Archive for the ‘Weird’ Category
Tuesday Links
Via Boing Boing:
Katrina Aftermath photos
A lost Russian city
Molds for growing faces on your vegetables. Ya ‘Rly.
Geek humor you probably won’t get unless you are one.
Ugly mushroom that tastes like Lemon Chicken
Via Metafilter:
12,000 Miles in a Tuk Tuk. (More here. And Here. And Here.) I want a Tuk Tuk…
151 Changes to the Empire Strikes Back
Via Digg:
My Dream App – the first 3 finalists. I think Stick-it has a chance… Recipe Manager looks hot too (if you like to cook.) For those unfamiliar with the contest, read this.
The new iMacs are in…and they’re awesome. Prices down, features up… what more could you ask for?
Do it yourself LED Mood Lamp
New 2007 cars…
Amazing (HUGE) photo of the moon. I told my daughter that the moon was made of cheese. She said “Not it’s not, it’s made of cement.” She’s kind of right…
Via Amazon:
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War – I’m really looking forward to this one.
Via elsewhere:
Eternal Sunset – Live sunsets from around the world, via webcam.
Swarmsketch – Community drawing project, a line at a time.
Also:
I updated my blogroll and favorites (I’ll leave it to you to spot the new links), and posted a photo of my newest book, “Awol on the Appalachian Trail“. It looks to be a swift read so I’ll post a review as soon as I’m done.
Photos from the Lost Set
I dunno what the story behind this is…looks like they just stumbled across it while vacationing. I do love the expression on the face of the guy in the white shirt, all looking like he just scored a can of Dharma Beans.
Hilarious.
The entire set can be found here.
Monday Links
Croc Hunter Steve Irwin dead – I always figured he’d be eaten by a “big beauty“. RIP… 
McDonalds Chicken Salad has more fat and calories than a Big Mac. If you like that, you’ll love Ruby Tuesday‘s new menu. Their “Classic Cheeseburger” has 1030 calories and 75 grams of fat.
How popular is your own last name? Find out here.
9-11 Photos from ground zero.
Destroy a city in Photoshop
Amazon Book Reviews – by someone who hasn’t actually, you know, read the book.
Working at Apple despite not actually having a job there.
Strange statues from around the world.
Make a survival kit out of an Altoids Tin
Finally, add a hidden passageway to your home. I love this stuff:
The Hidden Door Company
Hiddenpassageway.com
Hide-A-Door
Cthulhu Cologne
HP Lovecraft was an author who lived in early 1900′s, and was considered by many to be a master of “gothic horror”. He’s known for his dense, unfamiliar, and antiquated style of writing.
Now there’s a complete line of perfumes and body oils inspired by his work, available for purchase online.
My favorite is the Shoggoth, described thusly: “An amorphous, radiant, incandescent scent. Ever changing, protoplasmic and primordial: white amber, green coconut meat, iris, palmarosa, Chinese peony, lime, water lily, snowdrop, muguet, lemongrass, osmanthus, wisteria, glassy musk, and hinoki.“
Vend this…
I love Japanese culture.
Little things like their affinity for vending machines amuse me to no end.
To borrow a phrase…
To borrow a phrase from CNN/SI’s Peter King, “It may interest only me…”
- An interview with Chris Onstad of my favorite web-comic, Achewood.
- A plague spreads in the MMORPG World of Warcraft. This is simply awesome.
- If Falcon’s defensive back DeAngelo Hall is so dang good, why is it he’s given up 112 and 131 yards to the receiver’s he’s been specifically tasked with covering the last two weeks?
- Photoshop tutorials, including how to beautify a face, and how to remove blue haze from digital photos.
- 10 tips to make your digital photos better…
- My chips and BBQ sauce reviews over at HotSauceBlog.
- Daily military photos and videos…
- PS3 game lineup revealed…
- Apple CEO Steve Jobs sez software pirates will “burn in hell“.
- The History Channel website is now offering videocasts on their website. Cool.
- Learn how to upsample your digital photos…
- AOpen launches a Mac-Mini clone. And it sucks.
- Google founders are offloading their shares. Why?
- Opera’s web-browser is finally free. I’ll be giving this a try now…
- While I’m on browser’s, here’s 16 essential plug-ins for Firefox.
- Mame 0.100 is available.
- Kevin Mitnick’s girlfriend posts a little something about the popular hacker.
- Videos that Bill Gates doesn’t want you to see. Pie humiliation and blue screens of death.
- Get 10% off of an eBay purchase using this coupon. Good until September 28.
- A “do-it-yourself” iPod Nano sleeve. I have to say that for some reason this just strikes me as sad.
- This is how hackers get caught.
- Author Tom Wolfe is weird.
Wake me when her 15 minutes are over.
Ok, enough with Paris Hilton already. She’s on the cover of Stuff and Vanity Fair magazines this month, and who knows what else.
What is the attraction with this talentless, slow-eyed freak? For the life of me, I just don’t get it.
JUST STOP PLEASE!
