September 2009 Archives

http://jordanmaxwell.com/articles/questions/index.html

21 pages of questions posed about landmarks and everyday objects like dollar bills and the like. Some of the questions have little footnotes giving some insight into the answers behind these questions although I'm not sure how well researched this all is.

However there are some pretty interesting observations made though...

http://snipurl.com/s7tqn

Pictures of good examples are of animals in the wild - the 'bad' examples are actually humans and (I sincerely hope) are done with tongue-in-cheek.

http://twitter.com/veryshortstory

You'll notice from the link above that VSS is on the Twitter site. If you have problems staying awake when trying to read normal fiction, then maybe this feed is for you.

Examples include:

"“Do you love me Phillip?” asked Pricilla. “That’s a silly question,” he replied, still looking at his paper. “I thought so,” she said."

"4am. You are asleep. I am awake. I am eating your Easter candy. In the morning, I will pretend we have been robbed."

http://crappytaxidermy.com/

The pictures on this site certainly are examples of some bad taxidermy (that's stuffing dead animals by the way).

Don't just stop on the first page - there's currently 76 pages of these...

http://www.20q.net/

Play the classic which can be tailored to your locality and subject type. I believe the site uses AI (Artifical Intelligence) so the more people who play it, the more the game itself learns.

http://www.oddee.com/item_96744.aspx

http://abstrusegoose.com/51

"Last month went by pretty quickly didn't it? One month is not a very long time, but the fact of the matter is that the life expectancy (in the United States) is only about 936 months. Life sure looks different to me when I can see my whole life displayed before me as 936 little blobs."

Milestones are flagged in the diagram.

http://snipurl.com/s1oq6

You may have noticed that recently when you are typing in a new Google search query it will auto-suggest-complete your query for you.

This makes for some possibly hilarious results...

http://probablybadnews.com/

"News fails, because journalism isn't dying fast enough."

http://u.nu/5zy93

Do you remember when the World Wide Web was in its infancy / toddler years? Websites looked so much simpler. Or did they? I would venture that site navigation is a whole lot easier these days. The Yahoo! site, for example, was a bewildering list of categories and sub-categories listed on the front page without much of a thought for aesthetics at all.

This site is here to remind you of the bad old days...actually if you've seen the rest of this site (www.baanliam.com) you'll probably realize that I haven't bothered to redesign much since I first published back in 2004 - yep, I'm a lazy bugger!

http://tiny.cc/vO4wV

Don't like reading? Well here's some alternative ways to use your books...

http://www.toonz.com/personal/todesco/sand/

Click on link above to see more like this

http://u.nu/2xsm

Summary of the rules:

1. There’s a website AND
2. It’s an active website AND
3. There’s a double meaning AND
4. It’s not deliberate

There's some very unfortunate examples on this page - for example:
- 1hourscrap.com - which is a site about scrapbook making
- analtech.com - which is about analytical technology products
- arsequipment.com - which is about asphalt maintenance

...and so on

http://tinyurl.com/mz9gso

Article created for the moon landing anniversary. Use the right-hand side menu to cycle through the pictures.

http://landmarksofsf.com/landmarksofsanfrancisco8.html

Art made of toothpicks.

http://tiny.cc/LdZGT

"A new game is out on Facebook called “lying down game”. The point of the game is that people post a picture of themselves lying somewhere. So that means in the middle of the road, bars, trees and so on."

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1987

Oh, to be in the Russian national squad...

http://zoomquilt2.madmindworx.com/zoomquilt2.swf

It's so tiny it's almost unnoticeable. Now it's bigger, and bigger and now we're on it..and into it and there's more ...and oh no, here we go again...

"Interesting engineering. Hideous morality. Build a robot and leave the animals alone."

http://www.biro-art.com/

Browse the galleries of what i would describe as being professional doodles. This one entitled From Heaven to Hell in particular is inspired...

http://www.eternalmoonwalk.com/

Following from this recent post on MJ's famous moonwalk patent this one goes on forever...

You can create your own moonwalk clip and submit it to the site for adding into the chain.

http://historicaltweets.com/

Browse through the all-time most popular, most popular in last 30 days and Twitter staff's most popular tweets.

(For anyone who doesn't yet know - and I don't believe there can be many of you - a tweet is a message posted on Twitter)

http://u.nu/4ha63

Some popular stationery items with a difference.

Note/ I'm not sure that all of these 'bite' - at least I hope they don't - look at the page and you'll see what I mean.

http://tiny.cc/Ob9yj

Well I guess many people will have heard the expression 'Sex Sells'. In these cases this saying has been taken very literally...

http://snipurl.com/rmmua

Hey! I did not know that Google has a 'Patents' service! This one is Michael Jackson's patent of (from what I can make out) his moonwalk methods. Didn't realize there was such a science behind it...

Patent number: 5255452
Filing date: Jun 29, 1992
Issue date: Oct 26, 1993

http://snipurl.com/rlvpt

Being pregnant creates a much bigger surface area...

http://tiny.cc/kvCq9

The East coast of Africa is a hot-bed for pirates - I'm guessing that most merchant shipping will avoid it whenever possible. This article is a tongue-in-cheek advertisement for a holiday cruise along the coast - you can rent your own M16s and miniguns from the ship to do battle with said pirates!

[See also http://www.somalicruises.com/]

http://snipurl.com/riwou

Large gallery of pictures of (female) stars without their slap on. Various supermodels are included.