Dec 11th

Dec 10th

The Color of Money: Scenes of Slavery Art Inspired by Old Confederate Money

an African-American artist named John W. Jones took the romanticized slave-labor scenes from Confederate currency and reproduced them in oil paintings paired with the bills.

Dec 9th

99 Remarkable Photographer’s Portfolios

There are many many thousands of photographers showing their work online - but those, which stand out with high quality against the masses are only a few in number.

To give you a list you can use as reference I collected 99 online photography portfolios, which I consider inspiring, refreshing and remarkable. I hope that you enjoy them. 

Dec 8th

7 Incredible Natural Phenomena you've never seen

"Relámpago del Catatumbo" (Catatumbo lightning) . . . is a cloud-to-cloud lightning that forms a voltage arc more than five kilometre high during 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours a night, and as many as 280 times an hour.

I was only aware of one of these, and it was the one I least expected to see on a list of this kind. Interesting stuff.

Dec 7th

US says it has right to kidnap British citizens

AMERICA has told Britain that it can “kidnap” British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States.

A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it. 

Dec 6th

Dec 5th

Where should I get all my bomb material? Have you tried Amazon.com?

Radioactive sample of uranium ore. Uranium ore sample sizes vary. We are always in compliance with Section 13 from part 40 of the NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules and regulations and Postal Service regulations specified in 49 CFR 173.421 for activity limits of low level radioactive materials

Just in time for Christmas

Dec 4th

Dec 3rd

Old New York in Black and White

Dec 2nd

How Stairway to Heaven Almost Destroyed Led Zeppelin

"Stairway to Heaven" remains the closest thing Zeppelin has to a hit, as it was their policy not to release singles. In 1971, when the band refused to edit the song into four minutes of radio-friendly pop, stations simply started playing the whole track, and it soon became the most requested song on rock radio.

Dec 1st

1507 Map Shows America, South America & the Pacific Ocean

Scholars are confused as to how a German mapmaker knew the Pacific Ocean existed years before explorers found it, and how he depicted South America so accurately. "From the writings of Vespucci you couldn't have prepared [this] map," John Hebert, chief of the geography and map division at the library, told Reuters.

Apparently the Library of Congress paid $10 million for it after it spent 400 years in the library of a German castle.

Nov 30th

Sketches of Japanese manners and customs

 Silver, J. M. W.
Sketches of Japanese manners and customs. Illustrated by native drawings, reproduced in fac-simile by means of chromo-lithography. London, Day & son, 1867

Nov 29th

Nov 28th

Olberman: Bush is either a pathological presidential liar, or an idiot-in-chief.

We have either a president who is too dishonest to restrain himself from invoking WW3 about Iran at least 6 weeks after he had to have known that the analogy would be irresponsible hyperbole — or we have a president too transcendently stupid not to have asked whether the fairy tales he either created or was fed, were still even remotely plausible. 

KO tears into Bush, using his own words to prove he knew he was "exaggerating" the Iranian nuclear threat.

Nov 27th

Department of Motor Vehicles - F. U.

DMV - "Fuck You" NOTICE OF OFFENDING PLATES....... 

Nov 26th

Mmmmm Beer!

Those wild and crazy guys at Boston Beer Co. have done it again, brewing a beer so strong they label it 48 proof, using terminology usually reserved for spirits. Sam Adams Utopias MMII, which goes on sale this month, is in fact 24% alcohol by volume, making it the strongest commercial beer in the world. 

Nov 25th

Nov 24th

Jeff de Boer's metallurgy

Jeff de Boer is a Calgary-based multi-media artist with an international reputation for producing some of the world's most original and well-crafted works of art. With an emphasis on metal, he is best known for such bodies of work as suits of armour for cats and mice, armour ties and sword-handled briefcases, rocket lamps and pop culture ray guns, and exquisite high art, abstract works called exoforms. 

Nov 23rd

Dear Rockers

Dear Jack,
I have a confession to make. A friend burned me a copy of Brushfire Fairytales. I loved it, but also downloaded your other albums. Sorry. Here’s $10 (for the last 3 and for the next).

I love your music but I don’t buy from the RIAA. I especially like “Mudfootball”, “Times Like These”, and “No Other Way”. Keep it up and tour Japan so I can give you some more money. Luke."

Putting whiners like Metallica in their place.

Nov 22

Top 15 Amazing Coincidences

 Life is full of coincidences, some very minor, but occasionally - extraordinary. This is a list of 15 of the most incredible, unbelievable coincidences.

A recent coincidence in New York was the daily number, one year to the day after the 9-11 terrorist attack on the WTC, the number that came in was 911, makes you think.

Nov 21

A call for sausage

Enraged by Jimmy Dean reducing the size of their sausage from 16 oz to 12 oz but still charging the same price, Randy Taylor left a voicemail complaint on Jimmy Dean corporate line. 

You tell 'em Randy.

Nov 20th

Nov 19th

Miss Landmine Angola 2008

* Female pride and empowerment.
* Disabled pride and empowerment.
* Global and local landmine awareness and information.
* Challenge inferiority and/or guilt complexes that hinder creativity--historical, cultural, social, personal, African, European.
* Question established concepts of physical perfection.

Nov 18th

Oil leaders' private debate televised by mistake

A private meeting of Opec leaders [...] had just been broadcast to the world's media for more than half an hour after a technician had mistakenly plugged the TV feed into the wrong socket. The facade of unity that the cartel so carefully cultivates to a world spooked by soaring oil prices was shattered. 

Among other things, broadcast of Opec concern stating that even appearing concerned over the dollar will only further weaken it. Gee, I wonder what's going to happen now.

Nov 17th

These dolls from Russia quite clearly have both male genitalia and the long flowing hair typically associated with females. We're stumped and aroused. 

Nov 16th

Click as close as possible to locations on the map. The faster the better... Speed counts! 

See if you are smarter than Lilly.

Nov 15th

Killer Bean Forever

For the past 4 years, I've been working at my computer 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. I've spent my entire life savings and maxed out credit cards. After all this time and effort, my movie is almost done. I present to you a preview of my feature film directorial debut... Killer Bean Forever. 

Nov 14th

Stripper Spanks Teen In Surprise Blunder at School

A teenage schoolboy was pulled around his classroom on a lead and spanked by a stripper after a birthday surprise blunder. 

Nov 13th

An Alien from Thailand [pics]

While it is unclear from the photos what is lying on the table but the local residents of this small town in Thailand claim that this “creature” was born by a cow! 

If I remember correctly, E.T.'s skin turned chalky white when he started to get sick. Coincidence? I think not.

Nov 12th

Union Outsources Picket Lines to the Homeless

"We're protesting, we're protesting…" Then the energy leaves his voice and he concedes, "I don't know."

No wonder.

Hodge isn't a carpenter; he's a rent-a-picket. 

Nov 11th

Half Man - Half Tree with Pics and Video

An Indonesian fisherman who feared that he would be killed by tree-like growths covering his body has been given hope of recovery by an American doctor - and Vitamin A.

Check out the Video.

Doctors are hoping to get to the root of the problem. Let's hope they're not barking up the wrong tree with their diagnosis.

Nov 10th

USED condoms are being recycled into hair bands in southern China and selling well in local markets and beauty salons.

it seems so practical... just.. so.. wrong at the same time.

Nov 9th

In third place, with 6%, came a law stating that only a clerk in a tropical fish store has permission to be topless in public in Liverpool.

Any other laws you think deserve the title?

Nov 8th

Rip-Away 1000

8-year-old twins Jared and Justin, tired of being bullied, have developed wedgie-proof underwear, the Rip-Away 1000s. This may be the greatest internet video of all time, those poor little bastards. It may also be the saddest. You just have to watch. The only problem is, I failed to hear any mention of swirlie-proof heads, indicating these kids still have plenty years of torture ahead of them.

Nov 7th

A cow fell about 200 feet off a cliff Sunday and landed on the hood of a minivan passing by Rocky Point about one mile east of Manson, officials said. 

Nov 6th

Star makers

(...) advanced civilisations must thus be grouped according to three Types: I, II and III, signifying mastery of, respectively, planetary, stellar and galactic forms of energy usage.

Human civilisation has only recently begun to master planetary energies: fossil fuels, passive solar, wind, geothermal and nuclear fission, and may one day soon crack nuclear fusion. But how long will it take to reach Type II and III status? Less time than most realise. 

i´m utterly fascinated by this subject

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Nov 5th

Ming the clam is 'oldest animal'

The clam, nicknamed Ming after the Chinese dynasty in power when it was born, was in its infancy when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing plays such as Othello and Hamlet. ]

Nov 4th

The Freedom Claws

Dozens of lobsters destined to be boiled alive made a successful getaway from an Asian supermarket in the German city of Stuttgart in the early hours of Sunday morning, police said. The clawed crustaceans, some of them up to 15 centimeters long, managed to crawl out of their crates, which had been poorly secured with wire mesh, then scurried across the floor of the supermarket and squeezed through the metal shutters covering the front of the store.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ~ Emerson

Nov 3rd

Shape your ears

The required reshaping is achieved by modellation of a specially designed chondro-cutaneous flap (a flap containing the own cartilage and skin of the patient).

get your WTFs ready.
GO.

Nov 2nd

Bohemian rhapsody parody (Frat Boy mix)

Title says what it is. By no means is it outstanding, but it's creative as hell and pretty funny.

The Notorious DEK was having college flashbacks and found this great Bohemian Rhapsody theme video of the college frat years. Awesome.

Nov 1st

Top Scientist (James Lovelock) Says We’re Screwed

It’s too late to prevent disasters caused by climate change, according to one of the world’s top environmental minds. Professor James Lovelock, inventor of the Gaia theory which suggests the planet acts something like a single organism, said in a recent speech that reducing greenhouse gases and moving to sustainable development will not prevent the most disastrous of global warming’s effects.

Oct 31

Why Is The U.S. $2.9 Trillion In Debt?

Economists love a mystery – especially if it involves a missing $2.9 trillion in United States debt. Every quarter the Department of Commerce comes up with the US "International Investment Position." At the end of 2006, the US had a net negative position of $2.6 trillion. In other words, the country is by far the world's biggest debtor nation, while a quarter century ago, the US was the world's largest creditor nation.

Anybody want to take a guess?

Oct 30

The world of microbes

In 1977, Woese (pronounced “woes”), a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, drew a terrestrial family tree that showed the genetic relatedness of all living things on this planet. Using modern tools of molecular biology, he sampled the known single-celled, microscopic organisms we call microbes, and also the denizens of the human-scale world with which we are familiar: the flowers, trees, and shrubs; the animals; and the fungi.

Oct 29

Westboro Baptist ordered to pay $10.9 million for funeral protest

A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict Wednesday against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals in the belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality.

Who does god hate now, douchemasters?

Oct 28

Scary anti meth propaganda deconstructed till it's funny.

Subtext: Smoking meth makes everyone around you turn into cruel pseudo-zombies.

Less Obvious, Positive Subtext: Smoking meth makes you popular.

Subtext: Smoking meth makes everyone around you turn into cruel pseudo-zombies.

Less Obvious, Positive Subtext: Smoking meth makes you popular.

The ads themselves are rather strong, but then once I read the comments I wasn't scared anymore. But believe you/me, there's nothing worse or evoler than a woman on the tail end of a 6 day meth binge, insane!

Oct 27th

Crack is Whack

I saw two people in the alley, one black and one white, near the back entrance of the house across the alley. I turned to my friend and said, "Are they having sex? I think they are having sex. Oh my God, they are having sex!" 

Funny schatt.

Oct 26

Rumsfeld: "Link Iraq To Iran"

In a series of internal musings and memos to his staff, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid "physical labor" and wrote of the need to "keep elevating the threat," "link Iraq to Iran" and develop "bumper sticker statements" to rally public support for an increasingly unpopular war.

Oct 25th

Here, we bring you ten comparisons of sex scenes from well-known films and their remakes, and find that while the vibrancy of color doesn't automatically mean better nookie, nor does the elegance of black-and-white.

Oct 24th

Banksy is 'caught in the act' for first time'

His work sells for thousands of pounds and he is feted by the Hollywood elite, yet the identity of guerrilla artist Banksy remains shrouded in mystery.

A couple of years ago, I linked a article of Banksy installed a piece at the British Museum along with real artifacts is Here is a photo of his cave painting.

Oct 23rd

Laser Turns Virus Into Rubble

 A physicist and biologist destroyed a common virus using a superfast pulsing laser, without harming healthy cells. The discovery could lead to new treatments for viruses like HIV that have no cure.

The implications of this are absolutely staggering.

Oct 22nd

This past Saturday the mayor of Columbia, South Carolina, held a ceremony during which he named Stephen Colbert SC's Favorite Son and officially proclaimed October 28th Stephen Colbert Day. Colbert, who is running for President in SC on both the Democratic and Republican tickets, seized the moment and delivered a stump speech like no other candidate could (or would dare) ever make. Pure genius...

Oct 21st

Beating-heart transplant UK first

Doctors have carried out the UK's first successful beating-heart transplant.
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The new technique involves keeping a donated heart warm and beating throughout the procedure, rather than packing it in ice for transport

Don’t miss the video. Squick warning: the video shows a disembodied human heart beating in a plastic box. (Rather like the thumb. *grin*)

Oct 20th

what happens after you die

You died this morning... are you interested in what comes next?? 

An eerie French flash documentary that explains what happens to your body after you die.

Oct 19th

Creating the barbarian series

Every model created on this page is fashioned from only ONE UNCUT SQUARE of paper.

My first two characters suggest that I create the third member of the group, Legolas the Elf. After first trying some very complex patterns, I decided to represent only the parts of the body that actually appear. The initial square is articulated in a diagonal design pattern with the four corners becoming the head, bow, foot and cloak.

Oct 18th

This recut of the Disney classic 'Mary Poppins' was made by myself (Chris Rule), with assistance by Nick Eckert. T

This contains the musical piece "A Violent Attack" composed by Caine Davidson for the film 'An American Haunting,' "Stay Awake" written by Richard and Robert Sherman for Disney's 'Mary Poppins,' and stock sounds from iMovie.

Oct 17th

US military chiefs red-faced after elaborate Chinese lolcat joke at sea

American military chiefs have been left dumbstruck by an undetected Chinese submarine popping up at the heart of a recent Pacific exercise and close to the vast U.S.S. Kitty Hawk - a 1,000ft supercarrier with 4,500 personnel on board.

Oct 16

The Da Vinci Notes

An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper," raising the possibility that the Renaissance genius might have left behind a somber composition to accompany the scene depicted in the 15th-century wall painting. "It sounds like a requiem," Giovanni Maria Pala said.

Longer Discovery Channel article, with video:

The first 20 seconds of the actual piece:

Oct 15th

C.I.A. Feared Alien Invasion More Than Soviet Nuclear Attack

A raft of newly unclassified CIA documents revealed that the remote possibility of alien invasion elicited greater fear than the threat of a Soviet nuclear attack. The CIA documents show that despite decades of repeated public denials, behind the scenes there raged a series of inter-agency feuds that involved the highest levels of the US government. 

Oct 14th

Oct 13th

Sex Advice from: Internet Tech Support

How can I use tech-support strategies to fix problems in the bedroom?
First, make sure the system is turned on. Second, ensure that your work area and all gadgets are thoroughly cleaned. 

Oct 12th

Animal photographs, ready for chopping

Oct 11

Pilots fell asleep while flying.

The narrative in the report had this statement: "Last 45 mins of flt [flight] I fell asleep and so did the FO [first officer]." 

Oct 10th

Sept 29th

U.S. Navy Concludes "MySpace Generation" Is An Alien Life Force

The MySpace generation is a "somewhat alien life force," a Navy recruiting presentation contends -- with a language and lifestyle that's almost unrecognizable to adults. Entropic Memes uncovered the bleak, often unintentionally hilarious report from the Annual Navy Workforce Research and Analysis Conference. 

Apparently, there are even some whose "best friend may be Chinese".

Sept 28th

The Last Lecture

Quite a bit of info on this gentleman on ABC News and WSJ.com. A quite moving story, delivered in the form of a final lecture. His name is Randy Pausch--professor, Imagineer for Disney, and all around interesting guy. With a very good story to tell.

Sept 27th

Very whimsical. i really like the candy corn one for some reason. and the straws.

Sept 26th

Wow... What an incredibly moving speech. It is amazing to see somebody, especially a politician, being so real and open. It takes a tremendous amount of courage to do what he did and I am feeling so much respect for him.

Of course, San Diego is a really cool city, he'll probably win the next election in a landslide.

Sept 25th

Eggshell Carvings

Remember the highly praised Faberge eggs from the courts of Russian tzar? Modern masters of eggshell filigree carving make similarly detailed works, using only the nature-given material: eggshell itself, cut in creative patterns with a high intensity precision laser beam

Sept 24th

Brain-eating amoeba kills 6 this year; number expected to rise

PHOENIX - It sounds like science fiction but it’s true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die.

WTF. Remember when everyone was all worked up over those skin-eating bacteria that came from bananas or something? This is not only worse, but real.

Sept 23rd

The world's best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died, aged 84.

Family and friends are silent?

Sept 22nd

Ten of the most amazing temples in the world

More than a quarter of all people in the world belong to Eastern religions, which include Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Taoism. These people worship in temples, which are architecturally as diverse as the religions are different from each other. From the ancient ruins of Ankor Wat to the distinctly modern Wat Rong Khun, there are hundreds if not thousands of amazing temples in the world.

Sept 21st

10 most magnificent trees in the world

"A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food,
warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to
those who wield an axe to cut it down" - Buddha.
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There are probably hundreds of majestic and magnificent trees in the world - of these, some are particularly special: 

Sept 20th

Stuart Brown describes Norbert Rosing's striking images of a wild polar bear playing with sled dogs in the wilds of Canada's Hudson Bay.

Sept 19th

Inca teenage mummy still hot after 500 years

SALTA, Argentina (AP) -- Museum-goers gasped at the well-preserved mummy of an Inca maiden that is on display for the first time, a serene gaze etched on her face hundreds of years ago when she was sacrificed and froze to death in the Andes.

Sept 18th

burning man 2007

art - bootie - chests - children - couples - dust - faces - feet - fire - half light - hands - hips - ink - men - meta - music - paperwork - sleep - stuff - temple - torsos - transport - women - words 

Another September, another Burning Man gallery.

Sept 17th

A friend's granddaughter who works for NASA sent us these pictures from the past mission.

Sept 16th

Ft. Lupton Judge Punishes Noise Violators With Manilow

Violators of the city of Fort Lupton's noise ordinance were in for a big surprise this past Friday. The city's judge sentenced citizens who have been busted for being too loud to 1 hour of listening to unpopular or unusual music.

In a courtroom with mostly young adult offenders, Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" played loudly on a boombox.

Sept 15th

Coconut Crabs

The world largest terrestrial arthropod, the coconut crab. Native to many islands off the Indian and western Pacific oceans, our crabby ten-legged buddy measures in at more than 16 inches long and tips the scales at nine pounds. Ranging in color from pale violet through blue to red and brown, he’s super-strong, and can lift objects weighing more than 60 pounds with his front claws. 

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekk, Thats one hell of a crab. A monster!

Sept 14th

From Belgium, the B29 Dina Might is the world's mightiest remote-controlled plane. With a wingspan of almost 30 feet, it weighs 463 pounds and runs off four 160 cc engines. Spin those propellers, mate.

Sept 14th

Alan Greenspan: Iraq War Was For Oil

Alan Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil - America’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil.

Sept 13th

Pipe Cleaner Dancer

If you have a little rhythm, and you press the right key combos, you can really make this Pipecleaner dance, dance, dance.

Try it, six different songs to make him dance to. nice time waster..see what moves you can get from him by altering patterns you touch with keyboard on page!

Sept 12th

Jelly Battle

Send in your jelly to battle against other jellies. You have to pass 3 cheesy little practice rounds before you can enter the much more entertaining multiplayer, but definitely an interesting little time waster.

Sept 11th

Bees

Amazing photos of bees making their hive in a see-thru jar!

cool pics. Best viewed using slideshow.

Sept 10th

Alex the Parrot, an Apt Student, Passes Away

September 10, 2007 · Alex the famous African gray parrot, renowned for the landmark cognition research conducted by owner Dr. Irene Pepperberg, Ph.D., has died at the age of 31. By learning elements of the English language to identify shapes, colors and sizes, Alex shattered the notion that parrots are only capable of mimicking words. 

I have a Blue and Gold macaw, this passing pulled at my heart strings. Birds don't make good pets. They make great friends.

Sept 9th

Warning: Clicking Link May Cause Diabetes

A monkey and a pigeon have become inseparable at an animal sanctuary in China. The 12-week-old macaque - who was abandoned by his mother - was close to death when it was rescued - until he developed a friendship with a white pigeon. 

Sept 8th

Sept 7th

The amazing art of Banksy: possibly the worlds most notorious graffiti artist .

Banksy is a well-known yet pseudo-anonymous English graffiti artist, possibly named Robert Banks. His artworks are often satirical pieces of art which encompass topics from politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti with a distinctive stenciling technique, has appeared in London and in cities around the world. 

Sept 6th

Ze Germans kicked ass, placing first in nine of 17 categories. The U.S. team also did well with five firsts. Thumb is Gerhard Knapp of Germany, third place in the Full Beard Freestyle competition--but really, there were no losers.

Sept 5th

One more reason to join the Dark Side

Three separate rooms, one starfield, and a life-sized Han Solo are just a few of the things that help two super "Star Wars" fans get their geek on in this theater.

Sept 4th

The Amazing Leaf Art Of Kazuo Akasaki

Last night, there was a TV show about Kazuo Akasaki, an artist who makes amazing paintings using fallen leaves. His painting had been awarded the “Salon de Paris” at the 1986 Fine-arts Paris Exhibition of Japan. 

Sept 3rd

Sept 2nd

Pirates of the Malacca Strait

Modern pirates have long plagued Southeast Asia’s Strait of Malacca, robbing sailors, kidnapping crews, and stealing entire ships....Since 2002, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has recorded 258 pirate attacks in the Malacca Strait and surrounding waters...The insurance arm of Lloyd’s classified the strait as a war zone in June 2005.

Sept 1st

Dragnet 2007 - The Larry Craig Bust

Keith Olbermann Narrates using the official text from the Police report.

The irony of his own behavior which brought him down vs. his anti-gay voting record.

If Larry Craig were Gay

Larry Craig meets Avenue Q