Tacky Raccoons’ 6th Year: The Top 11 Posts

We’ve featured the Top Posts for each year since this blog was whelped in 2007. The numbers indicate ranking for the previous 12 months followed by last year’s, and we’ve added a third for all-time rank (August 2007 – August 2013).  NR indicates Not Ranked.

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No. 11/nr/22  Death Row Barbie & Other Science Fair Projects

Animated Scales

No. 10/nr/72 – The .gif Friday Post 65: Animated Scales

Dude. Awesome.

No. 9/nr/69 –  The .Gif Friday Post No.204 – DUDE. AWESOME.

No. 8/7/6 – Amy’s Motivational Poster Collection

Giant Isopod

No. 7/nr/31 –  “Wow, Giant Isopod, Did You See That?”

No. 6/9/24 -The .Gif Friday Post No.104 – Catsup

No. 5/8/18 -Babe Cannon

No. 4/4/12 – 10:11:10 11/10/11

No. 3/6/5 – Giant Woolly Bear Caterpillar Discovered Near Las Cruces, NM, Predicts Global Warming for Decades to Come

No. 2/5/11 – 10/10/10 10:10:10

And the Number One Post for the past 12 months is:

Capybara Lapwarmer!

This bit of furry awesomeness was Number 2 in August 2012, down from Number 1 in 2011, and Caplin Rous is back in the top slot for most views with a score of 1/2/3. Congrats!

Thank all of you who visit, follow & link to Tacky Raccoons, and I hope you’re at least mildly amused at what our intrepid webminers have produced on a daily basis for the past six years. — Bunk

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Future Retro Hot Links

Alpha The Robot 1933

The Pipkins greatest hit from 1970.

They are coming.

Heh. Heh heh heh. Heh heh heh heh.

The themesong to The Tim Conway Jr. Show is awesome.

A question that has plagued mankind for millenia: Do artificial gills exist?

Cool B&W photos here.

Snake has a spider on its tail. Check it out.

Ordering a pizza. The future is now.

Top image: Meet Alpha the Robot. He doesn’t like boys OR girls.

Saturday Matinee – Ry Cooder & David Lindley, Various Links, and The Marcels


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Two old white guys munching de riddim: Ry Cooder & David Lindley.

This is kinda cool. Elvis’ version of “Blue Moon” jammed with a reggae beat that turns to ska and back. Unfortunately there’s no entertaining vid, so I’ll just post the link for the music. You’ll love it.

So where do we go from here? “Blue Moon” of course.

Billie Holiday

Frank Sinatra

Mel Tormé

Bob Dylan

The Marcels‘ version is my all time favorite, for what I hope are obvious reasons. Have a great weekend folks, and come back tomorrow for  more insipid and vapid trepanations.

A Great Gibber of Hot Links

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Image above from Walt Kelly‘s “Kluck Klams,” an evisceration of the KKK. The Pogo Poop Book was a collection of things that Kelly wanted to say in his daily comic strips but couldn’t, due to left-wing censorship.

Dancer and Prancer and a few Vixens here.

Recycling Scrabble Tiles.

“If we aren’t allowed to test shampoo on monkeys, how will we ever know if our monkeys are clean?” – Diesel Kroese. Diesel helped me start this blog a long time ago, so now he spams me with his book adverts. Payback’s a bitch.

HELLLOOO CLEVELAND! (and this guy‘s got some awesome drafting skills).

Best versions of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star you’ll ever hear.

This Tornado Tracks graphic blows me away [via].

The precurser to “Hot Rod Lincoln” was Arkie Shibley’s 1951 recording of “Hot Rod Race.

Speaking of “Hot Rod Lincoln, THIS is the perhaps the best version I’ve heard.
There are some surprises, so stay with it.

“The Wizard of Mental Telepathy” Harry Ingalls suckered thousands.

Little Kings.

Giant fluorescent pink slugs found living atop a mountain in Australia.

This spam comment showed up in our inbox yesterday and it made me smile:

Spam Lung Face Cushion Person

Octopus action is cool despite crappy video.

Oh, and one more thing. Do This.

Hot Links From Below The Horizon

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Las Adelitas was named after female warriors of the Mexican Revolution, and is a splinter group of the Brown Berets, a radical racist leftist group that believes California belongs to Mexico. I like the painting (by Sylvia Ji) but not the message.

Tony Clifton: The Man, The Legend.

Konceptofon’s Photostream is very cool.

Coexist.

Part 1 & Part 2 of a BBC documentary on Scottish proto punk Alex Harvey (1935-1982).

Latin Ballet of Virginia.

It’s Homer Time!

Jo Stance [via].

Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cereal.

Hot Links To The Core

Rodent RAM

I could watch this forever.

“Long term use of pessoi could have resulted in local irritation, skin or mucosal damage, or complications of external haemorrhoids.” [Source, via here.]

Windboard.

The Blob eats a magnet. The Blob can do other stuff.

Ride the City of New Orleans from New Orleans to Hammond LA in real time. (BTW, Arlo Guthrie didn’t write the song, Steve Goodman did.)

Dickran Gobalian.

What a cute waste of technology.

Make your home smell like a bag of sliders.

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” Nor pane, in Russia.

Cool downloadable drum loops. Purple Napkins is pretty good.

Sunday Go To Meetin’ Hot Links

Cat Camo

10 Camoflage Cats.

You had one job… [via]

A Bacterium on a Diatom on an Amphipod. [via]

George Thorogood discusses his influences and his switch from acoustic to electric guitar.

The Beatles’ most counterfeited album: Introducing The Beatles.

First known image of computer porn. (Don’t worry. It’s cool.)

“I swear! He just went into another cow’s butt!” Kids discuss Cyriak’s “Cows & Cows & Cows.”

All about Kenny, Bush Chooks, EB, sport, E squared, red can, green stuff, kero and wife bashers here.

The Bible, translated into Gullah, is apparently not a parody: Gullah Nyew Testament.

It happens.

VERY COOL sciency images with brief descriptions here.

Scientific Hot Links

You Got Snakes

Sexy People.

The Party Of The Wealthy.

Canada’s House of Common addresses a potential threat to civilization [via].

This song was a hit on pop radio in the early 1960s, and it’s enough to make you wanna puke. [Wiki: The song was composed by Ghanaian musician Guy Warren in 1956 under the original title “An African’s Prayer (Eyi Wala Dong)”.]

The New Dimensions in Testimony program is pretty awesome. More here.

“‘I now have work for 20 years,’ he exclaimed joyfully.” Disturbing true story here.

Classic list of everything blamed on Anthropogenic Global Warming Climate Change: The Warmlist.

ICYMI Department: The Institute for Centrifugal Reasearch: Gravity Is A Mistake. Must see video [via].

Searching for Twitter followers with the promise of absolutely no content, no following and no retweets.

Top image found here, caption inspired by this:

Hotlinks LIVE In Arturo’s Loft

Ramones 1975

Urban graffiti sculpture.

Awesome balancing act: Gravity Glue.

“As we gazed into each other’s eyes, Athena encircled my arms with hers, latching on with first dozens, then hundreds of her sensitive, dexterous suckers…. Athena’s suckers felt like an alien’s kiss—at once a probe and a caress.”

Dogs on Skype.

Thomas Sowell Dismantles Racialism and Feminism in under 5 Minutes. (ca. 1979)

Beer can pinhole camera with 6-month-long exposure photo.

The horse is approaching the gate. And it’s off…

40 years in the taiga wilderness.

The Amazing True Odyssey of the Paskowitz Family.

Story time: The background of  “Never Mind The Bollocks” the Sex Pistols’ debut album from 1977.

Top image: Early Ramones, live in Arturo’s loft 1975.

Squeezin’ Out The Hot Links

Ana Gloria and Ronaldo, Havana, 1957

Visit Rose at The Coffee Shop and sit next to the virtual fireplace.

Via the Transnational Pupshaw Association, this is Problematic. Click through for the vid.

Abandoned Paintings – the Classics depopulated.

Oh, man. They wasted Periwinkle.

“It’s a kite!” “No, it’s a camera!”

Francis Alÿs‘ animations.

Top image: Ana Gloria and Ronaldo, Havana, 1957. (Click the pic for a bonus.)