Links posted in August 2006
August 31, 2006
15 Aliens found working for U.S. military contractor in Roswell, NM [more inside]
Grackles - Common Grackles, Grackle facts, The Great-Tailed Grackle Mysteries, Grackle Whacked, and the Great Grackle Migration. [more inside]
Strangely compelling ... a guide to the UK's most rubbish motorways ...
Hot Dog Infused Vodka "Over the years, I've tried various sorts of infusions, with vodka and other liquors. Fruit and herb-infused are the best known, and are often wonderful. But what I like is meat. Where's the infusion for people like me? I felt disenfranchised, and alone, especially after some research on the interwebs revealed a real lack of meat-based liqueurs. It would be up to me to blaze the trail." [more inside]
Thank you choosing HP. US soldier in I-Rak takes his customer services woes out on his HP printer with what looks like an M60. Worth it just to hear what sounds like Dr Zoidberg passing comment at the end. Yes, it's YouTube, and yes, it's taken from here
Mt E'Mei's monkeys are too damned fat.
'E'Mei Mountain monkeys have been busy keeping healthy recently and now many of them have regained nice slim figures with the help of experts.'
And they aint the only ones having trouble with their diet. /pats tum
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Curious George How does one get banned from slashnet.org when all they have ever done was join #mofirc to chat with monkeys? [more inside]
August 30, 2006
I know I need this how about you?
Historic brothel may be demolished, or perhaps restored. That's the dilemma facing heritage officials in Jinggang, Hunan. [more inside]
96 kilobytes WHAT .kkrieger is a free FPS game that, when running, displays graphics like this (running on my own machine) but what is really fancy is that the whole game takes up no more than 98304 bytes of hard disk space. Say hello to procedural generation! [more inside]
Andrew Lloyd Webber to make "Master and Margarita" into musical.
Disney straight-to-DVD animated feature to follow.
Rumsfeld says Iraq War Critics Are Cowards
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday accused critics of the Bush administration's Iraq and counterterrorism policies of lacking the courage to fight terror.
In unusually explicit terms, Rumsfeld portrayed the administration's critics as suffering from "moral and intellectual confusion" about what threatens the nation's security.
In other news, reality turns out to be optional.
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August 29, 2006
Free-ish music If you live in the US and Canada, anyway.
A paradise may soon be lost. The island of Guimaras, known for its natural splendor and rich coral reefs, faces disaster: An oil spill from a sunken tanker is endangering this place, a home to threatened species of dugong and green and hawksbill turtles. [more inside]
All the Goon Shows, all the time.
The Yes Men
"have impersonated some of the world's most powerful criminals at conferences, on the web, and on television, in order to correct their identities."
Yesterday, a federal housing official spoke to the attendees of the Gulf Coast Reconstruction and Hurricane Preparedness Summit. The topic of his speech was his department's mission to ensure affordable housing is available for those who need it.
"This year, in New Orleans, I'm ashamed to say we have failed," he said.
That should've been their first clue that the speech was a hoax.
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Platypus Comix- Home of a trove of wonderful cartoons comic strips and art, including my favorites- non-anthologized original Bloom County Strips and The Bloom Picayune, and unpublished Watterston stuff. And a whole lot of other retrolicious stuff too, like Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain, and MTV's top 20 videos for 1984
A tribute to Gail, the West Wing goldfish. Gail's bowl is the setting for private on-set jokes, apparently. Those jokes, funny or not, are listed here. For you. Enjoy.
August 28, 2006
Curious George - Full Sized DVD Camcorder? Needed: a camcorder that records directly to full size DVD, and not that mini-DVD 3" format. We need the big one. Not the mini. [more inside]
Federal Judge Says Video Games Are Just Like Fine Literature Oh, and Louisiana can't ban Grand Theft Auto.
Walkenclips, for when you just need the wise words of the man who asked for more cowbell.
Yale Shmale. Lakehead University is using Bush as a negative example in their new ad campaign. [more inside]
Animusic Rocks. My dull monday morning has been brightened up by the fun musical 3d animations of the Animusic company which specializes in 3D Computer Graphic music animation. And thanks to Youtube you can check out how awesome this stuff is. [more inside]
Curious Cyber-fashion George With more high-tech fabrics being developed - what item of clothing or accessory are you hanging out for? [more inside]
A lost love letter purported to be from poet John Betjeman turns out to have an altogether different message for one of his feuding biographers, the somewhat controversial AN Wilson.
August 27, 2006
Nucular War! Why didn't anyone tell me that a third part of the people will be killed over a fourth part of the Earth on September 12, 2006? This is information I would have liked to have had, and now I am angry! That leaves me only a little more than two weeks to spend all of my money, charge up my credit cards, and beat the living crap out of people I don't like. [more inside]
Who is Kilgore Trout?
Kilgore Trout. bn: 1907 (to American Parents) in Bermuda where he attended Grammar School until his father's job with the Royal Ornithological Society ended and they moved to Dayton, Ohio. Married & divorced 3 times, he has one child, Leo, a Vietnam Veteran.
By 1974, Trout had written 117 novels & 2,000 short stories. "Venus on the Half Shell," Kilgore Trout's masterpiece, contains therein the legend of The Space Wanderer, Simon Wagstaff. A man of virtual immortality.
"Without immortality, the universe is meaningless," he said."Ethics, morality, society as a whole are just means to get through life with the least pain. They can all be reduced to one term: economy."
Cheese on tour Congratulations! - you've made it to the Web's number one site for pictures of cheese in famous places.
Sorry Princess But you'll have to wait until your 18th Birthday before Daddy can buy you new boobs. [more inside]
The Arty Bees Cabinet of Curious Bibliophilia
Featuring such fine titles as What Bird Did That? (yes, that), The Truth About Fonzie (I don't want to know) and Jammin' ("If you can stand up on skates, you can "get down" on them.")
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August 26, 2006
Belgian Farting Pig.
Need I say more?
(google video)
Save Gas, Drive a BLOOD CAR In the near future gas prices have reached astronomical highs nearing $40 a gallon. One man, Archie Andrews, an environmentalist elementary school teacher, is trying to discover an alternate fuel source. While experimenting with wheat grass, Archie accidentally stumbles upon a solution. That solution turns out to be blood. HUMAN BLOOD! [more inside]
August 25, 2006
Talk about shrinkage.
They say "pollution". I say "frelling cold water". But while we're on the subject. More wacky news. And who could forget.
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Imagination is this week's dose of Flash goodness coming in the form of a site that sort of reminds me of Jackson Pollock meets Ze's Drawtoy VS Byokal.
T.O. lab to test DNA of Mystery Dog. Scientists are confused, as the beast that's been terrorizing Maine looks nothing like Cujo.
Bush Stinks!
If you elect a frat boy as President of the United States, don't be surprised if he enjoys farting and making others smell it.
via y2karl's Flatulence Fiesta
Linux-Curious I've been thinking about switching to Linux for awhile, but not a hundred percent sure if I should...Help! [more inside]
That only makes eleven (plus one mislaid) and not fourteen, unless wizards count differently to other people. But now please get on with the tale. Recently (sometime between May and July depending on who you ask) people started receiving spam messages that slipped by filters by containing random bits of prose from the works of JRR Tolkien. Dubbed "hobbit spam," these emails contained nothing else- no links, no images, no advertisements of any kind. [more inside]
Kaleidoscopes! Everything about kaleidoscopes. Brief history of the kaleidoscope. A quick faq about kaleidoscopes. How kaleidoscopes work. More on how kaleidoscopes work. [more inside]
Gods Armour Pyjamas
- no really. With 121 days till Xmas, its the ideal prezzie for scared suburban bible-thumping, intelligent design-weilding,bug-eyed neo-con zionist dogma-monkeys. There. Said it. Via Cliff Pickover's Reality Carnival
August 24, 2006
Google Games Fire up your search engine for some rather fun games that might actually improve those googling powers. My favorite is Gwigle.
Curious George the Frosh.
The ceeb has put together a sorta-lame Frosh Survival Guide. Now, many of us monkeys have hid from reality spent tuition money on drugs and stereos some time at uni or college -- what do you wish someone had told you before you shipped off? What pearls of wisdom can you now impart?
That's no moon! Um, well, actually...
My kind of wake. I don't think this needs further description. But it would enliven the proceedings.
"The Special Needs" or "The Needs" as they were later called, are the best "up and coming" Rock n' Roll band that you will never have the opportunity see live. [more inside]
Creem archive Lester Bangs, Cameron Crowe, Nick Kent, you know.
August 23, 2006
Web2DNA Convert your website to DNA Art. Also Websites as Graphs.
Used FAQs. A random roundup of frequently asked questions: Do vasectomies and hysterectomies prevent abductions? Will I get to meet Barbra Streisand? Do I have to be naked all the time??
Culturally Competent George: So, my wife and I are on the cusp of a major move to the Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux Reservation in South Dakota... [more inside]
Polygamists hold rally in Salt Lake City in which mostly teens defend their polygynous upbringing and desire to enter into polygynous marriages. [more inside]
Advice for the marrying man from Forbes.com
"Guys: A word of advice. Marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones. Blondes or brunettes. Just, whatever you do, don't marry a woman with a career."
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Long and awkward- Wanna know the real reason your camera records video? It’s so you can enjoy a good laugh while making friends and loved ones look silly. [more inside]
Pass the jar please
What would you do to lose weight, or avoid gaining it? Hedi Slimane, a menswear designer at Christian Dior , has his own secret. At least two British jounalists experimented with it. They're not the only ones.
Curious George: Do You Know How It Feels?
Does anyone know the identity of the man...woman...PERSON that appears around 2:44?
I'm googled out and am looking for little humpables to help me out.
Sainte Marie among the Hurons, 1639-1649.
At the time, Sainte Marie was the largest European settlement west of Montreal. Home of the Canadian Martyrs and a famous Christmas Carol, it served (much later) as the basis of an excellent film. In 1649 the village was burned to prevent its loss to the Iroquois, and the inhabitants moved to Christian Island before returning to Quebec.
Yesterday, starting with a fire in the smithy, the village burned again.
August 22, 2006
Vespa pin-up girls A site with Vespas! And pin-up girls!
Acoustic location was used from mid-WW1 to the early years of WW2 for the passive detection of aircraft by picking up the noise of the engines. It was rendered obsolete before and during WW2 by the introduction of radar, which was far more effective. The Sound Mirrors Project attempts to reinvent this technology for the 21st Century with the help of modern age communications. See this page (via this post) for more information on sound mirrors.
Make that pussy work for its treats. Yep, a one-link post about cats.
Curious George. A video quagmire on an iBook. [more inside]
August 21, 2006
Nobody's ever said Saddam ordered up the attacks via homunculus
Curious George: moving to the Philippines What should I be aware of? [more inside]
But what about all those exploding cigar gags? Turner Broadcasting has agreed to edit scenes from classic cartoons shown on its Boomerang Classic Cartoons Network to remove sequences that glamorize smoking. [more inside]
911 Cover Up Video
A little something has been previously mentioned, but this low-budget, one-hour-twenty-minute Google video makes a couple of claims that are interesting at least.
Previously on "Monkey Wing: conspiracy theories, conspiracy theory, conspiracy theory part deux, and conspiracy theories"
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The program that made tu come america
Why do they hate our freedoms? In which it is argued that many of the problems within the muslim community are self-made, providing a fertile ground for populist leaders. The floor is open for discussion.
Curious George: Identifying Weeds. A weed in my backyard spent this summer growing an inch a day. I've googled plenty, but can't seem to find any good sites to help me figure out what it is! Can any monkeys point me in the right direction? [more inside]
In the News Watchers of the news on Swedish SVT on Sunday were <insert emotion here> to see a Czech hard porn film in the background. [more inside]
August 20, 2006
Cat Grill YA lame one-photo post from your cheeziest monkey.
How can they live there? We've all seen the houses that butt right up to a freeway or railway line and wondered how people can live there. The NYT interviews several families who live in these types of places to see what it's like.
The day I found out I was an adult Indigo
Giant 29lb 12oz hamburger [more inside]
Tiny Animals on Fingers. Flickr gallery, via Cute Overload. also, probably from mefi, but I didn't actually find it there, honest
Man wants op to remove extra organ [more inside]
The worst of all dooms... death by Time Mind Sync Warp
August 19, 2006
Mmmm... Chocolate What would you like to be stuck waist-deep in?
I want one of these so bad it hurts. If you really loved me you would buy me a personal submarine.
August 18, 2006
Screw the homophobes.
By getting them to send you free stuff. Keep it, sell it, use it as a gag gift. Just take money out of thier hateful hands.
Also, if you don't know The Stranger, I recommend you check out Savage Love while you're there. SFW.
Ronald McHummer sign-o-matic! Slow Friday afternoon? C'mon monkeys, show me your love! [more inside]
T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M
A wonderful thing happened in the 1980s: Life started to go online. And as the world continues this trend, everyone finding themselves drawn online should know what happened before, to see where it all really started to come together and to know what went on, before it's forgotten.
BBS culture archive in resplendent green-on-black. Sublime.
Eat my dust Lance and Floyd
On April 22, 1884, Thomas Stevens set out from San Francisco on a penny farthing. Arriving in Boston on August 4, 1884, he was off again the following April en route through Europe, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and China. He returned to San Francisco in December 1886. With minimal supplies, no support team, few roads, and despite hostile natives, he managed to travel around the world.
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Shift. Some Friday Flash Fun for you all. If you enjoyed Samarost and its sequel (mentioned here before) you might get lost in this game. Enjoy! [more inside]
Taking your service monkey to the airport. The TSA screeners are trained professionals. They know how to handle your monkey. Stand by for the diaper inspection.
Bulldogs: brutal, loyal, or lovers of funny mischiefs and dressing up? [more inside]
Sarcasm Defined Ryan Air is just a little perturbed about the new screening features.
The Tesla Engine Builders Association "was formed in April of 1993 to provide accurate information and assistance to those interested in building reproductions of Tesla’s engine that would perform properly." [more inside]
The True Christian Church of Christ, like other Xian domatists, takes care in quoting the scripture . Less than serious is the treatment. Is this site an attempt at humor against the hatred of fundamentalism only or does it seem to implicate all Xians? References to Reginald Finley and Matthew Shepard (don't forget the shadow of Fred Phelps). Of course, Creationism gets a treatment. [more inside]
Who's whose in the DC universe? [more inside]
August 17, 2006
Sept. Toronto Meetup?
Any interest in a Toronto meetup Sept 8 or 9 (Fri or Sat)?
Curious George: Is Mark Lanegan A Horrible Performer Live
I say yes. He has been singing with the Twilight Singers. TS is playing E Street band tight. Lanegan mumbles and doesn't move through Live With Me, Where Did You Sleep Last Night, and (his own song) Sideways In Reverse.
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Read faces, spot the terrist. According to this article, Airport Security in the U.S. searches people's facial expressions. Profiling by different means. [NYT, reg. req'd.] [more inside]
Curious George. I need a website(s) that lists jobs in Germany for English speakers. [more inside]
The Forger Who Fooled the World
During the exhibition, van Meegeren would loudly proclaim the painting a forgery, a crude pastiche, and listen as the finest minds of his generation persuaded him that his painting was a genuine Vermeer. His triumph was now complete. He had only to do what he had promised himself: to stand up and claim the work for himself, thereby making fools of his critics. Instead, within a month, he was working on a new forgery.
Greed, sex, money, art, - the story that has it all. A great tale of what happens when talents are used for good, then evil, then . . well, that's about it really.
via Arts and Letters Daily
Mental Floss Magazine's Top 25 Questions.
A fun little fluff piece about those little things we just sat around and wondered about in the days before the Internets. Kind of an electronic Cliff Clavin.
There's a link inside to the AOL "You've Got Mail" voiceover guy's website, where you can order custom messages.
Mythical Creatures. [more inside]
Scientific method for 5th graders
Is microwaved water bad for plants ?
Compare and contrast:
. here: 2 plants (1 experiment, 1 control)
. here: 48 plants (24 experiments, 24 controls) and double-blind.
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The BBC pronunciation blog. Via The Hat.
Penis Plants to problems solved by Macgyver, Lists of unusual deaths and films including a gory death scene, as well as strange units of measure and sexually active popes, it seems Wikipedia has an article for just about everything. And not to be outdone, a list of unusual Wikipedia articles.
August 16, 2006
Chill out... get some shut-eye... relax. Actually, the site has lots of sleep/relaxation tools and info, but this page is my favourite. You can create your own music using nature sounds and vibraphone music.
The Origin of the Ridiculous
Whales are ridiculous thanks to their history.They evolved from mammals on land. Their swimming, reproduction, breathing, and other adaptations to life in water are all the result of tinkering with a terrestrial animal's body. Fossil discoveries have documented how coyote-like mammals moved into the water about 45 million years ago and became more and more adapted to the marine life.
Coyote howl = Whale song, anyone?
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Corn, Jim, but not as we know it. A corn maze near York, England pays tribute to Star Trek's 40th anniversary. If you've ever wanted to get lost inside Spock's head and go "Jim!! His brain's gone" you can now. Some other striking corn mazes. If you want to grow a maze of your own, contact these folks. [more inside]
Mercury Venus Earth Mars Ceres Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto Charon 2003UB313 (or perhaps Xena). We're going to have to find some bigger mnemonics
Hutong photography Scenes from Beijing's fast disappearing traditional lanes and alleys.
What If 9/11 Never Happened? (via) An indepth review of what life might have been like had the attacks not occured. It's a long read but well worth the effort IMO.
Captain Copyright. The defining Super Hero of our age
August 15, 2006
Curious George: Build a Synth It's my understanding that I can take an old PII computer running Windows 98, hook up a cheap MIDI keyboard to it and presto change-o have a grand piano or Hammond B-3 keyboard. Is that the case, if so what's the best way to do it (what software?), what else is there to do, or else what do I have wrong? [more inside]
I object!
Fans of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney will probably get a kick out of this.
Ted Stevens' famous Series of Tubes speech just so happens to be well fitting. Now go forth and "surprise your friends with irrefutable evidence" of your own!
FlyNinjas!
Cricket Ninjas! Insects are being exploited in shocking cock-fighting experiments all over the world in order to provide insights into the behavior of a supposedly "superior" species: Homo sapiens.
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Sketch Swap Draw whatever you want and then click to swap yours with someone else's.
Women too hot for sushi ..... [more inside]
Walk into the sea. A trip to an abandoned pleasure pier
Classic Comic Ads
- not to be confused with this CLASSIC PSOTS from the Monkeyfilter archives.
And if you don't like that, here is a picture of me as a kid. [more inside] [more inside]
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Curious George: Staying in Chicago Curious George: Where should I stay in Chicago in April, 2007? [more inside]
Pic of Prince Harry groping a blonde
August 14, 2006
Top 10 Most Strange Monuments [more inside]
Make Your Own Incense
See also Herbalism and Incense or perhaps your own divination things, witchy things, japanese incense, and stay away from all but a very little saltpeter.
Or just see it done.
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Scrubber George If you're in the NY C area, you could go and get his autograph during the course of the next few days.
Curious Detective George: I'm looking for info on investigating shady characters... [more inside]
On the occasion of Castro's birthday -- a testimonial written by Alexandre Trudeau, son of Pierre.
Zombie Powder. Use only as directed. [more inside]
Help Wanted (Flash, may be NSFW)
The Hobbit illustrated by Tove Jansson
August 13, 2006
Is your brain male or female? An online test from the BBC accompanying a recent programme. I scored zero, which makes me exactly androgynous, but I think I rushed some of the tests (the whole thing takes 20 minutes). Some other recent views.
Big Butt Ants Has the Civet-cat-poo coffee mania left you feeling passed by? Here to offer solace, allow me to intrtoduce you to your latest Columbian craze, and all its legs.
August 12, 2006
The Art Menagerie. A guide to modern artists
The battle of Long Tan. On August 18th 1966 at 3:40 in the afternoon 11th Platoon, D Company, while patrolling in the rubber plantations around Nui Dat, encountered six Viet Cong who then fled east. [more inside]
August 11, 2006
Insect closeups. Get to know the housefly, ant, hornet, honeybee, and many other friends up close and personal!
Photos taken from the Z Backscatter X-Ray machine. via Coudal
Stop global warming; Become a pirate! My friend sent me this link a while ago and I haven't really looked at it until recently. It's really quite interesting. Especially the bit about pirates and global warming... [more inside]
Escher for Real The work of M.C. Escher needs no introduction. We have all learned to appreciate the impossibilities that this master of illusion's artwork presents to the layman's eye. Nevertheless, it may come as a surprise for some, but many of the so-called 'impossible' drawings of M. C. Escher can be realized as actual physical objects. [more inside]
No! No! No!
Are you an overly protective parent, and want everyone else to know? Concerned that some other caregiver may give your precious offspring something they shouldn't have? Then this is the product for you!
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Adjust Your Scales . It was a bit of a shake-up then!
What's it like to attend a movie publicity junket? A freelance writer named Eric Snider found out on the publicity tour for World Trade Center. And when he wrote honestly about the experience, the studio retaliated.
James Van Allen dies James Van Allen, discoverer of the Van Allen radiation belt and designer of the instrumentation on Explorer I (the United States' first artificial satellite), winner of the National Medal of Science, and all around nice guy, died Wednesday at 91. So, next time you look up and see an aurora, think of Van. [more inside]
GIGANTOR!
Cartoonist Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Gigantor's creator, died two years ago.
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Curious, George-slash-MOFI EURO MEETUPS!!11!1 It's the classtool family European vacation! Hey kids! Big Ben! Parliament! Exclamation point! And there's [more inside]
August 10, 2006
A short video (warning: Flash) about severl of the photos we have heard about recently involving Lebanon This is a short flash video from Aish that points out several of the faked and staged photos that we have seen from Lebanon. Some of photos you have almost certainly seen, some you may not have. [more inside]
Emotions and the brain. Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux seeks a biological rather than psychological understanding of our emotions. He explores the differences between emotional memories (implicit--unconscious--memories) processed in pathways that take information into the amygdala, and memories of emotion (explicit--conscious--memories) processed at the level of the hippocampus and neocortex.
YOU ARE A PIRATE! (video, audio)
Baby Rock Are you one of those parents who thinks Baby Mozart is crap? Me too. Good news - now you can rock out with your tot out: Metallica, Zep and Tool among others. [more inside]
a novel user interface that goes into your face
NASA Lost the Tape!
But just 37 years after Apollo 11, it is feared the magnetic tapes that recorded the first moon walk . . .have gone missing at NASA's Goddard Space Centre in Maryland.
Misplaced the evidence eh? Perhaps it was all a hoax! Or was it?
/theremin
via /.
The Cook's Thesaurus is a cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools. Entries include pictures, descriptions, synonyms, pronunciations, and suggested substitutions. [more inside]
The Tesla Purple Energy Shield This small device is truly remarkable in every way. Aside from delivering vast quantities of new life force energy to the human body, it brings illumination to the mind and tranquility to the soul. If you've been looking for something to enhance your manifesting skills, retard aging, and delay fatigue, look no further.
A Presidential Bust for Clinton.
Gourds that have been moulded [more inside]
U.S. Government Educational Colouring Books. [more inside]
AOL Search Queries as Narrative
AOL released a bunch of search query information recently. Interestingly, the information shows you who searched for what and when. AOL Stalker reveals the thoughts of the person stalked. This is one example, but this is my favorite, user 1890315, who goes from country music to incest to knoxville real estate to bestiality to Elvis..... Wait, no, my favorite is this one.
AOL Stalker promises to remove entries that identify a user, as if it matters.
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Urban Exploration I find sites that document the changing nature of America's greatest city to be fascinating xercises in remembrance. [more inside]
Rembetika - 99 tracks, 6 cd set of Rembetika like you've never heard before. All the old familiar tunes done with such brilliance,and flair with new sounds and instrumentation, bringing the whole era of the Rembetis back once more. OPA! [MP3!]
It's back.
One of three thoroughly smashed earlier this year by a museum regular who was subsequently banned indefinitely for his Norman Wisdom moment has been repaired and is back on display.
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August 09, 2006
Picture Postcards. For most art exibitions there is inevitably the picture postcard with a defining piece on it. Have fun browsing this massive archive of them. NSFW. [more inside]
Curious George- DIY 101 Does anyone have any tips for someone (me) with a budding interest in building stuff? [more inside]
Citizen journalism vs. traditional journalism. "...the content of most citizen journalism will be familiar to anybody who has ever read a church or community newsletter—it’s heartwarming and it probably adds to the store of good things in the world, but it does not mount the collective challenge to power which the traditional media are supposedly too timid to take up." Do you agree?
We've all heard about toxoplasmosis, a common parasite found in cats (especially if you or your partner has ever been pregnant). Kevin Lafferty, a parasite ecologist, believes the parasite may cause big personality changes in humans. [more inside]
Well, did he open it or not? Ain't nothing that a good blow with a sledgehammer can't fix.
Evil Monkey Clown
Evil Monkey Clown
Evil Monkey Clown
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Is there such thing as a wine fetish?
Some sort of silk spinning larvae that are turning this Norwegian suburb into a Tim Burton/Terry Gilliam type nightmare [more inside]
Google Goggles This site uses maps from Google Earth and allows you to fly an animated plan around some major cities of the world using the arrow keys. You can even bomb these cities using the spacebar!
August 08, 2006
Prize-Winning Prose This came to me in an email, so no link. Enjoy. [more inside]
CuriousGeorge: What happened to phone etiquette? I remember it being usual say "goodbye" at the conclusion of a telephone conversation. [more inside]
Rum punch A new bar in eastern China is offering customers an unusual outlet for anger - by allowing them to use the staff as punching bags, state media said today.
Amazon Grocery Reviews Via Metafilter [more inside]
Wank like there's no tomorrow The record, apparently, is seven-and-a-half hours. This must require rigorous training. Go to it, lads and lasses.
Film Director in Trouble Over Swastika T-Shirt A German film director (of Turkish descent) is being investigated for wearing a "Bush" t-shirt with a swastika instead of an "s". In Germany, the swastika symbol is illegal even as an intended insult. Apparently, it's even illegal for Der Spiegel to show a picture of the T-shirt! [more inside]
He was almost the first... .....but he got beat out..... [more inside]
Curious Conglomerating George:
Antiques? Stamps? Fine art? Matchbooks? Pez dispensers?
Is there something in your monkey habitat that is beginning to look suspiciously like a collection without your realizing it?
Hidden Pictures There are nine dolphins in this picture. At least that's what they say. Where? (I can only find six.)
August 07, 2006
Bay Area (Berkeley?) Meetup Plans are afoot for some kind of meeting of the monkeys and monkey-like people this coming Saturday (8/12). Nothing definite yet, but it seems like it maybe something in the 7 o'clock range, location as yet to be determined. [more inside]
Curious George: What, think you're an expert or something? What are you a bona fide expert in? [more inside]
If we allow gloryholes in Nyack, the terrorists will win. Or so Stephen Baldwin says. [more inside]
Being a loner reduces immunity and heart health. Which is too bad, given that, in the U.S. in any case, we've become a society of loners. (The article in the second link was expanded into a recent noteworthy book.) [more inside]
Curious George: Blacklight photography with a digital camera I need some help with digital photography. This is the problem: I take a photograph at night with a blacklight only to get an image that is okay, but basically purple and missing the detail I'm looking for. [more inside]
August 06, 2006
Who's the boss?
He said, she said.
I have no idea if "Liz Jones" and "Nirpal Dhaliwal" are real people. I rather hope they are not and this is all to help sell a book, but either way, why not read about their marriage from each perspective?
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Half of U.S. still believes Iraq had WMD. Ay caramba, that's depressing.
Dubai does it again! And again! Most of us have probably read about their housing developments, but this is the first I'd heard of ski resorts in the desert.
"The vision was that people should not have to deal with the technology stuff." The BBC marks the 15th anniversary of the World Wide Web. Except... [more inside]
The story of an imaginary weapon.
Hafnium-178 was touted as the foundation for the next great wonder weapon.
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Houses overgrown with kudzu. Kudzu is native to southern Japan, introduced to the US in 1876 and now a dreaded weed that grows up to a foot a day in the southern summer, the perfect climate. It's often referred to as "The vine that ate the South". Southerners, the best solution to your kudzu-related problems may be...goats! [more inside]
August 05, 2006
7 tonnes 2 [FLASH VIDEO W／ SOUND] animation by Nicolas Deveaux, in which a pachyderm performs. Downloadable QT version at the maker's site
Jews For Jesus
or take a gander at their special summer web site
Don't forget to get saved while your at it
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Collide entire galaxies together with this neat little java-app. Then laugh like the vengeful deity you truly are.
The Outwin Boochever portrait competition. The finalists. [more inside]
That's an odd..........toy.
As I wandered the WWW I found something that I think all of us monkey should have. This is nice. And this.
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Randall's very blind date. Randall Munroe, physics nerd and creator of the webcomic xkcd (which has been a little NSFW lately), has created a system to determine the best thing ever. Not content to stop there, though, he's putting besthing.info's algorithm to the test by asking the Internet to come up with the best date ever. [more inside]
August 04, 2006
A Colonial Abortion Drama
via Boston 1775 and metafilter
Hilarious House of Frightenstein! The best kids' show EVA is back on the air, BABY, to teach children all about hippies, vampire midgets, eastern philosophy, recreational drugs, 70s proto-trip-hop, the Grammar Slammer, a gorilla being knocked out repeatedly by baseballs, more drugs, early rave culture, lessons about animals, confused racial stereotypes, pie-in-the-face and fat-man jokes, and of course, chilling poetry as performed by the incomparable Vincent Price. They don't make 'em like this any more... [more inside]
Powers of ten
(pictures)
Powers of ten (video)
Powers of ten (simpsons)
Goose Clothes Everyday Outfits, Halloween Outfits, or even Patriotic Outfits [more inside]
Igor Sivanowicz photographs invertebrates. Perv. [more inside]
disappearing zine will attempt to address the various things disappearing from the world. So too, a blog called "what I killed today".
Sharp pointy teeth They've attacked presidents, police, and dogsleds...... [more inside]
Digital Domesday Britain's earliest surviving public record now available in a searchable online format. Some decent background on 11th century England linked off the main page too.
Johnston Atoll is up for sale! Never heard of this Pacific-Island retreat? Let me tell you more. The atoll consists of four coral islands surrounded by reef. Like the beautiful island nation of Nauru, US-owned Johnston Atoll was mined of its guano deposits in the 19th century. After World War Two, it was used as a thermonuclear testing site and chemical disposal site for mustard and nerve gas until three years ago. Now this picturesque, isolated stretch of reclaimed land in the middle of the Pacific is available to you! (We recommend you bring your own water.) [more inside]
The Boston Tea Partay!
Holla!
[YouTube]
August 03, 2006
Laundryroom Swapmeet
People leave things on the laundryroom table of the apartment building. Later, those things are gone. More things appear. Who takes them, and why?
The big questions, pondered small.
Dude, I totally fuckin' swiped this from Mr. Blue over there, huh huh huh.
Curious George: Which blog? In yesterday's thread, we found that several of us monkeys are planning to cut loose from the man for a while. So, what blog host would you use to chronicle such an adventure? [more inside]
The Mighty Mac. When it was completed, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world. It took 42,000 miles of cable, more than 460,000 cubic yards of concrete, and weighs in at just over one million tons. On completion, the state governor called it an engineering marvel on the scale of the great pyramids, the Suez and Panama canals. The bridge has only one flaw: It wasn't built in a huge metropolis. When people talk of great bridges, you hear about the Golden Gate or the Verrazano Narrows, but you don't often hear about the Mackinac Bridge. [more inside]
Moscow Panorama Pretty good I reckon. Anyone seen this?
"Teddy Bear" -- "Love Me Tender". "Hound Dog" -- "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" "Treat Me Nice". "Rip It Up". "Don't". "Tryin' To Get To You". "I Beg Of You". "Don't Ask Me Why". "Dontcha Think It's Time"? "Surrender". *"All Shook Up"* "It Hurts Me". "Let Yourself Go". "Too Much" "Hurt"...
New Light on the Archimedes Palimpsest [more inside]
The Puerta America Hotel. Make a list of the biggest names in architecture and design. Then let them each design a floor of your hotel. Will it work? [more inside]
Curious George: Leaving the Office I'm on the verge of quitting yet another job, and I'm thinking it's time for something totally different. Something (gasp) not even in an office. [more inside]
Snakes On Your Phone!
"This is Samuel L. Jackson...and I know everything about you."
Yes, it's viral marketing, but this time it's brilliant: enter a friend's name, some details about them, and have Mr. Jackson place a phone call encouraging them to go see Snakes on a Plane. Best if the intended victim has no idea they're about to get a call.
shamelessly stolen from MeFi
The International Society of Solipsists is accepting new members. [more inside]
August 02, 2006
My Animated World a nice stop motion video (google video link)
Stockholm meetup Scandi monkeys represent! [more inside]
Blanks on a Blank! In homage to the beloved Snakes on a Plane, several teams have gotten together and made variations on the theme. [more inside]
Control rooms ... from the ad-saturated (Moscow) to the colossal (NASA/Apollo) to the eccentric (XM Radio). A lot of operations like FedEx, Amtrak, BART, Time Warner Cable, and Delta Air Lines all have their own control rooms. What, you don't have one? You should!
Will global warming depopulate the "red states"? Interesting question, but the red states will be equally fried if California is any indication.
Make your own motivational poster. Don't say I never gave you nuthin'. Go nuts.
De-Frenched Fries Stripped of "Freedom"
Mr. Ney, who was then the chairman of the House Administration Committee, which oversees the cafeterias, gleefully announced the change at the height of anti-French sentiment, when Paris scolded Washington that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was premature.
"This action today is a small but symbolic effort to show the strong displeasure of many on Capitol Hill with the actions of our so-called ally, France," he said on March 11, 2003.
[When asked why the name was changed back to french fries,]. . . "We don't have a comment for your story," said a spokeswoman for Mr. Ney.
Lifted from Le Bleu
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The Illustrations of Étienne Léopold Trouvelot. A wonderful astronomer and catastrophic entomologist.
Composed in 1963 by the late Mr Sydney Carter the Lord of the Dance was based on a Quaker song Simple Gifts [more inside]
Jonathan Coulton has created a new song each week for the past 43 weeks, and plans to finally take a break at a year. [more inside]
Curious George: Maxthon I came across Maxthon today and know absolutely nothing about it.... [more inside]
Wearetheweb.org is a website dedicated to the fight for net neutrality. They've made the best case for why net neutrality is so important by having Sweater Girl, Peter Pan, and the Tron Guy get to gether and sing in a music video about net neutrality. Watch it.
August 01, 2006
Danger IS his Middle Name We know he built the Guardian website, but did you know he is is embedded with British troops in Afghanistan. [more inside]
Curious George: Need gift ideas! I need help in brainstorming some very cheap but fun small guest gifts for my upcoming wedding. [more inside]
Curious George: the longest video? Today is MTV's 25th birthday and they're celebrating by showing the new The Streets video, which, at 20 minutes, apparently is the longest ever. But is it? [more inside]
Battle of Panjawai. A Canadian soldier in Afghanistan describes the 3-day mission that lasted 14 days. (Annotated version here.)
Tourb.us: Find Local, Live Music "Ever find out the day after one of your favorite bands played a show you didn't know about? We've had that happen too often and we hate it. Now you can find out ahead of time so you'll be laughing at your friends when they find out the show is sold out." [more inside]
A Primeval Tide of Toxins "Runoff from modern life is feeding an explosion of primitive organisms. This 'rise of slime' is killing larger species and sickening people." A long article from the LA Times. [more inside]
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
After claiming that he is naturally a testosterone bomb, and winning the support of Lance Armstrong, it turns out that Floyd Landis's urine contained synthetic testosterone.
Also, Justin Gatlin's a cheat.
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Remember the Falling Sand game that all the cool kids were playing last year? Well, now there's a new version. (java) [more inside]
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