Cool Site Of The Day
I need lots of reading material. I need this to be online :)
So, here we go: Every day, post a new cool site. Post two. Post three. Just post some cool sites!
Here are mine for now:
http://www.imdb.com - Internet Movie DataBase. Awesome.
http://www.dirty-proverbs.com - Thanks Jag! Basically, it's a slang dictionary, though it excludes such classics as "pigfucker" and "dingleberries" and "frumunda cheese".
http://www.howstuffworks.com - How Stuff Works. Very cool and informative.
Put on the headphones, crank up the volume ... enjoy.
http://www.brokensaints.com/www.religioustolerance.org
super interesting. at least i think so.
dirty proverbs goes for the more...obscure....*laughz
Non Sequitor is a fantastic cartoon, and 9 years worth of archives are online so thats when i'm go when i'm bored
Somethings Awful Is always good for a laugh, particualry awful link of hte day.
This SIte is by far the best on the internet ;)
Megatokyo Is imho, the best webcartoon, and the forums will give you something harder to 0wn dham ;)
ZZZ Online Is a relaly intersting site too.
This SIte is by far the best on the internet
SHAMELESS PLUG!!! SHAMELESS PLUG!!!!
Decend into the firey depths of hell, spammer!
Good thing you had some other interesting things.
This gets really addicting, and really funny.http://www.netscrap.com - lotsa funny stuff there.
http://www.cellar.org - my favorite site. er....
Sgt. Hulka has gaming items and conservative-slant news items...
PeaceBreath. Very soothing, meditative sights and sounds. Flash required...
http://www.whitesquirrel.net
flash required
i'm "becoming" under the roster
dave, i know you like cool images for backgrounds...
this person does some really -really- nice ones.
www.digitalblasphemy.comBeen there, done that. For some reason, I don't really like paying just to get a larger version of an image that all the 1024x768 weenies can have for free. And he puts "www.digitalblasphemy.com" in pretty big lettering on all of them. Maybe he doesn't do that with the paid-for ones. I dunno. I haven't seen anything there that's really blown my mind though.
blowmeetheclown's
homepage ;)
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html - CIA World Factbook. Great source of information. Fascinating.
http://home.kimo.com.tw/netspooky/kikia/
the, cutest thing i've foud for ages, without being over the top, a must-watch.
Don't worry about the jap, it makes sense in a minute.
One of my very favorite places on the web - a funky Saturday Morning site that features everyone's favorite cartoons and kids' shows (and prime time fare) from the 50's thru the 90's:
Yesterdayland - Your Childhood is Here.If you like funny (and real) pictures, and other wild stuff, check out
ilovebacon.
And strangely, for some reason
engrish is very prevalent in Japan.
MIT fun
Not sure where i ran across this, or if someone already posted it, but its fun.
Knowing how much we all love a good debate, I had to share this blog:
http://www.thismodernworld.com/
with reference to the recent posts of Monday February 18 and Tuesday February 19.
Boy, does this guy know how to make a point!
Tom Tomorrow would be right at home here in the Cellar. ;)
Yea this is published on salon, i'm posted a few here before, fantastic webcomic
SI because there's more to Sports than just the Olym pics.
My favorite is
swimming. :cool:
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My website-LifewithaGeek.com- No Pop-Ups
Please come peruse and comment and email me and tell your friends. Just pretty much just let me know what you think (layout, colors, navigation, writing style,whatcha think of the reviews, etc) and spread the word.
http://www.stileproject.com/delta.html - No, you can't go there from work (probably). Yes, it is funny. I laugh more and more every time I watch it. Favorite parts?
"These fat, round, thick-ass vessels run up in the sky so deep, it be cryin'. Yeahhhh, you thought it was rain." :)
WARNING! DO NOT GO THERE AT WORK! YOU WILL RAISE A RED FLAG AND THEY WILL MONITOR YOUR BROWSING HABITS! ONLY CLICK THAT LINK FROM HOME!
I went to it at work. Fortunately I don't work for an organization with an IT department with nothing better to do than monitor employees web-browsing habits.
(if I did, I'd have been out on my ass long ago)
Word. Me too. Obviously. BUT... stileproject is something I'll save for when I'm at home :) I try not to raise any red flags.
That was funny!
The last time he had anything that cool was Tokyo Breakfast last year, which we played throughout the office.
Good stuff, even though I think the rest of his site is the craziest stuff from Anime come to life.
Mitch
Oh, hmm, wonder how much ancient stuff from my old pre-1998 bookmarks is still alive? Well, here's one:
http://www.taswegian.com/SRTP/javaslide/javaslide.html
What more wonderful use of the Internet and web browsing technology can you think of, than a slide rule simulator written in Java??
Crude. Repulsive. Disgusting. Funny.
Exploitation Nowgutenberg project
old books :)
the legend of sleepy hollow by washington irving is excellent. (and a short read)
~james
UT (Texas) has one of the Gutenberg bibles at the
Harry Ransom center. They also have quite a collection of almost anything you can imagine. I love the photo section.
Thats a very cool site James.
great pics of the rocky mountains near estes park, colorado.
http://www.explore-rocky.com
~james
been there, done that, liked it :)
Remind me to develop photos of that so I can put online and scan.
Mitch
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hahaha yeah, i took the time to do it.
(very clever, nic)
sinfesthttp://www.snopes.com - The Urban Legends Reference Pages. I found this site about 4 years ago when it was just snopes.simplenet.com and I was fascinated by it then. I think I could sit and read it for hours. Debunks old myths and verifies others. Very cool.
Without Sanctuary
is just one of many stunning story-telling exhibits at:
Journal E fascinating stuff, all about route 66:
http://www.national66.com/
i especially dig this:
http://www.national66.com/frame_photo_ndx.html
theres some neat photos here.
~james
http://www.library.yale.edu/MapColl/online.html
i would love to see some of these in high-resolution. bunch of antique maps. i find these fascinating.
~james
Ugly Girl
and just plain
Fugly You know you wanna
spank the monkey.
Favourite Website Awards is spelled in the King's English because it's British.
Flash & Sound used creatively and with style.
Let's not forget
stickdeath.com.
Also, if you like radio shows,
This American Life is completely amazing. It's on NPR on Sundays, but you can listen to past shows via realaudio on their website.
vintage labels
this stuff is cool.
sites that 'prevent' right-clicking are cute.
~james
Interesting. In Mozilla, right-clicking produces the 'don't steal' dialog box AND the right-click menu.
i noticed that too. ie6, for all its shortcomings, has a small toolbar that pops up on images allowing you to print or save the image right there. depending on the script they use, sometimes you can left-click and hold, right-click and hold, release left then release right for the context menu to pop up. not on this site tho. theyre too 'clever'. but it is a really cool site. that stuff is art as far as im concerned and i get a kick out of vintage stuff like that. does anyone know of any sites with good high-quality (high-res) vintage movie posters?
~james
Originally posted by perth
sites that 'prevent' right-clicking are cute.
Whoa! That's the first time I've ever seen a javascript warning like that.
Originally posted by sycamore
Whoa! That's the first time I've ever seen a javascript warning like that.
Seriously?
I will go to my grave hating the evil mother fuckers who use that awful javascript. They are the one true evil in this world, and I hate them with all of my being.
Originally posted by juju2112
Seriously?
As far as "this is a copyrighted site, you can't do that" sorta thing, yep.
Originally posted by dhamsaic
I will go to my grave hating the evil mother fuckers who use that awful javascript. They are the one true evil in this world, and I hate them with all of my being.
I fault not the webmasters as much as the program that lets them get away with it. It's my fucking program on my fucking computer so it should do what I want it to, not anyone else.
I installed Mozilla RC1 a couple weeks ago. It installed icons all over the fucking place.. AOL, Net2Phone, all kinds of shit were all over my system tray, Quick Launch, top of the Start Menu, Programs under the Start Menu, my quick-link IE toolbar, my IE Favorites, my desktop.. every goddamned place they could think of. Not once did it ever ask if I wanted any fucking icons.
But as pissed as I am at that kinda shitty programming, I'm just as pissed at Windows for letting programs get away with this crap. Creating an icon should be some sorta system call where you can specify that a program doesn't have the right to create icons unless you say it can. Ditto for changing file associations.
It is heartening, however, to hear that Mozilla allows preventing popup/under ads, sites maximizing themselves, etc. Maybe it's worth another try after all.
Mozilla does not, to my knowledge, do that. You're probably speaking of Netscape. And yes, it bugs the shit out of me when programs do that, too. That's why I use Mozilla and not Netscape. :)
Also, most programs add an extra directory that is the name of their company. This directory is completely pointless, and serves only as an advertisement to their company. Within their pointless directory is one thing: another directory -- which contains the actual program.
I hate this practice with all of my being. Every time I see it (i.e., every time I install a windows program), I want to track the programmer down and strangle him. It makes me want to instigate revolution.
It's things like this that make me not be able to stand being in Windows for more than a few hours at a time.
Originally posted by juju2112
Mozilla does not, to my knowledge, do that. You're probably speaking of Netscape. And yes, it bugs the shit out of me when programs do that, too. That's why I use Mozilla and not Netscape. :)
Yes, you're right, it was
Netscape RC1. Mmkay, maybe I will give it another try.
As far as the directory names with the company, this is actually a "recommendation" of Microsoft, and most install programs (the programs programmers use to write programs to install their programs) default to doing this.
I think it's silly as well, and so I change it whenever I write an install program, but you shouldn't blame the programmers too much.
Back to the thread,
This is what I'd look like as a South Park character.
Build yourself!
South Park StudioI'd already built this for the next Pink Pistols shoot. That's my lifepartner Gwennie on the left...
Originally posted by Tobiasly
As far as the directory names with the company, this is actually a "recommendation" of Microsoft...
Which tends to cause the boot drive to slowly fill up with crap that you can't easily move. I know Winusers that have bought new computers just because of this.
Except my hair is WAY longer. Like... down to my ass longer.
Sycamore's is scary accurate. That's almost exactly what he looked like when he was down here. Cool.
My hair color is lighter, too. And I shaved the sideburns down to the beard, so it's more like a light moustache down to a light goatee. But yeah.
As you can see, Juju and I are a lot alike. We're both foaming-at-the-mouth assholes with long hair. :)
Thats mad scary. This is like looking in a mirror.
Well I'm 6'4", but all the bodies are the same size. I should probably also have a bass guitar or snowboard or something in my hand...
okay. How aree you all getting the image from onee location to the other. IOW, how do I save it?
Right-clicking isn't right and I can't seem to find a Save feature anywhere.
Where did I lose my mind?
Brian "sick today"
Wheee! This is
great!
I used the print screen feature, pasted it into WordPad, copied it to my clipboard, then cut it and shrunk it using my scanner.
It's a bit of a PITA saving/posting the image, that's the main thing I don't like about the site. I wish it would create a URL embedded w/ the various parameters you could just send somebody.
Anyhow, I did a [Alt]-[PrtSc] to screen capture the image, dumped it into my paint program, and exported it as a .GIF file. Then I uploaded to my web space at my ISP and posted the linked image here.
Like I said: a Pain In The Ass. But I do it so much w/ Fark, etc., that it's no big deal anymore.
Originally posted by dhamsaic
As you can see, Juju and I are a lot alike. We're both foaming-at-the-mouth assholes with long hair. :)
Amen, brotha. :)
Originally posted by Tobiasly
As far as the directory names with the company, this is actually a "recommendation" of Microsoft, and most install programs (the programs programmers use to write programs to install their programs) default to doing this.
I think Microsoft can take their recomendation and shove it up their ass. I mean... really.. what sense does this make? Argh! And the programmers should know better.
:)
Originally posted by dhamsaic
Sycamore's is scary accurate. That's almost exactly what he looked like when he was down here.
Ain't it though?
Here's Rho. The hair doesn't quite look right, but it'll have to do in the world of South Park.
It's not worth it to me to try to reinstall my scanner and find a decent paint program (anyone have an older version of Photoshop that won't cost $600) just to see what I'd look like as a South Park character. It doesn't do my natural aura and beauty justice anyway.
Brian
Heh. Not quite, but it'll do:
Originally posted by juju
Were you just beat up?
Someone tried to take away his liberties. ;)
Man, you've got to stand up for yourself. Hey, I bet Maggie could recommend a good pistol -- they're great protection. :)
Admit it: You are an endless source of fascination to yourself.
How do you compare to others? What are your qualities? This sort of navel-gazing can be amply indulged online, where you can test your IQ and EQ, assess your assertiveness level, rate your personality type or pinpoint a suitable hobby.
From these larger issues, you can move down to the nitpicky stuff: Exactly which of the Three Stooges are you most like? What fashion decade suits your personal style? If you were a member of the Spanish Inquisition, what torture method would you employ?
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Just don't take these tests too seriously. They might be designed by anyone from a psychologist to the bimbo next door.
Originally posted by Nic Name
Admit it: You are an endless source of fascination to yourself.
I am an endless source of fascination to myself.
A weight has been lifted. :)
Jenni got her hair cut... but that's pretty much her :) If she's not wearing contacts (and, subsequently, is wearing her glasses)...
Originally posted by juju
Man, you've got to stand up for yourself. Hey, I bet Maggie could recommend a good pistol -- they're great protection. :)
Just sports injuries. And to be fair, the bandage and bloody cut are actually on my elbow and hand, not my face.
http://www.kvikmynd.is/Topp10/detail_Topp10.asp?id=588
Streaming Windows Media interviews of Attack of the Clones fans.
photos -- not safe for work.
http://www.bodyscapes.com/(Requires .mpg player)
<a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/mpeg/umd_video.mpg">The Visible Human Project</a>
paul and me! a bit delayed but still us...i had to edit the shirt on him to make it a danzig shirt, and i'm wearing the crimson ghost on mine :)
www.gummydongs.com
if anything, just go to see the "sour apple" adventure.
Okay, are you just playing with Photoshop, or is there a South Park Construction Kit floating around somewhere on the net?
Originally posted by UT on page 6 of this thread:
http://southpark.gamesweb.com/flash/sp-studio.htmlIt doesn't show potty words though.
yeah it does. at least it did for me. try 669-3825.
actually, that number returns some nice ones. i dont know whose # that is btw.
~james
Originally posted by perth
yeah it does. at least it did for me. try 669-3825.
actually, that number returns some nice ones. i dont know whose # that is btw.
Whoops! My bad...I didn't use the correct corresponding number.
My ph # doesn't work...I have a zero in mine.
Originally posted by dhamsaic
382-9568!
Ummm...did you mean 382-5968?
And if you did, well, 328-7448!
As the clown would say, 256-9633!
pixelhugger
this is... i dunno... cute.
~james
The Library of Congress
Portals To The Worldsnagajob --- alright so not so much on the cool but check it out and tell me what you think... this is where I am working for the summer...
More for the associated mailing list than for the web site itself, but:
Psychoceramics -- keeping tabs on Internet crackpots
With foreknowledge that this is a parody site, this is pretty damn funny...
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/2680/index.htmlInversions
Seeing things from both sides is something learned in the Cellar. ;)
The mother of ALL sleazy fundraising schemes:
The Time Travel Fund.saw this on metafilter.
http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/gri/4tut.html
all kinds of documentation on what was found when king tutankhamuns tomb was opened. some pics as well as scans of howard carters notes. theres a list of stuff that will be online eventually, including maps and sketches. fascinating stuff.
oh and dont forget
this.
~james
The Gaping Maw's Big Book of Sign Language
Riotously funny for the unoffendable. Mildly funny for the offendable.
"I work at Wal Mart"! Ha!
Something Positive
make sure that you read the very first one,
really disturbing, but really funny.
Not bad, even if it may be the WORDIEST FREAKIN' COMIC STRIP I've seen in the last fifty years or so.
This thread on an English football club's fan board started out as a simple rant by a scorned ex-girlfriend. Thanks to the global nature of the Internet, it didn't remain that way for long.
Accusations are flying about promiscuity, adultery, strains of hepatitis, goat-shagging, homosexuality, and the worst sin of all -- being a Luton fan.
Check it out here.For those of us fortunate enough to live on/near a wired area:
Warchalking<a href=http://www.peppers.com>Peppers</a> - online presence of the best damn hot-pepper shop I know of (home base: Rehoboth Beach, Delaware).
Hot sauces, salsas, jerk marinades, BBQ sauces, thai, curry, chutney, chili mixes, chile-marinaded vegetables, and other edibles designed to fry your taste buds beyond recognition (and a bunch more designed for mere mortals to consume).
I was reading
Wired and saw this abso-freaking-lutely amazing article about
restoring vision to the blind. Holy Advanced Prostheses Batman!
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<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: #fff; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica; font-size: 10px"><tr><td colspan="2">You are <b><span style="color: #090">55%</span></b> geek</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><img src="http://www.thudfactor.com/images/geekquiz/boy_50x75.jpg" height="170" width="120"></td><td valign="top">You are a geek. Good for you! Considering the endless complexity of the universe, as well as whatever discipline you happen to be most interested in, you'll never be bored as long as you have a good book store, a net connection, and thousands of dollars worth of expensive equipment. Assuming you're a technical geek, you'll be able to afford it, too. If you're not a technical geek, you're geek enough to mate with a technical geek and thereby get the needed dough. <B>Dating tip</b>: Don't date a geek of the same persuasion as you. You'll constantly try to out-geek the other.</td></tr></table> <p><a href="http://www.thudfactor.com/geekquiz.php">Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com</a></p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: #fff; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica; font-size: 10px"><tr><td colspan="2">You are <b><span style="color: #090">50%</span></b> geek</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><img src="http://www.thudfactor.com/images/geekquiz/boy_25x50.jpg" height="170" width="120"></td><td valign="top">You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator.
<blockquote>
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<b>Geek [to You]:</b> I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals!<br /><br />
<b>You [to Normal]:</b> He wants to know if he gets overtime.<br /><br /></blockquote></tr></table> <p><a href="http://www.thudfactor.com/geekquiz.php">Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com</a></p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: #fff; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica; font-size: 10px"><tr><td colspan="2">You are <b><span style="color: #090">22%</span></b> geek</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><img src="http://www.thudfactor.com/images/geekquiz/boy_0x25.jpg" height="170" width="120"></td><td valign="top">OK, so maybe you ain't a geek. You do, at least, show a bit of interest in the world around you. Either that, or you have enough of a sense of humor to pick some of the sillier answers on the test. Regardless, you're probably a pretty nifty, well-rounded person who gets along fine with people and can chat with just about anyone without fear of looking stupid or foolish or overly concerned with minutiae. God, I hate you.</td></tr></table> <p></p>
Hm... I question the accuracy of this test..
The geekiest answers:
1) Faded
2) The beater
3) Sure
4) Hydroxyl
5) people stare
6) Girls of the Internet
7) Don't relate at all
8) router/Korg/etc
9) 0
10) Girls of the Internet (I'd dispute this)
Music: All music except Britney and N'Sync is geeky.
Cereal: Dinner
Pizza: Breakfast
Britney: Boobies!
To reach true nerdhood, you must first use "Yes Please" and then pick "Male". "Male" alone gets you 98%, "Yes, Please" then "Boy" gets you 92%, "Boy" gets you 97%. The female/girl version is a carbon copy of the male/boy.
<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: #fff; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica; font-size: 10px"><tr><td colspan="2">You are <b><span style="color: #090">100%</span></b> geek</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><img src="http://www.thudfactor.com/images/geekquiz/boy_100.jpg" height="170" width="120"></td><td valign="top">My GOD you're INSANE. This is the highest score possible. This means 1 of 11 things:<br />
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<b>10:</b> You're a geek who's been playing with the test to find out what all the answers should be. Good going! you found the secret five points. That doesn't change the fact that you probably scored between 50% and 75% the first time through, though.<br />
<b>11:</b> You are naturally that geeky. Which means you scare me. Please don't write me to correct the science of my test. Yes, I know it's not scientifically accurate. Go away, kid, you bother me.</b></td></tr></table> <p><a href="http://www.thudfactor.com/geekquiz.php">Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com</a></p>
(BTW, I fall in either 1 or 10, but I ain't saying which :-) )
Originally posted by perth
saw this on metafilter.
http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/gri/4tut.html
all kinds of documentation on what was found when king tutankhamuns tomb was opened. some pics as well as scans of howard carters notes. theres a list of stuff that will be online eventually, including maps and sketches. fascinating stuff.
If you liked that (and it's a good one), go to
http://www.thebanmappingproject.orgOriginally posted by kbarger
If you liked that (and it's a good one), go to
http://www.thebanmappingproject.org
read that as 'The Ban Mapping Project' instead of 'Theban Mapping Project'. huge difference :) nice site though. guess ill be wasting yet another otherwise productive day,
~james
<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: #fff; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica; font-size: 10px"><tr><td colspan="2">You are <b><span style="color: #090">52%</span></b> geek</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><img src="http://www.thudfactor.com/images/geekquiz/boy_50x75.jpg" height="170" width="120"></td><td valign="top">You are a geek. Good for you! Considering the endless complexity of the universe, as well as whatever discipline you happen to be most interested in, you'll never be bored as long as you have a good book store, a net connection, and thousands of dollars worth of expensive equipment. Assuming you're a technical geek, you'll be able to afford it, too. If you're not a technical geek, you're geek enough to mate with a technical geek and thereby get the needed dough. <B>Dating tip</b>: Don't date a geek of the same persuasion as you. You'll constantly try to out-geek the other.</td></tr></table> <p><a href="http://www.thudfactor.com/geekquiz.php">Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com</a></p>
And now you know the REST of the story.
Good Day!
I got 32% geek. I lost a lot of points on the music (several artists were there that I like or don't mind, but I've never bought their albums), my dietary structure (If there was a "both dinner and breakfast" option for pizza, I'd have picked it), and for knowing Richard from Survivor and Ozzy as reality TV guys.
You are 29% geek
You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator.
Normal: Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend.
You [to Geek]: We need more than that, Scotty. You'll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines!
Geek [to You]: I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals!
You [to Normal]: He wants to know if he gets overtime.
Salon has a nifty little short story with which you can choke your brain.
Enjoy.
Probably old and known to one and all, but I just found it so...
EarthcamA man plans to break the sound barrier in free fall.
Very
nice flash website explains the insanity of it all.
Hey Syc, I bet you'd look pretty snazzy in a
Let's Roll T-shirt!
Not happening juju. I consider that whole thing a sham.
Hey, this sport of cup stacking could be
something.
Totally flip out and kill someone!
NINJAS!Originally posted by headsplice
Totally flip out and kill someone!
NINJAS!
nice one headsplice. i almost posted
this into the baby hippo iotd.
~james
Headsplice...we used to call kids like that "weems".
Name still fits.
Brian
Originally posted by BrianR
Headsplice...we used to call kids like that "weems".
Name still fits.
Brian
?? Any explanation?
why ask why?
It just fits.
Brian
Somethingawful.com is
making porn work safe. My apologies if this has already been posted. I think it's hilarious, though.
UT will like
Newsguru.com, which ensures that, even while his computer sleeps, it continually feeds on the latest photojournalism.
Heh! Great idea! It's like a playhouse for grownups!
But, sadly... worst. use. of frames. ever.
So There is a great site for people that don't have a Cellar to vent in. ;)
http://mail2web.com/ is a very handy website.
http://www.ninjaburger.com/ - Ninjas need to eat sometimes.
http://asuaf.org/~fenris/ninja/ - The true T-Shirt ninja outfit.
Pretty cool site...have some fun!
Lady Liberty FireworksThis one's a bit complicated, so here we go:
I started dating the daughter of the artist who did
this. Well I wanted to know more about
MINOS, and ended up learning about
Fermi and
anti-matter
Weird, huh?
http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/
~james
edit: cept it doesnt seem to be working right now. check it out a bit later. God damn addictive little games, almost made me late for accounting :)
<blockquote><i>"Sex, software, politics, and firearms. Life's simple pleasures..."</i></blockquote>
http://armedndangerous.blogspot.com/I've run a few weblogs in my time, but I invariably give them up after a while. I started a new one a few weeks ago that I think will last longer, however.
The unique thing about it is this: I'm a fairly liberal kind of guy (if you couldn't tell from my posting here), and I'm starting a graduate program in what essentially is International Relations. Almost all of the professors find themselves on the conservative side of the scale. So I'd like to track my intellectual progress, and provide a recording of how my thoughts grow and the direction they take.
So anyway, the site is kind of sparse at the moment. I'll have time to update the design after the end of the quarter. You can find the link
here. I'd appreciate any commments or views.
hermit, cant comment on the content because im an idiot, but i do like the design. ill bookmark it and do some reading, maybe ill learn a thing or two. :)
~james
Interesting stuff hermit. Keep at it. :)
Hopefully you will be kind enough to visit my own
blog. ;)
moonthewhitehouse.com
Is this what
Gore had in mind when he invented the Internet?
Forgot another cool one.
Flashface.Originally posted by Nic Name
http://www.ghostzilla.com/
Yeah, saw that one on /. Pretty cool if you're forced to run Windows at work, which a lot of people are.
You OSX folks who can't run gKrellm (actually, maybe you *can* run gKrellem if you install X, I dunno) might be interested in
iPulse , it's freeware and compresses a mulitidimesional picture of your system state into only a tiny bit or real estate on the screen.
www.canadiantire.ca
For a company whose mascot is a penny-pinching Scotsman, Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. certainly spared no expense when it came to building its e-commerce Web site. Surely Sandy McTire is tearing out his bushy white hair over the more than $28 million the chain has spent developing canadiantire.ca.
That's only US$17,755,230. :rolleyes:
OK,
they can afford it, but did this company get screwed, or what?!!!
That's what we call eekommerce. :eek:
Re Canadian Tire: after 6 years in the biz I have seen worse atrocities done more expensively, most notably the USPS site circa 1998. But in 2002 we're supposed to be PAST this kind of problem.
Looks like a committee design combined with a "religious" IT decision to make the entire thing jsp. Add a pinch of clueless demanding upper management. And I bet the whole thing sat around for a while, as various VPs put their two cents in. "My Canadian Tire"? That's so 2000.
Canadian Tire officially not 'Crappy'
The World Intellectual Property Organization has ruled that Canadian Tire Corporation has no legal right to control "crappytire.com" -- the Internet domain name registered to Mick McFadden of London, Ontario.
In its March 16, 2001 complaint to WIPO, Canadian Tire claimed that it is "frequently colloquially referred to or known as 'Crappy Tire' by the public." The corporation argued that its trademarks should be extended to include the phrase because its stores are "closely associated" with the slang expression. It also charged that McFadden used his site "to make rude, untrue and libellous statements about Canadian Tire."
The corporation's claim hinged on the idea that crappytire.com is "confusingly similar" to its trademarks. Canadian Tire noted that Internet searches for "Canadian crappy tire" result in many references to the corporation.
McFadden's response to Canadian Tire's complaint argued that the corporation has not trademarked the offending phrase. "Since when is the word 'Canadian' interchangeable with or similar to 'crappy'?" he asked.
Fun facts from the Canadian Tire WIPO complaint:
90% of adult Canadians shop at Canadian Tire at least twice each year.
40% of adult Canadians shop there each week.
85% of the Canadian population lives within a 15 minute drive of a Canadian Tire store.
Originally posted by Undertoad
Looks like a committee design combined with a "religious" IT decision to make the entire thing jsp.
Only the truly devout would think using JSP would rescue a bad design. I very much doubt that the pricetag is a result of using JSP. True, there's probably a boatload of licence cost due to using EJB on Weblogic....but these guys probably have enough volume to justify an EJB approach....which has very little to do with Java Server Pages, of course.
Of course,. it *could* have been executed in ASP or .NET...then it would be a *proprietary* version of the same design, and immune to being ported to a more economical server base; if the archetects of this site have resisted using Weblogic-proprietary APIs, they can migrate pretty easily to another app server, or even mix app servers from different providers to carry this sites workload. The coolness of this would be the ability to examine which app server platform gives them the best performance on a live workload.
At least it continues to work if you refuse cookies. Many ASP-based shopping carts don't.
The site itself doesn't really look to me like a very *bad* design, although it does have that "circus poster" feel that most big ecommerce sites have Every department in the company is entitled a slice of the incoming eyeballs. They tell the stockholders that this is "synergies" and "economies of scale". ;-)
Speaking of religion, one wonders how much of the 17 mil went to making the site bilingual.
via metafiler...
http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/
this just rocks. pictures of ghost towns in various states. some of them have information, history and whatnot. check out the page for animas, colorado. good stuff.
~james
http://pelit.dnainternet.net/pelihalli/trials/
Fun Java game. Up-arrow accelerates, down arrow brake. Left/right arrow lean back/forward.
http://gapingvoid.com
by hugh macleod
"cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"
Life in New York...makes me glad I don't live there.
I'm not responsible if the sample cartoon reminds you of anyone.
Some excellent time wasters that are NOT safe for work
This is Priceless
Simon Swears
Enjoy!
One more for the pile:
<a href="http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/esp.html">Clifford Pickover's ESP Experiment</a>
There is a logical explanation for the fact that this experiment succeeds in removing your card EVERY time -- an explanation that does not involve ESP, supernatural forces or psychic mumbo-jumbo. See how long it takes you to figure it out -- took me about ten minutes...
http://www.audreyheller.com/
found via metafilter comments. really great stuff.
i especially like
this one.
~james
I've seen that before, and I picked up on it pretty quickly, about five minutes of staring at the cards thinking, "What the hell am I missing?"
edit: weird, I just noticed I broke a hundred posts. huh.
Customer-posted reviews of Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon collections from Amazon.
http://home.earthlink.net/~mutantdog/dfc.htmOMG! Those are fantastic.
Greatest... link... ever.
<a href="http://www.librarian.net/technicality.html">Signs for librarians who don't think much of the FBI</a>
engrish.com
They now have an online store. :cool:
But has produced possibly the
coolest LEGO constructions I have ever seen.
http://www.lipsons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/lego.htmthose are cool, but
these are the coolest. :)
apologies if that link has been posted before, especially if it was me posting it. i seem to remember doing so.
~james
It's Christmas time, and even though this one's been all over the place, it bears repeating:
<a href="http://download.consumptionjunction.com/multimedia/cj_12474.swf">A little Christmas cheer from our favorite Burger King employee</a>
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=138905&perpage=50&pagenumber=1
via the
userfriendly link of the day. what it lord of the rings had been written by a different author? some very clever responses. i especially liked the mark twain one and the harry potter one.
~james
<a href="http://www.liquidgeneration.com/sabotage/vision_sabotage.asp">Test for Color Blindness</a>
The last couple are tough even for those with normal vision...
Yeah. Gotta look -real- close for the last one. Thought I was colourblind at first.....
Horses
Click a horse to active. Click again to disable.
(sign of individual with too much time on hands)
This could probably go under Politics, but since it's a Flash app, I'll link it <a href="http://www.idleworm.com/nws/2002/11/iraq2.shtml">here</a>.
I struggled with where to place
this and ultimately decided it really was a cool site of the day.
Once you read the article it links directly to (guys, you have to tell me, does that really work?) wander around it a little bit. Many of those other pieces are hysterical, or at least thought provoking.
I particularly liked
Stoop and Scoop Icons and
How MBAs Wrecked the Internet.
ive never seen the urinal fly before, but i guarantee that if i did, i would aim for it. instinct would draw me there in the first place, and marvel at the brilliant simplicity would keep me there.
~james
Now that you know what they're up to though, you'd pee right on the wall, wouldn't yah?
Personally, I would know what they were up to as soon as I laid eyes on the bug. Would I aim for it? T'wouldn't matter...I can pee in two directions at once, one being straight down and the other is personal choice.
Upshot? I generally do it girl-style.
Brian
I always thought you were special, Brian ...
dr seuss went to war. i had always assumed seuss was exclusively a childrens author, until my aunt showed me a book full of his
art. i guess its just facsinating to see another side to an author i grew up with.
~james
Who doesn't like
Terry Tate, Office Linebacker? I loved this ad. And this is the uncut version from Reebok. I guess it could have gone under the sports link, but it fits here as well.
flash mysteries
via metafilter. :)
~james
celebrity caricature in america
i especially enjoyed seeing
this.
~james
songs inspired by literature
i imagine ill be using this list to make my next couple mix cds.
~james
intelligence test
I scored an 11 on my first try. How well do you do?
Brian
Dammit. I answered all the questions, clicked the button, and nothing happend.
That means you got all twelve questions wrong. :D
Brian
I know some of you here probably already read kuro5hin.org. But if you don't, the
Heartbreaking National Tragedy story is not to be missed! This is satire at its finest.
Don't miss:
Henry Raddick's reviews at Amazon.com
There are 280 of them, or 28 pages. Enjoy.
Oh god Tony. My head hurts from laughing so much.
you get 5 stars!
I had to stop reading after a few pages because it hurt too much!
This guy has the most dry sense of humor... ever.
I had to stop about 1/2 way, but I will return to learn more of dear Marjorie, and the spaniel Barry.
he goes a little downhill after about that point (we're going backwards in time, here), but there are still a few gems.
From his review of
A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Shakespeare:
Comedy schmodedy. If Shakespeare had meant it to be funny he would have put a joke in it. Me, I'm a fan of the Farrelly brothers. Like that bit in Dumb and Dumber when he's, like, laying this monster crap in the ski chalet. Classic. Now that's comedy.
This quy's quite a riot. Any background on him (other than he's British)?
State of the Union Speech
"Tonight I have a message for the people of Iraq ... Go home and die."
Profitable Doctrines in God's Word from an Endtime Prophet
I was directed to this dude's page via a mailing list for psychotherpists in training. He regards psychology and psychiatry (along with pretty much everything else) as "Satanic". I suspect he formed this opinion from personal experience.
I have it bookmarked as "Crazy Guy's Web Page".
I particularly recommend his treatise on "Morman Underwear" (which he calls "magic undies")
"Cussing" is another must read.
Other than that, read as the spirit moves you.
There's pretty much something for everyone in this VERY extensive series of pages.
Some will amuse, some offend, some both.
http://www.radiolovers.com/
i have not had a chance to really look at this yet, but i will as soon as i get home. but old radio shows available for download cant be all bad, can it? (and maybe it will help pass the time for those of you trapped in your homes behind a wall of snow. send some of that snow my way, dammit!)
~james
<a href="http://www.solidarity.com/hkcartoons/duckandcover.html">Duct and Cover!</a>
This may be the most beautiful thing I've seen in weeks.
A java spirograph
http://www.wordsmith.org/~anu/java/spirograph.html
It's cute, tho it's not as fun as the real thing.
Rusty Humpries
Parody songs that apparently get a lot of play on talk radio.
The games are VERY silly, but worth the time. I recommend War on Terrorism II.
Funny stuff. There's a video for
Bomb Iraq which is not linked off the main page (you have to go to "Rusty's Report" which is kind of a hassle, so that's why I've linked it here.
My Wacko-Meter score is 79.2 (I think I scored so low because I think Hillary's Mustache looks good on her)
Zentences
(requires flash)
The 5k is a site showing the winners of a contest where you must design a web page with under 5k of data/code.
With code being as bloated as it is these days, its interesting to see how creative people can be when they have to fit something into a box that's too small.
:3eye:
Smile, Daddy-O
Smile, Angel-head
like the hipster got
your ever-loving espresso
and is dealing a game of bridge
down the be-bopping
jazz club of Saturday night
with nothing
to lose
nothing
to gain
nothing
but pockets of soap
and a goofy pair of trousers
full of privilege
my fate done
left me
my baby done
took a job
and all I got
is this crazy
house of two stories
with Miles on the juke
and bongos made of hipster laughter
and a place where I belong
if I could only swing it
~james
Oh, I don't know....they are kind of cute..looking like little cement toadstools in your backyard....
But I have a hard time trying to buy the fact that I
NEED one of these buggers when there are grammar errors all through the text.
http://www.usbunkers.com/
Dagney
personally, I love the one painted in desert "chocolate chip" camo that isn't anywhere near a desert ...
i want one in chrome.
~james
The group
Evolution Control Committee has a freely downloadable song on their website called
Rocked By Rape.
It's a remix of AC/DC's back in black, but the lyrics are a huge compilation of Dan Rather reporting doom-and-gloom news. Man, it's really hilarious. All samples of stuff he's said. It's a 4.2 meg mp3. Also, I had to rename the file before it would play, because of all the %20's in the filename. Check it out!
Incidentally, CBS wasn't very
happy when they heard this song. But ECC decided to ignore their cease-and-desist letter, and I guess CBS decided they wouldn't win in a court case, so they never sued.
ive had fresh snow on the ground every morning this week. for those you not so lucky,
make your own. :)
~james
Originally posted by juju
The group Evolution Control Committee has a freely downloadable song on their website called Rocked By Rape.
My daughter (now 19) kept a copy of that in her library, so it's now on my machine too. She told me she finds it nostalgic, reminds her of dinner at our home with the news on when she was a small child in the 1980s.
Funny what can become nostaligia, I guess. :-)
very interesting method of browsing amazon.com. via metafilter, where the poster compared it to 'flipping through books on the shelf'. very cool.
~james
There are some awesomely cool pictures on
this site which are all available for sale.
The annoying anti-copy message on each image only slightly detracts from their coolness.
losingmyreligion.com has a series of interviews with christians by Darcy West that I found to be quite entertaining.
Fun for the Whole Family
This could be positively mind-blowing. It would be most effective if the neighbors worked and you could get it done before they came home. You might have to buy off a couple retirees, though, just to keep the secret to themselves, to more effectively gaslight the others.
Originally posted by wolf
The Future We Were Promised
Where's my flying cars? They promised us flying cars!
What Would Jesus Drive?
That's right, SUV owners. You're fucking going to hell. Say hello to Satan for us.
Heh heh heh. I just love it.
So let's see now. Who could it be that makes us drive those nasty, gas-guzzling SUV's? Who could it beee? I just don't know who it could be!
Could it beeeeeeeee.............
[COLOR=crimson][SIZE=4]SATAN?!?!?[/SIZE][/COLOR]
I arrived home with the intention of posting a cool site of the day link to something that we were playing with pretty much ALL night at work, in between dealing with patients. We were discussing the sense of nostalgia we felt looking at some of these classics.
Chick Tracts are an ubiquitous part of the fundamentalist landscape and they are just as much fun as ever! (Always a better find than the 'folded up $20 bill' tract, to be sure!)
Coincidence? Or is the hand of the Lord directing my mouse clicks in hopes of making the sinners repent? :angel:
Originally posted by russotto
Where's my flying cars? They promised us flying cars!
You mean you didn't get yours, yet? Must be on backorder.
cross-stitch, only
extra-nerdy.
i think i need to learn to cross-stitch.
~james
Wow, I would've killed for one of those when I was a kid! Well, not really, but they're cool. Computerized sewing was becoming a big thing back in the days of the Amiga.
i hate to admit this, but i really am tempted to try it out. maybe ill make a controller cosy or something.
~james
Originally posted by perth
cross-stitch, only extra-nerdy.
i think i need to learn to cross-stitch.
WOW. I know how to cross stitch already. I just need the time to do something like this!!! (If only there was a Joust graph. That was MY game. That and Robotron. Oh, and DKjr, and Pole Position and ... )
There were a couple of companies that produced official cross stitches for some pop-culture powerhouses back in the day ... I may have even bought some of the nintendo mario and luigi charts (I honestly don't remember. I'll have to try to find my big pile of cross stitching I'll never get to). I know I got some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles graphs on closeout ... and the California Raisins.
Jesse James turned one into a snowmobile a few weeks ago on Monster Garage (Discovery Channel), then raced Richard Petty (also on a snowmobile). Very cool stuff.
1/5 scale Sherman Tank
Look at the
top page on the site as well. The guy has loads of free time it seems, and he looks like possibly one of our own... possibly a relative?
Who wants to play
Gulf War 2?
Weeelllll....that was disturbing.
Originally posted by Elspode
Weeelllll....that was disturbing.
You're welcome!
Howdy all,,
I know I am new around here but i stumbled on a cool site not long ago that i would like to add to the compendium of good sites of the day .
www.dself.demon.co.uk/museum/museum.htm
some cool old technolgy,, look at the monorail locomotive and the monowheels . Cool old stuff :D
Very nice, zippy. the Combat Cutlery section was very cool.
~James
Excellent site, Zip. Thanks!
Dripping with fundamental wrongness.
<a href="http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1351">When Good Video Game Characters Go Bad</a>
So...what are Kim Jong Il and the gang in the DPRK saying right
now?
allrighty then here is a potentaly dangerous site , but cool nun the less .
http://www.swampworks.com/Catalog-main.html
I can see Slang putting a full battery of BB cannons in his John Deer ball cap and blasting ingrates . :rattat:
you know how you can double, triple, or quadruple recipes if you're feeding a big crowd? I wonder if that works with these model implement of devestation plans ...
http://www.flashbunny.org/web/index.html
Mostly a pro-gun site, but some other funny political goodies as well.
The flashmovies wouldn't load for me under either NetScape or Opera. I actually had to fire up a copy of MicroSloth Internet Exploiter to view them, but it was worth it.
I may actually have to get a set of the "Heartless Conservative" and "Heartless Libertarian" mugs available on their products pages.
And now for some high voltage fun
www.aquila.net/berthickman/frames/shrinkergallery.html
Shocking I would say :eek: :whofart:
<a href="http://www.americakokki.com/english.html">Home English Home</a>
(a quick primer on learning English)
It gets a bit twisted by the end.
I had originally offered this to UT as an IOTD, but frankly the image is just TOO darn big.
Some of you may have already seen this ... there's a link to this satellite imagery page from the Pax Salaam page (Baghdad Blog website) discussed elsewhere.
Before Shot
The "after shot" is not yet available.
"File Not Found!"
Link no worky.
All fixy-uppy ...
I was worried there for a minute. Thought the image might have been removed for some kind of mysterious security reasons. It just looks like they got tired of having people go straight to the pic and missing their advertising.
It's a Best of 2002 image.
Hey...cool. You can see the giant waffle iron in the upper right of this picture.
it worky-d for me...
Brian
"Hey - I can see where my ... house ... used to be..."
here are a couple of sites I like:
www.clumsycrooks.com
www.darwinawards.com
www.jigzone.com
most of these say what they are this one does not. It is an X - rated site:
www.curlydavid.com
Enjoy!:3eye:
ok folks ,
since our boys are on the final push for Bdad i thought this link would be correct,
http://www.birdman.org/products/Nuke50.htm
i recall reading that the designer of Sadam's bunker said it would take a small nuke to bust his bunker ,
sooo here we go !!!!!:nuke:
http://www.grouchymedia.com/index.cfm
(these videos are just stylistically COOL. Amazing what you can do in your bedroom with some reliatively unsophisisticated software these days)
classic comedy
found this whilst browsing images.google.com for pictures of benny hill the troll (not the comedian). short clips of classic comedy sketches including monty python, laurel and hardy and benny hill the comedian (not the troll).
~james
Slow Wave
This is a comic strip. The premise is dreams. The author takes real people's dreams and translates them into a comic strip. The result is usually very weird, surreal, and funny. The strip for this week is related to Spain, and reminded me of our newfound friends.
Nuclean Moron
(A short rant on George W. Bush)
imagine the possibilities.
http://www.payphone-project.com/
~james
By now, everyone's familiar with the <a href="http://www.rathergood.com">rathergood.com kitten animations.</a>
I figured it would be hard to top <a href="http://www.rathergood.com/gaybar/">Flying Viking Kittens that want to take you to a gay bar.</a>
<a href="http://www.gaybetamax.co.uk/flash2.html">Someone did.</a>
Things I've Pushed Through Toast
I've always wanted to come up with a site like this.
Just what we've been looking for (Free downloadable audiobook mp3s!!!)
And something
special to play them on. :)
Whoo hoo! Good find, Wolf. I'm gonna get me one of them whatchamacallits to play with too! And maybe one of those mp3 Kalashnikov players as well...
This is basically a photoblog site. Great flower and graffiti pics. Check out the comics too.
good one, bruce. as for myself? level 2. :)
~james
as for myself? level 2.
You'll have to try harder.:D
DOG ISLAND, where dogs can go to enjoy a free life.
http://www.thedogisland.com/Buck Rogers Radio Program
A 'blast from the past', it's fun to listen to 12 episodes from 1932. Although episode 1 seemed to have a lot of flashbacks to what might have been earlier episodes.
It's a lot of fun to listen to the pseudo-scientific jargon and the clumsy attempts to provide commentary to the audience. Compared to the polish of today's programming, the almost childish simplicity of the script and acting are quaint. I really like the 'gyrocosmic relitivator'. Of course, I did hear 'photoelectric cells', which I'm not sure were science fact in the 1930's.
Of course, you have to be prepared for the racial stereotypes of that era which weren't very quaint. The character of 'Black Barney' is way on the wrong side of politically correct.
Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
I am the USA
I'm Switzerland
I'm South Africa ... which I'm sure is more because of the choices "big shiny gun", "Hire Mercenaries" and "drink on the battlefield" more so than "pancakes with maple syrup."
that was fun.
(Was anyone else stupid enough to fall for the popup? that was most amusing also)
The one that leads to
this.I just held down the enter key until the page loaded. Looking at the source, I can't imagine being bored enough to write all the JS alerts for that. I think the honor bestowed upon itself is not necessarily accurate, though. Look at some of the LotD on Something Awful. Utter crap!
Still, it is pretty annoying.
Still, it is pretty annoying.
A lot of words came to mind and "pretty" wasn't one of them.;)
are you an npr nerd? does it piss you off that your local radio station insists on putting that 'music' between episodes of 'morning edition' and 'all things considered'?
then
publicradiofan.com is the website for you. :)
~james
Slashdot linked to this article on SAIC today. It looks kinda neat. Dave, you spymaster, you. :cool:
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,49068,00.htmlI read that, it sounds like the sort of place you hope for if you're a programmer - where they value you for what you can really produce, not for the ridiculous politics that follow most corporate jobs. Whaddya say D?
Great link,Juju. Thanks from a
gay bearReadthe song lyrics. they're nuts.
Let the E. coli Elvis tell ya what you can do
Um... yea
http://www.arseiam.com
(it was the eyeball thing that got me here, but then I found out that most of the other stuff was just COOLER.)
click
here for the most annoying web page EVER!
Brian
Here's a javascript I found a long time ago. Works best with Internet Explorer.
http://metastudios.com/cool.html
It's really cool. And by really cool, I mean retarded.
via good ole metafilter.
signbuilder 2.0
~james
Originally posted by BrianR
click here for the most annoying web page EVER!
Brian
Sorry, Dude. Been there, done that:
Originally posted by juju
Popup? What popup?
Originally posted by wolf
The one that leads to this.
Originally posted by That Guy
I just held down the enter key until the page loaded. Looking at the source, I can't imagine being bored enough to write all the JS alerts for that. I think the honor bestowed upon itself is not necessarily accurate, though. Look at some of the LotD on Something Awful. Utter crap!
This is an online journal. But instead of words (feh, they're so outdated), it's done as a comic strip. I found myself really identifying with some of the strips. Especially
this one and
this one.
http://www.drewweing.com/journalcomicarchive.htmli apologise if this is a repost (i did check and didnt find it).
segplay
virtual paint-by-number. i could do this all day.
~james
Secret Service Admission Testing
But I guess I REALLY need to get more comfortable with that whole gun thing first :)
Dagney
Fun comes almost immediately. Comfort takes about another ten minutes.
Fair warning. THEY ARE LIKE POTATO CHIPS.
THEY ARE LIKE POTATO CHIPS.
I have to disagree. Potato chips, unlike guns, are unhealthy and dangerous. :D
I've heard of bicycle freestyle, but wheelbarrow freestyle? C'mon..
www.wheelbarrowfreestyle.com
catsIs 9 lives enough? :eek:
Winners??
Meowmix auditions.
These are samples of some of the leaflets that were dropped on Afghanistan by U.S. planes during the war.
http://www.geocities.com/bizzeconscience/therealleaflets.htmlThe Grid
This is a URL for a project that I think is kinda worthwhile. Your system is used to help process ligands for research into cancer and small pox.
Check it out. It makes a right purty screen saver!
Dagney
Monty Python Online - fantastic traditional British comedy!!! Check it out for some real comedy! You can keep your slapstick over the pond. ;)
http://www.tistside.de/downloads/fun/stapelfahrer_klaus.wmv
Bear with it.
It starts getting good about two minutes in.
Don't worry about the fact that the narration is in german.
It's funny whether or not you understand it.
Safety First!!
Holy shit, Wolf that's really funny!!:thumb:
Slang's and my next
new car ...
tape titles in the US Secret Service Library.:eek:
Wow. I really would love to see a lot of those. Especially " 0168.0 Tapes of Wrath - Gag Reel"
But most of the interview tapes intrigue me as well.
Do you think they do online rentals like Netflix?
"0428.0 Religious Fanatics, Jasper Arkansas" - Anyone know exactly where juju is from?
an addictive game,
Googlewhack I heard about in the paper today.
Try your luck, its's tougher than it sounds.
Brian
This is a blog from Baghdad. It's achived back a couple years and current. Day to day life in Baghdad through the war is extremely interesting. The latest entry is at the top of the page, so if you want to read in order go to the bottom of the page. The mood and opinion shifts from day to day are worth noting.
2001 Space Odessey Ever wonder what it was all about? this will explain it.
That's funny, Warch. Gives fish head and rice a whole new meaning.:D
If you know what that means, then go
here and pull the wool over your own eyes!
Brian
On 6/8 I posted a link to a blog from Baghdad. I just found
this link about the guy that writes it.
Dead People Server Home Page
Ever wonder if your favorite celebrity is dead or alive? Check out THIS site to find out for sure!!! :D
Or if you just want to check one particular celebrity:
<a href="http://www.abevigoda.com/">Abe Vigoda status page</a>
Originally posted by vsp
Or if you just want to check one particular celebrity:
<a href="http://www.abevigoda.com/">Abe Vigoda status page</a>
Thats just not right. :eek:
Dead People Server Home Page
I have my doubts about the accuracy of this site. It says Paul McCartney is still alive.
I have my doubts about the accuracy of this site. It says Paul McCartney is still alive.
You have to play the site backwards.;)
Ok, this
link is for adults only. Rated R. It's a little flash a friend(?) made. Some of you might recognize the star.:eek:
Cat-like typing detected! A program to determine if the typing on your keyboard is from a cat and prevent damage. It also plays annoying harmonica sounds to annoy the cat.
Hahahahahaha. Tony, look two posts up from yours.
Holy crap! Sorry about that B, I swear I found the link at another location...
Imitation is the sincerest form of some shit.:D
I know sometimes I'll find a cool link and post it figuring to go back and check the ones I've missed when I get time.
Admittedly, I got
this from
BoingBoing. But BoingBoing is still pretty cool. Also check out some of Cory Doctorow's
other work.
And if those aren't enough to keep you busy for a bit, you have too much free time.
click
here and enjoy. Have your sound on for best results.
Brian
Parking Spots. 214 user-submitted images of toy cars placed strategically next to real cars. This goes in the category of quirky things that the net coughs up for no apparent reason. And this is why we love it so.
[size=1](via
Asymmetrical Information)[/size]
Yo Dawg.
Try This!
Some corportate filters may have a shit-hemmorhage. My own returned a "site not available" message. Had to wait until I got home to play with it.
appropriate, given the cellar logo.
parable of the monkeys
via metafilter.
~james
1. I ain't downloadin' no file from no stranger that I don't know what it is ...
2. UT, I thought you had things set up such that a person's first post couldn't include a link?
No, it's only worded like that on the register page so spammers aren't as interested in us.
I'm sorry my first post had you worried. I should have explained what the file is...
Its a Japanese TV show's rendition of what ping pong would be like if played in The Matrix. Its very funny, is not spam and is not a virus.
I've been lurking on the boards for a couple weeks now and thought I had already introduced myself. Obviously not. FWIW, I live in the Blue Mountains, near Sydney, Australia, am over 35, and work in software development. :)
m0na
<a href="http://objective.jesussave.us/creationsciencefair.html">Creation Science Fair</a>
Some highlights:
<i>"Pokemon Prove Evolutionism Is False" - Paul Sanborn (grade 4)
"Women Were Designed For Homemaking"</i>
and NUMBER ONE AND THE BEST:
<i>1st Place: "Using Prayer To Microevolve Latent Antibiotic Resistance In Bacteria"
Eileen Hyde and Lynda Morgan (grades 10 & 11) did a project showing how the power of prayer can unlock the latent genes in bacteria, allowing them to microevolve antibiotic resistance. Escherichia coli bacteria cultured in agar filled petri dishes were subjected to the antibiotics tetracycline and chlorotetracycline. The bacteria cultures were divided into two groups, one group (A) received prayer while the other (B) didn't. The prayer was as follows: "Dear Lord, please allow the bacteria in Group A to unlock the antibiotic-resistant genes that You saw fit to give them at the time of Creation. Amen." The process was repeated for five generations, with the prayer being given at the start of each generation. In the end, Group A was significantly more resistant than Group B to both antibiotics.
</i>
Found a site linking independent booksellers on line. I tested it with an old stand by that noone has. They had it, I bought it.
alibris
Oh yah, they have vinyl as well... if you're some kind of audio freak.
The excellent site which Perth linked us to (and which I have poked around on a time or two) has held me rapt for the past couple of hours as I looked for items of local interest.
I found a subject near and dear to my heart, namely Longview Farms. Longview Farms was a grand private farm operation, constructed by lumber baron RA Long and complete in 1914. It is about three miles from my house as the crow flies, and I have been enthralled with the place ever since I was a kid. It was, of course, long deteriorated and mostly abandoned by the time I moved out to this part of town in 1969, but all of the old structures were intact at that time, if somewhat abused.
It is really difficult to describe the grandness of it all, but someone in our government had the foresight to survey and document it in conjunction with the planning and construction of the lake that now covers a large portion of the original property. Although many of the structures *still* survive, and are even used (the main mansion and the chapel are actively used...I've even been to weddings in each of the structures.) to this day.
Some of the buildings have been razed over the years. The show horse barn (Long's daughter was a world renowned horsewoman, and the farm was largely built for her use as a breeder and horse person) burned in the 70's (probably due to some kids partying in it, if memory serves me...the whole place was a very attractive nuisance to us young hippies back in the day). As I mentioned before, a large part of the land is now underwater, and much of the rest is being developed as subdivisions. In fact, a friend of mine just built a house about a quarter mile behind the water tower you'll see if you go to the link below.
The link takes you to only a small part of the documentation available...if interested, go to the search function and type in "Longview Farm", and see what's there.
Maybe it is only fascinating to me, but someone else out there might find some value in it. It is a piece of my youth in a way...my wife went to the community college that is now located immediately west of the water tower in the aerial view of the place. The large pond in that same photo is still there, and I drive by it frequently on the road that now crosses from Grandview to Lee's Summit. Another picture shows a period photo of a small waterfall on the Little Blue River, a place my friends and I used to jeep across when the land was federally owned but not yet underwater.
Sigh...memories. Isn't that what this site was all about? Well, for me, there's some damn personal memories there. Library of Congress = Good!
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hh:20:./temp/~ammem_uO0x::@@@mdb=manz,eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,berl,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cdn,cic,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,mtaft,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,mfd,papr,aep,fine,fmuever,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,afcwwgbib,haybib,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,mymhiwebib,mmorse,aipn,ncpm,ncpsbib,afcwip,fawbib,omhbib,pan,afcpearl,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,ncr,relpet,mussm,dukesm,mesnbib,llstbib,denn,amss,uncall,fpnas,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,upboverbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,awh,nfor,sgpi spent several hours yesterday doing the same thing.
i live near
garden of the gods and its fascinating to see how it has changed over the years.
ive always loved
estes park but this is a side of it ive never seen.
most of the images appear to have copyright information attached, and a lot of them appear to be in the public domain. it would be neat to get the high-res images, print them, say 10-12 inches high by however long and have them framed. nice conversation pieces.
~james
origins of american animation
more library of congress fun!
~james
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query...rg,awh,nfor,sgp
Doesn't (sniff, sniff, sob) work.:(
It has been screwing up for me too...
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhphoto&action=browse&fileName=mo/mo0100/mo0178/photos/browse.db&recNum=0&itemLink=D?hh:20:./temp/~ammem_uO0x::@@@mdb=manz,eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,berl,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib,tccc,lhbcbbib,cdn,cic,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,mtaft,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,mfd,papr,aep,fine,fmuever,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,afcwwgbib,haybib,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,mymhiwebib,mmorse,aipn,ncpm,ncpsbib,afcwip,fawbib,omhbib,pan,afcpearl,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,lhbprbib,qlt,ncr,relpet,mussm,dukesm,mesnbib,llstbib,denn,amss,uncall,fpnas,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,upboverbib,varstg,horyd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,awh,nfor,sgp&title2=Longview+Farm,+Longview+Road,+Lees+Summit,+Jackson+County,+MO&displayType=1
Try this one...
Here's a good one for the kiddies who want more info on them thar WMDs George Dubya tol' us about.
Go to google (regular, not advanced search) and type in "weapons of mass destruction" then click 'I'm feeling lucky'
or, save yourself the typing and go
[color=blue]here[/color].
Funny, funny.
Similar prank at
[color=blue] this site[/color].
One method of emulating the infamous Netscape <a href="http://www.siteexperts.com/tips/html/ts12/page1.asp">blink</a> tag.
Of course, <marquee direction="up" scrollamount="30" height="30" scrolldelay="800">there are other ways.</marquee><br>
(Your mileage may vary, depending on your browser.)
Damn, Juju. They'll be coming after you for letting the cat out of the bag. :eek:
This is how we present ourselves to the world.
http://www.cafeshops.com/bomberfballOriginally posted by bmgb
Black People Love Them :thumb:
That was so fucking funny! I gotta make some coffee and cover the keyboard before I show that to HB!
I checked this out on Snopes and it's legit.
Go to
this site and click the button. The animal shelters will get free food. Sure it's only 0.6 bowls per click, but once a day equals 4 bowls a week. It adds up.
Wow. I used to go to the Hunger Site every day, then it went down for a while. It's probably been up again for a long time and I didn't know it. All those sites are great (links at the top of the page when you go to the Animal Rescue Site).
....Totally unrelated, I found another fun one:
Villain SupplyFun...amusing. I broke the little guy somehow, and I don't know whether to be proud or sad.
http://www.vectorlounge.com/04_amsterdam/jam/wireframe.html
Strangely enough, my wife's 85 year old grandmother sent this link to us.
I want one of these badboys !!!!!
http://www.terrawind.com/Perhaps this has been posted before, but as it's the first time I've seen it, I'm passing it along to you. This is a series of short films created using the game "Halo". It's <i>really</i> funny. :)
http://www.redvsblue.com/bloodgulch.shtmlFrom
jedimaster.net
<i>The Star Wars Kid is a 15-year-old from Quebec known only as Ghyslain -- his parents are keeping his last name secret to protect his identity. Back in November 2002, Ghyslain was goofing off at a school video studio and recorded himself fighting a mock battle with a broomstick lightsaber. Over two minutes, the video shows the lone, overweight teenager twirling his mock lightsaber ever faster while making his own accompanying sound effects.
Yes, we've all had our dorky, private moments, but this poor kid is living the nightmare of having his private dorkiness projected across the world to giggling Web users. His friends found the tape, and uploaded it to KaZaA as a joke on April 19. Within two weeks, someone had added full Star Wars special effects and noises to the tape, and the video was linked on gaming, technology, and Star Wars-related sites across the Internet. </i>
Fun, fun, fun...think Legos, only with aluminum cans.
http://www.canstruction.com/indexi.htmlDave, did you write
this. :D
Because we have too much free time on our hands.
phonebinI have enjoyed lurking and enjoying the board for about 2-3 weeks now. I am appreciative of your willingness to share, but I access from work, so could you put a disclaimer or warning on the sites not rated PG?:confused: Like the phonebin.
Hi fubar, welcome to the Cellar. Yeah, they should carry a warning but Jeep is new and hasn't been bitch slapped for doing that like I have....a couple times.
Those of us that don't do the Cellar from work have to remember most do. Just have your boss private message me and I'll straighten him out. Just kidding, just kidding.:D
fubar, it is vitally important that you NOT visit the thread "Ideas for a tattoo".
Thank you
Originally posted by Undertoad
fubar, it is vitally important that you NOT visit the thread "Ideas for a tattoo".
Thank you
No THANK YOU, otherwise I would have...
Shouldn't you be working anyway?
Shouldn't you be going to the grocery store to pick Kathy up a pint of ice cream and a jar of pickles?
OOOPS I found that site at work oddly enough. I will try to put in a NSFW(not safe for work) warning label from now on.
I just mean, perhaps the real solution to this problem <i>is to not be a slacker!</i>
"Excuse me, but could you tailor your free time activities so that they fit in with my work ethic?"
Hey JuJu, it was a simple request. Sorry if it ruffled your feathers. By the way I was doing my work. I am a firefighter/paramedic and accessing the net is a privilledge that I would not like to lose. 24 hour shifts can be very monotonous...
Indeed they can!
At least your squad has internet access, and I'm used to there being a lot more leeway as far as what you can look at at work than with a regular corporate setting.
I assume you spend a fair amount of time looking at the decapitation by train pics on rotten.com ...
Hey JuJu, it was a simple request. Sorry if it ruffled your feathers.
Don't apologize Fubar, he loves it better than getting his tummy rubbed.:D
Yeah, I'm not mad, I was just trying to be funny. Yet another failure of communication. :(
What a really great website, Wolf. I had to download some of those astronomy pics for wallpaper.
No rotten.com there again are pics that are questionable. I work in a city that is very conservative. Our fire chief is an outsider hatchet man and would love to have a reason to be rid of some of us. So I try not to help him in his quest. I do visit
www.ogrish.com the pics are more gorey but less sexually explicit. :D
So is it your surfing history that might be a problem, or the sites you connect to, or is it that someone might be looking over your shoulder?
Originally posted by juju
Yeah, I'm not mad, I was just trying to be funny. Yet another failure of communication. :(
Funny?
Funny? I thought he was just being a smug little prick!
Have a
disaster. At least a bonded nickel model of your favorite.
Originally posted by Undertoad
So is it your surfing history that might be a problem, or the sites you connect to, or is it that someone might be looking over your shoulder?
Any of the above. I always empty the history and cookies and files. But at any given time someone could walk in the room. There are two computers in this room within 4 feet of each other.
Here is another cool site
www.truelook.com PG of course but still worth a look.
Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Have a disaster. At least a bonded nickel model of your favorite.
I honestly cannot state which one I like best!! Chernobyl is a big fav, as is TMI, the Murragh Building ... and you cannot imagine my gasp of joy and surprise on viewing the Unabomber's cabin ... Oh, if only I had the amount of disposable income I need, I'd collect the WHOLE set!!
Yo Slang, heads up, Christmas is only months away.:D
bmgb might have posted this (since she told me about it), but I can't remember and it didn't come up in the search:
Happy Tree Friends
NOTE: this is not safe for work, children, the elderly, pregnant women, and anyone with a history of pulminary, respiratory, lymphatic, ocular, or auditory disorders.
This is twisted shit, folks. But I like it.
Aw yeah. I picked up the DVD at Best Buy, which was (extremely amusingly) sitting in the Family section.
Originally posted by vsp
Aw yeah. I picked up the DVD at Best Buy, which was (extremely amusingly) sitting in the Family section.
Speaking of family, I just picked up the
Family Guy DVD (seasons 1&2). High-lar-e-us. And cheap to boot!
The Truth about Bowling for Columbine
This is an in-depth analysis of how the movie "Bowling for Columbine" uses editing tricks in order to mislead the viewer into making false assumptions.
I really loved this movie when it came out, and I agree with many of Michael Moore's beliefs. But I found this analysis to be a real eye-opener. Especially the part about the Charton Heston speech. After reading this site in full, I'm going to have to seriously reconsider my opinion of Moore.
One note though: there's a lot of information, so it takes a good chunk of time to read it all and form a fair opinion.
Very interesting. I've never been a fan of Moore because his fame is based upon inciting [negative] emotional reaction from the public, but this is certainly a new low.
BoingBoing linked
Avant Broswer and after trying it out for a couple of days, I've decided that I'm going to use it for all my Windows browsing needs.
Warning: next link NSFW
This Is Priceless
Based on the Visa ads, but much, much raunchier. I've seen some of these floating around in e-mails as well, but this site congolmerates them into one fetid pool.
For those who don't have the time to read the virtual book that I linked to, you might find
this link more convienient. It's a side-by-side comparison of Charlton Heston's speech as given in the movie, and the <i>actual</i> speech that he gave.
I love this idea and I want to get one in Minnesota. I'm working on it.
Art o MatThat would work soooooooo well at the
Weisman. Which, I suppose, makes sense.
I'm thinking it could hop around campus- to the union, to St Paul, West bank, the new art bldg. It could hold work by artists from all over, but hopefully hook in some local artists. :)
splice, don't you think the WAM's web site is plain and non-functional? How could they have such a cool building and have such a lame site? Wouldn't it be nicer if it had a unified design that was tasteful but presented the information well? something like that
one section someone did for their one exhibit. You oughta make that suggestion to them.
Clearly, what is needed is a sort of... catalyst. :)
http://forums.philosophyforums.com
I came across this Vbulletin site while looking for ideas for topics for our own philosophy forum. This place seems cool, though. The people are intelligent and the discussion is interesting. I'll always prefer the Cellar, of course, but it's nice to know we're not the only ones. :)
But Juju, they won't love you long time likewe do.:D
Depends upon how hooooorny they are.
An
Elvish Name Generator
There is also a [URL=http://www.chriswetherell.com/hobbit/default.asp]Hobbit Name Generator [URL=http://www.chriswetherell.com/hobbit/default.asp]
My name is Maeglin Sîrfalas. I think I should change my daily boring old name immediately.
I can also be called by my Hobbit name, Todo Bumbleroot of Haysend.
But that doesn't sound so cool.
Brian, er, I mean, Maeglin.
:D
NOTE TO SELF: Learn how to use html tage before posting things you don't understand.
And a tip o' the hat to Dagney who steered me to that particular site.
Brian
Brian, I mean Maeglin, is Dag trying to tell you something?:D
my elf name is ,
[SIZE=3]Elrond Vardamir [/SIZE]
[COLOR=indigo]I'm Nienna of Dorthonion or Lily Brandybuck of Buckland. I'm liking the Elven one better. Don't wanna be a Brandybuck![/COLOR]
my hobbit name is [SIZE=3]Bulbo Moss of Lake-by-Downs [/SIZE]
not to sure about that one
Take Fatboy Slim's <a href="http://www.astralwerks.com/fbs/woc/">Weapon of Choice</a> video, starring a dancing Christopher Walken.
Now do it in <a href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gaz18jf/weapon-of-choice.html">wireframe</a>.
Elvish name: Orophin Oronar
Hobbit name: Sancho Chubb-Baggins
??? *shrugs* I'm just gonna keep T-Money, the Round Mound of Sound...thanks.
With some encouragement from a few fellow Cellarites I am posting this link
http://laacz.lv/f/swf/bugsong.swf as a Peace Offering to anyone I have pissed off in the short time I've been in the Cellar. It might help you understand my need to make snide comments in every thread I visit whenever the opportunity arises. I'm just an ass, but I hope you all will learn to love me as I am (except for Quzah, I can just tell we'll never be buddies). If not, just put me on you're ignore list:p
here is a fun one , I was judged to go to the second level of hell
http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv
as the plaque ok the gate says ,
"Through me the way into the suffering city,
Through me the way to the eternal pain,
Through me the way that runs among the lost.
Justice urged on my high artificer;
My maker was divine authority,
The highest wisdom, and the primal love.
Before me nothing but eternal things were made,
And I endure eternally.
Abandon every hope, ye who enter here."
I get to go to the Eighth Level! Do I win a Cellar contest or something???
Brian
You win, as far as I'm concerned. I could only get 7 even stretching the truth a little. You da man.:beer:
Made it. But I lied a lot. Lying that much ought to at least justify me for level 8, though :-)
I've tried to get "Extreme" on 2-9, but it doesn't seem possible; there's one question which makes you choose between lust and gluttony.
NOT SAFE FOR WORK !!!
Weird fun with X-Rays ,
http://www.knake.info/knakezooi/foto.htmlI wound up in 6 answering everything honestly.
I got Low on 4, Very Low on Purgatory and 1, Extreme on 5,6 and 9 and Very High on the rest.
Ok here is a site I like to go to every now and then , some of these ideas are TRULY WEIRD !!!! Some are cool as shit !!!!!
http://www.halfbakery.com/How well can _you_ tell them apart?
I seemed to snag all of the Serial Killers, but I missed a few programmers. ....
I wonder if that should make me worry about who I hang out with :)
Programmers Vs. Serial KillersI got 10/10, not because of my great knowledge of programmers, but of serial/mass murderers. Weeeee!
Linux & Beer. Safe for work, too. :)
Originally posted by Dagney
How well can _you_ tell them apart?
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Yikes! I got 7 out of 10, but my KIDS (AGE 11 AND 13) got 9 out of 10, based upon looks and gut instinct alone! Maybe they should use kids along with witnesses in lineups . . .
6 of 10...I don't work in HR, what the fuck do I care?
http://www.goldfinger2000.de/
Bodypainting nekkid women in gold and silver paints for fetishists. Found while looking for IotDs, too bizarre to not pass along.
For those truly looking for a trophy babe.
That's a cool site UT, but on the 2nd and 3rd pages of "Claudia in Gold", she's painting the inside of her mouth. That's sick. :vomit:
Is it just me or does this chick look a little anorexic? I think she needs to stop "huffing" the silver paint.
Originally posted by wolf
Anniversary shots.
http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/9-11/#
Very interesting site Wolf, thanks for posting it. Unique images, perspective not seen before. Some of the images in their other galleries are neat too.:)
Talk about incredible patience...
http://www.gvetchedintime.com/#Originally posted by Elspode
Talk about incredible patience...
http://www.gvetchedintime.com/#
Really cool site Els. Just drawing those pics by hand is talent enough, but to put them on an Etch A Sketch, Geez. I'd go insane. I remember I couldn't even draw a good circle on one of those things.
I want to know how he carries them around and gets them autographed without screwing up the picture???:confused:
He probably fills it slowly with black glue when he's done.
Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
I want to know how he carries them around and gets them autographed without screwing up the picture???:confused:
I didn't really read all the verbage on the site, but I remember it saying something about him making the images permanent.
It's aluminum oxide in the Etch-a-Sketches. Once the image is finished, the back is drilled out, and the aluminum is sifted out. I don't know about black glue, but that sounds good.
He'd have to glue the knobs so they didn't get turned accidentally and some way to fix the oxide to the glass against bumps and vibration:confused:
lol, I hadn't seen that before. Thank you, OynxCougar.
[COLOR=indigo]My stomach is aching from laughing so hard. After I went to the end of the first page, I went to the full archived thread,[/COLOR]
here [COLOR=indigo]and got the full 18 + pages.... OMG.... can't....breathe....[/COLOR]
When we build our house down on the river i want one of these celings !!!!!
http://www.pegasusassociates.com/Oh, man. This would be *so* perfect for our ritual room! We've got those glow in the dark plastic stars all over it now, but this...this is just a step above!
Originally posted by Elspode
Oh, man. This would be *so* perfect for our ritual room! We've got those glow in the dark plastic stars all over it now, but this...this is just a step above!
It could be done real cheap, Els. If you make your own panels out of anything, even cardboard painted black since there's no heat, you trim most of the cost. And your own light source which is easy as a halogen lamp and a little ingenuity. The fiber optic strands are cheap. Go for it. :D
Oh my...no wonder the Moses bobble head has such a large cheesy grin on his caricatured little face...he's hoping to avoid getting smote for violating the very rules he's holding.
I kinda liked the Noah best, but haven't figured out why he's holding a ducky ... oh, wait. That appears to be the dove. Nevermind.
Go to
http://www.google.co.uk then type: weapons of mass destruction
Don't press Search!!
Next click the "I'm feeling lucky" button
Have you tried the "French military victories" one?
works on regular google.com
Check out this
virtual tour of the new Volkswagon factory in Germany. It's all glass and very cool.;)
These are my favorites, with a shameless plug for Art Bell and Company
http://www.coasttocoastam.com
http://www.youdamnkid.com
online comic, start at the first strip. Makes you wonder how we survived growing up
http://www.lookwhatibroughthome.com
ok, the girls are true sluts, but what the hell, they're funny
http://www.boymeetsboy.com
they're young, they're cute, they're in love...oh, did I mention gay?
ilovebacon.com
daily craziness
cruel.com
oddness from the net
and everyone's personal favorite
JOECARTOOM.com
Who's your daddy?
*sigh* The spammers are getting more clever.
Originally posted by Griff
*sigh* The spammers are getting more clever.
What are you mumbling about? :)
^ Not related to the actual government.
Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Cultural Bureau ?? :eek:
Can anyone tell me what the hell that Kim Hay is talking about in her "Cultural Sabotage" story? I have no clue:confused: . Quote..."Don't picket - vandalize. Don't protest - deface. When ugliness, poor design & stupid waste are forced upon you, turn Luddite, throw your shoe in the works, retaliate. Smash the symbols of the Empire in the name of nothing but the heart's longing for grace." What the fuck does this mean? I feel like I'm being violated through brainwashing or something!!!
As far as a "Cultural Bureau", sounds like another idiotic government organization put into action to suck our tax dollars from our pockets into THEIR pockets. Maybe I'm missing something here, but I just couldn't get past the "Cultural Sabotage" story. I decided to exit before I got the urge to go set the Smithsonian on fire.
This site has tongue planted so firmly in its cheek, there's likely to be bruise left afterward.
Originally posted by Undertoad
^ Not related to the actual government.
And here's another one . . .
[color=blue]U.S. Dept. of Art & Technology[/color]
http://www.wewantyoursoul.com
Free quotes available.
here's mine:
"Your soul is worth £5692. For your peace of mind, 92% of people have a purer soul than you."
(I think this is because I said that I support capitalism, and have a membership at blockbuster video).
£13740
I wonder whether "yes"es or "no"s gave more value, or whether it was mixed.
"Your soul is worth £32370. For your peace of mind, 25% of people have a purer soul than you."
Jeez. I thought that, as a formerly polyamorous, alcoholic, drug-addicted, overweight, medically unfit Pagan, my soul would wouldn't be worth shit.
Wolf...honey...I have *got* to hear your life story sometime.
£14,306. All things considered, I'd be screwing them.
;)
I lied a little to achieve £34736.
I tested it: stating that I believed in UFOs decreased the value by £1800
The information about their company is pretty funny.
Good to know that domain is available...
Two blog type sites of visitors - one from
Japan and one
westerner and, of course, the
official site of North Korea!
Originally posted by wolf
http://www.wewantyoursoul.com
Free quotes available.
Your soul is worth £36176. For your peace of mind, 22% of people have a purer soul than you.
I'm pretty sure that boiling kittens cost me a couple of points :D
Originally posted by Elspode
Wolf...honey...I have *got* to hear your life story sometime.
I'm afraid it's not all that interesting.
I answered honestly, but the test is probably weighted heavily against monogamous, pagan, conservative gun owners who own Nokia products and rent videos from Blockbuster ...
I probably would have lost my remaining 8% by admitting that I shop on QVC and have visited Studio Park. More than once. (it's only like 45 minutes away and it's fun to see television happen)
Oh. Thanks Ep.
It's actually at
internetisshit.org. According to the Preview Reply function, this link actually works. Hurray!
It's funny that the Official Site of North Korea is a .com -- which, I understand, stands for commercial. I wonder if somebody thought it meant 'communist', or they just weren't thinking very hard?
"Your soul is worth £48610. For your peace of mind, 14% of people have a purer soul than you."
$80,212.47 or €70,060.87. Nope. Still not for sale...
Your soul is worth £13787. For your peace of mind, 65% of people have a purer soul than you.
Now where is that pounds sterling to dollar converter?
Brian
Thank you for the links, Beestie. They were extremely interesting to read.
The English travelogue was very intriguing, and a great story, but unfortunately it kept me up several hours after I had hoped to go to bed =]. Having read that, I would really like to visit North Korea -- it sounds like a fascinating place (not that I would ever want to live there, mind you). It sounds like the Arirang would have been an amazing spectacle to see. I thought it was funny that there was a problem with him taking a picture inside the building at the JSA, and that South Korean tour guides had told them that the building was nothing more than a façade. I was also surprised that no one wanted to push open the door, or present the flowers to the statue -- I would have had fun doing that.
The Japanese travelogue was interesting because it showed what had changed between their visits. The Japanese tourist complained that he couldn't get the schoolchildren to smile for a picture, but the American from South Korea complained that the children in the schoolrooms wore forced smiles whenever the tourists poked their heads in. The metro lighting was insufficient to read when the Japanese toured the place, but when the American took his pictures, it was brightly illuminated.
Wow. DPRK's site is really really good.
Your soul is worth £27098. For your peace of mind, 32% of people have a purer soul than you.
wow. i guess i'm done for.
Waitaminnit!!!
BRIANR has a "purer" soul than I do??????
There is clearly a problem with that test!!! I demand a recount!!!!!
Wow. DPRK's site is really really good.
I know, isn't it just? All of the information you need is quickly and readily accessible, and the mouseovers make navigation really easy (especially for those of us with 3-second memories). The only criticism I might have is that it is kinda difficult to find pictures of their fantastic proletariat leaders and North Korean insignia. Even those aren't too hard to find, though, so it's all good.
I'm not as wild and crazy as I let on.
Actually, I'm still a virgin with a vivid imagination. LOL
But I hope to one day "do it" with Dagney.
<Grin> Brian
A Kansas high school had problems with "provocative" dance styles at their dances and proms.
The Student Council created a video to educate students as to what was and wasn't appropriate.
The dancer? Freddy, the school mascot, in full (bird) costume.
<a href="http://www.ljworld.com/section/schools/story/145633">Dance, Freddy, dance</a>
(Quicktime required for two-minute movie)
This is a site I return to from time to time. Not a good site if you are in a hurry but a very good one if you are patient and like exploring around.
The url speaks for itself:
Tower of BabelI just found my old bookmark file which has sites bookmarked as far back as 1995.
Here's one from the
dood who figured that an excellent way to archive the New York Times (at least I think that was the specific mag but whatever) was to encode it in the junk DNA of cockroaches.
I have a feeling that there's a really good joke in there somewhere but I'm too tired to look for it :)
Hey there,
Thanks for the mention and the link! :-)
Tower of Babel: Thanks for the mention and the link! :-)
Sorry Malcs64, I can't understand a word you are saying ;)
:D
Espcially for gamers:
test your reaction time
My average was 0.198. I was not warmed up.
I too was not warmed up.
"Your soul is worth £15074. For your peace of mind, 61% of people have a purer soul than you."
Well, I was worried that I am just too damn tame for this crowd, but if I'm right up there with BRIAN, how bad can it be?
Originally posted by BrianR
Your soul is worth £13787. For your peace of mind, 65% of people have a purer soul than you.
eh...I scored a 0.197...without warmup or trying more than once.
I guess that's not too bad for an old fogey!
0.218 on the first try, I suck also.
Great! Now I got beat by the dirty ol' man!
0.225 the second go-round...fuck!
apparently, my reaction time suggests that i may be deceased.
are you guys reading this, or is it the last synapse firing before i see the light?
.185 was my best out of three tries. My first was .204, third was .194. Of course, I might do better not trying reaction speed tests at 2:30 in the morning... Oh I invalidated one test 'cause the mouse clic didn't read for some reason and I sat there staring at a yellow disk wondering why it was still yellow for several seconds before clicking again. Oh well...
Mine was .208. Remember this when you see "safety" studies claiming reaction times of 1 or 2 _seconds_.
.225
no wonder I end up dying a lot in first person shooter games.
This site is a guy that built a replica of Howard Hughs racer plane. Very cool if your into planes.
Ok Bruce , when i get rich and famos i will buy both of us one of these bad boys !!!!
[COLOR=indigo]I took the reflex thing twice... .196 and .203.
And my worth thing said: Your soul is worth £15925. For your peace of mind, 58% of people have a purer soul than you.
[/COLOR]
Your soul is worth £41525. For your peace of mind, 18% of people have a purer soul than you.
This is my result from an honest take on the test... Um, damn. I'm pure. Must be because I don't have a Blockbuster membership anymore...
Sadly, I don't feel all that great about my 'purity' for some reason... The purity .... it makes me feel... unclean... Like my cynicism is imperfect or something...
[COLOR=indigo]I know. Rather disturbing, isn't it? I thought I was WAY more impure than that.[/COLOR]
Yeah it is. I choose to believe this test is unfair and I am, in fact, not in the purest 1/5 of the people.
Originally posted by Whit
Yeah it is. I choose to believe this test is unfair and I am, in fact, not in the purest 1/5 of the people.
all that clean livin' really balances out the basic personality evil, whit...congrats.
i think i'm a little less pure than you...........but anytime ya want lessons.............:D
Personality evil? I've always thought my personality could best be described as "sweetness and light." Actually, I've scored awfully high on every one of these damn online purity tests...
As far as lessons go, I'm always ready to learn something new. Back in high school I used to wear a button that said, "I have no bad habits, but I'm open to suggestions." Offer still stands....
"I have no bad habits, but I'm open to suggestions."
You wanna be a Nun??:confused:
Sure, why not? It seems that I'm pure enough...
Yeah, lock me up with all those repressed, chaste women... It'll be good for all of us, I think. Just make sure I'm put in with the younger group, I'd be new to it and wouldn't want unfair advancement.
Anybody on board with me for voting for
homestarrunner as coolest site of the
day (year?) . . .
homestarrunner
Paul
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, probably not.
Not that its not interesting but............
Tell you what: I'll give it one :3eye: or mebbe 2 :rolleyes: s but think I'll hang onto my "site of the year vote" for just a little longer :)
[COLOR=indigo]Angry Weblemmings! Attack!![/COLOR]
I don't get Homestarrunner but I love Strongbad.:)
I looked at this site the last time it was spammed here. It wasn't funny then, either.
I think we're just out of the demographic, El, you know, like the same way that Barney is fascinating to 3 year olds but makes everyone else homicidal?
60 album covers with the lettering removed. How many can
you identify ? I could only name a couple.:(
I got 19: 5, 7-11, 14-15, 17, 23, 26, 31, 36-37, 40, 52, 54, 56 and 58.
5: REM, Automatic for the People (1992)
6: Cranberries, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1993)
8: Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995)
11: Blur, Blur (1999)
15: Janet Jackson, Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989)
23: Pink Floyd, The Wall (1979)
25: Fleetwood Mac, -- obviously, and a 1975 photo but not 1975's "Fleetwood Mac"... can't place this one otherwise, is it a re-release?
26: Stevie Wonder, Songs In the Key of Life (1976)
27: ELO, Out of the Blue (1977)
52: Beatles, The Beatles (White Album) (1968)
58: The Roots, Things Fall Apart (1999)
Extremely difficult challenge and Syc shows his enormous mind for music. The lad knows his stuff, he is like an encyclopaedia.
Uh ... I feel so ... inadequate.
I got The Wall, Songs in the Key of Life, and The White Album, also recognized Fleetwood Mac, but have not a clue which album, thought the space-shippy thing might be ELO and was pretty sure it wasn't Boston ... I've probably heard cuts off ALL of those albums, but have no clue what the cover art looked like.
I'd heard you're supposed to be able to identify stuff from your high school years best, but I spent much of that time buying albums by Maynard Ferguson and Chuck Mangione.
What can I say. I was a marching band geek. (yeah, this one time, at band camp ...)
Since UT revealed his, I'll reveal the ones I got that aren't in his list:
7--Californication, Red Hot Chili Peppers
9--The Fat of the Land, Prodigy
10--Beautiful Freak, Eels
14--Ill Communication, Beastie Boys
17--The Colour and the Shape, Foo Fighters
31--Hatful of Hollow, The Smiths (I originally thought this was the self-titled album, but after looking at their album covers, it is indeed Hatful of Hollow)
36--Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
37--Nimrod, Green Day
40--Stripped, Christina Aguilera
54--Ozzmosis, Ozzy Osbourne
56--Vs., Pearl Jam
And graciás El Sapo...what can I say? I dig music.
[COLOR=indigo]I bow to your wizdumb, gentlemen. Steve and I together only got 10. Guess that's what happens when you download everything instead of buy it...[/COLOR]
Rho adds:
4--Get Born, Jet
We also found:
47--Take That & Party, Take That
01. Bon Jovi "???"
04. Jet "???"
05. REM "Automatic For The People"
06. The Cranberries "???"
07. Red Hot Chili Peppers "Californication"
08. Smashing Pumpkins "Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness"
09. The Prodigy "The Fat Of The Land"
10. Eels "???"
11. Blur "???"
12. Incubus "???"
14. Beastie Boys "Ill Communication"
15. Janet Jackson "Rhythm Nation 1814"
16. Oasis "The Masterplan"
17. Foo Fighters "The Colour & The Shape"
23. Pink Floyd "The Wall"
25. Fleetwood Mac "???"
26. Stevie Wonder "???"
27. Neil Young "???"
29. ??? "Back To Mine"
31. The Smiths "Hatful Of Hollow"
32. Boston "???"
36. The Beach Boys "Pet Sounds"
37. Everclear "???"
38. Manic Street Preachers "This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours"
40. Christina Aguilera "Stripped"
45. Boards Of Canada "Music Has The Right To Children"
50. Basement Jaxx "Remedy"
52. The Beatles "White Album"
53. Metallica "Black Album"
56. Pearl Jam "Versus"
57. The Streets "Original Pirate Material"
58. The Roots "Things Fall Apart"
60. Tricky "Blowback"
Damn...he's good. I told him to look at those covers b/c I figured he'd know 'em best.
1--Bounce, Bon Jovi
UT and I got 4, 6, 10, 11 and 26.
12--Morning View, Incubus
I just found 25--The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac
27--After the Gold Rush, Neil Young
32 is definitely ELO.
37 is definitely Green Day.
50 doesn't look quite like the Basement Jaxx cover.
I don't think 53 is Metallica. There looks to be some sort of amp setup in the background.
Shit, he whipped my ass.
Could 53 be Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath?
CB Slang!
Don't really know what prompted me to go looking for this, but reading it brings back fond memories of cross-country trips riding next to my father, listening to him banter back and forth with other CB users. It was neat.
Goddamn Bruce...you got 49! Blind Man's Zoo.
Slight, that's definitely not the first Sabbath CD.
Don't let the week go by without checking out the
Jesus of the Week (if the link is working correctly, that's a jesus that I liked, rather than this weeks jesus. You can go directly to
http://www.jesusoftheweek.com if you want to see the current one.
Well, that's cool, but I *know* these guys have more guitars than the site shows...Entwistle had an enormous collection of some of the coolest guitars on Earth.
Just in case i'm NOT the only person on the planet never to have seen this:
http://img.tapuz.co.il/forums/20208414.htmOriginally posted by Elspode
Well, that's cool, but I *know* these guys have more guitars than the site shows...Entwistle had an enormous collection of some of the coolest guitars on Earth.
I know your right Els, I seen pictures of some of those collections.
Last week I noticed a Celler member online that I didn't remember seeing the name before. I clicked on his profile and went to his website. Spent quite a while checking out how he was putting a studio together and an awesome guitar collection. When I accidentally lost the link, I went back the the Cellar Home but he was gone and I couldn't remember his name.:blush:
[SIZE=4]YES[/SIZE] You da man, UT.:beer:
Well if you want to take a look at Bill's gear, that can be arranged. But not too soon, he's just sold his house and must move all that stuff into a new basement!
Bill and I go way back as in he ran the radio station at my school when he was in his second senior year and me a dumb incoming freshman. We work projects together, we are the dynamic duo. I hired him a few years back and in about two weeks it looks like he may hire me. If anyone wants a complete walking IT department, we can be had as a team...
You guys need a network engineer? My BF has been unemployed for months now......
Bill has some really, really boss guitars, man. The Mosrite Ventures model makes me drool. I came within a couple of hours of owning one of these once when I was a teenager. My stepmother was a high school girlfriend of one of the Ventures, and she was supposed to get him to score one for me...but something came up at the last moment, and by the time all was said and done...no Mosrite. Sigh.
I also have a tremendous woody for the Martin D 18 (even though I have a lovely D 28), and I have all the admiration in the world for anyone who can play Stick.
Originally posted by Elspode
Bill has some really, really boss guitars, man.
Thanks!!! (The UnderToad pointed me towards this thread...)
The Mosrite Ventures model makes me drool. I came within a couple of hours of owning one of these once when I was a teenager. My stepmother was a high school girlfriend of one of the Ventures, and she was supposed to get him to score one for me...but something came up at the last moment, and by the time all was said and done...no Mosrite. Sigh.
I've taken that poor Mosrite to the Philly Guitar Show several times with the intent to sell... but at the last minute I always chickent out!!! It was my first electric guitar, I bought it from the guitarist from Musica Orbis, a West Chester area band way back when<G>, and played it all through high school.
I still drag it out a couple time a year, and it just has this particular sound that I can't get otherwise. The fact that I play it infrequently is what drives me to sell it, the fact that I love the sound prevents me from following trhough<G>!
Same sorta deal with the Duolian... if I were a responsibe guy I'd turn it over to a collector who would appreciate the heritage and whatnot... but it sounds cool, so I keep it!!!
I also have a tremendous woody for the Martin D 18 (even though I have a lovely D 28),
Funny how that works... my D-18 is from the late 70s, and I love it (except for the part where it ends up back in Nazareth every so many years for a neck reset - UGH! But, lately I've been really wanting a rosewood dread to compliment the magonany dread. This summer I played an incredible Santa Cruz while up in Maine, and after we settle on the new place my bride has promised me I can go out and buy one!!!!
The Pimentel is an interesting beast, for those so interested... it is a rosewood dread with a very long scale and a neck width more like a classical guitar. Makes it great for fingerstyle playing, not so great for doing the old CSN&Y thing!!!
and I have all the admiration in the world for anyone who can play Stick.
Sorry to disappoint... that darned Stick is the toughest thing in the world to play!! I stink the place up with it. I haven't given up yet...
Bill
I've never heard of the Pimentel, and the thumbs end up 404 when you click on them, so I don't really get a good look at it, but a wide-neck steel strung guitar sounds like heaven to me! I'm the short stubby fat-fingered type of guitarist who aches to be able to have a little bit of slop room when he plays. I can barely fit my fingers on the frets of a Ricky 12-string (whoever thought that making their standard neck into a 12 string would be a good idea needs to be beaten severely about the head and shoulders...Roger McGuinn must have fingers like pencils, man).
All of that lovely hardware (I just now noticed that you have not one but *two* Larivees) begs the question...how the hell can you afford such a collection?
Also, the mando, if I'm reading the tiny print correctly, says "Mid-Missouri" is the maker? Who and where the hell are they from? (being a Missourian and a folkish type musician, you'd think I'd have heard of them before).
Pimental is a really interesting builder, check out their site at:
www.rt66.com/~pimentel
The father built classical guitars, quite well respected by the way, and one of the sons really wanted to build steel stringed instruments, and thus was born the instrument I have<G>!
I bought it for exactly the same reason you mentioned, I wanted more space for my stubby little fingers. A dread for fingerstyle is, sadly, a bit of a compromise though, and I have since picked up two much smaller instruments... the Larivees you noticed!
A thought or two about those, since they both have interesting stories:
I had sent the Pimental in for some minor work (I was able to afford it as the previous owner had broken the neck off, and the repair job was sub-par, no structural probems, but the cosmetics are bad. Anyway, when I went to pick it up the store manager handed me the OM to play while he went into the back to get my guitar. When he returned I called him a less than polite name, and added a deposit for the OM to the bill. It is that cool a guitar... took 5 seconds to know I wanted it.
The L-09 is even stranger. I had played it at a guitar shop up in Maine, but as I was about to get married, and was still paying off the ring, I decided I didn't need it. It sold the next day. Oh well.
Fast forward to our honeymoon, and we're driving around Maine, and we stop in at the music store, and the guitar is back. Fate? Well, my lovely bride decided that since we really had no idea what our finances were going to look like after paying for the wedding we might as well buy it... and it has thus been dubbed the honeymoon guitar! Both of my brothers have always thought that since the guy buys a ring, the girl should have to reciprocate... a concept all of our wives have laughed at... but this was pretty close!
Sorry about the site... I haven't really touched it since my son was born, almost 18 months ago... and then I simply added a bunch of pics of him (not too proud a papa!!!), and I think I deleted all the guitar pictures to make room!!!
The mandolin... Mid-Missouri makes some really great, really plain, really inexpensive mandolins. Not everyone carries them, but they are worth looking for! This was actually a 40th birthday gift from my family... I had been ranting for a bit about mandolins, so they figured they should get me one to mark the event.
Be forewarned... if you have stubby fingers like I do the mando is quite a challenge!!!
And no, I'm not ignoring the how did I collect this stuff question... just left it for last. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I was single till just a couple of years ago...
Being single meant I didn't have to explain my purchases to anyone, it also meant I wasn't supporting others, so I could be a little irresponsible. It also gave me the opportunity to work more than one job. I've done studio design and maintenance as a side business for over 20 years now, and it has provided me with a means to build my own studio.
And part of it has to do with just plain old dumb luck, you'd scream if I told you what I paid for some of those!!! Another amusing tale... back when Yamaha and Ensoniq were tryng desparately for floor space in music stores, my local dealer was ranting one evening about how great guitars were and how horrible all this electronic junk was, and how anybody with half a brain would rather buy a guitar. That particular evening I was looking at the Ensoniq piano module, which had a pricetag of around $500. The store owner asked me if I'd rather buy a guitar or the stupid little module... I replied that the Yamaha SA-800 was the guitar I was thinking about, but it was a lot more than the module, and he commented that I could have either one for the same $500. Well, that choice was pretty simple.
I went back the next day and offered to pay the balance of the difference, but he said no, he was ranting and he'd be more careful next time, but a deal was a deal. IT was nearly a steal!!!
The only other one I bought new is the D-18, and at the time the music store was owned by the father of one of my band-mates, who felt bad for me cause I had just had three guitars stolen, so even that was a pretty good deal!
Lots of guitars... lots of amusing tales...
I don't know what a
Boobah is but they sure do make a fun website that you can send the kids to.
Put the "cursor" at the center of the spiral to get toys - click the toy to play.
Or, click on the Boobah's off to the right and then make your own music by turning instruments on and off while they dance to the beat.
Its for the kids but its pretty cool.
thank you! that boohbah is totally cool...my 2 1/2 year old who is JUST learning mouse control, will totally love that site.
BooBah is the Timothy Leary Foundation. :D
Here's one for the homeschoolers and generally experimental.
http://www.orionbiosolutions.com/Very, Very Scary
SFW, but not for the squeamish. May cause flashbacks. ;)
I'm guessing Britney will do her doctoral thesis on the subnuclear structure of silicone.
American made clothing Jeans to size 62. Shirts to 4xl. Pass the cheesesteaks, momma.:D
Waytoopersonals.
Hoo boy. Funny stuff.
Shows the positions of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter in real time.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/jupsat/I wonder if the applet shows the inverted view in a telescope, or if it is normal?
Originally posted by Elspode
I wonder if the applet shows the inverted view in a telescope, or if it is normal?
Probably the former.... te site says "This applet displays Jupiter and the four main satellites (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto) in realtime
as seen from Earth" (emphasis mine).
Allright people! Just remember, if it were you, those cats would be
BLOWIN' YOUR ASS OFF SO GET SHOOTIN' and to HELL with PETA!!!!
:3eye:
For those tormented souls who may be experiencing writers block, the Goth-O-Matic Poetry Generator awaits the touch of your agonized mind!
Create poems about Supernatural Violence & Horror, Feeling Very Sorry for Yourself, Fear of Religious Persecution, The Eternal Love of Vampires, or The Black Abyss of Betrayal.
http://www.deadlounge.com/poetry/http://maddox.xmission.com/
because it sounds familiar, that's why.
[SIZE=1]I am not _quite_ sure where this came from, but I'm nearly 100% positive it was not posted by me. My other half, perhaps, but not me.[/SIZE]
Perth dude i posted that 2 post befor you !!!
Here is a way to
send some gifts to Iraqi children if you are so inclined.
[SIZE=1]-- edited to fix link.[/SIZE]
Ha! Sorry zippy. I'm a moron.
This might want its own thread, but what the hell:
http://www.yetanotherdot.com/asp/80s.html
80's music lyrics quiz. I scored a 98.5. You can do better than that.
Actually, I misspelled a word. 100.5.
I got a completely honest 118.5 (completely honest because I went in and corrected my misspellings that were actually correct answers...this wasn't a spelling test).
<center> <a href="http://www.yetanotherdot.com/asp/80s.html"> <img src="http://www.yetanotherdot.com/asp/80s5.jpg" border=0> </a> </center>
Correcting misspellings is fair, I think.
I scored an honest 32% but I dont listen to music much.
The hard ones were easy.
35.45- Hey, at least I beat slang, of course I guessed a few...
37.2
I sing happily along with many 80s songs, which I love dearly, but often without knowing all the words ...
118 before spelling corrections, 123 after. 'Billy' Jean, 'prophest', and 'Thunderdom'.
Warm smell of Colitas! *sniff* Mmm. 10 points.
"100. hearts not farts rule my world" guessed on that one. I guessed wrong of course. :p
69.5...not bad given that I didn't have MTV or alternative radio for most of the 80s.
I should be really, totally, completely ashamed that I'm the one who brings this
completely chauvenistic, inappropriate site to everyone's attention.
(NSFW)
Finding your Cyborg Nature ...
"Electronic Violence Android" (how cool is that??!!)
"Worker Optimized for Logical Fighting"
:-D
Actually, this version is EVEN cooler:
I got Worker Hardwired for Infiltration and Troubleshooting. Acceptable.
I got 18.5 on the 80s music thing, even with the 5 point bonus for telling where I saw it!!
Elspode, I believe the Jupiter thingy shows a "normal" view. But I'd have to look on some other charts to be sure. I'm wondering how long the "upside down" view will continue to be standard, considering the current popularity of telescopes that flip things left to right instead of up/down.
Coolness...and it sort of goes with my new anniversary toy, too...
I also like the button text for executing the rendering of your handle...it is what the old arcade game Berzerk says.
Nocturnal Gratification sounds like some sort of euphemism for somthing...
Experience fear as a result of my presence!
Sounds like one personna is the intellectual type, and one is the cyborg-gardening type.
Interesting. SUcks I coulkdn't get the whole name in there.
The things my friends find ....
The Geek Test
58.93746% = Extreme Geek
I don't believe this has been listed yet:
Touchgraph
I thought this was a pretty neay Java app. NOTE: you need the JRE Java manager for it to work (its a free download).
Wow, I only got 45.16765%, Super Geek. I'm taken aback; I must be getting less geekly in my old age. Well plus I would've scored extra for some older things that weren't on the test. I mean, I would have cleaned up if...
Have you ever used a DEC PDP-11 computer? Yes
.. With a punch card reader? Yes
Have you ever used a VAX computer? Yes
.. Installed an OS upgrade on a VAX computer? Yes
.. Called DEC tech support to correct the OS upgrade installation instructions during the upgrade? Yes
Do you own a slide rule? Yes
More than one? Yes
More than five? Yes
Do you know how to use them? Yes
36.48915% - Major Geek
Haha, you fucking nerds.
12.42604% - Geekish Tendencies
Originally posted by sycamore
12.42604% - Ugly as sin
sycamore has obviously never done anything cool, like watched MST3K.
(I got major points, I think, mostly for all the computer stuff and my love of history/learning. No Star Trek though.)
15.38462% - Geek
Not as high as I feared, but not as low as I hoped. Turn turn turn.
Not sure I should admit this:
55.22682% - Extreme Geek
Though that really might be high. Items like "I collect comic books" probably assume I have a basement full of carefully collected and stored comics. I don't. I buy them, read them, toss them in a box and let them sit until I decide to read them again. I only collect them in the sense that I could never bear to part with them.
I admit I'm a geek, but "extreme geek" might be taking it a bit too far.
[COLOR=indigo]38.6587870% - Major Geek.
I don't have permission on this computer to install java... :( freaking netadmins *winks at coliano* so I can't hit the cool google search thingy.
But have you guys seen
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visual thesaurus?Originally posted by perth
55.22682% - Extreme Geek
We're not worthy!!! We're not worthy!!!
Really Perth... you can come over here and LAN sometime, but only if you turn off the stupid fake lightsabre. You can bring it but don't switch it on. Only one warning or you will be banned from the server room.
Well, I can take comfort in the fact that wolf's got me beat.
And I don't need to bring the lightsaber as long as I can make lightsaber noises.
"Fwoooo-wooo-waaaanwah!"
Less than 16% in the geek test but 209
HERE Bwahahahahahaha.:D
Originally posted by perth
Well, I can take comfort in the fact that wolf's got me beat.
And I don't need to bring the lightsaber as long as I can make lightsaber noises.
"Fwoooo-wooo-waaaanwah!"
Anyone catch the new Simpsons this week? The one when Bart gets the time-stopper watch?
I love when they're coming after him and Millhouse, and they've got shotguns, shovels, axes ... but the fat comic-book dude (I forget his name) has a lightsaber. I laughed so hard at that for absolutely no reason.
Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Less than 16% in the geek test but 209 HERE Bwahahahahahaha.:D
[COLOR=indigo]I only got a 117. Bruce gets two guesses at which portion I got the most points from.[/COLOR]
Originally posted by OnyxCougar
[COLOR=indigo]I only got a 117. Bruce gets two guesses at which portion I got the most points from.[/COLOR]
Sometimes it's best to shut up.:cool:
"Fwoooo-wooo-waaaanwah!"
Uh...well...you need a lightsaber.:D
Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Sometimes it's best to shut up.:cool:
[COLOR=indigo]Yeah, as we all know, I haven't quite learned that lesson yet.[/COLOR]
26.62722 - Total Geek.
So, is that good or bad? :3eye:
50 on the Hell Test...
Here's something else fun.
Twenty QuestionsFrom the
20 Questions site I posted before:
Shit! I wonder what kind of ingredients those bastards put it it?
48.32347% - Super Geek
I really thought I was geekier than this.
209 - I'm going straight to hell. Sort of makes me wonder if Bruce and I failed to participate in the same areas...some of them were a bit over the top. For example, bestiality has never intrigued me, nor necrophelia, and I've never been in a bar fight.
I guess you could get more points, but there is no higher category than "Going Straight to Hell".
Originally posted by perth
http://www.oopspaste.com/
FUCK!
[COLOR=indigo]Doesn't open for me in Mozilla or IE.[/COLOR]
I just want to take a moment to say that this frigging thing is *uncanny* as hell.
Originally posted by breakingnews
Anyone catch the new Simpsons this week? The one when Bart gets the time-stopper watch?
I love when they're coming after him and Millhouse, and they've got shotguns, shovels, axes ... but the fat comic-book dude (I forget his name) has a lightsaber. I laughed so hard at that for absolutely no reason.
Which he is actually only able to use because he broke the plastic overwrap in that episode where he kidnaps Bart and Lisa and Lucy Lawless ...
(how I got such a high score is now explained ... general geeking versus focused geeking. AND I got the five extra points for being a chick-geek.)
Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Less than 16% in the geek test but 209 HERE Bwahahahahahaha.:D
113. (I hypothesize that high scores on the geek test tend to correlate to lower scores on the hell test.)
[COLOR=indigo]That can't be right, because we all know Bill Gates is Satan.[/COLOR]
Originally posted by OnyxCougar
[COLOR=indigo]Doesn't open for me in Mozilla or IE.[/COLOR]
Opens in IE, Mozilla and Firebird for me. Maybe you're clicking the link wrong or something. :)
[COLOR=indigo]More than likely. But it still doesn't work. Maybe it's a work thing.[/COLOR]
Originally posted by perth
http://www.oopspaste.com/
FUCK!
Jesus Shit Mutherfucking Christ ... do they have volume discounts?
(page loaded incredibly slowly. I had to go through two tubes while waiting for each hilarious image.)
Hmmm. Dunno. I can't imagine why they would block it. Oh well. Just swear a lot and then feel bad about it. Or something. :)
Originally posted by OnyxCougar
[COLOR=indigo]That can't be right, because we all know Bill Gates is Satan.[/COLOR]
You are starting from an incorrect assumption that Bill Gates is in fact a Geek. If he were, Windows would be opensource.
He is merely Satan.
Originally posted by wolf
Jesus Shit Mutherfucking Christ ... do they have volume discounts?
(page loaded incredibly slowly. I had to go through two tubes while waiting for each hilarious image.)
Yeah, the pictures are classic. But better than that, I think, is the text. Maybe its just me, but people who get all upset and offended by a word like "fuck" just crack me up.
I can't remember which Scott Adams book it is, but he paints a funny picture about how certain words might have been made "bad". He described a dark smoke filled room full of shadowy men, reading a list of words. They get to the word "pud" and one of them gasps and faints. They mark the word off and move on.
He told it way better. If i can figure out which book it was, I'll post it. Worth picking up just for that passage.
I just went through the 20 questions again, with "witch" as the thing I was thinking of. After stumping it (it has very different ideas about witches than I do), I told it what my topic was. It came back with its 'uncommon knowledge' items, and one of them was 'Is it made out of wood", to which it says "yes".
I think the AI has been watching too many Monty Python films.
Originally posted by wolf
113. (I hypothesize that high scores on the geek test tend to correlate to lower scores on the hell test.)
I dunno...I got a decent geek score, and I'm going straight to hell.
[COLOR=indigo]I just tried about 50 times and finally got in.
I found this part funny:
While walking down the hall at my sons Jr. High School I was amazed at how openly the use of fowl language had become.
CHICKEN!! TURKEY!! DUCK!! PHEASANT!! QUAIL!!
and this one:
Check out our uses page for other fun ideas!
Other FUN uses? So squirting this crap in your kid's mouth is supposed to be construed as fun??
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Originally posted by Elspode
I think the AI has been watching too many Monty Python films.
He he. :D It seems to think you might have big ears and smell bad too, but I think that's doubtful.
The AI is pretty freaky though. It guessed I was thinking about an iMac in 20 questions. I'm getting kind of addicted to it.
[COLOR=indigo]So I wrote oopspaste's webmaster and asked why their pages load so damn slow. :D[/COLOR]
www.technicalvirgin.com
Hilarious, if you can stomach it.
Originally posted by OnyxCougar
[COLOR=indigo]So squirting this crap in your kid's mouth is supposed to be construed as fun??
[/COLOR]
It can't be worse than toothpaste in my case. There's only one flavor my kids like, and it's been discontinued!
Originally posted by SteveDallas
It can't be worse than toothpaste in my case. There's only one flavor my kids like, and it's been discontinued!
Thats been an issue here as well. My 7 year old likes adult Crest orange flavor... worth a shot.
Hmmm I'll try it.. never seen that... they don't like the mint of most adult ones, and all of the kids ones (except for the Tweety Bird Berry Flavor from Colgate) are bubblegum flavor of some kind, and they don't like that either.
Dear Madam:
Goddamn, it sounds like you bitches have a fine motherfucking product on your hands! But I have to fucking know...what the hell does this shit tastes like?
Thank you very fucking much.
Originally posted by wolf
113. (I hypothesize that high scores on the geek test tend to correlate to lower scores on the hell test.)
Good point. I was probably to busy earning my ticket to hell to do the geek things. Of course in my formative years there were a lot less geek things to do. :)
Originally posted by breakingnews
www.technicalvirgin.com
Hilarious, if you can stomach it.
Danielle V.'s "Creative Date Idea" is just too much.
Where DO today's kids get that kind of money? I didn't have $500 to spend on a CAR when I was in high school ... ;)
Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Good point. I was probably to busy earning my ticket to hell to do the geek things. Of course in my formative years there were a lot less geek things to do. :)
You had comic books, Buck Rogers Space Guns, and crystal radio sets ...
Bruce, your doodads collection ALONE should have gathered you like 20% additional geekiness. The problem is in the test, not your fine self.
Originally posted by zippyt
Ya'll have GOT to check this out !!!!!!
http://starterupsteve.servepics.com/swf/realhussein.html
Oh my god, that's fucking hilarious!
It ranks up there with "Combo No. 5." Anyone seen that one recently? I've been looking for it, but can't find it.
How about a
Tramp Lamp. :D
These are the companion pieces to Ralph's Father's "Major Award" aren't they?
Originally posted by wolf
These are the companion pieces to Ralph's Father's "Major Award" aren't they?
I got a catalog the other day that has a replica of the "major award".:)
Make Your Own Church Sign
(won't work if you're behind a firewall)
[COLOR=indigo]Shouldn't that read, "Fucking little boys"? Oh..wait...that's catholics. All these religions... sheesh.[/COLOR]
and underneath, in parentheses "...but at least we aren't dancing."
But sounds pretty damn cool to me. Of course, I like real women, but my computer sometimes makes for ample substitution.
www.missdigitalworld.comOriginally posted by breakingnews
Of course, I like real women, but my computer sometimes makes for ample substitution.
Nasty (not safe for work)
http://spaceweather.com/eclipses/08nov03c/brasil1.gif
A series of stills strung together. Apparently, though, the guy who did it rotated his camera 90 degrees after totality.
The waterfront area in Seattle slopes the wrong way, so I didn't get to see the moon until there was a small, shadowy sliver missing from the 1 o'clock position. Always very awe-inspiring.
If you think farts are funny (and I know you do!):
http://www.misternicehands.com/
Harmless Friday fun.
This is just wrong, but endlessly entertaining ...
http://www.greenpig.com/shock/rr.htm
(if anyone makes it to opponent three, would you please PM me and let me know who/what it is?)
Some general dude or something. There's the bear, the snowman and the general dude.
...and the reason you won't survive that guy is because he doesn't play fair.
Originally posted by perth
If you think farts are funny (and I know you do!):
http://www.misternicehands.com/
Harmless Friday fun.
bookmarked that one...that's got to come in handy some time!
thanks, perth
Ok no body has posted any thing here in a while so ,
for all you LOTR fans ,
http://www.nedevett.com/gollum.swfThis is the coolest free thing online I've seen in ages. I am categorizing under "Things that I'm glad didn't exist when I was doing acid."
unfortunately photoshop existed when I was doing acid. That and the religious channel nature scenes show (muted of course)
A personal favorite.
Jesus is my HomeboyThis little site is wonderful...if you go through the gallery, there are many, many truly intriguing pieces put together by users. It is actually somewhat shocking to see just how much variety and quality people came up with out of a relatively few elements.
nice job, spode.....i made that into my new wallpaper
i just hope you remember the "little people" when you are a famous cubist......but then , i guess you probably won't be recognized as such until you're dead anyway, so nevermind.
Thanks Perth, but I've seen enough god damn snowflakes lately.:D
Mine is not as good as Elspode's (way cool), but here it is, and its an almost self portrait... on acid
Bruce, one of the best I've seen yet! Slarti, looking good as well.
If I had more time, I'd play with it a bit more extensively, but it is good to see people being creative.
Great mrpicassoheads Els and Bruce. :)
I didn't bother posting mine after seen yours. :(
Timely? You decide. Take the
quiz.
Brian
I'M TOLERABLE IF NOT PLEASANT....WOOHOOOO
THIS was posted by kitsune in another thread, but it really should be here........
The same interface as Mr. Picassohead, only this time, you make snow people...
http://www.naked-i.com/flash/winter/create.htmlOriginally posted by Elspode
Bruce, one of the best I've seen yet! Slarti, looking good as well.
If I had more time, I'd play with it a bit more extensively, but it is good to see people being creative.
:blush: Shucks
My snowman came out kind of funny. I can't put my finger on it...
the guy that created
this abomination is coming to my house New Years Eve. Maybe I shouldn't let him in.:)
What do you mean, *maybe*?!
Actually, it shows quite a great deal of perverted talent.
The Boob Quiz
(I got 14/20. There were several of the fakes that were so poorly done, I couldn't imagine anyone paying for them and assumed they were real.)
great site, wolf....i got 16...and won the world cups! woo hoo im a natural!
I got 18. It was easy. If they look too perky, they're fake.
16, surprisingly.. I never paid that much attention to the subject.
I got 18. One looked to good to be real, and one looked too ugly to be fake.
16/20...well, I've always been a breast man.
19 could have sworn 3 was real
19 here. I usually look at the shape...if they're C or larger and don't sag even a little, or are EXACTLY the same size and shape, they're fake.
But I'm wrong 5% of the time, so it's not a perfect system!
I'm so glad that #12 are real. I like those ones.
15 out of 20. Number 11 is Bettie Page.
I missed on 3, 4 and 9.:(
Originally posted by dar512
I got 18. It was easy. If they look too perky, they're fake.
A friend of mine that I used to work with would say, "If they don't move, they ain't real". :D
Or, if a woman is lying on her back, then gravity will naturally have them move towards the sides (or armpits) a bit.
Special Holiday Greetings from
OzzyIdentify the Pixellated Superheroes
Not as difficult as it looks. I got 18/20.
The ones I missed, I missed through lack of exposure to the source material.
21 out of 21. Too easy. The only one I hadn't heard of was Commander Courage, and I got him through process-of-elimination.
Now someone needs to explain how Doctor Doom and the Riddler qualify as "superheroes."
Romeo and Juliet (Tales from the L33T, Special Edition).
Everybody loves listening to
police scanners, don't they?
(Many departments do a really good santa tracking bit on Xmas eve ... you might want to tune in just for that.)
Oh, and it wouldn't be christmas without being able to
track Santa.
A cool photography site ,
www.photosig.com
NOT SAFE FOR WORK
There are nudes , but they are art-sy , mostly :rolleyes:
The following website is a surefire waste of at least an hour
Vector Park
The center circle, my favorite, has you build a mobile in a cool balancing act.
The left circle is a mystlike adventure that I don't really get.
The right circle has you interact with lifelike objects using your mouse.
Amusing, but the other two circles are cooler.
From what I understand, the whole shebang was made with Flash.
Originally posted by zippyt
Check this dudes wood carveing out !!!!!!!
http://www.sambarcroft.com/pages/Livio/livio.htm
WOW! Check it out! I liked the open book bed...cool.
Originally posted by zippyt
A cool photography site ,
www.photosig.com
NOT SAFE FOR WORK
There are nudes , but they are art-sy , mostly :rolleyes:
Also check out
www.garageglamour.com if you like "those kinds of pictures." (Also many NSFW pics)
This is just entirely too much fun.
Compensating for the fan is really quite difficult.
The 1st Marine Division tore down the statue in Baghdad. In February they are redeployed to the Sunni Triangle. They want to give the people a great first impression of the Marines. It could be a life or death difference.
Help the Marines present the children of the Sunni triangle with toys, schooling and medicine. Make generosity and caring the "face of America". Tell the people the Marines are on their side.
When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s the Marines were the thick-skulled hard-ass guys who would beat you up for no good reason. Converting them to kind giving souls on our behalf is a weird and beautiful switcheroo.
UT said When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s the Marines were the thick-skulled hard-ass guys who would beat you up for no good reason. Converting them to kind giving souls on our behalf is a weird and beautiful switcheroo.
Now now UT , Marines have ALL ways been genorus folks ,
just look at how much lead they give away in those foren countrys !!!!!
Still, they were the guys who would beat me up when I was a kid.
Gaw bless um. It turns out we need all kinds of people. I just wish I was the cool kid who didn't get beat up.
Power through fear not respect.
Originally posted by Undertoad
Gaw bless um.
Toad almost typed GOD!
I just wish I was the cool kid who didn't get beat up.
You can be proud of contributing to the war effort by getting those guys in shape.:)
Originally posted by lumberjim
arial photo of your house
This was quite cool. There is a similar feature on mapquest, with better resolution, and color images.
The coverage is not as complete, though. (My house is on the above link and mapquest, fort slang only on the terraserver version.)
The image of the nuthouse is pretty good. You'll have to scroll
this image a click to the northeast (upper right corner arrow).
The capital letter "E" shaped building with the white roof toward the top of the picture is the regional forensic unit ... my building is the capital "E" with the dark roof. Wish the resolution were good enough so I could see if my car was in the parking lot ...
My house is there all right. Nice picture too. Where do they get these? I don't recall seeing any black helicopters then...
Brian
There are a couple of programs out there that use these photos in concert with your GPS to allow you to plot your course and locations on them. Way fun.
Check out this comic . It is rusian . The subjects are ass holes , but it is a good comic non the less ,
http://www.comics.aha.ru/rus/stalin/1.htmlWell, Elspode finally convinced me that I needed to participate myself on the Cellar rather than just feeding him links to items. So, I'm Mrs. Elspode, although I do prefer my own identify of Selene, thank you. I've certainly enjoyed many of your postings since Patrick has shared many a good laugh or discussion with me. I hope I will be able to keep up with everyone here.
For my first posting then, I thought some of you might enjoy this link...I think it's a great idea and everyone needs at least 3.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2978448779&category=1467
You may need to cut and paste that.
Thanks...
Selene
Welcome Selene! I look forward to getting to know you.
Great first post, btw. :)
Wow, this thread has gone beyond the pale and into the realm of the ludicrous ("It's Spaceball 1! They've gone PLAID!").
On that note, as a kid, I used to log on to my dad's work network and play this bizarre game where I was an '@' symbol, and I would wander around in a dungeon and kill things. I never knew what it was until just recently. Nethack. So, without further ado, I present:
Nethack3.4.3 for all your adventuring needs. It runs on most any platform (including Amiga!) and is a great way to kill six or seven days of your life.
Heh. I brought NetHack up recently in the Entertainment/Gaming Consoles thread that never dies...
The beauty of NetHack is that there are _so many_ ways to die, yet so many logical ways to save yourself that generally escape you until after you're staring at your tombstone.
<a href="http://www.hut.fi/~eye/roguelike/">This page</a> provides a nice insight as to the history of "Roguelike" ASCII dungeon-crawl games, and how the code forked from the original:
<pre>
Rogue--------------
/ \ \ \
Hack Moria Omega \
/ \ \
NetHack Angband---- ADOM
/ \ \ \
Slash'Em Falcon's Zangband Dozens of other
Eye *angband spinoffs
</pre>
Zangband is my favorite, and one to which I contributed minor code for a (now-obsolete) release. I've burned major hours on Rogue, NetHack, Moria and Angband, however, and would recommend all.
I will play nethack at a low level my whole life, I'm sure. I suck at it horribly because I have no patience. So far I've been playing it for 15 years, and not won it yet. I would be considered an average player, I think.
I've never won it without rampant savefile-copying, and that was before they added extra plane-levels to the ascension process.
In my most recent set of attempts, I had one character that had real promise. My Valk had Mjollnir and the Gauntlets of Power needed to throw it. She cleared the Mines and got the luckstone, she cleared Sokoban and got the Amulet of Reflection, and she had two Amulets of Life Saving from a shop. She snuffed Medusa without much trouble, then cleared out the Castle with gratuitous overuse of engraving Elbereth.
She got the wand of wishing, got some new toys from it, and was ready to party. Hey, what's this? Two tins of spinach! Those raise your strength (as dumbass forgets that the Gauntlets already raised it to 25). Eat #1, Valk goes to "Satiated." Eat #2... "You choke on your food. Do you want your possessions identified?" RAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! Apparently, spinach is so nutritious that it leaped past the "You're having trouble getting this down" prompt and went right to my Valk bursting like the poor bastard in Seven.
Then there was a subsequent Samurai who found out the hard way that Boots of Water Walking will NOT keep electric eels from drowning you like an oilskin cloak will...
Just because I've been almost run off the road by oversized SFV's more times than I care to count:
FUH2I, for one, encourage the maximum useage of petro fuels.
You're just hungry for the commissions off the motherfuckers.
Originally posted by headsplice
Just because I've been almost run off the road by oversized SFV's more times than I care to count:
FUH2
Well, I don't like 'em either; not so much because of the arrogance of their drivers, but because they fly in the face of my inherent frugality. At $9.85 per pound, the Cadillac Escalade is a lousy deal. The H2 is only $7.80 per pound, but the H1 wagon is a whopping $15.45 per pound! I'm sorry, but I'm not paying more than $5.51 per pound for a hunk of metal and plastic that gets me around! (Honda Civic Coupe)
Quick, Ljim, how much does my G. cherokee weigh?!
4035 lbs ...$3.97 per pound...not bad
Originally posted by wolf
You're just hungry for the commissions off the motherfuckers.
no, i just want us to run out of oil.....for many reasons
Gods, no...think of the incredible noise from all the squeaking that would develop!
The wolfmobile was a relatively thrifty $4.65/lb
Not bad for a midsize sedan. (I'm actually having a hard time grasping that my car cost less per pound than swiss cheese. I don't think that I have ever made this particular price comparison.)
IRC Bible
Fucking hilarious.
All right, I admit it. I like watching those
Behind the Scenes type shows.
Somebody at Microsoft actually has a
sense of humor.
Originally posted by wolf
All right, I admit it. I like watching those Behind the Scenes type shows.
Well, this just proves how hopelessly unhip I am...I really, really enjoyed that little piece of work, Wolf. Now I want to know more about the history of other typefaces...
Originally posted by hot_pastrami
Somebody at Microsoft actually has a sense of humor.
My God, you're right...he'll probably be fired tomorrow.
However, I found it interesting that he, too, notes the injustice inherent in a lawsuit over hot coffee...
Originally posted by Elspode
Well, this just proves how hopelessly unhip I am...I really, really enjoyed that little piece of work, Wolf. Now I want to know more about the history of other typefaces...
I received the "behind the typeface" link from a friend who was a former typesetter, who knows that CB was and is my absolute favorite typeface, so I was in hysterics over the thing.
http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html
Corporate bullshit generator!
There's a lot flying around right now at my place of work, but I was never any good at coming up with it myself. Now I can abuse the English language, act self-important and be secretly loathed by all my colleagues too!
As the Ramones put it:
Beat on the brat
Beat on the brat
Beat on the <a href="http://www.hate-crew.com/ordner/pinguin.swf">penguin</a> with a baseball bat.
Most are very easy, but they're absurdly picky about the spelling (some of which are WRONG). When in doubt, put spaces instead of hyphens or asterisks.
I'm not sure on N, R, S or W yet.
Originally posted by vsp
As the Ramones put it:
Beat on the brat
Beat on the brat
Beat on the <a href="http://www.hate-crew.com/ordner/pinguin.swf">penguin</a> with a baseball bat.
THAT'S FUN
i got 315.9 ft!
Originally posted by lumberjim
THAT'S FUN
i got 315.9 ft!
My best was 317.3 ft... which I got while "shooting from the hip" rather than trying to work out the most effective timng. When I tried to work it out systematically, my best was about 260 ft.
I've gotten 323.5 (once... 317 was my high before that).
My longest for a face-plant splat was 207.6.
Originally posted by lumberjim
ok, it's on....top this!
Oh Christ... I dont have that kind of time! :D
lol....yeah, for some reason i could do that for hours.....maybe im just a tard.
Originally posted by vsp
I've gotten 323.5 (once... 317 was my high before that).
My longest for a face-plant splat was 207.6.
I just managed a 323.4, not quite up to VSP's high. Now I'm playing this bloody thing instead of working...
so then you can waste your time on
this then.
I found this link in my misc section...dunno where I got it or when, but it works as of now.
Brian
I spanked the money at 269 Miles per hour.
Man that just sounds wrong.
I couldnt get the panguine past 301.4 ft.
Edit: Correction I just got it to 320.5
Man, I love those PETA-sponsored web sites! I clubbed the penguin 217 feet, and spanked the monkey at 220 mph.
Originally posted by lumberjim
ok, it's on....top this!
Competetive much, LJ? :)
not really. not overly competetive at least. just thought i'd try to start some shit.
why, you want summa dis? :D
i spanked the monkey at 334 mph...the letters turned pink and it started playing disco music.....wee!
i cheated, tho. i went to the control panel and set my mouse to max speed.
Pengy: 323.5
Monkey: 185 mph
I spanked the monkey at 365 mph. I cheated too.
Drag the hand to the right edge of the screen. Move the mouse outside the browser window and around to the left side (you can't see the cursor, you will have to guesstimate). Bring the cursor back into the window on the left-hand side. Voila.
edit: Just got 673 mph that way.
WOW!
i got 845 mph!!!! good idea, perth!
i've always had a gift for monkey spanking, but 845 mph? whooosh!
and i'm not even tired!
Originally posted by perth
ow.
Fun game, but by the end of the first level I was getting tired of the seizures.
Ok, it wasn't really fun.
Originally posted by perth
ow.
Why must the dolphins always hurt me so?
Outkast meets Peanuts:
<a href="http://www.venisproductions.com/movies/heyyacb.html">Hey Ya, Charlie Brown!</a> (Quicktime)
This is greater than the thing that was greater than the greatest thing ever. And then some.
looks like it's for mac's...got no plug in to run that. what's the dillio?
OK, that put the biggest grin on my face I've had in the last few days.
I like all the Outkast I hear... some real musicianship there.
thanks, bruce...
that was funny, vsp. i think i like the superfriends
wassup that toad put up on the video clip thread better, though.
Check out the
zipdecoder . It's a map of the US with a dot for each Post Office. Type in a zip code and the dots go out as they are eliminated from possibility. When the entire code is in, it tells you what the name of the Post Office you put in the code for. Show how the Zip system is laid out.
While you're at it, this guys sight has a bunch of cool Java Applets, especially if you're stoned. :)
Originally posted by lumberjim
air hockey
Oh, hell yes! I don't even know how many hours I spent playing air hockey back in the 70's at a really seedy arcade in Midtown KC where all the drug dealers hung out.
I've always wished I had room for a full size arcade air hockey table.
Think that some of you might find these humorous. Please read top left, then top right, then next left and next right, back and forth across the columns.
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~amw243/diaries/
from sauron:
Day Three Million Nine:
Have sent the nine to fetch ring back. If nine succeeds in sorting their elbows from asshats, that is.
who wrote this!?
We don't know. Why? You didn't think asshat was a Cellar creation, did you?
first time i ever heard it. and if i've never heard of something, it doesn;t exist. like the whole tree in the forest thing.
from where, then, did this euphamism arise?
Originally posted by lumberjim
from where, then, did this euphamism arise?
I know they've been using it on
fark.com for ages... bit I don't know for sure if it originated there.
I don't think "asshat" became prominent here until slang came along.
That Charlie Brown clip was great.
And if I haven't said it yet...OutKast's "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" is easily the album of the year for 2003.
snowball fight!
use your down arrow to load snowball, left and right for position, space bar to throw ( hold longer for more distance)
Originally posted by vsp
Outkast meets Peanuts:
<a href="http://www.venisproductions.com/movies/heyyacb.html">Hey Ya, Charlie Brown!</a> (Quicktime)
This is greater than the thing that was greater than the greatest thing ever. And then some.
Oh, great...I got an Apache "access forbidden" message. See? Ya'll went and fucked it up for everyone else... ;)
Originally posted by lumberjim
first time i ever heard it. and if i've never heard of something, it doesn;t exist. like the whole tree in the forest thing.
from where, then, did this euphamism arise?
I have a friend in San Diego who frequently uses the term.... has for years.
Originally posted by Elspode
Oh, great...I got an Apache "access forbidden" message. See? Ya'll went and fucked it up for everyone else... ;)
The technical term is "the Slashdot effect." It's an eight-meg Quicktime movie that's become the everybody's-gotta-see-this meme of the week, so I'm sure that their servers have melted. Someone will mirror it.
Yeah, I sort of figured it was something like that. I don't whether I'm reassured or just disgusted that it actually has a name, though.
This just begs for so many tasteless jokes to be made, it's hard to know where to start.
I want one.
It's part of a series.
They also have a George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Dennis Miller, and Don Rumsfeld.
After a long absence due to bandwidth overload, one of my all-time favorite web sites, the
Jar-Jargonizer, is back.
P.S. I bet UT could find some uses for that Coulter doll.
Hamlet -
The Text Adventure
Fun stuff. The computer geek in me and the theatre geek in me are rejoicing together.
The
NASA Mars Program Video Gallery has 35 videos showing facets of the Mars Program from orbit insertion to parts design and machining. Good stuff.
The Scribbler! (links to another thread)
Good link, Bruce, except I just spent an hour reading it over... :)
Yeah that was an interesting one... tho I'm not sure it told anything we didn't already know. We probably got a good price on our minivan, but probably coulda done better on the tradein. Who knows?
Anyway. Do you like Friendster and its ilk? No? Well, then, maybe you should sign up for
Introvertster.
Ok, this isn't a cool site - yet.
But it may become one in the future, it's only 9 days old you know...
OK, so it's actually crappy, but what the hell,
boardx needs all the advertising it can get.
This is
an ad that CBS refused to air during the Super Bowl. Heavy.
Originally posted by Trillian-zz9
Ok, this isn't a cool site - yet.
But it may become one in the future, it's only 9 days old you know...
OK, so it's actually crappy, but what the hell, boardx needs all the advertising it can get.
Ooh. Looks totally rad. You should spend all of your time there.
This is Zombo.com
The part after the intro is pretty cool.
Wolf, are you being sarcastic?
Ooh. Looks totally rad. You should spend all of your time there.
Anyway
zombo.com is kinda weird.
Hey Ya Charlie Brown <a href="http://files.funfreepages.com/videos/heyyacb.mov">mirror</a> for those who missed it the first time.
The unattainable is unknown on Zombocom.
The infinite is possible on ZoMbO.cOm!
Yeah, whatever, Rasta dood now can I have my fatBurger?
Originally posted by Trillian-zz9
Wolf, are you being sarcastic?
No.
I am making a suggestion, which in all seriousness, I think you should follow.
Being one of the earliest joined regulars on a board is a very cool thing indeed.
Originally posted by wolf
No.
I am making a suggestion, which in all seriousness, I think you should follow.
Being one of the earliest joined regulars on a board is a very cool thing indeed.
is it?Sorry about that wolf.
I wasn't only one of the first members, I was also
the first member to post on
BoardX , just so you know I'm feeling a little proud of myself. :D
Ever wanted to be a mahout? You can
here and
there.I don't know if anyone already knows this one :
Northpole- BaseballOriginally posted by vsp
As the Ramones put it:
Beat on the brat
Beat on the brat
Beat on the <a href="http://www.hate-crew.com/ordner/pinguin.swf">penguin</a> with a baseball bat.
From the pinguin game site:
The Pinguin Game come back @ 02.2004
Cause of to High Traffic count!
ooo this one goes REALLY far......not quite as much fun, tho
I agree, more distance doesn't mean more fun.
So there's this guy, see, and he wants to be the republican candidate for president. His name is
Bill Wyatt.
He apparently got 10.01% of the vote in Oklahoma. Short of what it would take to get him a delegate on the floor of the convention, but he's trying.
Don't miss his
Do it Yourself Propaganda selection.
(hijack)
Can anyone tell me how the fsck Bush has spent $33 million on his campaign w/ no other contenders?
(/hijack)
And, for your reading pleasure:
Cory Doctorow has a
new book out that is really, really good. It's been published under a Creative Commons license (Open Source for lit). You can find his first two books at
CraphoundBecause a lot of people stand to make a lot more money than that when he is re-elected, that's how. They think of it as a capital investment.
Some of these I just don't understand...
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When I entered my legal name, the response was "googlism does not know enough about ..."
this was entertaining in a different wayYou should have found the first response encouraging, anyway!
I found nothing. Zero. Nada. Zip. Despite the fact that a normal Googling turns up several hits.
You and Wolf should get together...
(this is in complete jest, of course, and not meant to offend, but if you read both of their links' contents, it is pretty easy to see what I mean)
Toy for the Boys.
Would have been a lot better with a neutral background, instead of the venetians.
Oh, and don't click too far off center. Looks more realistic that way.
thank you, wolf. thank you very much.
In the "so it's come to this" department, *actual* kitty porn:
http://www.littlegrayguy.com/lgg/
What must be about thirty different shots of thirty different 20-something naked chix, all posed lovingly while holding a grey cat who appears to not give a shit about the whole thing. Totally NSFW, totally leading into a membership page into this bizarre cat's porn site.
A somewhat gentler <a href="http://www2.b3ta.com/sleepy-kittens/">sleepy kittens</a> page. (Two naughty words in the song, but SFW apart from that. Stay to the end.)
Oh my. I think I might have gotten diabetes from watching that.
Ran out of steam on about page 17 of reading these submissions (which are great, btw), so I might be repeating something. Anyways...
Say goodbye to your
spare time
My favorite
online cartoon
Shameless plug for
my band, which you may ignore if you so choose
:cool:
Parody response to the
talking action figures.I wonder if Radar can help
this guy."True, he admits, the helicopter is still a work in progress: It only rises about 18 inches off the ground. "We are in the process of a fifth test of moving forward and backward, left and right," Danh said."
Huh? If it can rise 18" why not 18' or 1800' etc. anyone?
Originally posted by mrnoodle
Ran out of steam on about page 17 of reading these submissions (which are great, btw), so I might be repeating something. Anyways...
Say goodbye to your spare time
My favorite online cartoon
Shameless plug for my band, which you may ignore if you so choose
:cool:
well, it took me until 3 am, but i finally got laid
Originally posted by lumberjim
well, it took me until 3 am, but i finally got laid
lol don't bother with the other one. It looks like you will get laid but you won't.
Originally posted by novice
"True, he admits, the helicopter is still a work in progress: It only rises about 18 inches off the ground. "We are in the process of a fifth test of moving forward and backward, left and right," Danh said."
Huh? If it can rise 18" why not 18' or 1800' etc. anyone?
I've seen films of Frank Piasecki and Igor Sikorski testing their designs. That's the way they did it and usually teathered to the ground. You don't want to get up 18' (or more :eek: ) only to find out your design is not stable and you can't control it. Helicopter design is 100 times more difficult than fixed wing aircraft. At least for ones that work.
Yeah Bruce, After I posted I thought about it some more and figured I was being pedantic in my interpretation.
I didn't read through the entire 62 pages of links, so if these are repeats, sorry. Here are some sites that I can spend hours at if I have the time:
http://www.slowwave.com/index.php?date=04-01-31
http://www.worth1000.com/
http://www.darwinawards.com/slush/
Originally posted by MomentsAre
I didn't read through the entire 62 pages of links, so if these are repeats, sorry.
I couldn't be arsed reading 62 pages either. Top right of every thread page is an efficient search engine:)
They're picking on we
deaf people.Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
They're picking on we deaf people.
Don't be upset, Bruce...fast forward 500 years or so, when the deaf have become more perfect and more highly-evolved due to the fact that they have only been able to absorb pure, family-friendly entertainment.
That's what will happen, right? I mean, that's the point, isn't it? If we protect all the deaf people from the bad stuff (like that Sanford and Son...have you ever seen such *filth*!?), then they will go on to be better citizens, living better lives, and therefore will be more successful, and raise offspring who are even more perfect, etc, until the deaf and their progeny rule the Earth....?
I suppose you're right, Els. And they can operate the Solient Green Machines and not hear the screams. ;)
Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
They're picking on we deaf people.
The word "censor" appears six times in this article. I'm sorry, but this isn't censorship. The goverment isn't
preventing the media outlets from providing closed captioning, they're just declining to help fund the closed captioning. Sure, the process to select which shows are granted goverment funds is pretty mind-bendingly dumb, but that's just the way the government operates.
So many people whip out the "censorship!" flag these days where it just plain isn't. If the government declines to pay a station money to add closed captioning to Bewitched, the station can pay for that themselves... it's not censorship. If a university removes a student's website from their servers because it's deemed inappropriate, that makes them close-minded, stick-in-the-mud fucktards; but they're within their rights, and nothing prevents the student from hosting the site elsewhere... it's not censorship. Declining to support somone's message is WAY different from making an effort to smother that message. Freedom of Speech guarantees that you can say what you like, but it doesn't guarantee that anyone is going to help you say it.
Playing the censorship card is like taking antibiotics... if either is used too liberally where it's not appropriate, it will lose it's effectiveness to the point of being worthless.
Alan's philosophy #51: Never assume something's sinister if it can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Ok, I'm done now.
Yank or Dixie?
91% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?
That's right, not a bit of Yank here. I should probably make an obligatory southern expression but as it's after three in the mornin' I can't think of any.
Hmmm. I changed from "pillbug" (Great Lakes, northeast) to "sowbug" (midwest), and went from 50% to 61%. That seems off to me.
Originally posted by hot_pastrami
So many people whip out the "censorship!" flag these days where it just plain isn't.
Too many people give the government this free pass. If they tried to actually ban the showing of "Bewitched", they know they'd get smacked down. So they do some stupid petty thing to satisfy the Ashcrofts in their base, but still avoid nationwide derision. The prejudicial denial of money is one of two sneaky US forms of censorship. The other is putting pressure on a corporation to do it, then saying it wasn't the government, so it wasn't censorship.
Originally posted by hot_pastrami
So many people whip out the "censorship!" flag these days where it just plain isn't.
But HP, if the feds pick and choose what to fund, knowing full well if they don't fund it nobody will, isn't that censorship on the deaf? I agree it's not censorship on the media but what about the end user?
Oh, and 34%. Definite Yankee.
Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
But HP, if the feds pick and choose what to fund, knowing full well if they don't fund it nobody will, isn't that censorship on the deaf? I agree it's not censorship on the media but what about the end user?
Well, stations get sponsors for closed captioning all the time, probably more often than the government pays for it. And in some cases, the stations just absorb the expense themselves.
I'm not agreeing with the government's actions, I think they've broken a few Stupid Barriers in their process of selecting which shows to support. And I definitely think the goverment uses its power to manipulate the media, to undesirable ends. I'm just pointing out that in this instance, there's no "censorship" that I can see. The government isn't
forbidding stations from providing closed captioning, they're just not sponsoring it for certain programs anymore, programs which supposedly fall outside of the "educational, news or informational" category.
My disagreement is not really with the sentiment of the article, just with the language it uses. It's like a boy-that-cried-wolf thing... if too many people accuse the goverment of censorship where no real censorship is going on, it dilutes the anti-censorship argument. There
is a problem with this government action, and it ought to be fixed, but I wouldn't call it "censorship." I highly doubt that Bewitched was denied money to pay for Closed Captioning because it contained some message the govenment is trying to squash... more likely the government is just doing a government-quality job of enforcing their "educational, news or informational" requirement, and making a futile effort to correct that.
I'm not big fan of the governemnt per se, but I don't think they're completely evil. Just
mostly evil.
45% Yankee ... barely into the Yankee category. My primary language acquisition occured in the Midwest, which may account for this score.
What can I say. I'm a cracker at heart.
I like Springer, Baseball, and shotguns. I can tolerate NASCAR, if required, allthough prefer prorally to circle track when it comes to auto racing.
Originally posted by hot_pastrami
So many people whip out the "censorship!" flag these days where it just plain isn't.
Okay, it isn't censorship. It is discrimination, because they are choosing one type or quality of programming over another, based on some unknown and arbitrary set of values.
Barely Dixie at 58%. I knew I was a hick, but at least now I've got some evidence.
40% Yankee. Depressing really.
65% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
Fuck...
I managed a 52% Dixie...Dagney only got to 56%...can't tell there are TWO 'a's in caramel. LOL
Brian
Originally posted by wolf
Closet redneck!!
I prefer "educated hoosier."
95% Dixie,
Amercan by birth,
Southern by the grace of god !!!!!
53% dixie. born in maryland, lived there and Va until age 7. thought i had cleansed my self of that........
if they'd asked yeah, yes, yup, or yo, hey, hi, i'd have come up more northern.
The first honest political quiz
"A Humorous Political Party Quiz to Test If You're an Archconservative, Leftwing Wacko, Antigovernment Libertine or a Commie Sympathizer"
It says it's satire, but there is a ton of truth to be found in it too.
---
What is the meanest most low-down thing a person can do during a kid's soccer game?
CONS: Cheat.
LIBL: Keep score.
LBRT: Play the game in a municipal park.
COMM: Hog all the glory by not being a team player.
---
The solution to traffic congestion is to...
CONS: build more roads, and highways.
LIBL: - discourage people from driving by quadrupling the price of gasoline.
- severely limit the number of available parking spaces.
- build more busses and rail transit.
LBRT: make traffic signals, stop signs, and speed limits mere suggestions, rather than hard and fast rules.
COMM: give everybody a free bicycle.
Originally posted by zippyt
95% Dixie,
Amercan by birth,
Southern by the grace of god !!!!!
I wouldn't be too proud of that. ;)
Fun Time waster ...
Bush Shoot Out.
I promise. No kittens. No sponge-monkeys.
http://www.rathergood.com/vid/
(sorry about the Brittney Spears.)
Wolf both of those links are crazy and I like 'em:D
Originally posted by wolf
I promise. No kittens. No sponge-monkeys.
You say that as if there was something wrong with either.
Kellog's Nutrigrain.
Bizarre/hilarious/inspiring/disturbing/confusingalarming... shit, I busted my slash key. But I think you get the idea. My life is now forever changed in some immeasurably small but unmistakably critical way.
Some of the other videos on the site are also amusing, others not so much.
I loved the
Starbucks movie.
First-hand accounts from firefighters who were at ground zero on 9/11. I haven't even got the words. I've managed to read a few of them... some pretty powerful narratives. Damn.
Dante's Inferno updated test
I scored:
Second Level of Hell
You have come to a place mute of all light, where the wind bellows as the sea does in a tempest. This is the realm where the lustful spend eternity. Here, sinners are blown around endlessly by the unforgiving winds of unquenchable desire as punishment for their transgressions. The infernal hurricane that never rests hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine, whirling them round, and smiting, it molests them. You have betrayed reason at the behest of your appetite for pleasure, and so here you are doomed to remain. Cleopatra and Helen of Troy are two that share in your fate.
take the test hereDing,Ding, 5th level, watch your step please.
The river Styx runs through this level of Hell, and in it are punished the wrathful and the gloomy. The former are forever lashing out at each other in anger, furious and naked, tearing each other piecemeal with their teeth. The latter are gurgling in the black mud, slothful and sullen, withdrawn from the world. Their lamentations bubble to the surface as they try to repeat a doleful hymn, though with unbroken words they cannot say it. Because you lived a cruel, vindictive and hateful life, you meet your fate in the Styx.:haha:
Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis
You approach Satan's wretched city where you behold a wide plain surrounded by iron walls. Before you are fields full of distress and torment terrible. Burning tombs are littered about the landscape. Inside these flaming sepulchers suffer the heretics, failing to believe in God and the afterlife, who make themselves audible by doleful sighs. You will join the wicked that lie here, and will be offered no respite. The three infernal Furies stained with blood, with limbs of women and hair of serpents, dwell in this circle of Hell.
Move outta the way of those stairs Bruce. I gotta go down one.
I'm right there with you Novice in the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis. I think my favorite question was A pimp is a good thing to be, True or False. I was tempted to answer True just for the hell of it.
Third Level of Hell
In the third circle, you find yourself amidst eternal rain, maledict, cold, and heavy. The gluttons are punished here, lying in the filthy mixture of shadows and of putrid water. Because you consumed in excess, you meet your fate beneath the cold, dirty rain, amidst the other souls that there lay unhappily in the stinking mud. Cerebus, a canine monster cruel and uncouth with his three heads and red eyes, dwells in this level. He growls and tears at the damned with his teeth and claws.
Hey, my level has a puppy!!
That same site has a
Personality Disorder Test
It thinks I'm paranoid and narcissistic.
I think people are out to get me, but I'm so cool I deserve their attention, I guess ...
Apparently I'm histrionic and narcissistic.
I demand attention and *know* that I deserve it. :)
I'm everything but schizoid.
:3eye:
Hey I only go to purgatory... That's not funny, I thought my life was much mor interesting than that.
High on narcissistic and moderate on histrionic... But you only can get negative results!
Second Level of Hell, probably because I am:
Disorder | Rating
Paranoid: Low
Schizoid: Low
Schizotypal: High
Antisocial: Low
Borderline: Low
Histrionic: Moderate
Narcissistic: Moderate
Avoidant: Moderate
Dependent: High
Obsessive-Compulsive: Moderate
Sixth Circle, land of the heretics. I expect lots of company.
(I also got Very High for Gluttonous, Wrathful and Gloomy and Fraudulent/Malicious/Panderers, and High for Lust and Treacherous. Woohoo!)
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo | Moderate
Level 2 | High
Level 3 | Moderate
Level 4 | Low
Level 5 | Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very High
Level 7 | Moderate
Level 8- the Malebolge | Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus | Low
Yay!
I'm on Dis as well, with Wrath/Gloomy and gluttony as runners up. I'm a bit surprised at the second one.
I've got moderate Schizoid, Schizotypal, Avoidant, and Obsessive-Compulsive traits, too. No surprises.
Rating Information
Paranoid: Very High
Schizoid: High
Schizotypal: High
Antisocial: High
Borderline: Low
Histrionic: High
Narcissistic: Very High
Avoidant: High
Dependent: High
Obsessive-Compulsive: High
You and me both Wolf
It's funny Brigliadore, I paused over the same question. After all, who would take care of the girls if the pimp wasn't around. Common sense prevailed but it was touch and go.:D
A cool site is
playaholics.comOriginally posted by wolf
That same site has a Personality Disorder Test
It thinks I'm paranoid and narcissistic.
I think people are out to get me, but I'm so cool I deserve their attention, I guess ...
i'm completely sane.....
which is just insane.
and i'm better than all of you, because i scored low in everything except Narcissistic which was moderate.
Originally posted by lumberjim
and i'm better than all of you, because i scored low in everything except Narcissistic which was moderate.
Ok I wasn't going to say how I did on that test but since your going to rub in how "normal" you are then I have just got to say this. I scored low on everything :p
I do think being normal is all relative, I know I am a strange person, and no test is going to change that. That test said I was "normal", maybe what it meant is I am so normal, I'm abnormal.
i was saying i'm better than you all for the irony (narcissism).
and i think you'd have to be fairly normal to get along with hp.
opposites attract.
Originally posted by lumberjim
and i think you'd have to be fairly normal to get along with hp.
opposites attract.
Dude, I'm so normal it hurts. I just writhe around on the floor in agony, hurting from the overwhelming normalcy. My cat's breath smells like cat food.
that's not normalcy that's causing the pain. your butt plug is too big....get a smaller one.
was that out of line?
Originally posted by lumberjim
and i think you'd have to be fairly normal to get along with hp.
Me normal? No, I think its our collective weirdness that keeps me and HP together.
Originally posted by lumberjim
that's not normalcy that's causing the pain. your butt plug is too big....get a smaller one.
Funny, too too funny.
here's a nice medium one you could try:
Oh no, some asshole has my pen!
Originally posted by lumberjim
here's a nice medium one you could try:
I told you to stop taking that thing to work! No one wants to see your stupid butt plug....
:rolleyes:
Originally posted by lumberjim
your butt plug is too big....get a smaller one.
Dude, that's you solution to
everything. Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not disagreeing... you're brilliant. Thank you.
I'm not sure how legitimate this is, but it's certainly interesting.
"Rainbow" is supposedly a children's show from the UK, which was aired in the late 70s and early 80s. There was one infamous episode, called the "
innuendo episode" these days, which contains a suprising number of veiled sexual references.
Well, after further digging, it looks like it's semi-legitimate. The episode was created by the cast of Rainbow, but never aired for children:
The clip is genuine and comes from a 1978 Thames TV 'Christmas tape' made by station staff in their spare time for airing at their Christmas party. The clip was actually broadcast on Channel 4 in 1997 as part of Victor Lewis Smith's 'TV Offal'
http://www.htw.ndirect.co.uk/tvoffal.html
Still funny though.
The coffin cam on
see me rot. :eek:
Need UN intervention? Fill out this handy form.
Holy Cow, I fell for that so hard I'm crapping fishhooks. That was hilarious! :3eye:
Originally posted by sycamore
The Manifestos are back.
That color scheme made me ill.
Once you register, you can change the color scheme. There are currently 10 to choose from.
The default seemed like a good idea at the time, but I think it'll be changed.
Originally posted by Griff
That color scheme made me ill.
Shouldn't be a problem now.
do you think the guy with the shrimp sign is serious, or just fucking with the gay bashers?
Don't mermaids have scales?
Originally posted by lumberjim
do you think the guy with the shrimp sign is serious, or just fucking with the gay bashers?
fooled me. on second look, i noticed the disclaimer at the very bottom of the page. The problem was that i was straight when i looked at that this morning. Don;t worry, that situation has now been rectified
:blunt:
Life would be more fun without disclaimers.:)
The
cruel site of the day.
The NeoFiles
R.U. Sirius has been one of my favorite writers for a couple of years. He's offbeat, funny, wickedly intelligent, and just plain weird. I even joined a political movement because of him. I'm not too sure about the brain supplements, but I love his writing.
Separate the red from the blue. Interesting, and tricky. I only tried it once, and beat it wth a time of 185.
Waltyer Potter liked to
stuff animals and birds. He also liked to create tableaus with them.;)
Okay, seems that some station in North Carolina was allowing people to just get on a website to post school and business closings. However, they didn't screen the postings before putting them directly to the TV. Here are some of the screen shots that people have collected and put on this site. Some are more funny than others, but worth enjoying.
http://mercury.rh.ncsu.edu/tww-closings/I'm only going to Purgatory, despite:
<table width="300" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td width="180"><font face="arial" size="-1"><b>Disorder</b></font></td><td width="120"><font face="arial" size="-1"><b>Rating</b></font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="arial" size="-1"><a href="http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#paranoid">Paranoid</a>:</font></td><td><font color="#cc0033" face="arial" size="-1">High</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="arial" size="-1"><a href="http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#schizoid">Schizoid</a>:</font></td><td><font color="#990099" face="arial" size="-1">Moderate</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="arial" size="-1"><a href="http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#schizotypal">Schizotypal</a>:</font></td><td><font color="#ff0000" face="arial" size="-1">Very High</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="arial" size="-1"><a href="http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#antisocial">Antisocial</a>:</font></td><td><font color="#990099" face="arial" size="-1">Moderate</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="arial" size="-1"><a href="http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#borderline">Borderline</a>:</font></td><td><font color="#000099" face="arial" size="-1">Low</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="arial" size="-1"><a href="http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#histrionic">Histrionic</a>:</font></td><td><font color="#990099" face="arial" size="-1">Moderate</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="arial" size="-1"><a href="http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#narcissistic">Narcissistic</a>:</font></td><td><font color="#990099" face="arial" size="-1">Moderate</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="arial" size="-1"><a href="http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#avoidant">Avoidant</a>:</font></td><td><font color="#cc0033" face="arial" size="-1">High</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="arial" size="-1"><a href="http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#dependent">Dependent</a>:</font></td><td><font color="#cc0033" face="arial" size="-1">High</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="arial" size="-1"><a href="http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#obsessive">Obsessive-Compulsive</a>:</font></td><td><font color="#cc0033" face="arial" size="-1">High</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><font color="#000000" face="arial" size="-1"><br></font></td></tr></table><br>
http://www.cofe.ru/Apple/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47985&perpage=25&pagenumber=16
fun for browsing, if you have a translator, but don't post, they'll tell you that you're not really an american, you're just going undercover.
one more! this is a fun one!
http://www.amiaceleb.com/index.php
some of these people really look like celebrities, and others are great for a laugh.
Originally posted by hot_pastrami
Separate the red from the blue. Interesting, and tricky. I only tried it once, and beat it wth a time of 185.
[COLOR=indigo]I also got 185 on the first try. It took me a long time to figure out which side I wanted on which. I finally chose blue on the left and red on the right. I wonder if that says something about a person's personality?[/COLOR]
Darn those little motherhumpers are tricky.
Got it in 81.
116 and this close to hitting something.
This came up as "next game" after the separate the balls thing.
Fun. You gotta lead the puffin JUST right.
I got all the blues and reds seperated and the game didn't stop so I had to change sides... that was really heavy
A girl's guided tour through the
Chernoble Dead Zone. Empty streets, abandoned homes and buildings... creepy. Google cached copy is linked, because the original site is being hammered by blog links.
I can't remember if I already posted
this.. . but if I did, then I shouldn't have. It's in Korean, but... somehow I doubt I'd understand this abomination any more if it were in English. Enter at your own emotional risk.
Those folks seem to have a case of fecophilia.
Originally posted by lumberjim
what is WRONG with you?
The doctors say I might have brain damage. In my brain.
well, i recommend having it removed. it worked for sycamore.
Originally posted by lumberjim
well, i recommend having it removed. it worked for sycamore.
Nigga please! I would never have my brain damage removed...it's too precious to me.
I'm just gonna have to file this under "Inscrutible Oriental Things".
I wonder if Mr. Hanky knows about the Poopremes ...
Originally posted by lumberjim
Here's the best site on the 'net
[SIZE=1]gotcha[/SIZE]
I hate to point this out, Jimbo, but one of the plainest signs of a message-slut is to post a link to the site you're on.
I'm just kidding... I
don't hate to point that out. :D
Originally posted by lumberjim
yeah, I'm queer.
I just thought that you liked to put on women's clothing and hang around in bars...
Originally posted by staceyv
http://www.wouldyouhitthis.com/index.php?id=34035
this site is a gem.
Cruisin' much, Stacy? ;)
cruisin? explain...(sorry, it went over my head)
[SIZE=1]thats what the old timers call shopping for a new man[/SIZE]
Originally posted by wolf
How Cool are You?
...damnit.
nothing i didnt already know, though.
i wasn't cruisin, i was being competetive. i put his picture on the site too. i wanted to see who would get more "yeah, i'd hit thats"
your link took me right to arsen......i didn't get the chance to vote on you.....and i'm afraid that i WOULD hit you, just not in the way the site is reffering to :D....i wouldnt "hit" arsen, btw.
Originally posted by wolf
How Cool are You?
My Jedi warning sense was ringing off the hook, then ... but since I mentioned Jedi's, there is a slight possibility I may not be cool. Poo.
http://www.wouldyouhitthis.com/index.php?id=33972
here you go jim...
this is a picture of a guy who said NO. i was relieved!!
It is not a good sign that his "best picture" is the one that he had to crop some chick out of.
Does it make you feel better or know that 90+% of the world would happily bang you or something? How does that work?
This is pretty funny, even more so if you've seen the movie :D
Harry Potter bootleg subtitlesI was pretty impressed with this site... the photography of one Frank Phillips. They're all photos of bugs, but they're cool. Damn cool. No, really...
You can trust me. Mwuhahahaha.
[size=1]*cough*[/size]
Oh, right... the URL:
http://www.beautifulbugs.com/Oh, yeah. #8 in the left column is awesome. Kickass eyes.
Originally posted by Trillian-zz9
This is pretty funny, even more so if you've seen the movie :D Harry Potter bootleg subtitles
I've got to ask...why is it subtitled in English? Even the stuff that is written in blood on the wall is already in English.
I'm very, very puzzled.
the Exorcist re-enacted by bunnies ,
http://www.angryalien.com/are you guys all going to that "would you hit this" site and rating "no" for arsen?!! please don't do that. it's not very nice :confused:
I voted no honestly because I don't find him in the least attractive.
If it's any consolation, you're not my type either.
wow Wolf you did more then me, I didn't give a shit enough to even vote.
Originally posted by staceyv
are you guys all going to that "would you hit this" site and rating "no" for arsen?!! please don't do that. it's not very nice :confused:
stacey, id like to speak to you.
but not in this thread.
Exploding Glock Pistols Preventable, but scary none the less.:eek:
[COLOR=indigo]Stacey? Why are you posting on a hot or not website? Don't you have something more grown up to do, like fix your marriage or something?[/COLOR]
Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Exploding Glock Pistols Preventable, but scary none the less.:eek:
As one of those people who actually bothers to read the manual ... Glock, Inc. sternly warns not to use reloaded or remanufactured ammo, which is the usual culprit. They also clearly state not to use non-jacketed ammo.
OC, it's obvious that i spend tons of time thinking about what to do with my marriage. THAT was for fun. i've never had a picture of us in the computer until zippy scanned them for me, and i just googled "submit picture" and thought it would be fun to see how we got rated. i also e-mailed the pics to my family. it's new to me, okay? i'm just having a little fun.
http://www.bitterwaitress.com/cgi-bin/ib/ikonboard.cgi?;act=SF;f=1
here's a really really good site, for anyone who goes out to eat...
What do Clint Eastwood, John Dean and Richard Nixon have in common? They’re all related to Kerry AND Bush, according to
Family Forest :turd:
Oh great...as soon as you posted it to The Cellar, the CIA went and broke the link so none of us could read it.
Try this
http://www.familyforest.com/Kerry_Bush_Cousins.html
I am not sure why Bruce's link doesnt work as it looks like the exact same link.
That's strange, because I always try them after I post them and it worked then????:(
Originally posted by Elspode
Oh great...as soon as you posted it to The Cellar, the CIA went and broke the link so none of us could read it.
no we didn't
The hazards of
smoking. Some you haven't thought of, I'll bet.:)
i think it's more like "the hazards of NOT smoking". we need more stuff like that to make us smokers feel better about continuing our habit. terrible things could happen if i tried to quit...
"ideal for domestic and professional joinery," indeed!!
Streaming live video of the Aurora Borealis from Fairbanks, Alaska...
http://www.aurorawebcam.com/webcam.php?page=aurorawebcamOriginally posted by Telefunken
Girls and Power Tools:
http://www.video-c.co.uk/frontend/asp/microshow.asp?vidref=benn001&FileType=ADSLprog
My god...it is a power tool calendar come to life!
sucks
i can do better in my sleep
and insults are best when personalized.
I'm having a hard time deciding between the
Talking Bush and the
Farting Bush.
The bumper magnets are too funny. Good way to handle the gag, too ... no significant damage to the vehicle involved.
Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
The hazards of smoking. Some you haven't thought of, I'll bet.:)
Damn, that was fucked up...baahaha!
Check out buildings falling down and going boom!
They even have footage of the recent Veterans Stadium here in Philly. Gotta have RealOne Player to check out the videos...sorry!
ImplosionWorldFor those of us who like to drink:
Modern Drunkard
A sample:
Bull Shot
2 oz vodka
1 oz water
1 ramen seasoning packet (beef or shrimp is best)
Dash of hot sauce
Dissolve the seasoning packet in the water, add the vodka and hot sauce, shake well and serve as a shot.
Salty, spicy and undeniably bold, this cocktail will put hair on your chest and a song in your heart. An angry, brutish, death-metal sort of song, mayhap, but a song nevertheless.
Hey guys,
At
this site, there are some really high quality pictures from the war in Iraq. Unfortunately, they don't give permission to copy the images, so I can't post them in-line. But they're very good, anyway.
My apologies if it's already been posted.
It is not permitted to use photos of this side for other purposes than for the representation of the side within these Homepage!
Posted by VERY well armed Texans.
LJ, LJ, what ya gonna do, whatcha gonna do when they come for you?:worried:
I don't know what you're talking about, bruce.
Wow. Some nice shots in there. Picture really is worth a thousand words. I wish Life magazine was still around, I found that style of journalism particular style of journalism very compelling. Anyone else wonder if there is a market for that kind of thing?
Don't know if you have all seen this before or not....
Click on the polar bear and the penguin will jump.
Click again, and the polar bear will smack the penguin across the ice/snow.
My highest score has been 315.2
Enjoy....
http://n.ethz.ch/student/mkos/pinguin.swfOkay...checked the link from my message to make sure it worked...and got 320.5
next?
IQTest.com
I would imagine that the scores here would be quite high. Here's mine:
We are confirming that your IQ Test score was: 119
IQ Score Cognitive Designation Possessors
Below 75 Learning difficulty
75 - 85 Below Average
85 - 114 Average Middle school graduates
115 - 124 Above average High school graduates
125 - 134 Gifted University graduates
135 - 144 Highly gifted Professionals
145 - 154 Genius Professors/Researchers
155 - 164 Genius Nobel Prize Winners
165 - 179 High genius
180 - 200 Extraordinary genius
Yup, just as I thought. That's actually higher than the last IQ test that I took...heee! :D
145 - 154 Genius Professors/Researchers
We knew that :P
And also that ones intelligence has no bearing on happiness or what you are capable of. It's what you do with it that counts.
Thank you for taking the IQ Test at
www.IQTest.com.
We are confirming that your IQ Test score was: 135
Not bad with a bunch of college students yammering at me...
Gulp! Now I'm feeling all self-conscience! ;)
133 with a coworker talking at me and a break to find my cell phone.
317, didn't take too long to get the hang of it. I hate internet IQ tests. Friend of mine is part of this program to moniter twins, some research thing. They did clinical IQ test, she got 152.
137, but I admit to guessing on the last 2 questions.
Thank you for taking the IQ Test at www.IQTest.com.
We are confirming that your IQ Test score was: 147
IQ Score Cognitive Designation Possessors
Below 75 Learning difficulty
75 - 85 Below Average
85 - 114 Average Middle school graduates
115 - 124 Above average High school graduates
125 - 134 Gifted University graduates
135 - 144 Highly gifted Professionals
145 - 154 Genius Professors/Researchers
155 - 164 Genius Nobel Prize Winners
165 - 179 High genius
180 - 200 Extraordinary genius
I'm gonna hafta agree with what HP said before about these. it's hoooey. the test was wicked easy, and I'm no friggin genius, beleive you me. look. i can't even spell believe. They're just fanning your balls, trying to get you to buy the whole report.
135 - 144 Highly gifted Professionals ,
I have scored up to a 149 on an official IQ test befor .
Your IQ is: 146
That's such crap. How do they know to always make my score 1 point less than jim???
I found another IQ test online, ended up being basically the same thing and scored a 160. I'd be interested to see how many points lower I would score on an official IQ test.
159. I'm too clever by half, but "Genius Nobel Prize Winners" seems a bit over the top.
Originally posted by Cam
I found another IQ test online, ended up being basically the same thing and scored a 160. I'd be interested to see how many points lower I would score on an official IQ test.
I don't have the kit anymore, or I'd have you over to play ...
(I was trained on the WAIS-III, WISC-III and Rorschach)
Originally posted by wolf
I don't have the kit anymore, or I'd have you over to play ...
(I was trained on the WAIS-III, WISC-III and Rorschach)
Oh, I love them. They’re the pictures of the Alien eating my persecutors.;)
Originally posted by jinx
Inkblot test.
God that sucked SO bad! This has convinced me to NEVER again take an online test. Can you see several chickens in this, and does it sexually arouse you?! I kept wishing there was a "It's a friggin inkblot!" choice.
It's generating my results now, hopefully this will prove worthwhile........
...........Blue58, your subconscious mind is driven most by Curiosity
You are full of questions about life, people, and your own potential. You spend more time than others imagining the possibilities for your life — and you're open to things others are too afraid to consider.
You have an almost physical need to know and do more. It's only through new experiences that you feel a greater understanding of yourself and the world. You also have a rebellious streak that shows up when you feel unable to truly influence the world or circumstances around you. Your appetite for novel experiences also shows an openness others don't have, but wish they did.
Your psyche is very rich; the more you learn about it, the more you will understand who you really are.
What a crock of shit.
Children find
God by killing deer.
http://www.mensa.org/workout.html
This is more challenging than those stupid ego-stroking online IQ tests. How high can you score?
ow. my brain hurts
Your score was 24 out of 30. That is a very good score, you would have a good chance of passing the Mensa test.
I left a couple blank. Even with their answer, i still don;t get the typist question.
Bah 22, I never could make words out of letter jumbles.
Brief Safe. You've at least got to admire the ingenuity. They ought to sell a discounted do-it-yourself kit that is just a bag of Olestra potato chips.
just curious, HP. how did you happen upon that? were you googling skid marks?
The adventures of Seinfeld and Superman
AMEX marketing, but pretty clever.... watch the "Uniform" short.
Originally posted by lumberjim
just curious, HP. how did you happen upon that? were you googling skid marks?
It was linked from a blog site, I forget which. Probably that soiled underwear blog that I frequent.
The Guy I Almost Was
http://www.e-sheep.com/almostguy/
(that's e-sheep, not e-shepp)
E-Sheep is full of great comics,
http://www.e-sheep.com/main.shtml
Their main page, points to all of them. Delta Thrives and the Apokemon saga are my favorites, but I found Rush Limbaugh Eats Everything to be amusing and true to its title.
Bwahahahaha.:D
From The guy I almost was.
I love e-sheep.
The first one I read was the Jain's Death ... I remember waiting FOREVER for the pages to load on a really slow dialup!
El, make sure you read
shapeshifter, and especially
saturnalia.Since everybody already registered with tickle for the IQ test ... try the
Star Wars Test
Not surprisingly, my character-type is "Yoda".
Stop me before I kill someone. My
Inner Rock Star is Brittney Spears????????? :eek:
Just in time for Easter...
In case you wondered what your peeps did when you weren't looking!
Fellowship of the PeepsOh yeah, the rock star in you is Sting. Sexy, versatile, and enormously successful, you're an introspective soul who channels your life experiences into everything you do. You're fed by a complex stream of intellectual curiosity, altruism, and unparalleled talent. It's no wonder the world never tires of you. You and Sting share a maturity, professionalism, and modesty which make you appear mysterious and wise: with such depth and sincerity at your fingertips, people can't wait to see what you'll create next. Discover your inner Sting. :rolleyes:
Well, at least I'm not Prince.
this one is worth bookmarking
What time is it?I refuse to use that government website. Don't you see, the government stole money from our pockets to create that website! If noone goes to it, they will take it down and stop wasting our money on this non-constitutional use! Sure, a few people will suffer by not knowing the exact time at first, but I'm sure a non-government source funded privately or through charity will step in to provide our temporal needs. They would even do it better, I bet they could be accurate to within one hundredth of a second rather than the inefficient government waste accuracy of two tenths of a second. :p
If noone goes to it, they will take it down and stop wasting our money on this non-constitutional use!
Stop a gumint program because no one wants or uses it? Don't be silly.:haha:
He's right. They'll only shut it down once it becomes something people rely on. (oh, and this will occur during a democratic administration, but they'll blame the reckless spending of the last republican administration. And then taxes will go up.)
One may find a whole buncha IQ and personality tests including the MMPI
here.<a href="http://www.subservientchicken.com">Subservient Chicken</a>.
Burger King's ad people are on peyote.
Originally posted by vsp
<a href="http://www.subservientchicken.com">Subservient Chicken</a>.
Burger King's ad people are on peyote.
very very strange
Here is the complete list of what the Subservient Chicken will do. Someone (not me) reverse engineered the html to find all the different movie clips, therefore, all of the different options can only be played individually (instead of the loop that brings the chicken guy back to neutral).
http://www.gigasociety.org/gigaweb.htm
Portal of Evil has a file on this web page. It is the Giga society, and it only accepts IQs of 196, or basically the 99.9999999th percentile. That's one in a billion. The society has six members, enough for a decent poker game.
The test that the founder of this society created is just plain insane, you can see it at:
http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/tfg/tfglong.html
It seems that the sole purpose of this hi IQ society is to gloat.
If I worked in the mental health field, I bet I could get a dozen or so idiot savants to take their test and successfully pass it. I could then fill their exclusive little club with a great crowd :)
Possible correction: The society might be one in a million, not a billion, as said by this web site that catalogs tests for high percentile nerds:
http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/hoeflin.html
Edit again: The Mega society has one in a million geeks, the Giga really does shoot for one in a billion.
Originally posted by headsplice
Here is the complete list of what the Subservient Chicken will do. Someone (not me) reverse engineered the html to find all the different movie clips, therefore, all of the different options can only be played individually (instead of the loop that brings the chicken guy back to neutral).
that rather extensive list seems to have missed "bark like a dog", which was one of my requests that worked to great humorous effect.
(it included a ceremonial leg lifting.)
The chicken told me that it doesn't do things that are not appropriate for general audiences.:haha:
[i]
Edit again: The Mega society has one in a million geeks, the Giga really does shoot for one in a billion. [/B]
So this
Mifflin guy, one of the 6, is available for tutoring high school and college students in the North Seattle area. $12 an hour.
Nice smackdown, jinx. But then you get a lot of practice on lumberjim.
Originally posted by jinx
So this Mifflin guy, one of the 6, is available for tutoring high school and college students in the North Seattle area. $12 an hour.
Kinda sad. It also looks like having a 196 IQ does not make one a good web designer.
Did I mention the society was founded by a hobbit?
From the fine folks at
Sacred Cow Burgers
A small sample to whet your appetite:
Originally posted by jeni
dave, i know you like cool images for backgrounds...
this person does some really -really- nice ones.
www.digitalblasphemy.com
That is an awesome website....thanks for posting it :D
Welcome to the Cellar, qt.:)
I think if you take the time to go through this thread you'll find many awesome links. Our research staff is first class.
Slang's voice should be used on the pronunciation file for that word.
It does say that you can record your own pronunciation...
So it does...
(wav file, 2 sec, 44KB, NSFW)
Pluck your twangers. This is safe for work, but people might look at you funny for watching it.
While totally hysterical, this clip was not actually aired in a children's show. It was filmed for in-house humor purposed. I just can't find the tv website that explains the background story.
No not actually aired. But damn funny. Saturday Night Live writers should take notes.
A bunch of volunteer employees and retirees, at Boeing, Wichita, are restoring
"Doc" , a B-29 bomber. It'll not only look perfect, it will FLY.:D
At last,
Fifi has a mate!
<a href="http://www.kiteretsu.jp/on/tontie/">Tontie</a>, the best Whac-a-Mole ever.
Say goodbye to your productivity.
No poop molecules, though.:)
Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
No poop molecules, though.:)
no, but HP does have another link that is devoted to poop molecules.
and it led me to discover something that every man should have:
farty pantsShe spotted
this on her way home on Monday.
She had to call me to find out what "monkey butt" was. I looked it up for her and found the homepage before the lightbulb went on and I remembered what it is.
You have to go look it up yourself. HA!
Brian
JINX, that's a riot......do you remember the "I'll kick your ass" auction? now THAT was funny.
In keeping with the strange Ebay auctions theme we seem to have going today, I found
this beauty while visiting another site earlier today.
I don't know that I would want to buy this after that guy had been in it, but to each their own.
The site I found the above link at is
this site. A fun site that collects strange auctions and posts the URL for them.
OW! My eyes! I think I'm blind!
Thanks a lot, next time warn us before linking to something like that!
EWWWWWWW
Brian
Hey. Psst. You, the one running Windows. I bet you think that MacOS sucks.
Hey, over there. You with the Macintosh. I don't even have to ask, I know you think Windows sucks?
Guess what?
You're both right.
and some of us have seen the Light and switched to Linux.
I even got it mostly stable....notice how I haven't been asking for help much anymore?
Brian
Cool ass site with lots of graphics and photography. Oh and some cool emoticons and avatars too.
deviantART: Where art meets appreciationOriginally posted by Brigliadore
In keeping with the strange Ebay auctions theme we seem to have going today, I found this beauty while visiting another site earlier today.
Did you say this was E*bay* or E*gay*? Because I can't think of a straight man who would wear something like that...
Originally posted by BrianR
and some of us have seen the Light and switched to Linux.
Sorry, Linux is on the suckage list too!
Must have been written by an elitist snob for some obscure OS then. Or an OS from a mainframe or workstation that hasn't made it down to desktop units yet.
My biggest complaint about Linux so far is the difficulty in installing software. I miss having a wizard to it for me at the click of a button. Why, oh why can't programmers write a simple installer program for their software?
My only other complaint is the different versions of Linux...I use a version (Mandrake 9.0) that isn't usually listed in the catalog, so I have to pray the Red Hat 8.0 works...usually it does, but not always! Standardize, people!
One Linux to rule them all, one Linux to find them, one Linux to bring them all and in the Darkness bind them.
hehehe I couldn't resist after seeing
this.
Brian
Originally posted by BrianR
Must have been written by an elitist snob for some obscure OS then. Or an OS from a mainframe or workstation that hasn't made it down to desktop units yet.
Or he realizes that all OSs are awful.
thought
This was cool. but maybe that's just the pilot in me:)
No, actually, that *is* cool, except that they want you to listen while naked, apparently (since they ask us to *bare* with them).
Hey that's a good one... he was very diligent to write as many chapters of it as he did.
Queer Eye ... for the naked gay guy.
Originally posted by sycamore
How to keep some of you occupied for hours :)
I quit at Chapter 19991202. :)
Originally posted by jinx
Need a wedding dress ?
Winning bid: US $3,850.00 Ended: Apr-28-04 15:37:01 PDT Start time: Apr-23-04 15:37:01 PDT
this auction got this guy on the today show.
god bless him ( not that there really is a god)
Originally posted by lumberjim
god bless him ( not that there really is a god)
Why do you hate America?[SIZE=1]TM[/SIZE]
Originally posted by lumberjim
Winning bid: US $3,850.00 Ended: Apr-28-04 15:37:01 PDT Start time: Apr-23-04 15:37:01 PDT
this auction got this guy on the today show.
god bless him ( not that there really is a god)
Opps. (Yeah, sorry, the link was Fark.)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001915316_brodeur29m.html#topJust in case you weren't totally sure that the
Deck of Fill-in-the-Blank concept had been done to death ...
And we should be surprised about this...why? I mean, it IS Newsmax.
Make your
ownYou will never look at TRON the same way again.
http://www.ibiblio.org/jmaynard/TRONcostume/........Good grief Charlie Brown
"Is it any wonder I've got too much time on my hands?"
This is just wrong ...
Funny as shit, but wrong.
http://www.hauntworld.com/
Lists haunted houses worldwide.
Awww, I was hoping for real haunted houses. I'm not a "believer" but I do enjoy a good scare, and more's the better when it's a "true" haunted house.
http://www.guessthename.com/
I tried "Daria" and it guessed it correctly. (Took it a while.)
fuck you steve. that sucked. i gave up after my eyballs dried out. o brother where art thou........
Yeah, Steeeeeeeeeeeeeve. I gave it 30 questions to get at "Gilligan's Island" and it SUCKED!!!
:)
That was pretty lame
This one's more impressive
No respect, I tell ya, no respect.
Um, Steve, no offense man, but that was pretty bad.
I answered stupid question after stupid question. It guessed the wrong show, and then I had to tell it a question it could use in the future to come up with MY show, which was Miami Vice.
given enough time, would infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters complete shakespear's works?
here's a simulator
here's the record:
15 letters from "Pericles" after 958,399,000,000,000,000,000 monkey-years. Sent in by Ken Phillips from Roseville, California on 12 April 2004. "[Enter GOWER.] ?2IDzPN9sq6V ;e'?nGI3&?3 La""0 ..." matched "[Enter GOWER.] [Before the palace of Antioch.] To sing a song that old was sung, From ashes ancient Gower is come; Assuming man's infirmities, To glad your ear, and please your eyes."
Originally posted by SteveDallas
http://www.guessthename.com/
I tried "Daria" and it guessed it correctly. (Took it a while.)
'Inherit the Wind' got me a database error after about 15 minutes of questions. I assume that means I won?
I go back to that page every once in a while, to be impressed all over again.
Appearances can be deceptive... click on the photo and move your mouse over it.
http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/digital.htmlhttp://www.dogtagsonline.com/
Fairly self explanatory. Ordering proper tags for me and ID tags for all my bags and cases, I seem to be travelling more and more, the cute little airline ones don't cut it anymore.
Originally posted by glatt
First hand account of a tapeworm.
That one had me squirming. Good writing!
It had nice illustrations too. It could be a children's book. :)
A story that is not about bodybuilding. (The disclaimer says so. I laughed so much I hurt. Odd things amuse me)
Originally posted by wolf
A story that is not about bodybuilding. (The disclaimer says so. I laughed so much I hurt. Odd things amuse me)
That was hilarious. Thanks for sharing that.
The Spoonbender--funny take on today's news:
http://www.thespoonbender.com/Originally posted by wolf
A story that is not about bodybuilding. (The disclaimer says so. I laughed so much I hurt. Odd things amuse me)
Damn that's funny. Especially since I have similar gastronomic difficulties myself.
It reminds me of
THIS although mine isn't nearly as classy or dignified.
Be warned...
Originally posted by wolf
A story that is not about bodybuilding. (The disclaimer says so. I laughed so much I hurt. Odd things amuse me)
Oh, man...I'm crying. That was incredibly funny. Poor bastard.
Originally posted by Dagney
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/oh_my_god.htm
I managed to stop the video at the exact point that the prop passes the guy's head. You can see the blur which is the arc of the prop quite distinctly. It cannot be more than 12" from the announcer's head.
The guy flying that plane was a fucking menace. He could have easily killed someone, no shit.
http://factnet.org/
Breaking News and Information on Cults and Mind Control since 1993
scary. scientology is pure evil.
Originally posted by Troubleshooter
http://factnet.org/
Breaking News and Information on Cults and Mind Control since 1993
Way, way cool. My coworker is on there :) (as a resource).
you guys deal with cult victims much?
Not often. He was a nationally known, as seen on TV cult expert before he came to work with us.
He occasionally still goes off for a long weekend on a cult job, or to present at a conference.
I talk to him about it a lot because it's something I've been fascinated by since high school after seeing the news reports on Jonestown. I've also been hit up for candy sales by the Moonies, and invited to dinner by the Krishnas (never went, can't stand that vegetarian muck).
The food was the only thing about the Krishnas I could tolerate.
you liked the pony tails, too. and the free flowers
Here's a guy from my alma mater who collects information on Scientology, among other things. Great page, especially the bit about the Scientologists protestors who appeared on campus, and the CS grad student counter-protest.
I think they're "top knots".
Isn't that the handle by which vishnu will pull you up into heaven or something like that?
http://www.eastonmuseumofpez.com/
(I found a brochure for this place at an Allentown hotel where I was attending a meeting.)
Just paces away from the Crayolla factory! I love that.
For cult watchers, this is another database of information on many many cults.
http://www.rickross.com/sg_alpha.htmlI'm a status and security.
Idealism & Autonomy...big surprise there.
I'm Idealism & Autonomy , that fits.
Fundamental Motivations and Values
Personal Control
Question Authority
Global Consciousness
Adaptability to Complexity
Flexible Families
Key Characteristics
Self-reliant and in control of their own destiny
Idealistic and open-minded
Rejecting out-dated norms and institutions
Yeppers thats me .
Idealism & Autonomy, far corner.
Idealism and Autonomy, near the vertical bar, but close to the bottom of the quadrant.
[COLOR=indigo]Idealism and Autonomy, top centered in the quadrant.[/COLOR]
I&A, about where the '8' would be if it were a touchtone phone keypad.
This guy is building a flying, remote control model, of a
C-17 Globemaster. It will have a 17 foot wingspan!!:eek:
Originally posted by SteveDallas
http://www.419eater.com/
[color=indigo]
This is a funny funny website.... click on the pictures and it has actual emails from the scammers, back and forth.
[/color]
http://www.millionaireplayboy.com/toys/batphone.php
Not really, just the money that goes with it.:)
Need to find a book:
BookFinder: Super Fast book search & price comparison:
http://www.bookfinder.us/Disgusting but I couldn't stop laughing.
Oh jinx you only got 4 correct. Have another go
Lovely lumberjim you got 7 correct.
nasty!
Originally posted by jinx
Disgusting but I couldn't stop laughing
You have a very sick sense of humor, I like it.
I got 8 right, I was on a role up until the last few.
I got em all correct except the mummy one. How is being mummified an accident?
Brian
I got 7. That one butcher looks like my friggin twin!
I get an error message from that link Bruce.
Will you be at the airshow next weekend?
Brian
It looks like they've shut it off. I went back to EHOWA where I got the original link, but that doesn't work either. Bummer, it's a RC flying model of a B-52, about 15 or 20 feet long, with 8 jet engines. There was several video clips of it taking off, flying and landing.
Airshow, noshow.
edit- I found a picture. whoops, can't add.
The Corrections Museum
Bangkok, Thailand Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
The Corrections Museum
Bangkok, Thailand
And prisoners here bitch about cruel and unusual punishment....
Sidhe
This is for all the stoners here....
Ring Ring...
And before you hate me for this, TS is the one who showed it to me. :p
Sidhe
oh shit.....check out jinx's title!
my kids play that song non stop.
This seems excessive.. but what do I know?
http://www.modestapparelusa.com/i think they have the words "modest" and "frumpy" confused
My fave was the mother & daughter matching collection.
http://www.emogame.com/bushgame.html
It's actually huge once you get past the intro.
Wow! It's Rainman's website!!
This is a really terrible game.
Horrible.
A tragedy.
Sacrilege!!
I had to play it many times until I acheived a score of DEAD 2 men 3 women, INJURED 1 man 1 woman 1 child.
Classic!
2 women, 1 man, 3 injured children.
They have more games.
I highly recommend Rock-em Sock-em Rabbis.
The Zombie game is pretty cool, but Spear Brittany is damn near impossible.
I followed a link and found
the motherlode.The World Wide Web's Bitter Aftertaste: Cruel Site of the Day
http://www.cruel.com/
Independant Media Center:
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml<a href="http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/tests/extreme/"><img src="http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/tests/images/extreme/h.jpg" title="I am the Atacama Desert!" alt="I am the Atacama Desert!" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/tests/extreme/">Which Extremity of the World Are You?</a><br /><small><a href="http://rumandmonkey.com/">From the towering colossi at Rum and Monkey.</a></small>
YOU ARE THE NILE
At 4145 miles from your furthest extremity to the Mediterranean Sea, you outdo the Amazon to become the world's longest river. The piranhas hate you.
Beneath you lies an underground river with six times your volume. You kept this remarkably quiet for several thousand years. In fact, you're full of mystery; your source wasn't discovered until 1862. You're also full of water. And crocodiles. And nuclear pharaoh machines that run on light and can see through time.
I am also the Atacama Desert.
<a href="http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/tests/extreme/"><img src="http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/tests/images/extreme/a.jpg" title="I am Mount Everest!" alt="I am Mount Everest!" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/tests/extreme/">Which Extremity of the World Are You?</a><br /><small><a href="http://rumandmonkey.com/">From the towering colossi at Rum and Monkey.</a></small>
I am also the atacama desert
Jim was Mt. Everest
Yeah...big surprise there. :)
<a href="http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/tests/extreme/"><img src="http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/tests/images/extreme/f.jpg" title="I am Al-Aziziyah, Libya!" alt="I am Al-Aziziyah, Libya!" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/tests/extreme/">Which Extremity of the World Are You?</a><br /><small><a href="http://rumandmonkey.com/">From the towering colossi at Rum and Monkey.</a></small>
i can attest to jinx being the hottest! yeah, baby, yeah!
I turned out to be the Atacama desert, driest place on Earth.
www.miniclip.com is a very good game site.
:haha:
ah, sexy losers, I love that fucked up cartoon.
Originally posted by wolf
I followed a link and found the motherlode.
Uh...NSFW identification, please.
Net Nanny stopped me cold on that one, and probably spit out a report to boot.
That's odd, Els. Don't see anything objectional.:confused:
It had ".ass" in the URL, which could have done it, or it could simply have been the server it was on--a popup ad for porn came up with it on my system. My mother once had a net nanny that wouldn't let her view a Canadian train schedule for some unknown reason.
Yeah...the url had some naughty words in it, although it didn't show in the link text...only when it came up in the browser.
It had ".ass" in the URL,
assassin.:haha:
We get some odd stuff blocked by our netnanny at work, and equally strange stuff let through.
The site itself iis not a problem, el. Try it from home later.
Totally safe:
In case it's raining on the 4th of July
No nakedness, but bizarre.
Another game to play.Via Fazed.
http://www.wagenschenke.ch/HomeRun.swf
I thought it was funny, anyways.
i got 60 meters......? is that any good?
and i got 2900 pirhanna pts...
This is beyond warped.
Warning: Click on the "About Me" page at your own risk.
That's a parody of the Olsen Twins countdown sites. The "About Me" picture was stolen from an Onion article.
The article is only available in their
premium archives.
Hmmm.... good one.. he does credit the Onion for the "about" image. I still think the site is the product of a sick mind... I mean.. that poetry.... <shiver>
I can spend hours reading his articles. They are so freakin hilarious i don't know what to do w/ myself sometimes!
http://maddox.xmission.com/Originally posted by Bullitt
http://maddox.xmission.com/
Maddox is a funny SOB, I've been infrequenting his site for many a month.
Originally posted by SteveDallas
This is beyond warped.
Warning: Click on the "About Me" page at your own risk.
*clicks "About Me"*
*horrified screaming*
The creepiness factor of that site is very high. I'm glad it's a joke but it still worries me.
In iocis veritas. (loosely, "many a true word is spoken in jest")
A friend of mine was reading harry potter slash fan fic a yeserday (which aparantly means gay erotic stories, learn a word a day people), aparantly it was really well written, she worries me.
Originally posted by SteveDallas
This is beyond warped.
Warning: Click on the "About Me" page at your own risk.
The Guestbook is worth a visit ...
There are a bunch of other "name generators"
here, but I thought it was rather appropriate that my new Mafia name is "Ol' Clarice Gunindapants"
My Gansta name is "Drunken Mule Robber"
and my new pirate name is "Cap'n Juliana Slashface"
Heavy Little Objects is a highrent DoDads site.:)
Your dodads are a way lot cooler, bruce.
Let's face it. A lot of his stuff is quite ordinary. (yes, there is indeed coolness there, but not with the total coolth that bruce brings to it.)
For the wine lover with a non-discriminating palate
(the sharp eyed (or snoopish) may have noticed that I left a bottle of one of these tasty wines in the ForksFridge. I wonder if bob will notice ...)
Originally posted by sycamore
Ain't it though?
Here's Rho. The hair doesn't quite look right, but it'll have to do in the world of South Park.
Jesus, I just saw this while searching for another post here...LMAOOO! :D
# Water is the leading cause of floods.
nice. funny site. i wish it wasn't hot pink. ow my eyes.
edit:
To say water in French, you would say toilette. This one isn't so much about water, but more about how much France sucks.
bwahahahahaha
is water in french toilette??? than ive been saying thing completely wrong for the last years!!
water= de l'eau
toiletwater= eau de toilette and offcourse that also is that smelly stuff u put on your face!!
I was thinking about fixin' up my teeth. Anybody have any experience with
Mr. Bling?
You successfully identified 9 out of 14 items.
You may play with my dog with supervision.
Proceed to Difficult Round?
You successfully identified 8 out of 14 items.
You may play with my dog with supervision.
You successfully identified 12 out of 14 items.
You may be trusted with my dog.
Proceed to Difficult Round?
You successfully identified 10 out of 14 items.
You may be trusted with my dog.
------
I ain't interested in your dog, dude.
You successfully identified 8 out of 14 items.
You may play with my dog with supervision.
I don't like your stupid fucking dog anyway!
WARM UP
You successfully identified 12 out of 14 items.
You may be trusted with my dog.
DIFFICULT
You successfully identified 12 out of 14 items.
You may be trusted with my dog.
I'm consistent.:)
You successfully identified 14 out of 14 items.
You may be trusted with my dog.
Proceed to Difficult Round?
You successfully identified 13 out of 14 items.
You may be trusted with my dog.
The scary part is that I had no trouble with this.
So, do I spend too much time in marital aid catalogs or pet stores?
I shall have to think about this.
Brian
99 Rooms
You have something to find.
I was looking for some action It was late at night. Late at night.
http://www.internetpei.com/balls/
Warning: Avoid hallucinogenic drugs...or take lots. One or the other.
:repuke: OK, somebody try NO hallucinogenic drugs now :greenface
Make Dubya give the speech you want!
http://www.bushspeech.org/Here's a site for Stacyv:
Bitter Waitress.
There is some neat stuff in here including a shitty tipper database where bitter waitresses can
name names!
Holy beehive hairdo, batman!
I waited tables at an IHOP when I was a lassie. Rooty Tooty Fresh and Fruity anyone?
Just put extra chocolate chips and whipped cream on the chocolate chip pancakes, thanks. There's nothing fresh or particularly fruity about the RTF&F. Sugary, yes.
the glossary of perversion
might be nsfw for those of you with net nannies.
Pictures of a very cool 1955 Mercedes race car transporter. :eek6:
LJ, you want
Dirty Proverbs
That one isn't safe for anyone really.
Pictures of a very cool 1955 Mercedes race car transporter. :eek6:
Very interesting group of photos Bruce.
i want the car on the back of it. Badly.
Me too. That's a proper Porsche.
A porsche for real men.
With handlebar moustaches and a fondness for pickled cabbage.
Kev
Me too. That's a proper Porsche.
Uh,..that's a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe on the back of the 1955 Mercedes-Benz High Speed Transporter. :smack:
Didn't look very porchey to me...
merc logo is visible in a few shots.
I think she was being ironic...
It's a proper Porsche.
Not like those crappy Boxsters.
Boxsters are for people that can't afford porsches.
Nah, you're thinking of the Lotus Elise or the low-end TVR range. They're sporty and cheap - ideal for the "911-but-can't-afford-it" crowd.
Boxsters are for people who want a Porsche badge on their keys but don't care about looks, handling or performance.
Doh! :smack: :smack:
I wasn't being ironic.
Very tempted to say I was though.
Look I've had 3 hours sleep all weekend all right? Happens to the best of us.
Doh again! :smack: My client walked in just as I was writing this. I may as well give today up, complete and utter waste of time.
All modern Porsches are rubbish apart from the GT2. Love some of the older ones though, although whether what I am thinking of were Porsches at all is now contestable.
Sighs at disastrous attempt to prove some women know something about cars
An elise has a look and a style that is fairly unique, it's also about the same price as a boxster. A boxster on the other hand has poor styling and as you say, poor handling and peformance to boot. You'll at least get a nice whirl out of the Elise.
Stuffem both and gimme an Aston Martin or a Maserati anyday. Once you've driven a Maserati you can't go back.
Ye gods, I expect to see that next to the dictionary definition of 'ugly as sin'.
Who said Maserati? I want one. Now. Beautiful boisterous beasts.
Get a US-spec BMW M3.
And then get anything at all made in Europe to European spec, and it'll feel wonderful.
:)
Ye gods, I expect to see that next to the dictionary definition of 'ugly as sin'.
sigh.
yet more evidence that all of your taste is between the wrong cheeks :(
Who said Maserati? I want one. Now. Beautiful boisterous beasts.
speaking of beautiful boisterous beasts. let's have a friggin picture of you already, Cat. you can't be
that atrocious looking. we wont make fun ,i promise!
and dont give me any shit about you not having a digicam. it's 2004. you have the technology.
Look at it! Clashing colours (what is WITH the white windshielf edge?), gaudy silver bits hanging off..It looks the aborted fetus of a perfectly fine sedan and a 50s racecar.
Taste is things like this.
Saw the Bugatti at the Gevena car show, most beautiful car I'v ever seen.
Who said Maserati? I want one. Now. Beautiful boisterous beasts.
Mmmm...dead on.
speaking of beautiful boisterous beasts. let's have a friggin picture of you already, Cat. you can't be that atrocious looking. we wont make fun ,i promise!
and dont give me any shit about you not having a digicam. it's 2004. you have the technology.
I've told you, I don't have a scanner. I have one at work (obviously) but I don't know how I'd explain my reasons for scanning one in. And likewise a digicam. But ok I suppose all you lot have got pictures up, so I'll see what I can do, but no promises.
jag enough with the sexy pictures you're getting me excited.
but it's got such a cute ass...
Stop teasing. Two can play at that game. Now this is a beast.
Mmm.
Guy at work just bought one. I whimpered like a baby girl when he put his foot down in that, and it's still big enough to put three adults in the back and some luggage in the boot.
Practical, and more than fast enough to lose your licence, on a motorway, from a standing start, in 10 seconds.
Isn't that the fastest estate car ever or something?
Well, something.
By which I mean: "no, it's a saloon"
:D
PS - Why does a chicken coop have 2 doors?
Catwoman, it's beautiful, it's a lotus, which model?
To let 2 chickens in at once?? :smack: :)
It's not a lotus it's a Pagani Zonda... brought out to rival the F1. Carbon fibre, £300K +. Sexy as hell.
Nope.
Because otherwise, it'd be a chicken sedan.
*boom, boom*
neither. Nice car though.
Chicken coop. 2 doors. Like "coupe".
If it had 4 doors, it'd be a chicken sedan (or saloon).
Get it? Get it?
Sheesh.
Oh. Now I get it, but it's just not funny. Sedan doesn't even sound like saloon. Tut. :)
No, but it's an American joke, and they call saloons sedans.
And I thought you and Jag had been around more, and figured you'd know that.
:)
I most certainly have not been around. Jag on the other hand, well, all the stories are true.
No, but it's an American joke, and they call saloons sedans.
And I thought you and Jag had been around more, and figured you'd know that.
:)
I got it. She's just annoyed, you interupted her putting the make on Jag. :haha:
No, but it's an American joke, and they call saloons sedans.
No, we call saloons "bars."
[python]What a silly bunt.[/python]
;)
you interupted her putting the make on Jag.
Snigger.
we call saloons "bars."
Yeah. Odd that. I lived in NYC for 2 years, and was delighted to discover that you 'merkins have the knack of creating a bar down pat. Some great places.
And yet by my count there are exactly 4 americans alive at any given time who know how to drink.
I got it. She's just annoyed, you interupted her putting the make on Jag. :haha:
I am positively incensed that you think I would resort to such tactics in an educated discussion forum like this. We're only playing... ;)
... was delighted to discover that you 'merkins ...
Why do you call us pubic wigs?
Snigger. And yet by my count there are exactly 4 americans alive at any given time who know how to drink.
Yeah, and one of us had to quit because we got so damn good at it!
I really like
this. Sort of reminded me of
Exploding Dog, but different. Oh, :blunt: just click it.
Those are some damn funny comics, Bruce. I am particularly fond of Baby Doom. :)
And HEY! What's up with that signature, LJ? I normally ignore signature files, how long has it been like that??
just part of a series. ut started it. don't worry. it's a tribute. ;)
Snigger.
And yet by my count there are exactly 4 americans alive at any given time who know how to drink.
I'ts obvious you've never been to Pittsburgh...
On the other hand, if by "alive" you meant the oppisite of brain dead, then you may have a point. :beer:
Why do you call us pubic wigs?
'merkin. As in "Ahm a'merkin. From a'merkee."
I've absolutely no idea who coined the expression, but it's something I picked up from a book (as in a dead-tree-printed-version-which-looked-likely-to-sell-enough-copies-to-be-published book) a few years ago.
I rather hope it's not intended to be offensive, given that I've been using it so long.
Yeah, and one of us had to quit because we got so damn good at it!
The great thing about that particular wagon is that you never miss your stop, and it's never too late to get off.
I'ts obvious you've never been to Pittsburgh...
Nope, I never have. But given the context in which you say that, I shall make an effort to remedy that in the next few months.
if by "alive" you meant the oppisite of brain dead, then you may have a point.
No, don't worry - even over here in Blighty, we know George Jr is not a good standard by which to judge the rest of the country.
No, don't worry - even over here in Blighty, we know George Jr is not a good standard by which to judge the rest of the country.
I wasn't referring to our president, but to drunken Pittsburgh "Stiller" fans in general.
(No offense to the Philly "Iggle" fans, they have been known to pound a few on occasion too!) ;)
Here's another cartoon
link for you seriously disturbed people. :3eye:
A jacket with an MP3 player built into the fabric....
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=25600323
(I was gonna pass it to UT for IOTD, but the company doesn't have an actualy photo on their web site.. just some useless flash graphic thingys.)
Because you want a phone and portable music device that has a tiny amount of memory and that you can only use outside in cold weather and can't upgrade.
I saw a better one that acted as a remote for the ipod, now that was cool.
Away-Messages This is a very funny website:
Its also inspirational, motivational and several others.
PHD comics. Life in graduate school. :3eye:
The Writings on the Stall A collection of bathroom stall scribblings...you wouldn't believe some of the stuff people write :D
are any of you wondering how a game is going to look first hand, not just a magazine? try
GametrailersYou can now put your own images on US
stamps.
Who wouldn't want a stamp with me on it?
Or Lady Syc?
You can now put your own images on US stamps.
Who wouldn't want a stamp with me on it?
I wonder if they would reject your picture because of the shirt? If not, could you talk Adidas into subsidizing your postage needs. ;)
I wonder if they would reject your picture because of the shirt? If not, could you talk Adidas into subsidizing your postage needs. ;)
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So much for my 'F**k Bush!' official US postage.
Here! Educate yourself!
It took me 1/4 second to figure it out. Lame.
Hey, not everyone is as quick on the uptake as you are. Let folks have their fun.
Out of Body Experience
HummHey, not everyone is as quick on the uptake as you are. .
True, I saw a thing on TV where they set up a booth at some gathering and tryed to get people to sign a petition against it. Lot's of people signed. :smack:
Cool game.
Make sure you check out the rest of the site, it's hilarious, and contains some critically important information.
The game is NOT easy.
And another one ...
Modern response to an old problem.
Beats giving out the number to the local police station or nuthouse.
Cool game.
Make sure you check out the rest of the site, it's hilarious, and contains some critically important information.
The game is NOT easy.
Puts me in mind of an internet Whack A Mole game!
That is a really cool website wolf. I wish he had directions available for all the animals there. My sister-in-law loves sheep and she would love if I made her a sheep origami for her birthday or something. Its doesn't have directions on how to make the sheep though :( But its still a really cool site.
I'm fairly sure that the origami book that I have and can't find because it's in a closet in a box I haven't opened in close to ten years has a ewe and a ram and possibly even a lamb.
Origami
(Note for those who have not figured it out: I am not worthy to schlep paper for Robert Lang.)
Ipod whoring
(I'm sure nobody here would try this. But, if they did, I'm sure they'd PM their good friend Steve so they could use his referral code when they signed up. :angel: )
Origami
(Note for those who have not figured it out: I am not worthy to schlep paper for Robert Lang.)
I always wondered how Sonny Barger filled his time in jail. :D
Here is fantastic aerial photos. :)
<a href="http://nes.greatstreamingvideo.com">http://nes.greatstreamingvideo.com</a>
beating games at top speeds.
http://www.aclu.org/pizza/
The way things are going this will be true someday. :eek:
I know this has been posted before, but they redid the website so it doesn't count! :D
Joe Cartoon
Also,
here is a site for those who are enjoying the election process unfolding before us and also have a sense of humour about the whole thing.
Brian
The mother lode costs a few cents....
By the time you finish watching the free ones, you'll be through truck driver school and have a few cents again...
It's a damn Republican site!! :eek:
Just One Bush - Give It To Me!
Nothing Sucks Like A Kerry.
Just one Bush would have been more or less acceptable...
Only Cellar Has The Answer.
I absolutely adore this site:
http://www.despair.com/demotivators/ir.html
Just when you thought things couldn't possibly get worse! :D
I absolutely adore this site: http://www.despair.com/demotivators/ir.html
Just when you thought things couldn't possibly get worse! :D
I love those guys.
"There are no dumb questions.
Just a lot of inquisitive idiots."
"There are no dumb questions.
Just a lot of inquisitive idiots."
Speaking of dumb questions and inquisitive idiots (With researched answers), this site should be on everyone's favorite list. :thumbsup:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_316.htmlForeign language video (German?) on Forklift safety. Mostly how not to do it.
http://www.hugi.is/hahradi/bigboxes.php?box_id=51208&f_id=1000Yeah, that's german. And it's in this typical german 70's-learning-video-style
Here are a few of my favorites, I hope they aren't repeats but, lazy me, I am not about to check all 96 pages.
Keep your finger on the pulse of popular culture:
http://www.memepool.com/
Angry young clip artist speaks out against hypocrisy:
http://www.mnftiu.cc/
Propaganda remix project, ROCKS!
http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.htmlForeign language video (German?) on Forklift safety. Mostly how not to do it.
http://www.hugi.is/hahradi/bigboxes.php?box_id=51208&f_id=1000
Ich liebe Stapelfahrer Klaus. :)
Foreign language video (German?) on Forklift safety. Mostly how not to do it.
http://www.hugi.is/hahradi/bigboxes.php?box_id=51208&f_id=1000
And what have we learned from this video? If you work with Klaus, you will DIE, slowly and painfully and humorously...in a morbid kinda way.
This Blog has a good collection of DoDads. You can guess what they are, then click on the answers. It's a little hard to navigate, but interesting. :)
jdbutler, The Straight Dope is one of my all-time favorites. I was first introduced to it in 1985 when a physics prof passed out a xerox of Cecil's column explaining Schrodinger's Cat.
Anyway.
I don't get it, but they must be doing something right. All other members of my family are transfixed by the quaint town of
Millsberry.
Photo Safari America site has some cool links. One is a Lightning Photography Tutorial and the other is a calendar called Sportswomen of the West. :love:
I absolutely adore this site: http://www.despair.com/demotivators/ir.html
Just when you thought things couldn't possibly get worse! :D
i gave my old boss
intimidation as a going away gift when i left. it is on his desk and i don't think he understood it was sarcastic.
From the page for "intimidation":
Perfect for;
-Putting the little people in their place.
-Letting the big people know you're glad to be put there, and you're not going anywhere without their approval.
-Disaffected college veterinarian students :yelsick:
See you favorite Hollywood celebrity pitching crappy products in Japan. This is the biggest collection of celebrities selling out that I've seen in one place. Arnold Schwarzenegger has the weirdest.
Japanderok you shooter out west give us a report of this shoot !!!!
http://www.boomershoot.org/http://www.stickdeath.com
check out the car anti theft devices in the archives.. pure brilliance.
Some parts probably not safe for work. Much blood and violence, an all around good time i'd say.
That was either mean...or cute. I'm not quite sure which, yet.
Wow...this guy is the British Dave Barry...
Historic Cities - Maps & Documents
High res images of old maps. And stuff. Well, *I* think it's cool, anyways.
I especially like
this one of Paris.
That was either mean...or cute. I'm not quite sure which, yet.
I think just putting up a page that said "you misspelled it!" would be kind of snarky. But putting up a dynamically updated graph of the number of hits was funny.
Draw!
This is kind of neat. It would be cool to get more colours in there, but I got some cool little scribbles out of it.
Some nice pics of crashed ships, planes rolled into drains by maintenance crews and container mishaps.
HTTP://WWW.CARGOLAW.COMhttp://home.comcast.net/~zdtvtime/computerroomframe.htm
on the office cam i linked to, you can turn stuff on and off in the room!! (it turns off automatically a short time later.) what a riot. looked like grandma was sitting in the livingroom when i checked it out. dunno if i could stand knowing that someone may be watching me sleep...creepy :headshake
http://water.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/waterwatch?state=us&map_type=real&web_type=map
Planning a fishing trip to your favorite trout stream? Check out the current waater levels...
http://www.vidlit.com/craziest/craziest.html
I was absolutely mesmerised by this story. Kind of reminds of the vignettes aired on
This American Life, though I'm pretty sure that "Craziest" is a work of fiction.
http://water.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/waterwatch?state=us&map_type=real&web_type=map
Planning a fishing trip to your favorite trout stream? Check out the current waater levels...
Thanks LabRat. :thumbsup: There's a station less than a half mile downstream from my house. It shows that Tuesday night the creek jumped from 3 ft depth and 50 cubic ft/sec to over 16 feet and 10,000 ft/sec. So that's why the road was closed Wed morning. :eek6:
Here is an article called "The Rise and Fall of Game Audio" at Armchair Arcade. :)
Find your phone number sequence in pi!
[your number] found starting at position 39905418 to the right of the decimal point.
(I was originally going to post my results, but then realized that probably wasn't too good of an idea, in the event that anyone was actually obsessive compulsive enough to try to find me. I don't live all that close to that police station ...)
Thanks for letting us know! :D
Find your phone number sequence in pi!
[your number] found starting at position 39905418 to the right of the decimal point.
(I was originally going to post my results, but then realized that probably wasn't too good of an idea, in the event that anyone was actually obsessive compulsive enough to try to find me. I don't live all that close to that police station ...)
Yeah, but what if someone is obsessive/compulsive enough to count all the way over to that position? Wouldn't they worry you all that much more?
Here's bizarre! It misses off the 3 at the beginning of Pi. If your phone number is 3141592, far from telling you your number is found right at the front of Pi, it finds it starting 25198140 from the decimal point.
I guess they figured if your phone number is 3141592, you can find it yourself. ;)
Some seriously funny stuff, here...and it is apparently all the real deal.
http://www.turdbirds.com/about.htmlAny ole' time. I have no idea why that caught me so off-guard, but it did. :)
got to keep you fellow celler dwellers on your toes !!!! :)
I'll probably figure out what I was just hypnotized into doing in the worst possible moment..........at least I won't be alone. Or maybe I'll just want my eggs suuny side up from now on.... :rollanim:
Gah. I drank too much last night to be subjected to that. :yelsick:
There other games are a lot of fun too, but I don't get some of them. Could somebody who speaks dutch tell me what i"m suposed to do with the pink pig-looking thingy and the map? Oh, and what's the deal with the rock band one??
It's not dutch but some scandinavian language, otherwise I could help you...
Cute! SWF Click
Here
when you click on the link. you will see coffe machine
1: Put your money in the slot
2 Select coffee or your choice notice red button
3. When a red box appears on your fresh coffee, click it
4: When a splash screen appears click Apri.........till the end
Then Smile
Hey! No fair! Cameras in the workplace!
Complete, 15 minute,
pelvic exam tutorial from Harvard. [COLOR=DarkRed]NSFW[/COLOR] also NSF lots of other things because it's the real deal. :eyebrow:
Which of us is more depraved....you for posting that or me for looking??
Oh man, I KNOW some of you will get offended by some of these articles, but this site is just too funny to pass up..:
http://maddox.xmission.com/
Enjoy
.......I KNOW some of you will get offended by some of these articles
Would you try a little harder to offend me next time? I thought that was funny.
From the "Phrases that make my blood boil" section:
"The grass is always greener on the other side:
If the grass is greener on the other side, then the guy with the greener grass doesn't think your grass is greener now does he, asshole?"
Improv Everywhere is a group that does harmless pranks around NYC. They have done a bunch of funny stuff, which you can find at the link I just provided. Maybe my favorite is the
Dollar Dudes. I wish these guys were around here.
This is a great parody of Bush's wolf ad!
http://www.wolfpacksfortruth.org/Fortunately for me, I haven't been subjected to any Presidential campaing ads this year. I'm not in a battleground state. So I have no idea what "wolf" ad you are talking about.
Here's a link to watch the actual ad, if you want.
wolf videoOh shit, they didn't find that ...
Oh. The TV campaign ad.
Don't mind me.
Nothing to see here.
Move along.
Oh shit, they didn't find that ...
Oh. The TV campaign ad.
Don't mind me.
Nothing to see here.
Move along.
:lol2:
I have the privledge of living in the "battleground state" of Ohio, so my buds and I get to see these frickin ads everytime we turn on the tv. They're actually not all that annoying when you just mute the tv and do a voiceover of what the candidates actually want you to believe.
I would like my mail to go back to normal ... the amount of campaign related junkmail is outstripping my regular junkmail. I almost wasn't able to find my cheaperthandirt.com ammo catalog within the morass of flyers, cards, and handy guides to this and that.
I almost wasn't able to find my Adam and Eve catalog!
Lileks links this
cute video. The album edit is preferred.
sycamore----cool, cool, cool!
Images from Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists (MART) -- October-November 2004. Stuff you haven't seen in the wild. :weird:
Cool! A whole website of What the Fuck images...
We sure have come a long way since the early days of the jackalope, haven't we?
For wolf: When you aren't allowed to take
firearms in the asylum. (video
available)
Did the video play upside down and sdrawkcab for anyone else?
Has anyone mentioned
www.despair.com yet?
Several times, but it's always good to get a reminder to go back.
They have new stuff. :) ... or rather :(
Ok... how about
www.engrish.com ? Ha Ha!
Think that's also been done, but it's more than funny enough to merit a repeat.
Just for grins, here's the webcomics I visit each day:
http://www.nuklearpower.com/
http://www.achewood.com/
http://www.penny-arcade.com/
http://www.pvponline.com/
http://www.questionablecontent.net/
http://www.reallifecomics.com/
http://wapsisquare.com/
The best of the lot, in my mind, are Achewood and Questionable Content.
Questionable Content is
awesome.
Here are some other comics I enjoy that wern't listed:
Ctrl+alt+del - mostly about gaming, great characters
toothpaste for dinner - completely retarded with horrid art, but updated daily.
daily dinosaur comics - every comic has the exact same frames, but different text. pretty odd but I enjoy it.
white ninja comics - very low quality art, but still halarious in a childish manner.
Mac Hall - this one is rarely updated, and sometimes not too funny, but the art is great.
applegeeks - about, you guessed it, macs. great art, similiar to machall.
buttercup festival - one of my favorites, just random sharpie art sometimes. my fanart recently got on there, too.
Potty humor. Funny. Perfectly safe for work, just don't play the mp3 loud enough for anyone else to hear it, or they will wonder about you.
http://triggur.org/robodump/Every wonder what a day in the life of an emperor penguin is like? Well, for those consumed with curiosity, this is your site. It features videos from cameras attached to wild critters. The clips explain how the animal was captured, equipped to become a cinematographer, and the resulting films.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/crittercam/video_previews.html?format=wm&vid=penguin.asfYou guys usually already know about the sites I throw up...but here's another one anyhoo....
www.guerrillanews.com/videos/Don't know if I've posted this quiz or not, but thought you may find it interesting. It distills down what kind of spiritual path you're on into what religion (or lack thereof) fits your replies best.
http://beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.htmlDon't want to miss the early shopping Friday? Get a
wake up call.
<img src="http://images.quizilla.com/C/Cycophant/1034645791_turesswiss.gif" border="0" alt="Switzerland"><br><b>Switzerland</b> -
A neutral power for as long<br>as most can remember, it has avoided war for<br>several centuries. However, it is still<br>considered highly advanced and a global power.
<br><br><b>Positives:</b><br>
Judicial.<br>
Neutrality.<br>
World-Renouned.<br>
Powerful without Force.<br>
Makes Excellent Watches, Etc.<br><br>
<b>Negatives:</b><br>
Target of Ridicule.<br>
Constant Struggle to Avoid Conflict.<br>
Target of Criminal Bank Accounts.<br>
<br><br><a href="http://quizilla.com/users/Cycophant/quizzes/Which%20Country%20of%20the%20World%20are%20You%3F/"> <font size="-1">Which Country of the World are You?</font></a><BR> <font size="-3">brought to you by <a href="http://quizilla.com">Quizilla</a></font>
^
Mweh, who cares if it was from about 80 pages ago. I still thought it was cool.
www.amiright.com
www.superbad.com
www.lostfrog.org
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/dac.shtmlHello:
In the spirit of teaching my fellow cellar dwellers how to fish, I offer:
http://www.stumbleupon.com
A Firefox extension that does exactly what this thread does. From their page:
"StumbleUpon is an intelligent browsing tool for sharing and discovering great websites. As you click Stumble!, you'll get high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended (rated I like it) by friends and other SU members with similar interests. Rating these sites shares them with your friends and peers – you will automatically 'stumble upon' each others favorites sites."
I have used it extensively and can say that in terms of variety, there is no higher quality source for internet time-sinks than StumbleUpon. I urge caution when installing it and using it. Perhaps some safety line is a good idea, like connecting the power supply of the computer to an automatic shut off switch. Set it for, say, dinnertime, to avoid going hungry.
Stumble On!
This spells nothing but t-r-o-u-b-l-e! I just forwarded it to myself at home! :eek:
Many folks here with a Catholic upbringing probably remember the special joy of the "Advent Calendar."
It was a light cardboard calendar, with little windows labelled with the days of December leading up to Christmas. Each day you would open the appropriate window, revealing a picture. What each day held varied based on the style of calendar. Some were religious scenes, stained glass windows, or the more secular versions gave us visions of sugarplums, candy canes, and hard-working elves. There have even been re-usable wooden versions that have spaces for tree ornaments, small toys, and candies.
This year, the Advent Calendar moves into the 21st Century.
Gentlemen, for your perusal and enjoyment.Many folks here
--Snip!--
ornaments, small toys, and candies.
This year, the Advent Calendar moves into the 21st Century.
Gentlemen, for your perusal and enjoyment.
First, thanks!!
Second, what's behind all the other little windows, I wonder? As for me, I never got past 01 Dec.
14 is damn impressive. :eek2:
I probably did not need to know about this site.
:compute:
thanks wolf.
This is especially nice. try it. it's.....relaxing.
very, very cool!
Thanks for that one.
I've been playing with a lot of the games where you shoot at things.
Go figure.
I was doing some surfing when I hit upon
this artist's site of animal portraits done in the style of great masters.
I was considering
linking to some images, but I would need an IP lawyer to tell me what the current law is in this situation.
Think that's also been done, but it's more than funny enough to merit a repeat.
Just for grins, here's the webcomics I visit each day:
http://www.nuklearpower.com/
http://www.achewood.com/
http://www.penny-arcade.com/
http://www.pvponline.com/
http://www.questionablecontent.net/
http://www.reallifecomics.com/
http://wapsisquare.com/
The best of the lot, in my mind, are Achewood and Questionable Content.
Did you notice that the December 9th "questionable content" contains the following conversation -
"How was the show you went to last night?"
It was awesome . The lead guitarist from God Forbid bled on me! I almost fainted, it was so f***in' rad.
In the authors notes next to the comic, there was a reference to the recent shooting of a lead guitarist, but I get the impression from the comic that it was made prior to the incident and that it merely joked about the use of dangerous musical instruments.
Here's an interesting flash project. Click on the 'flash' link.
THE ZOOM QUILTEven more nostalgia ... A friend of mine just sent me a link to
The Original Colossal Caves Adventure.
I wonder what the TINP kids would think about it? Probably not obscure enough to satisfy them.
thanks wolf. This is especially nice. try it. it's.....relaxing.
you cruel bastard...not like I don't enough things to do.. now I have this... you horrible horrible man
Here is a cool site with Solstice info...
http://www.candlegrove.com/solstice.htmlEver want to write your name in the snow? :p
Yellow SnowI have no love for cheerleaders or cheerleading, but
this is just completely fucking funny.
Click on "Cheerleader Toss".
View the little movie first. This explains how the game is played. Please note the girl rubbing her head in pain. Then click on The Game.
The "dumpster" shot is out the window.
Sound is not strictly necessary, but will enhance the overall experience.
The injured cheerleader's comments are quite amusing.
Wolf i did all the challanges in 29 trys
I'm also at the 29 try level.
One of my coworkers is also still on the Junior Junior Varsity Squad with me, but he has managed some amazing shots, like making a swoosh basket by rebounding the cheerleader off the floor into the far basket.
He also somehow managed to get the chick with the cellphone and the beverage vendor at one go.
i managed to go from the trampaleen and hit the blimp once
here's a funny one.. I like this guys sense of humour
http://www.thesneeze.com/So that's what slang has been up to ...
Ha ha ha, good one Buster. :thumbsup:
Ever try to build a house of cards? How about one 25' high? Or maybe
a stadium. :eek:
Check this out , weird sick and twisted , but cool in a weird sick and twisted kind of way ,
http://fcmx.net/vec/v.php?i=001787Ever try to build a house of cards? How about one 25' high? Or maybe a stadium. :eek:
I tried to build a house of cards once....once! That takes some real patients, something I don't have time for. :rolleyes:
Patients can't do it. The medications make their hands shake too much ...
Patients can't do it. The medications make their hands shake too much ...
I stand by my misspelling...I don't have time for either. :o
The White House
Make sure you visit the " For Kids Page".
Zip, that was just plain strange...IOW, I liked it! :thumbsup:
I think I understand the power massager, but what's the quisinart for?
NAFC , Not A Fucking Clue
:eek: WTF WAS THAT!?!?! :nuke: :vomitblu:
I think it's the "tummy". :confused:
I think I understand the power massager, but what's the quisinart for?
I think it's just a convenient motor with a standardized generic coupling (badom boom pshhh).
I've known women that wanted to wear my balls for jewelry but now they can wear
my bone. :eek:
The
Eye Of Science. Cool pictures of itty bitty things. :)
Ok Star Wars fans here ya go ,
http://www.scoutwalker.com/That's pretty damn cool. It's like live-action Seuss without Hollywood.
WOW Zip, great find! :thumbsup:
Funny egg found on
http://us-drivers-education.com Go to the
"Course demo" , scroll down to the yellow car and then click it 10 times to make the driver talkative and get him out of the car :)
Funny egg found on http://us-drivers-education.com Go to the "Course demo" , scroll down to the yellow car and then click it 10 times to make the driver talkative and get him out of the car :)
That freaked me out. :confused:
Shocking !!!!! :eek2: :eek2: :worried:
Ahh the wounders of the internet !!!!
I give you
the first drink of the day !!!!!
http://www.rathergood.com/first_drink/At least it's not those damned spongmonkeys ...
I'm still amazed that the spongmonkeys managed to get into an actual commercial.
Remind me what that was for again ... it was so annoying that I changed the channel everytime I saw it.
Yeah. Great ad.
Quiznos subs.
"I like the subs! 'Cause they are goooood foooor yoooou!"
Shit, I thought it was for Taco Bell, and wished strongly for the return of the Chihuahua.
That's how effective an ad it was. Made me buy a competing product.
So, how do you like our "talking baby" ad this time around?
Brian "25 days and counting"
<img src="http://images.quizilla.com/D/DarkCryst/1038541379_orriffraff.jpg" border="0" alt="You are Riff "Richard O'Brian who created the whole shebang" Raff"><br>You are Riff-Raff. You have some freaky astro-boy<br>hair later on in this movie!
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I'm Riff-Raff, but at my first show I played Frank N Furter. :))
SFW ,I had to say that , no nudity , just a bunch of lady getting their naughty bits waxed , the expressions are PRICELESS !!!!!!!
http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=BushesA link from a link Wolf recently posted here ,
http://www.lhpo.org/
LHPO stands for Large Hot Pipe Organ ,
Propane fired explosion pipe organ ,
Need I say more ??? :cool: :eek: :3_eyes: :eyebrow:
Here's a pic .
SFW ,I had to say that , no nudity , just a bunch of lady getting their naughty bits waxed , the expressions are PRICELESS !!!!!!!
http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=Bushes
Zippyt,
Sometimes I wonder if we are sharing the same brain.
that was great.
Loved the music too. :thumbsup: :eek: :eek:<--waxed gif
I fail to see the point of
this but it's more cute than, say, those annoying "eyes" that follow around your pointer.
Making the rabbit let go can amuse me for hours.... :)
I found
this whilst wasting time stumbling around. Verra neato if you're into ASCII text for sigs and such.
I remember the old days when this was rampant. :3eye:
and tell you you're late for dinner.
cause you're wasting your time
here but it's fun!
I fail to see the point of this but it's more cute than, say, those annoying "eyes" that follow around your pointer.
Making the rabbit let go can amuse me for hours.... :)
Son of BigV says "do the bunny one!!!"
:alien: :vader1: :rattat:
he chose the smilies too.
Thanks for the laffs!
Here's a fun game. Practice your skydiving skills during the off-season...
http://vladiks.com/Misc/parachute.swf
BTW- That Rocky Horror thing was great. I be Frank, and it's right...
This may be of interest to everyone, particularly lexicographers and historians.
Origin of the word
asshat.Ok Ok , sorry about that last one with out any warning ,
This one Should be safe , the complete Calvin and Hobbes !!!!!!!
http://www1.stfunoob.com/calvin_hobbes/index.htmEggggsellant!!!!
Ya just gotta love Calvin & Hobbes! :thumbsup:
I found it 5 times in a row. :p
Disclaimer: I am an utter fool for fractals, so I although this rates 10/10 for "coolness" for me, your mileage may vary.
The url:
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~sgeier/fractals/ Sooooo much eye candy here. (I'll restrict myself to) A couple of thumbnails.
Superior fractals. :thumbsup:
Superior fractals. :thumbsup:
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I think that means he likes them. I think they're cool too
I had to install a DSP ( digital signal processer ) pcb in a computer a few years ago , one of the utilitys to test the DSP processer was a fractal genarator , i freaked out the DOT guy and a co-worker when i said gleefully " LOOK Fracticals !!!!" They had NO clue what a fractical was , i tried to explane and showed them that you could zoom in infantaly . They said " whell thats some pretty pictures , but what good is that ??" Then i explained what kind of computing power it took to generate fracticals , and that it was a COOL test for that processer indivigualy . Then i ran the same program whith the main proceser , slower , much slower . The DOT guy got it , my co-worker was still confused . I just told him it was a "Good Thing :) "
not fractals, but cool looking microscopic images:
http://www.microscopy.fsu.eduzippyt posted it and it has the word boobie in it. I think I'll wait till I get home.
and also because I'm still boggling at this.
Presenting, for your reaction, the crazy eBay mom: :headshake
http://www.randomthink.net/misc/ebay/Presenting, for your reaction, the crazy eBay mom: :headshake
http://www.randomthink.net/misc/ebay/
Wow, that's sad.
Geez, ya think she's a little obsessive compulsive or what?
The thing that got me, was through the whole thing, he kept mentioning his room like it was some sanctuary of sanity in this house. But his room was almost as bad--and he claimed some of the boxes in his room were overflow of her stuff, and the rest were boxes of his necessary possessions like "old schoolwork, childhood toys, and electronics that in a normal house would be in the garage..."
I have a normal house and it contains exactly zero old schoolwork, no electronics that are not in use in the livingroom, and a perhaps half a dozen very small childhood toys. I sure as hell wouldn't put that stuff in my garage if I did have it, I'd get rid of it. This guy is in total denial about the fact that he's exactly like his mother.
actually, he admitted right up front that he's cuckoo, too 'cept he takes his meds. plus, if he was sane, he wouldnt still ive with his mommy.
They are sitting on a gold mine!!
Imagine if she registered on Ebay as a seller and listed every "uneccesary" (in real people terms) item in that house! the money she could make!! - and most of it is already packaged for her!!
But, since many of those boxes are unopened...methinks she cannot even know what is in them. Although I have seen some weird things offered on eBay. I can imagine it now...For Sale: 1 box of misc stuff. Purchased from eBay three years ago. Still NIB, unopened. No photos available. Box lots only. Bids begin at $1.00. Too many to list! No return policy. Buyer pays shipping.
Were this guy me, I would have to send mom on a trip to Atlantic City with a few rolls of nickles and as soon as she's out of sight, back up a
Cat 769D, which is my current ride, and load 'er up! All of it goes! Every speck. Straight to the local landfill.
Then claim she was burglarized when she gets home. Oh yeah, and I'd disable that computer too. It's old enough to claim it died of old age. That woman needs serious intervention.
Brian
Then claim she was burglarized when she gets home.
I think she would believe it, since she's convinced all her crap is so valuable. :)
BrianR , Playing with TONKA toys ???? What gives ?? I thought you were going to be 18wheelering all about the country side !!
It's a childhood thing. I had a Tonka dumper, front end loader and ladder (fire) truck as a child. Big boy toys and all that.
The semi has to wait a little bit for the VA to do their job first. Another week should do it, or so they claim. But unemployment was boring so I got a UTT job hauling waste rock from a mine to a slag pile. It's $15/hr, variable hours. Pays the bills and leaves me some to put aside for paying to fix my life. Two goals left to go! Details will be posted on my update thread when there is news to report. Should be the last two goals will happen within a week of each other as both are ready and only require a large infusion of money to complete.
And this is a large truck. Not as large as you see on Modern Marvels but large nonetheless. I wish I had a camera handy when another driver dumped his load (truck and all) over the edge of the slagheap. It would have been funnier if he hadn't gotten blood all over the cab because he didn't wear the seat belt, but he survived and the truck will be back in service as soon as they put a new drive axle on it. To explain, he got too close to the edge, which crumbled under him when he lifted the bucket. The center of gravity was high at that point and the whole thing went ass over teakettle down the hill, about 100 feet down. Made a hell of a racket too. I heard it clearly over the noise of my own truck, which is none too quiet.
In any case, I have three job offers for driving semis on my table right now and I could have more if I wanted them. As soon as I get my diploma (required paper to be hired due to insurance) I will choose one lucky winner and off I go! I'll post a picture of the truck I get to drive (and terrify you four-wheelers with) when I have it ready. The only thing I still need to fit out the truck is a good CB and a laptop. Those will be coming soon!
Brian
Why isn't the future what it was supposed to be?
I'm still waiting for my housecleaning robot. And my personal jetpack.
I'm still waiting for my housecleaning robot. And my personal jetpack.
I can't help you with the jetpack, but housecleaning robots are beginning to appear, such as
Roomba and
Scooba.
This weekend my brother and I were discussing our theories on how the <A HREF="http://www.therobomaid.com/">Robomaid</A> works.
We tried to use our combined knowledge of physics to somehow grasp an understanding of this household cleaning stuff, but it didn't happen.
Magick.
And the same technology that makes the Bumble Ball work.
Bugmenot is a service that will allow you to bypass those annoying login prompts for news articles and such. It's easy to use and free.
More timewasting fun can be found at
Little Fluffy IndustriesIf you like prison stories or HBO's Oz you should check out:
www.gorillaconvict.com
It's the website for a convict in the Federal Prison system. Has excerpt from his book and a blog about life in prison.
Gizmodo
I find the writing just flat out hilarious. Genius at times.
I'm guilty of not wading through this entire thing and checking to see that this hasn't already been posted.
LiveJournal on random
Now, this is a sort of masochistic interesting. The random feature seems to pull up the journals whose owners are really scraping the bottom of the intelligence, interest, personality, and writing style pool. Spend just 5 minutes refreshing for a new random journal and I bet the average age of owner will be 15. You'll see at least 3 anorexia/"thinspiration" journals, 5 journals full of emo poetry and references to self-injury, 1 journal that is soley for posting nude pictures (we're going to hope this user is over 18, thus inflating your average to 15), and no journals that show even a minimum grasp of grammar and spelling.
Now, there are worthwhile journals and communities over there. But with so much utter crap on there, you're statistically bound to pull up the painfullly hilarious stuff. I like to pretend that LJ just blocks the good stuff on Random though.
Geez, I hope no one pulls up my journal doing this. (No, my user name there is not "Neurotica".)
Ok, so refresh was the wrong word. That would just refresh the first journal you retrieve. You actually have to re-enter
http://www.livejournal.com/random.bml into your address bar.
With as many times as I've entertained myself this way, you'd think I wouldn't have made that mistake.
Not sure if it's been posted yet but,
www.earth.google.com Load the free program and install it, then zoom in on your house from space. sweeeet!
Welcome back, Roosta! Long time no see.
btw...I love the Stumble addon to Firefox.
This site lets you pick the top and bottom halves of headshots of various people. The two halves seamlessly combine to form a new face.
I love the Stumble addon to Firefox.
...
btw, new revision out today.
Behold, the entertainment force that is.....
The Rawker
Check out the remix page. When I clicked the highschool band clip, it was the first time EVER that I actually did spew on my keyboard and lol. I always thought those were cliched, too.
That was just really, really painful.
I have no clue what
this is all about
I could have gone all day without that. Thanks.
Edit:
ALL DAY, do you hear me?
Holy flippin' cow! Two words - Human Gumby.
I just sent that to a friend and belatedly realized that he works for a company that makes those systems. I trust him not to share with his coworkers.
That is one scary link.
Here's a fun one, perhaps already posted. It works like a close up magic trick.. Have fun!
Animal, Mineral, Vegetable, Other or Dunno.Here's a fun one, perhaps already posted. It works like a close up magic trick.. Have fun!
Animal, Mineral, Vegetable, Other or Dunno.
It's been a while since I played with that ... I can still stump it, though, and with relatively non-obscure objects. (computer mouse, video cassette)
That is one scary link.
Here's a fun one, perhaps already posted. It works like a close up magic trick.. Have fun!
Animal, Mineral, Vegetable, Other or Dunno.
I just played it and it disagreed with some of my choices, especially in the music category.
'lead a group' is open to interpretation.
<big>You are Rod Stewart.</big>
Do you lead a group? You said Yes, I say No.
Are you a James Bond theme song? You said No, I say Unknown.
Have you performed live since 2000? You said Yes, I say Unknown.
Have you been knighted? You said Unknown, I say No.
Are you good-looking? You said Yes, I say Doubtful.
Are you from England? You said Yes, I say Doubtful.
Are you popular with teenagers these days? You said Unknown, I say No.
Are you fond of wearing leather pants? You said Unknown, I say Yes.
Have you ever changed your line-up? You said Yes, I say No.
word origins
I was going to see what the origin of the word "etymology" was, but I didn't see a search function.
I think the scratchpad has interesting possibilities.
Great link, Billy. We miss you. :D
best MS paint picture EVER
talk about time consuming
http://www.dropkickthefaint.com/
Not sure if it's so cool. Entertaining maybe.
http://www.slashdot.org
A great place to hang out in if you are into debates on anything dear to your geeky hearts :D
in-progress.org
Featuring award winning videos and other digital media art. :)
I was going to see what the origin of the word "etymology" was, but I didn't see a search function.
"What's another word for 'thesaurus'?"--Steven Wright
i can see myself getting addicted to that maggie
Track how your Senators & Reps are cheating, screwing you & killing America.
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/megavote/I tried to get a few different pics to show but they just turned out as blobs , see if you can get the cheering section to show any thing ,
http://www.madin.jp/ouen/index-e.htmlhttp://www.stumbleupon.com - for finding new, interesting websites. :)
Welcome to the Cellar, yakka. :D
I tried to get a few different pics to show but they just turned out as blobs , see if you can get the cheering section to show any thing ,
http://www.madin.jp/ouen/index-e.html
It didn't like Manson... gave me an error.
http://www.stumbleupon.com - for finding new, interesting websites. :)
Love stumbleupon!!!!
I've been playing for about 20 minutes, and have gotten to 449 - how far can you go?
http://gprime.net/game.php/pendulumecabummer, links ODed or sumpin...
This guy might just be stranger than Farside.
I've been playing for about 20 minutes, and have gotten to 449 - how far can you go?
http://gprime.net/game.php/pendulumeca
I can't even make it off the first screen ... I always liked Batman better, anyway.
I've been playing for about 20 minutes, and have gotten to 449 - how far can you go?
http://gprime.net/game.php/pendulumeca
874
Ever wonder what would happen if you put
Christmas lights in a microwave? Or many other things? Well, now you will know without ruinig the wife's microwave oven. Or stinking up the place.
That is way beyond KEWL. Thank You BrianR.
This guy might just be stranger than Farside.
Those are great! Larson was a all time Fav.
I'm getting a 404 on those.
http://timekiller.tv/2007/09/14/the-ultimate-pigeon-protection-device
It's just too funny for words. Note: no actual birds were harmed in the making of this video.
