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Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Storm Damage in Sweden
With all of the recent natural catastropies, let us not forget that there have also been severe weather incidents in Sweden.
Link [via Fark]
Monday, September 27, 2004
Funny Doorknob Signs
A pretty immature site that has over 2800 different "print and hang" doorknob signs, with such witticisms as:
- Do Not Disturb: Official Rubber Chicken Meeting
- Do Not Disturb: I'm Hacking The Planet
- I Like It Doggy Style
- Note To Self: Do not shoot self in foot.. I said do not, stupid
Might be a fun project to write a php script that will generate these.
Link [via lifi]
Hamas eyes Israeli targets overseas to deter killings
What the hell did those responsible in Israel for the Hamas assassination in Syria think they were doing? Isn't this an obvious retaliation by Hamas? Has anyone anywhere ever heard of negotiation??
Link
Sunday, September 26, 2004
Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004
This is a color-coded map of the US showing who currently holds what state.
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Thursday, September 23, 2004
Kung-fu Porn
The purest mixture of pornography and kung-fu the world has ever seen. It's what happens when "Crouching Tiger" meets "Max Hardcore." With such moves as the "Invincible Tongue" and "Oral Attack" as the opening moves in this epic battle, it is the test of wills that should have been the true battle between Master Li Mu Bai and Xiou Long.
Link [via linkdump]
(BTW if anyone knows the origins of this, I'd love to see them.)
Opium Made Easy
An article about an American gardener who, sort of by mistake, started growing an opium poppy plant one summer, and his experiences in paranoia.
Link [via mefi]
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
The Song They Sang For You
What song was #1 on the day you were born? Why, "Crockodile Rock" by Elton John, of course!
(Hint: Put in a fake email and uncheck the checkbox)
Link [via mofi]
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Pongmechanik
Think your mechanical engineering skills are teh leet? Try duplicating this task: two engineers in Germany built a mechanical replicant of the original Pong game by Atari. The catch? Not a single IC is in use throughout the entire game. Everything is done using motors and wires, and the computer is really just a bank of old-ass phone relays. Think about that when you talk about how cool your MAME cab is.
Link [via lots of places]
How Commercial Shoots Really Go Down
Tom, the client wants the meat puppet to react to the react to the product in the most stereotyped, trite way possible...
Alright, there goes my spine.
Link [via my Toddy]
SFWA On Writing
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America homepage has a great page about the craft of writing. In it, you can find SF & F specific articles (e.g. "Building New Worlds", and "Writing SF For Kids), as well as general pieces about the craft of writing itself (e.g. "Excuse Me, How Much Did It Cost You?", an anti-scam handout, and "Writers' Workshops"). No matter what your genre, taste, or inclination, this site will provide a great deal of information for your writing pleasure.
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Monday, September 20, 2004
666
666 and all the interesting mathematical things you need to know about this most sinister of numbers.
BTW, the technique used by the author of this web page to find "interesting" ideas about the number 666 is also known as "quarter spotting." It's quite simple: simply imagine that you see quarters on the ground everywhere you go, and sure enough you will start to find random change laying about the street.
Link [via lifi]
Presidential Debate #1
The first Presidential Debate will be moderated by... Christopher Walken! No Joke!
Link [via lifi]
Sunday, September 19, 2004
Snopes Photo Gallery
Snopes, that venerable buster or confirmer of urban myths everywhere, also has a site dedicated to debunking or proving the truth of photographs. I just spent an hour going through some of the most interesting photographs I've seen, and found a few untruths I'd previously been taken in by.
Link [via linkdump]
Medijate
Trippy flash site of the day goes to Medijate, "Green Spirit Digital by Larry Carlson." For example, and I quote:
intelligence..medijate and plant de seedz medijate and to create 3-D vir virtual
worlds with lifelike sosounds, elaborate grpgraphics and ccomomplex plots. medijate
and she cream, therefore I am the fo fo foam that molds and medijate you medijate
the effect that our enviro is sue surrounding you...by
the ancient spakles
Link [via linkdump]
"Fuck Her Gently"
What happens when you combine the music of Tenacious D with the animation genius of Spumco? That's right: a flash music video of the song "Fuck Her Gently."
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Dead Presidents
The very famous (and old!) website devoted to one man's pursuit of all things related to the dead men that led our country. A fascinating site with plenty of information about even our most obscure and unknown presidents.
Link [via mofi (i think)]
Friday, September 17, 2004
Bunchies == WTF?
What is the Bunchie? Where did it come from? Why is it here? WHY ARE THERE SO MANY OF THEM? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 INFINITY
Link [via Al Spanky]
Roger Ebert Movie Review Archive
Thousands of reviews by the Big E, starting from 1967, and all free.
Link [via every fucking blog on the planet ffs]
Cults and Mysticism
The blogosphere is replete with articles about various cults and mystics today, so I'll just post them all here.
The Kogi of Colombia, South America, Labyrinth, Sacred Journeys. "The Kogi know secrets about nature that would make our scientists rethink their ideas on the environment and the universe. They have a presence about them that commands respect. The power of their mind is beyond comprehension." Yeak, ok. [via lifi]
Turkmenbashi Cult. You know, the totally megalomaniacal ruler of Turkmenistan? Posters everywhere declare a curse on those that "betray your president": "...At the moment of my betrayal to my motherland, to her sacred [leader?], to my president, let my breath stop." Fun stuff. Let's invade! [via mofi]
Devil Worship: The sacred Books and Traditions of the Yezidiz. These are the rustic Iraqi Satanists that have been persecuted by Islam for a long time. Hmm. Wonder why. Let's invade! (oh wait)... [via mefi]
Heroin Love
I've often declared that when I win the lottery I'm off to Amsterdam for a year of heroin ingestion. Usual reply: "You'll never stop doing heroin after a year. You'll be addicted."
Nuts to that, I say, knowing that I would only have a year's worth of heroin usage in me. Here's an article talking about heroin withdrawal.
(BTW... I have a lottery ticket for tonight. Wish me luck and I'll hook you up *wink* *wink*)
Link [via lifi]
Greetings from Disneyland
PKD gives his views on the science of science fiction, world building, and, of course, the home of our mostest favoritest mouse.
Link [via mofi]
Political Involvement--the Sexy Way
Ever needed to know how to vote absentee but could only learn such a lesson from a woman in a sexy teddy? Fear not! Votergasm is here for you! Learn how to do such things as contacting your elected officials from hot babes like Dawn and Candi. Democracy has never been so wet and horny.
Link [via mefi]
Thursday, September 16, 2004
Klingon Quiz
DW-World.de, a German news source, now supports Klingon as a valid language for delivering news. A little rusty on your Klingon language skills? Take the online quiz. I scored 7 out of 10. vetlh 'oH QaQ! (translation)
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The 50 Coolest Monkies of All Time
Yes, it's true, but how could Mojo Jojo only make #3???
Link [via Catch]
MC Yuri "In Da Cab"
"Yuri's word is bond." Take a cab ride with NYC's flyest Rusky cab-G.
Link [via MoFi]
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Roscoe P. Coltrane -- Portrait of an Artist
Today is quickly becoming a "Where are they now?" episode for defunct C-list TV stars. First we get the wit and wisdom of "Faceman" through his writing. Now, we get the art of James Best, AKA "Roscoe P. Coltrane" from "The Dukes of Hazzard." Turns out that the guy is quite the oil painter, preferring rustic landscapes that would even get a rise out of old Flash.
Link [linkfilter]
Map of Spammers
A map of the Earth showing the concentrations of the physical locations of spammers. Postini, a company that calls themselves "the industry's leading provider of email security and management for the enterprise," creates the aggregate map of the geographic origins of spam. Time to ban all traffic from the Korean penninsula and Brasil.
Link [via linkfilter]
Flash Whore Dead
FYI, I'm ending my other blog Flash Whore. I'm spending so much time here that I'm just going to work on this one. Flash whore was mostly just mindless stuff, kitten movies and retarded-ass yet amusing games, that I was saving for myself. Now, if I find that certain special kitten flash movie, I'll post it here.
Flash Whore will remain as it is--it won't be deleted--for the archives, so if you want to go waste many (more) hours on about 90 different pieces of flash amusement that I've collected, head on over.
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Many mindless games
Quadgames.com has many, many mindlessly entertaining games to play. So many, in fact, that I daren't even try to review a few for this article. Just go there, and whatever type of game you like playing will have about twenty versions online.
One thing that is especially cool about this site (and the more I sit here and look at the home page, the more I am tempted to click, click, click my way to mindlessness...no!...must work!) is that each game lists the number of times that it has been played, as well as the high score. Yes! High scores! So now you can compete against the entire bloody world and see how you do.
Link [via linkfilter]
American Historical Images on File
I'm currently working on an illustrated childrens' book that is a Native American folktale, so finding this collection of Native American images is very timely. The good images start at about 1600 CE.
Link
Comic Book Movies
Want to know about which comic book characters are coming to a theatre near you? efavata's upcoming COMIC BOOK MOVIES site lists about a hundred such efforts to bring the heroes of the pulp pages to the silver screen. Ghost Rider, Iron Fist, and Man-Thing are the ones that I'm waiting for, but where is Prince Namor?
Link
[via linkfilter]
Critique Magazine :: On Writing III
For the past few years Critique Magazine has published a list of authors who write about writing. It's called "On Writing" and this year includes such authors as Dirk Benedict (better known as "Face Man" from the "A-Team"), and a bunch of authors I've never heard of (but now I know what they think.)
These types of articles always have value for aspiring writers. It is a rare and valuable glimpse into the machinations behind the mysterious art and magic that is professional writing.
Link
[via mefi]
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Neurodiversity
Neurodiversity.com is a site dedicated to "honoring the variety of human wiring." Many essays and articles abound on such topics as autism and prosopagnosia.
Link
[via mefi]
Monday, September 13, 2004
The Virgin Game
Today's mindless entertainment is brought to you by OK Cupid and is entitled "The Virgin Game." You are shown a pair of photographs and you have to pick which one is the virgin. And, as advertised, you will be mindlessly entertained. I scored 16 out of 21.
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That Damned "War Profiteering" Video
So MoveOn.org has a new flash video about how the war profiteers are making billions on the Iraqi war, and the way this whole thing is being presented really irks me.
Offending quote: "[Companies are making billions]...they're getting rich, our soldiers are putting their lives on the line."
That's it. Absolutely nothing about the fact that over ten thousand Iraqis have been killed. Obviously they are not even worth mentioning, but U.S. SOLDIERS, OMG! Men and women that volunteered to go off and die are being killed! Damn that George Bush.
(Ordinarily I wouldn't be so snarky about an organization like MoveOn that is doing something I approve of--attempting to get rid of Bush--but I'm becoming more and more annoyed at the cabalistic nature of the media at large in their portrayal of Iraqis, and, indeed, non-Americans of all stripes and colors (especially brown people) as incidental aborigines in the assumed mass standardization of globalism and imperialism. Very humanitarian, MoveOn.org.)
Link
Saturday, September 11, 2004
Oh Yeah, it's 9/11
Here is what the world is doing in honor / celebration / remembrance of the day that brought the United States military machine to the Middle East in earnest.
Metafilter: nine different articles
BoingBoing: QTVR post of the towers of light
memepool: no new posts since sep 4
linkfilter: many and varied conspiracy theories
my house: nursing a hangover
Something else that was interesting in the news. Silverstein, owner of the WTC, is suing Al Qaeda. As if we don't have the military might bearing down on them from most of the nations on the Earth, but I'm sure a summons to a civil suit will bring them running. Isn't post-traumatic posturing grand?
I'll have another piece of yellowcake, please
This article shrilly declaring Iran's intention, er, I mean, its possible capability for building bombs to destroy the west, ah, um, er, I mean, building bombs, mentions that they have begun "processing 37 tons of uranium yellowcake." Incidentally, this, as I remember from watching the moveon.org video, is the same substance used to indict Saddam Hussein over a nuclear weapons program.
But what the hell is yellowcake? Wikipedia has it as an intermediary product between milled uranium ore and fuel that can be used in reactors or weapons. It is designated by the formula U3O8, and is known also as uranium oxide. However, the resemblances between it and its namesake are uncanny.
Yellowcake is generally processed in one of two ways. For fuel preparation, it is converted into purified uranium dioxide (UO2). For uranium enrichment, it is converted into uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6), which is then used to further enrich U-235 content to 3% for commercial reactors, or 50% - 90% for nuclear submarines.
Obviously the U.S. Department of State is not happy with Iran right now.
Thursday, September 09, 2004
Google Broken
Google, that web search engine that we've all come to love seems to be a broke down piece of honky. For the past several days, all of my attempts to reach that most-beloved of internet portals have been met with poor performance issues. This includes, but is not limited to: Google search, Google images, News.google.com, and, worst offender of all, blogspot.com. Now blogspot I can forgive because it's just a small project for Google, and it's about the same amount of performance I would expect from any community network its size, but news? images? SEARCH? Here's what pops up on my screen when I type http://www.google.com into my browser.
1. Firefox sits there with the string "Connecting to www.google.com..." in its status bar. This does not change.
2. Sixty painful seconds of the status bar informing us that we're doing something that we actually aren't, then this message appears in a modal popup window: "Alert. The operation timed out when attempting to contact www.google.com"
3. Typing "http://www.suck.com" into the browser does not yield similar results, and in fact I get to then read the content of suck.com, as the founders of the world wide web intended I do so.
Google, what is up, buddy? This exercise definitely woke me up to just how many of your products I use on a daily / hourly basis, and that number kind of scares me. But you know what, you do a lot of things right, and it irritates me when you do things wrong. Please, please, turn your search engine back on, otherwise I am going to lobby for socialized network directories and try to take that out of private hands.
Ann Coulter and her Google Text Ads
Ann Coulter, the right-wing pundit and polemicist described by one linkfilter user as a "FUCKING SHITBAG LYING CUNT" needs to take a look at her website--particularly at her new Google Text Ads. Click the link and view the ads at the top to see whom she truly supports. Ca-lassic.
Link
Ten Sexiest Assault Weapons
In honor of the expiration of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, here, in no particular order, are the ten sexiest assault weapons.
CAR-15, the AR-15 Mini-Me.
DSA-58osw, a select-fire police-use FN FAL clone.
H&K PDW, which fires tiny 4.6mm x 30 rounds.
Tommy Gun, a classic.
AK-47, the Burt Reynolds of assault weapons.
H&K MP5
Striker 12 automatic shotgun.
MicroUZI (hi-res). They're adorable!
Tec-22 "Scorpion", a .22 calibre version of the gangsta classic, the Tec-9.
RM Patriot BC
Pleistocene Megafauna
Metafilter ran an article today about the Pleistocene era and the megafauna of North America, but I found the info to be a little lacking and thin compared to the typical MeFi post, not to mention their misspelling of "Pleistocene." Therefore, in an effort to more fully explore this topic, and not as a personal rub to namespan for posting the thin article, here is a comprehensive collection of links about the Pleistocene era, and the monstrous mammals that ranged across North America.
- First, the geological timescale
- Wikipedia article on the Pleistocene
- The MegaFauna page of Mefi contributor Kokogiak
- Terrestrial Evolutionary Biotas
- The Ice Age including a Pleistoene Bestiary
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
How Much Are You Worth?
Meaningless estimation of a person's worth of the day. I'm worth $1,896,546.44. Whee.
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Interactive map of all tropical storms since 1900
Just what the title says. The map is in shockwave, you pick a year, pick a storm, see its path. The only thing missing is a cumulative effect, so you can see every storm since 1900 and its path.
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Milkman
This is the most fucked-up thing I've seen in a long time. I thought it was going to be funny. I thought that it might be clever. Instead it's...something else. Something more. Fuck.
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Great Mailbox Thread on BoingBoing
BoingBoing has a great thread today on mailboxes. Mailboxes? Yes, mailboxes! Apparantly he posted an interesting link about a certain mailbox and got hoards of mail in reply.
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Monday, September 06, 2004
The Top 25 Censored News Stories
I'm partial to #3, "Bush Administration Manipulates Science and Censors Scientists." When you fuck with your country's scientists, you know you're an asshole.
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Thursday, September 02, 2004
101 Posts
This is my 101st post, so in honor of that, and more Fark-Gmaily goodness, I am giving away five gmail invites. Post a joke in the comments along with your email address and I'll send the first five gmail invites.
UPDATE: One left as of 4:09 CST.
The Diego Family
On June 17th, every year, the family goes through a private ritual: we photograph ourselves to stop a fleeting moment, the arrow of time passing by.
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Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Dream Dictionary: The Meaning of Dreams
I was just talking to a friend about this the other day. She was telling me about how she kept having dreams where she lost her teeth. Well, now we know what that means.
Dream Dictionary: The Meaning of Dreams
Memento Mori: Death Photography
A very disturbing gallery showing nineteenth century photographs of dead people, typically at their funeral. For some reason, children--and especially infants--feature most prominently.
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