Tag: Hot Links

State of the Art Hot Links

Above: The Hav-Mor Family ca. 1947. They performed at county fairs advertising fertilizer produced by The Tennessee Corporation. (Jack “Pop” Pettett is on the right blowing smoke; Ray Courts on banjo.)

2001: A Spoof Odyessy.

Cool Food.

Random Garfield Generator, because everything is funnier than Garfield.

Pleased to meet you. What’s your name? [via]

Long time listener, first time caller Ken forwarded us this link o’ golf bloopers.

What It’s Really Like To Work In A Music Store:
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V

The Foxfire Project began in the early 1970s to preserve the folklore and knowledge of elderly rural Appalachians. Through taped and written interviews, high school students amassed enough stories for several volumes of pure Americana. They’re available in .pdf format here, other sources here.  (The files are huge, might take some time to download.)

Andrea Joseph’s Sketchbook is teh awesome.

I kinda like this tune by my blogbud Dorian.

Sing Fer Yer Hot Links

Interesting collection of old songs about murders here with lots of stories.

Pink Floyd Tribute Band

22 photobombs by horses.

“We’re DOOOOMED!” Great display of doomsayers of the 1970s from Paleo Future.

Telephone books. [via]

Oddness is only one click away. [via]

Laundracat.

Speak With Conviction addresses a west coast speech pattern?

Eric Clapton Tribute Band

Women laughing alone with salad.

Pixar’s Zoetrope display is verracool.

Holiday Hot Links

Awesomely creepy holiday photos… here.

Kim Jong-Il looking at things [via Presurfer].

Mobile movie theater is solar powered.

Ultimate Hot Wheels.

Do NOT taunt the boxing bag.

Curtis Got Slapped – Forty Pages of Demands For Reparations. Awesome.

Print all your documents with a coffee stain watermark.

Spider threatens itself, drives itself away [via].

Hot Links & Vine

Patchwork quilt pattern generator for folks who want to generate patchwork quilts. Great gift idea [via The Presurfer].

Meow mix. Turn on speakers and click around.

According to this nonsensical website, the energy used to load Tacky Raccoons could power a 100W light bulb for 30.731 seconds! Woohoo! [via Woosk.]

Stop clubbing baby seals (here).

Steve McGranahan is the World’s Strongest Redneck. Great videos, too.

Glowsticks + Toilet = Stoner Fun.

Green Eggs and Ham Dylan Style.

Toddler evangelist will make you believe.

I loved these.

Cleverbot is amusing. I went as far as I needed to, starting with:
“Who is Cleverbot?”
“I am, what are you?”
“What am I?”
“Yes, what are you?”
“Cleverbot?”
“Ah yeah…”

Hot Links & The Temple Of Doom II

Awesome. Jim Lovell’s summary of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission can be found here. Although Tom Hank’s movie was great, the book it was based on, Lovell’s “The Lost Moon,” is a must read.

Recently there was a clever cartoon meme called “Tetris From Hell.” Now you can play it.

Are you pregnant? Know someone who is? Get your trendy morning sickness barf bags here. [via]

Wow. Interactive 360 degree video of the demolition of Texas Stadium in Dallas. From the inside. With sound.

Jim’s Pancakes are awesome pancakes.

Fishing in Amsterdam.

Dysentery chimes in on Facebook.

Blah blah hey nonnie nonnie.

Hot Links and the Temple of Doom

“Dylan Hears a Who” was a classic parody from 1997. The original website was promptly shut down by the heirs of the Dr. Seuss franchise, as if it were a threat to the profitability of the classic children’s book series.

[Click on the image for a sample, or download a .zip here. If you don’t trust that site, leave a request in the comments and I’ll forward a clean .zip file. It’s 59MB of fun. ]

Rain on the Tracks:  Flooded train track is flooded.

Build a virtual solar system here [via Neatorama].

I squish your head.

Chatroulette vs. Chatroulette here.

Been burned in a website chat? Here’s a way to report the abuse.

Mess with your mind here. Be sure to leave a trail of breadcrumbs.

Wanna know where the speed traps are in your area? Slow down here.

Lasercat dogfight here.

Close Encounters of the Hot Links

Image found here.

Amazing interactive video. Take a drive through Haiti [found here.]

Cool Architecture and design here.

“But I don’t like Wikipedia.”

Axe Cop is AWESOME. Do not miss this action strip, created and written by a 5 year old, drawn by a 29 year old, and previously posted here. [The Awesome Miss C found this gem.]

Muddy Waters Iguana [via].

Chairlift.

How to build a space station animation.

This blog post is fascinating in its basic analysis of the topic while being dissected in the comments section. [Found here.]

This looks like an entertaining time waster.

Never played snooker, don’t know the rules, but this is impressive. [Found here.]

What type are you? [Found here.]

How to get from Las Vegas to Honolulu here. Direction 26 is the tough part.

Nice collection of clips of Tom Waits in the movies.

Strider’s collection of  Crappy Album Covers is new and improved, cutting edge, wave of the future.

The Official Collection of Hot Links here.

404 Not Found Hot Links

Robert Crumb is the greatest cartoonist as far as you know.

Classic rock hits on piano here, here, here, here and here. Click on each, one at a time,  and look away quickly. See how long it takes you to recobanize ’em.  (I posted this one yesterday.)

Speaking of classic rock, David Lee Roth did something here.

YAY! Leech Farm!

Scary Baby. The title sums it up.

Raindrops. Kind of hypnotic.

Excellent photos from an Antarctic cruise.

Early Saturday Morning TV ca. 1966.

For those of you who peruse and/or participate in discussion blogs, especially tempermental ones, check out the Flame Warriors Home.

Molecule of the Month for January 2010:  Green Fluorescent Protein – A molecular tag that can be inserted into genes to make animals and plants glow green.

Put fuldkommen gak into google translate.

The Best Things On the Internet 2009 according to Buzzfeed [via].

Google the word “why” and see what pops up in the autocomplete box. More fun google tricks here.

Fun Fart Facts.  Here’s the link you asked for, Danny.

Fingerbutts from around the world.

“Now those of you will notice the bloody mess on Jenny’s back and that is the most important part of the ritual that will give her wings.” Read more here.

Hot Links – Cephalopoodle Edition

And then I’ll call Pup Tentacle

Note that we have once again made Google History by being the first to post the term “Cephalopoodle.” It’s right up there with the first mention and commentary about Igde Pshat. Y’all are cordially welcome.

zen haiku:
knock knock knock knock knock
knock knock knock who’s there? Not that
octopus again

From that same link comes this great Zen google translation:
“Neurotic he is already.You can repair the way the octopus laugh : it is like empty.”

Congrats to Hanan of GrowABrain for the new addition to his family unit.

Tribute websites exist for just about everything, including the WWW. Don’t badmouth Artemus Gordon.

Interesting lecture on creativity by Sir Ken Robinson. I don’t agree with everything he espouses, but it’s an entertaining commentary on the public education system.

Given that a circle is comprised of line segments, and that each segment is tangent to the center of that circle, then the simplest circle that one can draw is an equilateral triangle.

Soldier’s Mail came from a comment on this post. Good stuff.

Military Magazine is still a good read. Get a free copy and decide for yourself.

Oh, and BTW, Hobotopia rocks.

Hot Links Vacation

Vacation '58_John Hughes

Dan found “Vacation ’58,” the short story for the John Hughes’ movie “Vacation.”

Crappy Taxidermy, and lots of it here.

Slime mold remembers patterns of events. Short article here.

In 2005, this actor played 165 parts in a popular movie.  [Guess who before you click here.]

Eternal Moonwalk is clever.

Because we all love Paleogene ungulates.

Nice collection of videos by Quirkology here.

Google “handmade aboriginal novelty fake turd” and you get 6,390 results.

Some trees just piss each other off.

Froggie! Fishies! Hamster!

1:30 of pure greatness.