you again, Craig! (All previous co-blogger's posts archived here.) If other bloggers are interested to share the forum here on any other topic, please contact me for details
Please show Craig some love by leaving lots of comments below!
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March 25, 2008
Controlled Safety Test Fireworks Videos
Every year we build a Wicker-Man at Butser Ancient Farm, and for the festival of Beltain, we burn it in a public ceremony. The event takes place on the Saturday nearest May Eve (Beltane Eve) Gates open to the public at 6:00pm, the Wicker-Man is fired at sunset. (From All Night Surfing)
Controlled Safety Test Fireworks Videos, from Metafilter
Exploding Horse. Vaguely gross instructions for blowing up a large animal corpse. (From “Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness”)
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today – Mr. Natural at Informiorium. He is selling his home in Cape Columbia, Washington, in order to move to New Zealand. Submit yours for consideration.
A Huge Depository of Unusual Fireworks Links Here
March 25, 2008 in Fireworks | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
March 24, 2008
"Sushi - The Japanese Tradition"
(This is an old, “classic” re-post). Also, an instruction video about chopsticks (hashi)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Sushi Links Here
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Ed Force One
28 highly advanced VH-71 helicopters, each costing $400,000,000. Six years after the White House called for a more advanced fleet of presidential transport helicopters, the program tasked with that mission is facing increased questions, and an uncertain future. (From Philip Greenspun’s Weblog)
Artist Charles Cohan, an art professor and printmaker by trade, has repurposed the maps from the back of airline magazines into stark, geometric silhouettes. (From Intelligent Travel)
Iron Maiden's Ed Force One
A Huge Depository of Unusual Flight Links Here
March 24, 2008 in Flight | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Spoofing David Blaine
A minimalist horror scene inspired by Dune, created with LEGO by RebelRock. (From Geekdad)
Learn how to perform tricks similar to David Blaine Style Street Magic
Mikey Day and Michael Naughton are "Those Lil’ Rabbits". They like to Spoof David Blaine's street magic specials
Ricky Jay and Errol Morris in The Ames room optical Illusion (YT).
An Ames room is a distorted room that is used to create an optical illusion. An Ames room is constructed so that from the front it appears to be an ordinary cubic-shaped room, with a back wall and two side walls parallel to each other and perpendicular to the horizontally level floor and ceiling. However, this is a trick of perspective and the true shape of the room is trapezoidal: the walls are slanted and the ceiling and floor are at an incline, and the right corner is much closer to the front-positioned observer than the left corner (or vice versa)
Tay Zonday sings Never Gonna Give You Up - Magical!
A Huge Depository of Unusual Magic Tricks Here
March 24, 2008 in Magic | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Whole milk
…There are few gifts I like to recieve more than milk. Whole milk too. That's the kind of milk that says that it's real. It's right. It's whole. I want that milk to sit there for years because that's what you do with milk. There's nothing better than milk - well except maybe radishes…
One of a thousand customer reviews for Amazon’s Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz... Bonus chuckle: Check out the "Customers Who Bought Items Like This Also Bought" list
The golden age of Canadian Cigar Boxes - 1883-1935. (From Monkey Filter)
Freakonomics book covers from around the world
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today – Cuidado’s An Island Walk. Submit yours for consideration.
A Huge Depository of Unusual Things To Buy Here
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March 23, 2008
...The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades...
“…If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I’d probably just start calling out letters…”
“…I was in a store and I saw a pocket dictionary and that made me laugh because it’s such…a specific item. I don’t know that many words and I’m going out…and I have pants. Perfect…”
A quick way to start a conversation is to say something like “What’s your favorite color?” A quick way to end a conversation is to say something like “What’s your favorite color…person?”
“…Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I’m swimming, sometimes I’m not sure which one it is. I gotta go by the outfit. Pants - uh oh. Bathing suit - okay. Naked - we’ll see. Should I be swimming faster, or am I getting laid?...”
“…I was making pancakes the other day and a fly flew into the kitchen. And that’s when I realized that a spatula is a lot like a fly-swatter. And a crushed fly is a lot like a blueberry. And a roommate is a lot like a fly eater…”
“…What do you call someone who can’t tell the difference between a spoon and a ladle? Fat…”
“…Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time…”
…'Sort of' is such a harmless thing to say. Sort of. It's just a filler. Sort of - it doesn't really mean anything. But after certain things, sort of means everything. Like after 'I love you' or 'You're going to live' or 'It's a boy’…
...I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone'...
Martin’s palindromic poem "Dammit, I'm Mad"
...I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we removed your kidney. You're gonna be fine.' 'Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies'...
A Huge Depository of Steven Wright One-liners and other comedians Here
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Rapunzel
Crocheted Rapunzel doll set, by Lis Chaong. Her many other Amigurumi sets
Also, The Fellowship of the Ring, amigurumi style. (From Chaos theory)
Hanns-Martin Wagner’s Rolling Ball Room 2005
Automata operated by keys, cranks, weights or wind-up motors, designed by Tom Haney
An audio-kinetic cuckoo clock, a limited edition of 50, numbered and signed by George Rhoads. The clock mechanism is constructed of steel, brass and plasitc. It is 29 1/2" long by 15" high by 7" deep. It weighs 17 lbs. More here
A Huge Depository of Unusual Games and Toys Here
March 23, 2008 in Games | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack