July 10, 2005

Unusual Collections

Beauty_1 Anatomical dissection and medical education. This online exhibit features part of our collection of approximately two hundred dissection images. Most of these intriguing photographs feature a group of students gathered around the cadaver, either actively dissecting or just posing, often wearing their best suits

American Social Hygiene Posters, ca. 1910-1970

Hopkin, the Green Frog Highway. (From "Lost Frog")

Ed Kaspriske's Sounds of Train Horns

I heard about it on NPR: Beautiful Antique Stoves For Sale from 1750-1950s

Alexandria, Indiana only Roadside attraction...the World’s Largest Ball of Paint

Welcome to The largest collection of Airlines Spoons in the world!

Party photos from the LA Weekly

Kevin’s Collection of Vintage Cigarette Lighters and Vintage Televisions

Cows going up the wall

For our British friends. This is not to be callous in light of the horrors that happened today in London, but I thought our British friends could use as many gestures of support as possible. If you want to read further, check the extended entry and feel free to add anything to the list that you like. (Modeled after Trey Parker's)

History of ordinary events and things, especially suitable for “Dull Men”

The Encyclopedia of Television includes more than 1,000 original essays and examines specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, major policy disputes and such topics as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal

Some recent Google answers; "If someone traveled from Atlanta to New York in 1964 to attend the worlds fair and was given by the flight attendants several small packs of cigarettes causing that person to become addicted and develop a thirty year smoking habit tht ruined their health....could Delta be held liable forty years later?"

Also: I’m looking for classes (instructors, physiologists or mentors) that can develop or sharpen my execution and people management skills. Preferably in Seattle.

Flickr’s Sparkler fun

Help! Grow-a-brain is bitten by wasps! New disasters from “NetDisaster”

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June 29, 2005

Formal edukation

Happy_15_1 Most universities typically have basketball and football teams, but if you're an agricultural university then you've also got meat judging and wool judging teams. Photos of past champions & Livestock Judging Teams at The Department of Animal Science, at Texas A&M University. (From ”WebJunkie”)

General expectations from the students at Bob Jones University. A new program at the University of Connecticut offers a master's degree in homeland security

Surreal flickr set by “noqontrol”

2000 frame-per-second digital camera shots of beer Cans and Cantalopes being shot

Crop Anomalies near Phoenix. Dozens of 400' to 600' parallel strips were reported laid down in three barley fields near Phoenix, Arizona in the town of Tolleson. The crop are all aligned North-South and don't appear to cross any of the tramlines. The farm consortium says the field damage is due to irrigation methods that create swollen barley stalk and top heavy pods that subsequently fall over

Ohio Trespassers: Abandoned Insane Asylums, Tuberculosis Hospitals, Reformatories, coal yards and long forgotten railroad tunnels

Dummy houses in the heart of London

Television Test Cards Gallery

Tattoos by Robert Hernandez. "Inked Blog", a blog about Tattoos. (From ”Negatendo”)

Adrian Fisher is internationally recognized as the world's leading Maze Design. Adrian has designed for and creates mazes in the grounds of palaces, castles, stately homes, zoos, amusement parks, children's museums, science centers, universities, schools, city centers and farms. His mazes are made from all types of materials, including Hedges, Fences, Mirrors, Living Crops, Decorative Paving and Tiling, Mosaic, Stained Glass, Wood and Water

10 months in the the life of an abandoned bike on a bridge in Stockholm

Show History. An encyclopedia of novelty & variety performers & showfolk

Torture Chamber unsuitable for Wheelchair Users” (? From Kirt A. Dankmyer)

Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children - A Cotton Candy Autopsy. Written by Dave Louapre, Art by Dan Sweetman

Super Smile, The story of a guy who, despite his best effort, ends up going to work naked from the waist down. By Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries. One of 40 art installations at the Rhizome ArtBase 101

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May 29, 2005

Rolling Wheels

Camouflage Matchbox Gallery with Ambigram art. (From ”Mirabilis”)

NASCAR special

Bicycles Locked to Poles

Welcome to The Larson Company Camouflage Division. Larson Camouflage offers a variety of solutions and services to wireless network developers. While the roots of our Camouflage Division date to the first Mono-Pine in the industry, we have developed and structured our business around the increasing needs of wireless carriers and those who support them

Images of mathematicians on postage stamps

What the Bible says about sin and temptation

A short film, Hand Righting

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May 11, 2005

Illuminating the 50’s

Prairie_dogs_1 Omnipelagos finds the shortest paths between any two things

The previously-mentioned flickr-meme, The Squared Circle is growing by leaps & bounds. As of now, there are 13,867 square photographs of circles

75 years of Band-Aid, one of the Unusual Museums of the Internet

Bicycle and Trick Riders. The American Tobacco Company issued this set of 25 tobacco insert cards in the early 1890s to advertise chewing and smoking tobacco manufactured by two of their branches. These 2-1/2 x 4-1/8 inch cards were designed to appeal to men by showing scantily clad show girls riding various types of bicycles popular during that period

Alan Frieze and Danny Sleator teach at Carnegie Mellon school of computer science. Every few weeks they put up a new puzzle. Most involve constructing an algorithm or a proof, while some involve writing a computer program to solve them

Famous Unsolved Codes and Ciphers. From The Chinese "Gold Bar" ciphers to Indus Script

Magnificent Obsessions: TV Lamps - Illuminating the 50’s. As always, watch the galleries. (From ”Szanalmas”)

Traffic Diamond Signs, taken by Donald E. Knuth, Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University

A Weird bubble from Burning Man

Welcome to Mail Order Chickens, for people who love chickens

George W. Bush Translations & Re-mixes: Truthful Translations of Political Speech

The Torture Museum in San Gimignano, Tuscany

Things That Don't Exist, like an episode of CSI that guest stars the Teletubbies or Straight Rainbows

Dog Powered Scooters

Inexplicable photo above of prairie dogs from ”Heck’s Kitchen”. Many More Unusual Oddities and Crazy linkage Here

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April 22, 2005

Collecting

Firehydrant An excellent find: The Golden Age of Iron Men - Online Physical Culture Museum. From “The great Eugen Sandow” and Home Gymnastics by Professor Hoffman, to Adolph E.Nordquest and Alexander Zass, "The Amazing Samson"

It may be surprising to some, but people, many people, actually collect fire hydrants

The Odd Couple episode guide

On Tuesday, November 5, 1996, a standard 15 by 15 crossword puzzle constructed by Jeremiah Farrell appeared in The New York Times that the editor, Will Shortz, said was the most amazing puzzle he'd ever seen. Also, The puzzling popularity of Su Doku

A Beginners Guide To Whaling. People have contacted me asking about the art of domestic whaling, and so I’ve decided to set up a small Q&A column, answering at least the most frequently repeated questions. (From ”Ritilan”)

Bizarre Adolf Hilter LiveJournal Mood Icon Set

Miqel’s random images. (From “Perlworld”)

Some of my friends at work are dummies

George Lucas must be rolling in his grave: Captioned photos from a Star Wars convention

Just in time for the new pope: Online confession booth. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered

Watch it grow. In the beginning, there was Chia Pet. Now, we bring you Chia Puberty - five enchanting Greco-Roman figurines guaranteed to fill your home with the magic of puberty

The Spam Letters - The Book. Featuring 100+ Spam Letters in an easy-to-read, well-organized, travel/bathroom-friendly format. (From ”Life In The Present”)

Google results for The biggest idiot alive

The W Page by “Singlenesia”

Please nominate your favorite blog to The 2nd Annual Best Marketing, Ad, & PR Blog Awards

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March 29, 2005

Mixed bag today-

Water_boat How is 64 = 65?

Porta-Lung – The Iron Lung For People On The Go. If you need more portability than the old-fashioned iron lungs, use Porta-Lung, and enjoy the great outdoors

Chinese stamps of Pig-Breeding (and many other animal stamps. From ”Purse lip square jaw”)

A Collection of Postage Stamps with Bridges On Them

Petroleum-related stamps from around the world

“Avoid shopping and making important decisions from 3:20 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. EST today”, says Georgia Nicols, Canada's most popular astrologer

Also, from up there, Archives of The Canadian Pacific Railway

The ladder theory is a theory of adult male/female interaction. It has its basis in many years of sociological field testing. You'll note that a man has one ladder while a female has two

I know it’s an old hat trick, but here’s a stereogram for you. Start crossing your eyes. All right, here’s another. Have a donut

Artificial synchronicity, language manipulation, kundalini and the corners of reality. This website is about the activities and methods of foreigners operating in disguise on the surface of Earth, masquerading as terrestrials and living as characters. The two foreign groups that operate on Earth are hereinafter called "foreigners of Our Side" and "foreigners of the Other Side". A British version of same

(Photo above of Anti-Boat from Mikan Moblog.) Many More Unusual Oddities and Crazy linkage Here

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March 09, 2005

Build your own Guillotine

Eggs_2 1792 Guillotine construction drawings - Build your own. Only $38

Do not go gentle into that good night, from Textual tattoos: Tattoos comprised mostly of words and sentences

How to start a startup. You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these

Salt TV: Johnny Ray Meeks, Brad DeMarea, Salvatore Consiglio

Re-post: “New” New Age from Fukuoka, Japan, Radio Non Biri

Kottke’s business influences: How companies succeed, why they fail, how to approach them from a holistic sense so they make sense on a human scale and not just from a business perspective

What are the lyrics to “Semi-Sweet”, by French-Canadian Lederhosen Lucil?

HTML art, The Ultimate Tables Nightmare. (From ”Pratie Place”)

Fifteen Ways To Tie Shoelaces

Zodiac Illusion Art

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February 06, 2005

Collectors of Ephemera

Writing_instrument Sacred Labyrinths

A colossal source of Fountain Pen Links. Naturally, when you handle Montegrappa 1912, from the oldest Italian pen manufacturer, they are not called “pens” any more, but "Writing Instruments". See, for example, this Michelangelo's David Pen … Sorry, “Writing Instrument”… To obtain pricing and ordering information call toll-free…

The Online Art Gallery and Antiques Mall at “The Forum” has everything to collectors of anything. See for example, their ephemera collections where I found a Lady's Collection of Needle Books and a collection of old ink bottles.

More unusual collections: Boris Plotnikoff's Gasmask Collection

Andy Zito’s collection of over 4,500 snow domes

Andrew Westberg, president of the American Pencil Collectors Society

O.L. Schwencke sample cigar label page

The Straitjacket Page

Windmills and Watermills on postage stamps. Here is a nice Don Quixote fighting wind mills, on a stamp from Afrique Equatorial (Congo or Gabon or Chad, I’m not sure)

Elsewhere: The Stella Awards were inspired by Stella Liebeck. In 1992, Stella, then 79, spilled a cup of McDonald's coffee onto her lap, burning herself. A New Mexico jury awarded her $2.9 million in damages. Ever since, the name "Stella Award" has been applied to any wild, outrageous, or ridiculous lawsuits - including bogus cases

Sculptor Barry Crawford is The Clay Guy. (From “Look at This”)

The collection and categorization of very small objects

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January 10, 2005

Aibo conspiracy

CranesThe many different ways of getting your ears pierced. (From “Sciatica”)

Pagan Clipart: I hereby declare all this original artwork public domain

Paul Krassner’s Rumpleforeskin Awards for 2004, including The Conspiratorial Freudian Slip Award, The Minimalist Approach to the Cultural Divide and “The Maintaining High Standards Award”, this to the Estate of Johnny Cash, for refusing to allow a hemorrhoid commercial to use Cash's song, "Ring of Fire”…

Somebody likes photos of cranes, a lot. (From Charlie ‘Vruba’ Loyd)

A ferret blogger and why Sony technology scares me

Nostalgic Memorabilia, Pop Culture Artifacts, Historic Items, and "Shoe Box Toys" for Sale by the Time Passages Nostalgia Company. (From “Sami is free”)

A World of Invisibilia: A simple gallery of pictures, where the people in the photos have been digitally removed and replaced with drawings

The OB-GYN Instrument Collection of the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, the most bizarre museum in the world, which exhibits, among other exotic specimen, fluid-preserved anatomical and pathological samples of Chang and Eng, the original Siamese Twins

Custom imprinted Condoms

Was making the rounds: The Hand collector

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December 07, 2004

Happy Hunting

 Elephant_eye How about shooting an elephant? Wouldn’t that be just a good thing to do? (From the good hunting people of Accurate Reloading, who has tons of other big-game shooting. Warning! A clip about killing an elephant ahead)

Signs Galore: ‘Back in 15 years’, ‘Diabetic shoes’, more

Determine the Optimum Age for Your Next Girlfriend , Mistress, or Wife: X / 2 + 7. Also, cactuses. A simple guide for women: Which one are you?

Pictured above is the Thing in a Jar that's usually sitting in my office at work… This is the third Thing in a Jar I've made. For some reason I'm always compelled to give them away as gifts

Suspicious Mail Alert from the US Post Office

Movies of digital girl Kaya (From 2002). Update: Link seems to go cold... See replacement. Anybody has a mirror site of the original link? Please post in comments below.

Why is the guy in the back smiling?

A remarkable coincidence, found on “Ask Mefi”

Learn all about Coin Shrinking and Can Crushing

Infernal devices, a database of torture and execution devices and methods. Art project from Erik Ruhling

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November 06, 2004

White Folks

Everything The first basic law of human stupidity asserts without ambiguity that “Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation”

Buy real good Bolivian cocaine online

The Poisonous Mushroom. (From the Schizophrenic Wing of the white kooks at Noontide Press)

This really, really stank !

Toilet phones, and many more at the Bell Telphone Tribute page

Linda’s Spider Bite Site - Yuck!

Mathematicians on Postage Stamps

Make-up, FX & Special effects by Morten Jacobsen. (From ”JWZ”). Also, Ghost Ride offers a wide variety of latex heads to meet your needs. These realistic fake human heads are lightweight and have been painted to perfection

People With Broken Umbrellas in Dublin: Photographing lately more discarded umbrellas for the untitled umbrella project, I found myself noticing quite a few people carrying umbrellas in various states of broken-ness, and decided to do a little documentation of them

Christopher Cordingley’s After You

First you need a square, What the hell is the Fibonacci Series? and more about the concept of the Golden Proportion. These links are from today’s “Blog Of The Day” – Nick’s ”blanketfort”. If you wish to have your blog considered as “Blog Of The Day”, or if you know of a blog that should get same recognition, please email me at realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com, or post a comment at the bottom of this post.

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October 21, 2004

“Expand your mind”

Tattoo_symbolsI personally don’t even have a TV, but for you, here are the “Top 100 Shows of All Time” at The Classic TV Database. "TV's so much part of the environment in the U.S. that people don't even notice when it disappears." So, Mitch Altman invented a new universal remote that turns off almost any television, TV Be Gone! (Site experiences some bandwidth problems in the evenings right now...)

Note to self: “The next time you get a contact allergy that develops a rash, and everyone tells you not to scratch it, listen to them”

Poker Hand Nicknames

What Not To Bring While Attending Bob Jones University. (From "Cynical-c")

bicycle chain rings from Bike Works, NYC

Abacus, the art of calculating with beads.

Explaining Scientology for kids and information about David Koresh & the Branch Davidians. (From Rick Ross, who composed a long list of destructive cults, controversial groups and movements)

Explore The "Tattooed Stalin” - Heavy body art of prisoners in the Soviet Union. (From “Gigantic Memorials from the Communist Dictatorship”, which also offers a bronze Lenin bust for sale, for only $16,900)

Get a little head, with The Shuar head hunters

The Devil's Rope Historic Barbed Wire Museum Homepage, by Delbert Trew. The History of Barbed Wire

Repeat: History of betel chewing. (Previous article: Chewing betel nuts in San Francisco's Mission district, from "Eclectic Desserts")

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October 12, 2004

Homeless & Artists

 Vitamin_tablet The Toaster Collector Association held its 2004 ocTOASTERfest in Toledo this year. The three-day event is an opportunity for collectors to show off their finest pieces, dicker & deal, and schmooze…

The wrath of Hurricane Charley: This video shows Charley ripping apart a gas station with insane gusts of wind. Susan Ottzen plays Stormy Weather for NPR. (You can listen to it, while reading the rest of the post...)

The story of a three-mannequin American family who has moved to Japan, welcome to the bizarre world of OH! Mikey

Last September, I posted a link to Bill Dan, San Francisco sculptor. Here’s more about the art of public rock balancing

MpP Favicon Gallery: It’s amazing what some people can make happen in a square that’s just 16 pixels in size

Tampon Socks from Felieke van der Leest

Decorative Street marks from “Backburner”

Advanced origami

A photo of Einstein smoking a pipe. Congratulations! You’re a pipe smoker! Ceremonial peace pipes

The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript. And, Replicating The Voynich manuscript : New analysis of a famously cryptic medieval document suggests that it contains nothing but gibberish

Photo above from Identity Kit Series: ”I have attempted to portray the gross poverty of the dispossessed by inviting some of the homeless men on London's streets to display their belongings - those carried in their pockets, or in a bag.”

A quote from George Carlin's new book, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? "When did they pass a law that says the people who make my sandwich have to be wearing gloves? I'm not comfortable with this. I don't want glove residue all over my food; it's not sanitary. Who knows where these gloves have been?"

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September 06, 2004

Only hand-picked, unique oddities today

Please listen closely to the following menus, as our options have changed

Create your own Celtic Knots

camel_toeThe Law of Large Numbers guarantees that one-in-a-million miracles happen 295 times a day in America (By Michael Shermer)

Insect alphabets. Only one of many Joseph Reed's alphabets

Cigarette Packages from Laos. More on the exiting front of cigarettes wars: Unusual Camel packaging. The governor of Hawaii goes up against a Camel ad campaign for a new pineapple and coconut flavored cigarette

Re-post: Pongomania Modeling clay

Herve sings Why do people have to fight?

Spikeball Earth globe

Olympic Games Opening Ceremony or Gay Circuit Party?

If you saw the Finnish Giant killing machine, you knew that somebody will re-create it in Lego and call it Bucket Wheel Excavator

Which hurricane names were retired and why. (From the ‘FEMA for kids’ website)

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August 23, 2004

Hall of Anomalies Unlimited

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Snoozers of the World - Hard at Work

No, it’s not the Elephant Man, it’s the Bread Man - At long last, I’ve found a performance artist that caters to my likes and preferences!

Welcome to the fascinating and exciting world of collecting errors on United States stamps. Error collecting is rapidly becoming one of the most popular specialty areas within the field of stamp collecting today.

Wilford Brimley, The musical (?!)

Inflatable Mona Lisa. Comes with "Mona Goes Dada!" stick-on moustache and goatee, and a patch kit. Found on The Inflatable Museum

Wilson, Keppel and Betty formed the greatest eccentric dance act of all time

A day in the Life of my Mouth. (From Pinhole Photography by Justin Quinnell)

Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness by Darren Barefoot

Naturist cartoons. (Warning: Naturist cartoons!)

Photo of a penny with a drawer carved into it, above, is from Anomalies Unlimited. MANY more Anomalies Unlimited there. Other Strange Oddities Here

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August 08, 2004

Ralph was absent yesterday because he had a sore trout…

dog_bark The corrugated iron Club. (From “Panchromatica”)

MAPSU is more than just moms: We're real people who want to stop peeing standing up , support the victims (those who have to clean up), and prevent unnecessary urine stream fragmentation. This is not a victimless crime (?!)

Jim's “Burnt Offerings”: Over 200 illustrated web pages on the social history of the cigarettes in America

Collection of globes painted from memory

A long list of 'generators'

Tom Noddy’s Bubble Magic

600,000 condoms a day oil wheels of industry

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July 25, 2004

Women's urinals

purple_pill Ken Jennings' name variations. (he writes his name differently on every Jeopardy episode)

Natura Christian Nudists who “Reject Shame and Promot Body Respect”…

Cost of having sex with a Girlfriend Calculator. (Cost of sex with a wife calculator will be up soon)

Solutions for females who need to pee in public: The She-pee funnel, The Magic Cone, The Urinals of Dairy Queen, a Urinette "She-inal", a women's urinal from the basement ladies' room of the Oregon Historical Society in Portland. There are many more, if you’re interested

Amazing Wooden Bikes: The uprider, The Snake & The Dragon

Pavement Art with Mona Lisa

Coffee Mug Heaven. (This one is for Tom McMahon’s collection)

Geometrical illusion with stereoscopic impressions. Also, The McCulloch Effect - An On-line Science Exhibit

A repost: Gallery of Predicta televisions

Gorilla glue, incredibly strong

The most expensive turkey ever: A rare turkey has been sold at Christie’s auction rooms in London for £831,650

Many More Unclassified Oddities Here

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July 03, 2004

Inspirational Odds and Ends

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Rainbows around the world, the US & Canada with Gay Flags

Antique Typewriter Collecting . (And some terms that you may find handy in describing typewriter parts)

Dating ministry - Dating to Save People from Hell. (From “Chapel Perilous”)

Rare Rocky Photo Of The Week

Movietone Portraits, the world’s greatest nostalgia website

11_hot_link_button cannibal forks (“iculanibokola”) of the Fiji Islands

Making the rounds: Painted Rocks by George Witham

A necessary re-post: The Incredible World of Navel Fluff

Your search is over. This is the oasis known as The Whole Truth. You are not here by accident. Remain calm. You are chosen

International Standard Paper Sizes

Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy:
“We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems…”
(Found at “Shitfit”)

Bee-class photo above from The Nebraska Honey Producer's Association. More Unusual Odds & Ends Here

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June 07, 2004

Hodgepodge of Jetsam & flotsam

x4 My computer is still being worked on, so I just picked some links here & there with no rhyme or reason. Also, we are very busy at work… So, here you go with a few morsels, just to keep you coming back…

Our most popular president died 40 years ago. Also, Juan Cole about Reagan's Passing

You're not Dave Chappelle, and you're not funny - You know what's funny? When people take catch phrases from funny movies, television shows, and comedians, then they repeat them in their best impression, regardless of their awkward accent, gender or lack of comedic timing. I can't get enough of it. My favorite example of this comes from a skit on "Chappelle's Show," in which Dave Chappelle does a parody bio of 80's pop singer Rick James.

Would you use Shower Star when you wash? I don't think I will. (From the Swedish “Buzz”)

Upside Down Japanese House

Photos from The Day after The Party

The Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Florida, U.S.A. (From “Open All Night”). Also, Welcome to the wonderful world of armadillos , your speed bump on the information superhighway

History of Sandwiches: The first recorded sandwich was by the famous rabbi, Hillel the Elder, who started the Passover custom of sandwiching a mixture of chopped nuts, apples, spices, and wine between two matzohs to eat with bitter herbs…

International Yodelers. “I am frequently asked to stop yodeling. Just kidding. More often I am asked how I learned to yodel and why I started. There certainly are no yodel teachers…” (From “Golgi’s cell 241c”)

3 New Bottle Openers from “Apartment Therapy”

Fake Money, from The Bush $200 Bill to The Bill Clinton $6 bills... (From “Information Junk”)

The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs and Body Language Cues From Adam's-Apple-Jump to Zygomatic Smile

A write-up in “The New York Post” about Grow-a-Brain, calling us “The most recognized of the realtor blog genre…”

Goebbels would be proud. See More Odds & Ends Here

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June 05, 2004

Weird Odds & Ends and the kitchen sink

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Achmed Morganstern’s Adventures & spiritual voyage to the Holy Land (with Manon, the Camel)

Street Sign Story Time. (From “DRT News”)

Is Bush Losing his Mind?

Deer Crosses The Golden Gate Bridge - all cars stop

What I actually mean when I say “I Love you” - 30 scenarios

How stupid can you be? - The J-Lo-BJ “Fox”-clip

Expat Bloggers. (From “Fwak Blog”)

Masonic Police Patch and The Grand Lodge of India (?)

Clandestine Radio Equipment. (From “Endless Parade of Excellence”)

The 10 Best Internet Fads

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Another Tin Foil Prank - This is what happens when you go on a 3-day business trip - A thin coat of alien-protectant material known to prevent mind reading known as tin-foil is applied to your desk

“British American Tobacco” tests chocolate cigarettes (but not for youngsters, no)….

Near-Death-Experiences of the Rich and Famous

Airport Parking USA

Our Extensive List of Crazy links is Here

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May 17, 2004

Odds / Ends

movement Single? Republican? Try this one. Rush Limbaugh approved.

Found on the web - " My first threesome: About a month ago, I had a threesome with a friend and his on-again, off-again girlfriend…"

Miniature Thai - hand crafted miniatures

Alzheimer's Self Portraits - "heplpss"...

The Giant Head was created by Cornish artist Sue Hill along the Woodland Walk in 1998. (From “Gravity Lens”)

What to Do with Your Dead Hooker

Shy Girl is not who you think she is

No kissing for you! and Free e-cards for pornography addicts and the people who love them. (Both from “Self Aggrandizement”)

Gary's Miniature Electric Christmas Lighting Page

Crack my Knuckles

Articles of faith (?) toilet paper from a castle in Prague

Many More Miscellaneous Links Here

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May 02, 2004

(Very) Odds & Ends

roadtripdance One Cool Boat - A fishing boat sank not that far away from where I live with the loss of the 4 crewmembers during NW gales and a temp. of -28C. Although the cause hasn't been oficially determined the photos taken during the search of one of the rescue craft would strongly indicate that the boat became top heavy and capsized. (Thank you, Phil)

Preventing Deaths of Farm Workers in Manure Pits and “I had a dream: To see an enormous herd of Goats eat gingerbread... I'm sure you're wondering: Why?" (All from Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s “Particles” )

A Dating Service for Ayn Rand’s fans (Objectivists)

hot_link_buttonIf you enjoy fishing, and you like to drill holes in the ground with large machinery, you’ll appreciate this wonderful futuristic film of Rockfish. (From “W00t”)

The Shocking Truth about Hot Water in Castro's Cuba (From “Three Guys from Miami”)

Good Wife's Guide from Housekeeping Monthly, May 1955 and a mean Divorce Safety Guide

A real chapel in Carthage, MO inspired by the Sistine chapel, but completely awash in sad kitsch style

Famous Antique Bottles (The headline is misspelled!), including Antique Fruit Jar Hall of Fame, target balls, and old Coca-Cola bottles. (From “Blanketfort”)

Stamps about Blindness - A thematic stamp collector who chooses the topic of ophthalmology will have many happy hours going through the catalogue as eye diseases in one form or another are well represented in stamps issued by many countries around the world. In addition, one can extend the theme to include famous people with eye diseases, plants from which mydriatics are extracted and optical instruments

The National Museum of the Arcane and Frivolous in Barstow, CA

Electricity Pylons around The World: Photos of structures supporting electricity carrying wires

Turbulance Poetic Dialogues

For your website: Grab a free Grow-a-Brain-Graphic-Link

Many More Odd & Misc. Links Here

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April 20, 2004

Odds & Ends

coldhell.jpg “The Story of The Two Things” by Glen Whitman:
A few years ago, I was chatting with a stranger in a bar. When I told him I was an economist, he said, “Ah. So… what are the Two Things about economics?”
“Huh?” I cleverly replied.
“You know, the Two Things. For every subject, there are really only two things you really need to know. Everything else is the application of those two things, or just not important.”
“Oh,” I said. “Okay, here are the Two Things about economics. One: Incentives matter. Two: There’s no such thing as a free lunch”...

Terror logos

Glubibilga’s Portal of all the weird, strange, odd & crazy places you can imagine. Similarly, A huge & meaningless list of odd Jpg’s from “Milinkito”.

Gun destruction in Rio de Janeiro

Blueman Glass Dome

hot_link_button.gif Weird but True - Welcome to Joel Bass’s Crunchy Gods: hundreds of unique & original pages, from “Words my stomach can say” to Richard Feynman Juggling in Malibu…

Are you romantically involved with your cousin? Try “CousinCouples”, the world's primary support network for and about romantic relationships among cousins . Not for rednecks only.

Tree trunk home at “Toad Hollow Farm”. (From “Daily Jive”)

Cousin Mammy's World of Breast Euphemisms

Classic Pipe Shape Chart. What type of person smokes an Oliphant?

Many More Odds & Ends Here

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April 04, 2004

Sunday Odds & Ends

bigbird.gif Subversive Commie Stamp of the Day - Welcome to your daily dose of philatelic class struggle brought to you by the postal services of the red menace. Letter Carriers of the World Unite!

Steve Mahurin’s hunting gallery

The Falkirk Wheel, the world’s only rotating boat lift

Books for Uppity Fat Women and Fat Positive Links (Both from Elayne Riggs)

Newspapers front pages, covering the September 11 attacks from all over the world. And The Number 11 Mysteriously Dominates the Events of the September 11

Evil Pictograms - They make you die

The Rebbe & His Wisdom - Mitzvah Tanks in Brooklyn

Ronald Koh's Origami Page (From Gilad’s Origami Page)

Hyperspace Star Polytope Slicer and Mark Newbold's Animated Necker Cube

Things I Hate About Genealogy - "One adulteress can spoil the batch"... By Chip Rowe

Some blogging Links:

The most influential reporters and bloggers on the web. From Blog-runner

The Anti-Bloggies Award: "Today I had a cheese sandwich for lunch. It was really good. Do you like cheese?” There are 0 comments…

The paradigm of the too-personal blog entry - ”What Lauren really thinks of me” by Plain Layne. it's got over 140 comments. (From ”List.”)

31 Flavors of Blog (From ”Murry Hill 5”)

More Eclectic Odds & ends here.

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March 26, 2004

ODDS & Ends

gymnast_anim.gif Zombie Infection Simulation v2.3 - Zombies are green, move very slowly and change direction randomly and frequently unless they can see something moving in front of them, in which case they start walking towards it. After a while they get bored and wander randomly again. Press your Space bar to start. (From “Oink”)

Danish artist paint iceberg red

Toilets of the World (Including "Exploding Toilets")

"Lorem Ipsum" is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s

The following is a list of ten questions to answer to determine if you are experiencing mania

The Code of Hammurabi

The Prostitution Pictures made by photojournalist Piet den Blanken (1951), show prostitutes, street-walkers and brothels in various parts of the world.

Ubnormal Festuses - Examples from the Gross Specimens collection, of the American University of Beirut Medical Center, Department of Pathology. Please do not click if sensitive. (From “Flabber”)

More Odds & ends Links Here

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March 09, 2004

Odds & Ends:

Greetings from NewFoundland , Canada

Making the rounds: ”Woman Age”, from “Playing with Time”… very cool.

"Excitement Machine"s father was in a heinous auto wreck. He's posting graphic photos of his bashed up head on this site - "Bob’s Recovery". (Warning: totally gross).

Voodoo Flags has a central role in voudou ceremonies, complex rituals in which a strict protocol must be observed… (From ”Burp”)
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Gallery of network images. Above is a representation of High school friendships.

Russian TV Mayhem a-la Jerry Springer (From ”Octopus Dropkick”)

”Liberace Now!” LP cover

Here is a pretty unusual link: "Niel's Birth" is a picture story from 1999. Do not click if you are not ready to see a graphic account of birth.

Kendra K Davis is self taught as a Basketry Artist. Some of these baskets are very innovative.

80’s ending. This short film, by Douglas Jordan, is a wonderful parody on the ending of every 1980's movie you've ever seen.

Kylie Minogue's latest lingerie range includes a pair of knickers with an imprint of her lips. (Reminds me of our old “Kiss Fundoms”…)

“Hello. Would you like to Barcode Yourself ?”

More than you ever wanted to know about Rorschach Tests , with 10 actual tests.

Carving at Skidegate, the carving of a totem pole. On a different scale: Shamey Metalcraft of Ligonier, PA, Hand-Carves movable balls, chain links and miniature pliers from common toothpicks.

The rest of our Odds & Ends Archives Here.

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February 21, 2004

Wow!

Snakes_1The sweetest words I read all day - "... grow-a-brain, where have you been all my life?" - wow - thank you, Escheva.

The first discoveries from Escheva's "This is not a blog":

If you love art - A MASSIVE list of artistic links...

Welcome to FetusMart! Your one-stop location for all your...fetussy needs.

A Purity Test for People with Large Vocabularies.

Haiku Error Messages.

Choose Your Own Adventure - Welcome to New York, punk!.

Pixel Horror.

- So much more there..

And here is the old self-congratulatory archive of what people were saying about "Grow-a-Brain"

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February 07, 2004

numbers.jpg"59372 98324 19043 78903 95320.... The mechanized female voice drones on and on... What have you stumbled on to? Instructions to spies? Messages exchanged between drug dealers? Deliberate attempts at deception and mis-information? " Chances are, all of the above! What you've tuned in to is called a "Spy Numbers Station". To listen in, and learn more, SpyNumbers.com has a list of numbers stations and a database, including what stations may be on the air right now .

And for an in-depth personal memoir of espionage, escape, spycraft, love, betrayal, and, yes, secret messages relayed via a numbers station, read Thomas Wagner's story of "how my mother and I became de-facto spies and participated in the biggest defection case in the 50 year history of the former East-Germany." (There's a missing link from page 7 to page 8; this will take you forward.)

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January 31, 2004

Here are the 2003 “Grow-a-Brain” Odds & Ends links.

Woody_1 10 wedding songs to avoid

300 Love Letters (From "Stuff" , Points of Departure)

38 winners in the 9th annual Graceful Envelope Contest (From "MonkeyFilter" ) - 1/16/04

A Beating Heart is back on line after a short break

After a long thread about the re-design of the new VH1 logo somebody posted these 2 boxes side by side, and everything made sense. (From Anil Dash ) - 12/11/03

Antique and Art Salt Shaker Collector's Society

Arcs 'n Sparks - 1/11/04

A to Z Collectibles

Balloons Across the Mersey - 12/13/03

Becoming a cranky old man , an interesting discussion on Joi Ito's blog: "Many of the old men I know are cranky. They are often cranky because they've been fighting long battles..." (See also the comments) - 11/11/03

Buttons of the Sixties - 1/6/04

‘Charlie', the Robot catfish (From the Spy museum) - 1/3/04

Children's hair-dress on traffic signs - A web-oldie

Edgar Governo's Timelines, "Historian of Things That Never Were"

Enigma Machine (From "Gammatron" )

False Advertising

envelope"Family" in Binary - blue zero marks "start", (From BMEzine's Geek Tattoos ) - 12/4/03

"Fear of Peanut Butter Sticking to the Roof of the Mouth Program" offers guaranteed relief from "The Phobia Clinic" - 11/23/03

Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) , Taking charge of your fertility - 12/26/03

Find a bike that is right for you

Find Sounds , Google for sounds - 10/23/03

Forensic Firearm ID (From "DM" )

Glue Philosophy (?) , from "This to That" - How to glue anything to anything. (Thanks, Margal) - 12/13/03

How to Build a "Great Team" :1. Build a core nucleus. 2. Raise the bar of expectations. 3. Keep consistency in all things. 4. Have a singular objective, supported by three related objectives. 5. Promote people with performance success to leadership positions. 6. Recruit new winners to build around the core nucleus. 7. Create an atmosphere of fun, success, and unique mission. - 9/10/03

How to make friends by Telephone (from "Contactsheet")

I am delighted to see that the crosswalk guy has finally been clothed . (From "Mookie" ) - 1/10/04

I do not watch TV, and actually have never seen the show "Seinfeld" , but here are all the Seinfeld episodes. I'm sure somebody will appreciate it - 12/28/03

Implosions from "Controlled Demolition" , the company the blasts these Las Vegas hotels - 8/24/03

International "Do Not Enter" Traffic Signs - 9/15/03

I wish I could speak Dutch, so that I would understand The Sauna Song - 12/22/03

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership - 8/10/03

Kevlar Survivors' Club - 8/23/03

"Love in the personals" - highbrow, erudite & allusive personals ads from the London Review of Books - the new art form - 1/3/04

Manholes and Japanese Manholes

Motivational and Inspirational Corner - 9/7/03

Nostalgic School Supplies - 8/5/03

"Nuns Having Fun" , 2004 Calendar and 30 other Bombshell Calendars for 2004 - 12/23/03

Paul Fishback's Mandelbrot Set applet - 12/13/03

Pencil Advertising (From "Coolio" ) - 9/25/03

Police Codes & Abbreviations

Praise the Lord Dental , by Amy Langfield - 11/28/03

Quit-meter - How much do you save by Quitting

Ranking of countries

René Rondeau's Extensive & beautiful gallery of Antique Phonographs - 1/7/04

Russian Association of Dollhouses & Miniatures Masters

Sail around the world - First Scrap Raft to Cross the North Atlantic Ocean - 9/19/03

Shoplifters alternative

Soviet Calculator Collection (From "Unusual Museums" ) - 9/28/03

Susan Jones's "Grow-a-Brain Movement": educators creating brain-compatible enviroment - 10/15/03

The Ejection Site

The Interpol

The Museum of Black Superheroes

The Name Machine - Popularity of first names

The Six Pillars of Character that Counts

savetheplanet.jpgThe "Songs Inspired By Literature" (SIBL) Project

Things That Have Been Sold In Vending Machines

This Week in the History of Chemistry - 12/4/03

"Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!" - Apple's 1984 Commercial by Chiat/Day - 11/1/03

Trend Setter and Trend Watching newsletter

TV Ticket Gallery

Vatican puts art collection on line - 7/31/03

Virtual Whiteboard

Whatever happened to Summerhill School ? I remember A. S. Neill's theories dominating the education debates when I grew up... - 8/23/03

Why settle for a record or two, when you can have all the records in the world, directly from the source? - 9/25/03

Worlds largest Virtual Helmet Collection and the Definitive Concorde Site (Both from "The Cartoonist")

Worst Case Scenarios

Your Real Age Test

Zamboni - The uncut story

The rest of our Odds & Ends Archives Here

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