October 26, 2008
Eating fugu
I’m an unemployed vagrant. All I have is a backpack full of technology, a shoestring budget and a very important list of 50 things to do. When everything is crossed off my list I get to go home. (Not to be confused with Amtrakker)
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What do you want to do before you die?
100 things that every good omnivore should have tried at least once in their life
Dave Freeman, co-author of 100 Things to Do Before You Die, a travel guide and ode to odd adventures that inspired readers and imitators, died after hitting his head in a fall at his home. He was 47.
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July 13, 2008
Sleeping Around Craigslist (NSFW post)
It takes a woman about a thousand words and a condom to get laid on Craigslist. But for a woman to be laid properly -- by a passionate lover who knows what he's doing -- well, that's a whole different ball game. Sleeping Around Craigslist
Enhance your vajayjay at The UK Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation Centre. (Found in a Daily Mail article Boosting the G-spot)
Tantra Chair, fine furnishings for meditation and sacred intimacy
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May 11, 2008
Franco!
Once upon a time it was considered good manners for a host to offer his guests a smoke. This custom extended to the President of the United States. Each President, from John Kennedy to Ronald Reagan, gave his guests a very special pack of cigarettes. Presidential cigarettes. From Jim Shaw’s Burnt Offerings
Clarence Hailey Long, the inspiration for The Marlboro Man
Franco had always had an eye for fashion. (From the very funny Fengtastic)
Gallery of vintage graphic design featuring Camel cigarettes. (From The Gallery of Graphic Design)
For six decades we, the American people, have been victimized by deliberate, knowing scientific fraud, perpetrated by the American Cancer Society and its accomplices, and funded by their corrupt lackeys in Congress, whose goal is totalitarian dictatorship over every detail of our personal lives! Worthless Congresspussies Still Bend Over for the Anti-Smokers! The History of the Conspiracy Against Tobacco
Philip Morris now publishes a list of some of the 599 additives in its cigarettes
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March 20, 2008
Jack Lalanne speaks about unhappy people
“I can’t say much makes me happier than this photo of the One Laptop Per Child laptop I donated in the hands of its owner…”
On March 8, pianist Yosuke Yamashita donned a fireproof suit and played a burning piano on a beach in Ishikawa prefecture. The improvised jazz performance went for about 10 minutes until the flames rendered the piano silent
How to Play the Human Chairs Game
How to speak with someone who stutters
A road sign by the Dead Sea. (Apparently, It’s not existential – It’s for an Information booth. From Digg)
Re-post: Don Knuth's diamond signs. (See also his custom-made home pipe organ).
Don Knuth is has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms, contributing to the development of, and systematizing formal mathematical techniques for, the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms, and in the process popularizing asymptotic notation. Famous quote: "I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I'd used email since about 1975, and it seems to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime"
(Video above from Awesome Mustache)
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February 14, 2008
50 Nerdy Things to Do Before You Die
49. Get married on a replica of the starship Enterprise at the "Star Trek: Experience" in Las Vegas.
48. Be bold and take your action figures out of the box, value be damned!
36. Check out the computer labs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, future birthplace of HAL-9000.
29. Watch the sunset from inside the "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" dinosaur.
24. Witness a live space shuttle launch. Extra points if you're piloting it.
21. Kill a zombie.
44 Other Nerdy Things to Do Before You Die
100 Things to do with Google Maps Mashups
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October 14, 2007
Jaccuzzi parties
Skydiving Without A Parachute! Crazy!
A Jaccuzzi on top of the Mont-Blanc
Experience zero gravity the only way possible without going to space. Go Weightless
New York's Most Expensive Hotel Room - $30,000 a night
8 other Incredible Things to Do Before You Die
Day Zero, the home of the 1001 Day Project
(Hot tub party pix above from Patri Friedman)
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February 11, 2007
How to change the world
181 Things To Do On The Moon. (The complete list is on pdf)
100 Things I Learned in 2006, Part I (NO 1: “I could live happily elsewhere”) and part two (No 1: “Looking for a job while unemployed is no fun”
I’ve decided I want to spend the next 52 weeks learning fun things that I’ve always wanted to do but didn’t get around to
More from “Ask Mefi”: What things should I be doing now, in my early 20s, to be sure I live the longest, healthiest life possible?
Share your travel experiences about places to see before you die
(By the way, Craig, I got 2 emails from you asking why I didn't answer your original email, and I responded to both of them. It seems that my email carrier keeps filtering your original proposal. Please re-send. Thank you)
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September 17, 2006
7 things to do
Moving to New Zealand, from To do before I die
From Swig505’s List - Running Bay to Breakers
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
David Simmer’s list
Finish paying of my car - About six months ago I made that list of 100 goals, dreams, and ideas. I think I am going to list what I've completed since then
One of John’s 7 small goals: To cut a sandwich into two equal halves without using a ruler
Dogsbody’s Things to do before I'm 30
("My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'")
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August 17, 2005
No. 52 - Refuse all honors before you are offered them
10 Things You Should Do More Often Than You Think (From “Ritilan”). No 1. Tell you Spouse you love them and appreciate what they do
Andrew Jones 1000 Self-portraits
Adults have long compiled lists of things to achieve before they die - but now youngsters are being encouraged to tick off their own "must do" list. 33 things to do by age 10. No. 25. Find some worms
101 Things you do not want your System Administrator to say. No 71: I hate it when that happens
Kill a rat and 100 other things to do, from The Guardian 2004. No. 16. “Remain alert, but not alarmed”
100 Things to do when ordering a pizza by phone
From Vegard Skjefstad’s list of 100 Things to do: No. 14. Rob a bank.
A LJ list
Things to do on Saturday Night. No 69: Hijak a bus. From "The Random Ramblings Of A Cannabis Addict"
100 Things to do Besides Drink: “Life weights”
Many cities just slap a bunch of tourist attractions on a webpage & call it “100 things to do”, f. ex. during a Milwaukee winter or in Oakland or in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, Washington
Another List of Lists, from “Forkbender”
1001 things on my wishlist before I die
The Complete List of Things to do before you die Here
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April 10, 2005
Write down your goals
10 Things I've Done You Probably Haven't, a LiveJournal meme that propogates around. Here’s Bulgy bit’s list: “Been held hostage in my office. Was smoking a Cohiba with my feet up on the desk when they finally got us out of there”
The aim of My 50 things is to encourage people to break from the monotony of everyday life and start living life to the full
43 things. What do you want to do with your life? People have known for years that making a list of goals is the best way to achieve them. Erik Benson’s list
“Jason Toney's 101 in 1001” or, how I learned to get things done
The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord. No. 16: I will never utter the sentence "But before I kill you, there's just one thing I want to know."
Things you should do in California. (From ”Lexicon”)
More Things to do before I die
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December 13, 2004
More To do Lists
Kiwi Michael Green is not a procrastinator. He doesn’t just write a list of things to do. He’s methodical! For example, he wanted to see all the top films from the most reputable lists available, so he’s chewing his way through them one at a time. Of his 101 things to do in the next 1001 days, 33 tasks are already done, and he still has 570 days left. Here is his second project gallery. More at "Triplux"
Before you die: 100 things you simply must do. From The Guardian
Clive Dallas’s List is different -
Kill a stranger;
Start a custard pie fight;
Smash a television set;
Rob a bank… (More there)
101 things to do on a 'Buy Nothing Day’, 101 things to do in Nepal and in Baton Rouge and things to do with a bandana. (From Candy Genius)
What do you want to do with your life? From 43 Things
I went sailing on a Caribbean vacation for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Today’s “Blog Of The Day” will be on hold until after Christmas. The Complete List of Things To Do Before You Die Here
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July 30, 2004
More Lists of Things To Do
Many more people compile their lists of things to do before they die. At the bottom, you'll find one of the most comprehensive listing of those lists.
There are some things that are best done clothed. Likewise there are some things best done nude. There are also many more things that can be done equally well clothed or nude. How about Ironing?
101 things to do if you're locked in a room for the next fifty years with only a mattress, a boombox, and a copy of Insision's new album
1001 things to do with Liquid Nitrogen
390 Things To Do - The top 10 in 39 cities. Also, The World's Top 100 Wonders
Alt Text’s List
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May 06, 2004
People’s List of Things to Do Before They Die
Wait until you're 60, and then go outside to rake the leaves in your front yard. When someone drives down your street in excess of 7 MPH, tell that bastard to "SLOW DOWN." Feel satisfied, and then take the rest of the afternoon off. It's Miller Time, and you've earned it. From Rory’s Blyth’s Napoleon
Steal something while wearing a striped shirt and Robin-style eye mask. If possible, steal something that fits inside an easily-carried burlap sack. From “665”
Barefoot Lass's Crazy Things To Do With Coca Cola
474 Things To Do When You're Bored
Go to Barcelona, See an owl, Take a pottery class
A different slant - Patricia Schultz' 1,000 Places to See Before You Die
Crazy things from “Rants in your Pants” (The 866,430th Most Popular Site on the Internet)
A Comprehensive List of Things to do Here
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April 06, 2004
What would you do before you die?
After reading the book “100 Things to do before you die: Travel Events you just can’t miss”, I started collecting some lists that people compose of things they want to do with their lives. This collection of lists draws a fair amount of traffic every day to this site. Here are more lists that I recently discovered;
Self-acclaimed, self-published author of “Man Versus Himself”, Erik Benson’s List
100 Things To Do In Scotland Before You Die. (From “Ministry of Propaganda”)
Maxim's Brian Frazer, Todd Katz, and Greg D'avola’ List of 10 Things to do: 1. Test-drive a red sports car and lure the cops into a high speed, road raging chase.
101 Things from “Outdoor Canada”
Donna Lypchuk’s List of 99 things
And this lady put them all into a mega monster 3,387-things-to-do-before-you-die list
Many more Things to do before you die here.
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January 31, 2004
The Original “Grow-a-Brain Things to do before you die” List
The Travel Evant that started it all - by Neil Teplica and Dave Freeman
100 + great things to do in San Francisco , in New Orleans, in Victoria, BC and in Charlotte, NC
100 Demented things (from “Demented Effect”)
101 Things to Do With a Person With Alzheimer's Disease
35 Things not to do on a Unicycle
Aziz's 100 things list: 1. Reach the age of 100 - 12/14/03
BBC's 50 Places To See Before You Die
Bill Gates's "11 Things Not Taught in School" list - 8/10/03
Brian Lee Curls's "100 Things" list
Canadian Outdoor Magazine list - 1/16/04
Cecil Rhodes's "10 Things" list - 7/26/03
"Cheesepuppet"s "100 Things" list - 10/31/03
Chris Bowler's "100 Things" list
Dan McCarthy's "100 Things" list
"DiscoverFun"s 500 fun things list
Don of "Plastic Fruit" list - 1/8/04
"Free Moby" list - 1/8/04
Ghosty of "Piscean Waters" list - 1/8/04
Kelly Sue DeConnick's 2003 Uber-List - 1/5/04
Laurie Moody's "100 Things" list
Mat Wood's "100 Things" list - 8/2/03
Maxim's "100 Things to do" list
"My 50 list" will help you do it - 1/16/04
Nicole R. Murphy's "100 Things" list
Rob Pruitt's 101 art ideas you can do yourself - 10/21/03
Short Version for the less ambitious (only 10) and a very extended Version for the over-achiever (2,001) - 10/31/03
Ubersite imaginative list . No.5: Burst into a massage parlor with a toy gun and a fake badge shouting "FBI! Everybody outside now!" Start snapping photographs of people who come out. Offer to sell the camera to anyone who has $1000 cash on them - 1/8/04
"100 Things" short story written by a "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" fan - 10/31/03
Our Complete List of Things To Do Before You Die Here
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