The Ultimate Insult

Archive for March, 2005

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

The Futuro house

Read the sad history of the The Futuro house before checking out these galleries of 70’s design.

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

Pepsi Max Jet Ski

Not the most exciting game around, but not the worst: Jet Ski.

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

Breakfast Brawl

Box various breakfast items in Breakfast Brawl, a Punch-Out clone.

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

Patent Room

The Patent Room features “early 20th Century industrial design uncovered in U.S. Patent Office archives”.

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

Shop Horror

Enjoy this gallery of amusing and sometimes stupid Shop Horror in Britain.

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

Surftp - Web Based FTP

I’m not so sure how much I trust a website I’ve never heard of with access to my website, but Surftp might be a handy tool for someone. FTP access when you can’t install a client.

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

Laser Envy

Collect the crystals: Laser Envy.

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

Charles Manson

For no particular reason other than that I find it fascinating, I’ve been re-reading some books and finding new sources of information on the Charles Manson and “Family” case(s). The Los Angeles Public Library has a huge selection of photographs with a cumbersome review process. Here’s a quick page of 240 that I’ve uploaded. The filenames describe the image a bit. Pardon the typos, it was time consuming enough to download all the images without spellchecking my filenames.

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

Rocket Bike

Rocket Bike is sort of an updated Excitebike.

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

The Beatles

Oh those wicked, wicked Beatles.

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

Copyscape

Have a website and want to know if someone’s stealing your writing? Copyscape to the rescue!

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

BBC - Case Closed

The BBC has a well done crime section online. Serial murder, information on crime fighters, infamous crimes and forensics are covered.

Monday, March 28th, 2005

63 Days

63 Days is a disturbing weblog recounting one persons forced stay at a “bootcamp for troubled teens” by the name of Challenger.

Monday, March 28th, 2005

Fared

Get a spell cast for only $13.13, or get the potion itself for a low, low price of $59.99. What a nice witch.

Monday, March 28th, 2005

Zdzisław Beksiński

I had never heard of Zdzisław Beksiński before, but he created some dark pieces of art. Sadly, he was stabbed to death recently. Link via Art is Dead.

Monday, March 28th, 2005

Avatar High

Avatar High is a bit like the Sims, minus the excellent graphics and longetivity. Still, it’s a nice piece of Flash.

Monday, March 28th, 2005

Netdisaster

Nuke, flood or otherwise damage a webpage: Netdisaster. It doesn’t seem to like sites with stylesheets (like mine).

Friday, March 25th, 2005

Cielo Drive

If you’re looking for information on the Manson murders, Cielo Drive’s worth a peek.

Friday, March 25th, 2005

Slower

Eliot Shepard takes some nice digital photographs, mainly of people.

Friday, March 25th, 2005

Rare Movie Images

Rare Movie Images isn’t fully online yet, but they do have a daily pic (that’s not really daily). I only mention this site so my friend Melanie can see that they have an image from Zapped!