The Ultimate Insult

Archive for December, 2003

Wednesday, December 31st, 2003

Story of The Pogues

The BBC and Shane MacGowan tell the Story of the Pogues. It starts after 50 seconds or so of news.

Wednesday, December 31st, 2003

Big Mary

Big Mary and a brief history of just what caused the lynching of an elephant.

Wednesday, December 31st, 2003

Xanadu Preservation Society

It may be an old site, but better late than never when it’s something as exciting as the Xanadu Preservation Society. Get your Xanadu font today!

Wednesday, December 31st, 2003

Picture Pyramid

Picture Pyramid. It’s like Differences with really horrible music.

Tuesday, December 30th, 2003

Time Magazine Covers

Browse TIME Magazine Covers from 1923 to the present. The top story on my birthday (well, the day before anyways) was “The U.S. Family: “HELP!”. Hmm.

Tuesday, December 30th, 2003

Vintage Paperback Covers


Yet another site with lots of Vintage Paperback Covers. You can’t stop at just one.

Tuesday, December 30th, 2003

Poison Idea - We Got the Beat

Here for no reason at all is Poison Idea covering the Go-Go’s - “We Got the Beat”.

Tuesday, December 30th, 2003

Riot

Mix text, images and links from multiple webpages: Riot.

Tuesday, December 30th, 2003

Bedrock Bobsleddin’ Blowout

It may just be an advertisement for cereal, but it is the Flintstones’ Bedrock Bobsleddin’ Blowout.

Monday, December 29th, 2003

Arcane

Arcane, a point-and-click adventure serial. Make sure you switch to episode one, the link starts you with the latest.

Monday, December 29th, 2003

ASCII

This ASCII text generator would have been handy in my BBS days.

Monday, December 29th, 2003

Life & Art of Giuseppe Arcimboldo

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The Life & Art of Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593).

Monday, December 29th, 2003

Hungover

SiegeGirl sent me a link to Hungover.net and recommends the “guess the drunken slur” section. Good stuff.

Monday, December 29th, 2003

Specs

Match the specs to the owner. I received a measly 27%.

Friday, December 26th, 2003

Fast Froots

Kart racing with Fast Froots.

Friday, December 26th, 2003

Church Plans Online

Church Plans Online has a wide selection of UK church plans. Online.

Friday, December 26th, 2003

Encyclopedia of the Marvelous,the Monstrous, and the Grotesque


Encyclopedia of the Marvelous, the Monstrous, and the Grotesque.

Friday, December 26th, 2003

Demystifying John Edwards

I’m not sure how many people actually believe he has any psychic ability whatsoever, but Demystifying John Edward of Crossing Over is a good read.

Wednesday, December 24th, 2003

Lenny Bruce Pardoned

Happy Holidays to all of you! The site will be updated again on Friday. In other news, Lenny Bruce was pardoned for his obscenity conviction from 39 years ago.

Wednesday, December 24th, 2003

LIFE Santa Pictures

Classic pictures of Santa Claus from LIFE magazine.