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What's happening on the world wide web?

This is a 35 minute demo of the unreleased surely-to-be the most awesome game ever made: Spore

Koren Shadmi portfolio

Steampunk Transformers!!!!

FloorIt - This is cool

Jeff Jordan art



Whale Fights Squid!

    



My Favorite Site Featuring the Conflict

  

    

This has inspired me to try out something new for the site. This is to announce my plan to have a weekly drawing and written blurb featuring a pair of beings who have epic rivalries. I am going to be calling it:

"Mighty Age-Old Quarrels"

By sheer coincidence, it looks like superhero Shawn Cheng has had a similar idea. He keeps doing "versus" pictures for PARTYKA Daily Drawings.







  • Einstein writes for you
  • History = Fiction
  • Okay, I'm sorry, but the word "ji$%#$wax" is not exactly a good suggestion. Do your homework.

  • This is the book I'm currently reading, and I dig, people, I dig:


  • You've heard of sock monkeys, what about sock squids?



        

    If you are me, then getting to meet Karen Prell, puppeteer behind Red Fraggle, over the weekend was a real treat.





    My favorite Warrior of Symbion is Pinsor. Look at his mustache. The "Hyve" has got to be the worst playset ever. I also like how almost all of the land steeds are "hot-tempered".



    Return to Ojingogo
    Jeff Lint's The Caterer
    Toy Story 2/Requiem For A Dream Mash-up
    Dr. Who says whatever you want him to







    Cut Up Machine

    Everyone has a secret life. Example: William the Conqueror was actually an ophichthusanthrope

    Hidden Passageway

    That's right, I'm goin'

    Here's more about Handmade Puppet Dreams







    TAKING IT TO THE STREET

    We all know the opinions of unusual and extraordinary people. But what about everyday people like you? What do they think about things? Well, we here at "Random Things I Write Down" decided to go out to the street where people like you live and ask them a question. Apparently, everyday people like you have a lot to blab about!!

    Today's Question:

    WHAT DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD DO ABOUT ACID RAIN?

    "Acid rain is a major problem of pandemic proportions facing us as Americans and as employees of large retail market chains. I suggest eating foods as deliciously as they come. Have you heard of creme brule? [No known spelling - ed.] Well, now they make creme broulle ice cream. It's to die for, and now includes rainbow sprinkles if you think to put them on. Also, eat items rich in yumminess. Ask your restaurant attendant for his/her recommendations. There is now a new sandwich that has at least two of the following three conjoined: cookies, ice cream, and chocolate. Avoid caramel as I read somewhere that it doesn't taste very good and is made with plums (ihchhlk!) [No known spelling. - ed.]. Acid rain is a menace and not to be trusted, so eat the best stuff your taste buds like."
    Benjamin St. Clairierre,
    croutoneer


    "Run screaming for the hills. Run, run, run. Run like you've never thought of what it means to run. Run down; run up. Run around; run through. Don't stop with the running. As you run, say the word 'run' to yourself over and over in your mind until it has lost all meaning. Then determine a new word for 'run'. Examples include plorg, shniss, and pelve. Note: Using any of these words is cheating (Ummmmummmmummm!). Create this new word so that you can repeat it to yourself until it loses all meaning yet again. Repeat this exact process, coining new words each time, until you reach the hills. An average number of new words generated from this would be about eight. If you are hitting fifteen, something's wrong. Stop, turn back, and let the acid come and burn you down to nothing. This is how lessons are learned and plastic surgeons make ends meet."
    Annoyed With Animals,
    camp counselor


    "I don't know enough about the topic to say for sure, but the first thing I would do is get all of the scientists that study rain and put them in a box and seal it with a clever riddle-lock that only the cleverest of them will solve. This person will then be selected to sit in the lap of his/her favorite astronaut on a manned flight into outer space to take a closer look at the acid rain. I'm sure the secret to the acid rain is up there, mocking us from afar. Then it will be back down to China where the Chinese will have a special aerodynamic house ready, warm and waiting. It will be next to a meadow with a rainbasin in it. The rainbasin will collect the acid rain, and the scientist will be made to swim in it, thereby proving my theories on immortality. With the glory and fame I receive, I promise to set up acid rain victim sanctuaries as soon as I do about five other things, and I swear on a stack of Bibles my team of crack sled dogs will cure leprosy by 2019. Let's begin."
    Rotdolph Paragrimey,
    soup


    "Acid rain is a myth told by grandchildren to their grandparents to scare them into giving them rides to swimming practice. I used to use it on Gramps all the time and I never missed a meet."
    Trootch-Trootch,
    ghost lawyer


    "For a cup of milk, try mixing 4 pounds of carrot with 1 eye-dropper's worth of Protein B extract. Use a big heavy blocky thing to get the "trails" out. When you're done, sift mentally. A great souffle is made with care, so don't, on a whim, use it for fertilizer or add celery. Under no condition should you invent shampoo and then claim it is some brand new revolutionary way to clean one's hair. It's not. For the best soil flakes, stir slowly over a period of 2 seconds a mixture of your choice of dairy creamer and the part of the corn that no one has yet discovered, that which I call the '"sapplouchous'. Put the venom in the oven. Remove the oven and give it to a neighbor but tell them it's your button collection. If they don't laugh, hit them up for cash. Yes, I am the same person who answered you before and gave directions on how to run. I am a master of disguise."
    Christie "Don't Call Me Bubba" Estrogenerous,
    prison inspector




    Early comics
    Michael Cho sketchblog
    Thingmakers
    The Princess Planet
    Art Links @ Cabinodd







    The Ten Second Puppetry Club
    Scrapiteria Collage Collaboration
    The Entire Product Line of Bone Clones



            

    Ridiculous early hulk toys

         



  • Keep Slime away from Grizzlor®, Moss ManTM, and Panthro®

  • Large number of neat kaiju toys

  • A book about men pretending to be insects

  • Work of Shannon Tindle

  • Work of Eleanor Davis and Little House Comics

  • Comic: The Littlest Daikaiju

  • More by same cartoonist

  • Sam Hiti's got a blog

  • More of that Jack Handey and his Deep Thoughts







    Sonic on piano... This takes me back.

    A book about how to prepare for a... Robot Uprising

    An oldie, but a goodie... After rereading this Cthulhu plush story, I realize there's a good morale for me to take from it, and it's this : "You Do Not Have to Go Mad". Yes, when the demons are unleashed and take dominion over the world, stay calm, be happy - You do not have to go mad. Words to live by. I like it; I think I'll start repeating that to myself now as a personal mantra.







    Carole gave me the heads up: Check out what I'm doing next weekend!

  • Muppet Movie screening with Heather Henson & Jerry Juhl tribute

  • Handmade Puppetry short film festival!

    Proceeds from the two events go to funding a theatre in Houston to show year-round puppetry.

    Rah!





    This site I dig and have linked to from here before (and steal pictures from, like the one above) - Modern Mechanix - recently highlighted an article from the 40's about venereal disease. I had a hunch I'd find my grandfather's name in the article somewhere, and I didn't have to look far. Without even having to click on the pages themselves, I noticed Modern Mechanix had decided to quote him on the front page. It's always fun to see your grandfather quoted on the sites you like to visit.

    "Not all experts see [the syphilis injection cure] as an unmixed blessing. Dr. John Stokes, syphilologist of the University of Pennsylvania, is worried about the effect on morals. "If extramarital sexual relations," he has said, "lead neither to significant illness nor unwanted parenthood, only a few intangibles of spirit remain to guide children to the new era from an outmoded past into an unbridled future."

    My grandpa, the moralist. At least he was all poetic about it. Not that I agree with him, but I suppose if you devoted your life to curing syphilis and had treated thousands and thousands of people with syphilis, seeing its effects in each case, you would get pretty frustrated about the state of things and want people to have safer, more monogamous relationships. But I did hear he was pretty strict. I think I read he once fired a male employee for looking at a woman a little too long.

    Such a person helped raise my father, and my father helped raise me. What do you suppose that implies about me? (rhetorical)

    Eh, I turned out all right.







  • Katamari Damacy mini-game

  • New Scientist never disappoints: ROBOT POWERED BY SLIME!

  • Work of Justin Patrick Parpan

  • The Needies

  • Sincere Toy-makers create: Extreme Shopping Carts?!?

  • Funnier than it sounds: Download this qt movie of a 70's band featuring LOTR characters





    That Human Door story I wrote is now on its own page linked to from the Stories page. Now with new font and improved use of tense!







    Werner Herzog is the man

    Pancake Mountain

    Man this takes me back





    I recently posted updates with Spiderman and ROM the "Space Knight". So here's a rare photo of when the two met. Note: Spiderman at this point did not have the six arms.



    Webcomics linked recently from Scott McCloud's site:
    I Am a Rocket Builder
    New Bodega
    Perry Bible Fellowship (still good)

    Other links:
    You Can Swim Just as Fast in a Pool of Gloop
    The Dumpster
    Order yourself a Demon T-shirt







  • Oh No Robot web comic search
  • 3D Milk & Cheese
  • The Beastles
  • This link will take you to a random Wikipedia entry
  • As will this one





    The best thing you will see today is...

    ROM the Space Knight

    Click on the slide show to view the 1979 promotional video.











    A real Transformer
    Anatomical Gamera
    Secret Tunnels under UT







    Random Things I Subject You To:

  • Do you like to make your signature completely illegible? Think about why you are doing that. Maybe you just think you're supposed to sign it that way. Is that a good reason?

  • This confused me as a child:

                Kellogg's Smacks cereal

    How come, you ask?

    1) It's called "Smacks". What? Explain.
    2) It has a hyperactive frog as a spokesperson. Why?
    3) The frog's name is "Dig'Em", and he likes to say his name a lot. What does it mean? Or he says "Gimme a smack". I'm sorry?



    4) The cereal itself has an obviously intentional, but completely baffling, shape to it. Is that supposed to be a coffee bean or something?




  • My favorite word at the moment is benthic. It means 'pertaining to the bottom of the sea'. Benthic creatures are bottom-dwellers. Hooray for benthic.











    Cheese Factoids:

  • The Spanish soccer team Albacete Balompié has a nickname: El Queso Mecánico. Yes, the Clockwork Cheese.

  • In 1943, the nacho was invented by a fellow named "Nacho". He never received any money from its mass popularity. His son is a judge though at nacho competitions to this day.

  • A cheese filtered cigarette is a real patent, and it works!

  • Cheese was a currency for the Dutch. If you were a Dutch bargeman in the Middle Ages, you'd pay your tolls with bits of cheese.







    Lucas Aguirre, stranger's art

    Madwoman without and Attic, friend's blog

    N-Blox, tetris clone

    Letters to Walken, fake kids







    The Obakemono Project - nicely illustrated Japanese bestiary

    The Hall of Best Knowledge - one noble genius single-handedly educate all of mankind

    Chibi Robo game - this robot video game looks like fun

    Work of Pierluigi Longo - warning: will dominate your whole screen (irksome)







    Here are the last 23 headers in case you missed them:

    Welcome to the website that's...

    "curious about rumors of Stalin's man-apes!"
    "one rambunctious golden retriever!"
    "a symbol of Frigga, Norse goddess of women's crafts!"
    "known for its ofttimes confoundicating mystiwitticisms!"
    "really digging the following word (but not what it stands for): effluvium!"
    "been operating since before the internet even began... imagine that!"
    "sowing the seeds of discord!"
    "shaping up to be uninspiring!"
    "aware of exactly why there are so many songs about rainbows... but isn't telling!"
    "a capricious fibber like yourself!"
    "been counted among the ranks of the terminally belligerent!"
    "been acknowledged as fully sentient after successfully passing the Turing test!"
    "giving you the Intellectual Gunpowder you need to drive your point home!"
    "wantonly malicious!"
    "made by some rarefied poncey bloke!"
    "number one in subliminal messaging (((((you agree)))))!"
    "self-conscious about its over-use of parentheses, for some reason!"
    "guilty, your Honor, guilty guilty guilty!"
    "prone to negative self-judgment!"
    "liking you liking it!"
    "preferring you to be fully clothed and decent when you view it!"
    "sick and tired of you always clicking all over it!"
    "about as spaz-tacular as one is going to find in this day and age!"




    Make your own Super Mario tunes

    Cthulego

    Bad Fantasy Novel Title Generator

    This is probably a pretty fun game

    A Telling Tom the Dancing Bug





    ROBOTS CONTENT UPLOADED



    Word Dissassociation video

    Oh Man I'd Totally Go

    Korean Propaganda

    How Products Are Made NOT for the Roach-phobe: Wasp Parasites are WICKED

    A New Puzzle Game Inspired by Kit Williams' Masquerade







    You can get something about monkeys every day - The Daily Monkey

    Excellent blog about monsters - Monsterama

    Nominated for an Academy Award, the shadow puppetry short film looks to be fantastic - They Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello







    Sleepless in Seattle as a horror movie

    Eerie Magazine covers

    Very cool Street DJ video (qt)




    snagged from here



    ARCHELON



    The giant prehistoric turtle was known as the Archelon.



    Even though it was huge, it still had many predators bigger than it to contend with:

                Example one

                Example two

    Is the Archelon really gone? Look here:

  • This giant turtle was seen by the crew of the fishing boat Rhapsody off the coast of Nova Scotia.

  • Or what about the photo of the Giant Turtle at the bottom of this page? Could captions lie?








    It's a slow day.

    This is what I got:
    Ask a Ninja videos
    Zod for President



    According to Final Seance: The Strange Friendship Between Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle, a book I'm interested in reading --

    Houdini was hanging out with Arthur Conan Doyle and his wife and did the children's trick where you make the tip of your thumb look like it's been lifted off. Mrs. Doyle immediately swooned! Later, Mr. Doyle wrote to Houdini, praising his amazing demonstration of supernatural powers. Oh boy. Arthur, Arthur, Arthur.





    Space is the Place

    There's some exciting things going on with the scientists and Outer Space. Pay attention. It's goin' down.

  • Introducing the Planet OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb

  • Comet probe brought back cool giant chunks of space stuff



    Dug this article, Fictitious Tibet...

    On Theosophists and such ilk:
    "This depressing crowd of partly well-meaning, totally uninformed, and seemingly uninformable votaries holds something like this as its modal view: that there is, somewhere hidden in the Himalayas (invariably mis-stressed on the penultimate 'a'), a powerful, mystical, initiate brotherhood of lamas or similar guru adepts, who not only know all the mysteries of the world and the superworld, who not only incorporate and transcend the teachings of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, but who also master all the occult arts — they fly through the air at enormous speeds, they run 400 miles at a stretch without break, they appear here and there, and they are arch-and-core advisors to the wise and the great who hide these ultimate links to supreme wisdom and control. In addition, they know all their previous incarnations, and can tell everyone what his incarnations were and are going to be. Geographically, the area where these supergurus reside is nebulously defined as "Tibet," "Himalaya," and it often includes the Ganges and India."



    The Scoop

    The Girls Productions now have a blog

    Destructor Comes to Croc Town, by Matt Wiegle & Sean T. Collins. This is fine work.

    Go Sean!

    "If there's better way to pretend to be an airplane with snakes flying it then I'd like to hear it. Stick your arms out and make all kinds of weird racket because this plane isn't coming down until these snakes get tired of flying it."





    I've compiled all of the Robot Updates onto one page for your perusing pleasure.



    What's happenin'?
    Almost Naked Animals - click on 'meet the gang'
    Flipbook!
    IP Spotting



    I have been researching the charlatan who I like to call my great-grandfather's arch-nemesis (even though he really wasn't), Dr. Albert de Sarak, but lately, the leads had dried up. I posted to a listserv for the academic study of magic & the occult and a very nice person named Mr. Labanti responded to my plea for help. He looked him up in the Washington Post and found these articles about him! Now I just have to get my hands on the full-texts.

    "Wizard in the Temple" -- (March 16, 1902) has some descriptions of the "psychic demonstrations" of Albert de Sarak (i.e. Alberto Santini-Sgaluppi); no direct reference to Agnes Marsland, but perhaps she was the "very charming young woman [who] acted as his interpreter"

    "Delved Into the Occult" -- (Washington Post, May 3, 1902) mentions that Albert de Sarak was "General Inspector of the Supreme Esoteric Council of Tibet" and Agnes E. Marsland his assistant and a member of "Esoteric Society of Tibet"

    "De Sarak's Mystic Feats" -- (Washington Post, October 17, 1902) calls him the "General Inspector of the Supreme Esoteric Council of Thibet"; it also cites "the Washington branch, known as the Directing Council of the Esoteric Head Center, of Washington" (founded in 1902); no reference to A. E. Marsland

    "Occultists at a Dinner" (Washington Post, March 9, 1903) -- In brief, on following French experiences of De Sarak; see also Marquis de Castellane (1910, December 4). "Carnegie Fund Goes Begging in French Capital".

    Ah, Leads!







  • happy trogday

  • coloring book for lawyers (pdf)

  • a year's worth of movie pitches, funny funny

  • woodpecker searcher = bigfoot denier











    Fighting Dinosaurs
    List of Word Colors
    Flying Car
    Cool home page



    Robots Of Olde And Of Newe

    Robots have been clunking about and hitting things for profit since Time Immemorial - which was some time around St. Patrick's Day last year. That's all I have for the introduction to this robot update to my site.



    Do you recall this speciman? The very first robot to grace the presence of Russia, Reggor was a great impersonator and would often fool judges with its rendition of Dean Martin when mumbling.

    If you listen closely, you can still hear Reggor's tinny Dean Martin mumbles. A huge hit at the bars of Krakow, it was recorded during Regg's All-Starzzz Tour of Poland and the countries to the south of Poland (if there are any).

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    This is a picture from a very long time ago of robots crossing the street.

    Would I lie? It really is.

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    This is the famous robot masseur. Its favorite clients were cowboys with too many hats with a distaste for physical therapy of any kind. The chair that the robot masseur employed was also a robot chair. And my theory is that the two were lovers and life partners. I don't judge them because I think they did a great service alleviating the pain and tension of all those cowboys with too many hats. Lord bless them.

    Notice the photo on the dresser? That's Cate Blanchett! I think. Or like Marylin Monroe! One of those kinds of ladies.

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    In San Diego in 1930 some nudists and someone dressed as a robot posed for photographs.

    What more can be said? See the other picture from the same momentous day here.

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    Tramydenneine is still working its magic. Sort of like a giraffe except still a robot, Tramydenneine is one of the best robots hands-down. No one knows why. No one cares why. When Tramydenneine is in town, the people of the town are drawn to it like a magnet, wherever it goes. Maybe that's because Tramydenneine is made of solid magnet. And maybe comes from planet Magnet? I'll ask it the next time we chill at the Roxie Club. Yes, I do "hang" with Tramy... when I feel like it. We're tight. The Tramster can be a little bit clingy though, you know? And NO, it's not just because it's made of magnets. It is Tramydenneine that is clinging to me, not the other way around, and last I checked I only got the one magnet... Yes, the One Magnet... of fabled lore.

    Insider's Scoop: Tramydenneine is actually pretty down-to-earth after it's bought you a few round of drinks.

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    Who was this robot? The man is clearly Ted Danson. Is this a still from Cheers? Was there a robot on Cheers? I don't think so. Huh. So bizarre.

    Definitely Cheers, but I can't think of when that would have been? Did Norm become a robot at any point?

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    Those were some notable robots of the Great Past. But what does the future hold for our dear unorganicals?

                  

    This a sampling of the next generation. Our hopes and fears are so suffocating to them. Let's give them some room to breathe and grow. Let's keep them in pens and let them fight each other so that only the strongest survive to wear the defeated robots' scraps as armor for the next altercation in the Battle Arena. Let's charge admission to the Battle Arena. Tomorrow's robots are gonna be pretty ultra special.



    Today I found these:

  • I like this puppet show
  • Old C64 games to play in browser
  • Wow, Drawball... (click "Disagree" to enter)
  • Modern designers are still trying to capture the look of this show
  • A new 3D alphabet









    Gorgilla, we love you, and we want you to live.

             



    Mnemonics!
    Antagonyms!
    Eponyms!
    Aptonyms!
    Talk like a sailor!
    Collective Nouns!
    German Spies! (noodle?!... how could you?!)















    Random things...

    If you're going to investigate something, my suggestion is to investigate the octopus. They're amazing.

    The other night at a city art festival there was a floating sculpture on the river that looked like a string of white tents . It was entitled "The White Dragon". A man and his daughter spotted it and the man said, "A white dragon? I never heard of a white dragon before." His daughter looked up at him wearily. "Daddy," she said, "Dragons can be white.... There's Ice Dragons."

    Down into the fiery depths burn the ever-souls of 1 thousand, 1 hundred, and 89 bubbahemoths.
    High upon the airy slopes float the 9 transcendent spires of the triple host of shimmering angeleyries.

    Some of Houdini's nicknames:

    The Celebrated Police Baffler
    The King of Handcuffs
    The Elusive American
    King of Cards
    America's Sensational Perplexer
    The Original Jailbreaker

    Where are the hedgehogs? ...this makes me sad





    Hippos... EXPOSED

    Hippos are one of the top three most dangerous animals in the world. In Africa, they kill more humans than lions. Aggressive, Bellicose, Unpredictable, Fearless: these are adjectives to describe the dread hippo. See also: Wantonly Malicious.

    Yes, they will overturn your boat and eat you. They have also been known to beat up cows.

    This is because they are very territorial and humans are always encroaching. I don't really blame them for defending their turfs. But don't be misled about the hippo.

    Masters of Deception
    Hippos can deceive you quite easily without even trying.
  • Related more to pigs than to horses, hippos are even misleading in their names. Hippo means horse in some forsaken language of the ancients.
  • They are herbivores, but don't let that fool you. They will still attack and devour you, or at least a good portion of you.
  • "Hungry, Hungry Hippos", the popular children's game, is not entirely a myth! Yes, hippos do get hungry. Especially when they haven't eaten in a while. Do they eat marbles? Not necessarily! Do not attempt to throw marbles or anything else at the hippo and then hope that somehow it will have its mouth open at the moment it turns to you on some kind of electronic rotating platform. Just like with "Frogger", there are dangers in applying fantasy rules to the real world.
  • Hippos look slow, but actually they are very fast. They will outrun a human with little discernable effort.
  • Hippos can't swim. But who cares? This does not put the animal to any serious disadvantage. They are accomplished waders and wallowers and can pretty easily get wherever they need to go in the water. Don't fall for this whole "I can't swim" routine.
  • The hippo hears underwater with its jawbones. This, in my opinion, is its most vile and cunning use of misdirection.

    Hippo Strengths
  • Watch out for its tusks.. very sharp. Think: no, don't think... KNOW: Incisors. Any animal that big with incisors is one that will overturn your boat and have your upper body for a snack.
  • The hippo produces weird red secretions. Many erroneously mistake it for blood and that the hippo is wounded and therefore vulnerable. Not so! In fact, the secretions referred to colloquially as bloodsweat are actually a self-produced constant sunscreen and moisturizer. Or possibly an antibiotic. Yes, the hippo may have a way of healing itself like some sort of brooding supermutant.
  • Beware their bellow... It's LOUD and can cause injury in humans after prolonged exposure.
  • Hippos, like some kind of nightmare, are blessed with heads like giant sledgehammers or battering rams. And these are apt similes, as the hippo will employ the head in the manner in which these items are known for.
  • They are intimidatingly huge and will overpower any creature. The only thing heavier on land besides an elephant is the hippo. Or so say most of our best zoologists. The rest argue for the White Rhino.
  • The hippo has webbed toes. Think about the ramifications of this. Let your imagination run wild with the possiblities. Sit back, close your eyes, put on ocean sounds, and count slowly to ten... Let the Hippo Webbed Toes lead you to undiscovered pathways of your elevated consciousness. Do you see yourself in the room separate from yourself and in a trance? Good. Now you are free of your body's confines and can explore the cosmic universe! Happy trails.
  • The hippo ability to move up to the air to breathe while underwater is automatic. They do it even while sleeping! And they can hold their breath for 5 minutes.
  • I'm not even going to describe what they do when they go to the bathroom. It's beyond disgusting. Needless to say, it is one their strengths.

    Hippo Weaknesses
  • They can't jump. So like if you were to put hurdles, rocky debris, or pits in their way it would probably slow them down.
  • They can't sweat. I don't know how this is a weakness, but perhaps it can be exploited. I'm really stretching here trying to find weaknesses for the hippo. They're just that STRONG.


    If there's one thing I want you to learn from this expose of the hippo, it is this:

    Hippos... they will bite your head and shoulders off.







  • cool sculptures
  • chris ware parody
  • china pwnd columbus?
  • art of diego ferman



    Famous Stokes' That I Am Not Necessarily Related to At All
    PART 3

    Don and Lillian Stokes (exact birth years unknown) are really well known in the bird-watching community and beyond because they put out all kinds of authoritative guides and even their own line of binoculars. They also had a PBS t.v. series.



    Speaking of birds, have ya'll seen The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill? It's a documentary. I recommend.







  • New York Press article on Chris Ware
  • Green Glowing Pigs, a nightmare come to life.
  • Lucky Sean has played a weird pirates "constructible card game", whatever that means. Anyway, I'm jealous.
  • A Family Tree of Two Opposing Famous People
  • When Robots Attack, a clever panorama-scrolling flash music video.







    Famous Stokes' That I Am Not Necessarily Related to At All
    PART 2

    A master of many things, most notably fluids of the viscous variety, George Gabriel Stokes (1819–1903) rocked the world throughout space and time, as only a mathematician and experiment-mad scientist genius can. Few can say they revealed the nature of fluorescence, but our man George can (and will if given half a chance (and a resurrection)). To his credit, he is modest about his actions leading to the establishment of the composition of chlorophyll. But what else, George, what else? How about increasing our understanding of...

  • the suspension of the clouds in the air?
  • the effect of wind on sound?
  • velocity in viscosity?
  • a dynamical theory of diffraction?
  • heat conduction in crystals?



    Ya'll might have heard of Stokes' Law? That was him. Also!:

    Eponym Roll-Call!
            Stokes theorem of differential geometry
            Stokes line in Raman scattering
            Stokes shift in fluorescence
            Navier-Stokes equations of fluid dynamics
            Stokes a unit of viscosity in Britain (in USA, Stoke).
            Stokes parameters used to quantify the polarisation of electromagnetic waves
            Campbell-Stokes recorder an instrument for recording sunshine improved by Stokes, and still widely used today
    from here





    Return of Robot Update



         



    Yeah.



  • Lisa is looking out for my deep sea monster needs by referring me here, here, and here

  • It is my calculation that Billy Mavreas' Spells are desirable commodities

  • I like Steam Crow a lot. The Monster Hunting Information is agreeable to me.



    Famous Stokes' That I Am Not Necessarily Related to At All
    PART 1

    The most commonly used stretcher today is the Stokes stretcher. It was invented by Charles F. Stokes (1863-1931) . He was Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War. What else did he do? Oh, he practically ended typhoid in the Navy, planned and built the naval hospital at Pearl Harbor, made the first hospital ships, and then after retirement, became a leading expert in drug addiction recovery.





    A Plethora of Links to Make Up for My Numerous Failings

  • The Goof Gallery of Organisms (props: Chuck)
  • This Cat Can Paint 1 And 2 (qt)
  • Evil Bert Rocket Race!
  • Of Cheese and Empire
  • Modern Mechanix - yesterday's tomorrow, today
  • There's a small step between knowing how bees fly to actually being able to fly just like them
  • Randomly captionized from chat logs for your entertainment! (keep reloading)
  • Um, this is kind of scary
  • The Greatest Comic Book Cover of All Time



        

    Grenadiers are victorious... always.

             



  • The Aargh Page
  • Pandora.com - Did I already recommend this? Probably.
  • Props to Nate for giving me a heads up about the Gulper Eel

    Buy a replica of it at Artropod.Net.



    I'm on this Roosevelt's Brood kick. Here's a pic of one of his sons with a parrot.











    This robot has been specifically programmed to ride a bicycle. What will they think of next?





    This is a photograph of Houdini with Teddy Roosevelt's grandchildren.




    They were pretty good friends.



  • Play Archipelago, excellent flash game
  • This week's Jack Handey piece in the New Yorker is funny







    As I was telling my friend - Besides boys and jobs, there are many things that are stupid in life. Sixteen, technically. In no particular order, these are the sixteen other things that are stupid in life:

    01) capital letters
    02) girlillas (female gorillas)
    03) parents who don't believe in diapers for their babies
    04) inventors of things
    05) anybody that dj's at clubs
    06) anybody that has sideburns that shouldn't
    07) those big hands that fans wear at sports games
    08) eminem's many many many imitators
    09) people who diss ikea
    10) "rogo" (anybody named that)
    11) anyone who likes to feed the squirrels
    12) "flavor savers"
    13) hegemonies
    14) that naked lady silhouette on the mud flaps of trucks
    15) those who would choose to eat brussel sprouts rather than save the life of an innocent child
    16) centaurs, fauns, etc

    Even though this list is in no particular order, boys and jobs are at the top of the list (at numbers -1 and 0, respectively).







    Speaking of which...

    Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms: A soundtrack to Popular Science’s Future of the Body issue ... 5 clever songs by Jonathan Coulton, especially "Better" (wait for the Transformers reference).

    See also:
    retrievr ... Draw something and see what pictures come up.







    Spazquatch's Spazblog praised my yeti site.

    And The Orange Yeti suggested a straitjacket, but also alerted me to a couple of new yeti links, including the existence of the following:



    If anyone sees this new Yeti Toy on sale somewhere for like 10 bucks, buy it and let me know. But don't pay $35 or whatever because I can't afford that. But $10 or less, yeah, I'll pay for it and the shipping. Oh, and toss out the turtle, cause I don't want that.



  • Jared Chapman's sketchblog
  • Zweibel's Memorial Historical Archive
  • John Hodgman's blog







    * Watch a Bigfoot Walking! *
    * See Robots Infest Our Streets! (qt) *
    * Play a Confusing Falling Sand Game! *
    * Read Harpers Yearly Review! *
    * Construct a Moving Robot on the Screen! *







    Yetis are great and all. But lately I've been getting way more into another conundrum of our time:

    "WHO KILLED JACK THE RIPPER?!?!"

    Who was it? Who would do such a thing? I looked around for books on the subject but everyone's IGNORING this vital mystery. Everyone's so hung up on who he actually was that they haven't bothered to start thinking about WHO KILLED HIM. Oh sure, there's no doubt some fuddy-duddies, some SCEPTICS, out there will say that, whoever he was, he wasn't necessarily murdered. HOGWASH. More specifically: BAH HOGWASH. Of course he was murdered. You just have to BELIEVE! Why don't people believe in things anymore? I believe that a volcano will destroy New York City in 2051 and that dinosaurs were really just people just dressed up as dinosaurs and that ducks are our intergalactic servants and that lemon meringue pie has no lemon or lemonesque materials in it whatsoever. These things I believe.

    And now I am adding that Jack the Ripper was murdered to my belief system. But I don't know who what done it! It's the greatest mystery since sliced bread! (How do they get such perfectly cut slices? I did some measurements and they are all completely EXACT! Then I did some research and apparently the Pyramids were also equally EXACT. Connection? I think so. Too bad this gets me no closer to the identity of the killer of the that most famous killer). I am going to form a club called the Jackocide Enthusiasts. We don't care who he was, only who killed him. Many, many, many theories abound! It really could have been almost anyone alive at that time. I am starting to gather some clues. First, who was capable of such a crime? Or more cleverly, who WASN'T? Babies have to be eliminated, and people without arms. People with legs though could still kick him to death, right? So legged people are still suspects. Anyway, you can kind of get a sense of the sort of fun the Jackocide Enthusiasts will have at their retreats. I am thinking of housing one of our meetings at a townhouse in New Braunfels, TX that was built some time in the 1890s. Since it dates from that era, it COULD be the place where Jack the Ripper was murdered. We will look for clues and eat marshmallows (which COULD have been employed in the murderer's death). Oh the fun that will be had.

    If anyone has any idea who killed Jack the Ripper, let me know. It would definitely quench my curiosity! I wouldn't really need to wonder about anything anymore, at least for a couple of years.



    Links
  • Comic with Chris Ware
  • King Kong song by Jack Black, 21,324 times better than the movie
  • Pac Man puppet commercial (qt). I'm jealous of these kids. Why can't there be more puppet shows in the streets?
  • Drawings of Leah Hayes
  • One of my favorite cartoonists Roger Langridge has a blog now
  • Watch the funny Flickr (qt) music video by Jonathan Coulton
  • I think this is really cool if you're an Ultima fan







    Holiday Update

  • I made a little song for new year's eve in garageband (in under 5 minutes). It's called:

    Say Goodbye to 2005 (mp3)

  • And this is my holiday card for Kelly

  • And this is the unfinished comic book I recently found that my father made as a child:

      



    I've archived the first fifteen of these. You can find them here:







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