Links posted in March 2007
March 31, 2007
Dress like a pirate and be forced to walk the plank.
San Francisco peregrines George and Gracie nested on the Bay Bridge this year; bad idea. Scientists from the Predatory Bird Research Group at UC Santa Cruz removed their eggs for incubation and hatching in a more safe location. [more inside]
Curious George: Breaking In A Mitt What's the best way to break in a mitt? [more inside]
March 30, 2007
World leaders in Processor and exporter of cereal grains
Processor and exporter of cereal grains and oilseeds. ... Processes and exports sunflowers for snacks, cooking ingredients and bird food
Company Name: food Pro
Address: 214 Massachusetts Ave NE, Washington DC, Washington DC, US, Zip Code 20002. Ph: 202.546.4430, Fax: 202.546.8338. Website: http://www.foodpro.co.us/
food,cereals,fmcg [more inside]
"...only a chocolate Jesus / Can satisfy my soul..."
No rulebreaking at Wal-Mart! [more inside]
Boston Marathon run virtually Sunita Williams qualified for the Boston Marathon but will be out of town on the day of the race next month. The race committee was gracious enough to let her participate virtually, bungee'd down on a zero-G treadmill in the Zvezda module of the International Space Station. [more inside]
Sport Bean! Need a quick burst of energy but don't like trail mix or Clif bars? Give the Jelly Belly Sport Bean a try! [more inside]
March 29, 2007
Cuteness, lethal dose of. A single link to YouTube, yes, but also, technically speaking, the single cutest thing ever.
Dog Performs Heimlich Maneuver, Saves Owner's Life
Golden labrador Toby jumped on Debbie Parkhurst's chest repeatedly as she choked on a piece of apple which had become lodged in her throat.
At first, she thought the two-year-old was playing but now she believes he knew exactly what he was doing.
Digitised version of Matteo Ricci's 1602 map of the world. Via
The Drachen Foundation has some stuff about kites. (I particularly liked the idea of miniature kites) [more inside]
The BBC is the future of your newspaper. Maybe.
For the one-time gangster who built it, it is nothing less than "the eighth wonder of the world".
A Little Love for the Lefties Tired of smudging when you write? Someone's finally come up with an answer for you! via.
March 28, 2007
And the winner is... The 2007 Pritzker Prize (architecture's Nobel) has been awarded to Richard Rogers -- a man of many talents. (*cough*) [WARNING -- Flash stretches from Oklahoma to South Pacific.]
Kwik-E-Marts made real As a tie-in with the upcoming Simpsons Movie, eleven 7-11 stores are going to rebrand themselves as Kwik-E-Marts, complete with KrustyOs and Buzz cola. No word on the availability of Duff Beer or how many people named Apu will be needed. via.
10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers
Difference # 2: The brain uses content-addressable memory
-thinking of the word "fox" may trigger thoughts of fox hunting, horseback riding, a sexy woman
Difference # 3: The brain is a massively parallel machine; computers are modular and serial
-areas of the brain marked as memory centers are also important for imagination
Interesting stuff
via linkfi
Scientists have created the world's first human-sheep chimera. The resulting "chimera" has 15 percent human cells and 85 percent animal cells. See also, Dr. Zanjani's previous work on the pig-human chimera.
Saturn. Come for the freaky human eye-like hurricane at the south pole, stay for the bizarre hexagon at the north.
The World of Beer: a Universal Language (small pictures, annoyingly with the gallery logo plastered over them). The related article. A history of beer. And a monkey.
1. Sasquatch are mammals.
2. Sasquatch fight ALL the time. 3. The purpose of the sasquatch is to flip out and kill people.
Wait, getting my memes mixed up.
Which drugs are most harmful? According to this, heroin's worse than cocaine, which is worse than alcohol, which is worse than cannabis, which is worse than LSD. Some results you'd expect, and some surprises. (From The Lancet, free registration required.) [more inside]
March 27, 2007
The City of Hope is a shelter in Dubai for abused women and children of all nationalities – and one of the few shelters in the Middle East. Run by Sharla Musabih, an American married to a UAE national, the safe haven has come under increasing criticism and attack. Sharla sets the record straight.
An ancient theatre filters out low-frequency background noise.
The wonderful acoustics for which the ancient Greek theatre of Epidaurus is renowned may come from exploiting complex acoustic physics, new research shows.
The theatre, discovered under a layer of earth on the Peloponnese peninsula in 1881 and excavated, has the classic semicircular shape of a Greek amphitheatre, with 34 rows of stone seats (to which the Romans added a further 21).
Its acoustics are extraordinary: a performer standing on the open-air stage can be heard in the back rows almost 60 metres away. Architects and archaeologists have long speculated about what makes the sound transmit so well.
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Celaphopodfilter: More Giant Killer Squid
"On deck, a fisherman lurches forward as his rod dips seaward. Another fisherman is jerked against the rail, then another. It can only be the same bizarre denizen that has been turning up in large numbers throughout Southland waters: Dosidicus gigas, a.k.a. Humboldt, or jumbo, squid. It is a colossal cephalopod that reaches 7 feet long, can weigh more than 100 pounds, and jets through the water at speeds up to 25 mph."
LA Times Article, registration required.
Seattle Meetup Anyone here in the Emerald City area want to meet up? [more inside]
March 26, 2007
CyberBullied Off Line Kathy Sierra, blogger of Creating Passionate Users, has been harassed and stalked online via posts to her and others' blogs to the point that she is too afraid to leave her house and attend the workshops she normally leads, much less lead her daily life.
Recycled tintype images - strange and lovely rearrangements of bits of very old photos. Seen at Ample Sanity [more inside]
The Create A Comic Project Give little kids comics with blank word balloons. Let the hilarity ensue.
How to take a nap. For those otherwise useless periods between hiking your pants up to your nipples and complaining about the government.
Calculate Your Caffeine
This handy-dandy website sorts out caffeinated beverages by name and as you click the green "plus" sign, it adds caffeine mg into a total amount.
Afterwards, you may want to quit the caffeine habit. Or, perhaps just quitting soda pop is more for you.
via the latter referenced lifehacker
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U. G. Krishnamurti is No More!
March 25, 2007
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss (25 min Google video.)
Techno Tuesday A comic strip about techstuff, with a twisted bent. Hysterically funny.
Pancake Art Delicious and enlightening.
A painting recently attributed to Caravaggio can be seen at a London exhibition of the Royal Collection. Here's a gallery of all (I think) Caravaggio's paintings. And a monkey.
Beatboxing has been covered here before but all of the links are dead. It has been called the fifth element of hip hop. It is old skool, it is new skool. It is performed by clowns, the Dutch, the French, and the New York Philharmonic (wait for it 1:30 in to the video).
UFO Evidence
is a large depository of UFO related photos, sightings, and other curiousities.
Are you a believer?
March 23, 2007
Hill of Crosses. Apparently it's more of a faith shrine rather than a cemetery or a memorial. There are some 55,000 plus crosses on a hill in Lithuania somewhere out in the bush from Riga.
Stop the Falsiness! We're putting Stephen Colbert on notice. For almost a year, his ceaseless falsiness -- disguised, shamelessly, as truthiness -- has gone unchallenged. No longer. [more inside]
Hand bookbinding . Chinese bookbinding. Embroidered bookbinding. Sprinkled, dyed, marbled, gilt or gauffered edges. [more inside]
This whole Jim Cramer thing is really, really interesting. [more inside]
Houses cheaper than cars in Detroit. ...says the headline. But in actual fact, houses are cheaper than used cars. A boarded-up bungalow on the city's west side brought $1,300. A four-bedroom house near the original Motown recording studio sold for $7,000. "You can't buy a used car for that," said Izairi. "It's a gamble, and you have to wonder how low it's going to get."
March 22, 2007
Uyghur goes pop! Fully downloadable album (with samples to try before you don't buy) of pop music from Xinjiang, aka East Turkestan, home to the Uyghur.
THE List
Dahling, it's simply scrumptious! Peek in on the lives of the ultrarich and überbeautiful.
via Boingsy Boingington
Cufflights! Hack your sleeves, dude.
Aquarium toilet
- who could possibly wee with all those witnesses?
Video!
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MPAA unleashes anti-piracy dogs. Lucky and Flo recently sniffed out 1,000,000 pirated DVD discs in Malaysia. However, miffed "syndicate bosses" have placed a bounty on their heads.
McDonald's lobbies the O.E.D. to redefine 'McJob'.
The Science of Biomonitoring: The Future of Advertising!
Everything you wanted to know about Greek gods but were afraid to ask. Includes galleries, family trees, a bestiary, and a library of a fair few translations of Greek and Roman source texts. And it has monkeys. [more inside]
Papa Spank! Unintentionally funny comic vignettes for your amusement... alas, no monkeys.
LRB review of new book on the Velvet Underground. I has three chords.
Designing rooms for your home? Could you live comfortably with what they've come up with, or is this design for design's sake? [more inside]
March 21, 2007
I can has cheezeburger? will fulfill all your lolcatz needs.
RIP John Inman
From the Times obit:
John Inman, actor, was born on June 28, 1935. He died of complications arising from hepatitis A on March 8, 2007, aged 71.
Few situation comedies have aroused such loyal affection in television viewers as Are You Being Served? And no character was more beloved than the irrepressibly camp Mr Humphries, played by John Inman. The series ran for a dozen years and was regularly watched by half of Britain. It was later a cult success in the US.
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Rapex: a medieval device built on a hatred of men or an easy-to-use invention that could free millions of South African women from fear of rape?
Spiderman thwarted on his second attempt at scaling the Petronas Twin Towers without any ropes or safety devices. Alain Robert likes to climb.
Fitness Unarmed (flash)
Doctor Who and the terrifying man.
On Sunday November 22nd, 1987, at around 11:15pm, a Video "Pirate" wearing a Max Headroom mask broke into the signal and transmitted one of the weirdest, unauthorized things ever to hit the Chicago airwaves. (youtube links, again)
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March 20, 2007
Skywalk. A glass bridge 1.2 km above the floor of the Grand Canyon has its unveiling today. It's intended to be a moneymaker for the Hualapai Nation, but not all agree with the plan, saying it conflicts with their duty as stewards of the land.
Ralph McQuarrie's Star Wars Portfolio Early Star Wars concept art
Patria o muerte, venceremos! He probably meant "Cuba sí, Castro no", but didn't do his research.
March 19, 2007
Eww Eww Eww It's a chewing gum tree Why can't they put it under the table like everyone else? [more inside]
How well do you really get along with your friends, co-workers, family, Mofites? Create a group, or join the newly created Monkeyfilter group*! [more inside]
Dancing with the (almost) stars. Featured on the new edition of Dancing With the Stars -- one Heather Mills. Which is cruel, or brilliant, or both. (Also: Cliff Claven!)
God I love Tiny Tim (youtubesssss)
Pet Food Recall
This is probably just for USian pets, but Menu Foods Income Fund, which is apparently the name of a pet food manufacturer that contracts for many different brands has recalled a large number of dog & cat foods.
Visit the list to make sure you don't have any in your pantry. This is also probably as good a time as any to remind you that your dog wants steak.
Japanese Toilet Training Video [Kinda NSFW, youtube] There are no words.
March 18, 2007
Image*After. Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial. [more inside]
Toasty little toddlers And it's true. It's really, really TRUE! [more inside]
The Dark Ages are history, man.
Google video about a book.
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The Dark Ages are history, man.
Google video about a book.
Zany? Conspiratorial? Boring?
Jesus and King Arthur roaming the earth at approximately the same time?
All according to Russian mathematician Anatoly Fomenko. And who am I to question a mathematician about history? Who are any of us, really?
I'll buy that for a dollar.
Sand Fantasy by Ilana Yahav (main link youtube)
March 17, 2007
Todd Rundgren is one of us.
When he set about releasing a video for his beautiful song Change Myself, back in the early nineties, he pulled out his Amiga (Ten Amigas actually) and made the video himself. Modelling, animating, on his big bed of Commodore Amigas.
Portraits of Violence: The Gangs of Port Moresby and Suicide Bombers in Gaza. Essay.
March 16, 2007
MacQuarium. Macquarium. MacQuarium. MacQuarium. MacQuarium. MacQuarium. MacQuarium. MacQuariums.
Rumspringa
When she turned 17, she started her rumspringa -- the Amish rite of passage in which young adults are allowed to dabble in the indiscretions of our world before officially joining the church. "It just means you can do whatever Yanks do," Tina says. "Not everyone drinks alcohol. Some people just drink Coke and play volleyball."
. . . She quickly grew a tiny collection of T-shirts and eye shadow, learning to drink by the six-pack until dawn and memorizing Eminem's entire discography. She even bought a cell phone, which her parents still don't know about.
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"Rooney Shoots, Jesus Saves"
No British churchyard is complete without a """witty""" advertising slogan with some punning word play encouraging non-believers to step inside ... Finally the 'Church Poster of the Year competition' has been launched to celebrate this quaint high-street art form.
C'mon Monkeys what's the best one you've seen?
Chickenhawks. Know your enemy.
Photo walkthroughs of wicked NYC pads.
Plus scads of other domestic goodness for the snarfling, like sake sets for $5, fritata recipes, spin-around electrical outlets, and where to find adhesive hippie flower bathtub-floor deslipifiers.
A new species of leopard has been discovered in Borneo, the latest of more than 400 species discovered since 1996. A very handsome animal it is too. [more inside]
March 15, 2007
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Protecting Splenda Johnson & Johnson and Tate & Lyle, developers of sucralose, or as it's known commercially, Splenda, have spent a bunch of money and effort buying up any domain name that might possibly show their product in a negative light including www.splendakills.com, .org, .biz and .info. Apparently this is some sort of preemptive strike for when publicity eventually turns against them? via.
Which microlender makes best use of my $20?
The convoluted politics of zombie cinema. Yet another discussion of what being a walking cannabalistic corpse in today's modern age all means. Erudite and nerdy!
March 14, 2007
Life-Sized Blue Whale. [more inside]
Control Panel Get your g33k on.
Hollywood Bizarro: Notstarring.com chronicles the roles that actors either didn't get or turned down: Christopher Lee as Grand Moff Tarkin! Chevy Chase as Forrest Gump! Russel Crowe as Aragorn!
Sonnet Central features lots of sonnets in English, and a fair few translations. You may also enjoy having some read to you (real audio), or the monthly battle of the sonnets. [more inside]
Gotta lub them 404s Get your froggy 404 here. You like 'em adult, amusing, creepy, geeky, interactive, or shocking? The Research Lab has 'em all.
What's so funny? Laughter, a topic that stymied philosophers for 2,000 years, is finally yielding to science. Researchers have scanned brains and tickled babies, chimpanzees and rats. They’ve traced the evolution of laughter back to what looks like the primal joke — or, to be precise, the first stand-up routine to kill with an audience of primates. [more inside]
The Drawing Adventure by Ian Stevenson (main link youtube)
March 13, 2007
Monster Brains (a weblog looking at horror artwork and other interesting things)
Prank Calling While Under the Influence
Nothing says, "Celebrate the Saint who brought the Gospels to Ireland *MORE* than getting drunk, saying stupid shit, and prank calling a hotline for precisely that purpose."
Erin Go Bragh, Boozehounds...
Viacom launches billion-dollar lawsuit against YouTube for "massive" copyright infringement. YouTube is going to crumble like so many crumbling crumblethings. AND I SAY GOOD RIDDANCE! [more inside]
OMG NFW!
Allegedly, national sorority Delta Zeta attempted to reinvigorate interest in it's DePauw University house by evicting the less-attractive, "socially-awkward" or inappropriately ethnic members.
The ousted members were "recommended for alumna status" - off campus.
Oh, and the sorority has been asked to leave campus too.
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...I can report that the possibility of Conrad being acquitted is regarded there as marginally less likely than Elvis turning up as a courtroom usher. [more inside]
Tuesday Fun: Paint with pixels, watch a cartoon, and escape a dungeon.
No Whisper No Sigh. A photo essay from Magnum. Haunting, and worth seeing through to the end.
March 12, 2007
Get the Glass!!!! Absolutely stunning.
Rare Book Room
Wow!
In particular the site contains:
1. Some of the great books in science, including books by Galileo, Newton, Copernicus, Kepler, Einstein, Darwin and others.
2. Most of the Shakespeare Quartos from the British Library, the Bodleian Library, the Edinburgh Library, and the National Library of Scotland. It also contains the First Folio from the Folger Library.
3. The LIbrary of Congress ’ copies of Poor Richard ’s Almanac by Benjiman Franklin.
4. Very rare editions: Gutenberg ’s Bible of 1455, Harvey's book on the circulation of blood, Galileo ’s Siderius Nuncius, the first printing of the Bill of Rights, and the Magna Carta.
Wheee!
via MetaWhee
Richard Jeni is tragically dead. Picked up from the blue, but posted here because the man who came up with one of the very funniest things I have ever, ever heard deserves to be noted in his passing, and deserved a passing greater than this. [more inside]
The Failed Attorney-General. Alberto Gonzales said he understood the difference between the job he held — President Bush’s in-house lawyer — and the job he wanted, which was to represent all Americans as their chief law enforcement officer and a key defender of the Constitution. Two years later, it is obvious Mr. Gonzales does not have a clue about the difference. Fighting words from the New York Times.
March 11, 2007
Planet of slums. Review of a couple of Mike Davis's recent books. From the review: "There are more than 20 megacities in the developing world. Two of these – Mexico City and Seoul – were ‘hypercities’ (with 20 million inhabitants) at the time he published this book. Since then São Paulo and Mumbai must also have hit the 20 million mark, with Delhi fast approaching it...‘In many cases,’ Davis observes, ‘rural people no longer have to migrate to the city: it migrates to them.’" Here is an interview with Davis.
Curious George
Yoooooohoooo!?! It's lonely in here.
Sundays are pretty quiet. When and where do you monkeys do your Filtering?
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Question of the Day: How Do You Get Crabs From A Gorilla?
Get Rich or Try Lying
Fake rich guy (online magazine reporter) surveys a $500-per speed dating event in Gotham. Potential male suitors must make $500k/yr. with a million in the bank. Potential female catches must submit five pictures to prove hotness.
Come! For the freaks! Stay! For the show!
via $5.00Filter
March 10, 2007
It's oh so quiet. Yes, its cats. Yes it's stolen from B3TA. Yes, it's Youtube. 'Ave it!!
germy data drives
Artificial DNA with encoded information can be added to the genome of common bacteria, thus preserving the data.
You guys remember those old spy films where they fished a dot of microfilm off the femme fatal's beauty mark. I imagine that with this new technology the retrevial of data will be a bit more, shall we say, personal.
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Britain’s youth worst-behaved in Europe. [more inside]
Elephant masturbation lessons on British TV. British television programme Horizon will screen an episode about a man who masturbates elephants, in order to help them procreate. [more inside]
R2-D2 Mailboxes ...to celebrate George Lucas and 30 years of Star Wars, the US Postal Service will be dressing up mailboxes like the lovable droid.
March 09, 2007
Curious George: Oven Self Destruction Curious George: Melted electric oven element? Or, fun with home repair of electric appliances. [more inside]
CuriousGeorge: WANTED: good, fast, printable b/w map
At my work, we regularly and frequently print out street maps. Google Maps makes the best printouts we've see, but it's slow, and the print-outs are poor, as we're doing it on a b/w printer. Here's what I want:
(1) A full-page printout with one click.
(2) Map formatted in black-n-white for printing.
All the other printable map sites I've found want to print half-sheet sized maps, which is unusable to me. Anyone know anything better?
The Man From Maine and Jack LaLanne, LIVE on PAYPAHVIOUU!!!
qaSvI' ngoch cherwI'
is trying to win re-election to the Finnish Parliament, by appealing to the Klingon vote. A few words may require the assistance of native speakers of the language, but fortunately, his site is also in English, Swedish, and (obviously) Finnish.
Clearly, he is a man ahead of his time.
Yoga at Home - Indian Comic Book
The Yoga Institute in Santa Cruz, Mumbai is unique in catering mainly to middle-class Indians who usually have a family and face the pressures of urban life. This 1997 comic book, produced by the institute in the style of popular indian comics of the period, captures the essence of 'householder yoga', giving an idea of how powerful spiritual practices can shape the ethos of an 'ideal' Indian family.
In the spirit of the "Action Philosophers" FPP from yesterday, an informative flickr set how-to in convenient look-see picture form. And less o' the talkity talk-talk yappin'.
via boingboing
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This gets my vote in the Best-Doormat-Ever category.
I have sex with cars "Chris believes one spark for his fetish was 1980s cult TV series Knight Rider, starring David Hasselhof[sic] and featuring a talking car." [more inside]
Kurious English George Coming To America 27/Mar-3/Apr
I'm going to be in Los Angeles 27 March - 3 April 2007, and I'd love to meet the LA Monkeys. Never been before, so when, where, how?
I'm visiting a friend who lives near the Dodgers Stadium.
The world's billionaires, 2007. Brought to you by Forbes: "The billionaires' combined net worth climbed by $900 billion to $3.5 trillion. That equates to $3.6 billion apiece."
Hypocrisy in politics? Whodathunkit?
While perseprosecuting Bill Clinton for his Lewinsky affair, Newt Gingrich was stepping out on his missus. Do as I say, not as I do, mm?
China’s Most Incredible Holdout An apparently extreme case of refusing to make way for the property developers down in Chongqing.
March 08, 2007
The ugliest flame war of all time
can be found here.
Blog owners eventually notice.
'Lebensborn' sue Norway. A group of Norwegians who were fathered by German soldiers in World War II are suing the Norwegian authorities at the European Court of Human Rights. More on the lebensborn.
Happy International Women's Day! A listing of events in countries around the world. [more inside]
12 photos that make one wonder if you don't have to be crazy to fish for crabs, and then a 13th and final photo that pretty much settles the matter.
Lovers of Wisdom - And ACTION! From the award-winning comic series ACTION PHILOSOPHERS! comes these biographies of the titans of thought! Thrill to the killer koans of Bam-Bam Bodhidharma! Shudder before the noble savagery of Terrible Thomas Jefferson! [more inside]
Curious Gross-Out George. What's the most disgusting thing you have ever tasted? [more inside]
Man dressed as elf robs lingerie shop.
Curious George: Canadian Passport Panic
We've just been told that Mr. Koko's passport will not be ready in time for our flight to Australia.
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March 07, 2007
And Stay Down! Slobodan Milosevic's fiendish plot to return from the dead foiled by team of world heroes!
Inside the Wal-Mart Presentation
A purportedly leaked corporate presentation describing the Wal-Mart shopper types and likes.
With cute names and clip art. Are You a "Brand Aspirational"? A "Price Sensitive Affluent"? Or perhaps the dreaded Conscientious Objector?
Yes, "skew rural" with this fun-filled laugh riot of demographically informaniacal datacramlets!
via Blue-Mart
Feist and Isometry Scroll the paintings. Mind and heart stuttering stuff. If you can get her book, "Forty Five" - do so. Just gets better with every one. Take a gaze upon Laszlo Lukacs' equally stunning and very different work. The man uses light like a lance.
Giant
Australian moggies.
Last ones a u-toobe
Jean Baudrillard did not take place [more inside]
March 06, 2007
Curious George: Pets on a Plane Do any monkeys have experience of travelling with pets in planes? [more inside]
Just another beautiful Sunday for church....oh wait
It'll do until you get rich.
So you can't have a Jeeves. Maybe this can let you pretend otherwise, at least until you wake up.
Wood comes alive with new purpose. Since you were grumbling about rocks. Check out these galleries.
Curious George: suggestions for, and mini monkey meet in, San Francisco? [more inside]
Christian Clowns. Seriously.
Honestly, I couldn't watch the whole thing, it's so awful.
Maybe you all are a little more masochistic.
And it's all courtesy of that wonderful video portal: God Tube. Again, seriously.
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March 05, 2007
Christel Assante
Carves Eggshells.
via Oeufilter
Of ostrich farms, teenagers, firecrackers, etc.
Welcome to Mosetoon. Enjoy the show.
Cyclical Non-uterine Dysmenorrhea - Dr. Gehardt Fardel's breakthrough cure for male menstrual cramps. (Via NOTCOT.)
London costumier auctions TV, movie outfits. Ever wanted to be James Bond? Or a Jedi? Or a showgirl? Or Doctor Who? It's all there at the Angels costume auction at Bonhams. Clothes worn by Julie Andrews, Ingrid Bergman, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole and many more. Obi-Wan's cloak is the last lot, 362. [more inside]
March 04, 2007
Curious George: Visual Design Rules?
Every once in awhile I need to create a logo, picture, or otherwise make gud art. And never had a lesson. So. What are the Rules for Visual Design?
Or which ones do you know? Or follow?
Some of the links are about webdesign specifically, but I mean just in general.
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Intolerable Beauty: The photography of Chris Jordan.
March 03, 2007
The Tubewhore project. The London Underground: 12 lines, 275 stations, and one pink-haired goth girl's ambition to visit, photograph and blog them all. She has already created a few art projects based on her underground adventures. [more inside]
Evil Mad Scientist A Make:Blog for the more geeky, perhaps. In person at the Maker Faire in San Mateo in May this year. Some items also currently appearing in the DIY exhibit at Columbia College, Chicago.
Freedom Rocks One man's campaign to solidify the issue.
Advanced Alien Technology Can Save the World So says Paul Hellyer, a Canadian, former minister of defense.
An American Muslim. "Over the last 30 years of American Islamic life, Hathout and his anti-hierarchical sentiments have butted heads with a renewed conservatism that took hold of the world’s Muslims during the financial rise of the oil monarchy in Saudi Arabia and its ultratraditional Wahhabi math-hab (school) of Islam...Hathout is trying to counter foreign interference into Islam in the U.S. by emphasizing its American side, and by stressing that Saudi Wahhabists are no more qualified than American Muslims to speak on Islamic issues."
Cerebro!
"We Feel Fine is a software engine that harvests human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases 'I feel' and 'I am feeling'. The result is a database of several million human feelings, with about 20,000 new feelings added each day."
Click on the little floating bubbles and get brief text thoughts from various blogs. The squares show pictures as well. Flash!
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March 02, 2007
Cleanse thyself! How do you rid yourself of allergies, diabetes, psoriasis, fatigue, blood circulation (problems), (repair) organ functions and arthritis? Simple! Wash your feet! [more inside]
New pictures of Jupiter from the lame-named New Horizons probe.
Swiss (accidentally) invade Liechtenstein! "Interior ministry spokesman Markus Amman said nobody in Liechtenstein had even noticed the soldiers, who were carrying assault rifles but no ammunition."
The age of the mega-skyscrapers. "Five years after September 11, well into what was expected to be the post-skyscraper era, a boom of increasingly improbable proportions is underway and it shows no signs of abating. Like a bar graph measuring increased faith in the future, the towers keep getting taller—after lingering for decades around 1,400 feet, the height now needed to achieve a jaw-dropping wow-factor is approaching 2,000 feet."
March 01, 2007
Police chase goes a bit wrong [Youtube] Neat footwork by the lad on the bike, though he's probably adjusting his tactics in future Via.
Floating Neutrinos A host of rafts and plans for a floating island built entirely from recycled junk. The Son of Town Hall, built entirely from junk found in the streets of New York, crossed the Atlantic in 1997.
Bill Shatner in a recording session. As heard on the Howard Stern show. Streaming audio.
Mom? Can I play Tsunami? The UN and ISDR has come up with a game designed to teach kids about disaster-preparation... [more inside]
Was Wagner a secret transvestite? And why did he keep his passion for bustles secret? Maybe because he was scared of being cleansed with one of these?
New York City Council approves ban on racial slur. The non-binding measure, asks New Yorkers to voluntarily stop using the "n-word." [more inside]
