You can start here to know what the planes look like.
http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1b/Chino/Chino.html

Isn't one of the P38's flying this tour "Glacier Girl", the Lightning that was excavated from the Greenland glacier and restored?

^
 

Glacier Girl was one of three P-38s at Chino in 2007. I don't know if this is the same airshow but I do have a picture of Glacier Girl and 23 Skidoo together:

Maybe we're related! I have a bunch of family I don't know, and my grandfather was adopted, so we don't know his roots.

Interesting...

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndid=231720787

this guy asked me to be his friend. He's been very stalkerish towards my older sister for about 6yrs.

I kinda like the idea... But I question the ethics of sending more people to the moon. I'm beginning to think exploring space is a pointless waste of money, energy and resources.

USA only :(

Those bastards! Maybe there is a UK version, I know it was founded by NBC Universal and News Corp. But probably not since since you'd think it would mention it in the "about" and I didn't see it.

Build your own plane.
http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/index.html

38mpg @ 142mph hmmm...

got mine all picked out...a Mustang!

Looks like it will get ya all the way to the crash site.

6 Years? Obviously he doesn't want to come on too strong...

OK, morbid curiosity forced me to check out his myspace page. He's a Cancer, fer crissakes. As if he'd ever get his ass out of his bedroom, much less his house.

6 years? there isn't probably anything to worry about. well not unless he's digging a dungeon. :p j/k

I concur foot but then what is his moon sign? That tells alot. Mine is scorpio yet my mars is in cancer. Talk about living under a rock.

strange buildings

http://www.homeinsurance.org.uk/wacky-buildings.html

http://www.materialicio.us/2008/06/1...-broadhurst-2/

Well when he seems to have backed off some since HS. He still sends letters but now they're imploring my sis to work in his lab (she's a math major) instead of marrying him.

He's told me he has Asperger's autism. I don't know how true that is. Yeah he was weird, but I went to school with him for years (in my grade) starting in 1st grade. I would think he would've had serious discipline or learning problems and I never observed that, just social probs.

No but his last letter asked my sister to come help him in his lab at the top of the tower he is building.

He really does freak me out but my sister doesn't see him as a threat and isn't willing to take any steps against him. She just ignores everything he sends (which her current address is unlisted and he still found it out), which he usually doesn't send more than a letter or two a year. Has called my parents house several times, and even called her in college one time. The roommate answered and pretty much convinced him the girl he was searching for didn't live there.

Looking for a pen pal?

Oh, why not? To foster better British-American relations, we can now translate each others' language.

you guys scare me

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/featur...aspx?QuizID=97

I thought I was all political and all. Turns out I'm merely trivial. 4/10. Ouchie.

7/10

I missed filibuster, lame duck, and the quote about negotiation. I was just guessing on the last one, but I was pretty sure about the first two. Oh well.

@ more than pretty.

Finding out someones address is stalking and dosn't have anything to do with a disability.Writing letters and asking to help with towers to someone he dosn't know isn't a symptom of social shyness either. I am kind of creeped for you now.

I say just forget it but tell your sister not to help anyone with a broken arm put anything in a truck or for that matter a tower. S.O.L.

I say if he isn't asking to do something social that would appeal to a girl then forget it. Oh but maybe she's a nerd and likes building towers? * shurg*

ok enough about that.


and now a simple game.
http://www.pplbucket.com/

7/10
I missed the specifically American 3 and 5 and I simply didn't know 9.

4? 40%? You must be ashamed....





.... of getting the same as me.;)

hehehe... I am ashamed of my score, but never of my association with you, sir.

7/10 missed whip, filibuster, and lame duck.:sniff:

8/10
I guess lucky on a couple and missed lame duck and the negotiation quote.

Creative use for default Windows sounds!

Very cute. But I call foul, since he technically pitch-shifted a ton of those sounds to make different notes. You could make a whole song out of a single sample, if you're allowed to pitch-shift. [/nitpick] But it's a nice composition, at that.

@sky
My sis is very safety conscience being a 100lb single female, she very aware of her vulnerability. But she does have plenty of aid if anything happens, and I'll be the first one there at the slightest incident. If we need to we can easily find this guy, its the possibility of there being others we don't know about I'm more worried about. Thank you for your concern, many of us (females especially) could use a little more caution.

6/10 on the political test...thanks for making feel dumb Sundae.

http://en.genzu.net/sokumen/

My name is Cruelty Envy Cruelty. I wonder if there is something to that....

thanks morethan! Yer nice :)

oh look.....This is panorama of Valley of the Kings!

http://www.panoramas.dk/2008/flash/v...the-kings.html


edit- on the upper right corner is a drop down menu of other 360's.

Now you can see your favorite music. :thumb:
http://www.musanim.com/index.html

I thought LSD was for that.

I got 7/10 on the quiz. I'm fairly proud of that. Some of that shit was ob-fucking-scure.

Cliche' finder

http://www.westegg.com/cliche/

I think this is, officially, the coolest thing I have ever seen:


There are some definite similarities here to what music "looks" like in my head.
I see it side-scrolling, kind of, but there are more "shapes" and "textures" ...

this a hard little game , but fun to mess with
http://fantasticcontraption.com/

You'll be fascinated to know, then, that the MAM was first invented and perfected over a century ago.

http://cellar.org/2008/playerpianoroll.jpg

Player piano roll. This is exactly the same thing as the MAM, only it's the 1900s version.

And you thought sequencers were invented in the 70s.

Don't tell me what I thought.

Edit: Oh! Check this out:

Meet the mini pigs.

http://www.greenexpander.com/2008/05...the-mini-pigs/

This is the strangest animal for we either want to love them and keep them as pets or eat them or even both at the same time.

How can we love them and eat them at the same time? It's a weird thing.


http://www.greenexpander.com/wp-cont...8_mini_pig.jpg

Chris Murray needed 9 years and 24 generations to develop a breeding programme that resulted in the minitature pigs you’ll see below.The smallest pigs the farmer created are the ones below, that are no bigger than your standard tea cup. The pennywell miniature pig is a variant of a rare breed of pig from New Zealand and make excellent pets.



sorry, maybe I should have put this on the WTF thread

GORGEOUS!
(IoTD maybe?)

I've always loved pigs and always wanted to eat them - no dichotomy for me.
As I get older however I am less fond of me - it's so much more apparently flesh to me.

Or maybe that's the anti-depressants.

That'd make a good County Fair food: Pig on a Stick.

sorry undertoad. I don't know how to search to make sure something hasn't been used before.


Fantasy art . The images are quite good and I am not really into the stuff but these are a little unique.
http://www.taringa.net/posts/imagene...ntasticas.html


misc. photos I thought interesting.
http://www.freewebs.com/ngocjhoof/trncaonhnxungdt.htm

Nice pictures...I kept a few as fodder for my random wallpaper generator. I just wish they were captioned in english so I know what I'm looking at.

That's so wonderful Sky!

I'm glad you liked those. I noticed too I couldn't read them either Brian.


This guy is making art from nails.
http://franksemails.com/pics/nail-art/

Psssst IOtD :lol2:

&%#@ :)

Free Criminal Background Checks
 

I found this after reading an article. This free site ties together public information on everything from traffic violations to assaults from every state.

Not everything is on there, but I have found one person I know and one Cellarite on the database.

www.criminalsearches.com


I tried some celebrity arrests.

Kenneth Lay's federal conviction did not show, but some other violations did.
Mike Tyson only had three offenses.
Britney Spears has no arrests.

I did find this one from Texas, but the birth date is off by 7 months.;)

Man, don't go searching in that database lightly. I just found a friend on there, on charges I knew nothing about. That turned my evening rather uncomfortable...

I'm not in there, despite several traffic tickets over my life.

There are several entries under my name but different race/age/location for offenses ranging from fishing w/o a license to theft and carrying an unlicensed weapon.

Not too accurate, IMO.

Meh...there are forty thousand million people with my name. My murderous rampage arrest never even made the list.

I think I'll refrain from prying into cellar dwellar's lives, though. Seems like it's none of my bidness.

My namesake has 4 traffic offenses...

I can see how it would be fascinating if there was a chance I'd see someone I actually knew. But then perhaps Clod is right. I'm too nosey for my own good and would keep looking til I found something I didn't want to see!

It says on the main page that some states include traffic offenses in their reports and some don't.

And despite my own admonition, I kept playing with it, and found two of Mr. Clod's previous coworkers as well. I guess the reporting for Texas is more thorough.

WMFU's 365 days project
 

I just stumbled upon the WMFU 365 days project recently and it's a goldmine of weird and wacky recordings. WMFU has converted old records (and sometimes times tapes and video) into MP3s, each day for a year in 2003 and 2007. 2007 is better mainly because they tend to post the entire album instead of a few tracks. As they say:

Some words to describe the material featured would be... Celebrity, Children, Demonstration, Indigenous, Industrial, Outsider, Song-Poem, Spoken, Ventriloquism, and on and on and on. The best thing to do is to simply listen.

Amazing artifacts here and some of my favorites so far are:

Picking Up Girls Made Easy! from 1975. From the album cover: "The pick-up system no girl can resist! This amazing new record album will soon have you picking up girls automatically!" Slightly NSFW audio in a creepy 70s kinda way. I will not be surprised if a few dwellars owned this at one time ;)

Slightly NSFW picture (previously seen on the cellar) and definitely NSFW audio on Sexual Pleasures, a record to accompany a late 60's "documentary". The narrator's delivery is what sells this one.

45 Detritus includes various weird stuff. Especially check out the Knack/Beatles mashup and the Finnish disco covers.

The Gaylords - Sing American Hits In Italian. From the 50s and the title says it all.

Esther Rolle - Maybe It's. TV's Florida Evans sings in 1975.

A Collection of Children's Records. This is actually the page that helped me stumble upon the project. My wife and I were trying to find a copy of her favorite childhood record, Down By The Station, which is included here with some other records. Her favorite tracks are The Subway Train, The Happy Helicopter and Chocolate Train.

If you find any more gems, please post them here, I'm still trying to wade through all the fun...

The Language of Politics: A Word Origins Quiz
Do you work at the Library of Congress?
You got 7/10 correct.

Missed 'lame duck' and 'pass the buck (etymology of)'. The correct answer for 'party whip' was my second choice.

Make spiffy animated lettering.
http://textanim.com/

great album covers

http://www.comcast.net/music/greates...eshow/view/1/#


hehehe I like this one

http://comunidad.ciudad.com.ar/argen...zai/gorey.html

http://www.cuil.com/

The cuil browser, created by former Google employees.

Cuil search for "The Cellar"
The Cellar comes up as the top hit, although results are not "listed" in a linear fashion.

Interesting. It comes up with weird thumbnail images sometimes. Like if you search for "keen links one might", this thread is the top result, except there's this image alongside it that doesn't seem to be related to the Cellar at all.