Tag: potpourri

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].

Shredding Hot Links

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Infinite comic strip by Jim Woodring with video here.

Did you know that dogs were the first domesticated animals? I didn’t, and Archaeology Magazine examines the hows, whys, wheres and whens.

Inside a tornado (video).

Revolver Maps is a cool widget, spotted at Plate O’ Fish. Unfortunately it doesn’t work on WorpDress for some reason, so we added a button at upper right above the blog counter instead.

Although the story is likely fabricated, this one from 2004 is still funny. On the other hand, This Diary is likely true.

Odd hand dance [via].

Steve Martin‘s twitter feed is a hoot [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.

Duelling Hot Links

 

Remember the banjo boy from Deliverance? His name is Billy Redden.

Shannon asks the wrong guy to do a missing cat poster.
[Update 20 July 2010– David Thorne’s website is here. Expect to be entertained for the next few hours.]

Awesome model train museum in Germany is awesome.

Here’s a phrase you don’t hear often: Virtual Centipede Head.

Here’s another phrase you don’t hear often: Virtual Sinus Surgery Simulator.

This blog is rated PG because I used word “fart” once and said “crack” three times, according to this site.

The world’s most annoying parrot?

[Update– Deleted reference to FaceBook probs.]

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 Я Us

Trivia:  Sluggo had a dual role in Ernie Bushmiller‘s  “Nancy” comics. He played himself as well as Nancy’s Aunt Fritzi.

WWII in Facebook.

Ken Nordine’s got a website… Last updated July 2006.

There be some funny in the comments section here. [Tip o’ the Tarboosh to Wheels for the link.]

Acme Corporation was sued for product defects. Writ of litigation  may be viewed here.

This made me laff and laff and laff.

Is Snopes for real? Click here to find out.

Gorilla suits from the past: great article here.

“Curta” is an awesome mechanical calculator designed by a POW in WWII. More retro calculators at the home page.

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.

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.