Links posted in April 2005
April 30, 2005
Heavy Trash
is an anonymous guerilla group of architects, artists, and urban planners who aren’t impressed with the increasing prevalence of gated communities.
They’ve erected ‘viewing platforms’/‘mock guard towers’ outside three L.A. communities in somewhat mute protest. Some people feel that gated communities are no different than having a doorman in an apartment building. Others feel it fragments societies and increases social tensions and is a product of aggressive real estate hype. It affects many countries and was the main subject of an international conference recently.
Springtime in Arkham An olfactory tribute to the Cthulhu Mythos and the world of H.P. Lovecraft.
Brain Teasers, Riddles, Games, Forums and more... With over 7,500 brain teasers, riddles, logic problems and mind puzzles submitted and ranked by users like you. Large array of unique online multiplayer games. Increase your creativity, boost learning and become a better person. Get ready to have your brain tangled!
hi, are you looking for insurance advice ? i find these insurance advice valuable. [more inside]
London Calling This American monkey will be in London next week. I'd love to schedule a Monkey Meetup, and I welcome any general advice.
Video Conversion I need to convert WMV files to AVI files, without increasing the file size dramatically, please help! [more inside]
Digital Camera Woes Finally, finally I got my Ebay camera in the mail! Hurray! My very first digital camera! But wait, it is used, and has no user guide, no handy dandy quick reference, no cables, no nothing. Help? (more of course inside) [more inside]
There's still time to buy the new Pope's old car. You still have 5 days to bid! (The link's in German, but you can get the gist.) [more inside]
April 29, 2005
Fractious George
...Workwise, what is the one thing that drives you completely over the edge, through the damn dale, and fuming all the way to Grandma's house?
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School held hostage for 2 hours by 30 inch burrito
Viva Les Amis. A documentary about a cafe in Austin, Texas that served as a focus for the Austin arts scene and general weirdness. Replaced by a Starbucks in 1998. [more inside]
Gift for a newly adopted son? I am getting married May 27th. My fiance has a 5 year old son who I will be adopting shortly (within a month) after the wedding. My question: I want to get him a gift or symbol of some sort... [more inside]
Meet Cyc (pronounced "psych") the next step toward artificial intelligence...this time with common sense and the ability to watch your webcam to learn about you. (insert inevitable Terminator "Skynet" reference here)
Carogi bags. This is, by far, my one possession that gets the most comments and questions. In fact, I own two of them and just ordered another. If you're looking for a gorgeous, versatile, reasonably-priced purse-backpack thingie, this is for you. I really love them!
Cracking locks? I just realized the ingredients are stashed under my desk
Melon-O-Lanterns. It'd be a shame to eat these, but they're awfully cool to look at. My first post, so please be gentle.
The very, very last of the MoFi t shirts
We still have a few shirts left over.
I have just 1 large
11 extra larges
That is all. Once these are gone, there ain't gonna be any more.
You can paypal me direct (not tracicle) with your information (name, address, mofi nickname, how many shirts and what sizes) at michaelescher@comcast.net. The cost for the shirts are same as before, $17 (US currency).
Thanks all.
Extinction isn't forever if you're not actually extinct. After sporadic but unproven claims, we've finally gotten a confirmed sighting (including a very short video) proving that the ivory-billed woodpecker, thought to be extinct for about 60 years, is alive and well in Arkansas. [more inside]
Websearch
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Is searching getting easier or more complicated do you think?
Seems there's a new thingy every other day.
Tips? Preferences? Loves? Rants? Desires? Advice?
The Phillips Collection of beekeeping books. A selection of ten full, searchable texts has now been made available online.
Study claims IQ differences at least 50% genetic
"A 60-page review of the scientific evidence, some based on state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of brain size, has concluded that race differences in average IQ are largely genetic."
Full article and critical responsess in the June 2005 issue of Psychology, Public Policy and Law, a journal of the American Psychological Association.
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Monkey Scavenger Hunt.
(as played in #mofirc).
Skrik. Bratcat. Drivingmenuts. Patita. Nostril a.k.a. Chy.
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Okay, this is disturbing: RealDolls Museum [NSFW]. RealDolls posed in tittilating lifelike situations. But there's just something about those soulless eyes... (shudder). [via ArtDorks]
African gorilla family, believed stolen ... wasn't. [more inside]
An Alabama State Represenatative doesn't see that banning of homosexual authors and books with homosexual characters as censorship. Republican member Gerald Allen is unselfishly "protecting the hearts and souls and minds of our children." How nice. [more inside]
April 28, 2005
Contact Juggling is Freaky! I'm just sayin. [more inside]
Share files, get 3 years in jail - I've not been able to verify this from any other sources, but generally the BBC is a reputable source...
Scientists have spotted an ivory-billed woodpecker in the wild. One male was spotted in an Arkansas swamp. There hadn't been a confirmed sighting since the 1940s. [more inside]
Mind Your Manners!
“Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.” Emily Post
We can't all be Miss Manners, but perhaps an Etiquette Seminar might be the right step in becoming an Etiquette Consultant.
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Wes Anderson á la The Decemberists The Porland art-rock/theater-geek band The Decemberists' video for their tune "16 Military Wives" is a clever parody of Wes Anderson's Rushmore.
Jon Stewart Applies the Smackdown Again This time to hapless CNN "anchors". Will termination ensue? Hopeful fans await. [Quicktime .mov] [more inside]
FantaSigns, Your Name in Art™ For Mother's Day, or perhaps for our very own mothers-to-be, Monkeybashi and Mickey! Or just for fun.
Reason #33 why you don't give creative control to your keyboard player
[warning ~44Mb BitTorrent of a .mpg] This is just another reason why I'm glad that I was never around for the 70's.
Video includes 'stache touting keyboard player, fake druming, inexplicable dancers, and hordes of other things that raised my wtf meter.
Enjoy.
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Omnikin!
flash site with music
I've only seen this "sport," Kin-ball, since coming to Japan. Is it popular in your area? How could it not be, with a promo video like this. Quicktime movie Why was it created?
Lack of assiduity!
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Curious, George: Wedding MCing in a Nutshell. Help! I have had short notice of wedding MC duties falling my way and I am eager not to make the night memorable for the wrong reasons. [more inside]
Androidsexdoll for £4000
FAQ about the dolls
Ron Gilbert wants a car! Apparently Ron Gilbert got a little bitter around Christmastime because none of his fans sent him a car with a big ribbon and a sign saying "Thanks for Monkey Island". So someone decided, for whatever reason, to revive the Christmas spirit within.
Bush on a coin!!?? I wouldn't normally just post a news story, but this is scary. I hate dollar coins. They don't go in a wallet. When I end up with one, I just want to get rid of it. Now the guv'mint is probably going to come out with a new dollar coin inspired by the best-selling "quarters with a state on them" thing. But this time, its "dollar coins with a president on them". And you know the GOP will only agree to this because they've had ants in their pants for years to get Reagan on a coin. Sigh...
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse trailer which requires Quicktime. Batman Begins full trailer, which also requires Quicktime, and George A. Romero's Land of the Dead trailer in Quicktime or Windows Media. (Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright are apparently in this movie as cameo zombies based solely on Romero's enjoyment of Shaun of the Dead). [more inside]
Tech Support George: Firewall woes So a firewall I recently installed (Sygate) has permenantly removed my ablity to access the internet... [more inside]
Christmas Lights Webcam Hoaxer to do it for real in 2005 (?) Remember the christmas lights webcam where bazillions of people (and mass media) thought (!) they were viewing and turning thousands of christmas lights on & off ... but it turned out to be a fun little hoax? Well Virginia, not only is there a Santa Claus, but Internet sufers may very well be able to play with the Christmas lights in 2005 ... for real!
April 27, 2005
Gated Community Guerilla Art The LA art collective Heavy Trash has installed big orange viewing platforms that allow people to look into gated communities as both a protest against the idea of gated communities and an invitation to begin a dialogue about possible alternatives. [more inside]
Please Do Not Press the Red Button! [more inside]
mjau mjau comics by Jason
Catch the Moment , "event entertainment through the use of digital photography." For instance, the Wexler Bar Mitvah went deep under sea with a vibrant tropical fish themed background, while Fiserve had a conference with their key clients and wanted to mix some fun with the business.
For when your toys just aren't passive aggressive enough. This one seems to have a hidden agenda.
Magick, Google-style who knew the image search would be so useful?
Tara may be Scarred
Teamhair (pr. Tara) is an hour's drive northwest of Dublin. It was the seat of god-kings and remains the site of legend. The screaming Stone of Destiny still lies there. According to Irish Myth, heroes have reigned there since the 'first invasion'. Now it faces a grave threat. The bulldozer.
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Political Friendster is a brilliant parody of Friendster: a user-maintained database of politicians, corporations, and the vast web of underground and often surprising connections between them. Hysterical and stomach-churning. (the blue got there first. shh.)
Blog of solo climb of Mt. Everest Would have been unique 5 years ago, but still kinda cool that some guy (Gavin Bate's) can not only do a solo climb of the highest point on Earth, but also blog about it at the same time ... from the mountain. He's at Camp 1, with a summit attempt planned for the end of May.
Watching TV Makes You Smarter. (From the Sunday New York Times Magazine.) Adapted from Steven Johnson's soon-to-be-published book ''Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter.''
Design albums the 50 cent way. Mildly hilarious dissection of the album sleeve 'design' of 50 Cent's latest opus 'The Massacre'.
April 26, 2005
Curious George: Learning Flash Any webarrific monkeys have experience making / using flash for your webpages? I'd appreciate some tips & resources . . . [more inside]
Curious George - Best iPod Hacks?
I did a search on this, but you have to wade through a bunch of webpages to get to the meat of what the hacks offer, and even then I'm not sure I even know what the hell they are talking about half the time.
The first thing I am looking for is a way to share the music I have on my iPod with my sister who just bought herself one without linking her to my computer's music library (she's in Palm Desert and my computer's in Los Angeles). There's got to be a way to get the music on my iPod onto her her iPod easily.
Do we have any iPod experts who can reccomend some cool software that will extend my iPod's capabilities? BTW, my home machine is a mac.
Thanx
Publishable George: How does one go about getting poetry published in this day and age? [more inside]
God Says Up the Bum!
(NSFW, no images, but titles readable from afar, may offend Christians) So...can't figure out how to get butt sex and swallowing onto the menu? Find Jesus. And preach unto the unconverted Anal Sex in Accordance with God's Will and The Necessity of Swallowing - The Sin of Spilling Seed.
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A classic. More Star Wars fun. Luke and Obi-Wan get a message from the dark side.
Toby's Nose Filters® Motto: "If your nose could speak, it'd be telling you CLICK THE BUY BUTTON." Added bonus: Lucious graphic! Heh.
How well do you know your anatomy?
For those with science geek tendencies, the Anatomiae images group pointed to this Smithsonian National Museum of American History quiz.
I got 7 out of 10, which is at least enough to maintain my geek cred.
Bitchchecker is Teh Hax0r!2!
Darth Vader tries to pitch a movie
- not reckoning on the power of the Suit Side.
Requires Quicktime. I thought it would be crap, but actually laughed, so maybe you will too.
The breakup conversation — imagine you've been dating someone for a few weeks, but it's not really working out - so you decided you're going to break up with them over IM. The role of your clingy soon-to-be-ex is played by the computer. (WinXP/2k only) [more inside]
Compelled to write, but fewer readers? According to the executive editor of Norton, sales of literary fiction are dismal, so fewer chances are taken with writers who haven't had a bestseller. As a consequence, good writers may get cut if their latest effort doesn't bring home the cash. [NY Times link, Harold Bloom] [more inside]
Virtual tour of a real-life Hobbit hole. [more inside]
Curious Funky Monkey Jorge Is there some way to identify ourselves on a P2P to other monkeys on the same site? You'd have to be able to search somebody by their user name, I'd think. Which I can't seem to be able to find on Ares. *grump* [more inside]
April 25, 2005
21 Year Old, Still Fresh, Needs some work (via towleroad.)
Woman breasfeeds monkey
A woman in India has apparently taken kindly to one of our fellow monkeys. Not only does the lucky chap get breasfed daily, Buru even gets the occasional sip of "expensive cows milk."
[be forewarned: pic of monkey breastfeeding]
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Gary Busey and George Bush have a surreal conversation. These are actual audio clips, rearranged for humor.
Russian Circus to Feature Nazi Monkeys To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Soviet victory in World War II a circus show will dress monkeys as Nazis and have them act in wartime stories, NewsRu reports.
Cute Japanese Collectibles
for Cute Submerged Babies
The Submarine Well, the metaphorical submarine. A good essay on how most of the 'trend' pieces you read are fed by PR firms. [more inside]
trendalicious! "trendalicious is a near real-time view of website popularity trends as reflected by the del.icio.us social bookmarking service. All URLs that have been posted by a minimum of two people in the past fifty minutes are displayed, ranked by the total number of recent posts. [more inside]
Rolling back the prices on weddings! I seem to be totally agnostic about this news; I'm not surprised at all.
A celebration of non-penetration
WARNING: This site contains descriptions of graphic sexual abstinence and offers abstinence-only education based on the strictest most literal interpretations of the Bible. This material is not suitable for the young or easily offended.Look out for the pix!!
Globish is a simplified version of English with a small vocabulary. Explained in French. (Some fine pieces such as "Fuck - not a word to use, but to know and recognise" - yes, indeed.) It's been done before, surely? Another attempt, for pilots. And another for sky-pilots.
Biodiversity of the Borneo Rainforest [more inside]
Curious George: Martial Arts Monkeys I'm thinking about adding a martial art to my weekly regime. The reason? "So I won't have to fight." [more inside]
Reading Don Quixote Spaniards took 48 hours to read Don Quixote straight through in honor of the book's 400th anniversary.
Hooters Air. I'm just...I had no idea. Wow.
April 24, 2005
Atomic Platters
I found this website rather randomly while searching for photos of a dead televangelist.
A collection of weird, cheesey, anti-communist songs and random right wing propaganda recordings. This one is a supposed recreation of what one would hear at a communist cell meeting.
There's lots more where that came from. The links above will take you to the webpages for each albums. Click on the links to hear real-audio files of the recordings.
Caution: Exploding Frogs - well, toads, actually. German toads are dying in a rather nasty way - their bodies swelling to bursting point until they literally explode sending their entrails several feet in various directions. And nobody knows why.
Run Like Wind...
and Swim Like Fish.
Summer is just around the corner, so here are a couple of sites designed to make you run and swim better. A LOT better.
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April 23, 2005
Random facts about Vin Diesel. The site went down for a bit due to heavy traffic. Hopefully it doesn't happen again. [more inside]
Guess the Google
20 Flickr pictures in a collage.
20 seconds to guess the connecting tag.
10 collages per round.
(I got something like 268pts)
[need Flash 7.0]
The Most Important Games Ever Made [more inside]
Weird John Brown - vindicated by history, this abolitionist visionary was a man who innately understood feminism long before its time, a respected friend of native Americans and an eloquent speaker, but also man of violence who drew no distinction between the innocent and guilty in 'a society determined to perpetuate an evil'. A new biography restores Brown’s centrality to the Civil War.
Romance novels that would be fun to read.
Garden with Insight garden simulator is an educational simulation that uses weather, soil, and plant growth models to simulate a simple garden in an open-ended microworld setting. You can plant vegetables and grow them to learn more about plants, the soil, the weather, gardening, and science. Free download.
Weebl does Breezers.
Weebl, the folks behind Magical Trevor (who Everyone loves), Kenya and the Badgers have put their talents to work for corporate America, specifically Halls Fruit Breezers with a quirky flash movie featuring DJ Ham. I'm not sure if this is considered the new new thing or a return to the jingles of the 70s.
You would have thought that - after Trevor - Heinz Baked Beans would have jumped on this bandwagon.....
April 22, 2005
And the prize for lamest celebrity gallery ever goes to...
Nooooo!! It had to happen. One of Ontario's oldest microbreweries, Creemore Springs, has been bought by one of the monsters. While there are still many good independent microbreweries, as well as others that are still works in progress, it can't be seen as a good thing, either in Ontario, or whereever the tentacles of any of the big guys can reach. [more inside]
Potential terrorists? Penguins go through airport security. [more inside]
Goodbye Hotmail! An ... erm... interesting read. [more inside]
Railway Photographs American, Australian, British, Canadian & New Zealand Railway photographs. The first site was a haphazardly lucky find and then I looked further and there are gazillions of photographs of trains online. These are just a small sample.
emails "pose threat to IQ" The distractions of constant emails, text and phone messages are a greater threat to IQ and concentration than taking cannabis, according to a survey of befuddled volunteers.
Amazon directory of free MP3 Downloads
"Amazon has put together a single page listing all the free, no-DRM MP3s you can download from their site, as promos for CDs." And it updates every six hours.
(Via Boing Boing.)
Sita Sings the Blues. A new twist on an old myth, featuring our friend Hanuman (via bb).
April 21, 2005
Stoned Monkeys go ape on villagers - and I mean really stoned monkeys. In other primate periodicals, Jewish gorillas stay kosher at Passover. [more inside]
The how's and why's of blowing off the church. Seems like this guy might wanna take a look.
T shirts have been mailed - Some extras are available
Yeah, yeah, this is my second post of the day... Big deal.
Ok, I just got back from 2 hrs at the post office. The mofi T shirts have been sent.
This was a shit load of work!
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Berkeley Prof loses laptop, calls in the FBI, SEC and CIA: A Berkeley professor has had his laptop stolen and at the end of his lecture tries to scare the thief straight. Real Video of the lecture. via BoingBoing via Engadget. [more inside]
Help the Monarch Butterflies (reg req, sorry). MonarchWatch, an organization started by University of Kansas professor Orley Taylor, announced today that they are looking for 10,000 volunteers to set up "way stations" to help Monarch butterflies in their annual migration from Mexico to Canada and back. [more inside]
The Slow Loris. Incredibly cute proto-primate with the unusual feature of secreting poison from its elbows. Which leads to a distincly non-threatening defence posture, and hanging out with bald guys, apparently. Obligatory wikipedia page here.
History of Pop-up & Moveable Books:
I still think this type of 'art' is pretty magical even in the digital age. I had a pirate ship pop-up book as a kid.
So if you're stuck for a child's christmas present...
www.roadiejobs.com is a site where roadies post profiles and find roadie gigs.
Delphion Research - not the most thrilling intellectual property website, definitely not the best of the web. But their archives of obscure patents (complete with animated demonstrations)? Entertaining. And...odd.
Everett: a permanent ecovillage Some guy I don't know named Daniel Rirdan sent me an email inviting me to join a venture he is starting. Its called the "Everett Venture", and he describes it as "a Burning Man-like, year-around settlement encompassing all aspects of living". The key thing here is that it appears to be focused on raising 150 children in a new way - the way Hillary Clinton recommended. Utopias have been often tried, and usually failed - sometimes ending up as creepy cult-like communities. [more inside]
The hanging of 38 Sioux at Mankato, Minnesota on December 26, 1862 following The Dakota Conflict Trials which condemned over three hundred participants stands as the largest mass execution in American history.
Cool Or Demented? Is Andrew McLean... [more inside]
Download the Columbine Massacre RPG!!1 one. It's 23mB and virus free, in the manner of RPGs of old like Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy, but instead of sand monsters and magic spells, cafeteria tables and crying teenagers. [more inside]
Curious George - Digital Camera Buys? Hi all. Can anyone here point me to a non-biased resource (web page or publication) that has well researched, up-to-date reviews of digital still cameras? I've been itching to buy something in the neighborhood of $400-$600 that would also allow me to have some substanital manual control and as well as easy point and click capabilities when I need them. Obviously, the higher the pixils and bigger the chip the better. And I don't need SLR, but if a cool one exists in my price range, I'd consider it.
The Real World: Des Moines
Imagine the reality TV high jinx when 8 polymorphously
perverse beings (3 females & 5 males) begin sharing a $10 million, 13,000-square-foot home near downtown Des Moines...
Are any of you one of the chosen?
April 20, 2005
Darth Vader's got a blog Because even dark lords of the Sith have their bad days.
The Lump Charcoal Database.
BBQ Season is here, time to roll out the grills and start smoking large hunks of meat. The lump charcoal database will help those of you that are BBQ obsessed pick the right lump charcoal for your needs. It includes the Lump FAQ, full Charcoal Reviews and a handy dandy Comparison Of Charcoal Burn Times
And Ash Production.
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Curious George: Bring on the Bundt! I have the most awesome bundt pan, but I don't have an awesome recipe to go with it. What are your best recipes for bundt cake? [more inside]
Y-Fronts
and foreigners are just two of the (four) topics discussed by animated teddy bears over at Ricky Gervais' website [he of 'The Office' fame].
Cute, funny, possibly NSFW (mild language / themes), oh, and QT.
The National Christian Art Competition
is designed to promote and encourage Christian artists around the globe by creating a venue of high level interactive exposure through the world renowned site, www.ART4GOD.com. "We do not tell artists what to create; we just say 'CREATE!' This year we gave out $3,000 in Cash Awards and over $3,000 in gifts to the winners," founder Stephen Sawyer shared enthusiastically.
The incredible Quarter Shrinker! Lots of interesting tangential links, including Excessively Dangerous Thing. Don't even think about it and some beautiful artwork. And hey, who couldn't use smaller change?
Curious George: Memory upgrade [more inside]
What weird/stupid/silly stuff have you done?
Sometimes we all do things that we know are stupid, silly, dangerous or just plain weird.
Of the stupid/silly variety are me yelling "moooo!!" at cows when they and I are in the immediate vicinity of one another.
In the dangerous catagory, although I haven't done this in years, as a teenager I would close my eyes for 30 seconds while driving on the freeway at night.
In the weird/stupid was about a year after my divorce when I looked up a "spell" on the net and tried to get back at the ex-wife by witch craft.
So, give monkeys, what sort of goofy stuff have you done.
Faisa's "A Family in Baghdad" blog is something I read pretty much daily. Her son Raed is a friend of Salem Pax, the first Iraqi blogger. [more inside]
April 19, 2005
Bigfoot filmed in Canada this link supposedly includes the video, but bedamned if I can get it to work. And here. [more inside]
New Pope - Cardinal Joeseph Ratzinger is now Pope Benedict XVI
The London Line
is an exciting new free London newspaper (sorry, rest of the world). Full of amazing stuff.
Spot the monkey.
Microsoft Word grammar checker ain't so good.
An associate professor of marketing at the University of Washington has found that the spelling and grammar checker in Microsoft Word aint what it's cracked up to be.
He's been written up in the Seattle PI newspaper, MSNBC and even the dreaded Slashdot.
Nappycakes. For those times that you need a cake made out of diapers, and nothing else will do.
Russian Astrologist Plans to Crash NASA’s Independence Day Imagine a twist to the plot of the movie Deep Impact: besides the comet, NASA is pitted against a Russian astrologist who wants to sue the agency because destroying a comet would irrevocably harm her “system of spiritual values”. A comet is not threatening Earth, but NASA’s Deep Impact is set to collide with the Tempel-1 comet on July 4 and that has really upset one Russian astrologist.
History of the Batmobile
The Batmobile's appearance has taken many, many forms. Here's an obsessive history of them.
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mofi link to mefi link to mofi post - In the interest of creating a possible endless cycle of reciprocal links which will, hopefully, result in a time-space warp of some sort... I thought I would create a mofi link to a mefi post about a mofi post.... Now...if we can just get someone at mefi to link to this post....
Curious George: I am the, ahem , webmaster for a friends holiday rental home in Spain. The website is there but theres no hits when searching for it using Google and the usual suspects. Whats the best way to submit to search engines? And for free?
Japanese Medley is a nice interpretation of some classic Japanese songs by Redefined a jazz group from University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Somebody explain this to me. When did the mystery auction become such a big thing on Ebay. [more inside]
Want a wedding cake made of Legos? Who doesn't! While this is not the greatest use of Legos I've ever seen, it's still a pretty cool wedding type keep-sake. [more inside]
formerly rosie
*the unedited rantings of a fat 43 year old menopausal ex -talk show host * -married mother of four- read at your own risk - my spelling sux (add * ocd * adhd * lmnop * suv * dvd * y not me)
...otherwise known as the blog of celebrity thespian, lesbian, comedienne and talk show host Rosie O'Donnell, and it's surprisingly personal and intimate for an honest-to-gosh real live famous person blog. It's also pretty fascinating.
Remember the joke about the ring around Uranus?
Well apparently now you can get rid of the ugly stains....!
Flabberwhelmed by this post i went asearching to edumacate maself. And then i found this.
Mama mia!
This gives me the cross-eyed shits How many times have you been to the local multiplex and sat through an out-of-focus screening? [more inside]
LA Monkey Meetup and T Shirt Stuffing Party Most everyone who needs to know already does, but I thought I'd let it be known to the monkeysphere that yours truly, space kitty, PY, mandyman, sexyrobot, cellar floor and goofyfoot are (more than likely) gonna meetup at Casa de Calamari for a potluck and t shirt stuffing party this Wednesday night at 7:00pm. Write me at the email address in my profile if you are gonna be in LA and want to join us.
MoFi CD Swap 4! The title says it all: who's in for another round of CD-swapping goodness? [more inside]
April 18, 2005
I suppose having it scroll [fill in the blank] would be redundant. . .
Scholar claims Michelangelo faked the Laocoön statue
Lynn Catterson from Colombia University, says that the sculpture of Laocoön, a character from the Iliad, found in 1506, was not created by the ancient Greeks but by wily Mikey. Michelangelo was on site when the sculpture was found and was the person who authenticated it. He also faked other stuff. Fire up the DeLorean, Doc, we're sending the Capuchin SWAT team back with handcuffs for this evil artist.
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Police want to hire a monkey and the monkey will join the SWAT team. IQ said to be double that of the combined team members.
South African zoo wants chimp to kick smoking habit [more inside]
Adobe buys Macromedia
"...we anticipate the integration team will identify opportunities for cost savings by the time the acquisition closes."
So long, FireWorks. See ya, LiveMotion. Hasta la vista, FreeHand. US$3.4 billion to ensure fewer choices for designers such as I. Anyone wanna wager on the upcoming GoLive/Dreamweaver deathmatch?
Leviathan: My life is now complete. [more inside]
Curious George: Opera Help! This morning I was browsing Mefi and Mofi when my computer crashed (which it often does in the early morning, coldness I guess). When the computer started back up, I reopened my browser, which is Opera. When I went to my favorite places to reload Mefi/Mofi I found that all my links were gone... all of them! Do any monkey know what to do, or how this problem came about. Can I prevent this from happening in the future, and more importantly, can I get my links back?
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri reveal their secrets. [more inside]
Curious George: Web Page mark up program I just read an article (but forgot where I read it...) about programs that enable you to take a copy of a web page, mark it up with your comments and forward it on to someone. Any monkey's know what's best in this area? (I'm a mac OS X user) Thanks for the help!
Police want to add monkey to SWAT team.
The Biggest Summer Movie of the Year is About to Break Down the WALLS!!
(WMV. file)
More info here.
"TJCG is God and is SPREADING and SHEDDING LIGHT in a DARK World." Ted Jesus Christ GOD has been working on his True Third Testament to the Bible for a while now. He wants your virgin daughters (which makes him kind of a David Koresh figure without the guns and shredding metal guitar licks). Perhaps because he often finds himself being drastically hacked by demons, he's a big Linux advocate. [via the Daily Illuminator]
April 17, 2005
How much mediocre music can you stand to listen to? Researchers at Columbia University's Music Lab are doing a study to find out. [more inside]
"Take me, Judas"
Sure, I could have followed up my deleted porn post with a well-thought out post on something important or something neat.
But instead, here's something that will make
Rubber Johnny >> 'Johnny is a hyperactive, shape-shifting mutant child, kept locked away in a basement. With only his feverish imagination and his terrified dog for company, he finds ways to amuse himself in the dark.' [more inside]
Real-Money Pope Pools Get in before the conclave begins. [more inside]
Everyday Tips Curious and Helpful Monkey: Here's my theory: We all have things that we think we do better, easier, cheaper. We should share them. I'll share a few: [more inside]
April 16, 2005
Free Trade Killed Off the Neanderthals!
Or maybe it was just bad weather . Neanderthals were as nimble-fingered and intelligent as homo sapiens. Ya know what I think? I think one of you monkeys rubbed him out! He'd still be around if ya hadn't killed him and set Cro-Magnon up with the rap. I'd send the likes of ya up the river but the past's the past. Just tell us why ya done it. (Bonus points for reasons expressed in verse.)
The International Institute of Social History "is one of the world's largest documentary and research institutions in the field of social history in general and the history of the labour movement in particular". Online exhibitions include a collection of early Japanese print depictions of foreigners, facsimiles of some works of William Morris, photographs by Ravi Agarwal and Art to the People. [more inside]
Fully Grown Black Panther photographed eating a pigeon in Wales, UK. Also, Bigfoot in California, not photographed eating anything.
Novelty Wines. Tired of the same old red or white wines? While a fine chianti may go well with your next dinner guest, chicken wine probably wouldn't.
America We Stand as One ...Words fail me...
The 5th Avocado. Goofy Friday Flash fun. [more inside]
April 15, 2005
Wither Are Thou, Wigger?
NSFKJ (Use of a racially offensive (?) term in context)
If Black/"Urban"/Hip Hop Culture is the dominant touchpoint for kids across the racial and economic board in North America, is the concept of 'wigger' dead? If not, should it be? When does cultural appropriation just turn into your environment?
[more inside]
Spell with flickr! Just a silly way to wittle away a Frday afternoon. Type in whatever and get a little photo montage spelling your word. F'rinstance: Monkeyfilter.
Mom's Cancer.
This comic tells the story of the author/artist and his family as they face his mother's illness.
The comic had been taken offline at the request of the publisher who'll be printing it. It's back online for a limited time as it's been nominated for an Eisner award. (Sorry, couldn't find a page listing the 2005 nominees.)
Somebody thought of the children The World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child is awarded to people or organisations that have made positive contributions to the lives of children. This year, the Global Friends Award is shared between Graca Machel, for her work with street kids in Mozambique and her fight for the right of girls to go to school, and Nelson Mandela for his work for equal rights for children in South Africa. The thing that sets the WCPRC apart from other major prizes is that the winner is chosen by children themselves - over 6 million kids in 9000 schools in 73 countries are involved with the awards. [more inside]
Kintana:
an aye-aye [world's largest nocturnal primate] born/bred in captivity in February. He's so ugly , he's darn cute!
[more inside]
Our Blood Lodges today are not usually a particular physical place but more an attitude of community that occurs whenever women come together in any Sacred Space to honor and celebrate our bleeding cycle. So, we make our womb-space wherever we meet -- a spare room in someone's house, in the basement of a local church or YWCA, or any private outdoor place where women can be safe and uninterrupted.
Ah, the Simurgh! who is this wondrous being? [more inside]
Nintendogs! [Website with video] Have a whole bunch o' puppies in the palm of your hand. Without the worry of pee. Japanese site with nice pics but slow video here.
A cycling tour
of the Americas in search of strange food. Starting in May, Tom Kevill Davies will cycle around North and South America. His website asks people along the route to invite him on detours to sample whatever weird local food they can come up with.
I do wonder what he's got planned for the Darien Gap?
Some parts of the site require Flash. Link pinched from today's London Metro newspaper.
When did Australia become a police state?
When in doubt, throw it out The British may waste more food than any other nation, throwing out 30-40% of all the produce they buy and grow each year.
Muddled-up Posting George
On the physics of posting: One thing that always gets to me is that i still can't remember off by heart the recipe for the html for links, all that </a> stuff. Do monkeys have secret techniques to make the posting of links easier?
The other thing that's difficult is finding out whether there's been any new comments on ancient threads that you're interested in. (I'll be darned if someone's going to get the last word in!) It would be nice if it showed me all new comments that have come up on all threads i've posted to?
Looks like Yahoo! News has a new beta version. It may look nice, but it only gives you headlines and it's not as customizable as others. At least it's got comics and photos.
Mind is blown! "Strap-On" backwards is "No-Parts"! Doesn't that just blow your mind???
April 14, 2005
Typographic George. I'm currently in the process of laying out my school's literary magazine. I've been basing my design templates and whatnot off of other literary magazines and publications I've studied, but what I really need is a comprehensive resource to help me give this magazine a well-structured, innovative, visually pleasing layout. I'm sure there are monkeys out there who do this stuff for a living; does anyone know of anything online (or off, I guess) that could help me out? [more inside]
The T shirts are ready to ship
Hello monkeys! The long awaited t shirts have been printed and now I need LA monkeys to help. It shouldn't be too much of a pain if we all do it together. I'm taking a trip to Baja this weekend, but will be back next week. We can plan a mellow week night of envelope stuffing and addressing at my house. Any takers?
The March to the New Pope (note, Catholics may find mildly offensive)
Curious George: Government Bureauocracy Woes... How to maintain sanity and what to do when you work with an absolute moron everyday? [more inside]
Ten Things I Like About Porn
Not Safe For Work, kids.
A hilarious/serious weblog that looks at, well, odd porn and effluvia.
The reason why I like it? I think his comics are genius. They're like scatalogical Daniel Clowes, (sometimes bordering on Bagge).
But yeah, there's pretty open actual porn there, so, um, don't click it if you don't want to see women, you know, with the things in their things.
Sing-a-long-a-Simpson
- Homer, that is. FLASH required.
NSFW due to possibly slightly risque ads with young girls with big tits in the side bar.
Only YOU can save Sheylan. The United Nations World Food Programme brings you Food-Force, the game about saving a community from starvation, not aliens, by completing 6 different missions. Play online, or download. (Warning: The downloaded version takes 30 minutes on broadband - insert your own joke about bureaucracy here.)
This is your game on drugs. Pharmacy: The Game is an adventure in drug trivia and karma. And don't miss the game's history, which involves a failed car wash/head shop called "Smoke & Suds." Heh.
Rather depressing news, I'm afraid. Some wonderful creatures with names to match - Silky Sifaka, Buffy-headed Tufted Capuchin, Miller's Grizzled Surili...
Roll your own pope with the Pope-U-Lator
Illustrations of Equipment from WW2-Era
Technical drawings of submarines, ships, aircraft, weapons, defense systems and stuff. Things were simpler, then, including acceptance of the brutal.
[more inside]
Treat your mother right. (.asx file, broadband, Mr. T)
April 13, 2005
Curious George: Finding a taxi. I'm doing a quick business trip in Ohio and would like to avoid renting a car. If I just call up a place like "Yellow Cab" will I be getting good service and price? Or is it better to look around in the phone book?
The Space Race is ON!!! ...goosebumps, I've got goosebumps.
Killer flu strain released accidently by some dumbass to labs in 18 countries.
Validating your speciesist opinions, kinda, sorta-- or at least giving you an out when referring to certain someones as subhuman in mixed company. [more inside]
Bonsai Kitten
"By physically constraining the growth of a developing living thing, it can be directed to take the shape of the vessel that constrains it. Just as a topiary gardener produces bushes that take the forms of animals or any other thing, you no longer need be satisfied with a housepet having the same mundane shape as all other members of its species. With Bonsai Kitten, a world of variation awaits you, limited only by your own imagination."
This is one of the more twisted ideas I have run across.
Eco-Porn Instead of people fucking up the forests, FuckForForest.com [NSFW] shows happy nature lovers fucking to save the forests.
Forgetful Monkey: Any of you folks know a decent web-dohickey for finding words within telephone numbers?
Henry Earl aka James Brown of Lexington, Kentucky. 900+ arrests and counting. At time of writing he is currently detained. Needs a firefox status extension. [more inside]
link
We've all heard about "reasonable doubt," when it comes to law, but where does this come from?
The "reasonable doubt" rule was not originally designed to serve the purpose it is asked to serve today: It was not originally designed to protect the accused. Instead, it was designed to protect the souls of the jurors against damnation. Convicting an innocent defendant was regarded, in the older Christian tradition, as a potential mortal sin. The purpose of the "reasonable doubt" instruction was to address this frightening possibility, reassuring jurors that they could convict the defendant without risking their own salvation, as long as their doubts about guilt were not "reasonable." In its original form, the rule thus had nothing to do with maintaining the rule of law in the sense that we use the phrase, and nothing like the relationship we imagine to the values of liberty.
Vestments
A recent remark about the dress sense of papal candidates caused me to wonder about the flouncy white thing - I think perhaps it is an alb. More about vestments.
People get pretty serious about vestments. This Anglican lady is, well, zealous about preservation. There are scores of retailers and designers of clerical garb: at the big Koinè show this year the focus is on chasubles. Some noteworthy entries
Happyface spiders. Theridion grallator, enough to freak your dreams forever. [more inside]
Rumored for weeks, confirmed by the source: Britney pregnant
"Should Hillary Clinton Run for Presidents?"
Headline typo aside (it is just the internets, after all), the article brings up some interesting points. It may be three and a half years away, but in many ways the 2008 campaigns are already underway. My question to you monkeys:
Would you consider voting for any of them?
Curious George: Hey monkeys, wanna see SideDish’s wedding photos? (More inside.)
April 12, 2005
What was she thinking? While not as crazy as this, Mrs. Miller definitely needs some therapy. Perhaps these 4th graders should have had camera phones like these kids... Though at least the U.S. isn't as tolerant of teachers behavior as Moroccans. Frankly my dear, they don't give a damn!
Monkey Foursome, so Monkeys I've been playing ShotOnline the MMORPG of Golf and I was wondering if any PC based Monkeys wanted to form a foursome. [more inside]
Japan #1, USA #2 in hours of TV watched per person per day
Just Say No. What's the weirdest thing you've ever tried to make a pipe or bong out of? For me, it was probably the case of a stick of Old Spice and a Bic pen... However, I'm guessing [hoping?] this kid in Vermont has us all beat,
Culinarious George: Fromage What cheeses do you like? [more inside]
Proof that the Idaho State Legislature has a healthy sense of humor...
Pictures from Asheville The small but significant Asheville mefi/mofi meetup pictures can be found via this thread. Don't miss my shoutout to about 1/8 of the people I would have shouted out to if I hadn't then had like 47 more beers.
Do we really care?
Must be a slow news day. I can't help to notice that CNN is becoming more like "Access Hollywood" or "Inside Edition".
Perhaps it was This that started their desent?
Patriot act recurs. No film at eleven.
Today is Yuri's Night – a celebration I have just now heard of and don't plan to celebrate, but it's worth remembering that today is the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin becoming the first person to fucking go into space on April 12, 1961. [more inside]
Google accounts? Logging in to gmail you'll notice a Google Accounts title across the top of the sign in. As google grows and grows they’ve finally decided that they need a system wide login similar to what yahoo’s log in does. This will hopfully alow google to integrate their services even more. This is all part of google’s march towards a My Google service.
Unintentionally sexual comic book covers. [more inside]
Auditory George - Easiest way of importing my old CDs?
Hello all!
After downloading most of my music, I finally took a look at the stack of my old CDs and sat down to try to import them into my iTunes. The problem seems to be that when I am importing them using iTunes, the importing gets hung up on what I suspect is a song that resides on a particularly scuffed up part of the CD and just sort of hangs there. Is there a better importing option for mac, preferablly for little or no $$$? Something that will let me stop a song import if it isn't working and skip to the next song without rebooting the program?
Thanks large!
Space Hijackers vs The Government London based anarchitects Space Hijackers, known for their Circle Line parties, have challenged members of Parliament to a round of Mayday cricket [pdf] "over their lack of honour and morals". [more inside]
We Stand As One. Guy on beach + thousands of flags + balls of light which are really angels + film clips of firefighters = Tribute? [more inside]
April 11, 2005
BEST. 404 URL NOT FOUND. EVER. Found this surfing through old threads . Made me waste five minutes.
Unforseen consequences of biometric anti-theft systems. I don't even want to think about retinal scanners.
Kitties Second post of the day, but I think you'll agree this one was worth it.
Curious George: Logic Express 7 Work is thinking of buying it, and they want my opinion. Anyone ever actually used this thing? Whadja think?
you might think that The Phantom Menace was a hopelessly misguided attempt to reinvent a much-loved franchise by people who, though well-intentioned, completely failed to understand what made the original popular - but that's just peanuts to the Hitchhiker's movie.Oh dear.
Curious like George What's your favourite comedy simile? What expressions to describe someone or something crack you up, or do you particularly like employing? [more inside]
Curious Monkey: Kill Your Television I 'cut the cord' three years back. I've been wildly happy ever since. Take the red pill. Leave the Matrix. Neo becons to you.
A penny for your thoughts...sixteen pennies for a catilevered structure. Mitch Fincher shows how you can build bridges, spirals, and domes out of pennies.
The war on history Textbook war escalates as China and Korea vent their fury at Japanese rewriting of history. [more inside]
Siegfried and Roy- Root of all Evil in the World Today
April 10, 2005
Furtive George... Is there a way someone can buy you an airline ticket and not know your name? I have an offer to be flown somewhere, and I'd like to keep my real name out of the process.
Where's my aircar? Do any of the monkeys here think that aspects of our culture or technology are stagnating? [more inside]
I can prove I got there before you.
Some people like to mail me links they find, be it the social bookmark of the hour or the rss feed of the minute. Now, thanks to carldr's latest offering, I can reply with handy must try harder links that prove I was today's cool yesterday.
Hair comes, there goes, Slickville! Where manly, glop-laden hair-styles of the 1950s will leave you gasping![via Eye of the Goof] Pile your scalp-pelt into a pompadour! [more inside]
The Legend of Sasquatch Mountain is a Flash piece by Larry Carlson very reminiscent of an LSD trip.. at least, one in which the practitioner has imbibed an 'heroic dose'. [more inside]
Noises made by radiator equals art
The worst outbreak of the Marburg virus is happening in Angola. With a mortality rate of 80-90% that should only be 25%, [more inside]
Piggyback ride takes on a whole new meaning.
This led me to wonder: What is the strangest roommate experience you've ever had? [more inside]
The Sasquatch Information Society and the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization. Each group has a sightings database. [more inside]
April 09, 2005
Brand Bethany Hamilton Remember the 13 year old surfer girl who got her arm ripped off by a shark? Pretty sad story...but things improved pretty quickly. Turns out her tragedy made her a perfect media personality and cash cow, and now the industry sharks are circling. Bethany has a best selling book, a movie deal (think 'Blue Crush' meets 'Rocky' meets 'Chariots of Fire'), and a line of perfumes that "capture the smell of the ocean". Wonder if they capture the smell of blood in the ocean? (ouch, sorry, that's mean). Oh yeah, and she also discovered Jesus Christ. [more inside]
Socks Capitals Worlds Apart
-LA Times- To bypass registration
Alabama vs China in a world sock domination smackdown.
Say Goodnight America
Economic collapse, bankruptcy, the annihilation of national sovereignty, receivership (led by Paul Wolfowitz), "a society entirely designed to service the needs of corporations", and an inevitable attack on Iran in June this year. All designed by Bu$hCo.
Is this a huge conspiacy theory, or an accurate prediction?
[more inside]
Pretty in Pink [NSFW]
Get Perpendicular! Hitachi seems to be so proud of their breakthrough in hard drive storage technology that they made the cheesiest flash to promote it.
April 08, 2005
The Lance Krall Show! Spyke TV is about to premire The Lance Krall Show. An off-centered, often hilarious sketch comedy rampage from Lance Krall and Co. You may remember Lance from Joe Schmo as "Kip The Gay Guy". Not only is the show looking good, but There is a great stash of sketches that you can watch. This is good.
Who Is The Cat? New unpredictable reality show. If this is a double, shoot me.
Finally it looks as if Yahoo is beginning to make the right kinds of noises.
Say hi to Duck Cheney.
Alan Greenspan, mebbe you'd better start looking for another job soon.
I shouldn't check the news before lunch. Yes, from the party who posted the (at the time, low-profile) story of the human-finger-in-fast-food-chili comes another story that should be urban legend. SFW.
Sleight of hand: Extreme Card Manipulation. "Warning: Don't buy this DVD. Almost no one can actually do the stuff you're about to see...Minimum recommended daily practice time: 4 hours.... Throughout your training you'll destroy five or more decks per day." Watch the 2-minute trailer and blow yer mind. (Me, I can do a riffle shuffle and sometimes not spray the cards into your face by accident).
Old Black Dog, he knew my name. He takes the form of a huge black dog, and prowls along dark lanes and lonesome field footpaths, where, although his howling makes the hearer's blood run cold, his footfalls make no sound.
Vintage Paperback Covers including lesbiana, sleaze, and good old Science Fiction. [more inside]
The world's oldest 3D porn has been discovered in Germany.
The incredible Wing Wing is a Hong Kong native who immigrated to NZ ten years ago. She sings the greats for retirement homes and hospital patients. Now she's been discovered by the creators of South Park. You may have heard of Wing before, but if not then I highly recommend downloading at least one of her tracks to hear her unforgettable voice.
MySQL Madness My cache seems to require optimization and flushing all the time, or the database locks up. Is there an SQL query that will automatically optimize and truncate the cache table on a regular/periodic basis? [more inside]
So yeah, Google maps' new satellite images feature has really been turning heads since its inception. myGmaps (alpha) "enables you to create, save and host custom data files and display them with Google Maps." A booming new Flickr pool, MemoryMaps, lets users share their old neighborhoods with others using Google Maps satellite captures and Flickr's note-labeling feature (blame mathowie - he started it.) Also of interest is the cool new blog Google Sightseeing, which links satellite Google Maps of famous US locales such as Area 51, the Hollywood sign, and the Golden Gate Bridge. [more inside]
What's the Matter with Kansas?
Homophobia, rampant Fundamentalism, assorted manic idiocy and outright
insanity. Things certainly have changed since 1896, boy howdy. Much more than William and even Tom would like to admit, I think. My good friends have a question for Kansas. Kansas, y'out there?
April 07, 2005
A pretty funny site dedicated to Rick James...Beeotch!!! An...interesting tribute to Rick James, Beeotch!!!
'Me eat less cookies,' says Cookie Monster Oh dear...the apocalpyse is nigh!
On August 7, 1974 a Frenchman named Philippe Petit walked a high wire [strung via fishing line and a bow & arrow!] between the two towers of the World Trade Center. He discusses his exploits here and here. Anyone, IMO, who is proud of being arrested more than 500 times around the world is worth a look! [more inside]
Fiat currency as folk art. I'm pretty sure this is a federal crime. [more inside]
Pay with $2 bills, get taken to jail. (site registration required) A guy tries to get a little revenge on a store by paying in all $2 bills. The store calls the cops and has him taken to jail. America: Conform or we'll call the cops.
Reach! (Quicktime) A musical lecture by Prangstgrüp. [more inside]
Family ties to the Royal Wedding calculated by the Family Forest, which tells us that, yes, Marilyn Monroe was indeed Prince Charles' half 14th cousin once removed, and the Wright Brothers were Camilla Parker Bowles' 15th cousins four times removed.
What the Dickens? Not to be confused with Dickensworld or Dickensworld. But it's an idea that's been around for a while, and has doubled in cost. [more inside]
Captain Cook's Endeavor Journal Online
Digitised scans of 700 pages of the journal of the H.M.S. Endeavour, 1768-1771. Written by Captain James Cook.
There's no transcript, so far as I can tell, and the thing is difficult to read in places, but, well, voom.
What with the Pope dead you might be cast adrift in a sea of Catholic angst. To whom do you pray about your syphilis? Luckily, there's patron saint for that (three,actually). [more inside]
Meet the Honey Badger.
Also known as the ratel, this handsome beast is one tough mother.
Besides digging into bee hives for their honey, they also fight leopards and eat scorpions. I love 'em.
Standard tap in phila This sunday at 5pm. Not to be missed!
Curious George: Theatrical Shorts I have been charged with the task of being a student director of a short play; the problem, well, I am at a loss as far as to which play. [more inside]
Curious, George: What do you wear to a rave? Especially, what should a 13 year old boy wear to a school sponsored (granted, super cool hippie school) all night dance party "rave"? [more inside]
Asheville NC Mofi Hodown Reminder! If you're in or near this audaciously beautiful spot on the map this Friday at 5ish, you ought to remember to swagger on over to the Flying Frog Cafe for real-time commenting and live chat with real humans. [more inside]
April 06, 2005
Curious George: Mac Help My Mac at work is running slow. If it were a PC, I'd defrag it. What maintainence (sp?) should I perform to keep my Dual 1 GHz PowerPC G4 running smoothly?
GAWKER MEDIA INTRODUCES SPLOID, ANARCHO-CAPITALIST ANSWER TO THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER
The Cardinal Ratzinger Fan Club
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith t-shirts. Top ex-papal aide and noted mastermind of currant Vatican thought Cardinal Ratzinger has a posse with official merchandise. The best motto: "Putting the smackdown on heresy since 1981".
Finally! Your one-stop elk shop for elk meat gift boxes as well as elk antler kaleidoscopes and elk antler money clips. Thank God.
Curious George: Finding An Artist Presently attempting two projects that need artists (or drawerers, if you will) but having a dickens of a time finding some. [more inside]
What is it with these oddly disturbing new Burger King adverts? There's the one linked above, and the one with the dog. I don't know what it is but these adverts frighten me in a kind of primal, childhood-nightmare fashion. [more inside]
The emotional final scene from Seven. Performed by stuffed animals. [more inside]
Partenia
is a small, deserted region of Algeria. Ten years ago, Jacques Gaillot, the Bishop of Evreux, was summoned to the Vatican and told that as a result of his progressive political activities, he was to be transferred to the diocese of Partenia: a kind of euphemism for being sacked. Undaunted, the Bishop extended his diocese into cyberspace in the form of a multi-lingual web-site, where it recently celebrated its first ten years. Includes the history of Partenia.
When bad things get worse. Botched executions.
A Yak Thread
Yaks are very interesting animals, they are a woolly form of wild ox or something, and appear to wear very large brown shag pile rugs.
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Curious George: Who wants my child? I'm using up my infinite Curious George quota lately: my dear son drew on our concrete driveway with permanent marker today. Any idea how to get it off, shy of waterblasting? It's one of those coloured-concrete dealies and I think waterblasting it would probably be bad.
We are going to play
at least one game.
If drinking, you have rolled a six.
[more inside]
Author Saul Bellow died at his home yesterday at the age of 89. (WP link, reg. may be required)
April 05, 2005
Curious Jorge - I'm moving to LA in August, and I'm looking for good places to live... [more inside]
Tony Blair has announced that a general election will be held on May 5. The BBC's new-fangled blog thing is already up and running. It's going to be an interesting, courteous and fairly fought contest...
Canada's Political Scandal. The Gomery inquiry has received some testimony alleging massive corruption directed by the Liberal Party. The only thing is, the judge slapped us Canadians with a publication ban. Our lips cannot flap over this flap. But hey, call me stoopid, but everyone should know what's going on . [more inside]
"Funpetgifts.com was one of the first websites in the USA to offer life-size realistic dog breed figurines for sale online as interior / exterior decor accessories in 2001. We are now pleased to announce our newest additions to our online product showroom: Sandicast collectible life-size dog figurines. We also offer a complete line of decorator accents in realistic animal statuary from aardvarks to zebras."
"The party with the best record of serving Republican economic values is the Democrats. It isn't even close." Michael Kinsley parses the 2005 Economic Report of the President and learns that Republicans are the party of big government and deficit spending. [more inside]
In Russia the government bans VoIP telephony In some countries state operators compete cheap services providers using lobby, pulling strings in the government... And the comsumers have to pay more.
Open Source Web Design Why in hell did I spend 12 hours fucking around in Dreamweaver arguing with CSS to come up with a decent web page design for my blog, when I could have pinched one of these & then tweaked it? Why am I so stupid? Why am I asking you?
Curious George: Firefox + IMBd = poo. Everytime I go on IMBd using Firefox it freezes. Is it just me? *sniff*
April 04, 2005
Curious George: Mortgages Sad but true, I have a question about boring grownup stuff. Our mortgage has been on a two-year fixed term at around 6.25% and that term is due to expire in June. The current rate our bank is offering, right at this minute, is almost too good to resist (7.5%) because we know rates are going to increase. Should we switch to a new fixed term now and pay the extra interest for a couple of months, or wait and risk getting an even higher rate we're stuck with for two years?
Curious, George: Wirelessly connecting a Mac and PC Help my PowerBook and ThinkPad to become friends. [more inside]
The ultimate self link... [more inside]
Curious George - Driving Me Crazy
I'm interested in a career where driving is key although I am not particularly interested in driving semis. I'm looking for something that will take m cross-country lots and lots. I've heard of testing mapping services and gps'but can find no info on jobs like that. Any ideas you beautiful simians?
Breastfeeding games.
"The following games practise fun concepts about left and right and colors, suitable for small children. And with their beautiful happy images of breastfeeding babies, they also present more natural images of babies than what they may see in mainstream media or products." Don't miss the narration: "Put the baby on the RIGHT side." Heh.
Pregnancy, the game. I guess you'd call it a sex simulation, but it's way different than I remember it.
Objective: 4 Kidz. Cuddly, Zealous Religiosity 4 Kidz! How much can you eat? [more inside]
"Holga", "Diana", "Dories", "Debonair", "Lubitel", "Banner" "Snappy" and "Yunon". They're cheap, maddening, fascinating plastic pieces of crap. Many people hate them, they think they're junk, worthless, a waste of time. But we love them. We can't stop talking about them. We just can't shut up at all.
Ifilm's best short films of 2004. I know I've posted at least one earlier (Fast Times at Hero High - I still chuckle), but here is a whole collection of short films to enjoy.
Prog
Apparently progressive rock is back. Wasn't it bad enough the first time around?
Put on your purple velour cape and thigh-boots and tell me about it.
Curious George - Exporting and Importing into Gmail
Hola Monos,
A friend of mine is finally getting off aol and onto gmail. She wants to export her contacts/address book from aol into a file that can be imported into gmail. AO-Hell will only export as a ldif file and gmail will only import from a cvs file. Any suggestions?
And on a related note, I would love to export my contact info from my gmail account so's I can have it for my other email accounts. Has anyone figured out a way to do that yet?
Zira is hot. This site is way better than Suicide Girls. These are actual punk rock chicks/Bettie Page wanna be's in pin-up style poses. Includes classic punk babes like Joan Jett, Debbie Harry, and Zira from Planet of the Apes.
Sheep Dash. How fast are your reactions? Sunday evening Flash fun. Via (appropriately enough) AlbinoBlackSheep. [more inside]
Superman is a Dick. Back when Lois Lane & Jimmy Olsen had their own titles, Superman did some really nasty stuff to his so called "girlfriend" and "best pal". Check out some really bizarre covers. All real. Really.
April 03, 2005
African Clawed Frogs are really cool. I lurve frogs. I dig them. I have an African Clawed Frog that kicks my motherluvin' ass. He broke my face. I call him Samuel L. Jackson. I think that the human race should be kinder to frogs.
Curious George: There are two kinds of people A friend of mine remarked today that there are two kinds of people in the world, those who mourn the pope and those who mourn the time before 24hr news networks. So, I wondered, What groups are we arbitrarily dividing the world into today? [more inside]
The Heysel disaster.
There has been no spectacle in the history of televised sport as compelling and atrocious as the night of 29 May 1985, when 39 Italians were killed on the terraces of the Heysel stadium, Brussels, in the murderous prelude to a European Cup final.
On Tuesday, Liverpool and Juventus meet again for the first time since.
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Conspiracy Thriller Movies of the 1970s
I like articles about the conspiracy thriller movies of the 1970s.
Bush Invades Iran in June and things don't go as planned? What do you think life is going to be like in this country if Iran doesn't fold like Iraq does and in fact, could quite possibly destroy the oil fields in Saudi Arabia, launch missles against southern Europe and Israel and invade Iraq with thousands of very capable and well-equipped soldiers and equipment? Feel free to extropolate. This is a 'what if', not a probability. Remember that Iran actually has a capable air force whereas Iraq did not.
The beverage tasting institute, (the organization that is cited in Grey Goose vodka advertisments) has a website, listing their ratings of beers, ciders, wines, liquors and mixes of all sorts. It's search function reveals that there are a great number of spirits which, although not widely marketed, have tested superior to more expensive and common choices. Nemiroff premium deluxe vodka, for instance, is the second highest rated vodka in tests, despite being under $20 a bottle. I can personally vouch for the quality of this vodka. [more inside]
Who will be the next Pope wanna be?
I've been digging around the internet looking for joke candidates who want to be the next Pope. (there's a job you couldn't pay me enough to have... Oh, right, no money, just absolute power.)
So far I've found Chuck (running for “Pope of the World”), Zeke (the “transparent emperor” of “Zekeland”), Avery Ant and Dennis For Pope.
Anyone know of any other contenders?
The "Genius Babies", and How They Grew : A journalistic series covering a (notorious) eugenics project - Repository for Germinal Choice - carried out in the US.
Curious George - All Monkeys Banded Together
Putting this whole t shirt thing together with Tracicle and Space Kitty got me thinking. The folks on this site tend to be like-minded, free thinking people. What if we used our numbers to do something for both ourselves, as well as the planet. Something besides t shirts and CD swaps...
I'm leaving the floor open to discussion on this. For one thing, we could open our homes to other monkeys when they travel in our cities. We could also see if there is a social movement that we could all get behind. Frankly, I really don't know what we could do, all I know is that we have a number of cool people that could all help each other, or do something together for the world.
Any ideas monkeys?
April 02, 2005
The pope has died Sorry for the lousy link. This might be updated soon.
Curious George: Tactlessness Curious George: The pope thread reminded me of a rule I have learned in life: in polite conversation, one must never discuss politics, religion or money. So, for fun, why don't we all go around and list our political views, our religious beliefs and how much money we make every year. It will be a glorious experiment.
Flash Card Exchange: The self titled largest library of printable flash cards. Everything from Spanish, and common legal terms, to Pokemon cards. [more inside]
Curious George...Rectum!
...Do you have echoes that you hear every damn time in response to particular words or phrases?
To illustrate, I swear I cannot hear the word rectum without thinking damn near killed him! or Hey! without thinking hey, you, you, get offa my cloud!, and every time I hear the voice over before Law & Order SVU, where they say "...sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous", my little brain chimes in solemnly with "particularily if they involve the anus".
What are yours?
April 01, 2005
April Fool? You Merkin Monkeys can just hope:
With recruitment lagging and no end in sight for U.S. forces in Iraq, the ''breaking point'' for the nation's all-volunteer military will be mid-2006, said Lawrence Korb, a draft opponent and assistant defense secretary in the Reagan administration, and Phillip Carter, a former Army captain and an advocate of conscription.(Try "crapola@crapola1.com"/ "crapola1" for login/ password.)
Frank Perdue, the chicken man, died today. We will all miss him, I'm sure. At least, for the jokes. I remember a really funny sound clip of Frank Perdue from the early days of teh intarwebs, but now I can't find it, sigh. A strange guy, the chicken man.
Ben Stein invokes Godwin's Law- Godwin's Law, for the uninitiated, is the act of comparing people who disagree with you to Hitler and/or the Nazis, and is generally considered bad form, even on the internets (unless of course your opponents are literally participating in genocide). [more inside]
Gurious Ceorge
My calendar tells me that lots of hilarious hijinks were supposed to happen today. The Age, for example, proclaimed Paris Hilton the new Linux evangelist (actually, I think they were suckered, which is amusing).
But tell me, where is teh funnay on April Fools' Day?
Curious George: Accidental Tech Support You know how it is. Someone finds out you know what "RAM" is and the next thing you know you're 24/7 tech support for your whole department. How do you handle it? [more inside]
"Living Will is the Best Revenge." Rarely, a newspaper opinion piece comes along that manages to cut through all the bullshit and pierce the heart of an issue. This is one of those amazingly truthful columns.
PostSecret "Over 3000 visitors to a Washington DC arts festival picked up postcards inviting them to share a secret anonymously. Before Artomatic ended in December 2004, 148 PostSecret cards, with secrets - some illustrated - were received through the mail."
And with one mighty bound the Middle East was free from war. Psy-Ops to use comic books to promote peace. [more inside]
Not your daddy's Superman. A collection of iconic comic book characters isn't new--unless they're all reinterpretations of the original characters done by prominent artists like Moebius, Alex Ross and Yoshitaka Amano. (French)
101 things to do with a dead Pope
I can't wait to see him lyin' there on his catafalque. It gives me the horn. List your favorite uses for a dead Pope. I personally think it's been so long since we've had a dead Pope that we should get two in a row, like in 1978.
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Fixate the green dot for a while and watch the others disappear. Actually they don't disappear. Nice visual illusion, used in neuroscientific conscioussnes research - the background motion somehow interfers with the percept of the dots. What's reality anyways?
Ceefax online - perhaps the least essential service ever created. Some genius in the Netherlands has created a searchable database of current Ceefax content. [more inside]
emo emoticon! Look I made an emoticon for the emo movement. With a shock of stupid hair at an angle. Discuss!
Curious Georbe -programmable tv?
In the 1970s, I bought a tv (Sony) which allowed one to program the order in which cable channels showed up on the tv. It was sooo nice. Those that I've bought since didn't have that feature. Now, even on basic cable, we have more channels than I care to think about and many of those that we might like to watch are up in 400s or above. This is driving my mother, who is nearly blind, nuts, since finding Animal Planet or the Travel Channel is almost impossible for her. (They're things she can listen to and get the gist of what's going on.) But, it's almost impossible for her to find those channels since she can't really see the remore control.
Is there anything out there which would make her tv viewing easier?
Somping, clapping, and hitting things with a stick. (flash)
For Monkeys who need to fling poop. Literally.
