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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
 
'World's oldest person', dies aged 115.
From the article:
A Dutch woman, the world's oldest person on record who swore by a daily helping of herring for a healthy life, has died aged 115, the ANP news agency reported.

So, when she died, someone else has become the 'world's oldest person,' so, in all fairness, can the world's oldest person ever really die?
Monday, August 29, 2005
 
CBS News | Redheads' Skin Cancer Risk | August 29, 2005 14:00:53
Stupid, racist sunshine. Pff. Looks like I'll need to drink more coffee.

AND BE REALLY HEALTHY HAHAHAHAHA
 
Coffee is number one source of antioxidants
Ha! Take that, tea-drinking hippies!
 
SoYouWanna know the ten most expensive music videos?
TSIA
 
Dictionary of Antarctic slang
Just in case you're visiting the Arrival Heights and the All Call announces a Herbie straight out of the Alley.
Sunday, August 28, 2005
 
Piratical Resources
Yar, National Talk Like a Pirate Day approaches. Will ye be ready?
 
TheRawker.com: Get Ready To RAWK!!!!
So this guy wants to be a rock star, so he leaves a whole pile of vhs tapes of a generic "audition" as a rock singer. From the site:
one day, I walked in and was greeted by a pile of about 18 VHS video tapes sitting on the table (apparently it started with 25, but some eager folks had taken a few already). Each one was labeled simply "Rock Singer Audition" on the long side with a piece of masking tape. That's it. Just "Rock Singer Audition". I asked my buddies about them and they began cracking up, telling this harrowing tale about the guy who brought them in and how he kept loudly announcing his intentions of being a rock star. They insisted I take one of his "Audition" tapes and check it out.

RAWK OUT
Thursday, August 25, 2005
 
Ishbadiddle: FSM Button!
Ishbadiddle: FSM Button!

This is a really great FSM button. You can see it over in the sidebar. I originally put up a big ole red-scribbly drawing thing, but this is way cooler, as I believe the holy FSM would want it to be.

All Hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

Make sure to have your button link to The Flying Spaghetti Monster Open Letter.
 
World War II Multimedia Database
This is a massively huge database about WWII. Hours of video, tons of testimony, and many images. Organized by year.
 
The surface of the sun.
Wow. Lots and lots of pretty pictures (and hard science) behind the processes that make up our sun (and other high-energy celestial beings.) PRETTY.
 
Mass Destruction PS Contest
A great Photoshop contest on Worth1000.com regarding the destruction of the world. Be sure to check out the "View Related Contests" in the dropdown at the top to see more.
 
57 Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena
Many fun optical illusions to give you a headache from eye strain, but this one is the best, IMHO.

 
DopeScrew Episode 2
Our second episode of DopeScrew is now live! Go have a listen.
DopeScrew Episode 2 is here! Listen, once again, to our complete lack of audio mixing skills, as we put forth the most controversial podcast on the net (besides those other two) using an OEM Compaq microphone!

In this episode:
- Bullets in the air
- “The List” and what’s on yours?
- Transsexual Lesbians
- MILF-milking!
- Darnell’s Delights
- Amazons
- Weed picking and smokey smokey

 
Something Weird Video
Something Weird Video is your source for all of the 1960s and 70s pornos. Of course, porn back in those days wasn't like it is now. It isn't full of cum shots, bukakke, a2m, fisting, latex, and dominatrices (well, maybe some of the latter there). Rather, it is shot with teasing shots, with lots of voice over, no penis, and only some occassional muff. Is it better or worse than today's porn? Hard to say, but it is a phenomenon unto itself, and contains one more essential ingredient lacking in today's porn: a script.

Thanks, Wes!
 
How Pregnancy Happens
Holy cow, I had absolutely no idea! I really need to listen to my genitals more often!

"You might be surprised at what you can learn if you listen to what your genitals have to say..."

The male character is a fucking PENIS wearing a bad suit!

Wednesday, August 24, 2005
 
What would Flying Spaghetti Monster Do?

Flying Spaghetti Monster
Originally uploaded by vikibabbles.
I'm putting this on my blog, in the sidebar, and I think you should too. Have it link to the site with the open letter. I guess I could put it on the sidebar of DT, but I suppose I should make sure that all contributors are good with it. It'd kinda be like me putting a big crucifix, or a portrait of Jesus, or even Satan for that matter, over in the sidebar, with a link to some crazy Christians.

Edit: Although, it would be kind of hilarious to have a big Crucifix over there that linked to some crazy Satan worshippers, now wouldn't it?

And I believe the weird layout issue that I gloated recently that I'd fixed is back. And I tried to fix it again, but I only knew how to do the one thing, and it's done already. WTF?
 
Flying Spaghetti Monster
I want to believe!
 
Redneck Music Video
Links to movie file. Click. Enjoy.
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
 
Tiger Man

tiger guy
Originally uploaded by vikibabbles.
What the fuck is up with this guy?

Here's a link to the story:

Weird guy gets a whole lot of surgery and tattoos just to look like his favorite animal, and he's freaking me out.
 
US Christian Broadcaster Calls for Chavez Assassination
God bless you, Pat Robertson. And God bless the complete lack of self-policing of the Christian Coalition. Silence = Complicity.
Monday, August 22, 2005
 
American RadioWorks - Locked Down: Gangs In the Supermax
This is an interesting site about gangs in supermax prisons. You can listen to the documentary or read the transcript of it. Lots of other fun stuff to read, too. Okay, not fun, but interesting.
Saturday, August 20, 2005
 
Metroactive Books | Robert Anton Wilson
A great article on one of my favorite writers and philosophers, Robert Anton Wilson, the man behind the original "Illuminatus Trilogy!" and dozens of other books that take a slightly sideways look at traditional tought patterns.
 
Medieval Swords and Renaissance Clothing
From the site:
We are the largest online distributor of Medieval and Renaissance items. Here is a list of things that we offer: Medieval Swords, Renaissance Clothing, Celtic Jewelry, Medieval Jewelry, Medieval Pipes, Lord of the Rings Swords, Renaissance Boots, Authentic Long Bows, Traditional Archery Supplies, Historical Arrow Heads, Functional Armor, Decorative Armor, Chainmail, Leather Armour, Medieval Daggers, Scottish Dirks, Fantasy Daggers, Medieval Helmets, Roman, Scottish, Greek, Celtic, Irish, Peasants, Pirates, Knights, Renaissance Rapiers, Medieval Shields, Scottish Shields, Halberds, Battle Axes, Maces, Flails, Castle Décor, Medieval Banners, Medieval Tapestries, Queens Crowns and Kings Crowns, Renaissance Hats, Leather Masks, Sword Canes and believe it or not, much, much more! So take your shoes off, relax for a little while and have a look around.

Not sure what's so medieval about a zippo with a dragon on it, but there you go.
 
Welkom to flying insects Fotoopa page1
A gallery of high-speed photography of insects in flight.
Friday, August 19, 2005
 
Clonaid.com
~/o Send in... THE CLONES ~/o

If you are rich
And give us a hair
The centrifuge spins round and round
You're almost here
Send in the clones...

(with apologies to Sondheim)


 
Answers in Genesis - Creation, Evolution, Christian Apologetics
Think you know about Intellegent Design? AiG (as they are known) is the foremost resource for every position Creationists and Young-Earthers hold, from those that are somewhat intellegent, to those that simply don't make sense.
 
The Old Negro Space Program
America's Blackstronauts.
Thursday, August 18, 2005
 
Norse mythology at Norse-Myths.com :: Home
Dang, I wanted to find some info on a Norse God, and I sat and ended up reading all *30* of the Norse myths on this site by Xeon Huang, who, "...Contrary to what you might expect, I'm not a Scandinavian! My home country is Singapore." Xeon is a prolific writer, haven written a bit of "Norse fan fiction" called "After Ragnarok," where the Gods and Goddesses do stuff with the Norns.
 
DopeScrew
Al and I created our own podcast... have a listen!
 
Hello, Technical Support
An amusing animation of what happens when you push the support guy too far.
 
The Ants have taken to the Sky
And they multiply and multiply.
 
QDB: Top 100-200 Quotes
A bunch of IRC quotes. Funny for nerds.
 
I'm Starvin with Louis
Louis is some broke-ass that puts his broke-ass cooking concoctions on video (quicktime) for you:

Starvin’ With Louis is the show that focuses on easy to cook recipes, money saving tips, and ways to live “on the cheap”. It is specifically designed for those college kids, filmmakers, web designers, band members and welfare recipients with absolutely no money.

Delicious.
 
Japanese Condom Packaging
The guy that posted it to linkfilter said it best:
As you'd expect, crazy as hell and cute as a button. Why can't I be Japanese?

Indeed, marty_hale, indeed.
 
Masonic Torture Catalog
You may or may not know that initiation into Masonic lodges (and their various degrees) involve many sophomoric pranks most commonly associated with fraternities. What I did not know was that there were catalogs offering such pranks. Here is one such example--the 1930 DeMoulin Bros. & Co. Fraternal Supply Catalog No. 439--that gives not only a spectacular selection of humliation techniques for initiates, but, through them, a glance into the world of the Fraternity and Lodge.
 
The Physics Behind Traffic Jams
Finally! The paper investigating the fluid dynamics of traffic jams that I've always envisioned has been written. Some intellegent--if popular--theories here.
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
 
Bangladesh Rocked by Bomb Blasts
This is, by far, the most under-reported news story of the day. In Bangladesh, between 100 and 300 bombs went off simultaneously all across the country, apparantly set by a banned group of nutjobs calling themselves the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen. These guys want to reinstate Islamic law--or their interpretation of it--in Bangladesh for some reason. Probably all of the Britney Spears T-shirts their women are wearing. Anyway, I'm trying to get them a contact inside the Bush administration so that our two countries can work together towards instituting theocratic rule over our mutual citizens. Now if only they could agree on which brand of religion to use...
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
 
The Zombie Poison
It's called tetrodotoxin, a by-product of the liver and reproductive organs of the puffer fish. Somebody please send me some. I have an, er, project that I want. Yeah. And send me some detailed schematics to Fort Knox while you're at it.
 
The WirelessTrips WiFi Finder
The WirelessTrips WiFi Finder

For those of us who can't go 60 miles without checking our e-mail when on a road trip.

via Boing Boing
 
Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)
Words to live by here, words to live by. In short, here are the ten:

1. Repeated words
2. Flat writing
3. Empty adverbs
4. Phony dialogue
5. No-good suffixes
6. The 'to be' words
7. Lists
8. Show, don't tell
9. Awkward phrasing
10. Commas

These seem like obvious enough problems, but the strength of the article is that it talks about how to identify the problem and how to correct it. Not a replacement for a college-level writing course, but a good article regardless (doh!).
 
Choose your life.
Apparantly, from the choices I have made on this interactive flash app, I am a "demonic, hideous, wretched, unlovable, failed, twisted, cranky, pathetic, drunk, self-hating and brainwashed person."

"Have a nice life," indeed.
 
Strangelets: "Bullet Quarks"
Jesus fuckballs:
The scientists looked for events producing two sharp signals, one as it entered Earth, the other as it emerged again. They found two such events, both in 1993. The first was on the morning of October 22. Seismometers in Turkey and Bolivia recorded a violent event in Antarctica that packed the punch of several thousand tons of TNT. The disturbance then ripped through Earth on a route that ended with it exiting through the floor of the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka just 26 seconds later - implying a speed of 900,000 mph.

That "disturbance" would be a pollen-sized quark with a weight of many, many tons; so heavy, in fact, that it barely slowed down as it literally ripped through the earth, entering via Antarctica and exiting via Sri Lanka.
 
episode iii, the backstroke of the west
OK--bootleg copy of Episode III, translated into Chinese, then run through a translation engine back into English. Many, many screenshots, and a whole heap of hilarity. For example, the phrase "Jedi Council" keeps getting translated as "the Presbyterian Church."
 
Gangs clash in Guatemalan jails
You thought San Quentin was bad? Noah continues to send out the "prisoners rioting and killing everyone" love letters. Thanks, Noah.
 
Australia seeks 20,000 skilled immigrants
Bye, everyone. I'm taking my skilled-ass to Australia. I'll be thinking of you while I'm windsurfing in Perth. But, seriously, screw you.
Monday, August 15, 2005
 
Spank the Monkey
Monkey: Give it a punch! - LinkWorld.ws

Go ahead. Spank the Monkey. You know you want to. If you can do it over 200 mph, you get a little song to groove to for a second.
Sunday, August 14, 2005
 
Internet Slang & Acronym Dictionary
Internet Slang & Acronym Dictionary

This a handy tool for people like me, who don't understand any internet slang beyond wft and lol.
 
The Michael Jordan of Quarter Bouncing
Or at least that's how it was described on Mefi. I think many hours went into the filming of this two-minute and some-odd-second clip.
 
Apple to pay royalties to Microsoft for iPods
The heads in charge at Apple were derelict in filing patent apps for some of the technologies used in iPods, allowing Microsoft to scoop them up five months before Apple filed. The USPO invalidated some of Apple's late patent applications as being too similar to those already filed by Microsoft, and as a result Apple could be forced into paying royalties to Microsoft for every iPod sold.

This story so perfectly exemplifies the nit-wittedness of Apple, the ruthlessness of Microsoft, and the idiocy of the USPO, that I just want to cry.
 
Instranimals
Photoshop contest combining animals with musical instruments. 70 or so entries.
 
The Golden Republic (at the Rockstar Hotel)
An amusing flash game where you play the part of a rock star that has to jump on the bed and then hit a guitar riff and send furniture flying out the window to wreak havoc for points.
 
Cicada eclosing
And if you know what "eclosing" means, then you'll be just as pleased as I was when I found this site full of buggy videos.
 
...
I have seen some weird shit in my time--REALLY weird shit--but I have never seen anything like this before. I don't know what to do. I think I've seen the most disturbing thing that I'll ever see in my entire life. And I've seen the "Eel Soup" video containing a bowl full of live eels and the willing ass of a young woman. The video linked above has only the caption, "The Goddess Bunny - Los Angeles." I'm really, really sorry.
Friday, August 12, 2005
 
Praying Mantis Eats Hummingbird
Dang.. now that's a feat that you don't often see: an insect devouring a bird. Hot tamales.
 
video_mac_hi.mov (video/quicktime Object)
video_mac_hi.mov (video/quicktime Object)


I got this via Boing Boing, my favorite place to get pretty much anything (aside from Daily Traversal, that is).

It's an ode to the Hillbilly. And just when you think they've left out the world's greatest hillbilly, you get a flash. Heh.

It'll brighten your day. Unless you're a hillbilly. Although, if you're a hillbilly, it might just make you proud. Who knows.

Not that I have anything against hillbillies or anything. I mean, to each his own, you know?
 
Fifty Fantasy & Science Fiction Works That Socialists Should Read
Someone's list from somewhere, not in any particular order. (oh wait, it's alpha)
 
Panty Thief Busted Up, Then Busted
Apparantly, your panty fetish is weak-sauce compared to Bruce Taylor. From The Smoking Gun:
Meet Bruce Taylor. The Oklahoma man was busted and busted up last Friday by an aggrieved husband and wife team whose home had been broken into on five consecutive nights....While getting bandaged up, Taylor admitted to cops he kept the unmentionables in a lunch box next to his bed. But Enid cops told TSG that they actually found his underwear stash--weighing in at an astonishing 55 pounds--stored in a large red cooler.

Yeesh.

Thanks, Michol!
 
Beware Jerk-O-Meter
From the article:
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing software for cell phones that would analyze speech patterns and voice tones to rate people -- on a scale of 0 to 100 percent -- on how engaged they are in a conversation.

Anmol Madan, who led the project while he pursued a master's degree at MIT, sees the Jerk-O-Meter as a tool for improving relationships, not ending them. Or it might assist telephone sales and marketing efforts.

Yeah... this is some evil shit.

Thanks Kamran!
Thursday, August 11, 2005
 
And you?
I don't know about you, but the world seems to be enjoying playing games with me as of late, and I've really needed a laugh, so lo and behold ...

Napoleon Dynamite Soundboard

Windows Noises (maybe it's just the band nerd in me, but don't tell me you haven't tried to do something similar before!)

Samsung Means To Come
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
 
scarwars
Ack! Gah! Cutters! Artistic cutters! Beautiful pieces...but made out of gutters of flesh! Ack!
 
Largest San Quentin riot since 1982 prompts prison-wide lockdown
Basically, it looks like a bunch of white dudes are fighting a bunch of Mexican dudes. Dunno why, except to say that it's a huge failure of the San Quentin system. From the article:
Todd Slosek, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said he was pleased prison staff could quell the conflict without using significant force.

"We did spray a lot of pepper spray," he said.

Thanks, Noah!
 
Fresh Pair
Happy National Underwear Day!

From "History of..." to Oprah's Picks ... what else is there to say.
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
 
Minutemen Militia == Nazi Fags
Well, it shouldn't be that surprising to see that the ultra-nationalist Minutemen group is taking lessons on "national pride" and "race segregation" by those most beloved of bald haters, neo-nazis. And I really enjoy reading how the minutemen call their detractors "commies" and, especially, "brownshirts" when it's their side of the protest flying the Grande Olde Schwastika.
 
Discovery is in
Yay, they made it without $20,000,000,000 in fireworks.
Monday, August 08, 2005
 
Bosnian Serb Suspect Caught in Argentina
Well, they finally caught the murdering bastard known as Milan Lukic, the top-ranking fugitive from the Bosnian War. Lukic, a Bosnian Serb, is responsible for, among other things, rounding up 72 civilians, locking them in a big house, and setting the house ablaze. Lukic was caught in Argentina (of course), and is en route to The Hague, hopefully the last city he will ever see.
 
"Aries"
Nice used car commercial for the 88 Aries. The cool style. Yeah baby. Booya.
 
Hasselhoffian Recursion.
David Hasseloff. David Hasseloff. David Hasseloff. David Hasseloff. David Hasseloff. David Hasseloff. David Hasseloff. David Hasseloff. David Hasseloff. David Hasseloff. David Hasseloff. David Hasseloff. David Hasseloff. David Hasseloff. David Hasseloff. David Hasseloff. David Hasseloff. David Hasseloff. David Hasseloff. David Hasseloff.
 
Be Attractive the Classic Maya Way!
Anyone have access to any newborns we can try this on?
 
Popcorn & Chain mail - Braveheart
This is what happens when you take a travesty of a "historical" film ("Braveheart") and cross that with two rabid historians. As they say on Fark, "Hillarity ensues."
Sunday, August 07, 2005
 
Top 10 dot-com flops
Having worked in the industry during the whole peak of the dot-com to dot-bomb fiasco, this article is a bit of nostalgia for me. Kozmo really was the bee's knees: games for the Dreamcast and pints of Ben & Jerry ice cream all delivered. Laziness 4 eva.
Friday, August 05, 2005
 
The Top 30 Torrent Sites of 2005
Just in case you haven't been getting your fix lately due to (mostly illegal) takedowns of trackers (tsk tsk.) The Pirate Bay will always be our favorite. Make certain that you read the numerous legal threats against the site, and the responses they evoke.
 
How to fuck a donkey
I never realized it would have so many steps...
Thursday, August 04, 2005
 
Stupid Creatures: Cheaper than Taxidermy and Nothing Has to Die
Nuff sed.
 
Peekaboom: Not just wasting your time...
Yeah right. This game is played by two people (you and someone in the cloud). You get an image that you then have to click to "reveal." Your partner must then guess the word at the top of the image. Pretty fun.
 
A good use for an old G4
I knew those ergonomic cases were good for something. From the project log:
A couple weeks ago I found myself in possession of a dead G4 from work (which hopefully gets replaced with a PC). The idea occurred to me to make it conform to ATX but the thought was fleeting, I don't want some big apple logo next to me. So my next idea was trashcan. So upon that here is my short and sweet one day project log.

 
Fuck People's Energy
OK... my gas was mysteriously shut off a couple of days ago. My account is in good standing, etc, so I called the gas company (People's Energy) today to find out what the problem was.

Turns out that a tenent in the lower apartment (I'm in a 3-flat) didn't pay his gas so his service was interrupted. The gas company couldn't access his apartment so they SHUT OFF THE GAS TO THE ENTIRE BUILDING, as confirmed by the guy who came to turn my gas back on.

Well, he couldn't turn my gas back on because, since it's shut off for the building, he has to go into every apartment to make sure there's no appliance on or anything.

So, basically, since I don't really see my neighbors, I'm fucking fucked, and People's Energy is the culprit behind this. Hopefully my roommate will talk to his lawyer boss and find out if I can do anything about it.
 
OTEP Video
Otep is one of the heaviest bands out there right now. This point is further accentuated when you realize that the lead singer is a female. A really, really angry female. How angry? This Angry. (Turn your volume WAY UP.)
 
The truth about your next operation...

Wednesday, August 03, 2005
 
An Insect's View - Portraits of a Hidden World
Nothing makes me happier than macroscopic photographs of tiny insects. Horay for bugs.
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
 
kj.com
So, I am posting this for no other fact than it is my name (www.kj.com) and that my girl says "It's a darn good wine." And is getting it for my birthday.
 
Zombies mob downtown San Francisco in search of brains
Several days ago, there was a flashmob of zombies in San Francisco. This is a nice photoset of that flashmob descending upon the Apple store in search of brains. "Genius brains," actually.
 
Leave It To Bush!
Episode three. Kind of picks on some obvious targets (Sam Jackson, Christopher Walken,) but a lot of fun anyway.
 
Lucas Brunelle Videos
This guy rides in city-based bicycle races, that sometimes involve heavy drinking. He's hooked up with a helmet cam which makes for some great footage of him and his buddies blowing through stop lights.
Monday, August 01, 2005
 
For People that like Sex
We like sex. A whole lot. And we might just be picking ourselves up one of these. Cause they look fun.
 
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural
This guy has it right:
When I decided to place the entire text of "An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural" on the Internet, it was suggested to me that this could cut into the sales of the printed version. However, experience has shown that, in the publishing business, making a book available on the Internet only stimulates sales of the actual book! Another mystery.

Not a mystery to us. Thanks for putting it online!
 
How to recover a lost Master padlock combination
As in: how to pick a Master Lock padlock.
 
Alley Cats...Urban Tails
A Flash-book about alley cats.
 
Sean Connery Officially Retires
Steven Spielberg has said he is one of 'only seven genuine movie stars in the world' - although a self- deprecating Connery has said that was only because he demands so much money.

No shit. Connery is THE MAN, and now he'll be THE RETIRED MAN. You go, boo.
 
Urban Dead - A Massively Multi-Player Web-Based Zombie Apocalypse
Tis the season for Zombies, I suppose.
The city is dying. A month on from the first reported outbreak, military quarantine units have closed Malton's borders, and are moving in to eliminate the looters, to forcibly evacuate those civilians who still refuse to leave their homes.

The city is dying, and the urban dead are filling its streets.

Kind of a Kindom of Loathing-esque game, except instead of weirdness, you play zombie-killers (or just zombies.)

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