Tag: Link Dump

Hinky Dinky Parley-Voo Hot Links

Irene Noblette Ryan

I wanna be the Sumpy.

I don’t wanna be the Bobo.

Interview with Ian Herring. The guy is a “colourist,” enhances comic books by coloring the graphics. His website is kinda cool, too.

“Hey, Dad. Can I have your jeans?” Denim jeans or jackets manufactured before 1980 are a hot ticket for collectors. Wow.

Milo Yiannopoulos, Christina Hoff Sommers and Steven Crowder: Intolerant jerks disrupt an otherwise civil forum. Long clip, starts out kinda jumpy. [NSFW, NSFK, foul language with subtitles.]

Want to learn tattooing but your girlfriend won’t let you practice on her? Make your ink mistakes on a Pound Of Flesh instead.

World’s 1st prosthetic arm designed for a tattoo artist is pure steampunk.

“Hinky Dinky Parley-Voo” was a popular song post-WWI.

[Top image: She worked in vaudeville, radio, film and on Broadway. She played Daisy Moses in a popular TV show. Guess before you click.]

 

Fine Shredded Hot Links

VW Sidecar

Interactive 3D Music Map is kinda cool. It’s a graphic representation of styles and their relationships/influences with a vertical timeline [via].

Incoming! Interactive map of immigration to the U.S. 1820-2013 [via].

How to make Ottoman spiral candy.

Larry.

“They are evil monsters who attack us night and day,” and they’re a protected species. Take a guess as to what those monsters are before you click here.

Giorgio de Chirico.

Giorgio de Chirico’s work animated.

This guy doesn’t lose his cool despite being surrounded by belligerents.

[Top image from here.]

 

One Chord Hot Links

WHATEVER

Amazing Naval weaponry: Lasers, Railguns and Hypervelocity Projectiles. If this is unclassified, just think of the stuff that is.

Greek Fire was a weapon used successfully to thwart invasions by muslim pirates in the early 7th century.

The Crusades were fought in response to Islamic aggression in the 11th century.

Who were the Barbary Pirates?

Okay, so the carpet caught fire. Big deal. It was an act of God.

Here are the rules for Kingyo-sukui.

Ruining Rock Paper Scissors. Look. Just throw the same 3 times in a row, then double your bet and throw the one that beats your previous three.  Pocket your winnings and leave the neighborhood asap. Coming up next: How to get dibs on a baseball bat.

Wild Man From Borneo by Kinky Friedman. One of these days he’s going to have a Tribute band.

I’m not a “gamer” so I’m not sure what to make of The Stanley Parable, but it looks pretty cool.

[Top image from The Greatest Rock Video Under Two Minutes Ever.]

Totally Biased Hot Links

Tippi

This video needs no soundtrack.

Finally, some hand-crafted Javascript.

Lego Train GoPro video [via].

A Proportional-Integral-Derivative controlled (PID), 6 degree of freedom (6-DOF) Stewart platform is very cool.

Fake Hate Crimes in the U.S. Database [via].

Batman vs. Superman [via].

Although my kids drew it on their notebooks, I still don’t know what it means.

Hippos eating watermelons.

[Top image coopted and edited from here. She once lived here. Related post here.]

Honka Chicka Hot Links

HonkaChica

Wallington Chevron sells Seattle Propane, and it’s a gas [via].

Daddy’s really thirsty.

Perspiration goes “Poof.”

Google “Run Hog Face” and this is one of the image results.

This is awesome. And so is this.

https://twitter.com/DRUDGE/status/718893221242347520

That should outrage everyone regardless of one’s political affiliation. Integrity in journalism is dead. Welcome to the world of Pravda.

[Top image found here.]

 

 

Testudinoidealistic Hot Links

Tortoise above the Venetian Lagoon 1555 Melchior Lorck

Occasionally I google three random words just to see what turns up. “John headlight insect” produced this, and I’m going to try it tomorrow.

How to change a lightbulb.

A Fallen Tear – The El Dorados [1956 Vee-Jay Records].

A Fallen Tear – The Marcels [1961 Colpix Records].

Goetta.

Beep … beep …  beep … THIS equipment is evil.

The Chalk Police have been summoned.

Look out, Cannes. Look out Oscars. There’s an old kid in town.

[Top image from here – Melchoir Lorck‘s “Tortoise above the Venetian Lagoon” 1555].

 

 

Hot Links Of The Apocalypse

Captain Beefheart

Meatball Parade has earworm potential.

The Mumble Song by the Charioteers.

Clark Terry mumbles the best. (Wait for the punchline.)

This is a big crack.

If someone calls you a punk, brat, jerk, dunce, fool, rube, bum, barbarian, cretin or a bunghole, he/she probably doesn’t know the source of those terms of endearment.

Flibberty Jib describes this Presidential Election cycle perfectly.

Captain Beefheart’s Ten Commandments.

Dead Stuffed Cat Hot Links

Crappy Taxidermy Cat Fail

Spotted this machine here, and all I can say is WOW.

The following is the Feb. 29, 2016 Medal of Honor award ceremony for Chief Special Warfare Operator (SEAL) Edward C. Byers Jr. who won the award during actions he took in a hostage rescue in 2012. [Jump to 00:16:00 to hear his story.]

Scientists have discovered a way to extend the lives of lab mice by 40 percent. Somehow that’s darkly humorous to me.

This is a must read for all voters: Dr. Thomas Sowell.

Foxes are idiots.

The Star Wars paintings of 1920 Soviet Russia.

The Museum of Communism, Prague.

Happy Birthday, Ella Logan.

Purple.

[Top image from here.]

 

In ‘Yo Face Hot Links

MightyMouth

Cute little puppy.

Peaches and Bats.

How to make a leatherbound journal and then throw it into the fireplace.

On Monday 25 January 2016 Awesome happened. Bob Newhart called in to the Tim Conway Jr. show on KFIAM640. Here’s Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4.

This is the greatest radio theme song ever.

Here’s the original Timmy Time Song.

The Bodysnatchers‘ ska cover of “Too Experienced” is very pretty.

A wubbaddidaw.

Expand your emoticon vocabulary. Why type 😛 when you can type <°)))))>< ? Expand your emoticon vocabulary here.

I don’t know who thinks painted eyebrows are attractive, but the top image is from here.

 

Off-The-Shelf Hot Links

Bunkshelf

This Bunkshelf made a funny without my help.

That floating island of garbage in the middle of the Pacific Ocean?
It’s a myth.

Flesh-like body parts for sale.

StarWars 1977.

TRUE: A legal immigrant with no criminal record contributed $20K too much to a woman’s election campaign and was sentenced to 8 months in a confinement center for hard core criminals all because he criticized Barack Obama.

Got Alpaca? It’s the Other red meat.

Skanatra.

Still Life With Monkey:

Still Life With Monkey [0]

Oh, yeah, and then there’s this.