Tag: Link Dump

45 RPM Hot Links

[Click the image to see the awesome coolness of Capitol Records.]

Inflatable cow heads.

Cooking for A**holes. (Is a language warning really needed?)

A Google search for “Church of the Toad of Light” brings up this article: Milking the Toad.

NatGeo Infinite Photo is infinite.

Frog in Space.

Big ‘ol honkin’ animals in the city.

Very cool .gif artistry here.

Cold case cryptology: The FBI is asking for public help with decoding a message found in the pocket of a murder victim. It doesn’t appear to be gibberish as at least one series of characters are repeated. I suspect  it’s some kind of mnemonic. More here.

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].

Hungry, Hungry Hot Links

That’s our juvy possum who comes around every night to clean up the catfood messes that the cats leave behind. Not counting the tail, he’s about a foot long, maybe about a year and a half old. Although they don’t see very well, after a few camera flashes this one was seeing nothing but red dots when he trundled off.

Small town crime: troublemakers in New Castle Pennsylvania 1930s – 1950s. Mug shots were rescued from the trash, and the blogger researched the stories from newpaper clippings.

Nice time-lapse video of the preparation of a space shuttle launch.

Interesting documentary on Michael Larson who in 1984 won over $110,000 in a single day on a game show by beating the system. Part 1 of 11 here.

What it’s REALLY like to work in a music store [found here].

11′-8″ is the critical dimension, and a bridgecam records canopeners.

“Baltimore Clap” is an odd animation. Might be disturbing for the young set.

Find out what woodworms sound like here.

Clever interactive video time waster (with NSFW/K language).

There’s a website for everything on the internest. This one is an archive of images of  dead armadillos.

What kind of man reads Tacky Raccoons? Here’s one of  ’em.

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 of the Sarcophilus harrisii

Jack Harrison, the last survivor who participated in The Great Escape of WWII passed away on 4 June 2010. There’s an interesting interactive illustration of one of the tunnels here. [h/t to Wheels.]

Albino Raccoons.

Who is the Horseboy?

Disgusting prank is disgusting.

Awesome invention by a Ham radio afficionado that fights cancer.

Cadillacs and Album Covers here.  Two more here.

Google is getting so full of information it occasionally collapses under its own weight.

Need a chemical suit? Lookee here.

Live webcam in Amsterdam with sound here.

Speaking of sound, the Zambelli Family is awesome.

Amazing staring contest back stage at the Webby Awards. [via The Presurfer.]

What’s your American dialect? Here’s one test and here’s another.

The Sci-Fi Airshow has an online guided tour. I’m going next week. [via]

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.

Ghost Riders in the Hot Links

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Cool social experiment: Tweenbots [found here].

Let’s make some Zen music.

Serious 3D total immersion video here.  The eyes override the brain.

What type of Web Commenter are YOU?  Descriptions here.  (As for me, you already know.)

Learn a new language here.

Some things you can’t “unclick” and there’s a big fat honkin’ one here.

Rockhoppers got their webcam back up and running.  YAY!

Buncha Buildings Bein’ Blowed-up here.

American ancestry brief from the 2000 census (via this excellent website). Interesting that the largest percentage, 1 in 6, described their ancestry as German.  When asked, I usually describe myself as European Mutt.

The New Yorker Magazine cartoon caption contest can always be answered with “[this].”

Nice tasty archive of linkages here.

Teh Fairies Debate parleys on.  Over 1,500 delightful educated comments for your perusal.

Seven questions about drinking water here.

And a cordial reminder:  Mother’s Day does not mean “Be a Pain in the Butt Day.”