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August 31, 2005
Rudyyyyyy!!!
Haven't updated in a bit - sorry - a little busy around here! Been driving all over the place taking pictures of farmers, and the countryside around them. See the photoblog for my pics.
The Mercury Messenger Spacecraft recorded some stunning images of earth as it departed on its journey to the closest planet to our sun- those images have been made into a movie. Check it out!
The Louvre 360° - panoramas by jonas carlson.
Of course Hurricane Katrina is on everyone's mind at the moment...
News and Resources about Avian Flu.
The Original Illustrated Catalog of ACME Products. In service to genius predators everywhere.
Quicktime Video of a "Cosby-off" - comedians do impressions of Bill Cosby! Awesome.
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August 23, 2005
pencils are erasist
The Greatest Adventure of All Time - sort of like those choose-your-own-adventure books from the early 80s but it's collaboratively written - if you hit a dead end, you can fill in the blanks.
An interesting article on Party Funding and Political Corruption in East Asia. (pdf)
The shooting scripts for Good Fellas and The Matrix. (pdfs)
A collection of pages from Cerebus issue #20, that combine to form a larger image.
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August 19, 2005
Sacrilicious!
This Spartan Life is a talk-show that takes place inside the X-Box LIVE version of HALO 2. It's a show where the special guests can become targets if they don't watch their backs...
A co-worker of mine brought me a special treat today - Ketupat Pulut, glutinous rice, boiled with coconut milk, wrapped in banana leaves, tied up like a little candy tube and then steamed... peel like a banana and enjoy. Awesome!
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August 17, 2005
and so on and so on...
The New York Times has published online the recently released Oral Histories of September 11th, 2001 - collecting the reactions of EMS, Fire and Police workers who responded to the call that day. Riveting stuff, some of it.
BoingBoing has an exclusive profile of Charles Platt, the inventor of the Neutron Bomb.
If you ever wanted to know more about Steam Boats, you could do worse than to visit Steamboats.org.
Two PDF articles on Nikola Tesla - The Strange Life of... and The Enigma of...
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August 15, 2005
I am working hard to putting food on my family.
Heeeeyyyyy... back from a week's vacation. So much going on. My 9 month-old daughter Chloe is at daycare now with her brother, Ethan (3 yrs old) and Christine's gone back to work. Whoo! All this going on and we ran out of bottle liners this morning - searching for a convenience store that actually sells bottle liners at 7 am is no fun at all. I found eight stores within a 2 km radius of the house that were open and only one of them had liners- and the package looked to be about five years old, minimum. Ah well, that's parenthood for ya.
On with the links:
George Bush's Spin Doctor Speaks. Awesome. Just Awesome. Andy Dick RULES! Sometimes.
Holy crap. It's the history of American Hillbillyness in a slideshow with the theme from Deliverance as a musical accompaniment.
Gothic Martha Stewart - includes instructions on how to bone a corset using substitutions found at our favourite big-box home improvement store, amongst other useful bits.
Birdwatchersdigest.com has a wicked pic of a praying mantis and its kill - a hummingbird! Damn, I thought Hummers only had to worry about bumblebees!
The United States have downgraded their outlook for Iran's future from rose-coloured democracy to possible chaos. Kidding. But it "no longer expects to see a model new democracy, a self-supporting oil industry or a society in which the majority of people are free from serious security or economic challenges, U.S. officials say."
I don't normally pay attention to Roger Ebert 'cuz he's a hack. But lately some of his reviews have been a little edgier than the norm. His review of Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo is quite amusing and has the blogosphere in link heaven.
WALKEN IN 2008! Anyone who spent part of the second world war in a Japanese POW camp with his father's gold watch shoved up his ass deserves my vote.
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August 05, 2005
After the men radio for help, the cowboys and Indians are forcibly removed and security is beefed up in the area.
The age old struggle between right brain and left brain. Just in time for the imminent release of Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly by director Richard Linklater (Waking Life) - trailer here, official site here. ... a good page with a preview and some great images from the film, here.
Measuring Italy's cocaine use through sewage. A bit of an eye-opener.
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August 04, 2005
World's most useless homing pigeon hitches ride with helicopter
The history of the New York Beach Pneumatic Subway. Alfred Beach’s Pneumatic Subway and the beginnings of rapid transit in New York.
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August 02, 2005
As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as described in chapter seven of the shop manual.
Dan McKay of Fargo, North Dakota is the winner(?) of this year's Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest.
Colour Perception - e-chalk presents a rather amazing demonstration of how surrounding colours affect our perception of an object's appearance.
uncrate.com is a buyer's guide for male-targeted products.
And as we approach the anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the HYDESim - High-Yield Detonation Effects Simulator. Chilling. The source information was from The Effects of Nuclear Weapons - I have a print edition of this book (a US Department of Defense document) from 1962. Very heady stuff. There's a PDF version online here.
Ever wondered about who does the stipple portraits of newsmakers and columnists in the Wall Street Journal? Wonder no more! It's Noli Novak.
The European Space Agency has captured a strange and beautiful image of an enormous phytoplankton bloom in the Baltic Sea. (2 meg tiff file)
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