tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101402322011-04-21T15:25:25.939-04:00Interesting Finds Along The Bottom of The Net.Scott W. Langillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08639530743391321967noreply@blogger.comBlogger2221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10140232.post-71072234189100911662009-04-27T02:21:00.001-04:002009-04-27T02:24:49.565-04:00

Your PisicapturistYou Can Get There From HerePlease be advised that on April 17, 2009, Scott Langill's Catch of the Day moved upstream from the Old Improved Catch of the Day site to the New Improved Catch of the Day site. If you're trawling for Classic Catch of the Day Archives, all the Catches from January 2005 to this posting are still accessible at the Old Improved Catch of the Day. Catches

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Alice loses her shoe in Nightmare on Elm Street 4One-Shoe Scenes"Droppedit" has compiled a list of over five hundred moments in motion pictures and television where women lose one (or more) shoe(s). The "prime list" of over one hundred entries of inadvertent and uncontrolled loss of footwear by female character, in the aftermath of which she cannot retrieve her errant shoe and has to go on one

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The Silverman sisters strike fear into the hearts of anyone within 9feet of their tethered, mechanical Godzilla.Dork YearbookIt's only about a week old but the viral link of the week appears to be Dork Yearbook. "The way we wish we weren't." They take user submissions, but I'm not sure if Steve Wozniak really submitted the photo of his science fair parallel computing project.Dork Yearbook

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Los Disneys Desktop Wallpaper TooLos Disneys 2.0After a nearly 10-year hiatus, the cult classic first-person shooter game is back, this time for Windows and Linux, as well as Macs; and it's available for free download. You'll find yourself a decade from now and The Walt Disney Company has purchased Florida. Your job is to infiltrate the Magic Kingdom, blasting your way through animatronic pirates

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Peeps on acid100 Ways To Kill A PeepAmerica has begun its annual consumption of 700 million marshmallow Peeps. One notable new website entry in the Peepapalooza is 100 Ways To Kill A Peep where users submit photographs of their own Peep killings. They're only up to 17 so far but there's still 13 days until Easter. For more Peep Genocide there's still a bellyache full of links at The Big List of

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Toilet at the GuggenheimThe Art Museum Toilet Museum of ArtInspired by Marcel Duchamp's dada sculpture "Fountain", the website showcases art that "may not be hanging in the proud walls of a museum gallery". The collection is growing quickly and features toilets from major art museums in nearly a dozen countries. Looks like the founders are angling to generate a book from this, but they are taking

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The Flying Dutchman, on ryeHold the mayo...Scanwiches debuted last month, "high quality sandwich imagery for your education and delight". Somebody (or somebodies) are blogging scanned cross-sections of their sandwich intake from delis around New York. I'm reminded of the now defunct but equally punny Cat-Scan.com from 1999 which featured cats wedged into scanners. What's next, Scan-dinavians?

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Chad Vader's apprentice Commander WickstromChad Vader, Day Shift Manager, Season 2Darth Vader's (implied brother) search for dominion over the Empire Market began in 2006. After eight episodes with one to ten million views per episode, the long awaited Season 2 has begun screening on YouTube. Season 1 is still available along with Chad Vader Training Videos, Blogs, Holiday Messages, Raps, and

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Marlene Dietrich and her musical sawSinging SawsIt's time to start making your travel plans for the Musical Saw Festival in New York this July or the International Musical Sawplayers Festival in California this August. Technically classified as a friction idiophone, the sound of a hand saw as a musical instrument has been compared to a women's voice or theremin. In America, the musical saw is

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An early atonal telephoneParty LineMuzak may have declared bankruptcy but you can make your own touch tone music while you're on hold. Michael Vincent has Phone Songs on his site along with a passable version of Happy Birthday. DialSongs.com has more songs and samples to play. If you want to create your own music DialABC has a chart matching musical notes to the Dual Tone Multi Frequency (DTMF)

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I for one welcome our new Deer Butt Alien Overlords"Fine art Deer Butt alien heads"They say these folk art extraterrestrials are examples of southern redneck art, but somehow I suspect they have a Wisconsin origin. Don Burleson at dba-oracle has authoritative instructions on how to create your own which even venerable Taxideterminist School commentators like the Weasel Times and Stoat

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Deja los buenos tiempos desenrollarMexican Bomb Hammer PartyIt's early February and time for celebration in the town of San Juan de la Vega, Mexico. To celebrate, strap explosives to the business end of a long hammer and bang it hard on the ground. That's the basic idea of this several centuries old event. Thousands attend and dozens are injured (50 minor wounds in 2008). Check out the Mexican

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Is there anything you can't sell on Craigslist?The Rise of the SnowmenSmithsonian Magazine ran an article last month about pre-Frosty exploitation entitled "Snowman Gone Wild". The author has also penned a book "The History of the Snowman" and runs a website called Today's Snowman. Some of the article illustrations may have come from the Guinness World Record largest snowmen collection (3,000 and

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Stump ConnollyObamicon.meTired of Obamania on teevee this week? Make your own "Obamicon", your image in a style inspired by Shepard Fairey's iconic Obama poster. Take a webcam picture or upload a photo, choose a message, and submit to the gallery. After you've finished creating, download your image, buy products emblazoned with it, or browse the gallery to rate and comment on other Obamicons. In

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ByokalOnline KaleidoscopesOr perhaps more correctly a digital or virtual kaleidoplex. Create your own kaleidoscope in realtime as you drag and drop pieces onto a playing surface. Zefrank's "byokal" is viralling around right now. It looks like an upgrade from "homepage fractals13" which he created for Shelda's mom. There's other kaleidoscopes online like permadi's Kaleidoscope Painter or PBS's

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Super Sled RideThe RocketmanMake Magazine recently featured inveterate "Rocketman" Ky Michaelson and his rocket powered super sled he scaled up from a miniature "radio flyer" (sic) sled model. The Rocketman and Make Magazine have the photos and details of his test run on the sidewalks of his Bloomington, Minnesota neighborhood. The Rocketman is better known for his record breaking rocket powered

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Laconic's oil fire type fire screenChristmasy!Here's links to a couple of free fireplace screensavers from Crawler and Acez to keep your computer cozy while you're analogging with your fellow humans. Me, I'm opting for laconicsoftware's Free Fire Screensaver which makes my computer screen virtually catch fire.Fireplace ScreensaverFireplace Screen SaverFree Fire Screensaver

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The Great Fruitcake TossLet them toss cakeIt was Charles Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit who said, "A fruitcake is a geological homemade cake". Given the non-alcoholic recipe of mailorder cakes and the fact that the density of the average fruitcake is the same as mahogany, it's not surprising that many fruitcakes end up as projectiles or doorstops. Some online calendars would have you believe that

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'Tis The SeasonBecause handmade isn't always prettyCraftastrophe was created to showcase those crafts that are funny, weird, or strange.Craftastrophe

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Pvt. WilhelmThe Wilhelm ScreamYou've heard it before, probably many times. It only lasts about 1.5 seconds, starting on C and descending through four semi-tones to G sharp. Once you've heard it a few times and recognize it, you'll never be able to un-hear it again. Before there ever was a Wilhelm there was "Man being eaten by alligator" a Warner Bros. studio sound effect for "Distant Drums" (1951

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A See Rock City barn with Burma-Shave signPast / Schoolhouses / Take it slow / Let the little / Shavers grow / Burma-ShaveBurma-Shave signs adorned American Highways from 1925 to 1963 in most of the lower 48. Typically, six small white on red rhyming signs posted in sequence along the roadside. Interstate highway speeds and Burma-Shave's sale to Philip Morris caused the demise of Burma-Shave

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A Chicken playing baseball in 1948 experimentLIFE Photo ArchiveGoogle has announced a deal to host the entire archive of Life magazine photos. Only about 20% of the archive is online so far, but that's still two million photos. A photojournalism magazine, Life was published weekly from 1936-1972, and with varying frequency until 2007.LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

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Deep Fried BaconGoing Beyond Bacon BitsIt could be the opening of the first squeal of the aporkalypse. Chicago's Risque Cafe has added a new appetizer, battered deep-fried bacon dressed with white country gravy. This is in addition to the all-you-can-eat bacon nights at Chinaski's Bar and Whiskey Road that Porkopolis patrons already know about. However, bacon aficionados are quick to point out

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"Chicken" in electric blueToupets?Words elude me.Wiggles Wigs for DogsKitty Wigs!Total Diva Pets

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Camouflage Print PajamasComplete with drop down seat...Jumpin Jammerz sells adult-sized footed pajamas. Just in time for Halloween, the Winter chill, or recession-induced infantile regression.Jumpin Jammerz

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Now Nicolas Sarkozy I can understand...Signs of Satan!Well known people showing off The Horned Hand or The Mano Cornuto (i.e. the hand signal which represents Satan). Now Dubya and family claim it is the University of Texas Longhorns "hook 'em horns" symbol. And some say it's just the deaf hand signal of the phrase, "I love you." Now beyond the Bushes they have the usual suspects like Dick Cheney

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The Horror...Looking to get your scare on?To find a real haunted house or haunted house attraction in your area try one of the following. Most of these sites have linked maps to make your search easier. HauntedHouses.com features both real and simulated haunted houses while HauntWorld features the latter. For more real haunted house locations try RealHaunts or Shadowlands Haunted

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Sad Guys on Trading FloorsStock Market SchadenfreudePhotoblogging the global financial tsunami and "turning the economic crisis into one of those clever internet memes."Sad Guys on Trading Floors

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Portable Rotary PhoneDial someone up on your cellphoneSparkfun's Port-O-Rotary puts a full mobile phone inside a vintage rotary phone. It has a functional rotary dial, it rings with the original metallic bells, and it even has a dial tone. All you have to do is open the phone, insert your SIM card, and turn it on. It will utilize your phone number and work in North American and Europe. The

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Federal highway starter kit $10,000.00Hey Washington, can you buy my bad investments too?The Feds are planning a spending spree on "distressed assets". This website wants to help you cash in on the bankonanza. Use their form to submit bad assets you'd like your government to take off your hands. And don't forget, "the fact that you think they are worth more than anyone will buy them for is what

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Great Lake ShipsShip LocationsShip track maps. Lots of data. From Weather and Wave Heights through Tall Ships and Cruising Yachts to Bay of Fundy tides and Panama Canal transits.Ship locations

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Entrance to Hell in Massillon, OhioDoublehockeystickland"Entrances to Hell" accepts worldwide submissions from believers of all religions, pantheons, and faiths (or lack thereof). At Tentmaker Ministries "Hell - where is it?" click on the garden image to see where the place is that's usually translated as Hell in the Bible. Aleph & Tav Almightywind RUACH HA KODESH Wildfire Last Chance Ministry's

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Tee shirt seen on the boardwalk in Ocean City Maryland this past MondayGet yer campaign onWhat are you doing here? Stump Connolly next door at The Week Behind is almostliveblogging from the conventions and he said he'd check out the protester "freedom cages" for me.The Week Behind

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The Topless Girlie Show at the The Woodland FairWisconsin Death Trip TaxidermyPlanning a road trip to Madison, Wisconsin? Extreme Craft has the skinny on Cress Funeral Home and the basement taxidermy heaven of owner Sam Sanfillippo. Beyond the obligatory Dairyland trophy fish and badgers, there's dioramas galore of chipmunks and squirrels, many of which are mechanized and kinetic. Me, I can't

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Disturb this Norwegian PeaceFrom the US call 011 47 90 369389Telemegaphone Dale is a 23-foot-tall wind-powered loudspeaker sculpture that picks up incoming telephone calls and projects them into the nearby surroundings. The sound of your voice is projected from the top of Bergskletten mountain out across the fjord, the valley, and the village of Dalsfjord (Dale) below. No answer? Remember it's

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Automatonophobics bewarekindertraumaYour happy childhood ends here. Movies, books, and toys that scared you when you were a kid; and everything else that's traumatic to a tyke. Kindertrauma means to remind you of all the things you once tried so hard to forget.kindertrauma

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Minimalist (and Emo) CuilLose GoogleJust unveiled today is Cuil (predictably pronounced "cool"). It's billed as the world's biggest search engine with three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft. Cuil is managed and developed largely by former employees of Google. Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge (and hazel). Unlike Google, Cuil's privacy policy claims that it does not

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I think I could take more than 13How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take in a Fight?Take a short survey and find out how many kindergarteners you could KO. "Results are based on physical prowess, training, swarm-combatting experience, and the flexibility of your moral compass."How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take in a Fight?

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Go analog...FlipClipsTurn your video into a flipbook. Upload a video under 30 seconds in length and get a flipbook made of it for as little as $8.99. Three sizes are available.FlipClips

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Don't forget to tell them to retrieve your car...They've Been Left Behind!"You've Been Left Behind gives you one last opportunity to reach your lost family and friends." If you're a Christian; when the Rapture happens, you and millions of your fellow believers will rise to heaven, suddenly disappearing from the face of the Earth. Armageddon has begun. Your "lost" family and friends are in for

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cutyou.blogspot.comOne Post WonderA collection of blogs that have one post.One Post Wonder

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Kenneth, what is the frequency?Maximum HeadroomThe home of interactive designer Paul Neave, neave.com makes for an entertaining timewaster or a suitable office screensaver substitute. It's a planetarium, retro game arcade, teevee channel surfer, 3D scribbler, and more. Try the Dandelion as a screensaver substitute.Neave.comKenneth, what is the frequency?

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Tarzan, Jane, Boy, and CheetaWhat's your theory, Darwin?Cheeta turned 76 this year, making him the oldest living chimpanzee according to Guinness World Records. Star of eight or more Tarzan films he has become a painter in retirement. At Go Cheeta you can find his pictures, paintings, bio, and videos; along with links to his obligatory blog and myspace page. There's also a petition you can sign

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This is your brain on cell phone!Making Cellphone Popcorn (without butter)They're viral on the internet this week. Aim the antennas of three or four cellphones at a handful of popcorn and when you ring the phones the kernels pop. There's already Japanese, French, and American versions to name but a few. There's also inconclusive "proving the negative" versions where the kernels don't pop. Now

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Yomega's yo-yo clutch explainedNational Yo-Yo DayJune 6 is National Yo-Yo Day! Or more precisely it's the birthday of Donald F. Duncan, Sr., who popularized the yo-yo in the US (he also founded the Good Humor ice cream company and invented the parking meter). You could celebrate by visiting the SpinningTop & Yo-Yo Museum in Burlington, Wisconsin where "The Top Lady", Judith Schulz hosts a

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The Head Flick or Half-BinkyThe Language of LagomorphsSomeone has been spending too much time with Marvin and Betsy and creating a website of Bunese i.e. "what your rabbit is saying and how to speak back". Sounds and body language. Learn what shivering means; along with wobbling ears, wincing eyes, and the enigmatic Lambchop Stance. And, believe it or don't, not a single "What's up Doc?"

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USBC Pin & BallRobokegler?Who knew that the Milwaukee suburbs was home to a climate-controlled bowling test center and "Harry", the robotic ball thrower? You can see Harry immortalized in "When Harry Met Alley" or perhaps by visiting the United States Bowling Congress (USBC) in Greendale. Harry is a member of the USBC's Specifications and Certification team which just wrapped up a two-year study

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Le Voyage Dans La Lune (1902)The Moon does not exist!Last week I told you about a NASA website where you could send your name to the moon. But The Mad Revisionist claims that the moon is a propaganda hoax and reveals the supposed "facts" about the alleged "moon" that the AC (Astronomically Correct) establishment would have you believe. Besides everyone knows the lunar landing was a hoax.The Mad

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The DC Madam's name has already been submittedSend Your Name to the MoonIt may be an obvious attempt by aliens to harvest human names for future experimentation. NASA invites you to send your name to the moon. Your name will be included in a database contained on a microchip and placed aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft. You also get a certificate suitable for framing or

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The Crayon Skull (posted on my birthday)Webby AwardsThe 12th Annual Webby Award winners and nominees have been announced. Included in the scores of webpages linked is Skull-A-Day and passive-aggressive (and just plain aggressive) notes. The Webbies is a good place to find recognized websites you haven't discovered yet and all the nominees and winners back to 1987 are there.12th Annual Webby

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Lindsay Lohan in a pre-rehab opera glove momentFor the Love of Opera Gloves!Words fail me. The website creator's motivation escapes me. It's an operaglovemaniaapalooza.For the Love of Opera Gloves!

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Great White NorthSketchesNerve and IFC have posted a compilation of the 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time. The list is limited to teevee sketches in English that are available via YouTube or its spawn. The selection is also biased by the fact that Nerve is a Liverpool-based magazine and IFC is either the Independent Film Channel or the Iowa Film Critics. Sketch comedy originated in

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Why?The Knuckle Tattoo ProjectThere's a hundred sets of user submitted knuckle tattoo photos and the stories behind them. There's 4x4s, 8 Acrosses, Double Deckers, One Handers, and Thumbs. Alas, no Robert Mitchum.Knuckle Tattoos

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DuckrollThe Latest Internet MemesA meme is a unit of cultural information that propagates from one mind to another as a theoretical unit of cultural evolution and diffusion. Typical internet memes can be images, video, themes, or catchphrases. The context ranges from pranksterism and humor to inadvertent celebrity, urban rumor, and hoax to self-promotion and viral marketing. Fads and sensations

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Billy Beer at the Novelty Transistor Radio MuseumWeb RingsWeb Rings or webrings have been around since the early dotcom boom days. Websites sharing a common theme or interest link to each other using special software. The photo above came from a site belonging to the Unusual Museums of the Internet ring. I found that ring and the others below by searching for phrases containing "ring" or "webring

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Of course "Mr. White" is on backorderLeggo my LEGO, or elseNewly formed Brickarms is your source for unauthorized LEGO weapons, weapon packs, and minifigs. If humanscale LEGO danger is your inclination pick up a copy of Forbidden LEGO and build the models your parents warned you against. Forbidden LEGO model videos can be found on YouTube along with other LEGO Second Amendment statements like the

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Cthulhu: Why Settle For The Lesser Evil?Widening the FieldThe week begins with a main stream media field of six candidates Clinton, Gravel, Huckabee, McCain, Obama, and Paul. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Politics1 lists more than eighty third party and independent candidates (including Prohibition Party candidate Gene Amondson), but they don't include the draft movements like We Want

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Oprah's head in a crop circleGoogle Maps ErrataFor a compendium of the odd and unusual in Google Maps try MapOfStrange.com. For the more prosaic sights try Google Sightseeing. For a blog assemblage of Google Map mashups try Google Maps Mania.MapOfStrange.comGoogle SightseeingGoogle Maps Mania

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In 1997, this 580-pound stainless-steel tank plowed into the ground 50 yards from a Texas farmer's home and 150 yards from a major highway. In Oklahoma, a small piece of charred metal mesh from the same satellite breakup hit a woman in the shoulder but did not injure her.Chicken Little was rightSometime this Spring, the Pentagon will use a modified, ship-fired anti-ballistic missile to destroy

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British Movietone NewsLost hours ahead.Apparently complete digital archives of the UK Movietone cinema newsreels from 1929-1979. Free registration and Quicktime is required.Movietone Newsreels

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Tell Me dance tutorial screen captureThe Korean Macarena?The Wonder Girls a Korean pop girl-group which debuted last year. The choreography for their hit song "Tell Me" has gone viral in Korea. Everyone's doing it: girls, boys, men, women, celebrities, and even chickens. A YouTube search for "Wonder Girls Tell Me" got 1,620 hits. My Hangul is rusty so I couldn't search for videos on Korea's Daum.

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Dinosaur Disaster at The Week BehindNetdisasterHere's one you can use to taunt your friends who have websites. Type in the address of any website: any site you'd like to punish, or whose destruction would be fun. Then choose any one of thirty some catastrophes the target will suffer. The original webpages are only converted on the fly and on demand. The actual, original, non modified pages can be

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"Caroline of Assisi"The Minor Candidate ReportAfter traveling to New Hampshire to follow candidates, journalism students from Vermont's Saint Michael's College created a website providing access to all 42 candidates for president (and vice president) in 2008. All the major and minor candidates are listed with their individual website address included as a live link. My favorite is perennial

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A political comment on the left?LinguisticuffsAn open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English. Eternal September was bad enough, but with the advent of user-driven web content, the creators of the StupidFilter Project were driven to action. The current plan is to release source code for incorporation into content management systems, blogs, wikis, etc. Firefox

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Catbook has a better logoAre your pets using mice to find internet friends?A Toronto family have created social networking tools for cats and dogs. Catbook and Dogbook are built on top of the Facebook platform, to use them, you (or your pets) must have a Facebook account. In the past six months a million dogs and a half million cats have created their own pages; where they can add friends, list

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Hello Kitty Armored Personnel CarrierHello Kitty HellThe astomatous saccharine marketing icon turns 34 this year and creator Sanrio will be introducing a Hello Kitty for men product line. The US children's ambassador for UNICEF currently adorns over 22,000 products and accounts for a half billion dollars in creator Sanrio's annual revenue. Beyond the predictable are things like passenger jets,

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Britney knows energy-momentum dispersionJamie Lynn may have better parenting skills, but...It is a lesser known fact, that big sister Britney is an expert in semiconductor physics. At this website she guides you in the fundamentals of the vital laser components that have made it possible to hear her music in a digital format. Includes a Lip-glossary of Semiconductor Terms.Britney Spears' Guide to

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The stocking stuffer with a half-lifeThe 21st Century Lump of CoalThe gift for the person who has everything. Their own radioactive chunk of the periodic table actinide series for $30 or less. United Nuclear has both Low and Medium Radiation Level Ore samples in stock (unfortunately the High, Super High, and Ultra High samples are temporarily sold out). United Nuclear also has a abundance of

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SpokHoliday MailRover getting Darwined at the dog park? Pit Bull Armory has functional armor for dogs, humans, horses, and even squirrels. The dog armor may have been inspired the artwork armor by Jeff de Boer and Lilith Eberle for small animals. For more contemporary human armor check out the links list at Therion Arms. Or just buy yourself a tank at MILWEB.Pit Bull ArmoryJeff de BoerLilith

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Image 34 of 232: Nadia Camila BarreraFace Your Pockets!Place the contents of your bag, jeans, and jacket on a scanner. Place your face on it as well. Scan it and send the picture to:Face Your Pockets!

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The Host of Christmas Future?YuletimeVirtual advent calendars will start proliferating this Saturday. In its ninth incarnation Electric December will feature films by British teenagers. For childlike zen there's Is it Christmas? For temporal gift giving Watchismo has just posted its Christmas gift guide, with watches from $100 to $100,000.Electric DecemberIs it Christmas?Watchismo Holiday Watch

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Honest Jim's at the FBI's Hogan's AlleyJunior GpersonsAmazon.com under toys and games has the Elenco K-35 Telephone Bug Kit so your kids can help Santa bug your telephone calls this year. To help mold your kids to their impending career with the New World Order, (USA).gov offers a number of options. The CIA, FBI, NSA, and DIA have kids' pages for future spies and counterterrorists. For junior "

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The Mozilla mascotLooking for no-cost software alternatives?IBM recently released of a test version of the Lotus Symphony productivity suite. It's a free word processing - spreadsheet - presentation based on Sun's OpenOffice program. Both can read and save in Microsoft Office file formats. For a web-browser and e-mail there's Firefox and Thunderbird from Mozilla. Netscape Navigator was born from

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Chad courting the elusive ClarissaChad Vader - Day Shift ManagerDarth Vader's (implied) brother seeks dominion over the Empire Market. A Blame Society Productions creation for Channel 101 last year, Chad was canceled after two episodes, but went on YouTube and other net venues. Including the final season one eighth episode Chad has had more than twenty million viewings. Chad has been translated

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Haunted swing?Terrorizing the teeter toddlersNeither kids, nor teachers, nor parents, nor police, nor physics professors have been able to explain the spellbindingly spooky parametric oscillator in Firmat, Argentina. It's the latest video viralling around parapsychological websites. Bonus: A followup to last weeks post with a Halloweendish roller coaster video.'Haunted' swing keeps

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One of the umpteen roller coasters at Cedar PointVirtual Gravity RidesKathika just posted 56 first-person perspective videos of some of the most popular roller coasters in America. The Voyage, the world's top-rated wooden coaster is here, along with the world's only stratacoasters: Cedar Point's 420 foot Top Thrill Dragster and Six Flags' record breaking 456 foot Kingda Ka. Coaster Force, which

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Woopie (sic) CushionJust in time for HalloweenBuycostumes.com is selling a "Woopie Cushion" costume, along with its corollary the "Little Trees Air Freshner" costume. The later looks licensed, and it is spelled "freshner", although the former is apparently an imitation of the venerated "whoopee cushion". Both come in adult, child, and infant (baby bunting) varieties. Other baby bunting costumes (

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Me, I like icicles.....Ice Chewers Bulletin BoardWho are these people?Ice Chewers Bulletin Board

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Note to SelfJott: Mobile Note Taking and Hands-Free MessagingA free new service in beta to convert your voice into e-mail or text. Call a toll-free number from your cell. Jott will translate your spoken words (up to 30 seconds) and forward the text to e-mail account(s) or cell phone(s). No more texting while driving. You can even configure it to post to your blog or Twitter.Jott

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Who needs Yucca Mountain, let's just use the Bingham Canyon Mine7 Amazing Holes et alSFW... Four mines, a glory hole, a great blue hole, and a home-eating sinkhole. 7 Amazing Holes even has a hole with a no-fly zone above it to prevent helicopters being sucked in, again. They omitted the largest meteorite crater in the world, now known as Lake El'gygytgyn. If you want depth there's the 1.4 mile

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The classic postcard JackalopeTaxidermy JackalopesDistinctly American like jazz, baseball, and comic books. Relative to the tree squeak, hodag, hoop snake, splintercat, and fur-bearing trout. The jackalope is a cross between a jackrabbit and antelope found in the western states. Ronald Reagan had a jackalope mounted on the wall of his California ranch. To get your own mounted jackalope there's

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The circled object is approximately the size of Steve's planeHelp find Steve FossettOn Monday, September 3, Steve Fossett, the first person to fly a plane around the world without refueling and the first person to fly around the world in a balloon went missing in Nevada. An airplane he was flying failed to return. No one has any idea where he is. The search area is 17,500 square miles of mountain

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Flying over San FranciscoGoogle Earth Flight Simulator (and Sky)The virtual globe program, Google Earth, recently unveiled Sky, which allows users to view the night skies. Using Google Earth, Sky lets you fly around and zoom in, exposing increasingly detailed imagery of millions and millions of stars and galaxies. You can get Sky by downloading the latest (free) edition of Google Earth. However

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Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy in Batman & RobinThe Poison Ivy SiteAccording to the Wall Street Journal, research soon to be published in Weed Science indicates that poison ivy has gotten way nastier since the 1950's. Leaf size and oil content are way up. This site has poison ivy, sumac, and oak information, stories, and photographs. They sell posters and cards to help you avoid the plant. There's

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Seth steals Horus' eye again.....Total lunar eclipse next TuesdayA total eclipse of the Moon will occur in the early morning of Tuesday, August 28, 2007. It will be widely visible from the United States. August's lunar eclipse lasts about three and a half hours. It takes just over an hour for the Moon's orbital motion to carry it entirely within the Earth's dark umbra. During totality the color

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You know you want to...You know you want one. ScreenSmasher comes with software on a CD, a special whacking sensor that plugs into your USB port, an 8" foam axe; and is complete with realistic glass-shattering graphics and sound. Visceral virtual vengeance for $20.00. It has a 30 Day Satisfaction Guarantee, after which you may want a Custom Throwing Tomahawk. Apple users can be smug that

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Not the snowmobileSkidooI stumbled across this on YouTube over the weekend. Otto Preminger's famed LSD comedy, Skidoo (1968). The once in a life time cast features Jackie Gleason, Frankie Avalon, Frank Gorshin, Cesar Romero, Peter Lawford, Mickey Rooney, George Raft, Burgess Meredith, Carol Channing, right-wing talk show blowhard pioneer Joe Pyne; and a personal favorite, Arnold Stang. Last but

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Natalia's Peruvian Hiccup RemedyHiccup ArchiveI can't tell if this is schadenfreude or some kind of epiglottal voyeurism. It hasn't been updated in over a year and is apparently the archive of what was the Hiccups Warehouse. The hiccup sightings, fantasy stories, and links seem to be missing. However there are still a couple of hundred audio and video files which were either found or donated to

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Looking south through the lovely grass parkland that is HellIs Florence Foster Jenkins the worst singer?This month the List Universe posted their Top 10 Incredible Recordings. You can click on the links to stream them or right click to save the links as mp3 files. The eclectic list includes Florence Nightingale, the first recording of human voices, a Nazi propagandist, and a castrato to name but

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In the Windy City just west of Midway AirportKwik-E-MartAs part of the hype for next week's movie opening, 7-Eleven Inc. has turned a dozen stores into Kwik-E-Marts, the fictional convenience stores of The Simpsons. All 7-Elevens including the Kwik-E-Marts will offer items which until now only existed on teevee including Buzz Cola, KrustyO's Cereal, The Official Pink Movie Donut, and a special

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Betty Boop, a Hayes Office favoriteI knew I should've taken that left turn at AlbuquerqueSomeone posted The Censored Eleven to YouTube this week. The group of eleven Warner Bros. cartoons produced from 1931 to 1944 that haven't been broadcast on television or released in any format since 1968 due to racist depictions. YouTube dutifully yanked them all but you can still find Jungle Jitters and All

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Christmas tree light string in a microwaveIndoor Radarange PyrotechnicsI wouldn't try these at home. Well, maybe if I bought a thrift store microwave. I do remember frying a dorm microwave with a folded over metallic Big Mac wrapper back when. Lots of microwave experiment sites and I assume YouTube et al has clips galore. MicrowaveCam has videos taken inside the microwave oven compartment, Wonton

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lolcatsaka cat macrosCaptioned cat photos...an acquired taste at best. They were first noticeable as an internet fad at the beginning of the year and if you haven't seen them yet you will. lolcats derive from the acronym LOL (laughing out loud) and cat (although the phenomena has now branched out to guinea pigs, human presidents, and an occasional stray dog). lolcats originated as image macros

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Do termites have you all shook up?BugvisLocal teevee ads. In addition to low production values, if you're lucky there'll be some bizarre theme and/or personality. Add a vertically challenged cast and you have Florida's Hulett Environmental Services. For nearly two decades, John and Greg Rice have produced and starred in insane spots for their pest control company. The brothers became millionaires

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Ay CarumbaGiant Crystals of NaicaThe mining complex in Naica, Mexico contains some of the world's largest deposits of silver, zinc, and lead. Located beneath the Chihuahuan Desert, it also houses what may be the largest crystals ever found in a cave. Some of the gypsum crystals are as long as 36 feet and weigh up to 55 tons. The first cavern of crystals was found in 1910 and a second in 2000. The

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Alexa comparison of traffic at house.gov, senate.gov, and whitehouse.gov over the past month *Beyond GooglingIf you want to wander the net there's some tools beyond search engines. For website rankings, there's Alexa. There are concerns over how representative their opt-in user base is, but for casual surfing it's fine. You can view the Top 20, Global 500; and view top sites by country, language,

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"talk to the hot dog, it can read your mind"Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine ShowI was watching a video of Joe Kittinger jumping from a balloon gondola in 1960 from twenty miles up when I noticed a link to a video uploaded this past February by Mediocre Films. It has gone viral and now has well over a million hits. A second episode produced for David Spade's Showbiz Show was yanked from YouTube, but

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Bobby in San Diego (classic view)FlickrvisionThe Ides of May saw the debut of Flickrvision. It's an animated display in real-time of pictures uploaded to the photo sharing website Flickr superimposed on your choice of a world map (classic view) or globe (3D view). Mesmerizing and unnerving at the same time. A nice screensaver substitute for an unattended computer at least. It can be

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Pie in the skyPatsy-cake"Millimetres Matter", a catapult tossing fly-size pies at insects. It's Samsung's viral marketing for their new Ultra II "slimmest in the world" mobile phones. Zooillogix claims it's real and Samsung claims no insects were harmed in the making. Looking for human targets? There's the Famous Pied Faces List, you can find heaping helpings of photos and clips of notable

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