March 12, 2004

The Stealthy Ambidextrous UnderCoverComfort
Gorillarama Comics! - All your simian related comics in one handy-dandy location!
"An inspirational list of creativity and innovation resources" A compilation of creative clicks for Friday fun more inside
Pretend you're in prison and make your own license plate graphics. If you follow the links on that page you can also find a website that allows you to make your own church signs, and your own heart candies. Try it now!
Free Love Muffins Want your sex to be hotter, last longer, or just a little different? These Love Muffins work like a natural Viagra - for guys and girls. The best part is that you can secretly cook them up in your home ... and give them to whoever you want. more inside
Curious, George: Remember the movie Ocean's 11? Brad Pitt wears a certain kind of shirts... (more inside) more inside
Strokes of Genius: Contemporary Iraqi Art. 34 Iraqi aartists from around the world.
Pastimes and paradigms. Online exhibition of old board-games, grouped by theme, from Cornell University Library. Anyone fancy a flutter on the Gay Wolves punchboard??
Dealing a Not-so-lame Game: Kishor Gordhandas' choice collection of playing cards includes decks from India and Japan, some of these have circular cards and if you think 52 cards is comprises a deck, think again -- he has decks with 96, or 108, or 120 hand painted cards. Then there is Bob Lawrence's Gallery of Unusual Playing Cards. more inside
Presenting steroscopic images. A gallery of stereoscopic images, presented as animated GIFs that alternate between the left and right image. It's an interesting effect. If you can get past the wiggling. more inside
The latest from ETC Group. J. Craig Venter, the genomics mogul and scientific wizard who recently created a unique living organism from scratch in a matter of days, is searching for pay-dirt in the biodiversity-rich Galapagos Islands. From his 95-ft. yacht, Sorcerer II, Venter is hop-scotching around the globe collecting microbial diversity from gene-rich seas and shores every 200 miles.
Angel Mommies. The pain and grief of miscarriage, displayed in pastel tones. Very similar to Angel Babies Forever Loved in many ways.
WF-4: The Anthropomorphic Flutist Robot With video.
The great escape. "Immediately after 9/11, dozens of Saudi royals and members of the bin Laden family fled the U.S. in a secret airlift authorized by the Bush White House. One passenger was an alleged al-Qaida go-between, who may have known about the terror attacks in advance." Did the Saudis buy a president? "How much money has flowed from the House of Saud to the Bush family and its friends and allies over the years? No one will ever know -- but the number is at least $1.477 billion." more inside

March 11, 2004

Too Old To Rock, Too Young To Die Via Obscure Store.
Want a real office, with a door? Now you can have one! Well, sort of.
New wave of Jessica Simpson jokes in 5...4...3... The dumb blonde can't even spell "desert"! No wait... it IS supposed to be "dessert". Love the re-purposing of the old Charlie the Tuna "good taste - taste good" meme. more inside
Bra Tax I couldn't make this up if I tried. This is another great idea from George W. Bush. The president recently said his critics support "protectionist trade barriers." The bizarre thing is he brags about his support of free trade and then does things like this. more inside
ETA suspected in Madrid bombings. I have long been fascinated by the mysterious Basque & have some general knowledge of the ETA/Basque separatist issues...they are historically rooted much more deeply than most people realize. For a more scholarly source on these matters also see Emmanuel Leroy Lauderie's Montaillou, the Promised Land of Error, a definitive work.
Ultima comics: Imanewbie. A fading souvenir of Ultima Online in its glory days. This classic comic strip starts off with Imanewbie simply being snuffed by player killers, but it eventually weaves a hilarious tale of life in Britannia and things that should not be. A must-see for any Ultima fan. A request - please share any other great comics you know of that parody an an actual computer game (Sims is one possible candidate).
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