Links posted in August 2005
August 31, 2005
Zombies descend on American Idol auditions in Texas shouting "Television rots your braaaaaaaiiiins." Some lighthearted fare for those of us watching too much hurricane coverage today. And for those of us who think it'd be terribly fun to be part of a zombie flash mob.
Scientists decipher chimp DNA. "It's a huge deal," said Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, which provided some support for the project. "We now have the instruction book of our closest relative." (via Wired)
Tom Cruise is Totally Fucking Nuts
"When I was languishing in prison before being sent to exile, [Katie Holmes] used to send me notes hidden in the collar of her pug dog." "I really would have preferred being a brain surgeon or a research scientist in this life." "[Brooke Shields] was the mistress of Sigmund Freud, you know. Is it any wonder she promotes his discredited theories? She's so confused." ...and other pearls of utter in(s)anity...
sorry, seems like a slow day, thought this might cause mirth...
Tips for getting better gas mileage. [more inside]
I Used to Believe.
A collection of childhood misconceptions.
Heh. Stupid kids...
Free registration codes for Opera, for ad-free surfing. Only for a couple more hours. Apparently it's their birthday.
August 30, 2005
Naughty Brion is playing WoW past his bedtime. Coolest mother ever. [more inside]
Bush compares Iraq to WWII . . and I disagree most strongly. A link currently underfoot of the blue is ostensibly a defense of the US invasion of Iraq and subsequent decade + long occupation. So - help me out here - can YOU make a case justifying this war? Even if you don't agree with it? [more inside]
More photo ops!
I'm leaving 17th Sept (*sob*), and am thinking of going to London either 15th or 16th Sept and spend a bit of time there before flying off.
So, anyone interested in a meetup then? Anybody?
Get off me, you Joey! Playground insults. [more inside]
Fuck you, Sir!
Pupils are being allowed to swear at one Northamptonshire secondary school - as long as they limit their use of bad language to five times a lesson.
The World Challenge An interesting BBC World & Newsweek competition aimed at "finding individuals or groups from around the world who have shown enterprise and innovation at a grass roots level" with a focus on environmental responsibility and community development. The 12 final projects are interesting in their own right, and also for a look into the communities being helped by the innovation. Highlights include coconets in the Philippines, rechargeable batteries in Vanuatu, and cooking fat as diesel substitute in Malta. [more inside]
Radio images of Cygnus X-1 and the bubble it is blowing.
August 29, 2005
Daily Scans.
A pack of Livejournal users sharing and troping on the slash subtext juicy bits of their favorite DC/Marvel comic books.
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Sexy Games Everybody has heard of hot coffee mod and Rock Star games has paid heavily for the controversy. But has anybody heard of the new enemy of Jack Thompson, the Hot Biscuit mod? [NSFW] [more inside]
Google and Amazon has formed an alliance to take over the world. At least according to this video - Epic 2015. It's a cool flash video about how Microsoft and New York times are defeated in the year 2015.
Really free search engine submission.
It's refreshing to finally find a really free and full-featured search engine submission service.
The rest mostly had "crippleware" and asks you to pay a fee for submissions to more search engines.
I particularly like the http://www.freesubmit.org/home.htm which is a real time-saver for a full time domainer like myself.
Map of Native American Tribes - and another you can click to zoom in on. [more inside]
In the 1950s, Dr Miner rediscovered a poorly-studied group. Dr. Miner wrote what might be seen as a typical (albeit brief) ethnography for the time, focusing on rituals and health. This group was revisited in the 1970s by a Mr. Thompson, who focused on the environment. [more inside]
Curious George: On The Road Howdy doo, monkey types. Me and a buddy are coming up with plans to travel round America from Britain next summer. We're both students, so cost is absolutely at a premium. We're thinking of visiting a few of the big cities: New York, LA, San Francisco, Washington, New Orleans (God hoping), etc, etc. [more inside]
August 28, 2005
Monkey sightings on the Simpsons
via memepool
Need I say more.
MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. Katrina and the Waves had a ditty called "Walking on Sunshine". The current Katrina includes no sunshine in the forecast. This is looking like the fulfillment of the "Doomsday Scenario" for New Orleans. New Orleans' news sites listed here (TV stations include live news video). This is looking like the strongest storm in the recorded history of U.S. weather heading for a major metro area that is mostly below sea level. [more inside]
Online Stud Make real money online, by running a pokerbot.
Andy Griffin is the farmer at Mariquita Farm. He is also a writer of wonderful essays about sex, food, and lanquage. He also has a weekly radio show. Enjoy some photos while your at it.
Curious George : AMD or Intel I've done the research, but now look to MoFi for assistance. [more inside]
In an effort to understand her students, an anthropology professor performed an ethnography of her students. While the study was originally published under a pseudonym to protect the author's anonymity (the second link gets into the ethics of undercover research a little), the NY Sun outed her as Cathy Small last week, and CNN has confirmed their story. [more inside]
August 27, 2005
Finally, we know who would win in a battle betwen an octopus and a shark (Real Video)
When your freight's destroyed, and it don't look good, who you gonna call? Country & McDaniel! Their business is shipping disasters. Neat gallery of foulups, like the Sealand grounding nightmare, an Iraq missile hit on an Airbus freighter, the worst pothole in the world, and what happens with there's a fire on the fireworks freighter. [Bad web design alert -- their huge menus are top-posted on all the pages and you have to scroll past them to get to the content]
Comfort Pets: An Urn Alternative. Just wrong.
The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus is not officially on the endangered species lists, but it is at critically low levels for breeding requirements. Whereas in past decades sightings of the tree octopus were common among campers and outdoorsmen, these days you will be lucky if you see one. Something needs to be done, and I think you'll agree that more people need to be made aware of the plight of the tree octopus. [more inside]
via metachat,
the "What Do These Things Have In Common Game", with two unsolved and generally ignored puzzles by a shameless selflinker. #5 and #6
previous topics include Muppets (Beaker, Big Bird, Gonzo, Grover, Scooter), Old Comics (Mutt & Jeff, Li'l Abner, Barney Google, Peanuts, B.C., Blondie) and fast food (Taco BELL, KENTUCKY Fried Chicken, LONG JOHN SILVER's Fish & Chips, Pizza HUT).
You like to think of yourself as a bit different, and you are carried by host-specific mammalian ticks.
Results for "which X are you?" type quizzes by flashboy.
August 26, 2005
You can't say it's a surprise:
Artist Mark Chamberlain proves the rumours true.
via Cruel Site of the Day.
NSFW
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Dr. Macro's High Quality Movie Scans
dishes up high quality scans of famous screen stars and their movies, mostly from the 1940's and earlier. For those of you who may be old movie buffs - such as myself.
) to Koko for putting me in the proper mood!
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Curious George: Obscure Costume Ideas We're having a "Come as your favorite obscure pop culture reference" Halloween party, and I'm looking for some costume ideas. [more inside]
Formerly one of the sacred flowers of local Buddhism in Yunnan Collection of rare and interesting species from China, Myanmar (Burma), Vietnam and India. The Musella lasiocarpa is of the longest blooming flowers in the world. It's considered a banana plant from Yunnan and the Himalaya. [more inside]
Aerial Photographs of Mexico City seen @ Cynical-C Blog
The Art and World of Luis Quintanilla. This retrospective web gallery features selections from the life’s work of the Spanish artist, Luis Quintanilla. (1893-1978) [more inside]
Someone had this bright idea. I'm just waiting for them to make a fly-eater toilet.
Christopher Xavier Brodeur wants to be mayor of New York City. He has some, er, unusual proposals which he intends to enact if elected. Like outlawing four-legged tables. And mandating that all bathroom doors in NYC open outwards. And making organ donation mandatory. [Warning: link contains extremely long rants that may be thoroughly disconnected to reality.]
Lost From Midland. West Texas wishes to reclaim the folks who fled to the bigger cities of Texas, and this is how they are trying to do it. Census facts on Midland. [via The Austinist] [more inside]
August 25, 2005
Curious, George: SAS on a mac? Do any monkeys have experience with using the statistical program SAS in osx? Before I go through with loading this and shelling out the dough for Filemaker, I wanted to see if it's worth it. Or is it time for me to switch back? [more inside]
Buffo is the World's Strongest Clown. Yeah, you *should* be scared! (Warning: the site contains a brief, annoying bit of audio, so turn off the speakers if you're at work or in a computer lab!)
Widdle baby panda needs a widdle baby panda name... We've talked about it some in kitfisto's original panda post, but there's an official process for giving Panda names. However, we monkeys have never been ones to play by the book, so on the first link, you can vote for the hacked name of 'Butterstick'. [via Wonkette] [more inside]
Curious George: What time is it where you are? [more inside]
Beavis & Butt-Head return!!!!
Maybe I'm just one of them there 90's Gen-X slackers. But news that Beavis and Butthead are going to be on the MTV VMA Awards this weekend and that Beavis And Butt-Head: The Mike Judge Collection Vol. 1 will be released on DVD in November.
Uh, huh-huh-huh, cool...
If your child is gay and you chose to celebrate it you may want to order some of these. Gay Merit Badges! via BoingBoing.
August 24, 2005
Is my child becoming GAY?! Helping Boys Become Men, and Girls Become Women. [more inside]
Bar code art. New to me; apologies if not new to you.
Two chinese kids lip synching backstreet boys. The best part is the guy in the back playing counter strike, it doesn't get more chinese than that.
Snubbed George: What am I, chopped liver? [more inside]
Curious George: Don't Supersize Me In reading the blog entry that started it all, and the discussion at kottke.org, I still don't know why this is true. Why do you think 18% fewer patrons in McDonalds' the drive-thrus upsize their orders, as opposed to those who go inside?
Run, Run Away
You may have heard the tale of Runaway Bride Jennifer Wilbanks, or more recently the story of the Piano Man, discussed here, but when you see another news article about someone abandoning their life . . or trying to . . does it make you wonder about running away?
Patricia Waller
"describes modern perversions and demons" through her woolen crochet work.
"Wool is often classified as inferior in terms of art and art history. It is not a material of which major works of art are made. We women artists who work with it, reflect our status in art, culture, and society, from this material and method that one can call genuinely feminine."
[Second link is FLASH]
We all need a few carrot-impaled rabbits now and then! Mid-way through the flash gallery, there is a monkey riding a ) canoe.
Tate Gallery : Personal Carousel Display
This java powered feature cycles slowly through about 2000 art works in 9 thumb views. As you pick your favourites, new displays appear on a similar theme to your choice (eg. pop-art --> pop-art etc).
[I suggest you read the 'more inside' first before playing]
Turkmenbashi!! At last a Turkmeni law we can all get behind: no lip-synching!
The Jail Drawings of Luis Quintanilla - Quintanilla was a Spanish artist who started out as a Cubist then moved into other genres to become a noted draftsman and muralist. Drawn into political activism during the Spanish Civil War, Quintanilla was arrested for being a member of the Revolutionary Committee which intended to oust the Spanish government. He was slammed in jail where he made a series of evocative and extraordinary drawings. Here are some of them.
Baywatch gone awry. Pamela Anderson is famous for playing a lifeguard on television, but, at the site of a recent family ceremony, her bodyguards forcibly dunked an attendee in the ocean Wha..? Okay. He wasn't an invited attendee. It was Borat. And okay. He had just emerged from the ocean in leather pants and cap, atop an inflatable turtle, and tackled her. But still!
Google has launched their IM client, Google Talk. There's a windows client available; Mac and Linux types can use any Jabber-compatible client.
August 23, 2005
Live Music ONLY! Turkmenbashi has been having a cultural field day today. First he banned lip syching and then went on to ban recorded music. This is hot on the heels of his banning opera and ballet, all in the effort to prevent negative influences upon (what's left of) Turkmen culture. That, or he is trying to help eradicate Ashlee Simpson's alleged career....
A English guinea pig farm has closed recently following six years of harassment, including the theft of a relative's remains, all by animal activists. Photos and reactions. [more inside]
Political Fashion Monkey: "In South and Latin America each nation has its own 'Presidential sash', usually featuring the country's national colors and symbols. The Presidential sash is a symbol of the continuity of government, and when the old president resigns, the same sash is passed on to the new President."
... I wish our president wore a sash.
Database of cat names. Plus a random cat name generator, in case you're too lazy to come up with your own. [more inside]
Forget land, just get yourself a piece of bottom. From the front page: There are basically two groups in America. Group one, their life revolves around four dollar cups of coffee, taxis cabs, blue suits, high heels, conference rooms and getting ahead at all costs in the corporate world. If you fall into this group you're probably in the wrong place. Group two, enjoys blue skies, wide open spaces, raising animals, appreciating nature and are generally friendly to everyone. This group makes up Americas Heartland. This is not a geographic area, this is a slice of America with traditional values, that all started with the farmer.
The end of Portadownnews.com
After four and a half years of its (sometimes) weekly web edition, the always hilarious Portadown News has been decommissioned (the editor has got a better job).
Always taking an impartially scathing view of the goings-on in Northern Ireland, the News' editor Newton Emerson left behind his cracking satires of Ian Paisley, St Patricks Day, Gerry Adams and his "distant" links to terrorism, police inaction, and factional infighting.
You might not get all the jokes, but it helped us have a good laugh at how ridiculous this place is.
Pfft... Yeah, it's on 5th and 82nd, but the windows all face North... Lenny Kravitz is in negotiations to buy the last privately-held mansion left on Millionaire's Row, for a paltry fifty mil. (There goes the nieghbourhood...) According to this, he's having problems getting rid of his current pad -- no doubt, people are scared of the Courtney Love cooties in the ventilation. But this brings to mind two questions: 1) How did Lenny Kravitz ever earn fifty million through recycling, and 2) where would you want to live for fifty mil? [more inside]
In the Name of Jesus Wipe them out... [more inside]
The iArm
- when cybernetic body parts become available - and they will - if they become more efficient than the organic parts they replace - and they will - would you 'upgrade' a bit of yourself? If so, which bit?
Introducing the new iArm. The world's fastest, most powerful body upgrade.
MOVIE Requires QUICKTIME
Seen at The Presurfer
Curious George: Music Rights How to get them for a low-low budget short film [more inside]
Amazon to e-publish short stories. And readers can read them, for 49 cents a pop. [more inside]
Curious George: I hate my fucking professors. Help me fix a software problem without having to reinstall Windows, IF YOU DARE. Tremendous, gut-wrenching sob story inside. [more inside]
August 22, 2005
Spacing, a magazine covering Toronto's urban space. The archives yield a number of short essays on a variety of subjects. The monthly photoblog also has some nice stuff.
Engadget: 1985 A page from the venerable Engadget BBS service from 20 years ago today.
Curious George: Science Gone Amok?
An editorial in my local daily paper this weekend used the idea of Roe v. Wade's "original intent" (i.e., they thought abortion would only be used in emergencies) vs. how it turned out (according to the writer, it is now the defacto method of birth-control among the easily villified lower classes) to launch into a diatribe about how we can't trust scienists with stem cell research, because we know we can't count on them not to take the "next step", leading to a nightmare world of science gone mad.
Now, regardless of your stance on abortion rights, I was wondering--how many real cases can you think of where science has, in fact, gone amok?
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Kittens from clones!
Wildcat clone kittens at that.
We're all doomed
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Going to Burning Man? ? [more inside]
Absurd.org.
Absurdity finally has a website. You will go here, and wish to tear out your eyeballs, scream, and rool on the floor. You will feel your braincells committing hari-kari.
The creators of the site even have a mission statement:
"this page(s) serve(s) as a vehicle for our own criticism of the modern technology in the specific area of profanation commonly known as "web design", proving us as an established champions of visual destruction and textual deformation, true möngers of the real[Dimension HÄtrÖss]."
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August 21, 2005
Addicted George: Hi, my name is stripe and I'm addicted to the internet. [more inside]
More of us are living alone
according to a new report by the US Census Bureau. Nearly 27 million households are occupied by a sole occupant. What does the Wall Street Journal make of this?
"Among other things, it suggests a demographic bulge of lonely souls. Even if you discount the college graduates who paint the town every night before crashing happily at their first pad, you're left with a huge number of people who have found companionship and lost it or are still looking for someone to share their life with. "
What now?
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As Seen on TV From the Shappu 2000 10 Piece Knife Set to the Topsy Tail, this site sells everything you have ever seen sold on TV late at night.
Why the Ashes of 2005 is the best Test series in cricket history [more inside]
Allusions to Classical Chinese Poetry in Pink Floyd
August 20, 2005
Do These 10 Hollywood Movies Get It Right in Their Portrayal of Women ??
(Pandagon & Majikthise)
Robert Anton Wilson, the iconoclastic genius behind the famed 'Illuminatus! Trilogy,' has a few thousand things he'd like to teach you. [more inside]
Free mix tape. Every ten weeks a new selection of music from around the world is made available for streaming and free download in MP3 format from Mercedes-Benz. Mix tape 8 is up now. [more inside]
August 19, 2005
Simon of Space is a serialized science fiction story about a man who loses his memory and has to rediscover his identity in a large and wonderful galaxy. Two or three new chapters are posted each week. Get in on the action now, we're heading towards quite a climax!
Randy "Biscuit" Turner was found dead in his house yesterday. Artist, punk, skater, beloved local freak. What more to say? His skate punk band The Big Boys was hugely influential. [more inside]
Transom A showcase and workshop for new public radio
How to Save Kids from Math Anxiety Given that kids can learn to speak a language and that language is more complex than math, why is it that our educational system leaves so many math-illiterate or math-anxious? [more inside]
Curve Ball. Friday Flash fun. Pong meets that Tron discus game with kickball sound effects.
Kit Fisto, 6'1'', 175lb
HAS MEAT DREADLOCKS
Print it out, stick it everywhere, make sure they all know.
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A surprisingly heart-warming story about Huey Lewis. I never thought I'd write that sentence!
Curious, George: Three Wishes If you had three wishes, what would they be? Wish wisely, and no wishing for more wishes!
New York City Walk.
From May 2002 - December 2004, Caleb Smith walked every single road in the whole of Manhattan - some 700 miles. He's documented the entire thing on his website, with some great pictures and fascinating trivia. His unaffected love for the city really brings it to life.
Plus! Some interactive floaty pens!
How to project an image of the outside world onto a wall in your room "If you put a magnifying glass a few inches from a wall that is opposite a window, you will see the outside view projected upside down on the wall. But if you put a lens on the window and cover the rest of the window with opaque material, the lens will project the outside view over the entire opposite wall, of course you must have the proper size lens for the room." [more inside]
No mate, worries. Several Aussie pollies aggro about the ban of the word "mate" at Parliament House. Some piker complained that it wasn't posh enough, suddenly every man and his dog is in the blue sayin' banning "mate" is as un-Aussie as not getting sand in your cossie. Ban overturned by the next arvo, everyone's mates again, Bob's ya Uncle. D'ya reckon though it was worth spitting the dummy about? [more inside]
The Microscope Imaging Station
Sir Mix-A-Lot still loves... backpacks? (Warning Flash!) Click the girl with the backpack and you will hear Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" retooled as a Target jingle for backpacks. Odd for a song whose video MTV would only play late at night because of its suggestive content. Is this the worst ad song ever?
August 18, 2005
If MonkeyFilter is a Metafilter clone, does that make msn filter a MonkeyFilter clone?
The ghost village of Imber It's not easy to find the "ghost village" of Imber. On maps its location is a great big blank space, and it doesn't appear on any road signs. You only know you're in the right area when you spot a single "Tank Crossing" sign about a mile south of West Lavington...
The mother of a U.S. soldier slain in Iraq was denied a face-to-face meeting with President Bush - that's about all that isn't politically tinged in the story of Cindy Sheehan Salon. But an estimated 1,600 coordinated candlelight vigils indicates something that approximates a movement. As people Gather around her or get frustrated with the situation, the POTUS' says "I think it's also important for me to go on with my life, to keep a balanced life." [more inside]
Have a look around the architecture and mosaics of the 6th century monuments of Ravenna.
I highly recommend the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, the Neonian Baptistry, and the Basilica of San Vitale. Don't forget to look at the floors and ceilings!
At the other end of the Middle Ages are the Gothic cathedral of Amiens (with "movies"-- click the yellow dots on the cathedral plan to move around) and York Minster. Alas, neither of these latter two allows you to focus on the ceiling and twirl around. (Quicktime required)
A Sartrean Analysis of Harry Potter.
Religion Facts - This seems to me to be a pretty good resource for what it is. It alleges it is neutral. There's some pretty good articles to my way of thinking, although it will not satisfy everyone's factual wishes with regards religion. That's a given.
Camilla Queen
- a flash ode to Camilla, Prince Charles' partner, set to the tune Killer Queen by Queen, but with new lyrics. I thought it was merely amusing until the rats in Brian May wigs came on playing kazoos for the solo break. Then I fell out of the chair laughing.
Some naughty words - no nudity but sexual references. Requires FLASH
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Jokes & Ghost Stories Adult jokes, blonde jokes, computer jokes, general jokes, management jokes, funny pictures and true ghost stories.
Windows Vista Wallpapers Large collection of Microsoft Windows Vista wallpapers and Vista icons. No adware, no spyware.
Shaggy checks out what's available...very silly. Flash w/ sound [more inside]
Ask a scientist. [more inside]
Architonic - Mid-Century, Modern Design Database [more inside]
Star Wars as it should have been I haven't laughed so hard in all of 2005. Watch this and you'll see why. Enjoy.
Curious George: Ow So today I had two impacted wisdom teeth removed. My dentist is lovely but didn't explain the aftermath too well. [The more inside could be gross.] [more inside]
Fetal tissue heals burns.
An experimental therapy that uses skin cells grown from an aborted fetus successfully healed severe burns in eight children, sparing them the need for skin grafts.
Did you hear that noise? That was the sound of Bill Frist's head exploding.
Group Wants to Transplant African Animals to the Great Plains Of course, parallels were drawn between this and how Australia has suffered because of relocation of animals, but the foreign, distructive, animals in Australia were taken there for entirely different reasons. [more inside]
August 17, 2005
The Baldwin Project "seeks to make available online a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children. Our focus, initially, is on literature for children that is in the public domain in the United States. This includes all works first published before 1923."
Piersh Broshnan makesh it offishial. In the leasht shurprishing newsh shurrounding the Jamesh Bond dynashty, Piersh hash been outshted. Not a bad shpell, I'd shay, but obvioushly Broshnan never reached the hieghtsh of the true mashta, but letsh be honesht -- Shean ish a shingula pershonality, and there CAN only be one. [more inside]
Martin Bower's Model World Models form Space 1999 and Alien and Dr Who and Blake's 7 and...
Olympic Lobbying
If a proposed bill goes through, it 'will make it illegal to combine words like "games", "medals", "gold", "2012", "sponsor" or "summer" in any form of advertising.'
No more "Summer Hits". No more "Gold Cards". No more bongs for heroic deeds. And the calendar will jump a year. More proof that the (say it with me) OLYMPICS has nothing to do with sport.
Jean Charles de Menezes was shot down in cold blood. The man shot dead by police shortly after the July 21 bombing attempts didn't run away, he didn't leap the ticket barrier, and he wasn't wearing a padded coat. [more inside]
Electric Stuff, antique glass thingies, vunderbar old ads for electronic bits, Nixie tubes, dekatrons, counting tubes and dangerous home-brew high-voltage devices.
"Stay hopeful that the crystalline amoeba poops your car out soon."
August 16, 2005
The Sarcastic Sex Toys blog (NSFW) features reviews of interesting and poorly-named devices such as the "Fist of Adonis" and "Sure Grip Tighten-Her Cream." [via the similarly NSFW Fleshbot]
Burlesque and Side Degree Specialties, Paraphernalia and Costumes. The 1930 DeMoulin Bros. & Co. Catalog of Fraternal Supplies. [more inside]
Hard-Core Stalinist propaganda, Juche style. A searchable database of a decade's worth of KCNA articles, with added insult generator and a handy Juche Era conversion tool.
Leonard Cohen is broke. Please help. Only YOU can help Leonard Cohen. (Sorry for posting twice in one day, but this is Earth-shattering stuff for me...) [more inside]
Curious George: Ejectable Cabin I was just reading about the 2nd plane crash in as many days on the Blue. I don't fly, haven't for several years after a bout with bad turbulence. But I've often wondered why they don't make a plane (and charge more, of course) that will eject its passengers in case something goes wrong... Am I missing something? [more inside]
Curious George: Why do generic Cheerios taste so bad? I mean, we can send a man to the moon, but we can't replicate the Cheerio? What's up with that? [more inside]
ROAR! If this article is true (and the Beeb never lies), I won't be driving my MINI through any safari/game preserves any time soon. If you, too, have a MINI or a smart, you might want to avoid going on safari too...
And the reviews are in... Karla, the infamous movie about the Bernardo-Homolka killings, is about to come out. Seeing as how its release here in Canada will likely be somewhat limited, particularly in my hometown of St. Catharines, this review is as close as some of us are likely to get. Or are willing to get. [more inside]
A Keyboard with every key being a stand-alone display A russian company designed a keyboard which keys can display basically anything: from different alphabets to a specialized set of keys for applications or games.
A disaster , similar to the one in Niger, appears to be threatening the region of Timbuktu, the legendary city whose name is a byword for remoteness. [more inside]
Meet the P38. No, silly, not that one. Or that one. But the dinky little gizmo with exactly 39 uses.
Having a bad day? In The Rough [.mov] Big. Small. From Blur Studios.
Star War! Man picks up pirated DVD of Episode III in Bankok. Man discovers that captions are included... captions that are a direct English translation of the Chinese interpretation of the script. I will say no more.
August 15, 2005
ROBOKITTY! (warning, QuickTime required.) via.
I, for one, welcome our cosmic bullet overlords Had this article on my computer for quite some time, just rediscovered it after clearing out some files. I apologize if it's been posted here before. Freaky stuff though...
Curious George: Yahoo beheads spokesmodel. Why?
I remember enough from business school to believe that Yahoo chose and placed the photo on its mail welcome screen with tremendous care. The pretty--possibly non-existent--woman of no particular ethnicity has been there for a couple of years.
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Curious George: HTML coding. I'm hand-editing an HTML document and it's corrupt because one of the tables is not closed off properly. Is there a utility that can help find the mistake, perhaps by indenting all the code? I find that the online validators aren't very helpful for this.
Melvin Vaniman (1866-1912) was an American mechanic, dirigible and plane designer, opera singer and near polar explorer but most famously he pioneered the art of panoramic photography. His fame was established for the most part during his sojourns in Australia and New Zealand. [Some Hawaiian panoramics at Library of Congress (search on Vaniman)]
We Jam Econo. The Minutemen were a punk band out of San Pedro, California in the early 1980s... but that's not the half of it. Think punk is about safety pins and dyed hair? These guys will show you differently. Here's the trailer. Or listen to stuff here. [more inside]
Is it Gutenberg 3 already? Summer's almost over... The 13 month calendar, devised by good ol' Auguste Comte in 1849, didn't go anywhere, despite its conversion fun,. Enter George Eastman and a few other industrialists and their accountants, and the idea was reborn in a simpler way. Regular months and weeks, predictable holidays, extra month's rent, that sort of thing. Obviously, it didn't catch on except in the offices of Kodak itself -- the one place where Eastman could control time -- where the calendar was used until 1989 (presumably, to co-ordinate the dates on all those layoff notices with the pogey office). [more inside]
I ♥ Daniel Clowes
(some images NSFW)
Sure, many of you already know and love Daniel Clowes, one of the best underground comics artists ever. But have you bothered to visit these websites, or read these articles and interviews?
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Happy Melon Day, Love Turkmenbashi "Let the life of every Turkmen be as beautiful as our melons," President Niyazov said in a statement.
August 14, 2005
A history of Pi, and a trivia quiz. [more inside]
Idiot America: Not Just a Song -- It's the Law
The U.S. Federal Government's cap on the number of highly skilled workers allowed into the US has already been reached for the year. That means they'll be turning away geniuses, scientists, engineers and others who are the best in their fields. At the same time the tide of unskilled illegal immigrants will continue. The rationale for this policy is that the cap protects homegrown "highly skilled" workers - as if skilled labor isn't outsourced to wherever the best workers are, anyway.
How to Reinstall Windows Without Losing Your Data and How to Reinstall Windows XP Without Having to Reactivate With Microsoft.
We'll all live online - Or at least, that's what this guy is saying...Very interesting, because I agree with him on most of the points.
August 13, 2005
Historical Fencing Manuals [more inside]
What is happiness? Research shows that happy people are healthier and live longer. But what makes for happiness? It isn't intelligence. Nor is it good health. Having money doesn't make one happy. It may be that by our nature we are better designed for the pursuit of happiness than for the attainment of it. [more inside]
Saturday mornings at my house and your house, and your house, and your house. . . American kids TV listings for the 60s, 70s & 80s. Through this, I found ARK II, my most favorite TV show EVAR and that led me here, which is the source for all the theme songs you might ever want or need, including the truly wonderful theme song to my second favorite Saturday morning cartoon. [more inside]
Pot before beer or beer before pot? Why not take the middle, path?
Monkeys for Helping For many things Monkey (and many things not) wander over to see this blog-oddity. If it tickles your monkeybone (sorry), be sure to peruse the archives. [more inside]
Here we go Again (Newsfilter)
Daredevils of Niagara Falls
A chronology of supreme human achievement stupidity. Kayaks, tightrope walking, washing machines, barrels and anvils. The mind boggles. Some disorientating photos.
Free Vista Icons
- download the icon sets from Microsoft Windows Vista (previously Longhorn), if you're like me and like to play with icons & microangelo etc.
Seen at the days start here
Tapes (tapes)
This is just a little amusing tidbit of randomness in the world.
Favourite Things... What are a few of your favourite things? [more inside]
August 12, 2005
I don't love Lucy. I find her a little cold. Some marketing company in the States has compiled its list of the most popular dead celebrities, so as to better market those snuffed stars. Sure, their acting's a little stiff, but we love 'em anyway. [more inside]
Curious George: Why is it acceptable to glamorize murder on television and in movies, but it is not acceptable to do so with rape? [more inside]
Another unused Nixon speech: This one in case of a disaster that would strand Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong on the moon.
The life of a Tibetan nun One of the two such stories online at the website of Shem, a women's group implementing projects in Tibetan communities in the PRC.
Roadside signs. Covering a wide range of the US, this site has vintage signs from hotels, motels, ice cream stands, and more. There's background information where she could find it, plus link to sites with more details on specific topics. [more inside]
Let's Save Our Environment Flash, video, sound Mtv has finally gone too far. Friday fun! [more inside]
There must be fifty ways to count your sheep. In the north of England, anyway. Harrison Birtwistle even wrote an opera called "Yan Tan Tethera."
The Curse of Tom Wolfe: What Went Wrong for the Magazine Story. I'm trying to break into magazine writing, and as I'm wont to do when I'm trying something new, I'm reading lots about the topic. In the process, I just came across this, and found it interesting (and dismaying). [more inside]
Curious George: It's raining, it's pouring,
the old man is snoring, he bumped his head and went to bed and couldn't get up in the morning.
Was the old man dead? Did he, like, die? Did bumping his head cause some kind of lesion? Is that why he couldn't get up in the morning?
Scorsese does Pennebaker does Dylan does Dylan
A feature length Dylan-narrated documentary 'No Direction Home' is set for television/dvd release soon. There's also a parallel release of a double-cd soundtrack -- The Bootleg Series Vol.7 -- and a scrapbook.
Pay attention folks. In 2012, this guy will be the Republican candidate for president.
Bay Area Meetup! It took a visit from #1, a couple of SoCal monkeys, and a bunch of MeFites to drag you from your hiding places last time. I have faith that we can do it again without resorting to such extreme measures. [more inside]
August 11, 2005
Have you ever wanted to make a webcomic?
Now you can.
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100 people who are screwing up America When the list starts with Michael Moore and doesn't even include G.W. Bush... via
The Laugh Judgement Ship of Fools, the sensible face of British Christianity, seeks to collect the most outrageous and offensive religious jokes before a proposed new law bans them. Nicked from the Guardian's Newsblog
Take that first train to Nashville, and I'll meet you at the station. Jonathan Demme will be shooting a concert film of Neil Young next week in Nashville. So, here's your chance to become a speck in the audience, maybe get yourself on imdb. And it's Neil, man! NEIL! [more inside]
Curious George: Enterprise-level web hosting
There are a couple of web hosting threads already around, but they have been aimed at inexpensive personal web hosting. I'm wondering about the kind of web host that would provide hosting and tech support for a reasonably large company. It would need to be redundant, guarantee 24-hour access, the usual sort of thing...
So, how does your company manage web hosting? Or, alternatively, who would you go to for hosting if you were to become a company?
50 SciFi Works That Socialists Should Read This is China Mieville's list -- I haven't read most of these, and am wondering which are worthwhile and which aren't.[via Woods Lot]
The origin of mass may not be in the postulated existance of the Higgs boson, a top quark condensate or any other alternate model. Two researchers suggest a theory pertaining to inertial mass can been extended to include gravitational mass, involving the non-relativistic zero-point field. [more inside]
August 10, 2005
Holy crap! Is that pretty neato-keen or what!?
Worst. Excuse. Evar. If one has a phobia of being in a car with someone else driving, why would one become an instructon/tester for the DMV? And how does groping underaged breasts help with said phobia?
CG: Jumping the gun
Really getting ahead of myself here. In about 6 weeks, I'll be a father. I'd like my child to start learning a new language. But which? French may be the most useful within Canada, Spanish the most useful within the hemisphere, and Mandarin is likely the language of the future, but not necessarily within the next generation. If I'm going to start playing tapes and CDs while baby sleeps (and mommy lets me), which should I concentrate on?
(I speak poor French, passable Spanish, and a wee smattering of Mandarin, if that helps)
Functionalism at Forty (PDF) A very engaging and accessible Reductionist critique of Functionalism as it enters its fifth decade. "What is Functionalism?" you ask? Well...
Balancing Point. "A short film that is played entirely in reverse and involves the "reverse destruction" of balanced rock sculptures. There is one character in the movie that appears to magically create these sculptures. Although the film is played in reverse it appears as the man who is doing his magic is going forwards in time." You can see stills from the film, as well as the full Quicktime movie.
Return of the London meetup Ah Summer, the season of Pimms and mellow hose-pipe bans, close bosom-friend of the maturing triumph over the Aussies in the cricket... It's getting to be that London meetup time of year again, don't you think? Of course you do! [more inside]
Liam's Pictures from Old Books
Over 680 scanned images, engravings and pictures from old books, all public domain, most with multiple high-resolution versions.
Witchfinders - An examination of the legends surrounding Matthew Hopkins' vicious campaign against witches during the English Civil War era. From Fortean Times.
August 09, 2005
Peekaboom I know... I've posted already today.. but this is just too cool. Bascially, help a coupla algorithims learn hor to recognize things by "sight." You switch back and forth with a player a la a visual 25,000 Pyramid... and you reveal the portion of the picture that the site wants your partner to guess... i.e. Picture of a park... site wants "tree" so you reveal a tree. The only interaction is a noun/verb, related noun verb hint, and a hot or cold... This is just incredible..! Via BoingBoing...
Computer crashing? Maybe you're cursed... A little quirky post from our good friends up north. I can't believe someone's spent 26 years on this... weird if it were true [more inside]
Curious George: Who's Dumb to You? While taking a walk the other evening, I overheard some kids making "dumb jokes" (think "blonde jokes") about Canadians. Here in Washington state, the neighbors we tend to poke fun at for being supposedly daft are Canadians and sometimes Idahoians. [more inside]
Curious George-I have a lifesize cardboard cutout of myself ... wearing a tuxedo and striking a gameshow-host pose. It is cluttering up the flat, so I need suggestions as to what to do with it. I feel it needs a spectacular send-off. [more inside]
The Speech Nixon Didn't Give 31 years ago
"..I firmly believe that I have not committed any act of commission or omission that justifies removing a duly elected President from office. If I did believe that I had committed such an act, I would have resigned long ago.." [The actual speech. The Resignation Letter.]
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Blood and Roses The Paston family were minor nobility who rose to prominence in 15th century Norfolk. The collection of their family correspondence that survives provides a unique perspective on life in a long lost era - illicit romance, violence with bonus Middle English sound file!, and card games at Christmas. Wikipedia
20 Mishaps That Might Have Started Accidental Nuclear War
- 9 of them being from the Cuban Missle Crisis.
Note that these are false alarms and do not include such frighteners as the Arkhipov incident, and are only the known ones, so we don't really know how many times we've been on the brink for other, perhaps as yet undisclosed events.
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Curious George... wifi I'm thinkin of putting in free wi-fi for my rental units... Just wondering if it's worth the $1,000 (labor included) to do.... [more inside]
The Dining Room is sort of an interactive flash puzzle horror story. Not very complicated (try clicking on things multiple times), but creepy and atmospheric, with nice sound effects. Turn off all the lights in your room before you start to make it really scary! [more inside]
August 08, 2005
Curious Screenwriting George:
Has any monkey ever attended the Los Angeles Screenwriting Expo?
I took a one year diploma program in scriptwriting and enjoyed it immensely. Me and a buddy of mine would like to learn more about the art of screenwriting. Is the expo worth going to? What have been your experiences? What other events like this have you attended and would recommend?
Cool Bikes. Some neat futuristical lookin bikes. [more inside]
Curious, George: Boys keep out This one's just for the girls. Birth control question ahead. [more inside]
"Doctor, I woke up this morning, and I found THIS..."
Man gets drunk. Man passes out. Friend puts padlock on man's scrotum. Man waits two weeks before having it removed. The padlock, obviously. (Via obscurestore)
[WARNING: article contains mention of hacksaw.]
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Stacking the Deck The gallery's all you need, unless you want to buy the book.
Curious George: Uses for a very old laptop
I know this is a common kind of thing that crops up, but I have a Digital Hinote Ultra 2000 laptop (2 of them in fact), each with a 100MB hard drive, and a P1 166MMX processor. What could I do with them? Is there anything I can do to make them useable?
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These lines jiggle
Possibly the Greatest Time-Waster I have ever seen. It's as though Tempest has come to life.
Create your own amoeba, magic rotating pillar-thing, or weird man walker. These little beasties are surprisingly complex and beautiful, even generated and optimized with artificial intelligence for the races.
And the AI is winning.
(Java applets, fyi)
I Am Curious; Bubble. I've turned into a bubble tea zombie. I just love this stuff, and have 3 bubble tea joints within 3 blocks of my house. Anyone else a slave to Tea 'n' Lumpz?
Curious, George: Digitizing my vinyl music I'm looking for tips, suggestions, and software for converting some of my music on vinyl to digital format. [more inside]
Lincoln: Hypocrite or Statesman? an essay by Dinesh D'Souza from the April 2005 edition of American History magazine.
CIA Electronic Reading Room Thousands for formerly secret documents for researchers, enthusiasts, or the simply curious. [more inside]
August 07, 2005
Crash Test Kitchen put together by Aussies living in Canada
Hiroshima Peace Site In keeping with today's "Japanese" theme, I thought it was appropriate to post some Hiroshima-related links, seeing that yesterday was 60 years since the US dropped the bomb. [more inside]
Handbook for the Appreciation of Japanese Traditional Crafts
The materials, techniques, terminology and history of various forms of Japanese arts and crafts.
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The last 50 images posted to livejournal (NSFW) Displays last 50 images posted to livejournal, and refreshes every 60 seconds. Highly addictive, potentially NSFW, and a huge time waster. Images refresh every 60 seconds and most are either sick, sexy or hilariously out of context.
This song is the Japenese obession with eggs. They put eggs on EVERYTHING. Raw eggs on salad, meat, rice...and cooked eggs on almost everything ELSE! They love their eggs. Ignore the little popup thing asking you to download the Language pack. [more inside]
Uncut - OHH! "The Finnish version of the DuckTales theme sounds very much, to an English-speaker's ear, like an anti-circumcision song." Has sound and may be a little bit NSFW. (via b3ta)
Curious George: Cinema Paradiso. Specifically the kiss montage at the end. I'm trying to find a list of all the film clips shown and my google-fu is failing me. [more inside]
August 06, 2005
Why are we laughing?
Researchers are asking this question, and have come up with several ideas, if no absolute answers.
Are they all wet or on the right track?
Old Hollywood Movie Stills. High quality images too.
WWI Image Archive 'EarlyAviator': Large collection concentrating on air-ware. Includes airships, guns, planes, posters/paintings/badges & death photos. The site could use a makeover with thumbs but compensates with content over appearance. [The death section is pretty benign - nothing gruesome to my mind - mostly crash scenes/graves.]
August 05, 2005
I dream of old Dean Moriarty. "On the Road", Beat Bible and required reading for any sullen teen wanting to get out of their hick town, finally to make it to the big screen. Brace yourself -- this will either be glorious, or an abomination and sin against nature. [more inside]
Curious George: Getting out of a Cell Phone contract. I suspect I may be up that famous creek with this, but I thought I'd ask the monkeys and see if I can get some help. [more inside]
Curious George (yes, another): Wiki Do any Wikis support data fields, or are they all just blobs of text? Reason being... [more inside]
The worst foods for your health You there! Put that French fry down and come out with your hands up! Actually when it comes to bad foods, the French Fry, though a culprit isn't the worst. #1 on the list is a little suspected breakfast item. And zounds what about that fettucini alfredo?
Greatest Submarine Rescue in History. On 23 May 1939, the submarine Squalus sank in 243 feet of water off Portsmouth, NH when the engine room flooded due to a catastrophic valve failure. 26 men in the after part of the ship were drowned. Thirty-three others, including the commanding officer, LT Oliver F. Naquin, who were in the forward section, were trapped with no way to escape. Thus began the greatest submarine rescue of all time. Also, here's a short story about one of the survivors, Warren Smith. [more inside]
Curious George: What's in a username? What does your username signify? [more inside]
WaterFireplace
Instant fire, just add water.
Curious George: Toolbar Trouble Does anyone out there know how to get the toolbar to STAY HIDDEN? [more inside]
London guerilla graffiti artist visits Palestine.
Though Banksy got abuse from both the Israelis and Palestinians ... the latter were slightly less threatening than the Israeli military ...
Cold Comfort for Echinacea Fans
MedPage Today -- may require registration; the first time I accessed it, it didn't, but the second time it did. So I dunno.
I swore by echinacea for years. Turns out, it don't do doodly-squat for cold symptoms. Vitamin C is less effective than origianlly believed, too. I feel like such a fool!
Curious George: Adware? "Messenger Service" keeps poping up with an obvious adware. [more inside]
The Amazing Lie Diet Patients tricked into believing that they once were sick on strawberry ice cream subsequently avoid the food. Curiously, chocolate chip cookies seem immune to the effect. [via blog.bioethics.net] [more inside]
Glitterrock is a "screen capping" site where people have been posting entertaining captions for television and film screen shots for several years now. The site is a little hard to navigate, but you can find links to the galleries here. The humor is a little uneven (this is the internet, after all), but when it's good, it's pretty damn funny. Star Wars Caps. Star Trek Caps. Doctor Who Caps.
Curious George: Skin Care Looking for extremely low hassle facial skin care (for men) [more inside]
Most Disturbing Product poll.
That is, most disturbing products actually for sale.
(post on feministing.com found via this post on Bitch Ph.D.)
August 04, 2005
Cheney Orders
STRATCOM To Prepare Nuclear Attack Against Iran?
Is CONPLAN 8022-02 the "trigger" of WWIII?
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Alien Abduction - it's bullshit, isn't it? These weird aliens only ever take backwoods rednecks and loony writers. Oh, except for Nobel winner Dr Kary Mullis and the talking raccoon. [more inside]
Your next chicken nuggets could be engineered from tissue in a petri dish. (Village Voice) [more inside]
Curious George: Weird Phone Call Last week my mom got a weird phone call that was either a scam or someone casing the joint. Anyone heard of this? [more inside]
Alas, we hardly knew ye This list of seven companies that should have made it in the Internet economy seems a bit lacking to me. What 'net company/service do you miss the most or feel didn't live up to your expectations? For me, it's Kozmo, despite their idiotic business plan and ludicrous expansion attempts. They were the ultimate in (near-) instant gratification. via.
A Book of Scoundrels. Discovered while researching Deacon Brodie, the gentleman thief whose double life inspired R.L. Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
The Zen of being Simpson Interesting take on a celebrity who's never seemed more than background noise.
Philosophy made easy
The books which defined the way The West thinks now. In their own words, condensed and abridged to keep the substance, the style and the quotes, but ditching all that irritating verbiage.
You there! Get you some philosphizin! These talking heads actually have things to say! And in these handy abridged formats, you cant afford not to question the nature of knowing and being! Come on down and test drive some today!
PandaCam Live, streaming, Real Player video-type stuff of a panda and her new born cub. She's asleep at the moment. Ah.
Curious George: Ah, evening(s) in Toronto. Would anyone be able to give a list of great dining spots for Toronto? I'm heading there in the fall, and a good friend is moving there in a month. We'd like to avoid the chains and find the unique or outstanding meals. Price no issue.
Curious George: Internet Connect is driving me batty I just got my first mac a few weeks ago, and just recently it's started acting up. Every hour or so Internet Connect pops a little window... [more inside]
I made pizza for Kim Jong-il
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A curious tale by Ermanno Furlanis about how he was invited to North Korea to teach them how to make authentic Italian pizza for Dear Leader.
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Curious. George tabbed browsing.
Many of you are reallly stoked that tabbed browsing is available in FireFox. I don't understand why it's preferable to opening new windows. In fact, when I open new tabs and try to close one of them, they all close, and I lose cookies, while with windows, I just get back to what I wanted to see.
Ready to be educated/
Pizazz will make a man out of you. (video/quicktime)
Simply Fired is fronted by Mark Jen. It looks to me like it's been highly crafted. [more inside]
August 03, 2005
'Vintage' Mechanical Art - I so wish the pictures were a bit bigger but nonetheless there are some very fine and twisted manifestations of a singular mind here.
Mixed Messages This article on SI.com about Rafael Palmiero's suspension from baseball for using steroids includes prominent text ads to buy Stanozolol. Nice editorial integrity, huh?
I have officially lost faith in the entire USA. Kids are harassing an 11 year-old girl playing with her 6 year-old brother, throwing water balloons at her. She retaliates by throwing a rock at one of the boys. She is subsequently charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Way to go, guys. [more inside]
Metahistory Quest Closely aligned with deep ecology, and going deeper, our Quest explores the power of human potential to shape society, serve the earth, and co-evolve with the non-human world. What you get when you give some baby boomers enough crystals and enough cash. [more inside]
Who Killed Rock Radio? Fred Durst, obviously. While some make the point that everything's just fine, I personally haven't listend to rock radio in a long time. You? [more inside]
WildFinder from the WWF, allows you to find maps, pictures, and other info on any one of 30,000 species (the Takin, say), or lists of species within a selected ecoregion (say, South East Tibet Shrub and Meadows.) [more inside]
Can the Cavendish be saved? [possibly disturbing picture of a banana being operated on]. [more inside]
Curious George: Salary Slavery? For the first time, I find myself working a job with a salary, not an hourly wage. They're making me put in well over 8 hours a day; am I screwed, or what? [more inside]
August 02, 2005
Virtual Street Reality by Jeff Rense. When viewed from the proper angle, the street paintings look 3D. His UFO stuff is pretty cool, and he seems to have his own Radio show. Or station. Or something.
Hawaiifruit.net is an intersting collection of images and data on the many fruits of Hawaii. [more inside]
History and Philosophy of Alchemy
Over 90 megabytes online of information on alchemy in all its facets. Divided into over 1300 sections and providing tens of thousands of pages of text, over 2000 images, over 200 complete alchemical texts, extensive bibliographical material on the printed books and manuscripts, numerous articles, introductory and general reference material on alchemy.
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Russian jokes. True, Yakov Smirnoff is known for that annoying Slashdot meme, but he also brought morsels of Russian humor to the West. Russian humor is especially rich and draws on the country's diverse politics and culture. Yet translated into English, many of the jokes vary from delicious, to absurd, to puzzling.
Curious George: In what order should I read the _Chronicles of Narnia_? [more inside]
August 01, 2005
Glassbreaks: Philip Glass vs. Hiphop warning: mp3s [more inside]
Roman veterans colonised China. Thay seem to have been better at talking their captors round than at actually fighting. [more inside]
Alley Cats. Teh cute. Teh flash. [more inside]
The right wing, sick of the liberals getting all the good superheroes, decide to take matters into their own hands.
It is 2021, tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of 9/11. America is under oppression (sic) by ultra-liberal extremists which (sic) have yielded governing authority to the United Nations. It is up to an underground conservative group (known as F.O.I.L.) led by Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North to thwart Ambassador Usama Bin Laden’s plans to nuke New York City.
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Frodo gets a PhD I crapped out in the mines of Moria, but Frodo went all the way to tossing his dissertation into Mt. Doom!
A treatment for penis envy Just one of the many services brought to you by the man who fell asleep. For example, he can also help you imagine a world without France. Surf in confidence - he has celebrity endorsements.
This is not a walking stick. [more inside]
Babble - a hybrid of Boggle and Scrabble. (Warning: highly addictive!)
Who are the Melungeons? A group of people in the American Southeast are trying to re-define their racial and cultural identity. [more inside]
Civic
Holiday! Heck yes!
Also known as Heritage Day, Natal Day and Simcoe Day!
Civic Holiday! Heck yes!
It's your civic duty to have fun, so please celebrate responsibly.
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