Wednesday, September 24, 2008

September 24, 2008


Consider the lilies of the field;
they neither labor nor spin.
And, hey, if it's good enough for them...


Top of the Heap: The Mother of All Voter Registration Diaries
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/17/94016/0264/300/591612

HYSTERICAL (in more ways than one) - Former F1 Driver Takes Wife for a Spin (if you speak Italian, this is probably NSFW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIhGJyLR6TI

They sell WHAT on Amazon.com?
http://www.sahio.com/they-sell-what-on-amazoncom/

The Top 10 Newspaper Comic Strips That Need to #$@!! END
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/09/the_10_newspaper_comic_strips_that_need_to_fking_e.php

The Life Lessons of Star Wars
http://www.guidespot.com/guides/life_lessons_of_star

The Flight of the Paper Airplanes
http://www.tinyprints.com/paper-airplanes.htm

Put a picture of your own into some games with Pictogame
http://www.pictogame.com/en/create/

Discover magazine's Gallery of Science Tattoos
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/category/science-tattoo-emporium/

10 Books Not to Read Before You Die
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article4773601.ece

How to Invest in Gold
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10389829/1/how-to-invest-in-gold.html

9 Mental Math Tricks
http://oddline.blogspot.com/2008/09/9-mental-math-tricks.html

23 Ways to Use Tea (24, if you count drinking it)
http://www.rd.com/advice-and-know-how/extraordinary-uses-for-tea/article24030.html

In this week's "I-want-me-one-of-these" category, the Maglev Toy Train
http://www.monkeyreview.co.uk/index.php/2008/09/23/maglev-toy-train-i-want-one

Foolish Gadgets ("because not all gadgets are cool")
http://foolishgadgets.com/

The prescient scene from “Network.” (Hard to believe that this was 32 years ago!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WINDtlPXmmE

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

September 17, 2008


God never gives us more than we can handle.
Luckily, though, Bernie's Big Boy Buffet does!


Top of the Heap: Worth1000's new contest - Simplicity
http://www.worth1000.com/contest.asp?contest_id=20629&display=photoshop&page=5000#entries

The Family Guy saga continues
http://www.starwars.com/img/vault/collecting/news20080806/Darkside.jpg

This is crackalackin.' Fo’ shiggidy my weeble Slang Dictionary
http://www.thesource4ym.com/teenlingo/index.asp

10 Life-Changing Things You Never Thought to Do in College
http://www.nextstudent.com/the-students-blog/archive/2008/09/10/10-life-changing-things-you-never-thought-to-do-in-college.aspx

10 Things About the Large Hadron Collider You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask
http://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/12/10-things-about-the-large-hadron-collider-you-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask/

The Gentleman's Guide to the Calling Card
http://artofmanliness.com/2008/09/07/the-gentlemans-guide-to-the-calling-card/

Is Barack Obama a Muslin?
http://isbarackobamamuslin.com/

An extremely effective insurance ad (tip o'the hat to BFF Donna)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbR9_mBLt04

Great idea - the anti-theft lunch bag
http://www.skforlee.com/independent_work/lunch_bag.html

A guide to Mexican street tacos
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/recipes/puebla/kgtacos1.html

12 Cool Sports That You Will Never Play
http://forfunnyimages.blogspot.com/2008/09/12-cool-sports-you-will-never-play.html

5 Really Weird Things About Water
http://www.bspcn.com/2008/08/22/5-really-weird-things-about-water/

Strangely compelling sticky note experiment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1rZqw5bXb4&e

Stabilized Bigfoot film. Oh yeah, THIS looks realistic...
http://www.bigfootencounters.com/files/mk_davis_pgf.gif

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

September 10, 2008

As my date stormed off, I was rather relieved
I hadn't yet invested much in a relationship
with a woman who didn't even understand that
"voluptuously chunky" was a compliment.




Top of the Heap: In case the World ends today, it's been fun. Nice knowing you. Will the last one sucked into the Black Hole please turn out the lights?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/08/particlephysics.physics

Really Weird Food Events, Parties and Festivals
http://www.eventective.com/blog/parties/2008/09/09/really-weird-food-events-parties-and-festivals/

The 10 Best (and Worst) Companies for Customer Service
http://www.insidecrm.com/archive2/2006/11/the_10_best_and.html

The Biggest Single Object in the Universe (Hint: it has nothing to do with
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/09/50-billion-suns.html

Socotra Island: the Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/most-alien-looking-place-on-earth.html

Favorite Political Bumper Stickers, Election 2008
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1268966-bumper-stickers/images

The Greeks are insane
http://glumbert.com/media/greecefireworks

"Chewing Gum Takes the Stress Out of Life" Study
http://www.confectionerynews.com/The-Big-Picture/Chewing-gum-takes-the-stress-out-of-life-study

Umbrella Today - the simplest weather forecast ever
http://umbrellatoday.com/

Star Wars T-Shirt Designs
http://www.cooldesignertshirts.com/2008/09/star-wars-t-shirts-designs.html

How to become the office sniper (Don't try this at home. The office, okay. But not at home)
http://blog.shoplet.com/office-supplies/binder-clips-into-office-weapons/

Bookstore Finder
http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/stores/

Five Simple Ways to Save a Life
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/09/04/ep.first.aid/index.html?eref=rss_health

28 Most Cliché Dorm Room Posters
http://www.collegehappenings.com/college/28-most-cliche-dorm-room-posters/

Mmmmmmm, bacon
http://listsgalore.blogspot.com/2008/09/25-sizzling-hot-bacon-inspired-must.html

YouTomb: MIT's database of removed YouTube videos
http://youtomb.mit.edu/

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

September 3, 2008

I've been telling people about how this absolutely
gorgeous supermodel-type at the Coffee Bean stopped
me to tell me how incredibly sexy she found me to be.
I guess I embellish the story a little, because maybe
the word she used was "attractive." Okay, fine.
What she *actually* said was, "You're in my way."
But you can see my point.




Top of the Heap: This is so awesome, it's beyond words. Mythbusters, 1100 paintball guns and the Mona Lisa!
http://go.dzil.la/mythbusters-adam-jamie-draw-mona-lisa-in-80-milliseconds/

Tigh*Roslyn 2008
http://tighroslin.com/

Think about it - have you ever seen Christian Bale and Kermit the Frog in the same room together? Hmmmm...
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/27350111.html#cutid1

Be a Modern Knight: Protecting Your Lady in the 21st Century
http://artofmanliness.com/2008/08/12/be-a-modern-knight-protecting-your-lady-in-the-21rst-century/

Top 100 Undiscovered Websites
http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/0,1206,l=213934&s=25234&a=213919,00.asp

Not enough? Okay, here are 100 more
http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/0,1206,l=230657&s=25087&a=230658,00.asp

Karaoke Party!
http://www.karaokeparty.com/en/

Addicting Game of the Week: Bubble Shooter
http://www.notdoppler.com/bubbleshooter.php

Every episode of MST3K
http://www.utternerd.org/

In the "I-want-me-one-of-these" category...
http://www.liquidimageco.com/home/specs.html

From the Bardgal, and NOT for the faint of heart - Haggisclopedia (section 11 is the best)
http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/haggisclopedia.cfm

The Dark Knight returns
http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=riddlerpostercopycopyys0.jpg

I'm STILL planning on going skydiving
http://www.campussqueeze.com/post/Skydiving-Is-FunExcept-For-When-Your-Parachute-Doesnt-Work.aspx

20 Fall Movies We Can't Wait to See
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20218822,00.html?iid=top25-20080814-20+fall+movies+we+can%27t+wait+to+see

Remember the "paomnnehel pweor of the hmuan mnid" email that went around awhile back? Now try it with your favorite website
http://readingtest.sytes.org/

100 Things Every Omnivore Should Try (okay, I've had 39... but some of these I wouldn't even consider!)
http://www.verygoodtaste.co.uk/uncategorised/the-omnivores-hundred/

Weird and Wonderful Gadgets (That Never Quite Took Off)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1045114/The-1920s-satnav---weird-wonderful-gadgets-quite-took-off.html

The Faces Behind the Voices
http://www.unfabulouz.com/2008/08/faces-behind-voices.html

Britney Spears - feed from her live microphone, and ONLY her live microphone
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/11ed201165

The Samsung Omnia (i900) - I bet you don't have one of these!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQlzX7EyIwU&e

Rotating grid illusion - this is pretty cool
http://www.davidoreilly.com/blog/2008/07/rotating-grid-illusion/

Are you a turtle? (I became one in a bar on Guam in 1969)
http://turtleville.tripod.com/ruaturtle/

The 6 Most Depressing Happy Endings in Movie History
http://www.cracked.com/article_16570_p2.html

The Umbilical Brothers (And a tip O'the hat to Brother Doctor Pete for this one!)
http://www.bestofgooglevideo.com/video.php?video=208

This is awesome - the World Clock
http://www.sonnyradio.com/wordclock.htm

10 of the best animated GIFs on the net (thanky, RJ)
http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/10-of-the-Best-Animated-GIFs-on-the-Net.234561

My son William will love these - Joker Action Figures
http://abduzeedo.com/the-joker-action-figure

Myths about bottled water
http://www.marieclaire.com/life/healthy/health-tips/bottled-water-myth?src=syn&dom=yah_buzz&mag=mar&ha=1