Links posted in January 2005
January 31, 2005
Curious George: Image permission? A company wants permission to use one of my photos. What's fair? [more inside]
Findlay Sucks! It really does, man. And so does Lansing. Ann Arbor is is overrated. Apparently, the Livonia, Greenley and Cleveland Sucks sites have all disappeared (though, from anecdotal accounts, their cities still suck). [more inside]
The Quff
offers a sense of fashion and attitude to the consumer, turning an ordinary cup, can or water bottle into an extraordinary one.
This image can't be a coincidence. Is it just me, or is this image frighteningly close to el Goatse? (SFW, and no more inside!)
Buried in the headlines, Halliburton announced Friday that it's pulling out of Iran. Time to speculate on whether this has an ominous overtone or if it's just routine business maneuvering.
The First Drink of the Day - Joel Veitch from rathergood.com is at it again. This time with extra monkey-goodness.
January 30, 2005
The city of Krakow is seeing a huge revival of Jewish culture. Thing is, there isn't a Jew to be found.
Walter Newton's
comics and illustrations are worth a peek.
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WELCOME TO THE MONKEYHOUSE: NYC MONKEY SUPERBOWL PARTY!
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Parking Artist
is another gallery of bad parking skills. (In German, but no matter) See also the gallery index and Artist of the Month.
Ground level election news from the people of Iraq [more inside]
American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.
Futurotica: Bored art student modifies everyday appliances in order to [Amplify] the ubiquitous and untapped mastarbatory fantasies found in everyday, off the shelf domestic items, as forms of technology that our bodies can relate to and interact with in unusual ways.
2004: The year in photographs as captured through the lenses of US Army photographers.
Regicide.
On this day in 1649, the death warrant of Charles Stuart, King of England, Scotland and Ireland was served on a scaffold hastily erected in Whitehall. The event shook Europe and had profound constituional implications that were crucial in defining the polity of successive governments throughout the English-speaking world.
For some Charles was to become a martyr, others have remembered the event with less reverence.
Trivial George
Monkeys...if you've always thought you could pwn Alex Trabeck, now's your chance: Jeopardy! is taking names for contestant searches in Chicago, Houston, Madison, New York, Phoenix, Tampa, and Toronto.
(Posted 'cos I always forget to see if I can sign up, so I would have appreciated a heads-up in years past...)
Former Minister HIV positive Chris Smith, the UK's Secretary of State for Culture from 1997 to 2001, and the country's first openly gay minister, tells the Sunday Times today that he has been HIV+ for seventeen years. It seems a very welcome openness, but how will it go down? What if it was a ex/minister from your country? Is it time for positive status to be, forgive me, rebranded?
January 29, 2005
Darwin@Home Planetwide effort to create life within networked digital ecosystems. [Via the ever awesome Reality Carnival]
Paul Newman For Senate In 2006
According to Atrios, Newman is gunning for Joe Lieberman's seat. I say good. I am not a Lieberman fan.
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Man peed way out of avalanche. "It was hard and now my kidneys and liver hurt." That's awfully articulate for someone who just drank 30 liters of beer.
The Abston Church of Christ is like none other. Here be proof that cats like Jesus.
It's everywhere, it's everywhere
#mofirc weekend party! Old-school IRC chat action. [more inside]
Science alert! Do your part in a scientific experiment that harnesses the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the search for giant ape-like creatures. It’s yeti@home!
Curious, George: Back Taxes I haven't done my taxes in several years, and the IRS owes me several hundred dollars in refunds. Do any of you monkeys know how I go about collecting my money?
Pipe down yous monkeys. This here's the Real McCoy I tell ya, a style guide that'll make any goofy drugstore cowboy the gift of gab like a real shiek; and give jane that It. So read up on your 1920's street slang ya big palooka.
The soundtrack of the Stone Age. The summer of 2004 has seen interesting discoveries in Canada and India that highlight a new branch of archæological research – archæoacoustics.
January 28, 2005
The Office Here is the US version of the British comedy, The Office. I had high hopes for the US series, but this is just crap.
The Prokudin-Gorskii exhibit at the Library of Congress web site shows a fascinating variety of color photographs of WWI-era Russia. Prokudin-Gorskii, the Tsar's photographer, took the photos on three glass plates to achieve the color effect, and the Library of Congress shows how the photos were digitally rendered from the glass plates. [more inside]
Nostril? Is that you? A fine use of ale right here... [more inside]
Curious, George Where is the best place to post something that I think my fellow Monkeys will find interesting and humorous when there is no link to go along with it? [more inside]
Nintendo Records
Watch all your favorite games of yesteryear beaten in record time!
Monkey learning to clean monitors
Remember, oh so long ago in Internet Time (mebbe two weeks ago?) that cute kitten that cleaned your monitor for you?
<http://60gp.ovh.net/~cleanyou/>
Well, this boy is in training to do the job too.
Monkeys will pay to look at porn Okay...which of you'se guyz has been moonlighting at Duke University?
Yatta dance Video (Windows Media File)
Yatta! Yatta! Yatta! Yatta!
A student just graduating!
A leader of a great business!
Do we ever get a lucky feeling
A-with our simple leafy nakedness!
Read More About it Here!,
XXX hardcore c64 games (not safe for work, obviously)
Cats and Witnesses It's not just yoga that's not a good idea, anymore.
Massive mound of coal manure burns for 3 months straight!
includes the quote "crews fighting a blaze in a three-acre manure lagoon"
ew, need I say more?
Quality Film Making
Own a DVD of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Of Mice and Men, or Invasion USA? Then you got screwed.
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Bushes (Quicktime) People getting their bikini line waxed.
Fancy yourself as a reader of human behaviour? Try this! You are a professional responsible for the care of cuddly toys who have been abused. Cure them, and try not to have to resort to ECT! (SFW but Flash, sound, in German but with English option) [more inside]
Singing in the Rain, rather updated. (.mov), It's an advert, but damn it's well done. (via Media Guardian.)
What I Heard about Iraq Eliot Weinberger demonstrates the polemical power of not forgetting.
The Bunker Via Tiny Little Dots: what everyone needs in their backyard. Be the envy of all your neighbors by having the first portable bunker on the block.
Curious George: Laptop batteries. I just replaced the Li-Ion battery in my laptop, but my tech-savvy wife says I can only expect a year of life at best. Is this pretty much on target? I remember that the factory battery (HP) did flake out after 18 months. Any experiences, ideas, or authoritative links on how to avert the annual battery toss?
January 27, 2005
The religious right is getting pissed at Bush: they won't support his Social Security "reform" unless he backs their crusade against gay marriage. "We'll only help you fuck over social security if you make discrimination constitutionally legal" - that's how I'm reading this. Am I being unreasonable?
via Devoter.
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A million lives. Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and more. [more inside]
Ok one more time...Monkeyfilter nominated for Best Community Weblog.. they're back up..go vote
The best of the web eBay
Tomorrow archaelogists' job will be easier thanks to sites like this. They will think we were wacko, and yes, they will be right.
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Let me be the first to refer to them as... Moan Tones. This is, quite possibly, the 4th most awesome thing... ever.
Meet Patches, the horse (4MB .WMV, SFW)
Company adopts ultimate no smoking policy:
Smoke and we'll fire you.
hmmm...this could be a problem.
Night Ranger Photo Album I had no idea these guys were still around and apparently they still ROCK!!! Time to dust off the Camaro and Groom the Mullet. Sometimes I really miss bad 80's rock.!
Something savory after all the sweet links. The Hungry Tiger records lovely food creations, often with an exotic twist. You know, because you weren't already hungry enough. [more inside]
Comparing Apples and Oranges. See, that wasn't so hard.
Clotilde writes passionately about food. The recipes, the pictures. Ooh la la! J'ai faim! [more inside]
I want candy! I'd like to find the best gummy/fruit candy to give to my sweetie for Valentine's Day. [more inside]
GOP: Donate to get Bush past the Liberal Media After the Armstrong Williams scandal, and the Maggie Gallager scandal reg req., sorry and the GOP call for donations, came the . . um . . stories we haven't heard about yet. Darn that LibMedFi
The Secrets of Zchocolate.
The "one in a million chocolate." Only $1,000 per box. But don't ask what the box looks like: "We don't publish the box image. So either you know what it looks like, or you don't know. It's not a fancy box, we're not box makers... we're chocolatiers. But each box has multiple unique identifiers to guarantee that you are receiving zhocolate and not a copy-cat."
deranged young fella makes super-KitKat (via qwghlm)
SWORDS (armed robots) could join US forces in Iraq in early 2005.
Greater Manchester Police clamp down on cod Irishry
I play and love Traditonal Irish Music [warning - sound at last link], so whilst I am aware of the Manc plod's somewhat chequered history, surely we can appluad them in their stand against the horrible crime that is Michael Flatley and his risible prancings?
The Free Library of Philadelphia is an increasinly librarian-free Library service.
Due to funding cuts, the Free Library of Philadelphia will be operating 20 out of its 49 branches without librarians. Library assistants will provide lesser reference services at these branches.
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Curious, George: Cuba tourist traps
Any monkeys been to Cuba - more specifically, to touristy Varadero? I just want to strap on a snorkel and smile at feesh all day, but there are some in the contingent who might be keen on side trips. Hot (heh) tips on economical ways to Havana, etc., gratefully accepted, and see-gar orders taken!
No Monica remarks, pliz.
January 26, 2005
I'm listening to the Arcade Ambience project, and I was wondering: is there any (many) audio weblogs around? There's a million different photo weblogs (and a million different kinds), but sometimes I just want to hear the sounds of other places - buskers, sirens, arguments and noise...
Bookmark this for thirty years and see if they were right... check out the other Fountain of Age Galleries too.
The Works of Charles Fort The man for whom the Fortean Times was named, he was Mulder and Scully before there were internet nerds. Particularly of interest is his Book of the Damned, a collection of facts that science is powerless to explain...or at least was, in 1919. Full text in HTML format. [more inside]
"I never went to school for it."
Quite possibly the closest I've come to empathizing with all the women that go through with it. (QuickTime - NSF People who hate catchy beats or are too visual)
PUPPIES, PUPPIES AND MORE PUPPIES! A preview of the upcoming Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet. Woof! Short yet annoying ad runs first. Sigh.
Spurious George - So what happens if you are confronted, with the truth, small & pathetic though the truth may be, that you are an asshole? [more inside]
New research
suggests that the Australian desert may have been created by human activity. Various ambitious proposals (pdf) have been made for greening the desert - seed the clouds, a giant egg-whisk, a transcontinental canal, a new mountain range. Perhaps the men of the trees have the answer. (Shouldn't that be people of the trees, though?)
Happy Australia Day, anyway.
Irv Spence's Daily Diary In 1944, MGM animator Irv Spence kept a cartoon diary of the daily goings-on in the cartoon industry. Big world issues (this WAS 1944) keep popping up, too. Filboid Sudge blogs the diary day-by-day.
Is there anything cuter
than two identical twin twelve-year-old girls who have a band together? How about if they dress in matching plaid skirtsthat ups the cuteness quotient, right? And what if they perform folky versions of classic racist songs by bands like Skrewdriver and Rahowa? Whoa! Now we are heading into the cute danger zone.
They are Prussian Blue, and some of their songs can be downloaded here.
Keep you JAYSUS of MAH Penis...ok, so this might not be worth shit, but it's def. Gutsy...particularly the Bush's daughter part.
For Quicktimers and For Windowers
SFW if you turn your speakers down...I think.
Order of the Stick
Are you a member of the Order? A webcomic for all those who've sweatily fondled twenty sided dice.
Place the State Test your knowledge of US geography! A fun little puzzle.
Firefly Pinyinary - for all your Chinese space swearing needs. [more inside]
Pixelfest!
Contribute one sprite at a time.
The Ten Worst Corporations of 2004 -- The Multinational Monitor publicly shames 2004's most villainous price gougers, polluters, union-busters, dictator-coddlers, fraudsters, poisoners, deceivers, and general miscreants. via the excellent Progressive Review / Undernews. [more inside]
Republican Girls Are Easy It was posted by Wonkette. So it must be true.
The Striking Daughter Sayuri quicktime, PNSFW, silly, disturbing, and really quite wonderful [more inside]
Yoga: Not a Choice for Christians - At least not Jehovah's Witnesses. Apparently it can lead to demon posession.
Curious George: I'm Dying Should you tell a SO that you've got not too long for the world? [more inside]
January 25, 2005
50 most obnox...oh wait, it's not obnoxious, it's loathsome...50 most loathsome people in America
Yes monkeys, it includes Clay Aiken, Jonh Kerry and 50 cent.
It's ok if no one asked me, I still approve.
Hitler and the Sea-Monkeys "Nobody ever doubted that Harold von Braunhut was one twisted dude. What else can you say about a man who transformed a dinky, transparent species of crustacean into "Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys," peddling billions of the creatures under fantastically false pretenses? A man whose 194 other patents included those other unforgettable staples of comic-book advertising, Invisible Goldfish and X-Ray Spex?"
Copts, the forgotten Christians.
One of the oldest Christian sects, formed in Egypt, the Coptic Christians endured persecution by Roman Christians for their supposed heresies. . Initially they flourished under Islamic rule, but shifts in Miuslim attitudes, exacerbated by the Crusades, led to waves of persecution that did not recede until the 19th century.
The Coptic language and writing system is the most direct descendant of ancient Egyptian, and was pivotal in decipering the hieroglyphs of old Egypt.
Curious George: What the funk?
In a continuation of the previous question on this topic, I present you with the following:
I have a new cube neighbor, who likes to wear purfume. Lots and lots of purfume. To the point where I can see the vapors rolling out of her cube.
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Yaaaayy! SpongeBob receives 'unequivocal welcome' from United Church of Christ. Rev. John H. Thomas, the UCC's general minister and president, also takes the opportunity to slap radical cleric James C. Dobson around with his own Christian morals. (Follow up to this post.)
Elephants save lives before tsunami strikes
Article about captive
Thai elephants who sensed the earthquake and then the approaching tsunami. Breaking free of their restraints, they fled to the hills and picked up any foreigners on the way and saved them from
the water also.
You Can Always Trust A NAKED CARPENTER
Dragostea Din Tei RULES YOUR WORLD [more inside]
181 drugs
you should never take (so why are they still available?) and more info. I don't think I've ever had any of these, though I dare say they go by different names in the UK.
via ResourceShelf
tts: australia [terrorist training school] is the latest tactical media live artwork from pvi collective. [more inside]
Worm racing (Flash). The first game I know which makes use of the wheel button. via aeiou [more inside]
Bud Plant Illustrated Books Focusing on illustrative, cartooning, comic, reference and how-to art books from the 1880's to the 1990's. [more inside]
Cryptome
welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance -- open, secret and classified documents -- but not limited to those.
Cartome is a companion site to Cryptome. It is an archive of spatial and geographic documents on privacy, cryptography, dual-use technologies, national security and intelligence -- communicated by imagery systems: cartography, photography, photogrammetry, steganography, climatography, seismography, geography, camouflage, maps, images, drawings, charts, diagrams, imagery intelligence (IMINT) and their reverse-panopticon and counter-deception potential.
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Words fail me. SaveMartha.com has purchased the rights to tattoo the phrase “Save Martha! Sign the petition to pardon Martha Stewart! SaveMartha.com” on the right arm of Long Island, NY pool-cleaner Joe Tamargo. Discuss.
January 24, 2005
Monkeyfilter nominated for Best Community Weblog
Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Alien: The role playing game. (To be filed under WTF)
Project Implicit
- It seems biases are more prevalent inside us than we imagine, and these tests seem to indicate that they might not be going away any time soon.
Related link: WaPo article (very long!) about the phenomenon, the tests, and what it all means.
Via The Smoking Room
Curious George Responding Style When you respond to a post or comment made by someone, I am curious as to if you respond to what that person is saying at the moment, or if you respond to them as a collection of past posts that makes up an online persona?
Australians. Can't take 'em anywhere - Look at this photo closely.
Andy Goldsworthy makes art from nature.
Funny Flaps (flash). Also, Willy Wonky.
Make an mp3 player out of a tin of mints. Also check out this post pointing to more resources on building your own mp3 player. via EmptyFree.com
The lucky virgin hammer The excellent flash seizure, the spinning zodiac hands, the iron rabbit frenzy, and the monkey king's turtle slash. All these and more from the Verbal Kung-Fu Generator. [more inside]
Honey Amber Rose The First Beer for Women "It is our Mission to Reinvent the Image of Beer and fund the wonderful cause of Womens Entrepreneurial Dreams."
The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience. An in depth analysis on the failure of Evangelical Christians to live up to their religion. On everything from charitable giving, sexual relations, divorce, extramarital sex, pornography, racism and materialism, both the standard Christian and the Evangelical Christian differ very little from the "unsaved". From Christianity Today found via Linkfilter. [more inside]
The Raiding the 20th Century Expansion! Last year, DJ Food/Strictly Kev released the awesome Raiding the 20th Century mashup (previously discussed here). A year later, he has released an expanded version. Collaborating with Paul Morely, author of the book Words and Music, the goal was to "make the definitive document on cut up music." Seems to me they succeeded. [more inside]
Carbon monoxide poisioning I need some advice and assistance. While in my basement this evening, I discovered a ventilation pipe coming out of my heater was completely disconnected. I called both the landlord and the gas company and they both came and BOTH stated that it was carbon monoxide coming into our basement. [more inside]
January 23, 2005
Flash: Prince of Persia. I haven't played much of it yet, but it looks like UbiSoft has made the entire classic game available online in Flash format. Praise be to Jordan Mechner!
Stuporous George can't remember...
I seem to have a memory problem more often then I used to - but I don't really have anything to compare it to, so this is where monkeys come in...
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Cryptome Eyeball Series
- pictures of hypocrisy & reality. Be warned, although most of these look benign, I cannot say that some of them might not be graphic. However, I can say that this next selection IS graphic, so don't look at it at all if you are squeamish: The Face of War, pix taken in order to identify the dead of Fallujah in November 2004. Be warned, these corpses would make Romero gag, but we must see what war will wreak.
More: Dahr Jamail on Devastated Iraq. The Tsunami of Iraq. To defeat war, we must see the evil that it has wrought. To fight evil, we must know the face of evil.
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Good Bye Johnny Late night fixture Johnny Carson has died at the age of 79 at his home in California. I remember as a child, the thrill of being allowed to stay up late to watch Johnny, and I will always remember his final show with Bette Midler... I'm sure all of us USAians and others who got the feed of the Tonight Show internationally will feel his loss as much as I do. Few people on television have become a part of people's lives the way he did.
Onelook This has been in the threads, but never featured as an FPP. It is, however, the best of the web. Somniloquy: 12 dictionaries. Subterfuge: 18 dictionaries. Wager: 20 dictionaries. Conspiracy: 29 dictionaries. Jester: 19 dictionaries. [more inside]
Songs from Juliana Hatfield's music vault.
Having released In Exile Deo last year, Juliana Hatfield is now sharing songs that didn't fit on any of her albums. She explains in a letter that she'd rather freely share these songs than let them sit around "gathering dust." Those who download the songs can opt to make a PayPal donation.
I've always thought this could be a viable business model for some artists -- distribute your work freely and get fans to give you donations. I think most people would love to support their favorite artists in this way.
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The Teenage Roblog!
Even if you don't like the new Nickelodeon animated series My Life as a Teenage Robot you may find this blog by a few of the creators interesting. The blog's made up of fan based stuff like exclusive art, official drawing tips, and pervy fanart, but the blog also has more general points of interest such as a subtle sense of dealing with higher ups, info about production, and an impression of the psychology of artists working for a major network.
(via: Cartoon Brew)
A Riverside, Calif. neurologist lost a patient to CJD last year and thinks something is fishy at NPDPSC, the US prion watchdog agency. Allegedly the agency ruled out mad cow based on a test not acceptable to neuropathology experts. Now they've "lost" the brain sample and aren't talking to reporters. Now six cows from an infected Canadian herd have disappeared in the U.S. beef supply without a trace. The USDA doesn't seem to be talking to reporters, either.
Cross-breed animals. Love child. Never meant to be. But still really cool.
This song will literally make you want to die. Literally. It was played by NYC station Hot 97 until they pulled it. Sit back and enjoy the warbling vocal meanderings of two idiots singing crude, offensive lyrics about the tsunami.
Christopher X Brodeur a "professional pain in the ass," is about to announce his mayoral candidacy. He's got 100 ideas ranging from free subways to repopularizing murphy beds... and he just got himself arrested for harrassing the mayor's office. Via Gawker. [more inside]
Calling all monkeys: Come help us break in our Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel, #mofirc, tomorrow (or today technically - January 23.) [more inside]
Curious George: Party Planning. So my roommate and I are planning on hosting a party. The question is, how many people do we invite? [more inside]
January 22, 2005
Buffyology. From Are you sure this is a good idea? to "Yeah, Buffy. What are we gonna do now?" Every character, episode, cast member, writer and director and every word of every show, in a searchable database.
Doing the Boomer [more inside]
People need to know more historical demography.
This Time Magasine article [via mefi] is currently annoying a great many 20-something people because it seems to imply that they are choosing not to marry or settle down because they are immature.
However, it annoys me more, because Time Magasine has apparently not even picked up a simple history textbook. If they had, they might have noticed that the current average age of marriage in Western European (and now North American) society has been moving back and forth between the early and late twenties for over 500 years.
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Curious George: Voice Recognition Software I need your help yet again monkies, but this time on my mother's behalf. [more inside]
Gruesome Rat Encounter Freaked Out and Horrified George: There was a RAT in my dining room when I got home last night. The cats had it cornered and were playing with it. The whole thing was beyond horrible and I ended up sweeping it out the front door with a broom, so it seems to be gone, but now I'm all freaked out and don't know what to do next. I must add that I am severely phobic about rodents. (+) [more inside]
Munchausen!
Read the Baron online, with or without illustrations.
(Notes on the 7th edition and more on the author and topic.)
Visit the Collection in Munchausology! Collect the cards! See one Munchausen film! See them all!
And don't forget about the syndrome!
Japanese Cute Animal Pic Site
Post your fave, perhaps with caption?
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Broken George. Had a terrible but very, very clear-cut breakup over the phone. I'd greatly appreciate any advice on how to keep myself from going insane with grief. What's your best post-breakup plan of action? [more inside]
Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered on PBS. The last network to fall to neocons. Rants 'n links within. Discussed previously. [more inside]
The Angel Light. Real or fake? A man claims to have built a device that can see through walls. The idea came to him in a dream and he built it without a blueprint, yet allegedly various foreign institutions have shown interest.
Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Super-Heroes
January 21, 2005
FCC Chairman Powell announces His Resignation. Good to see one of the man culprits for the chilling of free speech in the US is resigning. Of course I tremble in fear at who his replacement will be.
London Underground: shoot them all with a rifle UKFilterFor everyone who has ever had to suffer a commute on the London Underground. (Quicktime) Possibly NSFW due to a lot of swearing, although if you have ever had to commute on the London Underground, I'm sure you'll agree that the swearing probably doesn't go far enough.
Anatomy of an excavation contains Howard Carter's written journals and records concerning the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the 1920s. It also contains a database of written records and/or Harry Burton's b/w photographs for nearly 600 objects entombed with the boy king (number to the right of the slash indicates number of photos). [more inside]
Don't step on the rails without authorisation!
Fabulous ad for the French railway company. Packed with special effects and dry humor. [QuickTime] (In French but subtitled in English for the language impaired)
Bunny Suicides. Not safe for wabbits.
The Monkey Overlords Are Coming!
The Big Lebowski & Buddhism - The Dude is Buddha, & the movie is about the quest for enlightenment. Maybe. [more inside]
The Malibu 9 starring: Mr. "Big Pinky" Malibu and his very best friends: The Deepfried Penguin posse. After a late night at the club, the whole crew were on its way home. BUT THERE IS EVIL IN THE NIGHT! Who can be so cruel? There is only one...a bird so mean, cactuses grows in his footsteps...El Flamingo! [FLASH GAME]
Every Nintendo game, from Abadox to Zombie Nation, in Java format.
Ademilton dos Santos The heaviest baby in all of Brazil. [more inside]
Serious George - Reccomendations on a home alarm system? Hi all, does anyone out there have a suggestion on an (realitively) inexpensive home alarm system. I don't need it to be wired to a security company or the cops since I live in an apartment building with lots of nosey neighbors, but a friend of mine's apartment has been hit a couple of times recently and it made me want to be a bit safer with "my stuff" than I had in the past. I have a cat, so motion detection is out, but I'd like to get my windows and front and back doors on a (hopefully) wireless system and I'd like to keep it cheap (under $200?). Thanks.
January 20, 2005
Curious George: MonkeyCAD. What free/shareware CAD program might be good for designing a cheap mountain cabin? Something that would let me assemble lumber on-screen in 3D would be cool. Have any of you tinkered with anything in this area?
Beautiful QT Muppet Movie
Words fail me.
Curious George: MonkeyFilter gift swap community I just created this; it's called MonkeyGifts. Would you like to join up for gifty swappy goodness? [more inside]
Ingenious George' s Freezerburnt Secret ...Cool...and easy to make for free. [more inside]
Just wanted y'all to know i possess a fine mathowie. A very fine mathowie i might add. In fact, my mathowie's hot!!! It's so hot it's actually on fire!!
Face transformer (java)
I've been waiting for somebody else to post this... (via MeFi) Apparently armies of squid are advancing on California. They've even found ways to get inland. AND now, they've got night lights (and just read what they use to make them - yuck!). Even The New Yorker has noticed something. THEY'RE TAKING OVER THE WORLD!!!
Conservatives claim Spongebob promotes a homesexual agenda Sheesh, haven't we been through this already with Tinky Winky and Bert and Ernie?
Mario on Piano Music Sheet
- Some time back I posted about a guy playing Mario Brothers music on piano blindfolded (you can watch the .wmv of that guy here, now, cos it got moved). Well, here is the sheet music, from the man himself, the blindfolded pianist.
Glub knows why I felt the need to post this, as likely nobody will care; obsessional compulsive posting, probably.
Now there are 2001 uses for WD-40 London barkeepers wanted to stop people from snorting coke off of the flat surfaces in their bathrooms. So they squirted 'em with WD-40. [more inside]
These girls pose a grave and gathering threat -- to your pants. "Flag-Waving, Bible-Thumping Babes Are Waiting For You To Help Them Spread Freedom" -- call or listen online. [more inside]
"This essay considers the meanings and relatedness of sobriety and drunkenness with reference to Levinas, Taoism, Sufism, the Bible, and The Beatles."
Bush & Co. Force Out UN Refugee Chief. Pursuant to this comment and response. Man speaks out against Israeli power, gets sacked. [more inside]
golden gate bridge jumpers filmed.
apparently the filmakers used social engineering to get the footage. Local pols are all in a tizzy.
Welcome to a celebration and study of TOY RAY GUNS!
I'm Sorry, it's too late for Christmas...
but I could get you something more your style for your birthday.
"These slippers are soft and Hygienic; Non-slip grip strips on the soles; Built in deodorant feature keeps feet smelling fresh; No more bending over to mop up spills; Disposable and biodegradable; Environmentally safe; Three convenient sizes: Regular, Light day, and Get out the Sand Bags.
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Say it ain't so Stan!
Marvel Comics consultant and former Editor in Chief Stan Lee has won a multi-million dollar lawsuit...
from Marvel Comics.
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Bill O'Reilly & His Tales of Combat Bill O'Reilly attempted to mislead his audience about how he has seen combat. A caller made O'Reilly admit that he has never been in the miltary. James Poling is offering a reward to anyone that can find a reported incident of O'Reilly was actually in a firefight. Here is the audio of Reilly on his radio show.
Preparing the cadaver The challenge is trying to figure out the first step in disassembling the object. As is expected with Apple, every detail of this design has been thought through and there are no visible cues as to how the casing comes apart.
Metric USA
Curious George: So will the US ever adopt the metric system? I can't understand it. I still think in terms of inches, feet, yards, and miles. Am I an anachronism, who is also teaching her kid the only measurement system I know because the schools aren't teaching it.
Just wondering if it's relevant any more.
Curious Long Term Relationship George: what is "settling"?
How do you know when you're doing it?
Sometimes you hear people say someone is "settling", but what makes this different from the compromises we all must make to get along? You know that you're settling when... ? (Yes, I have a personal interest in this right now).
MonkeyFilter CD SWap III Inside are instructions for joining the new swap. The send date is February 25, 2005. Call your friends and fire up your burners. [more inside]
January 19, 2005
The Wire's website has a number of audio and video interviews with a variety of musicians, songs (some mp3's, some streaming), and editions of their weekly radio show available for download. [more inside]
Automatomania! Automata Cabaret! Automata Cabaret! Automaton History! And really expensive store! Monkey Automata! AND A CREEPY WEBSITE! SMOKING Monkey Automata! Miniature Automata! whew!
"I am dreaming while I am awake." That's how Haruki Murakami describes the writing of his surreal fictions. Now out is his novel Kafka on the Shore, a fantastical Oedipal tale that was a bestseller in his native Japan, selling 460,000 copies in two months. Read an extract from the novel and check out John Updike's review in The New Yorker. [more inside]
Dr. Gene Ray interviewed on TechTV
(Windows Media File - right click & save) - I had no idea that the Time Cube guy had been interviewed on TV. Here we can see him explain his ideas in his own words. If those are words.
c/o Time Cube Central
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"Planes, Trains and Plaintains"
From "this is my thesis statement" all the way to "this is my conclusion", Mr. Freeman may have not had a chance with his Comparative Lit teacher but I think he just won over jaded lit majors everywhere.
via BlackTable
How to build a lightsaber in 20 minutes Either the coolest bit of geek DIY evah, of proof positive that there is such a thing as too much time on your hands.
Protest this!
(Would've posted the link, but as far as I can tell this is pretty buried, via New York Daily News pg. 14 article)
Three New York Emergency Vehicles to be included in Bush's inaugrual parade.
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Epi-curious George
Has anyone been to the "soup nazi" that was made famous on Seinfeld? And if you have, was the soup that good, or was it just sort of fun being waited on by a surly chef?
This leads me to my real question. Do you have any places that you like to go where the wait-staff/chef/bartender is a nazi? I remember hearing about a bar in San Francisco that only serves old school martinis and will bodily eject you if you order a "sour apple" martini (god bless them) and when I went to Philly I was taken to a cheese sandwich shop where I was told that I had to order in a local dialect ("one steak with everything") to get served. So monkeys, do you have any dining/drinking establishments with such strict rules?
Jesus Christ! A Condom! Apparently, Spanish Catholics are ready to make the leap into the 20th century...a hundred years late. [more inside]
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I got the clap, so you do too. Wow. This is just a cold way to do it. I'll exchange fluids with you, but won't call you about a potentially life threatening situation?
Yikes! A bill in California (PDF text of bill) may send the heads of some filesharing companies rolling by making it illegal to distribute the software without ensuring pornography or copyrighted material isn't being shared. But who has the time to take "reasonable care" to prevent copyright infringement of all those users?
The bill's author: "Even if you aren’t selling crack, you can’t have a crack house."
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"Symbols.com contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics." You can browse starting here or search using the graphic index or the word index. [more inside]
Curious George: router confusion I'm trying to play a fairly basic cribbage game (http://www.cribbage.ca) with a friend online, and I suspect that our D-Link routers are fogging our IP addresses. We're also both using ZoneAlarm, and Windows XP on PCs. I know nothing of routers and firewalls and bears, oh my. Anybody have any idea how we can connect?
They're EVERYWHERE! Well, this bit of Flash animation is titled "Fags in Space." As a terrestrial fag, I can't decide whether to be amused or annoyed by this. I'm leaning towards being amused, but I want my copy of Vogue back. NSFW.
Curious George; Rape VS Beat-down
Why is rape perceived as something forever scarring, while something similar, like a vicious beating to either a man or woman featuring the same kind of violent physical and psychological dominance is seen as traumatic, but not something that would prompt you to identify as a "beating survivor". To me it feels like the 'women as fragile flower' idea yet again, with overtones of women's sexual 'purity' being the property of the larger sociaty rather than the individual woman.
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January 18, 2005
The Hasselhoffian Recursion. I've never wanted to die this much in my life. Hypnotic, truly.
Unlickable Nameneko - Don't lick me! Once upon a time in a place called Japan, there used to be a big fad for people to dress up their cats in costumes, place them in little diorama-like sets & take pictures of them. Cats in Japan must be of a particularly patient or semi-comatose breed. [more inside]
We love our lamb!
A scandal is half-heartedly brewing over Meat and Livestock Australia's new pro-carnivore advertising campaign. For non-(and un-)Australian monkeys, the ads can be seen and heard here.
MetaFilter is stumped! Curious George: I can't access Kingdom of Loathing and it's driving me batty. [more inside]
Curious George: Growing Up Girl A friend and I are working on a resource book for young females, sort of an "owners manual" for the female body. My questions to female monkeys is, "What do you wish you had known/been told earlier?" [more inside]
The Gallery page of bookplates.org is just one neat page to scroll down. Oh-so civilized even when the designs are, well, not, the bookplate always seemed wondrous to me. Do you have a bookplate? If you don't, what would your design be? Anyone have links to some great ones?
Evolution and Religion is the PHD dissertation written by Bad Religion Frontman Greg Graffin. Punks Not Dead!! (it's just studying) [more inside]
The Bush Scandal Sheet (First Four Years remix) Clip 'n Save! (daypass required see inside for more) C'mon kids, it's fun to look a the abhorrent abuses of an Administration Gone Wild! [more inside]
Direct Creative conducted an experiment of sending various items through the mail. Jeff Van Bueren writes up the results on their Web site. (via BoingBoing) [more inside]
Write a caption for this pic! Yeah it's lame but how can you resist?
The cunning folk were white or anti-witches, people who could undo harmful magic for you. Tammy (Tamsin, Tamson) Blee (Blight) was also known as the White Witch of Helston, a seriously weird place also known for its Furry Dance Another cunner was James Murrell, and according to this (geocities) site so was Daddy Witch, though this account of her grave suggests she was a bit on the scary side...
Is copyright killing culture? Some documentarians certainly think so.
Left wing milks Bush "They’re no fans of Christianity, but the followers of Gaia have discovered a funding stream through the Faith-Based and Community Initiative of President George W. Bush." and Canada has a right wing wacko press too.
RAWK! Just stumbled upon this huge collection of punk and indie rock videos and had to share. Enjoy.
The darkness of Kelsey Grammer. This thread on I Love Everything had me laughing my ass off. Lots of surreal speculation as to what goes on behind that mighty Grammer forehead.
The Manchurian Candidate? A new book claims to reveal evidence that the CIA, FBI and Aristotle Onassis hypnotised a Palestinian man into assassinating Robert Kennedy. [more inside]
The Leonard Nimory Should Eat More Salsa Foundation welcomes you.
January 17, 2005
Curious George - Music for an Anti-War Documentary Trailer?
Hi all, you all have helped me on stuff like this in the past and thought that I'd try and go to the well one more time.
A friend of mine is directing/producing a documentary on the effects of the war and it's casualties on military families. He asked me to help him cut a quick trailer (about 2 minutes) to raise money for the project.
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Fundamentalism AND Racism! A Winning Combination in Alabama Following up on this post concerning the questionable beliefs of Justice Thomas about law and religion, it turns out that Thomas, the only African-American member of the U.S. Supreme Court, also swore in an avowed white supremacist to the Alabama Supreme Court.
But it works in movies... The US military has considered developing a variety of non lethal chemicals, including an aphrodesiac to trigger homosexual behavior among enemy combatants, an insect attracter, and a chemical to give severe enough halitosis so as to be able to pick out the enemy among civilians. This is modern warfare?
Self-defence with a Walking-stick The Different Methods of Defending Oneself with a Walking-Stick or Umbrella when Attacked under Unequal Conditions
Bill Gates, Porno Model [more inside]
MusicBlog shut down by British copyright agency
The IFPI backdoors the webmaster and forces the hosting company to shut the fellow down.
Moistworks does GOOD work and he's made his politics very clear on his site.
He's moving to a different host but this kind of backwards thinking is never good.
Panzerfust Records is a white supremacy record lable. They have begun Project Schoolyard , which is an effort to hand out free cds to teenagers to convert them. In fact, their slogan for Project Schoolyard is "We Don't Just Entertain Racist Kids: We Create Them."
I'm sure that two Iraqi "terrorists" would much rather quit the insurgency, than be forced to find each other irresistible.
But the military doesn't like to disrupt the enemy, they like to kill it.
See here the quirky, non-lethal Weapons of Mass Disruption that that the pentagon has scrapped.
Why? beats me.
Death - the last taboo:
The Interactive Autopsy.
Requires FLASH. Not gory because all cartoon, the only video is a pathologist explaining the trouble with brains.
There is more detailed info on autopsies, autopsy instruments, decomposition, morgues and mortuaries etc, on the associated site. It doesn't, however, tell you which are the best cuts of meat for eating purposes. For that information, I suggest looking into the careers of Ed Gein or good ol' Bert Fish.
Ryfkah the Sphynx Hairless Cat - also Paulïe, Penelope and more in the gallery. People say these hairless cats are ugly but I think they are beautiful.
Coronation Of Democracy Hmmm, I never knew that the "The Inaugural Night Blowjob was first introduced by Mamie Eisenhower in 1953"
Curious, George: I had my car window smashed last night. (SMASH!). Anybody have any experience with getting a car door window replaced? That is, how much should I expect to pay? Is this something I should get the dealer to take care of, or any old glass place? [more inside]
Preemptive Strike?
(CNN link) If the US "preemptively" bombs Iran, I will have to begin to think that it's OK to attack the United States.
I would prefer that OPEC freeze all trade with America and her allies.
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<COMMAND> Click the wheel to visit a random Web page. </COMMAND> [more inside]
Clarence Thomas: God Before Constitution
Via Sam Heldman
According to The Birmingham News:
Many stood and applauded former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore as he walked to the stage to administer the oath to Parker. Moore's action was ceremonial, since Parker took his formal oath of office Thursday before U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in Washington. Parker said Thomas told him a judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.
Does Thomas really feel that a Justice should put God over the Constitution or was Parker blowing smoke? Thomas will likely [more inside]
Kitsch'n Glam. Life happens. Look fabulous.
Cricket Activated Defence System from the Center for Tactical Magic
I know this is on CNN right now, but come on. How does one manage to do this, but not realize it.
Lovely big elephant gets painted - and appears to enjoy it. After all, elephant skin is very sensitive, so they say. Probly lovely tickles. Ky00t.
I just can't decide. Which one to bid on.
January 16, 2005
Outsourcing Drive-throughs When you go through the drive-through in Missouri, the person you are talking to is in Colorado Springs who then sends a picture of you and your order back to the McDonalds. [more inside]
Pogmania! "The game of pogs originated in the 1920s on the Hawaiian island of Maui. There dairy workers played the game during breaks using simple milkcaps. Almost 70 years later, a Hawaiian schoolteacher reintroduced the game and mass appeal soon followed." taken from here! [more inside]
ESA flubs Titan landing show , probably the "worst PR disaster in the entire history of space travel", says astrophysicist Jeffrey Bell. Dr. Bell also laments The Next Five Big NASA Failures, the Mars Genesis fiasco ("the first time a real mission has copied a bad movie"), and ISS: International Space Scrapyard. Maybe he's the Andy Rooney of the space world, but he does puts forward some thought-provoking ideas.
Pongomania! Wonderfully odd and surreal sculptures.
The Tate Online archive. Interviews and performances by artists and musicians. Presently the archive holds over 100 events, representing around 350 hours of audio and video.
How to say "Death to America" in Arabic - PLUS: How to say "Death to America" in Farsi.
What's better? Japanese schoolgirl uniforms or the Episcopal Church? A hot dog toaster or Bobby Brown's mugshot? The letter E or Calista Flockhart? Now YOU decide.
Warning: addictive as all hell, but probably a double. I try.
Curious George - How to Dump a "friend" Potential stalker problem. [more inside]
Curious George: Protesting the Inauguration Some hippies from my college are organizing a trip to Washington DC to protest Bush's inauguration Thursday. I am thinking about going, because I hate Bush and, plus, I have never been to Washington DC before. Anyway, I was wondering if any monkeys here have any advice, or also plan to attend. This will be my very first protest. Oh boy. I will so rock the 2x3 free speech zone. [more inside]
American Scientist wonder, 'Where are the aliens?' The Fermi Paradox questions the probability of finding intelligent extraterrestrial life. Modern science has brought us the possiblity of wormholes, extrasolar planetary detection, and time travel has not been denied. So, it is wondered not so much, "Where are they?", or even "When?", but "Already?" [more inside] [more inside]
January 15, 2005
Irritating but loveable cat I have an extremely needy/irritating cat. I think putting her in another home would make her happier, and me as well. My wife needs reassurance. [More inside]
Safecracking
"Nowhere is the sense of secrecy surrounding safe and vault security greater than it is around the selection and location of effective drilling points on various safes. Where to drill is perceived as one of the darkest and most carefully guarded secrets of the safe trade, something that can be learned only through careful analysis and cataloging of hundreds of different containers.
Determining where to drill is actually quite straightforward."
Matt Blaze at UPenn just published a excellent paper titled Safecracking for the Computer Scientist, and boy, has it pissed off the locksmith community.
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World's first Open Source Beer - Vores Øl. Based on classic ale brewing traditions but with added guarana for a natural energy-boost. VOOMPAH! [more inside]
How not to lift a car out of the water. Take one submerged car and attempt to lift it out. If it fails, try again with a bigger crane.
Mmm, Sheep Brain Salad Dressing. Police are investigating Wednesday's food-tampering incident at Vestal High School, where officials say a student found the piece of brain at the bottom of a container of dressing at the salad bar.
The Tree of Life Web Project
A collaborative effort shared by biologists from around the world. Provides information on the diversity of organisms on earth, their characteristics, and evolutionary history. Pages are linked hierarchically, in the form of the evolutionary tree of life.
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Kingda Ka - the tallest, fastest roller coaster on earth This was posted back in September but Six Flags (New Jersey) has now "topped it off". Site includes some video of the construction, plus animation effects for those who will ride it.
Pussy Pops
NOT SAFE FOR WORK or other living things.
Curious George: Name that short story. Science Fiction / Fantasy. The story centers around a pair of neighboring families. One family is normal. The other family is kinda odd. They don't have any grass on their lawn. Oh yeah, at the end, when both families attend a fair it begins to rain and the "odd family" melt into pools of sugar. [more inside]
CG -- Cubase System 4 Curious George -- does anyone have any experience with Cubase System 4? Opinions on its strengths, weaknesses, glitches (if any), and performance (how much of your resources did it suck up? On what platform?) would be very welcome.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Profanity Adventures Swearing in Text adventures
January 14, 2005
Welcome to Crazyworld. First stop: killing the ugly. Want to know what a person's like just before they become a serial killer? I'm guessing...about like this.
First picture from Titan's surface. Breaking news from Saturn. Cool enough to deserve one more FPP in addition to the older one. I had to dig around to find this breaking image -- sorry that it's a bit tiny.
Curious George: What the heck are you supposed to do with a brand new car? [+] [more inside]
Obituaries of the Future - Nov. 11, 2009 - Busey – Gary (65) fell to his death from the top of the Bunny Lodge in Laughlin, Nevada, after a brief standoff with the Nevada police, screaming about his ferrets getting into a fracas with some weasels.
Only YOU can prevent global warming. By turning off your screensaver and adopting instead a "carbonsaver."
Clock made for the people, by the people
I thought this was pretty cool. It's interesting to see what people were doing at this exact minute in days gone by. (lots of crappy carboard signs, but some very cool ones as well... plus, you can submit your very own!)
via boingboing.
Northumberland Rocks! More correctly, rocks in Northumberland. With prehistoric carvings on them. Forty years worth of archived information and lots of pretty photos of the historic rock art of northern England. If you live in the area, you can even search using a map and see what rock panels are near your own home.
10 Eastern. Look at some found photos, or draw your own pictures.
Life In 2000 AD
- Will it be worth living? From a 1961 edition of Weekend Magazine. And will there be Judges who ride around on big bikes? Via j-walkblog who don't think it is genuine.
Plus: What 1974 thought 2003 would be like. This vision of Christmas 'in the future' genuinely comes from the Dr Who annual 1974. via me @ Nerdfilter
Kitty Squeegee
Can I clean your screen f'r ya, pal?
A study finds that sleepy doctors-in-training are as dangerous on the road as drunk drivers. Medical interns are routinely asked to work more than 24 hours in a shift (in the US and I believe the UK), and afterwards, hospitals allow interns to drive home, exhausted. Should the hospital be liable for any accidents the intern causes due to sleep deprivation? [more inside]
Curious George: Where is it legal for me to camp? Over spring break I plan on going camping by myself, but not the normal sort of LL Bean camping... [more inside]
Steve Albini has a secret stash
January 13, 2005
Curious George: Best blog font? What blog font is easiest on the eyes for you? [more inside]
Wal-Mart strikes back Today, Wal-Mart took out full page ads in Newspapers across the country. They're just sick of being picked on. Poor little guys. Maybe we should be nicer to them.
Grateful Dead vs Joni Mitchell
Okay,not really...just file this under free music for all the deadhead/Joni fans...
A different "Me and My Uncle"
Deadheads know Me and My Uncle as the Grateful Dead's most-played song.
It usually came in the first set, and was usually followed by Big
River. It was written by John Phillips, first played by the Dead in
1966, and then played more than 600 times over the next thirty years.
As you can see from the lyrics, it's your basic manly western song of
gambling, drinking, and killing.
What most people don't know it that it was sung a year earlier by Joni
Mitchell. She was going by the name "Joan Anderson" at the time, and
sang it on the CBC television show "Let's Sing Out" on October 4,
1965. The combo of the sweet voice and the macho lyrics is wonderful.
Blinkx TV is a Search Engine for TV. It's "the first Search engine that allows users to search TV across news, sports, and entertainment programming. Just type in a query and go staright to relevant TV clips." SO I tried the obvious with Monkey and then tried a little WMD
From the "Why Didn't They Have These When I Was a Kid" department : Go to the emergency room in style (links to video on this page).
cue musical flourish aaaaand... YET ANOTHER LA MoFi MEETUP! 2wo, in fact... [more inside]
US Judge orders removal of anti-evolution stickers This will probably be posted all over the place, and may not be new to some of you, but hey this made my day. No more anti-evolution stickers in Cobb County, GA. [more inside]
Get ready for two of the strangest hours in the history of space exploration. On Jan 14, the Huygens probe will parachute through the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon, Titan. [more inside]
After you have learned the exciting concepts of eyebrow design principles, you are invited to take the Master Eyebrow Designer test. Upon demonstrating your mastery of the principles, you will be awarded your MASTER EYEBROW DESIGN SPECIALIST certification.
What the hell is happening at McMurdo? - The US base at McMurdo in Antarctica has been undergoing dramatic evacuation procedures of all personel assisted by the Russians, largely ignored by world media. What the fuck is actually happening? [more inside]
Curious George:
sorry for the double post! ^_^ .
Anyway, I'm not sure if my friends are playing dumb, or if it's really that hard a question, but they never seem to be able to answer quickly or once...
The question: do you guys have one single word in the English language that stands out as your favourite? It can be only *ONE* word.
The Youngblood Brass Band I first heard them on NPR and was knocked out by their funky horn sound.more here and .mp3's avail on the website. Hope you enjoy this funky hip-hop jazz brass ensemble from Madison, WI.
GOD will save you! and to prove it, we're gonna stick THIS needle in your eye!
*squirt*
"o damn it, I hate it when that happens"
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Well, we know it kills (see islamic extremists) but does it heal?...faith, that is. Faith.
An international catalogue of superheroes [more inside]
Ladies and Gentlemen and Cross-Gendered
I give you Angel Monkey.
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Rise to vote sir! And possibly possibly the longest palindrome ever.
Query Letters I love is a blog devoted to queries that some guy in Hollywood has received.
Interesting piece on 60 Minutes tonight. A story about Intravenous hydrogen peroxide [three links] therapy and a doctor who administered the treatment to a patient who ended up dying, and has been charged with murder as a result. [more inside]
Monkey Gone To Heaven
If man is 5
If man is 5
If man is 5
Then the devil is 6
Then the devil is 6
Then the devil is 6
Then the devil is 6
And if the devil is six
Then god is 7
Then god is 7
Then god is 7
The video to this Pixies classic is in quicktime.
Jerry Garcia - great musician AND music instructor. I love reading new stories about people I've heard so much about before. It's the hidden stuff that lies beneath the overt image that fascinates me. For anyone who loves the Grateful Dead this is a neat look back at a time before anyone knew who the Grateful Dead were, when the band members themselves had no idea what they would become.
January 12, 2005
US gives up search for WMD in Iraq ... Um. Wasn't this why we went to war? More inside ... [more inside]
Aiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! (embedded .WMV, SFW, more inside) [more inside]
The Full Page Project
is a web-based initiative to educate America about the facts in the marriage debate, with eyes towards fighting the proposed amendment.
And part of the plan is full page ads in local and national papers.
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Digital Camera Vs. Wonder of the World So I dropped my Canon PowerShot A80... needless to say the monument won. [more inside]
Transplantation of monkey embryonic stem cells reverses Parkinson disease in primates. [Via FuturePundit.]
Atlanta monkeys ahoy!
I'm going to be trying out for Jeopardy in Atlanta at 2:30 PM, February 11th. Would anybody be up for doing coffee during the evening of Feb. 11th or 12th? It'd have to be coffee, as I am not of legal drinking age. And if I could perchance find a mofite who could put me up on the night of the 12th I'd be even happier.
(this crossposted in the grey)
Oil is not welcome in Iceland anymore...
and poises the nation to be the first in the world to create a hydrogen based economy.
This is great really.
The little nation is putting its money where its mouth is, unlike many other, far bigger/richer nations. (*cough* US *cough*)
Kudos to Iceland.
Goodbye, Widget. If you'll permit me a personal note, I just wanted to let my monkeyfriends know that I helped my beloved Widget the dog die last night. She'd herniated another disc in her back and was in a lot of pain. That link is our final portrait together; here's more on my sweet, silly friend, my first dog, whom I'll never forget.
Batman's Anniversary! The TV series turns 39 today! ABC broadcast episode one, "Hi Diddle Riddle," on January 12, 1966! Celebratory Bat-Links: Bat-Quotes! The Best-Looking Bat-Site! A Bat-Episode Guide! A Fab Argentine Bat-Site! The '66 Batmobile! Batman's Traps! More inside! [more inside]
Zookeeper (Flash puzzle game)
World Wide Threats To Shipping
"People are to be tortured in laboratories at Oxford University in a United States-funded experiment to determine whether belief in God is effective in relieving pain."
This landslide is from 1995. This landslide was on Monday. Both images are of the hamlet of La Conchita, Calif., where 27 are now missing (CTV) in a tragic carbon-copy disaster. The media has drawn out the story of the torrential rains, but the LA Times [LA Times, possible subscription] has painted out a troublesome pattern of apathy and man-made causes leading up to Monday's repeat disaster. I'm reminded vaguely of Love Canal.
Greg Palast is angry again. ("CBS' cowardice and conflicts behind purge: Network's craven back-down on Bush draft dodge report sure to get a standing Rove-ation at White House," 11 November 2005.)
Dogs and monkeys trained to herd sheep Title pretty much says it all.
January 11, 2005
Jobs unveils cheaper Mac...
enters competition for the home front.
and IPods for $149?
"damn it! who are you!? what have you done to apple?"
Ball . . . game Flash game. Back in the day when your character was represented by a circle. [more inside]
Diary of a brothel. Allegedly the shift diary of a Florida "escort" agency.
News Flash!! Federally funded abstinence-only programs teach false and misleading information. [more inside]
What Do Michael Chertoff and Alberto Gonzales Have In Common? Well, they both are lawyers. They both went to Harvard. They both have been nominated for top Bush cabinet positions. Oh, and they both are advocates for torture.
Seen a bus on TV? Or in a movie? Or an advert? Or a music video? Buses on Screen is a celebration of buses as they've been depicted on screen over the years. But even experts can be stumped by some buses they've seen.
26. The full names of Scooby Doo's Mystery Inc members are: Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, Scooby "Scoobert" Doo. Shaggy is actually Norville Rogers. One of a hundred things you didn't know this time last year, courtesy the BBC (and thus having a UK flava). What'd you learn this year? Also: "Scoobert"??
Well cheerleaders do it
Sometimes my blood boils over the smallest things, this time it's the statement from a lawyer defending the soldiers in the Abu Ghraib prison scandel:
Mr Womack, defending, played down the photographs that showed naked prisoners stacked in pyramids. "Don't cheerleaders all over America make pyramids every day?" he said. "It's not torture."
Because the cheerleaders I know do it naked while in prision under the careful watch of soldiers with guns...
Steve Kurtz Hearing Today Steve Kurtz of the Critical Art Ensemble has been under investigation for the past 8 months by the FBI, as formerly mentioned here and here. What the outcome of these proceedings will be is unknown, but Steve Kurtz -- and colleague Robert Ferrell -- both face a possible twenty years in prison.
Man E-Bay auctions space on forehead for advertising tattoo
And how much would having that GE logo emblazoned in the small of YOUR back cost?
Marshall Brain , founder of "How Stuff Works", shares his version of the future. A Robot Nation. With Robots in 2015. And finally Robotic Freedom.
CG -- cheap digital camera Well, I bought a crappy little digital camera (Vivicam-30) today, mainly because it was incredibly cheap. I looked around on the net for a driver for it, and found this thing Vivitar call a Mac OS Beta ... [more inside]
According to PC World Wow Wee Robots are designing an animatronic monkey head that looks sweet. [more inside]
January 10, 2005
Did Morrissey's lyrics predict Princess Diana's death? Yet another candidate for the "Magnificent Obsessions" file.
What's on Dubya's 'pod? (scroll thumbnails to the cycling pictures) Now that's a playlist I'm curious about.... and I know some iPod owners that will cry at the thought of him fondling some Jobstech...
MoFi T Shirt Orders
Ok kids, the voting's over and it looks like this design won. I've volunteered to get prices on getting them printed up here in California, but will need to get an idea of how many and in what sizes before I can get real numbers. Depending on the size of the run, real silk screened shirts can cost anywhere from 25 to 7 dollars a piece, so a real accounting of pre-orders is critical. It appears that Tracy will try to make it as easy as possible for you to pay (paypal, credit card, checks and money orders, etc...) so now it's time to walk the walk... Who's really gonna order one (or two, or three)?
PS-Remember to give the sizes that you want as well.
MONKEY!! Oh boy, let nostalgia reign. Growing up in Australia, many many evenings were spent watching Monkey on the ABC. That's the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, not the USian ABC. [more inside]
The Radio Jingle is Dead. Long live the Jingle! [more inside]
Curious, George: Wireless Booster Do any of you Monkeys know of a good wireless booster-type thing? I don't want to boost an existing network, but rather increase my PowerBook's wireless range so I can pick up my buddy's nextwork from down the street.
NobbyNobody only has three pictures up in his ballpointpen art gallery but they're impressive! [more inside]
Curious Chy: Where's Moneyjane? - Last time I saw Monejane post was.. uh.. I think before New Year. I sent her a NY email message, & the delayed reply was a little downbeat, without wanting to expose private shit (not that there's anything to expose). Plus I lost the link to her blog. I dig Moneyjane & enjoy her writings, think she's a vibrant chick. Let's send out a big monkey hoot to tell her we love her? I miss her & let's get her back.
Qu'est-ce que the hell? Lessons in Franglais.
Here you will learn how to speak French like a true Montreal native.... Includes phrases for such amusing situations as meeting people in Montreal, discussing hockey, protesting the strip bars, looking for love online, and even explains Canadian holidays.
New Voices
is a pioneering program to seed innovative citizen media ventures around the country. Its Web Site launched today, and it is now accepting its first round of grant proposals. New Voices will help fund the start-up of 20 hyperlocal news ventures over the next two years and support them with an educational Web site. Each project may receive as much as $17,000 in grants. This is for the monkey who wanted to launch a new media project; I couldn't find his/her FPP in the archives and thought this might be of general interest!
The Maldon Mud Race. I've never been stupid enough to try this. [more inside]
Israeli McDonald's Pulp Fiction 'McShuarma' commercial
(download)
Now, people, I hate McDonalds, because I think the food sucks. But I grokk this Pulp Fiction spoof, cos it's good. Download from the link provided above, click here to watch it. Dead-on Jackson & Travolta impersonations.
.MPG format.
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Salvia divinorum What is salvia divinorum? [more inside]
del.icio.us George Just signed up and am being very thick. The 'add a simple bookmarklet to your browser' part is beyond me. [MI] [more inside]
The Manuary Project "My new years reolution is that I am going to get fucked. 2004 was the driest year my pussy has ever known and I am not happy. My Magic Wand broke in November and I am through grinding my crotch against pillows. I want dick. I don't care if it's big, small, black or red as long as it's hard." [more inside]
Curious George: BitTorrent Machinations Do undercover officers really have to reveal their idenity if they're asked to? Could a torrent site that's closed to new members and who's tracker isn't visible to non-members simply ask everyone on the site if they are narks or not?
Harry Stephen Keeler "a writer reputed to be so bad he's good." [more inside]
Curious, George: Dealing with depression Calling all monkey's who've dealt closely with someone (or firsthand) suffering some form of depression, lets have a chat [more inside]
Is there really an "al-Qaeda"? An article in the latest New York Review of Books, "The Truth About Terrorism" By Jonathan Raban.
Punkettes Poker.
Well, greasy_skillet, I see your Women of 1970s punk and raise you one Women in UK punk 1976-1979.
In the footsteps of Joseph Rock. A blogger revisits some of the places first brought to Western notice by famed anthropologist and botanist Joseph Rock in the early 20th century. [more inside]
Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli. [more inside]
Needing more bookmarks.
What are alternate blogs I could look at when things are really slow? Boingboing and memepool are all headlines, and kuro5hin is a bit too IT/slashdotty. I agree there are tons of them if I just look, but I'd like to know your favorites. I prefer cool diaries from interesting people or travelogues, rather than just links to Flash games and jokes, but I'd be happy to hear your favorites anyway.
January 09, 2005
Lap dance: Short flash animation about a man and his cat.
Protein linked to heart disease Lowering levels of a protein in the blood could offer another way of reducing the risk of heart disease, a study suggests.
Curious, George: a strange food I've posted this over in the Wild Green Yonder to no avail, so here goes: can one eat a hermit crab? [more inside]
Conservative/Repub versions of Monkey filter??
Monkey and Meta filter tend to learn to the liberal/ democrat side. This is not bad, it just is. Does anyone know of any monkeyish/metaish filter blogs that have more a convservative/repub bent? I'm a curious monkey today, you see.
UNIX Haters Handbook OK, posting this to get the "loud snap plus excruciating pain" post out of my mind. [more inside]
Penis fracture. (SFW) "A sure sign is a loud snap and excruciating pain following the injury, as well as the rapid development of a hematoma or bruise."
The Georgia Guidestones are one of many Stonehenge clones in America. The stones are built to exacting astronomical specifications, and are inscribed with "10 Guides" (obliquely referencing the 10 Commandments). The monument has inspired a composition by Yoko Ono (found on this album) and multiple conspiracy theories.
Eyeball Knights (Flash) [more inside]
Your favorite cereal is now even more Devilishly Delicious!
Satan Snaps - breakfast of Chant Aeons.
The Boy With Enormous Nostrils - from an Inuit Story.
January 08, 2005
Behold the healing power of anime! So you found Ringu scary, did you? No wonder, really. What with not a single service shot, chibi sequence, or any rorikon staying power, who can fault the fandom for not buying up all the Sadako plushie-toys the day after the movie came out? Better late than never, though. Presenting: sada-chan!! Soooo kyuuut!! [more inside]
Turkmenbashi has nothing on Kim Jong Il, who has just started a campaign against that most bourgeois of enemies to Workers' Paradise: long-haired dudes. Be sure you check out the slide presentation.
Subterranea Britannica, an awesome gallery of underground and cold war structures throughout the UK. Visit abandoned Tube stops, a failed Channel tunnel attempt in 1880, air raid shelters big and small, a sulphur mine. There's even East German sites, Maginot line forts, and more.
A stop motion animated ranting ant
Avery Ant is a stop motion animated ranting ant and POd pismire.
His 60 second rants are hilarious, itchy, outrageous and plain bizarre.
He is ant Hear him rant!
Avery doesnt approve of animal testing. In this rant he shows what happens when Curious George visits Maybelline.
http://www.averyant.com/video_curious.html
And while were on the subject of primates How about some Darwinian discussion on evolution?
http://www.averyant.com/video_evolution.html
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GI Joe vs the Zombies - Diorama battles. Choose Your Own Zombie Adventure, some zombie comedy, and a couple of zombie stories.
Fuck, shit, ass, cunt, prick, asshole, cock-sucker. Two hundred thirty-four times on two hundred thirty-five pages.
THE COURT: You mean each of those happens to be used exactly the same number of times?
MR. FAIRFIELD: No, Your Honor, that is the total number of times that those words are used.
The Boston trial of "The Naked Lunch" was the last major censorship trial of a work of literature in the United States. Here are excerpts from the testimony of Norman Mailer and Alan Ginsberg during that trial, and related material.
Can you beat the computer?
Here's the rules - pretend to be a television or film character and answer the questions the computer asks as truthfully as possible. The computer will then try and guess who you are.
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La biciclette, trasforma - FLUIDA.IT è il mezzo di trasporto ad alta tecnologia ideale, progettata secondo criteri di maneggevolezza ed eleganza. Leggerissima, flessibile, poco ingombrante, di facile utilizzo, FLUIDA.IT è stata concepita delle esigenze del 'nomade metropolitano', per assecondare sia i ritmi dinamici della vita quotidiana, sia i momenti di relax.
January 07, 2005
Memories of slavery. "Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves." [more inside]
Gawker: Ashley Simpson, Glutton for Punishment Apparently she was booed after her performance at the Orange Bowl. The funny thing is, is that this time it's all because wasn't lipsyncing. You guys must have all been boozed up on Jan. 1st to have missed this. Now, admittedly, I'm not much of a sports guy, but after all the buzz on the other filter about her first mess up, well. This would have been interesting to see. Miss it? Here's a video clip.
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread --and Thou... [more inside]
legnipple!
(SFW)
via cruel.com
It's the Bees Knees! Long before there was the "shiznit", there was "the bees knees". Presented for your amusement and an explanation of what your grandparents were talking about, the origin of phrases. [more inside]
Surgical scrubs
medical uniform tops offer a blend of Scripture and design with a Biblical theme allowing nurses, doctors, dentists and other healthcare professionals to wear and share their faith and address the spiritual needs of their patients.
Bush Pushes for Deal Limiting Class-Action Lawsuits Yes that National Mastermind, the Brain who's got Game, our deloved Suuuuper Genius - has called for legal reform. By moving class-action lawsuits to federal courts, people will be weakened in their efforts to collectively sue. Despite evidence that, in fact, businesses are the cause of the "lawsuit explosion" as some claim.
The land of the free? Please tell me that the proposed legislation to criminalise women suffering miscarriages has no chance of getting through.
The internet pushes everything, even sexual limits.
So what happens when there's access to anything all the time: do you curb your enthusiasm or crave more? if so, what is it? is deviance more powerful than sexual orientation? or is this a case of "the right price"?
A lot of really good questions are raised here IMO. (SFW. Potentially Not Safe for Macho guys)
Diam Flash game - strategy. From 1 to 4 players. [more inside]
What kind of Intelligence do you have?
- It's one of those little questionaire things which are usually not very deep or in any way scientifically valid, but which still can be a fun way of exploring your own attitudes. Also, what kind of Soul are you?
Lightweight little timewasters. And why not?
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The Seduction Room Ladies, you've been dating a great guy. He's everything you've ever dreamed of. You're thinking he may be "the one." You decide that tonight's the night you will make mad passionate love with him. He opens the door to his bedroom and this is what you see. How do you react?
January 06, 2005
How you can break Murphy's Law
"There's grim news for people who worry that if something can go wrong, it will go wrong. A new mathematical formula has proved Murphy's Law really does strike at the worst possible time."
River of Gold. Installation of The Gates, a project by the artist Christo has begun. Like any public art, the project has been met with criticism, though perhaps in this case more for its timing than its content. Nevertheless, for 16 days, the saffron fabric will look quite striking against the grey winter environment. Then it will be gone without leaving a trace. [more inside]
Monkey Meter Road Rage Rate and see how you city's Road Rage index is.
God Hates Rags And so should you. [more inside]
Amber Alert for the Panchen Lama of Tibet.
Drinkometer 2 - are you very, very drubk? Would you like to be? How about just simulating it? Then try this crappy old FLASH simulation where you can get pissed, squeeze the barmaid's tits, & have shitty novelty products hawked at you. This is my life in a nutshell. [more inside]
picture this:
Bill gates on a podium presenting his latest product. The crowd anxiously awaits the first glance at truly revolutionary software, he points, he clicks, and then...THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!
he he he
Subservient Blair - First there was subservient Chicken, then there was uh.. that subservient bit of totty, then there was subservient President. Now Tony B.Liar gets the treatment. Tell him to be honest.
Most popular names of 2004 (pdf) in England and Wales. 'Mohammed' is now in the top 20. Informal or abbreviated versions - 'Jack', 'Charlie' - are ever more popular. And while a great name like, say 'Peter' doesn't feature, the top 50 includes names like 'Toby' - surely best suited to dogs (or jugs). As for the girls...
Work Poopers of the World, Unite! Stand up (eh, I mean sit down) for your right to take a magazine to the employee's restroom!
The Periodic Table of Comic Books
The Command Line in 2004: An updated and reader-annotated version of the original essay, "In the Beginning...was the Command Line" by author Neal Stephenson. Full text of the original essay, with extra notes applicable to today's world added by reader, Garrett Birkel. [more inside]
CNN fires Tucker Carlson
and kills their regular Crossfire program. Jon Stewart's ruckus appears to have won him converts at the highest executive levels at CNN. Dare one hope for the US cable media again, or is President Jonathan Klein merely flipping his flops?
Fans of the Bowtied Wonder need not worry: Carlson has a new show on the ultra right-wing PBS (wait, WHAT?!) and there are rumors that he'll land a sweet gig at MSNBC.
Nineteenth Century German Stories
I'm especially taken with the work of Busch and Hoffmann.
Soothly we live in mighty years! A recent post in Language Hat links to an online version of Poul Anderson's "Atomic Theory", but it leaves out all non-germanic loan words that English has imported since (I think) pre-Anglo-Saxon days. Uncleftish Beholding "shows what English would look like if it were purged of its non-Germanic words, and used German-style compounds instead of borrowings to express new concepts." [more inside]
January 05, 2005
Curious George: high mobility from laptop / notebook I'm wondering if the Monkeys have any suggestions for a high-end laptop / notebook with excellent 'use-it-any-damn-where-you-like-pal' features? [more inside]
Dialecticly/Phonetically Challenged? Check out these flash charts of any orally producable part of speech imaginable! [more inside]
The Old Farmer's Almanac I was intrigued by the calendar marking special "red letter" days - there are a few of them right off the bat here in 2005 . . . Also i hear it's good for predicting eclipses, should you ever get thrown back in time and captured by angry natives. [more inside]
The iBod: Portable pics for your iPod (Potentially NSFW, mentions the bunny rabbit pr0n company) [more inside]
Meet Pontifex vonHummer, musician, lobster headgear aficionado, and host of The vonHummer Hour.
"Describing the vonHummer Hour is like performing a strip tease for a roomful of blind eunuchs: it's not a total waste of time, but it might as well be."
You can listen to the theme song, the songs of the month, or catch clips of the show on the downloads page. Live in or near Portland, OR? Watch the show. Better yet, come see vonHummer live on February 5th.
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First National Kettlebell Competition.
In Vegas, baby. Featuring Best Paint-Your-Own Kettlebell (don't forget, must be a Dragon Door manufactured kettlebell), Best Kettlebell Desissification Story, The US Secret Service Kettlebell Snatch 10-Minute Gut Check ("When You Only Have 10 Minutes, a Few Good Snatches will Do Ya!") and the ever-popular "Kettlebells in Your Daily Life Personal Video" competition.
As if Google wasn't awesome enough...
As if Google wasn't awesome enough - now it provides voyeurism! eheh
Search Google with this string: inurl:"MultiCameraFrame?Mode="
You'll find hundreds and hundreds of "unsecured" webcams, many of which are security cameras. You can control a lot of them, too.
(snagged from several places)
Buddhist monks use art to teach compassion about HIV/AIDS. Laotion monks have developed a series of posters aimed at spreading love and compassion for people living with HIV and AIDS, while addressing the stigma and discrimination surrounding the disease. [more inside]
So you want to mow through a sea of zombies? You'll need a suitable controller. [more inside]
Six Apart, parent company of Movable Type and TypePad, are buying LiveJournal. Five point five million LJers will be forced to spellcheck before publishing (if only). [more inside]
Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers I'm Irish and love my cats but this just does not seem good...
Vote for the MoFi Shirt, MoFo's!!!
Now that we all have the holidays out of our hair, I would like to remind you all of the t shirt competition again.
We got all the designs in, so click on the link above and make your vote for your favorite t shirt. Once we figger out what design we all like, we'll order a bunch and perhaps the sales will help Tracicle keep this mad house running.
Edge's 2005 Question: What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it? (seen on that ...other site).
January 04, 2005
TatAD has been online for just over 40 days and has more than 500 members willing to be tattooed from all over the U.S., Canada and Europe. TatAD allows persons to register to potentially become walking billboards.
Curious Money: So I soon should be receiving more than $30,000 out of the blue. (I am serious.) I've never had anything more than a few thousand in savings or checking. (I'm not counting retirement accounts.) Plopping all this dough into my regular savings account probably is not the wisest thing to do. I probably could get more out of it in some other type of account or instrument. So what should I do?
Comics great Will Eisner passed away yesterday. Author, artist and teacher, inspirer of a generation of graphic novelists and readers. He will be sadly missed.
The New Yorker review of the Phantom of the Opera movie is a fine example of the a bad review as an art. Som have taken a critical look at the bad review, while others have simply found a place for bad art.
Sergei Eisenstein's seminal film, "Battleship Potemkin" has been restored.
The BBC reports that the restored version of the 1925 film "Battleship Potemkin" is going to be screened for the first time at the Berlin Film Festival in February. The film now includes some long-missing title cards and text by Leon Trotsky which was excised by the Soviets, as well as some additional shots in the legendary "Odessa Steps" sequence.
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"How much money would it take for you to kill a puppy with your bare hands?"
QT, NSFW.
The consensus is somewhere between fifty cents and a trillion bucks.
"A child I could see myself doing more than the puppy..."
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100 Years of Illustration Paul Giambarba treks through 100 years of Illustration and holds some of our favorite work to the light. In a blog no less! [more inside]
January 03, 2005
Curious, George: another stupid work question. I need advice about whether I'm being asked WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much at my job. [more inside]
No productivity here. Fun bouncing balls and elastic connectors.
Curious George: Free service to host MP3's for download I have a low traffic blog and would like to occasionally offer MP3's for download. [more inside]
Curious George: "Your Move, Mr. Cage" I was watching some old clips of The Daily Show and at least once Jon Stewart ended something by saying "Your move, Mr. Cage" in a most Dr. No-like manner... [more inside]
The results of dialing 867-5309 from every US area code. Something of a followup to this thread. [Via MeFi]
The Moscow Metro is without a doubt the grandest, most beautiful and ornate subway system in the world. It boasts the largest ridership, 265km of track and is built almost entirely underground. It celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2005.
Alien Taxidermy
Requires some exploration, but pays off nicely.
Zhou Xuan: Shanghai's "Golden Throat" A beautiful singer-actress with a unique singing style and a mysterious past, star of 43 movies including her most famous and beloved, "The Angel in the Street," Zhou Xuan died tragically at the age of 37. [more inside]
African Tomb
assists you in scattering a loved one's ashes in Africa. Also, 3 X PEOPLE WILL EACH RECEIVE AN AFRICAN TOMB GIFT BASKET FILLED WITH AFRICAN GOODIES! Hmmm.
Explosive coin shrinker. Dubious scientific merit and questionable safety standards combine to illustrate the concept of the "shrinking dollar".
First Monday : A peer-reviewed journal on the net about the net.
Remote Islands Made More Remoterer
I have excerpted this from "The SMH," an Australian paper. I have provided the link, but it requires a subscription, pardner.
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I would've spilled all. He didn't crack in the comfy chair. Time for the Fleetwood Mac Album! [more inside]
The Skeptic's Dictionary A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions (and how to think critically about them) [more inside]
Astor Cube:
The anatomy of a prank.
Completely ripped off from memepool.
Here Y'are: Free Frogurt
- Just print this coupon out & run on in to a TCBY (whatever the hell that stands for) store. One free cup of TCBY Low Carb Lovers frozen yogurt. But only one each, remember!
Offer expires at the end of January. And no, I do not own a franchise, nor am I being paid for this. It's free, dammit.
The 2005 Bloggies Awards
have started to gather nominations.
Go forth and nominate thy favorites.
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Something fishy about this... If you collected posters to hang on your wall, and all of the posters had a similar theme, what would that theme be? Swimsuit models? Famous athletes? Great movies? [more inside]
More fun that a barrel full of, you know... Some video from the last LA MoFi Meetup. Enjoy.
January 02, 2005
Pizza, Beer, and Tracicle.
Monkeybashi, #2 and the kidlet are coming to the Bay Area at the end of January. Toss those New Year's Resolutions aside and put the meetup on your calendar.
When: Saturday, January 29, 6pm onwards
Where: Jupiter in Berkeley (right at the Downtown Berkeley BART station)
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Curious George - Patenting an Product
Hi everyone. I have what I think is a clever idea to slow speeding cars (I live on a narrow street that people think is a freeway) and even though I know the item could be put together pretty cheaply using existing technology, I am not an engineer. Nonetheless, after polling friends with the idea (after swearing them to a double pinky swear) it does seem to have potential.
First off, I was wondering if any of those businesses you see advertising on daytime TV (i.e. "...patent your idea with Inventor's Submission Service...") are legit? I'm guessing probably not.
Second, how would I, a smart boy but not a mechanical engineer get something like this patented, and then even more importanly, marketed? I'm not exactly rich, so hiring someone to build it is out of the question. Can one just patent an idea for a product, or do you need to build a working prototype?
Thanks.
PS- Regarding the legal stuff, I live in California in the USA.
The Nectar of the Gods is under threat of extinction
- Pulque, the ancient drink of the pre-Hispanic Mexico favoured by the Aztec elite, is in danger of disappearing from daily use into museums and anthropologist's notebooks.
In other South-American & ancient civilization themed mind candy, the first Andes civilisation is being studied. The zenith of the culture was from 3000 to 1800BC. They constructed complex buildings & irrigation systems.
You've seen the ads for Eharmony.com. What they don't tell you is they're a christian based dating site. The founder of eHarmony, Dr. Neil Clark Warren is associated with Focus on the Family, a right wing christian group. Is this some bizarre form of social engineering based on marriage and family?
A yummy Gingerbread CPU. Also on this site: a gingerbread laptop.
January 01, 2005
Cybersex gone wrong. [more inside]
Curious George: Volunteering My friends and I have been trying to volunteer to go and give aid to the tsunami victims. Because of the disease risk, the Red Cross is saying they wont send Americans. Are any monkeys aware of an organization we can contact that will? [more inside]
New Year resolutions; examples and advice. I'm going to stop eating butter (spread on things, I mean).
Burton & Jefferson meet Roger Ebert
at a party. PLUS: Burton anchors FOX News (with Jefferson). PLUS PLUS: Burton & Jefferson reminisce.
Cartoon Humor with Rude Words & Ironic non-political correctness.
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Life's greatest trip
Take a trip with Arthur Blessitt. His poems and stories will hip you to the psychedelic mind-altering qualities of Jesus Christ.
Thanks, Mr Pants!
Tits and ass, people! Tits and ass!
OMG! I just saw the trailer for this! and I am SHOCKED, people, SHOCKED that I didn't see it here first!
IT'S THE MOFI MOVIE!!!!!!!
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Worlds of magic Pinhole camera pictures by Bethany de Forest: "Her objective was to create a "realistic" imaginary world, in which one can supposedly wander around."
On December 30, 1972 at 9:22 p.m. a plane took off from San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Minutes later, the DC-7, carrying relief supplies for earthquake victims in Manuagua, Nicaragua, crashed, killing all five aboard - including baseball great, Roberto Clemente.
Some baseball players have big heads. Only a few have big hearts. Roberto Clemente was one of the greatest. When he died 32 years ago, baseball and Pittsburgh lost "The Great One", and Puerto Rico lost a son. I cried when I heard he died. And I was privileged to have watched him play so many times.
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Under political pressure, Bush raised the amount of relief aid to tsunami victims tenfold today to $350,000,000. At $35,000,000, that was twelve cents per capita, ranking the US as the 19th most generous nation. [more inside]
Conservative Art and Zepplin. I recommend reading all the linked posts in the article, it's quite good. [via our very own apostropher].
